Chapter 709: Return to the Capital (4)_1
She pondered that Shen Juhua must be much better off in Shen Mansion than before, so there should be no problem in her taking care of the Sanchun Ladies!
"Well, we’ll do as you say!"
Lady Yin took Cai Wei as her main support and followed her advice.
Cai Wei wrote a letter on the small, paint-stripped kang table for Shen Juhua, handing it to Lady Yin, instructing them to find Shen Juhua at Shen Mansion when they got to Qing County. She also told them to pack their belongings simply, then she went to hire a carriage for them, intending to send them away that very day!
The horse carriages that hired themselves out in the county town were usually loitering around the busiest places to find work. As the jobs they found were usually within the county, they didn’t get tired, but they didn’t make much money either. So when Cai Wei found a trustworthy-looking coachman and proposed that he take them to Qing County and offered him two taels of silver as wages, he immediately agreed, nodding his head repeatedly as if he had been struck by a gift from heaven.
Cai Wei gave the coachman a deposit of one hundred coppers, asking him to get ready and rendezvous with her here in half a Shi Chen. Meanwhile, she went to the street, planning to buy Lady Yin and her daughter some biscuits and steamed buns in case they were hungry on the journey.
She entered a shop selling biscuits. Inside, several patrons were munching on biscuits while eagerly chatting.
"Goodness, the fire last night was quite something, it practically lit up half the county town’s sky. I saw it with my own eyes, the entire restaurant was burnt to the ground, not a tile was left and Gao Jia was driven to madness!"
"Not only was the restaurant burned down, I heard that his lovely wife’s face was disfigured, with a three to four inches long cut on her face that revealed her flesh, it was so frightening!"