head of the household

The branches of the peach trees are in full bloom, with layers of flowers stacked up and a faint fragrance floating in the air. The wind blows the flowers to fall, and passers-by laugh and play.

In such a bustling and bustling scene, the coughing sound seems out of place.

Yu Tong'an didn't even bother to appreciate the spring scenery which was a little late for him. As soon as his condition improved a little, he began to deal with the piled up documents.

He had expected the shop to close. Compared to the other merchants secretly sabotaging the Yu family shop because of the attitude of the capital, the broken capital chain was the main reason.

A huge amount of money has been invested in the third prince, so it is only natural that this situation has occurred now.

The most important issues are how to reduce losses and how to recover in the future.

"Wu Pi."

Wu Pi walked in immediately.

Yu Tongan handed Wu Pi a list: "Tell Shopkeeper Yu to close all these shops directly, move the goods that can be stored for a long time to nearby warehouses, and sell the goods that cannot be stored for a long time at a low price."

"yes."

Wu Pi took it and quietly glanced at the table piled with documents. Near the window, there was a solitary white flower in a vase.

Yu Tongan discovered: "What?"

Wu Pi shook his head and walked out without further delay.

Since receiving the letter from Xibei Town, Wu Pi breathed a sigh of relief. Although the young master still had not recovered his spirits, he obviously slept much better and his body gradually began to recover.

Yu Tongan didn't have the time to figure all this out. His grandfather used to help take care of the affairs of the Yu Mansion, but now he had to take care of everything.

What gives Yu Tongan the most headache is his father, Yu Chengrui, who is also the head of the Yu family.

"elder brother!"

After a while, Yu Tongxin had grown taller and ran to Yu Tongan in a hurry with a panicked look on her face.

"what happen?"

"Father and Mother are arguing again." Yu Tongxin was so anxious that she almost cried. "I couldn't stop him. Father wouldn't let me stay there and had me kicked out."

My father has been causing trouble outside recently. Is he going to make trouble for his mother again?

"Don't worry, I'll be there right away." Yu Tongan's throat felt a little itchy, and he coughed twice in a low voice.

"Brother?" Yu Tongxin stepped forward anxiously. She had no other options, but she was worried about her brother's health. Tears welled up in her eyes in an instant.

"It's okay, brother will make arrangements." Yu Tongan touched Yu Tongxin's head and turned to ask, "Cuizhu, where are our parents now?"

"Sir, the master and his wife are in the main hall."

Yu Tongan sighed secretly. He knew his mother, who had never been a person who liked to be high-profile. But didn’t his father know to find a place with few people to make trouble?

Grandpa had just passed away, and Yu Tongxin was in a sensitive period.

"You go back first. I'll call Xiaoya to come and accompany you." Yu Tongan helped Yu Tongxin wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes. "Be good, don't cry. Brother will buy you some candy."

Yu Tongxin pursed her lips, sniffed, and nodded obediently.

After making the arrangements, Yu Tongan put on his cloak and walked quickly towards the main hall.

…

"Liu Qingxiao, why do you care about me now?"

Before Yu Tongan even reached the main hall, he heard his father mumbling loudly, and he seemed to be in much better spirits than him.

"Yu Chengrui, do you have any conscience? Father has just left and you are making a fuss here!" Liu Qingxiao's voice was shaking violently. He was extremely angry with the person in front of him.

She really didn't understand why she married such a man. She knew that Yu Chengrui was a waste and a hopeless case, but she didn't know that he didn't even have the basic manners of a human being.

"I'm making trouble?" Yu Chengrui sneered disdainfully. "Who is making trouble? How can a woman like you get involved in my affairs? Today I'll show you who is the master of this house!"

As he spoke, he took care of Liu Qingxiao and the other servants and said loudly, "Move out of the main room right now. I want Shanmei to move in."

For a moment, no one dared to move, and the servants looked at each other, all at a loss.

Seeing that no one moved, Yu Chengrui kicked the attendant beside him and said, "Go quickly."

Before the servant stood up, he heard a deep and hoarse male voice coming from the door.

"That's enough."

After saying that, Yu Tongan coughed twice again, raised his head and looked carefully. His mother could no longer hold back her tears and was unwilling to look at Yu Chengrui.

"Everyone else dispersed and returned to their seats."

Everyone lowered their heads and left the main hall, leaving only a few people.

Yu Tongan walked over to Liu Qingxiao and patted his mother's shoulder. "What is father going to do?"

Liu Qingxiao shook his head, signaling him to deal with the mess in front of him first and not to bother with him.

"Just like I said, I want Shanmei to move in."

Yu Tongan then noticed that the woman next to Yu Chengrui seemed to be the same woman his father brought when Mingyu was present last time.

I don't know what his father is obsessed with.

"Let me move out and let her live with you? Then why not let her live with you?" Perhaps she was already used to being disappointed in Yu Chengrui. Liu Qingxiao wiped away her tears and started to challenge Yu Chengrui again, "Or you can move out and let her come in. I'm fine with that too."

"This family is my Yu family, not your Liu family." Yu Chengrui pretended to understand suddenly, "Your Liu family has been ruined for a long time. Even the house was given to you by my Yu family. Of course you can't tell the difference."

