Dressed as a young lady, she became rich by relying on Pinxixi

Chapter 128 Cotton

Afterwards, Xu Huaishan tried to find the person, but as time went by, there was no news...

Now, if you count it up, it has been almost fifteen years since Xu Nianxue left the Xu family.

"No. I checked the documents at the county government office. Back then, my eldest brother-in-law's family's travel permit was with the owner of the silver shop. It pointed to Jincheng Mansion. We also asked someone, but no one with the surname An had settled there during those years."

Some people, once they leave, it all depends on fate when you see them again.

Xu Siyu didn't have to meet him, she just wanted to fill in the gaps and fulfill her own promise.

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In the name of assassination, the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Xia Kingdom began in the autumn and the outcome was decided on the ninth day of October.

The Xia Kingdom surrendered by offering two cities.

King Xia handed over the mastermind of the assassination, the third prince of Xia, who was also his brother, to King Ming Pingxia for disposal.

Pingxia's handling of the situation is very interesting.

He stabbed the third prince of Xia Kingdom with a sword in the same place and then let him go.

Even a fool could see that he gave the Third Prince a chance to cause trouble, and of course, it was also to give the western border of the Ming Dynasty some time of peace.

After the branch of Zhong'an Prefecture was established, the Xu family's northwest caravan went north to Ninghai Prefecture, and westward, as the border expanded, it extended another hundred miles to Pingliang Prefecture, the newest western prefecture of the Ming Dynasty.

The trade route is getting longer and longer. Except for Long San who refuses to leave, Long Jiu and Long Shisan will also go north to Zhong'an Prefecture to help.

Qinglong Village took the initiative to send five younger generations to inherit the cause of protecting the Xu family. The younger generations were still named by numbers, but in order to distinguish them from their uncles, they were prefixed with the word "Xiao".

This time, a young lady who is a copycat of Qinglong Mountain, Long Shiqi Niang, came and was specifically responsible for Xu Siyu's safety.

Ever since the last carjacking, Lin Yiqing asked Qinglong Village for female guards. Qinglong Village thought about it for a long time before releasing the young and strong Shiqi Niang.

The Azure Dragon Guards gathered in the Xu family's flower hall. Xu Siyu looked at the only girl and said, "I'll call you Hanlu, okay?"

You can call her Seventeen, but Xu Siyu thinks it is too disrespectful.

"This is the name of the seventeenth solar term in the year." Xu Siyu also took the initiative to introduce the origin of the name to the little girl.

"Long...Hanlu?" The little girl, who was only eleven years old, had bright round eyes and nodded vigorously. It was obvious that she was very satisfied.

"It's better than Fifth Brother's name, it has one more character."

This nice-sounding reason is also very special.

"Second Grandma, what about me?"

"And me?"

"I want a name too?"

……

The five boys felt neglected and were busy asking for names.

What was excessive was that Long San, Long Jiu, and Long Shisan also looked up at Xu Siyu, and their eyes all conveyed the same meaning - one cannot be favored over another.

Thinking of so many demands, Xu Siyu suddenly felt overwhelmed and could only resolve them one by one.

She said to Long San, "You? When you find a wife, let Rui'er marry you."

Long San heard that Xu Siyu did not object to him marrying Rui'er, so he touched his head and smiled foolishly behind Xu Siyu embarrassedly.

This scene was unbearable to look at, so Xu Siyu turned her attention to the next person.

"You two can be called Long Jiu and Long Shishan." These two dragons still follow the homophonic name style of their generation.

The remaining five little dragons correspond to the seventy-two marquises in order of ranking, and are named "Dongfeng", "Shizhen", "Yuzhi", "Taji" and "Yanbei".

These characters have a lot of strokes. It is so joyful to get the names, but so painful to copy them.

Xu Siyu not only wants them to learn to write their names, but also wants them to learn to read and write.

The biggest problem for Long Wu as the manager is that he is illiterate. Although the Xu family has assigned him an accountant and a clerk, and Lin Yiqing visits them every quarter, this drawback should be solved from the root.

It just so happened that the Xu family had a teacher, so from then on, whenever they didn't go out, Wu Xiaolong would accompany Lin Xuan to study, while Hanlu would follow Lin Cuiwei to practice calligraphy.

Long Jiu and Long Shishan were still reading the Thousand Character Classic before they went north.

Xu Siyu gave them all the task of learning to read and write, and they had to return the calligraphy practice sheets to her for inspection every month.

During the winter, Xu Siyu started tinkering with new gadgets again.

There is no other reason, it’s still the same main purpose - to live comfortably.

Ever since she confessed the existence of Pin Xixi to Lin Yiqing, she has been using the things in the house however she wants, without any concealment.

Xu Siyu remembered burning most of the things.

But some things were still seen by Rui'er and the others, but they all knew their limits and didn't ask any questions. They just thought it was their master's private matter, and since Xu Siyu didn't say anything, they wouldn't ask any more questions.

Xu Siyu has been dealing in toilet paper and sanitary napkins recently.

There was no way, she was used to using paper and almost exposed herself in front of her children several times.

Especially thinking that Lin Cuiwei will grow up and have her period, Xu Siyu feels that she has to prepare things related to female hygiene for her daughter in advance.

Xu Siyu couldn't imagine her daughter using a cloth strip filled with wood ash to deal with her menstrual period in the future.

Although she couldn't make sanitary napkins, she could at least make some absorbent toilet paper or cotton napkins. Every improvement counts.

"Absorbent cotton?" Lin Yiqing saw her bringing home a lot of white cotton from Linglong Cloth Shop and doing experiments at home without telling him what she was doing, and he felt curious.

"You don't need to know about girl's stuff. I'm sending you on a mission. Go to Pingliang Mansion and get some land. We want to grow cotton!"

Xu Siyu has already made the prototype of sanitary napkins. It is definitely not comparable to the ones in Pinxixi, but it is already usable.

Compared with the improvement of the water absorption capacity of the absorbent strips, the consumption of cotton itself is a big problem.

Cotton production is limited nowadays, so she wants a cotton field to be self-sufficient.

"Growing cotton?"

Lin Yiqing sat next to Xu Siyu and reminded her: "We are not talking, and we don't touch the Lin family's business."

Linglong Cloth Shop is now the Lin family's largest industry. Lin Yiqing wants to know Xu Siyu's intention of growing cotton.

"We don't make clothing materials. I have other uses for them." Xu Siyu explained to Lin Yiqing.

"Can we cooperate with the Lin family? Or should I let my eldest brother grow the crops and we buy them?"

"Lin Yiqing, what do you mean? Don't you believe me?"

"Qingqing, I just think it's not easy for Big Brother to support the Lin family. We should try not to get involved in so many businesses..."

"I use this cotton as a menstrual pad!"

Xu Siyu knew that men of this era were reluctant to talk about this, so she didn't want to tell Lin Yiqing openly, but if he insisted on knowing the truth, she didn't care.

"I can cooperate with Pei's, your elder brother, I think it's dirty."

When Lin Siyu went to Linglong Cloth Shop, she met her elder sister-in-law Pei, who looked much more haggard than when they met at the beginning of the year.

Unlike Xu Siyu who always showed up in public, Pei stayed in the backyard after marrying into the Lin family and never appeared in the cloth shop, even though that was her dowry.

But since when did she prefer to walk out of the house and stay in the shop rather than stay in the Lin family?