As soon as she said this, Sun Ziyun's complexion changed instantly. She looked at Liu Xiyu with a pale face, and said in a trembling voice: "Auntie, Yun'er doesn't know what you are talking about, if you don't want Yun'er and younger siblings to stay For the Qi family, you can directly say, we can leave here."
When hearing what Qi Wang and Qi Feng said about Sun Ziyun's actions before, Liu Xiyu didn't have a very intuitive feeling, but now when she sees the other party in front of her, she confuses black and white like this, and uses her clumsy words unabashedly. Liu Xiyu only felt a deep sense of disgust welling up from the bottom of her heart.
"Sun Ziyun, now that the yamen servant is gone, is it interesting for you to pretend to be like this? Or do you think that all the things you did before can be erased? Do you really think that I will look at my poor sister's face and forgive you?" What did you do?"
However, no matter what Liu Xiyu said at this time, Sun Ziyun didn't speak anymore. She just sat there with tears running down her smooth cheeks. Like a weak and pitiful little white flower.
Her goal has been achieved, and there is no point in arguing with Liu Xiyu. The four of them have already registered in front of the yamen servant, and even made their appearance in front of the entire Jizhou city. Some people still want to keep the plaque of the imperial merchants, so they dare not do anything to them.
And the reason why Sun Ziyun dared to challenge the Qi family like this was because she knew that she would not live in the Qi family for a long time.
After King Qinghe returned to Jizhou City, she would find a way to meet King Qinghe again. At that time, she would naturally be able to leave the Qi family with her younger brothers and sisters. King Qinghe's status was extremely high, and a mere Qi family was on the other side. I can't even rank in front of you.
They are just dormant for the time being, there is no need to be humble in front of them, not to mention that they have offended Qi Fang and Qi Feng to death before, no matter how they lower their figures, the siblings will not He will let them go, and in this case, it is better to show your attitude, and the Qi family will not dare to treat them.
Sure enough, Liu Xiyu found that she had said a lot of things, but Sun Ziyun was just crying, and refused to explain the other words. Her appearance made Liu Xiyu sick to death, and the eyes she looked at her became more and more dangerous.
And Sun Ziyin has probably discovered the confrontation between her sister and Liu Xiyu, and looking at them, her sister seems to have the upper hand, which made Sun Ziyin quietly relieved, and then pulled her two younger brothers to kneel on Sun Ziyun In front of him, they all imitated Sun Ziyun's appearance, they only cared about wiping their tears, and didn't say a word about anything else.
The four siblings knelt there in tattered clothes. They were thin and weeping, and they looked extremely pitiful. If someone who didn't know saw it, they might think that Liu Xiyu and the others were bullying others.
Thinking that Liu Xiyu has been in charge of the Qi family for so many years, she has never encountered such a disgusting thing, but these four people can't beat and scold them now, just like that hot potato, making it impossible to deal with.
Looking at the appearance of the four of them, Liu Xiyu laughed back angrily: "Sun Ziyun, do you think that you can do whatever you want here just by being next to a yamen servant? Then you look down on me too much."
"Originally, I planned to send you back to Yuzhou City. For the sake of your mother, I will not blame you for what happened before, but since you must stay to resist me, don't blame me for being rude to you." gone."
As she spoke, Liu Xiyu raised her voice and shouted, and the servants guarding the door quickly came in. Sun Ziyun, who was kneeling on the ground, looked at the servants who were called in calmly, and saw that they were wearing The clothes were better than those worn by her and her three younger brothers and sisters, which made Sun Ziyun feel deeply injustice.
The Qi family is rich, and even the clothes worn by the servants are better than the clothes of ordinary people. The four of them traveled all the way from Yuzhou City to come here. Mention, the Qi family can obviously raise them, even if they don't raise them so meticulously, they won't starve to death if they stutter, but they still don't want to...
At this moment, Sun Ziyun completely forgot what abominable thing she had done to the siblings, Qi Fan and Qi Feng. In her opinion, they hadn't really suffered any harm anyway, and now they are back in peace. The Qi family, and they wear silk and satin, and eat precious and delicious food, so why care about the little crimes they suffered before
Hearing Liu Xiyu's order to arrange a courtyard for them to live in, Sun Ziyun's slightly hanging heart finally let go at this moment. She estimated the time and thought that she would spend at most two months in this Qi's house until King Qinghe came back. Now, she can leave.
"Thank you, aunt. If my mother is alive, she will feel relieved to see you taking care of us like this."
Liu Xiyu sneered, and said lightly, "Don't thank me in a hurry, the future is still long, maybe you will regret the decision you made today."
Sun Ziyun replied neither softly nor hard: "Auntie's words are wrong, and I will never regret what I have done."
Liu Xiyu: "I hope so."
After saying this, Liu Xiyu didn't want to continue talking with Sun Ziyun, as if looking at her even more made her feel sick, Liu Xiyu waved her hand, signaling for the servants to take the four of them down.
