Delicate Flower Chapter 2: Shop

Such a bizarre thing happened. Yu Tang thought she would suffer from insomnia. Who knew that when her head was next to the pillow and the familiar scent of bergamot lingered in her breath, she actually didn't even dream and slept until dawn.

But she didn't wake up naturally.

But she was woken up by Shuangtao: "Miss, the eldest lady is here!"

Yu Tang feels a little confused every time he gets up.

She sat on the head of the bed, opening her **** and white, moist eyes. It took her a while to come back to her senses, yawned and said, "Auntie? When did auntie come here?"

As he spoke, Yu Tang suddenly woke up completely.

In her previous life, her aunt came over before dawn the day after Changxing Street was flooded. She said it was because the weather was hot, she couldn't sleep, and the days were hard, so she brought her needlework to do some work. In fact, she found an excuse and kept her mother at home all day. Until the evening, when her uncle and cousin finished working in the shop, After sending a letter to my father who was far away in Suzhou city, my eldest aunt left and went back.

Even so, when the eldest aunt left, she specifically ordered the servants at home not to reveal any news about the shop to her and her mother. She left the aunt's attendant, Mrs. Wang, at home to tell her how to make snowflake cakes.

Her mother was very happy that she was interested in learning some cooking skills, so she moved a stool to accompany her in the kitchen. With this, Xuehuasu kept the mother and daughter together until her father came back.

When my father came back, he downplayed what was going on in the shop. If it hadn't been for the "Picture of Fishing on Pine Lake" and other people came to ask for money, my mother would not have known that the family had no money. But it was only after her parents passed away that she realized that only fifty acres of fertile land was left at home.

The Changxing Street incident was an important turning point in her life until she married into the Li family and was coveted by Li Duan.

Yu Tang stood up in a hurry: "Who is accompanying the eldest aunt? Does my mother know that the eldest aunt is here?"

Shuangtao helped her wash up and said, "I came here before dawn. I said it was too hot and I couldn't sleep. I didn't want us to wake you and my wife up. Mrs. Chen accompanied me to enjoy the coolness in the courtyard. ”

Yu Tang nodded.

Still the same as in the previous life.

It’s just that she won’t leave all this to the elders in her family in this life.

Yu Tang hurried to the courtyard.

The eldest aunt was wearing a beautiful blue linen skirt and was sitting on a bamboo chair under the camphor tree. Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Wang were on the left and right, one talking to her and the other fanning her. The eldest aunt's expression was gloomy, and the dark circles under her eyes were very obvious. It looked like she had not slept well.

How caring she was in her previous life, so that she didn’t notice anything strange about her eldest aunt.

"Auntie!" Yu Tang stepped forward to salute Auntie Wang, but couldn't help but burst into tears.

In her previous life, her eldest uncle and eldest cousin both died because of her involvement. The eldest aunt had no support, so she returned to her parents' home and became a widow, living in the hands of her nephew and niece-in-law. The eldest aunt not only did not blame her, but also asked her cousin who was a monk in the nunnery to take her in during her most difficult time.

"You kid, why are you crying?" Mrs. Wang watched Yu Tang sigh, and stepped forward to help her up. She motioned to Mrs. Wang to bring a chair for Yu Tang, and then said warmly, "I've heard about it. You went to Changxing Street yesterday. It's rare for you to be so sensible. I won't say more. Whatever happens in the shop, I have to hide it from your mother. Your mother is not in good health, so she will be anxious to hear this news. Your father is not at home. If your mother-in-law makes an emergency, what would you like your father to do?"

Yu Tang nodded repeatedly, helped Ms. Wang sit down again, offered another cup of chrysanthemum tea to Ms. Wang, sat down next to Ms. Wang, and said, "Don't worry, aunt, I know how powerful she is."

Wang nodded, feeling that Yu Tang today was very different from the past, and couldn't help but look at Yu Tang.

A girl of fifteen or six years old looks beautiful no matter how she dresses, not to mention Yu Tang is famously beautiful in Qingzhu Lane. It's just that she was usually pampered and looked childish, but today she stood up straight, with a bit of tenacity between her brows and eyes, her clear eyes were clear and lively, and her whole body stretched out like a bamboo with joints. It looks refreshing and neat, which makes people like it even more.

Wang secretly approved and said, "I heard that you hit your head yesterday afternoon. Are you feeling better?"

Yu Tang kept saying: "I'm fine! It happened suddenly, I was shocked at the time, but I'll be fine soon."

But Mrs. Wang didn't believe it and said, "Mrs. Chen just said that you were in a coma for two hours, and after you woke up, you talked some nonsense. Before Shuangtao could report to your mother, you took Shuangtao and went to Changxing. You are watching the excitement on the street, and you can’t stop me. If Mrs. Chen hadn’t been able to help you keep it secret from your mother-in-law, your mother-in-law would have run to the street to look for you."

Yu Tang felt guilty and admitted his mistake: "I did something wrong. I will never do this again."

Seeing that her snow-white little face was wrinkled and pitiful, Mrs. Wang suddenly felt unbearable and said with a smile: "Okay, I don't mean to blame you. It's just that your mother and father are the only ones. You may hold it in your mouth for fear of melting, hold it in your hand for fear of falling, so you have to think too much. You have to be considerate of your mother and father. You may not be able to do what others can do.

"I know!" Yu Tang obeyed the instructions.

