Divorced woman with child travels through time

Zhang Jing sneered, "This Lord Wang is no ordinary person. I advise you to hand over the money truthfully!"

"Tch!" The magistrate got angry when he heard this. "Zhang Jing, don't be so ungrateful. You think you're so high and mighty and don't want to go along with us, fine. But who doesn't want to live a better life, right?"

"How come you're having a hard time! As soon as Lord Wang came, he paid your monthly wages. Your salary of two taels of silver isn't even enough for you to live on?"

"How can that be enough! I have a large family of five or six people, plus servants and young men. We need to be extravagant. If I grow up, how will we make a living?" Magistrate Gao was so angry that his face turned red, and he almost blurted out that he had embezzled money.

"Hmph, you're just an ordinary scholar, sitting in this position, not thinking about the ruler and the people, but only thinking about being like those sycophantic dogs!" Zhang Jing wanted to point at him and curse again.

"It's better than you, poor and destitute, all ragged!" Magistrate Gao retorted sarcastically. "What? You're usually so quiet, but now that Lord Wang is here, you've got someone backing you up, and you're starting to get cocky. You want to mess with me? Let's see what you're capable of! The Jiang family is right there, go ahead and try!"

"You!" Zhang Jing was speechless for a moment. He seemed unsure of Wang Erniu's attitude towards the Jiang family.

"How's that going? Speechless now!" The chubby Gao Zhishi grinned smugly. "Go ahead, go and stab Wang Erniu in the back! See how he deals with you..."

Gao Zhishi sat down smugly and ignored him completely. The others also did their work with ulterior motives, each fulfilling their duties.

Zhang Jing sighed and stopped arguing with them. In the end, it would be up to Wang Erniu to make the decision.

Wang Erniu went to the workshop to supervise the construction. Recently, Chen Wenfang had been spending several days there in a row, whenever her child went to school.

"Don't move, don't move! Almost there!" Shen Jianwei, fully armed and wrapped from head to toe, carried two square boxes out from several large kilns that were several meters high next to him.

"Make way!" Shen Jianwei shouted.

Chen Wenfang and Xiao Lu were already far apart, and upon seeing this, they took a few more steps back. Wu Xian and the others who were following behind also took a few steps back.

Shen Jianwei placed the box on the table and carefully opened it. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the two intact large pieces of glass.

After waiting for a long time, the glass finally cooled completely. Chen Wenfang carefully approached it. The glass was uneven, pitted, and had some small air bubbles. Compared with the beautiful and transparent glass in her previous life, it was like heaven and earth. She couldn't help but feel disappointed. "Is this all? So uneven?"

“It needs to be polished.” Shen Jianwei said, unsurprised, pointing to the relatively flat piece. “This piece is for what you need, and that piece is mine.”

"Okay. So it'll be transparent after polishing? When can I come over to check on it?"

"Three days later." Shen Jianwei didn't even look at her, sprinkled on the jade-refining sand, picked up the white felt next to him and began to polish it.

"Alright, I'll head back now." Chen Wenfang glanced at the sky; just then, the delivery boy arrived with Wang Erniu.

"Husband!" Chen Wenfang ran over excitedly and clung to his arm. "You've come to pick me up!"

"Yes!" Wang Erniu chuckled, handing over a bag of pastries. "This is a new honey-glazed pastry, have a taste!"

"Mmm!" Chen Wenfang took it, opened it, and popped one into her mouth. Mmm, so sweet.

"Greetings, Madam!" The young waiter bowed and tried to go inside.

"Wait a minute, open the food and let me see!" Chen Wenfang wanted to see what they were eating. The little deer had visibly gained some weight in the past few days, but it was still too thin.

"Madam, please take a look!" The young waiter obediently opened the food box. Inside were duck soup, fish soup, and three or four other dishes that didn't look very appetizing.

"How did you manage to cook this dish like this! Next time, send them meat, Dongpo pork knuckle and Dongpo pork, every two days. If you don't have enough money, I'll pay for it," Chen Wenfang said fiercely.

"Yes!" The young waiter felt wronged but dared not speak, since it wasn't his decision.

“Madam, I can eat my fill. These dishes are fine too. I don’t necessarily need meat. That’s too expensive. I’m sorry to have troubled you.” Little Deer stood obediently and bowed, speaking like a little adult.

"It's okay, you need to eat well to grow well!" Chen Wenfang said without waiting for a reply, and tossed a piece into his mouth.

The little deer instantly lost its adult demeanor, covering its mouth in surprise like a child, exclaiming, "Wow, this is so sweet, so delicious!"

"Here!" Chen Wenfang reached out and scooped up a handful, putting it into the rice bowl beside her. "Eat slowly after you finish your meal. I'm leaving now!"

The little deer waved goodbye to her, carefully holding the bowl and counting the sweet honey-glazed dumplings, overjoyed.

"Master, have a taste!" Little Deer held up the honey-glazed cake, stood on tiptoe, and offered a piece to his mouth.

Shen Jianwei turned her head and looked at the little deer who finally showed a childlike smile. She leaned forward and ate the honey-fried cake.

"Master, is it sweet?"

"Hmm, not bad!"

"Then I'll save it for Master to enjoy later." Little Deer licked her lips and swallowed the honey-fried cake that finally lost its sweetness.

"No, you can eat it yourself."

Shen Jianwei felt a pang of sadness, turned her head away to stop the tears from falling, and focused on polishing the glass.

"Waiter, when you come back later, please deliver two catties of honey-glazed cakes to the lady's account!"

"Okay, sure!" The young waiter looked at him in surprise. Was this master really that arrogant? But he was still very good to his little apprentice.

Inside the carriage, Chen Wenfang forced honey-fried meat into Wang Erniu's mouth.

"Wife, I don't like sweets." Wang Erniu tried to dodge left and right, but he couldn't avoid it and was forced to eat a piece.

"Just let you try it, you said there are lots of people lining up to buy this!"

"There are quite a lot. There are even shops selling Chen's pastries here, but they're a bit expensive." Wang Erniu reluctantly ate a piece and shook his head.

"If you opened a workshop here, business would be really good."

"Of course, I know my wife's abilities very well," Wang Erniu flattered.

"It's time to open a shop, otherwise we'll just be sitting idle. The only problem is we don't have enough manpower. I'll find some people later!" Chen Wenfang thought to herself.

"No rush. Patriarch Jiang invited us to dinner, so we can ask him for the people. You just need to provide the technical skills!" Wang Erniu said dismissively.

“That won’t do. He sells alcohol, and I sell snacks. It’s better if we don’t mix the two,” Chen Wenfang insisted.

"Why do you think it won't work, my wife? We're in a business relationship after all!"

“Cooperation is fine, but you also need to have your own business. If you cooperate with others for everything, what if the partnership falls apart? Even the Jiang family head isn’t omnipotent.” Chen Wenfang insisted that it was best to have your own business.

"If my wife thinks it's good, then it's good." Wang Erniu thought for a moment and still supported her.

"Okay!" Chen Wenfang started making plans. Looking at the crowded people outside, she thought, if we're going to open a business, we should open the biggest one.