Rebirth, such an unimaginable thing, Yu Tang thought that she would suffer from insomnia, but who knew that when her head was pressed against the pillow, and the familiar bergamot fragrance lingered in her breath, she didn't even have a dream, and fell asleep until dawn.
But she didn't wake up naturally.
It was woken up by Shuangtao: "Miss, the lady is here!"
Every time Yu Tang wakes up, he feels a little confused.
She leaned against the head of the bed, opened a pair of black and white, watery big eyes, it took a long time to recover, and yawned: "Auntie? When did Auntie come over?"
While speaking, Yu Tang was shocked and fully awake.
In the previous life, her eldest aunt came over before dawn on the second day when Changxing Street was flooded. She said that the weather was hot, she couldn't sleep, and the days were hard, so she brought needles and thread to do it, but in fact she found an excuse to keep her mother and her at home for a whole day, until evening, when her uncle and cousin finished their work in the shop, After sending a letter to my father who was far away in Suzhou City, my aunt left and went back.
Even so, when the auntie left, she specially ordered the servants at home not to reveal any news about the shop to her and her mother, and left the lady Wang, who was served by the auntie, to tell her to make snowflake cakes at home.
Her mother was very pleased that she was interested in learning some cooking skills, so she moved a stool to accompany her in the kitchen. With this snowflake crisp, they detained the mother and daughter until their father came back.
When my father came back, he also downplayed the things in the shop. If it weren't for the "Fishing in Pine Lake", other people would come to ask for money, and my mother would not know that the family had no money. But she didn't know that there were only fifty acres of fertile land left in her family until her parents passed away.
The flood in Changxing Street, she didn't think 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 eldest aunt? Does my mother know that the eldest aunt is coming?"
Shuangtao helped her to wash and wash, and said: "Come here before dawn, saying that the weather is too hot to sleep, and don't let us wake you and your wife. Granny Chen will accompany you to enjoy the cool in the courtyard."
Yu Tang nodded.
Still the same as previous life.
It's just that in this life, she won't leave all these things to the elders in the family.
Yu Tang hurried to the courtyard.
The eldest aunt was wearing a beautiful blue summer cloth skirt, and she was sitting on a bamboo chair under the camphor tree. On the left and on the right, Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Wang, one was talking with her, and the other was helping to play the fan. The eldest aunt's expression was sleepy, and the dark circles under her eyes were very obvious. It seemed that she hadn't slept well.
She had so much heart in her previous life that she didn't notice the strangeness of her eldest aunt at all.
"Auntie!" Yu Tang stepped forward to salute his aunt Wang, but tears welled up in his eyes.
In the previous life, both the eldest uncle and the eldest cousin died because of her involvement, and the eldest aunt had no support, and returned to her natal family to be a widow, living in the hands of her natal nephew and niece-in-law. Not only did the eldest aunt not blame her, but she also entrusted her cousin who was a monk in the nunnery to take her in during her most difficult time.
"You child, why are you crying?" Wang looked at Yu Tang and sighed, stepped forward to help her up, motioned for Mrs. Wang to bring a chair for Yu Tang, and then said softly, "I have heard that you went to Crossing Changxing Street. It’s rare that you are so sensible. I won’t say too much. You must keep the things in the shop from your mother no matter what. Your mother is not in good health. You must be anxious to hear the news. Your father If you are not at home, if your mother is in a hurry, what will 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 how powerful it 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 sixteen years old can be beautiful no matter how she dresses up, not to mention that Yu Tang is a well-known beauty in Qingzhu Lane. It's just that she is usually pampered and looks childish, but today she stands upright, with a bit of toughness in her brows and eyes, her clear eyes are clear and energetic, and her whole body stretches out like a plucked bamboo. It looks refreshing and neat, which makes people like it even more.
Mrs. Wang secretly agreed, and said: "I heard that you bumped your head yesterday afternoon, is it better?"
Yu Tang said repeatedly: "I'm fine! The incident happened so suddenly, I was shocked at the time, but I'll be fine soon."
Mrs. Wang didn't believe it, and said, "Mr. Chen said just now that you were in a coma for two hours, and then you talked nonsense after waking up. Before Shuangtao went to tell your mother, you took Shuangtao and went to Changxing Street to watch the excitement. You can't even stop it. If Mrs. Chen hadn't been able to hold her own, she would have kept you from your mother with all the nonsense, your mother would have gone to the street to look for you. "
Feeling guilty, Yu Tang admitted his mistake: "I did something wrong. I will never do this again."
Seeing her snow-white face wrinkled and pitiful, Mrs. Wang immediately felt unbearable, and said with a smile: "Okay, I don't mean to blame you. It's just that you are the only one between your mother and father, holding it in your mouth." I’m afraid that my heart will melt, and I’m afraid of falling when I hold it in my hand, so 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.”
