Lin Qingwan held her pen and thought for half a day, but still couldn't bring herself to write.

  Lin Yuhong walked up and took a look, "Auntie, are you writing a letter to Mrs. Xie?"

  Lin Qingwan put down her pen and sighed: "What reason should we find to coax her back to Jiangnan?"

  Lin Yuhu thought for a moment and shook his head: "Unless something happens to you, or the grave of your aunt's father has an accident, she won't come back."

  Lin Qingwan rolled her eyes and said, "So you're saying I'm seriously ill?"

  This method may be old-fashioned, but it is the most useful.

  "...so she came back and saw you weren't ill..."

  "Never mind, let's just coax her back first," Lin Qingyan picked up her pen and began to write carefully, "Yang's nanny said she has been feeling unwell both physically and mentally lately, and wants Dr. Xu to take a look at her illness."

  After finishing writing the letter and checking it again, she went out for a walk to refresh her mind, and then copied the letter with even more care than when she took the college entrance examination.

  But after finishing copying, she was stunned. She looked at Lin Yuhong with a dull face, "I'm seriously ill, how can I write such good characters?"

  Lin Yuhong is also stupid.

  Lin Qingwan rolled her eyes and threw the letter away, pointing at Lin Yuhong and saying: "You come write it!"

  This made Lin Yubin anxious.

  When the aunt and niece finally managed to produce two similar letters, it was already dark outside. The two of them went straight to wash their hands and have dinner.

  "It's almost summer harvest, and I'll be busy in the next few days, so please help out more at home, Lin Nian. Lin Qingwen took over the bowl of soup handed to her by Lin Yubin and reminded: "I know you've been playing wildly lately, but now there are many outsiders, you're not allowed to go to places with fewer people, and you must always bring Jiang Nan with you, got it?"

  Lin Yuhbin nodded repeatedly.

  After Shang Danju's hairpinning ceremony, the feelings of the fifteen girls became even more harmonious. Except for Shang Danlan who had to stay at home to prepare for her marriage, the remaining fourteen would often sneak out whenever they had a chance, and no one could stop them.

  When they were young, who didn't want to have fun? Moreover, in this era, girls like Lin Qingyu didn't have much time to play carefree, so Lin Qingyu didn't stop Lin Yubin from going out to have fun.

  After Lantern Festival, the Lin family's protection for her was upgraded. In addition to Jiang Nan who followed her side by side at all times, there were also other bodyguards following in secret.

  Lin Qingwan's activities were limited in scope, mostly revolving around the Lin family's industries, occasionally visiting the Lu family to pay respects to Shi Hui and Shi Xian, so there weren't many people left by her side.

  The main protection target of the Lin family is still Lin Yuhong.

  After sending out the letter, Lin Qingyan began preparing for summer harvest.

  This year Suzhou has been somewhat drought-stricken, but fortunately Lin Qingyan had the river that flows through Jue Tiantang widened a lot over the past two years and also dug many ponds, storing quite a bit of water during the spring and summer solstice, so in the end the wheat and rice did not suffer from drought.

  It's just that people have worked hard and had a good harvest in the fields.

  The land has been getting more and more fertile, and in the past two years, Lin Qingyan has also had people spread a lot of fertilizer on it. The originally rough soil has become much finer, and with sufficient water and fertilizer, this year's wheat is growing exceptionally well.

  The ground is now a vast expanse of golden yellow, Fang Daxiang walks alongside Lin Qingyuan with one arm swinging freely, plucking an ear of wheat to show her.

  "They're all solid, this year's harvest is no worse than last year's." Fang Datong wiped the sweat from his forehead with a smile: "Auntie, let's find a good day to start harvesting."

  "Looking back, I asked the weather, if these days are sunny, we will start harvesting." Lin Qingwen raised her eyes and looked out at the endless wheat and rice fields. The wheat was yellow, while the rice was still green and shiny. To the left were rows of mulberry trees, and further to the left was an orchard.

  She couldn't help but curl up the corners of her mouth and asked: "When the time comes, let Mu Yuan drive all the cows over, and people will be more relaxed."

  Fang Datong's eyes lit up and he became even more delighted.

  This year, the ranch has added a lot of cattle. Most importantly, the first batch of calves we raised have grown up and can now pull plows to work.

  When spring began, it helped a lot. Now in summer harvest, the cow is not hardworking, just need to pull the cart, compared to the beginning of spring, it's much more leisurely.

  Now Fang Datong is the general manager of the farm, but the pasture, mulberry garden and orchard are separately managed. He has to ask Zhong Daguantie for permission before using cattle.

  Lin Qingyan directly gave the order, which was more effective than what Zhong Daguantie said.

  "Uncle Fang has nothing to do, why not go for a walk on the ranch side," Lin Qingyan said: "Zhong Daguanting is now in charge of many things, and he may not be able to take care of this farm side, so I plan to ask you to manage the ranch together."

  Fang Datong is intelligent, except for being illiterate, there's nothing else wrong with her. So Lin Qingyuan plans to gradually let her take over the work of managing the farm on this side, and eventually be in charge of the entire farm.

  Rather than just being in charge of food.

  As Lin's business expanded, Zhong had more things to do, and even Lin Guan, who was originally only in charge of the Lin family's affairs, was pulled over by him to share the workload.

  There's no way, Lin's paper workshop, weaving workshop and embroidery workshop have developed too quickly. Even if the weaving and embroidery workshops don't have storefronts, because Lin Qingwen has planted a lot of mulberry trees in the farm, the number of silkworms raised every year is increasing.

