After inquiring important information from Chen Yuanyuan, Chen Shuren was not impulsive.

Two days later, the literary meeting at Lixiangyuan was the same. Chen Shuren invited many local scholars from Suzhou to listen to the music and discuss politics. Then, he talked with Chen Yuanyuan's adoptive mother Chen's story about "taking the venue for another half a year" and it went smoothly.

The place where the pear orchards and other places in the late Ming Dynasty was located. When spending the wallet sister's place, the madam not only looked at the money, but also paid attention to the future "exposure" of her daughter.

To put it bluntly, it means that the benefactor who valued the venue, would he often host the literary event to support the audience, increase the chances of his daughter interacting with well-known literati, and further make her famous.

Chen Shuren didn't understand this twists and turns at first, but after chatting with Chen Yuanyuan a few times, he quickly adapted. Therefore, in the past few days before talking about "renewal monthly payment", he had to show his appeal and let Chen see how much support he could have.

Several literary meetings were held, and the last one was around June 10th. Chen Shuren even invited Zheng Hongkui from the Zheng family, and also invited Zheng Sen, who had just been taken to Suzhou by Zheng Hongkui.

Shen Shuren killed two birds with one stone. Taking this opportunity, he made some personal relationships with Zheng Sen first.

When Zheng Sen saw that Brother Shen welcomed him, he asked his future concubine to come out to offer a dance and sing song. He was also very moved. He thought to himself that this brother had decided.

In addition, Zheng Sen was young and full of energy, and his loyalty to the court was far above his father Zheng Zhilong. Chen Shuren had a great time talking to him. In a few days, Zheng Sen got used to talking to this new elder brother if he couldn't understand something.

Chen was also very happy to see that his daughter could take the opportunity to meet so many wealthy and noble people.

But in fact, when Chen Shuren realized the unspoken rules of this industry, he had already made plans: once the contract renewal was successful, he would hide Chen Yuanyuanxue as soon as possible in the future and would never let her show up and sing songs when treating her.

This will make her the opposite, so that her popularity in the Liyuan industry will dissipate as soon as possible.

As a time traveler, Chen Shuren has seen many operations of hiding and reducing brand value in later generations. Therefore, he has formed a very complete plan for how to redeem Chen Yuanyuan in the future:

He wants to buy Huiyuan juice like Coca-Cola, and he will not operate it when he buys it, and deliberately put it on the market and depreciate the brand. Once Chen Yuanyuan is no longer popular, Chen will not have the confidence to ask for a high price to redeem the money in the future.

Moreover, he also buried some thunder in the monthly contract. If Chen insisted on letting Chen Yuanyuan be exposed and became popular through other channels during his hiding Chen Yuanyuan, he would sue Suzhou Prefecture in a lawsuit, directly let Chen breach the contract and buy Chen Yuanyuan back at the official price.

Although the old pussy like Chen is an old world who eats people and doesn't spit bones, it is not a match made by Chen Shuren, who has experienced hundreds of years. When renewing the contract, he was blinded by the fire cooking oil in front of him and never thought of the subsequent risks.

It seems that during these days, Chen Shuren is still the frivolous and prodigal style, without any change, and outsiders don’t think much about it.

...

But on the other hand, Chen Shuren had secretly arranged for his confidant to go home to check the accounts while inquiring about the news and complete the preparations for the Dongjia Embroidery Village acquisition case.

First, he asked Chen Fu to check the foreign debt accounts of his business and listed all the business partners who owed the Shen family more than 1,000 taels of silver. Then he also checked it out himself and pretended to "inadvertently" and found the accounts of the Dong family embroidery shop.

Dong Bai's family really owed a lot of money from the Shen family. They had already had difficulties since two or three years ago. They were originally suppliers who sold Su embroidery to the Shen family. After they could not turn over, they asked the Shen family that the raw materials were owed by credit, and they owed more than fifty dans of raw silk in credit.

The principal alone is more than 2,000 taels of silver, with an average accounting period of about two years. If the interest is included, the final approval is more than 2,800 taels.

The Dongjia Embroidery House basically has no fixed assets left, only one manor, some old equipment, and Dong Bai himself, to put it bluntly, "insolvent debts should go bankrupt and liquidate."

When he saw this result, Chen Shuren also secretly sighed that otherwise the rich people in future generations would not be afraid of their children's food, drink and have fun, but they would be afraid of their children wanting to start a business.

After Dong Bai's father died, if he had directly locked up the embroidery shop and farmed, he would not have fallen into bullying by his original employees.

After doing his homework, he delayed it until June 15th, which was the fourth day after Zheng Sen was deceived into Suzhou.

Chen Shu Talent quietly hid his identity and took a few subordinates to the north of Kunshan City, on the shore of Yangcheng Lake, and found the Dongjia Embroidery Village.

