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"How can this really be left to an old woman like me?"

Nanny Cui said with a bitter smile:

"If it was before, although a woman like me can't compare to the family's children, but if the money isn't too big, then Young Miss would definitely make me take responsibility for it."

It's just that now, how could the Madam and the Young Miss believe me anymore? They wouldn't even let small matters like giving ordinary hair, cloth, and shoes to the maidservants, let alone the matter involving silver and money.

I'm not satisfied with you saying that if I can really bring the fruit sauce back to the palace today, you will have to follow me back to Steward Zhang. According to Steward Zhang's character, he will definitely make things difficult for you at that time. "Now that I think about it, it's fine if I don't want to do this business, but if I don't want to do it, that's fine."

"Momo, don't worry. I can do this business." The corner of Wu Ya's mouth slightly raised, a trace of crafty aura flashed in his eyes as he thoughtfully said:

"While I am able to do this trade, I cannot do it with you. Instead, I will do it with the Zhang Mansion and that Steward Zhang."

"This... "What does that mean?" Nanny Cui was confused.

"Grandma, please listen to me …"

The smile in Qin Wuya's eyes became wider and wider, shsheleaned over and whispered into Nanny Cui's ear, and when she saw the understanding look appear in Nanny Cui's eyes, he said meaningfully:

"Aunt, today, I will return first and tell Mrs. Zhang everything that Wu Ya and you have told me. As for the remaining matters, I will not interfere anymore."

"Alright. Momo will listen to you. "

The gloomy expression on Nanny Cui's face had long been swept away, and was now filled with excitement as she bid farewell to Qin Wuya, before hurrying back to Zhang Mansion.

Just as Nanny Cui left, Madam Li carried the two fat fish into Qin Wuya's courtyard:

"Sister Qin, you haven't started yet!"

"Not yet." Qin Wuya immediately came out from her room:

"It's sister-in-law. Hurry to the house and take a seat." I was just about to go for another plate of sugar horn, I was thinking about eating more peach blossoms, but sister-in-law would like to bring more later. "

"It's fine, what are you doing this for? He didn't want to spoil that greedy girl. Sucrose is not a cheap item. You can save a few later and eat it yourself. "

When the Madam Li heard that Qin Wuya wanted to make food for the peach blossoms again, and that the sugar horn was still so expensive, how could she have the nerve to stop it?

"I can't spend that much money, I bought some candied fruits a long time ago, so I still have a lot of candies left." I can't afford a lot of candies, I bought some candied fruits a long time ago, and still have a lot of candies remaining.

"But we can't do that. Sister Qin, you have to use it sparingly."

Although he still felt some heartache, Madam Li's tone of voice was not as resolute as before. Instead, he skillfully found the wooden basin that Wu Ya had left in the corner of the courtyard and said:

"My wife went to the outskirts of the city and caught a lot of black fish. I saw that she was pretty fat so I brought you two."

Qin Wuya knew the personality of the Madam Li and did not decline. She busied herself with setting up the stove and cooking the pot in front of the house. The sugar horn laughed and said:

"Just as I was thinking about what I should add, sister-in-law's fish came over. "How about Sister-in-law stop cooking today and have Big Bro and Peach Blossom come over later to try Wu Ya's cooking skills?"

"What? Something good happened?"

Madam Li gave him some water, and then took Wu Ya, who was in the bucket, to fish with him. She raised her eyebrows and asked with a smile.

"There is indeed something good going on."

Wu Ya smiled faintly, thinking that if he didn't properly ask Zhang Family for a piece of the cake this time, he would be letting down the grievances he had suffered a few days back in Zhang Mansion.

"I saw that the woman who just came to find you had an extraordinary manner and was wearing good clothes. She must have come from a rich family." Hearing Qin Wuya's words, the Madam Li could not help but gossip.

"The mama from before had a surname of Cui." Working at Ricard Street's surnamed Zhang's place. "

The Madam Li was not a person of the Qin family, it was fine to him. Furthermore, it was not a shameful thing for the Nanny Cui to come and beg for her fruit juice. Wu Ya did not plan to hide anything.

