Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

Chapter 1115 The Murderer in the Dark 26
As for Linlang's profit, in addition to the 40 taels she took from the merchants, she also made nearly 80 taels from the people in the mansion - that is, when she bought things for these people, she increased the price by 20% on the basis of the normal price. For example, when she bought snacks for everyone, it would cost 100 wen to buy them outside, but if she brought them for them, it would cost 120 wen. In this way, this price was acceptable to these people. After all, most of the time, they could not buy so many snacks. If they only bought a little, the 20% increase in the price was much less than the running fee they paid when they sent someone out to buy them. Generally, who would want to run a trip without paying more than 20 wen as a running fee?

In other words, Linlang can make a profit of about 120 taels a year. Although it is not much, there is no other income in the mansion. This is a convenient thing to do, so just do it first.

Linlang picked one at random from the merchants sent by the Fang family. If the quality of the goods provided by this merchant was not good, she could just change one. There was no need to worry about it.

Soon things were on the right track, and Linlang's business as a middleman was getting better and better.

After all, there are still quite a few female relatives in the mansion - not only the women in the backyard of Prince Qingjiang, but also the women in the backyards of the Crown Prince and other young masters, as well as the daughter of Prince Qingjiang, and even some maids. When they don't have time to go out and buy things for themselves, they will ask Linlang's servants to help bring them. There are quite a lot of these female relatives, and most of them like to eat snacks. Seeing that Linlang's servants are willing to buy them for them, they let Linlang's people do it, and no one comes out to steal the business.

The reason is very simple. Food can be easily tampered with. What if you snatch the business of Linlang's subordinates, and someone tampered with the food you used to run errands for, and someone ate something bad, you will be held responsible. Who dares to take this responsibility for such a small amount of money? So no one envies Linlang's servants for making this money.

Linlang was not afraid of this, because she could monitor whoever wanted to poison in the mansion and take precautions in advance, so it was best if no one did anything, otherwise, they would be the ones who would be in trouble.

Fortunately, the prince's mansion is obviously much safer than the imperial palace. Except for Concubine Song who wanted to cause trouble last time, no one else is planning to do such a thing for the time being.

Of course, the main reason was that after Concubine Song poisoned the woman last time, Prince Qingjiang said directly that if anyone didn’t think it over, next time he would not be sent to the ancestral temple but directly to an official position.

Most people are not brave enough to take their lives lightly.

It is precisely because of this that Linlang dared to deal with this middleman, otherwise she would not dare to do it.

Without mentioning that Linlang's business as a middleman was thriving, it was said that the Fang family had successfully helped someone get a business this time. Although it was just a small business, outsiders didn't know about it. They only saw that they were close to the big businessmen in the county, so they thought that Linlang had a say in the palace and was capable, so the Fang family maintained their respectability in the local area.

Fortunately, this matter was barely accomplished, otherwise the rich and powerful people would not come to pay attention to them, and the villagers would know that those rich and powerful people failed to get things done by Linlang, which meant that Linlang had no status in the mansion, and their status in the village would definitely be affected.

As for the merchant who supplied goods to Linlang, seeing that as long as the quality of the goods provided was normal, Linlang did not pick and choose, he felt relieved and cooperated with Linlang with peace of mind. He thought that although this business was small, over time, there might be more cooperation in the future. Not to mention anything else, after the prince in the palace passed away, Linlang and her son would move out to live in a separate palace. If he cooperated with Linlang for a long time, it would not be bad if their small family business could be handed over to them.

Of course, that also depends on how Linlang's son was granted a fief. If he was granted a fief as a general according to the regulations, he would have a considerable income a year, and the expenses of the mansion would certainly be considerable, so the business could continue. If the fief was too bad, the mansion would not have much expenses a year, and the business would be doomed.

Without mentioning any business matters, he only said that the time would soon come for the original body to get into trouble, and Linlang had been keeping an eye on this matter recently.

Needless to say, she actually found the suspected murderer. It was this suspected murderer that Linlang didn't understand at all. Why did the other party, who had nothing to do with the original body, want to kill the original body?

But the other party should be the murderer, because when he was talking to himself in private, he mentioned Linlang's name and said that he wanted to kill Linlang.

In fact, she wanted to kill the entire Fang family, but the Fang family were all country folks, poor people, and she thought that it was better to let them live and suffer than to let them die, so she let them go. But the original body, because she gave birth to a son, if the son was given a good fiefdom in the future and lived in a separate mansion, he would be able to live a good life, which was obviously not what she wanted to see, so she wanted to kill the original body.

Of course, the main reason was that it was difficult to accumulate points for the other party, so she first killed some of the people she hated the most. For example, although she also hated the Fang family, because the Fang family was not living well, she would not waste points on them and only killed the original body.

It seems that this person has a grudge against the Fang family, but Linlang also doesn't understand how this person became an enemy of the Fang family. You know, the two parties are completely unrelated.

This man did kill a lot of innocent people, but the other party hated the Fang family, which was indeed easy to be disliked. However, the two sides should never meet each other, so why did this man hate the Fang family so much?

Yes, just as Linlang thought, the other party did kill the original body using unconventional means.

The other party obviously has something like a system, but killing people is not a casual thing. You need points to redeem certain functions and kill the target she wants to kill.

So far, Linlang only knew that the other party wanted to kill the original body, but she couldn't figure out why.

However, since the other party used a system, science fiction or fantasy methods, Linlang had no choice but to take out the defense talisman.

The defensive talisman can defend against physical attacks as well as magical or cultivation attacks.

Fearing that the opponent's system attack was neither physical, magical, or spiritual, Linlang took out all types of defensive tools in the space.

Fortunately, these defensive items were either necklaces, rings, or bracelets, and people of this era all wore these things, so she was not conspicuous when she wore them.

Of course, she couldn't just passively defend herself, she had to take the initiative to attack and kill this woman. After all, there was no such thing as a thief who could steal for a thousand days. Besides, if she didn't deal with this woman, she didn't know how many people she would kill.

Yes, the other party has killed many people.

As mentioned before, Linlang investigated the connections between those who died inexplicably and found the murderer. If that was the case, then that woman must have killed many people.

It’s just that her system requires points to kill people. There are too many people she hates, and some of them need to be killed imminently, so she killed them first. The original body was not one who needed to be killed imminently, so she was arranged to be killed later. This is also the reason why the original body can live so long. If it weren’t for the fact that it was so difficult to accumulate points for the opponent, and she had finally accumulated some, she would have killed the people who affected her progress first, otherwise she would have killed the original body long ago.

This person was none other than Liu, the wife of the current third-rank assistant minister of the Ministry of Personnel in the capital.