Wonderful Life After Exchanging Fate

by Usui Takumii

not mine, explore and try blogspot. Waiting for the translator to update.

5. 31 to 40

Chapter 31

In the town. The sun was already leaning far to the west. Wang De squatted in front of the stall, looking at his plates and bowls reluctantly. He made all of these things one by one, with some points of pride and some points of dissatisfaction. After today, these will all be put into some corner.

Today was the deadline he agreed with Jiang Yun Zhu. In fact, it didn't matter whether Jiang Yun Zhu came or not. Even if she buys some bowls, it won't save his business. This was just an excuse for him to procrastinate. He just didn't want to part with his craft.

Now this excuse was about to disappear. He knew that he had to be responsible to his wife and family.

Forget it. Let's go to the mine tomorrow, he thought.

At this moment.

"Boss, do you still remember me?" A crisp voice asked.

Wang De looked up. It was Jiang Yun Zhu. he remembered her, "Miss, have you overcome the difficulty?" Pleasantly surprised, he asked.

"En." Jiang Yun Zhu smiled.

"That girl..." Wang De's decision to go to the mine tomorrow was going to be delayed from helping Jiang Yun Zhu make the bowls.

"Boss, how many lunch boxes of the kind I want can you burn in this kiln?" Jiang Yun Zhu asked.

What did she mean? Wang De's heart slightly raised, "About a hundred."

"Then I want to order a hundred lunch boxes of that kind. Can Boss do it?"

One hundred, that was, seven hundred wen. Even if he made it cheaper for her, he can earn a lot from this order. It was more cost-effective than going to the mine.

Wang De asked urgently, "Do you want to order a hundred?"

"En, let's look at the situation first. There may be more in the future." Jiang Yun Zhu replied. There were thousands of soldiers and craftsmen in the mine. It was estimated that a hundred wasn't enough.

Wang De was overjoyed.

"Then it will be cheaper for you." He took the initiative to offer.

Jiang Yun Zhu didn't argue with him about the price. First, the price wasn't too expensive. Second, it was rare that Boss still remembered her and her affairs.

One hundred lunch boxes. Six hundred and fifty wen. Hearing that Jiang Yun Zhu needed it urgently, Wang De stopped setting up his stall and immediately packed up his things to head back to make them for her.

Jiang Yun Zhu went to the market to buy groceries. Since she decided to do lunch and dinner long term, she should prepare the necessary ingredients. It was cold now. The groceries every afternoon won't spoil the next day. This way they wouldn't have to rush to the market every morning and can definitely buy the ingredients she needed.

The next morning, Jiang Yun Zhu still set up the stall. But today she didn't sell food. Only boiled a large pot of tea on the stove.

Though Wang Bin and others were arrested, nothing serious happened. Many people in the mine didn't know what happened. They just saw that a lot of soldiers came yesterday, and then they all left. Life went on as usual.

However.

"Boss, you're not selling food anymore?" Someone specially came to Jiang Yun Zhu's stall to eat food and discovered there wasn't any.

"We won't sell breakfast anymore. We sell lunch and dinner. For lunch, there is braised pork rice, chicken rice, and soy-braised giant meatball rice. Or there is a menu here. Customer can order whatever you want. When it is ready at noon, we will send it to you to the designated place." Jiang Yun Zhu introduced.

After shopping for vegetables yesterday, she made a menu overnight. The menu was based on the groceries she bought every day.

As for braised pork rice and the likes, it was the first batch of set meals. This one had only one dish and can be served in ordinary bowls.

In fact, Jiang Yun Zhu also thought about making over rice, but over rice had to be divided into different types. Which was too troublesome. It wasn't as good as the model of small stir-fry and set meals. The former was more profitable, and the latter can be sold directly after packing. It was simple.

Some people were disappointed when they heard this, while others were very interested in the lunch and asked about the price.

"A bowl of braised pork rice costs 13 wen, a bowl of chicken rice costs 11 wen, and a bowl of soy-braised giant meatball rice costs 12 wen."

The miners all looked sad when they heard the price. They only earned 20 wen for a day of hard work. A bowl of soup and steamed buns cost 3 wen. They could still eat once in a while. While this meal, they were really reluctant to buy.

Jiang Yun Zhu's smile remained the same. The main customers of her dinner weren't the miners, but the soldiers and craftsmen.

Sure enough, some soldiers heard this and immediately decided to order a portion to try. Thirteen wen was still acceptable. Mainly because Jiang Yun Zhu's soup, pancakes, buns, etc. were all very delicious. They estimated that this meal wouldn't be bad.

Moreover, Jiang Yun Zhu had already gained a bit of reputation among the defenders for making small stir-fries before. Everyone knew that the food that Deputy General Zhao and others ate every day was very delicious but many people didn't know that Jiang Yun Zhu made it. Now they knew, they naturally ordered one.

"I want a braised pork rice."

"I want a soy-braised giant meatball rice."

"What kind of dishes are on this menu? I can't read." A black and thin man asked. He was an iron smelting craftsman on the mountain. This was a skilled job and the monthly salary was very high.

Standing at the side, Jiang Lin read the menu to him.

Hearing that there were fried livers, he immediately said, "Give me a portion. I will have fried liver."

He had wanted to eat this dish for a long time, but there were no canteens on the mountain.

"Okay, one portion of liver, twenty wen." Jiang Yun Zhu sat in front of a table. There were three things on the table. On the far left was a stack of paper notes that were two fingers wide and one hand long. Whoever ordered what meal, she wrote the name of the dish and the number on the note. Then she tore it from the middle. Half for the person who ordered the meal, and the other half for herself.

When the meal is delivered, the person who collects the meal will say his number and match the note in his hand with the note in her hand. If they match, the meal can be taken away.

The second thing was an account book for those who deposit money with her. How much money was deposited by who on which day, what food was ordered on which day, how much was spent, and how much was left was written clearly.

The third piece was a small scale, which was specially used to weigh silver.

With these three things, she looked like a shopkeeper.

As for learning characters. She wasn't so cautious in front of Gu Yan Zhou. She only learned names, dish names, and numbers for a few days before using them. Even if Gu Yan Zhou really asked, she wouldn't be afraid.

There were three-year-old child prodigies, so can't she be smarter?

After a while, more than a dozen people ordered meals and nearly three hundred wens entered their hands. After deducting the cost, they could earn about one hundred wens. This was half of the profit of selling breakfast. Beside her, Mrs. Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Since food wasn't getting sold today, she didn't need to come. But she was worried. So she followed. Now that the business was this good, she spoke to Jiang Yun Zhu, "Then you be. I will go back and make breakfast for you. What do you want to eat?"

Today, the new business opened successfully, and she decided to make some delicious treats for everyone.

"It's up to Mother." Jiang Yun Zhu answered.

Mrs. Chen had an idea and went home to cook.

Not long after she left, three people came over there. They were none other than Deputy General Zhao trio. They were startled by what happened yesterday. Later, the troops left as quickly as they came. It had nothing to do with them at all.

It was a little later that they heard what was going on.

General Wang and Zhu Liang secretly withheld some iron ore and gave it to Sixth Prince.

Iron ore was a taboo.

No wonder even the famous Qilin Guard came.

Hearing this, they didn't dare to inquire any more. They only sighed for a while before coming to a conclusion - don't do anything illegal, otherwise there will be no good results sooner or later.

As for life, it still went on. After a period of time, the court will send a new general. It will be the same as before.

Meals, still have to eat them.

A few days ago, Wang Bin tormented them three times a day and they had enough of it. Today there was nothing. So they immediately decided to go down the mountain and come to Jiang Yun Zhu's stall for breakfast.

"Stop making breakfast?" Deputy General Zhao's ox eye's poped out.

"En, make lunch and dinner." Jiang Yun Zhu repeated what she said before.

Deputy General Zhao was a little disappointed. But after thinking about it, it wasn't bad. They can find delicious meal in the evening. In the morning, it was fine to order something else.

They ordered their meal and went to other stalls to find food. Aftering searching around, they found that it wasn't as good as Jiang Yun Zhu's meal. So they casually bought some and went up the mountain to wait for the meal at noon.

At this time, two more people came to Jiang Yun Zhu's stall.

"Customers." Jiang Yun Zhu looked up, but stood there in a daze.

It was the big-eyed man who used to buy her food every day. She guessed that he was from Qilin Guards. Why when Shen Feng Ming had already left, but the two of them were still here? Did she guess wrong before?

She didn't guess wrong. Nie Xin duo belonged to Qilin Guards. They used to buy food for Shen Feng Ming and Yang Sheng every day. They should have left with Shen Feng Ming yesterday, but who made Yang Sheng lie about collecting food.

Yang Sheng told the two of them to stay and deal with this matter.

The two needed to help Yang Sheng tidy the lie's loose ends. They couldn't really collect so much grain back to the capital. So they found a grain merchant and sold the grain to him directly.

After such tossing around, some time had passed.

Now that it was almost done, the two wanted to leave when they suddenly remembered that they had smelled the fragrance for so many days and hadn't tasted the food yet. It just so happened that they could go to that stall to eat before they left. This time, Deputy Commander shouldn't be able to control them, right?

So they came.

Jiang Yun Zhu still gave the same explanation. Today she won't sell breakfast, only lunch and dinner.

The two looked at each other. What should they do? How about going after lunch? Though the journey was a rushed, they should be on time.

The two of them did stay. It can be seen that they were obsessed with this meal. In fact, It wasn't just the two of them. The rest of Qilin Guards also wanted to eat, but unfortunately they didn't have a chance.

Thinking of this, the two felt that being left behind was a good thing. Just don't know if this meal was really so delicious. Even Commander ate it every day.

It must be a rare delicacy.

En, after they finish eating, they have to go back to the capital to show off to those brothers. No, describe it.

Chapter 32

At 7am, Jiang Yun Zhu collected the table and returned. Mrs. Chen had already prepared breakfast. Sure enough, today's breakfast was richer than usual. There was even a bowl of scrambled eggs.

Chopped green onion and salt were added to the burnt yellow egg. Then fried in hot oil. Without any addition of other seasonings, it was delicious enough.

After breakfast, Jiang Yun Zhu was arranging the orders and arranging the order of cooking in her mind. Like marinating the meat came first. Then make the stuffed meat for the giant meatball, make the chicken cubes, stew the fish, and ...

After going through the order, she had already arranged everything in her mind.

"It's five hundred and thirty-two wens in total." At this side, Mrs. Chen counted the money two times before getting the money correctly. Five hundred and thirty-two wens. They earned about two hundred wens or so. And this was only noon. If the evening was added, they can earn more than four hundred wens a day?

Jiang Cheng worked hard for a month and only earned 600 Wen.

Mrs. Chen felt that her mind was a little clouded for a moment. Was this true?

If this was the case, it didn't seem difficult for them to buy a donkey cart.

Difficult? It was a matter they never dared to think even in their dreams before.

Seeing her holding the money jar and starting to count again, Jiang Yun Zhu shook her head with a smile. In the dream, she was in charge of so many shops and businesses at Marquis Anping's Manor and she didn't act like her.

Of course, she didn't want to be so tired anymore.

Her current goal was to open a restaurant, hire two chefs, cook whenever she wants to, and live a leisurely life. Not seeking great wealth, but seeking to be at ease.

Or to make it more interesting, cook the most delicious dishes and drink the most beautiful wine...

"Yun Zhu, how about you can count again to see if I made a mistake." Interrupting her imagination, Mrs. Chen handed Jiang Yun Zhu the jar containing the money and asked her to count.

Jiang Yun Zhu placed the jar on her lap, stretched her hands into it, and stirred the copper wens around. She didn't count though. She just wanted to hear the sound of the copper wens colliding. En, if it were the sound of silver colliding, it would be clearer and more pleasant to hear.

When Mrs. Chen heard the sound, she also grinned.

"When we save enough money, shall we buy a donkey cart first?" Mrs. Chen asked Jiang Yun Zhu.

"En."

"Then what if there's extra money?"

...

At noon, Jiang Yun Zhu cooked the meal. With Jiang Lin and Mrs. Chen, she went to deliver the meal. The main task for her was to note whoever ordered the meal for the evening.

At this time, she was very envious of the modern food ordering software. One side orders were made on the mobile phone, and the merchant received the order on the other side. Unlike her, she had to go there.

"Elder Sister, I'll learn these words right away. Once I learn them, I'll take the orders. This way, you don't have to run around." Jiang Lin seriously stated.

Jiang Yun Zhu flicked his forehead with her fingers. Learn it? It was still early. It sounded more like Jiang Yun Xue. She noticed Jiang Yun Xue was very talented in literacy and writing. What's more, she loved doing it. She studied from morning to night. Naturally, she would learn it quickly.

There was nothing wrong with the food delivery at noon. Everyone who ordered food got their own food.

There were a total of six cafeterias in the mine, which were distributed throughout the mine.

The free food in the cafeteria truly slacked on time and ingredients wherever they could. Some of the large potatoes were thrown into the pot without peeling the skin. Those pots of cabbage didn't even have any oil content an all.

That dish was made, to the standard that can only be said to be cooked and edible. There was no color or flavor left.

Don't like the food? Perfect, be frugal.

Today, the cafeteria was a little different. A burst of aroma hit straight into people's noses.

Everyone looked around and saw oily, trembling pieces of meat. Equal amount of fat and thin meat. Next to them were fresh and tender green vegetables. There was half a marinated egg on the side of the vegetables. White rice was underneath.

Just one bowl, there was meat and vegetables. Mainly, why did the meat smell so good?

"Brother, did you get it from the cafeteria?" Someone couldn't help asking the person who was eating.

"Cafeteria?" That person snorted. How could the cafeteria make such delicious meals, "Ordered from the mountain bottom."

"Food can be ordered from the mountain bottom? How much is it?"

"The braised pork rice I ordered costs thirteen wens a bowl."

It wasn't expensive. The person who asked the question swallowed. How about ordering one?

This scene happened in almost every cafeteria. Another group of people discovered that there was a stall at the foot of the mountain where they could order food. The food was delicious and the price was reasonable.

At this time, Nie Xin and his companion also got the meals they ordered in the morning. When the big bowl was opened, a gust of hot air rushed up. After the hot air dissipated, he saw a large bowl of fish head tofu soup. The soup was milky white and fragrant.

The other two bowls contain spicy diced chicken and a plate of stir-fried lotus root. The lotus root was like white jade. The diced chicken was full of crispy flavor.

The duo picked up the chopsticks at the same time. One clipped up a piece of fish, while the other clipped up a piece of tofu. Then they looked at each other.

Fresh! This fish was made without any fishy smell. It was extremely delicious and silky. The tofu was smooth and silky. To the end, it was flavorful. The aroma of the fish head and the tofu blended perfectly together. After one bite, the aftertaste was endless.

The two of them had broad food experience and guessed that this dish must be delicious. Still, they were still overwhelmed by this bowl of fish head tofu soup.

No wonder the Commander and Deputy Commander ate the dishes made by her every day. It turned out to be so delicious. The thought came to both of them at the same time.

After lunch, Jiang Yun Zhu was about to take a nap when there was a knock on the door outside.

"Who is it?" Mrs. Chen was choosing the vegetables for the evening in the yard. Hearing the sound, she got up and went to open the door while asking.

"It's us. Here to order meals." Outside, a male voice sounded.

Mrs. Chen was slightly taken aback. Come to their house to order food? Or there was a problem with the meal they ordered at noon, so they sought them?

Jiang Yun Zhu also heard this from within the house. So she got up and went to the courtyard to see what happened.

Opening the door, she took one look. It was an acquaintance, the one with thick eyebrows and big eyes. The one she thought was from the Qilin Guards. The one next to him should be his companion.

Seeing Jiang Yun Zhu, Nie Xin apologized, "Did I disturb you? In fact, I have something to trouble you. I don't know if it's convenient for you."

"What's the matter?" Jiang Yun Zhu asked.

Nie Xin replied, "I ate the food you made at noon and thought it was very delicious. I'm going to another place soon. I want to ask if you sell the kind of food that can be taken on the road or last for a long time. I want to eat it on the road or bring some to my friends so they can taste your culinary skills too."

This was the solution that Nie Xin and his companion discussed after eating the fish head tofu soup. They felt that when they returned to the capital, their brothers might not know what they had missed just by talking about it.

Bring them something to eat and they'll know after tasting it.

Of course, the main thing was that they can also eat it on the road.

"I can give you money." Nie Xin took out a piece of silver as he spoke.

Jiang Yun Zhu was flashed by the light of the silver. Can be eaten on the road and last for a long time? He also wanted to bring it to his friends? She thought of a few things, but she didn't know if there were any ingredients in the town.

"Miss, if you need help, just tell me. It's best to be quick. We are in a hurry." Nie Xin added.

Jiang Yun Zhu smiled. It just so happened that she was tight on time. She had to finish it for them earlier so that she could make takeaway for the evening.

Two hours later, Nie Xin duo left contentedly with the big and small jars.

Jiang Yun Zhu weighed the silver in her hand and was quite elated. This was really a windfall.

Lu Prefecture to the capital was a seven hundred kilometers road. Shen Feng Ming and Yang Sheng's horses were excellent. They left the people behind and returned to the capital in four days.

Grubby from the journey, the two went straight to the palace.

Shen Feng Ming reported the findings to Emperor Qing Long, who was furious. The court shook.

But this had nothing to do with Shen Feng Ming. He was only responsible for investigating cases, handling errands, and then truthfully reporting the facts he found to Emperor Qing Long.

As for how to deal with it, that was Emperor Qing Long's business.

Perhaps because of this, Emperor Qing Long trusted him so much.

After leaving the palace, Shen Feng Ming returned to the Shen Manor.

The Shen Family. A big family that started at the end of the Han Dynasty. They had survived three dynasties and were the leader among the scholar-bureaucrats. Academician Shen had a good knowledge of ancient and current times. He had countless students and disciples, who were the leaders in today's literary world.

