"Madam, please don't come forward. I caught a cold a few days ago. Although I am well now, I am still afraid of infecting you."
When I heard Shen Yuerong say that she was still ill.
The old lady took two steps back as if avoiding the plague.
"It's nothing serious, but I just wanted to ask you... the weather is getting colder now, and the New Year will be here in a few days. Why don't you just go back to the General's Mansion as usual this year?"
"I am no longer the daughter-in-law of the general's mansion. It doesn't make sense for me to celebrate the New Year at the general's mansion, right?"
Shen Yuerong refused without even thinking. After all, they no longer had any contact at the moment, so there was no need for them to get entangled with each other.
The old lady immediately played the emotional card.
"I know you and my son have divorced. Although this is indeed... a little inappropriate, but in the past three years, you have always been with me during the New Year. I am still a little uncomfortable with this all of a sudden. I beg you for it."
She looked extremely heartbroken, and showed great reluctance to part with Shen Yuerong.
If it were in the past, she would have been extremely happy at this moment, as the people in the general's mansion finally had some feelings for her.
But she would never think so now.
"No."
Shen Yuerong flatly refused.
"In the past three years, I have been working hard for the General's Mansion. In order to take care of your feelings, I have never really been with my father during the holidays. I have not even burned incense for him. So this year, I plan to go to the temple to fast and pray for my father starting from the first month of the year."
When the old lady heard this, she looked even more anxious, and she didn't even care about anything else, she just came up and grabbed Shen Yuerong's hand.
"I know... you want to pray for your father, but who would spend the first month of the New Year in a temple? Rong'er, I know you are blaming Yu'er and Du Wan, so how about I promise you that I won't let you see them during the New Year this time? Just the two of us, like before."
Shen Yuerong raised her eyes, "Madam Fu."
There was a hint of coldness in her voice.
"I am no longer the daughter-in-law of your general's mansion. Even if I don't go to the temple to keep vigil, I will not go in and out of the general's mansion. If the old lady has nothing else to do, go back early."
She stood up and walked out, but was restrained by the old lady's arm again.
"You can now... actually stand up without relying on anything else?"
The old lady looked at her in surprise. After all, she had only heard about her before. This was the first time she saw her stand up with her own eyes after three years.
"Why? I heard mother and Fu Hengyue call me a cripple in private before. Now that I am well, shouldn't mother be happy for me?"
"How is that possible? I was naturally very happy to know that your legs were healed, but I was just surprised for a moment. After all, even the imperial physician in the palace said that your legs were incurable. I didn't expect... that you can stand up smoothly now."
Shen Yuerong was too lazy to argue with him, so she continued to order him to leave. "It's getting late, Madam, please go back earlier, so that the general won't see me and worry that I will frame you."
"That's not right. Then... you see... can you please hold off on paying the money you owe these past few months? We'll pay it back in one go after some time."
"I can give you two months' payment. It's the end of the year and the shop has cash flow."
Chen Yuerong paused, "It just so happens that the bank statement has come down. I will deduct the nearly one thousand taels you paid me back from my five thousand taels, and I will count it as one thousand taels, leaving me with four thousand taels. At the end of the year, I will definitely have the four thousand taels. When the time comes, the old lady will pay me back in one go, and we will end our friendship."
"Repay you four thousand taels in one go? This is not the result of our previous negotiation. Are you forcing us? And if I give you four thousand taels in one go, will we still be able to survive? We don't even have money to spend this New Year..."
Chen Yuerong looked at Fu Hengyue who stood up and spoke, "It is only natural to pay back debts. I promised you that I could pay in installments because you had no money at that time. At the end of the year, the turnover of the shop must be paid. With the turnover of the five major shops in the General's Mansion, let alone 4,000 taels, even 40,000 taels is possible!"
When Shen Yuerong was in charge of the shop, the annual income was as much as ten thousand taels, which was enough to support the expenses of such a large general's mansion.
So at this moment, she. I don't believe that the General's Mansion would be out of money.
When talking about the shop, Fu Hengyue felt a little timid and guilty, but he still mustered up the courage to speak.
"Who knows what kind of magic potion you gave to those managers? Since you left, those managers have stopped doing their job properly. These shops have been losing money one after another. Now, let alone the year-end turnover, they are almost losing all the money they made before. I think all this is your conspiracy."
Fu Hengyue walked up, pointed at Shen Yuerong's nose and cursed, as if all this was Shen Yuerong's fault.
“How interesting!”
His sharp gaze fell on Fu Hengyue, and she hid behind the old lady feeling a little guilty.
"When you were planning to take over the business, didn't I tell you that business is not something that everyone can do, especially someone like you who has no previous experience?"
"The people below are fooling you, and you don't even know it."
"What's the point of saying this now? I think they just did it on your behalf, otherwise why would they target me?"
Fu Hengyue felt that the reason she couldn’t control it was all Shen Yuerong’s fault.
Shen Yuerong snorted coldly, "If you have evidence, bring it out. If you don't have evidence, don't say such ambiguous words, otherwise I will drag you in front of Jingzhouyi and talk about this matter properly."
When he heard that he had to go see the official, Fu Hengyue didn't dare to speak even though he felt very aggrieved.
She looked at her, and then spoke to the old lady again, "I am not a good person either. I advise you not to provoke me again."
The old lady's expression was a little ugly, but Shen Yuerong smiled.
"You asked me to spend the New Year at your general's mansion so that you could tell the world that your son and I were just having a quarrel and we had not divorced. This way, no one would take it seriously."
"You have a very good plan. You won't offend the prince, and you can keep the surface calm at the same time. I have to admit that you are better than me."
When her thoughts were revealed, the smile on the old lady's face disappeared.
"Rong'er, you said you don't have any deep hatred with my Yu'er. Although he was a bit dissolute in the past and had an affair with the daughter of the Du family... But I promise that as long as you are willing to continue to be his wife in the future, I will never allow him to have any concubines. You two can live a good life together."
Hearing this, Shen Yuerong found it even more ridiculous.
"Live?"
Shen Yuerong suffered a lot to get rid of them, but she actually came to plead for them.
That's not what she said at the beginning.
"Don't disgust me."
Shen Yuerong shook off the old lady's hand with force, but she didn't hold back, and the old lady fell backwards as usual, hitting her forehead on the corner of the table. Blood immediately came out and flowed down the wound.
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