Lin Jingyan stood up, her excitement palpable. After pacing back and forth twice, her eyes grew increasingly bright.
In her previous life, she had been trapped in the inner courtyard of the Marquis Manor, while Lin Jingyan had struggled with the same headache of trying to bring the old hands at the grocery store to heel, ultimately failing to seize the golden opportunity of the epidemic to rake in a fortune.
Lin Hengan, however, possessed a keen sense of smell; he used the medicine shops at his disposal to buy low and sell high, raking in tens of thousands of taels of gold. This not only covered the losses from bribing the stewards of the Sugar and Liquor Chamber of Commerce and transferring his sugar shops at a loss but also allowed him to successfully establish a firm footing in the Capital.
Chapter 27