Perhaps she was still thinking about her husband and son, so Wang whispered to her about yesterday's fire: "Your uncle and your eldest cousin were busy in the middle of the night and came back with a letter saying that not only our shop , even the Pei family's shop was burned down to only a few ruins. Unfortunately, something big happened to the Pei family again, and there was no one to take charge of the overall situation. Magistrate Tang was so worried now that he didn't know how to write a report to the court. ."

The Pei family is a wealthy family in Lin'an City.

The real big ones.

No matter who serves as the prefect of Lin'an City, he must first visit the Pei family before officially taking office.

Before her death, the Pei family was the most prominent family in Lin'an City.

On Changxing Street, the most prosperous street in Lin'an City, except for the seven or eight shops like the Yu family that have been run for several generations, the rest are all owned by the Pei family. There are also some in the mountains, fertile fields, tea houses, and mulberry gardens outside the city. Most of them belong to the Pei family. Many people depend on the Pei family for their livelihood.

In the previous life, the one hundred acres of fertile land owned by their Yu family was also sold to the Pei family.

The Pei family has been rich for several generations.

From the previous dynasty to the present, there have been more than twenty second-rank Jinshi and seven or eight first-rank officials.

In this generation, the three masters of the Pei family were all born in the second rank of Jinshi. A few years later, two more young masters from the Pei family won Jinshi.

The old man of the Pei family seemed to have died of illness at this time.

Yu Tang couldn't help but said: "What a coincidence. Their old man went just as he said!"

Unexpectedly, Wang was stunned and asked: "The old man of the Pei family? Who told you that the old man of the Pei family has gone? It's the eldest son of the Pei family, the eldest man who works as the minister of the Ministry of Works in the capital. He said that he was there a few days ago. He died of a sudden illness in the capital. The news reached Lin'an. Mr. Pei suddenly fell ill. Several young masters from the Pei family rushed to Qiantang to pick up the deceased last night. The stewards were busy attending to the funeral of the elder, and no one had time to take care of him. Things about Changxing Street."

Yu Tang was stunned, but didn't think much about it.

Whether it was the past life or this life, the Pei family was too far away from her, and she could only hear about the Pei family's affairs and could not do anything about them.

Wang sighed with emotion: "The fire on Changxing Street started all at once. Your uncle said that the fire was strange - the water in every house always started in one place and then spread to other places. . Your eldest uncle suspected that someone had set the fire, and wanted to talk to the government. Unfortunately, something happened to the Pei family, and Magistrate Tang was definitely not in the mood to take care of it..."

After hearing this, Yu Tang’s heart beat violently.

In the previous life, the Li family came to propose marriage after something happened to their family. At that time, she was reluctant and felt that it was not appropriate to discuss the matter since she was still in her filial piety period. But the eldest uncle and eldest aunt felt that after the filial piety period, she would be eighteen years old, and she would definitely not be able to marry into a good family by then, so they discussed with her to get engaged with the Li family first, and then discuss the marriage date after the filial piety period was over.

She couldn't help but hesitate. However, the Li family sent someone to tell her privately that if she agreed to get engaged first, the Li family would be willing to lend 5,000 taels of silver to her uncle without any interest, so that her family could make a comeback.

There was a fire on Changxing Street. Their shop was burned down, as was her uncle's shop. When the Li family came to mention this matter, the Pei family was renovating Changxing Street. The foundation is ready, but the money to build the shop has to be paid by each family. If someone has no money to rebuild the shop, he can sell it to the Pei family at a price.

Most people sold the foundation to the Pei family.

Her uncle was unwilling to sell the foundation.

That is the ancestral legacy of the Yu family. ~IndoMTL.com~ Not only is she unwilling to sell, she even wants to build the two storefronts left by her father.

But when her grandfather died, her eldest uncle was worried that her father would not be able to manage general affairs, so the four shops were divided equally. Two hundred acres of land, one hundred acres of fertile land, were given to her father, and the other fifty acres of medium land were given to her father. , fifty acres of forest were allotted to him.

The cost of building four shops is four thousand taels of silver. Even if she sells all her uncle's land, it will only be a drop in the bucket. She can't even buy the pillars to build the shop.

After listening to what the Li family said, she felt that her marriage could help her uncle's family get out of trouble, so she agreed to marry Li Jun, the second young master of the Li family, without informing her uncle.

Afterwards, the eldest uncle felt sorry for her and found out that he could make a lot of money selling grain in Jiubian in exchange for salt. He took the Li family's five thousand taels of silver and went to Huguang.

Although the eldest uncle and the eldest cousin made a lot of money after a narrow escape that time, they also laid the foundation for future troubles. In order to earn a dowry for her, the eldest uncle and the eldest cousin went in and out of Jiubian several times. A shop was rebuilt, and later she spent a lot of effort to buy back the fertile farmland that her family had sold... But the eldest uncle also focused his main energy on the grain and salt business. Not only did he work with his eldest cousin in the past, There was a dispute about what to do for a living, and once on the way to Jiubian, he encountered a robber, leaving no trace of his body.

In her previous life, she was raised in a boudoir and was ignorant of the world. Even if she knew about the fire on Changxing Street, she would not have thought anything about the strange fire. But at this time, Yu Tang had fallen into the quagmire of the Li family and had seen many dirty tricks. After just one listen, he knew that the Pei family's methods of embezzling shops were similar to the Li family's methods of encircling the land. The methods are exactly the same.

He will bully the weak whenever he can.

The same cruelty, the same despicable viciousness!