Chapter 310

"Refugees?" Jiang Xiaoxiao keenly grasped the keyword.

"Yes, refugees." Liu Dahu nodded, "My wife saw that those refugees were homeless and too pitiful, so she got off the carriage and gave them some food. Later, on the way back, she started to get sick. At that time, it was just some coughing and fever, and we didn't pay much attention to it. I didn't expect that in the end..."

Speaking to the end, Liu Dahu, a big man, couldn't help but wipe away tears: "Sigh, fortunately, there is you, Xiaoxiao's mother. If it weren't for your miraculous hands, my wife would probably have..."

Jiang Xiaoxiao comforted Liu Dahu a few words, but her heart felt somewhat heavy.

It seemed that this lung consumption illness was brought by those refugees.

Refugees were wandering around. They were walking north all the way and would pass through many places, inevitably coming into contact with many people. This lung consumption illness would probably infect many people...

One passes to ten, ten passes to a hundred. By then, I'm afraid everyone in the whole town would get sick.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xiaoxiao couldn't help but sigh deeply, only hoping that the refugees wouldn't come to their Yong'an Town...

Liu Dahu went back to make preparations.

This trip to Xuzhou would take at least half a month, so he had to prepare more clothes.

According to Jiang Wei's requirements, he prepared everything secretly. Except for his family, no one in the village knew he was going to Xuzhou.

On the second day, early in the morning, Jiang Wei drove the horse carriage to the town.

The horse carriage was filled with soap, and the workers of the soap workshop ran out to watch, asking suspiciously: "Xiaoxiao's mother, you just came back two days ago, why are you going out again?"

Jiang Wei sat on the horse carriage, deliberately tying the bundle in her hand to her back slowly, while saying: "There is a batch of goods to be sent to Xuzhou, and I don't have anyone here to dispatch, so I can only go myself. But it doesn't matter, I'll be back in half a month."

Wu Sanshen squeezed into the crowd and glanced at the bundle on Jiang Wei's back. It was very large, and it looked like she was really going on a long journey.

She then smiled and said: "Xiaoxiao's mother, you can go with peace of mind. We will keep an eye on the soap workshop, and Zhao Dasao will help keep an eye on your house, nothing will happen."

Jiang Wei said a light "Mm," and then flicked the horse whip and drove the carriage away.

Watching the horse carriage drive into the main road of the village, Wu Sanshen couldn't help but cast her gaze toward the Jiang family's house, but saw Jiang Xiaoxiao standing at the gate, blinking her big, innocent eyes at them.

She walked over with a smile and said: "Xiaoxiao, your mother didn't take you with her, leaving you alone at home?"

Jiang Xiaoxiao smiled innocently: "Yes, someone has to stay at home to watch the house."

"Xiaoxiao has grown up and can help watch the house too." Wu Sanshen was still smiling, but her gaze secretly looked toward the courtyard behind Jiang Xiaoxiao, "Xiaoxiao, if you have any problems while you are alone at home in the future, you can come to us uncles and aunts at any time, don't be afraid of trouble."

"Okay." Jiang Xiaoxiao nodded with a smile.

Closing the courtyard gate and returning home, the smile on Jiang Xiaoxiao's face gradually faded.

Very good, the snake is about to come out of its hole.

Time soon arrived at night.

After finishing dinner, Jiang Xiaoxiao and Jiang Xuelian went back to their rooms to rest early.

The night in early winter was still somewhat cold, and a gust of wind blew, making people shiver.

Wu Sanshen was guarding outside the Jiang family's courtyard gate, watching the lights inside go out, and only then did she breathe a sigh of relief.

She stomped her feet, which were frozen stiff, took out a tiny iron wire from her sleeve, and began to pick the lock of the Jiang family's courtyard gate.

She knew the technical skill of picking locks; not many people in the village knew about it.

She also learned it from her grandfather.

When her grandfather was young, he did nothing but steal chickens and dogs, but later he turned over a new leaf. He didn't want this technical skill to be lost, so he passed it on to several of his sons.

Unfortunately, learning this technical skill required talent.

None of her grandfather's sons learned it.

Only she, this granddaughter, learned some superficial knowledge.

Seeing that she had talent in this area, her grandfather taught her this technical skill hand by hand.

Probably due to talent, in just a few years, she practiced the technical skill of picking locks to perfection.

Except for her grandfather, no one knew she was proficient in such skills, not even her biological parents.

Wu Sanshen, relying only on a small iron wire, twisted and turned, and the Jiang family's locked courtyard gate opened.

"Creak—"

The thick and heavy courtyard gate was pushed open gently, but it still inevitably made a sound, which seemed particularly loud in the quiet night.

Wu Sanshen was startled and hurriedly looked up at the Jiang family's second-floor balcony.

It was still pitch black up there.

Wu Sanshen breathed a sigh of relief, secretly annoyed at why she was nervous. There was only a five-year-old little girl, Jiang Xiaoxiao, at home, what was there to be afraid of?

Even if she was woken up, she could find an excuse to fool her.

Anyway, the other party was just a little girl who didn't understand anything.

She groped her way into the main room.

Even though it wasn't her first time in the Jiang family's main room, when Wu Sanshen saw the vases and porcelain bottles placed in the main room, as well as the exquisite tea sets, she couldn't help but reveal a trace of greed in her eyes.

Although the Zhao Family had promised her that as long as she stole the Jiang family's document of breaking off kinship, they would give her two hundred taels of silver to run away, but seeing the Jiang family's main room at this moment, she couldn't help but feel tempted.

Her two hundred taels, she was afraid that even if she spent it all, she wouldn't be able to build a house as big as the Jiang family's.

Sigh, what kind of dog shit luck did Jiang Shi have, where did she learn the soap formula?

If only she knew how to make soap too. By then, why would she need to work in this Jiang house every day for a mere few hundred wen, buying whatever she wanted to eat, building as big a house as she wanted, wearing gold and silver, eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, making the villagers die of envy...

Unfortunately, the people in the soap workshop had mouths that were as if they were pasted shut, tight and strict, and nothing could be asked.

She gave up on this idea.

Fortunately, there was still a Zhao Family that wouldn't give up.

The Zhao Family also wanted to get the soap formula; they tried every means to bribe the workers in the soap workshop, wanting them to tell the steps and raw materials for making soap.

Unfortunately, in the end, nothing was asked.

After many twists and turns, they finally found her.

The Zhao Family learned to be smart this time, knowing that they couldn't ask anything from the workers in the soap workshop, so they simply aimed their target directly at Jiang Shi.

As long as Jiang Shi was solved, the soap formula would naturally be within reach.

Thus, the Zhao Family asked her to find a way to steal that document of breaking off kinship.

She understood how the Zhao Family wanted to deal with Jiang Shi. At first, she was also a bit hesitant and didn't dare to agree.

But the Zhao Family directly offered a high price of two hundred taels of silver, and she couldn't help but agree.

Two hundred taels...

She couldn't earn that much money even if she worked hard for two lifetimes. She could get it just by stealing a document of breaking off kinship. Why refuse such a great thing?