Shen Family was a pure scholarly household. Academician Shen was gentle and elegant when he was young. That's why when Princess Danyang married him back then, it was considered a good match.

After they got married, they had only one son, Shen Feng Ming.

It had been more than a month since he went out. Now that he was back, the Shen Manor suddenly became lively.

Middle Hall.

"Father, Mother." Shen Feng Ming greeted Academician Shen and Princess Danyang.

Princess Danyang quickly stood up and supported him, "We're one family. You don't need to be so polite. After being away for so long, you suffered, right? Look at you..." She wanted to say that he had lost weight. Generally, when Shen Feng Ming went out to run errands and slept outside, he would be thinner. This had become Princess Danyang's catchphrase.

It was just that when she saw Shen Feng Ming today, she felt that he was more energetic than when he left. And his face was very ruddy. She couldn't say that he was thinner.

Academician Shen looked at his only son, who had a face like a crown of jade with extraordinary talent and appearance. His heart was filled with relief. It was just, "I heard that you killed many people in Changfeng Manor?"

As soon as he said this, Princess Danyang's expression turned cold.

Shen Feng Ming had gotten used to it and replied, "Didn't Father always teach me that if the criminal law is clear, treacherous people will be stopped."

Academician Shen frowned. He did teach him this, but he was afraid that his killing trait would become worse and lose his heart in the end.

He wanted to say more, but Princess Danyang said to Shen Feng Ming, "Look at your dusty body. I've had someone prepare hot water for you. Go wash up."

"Thank you, Mother." Shen Feng Ming responded and left the room.

"I haven't finished speaking yet." Academician Shen voiced out.

"You can only blame the child. It's because you taught him this. If it weren't for you, would he..." Princess Danyang uttered.

The two quarreled again.

The servants in the Manor weren't surprised by this. Hearing the quarrel behind him, Shen Feng Ming raised his head and looked into the distance, frowning slightly.

Chapter 33

In the evening, in Shen Family's dining room, "Master, Madam, try this sausage. Young Master brought it back for you." Attendant Yu said with a smile.

Shen Feng Ming had just entered the room and sat down when he heard these words and looked at the table. Among the countless delicacies, there was an elegant fine white porcelain plate. On it was a plate of sausages placed like flowers blooming.

He felt that those were the ones he brought back. But he didn't know how they got to the table.

It turned out that when he went to take a bath and change his clothes, the footboy who waited on him helped him unpack his bags and found these sausages. It was hard to imagine that handsome as gold and jade Young Master had such a thing in his luggage.

Come to think of it, it must be for Master and Madam.

So he sent the sausage to the kitchen to give Master and Madam a surprise.

Shen Family was a major household. The cook in the house was superb at cooking. He had dozens of ways to make sausages. But knowing that this was brought back by Young Master, he dared not make mistakes. Just cut the sausages into thin slices with a knife, steamed it, and serve.

This method can maintain the original flavor of the sausage to the greatest extent.

Each slice of the steamed sausage was uniform in thickness. It was red and bright. A special spicy smell almost dominated the smell of the other dishes on the table.

Jiang Yun Zhu made two kinds of sausages. One was original and the other was spicy. It just so happens that the cook cut the spicy one today.

"Sausage?" Princess Danyang broke into a grin first. It was rare for Shen Feng Ming to think of her. It was just that when she looked at the sausage and then at Shen Feng Ming's much ruddy face, she suddenly had a guess. Did his behavior have something to do with the sausage maker?

Which cook had such a skill? One must know that this child of hers had never paid much attention to the desire of tongue.

Since the food was good, why didn't he bring the cook back? It wasn't like the Manor couldn't afford the money.

"Then I'll try it." Princess Danyang said.

Attendant Yu had already clipped up a piece of sausage and put it on the plate in front of her.

Princess Danyang picked up the sausage and put it in her mouth. Spicy and delicious. She felt that everything from the tongue to the scalp became numb. Princess Danyang was stunned. Tasted so overbearing.

Overbearing, but also likable. It wasn't that dry and spicy, but mouth-watering and spicy. After the spicy taste, the mouth was full of flavor.

She had something on her mind these past few days and had no thought for food and drink every day. After eating this sausage today, she felt that her mood was much calmer in an instant. She felt that she could eat a bowl of rice.

Someone else clipped up a sausage for Academician Shen. Academician Shen didn't care much at first. But after biting it, he felt goose bumps all over his body. This taste...

"Know people by reading characters, distinguish nature by seeing objects. The person who made this sausage should be a sincere person." He remarked.

Princess Danyang snorted. He had to have a lot of pedantic reasoning.

Academician Shen didn't want to argue with her. Cooking was like writing an article. With the same ingredients and the exact cooking steps, some people can make delicious dishes, while others can't. It all depended on one's heart.

Shen Feng Ming lowered his eyes slightly. Was she a sincere person?

With this sausage today, Shen family of three obviously ate a lot more.

After eating, Shen Feng Ming wanted to go back to the room. Princess Danyang directed to the person next to her, "Ran Shu, you go serve Young Master."

A female next to her immediately blushed and replied softly, "En."

The voice was like a warbler singing in March.

Du Ran Shu was magnificent and beautiful. Her face was charming. Princess Danyang bought a new rackabone with a lot of money. Although she was a pure prostitute, her skills were excellent. She hoped that this woman will serve Shen Feng Ming and let he know the benefits of women.

She had promised Du Ran Shu that as long as she can serve Shen Feng Ming for one night, she will be kept as a concubine in the Manor.

The Shen Family was powerful. Du Ran Shu had a long contemplation. Now that she saw Shen Feng Ming's tall and straight appearance under the light, her eyes were even more watery and her body was more boneless. It made people want to hug her to the bed immediately and do whatever they wanted.

Just as Academician Shen was about to leave, when he saw this scene. He opened his mouth to lecture. Suddenly, he remembered that his son was already this old, but was always indifferent to women. There were already many rumors in the capital. He was very worried that he would be too murderous and go astray.

Forget it. Out of sight, out of mind. He turned and left the room.

Shen Feng Ming's face turned cold, "Mother, I told you, you don't need to get involved in this matter."

Princess Danyang was annoyed. How could she not get involved. If he had the ability to, then bring one back for her and she will leave him alone.

Shen Feng Ming didn't want to waste his speech with her. So he turned and left the room.

Shen Feng Ming, the god of death, had returned to the capital. The news spread like a gust of wind across the entire capital. Some people decided not to go out from tomorrow onward.

For example, Sixth Prince. For example, Crown Prince...

While the Shen Family was like this, there was another scene in Great General Zhen Guo's Yang's house which was two streets away.

In the middle hall, Madam Yang was playing mahjong with some beautiful girls, when suddenly someone came in and reported, "Eldest Gentleman is back."

When the girls heard this, their faces immediately beamed with joy.

Madam Yang was also delighted, but she said with a straight face, "He's back, then he's back. By the way, how many did he bring back this time?"

As soon as she said this, the expressions of those girls changed.

Yang Sheng had a habit. When he goes out, he will always bring girls back. The ones on the table were the ones he brought back in the past. They were either sold into brothels by their parents, or forced to marry old widowers. The circumstances were different, but they were basically rescued by Yang Sheng.

The person who reported knew that his family's eldest gentleman had the habit of pitying and cherishing jade. But this time he really didn't bring anyone back.

"No one?" Madam Yang was rather surprised, "Then what did he bring back?"

"Bring, sausage?" The messenger replied with uncertainty.

In the evening, the Yang Family also ate sausages.

A seven or eight-year-old girl clipped up a sausage with chopsticks and immediately said to Yang Sheng, "Elder Brother, tasty."

"Elder Brother isn't tasty, but the sausages are." A thirteen-fourteen-year-old boy next to the little girl corrected her. At the same time, he hurriedly clipped up another sausage with chopsticks and put it into the bowl.

When the Yang Family ate, the quick-handed ate, while the slow had nothing.

Madam Yang glared at the teen. What about respecting the old and loving the young?

General Yang was guarding the border. He wasn't at home now. There were only Madam Yang and three children at home. They sat together to eat. As for the girls rescued by Yang Sheng, Yang Sheng didn't marry them, so they weren't considered part of the Yang Family. They just lived in Yang's house.

The teen hurriedly clipped Madam Yang a sausage and another clip for his younger sister. Then he ate it himself.

"That's more like it." Madam Yang smiled. Then she turned to Yang Sheng, "Not bad. You know how to think of your old mother."

Yang Sheng hurriedly replied, "Of course, I always remember Mother in my heart."

"You remember me, so you bring back some sausages? What will you do after this meal is over?" Madam Yang snorted.

Yang Sheng immediately promised, "Don't worry, Mother. As long as Mother wants to eat, I will definitely get it for Mother."

Madam Yang didn't buy it, "Thinking of going out again? People said that Shen Feng Ming isn't close to women. What about you? There are many women in our house, but we don't even have an egg. You stay at home, quickly marry a proper wife and let me hold my grandson."

Yang Sheng: ...

"You and Shen Feng Ming? Let me tell you, I don't agree. Disagree, understand? If your Father knows, he'll break your leg." Madam Yang suddenly remembered something and said.

Yang Sheng: ...

The next day at the division. When Shen Feng Ming came in, he saw Yang Sheng slumped on a chair.

Upon his arrival, he immediately regained his spirits and asked, "When are we leaving the capital?"

Chapter 34

Naturally, he couldn't leave the capital so quickly. The emperor summoned Shen Feng Ming back because he had a difficult case to handle.

After hearing it, Yang Sheng froze there.

But soon, he asked, "Can we leave the capital after finishing this case?" In fact, he didn't want to stay in the capital anymore. The girls at home were all nice. But when grouped together, it gave him a headache.

And his old mother...

Mainly, he finished eating those sausages in one meal yesterday. And he hadn't eaten a few bites. When will he eat those delicious meals again and live a happy life?

"Probably." Uncertain, Shen Feng Ming replied. It stood to reason that even if the case was over, they wouldn't leave the capital so soon.

"Then solve it quickly!" After confirming that he would be able to leave after finishing the case, Yang Sheng immediately stood up and rubbed his hands.

After a few days, Jiang Yun Zhu's takeaway business stabilized. Now they can earn more than five silver coins a day. This was worth Jiang Cheng's monthly wages.

Yesterday, she had already discussed it with Jiang Cheng. He would raise the matter of resignation with the mine today. Then he could follow Xu Qing Shan to familiarize himself with the road conditions in Wuling County. Wait a few days, save some money, and buy a donkey cart for him to let him give rides.

Jiang Cheng felt it was like a dream, never expecting to have his own donkey cart so soon.

The tall man looked at Jiang Yun Zhu and didn't know what to say. Words of gratitude? They were one family, it wasn't necessary.

In the end, he only told her to go to bed early and if there was any problem in the future, let him handle it!

Jiang Yun Zhu smiled and nodded.

Two days ago, Jiang Yun Zhu began to try to get Jiang Yun Xue to do the bookkeeping. Jiang Yun Xue was really talented. These days, she mostly remembered these words. It didn't matter if she didn't remember them. It was food anyway. Jiang Yun Zhu knew what it was.

Jiang Yun Xue liked this job. Holding a brush and paper like a scholar.

Today, Jiang Yun Xue went to the market alone to pick up orders for the first time. Mrs. Chen was worried, so she dragged Jiang Lin to go with her.

Jiang Yun Zhu found there was no problem. There was a first time for everything. It didn't matter if she made a mistake, just learn from it next time.

Comfortably, she had a lazy nap

Birds chirping outside the window, she turned over and got up. She didn't need to go to the market. The food for today's cooking was already prepared yesterday. A rare chance for her to be free.

Recalling that she had been wanting to eat something two days ago but had no chance to make it. Since she had nothing to do today, it was possible.

She got busy in the kitchen.

Grind mung beans and millet into powder with flour, add white flour in proportion, then add water and stir to form a thick batter.

On the side, use eggs and flour to form a small piece of dough, roll them into thin slices, and deep-fry them in an oil pan until they are golden and crispy. Then put them aside.

Then it was the last step. Brush a little oil in the pan, spread the batter in a thin layer in the pan, and then crack an egg on top. When the egg is about to solidify, turn the whole thing over, brush with the sauce, and then put the deep-fried bits on top. Sprinkle a little green onion and coriander. It can be folded and served out of the pan.

That's right, Jiang Yun Zhu made chinese crepes.

There were many differences in process when compared to modern crepes. For example, the pan she used wasn't a flat pan. The crispy bits she made weren't thin enough. Still overall, this was still a crepe. It was enough to relieve her longing.

Jiang Yun Zhu handed the first crepe to old Mister Chen, the second to Jiang Wu, and the last to her.

They have made a lot of money in the past few days. The living standard of the Jiang Family had risen in a straight line. Although Mrs. Chen was still thinking about saving money for donkeys and preventing everyone from spending money indiscriminately, it was still okay for food.

The crepes were fresh out of the pan. The skin was soft and waxy but not sticky. And there was a scent of eggs. It was really delicious when paired with crispy bits and sauces.

"It's delicious, but it's too much trouble." Old Mister Chen sighed while holding the crepe.

Jiang Yun Zhu had been busy all morning, just for these three crepes?

In his opinion, for breakfast, just eat some soup and pancakes.

Jiang Wu Ze was too busy eating and had no time to talk.

Jiang Yun Zhu smiled. It wasn't only for the last bite, but also for the joyful process of making it. Just like modern times, many people still make Liangpi by themselves. Those were troublesome and easy to fail. Still, they enjoyed it.

If one makes delicious things, one will have a greater sense of accomplishment.

Besides, she just wanted to eat crepes. Being able to eat it was a kind of happiness?

"It seems that you really like cooking." That's all old Mister Chen could say.

Like it? Biting the crepes, Jiang Yun Zhu remembered that when she was young. Her mother asked her to help her to let her learn how to cook. But she kept refusing at that time.

She was thinking, why should she learn to cook and cook for others to eat? Why didn't others learn it and make it for her?

Later, when she grew up, she realized that it was better to ask for themselves than to ask for others. Themselves would be the safest option.

Just like now. She knew this skill. No matter where she went or whenever she wanted to eat, she could eat it instead of mentally drooling over it.

Jiang Yun Zhu was happily eating crepes. At this moment, Mrs. Chen walked in with an ugly expression, followed by Jiang Yun Xue and Jiang Lin.

"Mother, eat crepes. I'll make them for you." Jiang Yun Zhu put the last bite of crepes into her mouth, stood up and said.

At this time, Mrs. Chen wasn't in the mood to eat crepes. Even if she was given dragon liver and phoenix marrow, she can't swallow it.

"What? Something the matter?" Jiang Yun Zhu asked.

Mrs. Chen gritted her teeth, "There were two more meal sellers in the market today. Just like us, it's ordering meals. They also sell red-braised pork meal, chicken meal and soy-braised giant meatball meal."

After a pause, she looked at Jiang Yun Zhu Said, "It's also sold cheaper than us."

After she finished speaking, she didn't know whether she was angry or panicked. Her hands trembled slightly.

Jiang Family suddenly had such a lucrative business. Mrs. Chen watched over at it as if cherishing a gold ingot every day. Anyone who took a second look, she would take it like they were going to snatch with her.

Now that there were suddenly two more people robbing her of business, she was shocked and angry. And a little bit at a loss.

Jiang Yun Zhu wasn't surprised. With one person doing the takeaway business, the second one would know it after seeing it. What's more, braised pork meal was really very popular.

And there were so many people in the mine. It was impossible for them to monopolize it.

The only thing they could do was to ensure the quality of the dishes and then keep bringing forth new ones.

With this thought, she recalled it had been a few days. Shouldn't her special lunch box be ready?

"Yun Zhu, what should we do?" Mrs. Chen asked. Other people sold it cheaply. The number of people ordering food from them today was obviously thirty percent less.

"I'll go to town to have a look." Jiang Yun Zhu replied.

"Do you need me to go with you? This way I can help you." Mrs. Chen asked.

"Mom, you haven't eaten yet. You should eat first."

Mrs. Chen couldn't eat it. But she was afraid of affecting Jiang Yun Zhu, so she reluctantly said, "Okay."

Jiang Yun Zhu went to the town to find Wang De.

It was just that when she got to the place where Wang De set up a stall, there was no one there.

Didn't he come to set up a stall today? Jiang Yun Zhu was puzzled. Knowing Wang De's name, she hesitated whether to ask someone and go to his house to find him.

At this moment, Wang De came over, "Miss, I was just looking for you! I finished what you want."

Jiang Yun Zhu's eyes lit up, "Can I take a look?"

"Of course. You follow me."

Jiang Yun Zhu followed Wang De to a house in the west of the town. The three-room was a tile-roofed house with the vermilion mottled door and wall. Alone, it looked good. But with the houses and walls on both sides that seemed to have been newly renovated and obviously a little taller, it looked very cramped from being sandwiched in the middle.

Knowing his situation, Wang De smiled awkwardly and invited Jiang Yun Zhu in.

Opening the door, a woman walked out of the room. The woman was dressed in coarse cloth. When she heard that Jiang Yun Zhu was here to pick up the custom-made lunch boxes, she went in after a few words of hello.

Putting aside the fact that the Wang Family made some money by making this batch of lunch boxes, the plan for Wang De to go to the mine was delayed after tremendous effort of persuasion. It will take a lot of talking to persuade him next time. So the woman wasn't so friendly toward Jiang Yun Zhu.

"She's like that. Don't need to take her seriously." Wang De was afraid that Jiang Yun Zhu would get angry, so he quickly explained.

Jiang Yun Zhu didn't mind. She just wanted to look at her lunch box.

Wang De went to the backyard, took out a lunch box, and handed it to her.

Jiang Yun Zhu's eyes lit up, yes, this lunch box was made.

"Boss's craftsmanship is truly wonderful." She praised. This lunch box was better than she imagined.

Wang De smiled honestly. There was nothing more pleasing than that the things he made were liked by others.