Liu Qingxiao's mother's family was indeed in ruins, but later with the help of Old Master Yu and Yu Tongan, it gradually got better, but it could not be compared with the Yu family.

Liu Qingxiao wasn't enraged. "No matter how confused I am, it's still better than you. Even after your father passed away, you ignored your filial piety and brought a woman home. Someone who didn't know you would think you'd accomplished nothing and could only stay surrounded by women to build up your useless self-confidence."

I don’t know what this person who relies on his father has to do to mock her mother’s family.

Yu Chengrui, whose pain point was directly hit, flew into a rage and pointed at Liu Qingxiao's nose: "Liu Qingxiao! You..."

But after talking for a long time, there is still no follow-up.

Yu Tongan felt that the other party had made enough trouble and wanted to end the matter as usual.

But Yu Chengrui glanced at the woman beside him and seemed to have thought of something.

"I'm going to give you a letter of divorce today!" After saying this, Yu Chengrui felt relieved. He felt that he had let out his anger. "Without my father's obstruction, I wonder who else can help you!"

"Father..." Yu Tongan frowned, his voice low due to illness, but it was drowned out by Yu Chengrui's voice.

"Yu Tongan, I am the master of this family. You have been working with your grandfather for a long time, but don't get the generation wrong!"

The woman named Shanmei gently tugged at Yu Chengrui's sleeve. Yu Chengrui glanced at her and suddenly remembered his main purpose.

"Also, my father has passed away, and now I should be in charge of the Yu family. You should also hand over the position of the Yu family's treasurer to me, and I can let you be the eldest son of the Yu family."

The mother and son were not panicked or angry as Yu Chengrui had expected, but just looked at him calmly.

Yu Tongan did not respond, but turned to look at his mother and asked her what she meant.

Liu Qingxiao sighed and looked at his son with distressed eyes, a little worried: "What about Tong Xin?"

"I will take good care of her. If you are worried, you can take her back to her grandfather's house first."

After listening to this, Liu Qingxiao was silent for a while, and finally nodded, his shoulders relaxed, and he looked at Yu Chengrui expressionlessly.

"Then let's get divorced and stop wasting my time." She finally didn't have to continue to be wasted by Yu Chengrui.

"What?" Yu Chengrui didn't understand why they had such an attitude.

Yu Tongan stood in front of Liu Qingxiao and let his mother sort herself out alone.

"Grandpa didn't stop you, but Mother."

…

After the last quarrel, Grandpa finally let it go and called Yu Tongan and Liu Qingxiao to talk.

Old Master Yu was a little tired. He was busy with his work at the court and neglected to discipline his children. He finally realized that his children could not be changed now.

"Daughter-in-law, I know that Yu Chengrui treated you badly, but I thought that after your brother passed away, there was no one in charge of the family. I was afraid that you would feel uneasy about me asking you to divorce, and that you would think that our Yu family abandoned you because of the Liu family."

"Father……"

Although Liu Qingxiao cried to Old Master Yu many times, she could tell who was good to her. In addition, Old Master Yu took care of the Liu family even after their defeat, so she never blamed him.

Old Master Yu patted Liu Qingxiao's hand and signaled her not to speak.

"Tong'an has grown up now and has taken over the burden of the Yu family." Old Master Yu's expression was sad and gentle, looking at the child in front of him who he treated as his own child, and found that she was no longer the girl with a smiling face.

"If you don't want to live with Chengrui anymore, I won't stop you."

…

Yu Tongan's voice was not loud, but it was loud enough for Yu Chengrui to hear clearly.

"Grandpa has already clearly stated in black and white that I am the next head of the Yu family, and he also informed Uncle Yu Xianle."

It's just that he was sick before and his grandfather had just passed away, so he didn't want to take over his grandfather's place.

Yu Tongan said calmly, "If you don't want to live with me, I will arrange a place for you to live."

Grandpa has known what kind of person my father is. If Yu Chengrui wasn't his child, he would have ignored him long ago.

So when Yu Tongan took over the affairs of the Yu family and discussed arranging for Yu Boyan to join the caravan, he arranged everything to prevent Yu Chengrui from causing trouble and letting everyone in the Yu family suffer with Yu Chengrui.

"How is that possible?" Yu Chengrui looked at Yu Tongan in disbelief. "How could my father pass the Yu family over to you without me?"

Yu Tongan was too lazy to think about whether Yu Chengrui was really stupid and didn't know, or was pretending not to know in order to have a chance to compete with him.

"Father, you can see whether they will listen to you or me, the head of the family. Anyway, I will not hand over anything that belongs to me."

Without Yu Tongan's order, the caravan was expected to obey Yu Chengrui? He was dreaming. The people in the caravan were not fools like his father.

"So, as the head of the family, can I put an end to this farce?" Wu Ren and Wu Pi were not around. Yu Tongan glanced at the person in charge next to him and said, "Send that woman back to where she came from, and send my mother back to her room."

Yu Tongan looked at Yu Chengrui's face, which looked like his grandfather but not like him, and suddenly remembered the flower on the table.

"He continues to quietly guide you, my lord, through everything he has touched."

Yu Tongan chuckled sincerely and spoke.

"Father, if you have made up your mind, please ask someone to tell me and I will arrange it for you."