After taking the person away, Liu Xiyu let out a long breath, looked sideways at the siblings sitting on the other side, and said softly: "Do you two not understand why I took them away?" The four stay?"
Qi Feng nodded, and asked softly: "Mother, I feel uncomfortable when I see the four of them. Since the yamen servant has already left, can't we send them back to Yuzhou City?"
What the four siblings have done has completely exceeded Qi Feng's bottom line. Whenever Qi Feng sees them, Qi Feng will think of the days when he and Qi Wang were fooled by them. She couldn't spit it out and couldn't swallow it. If she wanted to retaliate against them, Qi Feng wouldn't act like that. She just didn't want the four of them to appear in front of her again.
But now that they live in Qi's mansion, Qi Feng feels extremely uncomfortable when he thinks of the future when they bow their heads and don't see each other when they look up every day.
Liu Xiyu patted Qi Feng's hand, then turned to look at Qi Wang: "Ah Wang, can you understand why mother kept them?"
Qi Wang nodded and said, "I can probably understand."
If the Qi family does not have the status of an imperial merchant, then they can do whatever they want, without worrying about their reputation, but the Qi family is an imperial merchant, and this plaque is obtained through the efforts of several generations of the Qi family. Yes, as imperial merchants, they enjoy the benefits brought by the imperial merchants, so they will naturally be imprisoned.
From the day they became imperial merchants, their words and deeds are stricter than ordinary merchants, and they must not do anything that insults the status of imperial merchants.
They are the only imperial merchants in the entire Jizhou city, and there are countless people staring at this position. If they make a mistake, those people will attack them and bite off a few pieces of flesh from them.
What the yamen servant said before was actually a warning. If he really wanted to say it, would the Qi family be afraid of a small yamen servant? Naturally, he is not afraid, after all, as an imperial merchant, he has some face in front of the magistrate, and ordinary government servants should be more polite when they see them.
But the yamen servant named Chen Liang acted a bit too much, firstly because he had indeed seized the lifeline of the Qi family, and secondly because they had to care about their own status and couldn't care about like a yamen servant.
"The four of the Sun family's siblings want to live in Qi's residence wholeheartedly, but they don't know that the gate is easy to enter, but it's difficult to get out."
Even if the four brothers and sisters had some money, they would have spent almost all of it when they arrived in Jizhou City. Otherwise, they would not have made themselves so embarrassed. It is not so easy to survive in this deep house. things.
"If they leave Jizhou City, then of course they have nothing to do with us in the future, but if they stay here, they will be like grasshoppers in our hands. Life and death are all in our hands."
After listening to what Qi Wang said, Qi Feng's face was full of bewilderment, obviously he didn't understand the meaning of his words, her parents are not the kind of mean people, after they are left behind, maybe they will still To grind them
Seeing her daughter's stupid look, Liu Xiyu sighed, raised her hand to stroke her hair, and said softly: "Feng'er, I thought you were smart, but I didn't expect you to be far behind in this respect." Far inferior to your younger brother, mother will teach you well later on."
The environment of Qi's mansion is too simple. There are no elders, no concubines and concubines. Both Qi Fan and Qi Feng grew up in a relatively simple environment. What they saw was a happy family. Where did you see anyone with a sinister heart
Before, Liu Xiyu thought that it would be fine if her daughter was pure and kind, but after this incident, she felt that her daughter should be more thoughtful.
"Feng'er used to be because mother didn't teach you well. During this period of time, you have been by mother's side. You are seventeen years old this year. When you get married, you should learn these things."
Qi Feng: "..."
Aren't they talking about Sun Ziyun now? Why did mother talk about things like teaching her housekeeping
Liu Xiyu didn't explain that it would be a good thing if the four of Sun Ziyun's siblings stayed in Qi's mansion, at least they could use the four of them to show off and tell Qi Feng how to deal with women like Sun Ziyun and the others.
Seeing this scene, Qi Wang was very relieved. After all, Qi Feng, a sister, is more than kind, but she is far behind Sun Ziyun in other aspects of scheming. In this era, kindness alone is not enough, and their kindness is easily given by others. If you take advantage of it, it would be good to have more means to protect yourself.
When Qi Shengkun came back that night, Liu Xiyu told about what Sun Ziyun and the others had left behind.
"A yamen servant named Chen Liang came to the mansion specially. Judging by his appearance, he should have some thoughts about Sun Ziyun."
Even if the other party is just a mere yamen servant, it is not easy to offend the other party at this time, after all, the Qi family has just overcome the difficulties and their status is still unstable, so it is not worth the gain to offend the other party for such a trivial matter.
Qi Shengkun frowned, and said displeasedly: "What on earth is that Sun Ziyun thinking? Normally speaking, if you offend someone else's young lady, you would naturally hide as far away as possible. Those people don't have any and you have clearly shown your dislike for them. Why does she have to live in Qi's house?"
After listening to Liu Xiyu's report, Qi Shengkun quickly grasped the key point of the matter.
