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"Yes …" "The crime of corruption." Ye Erniang's face was pale and green, although she found it difficult to say it out loud, but in the end she still told Qin Wuya the truth.

It turned out that Ye Erniang was born into a family of poems and books in a nearby town. Due to her family's circumstances, she was sent by her uncle to a rich Yu family in the imperial city

His home had become his concubine.

When Ye Erniang joined the Yu Family, he realized that the Yu Family was not just a simple seller.

The Yu Family had a total of three rooms full of men. When the main house was on the road to becoming a official, it would be found in a county near the Imperial Capital where the parents were known. The second house did tea business, and the third house did silk business. Ye Erniang was a concubine of the Yu Family's third son.

The reason for this was that the Yu Family's Second Master Yu, who was in charge of selling tea leaves, had caught the attention of a cleaner in the red house. He wanted to redeem the cleaner's family home to serve as a concubine, but he didn't expect that the cleaner's friend was a young master from a Third Pin Minister's family in the imperial city.

The Yu Family's Second House Master was unaware of this matter and had even thought of using his wealth to force the man to sell. In the end, the young master of the Minister's family found out about this matter, and this caused a huge ruckus.

It was reasonable to say that if the master of the second house of the Yu Family offended someone, he wouldn't be able to bring harm to the eldest and third houses, however, he was more likely to be the young master of the assistant minister's family. Moreover, the young master of the second house of the Yu Family had a good and good life ahead of him, and there was no branch family.

In the end, the entire Yu Family was implicated and the Third Branch ended up selling the entire family.

In fact, the most common crimes of corruption were investigation and investigation. Some of them were even less than half a grade down, rarely causing disasters for the family or even for the entire family.

The young master of the assistant minister's family, on the other hand, didn't follow common sense. Although he had his family punished for corruption, he did something about the corrupt amount of silver taels, causing the number of corrupt people of the Yu family to reach as high as a million taels. This was a serious crime, and the entire family was sentenced to rob and sell.

Actually, the Yu Family's main house was just an official in the eighth rank. Even though he was a father and mother official, he could still earn a lot of money on a daily basis. You might say that he was a corrupt person for ten thousand taels of silver, but it would be nonsense to say that it was a million taels. Let alone the fact that the Yu Family's mansion was corrupt, even if they sold the entire county, they still wouldn't be able to lay their hands on a million taels of silver.

After all, the Yu Family used to be just a peasant family with no backers in the imperial city. They still followed the lead of a wealthy family and went to the red house to fight for the share of jealousy, which resulted in the end of the whole family having to fight for the rights of a female family member.

Hearing that the Ye Erniang had explained everything to him, Qin Wuya could not help but sigh. No

Although the Yu Clan's women were truly unfortunate and pitiful, but there were too many pitiful people in the world. If Qin Wuya had any sympathy, she would not even be able to empathize with them.

Understanding the reason behind this matter, Qin Wuya also had a plan on whether or not she could leave the Ye Erniang behind. The crime of corruption wasn't a big crime. Although the amount of corruption that the Yu Family had been sentenced to was a little scary, it wasn't something that would attract attention no matter how scary it was.

Furthermore, Ye Erniang was only one of the many concubines in the Yu Family's third house, and was not exactly a concubine. Even if the Yu Family had offended the Yu Family and was still unwilling to let them go, most of the attention would still be on the young man from the Yu Family.

As he thought about it, Qin Wuya changed and asked the Ye Erniang, "I can see that you're not young anymore. Since you've been a concubine for eight years, did you manage to have a son?"

Ye Erniang shook his head and laughed bitterly when she heard that. "Madam is a strong person, Master's concubines do not have children."

Although Qin Wuya had never experienced those tricks in the Inner Palace, she still understood after thinking about it. It must have been that the original owner used some special method to protect the children's status in the backyard.

This kind of thing could not be said to be right or wrong in this era, so even though Qin Wuya sympathized with the happenings in the Ye Erniang, he did not say much and only consoled, "The Yu Family has encountered a disaster like this, it's actually a blessing that you did not have any sons."

Ye Erniang clearly understood the reason behind Qin Wuya's words, and nodded unhappily: "That's right."

Since the identity of the Ye Erniang was not a problem, Qin Wuya was naturally willing to buy the Ye Erniang, and immediately waved to the human tooth at the side, signalling for him to come over.

"Did you interrogate him clearly?" human tooth tried to please him.

Qin Wuya nodded his head and said, "Did you bring her slave book and indenture contract?"

"Yes, I brought them all. Madam, please take a look. The items are all in order. " When the human tooth heard Qin Wuya's words, she immediately knew that this was a good deal. She hurriedly took out the indenture contract and the slave book, and showed them to Qin Wuya.

Qin Wuya looked through it for a while and confirmed that there were no problems, then said: "Ye Erniang, I'll take it, name a price."

"Ten silver taels. Madam, you only need ten silver taels." human tooth immediately stated a price.

