I support the army through farming and business.

Chapter 3: The Evil Wind Rises
Time flies, and a month has passed in the blink of an eye. Tang Zhao looked at the [Health Value 14] on the system interface with a worried look on his face.

"Don't worry, young lady. Your husband treats you well," Chunfeng offered her some tea to comfort her.

"Yeah, no matter how those two bitches, Jade and Coral, try to seduce me, they still can't get close to my son-in-law, right?" Qiuyu sneered.

Tang Zhao took a sip of tea. Their ideas were completely different.

As she was speaking, a solemn-looking maid came in and said anxiously, "Young lady, those two little bitches have gone to the study."

Hey, Tang Zhao's eyes lit up. Is he going to use his ultimate move?
Tang Zhao turned around and opened the window behind him, shivering in the cold wind.

"It's almost winter, and the wind is so cold." Nanny Song took two steps forward and raised her hand to close the window. "The young lady is already weak. What if the cold wind gets into her body and she catches a cold?"

Tang Zhao stopped them and raised his chin slightly to signal them.

The four masters and servants could see clearly the scene at the door of the study next door through the window.

In the October weather, the maid dressed in bright red and emerald green gauze clothes stood in front of the door, shivering from the cold.

"It's what you deserve! You dare to walk around in summer clothes in such weather? You deserve to get sick!" Qiuyu felt relieved.

"If they get sick from the cold, I will have to make the girl spend money on their medical treatment," Chunfeng frowned. As the girl's purse, she had to make sure that every penny was spent wisely and not wasted on other people's dogs.

Seeing the girl's calm and composed smile, Nanny Song's anxious heart gradually calmed down and she continued to look over.

The black-clad guards blocked the door to the study. "The study is a restricted area. No one is allowed to enter without the master's permission!"

Shanhu bowed and said, "Brother guard, I am the maid from the young lady's family. I am here on the young lady's orders to bring some soup to warm up the son-in-law," raising the food box.

Feicui stood aside, unwilling to be outdone, "The young lady also ordered me to prepare a fox fur cloak and told me to personally deliver it to my son-in-law."

"Wait a moment, young ladies," the black-clad guard turned and went into the house to report. He came back a short while later and said, "The young master is not here. Please go back, young ladies."

Shanhu blinked, her cheeks flushed, her eyes red, perhaps because of embarrassment or cold. "Brother Guard, please be flexible. If the young lady knew that we didn't do our job well, she would punish us."

Feicui stuffed a silver nude into the mouth and said, "Brother Guard, please help me."

The black-clad guard had been with his master for over ten years, and had been bribed countless times with beauty and money. He immediately drew his sword from his waist and sternly drove the man away, "If you don't leave now, the sword will have no eyes."

The big knife that had taken countless lives reflected a cold light under the sunlight, shining directly on the faces of the two people opposite.

"Ah!" Coral and Jade screamed. The keen intuition they developed from growing up in a marquis's mansion told them that if they didn't leave, the black-faced guard would definitely chop them with a knife in the next second, so they ran away in a hurry.

Nanny An was sitting on the bed eating lotus cake. When she saw Shanhu and Feicui running back in panic, she knew it had failed. She sneered, "I thought you two were so powerful, but I didn't expect you to be so arrogant. With such little skills, you dare to take the initiative to take this job in front of the Madam. If you delay the Madam's business, I will expose your skin!"

Shanhu's face turned pale and blue, and she said aggrievedly, "It's not that I don't care. I have all kinds of tricks, but if I can't see you, my son-in-law, I can't use them."

Feicui thought about the setbacks she had faced over the past month and finally refused to give in. She knelt on the ground and kowtowed loudly, "Please help me, Madam!"

Coral also knelt down and kowtowed.

Nanny An took enough Qiao before letting them get up. "We all work for Madam. Helping you is helping me. Just remember, when you have a bright future, don't forget who put you on this path to success!"

Coral and Jade quickly expressed their loyalty, "We will definitely follow the Madam's orders." Nanny An smiled happily.

In the main courtyard, Qiuyu was gloating and delighted. "It's truly a relief. Watching those two little hooves fleeing in panic, I feel so happy."

Chunfeng peeled the last of the melon seeds and filled a large bowl with them, placing it on the table. "This servant observes with cold eyes that coral and jade are just for show. They have a nice face but no brains at all. They are nothing to be feared." She refilled the teacup, and the fragrance of the snow-top jadeite drifted out. "But Madam An is very meticulous, so we have to be on guard."

Tang Zhao grabbed a handful of melon seeds and stuffed them into his mouth, his mouth full of fragrance. He praised, "Chunfeng's craftsmanship is excellent. These five-spice melon seeds taste very authentic."

"It was thanks to you, young lady, that I never thought that melon seeds could be fried with seasonings."

Chunfeng's words were not empty talk. Dayu had abundant ingredients but few seasonings, so the dishes they made had more color than fragrance.

Nanny Song sat aside, flipping through the account books with her left hand and clacking on an abacus with her right. She quickly finished checking the account books that had just been delivered yesterday. "Miss, there's nothing wrong with the account books. It's obvious that they carefully revised them before sending them over."

During this month, apart from eating, drinking and sleeping, the most important thing for Tang Zhao was to find time to meet with the head of the farmland and shops that came with the dowry of Duke Wei's mansion.

Collect rent by the way.

According to custom, the Duke of Wei's mansion donated 500 acres of paddy fields, 1,000 acres of dry land, and five shops, just in time for the end of the year, when the annual harvest was being accounted for.

Every time Tang Zhao met a village manager, she would get a lot of money. How could she not love this activity?

However, these village managers are becoming more and more excessive, and the money and grain they send are getting less and less.

She had so much land and shops as a dowry, but her annual profit was less than one thousand taels!

It's just a trick to fool fools!
Tang Zhao was naturally unhappy about being treated as a fool, but then she thought about it and realized that she had earned 834 taels of silver without doing anything, so she felt that she had made a profit.

Forget it, let’s wait until I meet the last manager today and see how he tries to fool people.

"Hasn't the owner of Buyi Shop arrived yet?" Tang Zhao swallowed the melon seeds in his mouth and drank some tea to clear his mouth.

"I'll go ask." Chunfeng had just reached the door when she saw Nanny An leading a well-dressed middle-aged man towards them. She turned back and reported, "Miss, Nanny An is here with the shopkeeper."

Just as he finished speaking, a rough voice rang out, "I am Mr. Zhao, the owner of the Clothes Shop, and I would like to see the young lady."

"Let them in."

Nanny Song went out to fetch the person herself. She saw a well-dressed middle-aged man following behind Nanny An. "Miss, Mr. Zhao from the Cloth Shop is here to pay his respects to you."

As soon as he finished speaking, the middle-aged man lowered his head and hurried forward. He fell to his knees with a thud and said prostrately, "I am Mr. Zhao, the owner of the Clothes Shop. I greet the young lady."

"Miss, please save Buyi Shop and its eighteen employees!"

The voice was shrill and extremely miserable.

It makes people want to roll up their sleeves and beat him up.

(End of this chapter)