Shocked! After planting, a sickly and charming first assistant will grow up.

Luo Xi is not convinced. Is there anything she can't do?

He turned around and thought, "I really solved the problem. You won't give me another two hundred and fifty, right?"

Seeing the seriousness in her joke, Bai Tingyun took a serious step forward: "You didn't try to stop me? Is there really a way to solve the problem of rations for border officers?"

"Who knows!" Luo Xi shrugged, "It should be no problem to meet the urgently needed food during the war."

Bai Tingyun calmed down a little, and his eyes fell on Luo Xi's face for a moment: "There are half a million troops in the north alone, and the consumption during the war is extremely terrifying."

He didn't believe it and asked, "Do you really have so much food?"

"Do you think I'm a god? I can make food out of nothing for you." He bluntly broke this man's daydream: "Come on! We are not talking about the same thing."

"Go and get me some quicklime, and the rest of the facts will tell."

Bai Tingyun really didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Luo Xi's gourd. If he wanted quicklime, he probably didn't provide food directly to the court. He probably had some ideas.

Nodding: "The quicklime medicine store has it. Ask Jin to deliver it later."

With one foot on the carriage, he seemed to have suddenly thought of something and turned around, "That's right! Your Majesty is kind and allows you to make a threshing machine and sell it."

Withdrew his feet, stood still, took out a drawing from his sleeve, and solemnly handed it to Luo Xi:

"The above is an all-in-one threshing machine improved by the Ministry of Industry. Your Majesty will give it to you as a reward. Please don't reveal it."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, long live my emperor!" Luo Xi saluted solemnly.

She was a little surprised. The drawings from the Ministry of Industry were classified. The emperor probably gave them to her because she was the inventor of the threshing machine.

As long as there is an idea, it is not difficult to manufacture a threshing machine. As long as a carpenter is thoughtful and researches, it is not difficult to make a replica.

The improved drawings were both reciprocal and an olive branch from the imperial court.

Luo Xi accepted it with a smile, watched Bai Tingyun get on the carriage and leave, then turned back to Lu Yunjin and said:

"Your Majesty is so smart. He took my drawings and revised them before sending them back. Should I thank him?"

"He is conveying a message to you: turn over good things to achieve a win-win situation." Lu Yunjin took the drawings handed over by Luo Xi and unfolded them.

He once served as an official in the same dynasty as the Minister of Industry, and it only takes one glance to tell that the drawings were improved by the old man, leaving behind his unique skills and habits.

In fact, Luo Xi had a more complete drawing than this, and deliberately leaving flaws and room for improvement was a decision she made after discussing with Lu Yunjin.

While gaining favor with the emperor, the light should not be too strong.

If you eat meat but don't drink soup for others, you will easily suffer backlash and retaliation. If a good thing turns into a bad thing, it is a disaster rather than a blessing!

Take it easy!

They are not in a hurry!

"..."

In June, the rainy season arrives in Nan'an Prefecture, and the pattering rain falls.

Luo Xi held an umbrella, and the drizzle filtered through the tall bamboo forests on both sides and sprinkled on the clear gravel road, causing little splashes of water.

"Brother Fei! What are you looking at!" The umbrella handle moved up slightly, and Luo Xi stood outside the door of her new home. Through the rain curtain, he looked at Gu Fei, who was standing by the lake in a daze.

Clouds and mist as thin as cicada's wings rise from the lake, slowly infiltrating upwards. The newly jointed bamboos on both sides of the road are covered by broken rain, and they are so green that you can't see the edge.

Gu Fei came back to his senses and turned his head, and couldn't help but sigh sincerely: "This place is so beautiful, Xiao Luo has a good vision."

Luo Xi also feels beautiful. The lake in the rainy season is like a fairyland. Her new home stands here like a paradise in the fairyland.

Quiet and beautiful!

Not stained by the mortal world.

The two of them stood side by side, neither of them speaking, raising their heads to admire the beautiful scenery under the rain curtain.

