Chapter 23 Pretending to be sick

"Yes." Chu Yu took the letter and went immediately.

"What did the lady write in the letter?" Tan Yu was curious.

Jiang Shu curled his lips and said lightly: "Nothing, just thinking about the hot summer, I asked my father to give back to customers with my winery, and the wine and drinks are half price."

"And let Wang, the storekeeper, raise the grain price together with the Jiang family, especially the grain commonly used for brewing wine."

The Jiang family's grain stores are all over Shangjing. As long as the Jiang family raises the grain price, other grain stores will certainly follow suit.

The raw materials for brewing wine have increased, but the price of wine and drinks has dropped. In less than a month, Wen Xiangzui will lose money.

Since Cheng Jinchu wants to fight, then kill her.

As for Jiang Shu and the Jiang family, the grains used for brewing wine all come from their own family, and the cost is not high. Even if they sell the wine at half price, they will not lose money, but they will make less profit.

Besides, the increase in grain prices can also make up for the loss of wine.

Cheng Jinchu, who was immersed in joy and dreaming, had no idea what was about to happen.

The next day, Yan Yang did not go to school.

"What's wrong?" Cheng Jinchu hurriedly dressed and came to Yan Yang's room to ask.

Yan Yang lay on the bed, holding his head and said painfully: "Mom, my head hurts so much, it hurts so much..."

"Go and ask for female doctor Fang." Cheng Jinchu hurriedly ordered.

Yan Yang on the bed was flustered for a moment, and said in a tangled way: "Mom, I don't want to take bitter medicine anymore, I don't want to see a doctor."

"Be good, Yan Yang, you have to see a doctor if you are sick, and you can only get better after taking medicine." Cheng Jinchu coaxed him in a gentle voice and touched his forehead. He

didn't have a fever, why did he have a headache for no reason?

"I don't want to see a doctor or take medicine, I will be fine after resting at home for a few days." Yan Yang begged pitifully.

But Cheng Jinchu would never agree, fearing that he would have any accidents.

Soon, Doctor Fang came.

"Young Master, let me see." Doctor Fang squatted beside the bed.

Yan Yang cried and resisted: "No, I don't want to see a doctor."

"Yan Yang, if you don't listen, I will send someone to invite your father." Cheng Jinchu threatened with a cold face.

Yan Yang immediately became honest.

Doctor Fang felt his pulse and found nothing unusual, so she asked, "Where does the young master feel pain

?" "My head hurts." Yan Yang's eyes dodged.

"Where exactly?"

"I don't know, my head hurts."

Doctor Fang checked carefully, looked at Yan Yang's expression, and understood.

"Madam, please follow me to the outer room to talk."

Cheng Jinchu was puzzled, and followed Doctor Fang to the outer room and asked, "What happened to Yan Yang? Did he have some... strange disease?"

Mothers are most afraid of their children getting sick, and Cheng Jinchu was nervous and uneasy.

Doctor Fang shook her head and said, "Madam, don't be nervous, the young master... is not sick."

What does not sick mean?

Cheng Jinchu was confused, and after a while she said, "You mean, Yan Yang is pretending to be sick?"

Doctor Fang nodded and left with the medicine box on her back.

She can only cure the disease, not the heart.

Seeing Cheng Jinchu coming back, Yan Yang begged: "Mom, I won't take the medicine. I will be fine after resting at home for a few days, really."

"You all go down." Cheng Jinchu dismissed the servants in the room.

"Mom..." Seeing the closed door, Yan Yang suddenly felt a little scared.

Cheng Jinchu walked to the bed and stood still, and asked with a cold expression: "Tell mom why you pretended to be sick."

"I, I didn't." Yan Yang avoided his eyes, not daring to look at Cheng Jinchu.

Cheng Jinchu took a deep breath, calmed down his emotions, sat down on the edge of the bed, and gently stroked Yan Yang's back.

"Tell mom the truth, otherwise if your dad asks, mom can only say that you pretended to be sick."

