Queen's Development

Chapter 36
The second lady Xu's expression was still a little numb at first, but when she heard Yu Zhi say, "It's a maid from the magistrate's inner house" and "I want to buy someone who does rough work to go back", her eyes lit up, as if she saw hope. Usually, staring at Yuzhi, for fear that Yuzhi would repent.

Later, when Yu Zhi asked their mother and daughter to "pack up the luggage and go back with us", the second lady Xu burst into tears, hugged her daughter Xu Jin'er tightly, then let go of her daughter, and wanted to pull her daughter to salute Yu Zhi: "Thank you girl!"

Yu Zhi hurriedly supported their mother and daughter, and said with a smile: "Let's go back and talk about it first!"

She herself is a maid, how could she accept the gift from Xu Erniang's mother and daughter!
The second lady Xu looked at her timidly, but she was very agile, she quickly packed her luggage and put it in a small bundle.

With one foot deep and one shallow foot in the snow, everyone followed each other towards the county government.

Seeing that her daughter was having a hard time walking, Mrs. Xu Er squatted down, let her lie on her back, and walked forward with her daughter on her back.

She was tortured in the Xu family, and she wanted to die a long time ago. Her only concern was her daughter Jin'er, so no matter how hard it was, she was willing to carry her daughter forward.

Seeing this, Yuzhi hurriedly took over Xu Erniang's burden: "Let me carry it for you!"

Second Lady Xu looked at Yuzhi gratefully, smiled slightly, and continued walking forward with her daughter on her back.

Yuzhi looked at Mrs. Xu's thin but strong back, and said to herself: If I have children, I will definitely love them and love them like Mrs. Xu. No matter how hard it is, I will try my best to create a good life for them. ...

Arriving at the east side gate of the county government office, Yuzhi smiled and looked at Qingcha: "Qingcha, we will write the deed later, we need a middleman, why don't we ask Brother Wang to be the middleman?"

Qing Cha nodded vigorously, and said, "You guys go in first, I'll go find Big Brother Wang!"

Yuzhi agreed, and led Mrs. Wu Yuhui and Xu's mother and daughter to walk north along the boulevard.

Mrs. Wu Yuhui was doing business in the county government for the first time, and she was very satisfied. As she walked, she looked around triumphantly: "In the past, the business of the county government's house was done by Mrs. Zhu from the Huang family. None of us can figure it out. Looking at Mrs. Zhu Show off, thanks to the girl, I have also started the business of the county government house, let's see how Mrs. Zhu will talk in front of me in the future!"

Yu Zhi smiled and said, "Sister-in-law Wu, as long as she is fair and has a conscience, I will look to you for all the business in the county government office!"

Mrs. Wu Yuhui was waiting for Yuzhi's words, she immediately smiled sweetly, and flattered Yuzhi even more while speaking and acting.

For a while, I arrived outside the gate of the inner house.

It was Ah Lan who was on duty in the duty room at the gate of the inner house.

Yuzhi brought Mrs. Wu Yuhui and Xu Erniang's mother and daughter into the duty room, and said to Alan: "Alan, Xu Erniang's mother and daughter are worth 15 taels of silver, please write down the deed, and I will go get the silver !"

A Lan shyly agreed, and immediately took out his pen and ink.

Yuzhi quickly took the two ingots of silver that Alan gave her in the morning, and asked Alan to chisel out five taels of one of the ingots and put them away, and hand over the other 15 taels to Mrs. Wu Yuhui.

Alan chiseled five taels of silver and handed it to Yuzhi, but Yuzhi refused to accept it, and said with a smile: "Young master gave me 20 taels of silver to buy someone, but only spent 15 taels, the remaining five taels You put it away and return it!"

A Lan lowered her eyes and smiled, and put away the five taels of silver.

At this moment, Qingcha came with Wang Qingyu who acted as a middleman.

With a middleman, the body deed was written, everyone signed and pledged, and then exchanged the money face to face.

