Chapter 318 Opening a Store
Shen Yueyao explained some details to the two people, and Cao Guang and Reg listened carefully.
After Shen Yueyao gave them the antidote, they retreated.
When the two men walked out of the village, they looked back and saw that the villagers in the fields were harvesting wheat diligently. The wind blew, and the wheat waves rolled. It was obvious that it was a bumper harvest, and the wheat was a pleasure to look at.
Reg said, "Brother Cao, I feel that the wheat in Liuhe Village is better than that of other villages. The wheat drying in front of every household seems to have large grains."
"Especially Miss Shen's wheat. The grains are bigger and more abundant. What's going on? Oh, and I also heard that Miss Shen's potatoes yield over a thousand kilograms per acre. Is that true?"
“Could it be that Miss Shen has high-yield grain seeds?”
Reg was still a little shocked.
He grew up in the village and naturally knew how difficult it was to grow crops.
We also know the normal yield per acre of land.
In the past, the old farmers in the village could only harvest more than 400 kilograms of grain from an acre of prime land with great care.
Cao Guang said: "Don't you even look at who she is?"
"During the drought, she helped the villagers find a water source. She also helped them find a water truck. Have you seen it? The truck brings water directly from below to the fields, making it much easier for the villagers to irrigate their crops."
Cao Guang still remembers that when he was a child, during droughts, his parents would carry shoulder poles and buckets to fetch water and water the fields one trip at a time, for fear that the wheat in the fields would dry up.
After working all day, they returned home at night exhausted, their backs and legs aching, and they could hardly move.
But I still have to go to work the next day.
Cao Guang remembers the hardship very clearly.
So he wanted to follow Miss Shen and do things because he admired her in his heart.
He admired people who truly cared about the villagers.
Reg nodded and said, "I know about that waterwheel. The nearby villages have also built waterwheels. I heard that Liuhe Village is teaching them how to build one for free."
Cao Guang said, "That was Miss Shen's idea. Without her approval, do you think other villages could build water wheels?"
Reg nodded and said, "That's right."
Cao Guang said: "Let's go, hurry up and do the work. Only after we finish it can we work here with Miss Shen."
Reg nodded and said, "Yes, yes."
"By the way, Brother Cao, I heard that the day before yesterday, Miss Shen went to the blacksmith shop in town to forge something, saying it was for her new workshop. Do you think we can go into her new workshop to work since we have done something for Miss Shen?"
"I heard you can earn one or two taels of silver a month."
Just thinking about living a stable life with only one tael of silver a month made him excited.
Cao Guangdao: "We will do whatever Miss Shen arranges for us to do. As long as we are loyal and do our job well, Miss Shen will not treat us unfairly."
Reg nodded and said, "Yes, yes."
…
That night, Shen Yueyao put on a nightgown and quietly came to Xu's house.
Even if the Xu Mansion did have servants guarding the house, Shen Yueyao could come and go without a trace.
She went in quietly and walked inside.
Generally speaking, the wife is in charge of the family affairs.
So Shen Yueyao guessed that those indentures should be kept by Madam Xu.
She had been to Xu's house once before, so she roughly knew the location.
There were quite a few guards when she came last time, but Shen Yueyao discovered that there were even more guards this time.
A cold arc appeared on the corner of Shen Yueyao's mouth. It was useless to have more guards. If she didn't want to be discovered, no one would find her.
Shen Yueyao entered the inner courtyard easily.
She came to Mrs. Xu's room, where Mrs. Xu was already asleep.
However, just in case, Shen Yueyao put a pill in it. When the pill takes effect, Madam Xu will sleep even deeper and will not wake up. Even if she wakes up in the morning, the effect of the pill in the air will have dissipated, and nothing will be discovered.
After making sure that everything was alright, Shen Yueyao went in to look for something.
Sure enough, a bond came out from a box. After she found Cao Guang and Reg's, she closed the box.
When walking out, Shen Yueyao thought about it, changed direction, and went to Miss Xu Xu Qiusi's yard to see.
I found that Xu Qiusi was still awake at this time.
"Ouch, ouch, I told you to apply the medicine gently. Are you deaf? Are you looking for death?"
Xu Qiusi lay on the bed, unable to move.
My whole body aches badly.
She was put in a sack and beaten severely.
She was later discovered and reported to the Xu family, who sent someone to bring her back.
Now she, Xu Qiusi, is famous throughout the town.
She doesn't even need a reputation anymore.
The maid Xiaomei carefully applied medicine to Xu Qiusi.
Looking at Xu Qiusi's appearance, Xiaomei was a little scared.
This Xiaomei is the one who is arrogant and rude.
He looks arrogant outside, but is very timid in front of Xu Qiusi.
Xiaomei has witnessed Xu Qiusi's ruthlessness.
But no matter how gentle her technique was, Xu Qiusi would still feel pain.
"Miss, I don't know who treated you so cruelly."
Xu Qiusi gritted her teeth and said, "If I find out who did this, I will never let her go. I will kill her."
Xu Qiusi's eyes were extremely vicious.
“Ouch, ouch…”
But every time she spoke, it hurt.
She also lost a few teeth.
Shen Yueyao looked at Xu Qiusi's expression and felt relieved.