...

"Miss is not good. A group of people came to the door to force the debt! They said they would pay the debt with you if they couldn't pay it back."

In the inner house of the Dong family, a girl wearing a plain silk mourning dress with a beautiful and refined appearance was sitting there embroidery with a sad face.

She had no idea whether the embroidered things could be sold or not. She just embroidered them mechanically, as if she could temporarily forget the worries and not think about the pile of bad debts that could not be paid.

After hearing the maid's injustice, she was stunned for a while before she reacted and her face turned pale:

"Trust debts? Which creditor from? Didn't Uncle Liang say that he helped us with all the debts outside? He said he would bear them until my mourning period was over, and I promised him. By then, the farm is his, how could he..."

The uncle Liang she mentioned was a shopkeeper brought out by his father. He was named Dong Liang when he was the first to be named Dong Liang.

After Dong's father's death, the Dong family's embroidery business quickly declined, but Dong Liang set up his own business and started a new brand, but he still did the embroidery business, but he was booming.

It is said that since Dong Liang changed his surname to Dong, his descendants should also have surnamed Dong. However, after the death of the Lord, he changed his sons back to his original surname Cai. Only he was embarrassed to do too much and still used the surname Dong, showing that he did not forget the benevolence and righteousness of the Lord.

After his sons changed their surnames and returned, they were different from Dong Bai, and there was no taboo of "not marrying the same surname". So a few months ago, when Dong Bai was completely insolvent, Dong Liang offered her a condition:

Dong Liang's family helped Dong Bai take over the foreign debt. When her mourning period expired, the remaining heavy looms in the Dong family's embroidery house were all assigned to Dong Liang's possession. She herself had to marry Dong Liang's son as a wife.

Dong Bai refused to follow the death at first, thinking that it would be a humiliation to the family when it was reported. How could she discuss these things before her mother's filial piety was over? So she also thought of escaping directly under her identity, so she simply didn't want the house at home.

Later, when Dong Liang saw that the master's wife was tough, he took a step back and said that he could temporarily make a gentleman agreement, without making any public statements, nor would he have to use the deed to witness the deed tax, so that the reputation of the Dong Bai family would not be damaged.

Dong Bai temporarily let go of his hanging heart and continued to live at home for a few months.

But unexpectedly, the person who forced the debts came to the door today. Has Dong Liang not paid off the Dong family's foreign debts as promised? Did he just temporarily stabilize the creditors and let someone delay the debts?

Dong Bai felt dizzy and took a breath after a while. He chased the maid and asked, "Do you hear clearly the person who came to collect debts? Whose family did they represent? How much money is involved?"

The maid was also blind and could only say vaguely: "I don't know, the person who came looked bad and refused to reveal his identity. He only said that they were the ones who could not get back from the Shen family and came to collect the debt."

When Dong Bai heard this, he became more and more scared.

She knew that the Taicang Shen family was the biggest creditor of her family, but the Shen family was a decent person after all. If she came to collect the debt in person, she would have room for pleading for gratitude.

But after hearing what the maid said, it was obvious that the Shen family had already felt that the Dong family's money would not be back, so it had been delayed for two years, so they resold the debt at a low price.

This is like a company in later generations who sells dead debts to special debt collection companies and asks debt collection companies to come to ask for money, which means they are much more ruthless.

"No, hurry up and take the two packs of clothes that have been packed on the bed and throw them everything else. Let's run through the back door!" Dong Bai knew very well that he would not have a good ending when he fell into the hands of the villain who was specializing in collecting debts, so he ran away immediately.

...

However, luck obviously does not favor Dong Bai.

She and her maid came to the back door and first quietly opened a crack. Seeing that there seemed to be no one outside, she opened the door open and took advantage of the darkness of the dusk and rushed out directly, trying to escape to the reed marshal by Yangcheng Lake to hide first.

However, after just leaving the back door, a few people turned out to the corners of the walls. The man in charge was tall and long, and soon caught up with the girl with little feet, and grabbed Dong Bai and made her unable to resist.

"Miss Dong, I owe my family thousands of taels of silver. Not only did I want to escape secretly, I dared to take away these bags of soft jewelry. It's not very authentic. Even if I don't make things difficult for you, these things should belong to my family."

The tall man in the lead was obviously Shen Shuren, but in order to make a game, he still has to pretend to be a little more vicious now.

Dong Bai's face turned pale and his heart was ashamed. As soon as he struggled, he would commit suicide by jumping into Yangcheng Lake.

In a hurry, Shen Shuren grabbed Dong Bai and held her tightly to prevent her from finding a flaw. He also shouted at other subordinates to come and help block the enemy, so as not to have another accident.

