I travel back and forth between ancient and modern times, hoarding goods to raise my grandchildren a

After Butler Tao was taken away, Yu Wanwan couldn't wait to open one of the long, narrow boxes.

There was a painting inside.

Yu Wanwan didn't know how to appreciate it, but Butler Zhou did.

Butler Zhou stood next to Yu Wanwan and looked at the painting with her.

"Lord Tao is truly generous, actually gifting the old lady a painting personally painted by His Majesty."

This time, Yu Wanwan understood.

In short, this painting is extremely, extremely, extremely valuable.

It's probably the kind of painting that wealthy people and officials in the Dasheng Dynasty could only dream of.

I wonder if anyone would buy this painting in modern times.

She remembered that there was no Dasheng Dynasty in the history she had studied, and she didn't know if anyone knew about the emperor of this dynasty.

Seeing that the housekeeper still wanted to appreciate the painting, she casually handed it to him, asking him to put it away after he had looked at it.

She then went to open another box.

Instantly, her eyes lit up.

Inside the box was a set of exceptionally beautiful ruby ​​jewelry, adorned with lifelike carvings of butterflies and orchids.

Despite being an elegant and luxurious piece of jewelry, it doesn't appear gaudy at all.

Instead, it gives people a sense of noble aloofness.

The design of this headdress is absolutely brilliant.

Girls are naturally drawn to sparkly things, and when Yu Wanwan opened the box containing jewelry, the third and fifth brothers couldn't help but gather around to look.

They all came over, and Tao Xinran, who was with them, was naturally pulled over as well.

Upon seeing the jewelry in the box, Tao Xinran exclaimed in surprise, "Ah, this is my mother's dowry!"

After she finished speaking, she realized that she shouldn't have said those words, so she quickly shut her mouth.

Yu Wanwan took her words to heart.

She didn't feel sorry for Madam Tao giving her her dowry. In these days, people can't even fill their stomachs, so what's the use of keeping a dowry?

She was thinking that Madam Tao had a dowry.

What about her? She married a general, so she should have a dowry, right?

She'll have to go through her dowry later to see what she can take to the modern world and sell for money.

Seeing that the third and fifth brothers also liked the headdress, she handed the small box to them so they could continue admiring it.

She then opened the next box.

It is a set of the Four Treasures of the Study.

They don't know how to appreciate.

But it doesn't matter, since it was sent by the Minister of Revenue, it must be quite valuable.

You can take it back and sell it.

This time, no one was around to admire the set of writing implements, so she simply closed the box.

Open the last box.

This time, Yu Wanwan's face lit up with a radiant smile.

She was an ordinary person; she loved gold, and she loved Lady Tao the most.

She even had another box of gold sent to her.

After reluctantly closing the box, she directly stored the gold and the unappreciated calligraphy and painting supplies into her spatial storage space in front of everyone.

Last time, she took something out of her spatial storage in front of everyone.

Back then, it was said that these things were given to them by the gods, so everyone immediately assumed that these things must have been given to the gods.

The thought of giving these things to the gods made Steward Zhou stop looking at the painting and hurriedly roll it up and hand it to Yu Wanwan.

"Madam, please give this painting to the gods."

The third and fifth sisters stopped looking at the jewelry and slammed the box containing it shut.

He also handed it to Yu Wanwan.

"Grandmother, please give this headdress to the deity. It will look very beautiful on the deity."

In the eyes of the third and fifth brothers, the fairy was an incredibly beautiful fairy.

Yu Wanwan felt it was fine to let them misunderstand like this, so she didn't explain.

She put the things away.

She turned to look at Steward Zhou: "Steward Zhou, where is my dowry?"

The original owner was mentally unstable and only knew that she had been sent to the general's mansion. In her memory, there was no information about dowry or betrothal gifts.

When Yu Wanwan brought up the topic of dowry, Butler Zhou was somewhat troubled.

In the end, she told the truth: "Your Excellency, you did not have a dowry when you were sent to the General's Mansion."

Yu Wanwan!!!

That's truly her good family.

They hastily sent her to the general's mansion without even preparing a dowry for her.

***

The Office of the Minister of Rites.

"Madam, I heard that even the servants in the Ministry of Revenue's residence are eating white rice today. They say it's the best white rice they've ever eaten in their lives, even better than the tribute rice bestowed by the Emperor."

While massaging her, Madam Yu's head maid told her what she had overheard outside when she went out to dig up tree roots earlier that day.

For some reason, the servants of the Minister of Revenue, who usually avoid them, have suddenly started chatting with them.

They were still savoring the taste of the white rice.

Their devout demeanor was as if they had joined a cult.

Madam Yu frowned: "How could that be? Madam Zhen loves to meddle in other people's business. When the famine first started, she meddlesomely took out the family's grain to feed those lowly people."

In the end, even their stored grain wasn't enough to feed them, and even her youngest daughter had to go out and dig for clay. How could they possibly afford white rice?

She secretly paid close attention to the Ministry of Revenue's residence, and when she learned that Tao Xinran was also digging for kaolin clay outside, she was quite pleased with herself for a while.

The head maid hesitated for a moment, then replied, "Hmm, it probably isn't true."

She dared not tell his wife that she had personally witnessed the people in the Ministry of Revenue's residence eating white rice.

There were a few people in the Ministry of Revenue's office who were particularly outrageous. They not only said what they wanted to say, but they also deliberately saved rice and went to eat it in front of them to tempt them.

She was afraid that if she told her, the lady would be furious.

But even though she didn't say anything, others did.

This person was none other than Madam Tao herself.

She hadn't set foot in the Ministry of Rites' residence for over two years.

But they suddenly came looking for me today.

And they didn't come empty-handed.

She was carrying a food box containing a bowl of rice that had been cooked at their residence.

There is also water in a bamboo tube.

"Mrs. Yu, it's been a long time. You look even more beautiful than before. It seems you've been doing really well lately."

Mrs. Yu is indeed doing quite well.

More than twenty servants in the manor starved to death, but that did not affect her ability to eat half full at every meal.

The flesh on her face has only shrunk a little bit compared to before, which actually makes her look even younger.

The water in the entire Ministry of Rites' residence was reserved for her and Yu Qingqing; she even washed her face last month.

Her face looks clean now.

Unlike Madam Tao, who was extremely thin.

Hearing Madam Tao praise her, she proudly puffed out her chest.

“Our family had the foresight to stockpile a lot of food before the famine broke out, so we have indeed lived a slightly better life than other families over the past three years.”

She had to make Madam Tao envious of her.

The next moment, she changed the subject and said, "Your timing is really bad. We had a lot of food stored up in our manor before, but we've been using it up a lot in the last three years. We started running out of food the day before yesterday."

Hmph, don't think that just because you praise her as soon as you arrive, she will agree to lend you grain.

After showing off, you have to start playing the victim to make her give up on wanting to borrow money.