The Fang family's ancestral home is in Shandong. Miss Jun's great-grandfather came to Zezhou to sell spices and settled in Yangcheng.

My great-grandfather, who had become rich, wanted to expand his business, but most of Yangcheng was engaged in coal business, and as an outsider, the Fang family could not get involved. So my great-grandfather found another way and arranged for his son to marry the daughter of the Cao family in Qi County, and took advantage of the situation to open a money shop called Deshengchang.

With the help of his father-in-law's family and his great-grandfather's business acumen, Deshengchang was turned into one of the top money houses in a few years, becoming a wealthy family in Yangcheng and even Zezhou.

After Miss Jun's great-grandfather passed away, the business was inherited by his eldest son Fang Shouyi, who is Miss Jun's grandfather.

Fang Shouyi lived up to his father's instructions and made Deshengchang even more prosperous. However, just when he was at the peak of his career, he suddenly fell ill and died at the age of 38. Fortunately, his son Fang Nianjun had already grown up, so there was someone to take over his business.

Fang Nianjun is Miss Jun's uncle. Although he is just 20 years old, he has been running a bank with his father since he was a child and has taken over the business long ago. Therefore, the Fang family's bank was not affected. On the contrary, it took advantage of several wars between the imperial court and the Jin people and the increased bad luck in materials in the north and south, which made a fortune. The Fang family's business has reached a new level.

But what was unexpected was that at this time Fang Nianjun also got into trouble.

"One thing."

When the maids got to this point, Miss Jun, who had been listening quietly, interrupted them.

The maids looked at Miss Jun with some uneasiness.

"Has the Fang family only had one male heir since my great-grandfather's generation?" Miss Jun asked.

When my great-grandfather first came to Yangcheng, he relied on the Cao family, so after marrying the daughter of the Cao family, he did not take a concubine and only had one son. But as the business grew, how could Miss Jun's grandfather have only one son? A large family and a large business must have many descendants to maintain it.

When the maids heard her ask this, fear flashed in their eyes.

"Not really." A maid lowered her head and said, "The old lady has four brothers."

This means that my great-grandfather had more than one son, Fang Shouyi, at that time.

"Before Grandpa Zeng passed away, he divided the property among them. Since Grandpa Zeng was the eldest legitimate son, he inherited the bank business in Yangcheng. The rest of the brothers took their share of the property back to their hometown in Shandong, so Grandpa Zeng is the only one left in Yangcheng," the girl continued.

Is that so? Miss Jun nodded.

"Is it the same for my uncle's brothers? After my grandfather passed away, my uncle inherited the family business and they returned to their hometown in Shandong?" she asked.

The girls were embarrassed.

"The old lady has only two children, the old man and the young lady," they said.

As a granddaughter, it's ridiculous that I don't even know how many brothers and sisters my mother has.

This kid is really careless. He really treats the Fang family as an inn and doesn't even bother to take a second look.

Miss Jun smiled.

"So what happened to my uncle?" she asked.

The maids all breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that she no longer asked about the offspring. Miss Jun naturally saw this expression, but she did not ask anything.

"At that time, because of the war with the Jin people, the northwest was in turmoil, and there were many bandits and horse bandits. The old man encountered bandits on his way back from work. Although he was protected by more than a dozen escorts, he was still seriously injured and died shortly after returning." A maid said, "At that time, the old man was only 25 years old."

He died at a younger age than his grandfather, and what’s worse is that he has no son to inherit the family business.

"The master had three daughters at the time, and the wife had just become pregnant. Fortunately, it was a son," said another maid.

That was fourteen years ago, and Miss Jun was only born recently. It is impossible for her to have any memory of her mother's reaction to her brother's accident.

Miss Jun gave up searching her memory.

"The family business has been supported by the old lady and my aunt over the years," she said.

The girls nodded, their admiration clearly expressed on their faces.

"…When the old man passed away, people from Shandong came to divide the family property…but the old lady resisted and drove them away…"

"…I heard from my mother that it's not just Shandong, the Cao family has also sent people, and they want to take our family property…"

"…Although the old lady had not seen or been involved in business for decades, she was the daughter of the Cao family, who had started out as a banker, so she took over the business and won over the people in just a few months…"

"…Yes, at that time, the outside industry was in turmoil, and my wife at home almost had a miscarriage due to excessive grief. The old lady was busy outside and also had to take care of the family…"

"More than a decade has passed in the blink of an eye, and our Fang family has not only survived, but business is still going strong."

"The old lady is amazing."

The maids could not help chattering, but Miss Jun, who had always looked down on the lowly people in the Fang family, did not interrupt or scold them. Instead, she listened with a smile and nodded when she heard this.

"Yes, the old lady is really amazing," she said.

The maids were quieted by her words. They looked at her expression nervously, but saw that she did not seem to be mocking or angry.

"It's not easy either." Miss Jun continued with a sigh.

A girl from a noble family, who obeyed her father at home and her husband after marriage, was supposed to take care of her husband and children without worrying about other people's affairs. However, she suffered the blows of her husband's death and her son's death in five years, but she still had to take on the heavy responsibility of supporting the family business.

Everyone in her husband's family and her own family were eyeing her covetously. No one could be relied upon and trusted, so she had to rely entirely on herself. The maids said that she would be able to take over and stabilize the banknote business in a few months. It was easy to say, but only Mrs. Fang herself knew how difficult it was to do it.

Miss Jun thought of the old lady's indifferent expression. She was very disgusted with it in her memory. She felt that this grandmother was cold and a lowly merchant woman who only cared about profit and not about human feelings.

There was so much tenderness and love, but it has been completely worn out by this series of blows and more than a decade of hard work. Otherwise, how could it have survived in this storm?

"However, more than ten years have passed, and it is time for that young master to be brought out to gain experience and inherit the family business." Miss Jun said.

This old lady has finally made it through.

The maids present looked strange when these words were spoken, and Liu'er just chuckled.

"Miss, you forgot that Master Fang is a paralytic," she said.

paralysis.

Miss Jun was stunned, and then her memory came to her mind. The Fang family's posthumous child, the only descendant of the family, was indeed a paralytic, and a paralytic who would not live past the age of fifteen.

Miss Jun didn't care about the Fang family, and she was too lazy to ask any more questions about her paralyzed cousin, so she didn't even know his name and only remembered calling him paralytic.

"My young master is not paralyzed, he is sick." Perhaps it was because of Miss Jun's amiable expression during this period, or perhaps it was because she could not stand her master being ridiculed, a maid could not help but retort.

Liu Er sneered.

"If I'm sick, will I be unable to move?" she asked.

The girls were speechless.

"So it's still paralysis." Liu'er sneered.

Miss Jun tapped the table with her fingers, interrupting Liu'er's laughter.

"So, the male members of the Fang family have suffered misfortunes one after another." She said slowly, "The incense will soon be cut off."

The girls looked sullen and frightened, which was exactly how they reacted when she asked about her great-grandfather's other children.

"This is too unfortunate. How come the boys all have accidents one after another?" Miss Jun looked at the maids and said softly.

The maids hung their heads in silence, while Liu'er clapped her hands beside them.

"I remember now," she said, "Miss Lin's maid said that the men in the Fang family were cursed."