Does the villain stepmother have a headache again today!

Ruan Tao put away his thoughts and returned to Zhu Shi.

This time, as soon as the male protagonist "died in battle" at the border, Zhu started a new action.

And not long after, unprecedented conflicts erupted between the original owner and the old lady, among which Zhu's help was indispensable!

The fact that Mrs. Zhu is so active all of a sudden must be because she knew that the male protagonist did not die in battle, and she was certain that the original owner did not know, so she wanted to take advantage of the fact that the original owner was impatient and easily irritated, and used the old lady as a fuss...

There is no trace of Zhu's everywhere.

But what Zhu did was to push the original owner to the forefront.

But there is one thing that Ruan Tao can be sure of.

Although the old lady likes the Zhu family, what the old lady defends more is her son!

There is no news of the male lead being "died in battle", and if it spreads out, the male lead's life will be in danger. Therefore, the old lady will definitely not tell the truth to others, including Mrs. Zhu!

Those who know about this matter can only be people who are extremely trustworthy around the old lady!

For example Song Bo!

Uncle Song is an old man in the Hou's mansion, and he is loyal to the hero. Not only will Uncle Song not reveal the affairs of the hero.

Moreover, for more than a month, the old lady has been saying that she is sick and stays behind closed doors in Tongfuyuan, avoiding seeing others, for fear of being seen by others, it should be Uncle Song's idea.

Not Song Bo.

But other people around the old lady revealed the news!

Ruan Tao suddenly remembered what Ya Shi said today, when the old lady was playing the horse-sling in the small garden in the west of the city, before returning to the Hou's mansion, Yuan Ma deliberately went to the dim sum shop and took a few boxes of "snacks" from the old lady of the Ping family. ...

Since the old ladies of the Ping family can bribe Mama Yuan to do things, how can a person with such a thoughtful mind and tricks like Mrs. Zhu not be able to connect with Mama Yuan?

It's Mama Yuan.

Ruan Tao almost had a clue in his mind.

Just now, so many trivial things have been brought up around a Zhu family in today's game.

There are two other people in the game!

"Continue talking about the old lady of the Ping family." Ruan Tao picked up the tea cup and took a sip.

Among the other two people in the game, one of them was the old lady of the Heike family.

When Yashi turned back halfway before, he mentioned the old lady of the Heing family once, and roughly said that the Heing family in Huicheng was in the dyeing workshop, cloth and ready-made clothing business.

There are business contacts with Nanping Houfu.

Right now, Ya Shi had time to talk to Ruan Tao and He Ma in detail.

In fact, it is far more than just cloth and ready-made clothes. The Nanping Hou Mansion will buy it from the Ping family.

It also includes the clothes, bed sheets and quilt covers of all servants in the mansion, as well as curtains, brocade curtains, and light gauze curtains. The mansion also bought them from the Heike shop.

There are also a large amount of silk and satin, cotton and linen, and raw silk hoarded in the treasury, all of which are left by the Heike family.

These are visible on the surface.

There are many more that you can't see on the bright side!

For example, there is a tradition of making new clothes every winter.

The thirteen cities of Nanping are all fiefdoms of Nanping Houfu.

So every autumn and winter, Lord Hou would ask Uncle Song to make winter clothes uniformly and send them to the officials in Shisancheng.

The quantity of these cloth and ready-made clothes alone is quite a lot.

More importantly, in Huicheng, and even Nanping as a whole, the Hou Mansion is a weather vane.

Whichever house the Hou Mansion rewards with, they will follow suit in turn.

The city guard bought it for his family and rewarded his subordinates.

The list goes on and on.

Another part, even more invisible, is military supplies!

Although in Xiqi Kingdom, most of the military supplies are uniformly allocated by the Ministry of War, but not all of these allocations are finished products.

Because the finished product also involves the labor of transportation and rush production, under the double insurance, the Ministry of War will allocate some finished materials, such as cotton-padded clothes, quilts, shoes, hats and armor, and a small part of the materials will be allocated in the form of silver taels to Everywhere, buy locally.

As for this part of the silver, the Ministry of War will basically not transfer it to the garrison, so as to prevent the garrison commander from supporting himself.

Therefore, this part of the money was given to the city guards in various places.

And like Nanping, it was assigned to the Nanping Houfu as a fief area, because the tax part would go directly to the Nanping Houfu treasury, so this part of the supplementary materials in the form of silver was shared equally by the Chaozhong and Nanping Houfu.

This amount is not small!

How else can the Heing family earn a lot of money in the past two years?

Guarding the Nanping Marquis Mansion is equivalent to guarding the thirteen cities of Nanping.

None of these businesses can afford it.

But the Ping family couldn't get into the circle from the very beginning, and could only do business in the back house of the Marquis Mansion. In the past two years, the business has grown bigger and bigger, and finally even entered the business of military supplies. In the past two years, the old lady of the Ping family has frequently appeared. Inseparable from the old lady's game of cards.

Uncle Song is the housekeeper of the Nanping Hou Mansion, and all matters in the Hou Mansion have been handled by Uncle Song.

The old lady got close to the old lady of the Ping family. If the old lady said a word, Uncle Song would also take care of the old lady's emotions.

Therefore, whenever the old lady wants to play a game, the old lady of the Ping family will get up even when she is sick.

The old lady felt that the old lady of the Ping family was very sincere, and even asked Uncle Song to take care of him more.

The old lady of the Ping family is also very good at life.

The mothers in charge of the mansion, the maids, including the concierge, and the old lady of the Ping family will take care of them.

So the old lady of the Ping family is as clear as the door about these things in the mansion!

A mother in charge like Yuan Ma, who is close to the old lady, always keeps her ear to ear, and the old lady of the Ping family always calls Yuan Ma like "old sister" in private.

Mama Yuan is also very useful.

Therefore, even if sometimes the old lady gets caught up in the things in hand, or if she doesn't want to hit the horse rope very much these days, Madam Yuan will find a way to remind the old lady.

The old lady was originally a person with soft ears, and once Yuan Ma reminded her, the old lady's hands would itch.

Therefore, although the old lady of the Ping family only appeared in the old lady brand in the past two years.

But it is the one that appears the most.

After Ya Shi finished speaking, Ruan Tao tapped the edge of the table with his fingertips, "No wonder, the old lady has been nesting in Tongfu Garden for a month, and she finally came out. The old lady of the Ping family must come."

That being the case, the primary purpose of the old lady of the Heike family is to keep brushing her face in front of the old lady.

Instead of earning money from the old lady.

Same as Zhu.

Neither of them aimed to win the old lady's money at the poker table.

That would be interesting!

Why did Mama Yuan go back to the mansion to withdraw the bank notes several times, and the old lady also lost the money, very unhappy.

Can't make sense...

This game of poker is probably even more exciting than she imagined!

Ruan Tao continued, "What about the rest of Mrs. Yun?"