We've Got Money Coming In Again

How could Old Master Xu dare to say anything?

He did whatever his young master said; he was already incredibly lucky to have survived today.

Zhou Wanwan led them back to the mountain village, Old Master Xu was stunned the moment he saw it.

The houses in this mountain stronghold are really strange!

Zhou Wanwan had someone lead them to a courtyard and said, "You can stay here from now on! As for the spinning machine, we'll talk about it tomorrow. I need to go to sleep."

Old Master Xu strolled around the mountain stronghold and said:

"These houses are so unique. I think the people who can build houses like these on the mountain are really amazing."

"Look at this building, it looks a bit like a county government office, this one looks like a wealthy person's residence, and this one looks like a servant's quarters."

The trees nearby almost burst out laughing, "Hahahaha... This old man would never guess that these are all our masterpieces!"

"I also think we have excellent taste. These houses were all carefully selected, and they're quite comfortable to live in."

"Let's find another opportunity to move more houses next time."

The next day, Old Master Xu discovered that his family's house had also been moved to the mountain. He circled the house several times, saying, "Strange! Strange! Why does this house look so much like ours?"

Xu Fengjiao couldn't help but speak up:

"Dad, take another good look. This house is ours."

Even the decorations in this house are exactly the same as those in our house.

Old Master Xu was stunned for a moment and said:

"Jiaojiao! From now on, you must follow Miss closely and never go against her. Do whatever Miss tells you to do."

Our young lady is probably no ordinary person!

Xu Fengjiao quickly nodded and said:

"Do you even need to tell me? I'll only ever listen to our young lady for the rest of my life. Whatever she tells me to do, I'll do."

We're incredibly lucky to have survived.

The next day, Cheng Xiao had just gotten up when she saw Jiang Wu rushing over.

Cheng Xiao asked anxiously, "About yesterday, did something go wrong?"

Jiang Wu gave a wry smile and said:

"The Xu Family's house was moved again, and the entire Xu Family disappeared. The bandits on the mountain were either dead or wounded."

They had no idea what happened last night; many of them were taken away directly by the local authorities.

Cheng Xiao trembled with fear and asked, "Do those people know who did it?"

Jiang Wu quickly assured him, "Don't worry, these are just small fry! They have no idea who did it."

Cheng Xiao quickly breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Then where did the Xu Family go?"

"I don't know, it's like it just disappeared suddenly."

"The Xu Family is probably finished. Looks like we'll have to find another fat sheep," Jiang Wu said, squinting his eyes.

Cheng Xiao waved her hand and said:

"Leaving that aside for now, Eunuch Hai has brought over some more things."

This shipment is said to contain ironware, salt, grain, tea, cloth, and medicinal herbs.

I'll arrive tonight.

Jiang Wu smiled and said, "This job will definitely make a lot of money."

Cheng Xiao nodded and said:

"There were two boats carrying goods, each Manman loaded, and this time we just wanted to sell them outside."

"Then we'll be rich! Do you think word will get out?"

Jiang Wu sneered:

"Unless you have ears in the walls next door, this kind of thing will never happen."

Don't worry, I've brought more people this time and will personally oversee the whole process. I refuse to believe that something like this could go wrong.

Cheng Xiao frowned and said:

"I'll find two more security escort agencies and have them escort the goods."

I remember there were two decent escort agencies; let's have them go together.

"Find some more skilled constables to go with us; this time I refuse to believe it."

Cheng Xiao's plan was quite good, but the plants in the Cheng Family soon received the news.

Plants spread information quite quickly; Cheng Xiao never imagined that the two orchids in his room would tell the birds outside.

The birds then relayed the message to Zhou Wanwan with incredible speed; almost as soon as they finished speaking, Zhou Wanwan received the news.

Zhou Wanwan's eyes lit up. "Arriving tonight? That's great! We've made some money again!"

Lingbao scoffed, "The disaster victims outside aren't even getting enough to eat, and this corrupt county government only knows how to scoop things up from their own homes every day."

Zhou Wanwan also sighed. In ancient times, the poorest and most miserable people were the common people.

They live at the very bottom of society, yet they are always hungry all year round.

Zhou Wanwan used to think it was a joke, but when she actually went to ancient times, she realized how stifling their lives were, with exorbitant taxes and levies as fierce as tigers.

Zhou Wanwan sighed and said, "When we have time, it's not a big deal to help those poor people."

Zhou Wanwan wasn't a heartless person, but of course, she wasn't the type to help everyone she saw.

She has kindness, but it should be given to those who truly have a conscience.

Otherwise, it would be encouraging unhealthy trends and evil practices.

That night, they used the same trick again and brought back both boats of goods.

Zhou Wanwan walked directly onto the boat, looked at the items, and said, "That Eunuch Hai is really amazing! He can even get ironware and salt. Impressive!"

Zhou Wanwan saw many medicinal herbs and said, "These herbs are all quite good. I plan to turn them all into pills."

Zhou Wanwan hired more than thirty people to specialize in making pills: Dispelling Cold and Clearing Heat Pills, Clearing Heat and Detoxifying Pills, Dispelling Plague and Detoxifying Pills, Hemostatic and Muscle-Regenerating Pills, Mafeizhitong Pills, Blood-Activating and Pain-Relieving Pills...

Zhou Wanwan also made several kinds of life-saving pills. These life-saving pills required relatively precious medicinal materials, so she only made a few dozen.

After finishing all that, Zhou Wanwan thought about the blueprints for the textile machine, which she had seen by chance.

In her past life, her family owned a textile factory. When she visited the factory, she saw how textile machines were made.

At that time, she inspected all the spinning machines one by one. As the future head of the family, she needed to know a great deal.

At the time, she only remembered three types of textile machines: the large jacquard loom, the foot-operated multi-harness loom, and the slant loom.

Zhou Wanwan pictured the blueprints for the three textile machines in her mind and then began to slowly sketch them by hand.

This requires an exceptionally good memory, but Zhou Wanwan can remember anything she sets her mind to.

She was particularly interested in these textile machines at the time, so she remembers them very clearly.

In one night, Zhou Wanwan drew out three designs.

She smiled and said, "Let's go find the people in Luban Village now and discuss it with them to see if they can make it?"

Zhou Wanwan was actually quite certain that Luban Village was capable of making it.

They went directly from the mountain to Luban Village Luban Village, but as soon as they arrived, they found many yamen runners in the village.

Zhou Wanwan frowned and asked, "These all seem to be yamen runners from the prefecture. What are they doing?"