"Ricard Street? The people who live there are all big families. "

When Madam Li heard this, she recalled the words and actions that she had done at her home and could not help but say with reverence:

"When I saw that mama speak, I knew that she was different from us common folk. Now, I heard you said that she was the Zhang Family that was moved here from the Zhou Province a few days ago. It's no wonder."

"What, sister-in-law knows about Zhang Family?"

Seeing Madam Li's expression, it seemed that she still knew quite a bit, Qin Wuya could not help but be shocked, could it be that Nanny Cui still had something she had yet to explain to him?

"Of course I know. Not only do I know, if I speak of it, there is also something wrong with my wife."

Zhang family was a large family in the Yun Prefecture. It was said that there had been many great officials in the past three generations, and there had even been a second-grade official in the previous dynasty who had worked for the Privy Council.

Although it was not the same as it used to be, Zhang Family's Poetic Book Successor Disciples still had more resources than some rich families that started their families. It was said that there were many other places, but no one dared to mess with the Hangzhang family name in the Yunzhou Mountains.

My family had a good distant relative when they were young. They went to the Yu Zhou Province in the early years of their lives, but somehow they offended a disciple with the surname Zhang.

At that time, he had told them about it when he sent someone to report to his family, but when the family saw that what the letter said was nothing more than gossip, they did not take it to heart.

However, he didn't expect that half a month later when he received the letter, his elder brother had already been locked up in the Ling Hang County Jail.

My distant relative's family had the most money in the medicine business, so how could they steal it? Only after that did the elders of the family send people to investigate and find out that the person mentioned in the letter at that time was actually a member of Zhang Family Hang of the Yunzhou Region. "

"What happened next?" Is he saved? "

Originally, they thought that the Zhang Mansion was just an ordinary wealthy family, but they didn't expect the Zhang Mansion to be so prominent, to the point that she could cover the sky with one hand.

"Hai."

The Madam Li sighed and then continued:

"You know, although there are a lot of people in my family, they are all poor people, mostly farmers. Even the direct descendant would only be doing business all over the world, how would he dare to offend Yun Prefecture's Zhang Family?

The clan elders did not care, but the clan brother's family collected a bit of silver and sent it to the public prison. I heard that the prison received the silver, but he refused to let it go, saying that the people of Zhang Family Ling Hang could not afford to offend him. "

"How can this be? Even the people of the Shangguan Family are afraid of offending the Zhang Family. "Sister-in-law, quickly tell me, what happened next?"

"Even though the jailer said so, he did not die. After half a year, there will be someone who will deliver a letter at Brother Na's house, saying that they will be able to release him if we add a hundred taels into the letter. "

"One hundred taels!" That much? "

Spring Peaches was speechless. She had only been in this world for a few months, and the more she passed these days, the more she understood how difficult it was to earn money. A hundred silver taels might not be much for a large family, but if it were a normal family, they would not be able to afford it.

"That's right, although his family is still considered rich, but he didn't fall from the sky like a rich family. The 80 silver that was sent to him earlier was already more than half of his family's silver.

Now, he also needed to pay a hundred silver taels. Wasn't this equivalent to letting everyone in his family sleep on the streets? Afterwards, his father went to the clan to beg for help. The elders of the clan did not want to get involved, so they did not want to interfere.

The couple in my family wanted to get on good terms with that elder brother, and after knowing the whole story they came to discuss it with me. However, my family really didn't have much money to put together.

"He was the only boy in his house, so he was quite willing to pay the price. He paid another sixty silver taels, and his wife's family also paid ten for him. He had just earned enough to pay the general for them."

"It's said that once you survive a great disaster, you will be blessed. Now that you've come out, it's better than anything else. You can earn more money."

Seeing the wailing expression that flashed across Madam Li's face, Qin Wuya could not help but comfort her.

Presumably, the brother of Zhang Quan that Madam Li talked about was related to Zhang Quan in a way that was beyond money, if not, Madam Li would not have spent all her effort to collect the fifteen taels of silver.