"I know!" Yu Tang obeyed obediently.
Or because she was still worried about her husband and son, Wang whispered to her about yesterday's fire: "Your uncle and your first cousin have been busy in the middle of the night, and they came back with a letter saying that not only our shop, but Pei The shop at home was burned down to the point where there were only a few ruins left. The Pei family had another major incident, and there was no one to take charge of the overall situation. The prefect of Tang is now in a state of desperation, and he doesn't know how to write an account for the court."
The Pei family is a big family in Lin'an City.
Really big.
No matter who is the magistrate in Lin'an City, he must visit Pei's family before officially taking office.
Before she died, the Pei family was the most prominent family in Lin'an City.
In the most prosperous Changxing Street in Lin'an City, except for seven or eight shops like the Yu family that have been run for several generations, the rest are all owned by the Pei family, and more than half of the mountains, fertile fields, tea houses, and mulberry gardens outside the city are also owned by the Pei family. home's. Many people depend on Pei's family to live.
In the previous life, their Yu family's 100 mu of fertile land 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 20 second-rank Jinshi and seven or eight first-rank officials.
In this generation, the three masters of the Pei family are all from the top two ranks. After a few more years, two more young masters of the Pei family became 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. The old man said he would go!"
Who knows that Mrs. Wang was taken aback, and asked, "Is the old man of the Pei family? Who told you that the old man of the Pei family has gone? It is the old man of the Pei family, the old man who works as a servant of the Ministry of Industry in the capital. He said that he had a sudden illness in the capital a few days ago." Died. The news spread to Lin'an. Grandpa Pei suddenly fell ill. Several young masters of the Pei family rushed to Qiantang to pick up the spirit last night. The stewards were busy attending to the grandpa's funeral. thing."
Yu Tang was stunned, but didn't think much about it.
Regardless of whether it was the previous life or the present life, the Pei family was too far away from her, and she was just hearsay about the Pei family's affairs, so she couldn't count them.
Wang said with emotion: "The fire on Changxing Street started all at once. Your uncle said that the fire burned strangely—everyone's house was burned from one place, and then spread to other places. Your uncle I suspect that someone set the fire, and I want to go to the government to talk about it. Unfortunately, something happened to the Pei family, and Tang Zhifu must not be 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 mention relatives after their family had an accident. At that time, she was reluctant, thinking that she was still in the filial age, and it was not appropriate to discuss this matter. But the uncle and aunt felt that after the filial piety period, 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 engaged to the Li family first, and then discuss the marriage period 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 five thousand taels of silver to the uncle, without interest, so that the uncle's family can make a comeback.
There was a fire on Changxing Street, their shop was burned, and her uncle's shop was also burned. When the Li family came to mention this matter, the Pei family was rebuilding Changxing Street. The foundation is ready-made, 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 for a price.
Most of the people sold the foundation to the Pei family.
Her great uncle was unwilling to sell the foundation.
That was the ancestral property left by the Yu family.
Not only was she unwilling to sell, she even wanted to build the two facades left by her father.
But when her grandfather died, her uncle thought that her father would not be able to run general affairs, and the four shops were divided equally. Two hundred acres of land and one hundred acres of fertile land were distributed to her father, and the other fifty acres of medium-sized land and fifty acres of land were distributed to her father. Mu mountain forest was given to him.
The four shops cost four thousand taels of silver, even if she sold her uncle's field, it would be just a drop in the bucket, and she couldn't even buy enough pillars to build the shop.
After hearing what the Li family said, she felt that her marriage would at least help her uncle's family get out of the predicament, so she agreed to marry Li Jun, the second young master of the Li family, without notifying her uncle.
Afterwards, the eldest uncle felt sorry for her, and found out that selling grain to Jiubian in exchange for salt could make a lot of money, so he took five thousand taels of silver from Li's family to Huguang.
Although the eldest uncle and eldest cousin made a lot of money by narrowly escaped death, they also planted future troubles—the eldest uncle and eldest cousin went in and out of Jiubian several times in order to earn a dowry for her. First, they rebuilt the two shops that their father left her. After getting up, she spent a lot of effort to buy back the fertile land that her family had sold... But the uncle also focused his energy on the grain and salt import business, not only what he and his cousin did for a living. There was a dispute on the road, and a robber was encountered on the way to Jiubian, and there was no bones left.
In her previous life, she was raised in a deep boudoir and didn't know much about the world. Even if she knew about the fire on Changxing Street, she wouldn't have any thoughts if she knew that the fire was burning strangely. But at this time, Yu Tang had fallen into the quagmire of the Li family, and had seen many dirty tricks. He just listened to it, and knew that the Pei family's method of embezzling shops was similar to that of the Li family's enclosure. The means are exactly the same.
Will bully the weak whenever given the chance.
The same cruelty, the same despicable viciousness!