Divorced by her husband's family and rejected by her own! She defiantly turned her life around

Liu Siyue led Wang Zhilan to her room to do her makeup. Wang Zhilan was shocked by the furnishings in her room. "Sister Liu, where did you buy all this furniture? I've never seen it before."

This is the only type of wardrobe sold in the county town, and I'm using one now.

Where did you buy the rest? I love them so much!

"These furniture pieces will be made gradually over time. You can buy them from the same place you bought them before, and you can buy them from the same place again in the future."

How did you know?

"Of course I know, because I designed this furniture, so I naturally have the first right to use it."

"Sister Liu, you are truly amazing! How can you be so smart? If only you could share even a little bit of your intelligence with me, I don't believe I couldn't handle that man."

"Oh dear, stop thinking about your man and hurry up, your aunt and uncle are still waiting over there."

The two returned to the main room. Upon seeing them, Wang Anqing immediately steered the conversation to the main topic, "Miss Liu, we've come to discuss something important with you. My sister told me you know how to make charcoal. How's the progress? Have you produced any charcoal yet?"

Wang Qing'an looked at Liu Siyue with a scrutinizing gaze. He found it hard to believe that a woman would burn charcoal. Didn't girls usually like cosmetics, clothes, and headdresses? He had never seen a girl do such rough work that men did before.

"Young Master Wang, Sister Wang is right. I do know how to make charcoal, and I have already made it."

Wang Qing'an excitedly stood up from his chair. "Really? Take me to see it quickly!"

"Young Master Wang, please don't get agitated. I'll make the arrangements."

Liu Siyue stood at the door of the main room and called out, "Ru Xue, Ru Yu, you two come here for a moment and invite Uncle Village Chief, Brother Shi Tou, and Brother Man Cang over. Tell them you have something important to discuss with them."

The two immediately ran out, and Liu Siyue returned to the house to explain, "Young Master Wang, it's like this: I gave the charcoal-making recipe to the villagers so they could do this business, and I would take a small share of it."

"Miss Liu has such a magnanimous spirit; she can hand over such an important prescription."

"There's no other way. The villagers are living such a hard life. After paying taxes to the imperial court, some people simply can't make ends meet."

They say you live off the land, and I'm just using what's available. They only need to contribute their labor; I'll help as much as I can to make everyone's lives a little better.

The people of this village are fortunate to have your generous help, and I hope they will cherish this blessing.

Upon hearing Ru Xue's words that distinguished guests had arrived at her home and that she would be inviting them to discuss important matters in April, the village chief immediately changed into clean clothes and went with Ru Xue to the clan chief's house, where he also invited Liu Mancang.

When they arrived, they saw Ruyu and Shitou standing outside the courtyard gate, and the group immediately went inside.

When Madam Feng and Madam Wang saw that they were about to discuss serious matters, they came out of the main room. "Madam Liu, would you like to show me around your village? I haven't been to the countryside in a long time. I'm quite bored staying in the mansion every day, and I'd like to see the scenery of the countryside."

"Okay, I'll show you around this area at the end of the village."

Madam Feng and Madam Wang walked in front, with Wang Zhilan having her maid Xiao Cui accompany Madam Wang. Qingye and Xiao Cui followed behind, and they walked out of the courtyard gate toward the land that Liu Siyue had bought.

Inside the main room, Liu Siyue introduced, "Uncle Village Chief, Brother Shitou, Brother Mancang, this is Young Master Wang from the prefectural city, this is Master Wang, and this is Miss Wang."

After exchanging greetings, the group took their seats. Liu Siyue then steered the conversation to the main topic, "Uncle Village Chief, Young Master Wang is a businessman. He wants to see the charcoal we produce and is interested in doing business with us."

When the village chief heard that they wanted to buy their charcoal, he was extremely excited and kept rubbing his hands together. "Young Master Wang, Master Wang, Miss Wang, welcome to our Liu Family Village. If you want to see our charcoal, I will take you there right away."

The village chief led them to the place where the charcoal was piled up. "Please look, gentlemen, this is the charcoal we have made."

The young master and Master Wang picked up the charcoal and tapped it; the sound was crisp. "Hmm, the charcoal looks to be of good quality. Could you bring a charcoal brazier so I can burn a few pieces and see?"

"Of course, we can take some charcoal back to burn."

"I wonder how much charcoal you produce?"

"We have a total of 10 charcoal kilns, each of which can produce 500 jin of charcoal, and a batch of charcoal can be produced every 5 days."

How much charcoal have you burned yet?

"Around 1 million catties."

"If I need 10 catties of charcoal, when can you finish burning it?"

"What?! 10 catties of charcoal!" The village chief's mind went blank at this news. "Young Master Wang, you're not joking, are you?"

"Business is no child's play, and I cannot joke about it. I hope you can produce 100,000 catties of charcoal by the 15th of this month, and no later than the 16th."

"Stone, Mancang, pinch me, you two."

"Uncle Village Chief, since Young Master Wang said so, it must be true. You want to see how to burn 10 catties of charcoal."

The village chief calculated and calculated, but he couldn't burn 10 jin of silver charcoal. "It's true that we can't burn 10 jin of charcoal in April. Today is the second day of the new year. This batch of charcoal will be out of the kiln in two days. By the time Young Master Wang mentioned, we can only burn two batches at most. All in all, we can only burn 25,000 jin of charcoal."

Liu Siyue looked at Wang Qing'an and said, "Young Master Wang, we definitely can't burn the 10 jin of charcoal you asked for. We can't even burn 5 jin. At most, we can give you 3 jin of charcoal."

"It's a bit too little, but that's all we can do. But you can't stop, you have to keep burning it, aiming for 10 jin. I'll come back to pick up the goods again in mid-December, as much as possible, but you have to ensure the quality."

"Okay, we'll cook as much as possible, and we'll absolutely guarantee the quality."

"We've checked the quality of the charcoal. Let's go back and burn a pot of charcoal to test it. If it's really fine, then we can talk about the price and finalize the deal."

The group returned to Liu Dawang's house. Dawang found a basin, put charcoal in it and lit it. It burned for a long time and produced very little smoke, which pleased Wang Qing'an.

"What price are you looking to sell your charcoal at?"

"Young Master Wang, this is our first time doing this kind of business, and we're not very familiar with it. Could you please give us a price, and we'll see if it's acceptable?"

"For charcoal of this quality, it usually sells for 50 to 60 wen in the Dongping Prefecture market. If you get it directly from the charcoal factory, it usually costs between 35 and 45 wen."

"For your sake and my sister's sake, I'll give you 45 coins. What do you think?"

"Young Master Wang, business is business, and feelings are feelings. Do business according to business rules, and don't mix the two."

"How about we go with 40 cash, neither the lowest of 35 nor the highest of 45?"

"Alright, Miss Liu is straightforward, and I'm straightforward too. 40 coins, deal." Wang Qing'an did some mental calculations. If this kind of charcoal were transported to the capital, it could sell for between 500 coins and 1 tael of silver. If there was a severe shortage in the capital, at least 1 jin of charcoal could sell for 3 taels of silver.

Even at the lowest price of 500 wen, 3 catties of charcoal could earn at least 10000 taels of silver.

At this moment, everyone was calculating in their minds how much money they could get from selling these 3 jin of charcoal.

"Village Chief, Miss Liu, we've settled everything. Let's sign a contract. I'll leave a deposit of 500 taels here so you can have peace of mind."

"Signing the contract is no problem, let's get ready right away. The village chief said you'll write the contract."

The village chief said embarrassedly, "Please ask Young Master Wang to write it; my handwriting is too ugly."

"Okay, then I'll write it."