Chapter 510: Going to the Prefecture City
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
The imperial provincial examination lasted for eight days. Old Madam Wang did not plan to reach early and wait for Wang Chuangui, so she naturally travelled slowly on the road.
When they passed by some villages or cities, Old Madam Wang would tell Little Ah Yu stories about them.
Little Ah Yu always listened with relish.
“Grandma, the stories you’re telling is even more exciting than the storyteller’s!” Little Ah Yu’s eyes burned. “In the future, we’ll open a storyteller shop here. You write the stories, and I’ll tell it. We can earn money again.”
Old Madam Wang laughed loudly and tapped Little Ah Yu’s nose. “When did you become so greedy?”
She wanted to open a shop for everything.
There was already a bun shop at home, and Chen Yuan was franchising their business outside. He had already opened more than a hundred shops in the border city area under the Wang Family Steamed Bun Shop brand.
Each shop distributed dividends to the Wang Family Steamed Bun Shop. They would receive about two to three taels a year from each shop. It was considered very little.
But when added together, it was still alright.
However, this money was still too little. The money spent on the two houses and two shops in the prefecture capital did not even touch the Wang Family’s foundation.
Old Madam Wang had privately gotten someone to take that money out to earn interest. Through Zhang Zhan, it was carried out under the supervision of the officials.
If she lent out 1,000 taels of silver, she would recover 1,100 taels of silver every month.
She also used Zhang Zhan’s connections to find out which places had cheap houses for sale. She worked with the agents in Nanhe Town to buy those houses.
It was only a private agreement, and they would not need to go to the government office to complete the household transfer procedures. When there was a suitable buyer, they would sell the house. In the middle, they would be able to save on the various expenses of the household transfer and earn the middle price.
Old Madam Wang looked at the houses with a burning gaze, and did the same with the shops.
Through this move, Qian Deyi earned a lot of agent fees. With the county magistrate’s endorsement, his mouth was naturally tighter.
The local county magistrate had great authority to supervise the sale and rental of property. As long as they did not maliciously raise the price or lower it, and they had reported it to the county office, Old Madam Wang’s actions did not violate the law.
As for Zhang Zhan, he had also earned more than 10,000 taels of silver. He naturally admired Old Madam Wang very much.
To the Zhang family, 10,000 taels of silver was only a month’s expense, but this expense was also shared by more than 100 people.
Now that Zhang Zhan could earn so much himself, he was naturally more confident.
Yongding County had become better and better after he took office, there were very few people who starved to death now.
There were still many people from the nearby county cities who had entered Yongding County.
There were fewer crimes throughout Yongding County now. In the past two years, there had never been a vicious murder case in Yongding County.
He had even solved a few human trafficking cases. There was even one time when he convinced a group of bandits to turn over a new leaf.
The words of persuasion were specially written by Zhang Zhan after consulting Old Madam Wang. Old Madam Wang had given him the words.
In this way, Zhang Zhan’s contributions were already outstanding.
Promotion was just around the corner. It depended on whether he was willing or not.
The people who had once mocked him for coming from a rich county to a poor county were now filled with regret.
Now, no one knew how much money Old Madam Wang had.
She directly credited everything that the Wang Family had to Little Ah Yu and used them to do similar things.
Little Ah Yu’s spatial pocket was now filled with more than 10,000 taels of silver and many title deeds.
Other than Little Ah Yu, the rest of the Wang Family did not know.
On the way to the prefecture capital, Little Ah Yu was especially excited. This was the first time she was traveling so far.
The carriage arranged by Grandma was also very comfortable and did not feel bumpy at all.
This was simply like going on a school trip..