CH 58

Chapter 58 – Capture

However, there’s pros and cons to everything.

Although the Qu brothers were trustworthy, they were expensive.

For a simple request, it would cost at least 8 or 10 taels of silver. And if it was something difficult, it would cost around 20 to 30 taels of silver.

Yu Tang was now facing the same predicament as she had before – a lack of funds!

In fact, she was even more impoverished now than in her previous life.

In her past life, she still had some dowry to pawn off, but now, she only received at most one silver tael from her parents as an allowance. Furthermore, if she spent it all, she had to give an explanation for it.

Just the other day, she secretly hired some people for Wei Xiaoshan’s matter. As it was only a small task to gather some easily accessible information, it didn’t matter who helped. Even so, there wasn’t much left of the silver she saved, so she certainly couldn’t hire the Qu brothers.

If only she could earn money like the others!

Yu Tang was deeply frustrated.

She sat with her elbows crossed before the window, looking out at the chrysanthemums that would soon bloom in the courtyard. She stared motionlessly, but in her head, she was rapidly thinking of suitable solutions.

In her previous life, after she grew suspicious of the Li family, she investigated their family affairs, keeping a close eye on their movements. It was then that she learned that women too could start and manage businesses, especially those women in Suhang. Many people invested their personal funds into the maritime business. If the vessel returned safely to shore, they could earn enough silver to buy a house. Even if the vessel did not return, the losses incurred would only be a small amount, akin to the cost of buying rouge and cosmetic powders.

However, in order to enter the business, you had to have connections.

You would have to either rely on your father or brother’s business, or on your relationships with members of the clan.

Otherwise it’s easy to be fooled.

Take for example, if you had invested your funds in a ship and its crew, and six months to a year later, the ship was said to have been shipwrecked, with no survivors, all the silver you invested would be gone.

But of course, there’s always exceptions.
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