It's just that there are pros and cons to everything.
Although the Qu family brothers are trustworthy, they also ask for a lot of money.
For any matter, you have to charge ten or eight taels of silver. If it is a bit difficult, you will get twenty or thirty taels of silver.
Yu Tang is now facing the same predicament as before - no money!
No, she is even poorer now than in her previous life.
In her previous life, she still had some dowry at any rate, but now, her mother and father gave her pocket money of one or two taels of silver at most. If she said that she had spent all of it, she would still ask how her money was spent and where it went. .
A few days ago, for Wei Xiaoshan's affairs, she also quietly hired helpers to do things, because they were all small things to ask for news, and it didn't matter who helped them. But even so, the money she had saved was almost spent, so she definitely couldn't invite the brothers from the Qu family.
If only she could make money like others!
Yu Tang was extremely depressed.
She sat with her elbows in front of the desk by the window, watching the chrysanthemums that were about to bloom in the yard, motionless, but her mind was spinning rapidly.
In her previous life, ever since she began to doubt the Li family, she began to investigate the Li family's affairs and stared at the Li family members. Only then did she know that women can also do business. Especially the women in the Suzhou and Hangzhou areas, many of them took the money from their private houses to buy shares in the sea business. If the sea boat came back safely, they could earn money to buy a house.
However, there is a way to do this business.
Either with the father and brother's business, or with the clan's relationship.
Otherwise it is easy to be fooled.
After taking the money, they only said which fleet they had invested in, and after a year or so, they said that the fleet was overturned and lost all their money, so naturally all the money they took out was in vain.
But there are exceptions to everything.
Jiang Ling, the aunt of the Jiang family in Suzhou City, married the young master of the Yu family who had been engaged since childhood at the age of sixteen, and became a widow at the age of seventeen.
Different from ordinary women's petty troubles, after her family was down and down, she sold her dowry to support her elderly mother-in-law and her young brother-in-law, and took out a large amount of property to become a shareholder of her younger brother Jiang Chao's fleet, and began to do business at sea. . And Jiang Chao seemed to be favored by the God of Wealth, the wind went smoothly, the fleet never had any accidents, but in just five or six years, the Jiang family changed from an ordinary merchant to the richest in Suzhou City. As a result, the Yu family became rich overnight and became one of the richest households in Suzhou.
Before Yu Tang died, the Jiang family was ambitious to become an imperial merchant.
The Li family was extremely jealous.
You must know that the maritime business of the Li family and the Lin family had also lost a lot of money due to fleet accidents.
Lin Jue even wanted to get on the line of Jiang's family and give Li Duan an idea: "It's not so easy to be an imperial merchant. There is no one in the court, so don't even think about it. Why don't you meet with Jiang Chao and see if you can join me?" One share."
Li Duan thinks this is unlikely: "Jiang Chao's business has reached the current level, and I don't know how many people are willing to add icing on the cake! We know that Jiang Chao is a bit late, not to mention that there are many officials and families in Suzhou and Hangzhou. What, our family is really not enough to see."
Lin Jue persuaded Li Duan to treat Gu Xi better: "Don't lose the watermelon, pick up a sesame seed. Your uncle is only 30 years old this year, and he has been promoted to the official doctor. Don't be confused, because a small loss makes a big difference." .”
The watermelon is Gu Xi, and the sesame is Yu Tang.
Li Duan listened to it, and for a while, he and Gu Xi were inseparable. Yu Tang heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that Li Duan had given up on her, but who knew that within half a year, Li Duan would revert to his old ways and start to play tricks on her again.
She was not worth it for Gu Xi, but also envied that Jiang Ling had the support of her natal brothers. She took a lot of effort to take fifty taels of silver to become a shareholder of Jiang Chao's fleet in the name of Ah Shao.
Two years later, the fleet returned safely again.
Yu Tang earned four hundred taels of silver.
At that moment, she was so overjoyed that she tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep, not knowing how to spend the money.
Thanks to the money, she was able to instigate the brothers of the Qu family, and finally put Lin and Li Duan together and left the Li family.
Thinking about it now, the Jiang family has not made a fortune at this time, and Jiang Chao has started to persuade others to invest in the organization of the fleet in the past few years. It is a difficult time.
If she can seize this opportunity and become one of the earliest collaborators of the Jiang family, wouldn't she also be able to make a fortune like the Yu family
Yu Tang sighed.
After all, it's still a matter of money.
Where can she get the money to invest in the Jiang family now...
Yu Tang was worrying, someone threw a flower at her.
The flower hit her on the nose, knocking her into a daze.
She looked up and saw that it was Yu Yuan.
"What's wrong with you?"
Yu Yuan asked with a smile, his brows couldn't hide the joyful expression on his face.
Yu Tang suddenly felt his eyes light up.
She didn't have big money, so couldn't she borrow small money
She stretched out her hand to borrow money from Yu Yuan: "I want to buy something."
Yu Yuan was at the time when he was happy, not to mention that Yu Tang just asked him for money, even if he was asked to run around Lin'an City twice with her on his back, he would be willing to do so.
Yu Tang slyly said: "I want fifty taels of silver!"
"Ah!" Yu Yuan, who stretched his hands into his pockets, was stunned, "What do you want so much money for?"
He doesn't have so much private money!
Yu Tang smiled and said: "Then how about thirty taels? You are going to get married soon, and when you get married, you will be the husband-in-law of someone else's family, not my brother alone. I can ask you for anything in the future." It's difficult, can't you let me have enough at once?"
