Rebirth, such an incredible thing, Yu Tang thought she would suffer from insomnia, but who knew that when her head touched the pillow and the familiar scent of Buddha's hand lingered in her breath, she didn't even have a dream and slept until dawn.

But she didn't wake up naturally.

Instead, she was awakened by Shuang Tao: "Miss, the eldest wife is here!"

Yu Tang always feels a little dazed when he wakes up.

She sat on the bed, her eyes wide open, black and white, watery and misty. It took her a long time to come back to her senses. She yawned and said, "Aunt? When did Aunt come here?"

As he spoke, Yu Tang suddenly woke up and fully awakened.

In her previous life, her aunt came before dawn the next day after the flood in Changxing Street. She said that the weather was hot and she couldn't sleep, and that life was hard, so she brought needlework to do. In fact, she found an excuse to keep her and her mother at home for the whole day. It was not until the evening that her uncle and cousin finished their work in the shop and sent a letter to her father in Suzhou City. Only then did her aunt leave.

Even so, when my aunt left, she specifically instructed the servants in the house not to reveal any news from the shop to her and my mother. She left Wang Po, who had always served my aunt, at home to teach her how to make snowflake cakes.

Her mother was very pleased that she was interested in learning some cooking skills, so she moved a stool to the kitchen to accompany her, and kept the mother and daughter together, making this snowflake puff until her father came back.

When my father came back, he downplayed the things in the shop. If it weren't for the painting "Fishing in Songhu Lake", my mother wouldn't have known that the family had no money when people came to ask for money. But she didn't know that the family only had those fifty acres of good farmland left until her parents passed away.

It was not until she married into the Li family and was coveted by Li Duan that she realized the fire in Changxing Street was an important turning point in her life.

Yu Tang stood up in a hurry: "Who is accompanying my aunt? Does my mother know that my aunt is here?"

As Shuang Tao helped her wash and dress, she said, "He came here before daybreak, saying that it was too hot to sleep, and he didn't want us to wake you and your wife, so he stayed in the courtyard with Mrs. Chen to cool off."

Yu Tang nodded.

Still the same as in the previous life.

However, in this life, she will not leave all these to the elders at home.

Yu Tang hurried to the courtyard.

The eldest aunt was wearing a bright blue summer cloth skirt, sitting on a bamboo chair under a camphor tree, with Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Wang on either side, one chatting with her and the other fanning her. The eldest aunt looked listless, with obvious dark circles under her eyes, and it was obvious that she had not slept well.

How much she had been able to grow up in her previous life that she didn't notice anything strange about her aunt.

"Aunt!" Yu Tang stepped forward and saluted Aunt Wang, but tears welled up in his eyes.

In her previous life, her uncle and cousin both died because of her involvement. Her aunt had no one to rely on, so she returned to her mother's home to be a widow and lived off her nephews and nieces. Her aunt not only did not blame her, but when she was in the most difficult time, she asked her cousin who was a nun in a nunnery to take her in.

"Why are you crying, kid?" Wang saw Yu Tang sighing, and personally stepped forward to help her up, motioning to Mrs. Wang to bring a chair to Yu Tang, and then said softly, "I've heard that you went to Changxing Street yesterday. It's rare that you are so sensible. I won't say more. What happened in the shop must be kept secret from your mother. Your mother is not in good health, and she will be very worried when she hears the news. Your father is not at home, and if your mother gets worried, what will you let your father do?"

Yu Tang nodded repeatedly, helped Wang sit down again, offered her another cup of chrysanthemum tea, sat down beside her, and said, "Don't worry, auntie, I know how powerful it is."

Wang nodded, and felt that Yu Tang today was very different from before, and couldn't help but look at Yu Tang.

A fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl looks pretty no matter how she dresses up, and Yu Tang is well-known for her beauty in Qingzhu Lane. But she is usually spoiled and looks childish, but today she stands straight, with a bit of toughness between her eyebrows and eyes, and her clear eyes are bright and energetic. She stretches out like a bamboo that has been pulled out of its joints, looking fresh and neat, which makes people like her even more.

Wang secretly praised him and said, "I heard that you hit your head yesterday afternoon. Are you feeling better now?"

Yu Tang said repeatedly, "I'm fine! It happened suddenly and I was shocked at the time, but I'll be fine soon."

Wang didn't believe it and said, "Just now, Mrs. Chen said that you were unconscious for two hours and talked nonsense after you woke up. Before Shuangtao went to report to your mother, you dragged Shuangtao to Changxing Street to watch the excitement. If Mrs. Chen hadn't been calm and helped you to make up stories to hide your mother, I'm afraid your mother would have run to the street to look for you."

Yu Tang felt guilty and admitted his mistake: "I was wrong. I will never do this again."

Wang saw her snow-white little face wrinkled and pitiful, and immediately felt sorry for her. She smiled and said, "Well, I don't mean to blame you. It's just that your mother and father only have you. If they hold you in their mouths, they are afraid that you will melt, and if they hold you in their hands, they are afraid that you will fall. They can't help but worry a lot. You should be more considerate of your mother and father. You may not be able to do what others can do."

"I understand!" Yu Tang followed his instruction obediently.

