"I'd like to thank Xiao Nuonuo's uncle on his behalf." Qin Wu took the rattle from his hand with a faint smile on her lips.

The rattle skin is made of white tiger skin, and there is a lifelike flying phoenix painted on it. It is obvious that the rattle is made with great care.

Qin Wu's eyes sparkled slightly, "Did you do this yourself?"

"Well, it's just finished."

"You put your heart into it." Qin Wu was very happy.

"Of course I have to pay attention to Nuonuo's things."

Qin Wu smiled, with a little more sincerity in her eyes, and she shook the rattle towards Xiao Nuonuo.

The rattle shook and made a crisp and pleasant sound, and little Nuo Nuo laughed happily when he heard it.

I like rattle very much.

However, children are prone to sleepiness. When they are tired from playing, they fall asleep quickly.

...

...

At this time, Qiu Shuang came in with an account book and a secret letter and handed them to Qin Wu.

After telling Qiu Shuang about the money house and the Chamber of Commerce, Qin Wu asked Qiu Shuang to learn some business experience from Gong Shang for a few days, so that she could ask Qiu Shuang to help her in the future.

"Miss, Sister Shang asked me to tell you that there is no charcoal left in the market. Do you want to sell the charcoal we have stored?"

Qiu Shuang didn’t know how excited she was right now.

She knows the importance of charcoal in winter.

The poor people who had no money to buy charcoal had to endure the winter by force, and those who couldn't survive would end their lives in the winter.

Although the rich and powerful people have no worries and have thick clothes to keep out the cold winter, they don't want to suffer from the cold.

Charcoal may seem inconspicuous on a daily basis, but it is needed all the time.

As early as when Qin Wu asked Gong Shang to stock up on coal, Qin Wu had asked them to do market research.

Apart from the charcoal reserves they have, other merchants' charcoal reserves are generally only enough for one month.

After all, there hasn't been such heavy snow in decades, and they didn't expect there to be such extreme weather as a snowstorm.

Therefore, the price of charcoal has directly increased from one tael per cart to eighty taels per cart, which is eighty times more!

Tan never imagined that his worth would one day be so high.

Qiu Shuang heard from Gong Shang that even if the charcoal they had stockpiled was sold at a premium of ten taels per cart, they could earn more than one million taels of silver.

Oh my god, this is huge profit!

Before, Qiu Shuang was worried that she had no money and had to repay five hundred thousand taels, and Qin Wu would have a hard life. Now, she wanted to proudly puff out her chest and say that five hundred thousand taels was nothing.

She finally understood why the young lady didn't care about the Qin family's demand for 500,000 taels of severance fee. For the young lady, making money was as easy as drinking water.

It is indeed very easy to make money in such an era. As long as you seize the opportunity, you can become the richest man overnight.

But it is also difficult, especially for women to do business, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky. Qin Wu also seized opportunities with bumps and bruises to achieve her current success.

But in this era of imperial power, even if you are rich, you cannot keep this family property without ability.

Just like in her previous life, her possessions were easily taken away by the Qin family and then handed over to Qin Yinnuan.

Qin Wu finished reading the account book in her hand and the secret letter that Gong Shang gave her.

Qin Wu was able to open a money shop and a business in Shangjing, so of course she had to use some tricks. She also had the leverage over some officials. Qin Wu also placed various spies in the residences of those officials.

It was for the Qin family before. If anyone went against the Qin family, she could hand over these handles to Qin Sujin or Qin Xiang.

Having these leverages can also stabilize the chamber of commerce, and she can even use them to provide various conveniences to her chamber of commerce.

But she no longer has to worry about the Qin family, and she won't threaten them to do anything to the Qin family. It's time to change the approach and let them open up the road to becoming an imperial merchant for her.

After all, the piece of meat of the imperial merchants is very fat. If she bites it, she can expand her business territory and even trade with other countries. She wants this huge market.

In the past, she only focused on the Qin family and Qi Xiuzhe, but now she realized that she had ambitions, and her ambitions were huge...

Qin Wu sat at a low table, making notes on the income and expenditure items in the accounts, and then picked up a pen to write a plan letter to Gong Shang.

Yan Shiyi was guarding little Nuonuo by the bed.

The temperature in the house was very warm, in stark contrast to the ice and snow outside.

"Miss, the Marquis's wife is here." Qiufen came in to report.

On the table, smoke from tea curls up.

Wang sat opposite Qin Wu, looking at her calmly with a reserved face.

Qin Wu didn't care at all and let her stare at her.

Wang didn't say anything, nor did she speak first.

The atmosphere was unusually quiet.

There was plenty of charcoal burning in the room, and it was as warm as spring. Wang was wearing thick clothes and was even sweating slightly.

Compared to her room where they dared not waste charcoal, the coldness in her room formed a sharp contrast with Qin Wu's room.

Look at the maids serving Qin Wu. They are all dressed so well that if you don’t know them, you would think they are young ladies from some family!

This attitude, in contrast, clearly meant to piss her off to death.

The maidservants following Wang looked at what Qiu Shuang and the others were wearing and carrying, and a bit of jealousy and envy appeared in their eyes.

But it was only for a moment.

She now only holds the empty title of Crown Prince's Consort.

She is not Miss Qin. Now that the prince has been stabbed by her, he is cold and disgusted with her.

How can a woman live a good life without the support of her natal family and the love of her husband's family?

The maid who followed her was afraid of being ridiculed by them, so today she deliberately took out all the good things on her body and dressed herself up to show off, in order to stimulate their envy.

Tsk, lowly people like them are just following useless masters, just to see how long they can hold out. Why are they pretending?

When the prince marries Miss Qin, they will all have to leave.

Not caring about their thoughts at all, Qin Wu picked up the teacup, blew a sip of the tea, causing ripples in the tea, and she slowly took a sip.

Finally, Wang couldn't hold it anymore and said in a deep voice, "Qin Wu, do you still know that you are the daughter-in-law of the Qi family?"

"Is this how you treat your elders?"

Putting down the teacup, Qin Wu looked up at her and said in a leisurely tone, "Mother, do you think the tea is not good enough? Or are you not satisfied with the snacks?"

"This is Yunnan Nanpu tea, which costs one or two hundred gold coins. I asked Qiu Shuang to go to Shixiuzhai early this morning and waited in line for an hour to buy this cake."

Without waiting for Wang to speak, Qin Wu said, "If mother doesn't like it, then leave. Don't make mother unhappy."

"Yes, Miss." Han Shuang immediately and swiftly took away the pastries that had just been served.

"By the way, this cake won't taste good if it's kept for too long. You can share it with Dongzhi and the others."

"Thank you, Miss." Han Shuang happily carried the pastries out.

Wang, "..."

Wang was so angry that her brain was about to explode. She was sure that Qin Wu did it on purpose.

Nanpu tea is a tribute!

Even the Marquis is reluctant to drink it.

Can Qin Wu afford to drink?

The cakes at Shixiuzhai are famous and are also Wang’s favorite.

In the past, whenever she wanted to eat something, she would just mention it to Qin Wu and she would rush to buy it for her.

Qin Wu knew clearly that she liked it, but she pretended that she didn't like it before she even tasted it, and even gave some to the servants. She was obviously trying to make her angry.

"Qin Wu!" Wang pinched her palm for a long time before suppressing her anger. "I came here to tell you two things."

"One is for your husband and wife's affairs."