Yu Fuling became happy, "Shall we go together? I can go to the capital too."

Yu Jiao smiled at her and said, "If you don't want to leave your brother-in-law, I can go by myself."

Yu Fuling glared at Yu Jiao and said helplessly, "You are talking nonsense again!"

She started talking to Yu Jiao about serious matters. "Have you ever thought about where you want to build the paper mill? Do you want it to be in Qiyun County as well?"

Yu Fuling secretly wanted Yu Jiao to open a paper mill in Qingyu Village. Opening a paper mill requires hiring people to do the work. Opening it in Qingyu Village can benefit the neighbors. It is close to home and her parents can help. Staying in Zhixun County all the time is not a good idea.

"I haven't thought about it yet. It depends on the environment." If they make paper themselves, they need to choose a place close to water and with raw materials.

Xuan paper is made from the bark of the Chinese zelkova, and Xue Tao paper is a small red paper made from the bark of the hibiscus and the juice of the hibiscus flowers.

The method of making mulberry paper recorded in "The Exploitation of the Works of Nature" is to make it from the bark of the mulberry tree.

In her previous life, Yu Jiao lived with her grandfather in Qinling Mountains. Since ancient times, local people in Qinling Mountains have relied on the mulberry trees in the mountains to make mulberry paper for a living.

The mulberry paper of Beizhang Village was later listed as one of the world's intangible cultural heritages. Yu Jiao often went to the foot of the mountain to play and witnessed the mulberry paper making process many times.

At that time, because I thought it was fun, I helped people step on piles of leather and pound paper materials.

Precisely because she was familiar with the process of making mulberry paper, when Yu Zhizhou mentioned selling mulberry paper, Yu Jiao asked him why he didn't make it himself.

Only after finding suitable raw materials can we decide where to build the paper mill.

Although Qingzhou has many mountains, Zhiyun County is not close to any mountain, and most of the trees there are poplars, locust trees and willows. During these days of traveling here, Yu Jiao has never seen any qingtan trees or mulberry trees.

Wild paper mulberry trees are commonly found in ravines and wastelands because they are drought-resistant and barren-resistant. There may be paper mulberry trees on Qingyan Mountain, but Yu Jiao did not notice them when she went up the mountain to collect herbs. She will have to go back to Qingyu Village and go up Qingyan Mountain to take a closer look later.

Seeing white smoke coming out of the stove, Yu Fuling pulled out a few sticks of firewood from the stove, stuck them into the ashes under the stove and extinguished them. She pretended to be casual and said, "That young Marquis Gu is a good man. He actually lent you so much money in one go, but for no reason. He treated you like this. Could he have some other intentions?"

Yu Jiao raised her eyes and looked at Yu Fuling quietly.

As if she had seen through her thoughts, Yu Fuling secretly cursed herself for speaking in a roundabout way. Yu Jiao had always been a straightforward and clear-headed person, so why should she play tricks in front of her?

Yu Fuling said with some shame, "I was afraid that the young Marquis Gu had some intentions towards you... After all, we are not related, and he just casually gave you seven or eight thousand taels of silver."

Actually, after saying this, Yu Fuling felt that she was overthinking it. A man of destiny like Young Marquis Gu had seen all kinds of women in the capital, so how could he look down on an ordinary woman? Moreover, such a thing happened when they first met.

They were originally enemies, but who would have thought that he would become a benefactor to Yu Jiao's business.

Yu Jiao did not give Yu Fuling a perfunctory answer. Instead, she thought about it seriously and replied, "I don't know what he is thinking, but I guess Young Marquis Gu is so generous because of the previous search for his relatives."

Yu Fuling remembered that Master Liu seemed to treat Yu Jiao as his long-lost sister. With this in mind, Young Marquis Gu's willingness to help Yu Jiao was more related to this aspect.

"Young Marquis Gu has a big family and a lot of wealth, so maybe he doesn't care about this money. I'll give him some shares when I make money in the future." Yu Jiao owed Gu Yun a favor and had already made up her mind to repay him. No matter why Gu Yun lent her so much money, she would not take advantage of him for nothing.

"I'm sorry for talking too much. Don't take it to heart. I just think it's not good to be too involved with big shots like them." Young Marquis Gu is a truly powerful and aristocratic man. If he's not happy, he can have the power of life and death. How could ordinary people like them afford to marry him?

Yu Fuling still shudders with fear whenever she thinks of Gu Yun's unruly and rebellious appearance.

Yu Jiao smiled faintly, "Being a businessman means you have to deal with all kinds of people, it's inevitable."

If it weren't for getting to know Gu Yun, it wouldn't have been so easy to buy grain from the river. When walking in the world, one must make good connections. It's very difficult to accomplish anything without making friends with anyone.

Yu Fuling also understood this truth and couldn't help but blame herself. It was difficult for women to do business in this world, and she shouldn't have spoken so hastily and even planned to blackmail Yu Jiao.

"The water is ready, go wash up first." Yu Fuling changed the subject, boiled the hot water in the pot, and brought it to Yu Jiao's room.

After Yu Jiao returned to her room and took a shower, she sat down at the table and wrote a letter to Manager Zhou, asking how much grain was left in Danzhou and if Manager Zhou could spare some time, she would ask him to go back to Xixun County and hand over the affairs of the Danzhou grain shop to someone else first.

After sealing the letter with wax, there was a soft knock on the door. Yu Jiao opened the door and Yu Fuling was standing outside with a blanket in her arms. "I...I want to sleep with you."

Yu Jiao smiled and said, "Okay."

Seeing that she agreed, Yu Fuling spread her own bedding on the bed and got in.

Yu Jiao blew out the candle, got on the bed and lay on the inner side.

In the darkness, there was silence for a while. Yu Fuling turned over and said softly, "Yu Jiao, don't take what I just said in the kitchen to heart."

“Hmm…”

Yu Jiao's sleepy mumbling came from beside her, it seemed that she didn't hear what she was saying at all. Yu Fuling smiled silently. It seemed that she was really tired. It was just that she was too sensitive.

Yu Fuling fumbled to tuck in the corner of Yu Jiao's quilt, thinking that she would make more delicious food for Yu Jiao tomorrow, and she should not say anything out loud in the future.

The next day, Yu Jiao had the letter delivered to Danzhou. She checked the accounts of the grain shop, counted the remaining grain, and went to the countryside with a few assistants to inspect the purchased fields.

Unlike Qingyu Village which has been restored to its original state after the disaster, the collapsed houses in the rural villages of Xixun County are still being rebuilt. People in several villages sold their land to Yu Jiao and used the money from the sale to rebuild their houses.

Someone recognized Yu Jiao, and the news spread quickly. Soon, everyone in the village came over and warmly invited Yu Jiao and her group to have lunch in the village. Yu Jiao couldn't refuse the kindness, so she agreed to stay for lunch.

Sitting under a makeshift thatched hut in the village, many people gathered around Yu Jiao and talked to her.

"Miss Yu, when do we start planting this field?" an old man asked.

Yu Jiao had just looked around the fields. The low-lying fields still had water in them, while the soil in the fields that were slightly higher was wet and sticky, like a lotus pond that had just had the water drained out.

Yu Jiao looked at the old man and said politely, "The fields are still wet. Wait until you build the house and have some free time before you start working in the fields."