But Li Jun knew that he no longer had the qualifications to say these words to Yu Tang.
"I know!" He nodded sadly and left the Yu family.
Yu Tang breathed a sigh of relief.
In his previous life, Li Jun fell off his horse during these days. Now that so many things have changed, he probably has no mood to go riding with his friends. This can be considered as saving his life in disguise.
However, Yu Tang was still a little afraid that what happened in her previous life would happen again, so she paid money to hire Ah Liu, a pear seller, to keep an eye on Li Jun. If Li Jun rode out on a horse, she would stop him immediately and tell him that she had something to discuss with him.
As for what it was, Yu Tang hasn't found an excuse yet.
As a result, on the day of the accident, Li Jun still went out - Fu Xiaowan and others saw that bad things had happened to him one after another in recent days, so they invited him to go out for a ride on horseback.
Li Jun was not in the mood.
Yesterday his mother received a reply from his father, asking Lin to choose a day to send him to Rizhao, where his father would personally teach him his studies.
If Fu Xiaowan had invited him out in the past, he would have gone out even if he felt uncomfortable. But now, he wanted to talk to Fu Xiaowan more.
Now that he's gone, we don't know when he'll be back.
Instead of going out for a horseback ride, they went to Shen Fang's house, drank tea, listened to music and chatted, and did not return home until the moon was above the willows.
When Yu Tang got the news, he finally felt relieved.
In this way, she had done everything she could, Li Jun's life was saved, and from now on, she had nothing to do with the Li family. In the future, she could take revenge if she had a grudge, and she could take grudges if she had a grudge, without having to worry about anything.
On the fourth day of October, Li Jun set out from Lin'an City.
Yu Tang didn't know.
She, along with her elders and brothers, went to the old house to worship their ancestors.
However, just as they returned to the Yu family's old house and sat down, the fifth uncle limped in and said that someone wanted to visit them and asked them whether they wanted to meet him or not.
Ever since the accident of the seventh uncle, even though Yu Wen promised to take care of the fifth uncle until his death, the fifth uncle seemed to have lost his strength overnight. He had no energy to do anything and just squatted at the door every day smoking the tobacco he grew himself. He even sprained his ankle a few days ago. Yu Wen hired a doctor for him, but he refused to take the medicine properly. He just dragged on like this day by day and refused to listen to anyone's advice.
Yu Wen couldn't help but sigh as he watched, and said to his fifth great uncle in a gentle voice, "Your foot is not in good condition, so don't rush around. Who wants to see me? I can go and see them myself."
The fifth uncle felt that he had let Yu Wen and Yu Tang down. Hearing this, he smiled bitterly and said, "Don't worry about me. I know my own feet. The people who want to see you are from the Lu family's main branch, the Lu Xin you buried with honor after his death." At this point, the fifth uncle couldn't help but say, "I saw they brought a child with them. I wonder if the Lu family's main branch wants to pass the child on to Lu Xin, so they came to you to talk about this."
Originally, this had nothing to do with the Yu family, but it was the Yu family that helped with Lu Xin's funeral. If the Lu family wanted to give Lu Xin an heir, it would be reasonable for them to inform the Yu family and accept the favor.
Yu Wen didn't take it to heart. He gave his fifth uncle some concerned instructions before going to meet the Lu family.
The fifth uncle really guessed it right. Isn't it the time for the annual ancestor worship on October 1st? The Lu family discussed that they should adopt a descendant to worship Lu Xin, and said to Yu Wen: "In the past, I was angry that they didn't take the clan seriously, but when a person dies, it's like a light goes out. Some things should be forgotten, so that future generations will not think that I am too petty. He is a descendant of the Lu family, and it is not good for you Yu family to help worship him. So, after a discussion, several elders of our clan decided to adopt this kid to Lu Xin. However, the child still lives with his own biological parents, and he can go to burn incense for Lu Xin during festivals."
Yu Wen thinks this is a good idea.
His friendship with Lu Xin was a matter of his lifetime, so he couldn't let his descendants go to worship Lu Xin every year, right? Besides, Yu Tang didn't like Lu Xin.
"You are so thoughtful!" Yu Wen thanked the Lu family's clan branch on behalf of Lu Xin.
The Lu family's patriarch then revealed their real purpose: "Look, Lu Xin doesn't have much left. He even sold the shabby house to an outsider. You can't let this child have no wishes, right? I heard that when you came back from Hangzhou, you brought a few things that Lu Xin used when he was alive. Can you give them to this child? It can be regarded as a certificate that this child is the successor of Lu Xin..."
Yu Wen was stunned.
He and Yu Tang had had many speculations before.
He thought that the Li family would be stolen again, and that someone would rob them. After the Li family and the Yu family had a fight, he even thought that the Li family would give up and never target the Yu family again.
What he didn't expect was that someone from the Lu family would come to ask for the so-called relics of Lu Xin at this time.
Yu Wen hesitated for a moment.
This relic was originally intended to lure the Li family into the trap. If it was given to the Lu family, would the Lu family also be implicated in this?
The profits of Hanghai Yutu are huge. Who knows if there is someone else behind the Li family? Who knows what the background of this person is? What kind of behavior does he have?
