Chapter 126 Giving one to my sister-in-law to raise.

Yu Qingci asked curiously, "What is it?"

Lu Yun Chu slowly began to speak: "In those years, we planted lotus roots, and everyone liked to come here to enjoy the scenery in the summer. Not only people from our household, but also relatives from outside would come to stay for a while every now and then."

After saying that, he looked at Yu Qingci and explained again: "I'm not talking about my third aunt's family. They live there permanently."

Yu Qingci couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Lu Yunchu continued, "First, several of my fourth aunt's nephews were boating in the boat. It was only a small boat about two feet wide. Several of them squeezed onto the boat together, playing around and fighting to pick lotus pods. But somehow the boat capsized and several of them fell overboard."

Later, several of my second aunt's nieces came to visit. My mother asked my cousins ​​and me to bring them along. These cousins ​​didn't treat themselves as guests at all. They plucked and ruined many of the lotus leaves and flowers that hadn't even grown yet. When I told them off, they accused me of being stingy.

What's even more infuriating is that, taking advantage of my brother's presence, they pretended to accidentally fall in. My brother kindly called some old women to pull them out, and they actually cried and begged my aunt and mother to tell them that they had been intimate with my brother and demanded that he give them a proper status!

Lu Yun Chu was furious when she thought about what happened back then. She and her cousin Yun Li were watching from the sidelines, along with many maids and servants, but those people were really able to lie through their teeth.

What's even more infuriating is that my second aunt sided with her nieces without a second thought, insisting that my brother take responsibility for them.

Yu Qingci exclaimed in surprise, "Is that so?"

Although she was asking again, she was already certain that this was indeed the Wei family's style.

Lu Yunchu nodded: "Fortunately, my brother is capable. He forced those girls to tell the truth with just a few words. Otherwise, I really don't know what kind of trouble my second aunt would have caused."

Sister-in-law, you have no idea how ugly my second aunt was back then. When she couldn't extort money from my brother, she said that her niece had an accident in our family and she couldn't explain it to her own family. She forced my mother to compensate each of her nieces with two sets of jewelry and two sets of fine fabrics before she would stop.

That winter, my third aunt's children insisted that the servants go down to the pond to dig lotus roots for them. They even deliberately kicked the servants into the mud for fun. But my third aunt claimed that the servants had bullied her children and demanded that my mother sell the two servants.

"Sigh! Not to mention my mother, even I felt this pond was unlucky, so we simply stopped planting anything, which saved us a lot of trouble."

When talking about her unpleasant past experiences, Yun Chu's face showed an inappropriate melancholy.

Yu Qingci comforted her, "It's all in the past, and these things will never happen again."

However, it would be a real shame not to plant anything in such a large pond. I will ask the gardener to replant it next year, so that we can enjoy boating and admiring the lotus flowers again next summer.

Lu Yun Chu cheered again: "That's great. Once the lotus roots are planted, we can come whenever we want. I won't get married anymore. I'll stay at home and take care of you and Mother. The three of us can live a quiet life together."

Yu Qingci laughed and said, "Silly girl, you're talking nonsense again. What woman doesn't get married? After the mourning period, the most important thing in our household is to find you a good husband."

My sister-in-law is very thoughtful, and she is also keen to find her a good husband in the future.

Lu Yun Chu said solemnly, "I'm serious, I really don't want to get married. What will you do if I leave and it's just you and my mother left at home? It'll be so cold and lonely."

Yu Qingci hugged her with relief: "Who said that? Maybe your brother, my husband, will really appear out of nowhere and return safely?"

Lu Yun Chu's eyes flashed with doubt as she stared at Yu Qing Ci with her clear eyes and asked, "Sister-in-law, do you really believe my brother is still alive?"

Yu Qingci nodded: "I believe it, and to be honest, my premonitions have always been quite accurate since I was a child."

Lu Yun Chu couldn't possibly understand the implication in her sister-in-law's words.

She had listened carefully to what the soldiers said when they brought her father's coffin back, so in the little girl's heart, her famous and upright brother would never come back.

But it's good that my sister-in-law thinks this way; having something to look forward to makes life a little easier.

So she nodded in agreement and said, "Sister-in-law is right, brother will come back one day."

After tilting her head and thinking for a while, she said, "It's good that I get married. When I have more children in the future, I can talk to my husband's family about giving one of them to my sister-in-law for adoption. That way, my sister-in-law won't have to choose between the children of those two families. It's really a bargain for them."

This time, not only Yu Qingci, but also Tong'er, Dongyue and others on the side burst out laughing.

When Lu Yun saw everyone looking at her and covering their mouths to laugh, she naturally knew that she shouldn't have said what she just said, but she still blushed and gritted her teeth to insist:

"Laugh all you want, that's just how I feel."

Yu Qingci stopped laughing, extended her slender, jade-like finger and gently tapped her forehead, saying:

"Don't talk nonsense. You're so generous, does your future husband know?"

These words made the girls laugh even louder.

Dongyue chimed in, "Our young lady is bewitched today. Besides her future son-in-law, there's also her future mother-in-law. They might not be so happy about it."

As they chatted and laughed, Lu Yun Chu's face turned even redder with embarrassment. She stomped her foot shyly and pretended to twist Dong Yue's ear, causing everyone to burst into laughter.

I strolled around the garden and picked a few half-open plum blossoms to bring back and arrange in a vase.

After returning to Guanlan Pavilion and changing her clothes, Granny Pei came forward to report on the matter at the shop outside.

Yu Qingci took the account book and sighed inwardly. Rather than being stuck at home checking the accounts, she would much rather go out and do business herself. Unfortunately, her current status was that of a widow, and in public, she could only follow the ancestral rules and stay within the inner courtyard. Unless there was a compelling reason to go out, she could only stay in this small world of the inner courtyard all year round.

Fortunately, she had two capable people, Granny Pei and Granny Wang, to help her. She didn't need to do many things herself. Now, most of the affairs of the inner quarters were handled by Granny Wang, while the business affairs outside were best left to Granny Pei.

Granny Pei: "Young Madam, news has come from Madam that the fleet that went south to purchase goods has returned. Most of the 20,000 taels of silver notes we brought were used to buy the item that Young Madam mentioned last time. By the way, the Xia Guang brocade has already been sent back to the embroidery workshop under Young Madam's name."

"real?"

Yu Qingci's clear, bright eyes reflected a dazzling starlight: "That's good. I was worried that the goods wouldn't be able to be transported back before the New Year. In that case, Granny Pei, you should personally go out of the mansion, sort out all the goods, and send all the goods from the General's Mansion to the cloth shop over there according to the previous investment."

Tell both shopkeepers to store it for now and not sell it; I'll make my own plans later.

Even close brothers should keep clear accounts.

In addition to the shops provided by the Earl's Mansion, Yu Qingci's dowry also included an embroidery workshop and two cloth workshops provided by Su Chengniang. Of the initial investment of 30,000 taels, only 3,500 taels were paid from the General's Mansion's accounts; the rest came from her own pocket. Naturally, the goods purchased would be sold in her own dowry shops.