Shopkeeper Zhou told Xu Qinyu, "Actually, it's not that the boss is difficult to deal with, but that the situation in this family is a bit different..."

Generally, families with dozens of acres of land together will never be short of money. They are either from the family of a gentry, or a wealthy businessman or some aristocratic family and eunuch's family. Xu Qinyu originally thought it was because of this. The family is not short of money, and the land is hard to buy, so they are not willing to sell it.

She didn't know why until the shopkeeper Zhou told her about the situation of the owner's house.

It's not that they don't want to, but that the situation of the club is too special.

The owner's surname is Ying Ming Shuchang. The Ying family is not considered a big family. Their ancestors have lived in the southwest for generations, and they have accumulated some family property. The old lady of the Ying family has three sons and a daughter. The second son's father doesn't love his mother or love him. Mr. Ying passed away a few years ago. When the old man passed away, Mrs. Ying didn't like the second son of the Ying family. She separated the family with an excuse, and didn't even give the second son any property. Just gave a few taels of silver.

At that time, the second son of the Ying family had just got married, and was pushed out of the Ying family's door following his new wife, and it would be a lie to say that he was not sad.

He didn't understand why they were both mothers. He was obviously born to the old lady. Why didn't the old lady love him at all? If you die of illness, you will be separated.

Later, Ying Laoer gritted his teeth and broke out with his wife. He also accumulated a lot of family property and became Yuanwailang.

As for the old lady, in the past ten years or so, almost all the family business accumulated by the old man was wiped out, leaving only a dilapidated house and two small shops.

And Ying Laoer not only bought a very large and beautiful five-entry house, but also had two shops with three floors in Raozhou City, several shops selling perfume and rouge powder, and he had hundreds of mu of land under his control. field.

Ying Lao Er's perfumery shop is also because his wife is good at perfumery.

Even his wife knows a little about rouge gouache, and the rouge gouache is very delicate.

At the beginning, Ying Lao Er and his wife used the few taels of silver to rent an old small yard to live in, and then used the remaining money to buy raw materials for perfume and made some solid balm. Carrying the burden, they walk the streets and alleys selling balm.

At the beginning, all the balms sold in the streets were cheap, ten cents a box, and the ingredients were mostly flowers and plants from the mountains, one or two cheap spices and ointments, but the fragrance smelled very pleasant. It can be placed in the cabinet to smoke clothes, and it can also be placed in the main room or room with the lid opened to make room incense, which can last for more than a month.

So, by accumulating the first batch of customers and earning some money, Ying's second wife began to make incense that was actually more expensive.

This period was accompanied by the birth of Ying Shuchang, Ying's second daughter.

After Ying Shuchang was born, Ying Er’s business became better and better. By the time Ying Shuchang was two or three years old, their family had already bought their own small yard, and Ying’s wife began to make some rouge powder besides incense. .

The incense and rouge powder made by his wife are very good.

In this way, Ying's second son's business grew bigger and bigger, he opened a fragrance shop, and continued to sell rouge and gouache.

After slowly accumulating so much family property, Ying's second son became Yuanwailang.

But it is a pity that two years ago, Ying Laoer and his wife encountered bandits when they went out, and both husband and wife were killed by bandits, leaving only Ying Shuchang in Ying Laoer's family.

Ying Shuchang was only seventeen years old at that time, and two years later she was only nineteen.

She is also considered powerful, and she is also distraught when her parents pass away, but just like this, she also manages the family business left by her parents in an orderly manner.

But an orphan girl guarding such a large family business, how can she not be missed by others.

Outsiders still want to get their hands on the family property that Ying's second child left to Ying Shuchang. It is nothing more than some down-and-out households thinking that marrying Ying Shuchang is equivalent to marrying the huge family business of the Ying family. flower.

So during that time, many matchmakers came to propose marriage, but Ying Shuchang refused, and said that they would keep a filial piety for their parents for three years, hoping that the matchmakers would not come to the door.