In his opinion, Sun Ziyun's attitude is completely wrong. They have clearly arranged for someone to send the Sun family siblings back to Yuzhou City. Those members of the Sun family will at least raise them up safely for their father's sake. , and staying here is likely to incur revenge from the Qi family.
"According to what you said, Sun Ziyun seems to be a very smart girl. A smart person would not do such a thing that is not good for her for no reason. If the other party clearly knows that there is danger, but still chooses to stay, then there is a lot of trouble." The big possibility is that staying in the Qi family is profitable, and this benefit even outweighs the retaliation they may face, making them prefer to stay with the possibility of being retaliated."
Qi Shengkun's words made Liu Xiyu's thoughts suddenly clear. When he said this, Liu Xiyu suddenly understood one thing. She thought it was strange before. She always thought that Sun Ziyun and the others insisted on staying because they deliberately wanted to disgust their own family.
But thinking about it now, Sun Ziyun was able to use public opinion to persecute them, and even harassed the yamen servants, in order to stay in Qi's house smoothly, and did so many things just to disgust them, it seemed unreasonable.
"But the four of them are so young, what can they covet about the Qi family? All they can use is public opinion. There is no one, and they don't have money in their hands. They can't make any troubles if they think about it."
But after thinking about it, Liu Xiyu felt that it was unlikely that they had other purposes, because she really couldn't think of how the Sun family siblings who had no hands and no money could do anything to the Qi family.
Seeing Liu Xiyu's worried face wrinkled into a ball, looking like a little old lady, Qi Shengkun showed a look of helplessness on his face, he stretched out his hand and pulled Liu Xiyu over, raised his hand and patted her back, said softly.
"Okay, you don't have to worry about these things. After all, those words just now are just my guesses. I can't confirm that the Sun family brothers and sisters really have other thoughts. Haven't you already arranged a yard for them to live in? Looking back, how much do you want?" Send some people to guard the four of them, and then we can see if they have other schemes?"
Now the four siblings are under their noses, as long as they are sent to guard them, there will be no big storms.
Liu Xiyu leaned against Qi Shengkun's arms, and replied softly, the husband and wife were tender for a while, then Liu Xiyu suddenly remembered something, and pushed Qi Shengkun away.
"Master, there is something I forgot to tell you."
Just now the couple were only talking about the matter of the Sun family siblings, but forgot about serious matters. Liu Xiyu organized the language and told Qi Shengkun about Qi Wang's preparation to take the scientific examination.
"I saw that after what happened this time, Ah Wan really became a little different from before. The master once said that it's not that Ah Wan is not smart, it's just that he didn't use his mind to study. After he came back this time, As if he had figured it out, he offered to take the imperial examination.”
When he was in the hospital just now, Liu Xiyu tested Qi Wang's homework and found that he had memorized the contents of the Four Books and Five Classics thoroughly, obviously putting his heart into it, which gave Liu Xiyu hope.
This time the Qi family was almost ruined, because although they had the name of the imperial merchant, none of them was an official in the court, and Qi Wang has not even passed the entrance examination for a child student, and obviously he will not be able to set foot in the future. officialdom.
The family that tripped them up had connections in the officialdom. Even if they found evidence, because of the forces behind the other party, they could only hold their noses and admit their losses in the end.
After this incident, both Qi Shengkun and Liu Xiyu clearly realized one thing - no matter how big their family business is after they started business, as long as they have nothing to do with the officialdom, this huge family business may be taken over by others at any time collapse.
Qi Wang probably realized this, so he started to study hard. They didn't have high requirements for Qi Wang. He is a seventh-rank official.
It can be seen that it is only a seventh-rank official in the district. If someone in the family is an official in the court, then their Qi family is different from the past. If other people want to plot against them, they have to weigh a few things.
"Ah Wan actually started to study on his own initiative? Don't lie to me, his temperament is simply not one that can sit still."
Qi Shengkun, a father, knows best what kind of character his son has. Scholars like to be quiet and not to move. When reading and writing, they have to sit at the table and practice continuously. The reason why Qi Huang can't learn it What a name, it is because he can't concentrate, and he can't sit in front of the classroom and listen to the teacher's lecture.
If after suffering this time, he could open up his mind and study hard, it would not be a fault of his suffering.
"That's true. If you don't believe me, you can go to his Pine Fragrance Courtyard now. I heard from the two attendants, Shi Shu and Mo Mo, that after Ah Wan came back, he often lit up the lamp to read at night. Obviously, he put his heart into it."
After hearing this, Qi Shengkun couldn't sit still anymore, he told Liu Xiyu to rest well, and he himself took his followers to the Pine Fragrance Courtyard where Qi Wang was. When entering the courtyard, he signaled the servants to keep quiet, and He walked towards the study lightly.
Through the open window, Qi Shengkun saw that Qi Wang was holding a brush and writing something.
He stood by the window for nearly half an hour, but Qi Wang didn't stop writing to take a rest.
Sure enough, just like what Liu Xiyu said, Qi Wang finally knew how to make progress.