Five years ago, through his sister's marriage to a branch manager of the Qi family of the Imperial Shang, Lin Qingyuan was able to get the Qi family's route to the grassland in advance every year and receive the gems first.
The Qi family's gems were sent to the palace, but Lin Qingyuan opened the Ruzhu Pavilion.
Several shops in the south and Beijing have already made a lot of money.
As for the eldest son wanting to invest in Ruzhu Pavilion... Lin Qingyuan scoffed.
The brother-in-law who "conscientiously" manages the family's property is accustomed to using money to "buy" prosperous shops.
Since he used his third uncle's power to invest in his own Ruzhu Pavilion, he could only ask for money.
Okay, I need fifty thousand silver first!
I just need to find a reason to stay abroad for two months.
He looked in the direction of Tianxiang Tower: Manager Song is really good and he suits his needs very well.
If there is enough time, I can still use my sincerity, but now...
A slight smile appeared at the corner of Lin Qingyuan's mouth. It's not important for a woman to have money, but she can be used to promote it.
As soon as Song Liyun returned to Ruijin Town, she met Chuntao who was strolling with her children.
She was looking at a yard as if she were watching the excitement, and she didn't even know Song Liyun was approaching her.
Not only her, there were also many people gathered outside the courtyard.
"Sister-in-law Chuntao, what are you looking at?" Song Liyun frowned and looked at the yard a few times.
Outside the courtyard, there is a big locust tree growing. It is late August and the leaves are still green, blocking the courtyard door in a dark place.
"Ah! It's Liyun who's back."
Chuntao was startled by Song Liyun who suddenly spoke up. When she saw it was her, she covered her mouth and giggled: "Liyun, come and watch the fun, I've cried a few times today."
"What happened again?" The person living in that courtyard is Xue Zhuang. Now he is a prominent figure in Suijin Town. Why is he being watched like this?
Not sure if there was a happy engagement event at home, Song Liyun felt like she suddenly started gossiping, and her mind, which used to only think about life and death, became filled with fireworks.
There was a lot of fun to be seen, so she was not in a hurry to leave. She untied Ju Qing's horse, took out a piece of sugar cake from her bag and stuffed it into the horse's mouth. She patted the back and said, "Go back by yourself!"
Ju Qingma raised her neck and ran away to Baolinju outside the town.
Song Liyun put another piece of candy into the hand of the child Chuntao was holding. The child immediately opened his mouth and smiled, showing four white teeth.
When Song Liyun asked what happened, Chuntao immediately seemed to have found an outlet to vent her anger and immediately told everything that happened today.
It turns out that the origin of what happened today is related to those refugee women.
On that day, Magistrate Jiang County specially sent ten refugee girls of suitable age to Suijinwei for marriage.
Lin Tao and Song Liyun both knew that this was a difficult job to handle, so they sent the person to the guild hall, notified Luo Baihu and left.
The Broken Gold Guild Hall only had tables, chairs and benches, and there was no place to place these women.
Fortunately, the guard station still had a free yard for military households, and the weather wasn't too cold now, so I opened the yard casually and prepared to make do with it for a few days, and distributed the people to those meritorious sergeants to start families.
These girls are all human beings. Even though they are to be married to sergeants, Luo Baihu cannot just give them to anyone. They have to choose among themselves.
It was impossible for the girls to start cooking when they first arrived, so the Xue Zhuang family took care of the meal first.
Nothing happened at first, but the Xu family's sister-in-law didn't know what she was thinking. She told Xu Yan'er that these women were all concubines for Xue Zhuang, while she seduced Xue Zhuang in a coquettish voice, and even took off her clothes and jumped on people.
At this point, Chuntao, a woman who had given birth to two children, hesitated.
Especially since Song Liyun was still a girl who hadn't said anything about her kiss, she couldn't open her mouth even more.
Seeing Chuntao blushing with embarrassment, Song Liyun became curious: How could such an obscure thing become known to everyone?
Before Chuntao could say anything, she heard the door of the Xue family's courtyard opened wide. Xue Zhuang pulled her hair and scattered it. The disheveled Xu family's sister-in-law was heavily beaten to the ground.
He struck so hard that the woman, whose face was already red and swollen, was thrown to the ground and she immediately fell to the ground and cried loudly.
Xiaobao ran out of the courtyard crying, hugged his mother's neck, and screamed at Xue Zhuang: "You are a bad person. When I grow up, I will kill you."
Xu's sister-in-law was so frightened that she quickly covered her son's mouth: "Don't say it, don't say it!"
Xue Zhuang glared at Xiaobao angrily, swung the whip in his hand, and a sharp sound broke through the air. People around him were so frightened that they shouted in panic: "Hey! That's still a child!"
"What can a child understand? How can you be angry with a child?"
Xiaobao, mother and son even held their heads and screamed!
Unexpectedly, when Xue Zhuang's leather whip was retracted, the tip of the whip flew through the air and landed on the ground next to him, whipping up a cloud of dust.
"Get out of here, get out of here immediately. If you dare to step into Broken Gold Town even half a step in the future, I will break your legs!"
"Xue Fu, you two send this mother and son away and tell the Xu family to take good care of this bitch."
As soon as he finished speaking, a man walked out from the side. There was a mule cart parked next to him. The man grabbed Xu's sister-in-law and Xiaobao and threw them into the bare mule cart.
Xu's sister-in-law grabbed the carriage and shouted into the courtyard: "Yan'er, Yan'er, I just want to help you. Your brother used to love you so much, you must have a conscience!"
No one in the courtyard answered.
The driver slapped him and said, "Master Xue told you to shut up." His attitude was arrogant and domineering, and he didn't care at all that he was a relative of Xue Zhuang.
Song Liyun pointed at the mule cart going away: "Sister-in-law Chuntao, why does that face look so cool?"
Song Liyun, the former man from Broken Gold Town, has met him before. Although not everyone can recognize him by name, at least he can remember his appearance.
Chuntao glanced at it and whispered: "Those are the servants that Xue Zhuang bought with money a few days ago. They belong to a family. I heard that they only cost ten taels of silver, which is quite cheap."
Song Liyun raised her eyebrows. She only knew that there were refugees coming to Ruijin Town, but she didn't know that there were already people buying and selling in the town.
In fact, she can also buy people, but as a modern person, she is still accustomed to hiring people.
Chuntao watched Xu's sister-in-law being sent away and couldn't help but spat: "This sister-in-law is too courageous to seduce her brother-in-law in broad daylight. If Xu Yan'er hadn't come out crying and talking, maybe everyone would have been arrested.
She was lied to."
"Did Xu Yan'er tell the truth?" Song Liyun thought of Xu Yan'er's inability to hide her thoughts. If something happened to her sister-in-law, she would really yell out.
Chuntao covered her mouth again and laughed: "If Xue Gui hadn't stopped her quickly, Xu Yan'er would have gone to the market and started crying."
Song Liyun's scalp went numb after hearing this. The market in Ruijin Town was still quite lively now. If Xu Yan'er made a fuss, Xue Zhuang would definitely be beaten with a military stick by Luo Baihu.
"Tell me, what does Xu Yan'er think? Instead of quietly checking whether her sister-in-law had anything to do with the man, she just listens to the wind and rain. If something really happened like this, how would this family live?"
Song Liyun shook her head. What a stupid person would do, no one could guess where she would explode.
In fact, there were rumors that Xu Yan'er had really been misunderstood. After her previous confrontation with Song Liyun on the street, she still understood some of the truth and did not talk nonsense.
This time it was Xu's sister-in-law who started shouting.