But everything has its pros and cons.

Although the Qu brothers are trustworthy, they also ask for a lot of money.

Any random task would cost ten or eight taels of silver. If it was a bit difficult, it would cost twenty or thirty taels of silver.

Yu Tang is now facing the same dilemma as before - no money!

No, she is even poorer now than in her previous life.

In her previous life, she at least had some dowry to pawn. Now, her mother and father only give her one or two silver coins as pocket money at most. If she says she has spent it all, they will ask her how she spent the money and where it went.

A few days ago, she secretly hired someone to help with Wei Xiaoshan's matter. Since it was just a small matter of getting information, it didn't matter who helped. But even so, she had almost spent all her savings, and she definitely couldn't afford to hire the Qu brothers.

If only she could make money like others!

Yu Tang was very depressed.

She sat with her elbows on the desk by the window, looking at the chrysanthemums in the yard that were about to bloom. She didn't move, but her mind was working rapidly.

In her previous life, she started to investigate the Li family and keep an eye on them since she started to suspect them. It was then that she realized that women could also do business. Especially women in Suzhou and Hangzhou, many of them invested their private money in maritime business. If the ship returned safely, they could earn enough to buy a house. If the ship did not return, they would only lose a small amount of money for pollen and rouge.

However, there are ways to do this business.

Either they rely on their father or brother's business, or they rely on the relationship with the clan members.

Otherwise it's easy to be fooled.

After taking the money, they would just say that they had invested in a fleet. After a year or so, they would say that the fleet had capsized and all the money they had lost was naturally gone.

But there are exceptions to everything.

Jiang Ling, the aunt of the Jiang family in Suzhou City, married the eldest son of the Yu family, who had been engaged since childhood, when she was sixteen, and became a widow at the age of seventeen.

Unlike ordinary women, after the Yu family fell into poverty, in order to support her elderly mother-in-law and young brother-in-law, she sold her dowry and took out a large amount of property to invest in her brother Jiang Chao's fleet and started a maritime business. Jiang Chao seemed to be favored by the God of Wealth. Everything went smoothly and the fleet never had any problems. In just five or six years, the Jiang family went from an ordinary merchant to the richest family in Suzhou City. The Yu family also became rich overnight and became one of the richest families in Suzhou City.

Before Yu Tang's death, the Jiang family was ambitious to become an imperial merchant.

The Li family was extremely jealous.

You should know that the Li family and the Lin family’s maritime business also lost a lot of money due to accidents in their fleets.

Lin Jue even wanted to get in touch with the Jiang family and gave Li Duan some advice: "It's not that easy to be an imperial merchant. If you don't have anyone in the court, don't even think about it. You might as well meet Jiang Chao and see if you can get a share."

Li Duan thought this was unlikely: "Jiang Chao's business has grown to this point, I wonder how many people are willing to add to the glory! We knew Jiang Chao a little late, not to mention that there are many official families in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and there are countless families with foundations. Our family is really not good enough."

Lin Jue advised Li Duan to be nicer to Gu Xi: "Don't lose the watermelon and pick up the sesame seeds. Your eldest uncle is only thirty years old this year, and he has been promoted to the Ministry of Personnel. Don't be foolish and lose the big picture for the small."

Watermelon is Gu Xi and sesame is Yu Tang.

After Li Duan heard what happened, he and Gu Xi were inseparable for a while. Yu Tang breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Li Duan had given up on her. However, who knew that within half a year, Li Duan returned to his old ways and started to target her again.

She felt sorry for Gu Xi, but also envied Jiang Ling for having the support of her brothers from her mother's side. She took great pains to use Ah Tiao's name and got fifty taels of silver to invest in Jiang Chao's fleet.

Two years later, the fleet returned safely again.

Yu Tang earned four hundred taels of silver.

At that moment, she was overjoyed and tossed and turned in sleep, not knowing how to spend the money.

It was thanks to this money that she was able to control the Qu brothers, and finally get rid of Lin and Li Duan and leave the Li family.

Now think about it, the Jiang family had not yet become prosperous at that time. After the new year, Jiang Chao began to persuade others to invest in order to organize a fleet. It was a difficult time.

If she could seize this opportunity and become one of the Jiang family's earliest partners, wouldn't she be able to make a fortune like the Yu family?

Yu Tang sighed.

After all, it's still about money.

How could she afford to invest in the Jiang family?

Yu Tang was feeling worried when someone threw a flower at her.

The flower hit her nose, knocking her unconscious.

She looked up and saw that it was Yu Yuan.

"What's wrong with you?"

Yu Yuan asked with a grin, his brows unable to conceal the joy on his face.

Yu Tang's eyes suddenly brightened.

She doesn't have a lot of money, but can't she borrow some small money?

She reached out to Yu Yuan to borrow some money: "I want to buy something."

Yu Yuan was in high spirits at the time. Not to mention that Yu Tang was only asking him for money, he would be happy even if he was asked to carry her around Lin'an City.

Yu Tang said cunningly: "I want fifty taels of silver!"

"Ah!" Yu Yuan was stunned with his hands in his pockets, "What do you need so much money for?"

He doesn't have that much private money!

Yu Tang smiled and said, "How about thirty taels? You are getting married soon. Once you are married, you will be someone else's husband, not just my brother. It will be difficult for me to ask you for anything in the future. Can't you just let me get enough at once?"

Yu Yuan blushed slightly and said shyly, "It's impossible to get married right away. We have to wait until the beginning of next spring at least. This is what Mrs. Wei wanted. She was afraid that if we rush the marriage, people would gossip about Miss Xiang.

