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Chapter 92: Thinking Well
Seeing him, An Wu hurriedly pointed to the middle-aged man and introduced: "Sister-in-law, this is shopkeeper Liu of our shop."
"Shopkeeper Liu, this is my fourth sister-in-law."
Shopkeeper Liu hurriedly saluted: "I've seen Mrs. Si."
It took a while for Ji Yu to realize that this person should be the shopkeeper of the fur shop at home that the fourth brother mentioned, and he quickly replied: "Shopkeeper Liu, you are welcome."
As for the other old man, he said he was the steward of the Jiang family, a big family in the city, who came to buy deer.
After they left, Ji Yu went to the main room, and saw the fourth brother put a large stack of bank notes into the box, so he asked casually: "Fourth brother, what is the price of the deer?"
An Si closed the box and said with a smile, "That's right. I happened to meet a big family in the city who was going to hold a birthday banquet in the future and needed deer. The deer we hunted were not only big and beautiful, but also alive. The deer blood is good.Stuff, that's what the old folks like to drink. And the buckskin, boots are fine leather."
What he said did not deceive Brother Yu.
Today those deer were indeed sold for a good price, because they were alive, and because they could be bled, the price quadrupled compared to before.
"Really?" Ji Yu suddenly smiled, "Fourth brother is really amazing..."
After boasting for a while, he asked cautiously, "Is that enough money?"
An Si held his face and said with a smile: "It's enough, it's just enough."
In fact, it is still more than twenty taels.But it doesn't matter, don't we have three horses at home?Selling one horse is not only enough to repay brother Jingyuan's money, but also has enough money for the Chinese New Year.
But An Wu sold the horse and took the money but refused to go to Tong's house: "Fourth brother, you should go to Tong's house!"
An Sijian frowned slightly: "Aren't you and Brother Jingyuan always on good terms? Why don't you go?"
An Wu sat down on the chair, worried and heartbroken: "Isn't brother Jingyuan your classmate with the fourth brother? You are the eldest brother and the head of our family. Naturally, you should go to pay back the money."
An Si was puzzled and said: "But family matters, whether it's buying a house and furnishing, or your sister-in-law's scriptures, are all discussed by you and Brother Jingyuan. Don't you like to take care of these things the most on weekdays?What's the matter today? Did you quarrel with Brother Jingyuan?"
The more An Si thought about it, the more he felt that his guess was correct: "Today at Peach Blossom Village, you and brother Jingyuan were quite weird. Did you have a fight?"
An Wu was afraid that his fourth brother would force him to ask questions, so he hurriedly said in a perfunctory way: "Fourth brother, no, I'm just too tired today, so I don't want to go."
He stood up again and said, "Fourth brother, I'll go tomorrow, okay?"
After speaking, he ran away without waiting for his fourth brother to react.
But he didn't mean anything, and he still lingered and refused to go the next day, but Tong Jingyuan couldn't hold back and found it by himself.
When Tong Jingyuan came, An Si was training An Wu in the room!
"I said why are you dawdling? Why don't you go to Brother Jingyuan? The deer will die soon, and the blood of the deer will no longer be usable..."
An Wu slandered in his heart that the deer blood stuff was too nourishing, brother Jingyuan should drink less, for fear of death if he drank it.
He was about to dawdle again, when he looked up and saw brother Jingyuan entering the yard on crutches, which made him jump up suddenly.
Why is Brother Jingyuan here?
It's only been a day since saw him, but Tong Jingyuan was pale and haggard, walking with a cane and grinning.
"Brother Jingyuan." An Si quickly helped him into the main room: "What's the matter with you?"
Tong Jingyuan looked at An Wu, gritted his teeth and said, "I was bitten by a puppy."
Ji Yu who just left the East Wing after hearing the news: "..."
Looking at An Wu with a guilty face again, he tsk tsk in his heart.
What a little wolf dog!
An Si is straightforward: "Since your legs and feet are inconvenient, you should rest at home. Walking like this is not conducive to the recovery of the wound."
Tong Jingyuan secretly said in his heart: I also want to rest at home!But Xiao Wu never came, if he got too scared and asked Mother An to talk about the marriage, then he would have nothing but to cry.
But what he said was: "I have something to ask you."
He was talking to An Si, but his eyes were fixed on An Wu, so stared at An Wu that he didn't dare to lift his head.
An Si supported him and walked towards the chair: "Xiao Wu is going to find you too!"
Tong Jingyuan's current situation is that he is most afraid of sitting, but he has to sit, leaning on the armrest of the chair, and sat down grinning.
But he only dared to sit with half of his buttocks, the other half hanging in the air.
An Si handed the box on the table to him with both hands, and said solemnly: "Brother Jingyuan, your kindness, we brothers will never forget it."
Pointing to the fawn with its limbs bound on the ground, he said, "Didn't you follow him into the mountains to hunt? This is your share."
Tong Jingyuan didn't want money, and he didn't want any deer, he only wanted Xiao Wu.
But Xiao Wu avoided him like this, which made him very helpless, so he sighed secretly, and talked about the business: "Zi Yan, Xiao Wu, I came today to tell you something."
Seeing that he suddenly became serious, the An Family brothers looked at him quickly, with a look of listening attentively.
Tong Jingyuan shook his head: "The Xiaoqi in the big house of your An family is dying soon."
It turned out to be this.An Si sat down beside Tong Jingyuan with a calm expression on his face.
