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Chapter 20: Miss Counting Coppers Is Poor

Wu Hongwen has always been a kind and tolerant father, and he treats his children equally. After asking about his two younger daughters, he naturally has to ask about his eldest daughter. However, everyone knows that the boss is a wild girl from the mountains. Even the Japanese pirates don’t know what it is, and what kind of flowers can he say?

Sure enough, Wu Xinan thought for a while and said,

"The father and daughter don't know what Japanese pirates are, but according to their daughter's opinion..."

She paused,

"My daughter has never seen the sea, but she also knows that the sea is huge. It is not easy to find a boat or two on the vast sea. It is probably a huge challenge to guard people from the sea just by patrolling the sea..."

After thinking about it,

"My daughter thinks, why do those Japanese pirates come to me to harass me on the coast? It is naturally profitable. The more we guard against them, the fewer Japanese pirates can get ashore. The more profitable the more people will come, and most of them will not be stopped at the sea. It is better to wait for them to catch them all and behead them all!"

Wu Xin'an didn't know what Japanese pirates or banned seas. She knew when she used to kill pigs. The more banned the government, the more money she made, the more money she made, for example, selling sick and dead pigs. The government sent business officers to patrol the markets and arrested those who sold sick and dead pigs. The more banned the things, the more people did it. A healthy live pig usually sold one tael to two taels of silver, but a sick and dead pig only had twenty or thirty copper coins. Some even dug out all the dead pigs buried in the farmers' homes and sold them, but they didn't pay any more.

Such a business is unconscience but makes a lot of money. Wang Daniu has been doing pig killing business all year round, so how can she not know?

Thinking about the fact that Wang Butcher Wang was greedy for money and wanted to mix disease and die with good meat, Wang Daniu firmly stopped her in order to protect her own brand that she had been operating for many years and to keep her neighbors from spitting their saliva behind her back. At that time, she was complained by Wang Butcher Wang for a long time...

This principle is well understood. The more the government does not allow people to go into business, the easier it will be. As long as there is a way to avoid being discovered by the army patrolling at sea, a journey will be full of money. In this way, the business that is not on the waist of the pants will not be done by ordinary people, but those desperate people, or those who are driven crazy by money, will take risks and take a try!

Didn’t my father say that the island country on the sea is in chaos, and the desperate people must be coming here in groups, so they must be unpredictable. In her opinion, the cheapest way is to kill one, one pair, and one pair, kill all the brave ones, and naturally the timid ones dare not come!

As soon as this said, Wu Hongwen nodded with a smile.

"An An's words make some sense!"

After saying that, he praised,

"Although our family has little knowledge, our brains are very smart!"

So he smiled and asked Wu Xiande and Wu Xianrong,

"What do you think?"

Wu Xianrong is naturally not aware of his age, but he and Wu Xin'an have a bit of a stinking smell. He laughed at him,

"The big sister is right. If you kill them all, no one dares to come!"

Wu Xiande frowned,

"It is easy to kill people, but it is very difficult to catch people. Our gentleman said that when the Japanese pirates got ashore, they flew around. The guards were running behind them, and they could not find any trace of them. I heard that the ronin among the Japanese pirates were all very powerful in martial arts, and they were very powerful in all directions!"

Wu Xinan curled his lips and said in his heart,

"What kind of martial arts masters? No matter how good the kung fu is, they are afraid of kitchen knives. Whenever they do things in this world, they will always leave clues. If they try their best to find them, they will not be able to find them. At that time, they can mobilize people to have three layers of hands and three layers of outer layers, and they will never escape if they have wings!"

It is impossible to burn, kill, rob and not be caught on the ground, but there are traitors who help them!

Just like those who sell dead pork, they always have to bribe a few gangsters as eyeliners on the street or bribe people in the yamen. As soon as there are officials in charge of the market in the yamen, they will get the letter in a short while. They will immediately take away the dead pork on the stall and replace it with the pork. When the officials come, they will not see any strangeness at all.

Therefore, if you have money, you can make the devil push. As long as the Japanese pirates are willing to make money, you will definitely find the inside line!

Wu Hongwen nodded when he heard this, but sighed,

"The Japanese pirates are ronin with great martial arts skills, but the real crux of the problem is that our coastal garrison system is abolished and the officers and soldiers are unbearable. When the Japanese pirates come, they are frightened and fled. Such an army is slowly said to be to protect the country and protect the people, and they can protect their own lives, which is good!"

Speaking of this, everyone was silent. Wu Hongwen was also inspired and complained. He immediately regretted it as soon as he said it.

Smiling,

"You just have heard these words. This is the matter of the court, and we can't control it!"

Even if the emperor wants to rectify the military system, he has to spend a lot of effort. How could his little counselor change it?