Immediately, Jiang Yun Zhu paid the money and hired a donkey cart to take those lunch boxes home.

When she went shopping in town again in the afternoon, she adjusted the menu.

The next day, Jiang Yun Zhu personally went to the market to set up a stall to receive orders.

"Boss, I want a braised pork rice." A regular customer said.

"Sorry, we don't sell braised pork rice today. We sell set meals." Jiang Yun Zhu informed with a smile. Before the customer asked, she began to explain, "The set meal consists of a portion of rice and a few dishes of your choice."

As she spoke, she took out a white porcelain lunch box from under the table and opened it. There were two layers inside. The upper layer was divided into four compartments, while the lower one wasn't divided.

Pointing to the lunch box, she explained, "Put rice here, and the dishes on top. Today's dishes include boiled pork, red-braised pork, spicy chicken, and sauteed meatballs in brown sauce..." There were ten kinds of meat and vegetables dishes in total.

"Ten kinds of optional. All vegetarian dishes, ten wens a portion. One meat and three vegetables, twelve wens a portion. Two meat and two vegetables, fourteen wens a portion. Three meat and one vegetable, sixteen wens a portion. All meat dishes, eighteen wens a portion."

Everyone found it novel at the sight of the lunch box she took out. The snow-white round lunch box had two pieces of trembling ruddy braised pork painted on the lid. The sauce dripped down. It was exactly the appearance of Jiang Yun Zhu's secret recipe red braised pork. It made people drool just looking at it.

Next to the braised pork was the word "Jiang Ji".

After hearing about her method of ordering meals, everyone immediately became interested. It was always red-braised pork rice and chicken rice. They were tired of eating it and wanted to order a small stir-fry with Jiang Yun Zhu? In the end, a small stir-fry was expensive. Now they only need to order one meal and can get four different dishes?

There was actually boiled pork. They have heard about it for a long time. The boiled pork made by Jiang Yun Zhu was excellent, but they have never had the chance to try it.

This was wonderful.

"Boss, give me one. I want four meat dishes. I want boiled pork, sauteed meatballs in brown sauce, fried livers, and sweet and sour pork."

"Boss, I want it too."

"Me too."

In an instant, many people want to order.

Jiang Yun Zhu continued, "There's one more matter to tell everyone in advance. If you order this set meal, you have to pay a deposit of seven wens. It's the money for this lunch box. Don't worry, everyone, when you give the lunch box back in the evening or whenever, the deposit will be refunded to you immediately."

Need a deposit? But when everyone looked at the snowy lunch box, they understood that some people might not return such a beautiful lunch box after eating. Won't this girl be at a loss then.

Thinking about it this way, everyone suddenly felt that this lunch box was really good. If they used it to bring meals in the future, it would be much more convenient.

"Okay, here's the deposit. Here's the meal fee. Boss, the set meal I ordered just now..." Soon, everyone accepted the deposit and continued to order meals with Jiang Yun Zhu.

Jiang Yun Zhu took the money and gave him two slips of paper. One was a deposit slip with a number on it. When the time came, bring back the lunch box and the slip to refund the deposit. The other was a slip of the meal order with a number on it with another four other numbers, which were the numbers of the dishes they ordered.

This was Jiang Yun Zhu's idea. To replace the dishes with numbers, it will be easier to write when writing.

"I'll order one portion too."

"Order one for me too."

The ten dishes that Jiang Yun Zhu chose today were the most frequent dishes from the small stir-fry menu. It meant that they were also everyone's favorite dishes. As soon as everyone heard the name of the dish, those who had heard that it was cheaper elsewhere and thought of ordering food elsewhere immediately chose to stay here and continued to order food with Jiang Yun Zhu.

There was a rush of people all of a sudden.

In the end, even Deputy General Zhao and others chose to order a set meal. After all, ordering a set meal meant eating four kinds of dishes at once. Which was very novel.

At 7am, Jiang Yun Zhu closed the stall. Today's business wasn't ordinarily good.

"Yun Zhu." Mrs. Chen looked at her and didn't know what to say. It was really no problem that couldn't be solved when Jiang Yun Zhu took action. The business that wasn't great yesterday was even better today.

Jiang Yun Zhu smiled. Cooking today was easier than yesterday. After all, she only needed to cook ten kinds of dishes. Thinking about it this way, it was really suitable to make a set meal at this mine.

Of course, the most important thing was to ensure the taste and quality. Also, when the lunch box is brought back, it must be washed and boiled in hot water before it can be used again to ensure the hygiene of the food.

At noon, Jiang Yun Zhu's set meal won unanimous praise from everyone.

In the evening, Jiang Yun Zhu changed the menu. More people ordered set meals.

Changing the dishes every day kept the freshness of the dishes. Her business was booming.

But after two days, she found a problem, "Mom, are we getting fewer and fewer lunch boxes?"

It was almost not enough.

"I was about to tell you about this too." Mrs. Chen said.

"Elder Sister, I know about this." Jiang Yun Xue said stickily.

"What?" Jiang Yun Zhu asked.

"They said that our lunch box was convenient for buying and bringing food. Many people directly gave me the deposit note, saying that they bought the lunch box." Jiang Yun Xue had been in charge of ordering and keeping accounts for the past two days, so she knew.

Jiang Yun Zhu didn't expect this to be the case and was a little dumbfounded for a while. Why did it turn to buying a lunch box along with the meal?

Seven wens a lunch box. Though she made a little bit of money, she didn't sell lunch boxes!

It seemed that they had to go to town as soon as possible to order another batch of lunch boxes.

Doing as she thought, Jiang Yun Zhu immediately went to the town. But she didn't find Wang De at the stall. So she went to his house to look for him.

At this moment, at Wang De's house, Wang De was arguing with his wife Mrs. Cui. It wasn't about going to the mine though.

It turned out that in the past two days, many people have asked him about that special lunch box. When Mrs. Cui heard about it, she immediately told him to burn a batch to sell.

Wang De felt it was Jiang Yun Zhu's idea, how could he sell it easily.

He won't do it. Mrs. Cui was scolding him for being stupid. If he didn't sell it, won't others? There was money to be made and he wouldn't earn it, just wanted her to suffer with him.

At this time, someone knocked on the door.

"Go and open the door." Mrs. Cui angrily spoke.

Wang De went to open the door and saw it was Jiang Yun Zhu.

"You..." Wang De was stunned. Why was it speaking of who and it was whoever came.

"I want to order another batch of lunch boxes." Jiang Yun Zhu explained her purpose.

"Okay." Wang De agreed.

At this time, Mrs. Cui rushed out of the house, "Miss Jiang, you came all the way here, you must be thirsty? Come in and drink some water." She pulled Jiang Yun Zhu, smiling like a sunflower.

Her excessive enthusiasm was a great difference from her first performance.

Jiang Yun Zhu pulled her arm out of her grasp calmly, "I'm not thirsty. If you have anything to say, just say it."

Mrs. Cui felt a little awkward and gave Wang De a wink. Telling him to speak out.

Wang De pretended not to see it. He was ashamed to open his mouth.

Mrs. Cui gritted her teeth. It seemed that she was the only one who could be the bad guy. She sighed first before replying to Jiang Yun Zhu, "Then let me tell you the truth. Many people want to buy the lunch box you customized. I told him to make a batch and sell it, but he refused.

I know I'm in the wrong in this matter..."

Jiang Yun Zhu understood that the lunch box actually had no technical content. Only needed to know how to burn the porcelain and they could make it at a glance. It was just a matter of skill level.

"Then what do you plan to do?" She threw the question to the other party.

Mrs. Cui was embarrassed to say.

Wang De blushed from holding back. Suddenly he spoke out, "If you agree, I can give you money, and then I will sell the lunch boxes. If you don't agree, I won't make it! "After speaking, he squatted there. No matter how Mrs. Cui kicked him, he didn't look up.

Jiang Yun Zhu felt that he was really a good person in this world where there was no copyright protection at all.

In fact, she knew that even if Wang De didn't make it, someone else would.

It just so happened that she was short of money to buy a donkey.

Thinking of this, she smiled.

After talking with Wang De for a while, the two agreed that Wang De would give Jiang Yun Zhu three liang silver and he could burn the lunch box to sell. Of course, he couldn't burn Jiang Yun Zhu's patterned one to others.

Wang De was very happy. He was finally able to continue firing porcelain again. He immediately went to the house and brought out three liang silver for Jiang Yun Zhu.

Mrs. Cui watched from the side, anxious and angry. How long would it take to earn three liang silver? To give it to others just like this?

After Jiang Yun Zhu got the money, she decided to help Wang De more. Anyway, even if he didn't occupy the lunch box market, others will. It was better to let him occupy it.

"There isn't just this kind of lunch box. You can burn the ones with three grids, two grids, or no grids. You can make square or long ones. By the way, you can also add a circle in the middle of the top layer, used to put side dishes or something.

You burn lunch boxes into a series like this. Customers can buy whatever kind they want. Even if someone makes lunch boxes to compete with you for business, they won't be able to beat yours.

Also, you can tell the outside world that Jiang Ji only chooses your family and only get you to make this kind of lunch box. "Jiang Yun Zhu's last sentence carries a lot of weight.

Now that everyone wanted to buy a lunch box, it was because of the lunch box she used. By saying that, she had authenticated Wang De's identity. If everyone wanted to buy a lunch box, of course they should go to Wang De.

It was the same as celebrity endorsement and agency certification.

Wang De was taken aback when he heard that. Even Mrs. Cui froze.

After a while, Wang De said excitedly, "Thank you, thank you, thank you very much!" He already had a premonition that no one else could take away this business. There were many miners in Wuling County. So many people will buy his lunch boxes.

Maybe it can be sold to other counties.

This business will definitely make money.

At this time, Mrs. Cui felt that the three liang silver wasn't spent in vain. Embarrassed, she said to Jiang Yun Zhu, "Thank you, Miss Jiang."

Jiang Yun Zhu didn't need to say the following words, but she did. This goes to show her character.

"Miss Jiang, stay at my house for dinner tonight." This time, she sincerely invited Jiang Yun Zhu.

Jiang Yun Zhu shook her head, she still had things to do.

"I really don't know how to thank you." Wang De rubbed his hands together.

"We will have opportunities to cooperate in the future." Jiang Yun Zhu said.

Wang De nodded his head heavily and decided that he would definitely do his best with all Jiang Yun Zhu's orders in the future.

Jiang Yun Zhu made an appointment with him on the delivery time of these lunch boxes before leaving. She didn't tell Wang De to make a seal like "Jiang Ji" on the lunch box because Wang De made other porcelain with his seal on the bottom.

It seemed that the ancestors of the Wang Family made porcelain with glory.

She ordered another 100 lunch boxes. It was originally 650 wens. Unexpectedly, she made money without spending any money. The point was, with this silver, they can buy a donkey.

Jiang Yun Zhu walked home with ease.

In the capital's division. Shen Feng Ming came back from the palace. When Yang Sheng heard this news, he immediately jumped out of the room with two panda eyes.

"The case is over. Can we leave the capital?" He asked urgently. In the past few days, he had been running errands day and night and could be called the number one model working official in the whole country.

Shen Feng Ming quietly stared at him.

Yang Sheng stared at him back.

After a while, Yang Sheng lost his energy as if he had been discouraged.

One of them was the commander of the Qilin Guard, and the other was the deputy commander. Could they leave the capital whenever they want? They got to at least report to the emperor, lest the emperor want to find them for business and can't find anyone.

When telling the emperor, there must be a reasonable and legitimate reason.

The two entered the Division in silence.

Both of them didn't like to go home. So they ate at the Division's canteen at noon. The canteen's supervisor was afraid that when Shen Feng Ming came, everyone would not dare to eat. So they got a private room for the two of them in the canteen.

Today, the two walked inside as usual.

The canteen was originally very lively. Nie Xin was telling his companions how delicious the fish head tofu made at the stall at the foot of the Wuling Mine was. Unfortunately, they weren't blessed and couldn't eat it. Then, for proof, he took out a few jars of something.

"Everyone, try it. You will know if we have lied to you." He declared.

At this time, Shen Feng Ming and Yang Sheng came in from the outside. Everyone saw them from a distance and immediately no one spoke. The canteen was silent.

Shen Feng Ming duo got used to it and continued to walk in.

Just halfway there, Yang Sheng raised his nose. What was so fragrant?

Turning his head, he saw a few jars of something on the table next to him. The smell was so fragrant, it seemed a little familiar.

He looked at Nie Xin and squinted his eyes. Oh. "You came back from Lu Prefecture?"

"I'm back. Reporting to Deputy Commander." Nie Xin replied at once.

Yang Sheng looked at the jars of things.

Nie Xin hurriedly said, "Do Deputy Commander want to try the things I brought back?" As he spoke, he handed a jar to Yang Sheng.

Yang Sheng picked it up, didn't say anything. Nor did he leave. He just looked at him like that.

Nie Xin was stunned for a moment. Tactfully, he picked up two jars and handed them to Yang Sheng.

Only then did Yang Sheng grin. Taking the jars, he followed Shen Feng Ming into the back room.

After they left, everyone gathered in front of the remaining three jars. Each took a spoon. They couldn't wait to eat the contents of the jars.

Cold-eaten rabbit was flavorful, crispy and chewy. Perfectly spicy and delicious. Stewed thin beef slices. The slices were thin to the point of transparent. In one bit, it was spicy and crispy.

There was also a jar of spicy beef sauce, which was supposed to be served with rice. In the end, it was snatched empty by everyone.

After eating, they all looked at Nie Xin at the same time. Was there anything else? Take it all out before everyone start searching!

Nie Xin duo shivered. There was really none. At the beginning, they brought back quite a lot. It turned out to be so delicious that the two of them almost finished eating it on the way. These few jars were specially reserved for them. If not, they would have eaten them up long ago.

In the canteen, Yang Sheng and Shen Feng Ming ate until their lips were red. The three jars were originally spicy. But Jiang Yun Zhu added more chili peppers in order to preserve them for two more days. The two of them enjoyed it with relish.

After eating, Yang Sheng felt comfortable all over. He seemed to have strength again. He looked at the half-empty jar, patted the table and said to Shen Feng Ming, "I don't believe it that such a big Lu Prefecture, there's no case for us to handle it.

I'll get them to send all the cases in Lu Prefecture and look at them one by one. "

Shen Feng Ming looked at him, but didn't speak.

Not speaking was acquiescing, Yang Sheng smiled.

Chapter 35

The next day, Jiang Yun Zhu raised the deposit for the lunch box to ten wens. Otherwise, the people who will order food in the future will have no lunch boxes. Besides, with her raising the price of the lunch box, Wang De's side can sell better. She didn't expect to make money from selling lunch boxes. Since she took payment money from others, she should try to leave the benefits to others.

At the same time, she changed the appearance of the deposit slip. This way to avoid those who took the lunch box before getting over-refund.

The person who ordered the meal knew that some people took Jiang Ji's lunch box and refused to return it. No one criticized her behavior of raising the price. Anyway, it was just a deposit. Not really wanting their money.

Jiang Cheng resigned from the mine yesterday. He originally wanted to go to Xu Qing Shan to familiarize himself with the route today. Who knew that Jiang Yun Zhu suddenly told him last night that they had enough money to buy the donkey?

He was so shocked that he thought she went on a robbery, no, picked up money.

After asking how, he sighed endlessly.

In the past, it was difficult to make a penny. Now it seems that making money has suddenly become easier.

It seemed that everything started from leaving Changfeng Manor and coming to Wuling County.

Sure enough, listening to Jiang Yun Zhu at the beginning was right.

After sighing, he became excited again. So, he could go buy a donkey today?

In this day and age, it was almost as difficult for the poor to buy a donkey as it was for ordinary people in modern day to buy a luxury car. No wonder he was ecstatic.

"En." Jiang Yun Zhu replied. Then she took out a money bag and handed it to him.

Now Jiang Yun Zhu was in charge of the family business. So all the money in the family was in her hands.

Jiang Cheng took the money bag and opened it. There were two relatively large pieces of silver inside. One was the one given by Nie Xin, which was worth three liangs. The other was the one given by Wang De, which was initially worth three liangs. After Jiang Yun Zhu ordered the lunch box and deducted the money, there were only two liangs or so left.

There were still some small pieces of silver and copper wens left. The total was estimated to be seven or eight liangs. It was more than enough to buy a donkey.

Jiang Cheng's hands were trembling while clutching the money bag. He had never seen so much money before. At the beginning when he and Mrs. Chen separated from the family, the most money he ever held was five liangs or so. At that time, he vowed to give Mrs. Chen a home and found someone to build a new house.

Five liangs or so wasn't enough to build a house.

He owed some money to build the frame of the house. There were no tiles on the roof. No windows around the house. Let alone furniture. In this way, he and Mrs. Chen still lived in it Slowly, they finished the house, made the furniture, and had Jiang Yun Zhu and the others.

"Family Head, everything will be fine." When Mrs. Chen saw so much money just now, her eyes were red. She knew Jiang Cheng's feelings at this moment, so she spoke out to comfort him.

"En." Jiang Cheng nodded with a smile. It will get better.

Jiang Cheng carefully put the silver into his bosom, rubbed it again and again, and then went out to the town.

After more than an hour, he came back. By his side, was everything else.

Mrs. Chen was helping Jiang Yun Zhu cut the meat. From time to time, she would glance at the door and imagine Jiang Cheng coming back with a donkey.

What would the donkey look like? Was it black or gray? Were the ears long? Was the fur shiny?

Seeing that Jiang Cheng came back by himself, she immediately asked anxiously, "Why, didn't you buy a donkey?"

It can be said that Jiang Cheng left with hope and returned with disappointment. He wanted to buy a donkey that could give rides. Preferably a mature one, so that it could be used when it was bought. But such a donkey was rarely sold.

All the donkeys sold in the market were young or old donkeys. There was only one donkey that looked okay and the asking price was too high.