After a moment, Luo Xi was the first to raise her lips: "Brother Fei! Are you interested in expanding your business?"

"Expand business?" Gu Fei tilted his head and thought for a moment, finally understood, and couldn't help but ask: "Where do you mean to expand?"

"The boss is here?" The brother who was taking shelter from the rain in the Gufei Corridor saw the two people standing in front of the door and had a conversation, so he moved a small table and two futons with great foresight.

He was also holding a small clay pot in his hand and said with a hearty smile: "Come on! Let me and Brother Fei try it. This is the tea I roasted myself."

The green tips of her teeth were floating in the cup. Luo Xi lifted her clothes and sat on the futon, taking a sip from her tea bowl.

"How does it taste?" the man asked expectantly.

Luo Xi raised her eyebrows: "It's a bit wild!"

Then asked: "What is this tea called?"

The man scratched his head, his name? He never thought that during this season, his mother would pick and fry some wild tea trees in the mountains behind his home and drink them at home.

He thought hard and said: "I heard people say that the emperor likes to drink the Yuqian Longjing. I will call it Yuqian Xiaolu!"

Gu Fei almost spit out his tea.

God damn green before the rain.

Luo Xi was very interested in taking another look at this person. This was an indirect reminder to her. How could she not grow tea when she was living in the south of the Yangtze River?

But in no hurry.

The man was slapped by Gu Fei angrily, and ran away with a smile.

The two returned to the topic. Gu Fei, the thresher, witnessed it with his own eyes, and Luo Xi told her about the reward from the court and the permission to make and sell it.

He looked directly at Gu Fei with smiling eyes: "You should be a carpenter, right? How about it! Are you interested in cooperation?"

It would be a lie to say he wasn't excited. The eight-foot tall man's voice was trembling: "Yes, yes! How can I not be carpenter when building a house? My subordinates are better at it."

He thought for a while and gave a cautious number: "Five big workers and thirty-seven small workers."

Da Gong refers to a master craftsman with more than 20 years of experience.

It's no problem for a small worker to cut wood and make furniture.

In this era, there was no steel and concrete, and houses were built using mortise and tenon structures. To do this, one must be proficient in carpentry.

"Okay! You are responsible for manufacturing and production. I am responsible for finding ways to sell." Luo Xi finalized the decision. "The profit is 50-50 for us."

Gu Fei waved his hand, "Brother, I want 30% to go, but 50% is too much."

Why didn't he understand that Luo Xi could hire someone to do the threshing machine herself? She hired him out of love to take care of him, and there was no reason for an elder brother to take advantage of his younger brother.

Luo Xi pretended to be displeased: "Before I was seven years old, I was almost raised by my mother-in-law. I regard you as my brother. Do you have to argue with me for two cents of the profit?"

"No!" Gu Fei is a practical type, and he will never force anything if he can do it. "You know I don't mean to be guilty."

"It's okay if it's not!" Luo Xi's face softened, and the two brothers hugged Gu Fei's shoulders. "I've never been full after eating your food."

"You and I are not real brothers, but we are better than real brothers. I will be really angry when we see each other outside."

"Okay!" Gu Fei stretched out his fist and touched Luo Xi, "Thank you! Xiao Luo."

Luo Xi smiled.

In the eyes of the original body, the Gu family is a more important relative than the Luo family. In fact, she wants to give more, but she also knows that 50% is the limit of Gu Fei's ability to bear.

Don't worry, there are plenty of opportunities to make money and make a fortune in the future.

Seeing this harmonious scene that could be called brotherly love, the young and old Luo family members who were driven to the lakeside to pick up pebbles in the rain were so jealous that their eyes turned red with jealousy.

Why?

Why would this evildoer rather be kind to an outsider than share any of the benefits with his family?

Seeing the family standing in rows by the lake like water ghosts, Luo Xi squinted and looked over, and her low voice was particularly clear:

"Hurry up and pick it up! If you don't pick up five boxes today, no one will be able to eat."