It seems that Cao Guang and Reg did a good job.
Xiaomei said, "Miss, if you had ice cream, you would heal faster and there would be no scars."
Xu Qiusi said, "My mother is so cruel. She won't even give me the best medicine. A box of that Ice Cream only costs five or six thousand taels of silver, and she won't give it to me. She's just partial to my eldest brother."
"She even said that the gold, silver and jewelry in her home were stolen, and she used that as an excuse not to buy the Ice Cream. I even wanted to get that lipstick from the Shen family in the first place, but it was for the Xu family."
"I went to the county magistrate before, but he had people investigate but couldn't find anything."
"It's really abominable. The county magistrate is a stubborn person who won't help my Xu family."
Xiaomei said, "Since Aunt Ke accepted money from the Xu family, she must work for them."
"Humph, the county magistrate does favor Concubine Ke, but that favor doesn't involve political affairs."
Xiaomei said, "Oh, Miss, speaking of the Shen family, they are so ungrateful. Oh, Miss Xu, I heard that the woman Shen Shaojing married was named Ning. Do you think she is from the Ning family?"
Xu Qiusi's face changed when she heard this. "How could it be? Aren't all the Ning family members dead? My father sent people to hunt them down a long time ago."
Xiaomei said: "I don't know about that. Maybe they escaped."
Xu Qiusi snorted coldly and said, "No, it's better to kill someone by mistake than to let him go. We can't let the Ning family make a comeback and threaten the status of our Xu family."
"If his surname is really Ning, I'll find someone to kill him secretly."
"I need to tell my parents right away."
"Miss, the master and the mistress may have already fallen asleep."
Xu Qiusi said, "Then let's talk about it tomorrow."
When Shen Yueyao heard this, her eyes suddenly darkened, and a cold murderous intent flashed in her eyes.
Xu Qiusi actually wanted to kill Fourth Sister-in-law. How dare she.
Shen Yueyao waited patiently outside.
After a while, the maid Xiaomei came out of the room.
Shen Yueyao then quietly entered Xu Qiusi's room.
Shen Yueyao had her face covered, and Xu Qiusi had no idea who she was.
She was just frightened and wanted to scream, but Shen Yueyao shot a silver needle at her, sealing her mute acupoint.
Then, Shen Yueyao used silver needles to prick some places on Xu Qiusi’s head.
Xu Qiusi was given another pill, which melted in her mouth.
“Woo…”
Xu Qiusi couldn't make a sound at all.
There was a cold look in Shen Yueyao’s eyes.
If possible, she really wanted to kill Xu Qiusi, but she didn't want to dirty her hands.
But if that were the case, Xu Qiushiye would become a madman and would be unable to say anything, let alone find a way to harm Fourth Sister-in-law.
The Xu family is really cruel.
Then Shen Yueyao went to the maid's room and gave her a pill as well.
Words that would make her talk nonsense.
This Xiaomei seems to be loyal to Xu Qiusi, but in fact she has been encouraging Xu Qiusi to do bad things.
Xu Qiusi was in that state. If she talked nonsense, the Xu family would not let her go.
It saves me the trouble of doing it myself.
Afterwards, Shen Yueyao left the Xu family quietly.
No one knew that Shen Yueyao had been there.
After everyone harvested the wheat, they went into the workshop and started working.
There are also people from the town in the workshop, and they discuss some things when they are free at noon.
"Do you know that Miss Xu from the Xu family has gone crazy?"
"We heard about it yesterday when we went to town to buy things. They said it was her maid who did it. Her maid was beaten to death by Madam Xu."
"It's really a relief. Miss Xu and her servant are not good people."
"That's right. He specializes in bullying others and has done many bad things by relying on the power of the Xu family."
"When we set up our stall in town before, Miss Xu often allowed her maids to bully others."
"It's infuriating to watch. Now that she's gone crazy, there's nothing for us to worry about anymore."
"When will the higher-ups realize the evil deeds of the Xu family and punish them?"
"that is."
…
When Shen Yueyao went to inspect the workshop, she happened to hear what everyone was saying, and a faint arc appeared on the corner of her mouth.
This way, we can protect our fourth sister-in-law.
In the afternoon, Shen Yueyao entered the embroidery workshop.
Geng and Fan Cuicui are now working in the embroidery workshop.
After a few days in the embroidery workshop, the two people had already understood the work content of the workshop.
The two of them also sewed quilts, mattresses and mosquito nets together.
The quilts and mattresses are used as staff dormitories.
Now it’s almost done, and I hardly need to make quilts or mattresses anymore.
As for mosquito nets, a lot of them are made, and most ramie is made into mosquito nets.
Shen Yueyao rented a shop in the town, wrote the name Jinxiu Shop, and sold mosquito nets in the shop.
We found a smart and eloquent person to look after the shop in the workshop and introduce the wonderful uses of mosquito nets to everyone.
Not many people bought it at the beginning.
But this stuff spreads easily by word of mouth.
If someone finds it useful, they will tell people around them, and everyone will go to the store to buy it.
"Everyone says this mosquito net is useful. I won't get mosquitoes when I hang it up and sleep at night."
"My eldest sister said so. She bought a few mosquito nets. Now everyone in my family can sleep well at night without worrying about mosquito bites."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
