"I paid money to buy the store, and after running it for three years, I may not have earned enough money to earn 45,000 taels. But you ask me for 45,000 taels right away? Are you crazy?"
"That's not what you mean."
Fu Hengyu sat back in his seat, drank a sip of hot tea, and continued his story.
"You told my mother that the turnover of that shop would be at least 10,000 taels a year, and these 50,000 taels can only make up for the income of these shops within five years. And according to the current trend, the income of the shops will definitely increase after five years. I haven't even calculated anything else for you yet?"
From this perspective, Fu Hengyu actually left a way out for Shen Yuerong.
"Then according to what you said... you delayed me for three years. During these three years, I might have met a better man, and at least I wouldn't have wasted my time in the general's mansion. Shouldn't you compensate me a little?"
"Don't make false accusations. These are two different things!"
Shen Yuerong was most reluctant to part with so much silver, but she still wanted to take it back in the end.
"You go back first. I'll give you an answer when I've thought about it."
"I said one a day..."
"If you dare to raise the price, I will make you lose money, do you believe it?"
The reason why several shops in the General's Mansion had some difficulty after leaving Shen Yuerong was naturally because several old customers had always only cared about Shen Yuerong's face and were willing to buy because they trusted her.
But since it fell into the hands of the Fu family, this fixed income disappeared without a trace.
After struggling, Fu Hengyu finally chose to use the shop to blackmail Shen Yuerong and successfully threw all the troubles back to her.
Fu Hengyu dejectedly took the old lady back to the general's mansion, while Shen Yuerong called Chunhua and Taohua.
"Can you guys see how much money is left in the account of the mansion now?"
"Miss, you really want to pay those shops... We definitely don't have enough money, maybe not even a fraction of it."
Even if the dowry is sold, it can only make up for a little.
Shen Yuerong was not unaware of the current situation in the Shen family's accounts.
Apart from her dowry, there was nothing else.
"I……"
She called Fang Mu and asked, "Can you invite the prince to the pharmacy for me?"
"Now that your status and that of the prince are different, there won't be anything wrong with going to the prince's house to meet him."
Shen Yuerong refused and just made an appointment with him at the pharmacy.
The second day.
Chi Mu arrived on time for the appointment, looking at Shen Yuerong with a bit of worry in his expression.
"He didn't give you any trouble yesterday, did he?"
Shen Yuerong shook her head and expressed her thoughts.
"After all, those shops are my hard work over the years. I handed them over to the Fu family as a temporary solution. Now that there is a way to get them back, I am naturally tempted. However, I don't have enough money. I wonder if you can lend me some. I promise that as long as the shop is profitable, I will return the money to you immediately."
Chi Mu knew how powerful Shen Yuerong was.
I'm not worried that the money I put out will be wasted.
"I can lend you money, but...I want to invest in your store in the form of shares, and I also need to share the store's turnover."
"You want to invest?"
Several shops in the capital, especially the more famous ones, naturally have people protecting them. That is why there are indeed rich kids in the capital. Will invest money in the shop.
This is all commonplace.
"But the dividends from my shop are only a few thousand taels a year at most, which is not worthy of the prince's attention."
With only a few thousand taels, the palace could spend all of it on buying some furniture or a couple of sets of clothes.
Not to mention that he has been pampered since childhood and all the items he uses are of the best quality.
He shook his head, looking nonchalant.
"I have money, I can spend it however I want. I think investing in stocks is fun, so I thought I'd give it a try. If you don't want to, just ignore what I said."
In the end, Shen Yuerong couldn't persuade Chi Mu and had to agree.
"I can promise you, but you also have to promise me that if I fail to make a success of this pants business, I will return the money you invested to you even if I lose everything."
"You can't even run the business anymore, where are you going to get the money to pay me back?"
"Don't worry about it. Anyway, I won't owe you a cent."
Chi Mu sighed. Sure enough, after so many years, he was still the same.
"That's fine, brothers should settle accounts clearly, so that you won't have to quarrel with me again because of this."
Shen Yuerong asked the owner of the drugstore to bring up the four treasures of the study and wrote down clearly and distinctly the source and destination of the money.
"It's written in black and white, and I will never breach the contract."
Shen Yuerong signed her name and took it to Chi Mu again.
"It's your turn."
Chi Mu also left his name on it, and the two reached an agreement.
Shen Yuerong delivered the 46,000 taels to the door of the general's mansion without a penny missing.
Seeing this, the old lady started to cry and said, "No wonder you wanted to divorce my son so easily. It turns out that you have been having an affair with the prince for a long time. Now you don't even shy away from others and just take the money from the palace. My son is such a miserable person!"
"Stop yelling."
Shen Yuerong roared, causing Du Wan and others present to feel somewhat frightened.
Du Wan stumbled, but still spoke up for the old lady.
"Even if you and the general have divorced, the old lady is your elder after all. How can you do this... It's a bit inappropriate. Why don't you apologize to the old lady?"
"What should I do? Tell me...what should I do?"
Shen Yuerong looked at her coldly, then pointed to the box behind her.
"Give me the title deed. The money belongs to the General's Mansion. What the General's Mansion owes me will be written off."
Looking at the three big boxes of real gold and silver, Du Wan didn't care about anything else. She took one and took a bite. She felt the pain in her teeth and was filled with joy.
"Isn't it just the title deed? I'll have someone give it to you."
She waved her hand and asked someone to get the land deed. When the old lady saw it, she was reluctant and wanted to snatch it away, but Du Wan pushed her back to her chair.
"You damned old woman, don't stop me from getting rich. I tell you, forty-six thousand taels is enough to buy your life."
After being away for so long, Shen Yuerong also heard some of the events inside the General's Mansion.
But after all, it's just rumors, you can believe it or not.
Du Wan is not someone who can patiently take care of the old lady.
In the past, they had the same goal. Du Wan also wanted her two children to become descendants of the Fu family, so of course she would endure it.
But now that she has obtained everything, she will never let the old lady order her around as she did before, and that is exactly what is happening now.
Looking at the old lady, she looked angry but didn't dare to speak.
Shen Yuerong just felt secretly happy.
She reached out and took the deeds, very satisfied.
"I've given you the things, and the money belongs to me. You won't ask for the money back, right?"
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