"Huh? Ichiro's in trouble? How could it be so sudden?" Although Keiya Nishi was Japanese, he was also a patriarchal person, since in Japan only sons could inherit the throne.
She was immediately filled with panic and anxiety because of her son's accident, but Chiyo glared at her and said, "Keep your voice down. Even if he hadn't been in trouble, you couldn't have relied on him anyway."
Guigu Xi was taken aback, but then realized that was indeed the case.
Back in Japan, Ichiro was only useful as a prince; otherwise, he was utterly useless. Otherwise, he and his mother and her three children wouldn't have ended up in such a desperate situation.
Guiguxi is a very pragmatic woman. Since her eldest daughter is more capable than her son, she doesn't need to always revolve around her son; revolving around her eldest daughter is just as good.
Having figured it out, Keigo Nishi felt a subtle sense of relief. She lowered her voice and asked, "How is Ichiro doing?"
"I don't know. I'm too busy taking care of myself to pay attention to him. Let's not talk about this for now. We'll discuss it after I recover from my injuries," Yokoyama said weakly.
“But how are we supposed to make a living if the rouge shop doesn’t do business? We stopped opening the shop the day you came. Yingzi was afraid your identity would be exposed, so she didn’t dare to open for business.” Gui Guxi said while secretly glancing at her expression.
Yokoyama pretended not to see her stepmother peeking. Her eyes were fixed on the ceiling, and she said in a low voice, "Yingzi did a good job. You don't need to worry about the money. You've seen the bundle I brought with me, right? There's a lot of silver in it. You can use it for now."
“I didn’t open your bundle, but since you said you wanted to take out the money to make a living, I’ll get it for you now. The situation was too urgent at the time, so I just put it in my room.” Gu Guixi smiled brightly. She had seen the money in the bundle; it was a full six hundred taels of silver notes. However, since her eldest daughter hadn’t given her permission, she didn’t dare to take it to spend without her consent.
Hearing the footsteps of her stepmother leaving, Yokoyama breathed a sigh of relief. Keiya Nishi was undoubtedly a selfish woman. In her eyes, her husband and children were nothing more than bargaining chips to allow her to live a life of luxury. If they had no value to her, she wouldn't care whether they lived or died.
Fortunately, Keigo Nishi is that kind of person. If she were like some old-fashioned people who only care about their sons, Yokoyama wouldn't dare tell Keigo Nishi that her cheap brother had an accident. Otherwise, she would have made a scene and threatened to hang herself, which would have ruined everything.
Although Yokoyama Chiyo didn't care about the income of the rouge shop, it didn't mean she didn't know how much it would bring in each month. Even in the worst month, it would still bring in several dozen taels, and in good months, it could bring in as much as three hundred taels. How could that not be enough for Keiya Nishi and her daughter to live on?
You should know that even the wives of wealthy families only receive a few taels of silver a month, and they have to supplement their income with their dowry. If it were a farming family, it would be difficult for the whole family to save even ten taels of silver a year, and they would have to be extremely frugal with their monthly food and other expenses.
Gu Guixi has hundreds of taels of silver to spend every month, yet she can still say she has no money. Hengshan doesn't suspect that she is hiding money; this woman simply doesn't know how to save money. She is used to being extravagant, vain, and short-sighted.
She always spent every penny she had, never thinking about the future, leaving her son and daughter to worry about what would happen later.
If Yokoyama weren't currently seriously injured, and if Keigo had dared to say he had no money in front of her, she would have tied up this cheapskate mother and given her a good beating. Unfortunately, she can only endure it for now, as she still needs Keigo to take care of her until her injuries heal.
While his mind was in turmoil, Yokoyama suddenly noticed that someone seemed to be spying on him from outside. His expression immediately hardened. "Who is it? Come out here."
"Oh dear, Chiyo, I'm going to buy you some ginseng and lingzhi to nourish your body. You rest for a bit, I'll be right back." Keiya Nishi was crouching down, trying to sneak out, when Chiyo's sudden shout startled him, and he immediately quickened his pace and ran outside.
Yokoyama closed his eyes for a long time before speaking again, "Come out, stop hiding."
As soon as Yokoyama finished speaking, Xingxing and Zhu Lin jumped down from the roof beam, and then Chen Yueru ran in from the corner outside.
"It's you guys..." Yokoyama's pupils contracted, and in his haste, he tried to get out of bed, but the moment he moved, his wounds aggravated, causing him to break out in a cold sweat and his face to turn even paler.
"Tsk tsk, looks like you're really badly injured. But you're lucky to have survived all the way to the Great Jin Dynasty. By the way, you're new to Nanyang Prefecture, right? I never would have guessed. So this Heng Family Rouge Shop is yours, Madam Heng is your mother, and Heng Ying is your sister." Xingxing's eyes radiated a dangerous aura.
“Tell me quickly, what is your purpose in having your mother and sister deliberately approach my family? No wonder Madam Heng and her daughter dine at Meizhou Restaurant every day. They really had ulterior motives from the beginning.”
Yokoyama was stunned. "What did you say? Keiya Nishi and Eiko go upstairs to eat at Zhou Lou every day?"
Why don't these two stupid women just die of stupidity?
They really know how to enjoy life! It seems they eat at restaurants every day. It looks like they've never cooked at home. If she hadn't suddenly come looking for me, I probably wouldn't know how extravagant this mother and daughter are.
Although I was mentally prepared, hearing it with my own ears still made me feel a lump in my throat, and I was so angry that I almost fainted.
Seeing that Yokoyama's already pale face had turned even more ashen, and her breathing seemed to have become unsteady, as if she was about to breathe her last, Hoshino hesitated whether to call for a coffin for her, when she saw that the other person had calmed down.
“I didn’t know they ate at restaurants every day. I don’t care about the cosmetics shop here; all the income goes into their private coffers. I just didn’t expect that she wouldn’t save a single tael of silver and would spend it all.” Yokoyama said in a stiff and weak voice.
Xingxing waved her hand, "I'm not interested in your family affairs. You still haven't answered me why you sent your family members to get close to your aunt's family."
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