Yu Yuan blushed slightly, and said embarrassingly: "Where it is possible to get married right away, we have to wait until next spring. This is Mrs. Wei's idea. I am afraid that the marriage between our two families will be too urgent, and others will gossip about the young lady.
Yu Tang was shocked, and said: "Brother, you forgot about my sister before you married a wife, and you didn't even refute me, saying that you are my brother alone!"
The two families had decided to hold a wedding for Yu Yuan and Miss Xiang in spring, and she had already heard from her mother, but she just didn't expect that Yu Yuan was not married yet, and her heart was already biased towards Miss Xiang.
"No, no, that's not what I meant." Yu Yuan stammered and explained, "I mean, since I am your elder brother, I will always be your elder brother, but if Miss Xiang gets married, she will be your elder brother in our family. After all, she is a little strange, we should treat her better."
"Brother wants to treat her better, right?" Yu Tang pressed, but he felt really good in his heart.
In the previous life, Yu Yuan had never defended the Gao family like this.
It can be seen that Miss Xiang is really the person he likes and puts on top of his heart.
In this life, her eldest cousin will definitely be very happy.
Yu Tang continued to play with him: "If you don't give me money, I'll tell my aunt that you won't care about Amei's life if you have a wife in the future."
"Nothing!" Yu Yuan said anxiously. Although he didn't know that mother-in-law and daughter-in-law often dislike each other because of a careless remark, and even become mortal enemies, but this does not prevent him from being afraid that his mother will misunderstand Miss Xiang and dislike her. "How much silver do you want to borrow? A lot... Not a lot."
He wanted to talk too much, he wanted to give Miss Xiang a pearl headband or something, which was his own gift to Miss Xiang, but seeing Yu Tang's dissatisfaction, he was afraid that his words would make Yu Tang bitter, so he He quickly swallowed the words and changed them into another sentence.
Yu Tang was really satisfied, and pondered: "It's worth thirty taels of silver!"
The brothers of the Qu family at this time are only slightly famous, and they should not be as expensive as when she came to him in the previous life. But looking at Yu Yuan's appearance, she guessed that this was the last time she asked him for money, and it would be difficult for her to ask Yu Yuan for anything in the future. If he is married, the things should belong to his wife and children. Even if she wanted to borrow money, she had to borrow it from Miss Xiang, not Yu Yuan, and she had to borrow and repay.
This is the experience she gained in her previous life.
Yu Yuan returned ten taels of silver: "At most twenty taels, I won't have any more!"
Yu Tang didn't dare to force Yu Yuan, for fear that he would miss the point and even lose the twenty taels of silver.
"Thank you brother!" She said immediately, "I will definitely treat Miss Xiang well in the future."
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Yu Yuan yelled at Yu Tang, but he didn't dare to teach her seriously, fearing that she would get angry and treat Miss Xiang badly, so he hurried home and took the bank note, saying: "Be careful flower."
Yu Tang asked his father to report to the officials just to scare the snake away. Now most of the refugees in the Li family farm have run away. If the two people who killed Wei Xiaoshan are also in the farm, they will definitely feel that it is not worthwhile to run like this. Eight or nine times out of ten, they will ask the Li family for some money before running away. .
Yu Tang nodded again and again, and first asked A Shao to go to the Qu family brothers, and asked the Qu family brothers to keep an eye on Li Duan. If anyone went to Li Duan for money, he would find a way to arrest them and send them to the back alley of Qingzhu Lane.
The brothers of the Qu family had just gained a little fame in the neighborhood at this time, and it was the time when they established their trust and reputation. After agreeing, they immediately began to stare at the people of the Li family day and night.
Yu Tang held the only twelve taels of silver left in his hand and felt pain in his heart.
Qu brothers are really precious!
She is now poor again.
But the Qu family brothers are really reliable in their work. Before the Double Ninth Festival, the Qu family brothers asked someone to bring her a letter, saying that they had caught two refugees who were going to ask Li Duan for money. However, these two people were also named by others before. What they wanted, they didn't expect that the two families wanted the same group of people. Although the other party said it before her, they didn't give the deposit. Although Yu Tang said it later, they gave all the money. They decided to hand over the people Yu Tang.
Yu Tang was afraid for a while, but also a little thankful that he knew the style of these two brothers in his previous life, otherwise, even if he had a way, he would not be able to catch these two people.
She notified Wei Xiaochuan, accompanied by A Shao, and the group met behind Qingzhu Lane.
Whether it is Yu Tang or Wei Xiaochuan, they have never seen these two people before, and what happened to Wei Xiaoshan is just suspicion and inference. Two people in one piece of purple.
Unexpectedly, things went so smoothly that Yu Tang suspected that the Bodhisattva was probably on her side at this time.
When Wei Xiaochuan asked them, they unexpectedly recruited Wei Xiaoshan who was ordered to kill by the Li family, with the purpose of destroying the marriage between Wei and Yu. He also talked endlessly about the grievances with the Li family: "Originally, I was supported by their family to help with some trivial matters. I thought their family had a strong background. Who knew that their family would not even dare to fart once the government office was gone. , so that the two of us killed a few government servants before escaping. Now we are afraid that we will confess them, so we have sent several people to look for us. We are not vegetarians, and we will die!"
At the end of the story, the two refugees were still yelling arrogantly, "You have the ability to go to the Li family, we are just doing things, the Li family is the murderer, what do you want us to do?", "Your Wei family sees a lot of brothers. I didn’t expect it to be useless, the persimmons only dared to find soft ones”, “Even if you catch me, so what, do you still dare to send us to the government office? The Li family just wanted to break off Miss Yu’s marriage , You sent us to the government office, and you fell into the arms of the Li family," or something like that.