Glory in Troubled Times: The Empress' Growth Path

Chapter 10 Viewing Traps
"Madam, for the sake of serving you, please don't take me to the court, I will die!"

"I can't bear your service. Besides, you dare to touch the things of the witchcraft, and you are afraid of seeing the officials? Come, take this Gu person and Wang Ting, and send them directly to the government office!"

It was already afternoon when Hua Qiong woke up, and Zhao Tingan had already returned, eating the roasted sweet potatoes in the fire pit in front of the house.

Seeing her wake up, Zhao Tingan ran up to her happily, and mysteriously took out a package from his arms.

"what is this?"

There is a faint plum fragrance in the package.

"White jade cloud cake?"

"You're only half right."

Zhao Tingan handed the package forward, motioned Hua Qiong to take a look, and watched Hua Qiong's reaction expectantly.

There were two smaller packages in the linen package, and when one was opened, it was Baiyuyun Pian Cake.Hua Qiong tore off two pieces, handed one piece to Zhao Tingan, and put one piece into his mouth to taste carefully.

Behind the two, there seemed to be countless red plum blossoms blooming instantly in the heavy snow. The plum blossoms were wrapped with white jade cloud cake, one red and one white, eye-catching and delicious.

I didn't expect this world to be so delicious. It looks similar to many modern pastries, and the degree of deliciousness is also comparable.

Hua Qiong looked at Zhao Tingan looking at her expectantly, smiled knowingly, and then opened the second small package.

Inside was a whole delicate red and white square box with a pattern of blooming plum blossoms painted on it.

Opening the small box again, there was a layer of red paper inside the box, and inside was a delicate white porcelain box. There was no decoration on the white porcelain box, it was very plain.

This color scheme is quite eye-catching.

Hua Qiong carefully took out the small white porcelain box and opened it again.

It was rouge!
I gently dipped my finger on the top of the rouge, the beautiful color of the rouge contrasted sharply with my dirty little hands.

It turns out that my hands are already so dirty.

"Like it?"

"like."

"Hua Qiong, when I make a lot of money, I'll buy you better rouge! More delicious pastries!"

Hua Qiong looked at Zhao Tingan in front of him, and he gave Hua Qiong a bright smile.

This kid is so caring.

"This time you came back from shopping, didn't the Zhao family search you?"

"I hid the things in the items for my wife. They won't want to take away the woman's rouge."

I didn't expect him to be quite witty. If he had done this in the past and was flexible, he might be able to recover a lot of losses, but he is still a kid, so his requirements should not be too high.

It's rare for him to have this thought.

Then I saw Zhao Tingan approaching Hua Qiong mysteriously, and said in a low voice: "I heard that Wang Ting used Gu people to curse Madam, the master was furious after hearing this, and turned the courtyard again. It was accidentally discovered that Wang Ting had hidden a lot of his wife's jewelry, and he reported them to the officials, and asked to be executed after autumn."

Hua Qiong was stunned when he heard the words "Qiu Hou Wen Zhan". The scene he saw in the TV series actually happened in reality, which is quite different from the feeling of being separated by a screen.

Hua Qiong was a little shaken. If she did this, would she be too harsh? Originally, she just wanted to give her some trouble and teach her a lesson, but she didn't expect to kill her.

"We are often harmed by her, and she deserves what she deserves. Everyone feels happy with the government's sentence."

"What if she didn't have to die?"

"It's just that she stole the property of the mistress, and as a servant, she also treated the servants harshly. If you don't die, you will be punished by the government and become disabled. It's better to die."

Hua Qiong thought about it, and it seemed that according to Wang Ting's personality, sooner or later there would be such a day, and he just added a fire to make her burn completely.

"Master is worried that there are still people who will be unfavorable to Boss Zhao and Boss Zhao, so he asked them to stay at the teacher's house for a while recently. Now the affairs of the backyard are temporarily taken care of by Granny Wang."

Granny Wang actually got a promotion, this is the second spring of Huan's career.

"Wang Ya is following Madam now, and is a rough girl in the mistress's house. When she is a little older, she will be trained well. In front of Madam, no one who is not good-looking will dare to bully her again."

My own fire has actually made some people's lives better.

Thinking of this, Hua Qiong felt less entangled immediately. It seems that this matter is not all bad.

It was not enough to eat a few cloud cakes just now, and now my stomach started to growl again.

"Hua Qiong, master is going to a town farther away tomorrow. There are more things and people in that town than ours. I want to go there and find someone serious to learn."

"what do you want to learn?"

Zhao Tingan tilted his head and thought for a while, then said solemnly: "I haven't thought about it yet."

The two chatted casually again, and Hua Qiong learned that the business tax in this world is one in thirty.

In short, earn thirty copper coins and pay a tax of one copper coin to the government.

Except for salt and iron, this is the case for most of the commodity taxes. In addition, there are overtaxes and residence taxes, which roughly correspond to the current tariffs and transaction taxes.

In this way, good guy, the sum of all kinds of taxes is still not low. It looks like thirty taxes and nine, no matter how much you earn, nearly one-third of it does not belong to you.

I couldn't help but curse in my heart, the emperor of this world must be very rich!
After Zhao Ting'an was sent away, Hua Qiong planned to go to the trap to have a look, maybe he could eat meat today.

There was a burst of anticipation in my heart.

When walking on the road, she felt that the villagers looked at her with less thorny eyes than before.

Smile to see Hua Hua also laugh.

On the way there, I accidentally met Wang Ya. Without Wang Ting's bullying, the little girl's head was obviously raised a lot. Although she didn't completely get rid of the habit of talking and looking at her toes, her whole spirit has obviously changed.

At least don't worry about her cervical spondylosis.

She stopped Hua Qiong and told Hua Qiong that in order to thank her for saving her that day and giving herself food, she would definitely come to help if anything happened in the future.

Hua Qiong didn't expect her to be of any help, but she could say that it was meaningful that she was so busy that night.

The snow that fell a few days ago has also disappeared, and the trap that was originally covered is also exposed.

When I got close, something seemed to be moving inside.

Looking closer, a fat gray rabbit was shivering from the cold inside.

Hua Qiong took a lot of effort to get the rabbit out of the trap.

Carefully tie it firmly with thatch.

"Little cutie, don't be afraid, come into my stomach for a while to warm up."

Hua Qiong found Granny Wang and asked her to deal with the rabbit meat, and gave her the rabbit skin as a reward.

He went back to his house happily, put the rabbit meat on the shelf, and sprinkled it with a little salt. Although it had a slightly bitter and salty taste, it was still a rare delicacy at the moment.

Save some of them after baking, and save some to share with Zhao Tingan.

Looking at the oily rabbit meat, Hua Qiong sighed from the bottom of his heart: "The rabbit is so cute and full! I love you so much!"

(End of this chapter)