"But what I asked you to build has been completed?" Lu Chen cheered up a little and looked at Xu Gaofeng and his son and asked.
"Sir, it's over. The villain and his son came here just to ask about the loading time so that they can assemble in time!" Xu Gaofeng and his son saluted Lu Chen, and Xu Gaofeng reported.
"Well..." Lu Chen, who should have been very happy when he heard Xu Gaofeng's report, suddenly became depressed again when he thought of the miserable situation in his greenhouse, "Su Chang, please go and report it. I recently entered the palace." "Hey, I have something to give to Princess Langya. Remember, I can only tell Princess Langya about this, you know?" Lu Chen looked at Su Chang who was aside and said.
"Yes!" Su Chang accepted the order directly, and after saying that, she was about to turn around and leave.
"That's right!" Just as Su Chang was about to leave, Lu Chen chased after her again. Su Chang stopped and looked at Lu Chen.
"Tell Princess Langya that this is a New Year's gift from me! Okay, let's go!" Lu Chen warned again, and Su Chang resigned again.
"You two, father and son, have done a good job this time. Each of you has a hundred coins. Go and collect the reward from Du Chengze!" When Su Chang left, Lu Chen looked at Xu Gaofeng and his son and said.
"Thank you for the reward, sir!" Seeing that Lu Chen was not in high spirits, the father and son thanked him and left.
"I'm going to the study. If anything happens, just let me know!" After Lu Chen told Liu Jing, he entered the study.
Liu Jing naturally did not dare to go far, fearing that if Lu Chen called him for something, he would not be there, so he sat directly in the side room and took out the book Lu Chen gave him. Now Liu Jing also understood that he wanted to keep his position. Being with his father-in-law all the time, he had to study the books given to him by his father-in-law. This was also the task Lu Chen gave him. He had to learn at least twenty words every day.
Just when Liu Jing took out the book and was about to read it, the door to the wing room was pushed open. Liu Jing suddenly looked up and saw Su Chang ducking in from the door.
"I'm shocked. Why are you here? Didn't my father-in-law ask you to enter the palace?" Liu Jing looked at Su Chang with a puzzled look on his face.
Su Chang was a female official. Before coming to the Lu Mansion, she had been with Li Yanjun. Therefore, Li Yanjun was a knowledgeable and reasonable person. As Li Yanjun's female official, she was naturally not too bad. Moreover, she and Liu Jing , one is Lu Chen's personal attendant, and the other is the housekeeper of the Lu Mansion. The two often meet, so Liu Jing often asks Su Chang to ask if there is anything he doesn't understand in his books.
"Oh, you can report the matter of entering the palace at any time. By the way, why did you look so ugly just now?" Su Chang's expression at this time was that of a young boy. How could she be as normal as the housekeeper of the Lu family? With a cold look, he sat directly opposite Liu Jing, held his chin and looked at Liu Jing and asked.
"It's not Duke Su who caused this!" Liu Jing said helplessly after hearing Su Chang's question and looking at Su Chang's smiling eyes.
"What did Lord Su Guo do?" Su Chang continued to ask curiously.
"Hey! My father-in-law and..." Liu Jing originally wanted to say that Lu Chen and Li Shimin were talking in the front hall at that time, but when he thought that Li Shimin came incognito, he swallowed his words, "At that time, Mr. Su Guo asked I led him around the village. Our adults wanted to talk to an important person, so I walked around the village with Mr. Su. After walking around, Mr. Su took his sights on the greenhouse in the back garden. Then..." Liu Jing shook his head with a speechless expression.
"If you ask me, you are also stupid. Mr. Su Guo is famous for being a free-spirited man. How dare you take him to the back garden? Just wait and see Mr. Su deal with you!" After hearing Liu Jing's narration, Su Chang smiled directly and pointed at Liu Jing with her slender finger.
"Then there's nothing I can do! I can't stop Mr. Su Guo!" Seeing Su Chang's charming smile, Liu Jing couldn't help feeling his cheeks heat up and muttered.
"That's true. After all, we are just servants and can't stop it!" Su Chang nodded after hearing Liu Jing's muttered words, "No wonder the father-in-law looks so ugly. He probably has a headache because of this matter. Bar!"
Su Chang held her chin and thought about it and said, after all, he was the Duke of the country, and he obviously had a good relationship with his father-in-law. It was estimated that his father-in-law was only angry for a while and would get better after a while.
While Liu Jing and Su Chang were chatting, the door of the wing room where Liu Jing was staying was pushed open. Du Junchuo walked in directly from the door. As soon as Du Junchuo came in, he saw Su Chang and Liu Jing face to face. Sit there and chat.
"Well..." Du Junchuo was stunned when he saw this scene. He seemed to understand something immediately. He looked at Liu Jing and then at Su Chang, "Did I come at the wrong time?" Du Junchuo After asking weakly, he turned around and walked out the door.
"Brother Du, you misunderstood!" As soon as the two of them saw Du Junchuo's appearance, they knew that this guy must have misunderstood something. Liu Jing hurriedly called out to Du Junchuo.