Ten taels of silver, to the current Gu Banxia, was really not much. She could not even afford a few decent pieces of cloth. But even so, Qin Wuya was not willing to be a big shot.

Sweeping his eyes across the human tooth's pair of shrewd eyes, Qin Wuya said indifferently: "Ten liang? The price was enough to buy two attractive yellow flower daughters of fourteen or fifteen in the human tooth market.

Ye Erniang is already older than twenty four, and you have even been a concubine before, isn't your offer a little too excessive? "

"Madam, Ye Erniang can read. "This is something that an ordinary girl like Huang Hua cannot compare to." human tooth tried to curry favor with them.

In fact, even Huang Hua Miss from an ordinary village in Clear Water Town would only ask for five or six taels of silver in order to get married. It was already a high price to buy a broken body and an old woman as a slave, for an ordinary person to ask for three taels of silver. human tooth only asked for 10 taels, it was a pure lion's mouth.

Qin Wuya did not lack this amount of silver, but she was also unwilling to spend more. If it was possible, Qin Wuya would rather give ten taels of silver to Ye Erniang as reward, than to give it to a human tooth for free.

Although it was a legal business in the Grand Dynasty, instinctively, Qin Wuya was not willing to come into contact with these people.

"Five liang, not one cent less, not a penny less. If you are willing, then this deal is set." Qin Wuya raised her eyebrows and said coldly.

When human tooth heard this, her face turned teary: "Madam, five liang is truly too little. It took a lot of effort for me to find such a person. "

"Don't bully me, you don't know anything. An ordinary woman is only worth three taels of silver." 5 taels was already the price for Huang Hua's daughter. "This extra two liang of silver is not even enough for your running expenses?" Qin Wuya chuckled, and remained unmoved.

In the end, the Ye Erniang was bought for five taels of silver from the human tooth. The deed were complete, and as for the registration of the Shangguan Family's slave books, naturally the human tooth would handle it.

Ye Erniang had originally thought that she would most likely be sold to a rich family to be their wife, or perhaps do some rough work in the outer court. She had endured her whole life, but who would have thought that someone would actually buy her to become a Mr. Clerk.

In truth, Qin Wuya and Ye Erniang had said they wanted her to be their own personal secretary general. However, Ye Erniang didn't understand what the Secretary-General meant. Isn't this what the Mr. Clerk does?

Ye Erniang was surprised and happy at the same time. Even though she hadn't seen Yue Qian, she was still grateful to Qin Wuya.

It was easy to understand why Ye Erniang would behave like this. After all, although Ye Erniang had been through a tough time in her first twenty-four years, she was still born into a family of poets.

Perhaps the hardships of life could erase a person's arrogance on the surface, but there were some things engraved in the bones that were not easy to erase.

Qin Wuya giving Ye Erniang this job might just be giving him a job, but it was a guarantee for him, and at the same time, it was also a form of respect.

The words on the Ye Erniang were written extremely well, at least a thousand times better than the words that Qin Wuya had barely managed to write.

As a result, with the Ye Erniang as his right-hand man, Qin Wuya decided to just directly make the whole thing himself. Most of the things that needed to be done in order to go through the records and enter and exit the books were written by the Ye Erniang himself, and what Qin Wuya needed to do was to do the most important things after the Ye Erniang wrote down and seal them with their official seals.

With the help of the Ye Erniang and the five new Mr. Clerk s, Xu San's work was quicker. For example, he no longer had to busy himself with the small details and accounts in the Manor.

Currently, the few hundred servants in the villa were all under the arrangements of Liu Da and Fu Xi's wife. The problems of the accounts of each region were being managed and reconciled by the five Mr. Clerk s in cooperation with the manager of each region at the same time, and then, at the end of each month, the five Mr. Clerk s would hand over their respective areas of responsibility to the Ye Erniang s.

And Ye Erniang, after making sure that there were no problems, would then organize the total amount and give it to Qin Wuya for him to take note of. Of course, before handing it to Qin Wuya, Ye Erniang would also have to send another copy to Xu San, who was, after all, the overall execution of the villa.

Although in these two years, the number of people in Sunset Cloud Villa had increased from the original number of dozens of people who were simply borrowing from Chaoqing to around five or six hundred hired workers.

But it was only until today when the five Mr. Clerk s and the Ye Erniang joined the ranks that Qin Wuya truly felt that the Qin Chamber of Commerce was on the right track.

Unlike the small factory without any regulations before, it was operated by the enthusiasm and patience of Qin Wuya and the others.

In the latter part of May, vineyard's wild dry grape have matured into the first batch, about ten days later than last year.

Since the vineyard had already processed their own plant, they naturally did not need to transport this batch of wild dry grape down the mountain anymore. Instead, they were personally managed by Qiu Rong and Qin Wuya, who brought along two women picked from the north courtyard of the town to boil their hands and feet together with the wild dry grape.

Once it was completed, it would be sent straight into the ice cavern to be sealed, only waiting for Manager Wu to send people up the mountain to retrieve it.