The beloved baby has a space

Chapter 507 Go to Fucheng

The imperial examination lasted eight days, and since Old Madam Wang didn't plan to stay with Wang Chuangui, she naturally strolled along the road at a leisurely pace.

When they left, passing through some villages or cities, Grandma Wang would tell Xiao Ayu stories about them.

Little Ayu always listened with great interest.

"Grandma, the stories you tell are even more exciting than those of the storyteller!" Little Ayu said with bright eyes. "In the future, let's open a storytelling shop here. You can write the stories, and I can tell them. We can make money that way."

Grandma Wang laughed heartily and tapped Little Ayu's nose: "When did you become so greedy?"

He always thinks about opening a shop.

There's already a steamed bun shop at home, and Chen Yuan, who runs a shop outside, has opened about a hundred branches in the border town area under the name "Old Wang's Steamed Bun Shop".

Each household shares a profit with Wang's steamed bun shop. If you calculate it one by one, each household only gets two or three taels a year, which is barely enough to make a living.

Put them together, and it's passable.

But this amount of money is still too little. The money spent on the two houses and two shops that were bought in the prefectural city did not touch the Wang family's foundation.

That money was secretly taken out by Old Mrs. Wang and lent out at interest rates through Zhang Zhan's connections, all under the supervision of the government.

If you lend out 1,000 taels of silver, you have to get back 1,100 taels a month later.

She also took advantage of the time difference with Zhang Zhan to find out where there were cheap houses for sale, and joined forces with Qian Deyi, a middleman in Nanhe Town, to buy those houses.

They simply make a private agreement without going through the official registration process at the government office. Once a suitable person is found, they resell the house, thus saving on all the transfer fees and profiting from the difference in price.

When Mrs. Wang was looking at houses, her eyes were sharp and discerning; the same was true when she was looking at shops.

Through this scheme, Qian Deyi earned a considerable amount of money as a middleman, and with the county magistrate's endorsement, he naturally kept his mouth shut even tighter.

The buying, selling, and renting of houses are subject to the great power of the local county magistrate. As long as it is not malicious price gouging and has been reported to the county government, Old Lady Wang's actions do not violate the law.

As for Zhang Zhan, he also earned tens of thousands of taels of silver and naturally admired Old Madam Wang very much.

Ten thousand taels of silver was just a month's expenses for the Zhang family, but it was shared by more than 100 people. Now that Zhang Zhan could earn so much on his own, he naturally felt more confident.

Seeing that Yongding County has become better and better since he took office, there are now very few people starving to death.

A significant number of people from neighboring counties have also migrated to Yongding County.

The number of crimes in Yongding County has also decreased. In the past two years, there have been no serious homicides in Yongding County.

He also saved several cases of human trafficking, and once even persuaded a group of bandits who wanted to reform themselves without bloodshed.

The words of persuasion were actually something Zhang Zhan had specifically asked Old Mrs. Wang for advice in a letter, and it was Old Mrs. Wang who told him them.

In this way, Zhang Zhan has already made outstanding contributions.

Promotion is just around the corner; it all depends on whether he's willing to do it.

Those who once mocked him for coming from a wealthy county to a poor one now deeply regret their actions.

Nobody knows how much money Old Mrs. Wang has these days.

She attributed everything the Wang family owned to Xiao Ayu and used it to do similar things.

Xiao Ayu's space now holds tens of thousands of taels of silver, as well as many house deeds and land deeds.

Apart from Xiao Ayu, no one else in the Wang family knows this yet.

On the way to the prefectural city, Xiao Ayu was extremely excited, as this was her first time traveling far from home.

The carriage that Grandma arranged was very comfortable, and there was no bumpy ride at all.

This is practically like going on a study abroad trip.

(End of this chapter)