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

Yang felt Xu Huizhen up and down and said, "My dear, your little arms and legs are like tender cucumbers. Don't let them get you into trouble. I have the upper hand over that old witch Zhang. Her damn wives are no good either."

Xu Huizhen smiled brightly: "Mom, the girls of the Xu family are not easy to bully. If you want to hit me, you have to see if their claws have grown fully!"

Yang laughed heartily: "They are all my good children, not a single bad one! Our family may be small, but we are united. That old witch Zhang is just a fool. She keeps putting little witches in her son's room every other day. How can she be a decent person? How can our family business withstand such corruption? All these concubines and illegitimate children have broken the morale of the family."

Xu Huizhen really likes this mother-in-law with positive values. She can use an abacus with her hands and works diligently. She never puts on airs or acts domineering and has never had an argument with her daughter-in-law.

Xu Huizhen helped Yang lie on the mule cart for a while. Fighting was strenuous work and she didn't want to tire the old lady out. She also took out a water bag and fed the old lady some spiritual spring water for conditioning.

Yang's side was described as a loving mother and a filial son, while Zhang's side was in chaos.

Zhang wanted to take a car, but didn't want to use the money given by her parents. How could Zhang, who was used to fine clothes and delicious food, eat that black steamed bun that was harder than stone?

Zhang called her daughters-in-law together for a small meeting: "You have all seen today how the clansmen have treated us since the tragedy that befell our family. Who would have dared to do this when the master was still alive? Now we have women and children, and it's impossible for us to walk to Nurgan. Let's discuss how to get a car from each family. That would be the right thing to do."

The daughters-in-law were also very tired. Their feet were swollen from walking all morning. They also wanted to buy a car. However, it would cost a lot of money to bribe the yamen runners and buy animals and vehicles, and no one was willing to spend the money in their pockets.

Zhang gritted her teeth and said, "It costs six taels of silver to buy a mule, and two taels is enough for a fully loaded carriage. I'll pay ten taels of silver, and you can share the rest."

The wife of a concubine's son is a calculating idiot. "Mother only calculated the cost of the car. Where will the money for the housekeeping come from? I've inquired, and if I want to live comfortably, I'll have to spend at least five hundred taels of silver. This was nothing in the past, but now that we don't have a man to support us, every penny we have is wasted."

Zhang's eyes rolled. "My family is in trouble. I can't let the concubines who follow the master go to waste. I'm afraid they won't be able to keep a child. They can't follow the master and end up like this."

Zhang's words were heard clearly by the daughters-in-law. Concubines, though usually disgusting, were now worth money. The ones the old witch gave them, the ones her colleagues gave her, and the ones the men found themselves outside could all be exchanged for silver. Every beautiful one could fetch a high price.

Finally, the seven people agreed that each family would pay 72 taels of silver to bribe the officials, and then go to Pengcheng to purchase vehicles and supplies.

Zhang hated the old man so much that she wanted to kill him. On the surface, he acted like a gentleman, but he had concubines in every room. This time, she sold them all to these sluts to save her from the pain of watching them.

Just as the Zhang family quieted down for a while, several elders from the clan came to beg for money. When Li Xiaoru was alive, he had always oppressed his own clansmen, but now he was suffering the consequences.

However, the old men underestimated the fighting power of Zhang and her daughters-in-law. Their faces were scratched until blood streaked. They dispersed only after being whipped by the yamen runners.

The weather in Jinling is still very hot even in autumn. The ancient means of transportation are really hard to describe. People who walk are exhausted, and those who ride in cars are like eggs whose yolks are almost shaken apart.

Li Yujin felt like a fish in a basin of water, swaying back and forth. The crappy mule cart had no shock absorption. The clothes he was wearing were almost rotten. When he looked up, he saw that his grandmother Yang and grandfather also had pale faces. He hurriedly used his mind to take out two motion sickness pills from the space and stuffed them into the marshmallow.

Li Yujin: "Grandma and Grandma bought this motion sickness medicine from Doctor Zhou. You and Grandpa should take it quickly, and you will feel better soon."

Yang hugged Li Yujin and kissed him twice, "My dear grandson, you are so filial. Your love for you is not in vain. Not to mention that the pills made by the imperial physician are quite sweet. Your mother is good at shopping, and the money she spends is really worth it."

After walking leisurely for an entire afternoon, a large group of people stopped at the post station in the evening. Even though the post station in the capital was very large, it could not accommodate so many people. Except for the yamen runners who took turns to rest in the store, everyone else rested in the yard of the post station and in the open space on the roadside.

Xu Huizhen spent two taels of silver to rent the firewood room of the post station. It was half filled with firewood, and there were wooden boards laid on the bricks as the so-called bed, with a black curtain in the middle.

Xu Huizhen took out a lot of medicinal powder from her space and sprinkled it on the ground. She hoped there wouldn't be any snakes, insects, rats, or ants in the woodshed. It looked unreliable. Sure enough, many woodlice and centipedes crawled out of the woodshed, and a few large rats also ran out. Xu Huizhen asked the servant to bring in the bedding and spread it on the bed so she could rest.

He also had the servants lead the animals to the barn at the post station and feed them high-quality fodder with plenty of bean cakes. This cost another five hundred copper coins.

The post station had a bathroom, and a large bucket of bath water cost 200 taels of silver. Even though the whole family used it sparingly, they still spent one or two taels of silver to wash themselves clean.

Yang sighed in worry, saying that the money spent on exile was like water. "Huizhen, let's just have some dry food tonight. The things at the post station are too expensive. We only go in and not out now, so we should save money. I'm worried."

"Don't worry, mother, you have a wife. Xu Huizhen whispered to Yang, 'Mother, I saw that the price of linen dropped by 10% this summer, so I dyed it and traded it with the Hu people for sheep. I made more than 3,000 taels. Don't worry, mother, our family has no money to spend."

Yang slapped her thigh in delight, "Back then, the match between you and Wen Ting was a top-notch one. Now it seems like you two are a match made in heaven!"

Xu Huizhen: "Mom, we have combined our wealth to make your family prosperous. You are enjoying this little bit of money, but it is not enough for you to spend. If you just sit at home, the money will be waving to you."

Yang smiled with her eyebrows curved: "You are already a mother but you are still as naughty as before. You are teasing me. I am just waiting to enjoy your blessing."

Xu Huizhen took the servant to the post station to buy some hot dishes: a plate of salted duck, a plate of pork elbow in rock sugar, a plate of scrambled eggs, a plate of fried river shrimp with leeks, a pot of salted pork and bamboo shoot soup, and a pot of rice. These dishes cost a tael and a half of silver.

The food at the post station is not exquisite, but at least the portions are large and filling, but it is too expensive.

The Li family and the servant sat on a bench made of boards and wolfed down a hot meal.

After dinner, Xu Huizhen took out the tea can and the servant made a big bowl of tea for everyone.

Li Wenting breathed a sigh of relief, finally coming back to life.