But those poor families are willing to let go of such an opportunity, so they will naturally continue to let the matchmaker come to their door, telling what their son said about the hype. polite.

In this way, the matchmaker was embarrassed to come to the door again, but some families didn't even want to be shameless. The woman in charge came to lobby in person, and felt that her son was handsome, and that as long as Ying Shuchang saw it, he would be moved.

Ying Shuchang also turned his face directly, and asked the servants at home to beat him out.

Later, few people continued to go to Ying's family to propose marriage, but these clansmen of Ying Shuchang couldn't sit still.

In the beginning, it was only the old lady Ying who came to the door crying pitifully, saying that Ying Shuchang was the only one left in the second child's family, which was pitiful. In the future, let the people in the family take care of her together, so as not to be bullied by outsiders.

Ying Shuchang dealt with it casually at that time, she knew very well that the rest of the Ying family came to the door just because they wanted the family business left by their parents.

Later, the old lady even wanted to move her family with her family to live in the big mansion of Ying Lao Er, but Ying Shuchang refused.

In this way, two years passed, and the old lady was too lazy to pretend. She bought the patriarch Ying, and under the witness of the patriarch, the son of the third family of Ying was adopted into the second room. Now the whole family has moved there. The big house for my daughter.

Shopkeeper Zhou said this and sighed, "This is the situation in Ying's house now."

Xu Qinyu couldn't help but ask, "Is the second child Ying really the biological child of old Mrs. Ying? How can you do this to the second room?"

After she finished speaking, she stopped suddenly.

Ying's second child is just like her father. Her father, the second master of Dechang Hou's mansion, is also ranked second. There is a brother above and a brother below. The old couple of Dechang Hou do not like her father, even in the third room. When her daughter was about to be exiled with her, she directly pushed the original body out.

For Xu Qinyu, the original father's character is quite good, easy-going and stable, and he used to be very filial to his parents, but he was not liked by the old couple.

Not all parents love every child of their own, and many parents are easily biased sometimes.

Moreover, Ying's second husband and his wife suffered misfortune, leaving behind so many family properties, and the wealth and silk are touching, and the other two rooms of Ying's family have failed in this way over the years. In the end, regardless of his face, he forcibly adopted the child to the second room.

Ying Shuchang was only a seventeen-year-old girl, and two years later, she was only nineteen. Even if there were some servants in the family, the old lady moved out other clansmen and patriarchs.

And even if Ying's second wife is separated, she will take her to visit the old lady during the holidays. It's just that the family is separated, but it is not a complete disconnection. The old lady is still in the family, still in the rest of the family Under the witness of the patriarch and the clansmen, it is useless to go to the government, and the adopted son has already been on the genealogy, which means that he is already the child of the second family, the younger brother of Ying Shuchang, not only in the law. Acknowledging it, human ethics can no longer be changed.

Shopkeeper Zhou sighed, "It didn't take long for this to happen, Mrs. Xu, the field at the foot of the mountain you mentioned was left to Ying Shuchang by the second child, but now Ying Shuchang is in a state of turmoil, where is it? I can still take care of these things, not to mention that this girl has experienced so much, I am afraid that she will go to her door to sell her land, and she will not agree."

Xu Qinyu couldn't help sighing in her heart, the girl's experience was not much better than the original body, the original body was directly pushed out by her grandmother as a shield, and the girl was also bullied by her grandmother, uncle and uncle.

Moreover, the younger brother of Ying Shuchang, who was adopted by the third family, is a two-year-old baby. He is also born to the third child of Ying and his wife. They also love this child very much. anger on their youngest son.

No matter how much Ying Shuchang hates this big family and this adopted younger brother, she will never take out a two-year-old baby who doesn't understand anything.

Xu Qinyu asked, "Can Ying Shuchang come out now?" She was also worried that the rest of the Ying family would move into the mansion, and she controlled Ying Shuchang, so she couldn't even get out of the door.

