There is an old saying that you forget your mother when you have a daughter-in-law, and it makes sense. You can even forget your mother, let alone your sister.
"What are you talking about? Why don't you want to get married? Do you have a problem with me?"
Wen Yao pulled him to sit cross-legged next to her. Zhiqin brought him tea, smiled ambiguously, and stepped back to give them space to be alone.
"I have taken over Prince Yuan Rui, the favorite of all the girls in the capital. How can I have any objection to you?
It's not your fault, it's just that I want to get married and have children, and I have to raise children, so I can't go anywhere, and it's pointless to just sit at home and think about it."
Wen Yao pouted, acting coquettishly like a little girl. Suddenly she wanted Yuan Rui to coax her, and she became pretentious for no reason.
Yuan Rui smiled and said: "What's the point? I'll go out with you to play, and we'll take the children for a walk. We can go wherever we want. Who stipulates that children must be kept at home?
You can do business if you want to. It just so happens that the general affairs of our palace are left to you. No one in the family is good at this. It will be easy for everyone if you marry me.
You don’t know that at the end of every year, when people come to reconcile the accounts, my mother and sister pretend to be ill and leave it to me to take care of it. You will start taking care of it this year, so that I can save my worries."
Wen Yao hesitated and said, "Isn't it appropriate?"
"It's suitable, very suitable. It's hard work and graceful."
Wen Yao rubbed his arm: "Thank you for trusting me."
In many families, a new daughter-in-law is married just to have children, serve her parents-in-law, and take care of the house? Just bear with it.
Otherwise, after many years of marriage, a daughter-in-law becomes a mother-in-law. After her mother-in-law leaves, the daughter-in-law can take charge of the family. Otherwise, she will be oppressed by her mother-in-law all her life. Without the right to run the family, she will have no financial freedom, so she has to endure it.
As soon as Yuan Rui entered the house, he asked Wen Yao to take care of the general affairs, which was impossible in other homes.
"One more thing, I'll help you get back the money from the Ministry of Industry, but not all of it. With some deductions, getting 70% back is already the best result.
Do you think you should put it away yourself, or let your eldest brother go?"
Wen Yao's face darkened, "You can't pay him back so easily. The Ministry of Industry only paid back the money and didn't punish the people below? This is too easy. You don't have to pay the price anyway. From now on, everyone will accept bribes and cheat money, right?"
Yuan Rui said: "There must be someone who takes the blame. That Yuanwailang was dismissed from his post and investigated, and his home was confiscated and exiled. It is always these cannon fodder that are unlucky. King Xuan will not come forward on his own for this kind of thing."
Wen Yao: "Let Wen Yu go over and see the misery of that family. Let him know that all the money has been wasted. This is the fate of the person who pulled the strings. Let him make his own decision."
Yuan Rui understood and wanted to teach Wen Yu a harsh lesson, "I know what to do, but your eldest brother doesn't look like the head of the family. What are you going to do?"
Wen Yao was silent. With such a large family fortune, it would be impossible without a capable heir.
The second brother and the third brother all pursued official careers, the fourth brother went to Dali Temple, and the fifth brother went through labor reform and started a new life. For a while, there was no suitable candidate.
"Don't worry, now the family's industries have shrunk a lot, which is actually a good thing. Those industries have some collateral shares of the Wen family, and they take a lot of dividends every year.
It’s time to take this opportunity to kick them out. The family doesn’t need so many profit-sharing people who don’t work hard and like to point fingers.”
Wen Yao thought about the next plan. In the past, she needed the support of the collaterals and had to promise them dividends. Later, the family business got on the right track. These collaterals made hundreds of times the money, but they were not satisfied and their appetites grew bigger and bigger.
This incident is also an opportunity. If these cancers are eliminated, the Wen family will develop better in the future.
"Kill two birds with one stone, be graceful and clever."
Wen Yao rolled her eyes at him: "You don't need to praise me for such a trivial matter, right? It's just a basic operation, how can you be considered smart?"
Yuan Rui had dinner with Wen Yao. It was getting late, so he reluctantly left. Before leaving, he secretly kissed her and jumped out of the window with a blushing face.
Wen Yao just thought it was funny and sweet, and Yuan Rui was so cute.
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Wen Yu learned that Wai Lang, a member of the Ministry of Industry, had his home confiscated and was exiled. He did not regain consciousness for a long time. He was stagnant for a long time, at a loss.
When Yuan Rui came to him, he hadn't figured out how to face it.
Shopkeeper Wu was also panicked. Not long after he took the position of head shopkeeper, the eldest young master got into trouble. Do you want to run away?
When Wen Yu saw Yuan Rui, he looked like a child who had done something wrong, and trembled: "Your Majesty, did eldest sister ask you to come?"
"Do you still have your eldest sister in your heart? Have you ever thought about your eldest sister when you did these things? Have you ever asked her for her opinion?"
"It's a good thing if you want to stand alone and prove your talents, but if your ability and ambition are insufficient, this is the outcome you will face."
Wen Yu wanted to cry: "What should I do?"
"follow me."
Wen Yu thought Yuan Rui was going to help him, so he went to the scene of Yuan Wai Lang's house raid with him.
The weeping female relatives were tied up in a string with ropes, wearing only their underwear. The noble and respectable young ladies and ladies in the past were like goods for sale, no better than slaves.
"What is this doing?"
Wen Yu couldn't bear it, why did he let him come here?
"The family was confiscated, and the men were exiled to the northwest to work as coolies. Without the emperor's amnesty, their children and grandchildren were all sinners. They were not allowed to return to Beijing, were not allowed to study for the imperial examination, and could only work as coolies at the lowest level.
All the female relatives are sold to the Jiaofang Department and trained into singers and dancers to serve other high-ranking officials, who are a little better than the concubines."
Wen Yu was so frightened that he trembled all over, "So cruel?"
"This is not cruelty, this is self-inflicted. If I hadn't interceded, you would have committed a crime by bribing senior officials, and your fate would be similar to theirs."
"I, I sent the money to the wrong person?"
Wen Yu didn't understand, and his eyes were full of horror. He didn't dare to think about the fate that his family had suffered, and it would be difficult for him to atone for his sins even if he died.
"Money is a good thing, but it depends on how it is used. You have been following Yaoyao for so many years, and you still don't understand such a simple truth?"
Wen Yu was silent and did not dare to argue.
"Your Majesty, I was wrong. I'm sorry for the Wen family and my eldest sister. It's just the Crown Prince. For my eldest sister's sake, can you get my family's money back?"
Yuan Rui looked at him indifferently, as if looking at a fool, and said, "What do you think?"
Wen Yu was anxious: "That's all my family's money. I paid for it by selling pots and iron!"
"You can talk to the Emperor, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Punishment to see if the money can be returned to you."
Wen Yu's face was ashen, he knew there was no hope, he was just holding on to his last chance.
Yuan Rui couldn't bear it, but he didn't persuade him. If he didn't suffer enough this time, he wouldn't learn a lesson.
"No, we can't let it go like this, Chen Songyuan, by the way, Chen Songyuan received one hundred thousand taels of silver from me, I have to go find him!"
With madness in his eyes, Wen Yu got up and went to Chen's house to ask Chen Songyuan for an explanation. He said that everything was fine. With King Xuan opening up the joints, making money would be like running water!