Chapter 354: Heart as Hard as Stone Liu Wenyan
"Why are you here?" Wen Yan was very annoyed when she saw the two of them. "Also, my name is Liu Wenyan now, don't call me by the wrong name next time."
"What's your attitude? I'm your mother. I came to see what's wrong with you." Jiang Xinkui said as a matter of course.
Wen Yan suppressed the urge to roll her eyes and forced a stiff smile: "Now that you've seen it, please go back."
They had already fallen out many times, and Wen Yan didn't want to waste time on them at all.
Wen Ruyue was anxious and grabbed her arm, "What's wrong with you? The Wen family raised you for sixteen years, and this is how you treat your mother?
What about your upbringing as a teacher in the Wen family?
It's only been a short time, and you've already forgotten about it?"
The two people in the carriage heard the noise and lifted the gap in the curtain to look out.
"You haven't been away from the Liu family for long. Haven't you completely lost the kindness and humility of the Liu family?" Wen Yan shook off Wen Ruyue's arm and retorted mercilessly.
"Don't try to be sentimental with me here. If you have something to say, just tell me. I don't have time to be with you all here like a loving mother and a filial daughter."
Jiang Xinkui and her daughter were extremely angry. Wen Yan was becoming more and more wild.
They wanted to teach Wen Yan a lesson, but she rolled her eyes, turned around and walked towards Qingfeng Xiaolou.
The mother and daughter wanted to follow her in.
Wen Yan was quick to use the door frame to stop them: "What do you want to do?"
"Wen Yan, mother raised me for sixteen years, and now you won't even let me in the door?"
"Mother?" Wen Yan sneered, "We severed our mother-daughter relationship in front of the Empress, and even paid off all the child support for all these years in one lump sum.
Madam Jiang, I'm afraid it's not appropriate for you to still call me mother."
Jiang Xinkui felt a chill in his heart.
Wen Yanke is such an ungrateful person. She just distanced herself from our 16-year relationship just like that.
Although she was chilled and angry, she didn't dare to speak nonsense anymore.
Wen Yan wanted to close the door and leave.
Wen Ruyue quickly held the door shut: "You opened the door to do business, and now we come here to spend money, you can't chase us away."
"I'm sorry, but we need to book in advance and don't accept walk-ins. I'm really busy, so let's not waste each other's time, okay?"
Wen Yan's stubborn attitude made Jiang Xinkui realize that the word "filial piety", which had always been invincible, could no longer control Wen Yan.
Wen Yan's heart is made of stone, and the love between mother and daughter cannot warm her at all.
It’s better to state your intention directly.
"We want to get some charcoal from you."
"Take some charcoal?" Wen Yan almost laughed out loud. Everyone knows how scarce charcoal is now. If she says take it, then take it!
However, she wanted to see how shameless this mother and daughter were: "The charcoal supply in the capital is in short supply right now, why should I give it to you?"
Wen Ruyue snorted, "It's not like we won't give you money."
"So how much do you want? What's the price?"
"We'll give you ten times the market price, but we only want good quality charcoal. We'll take whatever you have."
Wen Ruyue had everything planned out. After taking Wen Yan's charcoal back, she would transfer it to Huo Yaoxing to sell.
She can make a profit from the difference in price by just reselling it, which is a huge profit.
Wen Yan nodded: "Sure!
I happened to check the price of charcoal at Xinglong Grocery Store yesterday. Depending on the quality, the prices were 10 taels, 2 taels, and 800 coins per catty. According to the tenfold price you mentioned, that would be 100, 20 taels, and 800 coins per catty. I still have hundreds of thousands of catties of charcoal on hand. Let's exchange the money for the goods."
Wen Yan stretched out his hand towards her.
"What!"
"impossible!"
The mother and daughter exclaimed in unison.
Wen Yan looked at them sarcastically: "So you are too poor to afford it."
"Who says we can't afford it? Can your charcoal compare to the quality of Xinglong Grocery Store?
What you have is just ordinary charcoal. We will pay you ten times the price of the government winter charcoal. Forget about anything else."
"Puchi..." Wen Yan couldn't help but burst out laughing.
She pointed to her head and said, “Do you think my brain is frozen?
The charcoal out there is so expensive now, and you actually want to buy it at the price of winter charcoal.
Am I stupid or are you stupid?
If you can’t afford charcoal, please go back.” Wen Yan chased them away.
Seeing that they didn't leave, Wen Yan kicked the snow on them.
The mother and daughter were so angry that they screamed and yelled. They refused to leave even after being humiliated in such a way, which showed how eager they were to make money from charcoal.
In the end, it was Meng Xiyan who stepped in and Jiang Xinkui and her daughter left.
Chief Yuan watched the whole thing and was amazed: "I didn't expect the Wen family to be such a group of people. It's really eye-opening."
Meng Xiyan's face showed no emotion: "She has never been the apple of the Wen family's eye."
After Wen Yan sent Pei'er out, Yuan Xiao and the others left.
**
The next morning, Wen Yan set out early to meet up with Meng Xiyan.
Just before leaving, I met today's guest.
"Mrs. Sheng." Wen Yan stepped forward and greeted her.
She was a little surprised that Madam Sheng would actually host a banquet at Qingfeng Xiaolou.
Mrs. Sheng was once a prominent figure in the capital.
She came from an extraordinary family, and her husband was also very outstanding, and he was the eldest son of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
He is an upright man with good character and appearance, and is a well-known talent in the city.
Everyone thought that her husband would be the next head of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and Madam Sheng would be the mistress of the household.
Unexpectedly, five years ago, her husband had an accident, the eldest wife's career was hopeless, and she missed the position of head of the family that was about to be obtained.
From then on, Mrs. Sheng lived in seclusion and gradually faded out of the circle of powerful people in the capital.
According to her low-key personality, she shouldn't have made a reservation at the popular Qingfeng Xiaolou so ostentatiously, and even booked the entire shop.
It seems that things have been uneasy in the Prime Minister's Mansion recently.
"It turns out to be Miss Yan. Seeing is believing." Mrs. Sheng was polite to Wen Yan.
"Mrs. Sheng is also more calm and dignified than the rumors say." Wen Yan was surprised by Mrs. Sheng's kindness.
Although "Qingfeng Xiaolou" is in its heyday in the capital, she, the famous owner, is seen by the powerful as just a heartless and treacherous woman who is not worthy of public attention.
Madam Sheng was too polite to herself.
"Then I wish Madam Sheng a happy time in advance." Wen Yan bowed to her.
Madam Sheng nodded and walked into the Qingfeng Tower with the help of her maid.
Aunt Shuang said to Wen Yan, "Miss, I'll go in and entertain the guests first."
Wen Yan thought for a moment and then instructed Aunt Shuang, "Wait a minute. In the tea and snacks for Madam Sheng today, give her an extra serving of the honey-scented tea I mixed. Remember, add two qian of ginseng root to the tea."
Aunt Shuang responded and went in to receive the guest.
Wen Yan drove the carriage to the south city gate.
Meng Xiyan arrived a long time ago.
He brought eight people with him, including Chen Shiyi, Chen Twelve, and Meng Xiyan's two half-brothers. The remaining four were servants of the Meng family.
They were all familiar with Wen Yan, greeted her warmly, and invited her to sit down and have breakfast with them.
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