Perhaps she was still worried about her husband and son, so Wang whispered to her about the fire yesterday: "Your uncle and your cousin worked all night and brought back a letter saying that not only our shop, but also the Pei family's shop, were burned down to only some ruins. Unfortunately, the Pei family has encountered a big incident again, and there is no one to take charge of the situation. Magistrate Tang is now in a state of panic and doesn't know how to write a memorial to the court."

The Pei family is a wealthy family in Lin'an City.

A real big player.

No matter who is the prefect of Lin'an City, he must visit the Pei family before officially taking office.

Before her death, the Pei family was the most prominent family in Lin'an City.

Changxing Street, the most prosperous street in Lin'an City, except for seven or eight shops like the Yu family that have been run for several generations, the rest are all owned by the Pei family. The mountains, forests, fertile fields, tea houses, and mulberry gardens outside the city also belong to the Pei family. Many people rely on the Pei family for their livelihood.

In the previous life, the one hundred acres of fertile land of their Yu family was also sold to the Pei family.

The Pei family has been rich for several generations.

From the previous dynasty to the present, there have been more than twenty Jinshi (two lists of successful candidates) and seven or eight first-rank officials.

In this generation, the three elders of the Pei family were all Jinshi graduates. A few years later, two more young masters of the Pei family passed the imperial examination.

It seems that the old man of the Pei family passed away at this time.

Yu Tang couldn't help but say, "What a coincidence. How could their old lady just die when she said so?"

Who knows? Wang was stunned and asked, "The old lady of the Pei family? Who told you that the old lady of the Pei family passed away? It was the eldest master of the Pei family, the eldest master who was the Minister of Works in the capital. It was said that he died of a sudden illness in the capital a few days ago. The news just reached Lin'an. The old lady Pei fell ill all of a sudden, and several young masters of the Pei family rushed to Qiantang to receive the spirit overnight. The stewards were busy with the funeral of the eldest master, and no one had time to take care of the affairs of Changxing Street."

Yu Tang was stunned, but didn't think much about it.

No matter in the past life or this life, the Pei family was too far away from her. She only heard the Pei family's affairs from others and could not take them seriously.

Wang sighed, "The fire on Changxing Street started all of a sudden. Your uncle said that the fire was strange - fires in any house always start in one place and then spread to other places. Your uncle suspected that someone had set the fire and wanted to report it to the government. Unfortunately, something happened to the Pei family, and Governor Tang certainly doesn't have the mood to care about this matter..."

Yu Tang's heart beat wildly after hearing this.

In her previous life, the Li family proposed marriage after something happened in their family. At that time, she was reluctant, thinking that she was still in mourning period and it was not appropriate to discuss this matter. But her uncle and aunt thought that after the mourning period, she would be eighteen years old and would definitely not be able to marry into a good family, so they discussed with her to get engaged to the Li family first, and then discuss the wedding date after the mourning period was over.

She was hesitant, but the Li family sent someone to tell her privately that if she agreed to get engaged first, the Li family would lend 5,000 taels of silver to her uncle without interest, so that her uncle's family could make a comeback.

There was a fire on Changxing Street, and their shop was burned down, as was her uncle's shop. When the Li family came to bring up the matter, the Pei family was rebuilding Changxing Street. The foundation was ready, but the money for building the shop had to be contributed by each family. If someone didn't have the money to rebuild the shop, they could sell it to the Pei family.

Most people sold their land to the Pei family.

Her great uncle was unwilling to sell the land.

That is the ancestral property left by the Yu family.

Not only was she unwilling to sell, she even wanted to rebuild the two storefronts left by her father.

But when her grandfather died, her uncle, considering that her father was incapable of managing household chores, divided the four shops equally. Of the 200 mu of land, 100 mu of good farmland was given to her father, and the remaining 50 mu of medium-quality land and 50 mu of forest were given to him.

The cost of building four shops was four thousand taels of silver. Even if she sold all her uncle's land, it would only be a drop in the bucket. She couldn't even buy enough pillars to build the shops.

After listening to what the Li family said, she felt that her marriage could at least help her uncle's family get out of trouble, so she agreed to marry Li Jun, the second young master of the Li family, without informing her uncle.

Afterwards, the eldest uncle felt sorry for her and heard that he could make a lot of money by selling grain to Jiubian in exchange for salt permits, so he took 5,000 taels of silver from the Li family and went to Huguang.

Although her uncle and her cousin made a lot of money after escaping death that time, it also planted the seeds of trouble - in order to earn money for her dowry, her uncle and her cousin went in and out of Jiubian several times. First, they rebuilt the two shops her father left to her, and later they spent a lot of effort to buy back the fertile land that her family had sold... But her uncle also focused his main energy on the grain and salt business. Not only did he have a dispute with his cousin about how to make a living, but he also encountered robbers on the way to Jiubian and was killed.

In her previous life, she was raised in seclusion and was ignorant of worldly affairs. Even if she knew about the fire on Changxing Street and the strangeness of the fire, she would not have any idea. But Yu Tang at this time had fallen into the quagmire of the Li family and had seen countless dirty tricks. Just by listening to it, she knew that the Pei family's method of encroaching on the shops was exactly the same as the method used by the Li family to enclose the land.

As long as there is a chance, they will bully the weak.

Just as cruel and ruthless, just as despicable and vicious!