After having dinner at Zuixianlou Restaurant, Jiang Chuwei went to the rouge shop, silk shop, and embroidery shop.

Then, Manager Wu was sent with money and Yu Datong to collect grain from various places.

Looking at the 500,000 taels of silver notes in their hands, both of their legs trembled.

There are just too many!

If they lose this, they couldn't afford to pay for it even with their lives!

"Miss! Are you really going to hand over this money to us so easily?" Manager Wu hesitated to accept it.

“You are all from the General’s Mansion, I trust you.”

"Uncle Wu, you have some martial arts skills. I'll send a few more men to accompany you, and the grain you've purchased can be transported to Nanzhou."

"Wouldn't that be too much of a commotion?" Manager Wu asked.

“Nanzhou is too small. Transporting so much grain at once will easily attract the attention of the government.”

"Uncle Wu! What's your opinion?" Jiang Chuwei didn't want to cause trouble. When the earthquake struck Nanzhou and she opened the granaries to distribute grain, the emperor, given his temperament, would definitely suspect that she had received some information beforehand and had concealed it.

She wanted to save the people of Nanzhou, but she didn't want to put herself in danger.

She wasn't a living saint; knowing this opportunity, she planned to earn more money so she could save a large number of people.

Five hundred thousand taels of grain are far from meeting the needs of Nanzhou.

"Miss! This grain is for use in Nanzhou, right?"

"yes!"

"In my opinion, we should first transport some grain from Nanzhou. We also have shops in the neighboring counties of Ningyuan, Hezhou, and Lizhou. By distributing most of the grain among these shops, we can avoid inspection by the government."

Food is a matter of national importance. If a merchant moves so much food without authorization, it will inevitably cause unnecessary trouble.

Scattered in various places, they become less conspicuous.

"It was my oversight; I'll have to trouble Uncle Wu with these matters."

"Since Miss trusts me, I will send a message to the shopkeepers in each county and tell them to buy grain nearby. I will personally deliver the money."

"Okay! I've left it to you." Jiang Chuwei finally breathed a sigh of relief after handing over the task.

Manager Wu and Yu Datong were still dreaming.

"Miss! Don't worry, we guarantee we'll get things done!" Yu Datong pledged his loyalty.

Jiang Chuwei nodded: "Thank you for your hard work. If you encounter any difficulties, please come to me."

"good!"

After checking a few more details, Jiang Chuwei headed home.

As soon as she entered, Lu Yanling greeted her: "Sister-in-law!"

Jiang Chuwei was surprised.

Lu Yanling was the illegitimate daughter of the Marquis of Pingyang and the only daughter of Consort Yao.

He had no presence in the mansion at all.

In her previous life, Lu Yanling committed suicide by jumping into a well when she was seventeen years old.

Aunt Yao jumped into the same well a month later.

Jiang Chuwei asked, "Were you waiting for me?"

"Sister-in-law, please save me." Lu Yuling knelt down with a thud.

Jiang Chuwei frowned: "Get up!"

Xia Qi immediately grabbed her armpits and pulled her up, saying, "Let's talk this out."

Lu Yanling looked at Jiang Chuwei with pleading eyes.

Thinking back to her youthful days in her previous life, Lu Yanling must have been driven to jump into a well because she encountered something she couldn't go on living.

In this life, she found Jiang Chuwei.

They were just trying to survive.

Chen Yulan was very harsh on her illegitimate sons and daughters, and Lord Lu ignored them completely.

This made life difficult for the concubines and illegitimate daughters in the Marquis's mansion.

When Jiang Chuwei was in charge of the household, she never treated these people harshly.

When Aunt Yao met her, she would respectfully call her "Madam of the Heir Apparent".

Jiang Chuwei remembered that when she first married into the family, Lu Yuling timidly called her "elder sister-in-law" and brought her a wedding cake.

She said that her aunt had told her that the bride would be hungry all day on her wedding day, so she secretly brought wedding cakes to fill the bride's stomach.

Jiang Chuwei still vividly remembers his shy demeanor.

She was only twelve or thirteen years old at the time.

"Come with me!" Jiang Chuwei walked towards Avon.

Jiang Chuwei counted the days. Logically speaking, there was still a year before she jumped into the well and died. She wondered what difficulties she had encountered today.

Upon arriving at Avon, Lu Yanling knelt down again.

Jiang Chuwei: "Get up! Don't kneel down so easily."

Tell me about it, and I'll help you as much as I can.

She felt sorry for Lu Yanling.

Because she was born from a concubine's womb, even though she was a young lady from a noble family, she lived like a servant.

Lord Lu has no sense of responsibility whatsoever.

Once they brought people in, they didn't care whether they lived or died.

The concubine's daughter was fortunate enough to survive.

If it were illegitimate sons, Chen Yulan would definitely find a way to kill them young.

She won't let them grow up and compete with her son for the inheritance.

Although Lord Lu only took two concubines, he had countless maids and servants without official titles in his room.

Chen Yulan would try every means to kill both the pregnant woman and her unborn child.

Otherwise, the baby would have drowned after birth.

At first, she did it discreetly, but later, seeing that the Marquis didn't seem to care much about the death of his concubine, she became increasingly blatant.

The concubines dared not speak out against her anger, because Chen would sell them off at the slightest disagreement.

Therefore, the concubines who remained in the mansion were all dull and honest.

Jiang Chuwei only learned these things when her soul from her previous life was wandering around the Marquis's mansion.

By then, Lu Yanling had already died.

"Sit down and let's talk!" Jiang Chuwei looked at her.

Lu Yanling's birthday was only a few days ago.

Because she was coming of age, Lu Yanfang didn't want her to steal the spotlight, so she told Chen Yulan not to hold a coming-of-age ceremony for her.

Aunt Yao was so angry that she wiped away her tears, but there was nothing she could do.

Jiang Chuwei didn't want to interfere in her father-in-law's affairs, so she secretly gave him a few pieces of jewelry as a coming-of-age gift.

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