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

Upon arriving in the prefectural city, Wang Yalan first found an inn to settle down and then sent a guard to the dock to see if there were any ships heading to the capital.

The guards learned upon arriving at the dock that a passenger ship had just departed the day before and that no more passenger ships would be going to the capital anytime soon. However, they also learned that the Wang family's merchant ships would be heading to the capital in a few days.

The guard informed Wang Yalan of the information he had gathered, and Wang Yalan immediately wrote a visiting card and had it sent to the Wang family.

When Master Wang received the visiting card, he opened it and was surprised to find that it was from the daughter of the Minister of Revenue. He wondered why the daughter of the Minister of Revenue would come here.

He had his son summoned, and Wang Anqing immediately understood upon seeing the visiting card: "The Minister of Revenue does indeed have a legitimate daughter who married a poor scholar who passed the imperial examination, but it is unknown who she married."

This might be an opportunity for us; why don't we go and pay them a visit together?

The father and son, carrying the visiting card, went together to the inn where Wang Yalan was staying.

When Wang Yalan was with Su Yimin, all the qualities of a noble lady from the capital vanished. Now that she had left Su Yimin, she had regained her noble demeanor and was even more dignified and poised than when she was young.

She received Wang Qing'an and his son in her room. "Master Wang, Young Master Wang, I should have paid you a visit myself, but I'm sorry to trouble you to come in person."

"It is our honor that Miss Wang has received us, father and son. The inn is noisy, why don't you stay at my home for a while?"

"No need for lodging, I have something I'd like to trouble you two with."

"Miss Wang, please feel free to ask if there's anything we can help you with. We'll do our best to do it."

"It's really nothing serious. I heard that your family has a merchant ship heading to the capital in a few days. Is that true?"

"This is indeed the case, and we are expected to depart on the 17th."

"That would only take seven or eight days. I would like to travel to the capital on your merchant ship. Would that be convenient?"

"It is convenient, but merchant ships are simple and not as good as passenger ships, so Miss Wang may have to make do."

"It's alright, as long as we can get to the capital."

"Okay, I'll inform Miss Wang the day before departure."

After returning home, Wang Qing'an arranged for a convoy to go to Liujia Village to pick up charcoal three days later, and he wanted to go with them personally on the first trip.

Liu Siyue told Zaohua about the seasonings needed for pickling sauerkraut. Zaohua learned that she had moved to her parents' home to take care of her father, and that Bai's mother had been sent by Liu Siyue to their hometown to collect seasonings.

Wang Qing'an bought their seasonings for 200 coins per jin, while Bai Mu bought the villagers' seasonings for 100 coins per jin.

In winter, everyone pickles sauerkraut, so every household pickles a lot.

When the villagers heard that Zao Hua's mother was going to buy mountain hornberries, some were skeptical and rushed over to ask, "Zao Hua's mother, are you really going to buy mountain hornberries? What are you going to do with so many?"

"Of course I really want to receive it; I've brought the money with me."

"I'm just running errands for someone. What do you need?" "I don't know either. Zaohua's good friend heard that people around here are having a hard time, so she helped us find this way to make money."

"Oh, that's wonderful! Thank you, Zaohua and her good friend, you're truly a great benefactor to Baijia'ao!"

Village Chief Bai immediately picked up the gong and called a meeting of the villagers, saying that Zao Hua Niang was going to buy mountain horns for 100 coins per catty, and that anyone with them should hurry over and bring them over, with cash payment in advance.

Everyone immediately ran home to get their things, afraid that if they were a step too slow, the other party would refuse to accept them.

In one afternoon, Zao Hua's mother had harvested all the mountain jujubes in the village.

After calculating, the total weight was 105 jin (approximately 52.5 catties). The money was settled with the villagers on the spot. The villagers received a maximum of five or six hundred wen (approximately 150-200 coins), and the minimum was two or three hundred wen. Everyone was overjoyed. It was like money falling from the sky. If they had known that this stuff was so valuable, they would have picked more and kept it at home.

