Forced to be a concubine, I went to my husband's place to become a wealthy merchant

Chapter 270

Although the shopkeeper was happy, he did not dare to drink too much. In the end, he finished all the side dishes and a pot of wine and then stopped.

It was a rare occasion for him to be treated to a meal so generously. Seeing that Ye Xi didn't touch the food or wine, he ate all of it himself.

Seeing that a new customer had arrived after the shopkeeper had finished eating, Ye Xi asked the shopkeeper to call the customer away while she continued to sit and wait for the customer.

But in the end, the escort came but the uncle didn't. The escort said that the uncle didn't show up today.

Ye Xi felt a little disappointed and went back to the small courtyard without eating.

After returning, Hongxiu went to cook, and Jinling came back when the meal started.

Ye Xi joked that Jin Ling responded at the right time, and Jin Ling felt embarrassed.

Ye Xi asked them to eat first. She and the servants ate at separate tables. It was not because of her power, but because this was the process of controlling her subordinates.

There has to be a distinction between masters and servants for ease of management, and she doesn't even ask the servants to wait until she finishes eating before they eat, which is already very good. She understands the principle that servants bully their masters.

After the meal, Hongxiu cleaned up the dishes and washed them, and Jin Ling began to report to Ye Xi the news she had heard.

The situation described by Jin Ling was almost the same as that of the shopkeeper, but Jin Ling heard from her neighbors that Qin Song's mother was actually quite seriously ill.

He originally wanted to sell the residence arranged by the court to use the money for his medical treatment.

However, the imperial court has regulations that they must live here for a full ten years before these ownerless houses can be truly transferred to their names.

Now they can only live there but cannot buy or sell it, so they gave up.

Qin Song worked in the inn during the day, and took on some copying work or wrote letters for people at night.

Half a year ago, he actually started helping a bricklayer do odd jobs. He would do anything if someone was willing to pay him.

After hearing this, Ye Xi probably knew that his situation was very bad. If such a person was employed, he might be devoted to her if he was upright.

If someone has bad intentions, she might not be able to complete the tasks she has assigned to her or the money she has allocated to her might be embezzled.

Ye Xi was very worried, and finally she decided to go and observe by herself.

She bought a set of linen clothes commonly worn by local women, put on a rough mask, and waited near Qin Song's house.

Then I followed the other party for several days by tracking and observing him.

The other party had just lost a stable job and was looking for work during the day.

Most of them couldn't find work, but they would go home on a regular basis. Ye Xi guessed that they were there to take care of their sick mother.

She observed the other person for a few days and didn't find anything outstanding about him, but she also didn't find anything uncomfortable about him.

After all, the time was still short and it was impossible to see through a person just by one thing, so she decided to use him.

Anyway, she didn't have a better candidate, and this person was at least familiar to her.

The other party is in trouble now, so she is using him to help him.

The next day after making the decision, she asked Jin Ling and a bodyguard to go to the man's house and invite him to the rented small courtyard.

The other party initially disagreed to go with them, but Jin Ling got Ye Xi's instructions and said that as long as he was willing to make the trip, he would get one or two taels of silver.

At this time, one or two taels of silver were so precious to him.

Ye Xi was confident that he would definitely come, and one or two taels of silver was not a lot of money, so there was no need for others to harm him for such a small amount of money.

Qin Song arrived as promised. When he saw that it was a girl he had met once, he was confused at first, and then seemed relieved. He was worried at first.

He had an impression of Ye Xi, mainly because Ye Xi stayed in the inn for too long.

It was inevitable that it would attract attention, and the other party seemed to be a rich lady, and no one knew why she was here.