Chapter 363 Gao Wanxin goes to the countryside to collect silk

Not long after the beginning of spring after the New Year, Maidong also finished his confinement. Gao Wanxin settled the affairs at home and went to the countryside.

It just so happened that her hometown was very close to Jizhou. Gao Wanxin thought that Zhao Chengliang was in Jizhou, and she wanted to go and see him, so she told Zhao Xuan her idea.

When Zhao Xuan heard this, he felt a little touched.

He felt that Gao Wanxin was worried about Zhao Chengliang and was so worried about him because of him.

Zhao Xuan said to Gao Wanxin:

"When we get to Jizhou, please go over there and check on Cheng Liang for me. See if everything is okay with him. If he needs anything in life, please help him."

Gao Wanxin nodded in agreement. "Don't worry, sir. I'll go back to the village first, take care of things, and then go see him. Is there anything you want to tell me?"

Zhao Xuan really had nothing to say.

He just told him to study hard in Jizhou, and after he had changed, he could naturally return to the Zhao family in Kyoto.

Gao Wanxin packed her things, took a carriage, and brought two maids, an old woman, and four guards. She set off from Kyoto to her hometown village, which took three hours. They set off at dawn and arrived at the village in the morning.

After Gao Wanxin's father passed away, she and her mother could no longer stay in Gaojia Village. They had no ancestral land to make a living. Their grandparents and uncles just wanted to squeeze money from their family, but after her father, the only scholar in the Gao family, passed away, they could not squeeze anything out of them, so they ignored Gao Wanxin and her mother.

Now that Gao Wanxin has returned, she doesn't want to see them.

She just remembered that many people in the village raised silkworms and spun silk.

When Gao Wanxin first arrived at Gaojia Village, it was lunch time. The weather was still very cold in this season, and Gao Wanxin caught a lot of cold wind on the way. After getting off the carriage, she went to the home of an aunt who had a good relationship with her mother.

Aunt Wang had just finished cooking lunch and was about to carry the water for washing the pot to the pigpen in the backyard when she suddenly saw several people coming outside the yard gate, especially a young and distinguished lady who got off a carriage with the help of two maids.

Aunt Wang stood there in a daze.

"Who are you looking for?"

Gao Wanxin chuckled and then said, "Aunt Wang, don't you remember me? I'm Wanxin."

"Wanxin?" Aunt Wang muttered to herself. Suddenly, she stepped forward and stared at Gao Wanxin from head to toe. "It's really Wanxin. Why are you back? I heard that your mother..."

"Well, my mother passed away three years ago. I came back this time to pay my respects to my father and to bury my mother with him."

"That's how it should be." Aunt Wang said, looking at Gao Wanxin, "Why didn't you go back to the Gao family?"

"You might not know this, but your grandparents fell ill and passed away during the flood. Your uncles and aunts have split up and are now living separately. How are you doing now?"

Gao Wanxin said, "It's not bad. I'm married, have two sons, and my husband treats me very well."

"That's good. Your yard is so dilapidated now that it's definitely uninhabitable."

Aunt Wang was also worried about Gao Wanxin's living quarters.

Gao Wanxin: "Aunt Wang, I don't live in the village. I came here today to do something. There are many people raising silkworms in our village. I want silk, the more the better. As long as the quality is good, the price is negotiable."

Aunt Wang didn't ask much about what Gao Wanxin's husband's family did.

But looking at her gorgeously dressed in silk and satin, she didn't look like a lady from a small family.

She only said she wanted silk, but didn't say what she wanted it for.

Aunt Wang asked a question.

Gao Wanxin just said that she was just doing a small business.

"I know you're the one doing this, Aunt Wang. You're the best, and that's why I came to you first. As long as the silk you collect is of the same quality as yours, I'll take it all. The price is not low."

"Really? Wanxin, I have some at home. Would you like to take a look?"

Gao Wanxin said, "I'm staying at the Laifu Inn in town. Tomorrow, you and the people in the village can bring the goods to find me at the Laifu Inn."

Gao Wanxin really didn't want to deal with anyone from the Gao family.

Only then did she think of telling Aunt Wang that she would have to go back to town soon, and burying her parents together was indeed what Gao Wanxin had always wanted to do.

It has been more than three years since her mother passed away. In fact, they should have been buried together in the third year after her mother's death, and then a grand funeral banquet would have been held.

But at that time, the second child was still in her belly and she didn't have time to take care of it.

Now I have the time and the opportunity to come to the village to do some work.

She thought about burying her parents together.

Aunt Wang nodded in agreement and wanted to keep Gao Wanxin at home for dinner.

Gao Wanxin smiled and politely declined.

After Gao Wanxin left, Aunt Wang was surrounded by her daughter-in-law, son, and her husband Wang Youfu, who had just finished his meal in the house.

Wang Youfu smacked his lips, as if savoring the aroma of the noodles.

"Who do you think that person is? The little jinx from the Gao family?"

"Just shut up! You're still calling her a jinx! Haven't you seen how she's dressed now? I'm telling you, her mother took her away because she couldn't make it in the Gao family anymore. I have some friendship with her mother, so stop yelling."

Wang Youfu didn't dare to be nice anymore.

He also knew about the changes that Gao Wanxin had undergone. If he continued to shout like the other villagers and offended Gao Wanxin again, they would no longer be able to make money from this business.

"Everyone in the village is yelling like that, and my dad didn't mean it," Wang Youfu's son Wang Degang said. He then asked, "Mom, what do you think Gao Wanxin wants to do this time? She's so rich, she wouldn't come to our little village to collect silk, right?"

"Who knows? Anyway, what she said is true."

"Father, please harness the donkey cart, collect our silk and send it to the town."

"Degang, go ask around in the village and see if anyone has it. If they're willing, we can deliver it to them together."

However, Wang Degang felt that this was a good opportunity for their family to make money. They could buy the silk from the village at a low price and sell it to Gao Wanxin in town. As long as the price was a little higher, they could make some money.

Wang Degang immediately told his parents about his little thoughts.

Wang's parents kept praising their son for his smart brain.

Gao Wanxin left Aunt Wang's house but did not leave immediately. She took a carriage around the village.

In fact, she grew up in the village.

Because her father was a scholar, her parents rented a house in the town, and her father found a job in the town while preparing for the exam. However, he was unlucky and always spent a lot of money but still failed the exam.