Most of the houses along the streets in our town have been rented out. My wife collects the rent every month separately. I have asked Nanny Qin to keep track of the accounts. You can check it later."
"Yeah, okay!"
"The profits from the shop and the orchard are also good, and more and more people in the village have begun to gossip about it.
The village chief is too close to us, and there are always some people who say that our Qiao family has absolute power, especially those newly-moved wealthy families."
"What about the Sun family? Do they think so too?"
"I haven't heard about the Sun family. Their people are not targeting us at the moment!"
"I understand. I will discuss this matter with Li Zhong and come up with a solution. Thank you both for your hard work these days."
"I don't want to work hard, it's what a daughter-in-law should do!"
Xu felt warm at heart, and after she finished speaking, she went to the kitchen to prepare food, trying her best to make Qiao Xin feel comfortable both physically and mentally for her first meal back home.
This way, my mother won’t think about running out so often.
Qiao Xin then told Nanny Qin about her experiences in the capital and the dirty dealings between her and the Right Prime Minister's Mansion.
“I had no intention of arguing with them, but they just had to target Dalang and his kids.
After failing to get the girl in the academy, he came up with another plan, which was to embarrass the girl at the banquet. He also said that he would not sell rouge and powder to the women in the Qiao family.
Oh, who cares! Have you trained all the girls you asked me to train?"
"To answer the old lady, they are all trained and can be used at any time!"
"Let them all move to the workshop tomorrow and start working. You will be in charge of this for the time being. Select a loyal manager who is suitable, preferably a woman. Our Qiao family workshop can officially open for business."
"Yes, is the old lady planning to formally challenge the Wen family?"
"Not really. I just want to help my second son's wife earn some pocket money, so I'll try to open a cosmetics shop first."
"The concubine of the King of Qi and the wife of the Right Prime Minister are both from the Wen family in Jiangnan. The most brilliant and outstanding direct branch of the Wen family was buried in the disaster in Jiangcheng.
The head of the household now is only the child of the second wife, and his behavior is not as good as before. The family's reputation and status are only preserved by the marriage of women in the family.
In fact, things are not set in stone, so you don’t have to worry too much, old lady.”
"I've heard that the Wen family wants to be the vanguard of the noble families and treat my Qiao family as a soft persimmon. Let's see if they have the ability to do so."
"In that case, I'm afraid we have to prevent the Wen family from retaliating in the future. We really have to use death contracts for our personnel, and we also have to keep it confidential."
Qiao Xin sighed: "Talent is hard to find!"
Nanny Qin hesitated for a moment and said, "Actually, there is another place where you might be able to find someone the old lady wants!"
"Nanliang's criminal slaves! I've heard that many of Nanliang's criminal slaves were children of officials before they committed crimes.
Just because they offended someone they shouldn't have offended, they were confiscated, stripped of their positions, and exiled. But the court didn't want to let them off so easily, so they sold them once before the prison sentence, and anyone willing to pay a high price could buy them!"
"If we are not from the same country, it's hard for us to be of the same mind, right?"
"Old Madam, Nanliang was also part of our Dajing territory in the previous dynasty, and the people were not much different from us. It was just that after the noble families fled south, they fought for power and profit with the local dignitaries, which became increasingly fierce. The emperor of Nanliang was old and licentious, which led to too many unjust, false and wrong cases. We can take this opportunity to buy a group of people back.
In fact, the noble families in the capital all liked the criminal slaves from the south. They simply thought that they were educated and more educated than commoners. Even if they were sacrificed alive for their ancestors, it would be more honorable.
This has always existed, but these criminal slaves are of low status and no one cares about their life or death."
“What a sin!”
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