Catching an adulterer at the beginning, the mistress of the Marquisate went crazy

After seeing Zheng's mother off, Liu Tianshu's life hardly changed, but she always felt something was missing in her heart.

She knew that this was because she had not yet adapted to the fact that Zheng's mother had completely left her. Only as time passed and she got used to her current life, would that psychological gap be slowly filled with other things.

As the days passed, the weather in the capital finally cleared up, and the birthday banquet of the old lady of the Xu family arrived.

In the past, the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery had been in mourning. Even if invitations were sent to them, they would only give gifts and would not attend any banquets.

Now that the Marquis' Mansion is in mourning, they can no longer miss any banquets, big or small, in the capital.

Finally, she could go out and visit other people's houses. Hou didn't want to stay at home all the time, especially after the last banquet. She had seen all kinds of beautiful girls in the capital and was dazzled by the choices.

Now, more than a month has passed, and she has already selected several candidates for her future daughter-in-law, but she cannot directly ask the two families to meet each other. Taking advantage of the banquet hosted by the old lady of the Xu family, she has already made appointments with several ladies to meet here.

Those who can catch the eyes of Hou family are naturally not ordinary people, but those people are not only valued by Hou family, but also selected by others from the Hou Mansion.

Although Gu Jinhui has already achieved the title of Juren, it is not easy for him to pass the imperial examination, and his future official career is uncertain.

At the same time, he was the second son of the Marquisate. After his elder brother inherited the title of Marquis, he had already lost the qualification to inherit the title.

A young man with an uncertain future and no title to inherit, the big families were unwilling to gamble with their daughters whom they had brought up with great effort since childhood.

Although Hou was unwilling, she could only choose from the legitimate daughters, the second legitimate daughters, or the favored concubine's daughters.

She knew her son's taste better than anyone else. He would definitely not like ordinary girls. Therefore, when choosing a daughter-in-law, Hou had only two requirements: one was that she must be of noble birth, and the other was that she must be beautiful.

As for these two requirements, it was neither difficult nor easy. In the end, she chose two or three families.

At today's banquet, she wanted to get to know more about the three daughters-in-law she had chosen.

At the same time, there were several illegitimate daughters and sons in the mansion who had reached marriageable age.

Even if she didn't care who those people married, she, as their stepmother, was the only one who could arrange marriages for them. Therefore, this time when she went out, she not only brought her two illegitimate daughters with her, but also brought Gu Jintong and the fourth young master Gu Jinqiu with her.

Of course, with such a good opportunity to show off, it is impossible for Hou not to take Gu Jinqing out.

As for matters like going to the birthday banquet, it would be enough for Hou Shi to bring people from the Marquis' Mansion. Liu Tianshu didn't want to get involved. After sending Hou Shi and others out, she stayed in the room alone to settle the accounts.

While calculating, Liu Tianshu suddenly thought of something and called Mingyi.

"Miss, what are your orders?"

"Well...it's only July and the weather is already so cold. I think today will be a cold winter. Ask someone to prepare some more charcoal."

With the experience of Liu Tianshu's tea business growing several times, Ming Yi instantly became interested when he heard Liu Tianshu asking him to prepare charcoal.

"Miss, how much charcoal do you think we should prepare?"

"This……"

Looking at Ming Yi's expectant eyes, Liu Tianshu smiled bitterly.

"Although the price of charcoal will increase this winter, it won't be too much. However, this winter may really be a cold winter. Instead of preparing charcoal here, you might as well prepare some more high-quality leather and wait to sell it after winter."

The best leather is priceless, which is much more than the money earned from charcoal, but even a little bit counts.

"Miss, do you think I can sell out the silver charcoal worth 100,000 taels of silver I asked someone to prepare?"

"It should be about the same, right?"

Liu Tianshu tried hard to recall the winter of her previous life. It was indeed a cold winter because many families did not have enough charcoal to prepare and the price had indeed risen a lot. However, she could not remember how much it had increased, and she was even less sure how big the gap was.

However, charcoal is not like tea. If it is stored for a long time, the taste of tea will be wrong. Even if charcoal cannot be sold this year, it can be sold next year.

Thinking that she still had more than 200,000 taels of silver in her hand, Liu Tianshu felt that she could not just sit there and wait for death.

“I don’t know what the situation will be like at that time, but you can use 50,000 taels of silver to prepare high-quality and low-quality charcoal. At the same time, I will give you another 100,000 taels of silver to prepare more cotton and various grades of cloth for the winter.

If possible, it would be best to send people out to collect more furs. It would be best if all of them could be made into winter clothes before winter comes. If that is not possible, we can only sell the furs directly. "

As Liu Tianshu spoke, she took out 150,000 taels of silver from the cash box and handed it to him.

"Okay, I'll do it right away."

After receiving the banknote, Ming Yi turned around and left. Liu Tianshu opened her mouth to call him but it was too late.

"Forget it, let's talk about it later..."

Liu Tianshu withdrew her hand, sat back down, picked up the account book and abacus beside her and started calculating.

There are only 500 taels of silver left in the public account of the Marquis' Mansion. There is nothing to calculate. What she is calculating now is the income from her shop and farm.

Since she was looking for an opportunity to leave the Marquis' Mansion, she naturally had to settle all her accounts. She would find an opportunity to send back those that could be sent back to the Liu family, and she would also keep a record of those that could not be sent back so that they could be sent back to the Liu family later.

Of course, the Liu family doesn't lack her dowry, but it can't be given to the Marquis's Mansion or Gu Jinyun for nothing.

At the same time, since the two girls, Qingshan Kanxue, had followed her, she also had to make arrangements for them.

These two girls were bought by Lin from outside, and their families could not be found long ago. The best way to settle them down was to let them get married.

Under normal circumstances, Qingshan Guanxue would either become Gu Jinyun's concubines or marry the housekeeper in the mansion.

Since I am leaving, I naturally cannot let them stay in the Marquis' Mansion.

At the same time, the Liu family is not a good place to go, so their future will be more troublesome than Mother Zheng's.

She had gotten used to Ming Yi's help these days, and she instinctively wanted to ask Ming Yi for help whenever she had a problem. Suddenly, she remembered that he had left and was not here at the moment.

At the same time, she suddenly realized that she trusted Ming Yi too much, especially after this tea business, she trusted him more and more, and just now she directly gave him 150,000 taels of silver notes.

This is not a good sign, she must pay attention to it in the future.

At this moment, Aoyama Kansetsu pushed the door open and walked in.

"Madam, someone from Fuguangyuan just sent a message saying that Miss Qiangwei is pregnant."

"Really……"

Liu Tianshu smiled gently and instructed Qingshan, "Qingshan, go and tell Fuguangyuan to tell Qiangwei to come over and serve tea tomorrow."

"Madam, you have no news yet. We still have a chance before the news gets out..."