Everyone looked at Yu Tang who was laughing.

Yu Tang quickly suppressed his laughter and said to his father, "What are you going to do? Do you want to personally tell the Gu family about the grudge between our two families?"

Yu Wen raised his eyebrows: "Why not?"

Chen's heart was beating wildly as she listened to this. She was afraid that the father and daughter would do something reckless without caring about anything. She quickly pretended to be angry and said, "Why are you getting more and more outrageous? Is it a good thing to talk about others behind their backs?"

Yu Tang and his daughter didn't want to scare Chen, so they kept silent.

Wang smiled and said, "Okay, okay. After all, our family didn't suffer any loss. As for whether other people are happy or angry, they are not close relatives, so what does it have to do with our family? I heard that the Pei family will pay for the government to hold a lantern festival in Changxing Street tomorrow. Let's all rest early today and go to Changxing Street to watch the lantern festival tomorrow?"

Chen was not really upset with the father and daughter. When Wang came over, she naturally went down and said to Wang with a smile, "I was just thinking of inviting my sister-in-law and uncle, but my sister-in-law spoke first. When are you going to go tomorrow? Where shall we meet?"

The two sisters-in-law discussed going to the Lantern Festival tomorrow, and Chen personally saw Wang off.

Yu Wen's face turned serious and he said to Yu Tang, "Come with me."

Yu Tang didn't dare to say more and went to the study with his father obediently.

Yu Wenling sat on the armchair and scolded his daughter, "What else did you do? Tell me everything now and I won't pursue it. Otherwise, go and copy the "Book of Filial Piety" ten thousand times for me."

Wouldn't that make your hands swollen? !

Yu Tang said with a bitter face: "I really didn't mean to hide it from you. I didn't tell you because I didn't want to drag you into this."

Yu Wen said anxiously, "You didn't tell me, but Madam Li found our house. Fortunately, your aunt came over today. If she had scared your mother, what would you have done?"

Yu Tang bowed his head and admitted his mistake.

Yu Wen had no choice but to give Yu Tang a lecture: "Since the Gu family has been informed of this matter, no matter how the Gu family treats Li Duan, it is all the Li family's business. You actually sent people to keep an eye on Li Duan, hoping to see him make a fool of himself. What happened? You got yourself into trouble, didn't you?"

At the Li family's side, Lin was so angry that she smashed several teacups in a row: "It's all the fault of the Yu family. If it weren't for them, how could my son have suffered such injustice. Knowing that my son would go to pay New Year's greetings on the second day of the Chinese New Year, the father-in-law and mother-in-law could have just ignored him, but they actually let a servant entertain my son. What do they mean by this? Do they think that our family is marrying up? I want to see how the Gu family is going to deal with this marriage?"

Li Duan just felt deeply tired.

Since the cause of Wei Xiaoshan's death was exposed, things were like a carriage out of control, running wildly in a direction that even he didn't know. It seemed as if there were invisible hands behind him, pushing him forward.

However, is the Gu family's affairs really related to the Yu family as his mother said?

Aren’t the Yu family scholars?

Yu Wen is also well-known for his literary talent, so why would he talk about their family's affairs behind their backs?

Li Duan looked at his mother whose lips were trembling with anger, wondering how to comfort her. He looked up and saw his cousin Lin Jue standing outside the window and winking at him.

For the sake of the painting "Fishing in Songxi", Lin Jue not only did not return to Fujian for the New Year, but also found a mounting master to restore the painting to its original state. After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, they could send someone to deliver a letter to the Peng family.

It was worth it for his cousin’s hard work during this period.

He nodded to Lin Jue calmly, and Lin Jue understood and returned to the guest room where he was staying. Li Duan comforted his mother a few more words before finding a chance to get away and meet Lin Jue.

"What happened?" Li Duan asked as soon as he saw Lin Jue, "Even my mother is being kept in the dark!"

"Women are short on knowledge and long on hair." Lin Jue said disapprovingly.

His aunt was no exception.

Instead of worrying about what kind of injustice Li Duan suffered in the Gu family, it is better to care about whether the map is real or fake.

As long as the Li family gains power, will the Gu family be willing to give up Li Duan, their golden son-in-law?

Women can never distinguish between the primary and the secondary.

"I think before sending the map to the Peng family, we should first copy a few copies and keep them as a copy." Lin Jue said his thought after careful consideration, "We have to be careful that the Peng family will turn against us."

If something unexpected happens, they can still take the copied map and seek help from other powerful people.

Li Duan understood it immediately. He said, "Then let's send a letter to the Peng family, saying that we have received the painting, and ask them how to deliver the painting to them, so as to delay the matter for a while."

In this way, the correspondence could take ten days or half a month.

Lin Jue saw that Li Duan understood what he meant, and a look of relief flashed in his eyes. He lowered his voice and asked, "Just this map?"

Li Duan immediately understood what he meant and said decisively: "We will each paint one picture."

Lin was satisfied and said, "I'll do it right away. Then I'll go with you to meet the Peng family."

After all, it's just that they are afraid that the Li family will monopolize the benefits of the Peng family.

Li Duan remained silent, smiled and nodded, saying, "It should be so!"

Lin Jue laughed.

At the Yu family's side, Yu Bo came back from the shop in the evening. He heard that someone from the Li family had come to the Yu family to cause trouble, so he came over with Wang to check on Chen, but Yu Yuan did not come with them.

Yu Bo said unhappily, "I don't know what that boy has been doing these days. He goes out early and comes back late. It's New Year's Day and it's hard to see him. If I hadn't seen that he was going to get married soon, I would have caught him and beat him up."

