Yu Wen and Chen were both shocked.

Yu Tang never cared about these things before, let alone the words he said were so sharp.

Chen said hurriedly, "How can you talk like that, kid? The dead are the greatest! Don't say that outside. People will think you are mean."

Yu Tang disagreed and thought that he should not let his parents be fooled by the chief steward. He said, "It was the chief steward who was wrong in the first place! Think about it, if he died like this, he would be fine and have a reputation for loyalty, but what about the living people? Their family's job is over, right? No, not only their family, but also those who are related to their family, I am afraid they can no longer work in the Pei family. And the eldest house. Although the third elder became the patriarch, he had the will of the old lady. Even if there is some intrigue, the winners will win and the losers will fight again. If he dies like this, what will others think of the eldest branch? Is he dissatisfied with the old lady's arrangement? Or is he competing with the third elder for the position of the clan leader? The Pei family is not just one person's Pei family, they have three branches. Isn't the eldest branch afraid of being laughed at by the other two branches when making such a fuss? Or does the eldest branch no longer care about face and dignity, and is determined to bring down the third elder?"

Yu Wen and Chen looked at each other.

Is this still their young lady who only knows how to eat, drink and have fun?

When did my daughter develop such insight?

Yu Tang had no self-awareness and asked his parents, "Am I wrong? I hate people like the chief steward who seek fame and reputation the most. They only care about their own honor before and after death, and don't care about the lives of others. If he dies like this, the third elder will certainly be held responsible, and the eldest son will also be criticized."

She was still thinking that this method of the fisherman benefiting from the conflict between the snipe and the clam might have been thought up by the second old master.

After all, he is the beneficiary of this matter.

However, Yu Tang was not worried that Master Pei San would fail.

In his previous life, he was a big winner.

The difference from her previous life is that she thought that Master Pei San lived a very comfortable life, but in this life, it seems that this may not be the case.

Yu Tang sighed and asked his father: "Have you met the second elder of the Pei family? What kind of person is he?"

At this moment, she felt a little regretful that she had not paid enough attention to the Pei family's affairs in her previous life.

Yu Wen came back to his senses and said, "Of course I have met the second master. He is a very good person, knowledgeable, well-educated, gentle, generous, and considerate in his treatment of others. He makes people feel like spring breeze. He is a rare gentleman."

Such a high evaluation of the second master!

Yu Tang was quite surprised.

Then she thought again, her father was a good person to everyone, except Lu Xin. Even though he sold him a fake painting and cheated him out of his money, he still chose to forgive Lu Xin and did not hold a grudge against him.

In her father's words, even hating someone takes energy, so instead of hating anyone, you might as well go climb a mountain, buy some brushes, make some new clothes, and be happy.

Thinking of this, she remembered the painting with the "Chun Shui Tang" seal.

Since the seal on the original painting is correct, where did the painting that fell into her hands in her previous life come from?

Yu Tang wondered if she would also clamor to go with her father the next time he went to see Tong the Shopkeeper, and ask Tong whose family had a private seal engraved with "Chun Shui Tang".

As she was thinking about it, she heard Chen, who had been silent the whole time, say to her father, "Huili, I think what Atang said makes sense. If the chief steward feels that the eldest branch has been wronged and wants to stand up for it, he can just wait until the old lady's funeral is over and then ask the third elder for justice."

Yu Tang was surprised by her mother's awakening.

Yu Wen smiled bitterly and said, "We don't know what the inside story is, and it's not easy to discuss it." He tactfully asked Chen and Yu Tang not to talk about it anymore.

Yu Tang responded with a smile.

Chen also nodded.

Yu Bo's family came to visit.

Yu Wen finished his meal hastily. Chen instructed Mrs. Chen and Shuangtao to clean up the dishes and made tea herself.

Yu Tang went to wash some fruits.

The two families sat down to talk.

Yu Bo asked Yu Wen, the chief steward: "Do you know about it?"

"Got it!" Yu Wen told his brother what he knew, and also criticized the general manager based on what Yu Tang had just said.

Yu Tang was a little surprised.

She didn't expect the news of the chief steward's suicide to spread so quickly.

After all the calculations, the chief steward had only been dead for a few hours.

But she was still very happy to see that her father actually agreed with what she said, and smiled.

Yu Bo, like Yu Wen before, thought that the chief steward was a loyal servant, but after hearing what Yu Wen said, he also felt that the chief steward's behavior was a little inappropriate. However, he came here for another reason. After a few words of emotion with his brother, he said, "Brother, do you know who took over the chief steward's job?"

Yu Wen never cared about these things. He hesitated and asked, "Isn't it the Third Steward?"

"I heard that it wasn't him." Yu Bo said worriedly, "I heard that the person who took over the chief steward's job was neither one of the other two stewards nor one of the seven stewards, but a man named Pei Man. I have never heard of this person. You have been helping out at the Pei family these days. Have you ever heard of this person?"

"No!" Yu Wen was stunned, and said, "This person's surname is Pei, and he does servant work, so he is definitely not a descendant of the Pei family. That's a surname given to him. To be given a surname, he must be a very outstanding servant, but the Pei family is our neighbor in the same village, so even if we haven't seen such an outstanding person, we should have heard of him. This Pei Man suddenly appeared like this, and he became the chief steward all of a sudden..."

