The disgraced official I took care of was actually Zhu Houcong's childhood friend.

“I know a lot of daughters of officials, and I often pay tribute to the prefect. If I want you and your daughter to get in, it’s just a matter of a word from me.”

Zhou Chu knew very well that you couldn't just be nice to someone like Aunt Liu.

The better you treat her, the more she'll take advantage of you. You have to make her fear you so she won't dare to have any bad intentions towards you.

Aunt Liu turned pale upon hearing this.

She had heard some things about the Feng family's shop.

However, these were all rumors before, and Zhou Chu never admitted to them.

Hearing Zhou Chu say it himself now, I felt a chill run down my spine.

The handsome young man in front of her suddenly became terrifying; even Zhou Chu's smile seemed sinister to her.

"I will always speak highly of Qingqing to everyone I meet from now on, and I will never have any other inappropriate thoughts."

Aunt Liu hurriedly assured her.

"Alright, you and your daughter can stay at the shop for the next couple of days. We'll buy you a house in a couple of days."

After Zhou Chu finished speaking, he gestured for A Dong to take Aunt Liu to the guest room.

After Aunt Liu left, Shen Qing looked at Zhou Chu with a face full of gratitude.

"Thanks to you, otherwise I wouldn't know what to do. You've thought of everything so thoroughly."

Shen Qing recalled Zhou Chu's words, which were perfectly watertight.

She knew Aunt Liu's character very well; evil people need evil people to teach them a lesson.

With Zhou Chu's presence intimidating her, she couldn't cause any trouble.

"Are you implying that we don't need to buy a house? And that you want them, mother and daughter, to live in your house?"

Zhou Chu could tell what Shen Qing was thinking just by looking at her hesitant expression.

Shen Qing had already bought back the original Shen family house and hired many servants.

Upon hearing this, Shen Qing nodded timidly.

The decisive and efficient owner and manager of Yun Gui Fang in front of outsiders is like a student in front of Zhou Chu.

"Remember, you can keep them in the house outside, but never bring them home."

Zhou Chu took a sip of tea and said.

“You’re always busy with business, leaving such a troublemaker at home. Who knows what kind of trouble she might cause? She talks a good game, but whether she can actually do it is still unknown.”

"What if she gets malicious intent and conspires with your servants to harm you? Wouldn't all the family property end up in their hands then?"

Upon hearing this, Shen Qing felt a chill run down her spine.

"You can never be too careful. If you don't want these kinds of people to betray you, don't give them the chance to betray you, not even a little bit."

Zhou Chu tapped the table and said.

"understood."

Shen Qing said in a low voice.

"No matter how good your relationship with your younger brother becomes in the future, don't take him back. Remember that."

Zhou Chu glanced at Shen Qingdao.

"remember."

Shen Qing hurriedly assured him.

"Alright, I've finished dealing with things here. I still have other things to do. Oh, by the way, go find my cousin and have him investigate that Hu Wei. I'll make him return every penny of the money he took."

As Zhou Chu spoke, a cold glint flashed in his eyes.

Zhou Chu returned to the residence outside the capital.

After a night of absorption and sedimentation, the sugar water is still black, but it is clearly much clearer than yesterday.

The bottom was filled with a lot of impurities.

The next step is filtering.

In this era, there was no filter paper, but Zhou Chu didn't need filter paper either.

By using a steamer cloth to cover the buns in two layers, you can perfectly filter out impurities and activated charcoal from the sugar water.

100% filtration is impossible.

Even the most advanced filtering methods in later generations cannot achieve 100% accuracy.

Several layers of cloth can filter out more than 95% of the impurities.

That's enough.

The icings of this era contained many impurities.

Even so, icing is still as precious as gold.

There's a saying that an ounce of icing sugar is worth an ounce of gold.

Even among the wealthy and powerful, many were reluctant to eat icing sugar.

too expensive.

It's expensive because the method of making icing in this era is frighteningly complicated.

Even so, the resulting frosting was not satisfactory, appearing slightly yellow.