  Similarly, output is also increasing naturally.

  Before everyone reacted, the brocade satin produced by Lin's family every year accounted for a large proportion of Suzhou. Many foreign cloth merchants came to her house.

  So, unbeknownst to her, the weaving workshop had expanded to the point where it needed additional housing, and the number of weavers she had hired had already tripled since Lin Qingyuan returned to Suzhou.

  Zhong Daguan didn't take it seriously at first, because his main energy was still focused on the paper mill and bookstore, single-mindedly promoting bamboo paper and grass paper.

  It was in April when a group of little girls wearing the same clothes appeared at Shang Dan Zhu's hairpin ceremony, which caught the attention of Suzhou's ladies and young women to Lin's family embroidery, and then someone found a connection to place an order with Lin's family.

  Embroidery workshops were originally in the off-season, but they still received such a large order, and the people who placed the order were all from reputable families in Suzhou.

  The manager of the Embroidery Workshop did not dare to slack off and quickly found the superior manager, Mr. Zhong, for instructions.

  Zhong Daguan only then noticed that the embroidery workshop seemed to have opened up a path to wealth, and hurriedly brought the manager of the embroidery workshop to solidify it. During that time, they opened their doors to welcome customers, allowing ladies who intended to place orders to come in person to select the style, pattern, and even the embroiderer for their garments.

  Of course, as a qualified businessman, Zhong Daguan would naturally take the opportunity to recommend the fabrics produced by his own weaving workshop.

  This was too much, and the weaving workshop's business also exploded.

  These ladies are quite wealthy, otherwise they wouldn't be at the tailor's shop ordering custom-made clothes. Seeing those exquisite fabrics, of course, they couldn't resist buying and buying.

  The prices of retail and wholesale are certainly different. Although Zhong didn't ask for their money at market price, it was still much higher than the wholesale price.

  The profit earned from this batch going out...

  In short, Zhong was moved and hesitated whether to reopen a cloth shop, so as not to always be taken advantage of by those merchants who came to wholesale.

  But thinking too much is not good, now the Lin family's talents are limited, I'm afraid it will be difficult to manage the store well even if it opens, and it may conflict with those fabric stores.

  So Zhong Daguanshi thought about it and decided to let it go, but this time he finally noticed the changes in the weaving workshop.

  There seem to be quite a few people in the weaving workshop.

  He went to see the silkworms piled up in the warehouse and the women workers picking silk threads in the courtyard, he turned around silently, "It's not that there are too many people in the weaving workshop, but rather too few... There's too much silkworm cocoons..."

  It's actually not the fault of Weaving Workshop and Sang Garden.

  Who made them plant so many mulberry trees?

  Those less fertile lands are either planted with fruit trees or mulberry trees.

  The sales of fruit are a big problem, so when they were first planted, Director Zhong preferred to plant mulberry trees.

  So the mulberry garden was built a bit large, and the foundation piled up by the pond, the larger fields and embankments were all planted with mulberry trees.

  It's not the fault of the migrant workers who planted trees, their family has little land and they have always utilized the land in this way. Otherwise, it would be a waste to leave such wide ridges between fields with long grass.

  The survival rate of mulberry trees is still quite high. After raising them for a year, the leaves are getting more and more abundant. By the second year, the person in charge of the mulberry garden can't just watch as the leaves fall to the ground and go to waste, right?

  So they went into sericulture on a large scale, selecting people from the villages to raise silkworms and also recruiting female workers from nearby villages, which was also considered helping their fellow villagers.

  Anyway, as long as the report they submit makes sense, the lady will allocate money for them.

  So last year's silkworms were raised more, and the raw silk was naturally more. The weavers in the weaving workshop were too busy to recruit more weavers. This year, there are even more mulberry leaves and more silkworms...

  Zhong's usually energetic manager at the paper mill and bookstore was stunned.

  He cannot let Sangyuan and Weizuo expand in such an unregulated manner, which may seem good for now but not necessarily beneficial for long-term development.

  So he became even busier.

  He was so busy that he couldn't take care of other places, so he proposed to Lin Qingwan to hand over the farm to others, and he would not ask about it later.

  Lin Qingwan's first thought was Fang Datong, and Zhong Daguan also suggested him.

  His reason was, "Fang Datong is loyal and intelligent with a good strategy, but also kind-hearted. I've been observing him coldly, the tenants under his management all trust him very much, it seems he can manage the entire farm as well."

  So the candidate was temporarily set as him, but he still has a lot to learn.

  Because Zhong was busy with official duties, Fang Dasong could only temporarily follow Lin Guan's household to study.

  Lin Guanjia first took him to see the granary, not the one outside, but the one built in the backyard, adjacent to the foot of the mountain.

  The stone house looks like a row of low and humble houses from the outside, no different from the row of houses across the street.

  But actually, the house opposite was a lower-class residence and was where the guards of the mansion lived. The row of houses close to the mountain were granaries.

  The Lin family's true grain storage location.

  Every year Fang Dasong would bring grain here with the villagers, of course he knew that, but he had never carefully looked at the interior layout.

  This time Lin Guan's family took him in.

  The house inside and opposite is equally short, but it's connected, unlike the opposite side which is divided into separate rooms.

  Inside, several paths were divided, Lin Guan's family led him to walk straight to the wall, and he didn't know where he bumped into it. The wall slid to the right, revealing a large stone.

  Fang Datong: ……

  Spent half a day's effort just to let him see a big rock?