Delicate Flower - Chapter 2

[Chapter 2 Shop]

Such an incredible thing happened, Yu Tang thought she would lose sleep, but who knew that when her head was next to the pillow and the familiar bergamot incense lingered in her breath, she didn’t even have a dream, and slept until dawn.

But she didn’t wake up naturally.

But she was woken up by Shuangtao: “Miss, the madam is here!”

Every time Yu Tang got up, he was a little chaotic.

Sitting on the head of the bed, she opened her big black and white eyes, full of water, before she came to her senses for a long time. She yawned and said, “Auntie? When did Auntie come here?”

As he spoke, Yu Tang was shocked and completely awake.

In the previous life, the day after walking on Changxing Street before dawn, her aunt came over.

She said it was hot, she couldn’t sleep, and the days were hard, so she brought needles and thread to work, but in fact, she made an excuse to detain her mother and her at home for a whole day, until evening, when her eldest uncle and big brother were busy with the shop, I sent a letter to my father who was far away in Suzhou City, and then the aunt left.

Even so, when the aunt left, she specially instructed the servants in the family not to reveal the slightest information in the shop to her and her mother, leaving Mrs. Wang, who was serving with the aunt, to tell her to make snowflake cakes at home.

Her mother was very pleased that she was interested in learning how to cook, so she moved a stool to accompany her in the kitchen, and with this snowflake cake, she detained her mother and daughter together to her father.

When my father came back, he also downplayed what happened in the shop. If it weren’t for the “Picture of Fishing in the Pine Lake”, other people came to ask for money, and my mother didn’t know that the family had no money.

But she waited until her parents had passed away before she realized that there were only fifty acres of fertile farmland left at home.

She didn’t feel that it was an important turning point in her life until she married into the Li family and was coveted by Li Duan.

Yu Tang hurriedly got up: “Who will accompany the aunt? Does my mother know that the aunt is here?”

Shuangtao served her grooming, and said, “I came over before dawn, saying that it was too hot to fall asleep, and we won’t let us wake you and your wife, and Mrs. Chen will accompany you to enjoy the coolness in the courtyard.”

Yu Tang nodded.

Still the same as before.

It’s just that in this life, she will not throw all these to the elders in the family.

Yu Tang hurried to the courtyard.

The eldest aunt was wearing a beautiful blue Xiabu sur 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 and the other fanning.

The aunt’s expression was sullen, and the dark circles under her eyes were very obvious. At first glance, she hadn’t slept well.

How big of a heart she was in her previous life, that she didn’t notice the strangeness of her aunt at all.

“Auntie!” Yu Tang stepped forward to salute the Auntie Wang, but couldn’t help but burst into tears.

In the previous life, both the eldest uncle and the big brother died because of her involvement. The aunt had no support and returned to her parents’ home to be a widow and beg for a living in the hands of her nephew and niece.

Not only did the aunt not blame her, she also entrusted her cousin who was a monk in the nunnery to take her in when she was at the most difficult time.

“You child, why are you crying?” Mrs Wang looked at Yu Tang and sighed, went up to help her up, motioned Mrs. Wang to bring a chair to Yu Tang, and then said warmly, “I’ve heard that you went yesterday. I’ve crossed Changxing Street. It’s rare that you are so sensible. I won’t say anything more. Whatever happens in the shop, you have to hide it from your mother. Your mother is not in good health. You must be in a hurry to hear the news. Your father Not at home, if your mother is in a hurry, what should you ask your father to do?”

Yu Tang nodded again and again, helped Wang to sit down again, offered a cup of chrysanthemum tea to Wang, sat down beside Wang, and said, “Don’t worry, auntie, I know it’s great.”

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

Fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls are beautiful no matter how they dress up, not to mention Yu Tang is a well-known beauty in Qingzhu Lane.

It’s just that she was pampered and looked childish on weekdays, but today she is standing upright, with a bit of tenacity between her brows and eyes, her clear eyes are clear and energetic, and her whole figure stretches out like a knotted bamboo. It looks fresh and neat, and it makes people like it even more.

Wang Shi secretly applauded and said, “I heard that you bumped your head yesterday afternoon, are you feeling better?”

Yu Tang said repeatedly: “I’m fine! The incident happened suddenly, I was shocked at the time, and I’ll be fine soon.”

Wang Shi didn’t believe it, and said, “Mother Chen said just now that you were in a coma for two hours, and after you woke up, you said some nonsense. Before Shuangtao could tell your mother, you took Shuangtao and went to Changxing Street to watch the fun , I can’t stop it. If Mrs. Chen hadn’t been stable enough to help you hide from your mum, your mum would have run to the street to find you.”

Yu Tang felt guilty and admitted his mistake: “I did it wrong. I will never do this again.”

Seeing her snow-white little face wrinkled and pitiful, Wang Shi suddenly felt unbearable and said with a smile, “Okay, I don’t mean to blame you. It’s just that you are the only one in your mother and father. I’m afraid that it will melt, and I’m afraid of falling when I hold it in my hand. I can’t help but think too much. You have to be more considerate of your mother and father. What others can do, you may not be able to do it. ”

“I see!” Yu Tang was taught obediently.