This money was earned by Jiang Yun Zhu at the stove from morning to night. Every time Jiang Cheng saw this, he felt very sad. He didn't want to waste money, so he didn't buy it.

After hearing this, Mrs. Chen was also disappointed. But there was no rush for this matter. They will meet the right one.

Jiang Yun Zhu looked at the sky outside and instead said, "There's no fish in the river. Why not go to the county to have a look."

Then she turned to Mrs. Chen, "Mother, the weather is getting colder and colder. We should add some bedding at home. And you and dad's clothes are too thin. Why don't we go to the county together and buy more for the winter."

When Jiang Family came to Changshi Village, Mrs. Chen only bought fabric and cotton once. She only made quilts and thick clothes for old Mister Chen and Jiang Yun Zhu and the kids. She and Jiang Cheng couldn't bear to make for herself and Jiang Cheng.

Also, Jiang Yun Zhu and the others only have this set of thicker clothes. She had been thinking about having a big purchase for a while. It just so happened that today was an opportunity.

Mrs. Chen's heart was a little moved. The family had the money. She didn't want to see her children lack food and clothing. It was just, "If we go to the county, we mightn't be able to make dinner in time?"

"Then we won't make it. Let's tell the customers at noon. Tonight, we'll rest and continue to do it tomorrow." Jiang Yun Zhu stated.

"Will the customers go to another's?" Mrs. Chen was worried.

"Don't worry. Only take a break once in a while. People can understand as long as it doesn't happen every now and then." Jiang Yun Zhu said. After all, which family didn't have a matter to sort.

Mrs. Chen was still a little scared. She felt that if they didn't do it at night, they would earn a lot less money.

"You can never run out of money to earn, Mother." Jiang Yun Zhu said.

"That's right. Perfect time to let Yun Zhu rest for a day." Jiang Cheng piped on the side.

Hearing what he said, how could Mrs. Chen not agree.

Jiang Yun Zhu laughed. In fact, she was never the hardest worker in the family. Before, Jiang Cheng was busy with business with them in the morning and evening and went to work in the mine during the day. He was the hardest worker.

Later, they stopped making breakfast. Mrs. Chen would pick and cut all the vegetables and meat for Jiang Yun Zhu. Jiang Lin and Jiang Yun Xue would clean the plates and bowls and help her in the kitchen. She was only responsible for cooking and some things they can't do. In the end, Mrs. Chen was busy all day long. She was the hardest worker.

So in fact, without Mrs. Chen and others, Jiang Yun Zhu's business wouldn't be possible.

Within a family, one shouldn't settle it so clearly. Only by working together can they be better.

Jiang Family was going to visit the county town. Jiang Wu was the happiest. This day, he had been running around, wishing he could help everyone finish what they were doing so that they could go to the county quickly.

After delivering the meal at noon, everyone in the Jiang Family except old Mister Chen got onto a donkey cart and went to the county.

Jiang Yun Zhu also wanted old Mister Chen to go. Old Mister Chen felt that his eyesight was bad and it was useless to go. Besides, at his age, what had he never seen before? He preferred to stay at home and look after the house.

Jiang Yun Zhu respected his choice, so she stopped persuading him.

Wuling County was rich and prosperous. There were rows of shops in the county town. Quite lively.

Thinking about buying a donkey, the Jiang Family held back and went straight to the mule and horse market in the west of the county city.

The mule and horse market in the county was indeed a far cry from the town. As for the horses, there were no less than dozens of them here. Four or five in the town was quite good. There were countless mules, cows, and donkeys.

Jiang Cheng looked left and right. He was overwhelmed.

Mrs. Chen was also looking around. Compared with donkeys, those tall and strong horses were particularly outstanding. But it was a pity that they couldn't afford them.

She suddenly thought of Yang Sheng and Shen Feng Ming's horses. They looked much better than the horses here.

The couple were fascinated by the sight. So Jiang Yun Zhu held onto Jiang Wu and told Jiang Lin and Jiang Yun Xue to follow her and not to run around. There were so many people in the market. If they were scattered, it will be bad.

She wasn't interested in these horses and donkeys. She only planned what to buy when going shopping later.

At this time, Jiang Cheng took a fancy to a donkey. Its black fur was shiny and smooth. He opened its mouth to look at its teeth. It was two years old. It was in the prime of its life. Looking at the hooves and tail, there was no flaw at all.

He was happy and started chatting with the donkey seller.

After talking for about a quarter of an hour, Jiang Cheng's face was serious. The donkey seller was an old man. He said his donkey was good and wouldn't budge from seven liang silver.

Jiang Cheng naturally knew that his donkey was good, but seven liang silver was too expensive. If he added some more, he could buy a mule. Mules were stronger than donkeys and could run.

Mrs. Chen tugged Jiang Cheng's sleeve. How about looking elsewhere? She also felt that the price was too expensive.

Jiang Cheng looked at the donkey with reluctance and walked forward.

The couple continued to check the donkeys. At this moment, a female voice suddenly sounded, "Elder Sister-in-law Chen, is that you? Elder Sister-in-law Chen?"

At first, Mrs. Chen didn't think that someone was calling her. But when the person grabbed her sleeve, she turned around and uttered in surprise, "It's you?"

On the other side stood a woman with soft eyebrows and a body like a spring willow. She was holding a child about four or five years old in her arms. He was forty-fifty percent similar in appearance to her.

It was Mrs. Liu from the same village as them in Changfeng Manor. At that time, Jiang Yun Zhu's family left the village in a hurry and happened to encounter her coming out to fetch water. Mrs. Chen kindly reminded her. Never expected to meet her here again today.

Meeting old acquaintances in a foreign land, Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Liu were indescribably happy.

"How did you get here?" Mrs. Chen remembered that she borrowed food from everyone in the village but failed to borrow food. Only Mrs. Liu lent her food. She was very friendly toward Mrs. Liu.

Mrs. Liu was also grateful for Mrs. Chen's kindness in reminding her. She held nothing back from her. It turned out that after hearing Mrs. Chen's words that day, she also had the idea of leaving Changfeng Manor.

Her husband was dead and she had no relatives there. So leaving was nothing.

But where to? She didn't know, so she decided to go south first.

She had it better than Jiang Yun Zhu and the others. She had money. So she packed up her things, took her child, and hired a donkey cart to come to Lu Prefecture.

About 20 days ago, she was passing through Wuling County when an old lady suddenly rushed out from the street and hit the cart she was sitting in.

She and the driver were all terrified.

The driver said it was none of his business. The old lady bumped over by herself.

The old lady just cried in pain.

She got out of the cart and was at a loss.

At this time, a person stepped forward and asked them what happened.

After they finished speaking, the man directly called the doctor to give the old lady a diagnosis and treatment. The old lady was fine. The turmoil passed just like that.

"Who is that man? He is really a good man." Mrs. Chen was amazed.

Mrs. Liu was about to say something when a male voice asked, "Who are these?"

A man walked over leading a mule. He was wearing a lake blue robe, with fair skin and regular features. Not to mention looking very handsome, he was quite attractive.

"This is Mrs. Chen's family from my hometown that I told you before." Mrs. Liu immediately replied to the man and then introduced both parties.

The man's name was Wei Kang Ping. He was the one who helped Mrs. Liu uphold justice that day. Seeing that Mrs. Liu had nowhere to go, he let her live in an unused yard of his. Paying the rent or not was up to her.

It turned out to be him. Mrs. Chen looked at Wei Kang Ping and then at Mrs. Liu, who was standing very close to him. Then she seemed to have guessed something.

It had been two years since Mrs. Liu lost her husband. It would be great if the widow and orphan could find a suitable person to take care of them.

"Elder Sister-in-law Chen, how did you get here?" Sensing the look in Mrs. Chen's eyes, Mrs. Liu quickly changed the topic.

Mrs. Chen told them about their refuge in Wuling County.

Hearing that Mrs. Chen came to the county today to buy a donkey, Mrs. Liu was very surprised. She remembered that the Jiang Family had a hard time and couldn't even eat enough. In the end, they had to sell their daughter to live. They got money to buy a donkey?

This was quite a coincidence. She looked at Wei Kang Ping.

Wei Kang Ping's eyes spun and told Jiang Cheng, "Eldest Brother Jiang, I happen to have a mule for sale here. If you think it suits you, take it away."

Jiang Cheng had noticed the mule he was leading a long time ago. The big maroon mule wasn't much worse than a horse. He hurriedly responded, "No need."

He was afraid that he would not be able to afford it.

"You have helped Qiu Niang before. The price is easy to negotiate." Wei Kang Ping said.

Qiu Niang was Mrs. Liu's name.

Jiang Cheng wanted to decline, but Wei Kang Ping directly stated, "Nine liang silver. If you think it's worth it, I'll sell it to you."

Nine liang silver was really cheap. Jiang Cheng had eight liang silver in his purse. Jiang Yun Zhu had a lot of things to buy today, so she brought a little more. It was just enough to buy this mule.

Jiang Cheng hesitated for a moment.

Mrs. Liu saw that Jiang Cheng wanted it and looked at Wei Kang Ping again.

Wei Kang Ping directly put the rein in Jiang Cheng's hand and said with a smile, "Then it's settled. It won't save me from going everywhere to sell it."

"I can't really." Jiang Cheng wanted to return the reins to him.

Wei Kang Ping didn't accept.

The two pushed and pulled for a while. Wei Kang Ping was determined to sell the mule to Jiang Cheng. In the end Jiang Cheng could only hold the reins in his hand.

After paying, Jiang Cheng looked at Jiang Yun Zhu.

Jiang Yun Zhu took out a liang silver from her sleeve and handed it to Jiang Cheng. Jiang Cheng took out the money bag from his bosom, put the liang silver in it, handed the money bag to Wei Kang Ping, and said embarrassingly, "Count it. "

Wei Kang Ping weighed the wallet, "What is there to count. I believe in you."

Coming out of the mule and horse market, Mrs. Chen still couldn't believe it. It felt like a dream. She met Mrs. Liu here by chance and bought a big mule for only nine liang silver.

"This mule is only two years old. It's at the age of youth and strength." Jiang Cheng couldn't help but excitedly remarked. While talking, he touched the mule's head with his hand and couldn't get enough of feeling it.

"Have to thank Qiu Niang." Mrs. Chen said. Without her, they wouldn't be able to buy such a cheap mule.

"En." Jiang Cheng nodded, "Come to the county some other day and bring her more things."

Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Liu had already made an appointment. They will often interact in the future. This was why Jiang Cheng said this.

Mrs. Chen nodded and suddenly smiled again, "She met a good person this time."

From what she saw that Wei Kang Ping seemed to have some family background. He was good-looking and could save people from danger. His character shouldn't be bad.

Jiang Cheng nodded. He also thought Wei Kang Ping was a good guy.

Behind, Jiang Yun Zhu held Jiang Wu. Hearing what they said, she frowned slightly. Why did she feel that Wei Kang Ping's eyes turned toward her intentionally or unintentionally just now? Was it her imagination, or...

"Yun Zhu, are we still shopping?" Mrs. Chen turned around and asked Jiang Yun Zhu. Her tone was full of apology.

After buying this mule, they didn't have much money left. She knew that Jiang Yun Zhu wanted to buy a lot of things.

Putting aside other things, Jiang Yun Zhu was delighted to be able to buy a mule so cheaply. As for things, buy some first and buy the rest next time.

The family wandered around the county town.

The sun was in the west. Afraid that they wouldn't be able to go home in time, they immediately left the city and returned home.

After arriving home, old Mister Chen was very happy when he heard that they bought a good mule for nine liang silver.

Jiang Cheng supported him to see the mule.

Old Mister Chen stretched out his hand to touch the mule's head and then touched down. The more he touched it, the happier he became. He praised, "This is really a good mule."

"That's right." Jiang Cheng couldn't help being overjoyed. He busied himself on getting food and drink for the mule, for fear that it would be thirsty and hungry.

Jiang Family kept grinning that night.

Shen Manor in the capital. It was already 7pm. Shen Feng Ming just came back from outside. His whole body was cold.

"Why did you come back so late today?" Princess Danyang handed him a bowl of ginseng tea and said distressingly.

Shen Feng Ming accepted the tea and drank a couple of sips.

"The Division has a lot of things to do." He replied.

"Why don't I talk to the Emperor and ask him to change your errand for you." Princess Danyang said. She didn't want Shen Feng Ming to be the commander. Not to mention the danger, nothing good would come from it.

"Mother, I like this job." Shen Feng Ming stated.

Princess Danyang wanted to say something, but suddenly she uttered instead, "Okay, then I don't intervene. Have you eaten yet?"

"I have."

"Then go back and wash up quickly. Rest early." Princess Danyang said.

Shen Feng Ming nodded.

In the spacious bathroom, someone had prepared hot water for Shen Feng Ming.

He didn't need others to serve him. After washing himself, he entered the bedroom.

As soon as he entered the door, he felt something was amiss. He knew exactly how exactly his own room smelled. But now in this room, there was a faint sweet smell.

"Who?" He frowned. His voice was cold.

On the couch, the brocade quilt squirmed, evoking a seductive arc. A beautiful and stunning face was exposed from the brocade quilt. A white snow shoulder could be seen faintly.

This kind of barely visible beauty was really alluring.

Shen Feng Ming only felt hot all over. Not right. He held onto the table next to him with his hand. His body wasn't right.

Suddenly, he remembered the cup of ginseng tea that Princess Danyang had just handed him.

As the commander of the Qilin Guard, Shen Feng Ming's caution was enough for him to avoid all dangers. But what about the tea his biological mother handed him?

Shen Feng Ming tightly grasped the edge of the table with both hands. The veins on his hands were bulging.

"Gentleman." Knowing that the medicine was working, Du Ran Shu stood up and walked toward Shen Feng Ming.

She was only wearing a tulle dress. As she walked, every look and every movement was enough to drive any man crazy.

Finally, she reached Shen Feng Ming.

She reached out to touch Shen Feng Ming. Her face flushed. Who said that only women can make men's hearts move. Outstanding men can also make women's hearts sway.

The next moment, she opened her eyes wide in horror.

Shen Feng Ming pinched Du Ran Shu's neck like an angry god.

Two bangs sounded. Princess Danyang heard that the movement in the room wasn't right. She quickly opened the door and went in to check. Entering her sight was Du Ran Shu sitting on the ground at one side, looking like a mess, and Shen Feng Ming standing with blood dripping from his left hand.

He held the corner of the table in his hand. He had actually broken off the corner of the table directly. The wooden thorn pierced his hand, causing him to bleed.

Princess Danyang only had Shen Feng Ming's bleeding hand in her eyes. She immediately shouted, "Quick, call the doctor."

"No need." Shen Feng Ming threw away the thing in his hands and staggered toward the bathroom next to him.

"Feng Ming, you..." Princess Danyang wanted to say something, but she was intimidated by Shen Feng Ming's return gaze. She had never seen him look like this.

She stopped talking.

"What's going on?" Academician Shen heard the noise and came over to check.

He immediately noticed that something was wrong with Shen Feng Ming's behavior and then looked at Du Ran Shu, who was disheveled at the side. In an instant, he made a good guess and furiously threw at Princess Danyang, "How could you do this? Hhe..."

He just said a sentence and Princess Danyang cried and yelled at him as if she had found an outlet, "Why did I do this? What right do you have to ask me? You talk about benevolence and morality all day long. You taught the child to be like this. Now you blame me.

I ask you…"

Princess Danyang quarreled with Academician Shen again.

Shen Feng Ming had already returned to the bathroom and jumped into the cold water. He slowly regained his senses.

Early the next morning, Yang Sheng took a case file and said to Shen Feng Ming, "Look at this Lu Prefecture case. Should we go..."

"Okay." Shen Feng Ming replied.

Yang Sheng was dumbfounded. He hadn't said what the case was yet? He agreed to what?

Chapter 36

Shen Feng Ming first went to the palace to report the reason to the emperor. Afterward, he returned to the Shen Manor to bid farewell to his parents.

Hearing that he was leaving again, Academician Shen's face was ugly. Princess Danyang's eyes were even redder. She could feel Shen Feng Ming distancing from her today.

She regretted that she lost her head yesterday and did that kind of thing. But what can she do?

In the past few years, in order to make Shen Feng Ming approach women, she had used countless tricks, but none of them worked. Instead, there was a lot of rift between the mother and child. Seeing his personality becoming more and more ruthless and the time at home getting shorter and shorter, she secretly shed tears countless times.

His sword licked blood every day. Every time he goes out, she can't help but think, what if he won't come back?

She only had him, this one son. If he was gone, she...

So she thought, if he can marry a wife and have children. After having a son and daughter and someone he likes, will he no longer do that dangerous job and won't risk his life every time?

Moreover, she really wanted to have children and grandchildren around her knees like others.

Princess Danyang opened her mouth, wanting to tell Shen Feng Ming that she had already sent Du Ran Shu away. But she knew that he definitely didn't want to hear this.

"How's your hand?" She asked Shen Feng Ming with concern.

"It's okay." Shen Feng Ming replied.

Princess Danyang didn't know what to say. Suddenly, she remembered that Shen Feng Ming was going to Lu Prefecture again, "If you see that sausage cook again, you can bring the person back if you like."

She thought, in this way, Shen Feng Ming might come back to the manor more often for dinner.

Shen Feng Ming raised his eyes to look at Princess Danyang. His spring-like eyes were slightly rippling.

Princess Danyang suddenly recalled something and did not continue this topic.

"Pay attention to safety along the way. If something happens to you, you know."

Academician Shen only said this mucho, but he believed that Shen Feng Ming could understand that if something happened to him, the Shen Family would be his strong backing and would definitely do everything to protect him.

Shen Feng Ming's face softened a bit, "Yes, Father, Mother take care of themselves."

"We're in the middle of the capital. We're fine. Come back early after finishing your business," Academician Shen said.

"Yes, come back soon." Princess Danyang hurriedly followed.

