Old Wei didn't want to come the next day. He was really curious about the workshop that Ye Shian had set up. He went over and took a look around and asked the villagers, but they couldn't explain it clearly. They just said that it was the Ye family's workshop.

Old Wei knew that Ye Shian had many clever ideas, so he was eager to know what this workshop was used for and whether it could bring benefits to the people.

Since he knew that Mr. Wei would come the next day, Ye Shian ordered people to prepare Mr. Wei's favorite food early in the morning.

Sure enough, Mr. Wei's carriage arrived at Ye's house early.

Ye Shian greeted him with a smile: "Good morning, Mr. Wei."

"Shi'an girl, look who I brought here today."

Ye Shian looked up at the carriage and saw that Madam Shen was being helped out of the carriage.

"Why are you here, old lady?"

Madam Shen pretended to be angry and snorted coldly: "Humph, if I don't come, you don't know how to invite me."

Ye Shian quickly apologized: "Old Madam, you have wronged me. It's not that I don't want to invite you, but I don't dare to invite you. Our countryside here is not as good as Wanning Mansion. I am afraid that you will not be used to it, so I have never dared to invite you."

"If I can't do it, why can he?"

Elder Wei quickly waved his hand: "Second sister, you are wrong. I am here for serious business."

"Humph, you dare to lie to me? I have asked the servants. You always eat and take things every time you come here. Don't think I don't know."

After saying that, Madam Shen turned around and whispered to Ye Shian, "Silly girl, next time he does this, remember to ask for money. He doesn't need that little bit of money."

Ye Shian suppressed his laughter and said, "Okay, I'll take note of what the old lady said."

Ye Xianchun kept smiling at the side: "Mr. Wei, Mrs. Shen hasn't eaten yet, why don't you sit down and have a simple meal."

"Oh, how can this be so embarrassing."

Madam Shen motioned Ye Shian to look at Mr. Wei: "Since you are embarrassed, then you can wait here."

"Hey, second sister, you..."

The two old men chatted and laughed as they sat down. In the past, Ye Shian always accompanied Old Wei for meals, and today Ye Xianchun also followed him.

As for why Yu Xiuying didn't come, firstly, Yu Xiuying didn't like this kind of occasion, and secondly, she was afraid of saying or doing something wrong and offending this big shot.

"I came here yesterday because someone came from the palace. The weather was hot and the Queen Mother had a poor appetite, but she enjoyed the watermelon I brought. Now that the watermelons in the palace have been eaten up, the Queen Mother sent someone to ask where she could get this kind of watermelon."

"That's easy. I'll order someone to pick a cartload and send it to the palace right now."

Elder Wei nodded: "And the fruit salad you made, I'm sure the Queen Mother will like it too."

Ye Shian laughed and said, "That means the Queen Mother also loves sweets."

Mr. Wei smiled and did not respond. Instead, he asked about the workshop.

"Shi'an girl, I noticed that you built a workshop outside the village. I wonder what that workshop does?"

Ye Shian already knew that Mr. Wei would ask back, so he did not try to hide it and told Mr. Wei his thoughts openly.

“Beans, are there any other crops like this?”

Ye Shian nodded: "Our family has decided to go to Anjing together. We will not be able to come back for a long time, so we thought about building the workshop first and waiting for the beans to mature before we can start working."

"If it's really as you said, then you, your Ye family, have made a great contribution again."

After dinner, sisters Ye Shian and Ye Xianchun accompanied Old Madam Shen for a walk in the yard, and then walked to the riverside. Looking at the windmill that had already taken shape, she curiously asked the two what it was.

Ye Shian said truthfully: "This is a windmill. The wind blows the windmill to rotate, driving the water to flow, so that the crops in the fields can be irrigated."

“This is also Shi’an girl, you want to figure it out?”

Ye Shian shook his head: "This is not that amazing, it's just borrowing other people's methods."

"I don't know what's wrong with your brain, you always have so many ideas. Sometimes I wonder how a country girl can be so smart. Are you a fairy who came down to earth to save the world?"

Ye Xianchun and Ye Shian, who were smiling beside them, both froze. Ye Shian even swallowed his saliva out of guilt.

"Madam Shen, what are you talking about? How can a fairy look like me?"

"What's wrong with you? You two sisters are both fairy-like people, so nice to look at."

"Hehe, old lady, do you really think I look like a fairy?" Ye Shian covered his face and pretended to be shy.

"No, you are a fairy."

The three of them were talking and laughing happily.

Putting away her smile, Old Lady Shen asked her, "I heard that you are going to Anjing in a few days?"

"Well, the emperor wants us to supply food to the palace. Wanning Prefecture is too far from Anjing, so we can only solve this problem nearby."

"Okay, let's go to Anjing and see the world."

"If you need any help when you get there, just go to the Shen Mansion."

"I got it."

After more than ten days, the workshop was finally built, and during this period Ye Xianchun also completed the recruitment of workers.

The number of people recruited in the first wave was not large, only more than ten in total, and all of them were skilled and capable people in Changning Village.

Ye Shian learned how to transport corn and brought a thousand kilograms of soybeans to Changning Village.

On the first day of work, Ye Shian and Ye Xianchun both changed into working clothes and followed the workers to select soybeans, wash them, soak them, and then make them into soy milk.

Then separate the soy milk and bean dregs, and boil the filtered soy milk...

What surprised Ye Shian was that Ye Xianchun had only seen it in the book she copied, but he was able to do it very easily and it was completely impossible to tell that it was his first time.

At the end of the day, both of them were exhausted and had backaches.

Yu Xiuying looked at the two sisters distressedly: "Teach them today, and don't go tomorrow."

Ye Shian rubbed his back and said with a bitter face: "I can't do it even if I want to. We will leave for Anjing the day after tomorrow."

In fact, the work she did today was not very heavy, but she was still tired after not doing anything for a long time.

"The bean curd sheets will be dried tomorrow. Let's send some to Mr. Wei and Mrs. Shen first."

Ye Shian gave instructions to his servants.

After a tiring day, Ye Shian went to bed early after dinner.

But in the middle of the night, there was suddenly a commotion outside.

Ye Shian's door was slammed, and she sat up immediately: "What's the matter?"

"Something happened to the second girl. There was a fire in the workshop."

When Ye Shian heard this, he ran out barefoot without even wearing a coat. He happened to meet Ye Xianchun at the door.

The two sisters ran to the village entrance without saying a word. They saw the flames rising into the sky from their home.

When the two arrived at the workshop, many villagers were already trying to put out the fire. Unfortunately, the fire was too big and the workshop suffered heavy damage.

By daybreak, everyone was exhausted. The fire was out, but the things in the workshop were destroyed.

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