Everyone talked for a while. Seeing that it was getting late, Wu Hongwen took his wife and children to bow to the old lady and said he would leave Yundong Courtyard, and his children returned to the courtyard.

As soon as Wu Xinan entered the gate of Chunhuiyuan, he hugged his stomach and shouted,

"Mom, I'm hungry!"

Guan's mother followed her all day long, knowing that she was suffering today, she stroked her back with heartache,

"My good lady, I'm so hungry today. Mom will go and cook for you now!"

Wu Xinan asked with her sleeve,

"What delicious food does mom make for me?"

Guan's mother thought about it but smiled bitterly.

"Oh! My good lady, now we are in this mansion. We eat three meals a day on the big stove. The small stove in this yard is used to heat hot water, but there are really no ingredients available!"

Mrs. Liu, who was standing beside her, interrupted when she saw this,

"Miss, there is half a bag of flour left over from making black steamed buns during the Dragon Boat Festival on the stove. Why don't you make noodles?"

When Guan heard this, his brows relaxed and thought for a while.

"We seem to have brought some dried shepherd's purse and dried winter bamboo shoots from the village, but we can make shepherd's purse noodles..."

Wu Xinan was overjoyed and shouted,

“That’s it, do it quickly…”

Thinking about it,

"I'll knead the dough!"

Both women stopped them after hearing this.

"Where is the lady who needs to do it, and wait for the old slave to do it!"

Wu Xinan pulled the two of them to the sides, responding,

"You don't know. I do the best job of kneading dough. None of you should compete with me!"

While speaking, he entered the kitchen first. Seeing this, Mrs. Guan shook her head and smiled bitterly, and smiled at Mrs. Liu and two girls and covered her up.

"Miss, I'm very interested in the kitchen!"

The few people from here went to the kitchen together, and saw that Wu Xinan had already found the half bag of noodles, found a small clay tank and poured it into it, and was mixing water and doughing it. When he turned around, he saw four people standing in front of the door and ordered,

"Don't stick around at that door, just keep your mother in and help. Just wait outside!"

Mrs. Liu hurriedly said,

"I'll burn the fire!"

Seeing that there was nothing to do, the two girls grabbed Ah Huang who was wandering around Wu Xinan and went out, and the other went upstairs to organize their clothes.

Guan's mother found the shepherd's purse and dried bamboo shoots she brought back. While asking Mrs. Liu to burn water, she carefully picked up the residue inside and turned around and said to Wu Xin'an.

"Miss... I'm afraid I'll have to prepare more ingredients on this small stove in the future..."

Wu Xinan had not spoken yet, and Mrs. Liu thought about it and responded.

"Miss, when it comes to this matter, I want to mention it to you..."

There are large stoves and small stoves in this mansion. The rules set by the old lady, except for people who are unwell and lying in bed, are used together in the back hall on weekdays, and the meals are made from large stoves. Therefore, the small stoves in the yards are made by the mothers in private to make some snacks for the masters or midnight snacks. This kind of fee is not available, and only the owners in each yard pay for their own money.

The population of this family is not too much, but it is not too little. The three ladies and two young masters are both born to the same mother. Therefore, although the old lady is in charge of the cost of the public, the young master and the young master's monthly money is only half a tael of silver every month, Xiao Cheng will not treat his children badly. Therefore, on weekdays, several children have ordered a private order and are all Xiao Cheng's own money.

The old lady's financial intention is actually very tight. Many miscellaneous things in the mansion were handed over to her daughter-in-law, but the money in the man was always in her hands. The food, rice, flour, oil, etc. every day were all fixed. When the mothers bought and made it, they had to report it to the old lady. Therefore, when these mothers talked about the young lady's appetite, they joked.

"The old lady is not blamed for the young lady for not being incompetent. She is annoyed that the young lady eats too much and is spending money!"

Wu Xinan frowned when he heard this.

"A half taels of silver a month!"

Half a tael of silver can be used for three months in Dafeng Town, but in Hangzhou City, I’m afraid it’s not enough for a meal!

Guan Mama sighed,

"This old slave has also inquired about it. The young masters and ladies in the family are just the same... When we came back just now, Du Juan came to report to the old slave. The people from the old lady came here early this morning!"

Half a tael of silver can be spent in the mountains for two months, but in this colorful city of Hangzhou, it is not enough to see it!

Although the young masters and ladies at home are the same, they have to pay attention to their daily food, clothing and expenses, so they don’t need monthly money at all. Monthly money is just a little intention. But Wu Xinan is different. If she wants to add some food and clothing in private, she will have to pay out the half tael of silver. It’s really too little!

To put it poorly, except for one identity, the young lady, she is probably not as rich as Du Juan and Zhiniao.
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