Chapter 803 Lu Sanzhu was buried in obscurity
The old lady didn't think it was a big problem. Li was a rather annoying person, but she wouldn't go so far as to harm her own daughter.
Therefore, she did not comment on Lan Hua's marriage and let Shu Yu continue.
Nothing particularly special happened after that, but for some reason, Shu Yu still sensed something strange in Da Niu's words.
She only understood the strangeness after reading the letter Da Bao wrote.
Da Niu's letter was very short. After reading it, Shu Yu went to read Da Bao's letter.
After reading his first complaint, she looked up at the Lu family and said, "Now I suddenly realize that letting Uncle San stay in the village to work was indeed a waste of his talent."
The old lady frowned. "How could you say he's been overlooked? What did he write in that letter?"
Shu Yu: "Da Bao said that Third Uncle raised wages by another hundred coins."
"..." The Lu family fell silent.
After a long pause, the old lady said heavily, "Now that you mention it, I also feel that he has been wasted."
Good heavens, two letters arrived, one with a price increase of one hundred coins. They were starting to suspect that by the time they returned to Jiangyuan County, Lu Sanzhu would already be the manager.
The old lady always thought he was lazy, cunning, and didn't do any serious work. The fields were left to lie fallow, which broke her heart.
As it turned out, this person wasn't good at working in the fields, so he went to the county town to work as a laborer, and surprisingly, he was able to get two pay raises in such a short period of time.
"Did they say how he rose to this position?"
Shu Yu continued reading, then raised her eyebrows. "Third Uncle said that a guest used to frequent the peach orchard, even reciting poems in the freezing cold. The other workers thought he was crazy, but Third Uncle accidentally discovered that this guest was a good friend of their boss."
So Lu Sanzhu would frequently approach the customer to offer his concern, even handing him his own clothes and hot water when it got windy, thus portraying himself as a helpful and considerate waiter. Then, the very next day, in front of the customer, he turned away and sneezed several times.
The guest felt very bad, so he gave Lu Sanzhu one tael of silver as a reward and told him to buy medicine.
Later, he raised wages.
The Lu family fell silent again, and the old lady cursed, "I knew he wouldn't follow the right path."
But it's not accurate to say he did anything wrong; he just pretended to be clever and didn't actually harm anyone.
Therefore, the old lady stopped scolding him after she said one sentence.
Shu Yu found it amusing and continued reading, then her brows furrowed tightly.
Her expression was unusual, and the Lu family members couldn't help but worry, "What's wrong?"
"Da Bao said that his aunt already knows the real reason we came to the Southwest."
The letter did not mention the word "exile," but the meaning was very clear.
Shu Yu finally understood why there was something strange about Da Niu's letter. Da Niu probably wanted to say something too, but he asked someone to write the letter for him, and he didn't know how to bring it up, plus it concerned his mother, so he hesitated.
Lu Sanzhu didn't have so many concerns, and he said everything he needed to say and didn't need to say.
Actually, this was exactly what Shu Yu had expected. Among the Lu family, the second branch had already come to the southwest.
The eldest uncle and Da Niu in the first house were also aware of the situation, and the third uncle and aunt in the third house knew the whole story.
Not only them, but Tang Wenqian's entire family also knew about it.
(End of this chapter)
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