Mrs. Wu Yuhui earned a full five taels of silver from this single business. With a smile on her face, she touched the bag of silver hidden in her sleeve pocket, feeling very happy in her heart, and determined to curry favor with this beautiful girl named Yuzhi in the future.

Mrs. Xu Er has been observing, and found that not only Yuzhi who bought their mother and daughter is beautiful and kind, but also the young man who wrote the deed is also handsome and gentle. Knowing that her mother and daughter have finally escaped from the fire pit of the Xu family, she is very grateful to Wu Yuhui Ma'am, Madam Wu Yuhui wanted to leave, so she hurriedly pulled her daughter along and said, "Jin'er, kowtow to Aunt Wu!"

If it weren't for Madam Wu Yuhui's kind heart, she and Jin'er would end up in some dirty place.

Jin'er was very sensible, knelt down immediately, and kowtowed to Mrs. Wu Yuhui seriously.

Mrs. Xu Er also bowed her knees to Mrs. Wu Yuhui, and said earnestly: "Sister-in-law Wu, thank you! In a few days, I will have time to make some needlework, so that I can send it to Mrs. Wu!"

Mrs. Wu Yuhui was also very emotional, helped Xu Jin'er and Mrs. Xu, and said: "It's nothing more than needlework. It's not easy for us women to live in this world. When you go to the county government office, you have to be diligent. Listen to this Yuzhi girl and be careful." work!"

Mrs. Xu Er repeatedly agreed, and sent Mrs. Wu Yuhui away together with Yuzhi and Qingcha.

Wang Qingyu also left together.

Qingcha waited until Wang Qingyu's back disappeared, and then returned to the duty room.

Yuzhi was discussing with Ah Lan about the residence of Mrs. Xu's mother and daughter, when she saw Qingcha coming in, she smiled and said, "Qingcha, let's discuss together!"

Xu Erniang, mother and daughter are really hard to accommodate, there are no vacant rooms in the west wing of the inner courtyard, and there are servants and guards living in the west side courtyard, so it is naturally inconvenient.

Qingcha listened to the side for a while, and felt that Yuzhi and Alan were thinking too much, and said: "I will move to live in the same room with Yuzhi, and Xu Erniang, mother and daughter, can live in my room?"

Yu Zhi smiled and hugged Qing Cha and said, "It's so good!"

She also thought about this method, but she was afraid that Qingcha would not like it, so she didn't take the initiative to say it.

What Yuzhi didn't expect was that Qingcha would rather live in the same room with Yuzhi.

However, it took Qingcha an entire hour to move and resettle Xu's mother and daughter, and by the time everything was settled, it was already past noon.

As soon as Yuzhi came out of the room, she saw Second Lady Xu standing outside timidly, and hurriedly said with a smile: "Miss Xu, you—"

Mrs. Xu plucked up her courage and said, "Miss Yuzhi, I don't know where the kitchen is. I want to cook..."

Yuzhi laughed when she heard that: "Follow me!"

The lunch was made by Mrs. Xu on the stove. Yuzhi, Qingcha and A Lan tasted it, and they all found it surprisingly delicious—Ms. Xu has a special ability to cook vegetarian dishes to taste like meat dishes!
Hearing everyone's exaggeration, Mrs. Xu smiled shyly, and said softly: "From now on, Miss Yuzhi can leave the kitchen work to the slave family. The slave master is in charge, and Jin'er can light the fire."

Her natal family was originally an imperial cook, but because she was involved in a case, her family fell into ruin and she was exiled to Zhao County, but her superb cooking skills were passed on to her.

Yuzhi laughed and said, "Don't be too tired, let's do some work together!"

In the afternoon, Lin Jia had some free time, so she changed into casual clothes, brought Achi, Acheng and four disguised palace guards, and rode a healthy donkey out of the county government office, asking questions along the way, stepping on the snow Headed towards the county school.

Half an hour later, Lin Jia and his group inquired all the way, and finally arrived at Zhaoxian County School.

