Chapter 450: Returning to the Capital (1) (1/2)

Chu Lian didn’t get out of the warm pen immediately. She simply lifted the curtain and watched.

It was only when she was sure that everything was working smoothly here that she sent the order to move to the next spot.

Just like Chu Lian had predicted, they were already back in the He Estate in the afternoon.

Chu Lian was so tired out from the long trip out that she quickly ate a simple meal and went off for her afternoon nap. He Sanlang took this chance to summon Laiyue in for some questioning.

Laiyue’s excitement showed all over his face. The moment he entered the room, without any prompting from He Changdi, all of his words were already spilling out of his mouth like beans.

“Third Young Master, Third Young Madam is amazing! This servant is starting to wonder if Third Young Madam is the reincarnation of the God of Wealth! She actually managed to find a business opportunity out here in this desolate north.”

Hearing this, He Changdi frowned. He made a ‘mm?’ sound to prompt Laiyue to explain further.

Laiyue trembled and quickly held back his excitement to make a proper report.

When Laiyue finished reporting everything he had seen today, He Sanlang was dumbfounded.

With the convenience of the snowboats, Chu Lian had sent some men out to Suzhou to trade for large amounts of basic necessities. For example, coarse cloth, salted vegetables, coal, lamp oil and assorted grain crops. Following that, they had split them up and brought them to a few designated areas.

The barbarians who lacked these basic goods could trade for them with their livestock: yaks, horses and goats.

A single fat yak would get the barbarians only a single small jar of salted vegetables in return. Laiyue’s eyes were about to pop out of his head from the absurdity.

If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, he probably wouldn’t have believed it.

Back in the capital, a single yak was worth at least ten taels of silver, and it was a rare commodity!

Even though their Third Young Madam was so ‘ruthless’, the barbarians were actually pleased while trading. They even looked like they had just scored a great deal instead. It made Laiyue completely flabbergasted to watch.

The law in the Great Wu Dynasty prohibited the trading of important resources like salt and iron to other countries. Chu Lian was an upright and law-abiding citizen, so instead of selling salt, she sold salted vegetables! Anyway, the barbarians weren’t picky about it, they were happy as long as it was salty.

He Sanlang hadn’t expected Chu Lian to have come up with such a brilliant money-making idea. Even if they didn’t process the barbarians’ livestock, they could sell them as they were for at least ten times the original value of the goods they traded them for.

It was an extremely profitable trade.

He Changdi shook his head. When he thought of how their estate had been unable to gather a thousand taels for his mother’s monthly medicine costs, he smiled helplessly.

However, as a man, he couldn’t let his wife tire herself out trying to earn money for the family. It was time for him to start making his own plans to earn money now.