After Transmigration, I Snag a Stunning Bigwig as My Husband
Chapter 50 Business

Chapter 50: Chapter 50 Business

Tea dripped down from the face of the Heir of Marquis Beining.

Words couldn’t describe his face anymore.

This bandit maid’s thought process was millions of miles from normal people.

To support their charcoal sales, they emptied their pockets and ended up eating noodles on the street. Not to mention almost getting beaten half to death for a loan note, and in the end, each owed five thousand taels—

Wasn’t this just paying five thousand taels for a beating?

The Heir of Marquis Beining felt even more pain in his chest and back.

The four of them looked sympathetically at Xie Jingchen.

They fully understood now why he said he couldn’t afford to eat at that noodle place.

Living with such a bandit wife and maid, they didn’t doubt he’d even have to borrow to drink the northwest wind.

Xingxing was bewildered.

She noticed everyone had a strange expression.

Did she say something wrong?

Suddenly, there was a loud bang.

Everyone was startled.

Dust filled the sky at Tianxiang Building.

Passersby hurriedly stepped aside.

A wall of the burnt Tianxiang Building had collapsed.

Coughing sounds were heard one after another.

The Minister of the Ministry of Justice was leading the constables to find evidence of arson, and it was them coughing.

Early in the morning, before the Ministry of Justice had opened its doors, the City Patrol was already waiting there to report the case.

Don’t ask why they were so diligent.

The City Patrol could handle it when Tianxiang Building got hit with rotten eggs, but a fire was too big for them to take on, and they wanted to shift the blame to the Ministry of Justice early to avoid trouble themselves.

So, before Su Jin and Xie Jingchen arrived, the Ministry of Justice’s people were already there.

Chu Shun looked at the burnt Tianxiang Building and said, "Big sis-in-law is still determined to keep the shop open to sell charcoal?"

"Why not persist?"

"Big sis-in-law’s not afraid that once the shop is rebuilt, it’ll be burned again?"

"What’s there to fear? If the Ministry of Justice is so incompetent that they can’t find the real culprit and let the place burn again, I’ll lead people to burn the Ministry of Justice."

"..."

The gray and dusty Minister of the Ministry of Justice and the constables just happened to overhear this.

They were shocked.

The City Patrol said they were unreasonable, but he didn’t expect them to be this unreasonable.

And he couldn’t refute——

Failing to find the real culprit, isn’t that incompetence?

The Ministry of Justice had been called incompetent behind their backs, but it was just them and the Emperor who dared say it to their faces.

Cough! Cough!

Seeing that the Junior Minister of the Ministry of Justice was his cousin, the Heir of Marquis Beining gave a light cough and said, "Why burn the Ministry of Justice when they can’t find the arsonist?"

Before Su Jin could speak.

Xingxing glared at the Heir of Marquis Beining.

"Why are you speaking for the Ministry of Justice? Are you in cahoots with them?"

"..."

"Hmph! If the Ministry of Justice can’t even find the culprit, what’s the point of having them? We didn’t move from Qingyun Mountain to the Capital City to get bullied without fighting back. The Marquis said, if anyone doesn’t let us fight back, we’ll cause them trouble. Whoever helps the enemy is our enemy."

"..."

Chu Shun patted the Heir of Marquis Beining on the shoulder and said, "I think you should cut ties with your cousin. In case this maid really makes you an enemy one day, even your Marquis Beining Mansion might not survive."

The Heir of Marquis Beining was speechless, looking at the constables, he said, "Inform my cousin that if he invites me to dinner, I’m unavailable."

The constable, "..."

The Minister of the Ministry of Justice, "..."

Xie Jingchen asked, "Have you found any leads?"

The Minister of the Ministry of Justice pulled a smile and said, "There’s evidence of someone splashing oil at Tianxiang Building."

These few words were hard for the Minister of the Ministry of Justice to utter.

Because after searching for so long, they only found this little lead.

Among the many unsolved cases the Ministry of Justice had accumulated, there were quite a few arson cases with more leads than this.

Breaking the case of the Tianxiang Building fire, the Minister of the Ministry of Justice wasn’t confident.

He wasn’t confident that after Tianxiang Building was restored, it wouldn’t be burned again either.

He believed the words of the Eldest Young Madam of Duke Zhen’s Mansion weren’t just empty threats.

"The Emperor has high hopes for my wife’s shop, and hopes Lord Zhao will find the real arsonist soon," Xie Jingchen said politely.

"Our Ministry of Justice will spare no effort."

The Minister of the Ministry of Justice quickly stated.

Su Jin suddenly remembered, "I almost forgot, the Emperor rewarded me with an inscribed plaque, find someone to make it quickly and hang it for me."

"Alright."

Xie Jingchen agreed briskly.

Returning the plaque to her meant he wouldn’t need to run the shop to sell charcoal anymore.

Just as he thought this——

Su Jin splashed a basin of water down.

"Even with the plaque back, the charcoal shop is still opening."

"..."

Xie Jingchen’s mouth twitched slightly.

Su Jin continued to ask, "I want to rebuild Tianxiang Building; how soon can it be done?"

Xie Jingchen didn’t respond.

Chu Shun shook his jade fan and said, "As long as the money’s in place, half a month is enough."

"Half a month is just right, I’ll leave the supervision to you guys."

"..."

"Once I get the measurements, I’ll quickly finish the blueprints and send them over."

"..."

The City Patrol’s constables felt at ease.

They weren’t just being ordered around effortlessly; even the Heir of Marquis Jingguo were treated like servants.

Chu Shun and the others were dumbfounded.

"Honestly, my mother never ordered me around like this," Prince NanAn mumbled.

"She’s our grandaunt," Eldest Young Master of Duke Dingguo replied quietly, hiding behind his fan.

"..."

Seeing the bruised corners of Chu Shun and their mouths, Su Jin instructed Xingxing, "Give them a bottle of bruise ointment."

Xingxing swiftly dug into her small satchel where she kept a whip for the ointment.

There was so much inside that she couldn’t find it at first.

She took out the whip.

And a small section of the candle came with it.

Su Jin, "..."

Averting her eyes, she pretended she saw nothing.

Prince NanAn picked up the candle curiously and asked, "In broad daylight, why are you carrying a candle?"

"I don’t know, just thought the girl might need it, so I brought it."

Xingxing returned the candle to the bag and handed the ointment bottle to Prince NanAn.

Once business was wrapped up.

Su Jin planned to return to the mansion. As she just turned, she heard the Heir of Marquis Beining ask, "What’s the first thing to do?"

"Shouldn’t we first get rid of these useless broken bricks?" Prince NanAn said.

"You paid twenty thousand taels, and you’re willing to throw them away?" Chu Shun teased.

"If you aren’t, I’ll have someone transport them to your Marquis Jingguo Mansion," Prince NanAn said.

"..."

"Aren’t you guys going to get on with it?" Prince NanAn ordered.

Dali Temple Constables, "..."

They were here to investigate the case!

The City Patrol quietly slipped away.

But Chu Shun called them back.

"You guys go help too."

"..."

"Still not enough manpower?"

"Each household finds twenty servants for now."

"..."

Su Jin was speechless.

She looked at Xie Jingchen, "Are your brothers reliable?"

The first thing they should be doing was measure the dimensions and give them to her so she could make the blueprints, right?

Xie Jingchen poured tea for himself.

"I don’t know either."

"Aren’t you all good brothers? How could you not know?" Su Jin was surprised.

"They’ve never done legitimate work before; this is their first time."

"..."