In the Su Mansion, Mother Li walked into the inner courtyard with windy steps, her forbearing expression filled with joy, and quickly walked into the county magistrate's wife Lin Shihuiyuan. In the room, Mrs. Lin was looking at this month's account books, and several The girl knew Lin's temperament and stood aside in a dignified manner, not daring to make any noise.
Mother Li suppressed her excitement and entered the house quietly. She waved her hand to signal the girls to go out. Then she lowered her head in Lin's ear and said, "Madam, it's a great news. Wu Da has been caught."
"Really." Ms. Lin was overjoyed and raised her head to look at her nanny hopefully.
"Really, Chang Qing and Yuan'er were waiting at the gate of the city. As expected, Wu Da was waiting this morning." Chang Qing is the husband-in-law of Li's mother. They are both sons of the Lin family and gave birth to a son. Chang Yuan entered the Su family as compensation when Lin got married. The couple was loyal to Lin. Chang Qing managed the dowry industry for Lin. When she was usually out and about, Li's mother managed the backyard affairs for Lin. , deeply valued by Lin.
After Xiao Ming was attacked, Mother Li suggested that someone be sent to guard the gate to Nancheng, which was the only way out of the city and back to the capital. Huangtian paid off and finally caught Wu Da.
At five o'clock in the morning, Wu Da came out from his mistress and was about to leave the city and return to Beijing. Diao Erlang was humming a ditty and reminiscing about his mistress's enthusiasm last night. Chang Qing and Chang Yuan were ambushed before they left the city and caught him.
"Hahaha." Mrs. Lin laughed regardless of her behavior, feeling happy in her heart. Wan'er, who had been suppressed by that bitch Wu for so many years and almost harmed her, could finally let out a bad breath. Now Aunt Wu has The handle is in her hands, and it's not her who has the final say whether to fight or kill.
A concubine is a concubine after all. Even if she is favored this time, she will not be able to escape the crime of murder. Murder must be paid with life. The master is an official. No matter how favored she is, he cannot protect her in the face of irrefutable evidence.
Thinking of this, Mrs. Lin calmed down and ordered: "Don't let anyone know about this matter, especially the one in Qingfang Garden. Lock him up in Zhuangzi first, and wait for the master to come back tomorrow to deal with it."
"Well, I know that I will let Chang Qing take good care of me." Li's mother agreed, "But this Wu Da has a tough mouth and won't say anything."
"He refuses to tell, huh! He thought Wu Xiaohuan could come to save him. He is a scoundrel. If he refuses to tell, he will beat him until he is willing to tell." Mrs. Lin said bitterly.
"Finally I can give an explanation to Dr. Xiao." Mother Li said, as if a big stone had been put down in her heart. When Mrs. Hua was just sent back, she had been worried that Dr. Xiao would misunderstand Madam and knew who was behind the scenes. The person who made it happen was Aunt Wu, but there was nothing that could be done against her.
Aunt Wu argued that the master's candid protection made the lady extremely disappointed with the master, and she was also secretly anxious looking at it.
Fortunately, Wu Da was a rogue, greedy for money and fond of gambling. She asked Chang Qing and Chang Yuan to search all the gambling houses in the city in the past two days, inquired about them secretly, and waited at the city gate for a whole day and night. , Wu Da was finally caught.
"It's because I'm not strict in running the family, so I have to deal with this matter. I have to come to apologize personally." Mrs. Lin said. After this incident, she was completely disappointed with Su Cheng'an. She didn't expect that he would protect Mrs. Wu in this way and treat others. Xiao Ming ignored the life-saving grace.
She was very fond of Xiao Ming, who had excellent medical skills. She was grateful for her life-saving grace to Wan'er, but she also felt sorry for her poor life experience without a father or mother.
She was born in a merchant family and married into the Su family, a family of officials. She had made a leap into the upper echelons of society and completely escaped from her lowly status as a merchant. Over the years, she has not hesitated to use her dowry money to subsidize the entire Su family, donate officials and properties to the Su family, and even raise concubines for Su Cheng'an, hoping to gain the respect of the Su family.
It's a pity that after all these years, Mrs. Su still treats her with disdain. She looks at her with eyes full of disdain for the lowliness of a merchant girl. She treats her worse than a concubine. She would rather pamper her to please Aunt Wu who fawns over her.
Su Chengan's concubines carried her home one after another, taking her money and pampering Aunt Wu to heaven.
Although she comes from a business background, she understands etiquette and integrity, and repays kindness and revenge.
Over the years, she had endured it for the sake of her children, but this time she was not going to endure it any longer. If Aunt Wu could kill Xiao Ming for the sake of her marriage, there was no guarantee that she would not attack her Wan'er one day.
He eats her food, drinks her food, and opposes her at every turn. He can only say that she is a thorn in his side.
But this time, no matter how much the old lady at home doted on her, no matter how much the master protected her, she would still peel off a layer of her skin.
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Xiao Ming took advantage of the opportunity to make wine, cleaned up the inventory in the space, picked the fruits in the space, and mixed them with the ones outside to make wine.
The time in space is different from outside. After a few days of ripening and the number of fruits in the warehouse increases, Xiao Ming stops picking them. Because of the special preservation effect of space, the fruits hang on the tree after they are ripe and maintain their mature appearance. It won't rot even if you don't pick it.
Xiao Ming spent five days making wine, and only used peaches and grapes. There were too many, so Xiao Ming asked Xia Xiaoba to bring back two hundred wine jars. Even the grapes and peach wine took up one More than a hundred wine jars.
There are sixty-five jars of peach wine and seventy-two jars of wine. Each wine jar is marked and placed neatly in the warehouse.
Looking at the rows of fruit wine, Xiao Ming felt very accomplished. Thinking about the deliciousness of the fruit wine, her eyes were full of smiles.
"Sister, are these fruit wines delicious?" Xiao Han asked with some uncertainty. Looking at the rows of wine jars, he calculated in his mind that according to the price negotiated with Kong Lin before, one pound of fruit would cost one tael of silver. , the peaches and grapes used for these wines weighed five to six hundred kilograms, which was more than six hundred taels of silver.
I feel a little regretful because I don’t know if these wines can be sold at a good price.
"Of course it tastes good. Don't you believe me, your sister? You'll know in half a month." Xiao Ming glared at Xiao Han and said dissatisfiedly. She knew that this younger brother was obsessed with money and felt sorry for money. But can fruit wine with space water not taste good?
Fruit wine has low alcohol content and low alcohol content. Adding space water not only enhances the taste, but also makes it easy to store.
"When the time comes, each jar of wine will be sold for twenty taels of silver, and the rest for eighteen taels of silver." Xiao Ming set a price for the fruit wine.
"So expensive." Xiao Han was surprised.
"Yes, the most expensive wine in the capital is only ten taels of silver?" Xia Xiaoba shouted, thinking that Xiao Ming didn't know the price and set the price randomly.
"It's rare but strange. How do you think the fruit here tastes compared to the fruit in the capital?" Xiao Ming asked Xia Xiaoba.
"The fruits here are indeed better than those in the capital. Not to mention the size, the taste is sweeter and more delicious than those in the capital. It is not an exaggeration to even bring it to the palace as a tribute." After eating it, there is a reward given to the Marquis every year. They have tasted a lot of it while serving the prince, but it is not as good as this.
"That's right. It's normal for a fruit that tastes so good to be sold more expensively. Things are more expensive when they are rare." Xiao Ming said.
