It's just a small place, but the prices are higher than those of the top restaurants in the capital.
Even so, when it was time for dinner, Fuguilou was still packed with guests.
Ningxiang heard from the village aunt that County Magistrate Cao's brother-in-law would send the shopkeeper to record the identities of the people eating at the restaurant and take care of every business transaction he made.
"So if some of the blessed families don't go to Fuguilou to get ripped off for a while, they'll be found."
He went there to eat in the name of dinner, but in reality he was giving a gift to County Magistrate Cao.
It's not surprising that a meal costs hundreds of taels of silver.
The merchants are suffering but helpless. If they don't give gifts, they will be in trouble within half a month.
Even if his income was not enough to cover his expenses, he still had to pretend to be rich and feed County Magistrate Cao with his own flesh and blood.
In the small place of Ruyang, County Magistrate Cao has absolute power.
Jiang Yuzhu dismissed Ningxiang and subconsciously fiddled with the teapot. When she felt the banknotes hidden inside, she couldn't help but blurt out, "Yuanhe, do you still think Daddy is a corrupt official?"
Jiang Fulu spent a long time accumulating money and exchanged the benefits he had obtained into silver, just to support the soldiers in the north.
How can a corrupt official like County Magistrate Cao compare with my father Jiang Fulu?
Jiang Yuzhu suddenly admired her father Jiang Fulu very much. She was willing to give everything to a person who loved money. What a noble sentiment!
Xie Zhao closed his eyes, his mind filled with the scene of Jiang Fulu rolling up his sleeves and fighting with Wei Shoufu in the court. He wished he could drown the other person with his saliva.
He adjusted his mood, raised the corner of his lip, and tried to appear sincere: "Madam is right. My father-in-law is noble and upright, and a pillar of the Qi Dynasty."
After receiving Xie Zhao's affirmation, Jiang Yuzhu's eyebrows relaxed even more, like a lazy cat basking in the sun. She yawned and said, "So, should the emperor know about my father's righteous act?"
I've spent two hundred thousand taels of silver, at least I can get some feedback.
What Jiang Fulu wanted was nothing more than for the emperor to take a new look at the Jiang family so that he could remove the label of a corrupt official from his name.
Xie Zhao: "..."
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