The Lu family's Zongfang looked at him with a hint of greed on his face.
They had not wanted Lu Xin's relics at first, but a few days ago he accidentally found out that a painting left by Lu Xin was an authentic work from the previous dynasty, and it could be sold for at least three or five hundred taels of silver in the market. This made people a little jealous.
Yu Wen spent no more than twenty taels of silver to bury Lu Xin, so how could he get this painting for free?
Logically, this painting should have fallen into the hands of the Lu family.
Thinking of this, the Lu family clan couldn't help but feel anxious and said, "Grandpa Yu, I also know that you buried Lu Xin with great honor. Logically, we shouldn't take his things back. But I am the Lu family clan, and I can't just ignore Lu Xin's adopted son. This is also my status, and there is nothing I can do. Please do a good thing to the end, Grandpa Yu, and return Lu Xin's relics to our Lu family. We will be grateful!"
After saying that, he stood up and saluted Yu Wen.
Yu Wen wanted to return the things to the Lu family, but he was a little undecided about what to do, so he simply dragged the Lu family's ancestral room and said, "He didn't leave much, and I haven't sorted it out properly yet. So, after the sacrifices in the next few days, you can come home and we will discuss what to do about this matter!"
The Lu family was afraid that Yu Wen would go back on his word, but they didn't want to rush him, fearing that he would become suspicious. So they hurriedly said, "Okay! When will you return to Lin'an? I'll bring the child to visit you then."
Yu Wen pushed back, "We won't be back until the day after tomorrow. How about we make an appointment for five days later?"
The Lu family bargained with each other for a long time, and Yu Wen talked for a long time. It was decided that he would go to Yu's house to pick up the things three days later.
Yu Wen nodded helplessly, and after seeing off the Lu family, he secretly took Yu Tang to the camphor tree in the front yard to talk without telling Chen and the others.
He told Yu Tang everything that had just happened and said, "What do you think we should do?"
Unconsciously, he has regarded his daughter as his backbone.
They had spread the news of Lu Xin's relics a long time ago, but no one from the Lu or Li families took any action. But just when they had just finished arguing with the Li family, the Lu family thought of adopting the child and came to take the relics. If someone said there was nothing strange behind this, Yu Tang would be the first to not believe it.
However, her thinking has changed fundamentally.
In the past, she just wanted to throw this hot potato away, but now, she has to try her best to burn the person behind the scenes until his fingers are blistered in order to ease the anger in her heart.
"Then give it to them." Yu Tang said coldly, "However, we spent a lot of money to bury Uncle Lu. If they want to take the things back, they should at least compensate us for our loss, right?"
"That's not a good idea!" Yu Wen objected without giving it much thought, "Maybe they were also being used by someone."
"If they don't have greedy thoughts, will they be taken advantage of?" Yu Tang was unmoved and said disdainfully, "Even if this is a big pit, they want to jump into it themselves. Can they blame us for not warning them? Even a three-year-old child knows that there is no such thing as pie in the sky. He is a member of the royal family, but he actually believes in such a good thing. Do we still have to teach him step by step that ill-gotten gains should not be coveted?"
Yu Wen was convinced by his daughter and said, "What should we say when they come to our house? Should we ask them for money directly? How much should we ask for?"
Yu Tang said, "For people like them, the more directly you ask them for money, the less suspicious they will be. Didn't Uncle Lu sell the painting for two hundred taels of silver? We don't want more, just two hundred taels of silver is fine."
"So many!" Yu Wen was shocked.
Yu Tang was confident and said, "Just listen to me, it's correct. They can kill people and force marriage for a painting. If it can be solved with money, it's not a big deal."
Yu Wen agreed with some trepidation.
Yu Tang asked the Qu brothers to investigate.
Sure enough, someone instigated the Lu family clan to say that there was a painting among Lu Xin's belongings worth four or five hundred taels of silver.
Yu Tang pondered for a long time.
When the Lu family's patriarchal branch came to visit with Lu Xin's so-called adopted son, Yu Wen did not beat around the bush and asked for two hundred taels of silver. He also said as Yu Tang had told him, "I was given two hundred taels of silver for the painting. As for the burial expenses, he and I are brothers. Just consider it as me helping him. Forget it."
The Lu family's ancestor was shocked and asked, "Why is there so much silver?"
Yu Wen drank his tea in a pretentious manner.
The Lu family's ancestor gritted his teeth.
If the painting could be sold for 500 taels of silver, and 200 taels were given to the Yu family, they would still be able to get more than half.
That person is still waiting to be painted!
In order to avoid any further trouble, the Lu family's main branch agreed with blood dripping from their lips. They immediately went back to borrow two hundred taels of silver from the person who had instigated them to take the remains, sent it to the Yu family, wrote a delivery document, and took away Lu Xin's "relics."
Yu Wen looked at the four large, snow-white silver ingots placed on the large round table in the hall and felt like he was dreaming. He asked Yu Tang, "Did we earn two hundred taels of silver so easily?"
Yu Tang also smiled as he looked at the four silver pieces and said, "It's just right for my brother to marry." He also joked with his father, "Can I keep the dowry that my mother prepared for me?"