To get rich quickly, you need to be simple and rough

The entrance to the yamen was crowded with people. Li Wenting, carrying a bamboo basket, walked forward with his parents.

Today is the day when the exiles set out. The Li family followed the crowd and the yamen runners towards the north city gate.

It was drizzling, and the three members of the Li family were covered with oilcloth and moving forward step by step.

In ancient times, the roads were extremely muddy when it rained, and your shoes would fall off when you walked on them.

Fortunately, the shoes Xu Huizhen had thoughtfully sent had straps, so the three members of the Li family avoided the fate of walking barefoot.

When they reached the Ten-Li Pavilion, the rain had stopped and the sky was clear. The Ten-Li Pavilion was crowded with relatives and friends who had come to see them off. The sleeves of the yamen runners were heavy with silver sent by relatives.

Xu Huizhen, along with her children and servants, had been waiting here for an hour driving three mule carts.

When Li Boyan Yang saw her two grandsons, tears burst down her face.

Yang wiped her eyes and said, "My dear Huizhen, you have done a great job. Our family is grateful to you."

Xu Huizhen held her mother-in-law's hand and said, "Mom, it's better for us to have a whole family."

Xu Huizhen's family and the Yang family both sent their children to bring travel expenses and food, filling up a whole cart.

Xu Huizhen bought back all the servants and sent them with money to Nurgandusi to build a house, so that the whole family wouldn't be left without a place to live.

Xu Huizhen bribed the yamen runners with five hundred taels of silver to untie the ropes for Li Wenting, Yang Shi, and Li Boyan, so that they could also travel on the mule cart that Xu Huizhen brought.

The yamen runners, armed with their travel permits and household registrations, had no fear of these people escaping. Such a large group of people was worth a fortune. Besides the gifts to their superiors, they could also earn a few hundred taels of profit from this official mission. It was a lucrative assignment for sure.

After bidding farewell to their relatives and friends, the Li family members followed the exiled crowd forward. Yamen runners rode their horses and kept shuttling back and forth among the procession.

The means of transportation varied from flatbed trucks to mule carts and even donkeys. Of course, those without money had to walk.

This included the family of Li Xiaoru, the legitimate heir. Li Xiaoru and his eight adult sons were killed by the emperor, but the elderly, weak, women and children in the family survived.

The family was driven forward by yamen runners. Li Xiaoru's wife, Zhang, was disheveled and no longer the dignified lady of the first rank. She had to be supported by her daughters-in-law in turn as she walked forward. The daughters-in-law were miserable. Their children were not as troubled as this old woman.

The old witch was always capable of causing trouble, and even then, she still didn't forget to impose rules on her daughters-in-law. She constantly used ancestral rules and filial piety to pressure them. Zhang Shi wanted to keep all the travel expenses and gifts sent by her daughters-in-law's families.

But who would still indulge her at this time? These silver bills are life-saving things, and they will be needed for future life, children and marriage. Zhang made explicit and implicit suggestions for a long time, but no one paid her the money.

Zhang was furious: "Eldest and second wife, my legs are not strong enough, you guys take turns carrying me."

Zhang's words stirred up a hornet's nest. The eldest daughter-in-law spat at Zhang and said, "You are dreaming of a lifetime. It's already this late. Stop acting like an old feudal lord and using your unfilial behavior to pressure others. I've been exiled, and I'm still pampering you, an old witch. If it weren't for the children, who would be willing to endure such suffering?"

Zhang's face turned pale with anger. Just as she was about to curse, the yamen runner whipped her with a whip: "Are you tired of living? If you dare to make a loud noise, I'll whip you to death, old man."

Zhang endured the pain and dared not make a sound. This time, without her daughter-in-law's support, she was able to walk.

After walking more than thirty miles in the morning, the bailiff finally told us to rest.

The yamen runners carried baskets of black flour steamed buns, and two yamen runners carried white flour steamed buns. Ten steamed buns cost one tael of silver. The prices skyrocketed. Steamed buns that cost two copper coins were sold at sky-high prices by these guys.

Even then, it was first come, first served. If they were sold out, they would have to eat the black flour steamed bread. Soon, the whole basket of steamed bread was sold out.

Xu Huizhen lit the charcoal she had brought and cooked a pot of seaweed and egg drop soup. It tasted quite good with the steamed buns and street food sent by relatives and friends. These days, street food is mostly pickled meat and vegetables, mainly for easier storage.

As soon as the family finished eating, they saw Zhang walk up to the Li family.

Zhang arrogantly ordered Yang: "We, the Boyan family, are all of the same blood. The elders in the family are too tired to walk. If you give up your car for the elders, it will be considered as your filial piety. In these difficult times, the money for food and travel that each family brings should be handed over to the family for unified distribution.

Yang: "I gave you face, didn't I? Zhang, why don't you take a piss and look at your own face? We are almost five generations apart and you are here to act like an elder. Your family is lacking virtue for eight generations. After my man passed the imperial examination, you bastards tried every means to prevent him from taking the exam again. You only let him teach in the clan school. Li Xiaoru is a bastard who harms people. He had a good life, but he made all nine clans suffer with him. Now you, Zhang, dare to bully me. If I don't beat you to death today, I will be suffocated for the rest of my life."

Yang was furious and she grabbed Zhang's hair and slapped her twice. Zhang's daughters-in-law saw that their mother-in-law was being taken advantage of and rushed over to help.

Xu Huizhen was not idle either. She picked up a stick of firewood and attacked Zhang's daughter-in-law. Li Wenting, Li Boyan, Li Yujin, Li Yuze and four servants came to help.

In a short while, Zhang's gang was beaten black and blue.

Four yamen runners came towards the crowd, whips in hand: "What are you doing? Don't fight if you have nothing better to do."

Li Wenting was quick to act and slipped a five-liang silver ingot into the yamen runner's sleeve. The runner calmly stuffed the silver into his sleeve pocket and looked at Li Wenting and asked, "What happened? Who started the fight?"

Li Wenting: "Sir, our family was having dinner when Zhang insisted on taking our mule cart for food. She wanted to take over our family even though she was almost five generations older than us. She started hitting people the moment she said she didn't give in."

The yamen runner took the money from Li Wenting and immediately accused Zhang of causing trouble. He whipped Zhang and her gang and gave them a good beating. "You old woman, you're bullying people again. You've been bullying everyone you catch lately. You deserve a beating!"

He said that he was worried about the Zhang family and their group. They were whipped a few times and were taken away by the yamen runners.

Yang's hair was just a little messy, and she had no injuries on her body. "That shameless Zhang is too young to fight me. After all these years, this wicked woman hasn't changed at all. She wants to own everything she wants. It's like we, the side branches, owe her something."

Xu Huizhen immediately flattered her mother-in-law: "That's because when I followed the family around, I saw everything. Even ten bundles of that shameless old Zhang wouldn't be enough for me to deal with. Zhang is really out of her mind. Just look at how much fun Zhang has in her family!"