"I thought so too." Yu Bo said disappointedly, "I thought I was a businessman and didn't have much contact with the Pei family, so I had never heard of them!"

Yu Wen said, "Why are you asking about this? Didn't Master Pei San agree to build the shop? Now that he is the clan leader, it is even more impossible for him to change anything."

Yu Bo scratched his head and said, "I'm not worried about that. I'm thinking that Pei Man has become the chief steward, so I have to go and congratulate him. If I can get some information from you, I can talk to him more. You don't know that business is difficult now, and all the fancy things passed down by our ancestors have been burned. I'm thinking, after the shop is rebuilt, should we change to other businesses?"

Yu Yuan wanted to say something but stopped.

Yu Tang felt that her eldest cousin was better at business than her eldest uncle, so she decided to help him. She took advantage of the fact that she was still a little girl and her parents and uncles were very tolerant of her, so she interrupted and said, "My eldest uncle also said that business is not easy to do. If you want to change your career, why not let my eldest cousin go out and see more? My eldest cousin has learned the true skills from my eldest uncle, so he will definitely gain something."

Seeing his niece flattering him, Yu Bo laughed and felt very happy. He waved his hand and said, "Alright! Anyway, I have to be busy rebuilding the shop during this period. Let your cousin live in Hangzhou for a few days and see how others do business."

I don’t think Yu Yuan has any good ideas.

Yu Yuan is a man, so Yu Bo is strict with him. He is also quite well-behaved and dares not speak when his elders are talking.

He glared at Yu Tang and replied "yes" respectfully.

Brothers Yu Bo and Yu Wen continued to chat, and Yu Yuan took the time to pull Yu Tang out and threatened her, "If you keep talking nonsense like this, I won't let you bring a comb or a headband when I go to Hangzhou. How can we change the lacquer art that has been passed down from generation to generation in our Yu family? Besides, every trade has its own secrets, and it's not like you said, you can just look at it and get in."

Yu Tang knows nothing about doing business, but she knows that if you want to do good things, you must first be a good person. If you want to be a good person, you must have vision and pattern. If you want to have vision and pattern, you must see more, listen more, travel more, and experience more.

"Don't worry, cousin. I'm not making trouble." She explained to Yu Yuan with a smile, "Even if you don't agree with what uncle is doing, you can't object. Instead of working for uncle unwillingly like you do, you might as well go out and see how those famous stores entertain customers."

Yu Yuan's heart moved.

Yu Tang said, "Brother, I will give you five taels of silver."

Yu Yuan tapped Yu Tang on the head and said, "With your little money, you can only buy a few more packs of jelly candies, and you still want to help me."

"Brother, you can't look down on others!"

The brother and sister got into a quarrel.

After seeing off his uncle and his family, Yu Tang began to prepare to entertain Ma Xiuniang. Yu Wen even went to the street to order ice for this purpose, and told Ah Tiao to wait for Ma Xiuniang to arrive before going to the store to get it.

Ma Xiuniang ate the osmanthus brown sugar jelly mixed with ice, her eyes sparkling with envy. She leaned on the couch covered with a cool mat, biting the ice with a crunchy sound, and said incoherently: "Atang...it's delicious...or, why don't you recruit my second brother as your son-in-law...he is only nine years old this year, but you have raised him since he was a child, so he will definitely be obedient..."

Yu Tang hadn't eaten osmanthus and brown sugar jelly mixed with ice for a long time.

Before she got married, it was Mrs. Chen who didn't let her eat too much, fearing that she would catch a cold. Later, after she married into the Li family, it was Mrs. Lin who wanted to torture her. Everyone had food, but she wasn't allowed to eat.

She happily scooped a big spoonful of ice into her mouth, and said "Pah" to Ma Xiuniang, "I don't want to help you raise a brother. My family is looking for a son-in-law, and we must find a son-in-law who can do business, not a scholar!"

"Why?" Ma Xiuniang asked in astonishment, "Scholars do not need to pay taxes, and they are respected by people."

Yu Tang said indifferently: "Who would be willing to be someone's son-in-law if they can read? Anyway, my father is already a scholar, so I can marry someone who can do business to make our family more prosperous, so that we can urge our children and grandchildren to study in the future."

“Hahaha!” Ma Xiuniang covered her mouth and laughed, “So you want your son to do the imperial decree for you!”

When young sisters meet, they will definitely talk nonsense, but when it comes to Ma Xiuniang, it is still a bit embarrassing.

"What nonsense are you talking about?!" Yu Tang threw the bowl and tickled Ma Xiuniang's armpits, "I think you are the one who wants to wait for your husband to give you an imperial decree!"

Ma Xiuniang cried out in pain and moved away from the couch to the door.

Yu Tang paused, looked out of Xiang Fei's bamboo curtain, and raised his eyebrows.

"What's wrong?" Ma Xiuniang turned around and looked over.

Outside the curtain, Mrs. Chen was leading Mrs. Tang, who was accompanied by a maid, to Chen's main room.

"What is she doing here?" Ma Xiuniang stood beside Yu Tang and said with some disgust, "She is the most snobbish person. She would come to your house for no reason."