The servants naturally did not dare to disobey and immediately formed a circle as the master told him.

But because of this, the servants relaxed their control over the maid who had been captured on the side. Seeing this, the maid struggled to break free and immediately ran away.

Women in the Ming Dynasty were not as cruel as those in the Qing Dynasty, but the ladies from wealthy families could still wrap a little, especially now that they are in the late Ming Dynasty.

But the maid didn't have to bind her feet at all, and she escaped much faster than Dong Bai. In addition, she was not very important, so the two Shen family servants pretended to chase after her for a while, and then came back to report that they had not been chased.

Shen Shuren didn't care, so he waved his hand to signal for a while before talking, and then changed his expression of kindness and gratitude, and sent Dong Baili back to the house first.

Dong Bai saw that he had no other excessive actions, but was just to force the debt to pay off his debts, and he had no face to resist. The situation was in a stalemate.

Shen Shuren waved his hand to let his servants withdraw, and analyzed with empathy: "Miss Dong, we are just here to ask for debts, why should we go to this point? You are so beautiful that even if you are caught to pay off your debts, you can still be a concubine.

If you escape, you can only hide your identity and stay in Suzhou. Can you rely on learning Kunqu Opera for a few months to go to the Qinhuai River to sing? In your heart, isn’t it as miserable to be a maid than to sing?”

Dong Bai gritted his teeth, his heart was ashamed, his eyes closed, and tears fell: "If I had hidden my name, no matter how humiliated I was, I would not have been humiliated as my deceased parents' reputation. No one knows who I am.

If someone finds out that he is arrested, he will not even be filial to his mother and will be forced to be a concubine, and the reputation of the Dong family will be over!"

Chen Shuren was stunned. He had not adapted to this feudal ethics way of thinking.

Indeed, in the eyes of people in the late Ming Dynasty, especially those with status, whether the physical body was humiliated was not the worst. If you could hide your name incognito, others would not know who you were, at least it would be better than the reputation of implicating your parents.

This is an era where name is greater than reality.

Chen Shuren was a little angry at Dong Bai's choice at first because he felt that it was understandable that a woman was unwilling to be bought by a rich man.

But if the two evils are in power, it would be a bit difficult to understand if they would rather sing than be a single man's plaything.

Now that he learned that it was just because of the burden of his family's reputation, he was too lazy to care about it anymore.

"Even so, you calm down first, and I'll talk to you in detail later."

Chen Shuren first left Dong Bai and asked the servants to keep an eye on her and not give her a chance to commit suicide. Then he walked aside and quietly pulled the servant who was pretending to pursue the escaped maid and asked carefully:

"Did you really not chase after me, and were thrown away a lot, or were you still biting and staring at me?"

The clerk replied in a reliable manner: "Don't worry, young master, you have been watching her as you told me, and where did you run away? Finally, we found that she had escaped to another embroidery shop two streets away, and we were back."

Chen Shuren nodded, everything went smoothly, and the maid should have gone to the buyer who had privately agreed with Dong Bai to "help her take the debt, and if the mourning period expires, the man will take the village to incorporate it" and ask for help.

The subject of this lawsuit is good. If you sell one house and two houses first, will it be disrupted? Chen Shuren spent seven or eight days to slowly lay out the case for this battle.

The maid who asked for help until she ran away did not know the identity of Chen Shuren, so the other party, as a local snake, would definitely not give up.

Chen Shuren stroked his thoughts for a while, then waved his hand and signaled to the servant who pretended to chase the maid: "You two will go back first, be more stern, the next thing has nothing to do with you."

Chen Shuren is very cautious. He uses thugs to thugs and thugs to steer the servants, and has clear division of labor and keeps each other confidential, and does not know the overall plan.

Therefore, even if the case occurs in the future, these two followers will not be found out, and it is even more unlikely to become witnesses. They have nothing to do with the subsequent part of the case.

After the arrangement of the outside world, Chen Shuren took the debt deed and prepared documents to negotiate with Dong Bai again:

"Miss Dong, now I will tell you clearly. In the sinking tree man, the eldest son of the Shen family in Taicang, today I personally ask you for debt. Your Dong family embroidery shop owes me fifty dans of raw silk money, with a total principal and interest of more than 2,800 taels.

If you transfer this manor to our Shen family immediately, and you have been a maid for my family for five years, the debt will be cancelled.

In addition, you said that you were afraid that the filial piety period would be forced to be a concubine and humiliate the family before the filial piety period was over. Then I can clearly make an agreement in the contract that while you were a maid, you could continue to wear Sujuan's filial piety clothes, and the content of being a maid did not include serving the people with sex.

You just need to continue to help my family make embroidery and textiles and pay for it with labor. You can also ask your neighbors to witness this and use this contract to finish the deed tax. "
To be continued...