Shopkeeper Zhou said, "It's still possible to come out. Although the shameless Ying family moved to Ying's second house, the Ying family's incense and rouge gouache shops need to be taken care of. The most important thing is these incense sticks. The recipe for the rouge gouache requires her to go to the workshop to watch it herself, otherwise it will lose a lot of money in a day, so they can only let the book go out, and I heard that the old lady and the people from the third room still want to make incense. With the formula of rouge gouache, but only Ying Niangzi knows the formula, and they can't do anything about it."

In fact, the formula is the most valuable, even if Ying Er left these shops, houses and fields, these formulas are not valuable. Only by holding the formula can money make money.

He thinks that the rest of the Ying family is too much, but there are also many people who think that Mrs. Ying did nothing wrong. A girl's family will always be married off. Is it possible that this huge family business will be dowry and then given to a foreigner? It must still be reserved for people with their own surnames, and feel that Ying Shuchang should also hand over the formula, otherwise the formula will also be married at that time, which will be cheaper for others.

All in all, I feel that a girl's family can't pass incense, and she is a foreigner, and she should leave all the family property to her cousins. Only men can pass incense, and a family will not be destroyed.

When Xu Qinyu heard it, she felt disgusted in her heart. There are many people who have this kind of thinking, even in later generations, both men and women. It's really disgusting.

She also felt more and more that this girl was similar to her, but she still had her original parents and younger brother. They were all still alive, and her life was getting better and better.

After listening to the shopkeeper Zhou, Xu Qinyu thanked the shopkeeper Zhou, and went back to the room with the fourth brother first.

Back in the room, Xu Qinyu said, "Fourth brother, although the Ying family is in this situation, I still want to see Ying Shuchang."

Pei Weixuan nodded, "I should meet and ask. In her current situation, she can't be broken or established. Instead of spending it in Ying's house, it is better to leave with the formula. Those people in Ying's family can destroy the family business left by Mr. Ying. Guang, they can't keep the family business left by Ying's second child now, and Ying Shuchang's staying in Ying's house will only consume themselves."

Xu Qinyu also thinks this is the case, because now that the children have all passed over, it is done, and she is only consuming herself by staying at Ying's house.

If the fish die and the net is broken, what happens to Ying's family, Ying Shuchang won't be able to get better.

As long as the recipe is in hand, Ying Shuchang still has the dominance.

Pei Weixuan went to the vicinity of Ying's house to inquire about it that day, and learned that Ying Shuchang would go to the workshop every morning, so the next morning, after eating the morning meal, he went to the workshop with Yuniang to wait for Ying Shuchang.

Although the incense and rouge gouache workshops of Ying's family have hired female craftsmen, the most important formula is still in the hands of Ying Shuchang. The most important process is made by her, and it doesn't take much time. This process, whether it is incense or rouge gouache, cannot be done.

The two waited in front of the workshop for a while, and then saw a very thin girl approaching.

The girl's facial features are beautiful, but her complexion is not good, her face and lips are pale and blue, and she is too thin. The clothes on her body look empty, and she is accompanied by two women, one woman is also Also thin, with a sad face, the other woman is strong and is staring at the thin girl with her eyes rolling.

Xu Qinyu knew that this skinny girl should be Ying Shuchang. Her current mental outlook was already a little malnourished. Thinking about it, her parents had a sudden accident. Although she left her with a lot of wealth, everyone was still staring at her. , coveting what her parents left for her, and now Ying's family is doing this kind of thing again, it would be strange if she could eat and drink well.

Seeing Ying Shuchang walking over, Xu Qinyu took a step forward and called out, "Ms. Ying."

Ying Shuchang heard someone calling her, her eyes were cold and her face was a little numb.

Seeing that she was silent, Xu Qinyu called out to her again.

Ying Shuchang still ignored her. Only his eyes fell on her.

The burly woman behind Ying Shuchang said immediately: "Who are you? What do you want to call our wife?"