An Wu raised his head and snorted: "As long as I can remember, I've been hearing that he's dying, but after all these years, it's still the same."
Tong Jingyuan shook his head and said, "This time, it really can't be done. However, before he died, the members of your An clan started arguing and fighting over the issue of adoption."
Only then did An Si say, "Adoption?"
Tong Jingyuan nodded and said: "Xiaoqi is still young, and he is unmarried. He has not left a son and a half daughter. If he dies, your father's property should belong to your brothers. It can be said that you, An Family, have a temperLet the family property fall into the hands of your brothers? They said they would adopt a child for Xiaoqi."
An Wu sneered: "It's as if our brothers value those family properties."
What Tong Jingyuan loves is his temperament, which is pure in heart but still in the big picture, not the petty air who cares about every detail.
"Naturally, you brothers don't like it, but you An family members, in order to adopt your own children to the eldest family, fought so badly that you only had to resort to knives."
"I'm here today to remind you that I'm afraid Dafang will play some tricks and imply that you An clan members will do something to you if you want to adopt your own children."
An Si nodded: "Brother Jingyuan is right, we will be careful."
An Wu felt so guilty that he was even more afraid to look at Tong Jingyuan.
Brother Jingyuan was so painful that he couldn't walk, and he ran over to remind them...
Ji Yu entered the room with a tray, and smiled while drinking tea: "Thank you, Brother Jingyuan, for reminding me."
Tong Jingyuan took the tea, stared at him for a moment, and suddenly smiled and said, "Zi Yan, let me tell you, you An Family, you have too many right and wrong, and you are all careless people. They are calculating for petty gains all day long.Letβs do the calculations. What fools! The story books written by my sister-in-law Fulang are much more money than they fought to the death.β
Ji Yu, the brothers of the An family, loves to hear these words.
Ji Yu smiled and said, "Thanks to Brother Jingyuan."
Tong Jingyuan shook his head and said, "It's my sister-in-law's blessing."
After taking a sip of tea, he said again: "Sister-in-law Fulang, there is something... I'm afraid you don't know yet?"
Ji Yu brought tea to An Si: "What's the matter?"
Tong Jingyuan snorted coldly: "The silk and satin Zhuang Ji's family in the east of the city... I heard they said that you and your sister-in-law husband are from the same family!"
Ji Yu's heart tightened.Ji family?
Seeing his face change, An Si quickly pulled him to sit down and held his hand tightly.
Tong Jingyuan continued: "Isn't there a girl in his family who got married? As a result, her husband died within a year. Her husband's family insisted that she was the one who killed her, so they drove her back. Now she is at her mother's house, keeping a filial piety for her father.Looking for someone else! Her elder brother and sister-in-law can't tolerate her, and they want to marry her off, saying that if she can't get married, she can be a concubine for others, anyway, she can't stay at home. But who would dare to ask for a concubine who is a mourner?For some reason, his family got online with your An family, and then said that he wanted to be a concubine for Zi Yan... just wait for the one-year filial piety period to pass, and then enter your house..."
As soon as his words fell, the An family brothers were all taken aback.
There is such a thing?
Now Ji Yu understood what was going on.
old woman Kong You heard me right, the girl from the big house, because her husband died and she was divorced and returned to her mother's house, so she fell in love with the fourth brother?
After being surprised, An Si's face sank: "Brother Jingyuan, where did you hear that?"
Tong Jingyuan shook his head and smiled, "This matter is not groundless."
He also reminded: "They are not playing as a concubine."
They spread rumors everywhere that his sister-in-law could not give birth, and his daughter-in-law of Ji's family would be a flat wife when she entered An Family, and she would divorce her sister-in-law after she gave birth to a child...
However, he dared not say these words in front of his sister-in-law.
Seeing the ugly face of the fourth brother's wife-in-law, An Wu hastily said: "Fourth brother, I'll ask my mother and I'll know how?"
With a dark face after speaking, he quickly ran to the mother's room, and without beating around the bush, he asked directly: "Mother, does the Ji family of the silk and satin village want to give the divorced girl of his family to the fourth brother as a concubine?"
Mother Ann is drinking tea!Hearing his question, he was taken aback for a moment: "Xiao Wu, how did you know?"
An Wuyi gritted his teeth, it really happened.
Bad embryo!How dare you hit his sister-in-law's idea?
"Mother, you agreed?"
Mother An shook her head and said, "How could I agree?"
Not to mention that she didn't dare to take a concubine for Cheng Si, because she was afraid that the news of Cheng Si's failure would leak out.
No matter how bad Brother Yu is, he can serve as a shield for his son.
Besides, even if she wanted to take a concubine for Cheng Si, she would never find another merchant's daughter, let alone a bereaved star who killed her husband and was sent home.
Mother An gritted her teeth, and said with disdain on her face: "They don't want to be concubines, they want to be equal wives. They also said that they will definitely give birth to a man for Cheng Si. Pooh! Not only did they not give birth to a son and a half after being married for a yearDaughter, even killed her husband, I donβt even look down on such a funeral star as a servant of my family.β
An Wu was immediately overjoyed, hugged his mother and said, "Mom, you did a great job. You understand righteousness. Mother is really a hero among women, a model of loving mother..."
Mother An was in a happy mood after being praised by him, and the aggrieved and bored in her heart for the past few days suddenly disappeared.
Shamelessly said: "I'm not a fool."