Shen Feng Ming left the Shen Manor and went to the Division. Once he and Yang Sheng leave, it will take some time for them to come back. There were many things to arrange.

At this time, Yang Sheng came back from the Yang Family. He didn't dare to say goodbye to Madam Yang face to face, fearing that he would be locked up in the mansion and wouldn't be able to get out. Madam Yang would really do this kind of thing. He went home, stealthily packed his bags, left a letter for Madam Yang, and slipped out.

He told Madam Yang, since she wanted to eat sausage every day, he would buy it for her right away. So she shouldn't be angry.

Yang Sheng was refreshed, while Shen Feng Ming was as stern as a mountain. The two of them stood in front of the Division's hall. The Qilin Guards stood below, all in high spirits.

Hearing that Shen Feng Ming said they were going to Lu Prefecture, they immediately thought of the fish head tofu soup that Nie Xin said that could make one swallow their tongues and the diced rabbit and shredded beef that they only tasted a little bit. Their eyes immediately brightened. Go to Lu Prefecture! They can!

Brats, what good things are you thinking? Yang Sheng stood on top and smiled. This time, they didn't need so many people to go to Lu Prefecture.

He picked the people who were going to Lu Prefecture with him.

The ones who were chosen were naturally full of joy. Those who weren't picked were thinking about how much money they should prepare, so that those going could bring them something to eat.

The sun was just rising. Shen Feng Ming and Yang Sheng led a group of people to leave the capital on horseback. On a dusty old road, shadows of old trees flew by.

In a small courtyard in the south of Wuling County, Wei Kang Ping knocked on the door. When Mrs. Liu heard that it was him, she quickly let him in and poured him a cup of hot tea.

Wei Kang Ping took out a box from his sleeve and handed it to Mrs. Liu, "Look, do you like it?"

"What is it?" Mrs. Liu asked in a wazy voice.

"You'll know when you open it." Wei Kang Ping said with a smile.

Mrs. Liu accepted it, opened it, and saw a brightly colored bead flower inside, "This..."

"You've been dressed too plainly all day long. This bead flower is for you."

"I am a widow. What's more my age..."

"What's the matter with being a widow? He left first. He was unlucky. You are only in your twenties this year. Perfect age!" Wei Kang Ping immediately interrupted her.

There were tears in Mrs. Liu's eyes. For a long time, no one had said such things to her. For many years, she hadn't worn such colorful clothes and accessories.

In fact, not long after she was sold into Red Apricot Building, she was redeemed by Second Lu and he married her as his wife.

In Jinniu Village, she was afraid of being disdained for coming from that place and being called improper. She never dared to wear too bright clothes or too beautiful accessories.

But no one knew, she liked these beautiful clothes and jewelry in her heart.

"I'll help you put it on." Wei Kang Ping picked up the bead flower and said.

Mrs. Liu's face was blushing.

Wei Kang Ping stood up, walked behind her, stroked her hair with his hands, and put the bead flower on her.

Mrs. Liu's head drooped even lower.

At this moment, Wei Kang Ping hugged her from behind, kissing her neck like raindrops, and even had the intention of moving downward.

Mrs. Liu panicked, "What are you doing? Let me go!"

"Qiu Niang, I like you so much that I can't eat or sleep. Pity me and give it to me!" Wei Kang Ping hugged her tightly and even wanted to take off her clothes.

Mrs. Liu grabbed her clothes tightly, "Let go of me, or I'll call someone."

Viciousness flashed across Wei Kang Ping's eyes. A married woman dare to act innocent with him. If it weren't for the fact that she was still somewhat pretty and had a lot of silver in her bundle, he would have kicked her aside long ago.

"Someone..." Mrs. Liu really called out.

Wei Kang Ping reached out his hand to cover her mouth and then be forceful. He concluded that even if he did her, as long as he begged her for mercy, she would definitely forgive him and commit herself to him.

It was just that he thought of another beautiful figure. That person's snow-skinned appearance. Like a pearl under the moon. Truly too beautiful.

Thinking of this, he let go of Mrs. Liu and said anxiously, "Qiu Niang, don't shout. I won't do anything. Don't worry."

Mrs. Liu took a good few steps back, backed to the wall, leaned her back against the wall, and took a few more breaths before she regained her composure.

"Qiu Niang, it's my fault. I couldn't hold back just now." Wei Kang Ping was full of remorse, "I've never liked someone so much before. Thinking of you from early to late. It's almost taking my life.

Suddenly I'm so close to the person I like... Qiu Niang, you are so beautiful." He said while taking at Mrs. Liu's reaction.

Sure enough, Mrs. Liu's face turned red. Her expression softened.

Women ah, they all like to hear this kind of talk. Satisfied, Wei Kang Ping continued, "Qiu Niang, don't worry, I will never touch you again without your consent.

However, Qiu Niang, I really like you. Marry me!

As long as you budge, I'll immediately ask the matchmaker to come ahead of time. From now on, I will treat you well and treat Yuan-er like my own son." He declared.

Lu Yuan was Mrs. Liu's son.

Mrs. Liu's face was red and her heart was beating. He really wanted to marry her? Suddenly, she gritted her teeth and told Wei Kang Ping, "There is one thing I have never told you."

"What?"

"I, I've stayed in that kind of place before." Mrs. Liu's head almost fell to the ground in shame and told the other party about such a terrible past.

That kind of place? Brothel! Wei Kang Ping's face instantly became cold and hard. He thought she was just a widow. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a broken shoe left over by countless people. Like this, she still acted innocent with him?

Mrs. Liu had her head lowered and didn't see his reaction.

Wei Kang calmed down after a while and then responded, "It's okay. I don't mind your past, I only like your person. As long as you get along well with me in the future, it's enough."

Mrs. Liu raised her head in surprise and saw a sincere face. Her eyes turned red again.

Wei Kang Ping didn't want to talk to her about this anymore. His eyes spun and said, "About the family we met in mule and horse market yesterday?"

Mentioning this, Mrs. Liu relaxed a lot, "I told you. They are from the same village as me. Their family is good people."

"I know they are good people, otherwise I wouldn't have sold the mule to them so cheaply." Wei Kang Ping purposely mentioned this matter.

Sure enough, Mrs. Liu said, "Thank you very much."

"No need. Between us, what need is there to say this? Let alone this bit of money, I'm willing to give you my life."

Mrs. Liu shyly pulled the corner of her clothes with her hands.

"By the way, that girl behind Jiang Cheng that day." Wei Kang Ping asked seemingly unintentionally.

"Her name is Yun Zhu, Jiang Yun Zhu. Elder Sister-in-law Chen's eldest daughter. She should be sixteen years old this year. Oh, she is a person with a bitter life." Mrs. Liu sighed.

"Why do you say that?" Wei Kang Ping asked.

Mrs. Liu recounted how Jiang Yun Zhu had a fever and almost lost her life. Later, the Jiang Family had no rice to cook and had to sell one of their daughters.

Wei Kang Ping's eyes sparkled when he heard it. The Jiang Family had another daughter. He wondered if that daughter was as beautiful as this one.

Such a beautiful girl can be bought for six liang silver. It was a pity that he wasn't in Changfeng Mansion at the time. Otherwise he would definitely buy her. Whether playing or sell her, it wasn't a loss.

But it shouldn't be too late now.

Thinking of Jiang Yun Zhu bowing her head with a smile on her face, he couldn't wait any longer.

"Speaking of which, if it wasn't for their family, I wouldn't have met you. They are kind of considered our matchmakers. You don't know many people in this county, so you should interact with them." Wei Kang Ping said .

"En." Mrs. Liu meant the same thing.

"When are you going to visit their house? Bring them some specialties from the county." Wei Kang Ping asked.

Chapter 37

On the second day, Jiang Yun Zhu was doing the takeaway business. Sure enough, the number of people ordering food didn't decrease today.

This afternoon, she was about to take a break when someone knocked on the door outside.

Mrs. Chen went to open the door and pleasantly said, "You're here!"

It was Mrs. Liu who brought Lu Yuan here. Wei Kang Ping was next to her. He was carrying a lot of things in his hands.

He carried the things for Mrs. Chen to the middle hall and put them down. He explained with a smile, "Brought some Song Ji's snacks, Baofulou's roast chicken, and some oranges from the south for you to try."

Mrs. Chen was a little flattered. There were snacks, roast chicken, and oranges. She saw them in the county last time. They were very expensive.

"Can't really. It can't do. We can't have it." She refused.

"Elder Sister-in-law Chen, keep it. Consider it as me thanking you." Mrs. Liu piped in at this moment.

Mrs. Chen assumed she was talking about reminding her to leave Jinniu Village before, so she responded, "It's really not worth doing this."

She just said a few words. Didn't really help her.

Naturally, Mrs. Liu didn't mean that. She was thanking Mrs. Chen for allowing her to meet Wei Kang Ping. However, this matter hasn't been finalized yet and can't really be clearly explained. She could only get Mrs. Chen to accept it.

Mrs. Chen had no choice but to accept the things and let them sit in the room.

"Where's Eldest Brother Jiang?" Mrs. Liu asked when not seeing Jiang Cheng upon entering the room.

"Him!" Mrs. Chen laughed, "After getting that mule, he couldn't sleep every day because of the joy. HeI rode the mule around to familiarize himself with the route."

At this time, Jiang Yun Zhu, Jiang Lin and the others entered the room. Mrs. Liu had brought things, so they were guests. As members of the family, they had to meet guests.

The others didn't react too much. Except for Wei Kang Ping, his eyes lit up when he saw Jiang Yun Zhu. He didn't even have time to take a closer look at her when he glanced over at the mule and horse market that day. Today, she seemed to be more beautiful than that day.

Jiang Yun Zhu felt that someone was looking at her and looked over there. She met Wei Kang Ping's gaze.

Wei Kang Ping nodded slightly with the air of a nobleman. What he assumed was actually oily in Jiang Yun Zhu's eyes. It gave the self-centered feel of 'I'm the best'.

Jiang Yun Zhu withdrew her gaze, thinking that maybe it wasn't her imagination that day. This Wei Kang Ping...

"Familiar with the route? What route to familiarize with?" Mrs. Liu responded what Mrs. Chen said just now.

Mrs. Chen explained Jiang Cheng's plan to make a living by giving rides in the future.

Mrs. Liu listened and felt that this was a good career. But why later? The mule was already bought.

Don't have money to buy a cart. Mrs. Chen was embarrassed to say.

Mrs. Liu guessed it and immediately offered, "Elder Sister-in-law Chen, if you are short of money, just tell me. I still have some."

She was widow with an orphan. How could Mrs. Chen borrow her money, so she quickly said no need.

"If you are short of silver, I have some here. Elder Sister-in-law, just take it and use it. If you have it in the future, you can pay. If you don't, no need." Wei Kang Ping stated and even took out an ingot of ten liang silver and handed it to Mrs. Chen.

This was ten liang silver.

Mrs. Chen was taken aback, and quickly stepped back, "No, no, really no." She said repeatedly.

She dodged and exposed Jiang Yun Zhu who was sitting next to her.

With a turn of his arm, Wei Kang Ping stuffed the money toward Jiang Yun Zhu's hand and uttered, "Younger Sister, hold it for your mother."

He called Mrs. Chen 'Elder Sister-in-law' and Jiang Yun Zhu 'Younger Sister'.

"Don't dare." Jiang Yun Zhu deftly dodged his hand and calmly responded.

Wei Kang Ping's hand stopped there. It was a little awkward.

"Quickly put it away. You've already helped us a lot." Mrs. Chen hurriedly dissolved the situation. The other party did it out of kind-intention.

"Okay. Then whenever you are short of money, just come to me." Wei Kang Ping said.

After this incident, everyone chatted and talked about all kinds of things in Jinniu Village and sighed.

In the middle, Mrs. Chen noticed that Lu Yuan was very well-behaved and cute. So she looked at Jiang Yun Zhu, conveying, was there anything to eat at home and to get some for the child.

The Jiang Family didn't have any snacks. Jiang Yun Zhu remembered that there was still glutinous rice lotus root made at noon. She got up and went to the kitchen.

She found glutinous rice lotus root in the jar. Thinking of Lu Yuan's age, she put the lotus root on the chopping board and planned to cut the lotus root into small pieces before giving it to Lu Yuan. This way it was easier for him to eat it.

"Younger Sister, what is this? Smells so sweet?" Wei Kang Ping arrived in the kitchen at some point and asked with a smile while looking into the jar.

Jiang Yun Zhu replied briefly, "Glutinous rice lotus root."

"Glutinous rice lotus root? What is that?"

Jiang Yun Zhu didn't want to talk to him anymore.

Wei Kang Ping smiled, took out a box from his sleeve, opened it, and handed it to Jiang Yun Zhu, "Younger Sister, look at you, you are so beautiful and don't even have a hairpin on your head. It's too plain.

This was for you. "

In the box, a butterfly-shaped bead flower was shining brightly.

If Jiang Yun Zhu was a girl from an ordinary family and at the age of wanting to be pretty, she would definitely be tempted by the sight of the beautiful bead flower. Too bad she wasn't. Not to mention the jade beads she wore in the Anping Hou Mansion in the dream, even in modern times, she had seen things a hundred times better than this pearl flower.

"No need." Jiang Yun Zhu put the chopped glutinous rice lotus root into a bowl, turned around, and left the kitchen directly.

The smile on Wei Kang Ping's face froze. His past invincible tricks didn't work with Jiang Yun Zhu!

He watched Jiang Yun Zhu's back. There was a hint of fierceness on his face.

In the room, Jiang Yun Zhu handed the glutinous rice lotus root to Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan was very moved by the smell of glutinous rice lotus root. He looked at Mrs. Liu.

"This is glutinous rice lotus root. Yun Zhu made it. Yuan-er try it." Mrs. Chen urged with a smile.

"Your Elder Sister Yun Zhu gave it to you, eat it quickly." Mrs. Liu smiled to Lu Yuan, "By the way, what else do you want?"

"Thank you, Elder Sister Yun Zhu." Lu Yuan accepted the bowl containing glutinous rice lotus root and faced his small face at Jiang Yun Zhu.

"You're welcome!" Jiang Yun Zhu patted his head, feeling heavy in her heart. This Wei Kang Ping wasn't a good man. Mrs. Liu and this child...

At this time, Wei Kang Ping entered the room. Out of all the space in the room he could sit, he chose to sit next to Jiang Yun Zhu.

Though Jiang Yun Zhu didn't look at him, she was wary of him.

Suddenly, she noticed his arm bumping toward hers. He seemed to be talking to old Mister Chen, but he was actually looking at her from the corner of his eyes.

Jiang Yun Zhu was quite sure that he did it on purpose. He purposely wanted to touch her arm.

He was bullying the fact that old Mister Chen had bad eyesight!

Jiang Yun Zhu felt disgusted. Immediately, she withdrew her arms and yelled, "What are you doing!"

As soon as these words came out, there was silence in the room. Everyone looked at Jiang Yun Zhu.

"He wanted to touch my arm." Jiang Yun Zhu directly told.

In this day and age, everyone valued women's chastity very much. Especially since Jiang Yun Zhu wasn't married yet. A man like Wei Kang Ping wanted to touch her arm?

Mrs. Chen immediately stood up and looked at Wei Kang Ping with an ugly expression.

Old Mister Chen clenched the cane in his hand.

Mrs. Liu stood up in panic, looked at Wei Kang Ping and then at Jiang Yun Zhu. Completely at a loss.

Being stared at by everyone, Wei Kang Ping felt embarrassed and angry at the same time. He did want to touch Jiang Yun Zhu's arm with his arm. In his opinion, even if he did and Jiang Yun Zhu felt it, she could only accept it as an unmarried girl and dare not speak out.

Maybe she would show a shy and timid expression.

He liked to see girls showing this kind of expression the most.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Yun Zhu dodged and even questioned him directly.

"I didn't want to touch you." Wei Kang Ping could only latch onto this point. Then he explained, "I only wanted to tidy up my clothes."

He pointed to his own clothes.

After all, there was no proof. Wei Kang Ping and Mrs. Liu left in embarrassment. Mrs. Chen threw all the things they brought into their arms and closed the door without saying goodbye.

Mrs. Liu stood there for a long time before walking back with a cold face.

Wei Kang Ping cast a bitter look at the gate of the Jiang Family and hurried to catch up, "Qiu Niang, I promise, I never want to touch her. You know, I like you."

"A girl would use this kind of thing to frame you?" Mrs. Liu didn't believe it.

"Maybe she misunderstood. Besides, think about it, why was she always staring at me?"

Mrs. Liu still ignored him with a cold face.

"Qiu Niang, I want to dig out my heart and show it to you. This way you can see who it holds inside. If you still don't believe me, alright, I'lll swear. If I really want to touch her today, I won't dead a good death." Wei Kang Ping swore.

Ancient people believed in the existence of gods and ghosts in this world and believed in swearing. Seeing Wei Kang Ping cursed himself like this, Mrs. Liu's heart began to waver. Did Jiang Yun Zhu really misunderstand?

But it was hard to explain. She originally wanted to thank Mrs. Chen, but who would have thought that it would become like this now.

She held Lu Yuan and continued to walk forward, ignoring Wei Kang Ping. Her expression softened though.

Wei Kang Ping gritted his teeth and quickly followed.

In the Jiang's house. When Mrs. Liu trio left, Mrs. Chen saw there was no one and took the chance to ask Jiang Yun Zhu in private, "He, really wanted to touch you?"

"Mother, don't you believe me?" Jiang Yun Zhu responded.

Mrs. Chen was furious. Of course she believed Jiang Yun Zhu.

Later, when Jiang Cheng came back, Mrs. Chen told Jiang Cheng what happened in the afternoon. Jiang Cheng was so angry that his eyes turned red. He believed Jiang Yun Zhu. That surnamed Wei!

"I'll go find him." Jiang Cheng flushed. He headed out to settle accounts with him.

"Family Head." Mrs. Chen became worried again.