"No, don't tell dad." Yan Yang panicked.

"Then just talk to mom nicely." Cheng Jinchu coaxed.

Yan Yang raised his head, tears welled up, and he cried into Cheng Jinchu's arms: "Mom, I don't want to study, I don't want to study."

It turned out that he didn't want to go to the private school.

"Why don't you want to study?" Cheng Jinchu asked with anger.

Yan Yang sobbed and said: "Studying is too difficult, and the teacher is too fierce. They all laughed at me and said that I was as stupid as a pig... Mom, I don't want to go to the school, I don't want to study."

"No!" Cheng Jinchu's face sank.

"Mom can do anything else, but you can't give up studying. You must study hard and pass the exam in the future."

"I don't want to, I don't like going to the capital, I want to go back to the border." Yan Yang cried.

He was only five years old, he didn't understand the future, nor did he want honor and glory, he just wanted to play as he pleased, just like he did in the frontier before.

"Nonsense, the Marquis' Mansion is your home, you can't go anywhere else." Cheng Jinchu was so angry that her stomach hurt.

She knew that she was having a miscarriage, so she didn't dare to get angry anymore. She closed her eyes and calmed down, then said, "Rest at home for a day today, and go to the school tomorrow."

Yan Yang was desperate, and she cried with a gloomy look.

Cheng Jinchu was heartbroken when he saw this, so he just left, it's better not to see it.

Maybe it was because she was overworked recently, or maybe it was because she was injured in the previous two births, Cheng Jinchu's pregnancy was very unstable.

So she could only stay in bed to take care of the baby, leaving the affairs of the house to Shen's mother, and the wine shop was run by the shopkeeper and Shen Changze.

The next day, Yan Yang went to the school, and Cheng Jinchu breathed a sigh of relief.

Shen Changze went to the wine shop to inspect after finishing his official duties, but found that the wine shop was deserted and had no business.

"What's going on?" Shen Changze was puzzled.

The shopkeeper said with a sad face: "Since yesterday, many wine shops in the city have sold wine at half price. People in the city are scrambling to buy it, and no one comes to our wine shop."

"Half price sale" Shen Changze was shocked.

Who would do such a wicked thing?

This affects the wine business of the whole city.

"There is one more thing I need to ask the Marquis for." The shopkeeper looked distressed.

"Tell me."

"Grain prices have risen. Should we continue to buy grain to make wine?"

Wine prices fell, grain prices rose

Something must be wrong when things are abnormal. Shen Changze ordered Huo Chong: "Go and find out who is manipulating prices and disrupting the market."

"Yes." Huo Chong took the order and left.

Shen Changze sat in the wine shop for a while, and saw that no one came into the shop to buy wine, so he returned to the Marquis' Mansion with a gloomy face.

Cheng Jinchu had just woken up and was playing with Yan Huan. Shen Changze didn't dare to let her know, so he relaxed his face and pretended to be indifferent.

"Madam, it's time to take the medicine." The maid brought the pregnancy-preserving medicine.

Shen Changze took Yan Huan in his arms and said, "Daddy will play with you, let mom take the medicine."

Cheng Jinchu stirred the medicine, looked at the sky outside and said, "Yan Yang will be out of school soon."

Although Yan Yang went to school today, Cheng Jinchu was still very worried.

She could force Yan Yang to go to school, but she couldn't force Yan Yang to study.

"Has he made any progress recently?" Shen Changze asked casually.

Cheng Jinchu's face froze, and she smiled unnaturally, "I'm too busy these days to take care of him. I'll ask him when he comes back."

Shen Changze nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

In the evening, Huo Chong came back.

Shen Changze went to the study with him.

"What are you talking about? How is it possible for the Jiang family?" After listening to Huo Chong's report, Shen Changze stood up in shock, his face full of disbelief.

Huo Chong said: "I have checked many sources and it is definitely the Jiang family."

"Jiang Shu." Shen Changze suddenly thought of something and rushed to Tingzhulou angrily.