Ye Jiu was afraid that continuing the conversation might give things away, so he quickly changed the subject, "How are things going in the capital city?"
Ye Wenzheng immediately had no time to ask about Ye Bai and Ye Hei, replying, "Development there is going very well, they’ve even made facial cleanser, and according to my younger aunt’s letter, I’ve set up a workshop outside the city. Now we mainly supply goods to other shops. With Prince Jing’s protection, no one dares to cause trouble, it’s just... it’s such a pity about the ice shop closing."
Ye Wenzheng looked pained when he mentioned this.
With so many people using ice in the summer, the money came in exceptionally fast. Even though the sales from Beauty Pavilion were good, they still made much less than from selling ice.
That’s why Ye Wenzheng couldn’t help but feel the pinch every time he thought about it, wishing it could be summer all year round so the ice shop could stay open continuously.
Ye Jiu, on the other hand, wasn’t so disappointed. The ice shop closing was something she had expected, and besides, she could now say without exaggeration, the thing she lacked the least was money.
Money, one can’t live without it, but once you really have a lot, it becomes just a stack of numbers. What was different in her case was that some of it was paper, some was gold and silver, and even more was in goods.
Ye Wenzheng opened the box on his desk and said, "According to my younger aunt’s letter, I’ve buried the actual silver underground, and it won’t be discovered by anyone. These are all silver notes; I brought them back with me."
Ye Jiu took a look, there was a total of several hundred thousand taels of silver, and that didn’t even include the silver she had Ye Wenzheng bury.
"This is your reward for the past six months." Ye Jiu pulled out two one-thousand-tael silver notes and handed them to Ye Wenzheng, "Your mother and sister are still living on the estate; they’ve been quite worried about you all this time. You should go see them soon."
"Alright," Ye Wenzheng knew Ye Jiu’s personality and didn’t stand on ceremony, taking his reward right away, "Then I thank my younger aunt. I’ll go see my mother now."
After Ye Wenyu left, Ye Jiu, as usual, stored the silver notes in her space. Then she called Ye Bai in and gave him a stern lecture.
This guy was just too imprudent. If he could talk nonsense in front of others this time, what if he transformed in front of others next time?
A good teaching was essential; otherwise, he wouldn’t learn. Consequently, Ye Bai was punished by Ye Jiu: he could not transform into a human for an entire month, or else he would be sent back to the Ancient Plane.
As for the matter of the third grandmother starting trouble and getting into a fight with the He family, nobody expected there to be a hidden hand behind the incident.
The third grandmother was instigated by someone else to start trouble.
And it was the same person who, on the day of Ye Gaosheng’s marriage, tried to take advantage of Qingyue but was taught a lesson by her.
After the Clan Leader made the situation clear, the third grandmother’s family and that person came to apologize, one after another.
But this time, Ye Jiu had no intention of showing mercy.
People who dared to come to her house and stir up trouble needed to be taught a lesson once and for all, so that they would know the might of her family.
Otherwise, constant forbearance would only lead them to think she was easy to bully, which would make things worse and more troublesome.
During the New Year, both the third grandmother and the instigator spent their time in jail.
Ye Jiu had Ada use the token given by Prince Jing to visit the County Office, and plainly stated that since the third grandmother was old, it wouldn’t be appropriate to beat her. Just let her stay in jail for a few days to clear her mind, lest she always be so delusional.