Cui Mingshu felt jealous in her heart. Aunt Liu was from a merchant family and had a lot of money. Cui Mingxi was probably richer than her, her legitimate daughter.
"My second sister is good at setting up Miss's music. We don't have enough food at home, so we have to go out to buy cakes. I'm afraid I won't be doing other... something in the name of buying cakes."
In the past few days, Cui Mingshu received double reprimands from Cui Jun and Mrs. Gao because of Mo Lian's incident. She didn't want to anger her parents anymore, so she didn't say anything about "hooking up with others in the name of buying cakes."
Well, in her precognitive dream, Cui Mingxi met Prince Wu'an in a pastry shop. Not long after, Prince Wu'an proposed marriage to Cui Mansion.
Foreknowledge dreams are all fragments. I didn’t dream about how her good second sister hooked up with Prince Wu’an in the middle. But it wasn’t Cui Mingxi who did something to attract Prince Wu’an’s heart. Prince Wu’an would give her a false promise.
The legitimate daughter proposes marriage?
Chunxi heard the unkindness in Cui Mingshu's words and hurriedly explained, "Miss, I really just go to Jingfulou to buy cakes. Second Miss likes to eat the sweet-scented osmanthus cake from Jingfulou and buys it every year."
Seeing Cui Mingshu's fierce look, Chunxi couldn't help but shrink back, "Then, I won't be leaving."
While she was scared, she was also holding back her anger. The eldest lady got angry somewhere and came back to take out her anger on her, the maid. It was unlucky for her that she happened to bump into the eldest lady's hand.
Cui Mingshu snorted coldly, "Why, I'm right, but you have something in your heart and you don't dare to go?"
Whatever she said was wrong, Chunxi stopped saying anything and lowered her head, hoping that the eldest lady would let her go after scolding her.
Cui Mingshu wanted to give Chunxi a slap in the face, but after these days she understood something. In ancient times, reputation was very important. For example, when punishing a maid, the master could not do it himself, otherwise it would damage the reputation.
Although hitting someone in the face with her own hands made her feel happy.
The slap I slapped Cui Mingxi last time was missing. She should have been slapped ten or eight times, preferably until her face was smashed, that would be enjoyable.
Seeing Chunxi standing there respectfully, making it hard for her to find out what was wrong with her, Cui Mingshu looked at her annoyance, waved her hand, and said, "Get out of here."
Those who owe money will be saved first.
She treated Cui Mingxi first.
Chunxi, the maid, will also be taken care of when the time comes.
Chunxi hurriedly took three or four steps back.
Cui Mingshu snorted again and walked over.
Chunxi waited until Cui Mingshu could no longer be seen before she let out the breath she was holding.
Then he hurriedly walked out.
She had to complete the second lady's instructions, go back quickly, and then remind the second lady about what the eldest lady said.
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Cui Mingshu made a fool of herself in front of Prince Jing and was frustrated. She had nowhere to get angry and wanted to provoke Cui Mingxi.
Don't the Liu family always send money to Aunt Liu? If the Liu family goes bankrupt, let's see where Aunt Liu can get the money.
"Ye'er, go tell your brother to do it quickly. If you do a good job, I will reward you heavily when it is done."
Cui Mingshu saw that Ye'er was a knowledgeable person, so she transferred Ye'er to her side.
Ye'er also gave her a surprise and brought her a good helper.
Ye'er's brother is a gangster who will do anything as long as he is given money.
The Liu family started out by selling cloth, and they have been in business for decades. Now they have more than one shop selling cloth, and they also open an embroidery shop, a garment shop, and a business of collecting silk and cotton.
In addition, he also opened two restaurants and a braised pork shop.
A few days ago, a group of local ruffians came to Liu's Braised Pork Shop to cause trouble, saying they were hungry.
He bribed a group of beggars and went to lie down in front of a restaurant. The Liu family left as soon as they were chased away. After leaving, they came back and lay down again.
This is all a small fight. Cui Mingshu knows that it won't hurt the Liu family much, but it's just to disgust the Liu family.
Cui Mingshu asked Brother Ye'er to speed up the process of burning the Liu family's warehouse where cloth and raw silk were kept.
She knew the location of the Liu family's warehouse from her precognitive dream.
"My slave, let's go now." Ye'er ran away quickly when she heard that there was a reward.
There is a brother who is a gangster. Ye'er is very easily influenced at a young age. Coupled with Cui Mingshu's instructions, Ye'er's outlook on life has begun to become distorted. She never thought that what Cui Mingshu asked her brother to do was wrong. She only wanted to let her brother do it.
If things are done well, you can get rewards.
Yuhua had never intervened in what Cui Mingshu was doing, and had only watched. However, setting fire to the warehouse might cause casualties, so she intervened this time.
She put a note in Cui Jun's study.
It is better to give Cui Jun a warning than to Aunt Liu.
Aunt Liu didn't have much opinion. She would just panic and tell the Liu family that she couldn't do anything.
If the Liu family can prevent it this time, Cui Mingshu will strike again.
But it's different when it comes to Cui Jun, because the Liu family is one of the financial backers of the Cui family.
At that time, the Liu family's business was getting bigger, and people were attracted by the Liu family's property and wanted to take advantage of it. The Liu family was eager to find a backer and found the Cui family with good character.
At that time, Cui Jun's father was appointed Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, which was enough to protect the Liu family.
The person who wants to seize the Liu family is just a third-rank official. The little money of the Liu family is not visible to the truly powerful people.
The Liu family married their daughter to Cui Jun as a concubine, bringing with them a large sum of money, which just filled the Cui family's shortfall of being unable to make ends meet all the time.
Mrs. Gao is good to Cui Mingxi, which is partly due to this factor.
With the Cui family as their backers, the Liu family's business became much smoother.
Although Mr. Cui passed away a few years ago, his shadow is still there, and Cui Jun has been promoted to the third rank, so he can still protect the Liu family.
Until now, the Liu family will give the Cui family a sum of money every year as a protection fee for the Cui family.
Cui Mingshu didn't know about this.
Cui Jun came back from the next morning and went to the study to rest as usual. He saw an extra page on the desk.
He took it over and looked at it. It said that Cui Mingshu was going to set fire to the Liu family's warehouse, giving the time, location, and who was setting the fire.
Cui Jun looked calm and called the attendant who stayed at home, "Zhou Ping, has anyone been to the study today?"
The words on the paper were written with charcoal pens, and they were quite regular. It was impossible to tell whether the person who wrote them was a man or a woman.
Zhou Ping thought about it carefully and replied, "No. The door to the study room was always locked, and I didn't see anyone unlock it and come in."
Things have their own priorities. Cui Jun did not investigate who put this page in the study for the time being. He handed the page to Zhou Ping and said, "Go and check it out, quickly."
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Cui Mingshu not only started from the Liu family, she also found a way to bind Wu'an Hou Shizi and Cui Mingxi together.
The Prince of Wu'an had no other romantic affairs except having a married woman.
This made Cui Mingshu unhappy. Prince Wu'an should be a scumbag, so that he could match Cui Mingxi. "If a scumbag matches a bitch, they should be locked together."
After finding out that Prince Wu'an often played polo, Cui Mingshu came up with an idea. If Prince Wu'an was disabled, let's see how he would take part in the imperial examination and become an official.