Reborn as the Blissful Wife in the countryside-Chapter 998: Worse Than Beasts

Lv Bai was shocked and asked, "What kind of job can earn 310 taels? Young lady, you..."

Haven’t gone crazy, have you?

Gu Jinli: "Naturally it’s a good job."

Lv Bai: "What kind of good job? This is too much earning."

Even if you robbed someone, it’s impossible to snatch over 300 taels at once.

Thinking about this, Lv Bai added, "I, I won’t do anything that violates criminal law, I still want to take the imperial exam."

Lv Bai had a face full of righteousness, while Gu Jinli scoffed at him: "I’m also law-abiding, okay."

Then disdainfully said: "You want to take the imperial exam, aiming to become an official, but look at you, when you encounter problems, you just cry, cry, cry. How can you be an official like this? If you take office and encounter a matter where you are framed by an assistant officer, will you just cry too?"

Lv Bai’s face turned red with embarrassment and he lowered his head. After a moment of silence, he added, "Once I become an official and have an official seal, things will naturally be easier."

Gu Jinli chuckled coldly, "Do you think being an official is just about holding an official seal and ordering people around? If you think being an official is that easy, you might as well go home and feed pigs."

Pigs won’t scheme against you, you can be a pig farmer with peace of mind.

Lv Bai listened, feeling even more like crying, thinking he was extremely wronged. He worked so hard to take the imperial exam, yet this benefactor asked him to go back and feed pigs?

When he was a child, he was chased and bitten by pigs, frightened to death by those things. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

With people coming and going, Gu Jinli didn’t want to stand here talking too much, so she got on the mule cart with Qin San Lang and said to Lv Bai: "You take the plank at the front of the cart, let’s go to Futai Building to talk business."

"Ah?" Lv Bai was startled, looked at Erqing driving the cart, face blushing: "This, isn’t really appropriate, there’s a distinction between men and women."

Gu Jinli: "Then just run behind the mule cart, there’s no room for you in the carriage."

Lv Bai felt aggrieved again but didn’t dare resist, could only nod in agreement, following obediently behind the mule cart.

But before the mule cart had started moving, Yao Youqian rushed out from the opposite Silver Building, shouted: "Lv Bai, where do you think you’re going? Not working to earn money anymore? Just after learning for two days well you want to revert to being a useless person?"

Yao Youqian found a new job, working as a clerk in the Silver Building opposite during the day, and at dawn going to clean night soil.

Lv Bai saw Yao Youqian, like meeting a savior, immediately told him about the money-earning opportunity that Gu Jinli had mentioned, finally asking: "Do you think this job is doable?"

The underlying meaning was asking Yao Youqian if they seemed like swindlers? Would it be safe for him to go with them?

Yao Youqian was startled, looked at the mule cart, made a bow and asked: "Dare I ask, esteemed guests, what kind of job can earn over 300 taels? We are all poor, cannot bear to be fooled by you two."

Gu Jinli said: "It’s just a job that can earn that much silver, and 300 taels of it is mine, even if I fooled you, I wouldn’t fool myself. If you want to do this business, come to the elegant room on the third floor of Futai Building, if not, forget it, I can do it myself, just a bit more troublesome."

After saying this, she let Erqing drive the mule cart away.

Yao Youqian seeing the situation, gritted his teeth, hurried back to the Silver Building to apologize, then came out and said to Lv Bai: "Let’s go, to Futai Building, ten taels of silver, it’s quite a bit, going once won’t hurt."

They were so poor they didn’t even have a tael of silver on them, were they afraid those two would rob them?

Saying this honestly, Lv Bai and Yao Youqian were quite pitiful. Though they had passed as students, their rankings weren’t top-notch, and their family backgrounds weren’t good, hence the rich families in the prefecture didn’t go to give them silver.

Returning to Yujiang County, someone would give them some congratulatory gifts, but Lv Bai couldn’t wait to go home, he needed silver these days.

Lv Bai was someone with no initiative, upon hearing this, nodded and followed Yao Youqian to Futai Building.

On the way, he talked about how Gu Jinli and Qin San Lang helped him out of a predicament.

With a slap, Yao Youqian hit Lv Bai’s head, scolding: "You blockhead, why didn’t you tell this sooner given the connection? Since they helped you, you should have gone with them. Such people who help the distressed wouldn’t fool you. Hurry up, go quickly, once there, first apologize to the two benefactors."

Lv Bai could only nod in agreement.

The two ran for more than fifteen minutes to Futai Building, Manager Hu already got Qin San Lang’s message, upon seeing them, he said: "Yao Tongsheng, please follow me."

Yao Youqian had visited Futai Building with Gu Jin’an before, Manager Hu recognized him, directly led them to the elegant room on the third floor.

Upon entering the room, Yao Youqian immediately apologized: "Two benefactors, I’m really sorry for previous offense, I hesitated for fear of being deceived."

Gu Jinli: "There’s no need to speak more about this, let’s talk business."

She pointed to the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the table: "The money-making job is selling stories, I’ll narrate, Lv Tongsheng will write down what I say. It must be written vividly and excitingly. After writing the story, take it to Shenghe Building to sell, once we get the silver, we’ll split it."

Writing classical Chinese is too tiring, she just wants to make money, not wanting to do too many tasks.

Lv Bai upon hearing this, got excited: "So that’s the job, indeed it makes money."

He worked two days at Shenghe Building, knows how profitable it is, and Master Ke, for exclusive stories, would buy stories at a high price.

But there’s one requirement that stories must be sensational, cannot be bland, preferably real-life events, fiction would be discounted.

"Start then." Gu Jinli began talking about the Ge Family’s matters.

The Ge Family aimed to squeeze Gu Jin’an out of the imperial examination, once used the Old Gu Family’s matters to harm Gu Jin’an’s reputation, also the Young Master Ge’s family who bullied Lv Bai in Shenghe Building earlier.

Young Master Ge didn’t pass as a student, and because of several members in the family being unfilial being brought up by storytellers, recently he’s had a tough time.

But he didn’t repent, dared to do evil again, then let him die.

The story Gu Jinli recounted about the Ge Family involved several members stealing public silver, angering Old Master Ge into illness as a continuation.

The Ge family’s members truly went crazy wanting to divide the inheritance, they exploited Old Master Ge’s bedridden illness to poison him, worsening his condition. Without timely treatment, within two months, Old Master Ge would be poisoned to death.

More outrageous, they even targeted Old Master Ge’s youngest sister.

This Little Old Lady Ge married in Linhe Prefecture, regarded Old Master Ge as a father since he raised her, respected him as a father. Being straightforward and fiery-tempered, if Old Master Ge passed away, with her temperament, she would surely investigate this thoroughly. Even if nothing was found, she would blame them for not taking good care of Old Master Ge, and punish them.

To avoid trouble, several members of the Ge Family conspired to frame the Little Old Lady Ge accusing her of having an affair before marriage with a poor scholar, wanting to ruin her reputation and get her expelled by her husband’s family.

A woman expelled by her husband’s family has no speaking rights in her natal family, if the Ge Family displeased, could throw her into the Daoist Temple to fend for herself.

"Shameful, utterly shameful!" Lv Bai was writing while cursing: "How could the Ge Family be like this? They’re worse than beasts!"

Yao Youqian retorted with a cold laugh: "Some deadwood reciting dead books, sucking family blood, are worse than beasts."

Lv Bai, upon hearing this, immediately shut his mouth not daring to speak.

Yao Youqian then asked: "Benefactor, do you have evidence for what you say? Without evidence, the Ge Family could sue, and Shenghe Building wouldn’t dare buy and speak of this story."