Xu Qinyu could tell that this woman should not belong to Ying Shuchang, but the skinny woman, and this thick woman probably belonged to the old lady Ying.

Xu Qinyu said coldly: "I am a friend of Mrs. Ying, and I came here to see her."

The stout woman snorted coldly, "Why didn't I know that our wife has a girlfriend like you?"

Ying Shuchang finally came to her senses, she said calmly, "What do you want from me?"

Since the death of her parents, except for Madam Zhang, everyone who came to her has malicious intentions, and she has given up any hope. Besides, she doesn't know the beautiful little lady in front of her at all, so she naturally thinks that she has ulterior motives to contact her .

Because that disgusting family forcibly adopted the third-bedroom child to her as a younger brother, moved to the old house, and asked her for the formula. During this period, many outsiders who were doing business wanted to buy incense from her. And rouge powder, knowing that she hated the old lady's family, she thought she might as well sell the formula to them to make a lot of money, but she didn't agree.

This month, she didn't know what to do. She even thought about breaking up with the mermaids like the old lady. She didn't want to live anymore. If she wanted to stay with her parents, she might as well kill them all.

However, Pei Weixuan saw that Ying Shuchang was not in a good condition, so he whispered something in Xu Qinyu's ear.

Xu Qinyu's heart skipped a beat, and she said softly, "Miss Ying, I have something to ask of you."

Ying Shuchang originally wanted to ask her in a cold voice, did she also want to buy her formula like everyone else.

But looking at the little lady with white skin and a gentle smile on her face, she didn't say anything, she just pursed her lips, "Tell me what you want."

Xu Qinyu looked at the two wives beside Ying Shuchang, "I want to chat with Mrs. Ying alone."

Ying Shuchang turned around and said softly to the same thin woman: "Mrs. Zhang, please avoid it first, I have something to say to this little lady." After speaking, he said coldly to another thick woman, "Mrs. Zhao , you also avoid it."

Mrs. Zhao snorted, "Who knows if this little lady will do something to you, lady, I will definitely stand by."

Ying Shuchang sneered, "You think I can't cure you, don't you? The old lady wants my formula. If I let her beat you to death, I will give the formula. Guess what the old lady will do? "

Only then did Mrs. Zhao change her expression, she snorted and walked to the side with Zhang Nanny.

After the two women had left, Ying Shuchang looked at Xu Qinyu, "I don't seem to know you, why are you looking for me? If you want to buy the formula of incense and rouge gouache in my hand, then don't talk about it." , I won’t sell it.”

Xu Qinyu smiled and said: "We really don't know each other, and I'm not Ying Niangzi's best friend, but not now, doesn't mean I won't be in the future, and I didn't come here today to buy the formula from Ying Niangzi."

Ying Shuchang didn't believe her words at all.

She has seen too many people who approached her gently at the beginning, and finally showed their true faces.

But before she could say anything, the handsome man next to the beautiful little lady suddenly said, "Now the incense you made in this workshop smells of agarwood, sweet rosin, green wood, chicken tongue, and white sandalwood... ..." He named fifteen spices in total before continuing: "This incense should be more suitable for fumigation of clothes, as it can keep the fragrance on the clothes for a long time."

He even told about the processing of the most critical spices in this recipe.

This is also the most critical part of Ying Shuchang's formula.

These spices are quite expensive, so the incense is also very valuable, which is why everyone is so obsessed with the recipes of Shuchang, because it is really profitable.

In fact, Pei Weixuan can only smell the smell right now, but the specific ratio of the formula must also be formulated slowly.

But it's not difficult for him, he just wanted to tell Ying Shuchang that he and Yuniang didn't come here for the formula in her hands.

Ying Shuchang's complexion changed, she didn't know how the two people in front of her knew the formula of her incense, and even the key points.