"Father! We have no evidence." Jiang Yun Zhu stopped Jiang Cheng. She was afraid that Jiang Cheng would suffer losses if he went.

"Yun Zhu." Jiang Cheng turned to look at her.

Jiang Yun Zhu frowned in thought. She wasn't touched, but Wei Kang Ping's motivation for this behavior was sexual harassment.

What's more, she was a little worried about whether people like him would retaliate. And Mrs. Liu and that child...

In short, preparing for the worst in everything was the right way.

Oh right. Seeing the mule that Jiang Cheng was holding, she suddenly wondered why a person like Wei Kang Ping would sell such a good mule to them so cheaply?

Chapter 38

Putting aside what Jiang Yun Zhu thought. After Wei Kang Ping returned to the county with Mrs. Liu, Mrs. Liu's attitude toward him remained indifferent. His temper hit his head.

The sun went down. Mrs. Liu was cooking and he watched from the side. His face was sinking like water. Originally, he wanted to have fun with her, but after knowing that she had been played by countless people, he found her dirty. Nor could he count on her for Jiang Yun Zhu. So he must quickly get the money into his hands.

This, he was familiar with.

It was getting dark. Mrs. Liu made dinner and sat at the table with Lu Yuan to eat.

Mrs. Liu was a thrifty person. For dinner, there were only two bowls of congee, two pancakes, and a side dish.

Wei Kang Ping sat down, "I know you're still angry with me. It's useless for me to explain, but I'm really innocent."

Mrs. Liu didn't speak.

"Forget it, over a distance, can one learn about the horse's strength; over time, one can see one's heart. You will know what kind of person I am in the future." Wei Kang Ping spoke again.

Mrs. Liu's hand holding the chopsticks paused.

Wei Kang Ping continued, "Anyway, I am determined to marry you."

At this time, he took out a few things from his arms and handed them to Mrs. Chen, "I have been looking for a chance to give you these two days and then I ask you to marry me. Never expect this kind of thing to happen today.

Look, this was all my net worth. I'm giving it to you. You should know how much I care about you! "

Mrs. Liu looked at the paper. What she saw were several house deeds and land deeds with the official seal on them.

Now, Mrs. Liu was really shocked. He wanted to give her such an important thing?

"Anyway, I'm set on you for my whole life." Wei Kang Ping said affectionately.

The balance in Mrs. Liu's heart began to tilt. She felt that Jiang Yun Zhu might have misunderstood him. Since Wei Kang Ping could give her something as important as his life showed that he really had her in his heart and wanted to spend his life with her.

"Believe me now? I don't have a lot of money, but it's definitely not little. What kind of girl can't I get? So why would I want to touch her?" Wei Kang Ping said.

"Then you toward me?"

"I really like you. I liked you from the first moment I saw you. You are different from other women." Wei Kang Ping said while holding Mrs. Liu's hand.

Mrs. Liu wanted to take it back, but didn't.

Wei Kang Ping smiled, folded the house deeds and land deeds, and put them into Mrs. Liu's hands.

"I don't want it." Mrs. Liu declined.

Wei Kang Ping insisted on giving it to her.

In the end, Wei Kang Ping took out a box from his body, put the house deed and land deed in it, locked the box, and handed it to Mrs. Liu, "You take this first. The key was in my hand. I will give you the key on the wedding day. Let's not distinguish between you and me. This works?"

Before Mrs. Liu could refuse, he put the box on the table. Then he looked at the food on the table and said, "Why are you eating this kind of food again? You can bear it, while the child can't. He's growing up.

You wait. I'll go to Baofulou to buy you some braised pork and stir-fried vegetables." Speaking, he stood up.

"No need." Mrs. Liu hurriedly said.

Wei Kang Ping insisted on buying it, "Wait for me, I'll be back in a while."

Mrs. Liu stood up and tried to catch up, but failed.

When she came back, she sat on the stool. She was in no mood to eat at all.

Half an hour later, it was already dark outside. Wei Kang Ping hadn't come back yet. Mrs. Liu couldn't sit still. Did something happen? It stood to reason that he should have come back long ago.

She went to the door to check, and it was completely dark outside. People occasionally passed by on the street, but there was no sign of Wei Kang Ping.

She stood there looking around for a while, went back to the house, and then came out to look around again after a while.

When she came out to look around for the third time, a person ran over from the street.

"Is this Wei Kang Ping's home?" The man glanced at the big poplar tree at the gate and asked Mrs. Liu's urgently.

"You are?" Mrs. Liu asked.

"It's not good. Come with me. Your husband met a bad guy in the back street of Baofulou and shed a lot of blood." The man said anxiously.

Mrs. Liu felt her head go blank and forgot to say that she wasn't Wei Kang Ping's wife.

"How is he now?" Mrs. Liu immediately became anxious.

"The medical hall in the street in front. Come, I'll take you there."

The two turned around two streets one after the other and came to a small medical hall.

As soon as she entered, Mrs. Liu saw Wei Kang lying there. The clothes around his waist and abdomen were covered in blood.

"Eldest Brother Wei." Mrs. Liu rushed over, but was stopped by a man who looked like a doctor, "Don't touch him, or he will die faster."

Die? Mrs. Liu suddenly recalled her deceased husband. He was lying there like this at that time, she couldn't do anything except cry.

Her tears flowed down immediately.

"Are you his wife?" the doctor asked.

Mrs. Liu couldn't speak, but shook her head.

"Since you're not his wife, you are?" The doctor asked again.

Mrs. Liu still shook her head.

The doctor sighed, "Hurry up and find his family. In his case, he can only be grasp a chance with an old ginseng first. Afterward, he will be treated slowly. If it got delayed, it would be hopeless."

His family? Mrs. Liu only heard Wei Kang Ping say that he lived in the west of the city. She had never been to his house, so how could she find someone.

"Then we can only wait death!" The doctor said, heading to the back.

Mrs. Liu quickly grabbed him, "Doctor, saving his life is top priority. Save him."

"If there is no silver, there woud be no ginseng. How can I save him!" the doctor replied.

Mrs. Liu hesitated, "How much money do you want?" She couldn't just watch him die.

"Anyway, it's a hundred liang." The doctor answered.

Mrs. Liu was stunned, "I, I don't have that much money."

"Then how much do you have? As long as the difference isn't too much, it's okay. Judging by the young man's clothes, he doesn't look like he has no money. When he wakes up, we can ask him for it."

The doctor's words eased Mrs. Liu's heart.

"I have, seventy-five liang." She said.

The doctor's eyes lit up, "That's enough, Ah Nian, you go back with her to get the money."

Just like that, Mrs. Liu returned home in a daze. It happened so fast that she had no time to think about anything else.

When she got home, she found the silver she had hidden in the baggage, clothes, and several boxes. It was a little over seventy-five liang.

She hurried back to the medicial hall and gave the money to the doctor.

"I'll save him right away." The doctor said and entered the back room. At this time, Wei Kang Ping had already been carried to the back room.

Mrs. Liu paced around anxiously outside, fearing that there would be any bad news.

At this time, three people dressed as servants came in from outside. They came in and asked, "Where is our young master?"

"Who are you?" The attendant named Ah Nian asked.

"Servants of the Wei Family. Where is our young master? I heard he is injured." The three said anxiously.

"Oh, Gentleman Wei is inside." The attendant replied.

The three of them immediately went into the back room. Mrs. Liu only heard the words 'his life is saved' and 'go back and take good care of him'. After a while, the three carried Wei Kang Ping out.

"How is he?" Mrs. Liu hurried forward to ask.

"Who are you?" asked one of the leading servants.

Mrs. Liu's face blushed. She didn't know what Wei Kang Ping told his family. How should she answer now.

"Young Master's life is saved. Let's carry him back first. Whatever the matter, let's talk about it after Young Master wakes up." The servant said anxiously and carried Wei Kang Ping away after speaking.

Mrs. Liu stood there, worried and stunned. After a while, she returned home.

After returning home, she remembered that all her money had been paid for Wei Kang Ping's medical expenses and instantly panicked. Then at the thought that Wei Kang Ping's house and land deeds were in her hands, it seemed that money was nothing.

This night, she was destined to not sleep.

At this time, in an alley two streets away. Several people stood there, including an old lady.

"Boss, why did you let that little woman go this time?" A man with mischievous eyebrows asked Wei Kang Ping. In the past, Wei Kang Ping was all about money and sex.

"A broken shoe, I don't want it even if it's given to me." Wei Kang Ping coldly replied.

Suddenly, he thought of Jiang Yun Zhu. A fierce look flashed on his face. He must get her.

At this time, the Jiang Family decided after discussion to return the mule to Wei Kang Ping.

"Father, let the village chief be a witness on this matter." Jiang Yun Zhu said. She was afraid that Wei Kang Ping would do something to harm them and that Jiang Cheng would be impulsive. Gu Yong De was the village chief. He was experienced and familiar with the officials in the county government. She was relieved to have him accompany him.

"Yun Zhu is right." Old Mister Chen immediately agreed after hearing this.

Jiang Cheng immediately went to Gu's house and told Gu Yong De about the matter. He didn't say that Wei Kang Ping wanted to touch Jiang Yun Zhu's arm today. Instead, he said that they felt there seemed to be a problem with his character. They didn't want to take advantage of him and wanted to return the mule to him. He asked Gu Yong De to be a witness.

Of course Gu Yong De was fine with it.

The next day, Jiang Cheng and Gu Yong De went into the county together to return the mule. Jiang Yun Zhu wanted to follow, but Jiang Cheng disagreed. For someone like Wei Kang Ping, he was afraid that Jiang Yun Zhu would suffer as she was a girl.

Jiang Yun Zhu didn't insist either.

As soon as Jiang Cheng and Gu Yong De entered the county with the mule, someone saw it. That person asked another person, "Is that our family's mule?"

The other person replied, "I saw it clearly. It belongs to our family. You keep an eye on these two people. I'll go back and call someone."

"Alright."

The county town was still bustling. Jiang Cheng didn't know where Wei Kang Ping lived. He only knew Mrs. Liu's address. Without a choice, he decided to ask Mrs. Liu.

After only two streets, five or six big men suddenly came over there. The leader was a bearded man. Tall and strong, with a fierce look on his face.

Gu Yong De's heart tightened when he saw this. He pulled Jiang Cheng to dodge to the side. They couldn't afford to mess with these people.

Jiang Cheng understood, so he hid to the side.

Who would have thought that those people would come straight toward them.

A few steps closer, the strong man grabbed Jiang Cheng's collar and shouted, "Dare to scam my son. You should had asked around what kind of people are our Li family!"

Saying this, his iron-like fist headed toward Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Cheng was a strong man, but in the hands of this strong man, he had no power to fight back.

Seeing that the fist was about to hit him, Gu Yong De hurriedly shouted, "Stop, I'm the village chief of Changshi Village. What do you want to do!"

"Village head?" The strong man glanced at Gu Yong De and still wanted to punch Jiang Cheng again.

Gu Yong De grabbed his wrist, processing what the strong man said just now. His mind turned, "Why are you hitting people? We don't even know you."

"I'll let you get to know me today." The strong man said and flung off Gu Yong De.

The four or five strong men behind him surrounded him. It seemed that they were going to punch and kick Jiang Cheng.

At this time, one person said loudly, "You got it wrong. We bought that mule two days ago."

When everyone turned their heads, they saw a girl with bright and kind eyes.

"Yun Zhu." Jiang Cheng said.

It was Jiang Yun Zhu. When Jiang Cheng left with Gu Yong De, she kept feeling uneasy. Fearing that something might happen, she followed. Just in time, at the gate of the city, she saw two people pointing at the mule that Jiang Cheng was leading. She knew something bad was going to happen and hurried to catch up.

"You bought it?" The strong man didn't believe it at all.

"We bought it from a man named Wei Kang Ping for nine liang silver. If you don't believe me, we will take you to him right now." Jiang Yun Zhu said.

"This mule was indeed bought by us. Someone should have seen it at the mule and horse market." Jiang Cheng reacted.

"I'm the village chief of Changshi Village. I won't lie to you." Gu Yong De said.

Only then did the strong man let go of Jiang Cheng with suspicion, "Let's see what tricks you guys are playing."

Then he added, "Don't even try to run away!"

Jiang Cheng smiled wryly, why would they run?

He led the way, and a group of people came to Mrs. Liu's residence.

Knocking on the door, Mrs. Liu opened it. She was frightened when she saw so many people.

"Is Wei Kang Ping here?" Jiang Cheng asked while suppressing his anger as much as possible.

"He, he was injured last night and was carried back home by his servants." Mrs. Liu stammered back.

"Where is his home?" Jiang Cheng asked again.

"On Qishan Street in the west of the city."

The specific?

Mrs. Liu didn't know either. Wei Kang Ping came to her every time. She had never been to Wei's house.

Jiang Cheng frowned.

The burly man surnamed Li snorted, "Qishan Street? I've never heard of someone surnamed Wei living there. Are you acting with me on purpose?"

Jiang Cheng didn't react to his words yet when Mrs, Liu's vision turned dark, "Impossible!" She exclaimed in surprise.

But the strong man surnamed Li waved his hand and wanted to beat Jiang Cheng and others again. He believed that these people were lying to him.

"We may have all been deceived." At this moment, Jiang Yun Zhu said something surprising.

They made a lot of noise here, alarming the neighbors. Many people came out to watch the excitement.

At a street corner, Wei Kang Ping looked at Jiang Yun Zhu in the crowd with a hideous expression. His mule didn't come from proper channel, so he was in a hurry to get rid of it. The Jiang Family was in Changshi Village, so it stood to reason that they wouldn't meet the victim so soon.

But who knew things would change so quickly. Wei Kang Ping gritted his teeth. He really didn't expect that the Jiang Family would come to the county to return the mule.

Turning around, he disappeared into the streets.

At this time, a carriage stopped on the street. A female voice inside asked the driver, "Song Li, what happened outside?"

The coachman got out of the car to inquire, but came back to report soon.

A glistening bare hand opened a corner of the carriage curtain and looked out, seeing Jiang Yun Zhu in the crowd as well as Wei Kang Ping who stood out from going the opposite direction of the crowd. Then the curtain of the carriage was lowered and the carriage left without a sound.

On the other side of the street, two people came.

Shen Feng Ming and Yang Sheng. It took them four days to return to the capital from Lu Prefecture last time. This time it only took three and a half days to reach Wuling County.

Just in time, they saw a group of people and Jiang Yun Zhu who was talking about something in the crowd.

"What's going on?" Yang Sheng asked a person next to him.

The man wasn't clear, but it seemed from the girl said, they were cheated.

Yang Sheng raised his eyebrows. Oh, someone bullied their ground!

Chapter 39

It turned out that on the way here, Jiang Yun Zhu asked one of the big fellows who seemed to be easier to talk to on what happened.

Seeing that she was a pretty girl and that she spoke nicely, the big fellow was afraid that there might be some misunderstanding. So he told her the whole story.

They were members of City's east's Fengyuan Armed Escort. The strong man in front was their business owner, surnamed Li.

Escort Head Li's youngest son was ill since birth and had been weak since he was a baby. His family protected him like a pearl. A few days ago, Li Yan suddenly became interested and rode the escort service's mule out for a stroll.

Walking to Hexi Street, an old lady suddenly rushed out and bumped into his mule.

Li Yan was only thirteen years old and rarely went out. Immediately, he was frightened.

At this time, a few people came out, pushing and shoving him. They said how can he hit someone like that. They robbed his mule and stripped him of all valuables before throwing him to the side of the road.

Li Yan returned home in shock and fell ill that night. The family asked him what had happened and he told them.

Escort Head Li and the others traveled all over the world. What had they not seen? They immediately realized that he had been scammed and were furious.

For the past two days, these people have been checking people and mules in the county town. They happened to see Jiang Cheng leading their mule into the city, so they naturally regarded him as the prepatrator.

After Jiang Yun Zhu heard it, she felt 'the old lady bumping into the mule' sounded so familiar? Suddenly, she remembered that Mrs. Liu once said that an old lady bumped into her carriage and then she met Wei Kang Ping.

How could she not understand. This was a group of habitual offenders. That's why she just said that sentence, "We may have all be deceived."

Everyone looked at her and she immediately recounted the whole story.

She spoke clearly and everything and every detail was correct. Escort Head Li and the others hesitated. Was that so?

Jiang Cheng finally understood that it turned out to be like this. He immediately gritted his teeth angrily, the surname Wei was really not a good person!

Mrs. Liu's reaction was the biggest. She opened her eyes wide and couldn't believe her ears. Wei Kang Ping lied to her? Then her money... She entered the room like crazy, picked up the wooden box on the table and threw it on the ground.

The wooden box was broken in half, exposing the house deed and land deed inside.

She rushed into the courtyard with those house deeds and land deeds. As if she was saying to everyone as well as to herself, she uttered, "No, he left all the house deeds and land deeds with me. He's not a liar."

She was so agitated that a house deed slipped from her hand and landed in front of Escort Head Li.

Escort Head Li took a glance, "I know the owner of this house is surnamed Qian. Not Wei. Moreover, the seal of the yamen seems to be..." It seems to be fake.

He didn't finish, but everyone understood what he meant.

Immediately, all the house deeds and land deeds in Mrs. Liu's hand fell to the ground. She sat there, tears streaming down her face. She couldn't say a word though.

There were some clues. For example, Wei Kang Ping never let her go to his house. For example, he asked her about money a few times. It's just that she pondered too deeply before. Now that she thought about it, they were all flaws.

Seeing her crying like this, Escort Head Li believed that she was deceived.

Gu Yong De was still relatively steady. He asked the people next to him, which yard did Mrs. Liu live in?

A middle-aged woman squeezed out from the crowd and said that an old lady rented the yard from her and had only paid one month's rent. It was about to expire soon.

All the truth came to light. The old lady was in cohort with them.

What should they do now? Only by catching Wei Kang Ping can they give everyone justice. Jiang Yun Zhu asked Gu Yong De, "In your opinion, this matter?"