During the Chinese New Year, which kid doesn’t run wild?

Yu Wen didn't think there was anything wrong with Yu Yuan not coming over to greet him, and he even advised Yu Bo: "You also said that he is going to get married soon, so you should say less about him in the future. When his wife gets married, if you don't give him any face like this, he will not be able to stand up straight in front of his wife."

Yu Bo muttered a few words and then followed Yu Yuan.

The next day was the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Yu Yuan was still nowhere to be seen, and Yu Tang went to Ma Xiu's parents' home. Only Yu Bo and his brother and Wang's sisters-in-law went to the lantern festival together.

Yu Yuan is really like what Yu Bo said, no one knows what he is busy with.

It was not until the 17th day of the first lunar month when the lanterns were put away and the Chinese New Year was officially over and every shop was open that Yu Yuan suddenly appeared from nowhere and excitedly told Yu Tang: "I found the tree you mentioned. It's called sea buckthorn. It's just like you said. The worse the soil, the easier it is to survive."

Yu Tang became interested when he heard this, and quickly pulled Yu Yuan into the study to talk.

Yu Yuan told her that he and Yao Saner had met several people doing business outside these days. One of them was Gao Qi, who worked as an errand boy for a salt merchant and had seen this kind of tree in the northwest. "He also said that if we really wanted it, he could help us contact someone to send some saplings over. But each sapling would cost one or two taels of silver, and we had to pay a deposit first."

"So expensive!" Yu Tang was stunned.

She originally thought that this tree was very cheap and easy to care for, which was why the Pei family planted this tree on the mountain and then made candied fruit from it to make money.

If a sapling costs one or two ounces of silver, how can they make money?

Is there something strange going on that she doesn't know about?

When Yu Yuan heard what Yu Tang said, he felt as if a basin of cold water had been poured over him, because the excitement and joy of finding the tree seeds had been soaked all at once, like an eggplant hit by frost, wilting: "So, should we still plant trees?"

Yu Tang couldn't make up his mind either.

She said, "Wait a minute. Let me think about it carefully."

Yu Tang wondered whether he should ask Pei Yan for advice to find out why Pei Yan had the idea of ​​planting sea buckthorn trees in their mountain forest...

Shen Fang accompanied Shen Shanyan back to Lin'an City.

Shen Shanyan specially invited Yu Wen to come over and talk: "As for the tree species you mentioned, my elder brother has a student who is an official in the northwest. He can help you get some back. But the cost of going back and forth is not cheap, I'm afraid you have to think carefully about it."

Yu Wen's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, and he asked, "How much is one plant?"

Shen Shanyan said: "Including the travel expenses, it's about thirty coins per plant."

It is indeed expensive.

But this is what Yu Tang wanted.

He gritted his teeth and said, "Can we get a dozen or twenty plants back so we can try planting them?"

"That's not a problem." Shen Shanyan said with a smile. "I'll just ask him to find you a master who knows how to grow sea buckthorn trees. If they can survive, he can also get a job here."

If they really want to plant trees, neither Yu Yuan nor Yu Tang can live in the mountains, they will have to hire people.

"Okay!" Yu Wen agreed readily and told Yu Tang about it when he got back.

Yu Tang was speechless.

Why is the price so different?

Is it because of different channels?

Yu Tang didn't think much about it, but asked Yu Yuan to push the man named Gao Qi, and said that the elders in the family had asked someone to buy seedlings.

This is human nature.

Yu Yuan didn't take it to heart. He just said hello to Gao Qi and put the matter behind him. He started going to the old house every day to measure the mountains and forests and arrange spring ploughing. However, within ten days, he was tanned.

Wang would not allow him to go to the woods again, saying, "This early spring sun may look warm, but it is actually the hottest sun ever. You are getting married soon, and if you are as hot as a piece of charcoal at this time, the lady might think that the person she is seeing and the one she is marrying are not the same person!"

Yu Yuan smiled foolishly, but he no longer went into the woods, and focused on preparing for the wedding.

Yu Tang also felt that this matter could not be rushed, and the most urgent task was to help his eldest cousin marry his sister-in-law.

Ordering the people for the stove, ordering the gongs and suonas, ordering the wedding sedan and ceremony bills... there were a lot of trivial things to do.

Ma Xiuniang found a day to send a gift.

Yu Tang welcomed her into his inner room to talk.

Ma Xiuniang said a little embarrassedly, "Originally, I should have taken some fabric to make new clothes for your brother and sister-in-law, but there were so many things to do at home and I couldn't leave, so your brother-in-law took the initiative to paint a few central halls for your brother, wishing him and his wife a happy marriage and a long line of offspring."

Yu Tang knew that Ma Xiuniang was not doing well at the moment, so he took her hand and said a few words of comfort, then invited her to have dinner before sending her out.

When Wang heard this, she took out the gift from Ma Xiu's mother's family out of curiosity and looked at it.

Zhang Hui painted a pomegranate, a magpie, a grape, and a plum, all of which represent good luck. What Wang and Yu Tang didn't expect was that these paintings were all very well done. Even Wang, who didn't know much about painting, couldn't put them down after seeing them: "I didn't expect Master Zhang to have such painting skills. Even if Master Zhang fails to pass the imperial examination, he won't have to worry about making a living."

Wang's unintentional words gave Yu Tang an idea, and he secretly wondered whether he should ask Zhang Hui to help him draw some lacquerware patterns.

This way, the problem of having no painter in the shop could be solved and Zhang Hui's family could also increase their income.