Xu Qinyu hurriedly said, "Miss Ying, don't worry, we really didn't come here for your formula, this is my husband, he also has some formulas for creams and rouge powder, we just want to tell Miss Ying , We are indeed not here for your formula."

Ying Shuchang glanced at the two with a complicated expression, and asked, "Then why are you looking for me?"

Xu Qinyu said: "We came here today just to meet my wife's dozens of acres of land at the foot of the mountain outside the city. My name is Xu Qinyu, and I'm from Yuanbao Town. I opened a restaurant in Yuanbao Town. It's called Xu Ji Restaurant, and because I made some money, I plan to open a restaurant in Raozhou City..."

She told Ying Shuchang about her identity, and that she planned to open a restaurant outside the city, but the site was just at the foot of the mountain, and she found out that it was her fields, so she came to her and asked if she could sell these fields. For myself, I also expressed my willingness to pay double the price to buy these dozens of acres of land.

Ying Shuchang didn't expect that they came here for the dozens of acres of land at the foot of the mountain.

She has also heard about Xu Qinyu's reputation. Before her father's accident, she went to Yuanbao Town. At that time, she happened to have something to do in Yuanbao Town. After eating at Xuji Restaurant, she packed it for her and brought it back. It was the best meal she had ever had.

She also thought that if she had the opportunity to go to Yuanbao Town again in the future, she would go to Xuji Restaurant to have a meal in person.

But a month later, something happened to her father and mother. She no longer had any thoughts, didn't think about food and drink, couldn't eat anything, and had to deal with a lot of things. She had experienced a lot in the past two years, and she was lifeless , also lost a lot of weight.

She also knows something about Xu Qinyu, she knows the restaurant she opened, and she also heard that he opened a winery with Mrs. Lu. It is indeed not bad for money, and she will not covet her formula. It must be that she really wants to live in Raozhou City He bought the land from her because he opened a big restaurant.

Her aromatherapy and rouge water powder can't earn so much in a year, only tens of thousands of taels of silver, even so, it is enough to make many people and other members of the Ying family jealous.

Ying Shuchang thought about it and agreed, and she said, "You don't need to pay double the price, Mrs. Xu, just follow the normal price. If you want those fields, tell me and I will sell them to you, but you also know In my current situation, I am afraid that it will be troublesome to sell these properties, and maybe those wolves, tigers and leopards will come to you, they are all local rogues, and it is not easy to deal with." Otherwise, the third-fang child will not be forced He adopted her and lived in her house.

She knew very well in her heart that the deeds of the fields, houses and shops that her father left her are still in her hands. Get all the books.

She did think about dying with everyone in the Ying family.

She is very temperamental. My father said before that she is too temperamental, and it is easy to go to a dead end when encountering things.

Now she can't deal with these things, and the only thing she thinks about is that she won't take advantage of the old lady and the others. If she treats her like this, it's better to die together.

In fact, Xu Qinyu also knows that even if Ying Shuchang's parents left her family business now, it is still in her hands, but if she wants to deal with it privately, it will be very troublesome, otherwise she should have sold all these family business early Lost.

It's just that even if Ying Shuchang sells all the family property, she can't go anywhere, because she is a girl, and it will be dangerous no matter where she goes with such a large amount of money, but she can stay in Ying's family, even if it is to leave her home. The family business is sold, and the bank notes cannot be kept.

There was no good solution on both sides, which made Ying Shuchang fall into this situation.

Xu Qinyu thought of the fourth brother who had just told her that Ying Shuchang was a bit dead, probably because he didn't want to live anymore and wanted to die with Ying's family.

Why should she be bullied and still don't want to live, of course she has to live well, to see if those people will be punished in the future, or try to make those people unhappy, after all, it shouldn't be thinking about the road of dying together.

Xu Qinyu said softly: "For the field matters, how about going to the Bafang Inn after Mrs. Ying is done, and I can discuss it with Mrs. Ying in detail?"

Ying Shuchang hesitated, but finally nodded in agreement.