Yu Tang was shocked and said, "Brother, you have forgotten my sister before you even got married, and you didn't even refute me, saying that you are still my brother even after we get married!"

The two families decided to hold the wedding for Yu Yuan and Miss Xiang in the early spring. She had already heard about it from her mother. She just didn't expect that Yu Yuan had already leaned towards Miss Xiang before he got married.

"No, no, that's not what I meant." Yu Yuan stuttered to explain, "I mean, since I am your brother, I will always be your brother. But if Miss Xiang marries, she will be a little unfamiliar to our family. We should treat her better."

"Brother wants to treat her better, right?" Yu Tang pressed, feeling really good in his heart.

In his previous life, Yu Yuan had never protected the Gao family like this.

It can be seen that Miss Xiang is really the one he likes and the one he holds in his heart.

In this life, her eldest cousin will definitely be very happy.

Yu Tang continued to tease him: "If you don't give me the money, I will tell my aunt that you will not care about my sister's life or death after you get married."

"Nothing!" Yu Yuan said hastily. Although he didn't know that mother-in-law and daughter-in-law would often dislike each other because of an unintentional remark, or even become mortal enemies, this did not prevent him from worrying that his mother would misunderstand Miss Xiang and dislike her. "How much money do you want to borrow? Not much... not much."

He originally wanted to say more, that he wanted to make a pearl headband or something for Miss Xiang, as a gift from himself to Miss Xiang, but seeing that Yu Tang was dissatisfied, he was afraid that Yu Tang would feel jealous if he said this, so he swallowed his words quickly and changed them to another sentence.

Yu Tang was indeed satisfied, and said thoughtfully: "At least thirty taels of silver!"

At this time, the Qu brothers were only a little famous, and probably not as rich as when she approached them in her previous life. But looking at Yu Yuan's expression, she estimated that this would be the last time she would ask him for money, and she would not be able to ask Yu Yuan for things in the future, because he was married, and the things should belong to his wife and children. Even if she wanted to borrow money, she had to borrow from Miss Xiang, not from Yu Yuan, and she had to pay it back.

This is the experience she gained in her previous life.

Yu Yuan returned ten taels of silver: "Twenty taels at most, I don't have any more!"

Yu Tang didn't dare to force Yu Yuan, for fear that if he let the cat out of the bag, he would lose the twenty taels of silver.

"Thank you, brother!" she said immediately, "I will definitely treat Miss Xiang well in the future."

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Yu Yuan scolded Yu Tang, but he didn't dare to really teach her a lesson, fearing that she would get angry and treat Miss Xiang badly. He hurried home to get the banknotes and said, "Spend sparingly."

Yu Tang asked his father to report to the police in order to startle the enemy. Now most of the refugees in the Li family farm have fled. If the two people who killed Wei Xiaoshan are also in the farm, they will definitely feel that they cannot escape and will most likely ask the Li family for some money before running away.

Yu Tang nodded repeatedly and asked Ah Tiao to find the Qu brothers first, asking them to keep an eye on Li Duan. If anyone went to Li Duan to ask for money, they should find a way to capture that person and send him to the back alley of Qingzhu Lane afterwards.

The Qu brothers had just gained some fame in the neighborhood at that time, and it was the time for them to establish their credibility and authority. After agreeing, they immediately began to keep an eye on the Li family day and night.

Yu Tang felt a pain in his heart as he held the only twelve taels of silver left in his hand.

The Qu brothers are so precious!

Now she is poor again.

But the Qu brothers were indeed reliable. Before the Double Ninth Festival, they sent someone to bring her a letter saying that they had caught two refugees who went to Li Duan to ask for money. However, these two people were also specifically asked for by others before. They did not expect that the two families were asking for the same person. Although the other party mentioned it before her, he did not give a deposit. Although Yu Tang mentioned it later, he gave all the money. They decided to hand the person over to Yu Tang.

Yu Tang felt a little scared, but also a little glad that he knew the behavior of these two brothers in his previous life. Otherwise, even if there was a way, he would not be able to catch these two people.

She informed Wei Xiaochuan, and accompanied by A Tiao, the group met behind Qingzhu Lane.

Neither Yu Tang nor Wei Xiaochuan had ever seen these two men, and they only had suspicions and speculations about Wei Xiaoshan's matter. Xiaochuan and Yu Tang, one in the open and the other in the dark, began to interrogate the two men who were tortured by the Qu brothers and had bruises all over their bodies.

Unexpectedly, things went so smoothly that Yu Tang suspected that even the Bodhisattva was on her side.

When Wei Xiaochuan asked them, they actually confessed that they were ordered by the Li family to kill Wei Xiaoshan, with the purpose of destroying the marriage between the Wei and Yu families. They also talked endlessly about the grievances with the Li family: "We were just supported by them to do some trivial things, and we thought they had a strong background. Who knew that when the government went there, they didn't dare to say a word, so we had to kill several yamen runners before we escaped. Now they are afraid that we will betray them, so they sent several groups of people to find us. We are not vegetarians, and the worst that can happen is that we will die together!"

At the end of the conversation, the two refugees were still shouting arrogantly, "If you have the guts, go find the Li family. We are just doing work. The Li family is the murderer. Why are you looking for us?", "You Wei family looks like you have many brothers, but you didn't expect you to be useless. You only pick on the weak ones.", "Even if you catch me, what can you do? Do you dare to send us to the government? The Li family just wants to ruin Miss Yu's marriage. Sending us to the government will play into Li's hands." and so on.