At this time, Wu Deyi had also returned home.
The Wu family also had businesses in the town, and the one who managed the business in the town was his cousin Wu Bian, who depended on him for survival and was extremely respectful to him. So although he seldom came to the town, he lived in the best courtyard of the Wu Mansion.
When he returned to Jinyu Courtyard, Madam Cui stood up to greet him, helped him take off his outer robe, and brought him some hangover soup. She looked at his expression and asked, "Did you see him?"
"Yes." Wu Deyi drank the soup slowly: "That young lady... is a powerful person."
Cui was a little surprised. Seeing that he didn't seem to be joking, she said, "Didn't you say he was only thirteen? How can you be called amazing?"
"A genius born with knowledge has existed since ancient times. What's so strange about this?" Wu Deyi snorted and said thoughtfully, "It's not a bad thing that this young lady is capable. It's better to have ability than no ability."
He paused and said, "Besides, she is really beautiful."
People often say that beauty lies in the bones, not in the skin, but this young lady is one of those rare ones with beautiful bones and skin. When she grows up, she will surely be stunningly beautiful.
Such a beauty, with her own abilities, might step on the ladder to heaven and soar into the sky someday. She must not be offended easily.
As he pondered, he added, "It's not like that at all."
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Cui was silent, paused for a moment and then asked, "Then... did you see that young man?"
"No." Wu Deyi said, "I'll find a chance to meet him later."
Cui lowered her head and twisted her handkerchief: "What the master actually wants to see is... that person!"
Wu Deyi smiled, put down the soup bowl, and pinched her face: "You are so old and still jealous? I haven't seen her for more than ten years. She is no longer young. What's there to see? What I value is Fushou Wine Shop and Tang Family Fruit Wine!"
As he was speaking, Wu Bian came over in a hurry: "Brother!"
Wu Deyi asked, "What's the matter?"
Wu Bian bowed respectfully and said, "I heard that a while ago, Tang Dangjia brought several thousand kilograms of wool from Lanzhou. It is said that after washing and dyeing, it will become wool yarn. Tang Dangjia taught them to use a few wooden needles to weave socks."
Wu Deyi asked: "Socks? What kind of socks?"
"I don't know." Wu Bian said helplessly: "Yuefang is their weaving workshop. The management is very strict and we are not allowed to bring it out. But I heard that it is very soft and smooth. It will become very big when you pull it, and it will be very tight when you pull it. It is very comfortable and warm to wear."
Wu Deyi frowned slightly: "Socks..."
He is not the brainless Meng Ziyang who would look down on socks. He knows very well that the smaller the things are, the more people will use them, and the more money he can make.
Wu Bian added: "I heard that the clan leaders and village heads of several surrounding villages gathered together and signed a contract that the craft could not be passed on to outsiders. Now, each village has selected 20 people to go, so there are nearly 200 people in total. They have just started learning and have not started selling yet."
Wu Deyi said slowly: "This little girl is really generous."
He calmed himself down, asked a few more questions, and then said to him, "Please keep asking around. If you can find any, bring some to me first."
Wu Bian quickly responded: "Yes."
Wu Deyi waved his hand to let him go. After thinking for a while, he said to Cui: "Increase the gift prepared for the visit by 30%... No, 50%. This time, we must win this little girl over! This is a walking gold mountain!"
Cui responded quickly.
He was satisfied with this point about Cui. Although she was jealous and had a bad temper, she was always clear-headed on major issues.
The wife should know the big picture! He hugged her as a reward and said, "I'll buy you that headgear later."
Cui smiled and thanked him, and Wu Deyi straightened his clothes and turned to go to his concubine's yard next door.
As she watched him leave, the smile on Cui's face gradually disappeared.
The nanny next to her came over and whispered, "Madam... this Wang Shiqin..."
"Shut up!" Cui said anxiously, "Nothing happened! Nothing happened back then!" She looked at her steadily, "We know nothing! We didn't do anything! If you delay my business, you and I will both be in trouble!"
