New widow

"That's right now. If you want to bring the accounts of seven or eight shops to me, I can see them clearly in one day."

Yu Yulan's words made Su Qiao, who was drinking tea on the side, laugh: "It turns out that you are still a good accountant. That was because I didn't know it earlier. If I had known about it, I would definitely invite you here and do the calculations carefully."

"If you don't learn these, how can you survive?" Yu Yulan's tone was indifferent. Wan Dequan had heard it many times. After hearing Yu Yulan's words, he knew that Yu Yulan's background must be a bit embarrassing, but this encounter There was no need to ask about the past, so Wan Dequan smiled and said: "There are many people who learn to settle accounts, but there are very few who are as capable as Grandma Yu."

"Yes, I learned how to cook well." Cooking, accounting, and making clothes are all things a woman in this world needs to learn, whether they are good or not. And when Yu Yulan was selected to become Master Eleven's wife, she also You need to learn how to be a mistress and how to control your subordinates. As for the other girls who were not selected, they learned differently based on their appearance. The woman who was given to a high official as a concubine, Yu Yulan occasionally heard the mothers-in-law whisper that she learned the art of the house. How to serve a man well? As for what this good looks like, it would take a long time for Yu Yulan to know what it is.

"As for me, I've learned everything so well." Su Qiao heard the sadness in Yu Yulan's words when she talked about the past, so she smiled and said this. Yu Yulan had already looked at Su Qiao: "I thought , you can do everything, but I didn’t expect that you can’t do anything.”

"I had no one to teach me. I even learned how to be a wife after I got married and was beaten and scolded by my mother-in-law." Su Qiao only said this lightly, and Wan Dequan was already very distressed: "Been beaten and scolded by my mother-in-law." Cursing."

"Hitting and scolding?" Another voice sounded in the store. Su Qiao looked up and saw Su Du. Su Qiao couldn't help but smile and said, "Why is Su Tongpan here?"

"Su Tongpan?" Yu Yulan's voice was slightly raised. Su Du originally saw that Yu Yulan was a little unfamiliar and wanted to avoid it, but the voice sounded familiar. After taking a closer look, he recognized Yu Yulan, so Su Du couldn't help it for a moment. Do you know what to call Yu Yulan?

"This is Grandma Yu." Su Qiao knew that Su Du was also wandering there and didn't know what to call Yu Yulan, so she smiled and said to the side, and then said to Su Du: "You have seen her before."

"Yes, I have seen it before, but it was a long time ago." Su Du came back to his senses and saluted Yu Lan. The embarrassment at that time passed in front of Yu Yulan, but Yu Yulan had already smiled and said: "I want to thank Su Tongpan, I haven’t congratulated Su Tongpan yet for taking the post here.”

"When you are an official in the imperial court, you naturally have to work outside." Su Du also said a few words. Wan Dequan couldn't help but ask Su Qiao how she learned to be a daughter-in-law after being beaten and scolded by her mother-in-law. Then put out some snacks and invite Su Du to sit down with him.

"I thought, this year is over, and I haven't made this year's spring shirt yet, so I went out for a stroll and dropped in." Su Du's words made Yu Yulan smile: "It turned out that I dropped in, and I didn't expect an unexpected surprise. "

"What unexpected surprise?" Su Qiao was a little confused about what Yu Yulan meant by this. Yu Yulan's eyes were like autumn water: "What do you mean by this? You, don't ask me, ask..."

"Grandma Yu!" Su Du had shouted loudly, which made Yu Yulan laugh: "What did Su Tong call me for?"

"It's nothing!" Su Du felt that he had done something wrong. If he said something wrong, Yu Yulan would take advantage of it, so Su Du could only say this.

Yu Yulan glanced at Su Du and Su Qiao's faces again and again, and smiled softly. This made Su Du restless and stood up to leave.

"Su Tongpan often passes by our store and comes in to talk to us when he has time!" Wan Dequan saw Su Du off and came back to explain to Su Qiao.

"Well, it's called the first to get the moon near the water." Yu Yulan put her arm on Su Qiao's shoulder and said with a smile. Su Qiao's eyebrows couldn't help but wrinkled: "Why do I feel that what you said today is a bit... eccentric."

Yu Yulan smiled again, but didn't speak anymore. She just picked up the tea cup and drank tea. Wan Dequan looked at Su Qiao, but couldn't say what he wanted to say.

Su Du walked out of the shop and thought of Su Qiao's words. She was beaten and scolded by her mother-in-law, and she had to learn to be a wife. Would Su Qiao, who was so smart and able to do things properly, be treated like that? How could any mother-in-law in this world treat her daughter-in-law like this?

Su Du thought hard, thinking about how his mother treated his sister-in-law, but after thinking about it, Su Du could only think that Mrs. Nanyang Hou treated Grandma Su pretty well. Even if she had to stand still, she would only stand for a while. That's okay, but Su Du has also heard complaints from mothers-in-law, saying that the mother-in-law is not the mother after all, and the mother sometimes treats her daughter badly, let alone the mother-in-law?

"What are you doing standing here?" Zhang Qing patted Su Du on the shoulder, and Su Du came back to his senses: "I was thinking about something, how about you, how is the investigation of the case?"

When he mentioned this, Zhang Qing felt a lot of bitterness to vomit: "Don't talk about this, the prefect doesn't know what's going on now. He throws everything to me. As for him, he goes to banquets all day long. .”

The flowers are blooming in spring, and the flower-viewing banquets of various families have also begun. In previous years, the flower-viewing banquet at Wang Shangshu's house was the largest. The gentry in the city were proud to get invitations to his family's flower-viewing banquet. But this year is different. Everyone knew what the interior of Shangshu's Mansion was like, and since the prince was still in prison, no one dared to send a message to his house to invite him to enjoy the flowers, let alone ask when the Shangshu Mansion would hold a flower-viewing banquet.

Some, there is only silence, silence.

"The prefect is preparing for the end-of-year assessment." Su Du also walked with Zhang Qing. Zhang Qing suddenly made a sound and pulled Su Du's sleeve: "That's not Mrs. Kuang, the one beside her, no That’s that, that Mrs. something.”

"This is Grandma Yu now, not from the Song family." Su Du said lightly. Zhang Qing looked at Su Du: "Have you seen her before?"

"We met at Wanjia's Nanhuo Shop." Su Du's answer did not satisfy Zhang Qing. Zhang Qing still said to Su Du: "Why did you go to Wanjia's shop?"

"I was walking on this street and passed by his house. It was natural for me to go in and take a look." Su Du's words made Zhang Qing look at him: "Tell me the truth."

"What's the truth?" Su Du asked back. Just as Zhang Qing was about to speak, he saw Brother Zhou running over: "Su Tongpan, Zhang Sifu, the approval from the Ministry of Punishment has come. The magistrate please go ahead."

The approval of the Ministry of Punishment is usually very slow, and some even delay it for a year and a half. Why is it so fast now? I think the Zhou family must have done something to it.