"Did I misunderstand?" Du Junchuo stopped, turned around, looked at Liu Jing, then at Su Chang, and said very uncertainly.
"You really misunderstood! Liu Jing is studying, isn't he? If he doesn't understand something, let me teach him!" Su Chang hurriedly explained to Du Junchuo.
"Oh~!" Du Junchuo looked at the two people who were blushing, and said "oh" seriously, "It seems that I really misunderstood!" Du Junchuo tried hard to maintain a serious expression and clicked. He nodded and said.
"Brother Du, what do you want from me?" Liu Jing didn't want to dwell on this matter any longer, so he started to change the subject.
"Ah! Yes! Is the father-in-law in the study?" Du Junchuo looked at Liu Jing and asked.
"My father-in-law is in the study, are you okay?" Liu Jing looked at Du Junchuo and asked in confusion. Du Junchuo and the other commanders of the Beiwei Guard were either training soldiers in the camp or leading the team on duty. They rarely came directly to see them. His father-in-law, obviously Du Junchuo had something to report to Lu Chen.
"Well! I just returned from patrolling the back mountain with the guards, and there is something I should report to the father-in-law!" Du Junchuo nodded.
"Brother Du, please wait a moment, I'll report it!" Liu Jing saw Du Junchuo's serious look, got up and left the wing, came to the door of the study, and knocked gently on the door.
"Come in!" As Lu Chen's voice sounded, Liu Jing opened the study door and walked in.
"Is something wrong?" Seeing Liu Jing come in, Lu Chen put down the pen in his hand and looked at Liu Jing. Lu Chen was in the study just now. Lu Chen was really angry at Cheng Yaojin for harming his greenhouse at first, but for Cheng Yaojin This anger comes and goes quickly.
If Cheng Yaojin didn't cause trouble, he wouldn't be Cheng Yaojin, and Lu Chen also decided to write this matter down to Cheng Yaojin, and he would definitely find an opportunity to deal with him in the future.
After making up his mind and calming down, Lu Chen began to design a new plan.
Just when Lu Chen was holding a pen and thinking about what to write, Liu Jing knocked on the study door.
"My lord, Commander Du Junchuo and Du are outside asking for an audience!" Liu Jing said after saluting Lu Chen.
"Oh?" Lu Chen was quite surprised when he heard that it was Du Junchuo who asked for a meeting. However, Lu Chen knew that Du Junchuo and the others must have encountered some situation before they came to him. Lu Chen was just stunned for a moment. Ask Liu Jing to bring Du Junchuo to the study.
Du Junchuo was already waiting in the yard. When he saw Liu Jing coming out of the study, he looked at Liu Jing with questioning eyes. Liu Jing nodded at Du Junchuo, and Du Junchuo hurriedly came up to meet him.
"My lord, let you in!" Liu Jing whispered to Du Junchuo.
"Yes!" Du Junchuo nodded and walked directly into the study. Liu Jing, after Du Junchuo entered the study, closed the door directly and stood guard outside the door.
"Master!" After entering the study, he saw Lu Chen sitting behind the desk. Du Junchuo saluted Lu Chen.
"Yes!" Lu Chen nodded, "Do you have anything to do with me?" Lu Chen looked at Du Junchuo and asked.
"Sir, I was on patrol today and found a piece of salt land about ten miles southwest of the back mountain!" Du Junchuo read Lu Chen's report.
"Oh? This is a good thing!" Lu Chen said happily when he heard that Du Junchuo and his men had discovered a piece of salt land.
Salt and iron are all things related to people's livelihood. Now Lu Chen has five mines in his hands, but there are no salt production areas. Although Lu Chen showed Xiao Yu and others the refined salt he can make, that's not the case. It's just purified from the salt in one's own kitchen. As for letting the Detachment of Women produce salt, that's also deceiving people like Xiao Yu.
Lu Chen couldn't really tell Li Xiuning that the Detachment of Women should allocate tens of thousands of people to make salt. That would be too nonsense.
Lu Chen had actually been thinking about how to get a few salt fields from the Xiao family. He didn't expect that Du Junchuo actually brought him such news, which made Lu Chen a little overjoyed.
"But sir, the salt from the salt field is all poisonous salt and cannot be eaten!" Du Junchuo also brought back a few pieces of salt. After his grandfather Du Yanliang and others saw it, they all said it was poisonous salt. Salt cannot be eaten. If you eat it, you will die. Although the salt found was poisonous, the matter still had to be reported to his father-in-law, so Du Junchuo came over to report the matter to Lu Chen.
"Poison salt is good! Poison salt is good!" When Du Junchuo said it was poisonous salt, Lu Chen was even more happy. He even praised him a few times, which confused Du Junchuo. This poisonous salt can't He couldn't eat it but couldn't use it. He didn't understand why his father-in-law was so happy!
"Send someone to guard the salt land for me!" Lu Chen ordered directly to Du Junchuo.
"Yes!" Although Du Junchuo didn't know why Lu Chen was so interested in a piece of poisonous salt land and even sent people to guard it, since Lu Chen ordered it to be guarded, Du Junchuo and others would resolutely implement it.