"Zao Hua's mother, will you be harvesting again next year?"

"How would I know? It depends on what the important person thinks."

"Zao Hua's mother, if you're harvesting next year, will you still come to our village?"

"That's for sure. I'm not just on our side, I'm on the side of other villages too. I hope all my fellow villagers can live a good life."

"That's good, that's good. Thanks to you all, this year will be easier."

The villagers helped her put the mountain jujubes onto the carriage, and Qingwu drove the carriage away.

Not two days after the seasonings were brought back, 16 horse-drawn carriages entered Liujia Village in a grand procession.

The people of Bainiwan were dumbfounded. What were so many carriages going to Liujia Village for? They followed them all the way to the village entrance, intending to go in and see, but were stopped by someone.

They knew something was amiss, so one of them kept watch not far from Liujia Village, while the other hurried back to inform the village chief.

Wei Yuanguang looked puzzled after hearing this. A dozen or so horse-drawn carriages entered the village. "Village chief, we were planning to go in and take a look, but we were stopped and not allowed to enter."

"Come on, I'll go with you and see what tricks Liu Family Village is up to."

When Wei Yuanguang arrived at the entrance of Liujia Village and said he wanted to go in, he was stopped and not allowed to enter. "Village Chief Wei, what business do you have in our village? If you don't say what business it is, you can't come in."

"Is it alright if I go to your village to visit an old friend?"

"Who do you want to see? I'll go and call them for you."

"You're refusing to let me in today, aren't you?"

"That's right, we can help you if you need anything or need someone, but you can't come in."

"Alright, alright, you people from Liujia Village are really something. If you can do it on the first day of the month, we can do it on the fifteenth."

Wei Yuanguang walked back and squatted by the roadside with the villagers, staring at Liujia Village.

As soon as Wang Qing'an arrived, Liu Baozhu sent someone to inform the village chief.

When the village chief heard that more than a dozen horse-drawn carts had arrived, he knew they were there to haul coal.

Their convoy stopped under the big willow tree in the village, intending to have the villagers invite the village chief, but unexpectedly the village chief had already run over, panting.

"Young Master Wang, you've come to haul coal? Come on, I'll take you there now."

When they arrived at the place where the charcoal was stored, Wang Qing'an told them to put all the sacks off the cart. "Village Chief Liu, each sack of charcoal weighs 100 jin, so the cart will hold 1000 jin."

"Hurry and find someone to pack it up. We need to get back today. Make sure each bag is fully loaded; we can't be shortchanged."

"Don't worry, I'll go find someone right away, and the portion will definitely be generous."

"This is their first time coming to load charcoal, so I brought them here myself. I won't be coming again."

"Wang Zhong, come here. From now on, you'll be in charge of coordinating with Village Chief Liu for coal hauling."

"Village Chief Liu, I hope you can help me in the future."

"Of course, of course."

"By the way, have you burned all 30000 jin of charcoal yet?"

"The last batch of charcoal will be ready tomorrow, enough for 30000 jin."

"Okay, we'll come back to pick up the rest the day after tomorrow."

"Thank you so much, Village Chief Liu, for quickly finding someone to help us load the charcoal. I have something to discuss with Miss Liu, so I'll have to keep you company no longer."

"You're busy, you're busy. Leave this to me."

The village chief immediately sent someone to the village entrance to call for help, and also sent someone to inform Mancang and Shitou.

The villagers packed the scales quickly, but weighing them was a problem. The whole village only had one large scale. When the village chief saw this, he quickly ran to find Liu Siyue and asked to borrow her oxcart to go to town to buy a scale.

Liu Siyue gave him 100 taels of silver and had Qingwu drive an oxcart to take him there. The village chief had searched the entire town and only managed to buy two large scales. There was really no other way but to do this.

The three-pole scale was very efficient. After weighing 150 bags of charcoal, they were neatly loaded onto the cart and then covered tightly with an oilcloth, so that it was impossible to see what was inside from the outside.