Or she was still worried about her husband and son, and Mrs. Wang whispered to her about yesterday’s fire: “Your uncle and your cousin were busy in the middle of the night, and they brought letters back, saying that it was not only our shop, but also Pei The family’s shop was also burnt to the ground with only a few ruins left. The Pei family has another major incident, and there is not even a person in charge of the overall situation. The Tang prefect is now in a turmoil, and he doesn’t know how to write a note to the court. ”

The Pei family is a big family in Lin’an City.

A real bigwig.

No matter who is the prefect in Lin’an City, they must visit the Pei family before taking office.

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

The most prosperous Changxing Street in Lin’an City, except for the seven or eight shops like the Yu family that have been operating for several generations, the rest are all owned by the Pei family, and most of the forests, fertile fields, tea houses, and mulberry gardens outside the city are also owned by Pei’s family. home’s.

Many people rely on the Pei family to live.

In the previous life, the 100 acres of fertile fields of their Yu family were 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 20 two-rank jinshi and seven or eight first-rank officers.

In this generation, the three masters of the Pei family were all born in the two-rank jinshi.

In a few years, two more young masters of the Pei family were awarded Jinshi.

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

Yu Tang couldn’t help but said: “It’s really unfortunate. The old man of their family went wherever he wanted to go!”

Who knew that Wang Shi was stunned and asked: “Is the old man of the Pei family? Who told you that the old man of the Pei family is gone? It is the eldest master of the Pei family, the eldest master of the work department in the capital, who said that he was violently ill in the capital a few days ago. He died. The news came to Lin’an. The old man Pei fell ill all of a sudden. Several young masters of Pei’s family rushed to Qiantang to pick up the spirit last night. The stewards were busy treating the funeral of the old man, and no one was free to manage Changxing Street. thing.”

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

Whether it is in the past or this life, the Pei family is too far away from her, and she is just hearsay about the Pei family, and she can’t count.

Wang sighed with emotion: “The fire in Changxing Street started all at once. Your uncle said that the fire was very strange-everyone’s water would start from one place and then spread to other places. Uncle suspects that someone set the fire, and wants to go to the government to talk about it. Unfortunately, something happened to the Pei family, and Tang Zhifu is definitely not in the mood to take care of this…”

When Yu Tang heard this, her heart beat violently.

In the previous life, the Li family was the one who came to mention it after their family had an accident.

At that time, she was reluctant, and felt that she was still in the period of filial piety, and it was not appropriate to discuss this matter.

But the eldest uncle and aunt felt that after the period of filial piety, she would be eighteen, and she would definitely not be able to marry a good family by then, so they discussed with her to get married to the Li family first, and then discuss the marriage period after the filial piety was over.

She couldn’t help but hesitate.

However, the Li family sent someone to tell her in private that if she agreed to be engaged first, the Li family would be willing to lend 5,000 taels of silver to the eldest uncle, without any interest, so that the uncle’s family could make a comeback.

There was a fire on Changxing Street, and their shop was burned, as was her uncle’s shop.

When the Li family came to mention this, the Pei family was rebuilding Changxing Street.

The foundation is ready-made, but the money for building the store has to be paid by each family. If someone has no money to rebuild the store, they can sell it to the Pei family at a price.

Most of them sold the foundation to the Pei family.

Her uncle was unwilling to sell the foundation.

That is the old ancestral property left by the Yu family.

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Not only was she unwilling to sell it, she even wanted to build the two facades her father left behind.

But when her grandfather died, her eldest uncle thought that her father would not be able to run household chores, so the four shops were divided equally, two hundred mu of land, one hundred mu of good land was distributed to her father, the other fifty mu of medium land, fifty mu of medium land and fifty mu of good land were distributed to her father. Mu mountains and forests were distributed to him.

The cost of four shops cost 4,000 taels of silver. Even if she sold her uncle’s Tianquan, it was only a drop in the bucket, and she couldn’t even buy the pillars for building the shop.

After listening to the Li family’s words, she felt that her marriage could help the eldest uncle’s family get out of trouble, and she agreed to marry Li Jun, the second young master of the Li family, without informing the eldest uncle.

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

Although the eldest uncle and the eldest brother made a lot of money in their lives, they also buried troubles-the eldest uncle and the eldest brother went in and out of Jiubian several times in order to earn her dowry. It was built, and later she spent a lot of effort to buy back the fertile land that her family sold… But the uncle also put his main energy on the grain and salt business, not only what he and his cousin were doing for a living. There was a dispute over the matter, and he also encountered a robber on the way to Jiubian, and there was no bones left.

In her previous life, she was raised in a deep boudoir and did not know the world. Even if she knew about the fire in Changxing Street, she would not have any idea if she knew that it was burning strangely.

But at this time, Yu Tang had fallen into the quagmire of the Li family. I don’t know how many dirty tricks I have seen. After hearing this, I knew that the Pei family’s method of embezzling shops was the same as that of the Li family’s enclosure back then. The means are the same.

Whenever there is a chance, they will bully the weak.

The same ruthless, the same despicable and vicious!

[End of this Chapter]