She wanted to report to the yamen, but she didn't know the situation in Wuling County Yamen. So she wanted to hear Gu Yong De's opinion .

"Report to the official!" Gu Yong De said after a little pondering.

A group of people went to the county yamen.

The county magistrate of Wuling County was surnamed Meng. At this time, he just finished his breakfast and was sitting on a chair with his eyes closed.

Suddenly, a servant came in, holding something the size of a palm in his hand.

"Master, someone asked me to give this to you." The servant bowed.

"What?" Magistrate Meng looked into the servant's hand and suddenly slid off the chair like noodles.

"Master!" "Master!" The maids and servants rushed to help him, only to find that Magistrate Meng's body seemed to have no bones. His whole body was limp.

With great difficulty, Magistrate Meng was helped back onto the chair.

Magistrate Meng touched his neck first before jumping up and grab the token in the servant's hand.

Qilin Guards's token. There was no mistake!

He only heard a few days ago that General Wang and others were captured by the Qilin Guards and taken to the capital. Now the capital was bleeding like a river. A while ago, the officials of Changfeng Mansion were almost all killed...

Now the token appeared in his hand, "Where is he?" He asked in a trembling voice.

The servant was illiterate, he didn't know what was written on the badge. Nor did he understand why Master suddenly became like this. That person casually threw the token to him. If it wasn't for that person's outstanding looks, he wouldn't bother to pay attention to him.

"Gone." The servant replied. After throwing the token, the man left.

"Gone?" Magistrate Meng ran out in a hurry. When he ran outside, there was no one there. He stood there in a panic.

At this moment, someone in front of him was beating a drum. The sound of the drum seemed to hit his heart.

In trial hall, a group of yamen runners stood on both sides, while Magistrate Meng sat in the middle.

It was the first time in Jiang Cheng's life to attend a trial. Before the yamen runners around could shout, he knelt down on the ground, feeling apprehensive.

The others weren't any better. They were all terrified.

However, the most nervous person in the hall was Magistrate Meng. He looked around and found no suspicious person. However, he always felt that someone was staring at him. As long as he was a little careless, he would be doomed.

Then everyone discovered that Magistrate Meng was extra cautious when asking about the case today. In the past, he would slap the gavel, scold everyone, and hit people with the board. But today he only slapped the gavel twice. He was picking it up high and dropping it gently.

Jiang Yun Zhu had already sorted out the whole story for everyone. Since Magistrate Meng was amiable, Jiang Cheng and the others explained the matter very smoothly.

When Magistrate Meng heard that there were such villains in his jurisdiction, he immediately sent constables to search for them.

It was just that no one can be found. At this time, Wei Kang Ping had already led people out of the county.

Magistrate Meng was frustrated. Since they couldn't catch anyone, it indicated he wasn't efficient at handling cases? Search! All the constables had to go out to capture them for him. If they can't catch those people, they will all be punished.

The constables knew that Master was serious, so they didn't dare to be negligent. All headed out to arrest people.

Jiang Yun Zhu couldn't help being a little surprised to see Magistrate Meng act so resolutely. There were not many officials like him these days. The ancient technology was was behind. It was impossible to draw a portrait. To successfully capture... she initially didn't hold much hope. But now she felt that she can look forward to it.

No one could be caught in a short while. So Magistrate Meng asked everyone to go back first. As for the mule, it was regarded as evidence and had to be left in the county yamen for now.

After leaving the county yamen, Jiang Cheng was extremely depressed. The money he saved with great difficulty was gone.

"Father, you can make more money when money run out. As long as we're fine, all is good." Jiang Yun Zhu comforted him.

"Yes!" Gu Yong De also comforted Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Cheng forced a smile. He was fine.

While someone wasn't, "Are you seeking death? Didn't see the vehicle." A man yelled.

He was driving an ox cart when Mrs. Liu bumped over like a walking dead and almost hit his cart.

The man scolded Mrs. Liu. However Mrs. Liu stared at the wheel as if she didn't hear him.

Jiang Cheng looked worried. With the way she was, it was better that nothing happen. But there were some things that he can't say as a man. He turned to Jiang Yun Zhu.

Jiang Yun Zhu understood. She took Mrs. Liu's hand and coaxed, "Auntie, the yamen will capture that man. Think about Lu Yuan."

At the mention of Lu Yuan, Mrs. Liu's eyes finally became a little brighter. She looked at Jiang Yun Zhu and tears suddenly fell down like a waterfall.

It was all her fault. A lowly person like her coveting things that didn't belong to her and ended up with nothing.

She had even wondered if Jiang Yun Zhu had misunderstood earlier. Well, she was the stupidest person!

She herself was deceived and even implicated the Jiang Family to be deceived. She originally wanted to repay their kindness, but now she have harmed them.

It was all her fault!

Fortunately, Jiang Yun Zhu was not bullied by that person, otherwise she would die and still not be enough to atone for her sin.

Heartbroken and in despair, she sobbed. Jiang Yun Zhu knew that no matter how much words could be used to comfort her, it would be useless unless Wei Kang Ping could be caught and the silver returned.

But that was difficult.

Across the street, Shen Feng Ming and Yang Sheng stood there. Yang Sheng took in the scene at that side and remarked angrily, "Sure enough, we can't count on those constables. If our people are here, they would have been arrested."

"When will our people arrive?" Shen Feng Ming asked.

"Wait another two days." Yang Sheng replied. The two's horses were fast, so the guards were left behind again.

Shen Feng Ming nodded.

Yang Sheng looked over there again. After waiting for two days, he promised to make those people regret coming to this world.

Jiang Cheng, Gu Yong De, and Jiang Yun Zhu returned to Changshi Village.

Jiang Cheng thanked Gu Yong De. Gu Yong De waved his hands again and again, expressing that he didn't help much. Then he went home.

Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yun Zhu went home. When they told Mrs. Chen about it, Mrs. Chen covered her mouth and choked up.

Jiang Yun Zhu persuaded Mrs. Chen. In her opinion, it was really just a few liang silver. As long as everyone was fine, it was good.

Her attitude comforted Mrs. Chen. If not, she would have fallen seriously ill.

"Let's make lunch." Jiang Yun Zhu said. They still have business to do.

Mrs. Chen nodded quickly and got busy.

At this time, someone knocked on the door.

Jiang Yun Zhu was in the courtyard. she went to open the door.

The door opened and she stood there in a daze. The two people outside... Was she seeing things? Looking carefully, it was really Shen Feng Ming and Yang Sheng. She immediately turned pale.

She pondered whether Wuling County's fengshui bad. First, there was such a catastrophe, and then there was someone like Wei Kang Ping. Now, the god of death has come to visit again.

It was quite unlucky lately.

She thought about moving out of this place once she earned some more money.

Yang Sheng: ...Why did he have the feeling of being disdained again.

At this time, Mrs. Chen poked her head out from the kitchen and saw Shen Feng Ming duo. She was taken aback for a moment, "You two sold out the grain you bought last time?"

Yang Sheng: ...conflicted, he nodded.

"I'm afraid the village has no grain to sell to you." Mrs. Chen told. There were many mountains around Changshi Village, so there was little grain production in the first place. The price Yang Sheng given for the collected grain last time was high. All the grain that the village wanted to sell had already been sold to him.

"We're going to visit other counties this time. We just passed by here and came to see you." Yang Sheng didn't lie. The case they wanted to investigate was in another county. As he said that, he took out a bunch of food like a magic trick. There were citrus, snacks, candied fruit and so on.

Just passing by, Jiang Yun Zhu raised her eyebrows.

Mrs. Chen was both pleasantly surprised and a little worried. The surprise was of course that these two merchants passed by and dropped by to see them. The worry was due to Wei Kang Ping matter. Now she looked at everyone like they were bad people.

She knew she shouldn't think like this. So she immediately invited Shen Feng Ming duo in.

Arriving at the familiar side room again, Yang Sheng feltl a little emotional.

It was noon. Since the two of them came to see Jiang Cheng and the others and brought so many things, they were guests. Jiang Yun Zhu cooked a table of dishes and Jiang Cheng accompanied them. Everyone sat and ate together.

"This Gentleman." Jiang Cheng said.

"Don't call me Gentleman. I'm called Yang Sheng. He..." Yang Sheng turned to Shen Feng Ming. How should he introduce him?

Jiang Yun Zhu looked at Shen Feng Ming and suddenly held her breath. What if he said his name was Shen Feng Ming? If not all Xia Dynasty, more than half have heard of his name, Commander Shen Feng Ming of the Qilin Guard.

If Jiang Cheng and Mrs. Chen heard that his name was Shen Feng Ming...

"Shen Yu Yu." Shen Feng Ming said. His name was Shen Feng Ming, his name was written Yu Yu. Few people know this.

Hearing what his response, Jiang Yun Zhu breathed a sigh of relief for some reason and continued to eat with her head down.

The Jiang Family no longer did the breakfast business. It was cold in winter, so they went to bed early.

The night was deep and there was a north wind blowing. Suddenly, Shen Feng Ming opened his eyes.

Next to him, Yang Sheng was a step slower than him. Still, he woke up.

"There's someone." Yang Sheng stated.

"En."

The two got up quietly, followed the sound, and came to the backyard of Jiang's house.

There was a mountain behind Jiang's house. At the foot of the mountain, several people were standing there in shivers.

"Why isn't Boss here? Didn't he say that he would leave Wuling County after taking the girl captive." The person who spoke had mischievous eyes and a knife in his hand. He was the one who followed behind Wei Kang Ping yesterday.

The county yamen was trying to capture Wei Kang Ping like crazy. Wei Kang Ping didn't dare to stay in Wuling County anymore. But he didn't want to leave just like that.

They were a group of people who have always scam if they could. They couldn't or got exposed, they will do anything.

Wei Kang Ping decided to take Jiang Yun Zhu captive tonight.

He knew that the Jiang Family only had one young and strong man, Jiang Cheng. There were six people on their side. They sneak into Jiang's house, drug them with scented incense, and it'll be however they wanted.

But before he left, he had one more thing to do. He hid the silver he got in Wuling County in a hidden place.

He went to get the silver first. Then he'll group back with the few people at the back door of Jiang's house.

Standing on the high wall, Yang Sheng nudged his arm at Shen Feng Ming. Fortunately, they came early, otherwise Miss Jiang would be...

The result was his arm came up empty.

Shen Feng Ming had already jumped off the high wall.

"Woo..." The people below didn't even have time to scream.

"Keep two alive." Yang Sheng said urgently in a hushed voice and quickly jumped off the wall.

There was another sound of bones breaking. Finally, Shen Feng Ming stopped, standing in the night like Shura.

The remaining two people, an old lady and a thin man, were so frightened that they peed on their pants.

Yang Cheng pinched his nose. Now that they knew to be afraid. What were they doing earlier? Out of all people, they messed with this killing god.

He kicked the skinny man, "Get up, I have something to ask you."

Of course, it was to ask where the guy surnamed Wei went.

Also, there was so much blood on the ground. What to do if the Jiang Family finds it tomorrow and got a scare?

The thin man and the old lady didn't know where Wei Kang Ping had gone. They only knew that he had gone to the west.

Then, the two began to move the corpses and clean up the scene.

The two suspected that they had encountered a ghost and didn't dare to raise their heads or speak.

Shen Feng Ming and Yang Cheng stood there, looking into the distance as they waited for Wei Kang Ping to come.

As a result, after waiting for more than half an hour, the ground had been cleaned and still no Wei Kang Ping in sight.

The two looked at each other and decided to investigate in that direction.

Yang Sheng tied the skinny man and the old lady to a tree. Then he followed Shen Feng Ming to the west.

After walking for about a half a kilometer, the two of them discovered a bundle on the ground.

Open it and it was full of gold and silver jewelry.

This, it couldn't be Wei Kang Ping's? Where's his person?

The two continued to move forward with the bundle. But they didn't find anyone. So they had to turn back with the bundle.

"This is Boss's bundle." The skinny man recognized some silver in the bundle. They were obtained by defrauding Liu.

"Then where did he go?" Yang Sheng asked.

The skinny man didn't know either. It stood to reason that Wei Kang Ping wouldn't give up his money and left by himself. Unless...

"Interesting." Yang Sheng remarked. He looked at Shen Feng Ming and said, "Do you still remember the case I showed you? The magistrate of Yuming County disappeared like this and was only discovered a month later. Tsk tsk, how miserable."

"The first one to disappear was Vice Minister Cao from Lu Prefecture. Three years ago, when he keeping vigil for a funeral at home and went to offer incense in the temple, he disappeared." Shen Feng Ming pointed out.

"Was there such matter? I thought Yuming County was the only one who died." Yang Sheng asked.

Shen Feng Ming glanced at him. If it was only a county magistrate in Yuming County, how could the emperor agree to let the two of them leave the capital. He had consulted with many files and found that this matter wasn't that simple.

"Then, the murderer may have come to Wuling County now?" Yang Sheng asked.

"Not sure." Shen Feng Ming replied. there was too little information.

"I hope so." Yang Sheng said, This way, they don't have to go to Yuming County. What's more, if Wei Kang Ping falls into the hands of that person, hope he can enjoy it.

At this time, in a dark cave. Wei Kang Ping was woken up by a scoop of cold water. He looked at the person opposite him with a fierce expression on his face. Unexpectedly, he hunted geese all day long and today he was pecked in the eye by the goose.

He wanted to get up, but found that he was tied to a big rock and couldn't move at all.

"What do you want?" he asked.

The man didn't answer. Instead, he stretched out his hand to untie his belt.

Wei Kang Ping froze for a moment. Then he suddenly smiled, "Let go of me, I promise you..."

Then he saw the thing in the man's hand and his face was filled with horror, "What are you going to do? Let me go!"

The screams like a slaughtered pig can be sounded endlessly.

As soon as the city gate opened the next day, Constable Head Hu led the people out of the city gate with a limp.

Since no one was caught yesterday, Master had them hit five times each. There were still five boards on hold. Because he was afraid that they would not be run the errand, those five were on pause.

If they couldn't catch the person today, it will be ten boards.

These constables' eyes were red. They decided that they must find out those damn liars today.

At this moment, two figures ran towards them with a bundle on their backs, shouting as they ran, "Help, help!"

Constable Head Hu immediately drew out his sword and put on a posture. He wanted to see who was so bold as to commit trouble at the gate of the city.

At this time, a constable next to him said, "Boss, why do these two people look so familiar?"

Don't they look familiar? Yesterday they were looking for an old lady with a mole on her nose.

The constables were overjoyed, feeling like a pie had fallen from the sky and quickly sealed off the road to prevent these two people from running away.

Then they realized that it was unnecessary. These two people didn't want to run away at all.

When they got close, they ducked directly behind the constables, as if some terrible thing was chasing after them.

All the constables quickly looked over. There was nothing there!

"Help, help." The two grabbed a few constables officers and seemed to only know these two words.

Constable Head Hu quickly took the people back to report to duty.

At this moment, Magistrate Meng was pacing around anxiously in the room. He didn't sleep well last night and got up very early this morning.

When he heard that they had been caught, he was both surprised and delighted. He immediately went to interrogate. Then he asked Constable Head Hu where he caught him.

Constable Head Hu was embarrassed, "At the gate of the city."

"What's going on?" Magistrate Meng asked.

Constable Head Hu recounted the matter. Fearing that Magistrate Meng wouldn't believe it, he got the constable next to him to speak at once. In fact, the scene was too weird.

Of course Magistrate Meng believed his words. Where Qilin Guards was, it wasn't surprising that anything could happened. He was only worried about whether he performed well enough!

Early this morning, a constable came to Jiang's house and knocked on the door, telling them that they had caught two suspects and asked them to identify them and collect money.

Recognizing people was fine. But get money? Jiang Cheng and Mrs. Chen were overwhelmed with surprise and asked the constable one after another, can they really get the money?

It stood to reason that it wouldn't be fast. Even if the stolen money was found, the stolen money will not be returned to the victim until the case is over. But Magistrate Meng in a hurry and decided to sort everything as soon as possible.

This time Jiang Cheng, Mrs. Chen, and Jiang Yun Zhu went to the county together. In front of the county yamen, they met Mrs. Liu.

Mrs. Liu was in a terrible state. Her eyes were swollen like peaches. It was unknown how many times she cried yesterday.

Originally, Mrs. Chen was somewhat angry with her, thinking that if it wasn't for her, their family would never have gotten into such matter. Now seeing her like this and knowing that the money had been recovered, she felt sympathetic toward her.

"Elder Sister-in-law Chen, I'm sorry." This was the first thing Mrs. Liu said when she saw Mrs. Chen.

"Drop it. You didn't do it on purpose." Mrs. Chen sighed.

Mrs. Liu couldn't cry anymore even if she wanted to. She had shed all her tears she could yesterday.

At the side, Escort Head Li and others came. Next to Escort Head Li was a young man. His face was very pale. His facial features were exquisite and had a sickly and weak feel.

Jiang Yun Zhu knew that this was probably Li Yan.

"I was the one who was too impulsive yesterday." Li Escort was a direct and open guy. Knowing that he had wrongly blamed Jiang Cheng and the others yesterday, he immediately apologized.

"It's okay, you were anxious." Jiang Cheng responded.

The two men looked at each other and wiped away their grudges with a smile.

Everyone entered the county yamen's hall together.

Constable Head Hu dragged the thin man and the old lady out for them to recognize.

Mrs. Liu immediately recognized the old lady as the person who bumped into her carriage that day.

Apart from knowing the old lady, Li Yan knew that the skinny man was the one who blackmailed him that day.

After the signing and pledging, Magistrate Meng made a verdict on their matter. The mule and Li Yan's robbed items were all returned to the Li Family. Nine liang silver were given to the Jiang Family. And the seventy-five liang silver belonging to Mrs. Liu were returned to her.

Coming out of the county yamen, everyone had smiles on their faces.