The wet nurse was choked and dared not speak.
The Wu family is actually the "main family" headed by Tang Yongli.
Of course, this was also the family of Wang’s master when she worked as a maid.
Cui's maiden name was Cui Moli, and Tang Yongming's wife Cui Furong was her younger sister.
Before she married into the Wu family, Wu Deyi had four maids, namely "Qin, Qi, Shu, and Hua", who were spoiled to the core. How could Cui not hate them? So she slowly got rid of them one by one, and finally only "Shiqin" was left.
If for no other reason, it's just really stupid, easy to use, and doesn't require any thought.
Who knew that later, Tang Yongli took a fancy to Wang Shiqin and asked Wu Deyi for her. Wu Deyi was just tired of her and gave her to him.
But that's not the point.
The point is, she had been secretly asking Wang Shiqin to take contraceptive soup without Wu Deyi's knowledge. This was a family secret medicine that had been used for who knows how many lifetimes, and she knew its effectiveness. Even if she stopped taking the medicine, she would definitely not get pregnant for at least five or six years.
According to information obtained from previous investigations, Wang gave birth to Tang Shirong in the second year of her marriage, so Tang Shirong could definitely not be her child. Tang Shiyue was only two years younger than Tang Shirong, so it was also very likely that he was not her child.
But Cui didn't dare to say it now.
Because Wu Deyi had no idea about the contraceptive soup, he had several secret meetings with Wang after she got married. He always thought that Wang was deeply in love with him and was unwilling to be intimate with Tang Yongli.
Therefore, he felt that Tang Shirong was most likely his offspring.
As long as Tang Shirong is his offspring, he can marry Wang, get close to Tang Shiyue, and get Fushou Wine and Tang Family Wine. Even if he can't get them completely, he can still cooperate deeply.
Therefore, Cui would never dare to tell anyone about the contraceptive soup at this time.
Because Wang is a widow now, even if Tang Shirong is not Wu Deyi's son, he can be made into his son.
If the matter of the contraceptive soup was exposed, then, wouldn't it mean that the child was not Wang's? No matter what method Wang used to replace the original, this line would not work.
Having lost such a large sum of money and having all her plans dashed, Wu Deyi...she didn't even dare to think about what he would do.
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Of course Tang Shiyue didn't know about these things.
She has been considering taking in an apprentice recently.
The girls in Yuefang are used to the work and are very quick with their hands and feet. On average, each person makes two pairs of socks a day, which means they can produce nearly three hundred pairs a day.
So she was going to start teaching other things, and also, that's why she wanted to take in an apprentice so that she could be lazy in the future.
But Qi Xiaolang hasn't officially accepted Ren Dong yet, so she thinks, should she hold on for two more days to show that he takes her seriously?
Just as she was thinking about this, a child came running up to her and called out, "Tang Dangjia! Tang Dangjia, go check it out! There's a man making trouble at the entrance of Yuefang, and Madam Qiao asked me to come and call you!"
Tang Shiyue asked: "Who is it? From another village?"
"From Dayue Village!" The child nodded: "Mrs. Qiao called him a 'beast'."
No one else can say that.
Tang Shiyue went over and saw a man standing in front of the door from a distance. Several wives were blocking the door. Qiao Sangyu was holding a stick and scolded him angrily: "Get out! Shameless beast! Don't stand here and dirty the ground of our Yuefang!"
The man said, "Ayu, a husband and wife are bound by a hundred days of grace. Why do you have to do this?"
"Puh!" Qiao Sangyu spat in his face. "A day of marriage is a hundred days of grace! If I were to beg outside right now, I'm afraid your family wouldn't even give me a sip of cold water. It's only because I took advantage of A Yue and intervened that you pounced on me like leeches smelling blood. After so many years, don't I know the nature of you Zhang family beasts?"
Good! Great!
Tang Shiyue clapped her hands inwardly.
She thought to herself that she was the right one. Just based on her sharpness in scolding people, she was determined to accept her as her disciple!
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