It was just that besides consoling him, Qin Wuya could not help but feel even more fear of Zhang Family Lin Hang. He thought to himself that once he had settled the business with the fruit sauces tomorrow, he would never ever have anything to do with Zhang Mansion again.

He couldn't afford to offend someone like this, nor could he afford to climb higher. He might as well hide far away from him.

"Well, that's what they say. But if only that was the case.

What you don't know is that after giving him the 100 taels of silver, he actually came out and lost half his life. Not to mention travelling to the north to do business as usual, it has now become an extravagant hope for me to get out of bed and walk around. "

"Could it be..." "Could it be …" Qin Wuya was shocked hearing it, but she was still unable to say the two words that came out of her mouth.

"He's crippled."

Madam Li's hands could not help but tremble as she said this. "One of my spine was broken while I was still alive, I can't stand up anymore."

Seeing that Qin Wuya was so shocked that she couldn't speak, the Madam Li sighed and slowly said: "Wu Ya, you said that the person who came to find you today was the wife of the Ricard Street, is there anyone in your family who is related to the Zhang Mansion?"

"Of course not, Nanny Cui came to find me today for the fruit paste in my hands. She said that his young mistress was enjoying her meal and wanted to return home to send him off. "

Originally, Madam Li was a little afraid that Qin Wuya would be involved with the Zhang Family, but now that it sounded like it was just a business relationship, she heaved a sigh of relief.

"I think that the old woman is pretty good. I think that the person who is moving to our Clear Water Town should have a good temper."

"It should be."

Afraid that the Madam Li was worried, Qin Wuya nodded her head in agreement. In her heart, she was thinking about the cold and prideful young miss of the Zhang Mansion, and the servant woman below him was even more overbearing.

"Sister-in-law, do you know why this Zhang Family, who has a large family in Lin Hang, would properly move to our Clear Water Town? Our Clear Water Town s have such a remote amount of money. It's definitely better than not being able to enjoy the scenery in Lin Hang. "

"It's not that the Zhang Family moved over, it's just one of the rooms in the Zhang Family. I heard that the one moving to the Clear Water Town is the fifth master and his family.

Although the Zhang Family has great influence in Ling Prefecture, she has never managed to make the transaction to the north of the city, so it is said that the Third Branch has people who are accepted as ministers in the Han Lin Courtyard.

"Now, he wants to borrow the momentum of that Sect Leader Zhang to carry out the trade in the south to the north. It is likely that the person sent to lead the charge is this Third Branch Fifth Old Master …"

Speaking to this point, Madam Li's eyes dimmed, her face slightly turned green, and her heart felt rough: Hmph, Floating Dragon. However, now that there was a Han Lin Courtyard Master, he really thought of herself as the Sky Emperor.

At this moment, Qin Wuya was contemplating how she would deal with the situation if the Zhang Family sent someone over tomorrow.

"Hiss!" "Hiss!"

The sugar horn s in the wok were all fried until they were yellow and crispy, just a glance was enough to get them out of the wok. Wu Ya quickly threw the matter of the Zhang Family to the back of his mind, and anxiously went to the back of the house to get the bamboo basket to clean the extra oil that was stuck on the sugar horn.

"Sister-in-law, bring it back for me to taste." Wait till I've copied the dishes before we go exchange them for Sister-in-law and Big Bro to eat. "

"Alright then, sister-in-law won't be polite." "I wanted to try out your cooking skills a long time ago." In the end, the sugar horn that Wu Ya handed over swept away the previous gloom.

Other than sugar, the most expensive thing to fry sugar horn was oil.

After the sugar horn was fished out, the oil in the wok could not bear to waste it for nothing, so he found a bowl and poured the oil out of the wok. With the hot oil inside, he boiled a plate of meat agaric, a plate of white pine meat, and a plate of scallion. All the remaining oil and water had been used on the fish soup, not a single bit of it was wasted.

The method of the fish soup was even taught to Qin Wuya by the Madam Li a long time ago. After Qin Wuya tried it a few times, her skills gradually improved, and even though the fragrance still wasn't as strong as the Madam Li's, she was still able to taste it.