"It's a pity that the one surnamed Wei hasn't been caught yet." Escort Head Li angrily remarked.

"Ain't that right." Jiang Cheng's mood relaxed a lot.

Escort Head Li looked at him and suddenly asked, "Do you want to buy the mule?"

Jiang Cheng was puzzled.

Escort Head Li patted the mule, "Almost hit the wrong person. How about this, for nine liang silver, this mule will be sold to you. It can be regarded as an apology to you. This mule share a fate with you."

"How can this do?" Jiang Cheng quickly refused.

Escort Head Li glared at him, "Why not? Let's do it!" As he spoke, he shoved the mule's reins into Jiang Cheng's hands, not giving him a chance to refuse.

Escort Head Li led the men away, while Jiang Cheng held the mule, still unable to react.

Mrs. Chen became happy and rubbed the mule. She felt that Escort Head Li might be right. This mule indeed shared a fate to their family. After some twist and turn, it went back to their family.

The family led the mule back home and told old Mister Chen about the matter. Unlike yesterday, when the whole family was depressed, the atmosphere at home became cheerful today.

In the side room, Shen Feng Ming and Yang Sheng looked at each other. Yang Sheng folded his arms and his face was full of smiles.

Though Shen Feng Ming didn't smile, his eyes weren't so cold anymore.

Chapter 40

"Miss Jiang." Yang Sheng and Shen Feng Ming came out of the side room.

Jiang Yun Zhu was currently in a good mood. She turned around and smiled at them. Her eyes were flowing, like sparkling water. It made people intoxicated in the gray winter.

Shen Feng Ming and Yang Cheng froze. Then Yang Cheng came back to his senses first and asked, "This mule?"

"We recently bought it. Oh, it's really not easy." Jiang Cheng wanted to talk about it to someone. So when Yang Cheng asked, he started chattering.

Yang Sheng listened, sometimes echoing Jiang Cheng's words. Nothing unusual.

Then Jiang Yun Zhu looked at him and Shen Feng Ming and frowned slightly. She didn't think much about it before. But now when she heard Jiang Cheng talk about this and saw these two people in front of her, she recalled a lot of strange points.

In just one day, the yamen caught two suspects and returned the money to them?

In her dream, she lived in the Great Xia Dynasty for seven years. She had never seen such an efficient official.

Moreover, if one thought about it carefully, it didn't make sense. The principal culprit of the case hadn't been caught yet. So the case hadn't been closed. This dirty money...

Jiang Yun Zhu wondered if it was Shen Feng Ming who helped them.

It never crossed her mind that the two of them would take action in person. Because if it were Qilin Guards, Wei Kang Ping should have been arrested yesterday. It would not be like this at all.

It was very likely that they sent a message to Magistrate Meng.

Jiang Yun Zhu carefully observed Shen Feng Ming and Yang Sheng and Shen Feng Ming happened to look at her. Their gazes intertwined.

In Jiang Yun Zhu's dream, she stayed in the Anping Marquis's Mansion for seven years. Her ability to perceive words and emotions was very good. But just like in her dream, she could never see clearly what was in Shen Feng Ming's eyes.

Did he help? She wasn't sure.

The feelings of the people of the Xia Dynasty toward him were to turn pale. In fact, if one thought about it carefully, he hardly did anything to the people. He just killed those officials. Probably due to the officials being too afraid of him, the common people were also afraid of him.

Or it was the Qilin Guards. There was no secret they didn't know, There was nothing they couldn't do. Toward such people, ordinary people were naturally afraid.

Jiang Yun Zhu opened her mouth, wanting to ask him about this matter. These words were at the tip of her tongue when she remembered that the Shen Feng Ming duo had no intention to reveal their identities now. How could she ask?

Shen Feng Ming's gaze was drawn by her and fell on her slightly opened mouth. Those soft and bright red lips.

Jiang Yun Zhu bit her lip. Her mind turned as she spoke, "Gentleman Shen, Gentleman Yang, tell me in advance when you leave. I will make more things for you to eat on the road."

She felt her cooking skills were still good. Judging by their reaction, they enjoyed it. How about she cook more for them.

This was the only thing she could do.

Yang Sheng became energized when he heard the mention of food. He directed to Jiang Yun Zhu, "Miss Jiang, I have something to trouble you. The sausage you gave us last time, my mother likes it very much. Can I buy more from you to take it back and give it to her?

Oh right, if there are other delicious foods, the more the better."

Yang Sheng almost said, whatever cold-eaten rabbit and stewed thin beef slices, bring him a cart and he will send them back to the capital to block his mother's mouth.

Otherwise, when he goes back this time, his mother will definitely use violence against him.

After finishing speaking, he took out two ingots of silver from his sleeve. One ingot of ten liang. So a total of twenty liang.

So much? Jiang Yun Zhu originally wanted to say that she was giving it to them for free. But did he want so much?

Yang Sheng handed her the money, "Make more. Our family are big eaters."

Jiang Yun Zhu didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"You could sell me at the normal price. It's such delicious food. Others can't buy it even when they have the money!" Yang Sheng said proudly.

Such a big business. Jiang Cheng and Mrs. Chen were looking over from the side. Jiang Yun Zhu could say nothing else. So she could only accept the money and help him make it with all her heart.

Back in the room, Mrs. Chen looked at the two ingots of silver, both happy and worried, Twenty liang. It was like pie falling from the sky. But, to make so many sausages, when will they finish eating it?

Now they were quite busy.

"Let's not just make sausages alone. After eating too many sausages, one will get tired." Jiang Yun Zhu stated. She had already planned out what she would make for Yang Sheng. Another thing, "Mom, I actually want to discuss something with you. Let's hire someone!"

Now their takeaway business could earn more than five coin silver a day. In this era, labor was cheap. Hiring a cook ranged from four coins to two liang silver a month, depending on the level of the cook. Hiring two choremen only costs two to three silver coins a month.

They could definitely hire people.

"Hire people?" Mrs. Chen was surprised. She had never thought about this matter. In the past, only landlords and Masters in the city would hire people. Their family hiring people?

"We are too busy now. We don't have time to do other things. Jiang Lin and the others are still young. Can they deliver meals and do odd jobs all their lives? Hiring a few people won't cost much money and we can free ourselves up.

My mother and I could think about doing something else. The money we earn will definitely be more than the cost of hiring people.

As for Jiang Lin and the others. Once we save more money, I want to send them to a formal private school. Gu Yan Zhou will have an exam next year, so we can't delay him." Jiang Yun Zhu explained. Getting Gu Yan Zhou to teach them how to read at the beginning was just an improvisation.

As she listed it one by one with reasons and evidence, Mrs. Chen felt that it was true. It was true that the lights that weren't turned on weren't bright, and the words that weren't said can't be understood. What's with her brain? Why was she just staring at the little money in her hand and being reluctant to spend it?

"Let's discuss it with your father. If it doesn't work, let's hire someone." Mrs. Chen replied.

"I heard everything. What Yun Zhu said made sense." Jiang Cheng opened the door curtain and came in from the outside.

Then this matter was settled like this- hire people. It just so happened that making sausages needed people.

The three of them immediately decided to go to the village chief's house. First, tell him what happened in the morning to reassure him and thank him again for his help yesterday. Second, ask him if there was anyone in the village who wants to be a choreman. Of course, a cook would be great.

"Is there any more stewed pear soup?" Before going out, Mrs. Chen asked.

Jiang Yun Zhu understood her intention, "There is."

In winter weather, it was dry. Especially yesterday when Jiang Cheng and Mrs. Chen was so angry. This morning Jiang Yun Zhu cooked pear soup while making breakfast. and wanted to relieve everyone's fire. Now it wasn't necessary.

She went to the kitchen to fill a jar and carried it to Gu's family.

Gu Yong De, Gu Yan Zhou and Mrs. Lin were all at home.

"Auntie, try the pear soup stewed in the morning." Jiang Yun Zhu handed the pear soup to Mrs. Lin.

The pear soup was clear, moist and sweet. During winter, it looked moist.

Mrs. Lin accepted it and said with a smile, "To eat your things again, I feel embarrassed."

Gu Yan Zhou taught Jiang Yun Zhu and the others how to read, so Jiang Yun Zhu made some delicious dishes every now and then and sent them to Gu's house.

"Auntie, no need to be reserved. It's all made at home." Jiang Yun Zhu said.

Mrs. Lin held the pear soup. The more she looked at Jiang Yun Zhu, the more she liked her. Gu Yan Zhou wasn't young anymore. Gu Yong De and Mrs. Lin had long wanted to find a marriage for him. After much searching, let alone Gu Yan Zhou, both of them felt that those girls weren't good enough for their son.

Her son was so handsome and educated. Marry a village woman who can't read?

Jiang Yun Zhu was different. She was beautiful and cooked well. Seeing what the Jiang Family was doing now, she was jealous.

What's more, Jiang Yun Zhu learned to read from Gu Yan Zhou.

Every aspect was well matched. There was no better marriage. Mrs. Lin felt that Jiang Yun Zhu was the daughter-in-law bestowed to their family by the Heaven.

"Yan Zhou, what are you doing standing for? Go and get some cloud chip cake that was bought yesterday and let Yun Zhu a taste." Mrs. Lin said to Gu Yan Zhou.

Gu Yan Zhou smiled. Quite a pleasing appearance. He went in and brought out cloud chip cake for Jiang Cheng and the others.

The cloud chip cake was as white as snow. Mrs. Lin urged Jiang Cheng and the others to eat it, so they could accept a piece each. The taste was very sweet.

Afterward, it came to serious matters. Jiang Cheng told Gu Yong De what happened this morning.

Gu Yong De was amazed when he heard this. It was the first time he had seen the yamen handle matters like this.

The Jiang Family had no relatives and no background in Wuling County. In the end, it could only be said that the Jiang Family was lucky this time.

Then, it came to the second matter. Gu Yong De pondered for a while, "There are no cooks in the village. As for choremen, do you want male or female?"

Both Jiang Cheng and Mrs. Chen turned to Jiang Yun Zhu. Currently, she took charge of many matters in the family.

"Either is fine." Jiang Yun Zhu replied. It was the work of delivering meals and picking groceries. "As long as they do things cleanly and neatly."

When it came to their catering, the first thing was to be clean. Then being hardworking and willing to do it.

The latter may be a good quality that all bosses hope for in their employees.

"Oh right, if anyone who could read and write is willing to come, the benefit will be generous." She added.

"Can read? It's really hard to find." Gu Yong De said. Literacy meant that the family was rich. So who would be a handyman?

"Being able to read isn't a priority." Jiang Yun Zhu guessed that this was the case, so she didn't force it.

"En." Gu Yong De nodded, "I think there are a few that are okay. Let me tell you and if you are satisfied, I will help you ask."

"Thank you, Village Chief." Jiang Yun Zhu said with a smile.

Gu Yong De liked Jiang Yun Zhu. Look, her mouth was full of 'thanks'. What a generous and sensible girl.

He started to talk. The first one, the Fang Family in the west of the village. Old Fourth Fang. He hurt his waist working in the mine a few years ago. The mine compensated him with some money, but that money was enough to see a doctor and for medicine.

And his wife was another candidate.

"The Fang Family is having a hard time now. These two are hardworking and capable people. But after Old Fourth Fang recovered from his injury, the mine won't use him at all. One must know that in this mountain village, when one can't enter the mine, one can't make money at all.

In fact, old Fourth Fang's health was fine. I saw him carrying grain last year. Think how heavy the bag of grain is. He could carry it without any problem.

It's so cold-hearted of the mine to not use him." Gu Yong De sighed. That's why he won't let Xu Qing Shan go to the mine. The young and middle-aged people in the village made money from the mine, but many things happened to them. Who could guarantee that it won't happen to themselves.

Jiang Yun Zhu could detect that he really wanted to recommend the Fang Family's couple to her. Otherwise he wouldn't have said so much.

While listening at the side, Jiang Cheng felt relieved. He had only been working in the mine for a month. He personally witnessed a large ore fall and smashed a young man's leg. That person should be someone else's son, husband, or even father. Don't know how he will live in the future.

At that time, he would occasionally think, what should to do if something happened to him?

Fortunately...he looked at Jiang Yun Zhu, mentally comforted himself.

He really wanted to meet old Fourth Fang. If it was indeed as the village chief said, then it would be good to hire him. But he didn't say anything. Jiang Yun Zhu's business was still decided by her.

Jiang Yun Zhu had already seen Jiang Cheng's reaction. Still, she kept her composure and listened to Gu Yong De's finishing talking about the remaining candidates.

Sure enough, the couple from the Fang Family were the most suitable. With both of them working in the Jiang Family, they could help each other out.

"Can I meet the Fang Family couple?" Jiang Yun Zhu asked.

"Of course, do you want to meet now? I'll find them for you right away." Hearing that Jiang Yun Zhu intends to hire the Fang Family couple, Gu Yong De's face was full of joy. The Fang Family was somewhat related to him. Old Fourth Fang had pleaded with him a few times to help find a job for him. And he couldn't find any. Now was an opportunity.

Not daring to trouble him, Jiang Yun Zhu stood up, "Why didn't we go to Fang's house to have a look together."

"Alright." Gu Yong De stood up.

Everyone walked toward the west of the village and soon came to a house.

This household was a bit strange. The house seemed to be newly built a few years ago. It was big and well built. However, the yard was very dilapidated. The two wooden doors were barely doors.

"Is Eldest Nephew at home?" Gu Yong De called out from a long distance away.

There was movement in the house. After a while, a man with a simple and honest face came out. He was followed by a somewhat haggard woman. Afterward, one, two, three, four children. The eldest one looked like eleven-twelve years old, while the youngest one could only just walk.

In ancient times, there were no family planning products. Sometimes the poor didn't want to have children, but they had to give birth after they became pregnant.

"Village Chief." Old Fourth Fang called Gu Yong De and then looked at Jiang Cheng and the others.

"We all live in the same village. You may have met, but don't know each other." Gu Yong De introduced the two parties. Then he told old Fourth Fang about the Jiang Family's desire to hire choremen.

Hearing this, old Fourth Fang became agitated. He turned to Jiang Cheng, "The injury on my waist had healed. There was no problem in doing work. If you don't believe, don't believe ..." He looked around and saw a big stone at the door. Immediately, he went over to move that big stone.

He thought that Jiang Cheng was the person in charge of the Jiang Family.

Jiang Cheng hurriedly stopped him. It would be bad if his initially-fine waist get injured from moving such a big stone.

Then Jiang Cheng looked at Jiang Yun Zhu.

Jiang Yun Zhu was taking in old Fourth Fang and his wife. Though they were wearing coarse cloth clothes, it was very clean. So were the children. One must know that children most likely stain clothes, hands, and faces. If an adult didn't tidy up, there was no way they could be decent. Although the children of the Fang Family looked a little thinner, they were all clean. Even the youngest one.

There was a kitchen in the yard. She examined inside here and there. The pots and pans were all brushed clean and neatly arranged. There was no sludge on the stove.

This was very difficult. With the farmer's big pot, firewood, and casual cooking, those oily smoke mixed with the dust on the firewood could cover the stove. Jiang Yun Zhu felt those who loved tidiness very much could do it to the Fang Family's extent.

She was quite satisfied with the couple, so she asked them if they would like to work for their family.

Old Fourth Fang and his wife were more than willing. There were many children in the family. Eating and drinking was a big problem.

Jiang Yun Zhu proposed to try the work for three days first. If the two parties have no problems, they will be hired.

The price? If both were hired, it was six silver coins.

This price was really not low. It was six coins a month for going to the mine. That was tiring and dangerous. Besides, the other party might not want them. Now the husband and wife were working as choremen and also earned six silver coins in total. And it was still close to home. One can't find anything better than this.

"Thank you, thank you." The Fang Family couple weren't good with words. They just kept thanking them. After thanking Jiang Yun Zhu and Gu Yong De, they even thanked Jiang Cheng and Mrs. Chen.

"Work hard, and later, build this yard." Gu Yong De told them.

"Yes, thank you, Village Chief." Old Fourth Fang started another round of thanks.

Jiang Yun Zhu asked when they could go to work. Both of them couldn't wait to express their immediate start.

Jiang Yun Zhu thought about going to the county city today. It just happened that they were a bit on time for the cooking at noon. It would be nice to have their help. So she agreed.

The two turned around and left the children a few words before following Jiang Yun Zhu.

At this moment, someone behind the courtyard wall at the side asked, "Are you from the Jiangji meal stall?"

Everyone heard it and looked over there.

The walls of Fang's house were short. One could see a thirteen-fourteen-year-old boy standing in the yard next door. The boy's brows and eyes were lively. The brows were somewhat similar to Gu Yan Zhou. He was poking his head and looking this way.

"Little brat, what are you doing!" Gu Yong De shouted as soon as he saw the boy.

The youth ignored him. He looked at Jiang Yun Zhu and asked, "Do you want to hire someone?"

He heard everything in the yard just now and knew that Jiang Yun Zhu was the one who made the decision.

"Yes." Jiang Yun Zhu replied.

The boy looked her up and down and asked, "How about hiring me?"

Jiang Yun Zhu turned to Gu Yong De. Who was this?

"My nephew. Not properly studying!" Gu Yong De said angrily, "I'll tell your father later, and see if your father won't beat you."

The young man grimaced, "Eldest Uncle, I want to be like Elder Brother Yan Zhou. Whoever sees me will praise me. I really can't study. You don't even know, I feel like I'm being tortured sitting there every day.

Sometimes I think, if I study all my life, I might as well just die. "

"Oh, you're so young. What die or live! You better study hard." Gu Yong De stated, already planning to go over to teach him a lesson.

The youth hurriedly begged Jiang Yun Zhu, "Hire me, I can read and write. I can also settle accounts. As long as you let me leave... Oh, Eldest Uncle, Eldest Uncle..." The youth ran away in a hurry.

Jiang Yun Zhu watched his back and smiled. This kid ran quite fast.