The county school is near the west gate of Zhao County. It is a big courtyard, but there is a big gap on the east side of the courtyard wall, and no one has repaired it.

The duty room at the gate was empty, and there was no one answering the door. Lin Jia and the others went directly to the gate of the county school.

The courtyard of the county school was empty, the trees were withered, and they were all covered with heavy snow.

The north wind whistled snowflakes with astonishing momentum. The windows of the county school were shaken and groaned. In such a situation, there seemed to be a faint sound of reading in the school.

Lin Jia was taken aback for a moment, and her frowning brows relaxed immediately. She waved her hand to signal everyone to follow, and then urged the donkey to walk towards the school.

Arriving in front of the school, Lin Jia got off the donkey and looked into the school.

The school was cold and empty, but it was still clean. There were six or seven rows of desks in total, but only the three rows in front were occupied by young students, who were holding books and chanting while shaking their heads.

A gentleman in a half-worn green robe was standing behind and listening to students reading.

Hearing a sound outside, all the students looked over and found a very handsome young man wearing a black fox cloak standing outside the door, they couldn't help being stunned.

The gentleman looked elegant, quite thin, about 27 or [-] years old, when he saw Lin Jia, he hurriedly asked the students to review the book first, and came out to ask Lin Jia for a question.

Lin Jia said with a smile: "My surname is Lin. I am a businessman who has just moved to Zhao County. I pass by the county school and come over to have a look. I don't know what your name is, sir?"

The gentleman was dressed poorly, but his attitude was very calm, he cupped his hands and said, "My surname is Yang, Yang Xin!"

His eyes were like water, he sized up the noble servant behind the noble son, while guessing Lin Jia's identity, he led Lin Jia to sit down in the study next door.

After Lin Jia talked with Yang Xin for a while, she found that although Yang Xin lived in a humble room, she was really a rare talent with a long-term vision and a broad mind.

He wanted to recruit Yang Xin, so he intentionally asked a lot of questions about the governance of Zhao County.

Yang Xin didn't expect that such a weak and handsome nobleman would be quite knowledgeable, so he talked with Lin Jia as if he had met a bosom friend.

The two chatted speculatively, and before they knew it, it was already dark outside.

Yang Xin was very happy to meet his bosom friend, so he went out and asked the students to leave school first, then called the boy Han Qing to come over and ordered in a low voice: "Take out my fur coat and pawn it. When I came back, Li Bai lived at the street. I want an exquisite table to be delivered!"

Han Qing agreed, and just turned around, but was stopped by someone.

Lin Jia smiled slightly, and looked at Yang Xin: "Mr. Yang, why don't you treat me to my younger brother, you and I go to Li Baiju and get drunk together!"

Yang Xin was also a chic person, he didn't stick to red tape, so he didn't refuse, and went with Lin Jia and others.

In the evening, Yuzhi asked Mrs. Xu to cook chicken soup, and then woke up with Haomian, ready to wait for Lin Jia to come back, and serve him chicken soup and green vegetable noodles for dinner.

Unexpectedly, after waiting and waiting until late at night, Lin Jia still hadn't come back.

Seeing that Mrs. Xu, his mother and daughter, and the tea could not bear it any longer, and they seemed unable to open their eyes, Yu Zhi asked the three of them to go back to the room first and go to the bright room of the main room by herself, and sat down with a book. Under the lamp, while reading, waiting for Lin Jia to come back.

At night, the wind became louder and louder, and the few dead leaves on the poplar trees in the courtyard were blown and made a crisp "squeaky" sound, making this winter night even more desolate.

Yu Zhi sat on the armchair with one hand supporting her, feeling very worried about Lin Jia, she couldn't help but sighed, "It's so late, why hasn't he come back yet!"

At this moment, there was a burst of hurried and chaotic footsteps outside, mixed with deliberately low voices.

Yuzhi hurriedly put down her book and stood up.

(End of this chapter)