Chapter 279 The Trouble of Great Wealth
"Miss, I made some porridge for you to eat first. You haven't eaten or drunk anything all day, be careful not to get hungry."
The young girl in a blue skirt whispered to Lianyi, and was obviously one of the little girl's maids.
"I'm not hungry, I just feel uncomfortable."
Lianyi lowered her eyes and spoke softly, sniffing.
"Miss, I know you are sad, but the master has been ill for a long time, you should..."
“I know, but I’m still sad.”
Lianyi wiped her eyes after she finished speaking.
"Ah!" The girl sighed and stopped persuading the young lady to eat porridge. Instead, she advised the young lady to take a rest:
"Let me burn some paper for you, Miss. Please go to the side hall and take a nap!"
"I'd better stay here with my father!"
Lianyi shook her head slightly, showing the stubbornness of a little girl.
"Miss, why don't you take a rest? Go wash your face. Your eyes are swollen like walnuts. You have to meet guests tomorrow! I have already fetched water for you."
The girl persuaded gently.
In the end, Lianyi nodded and accepted the other party's suggestion.
The girl seemed to know that Lianyi could not stand up after kneeling for too long, so she reached out her hand to help her up. She was a head taller than Lianyi, so it was easy for her to help her up. After sending Lianyi into the side hall, she brought the porridge in and put it on the table. She did not persuade her to eat, but just soaked a handkerchief and handed it to Lianyi, then hurried back to the mourning hall.
Lianyi wiped her little face slowly, then turned around and sat down. She seemed to be tired and leaned back in the chair to rest, but in fact she had already begun to receive the memories of the original owner.
The original owner was the only descendant of Wu Dacai, the richest man in Jiangnan. After his wife gave birth to the original owner, she almost died from severe hemorrhage. It was because Wu Dacai was so wealthy that he used a 300-year-old ginseng to save his wife.
Wu Dacai's wife, Li, was born into a large family. However, because her family fell into poverty, she had no choice but to marry the businessman Wu Dacai in order to maintain the dignity of her family. This was equivalent to being sold out by the family.
Li had long lost interest in her family, but fortunately Wu Dacai loved and respected her. Although he was a businessman, he was also quite talented in literature. The two of them fell in love after marriage, and they respected each other like guests. They lived a good life. If it weren't for her family members who occasionally came to ask for money, their life would have been even better.
Because Li was injured during this birth and could not get pregnant again, the Li family approached Li and wanted to have her half-sister marry into the Wu family as a concubine so that she could give birth to a son as soon as possible, so that the Wu family would not be left without a successor.
This disgusting proposal made Li completely break off with the Li family. She turned around and went to Wu Dacai to cry and complain, saying that she was willing to give up her position as the wife and not prevent him from having a son. She asked to divorce him and take their daughter away.
Wu Dacai was naturally unwilling, and tried every means to persuade Li. In fact, he was also a little annoyed by the Li family's greed. They were so greedy and did not have the bearing of a noble family at all. This incident also made him sure that his wife was on his side and was not willing to help her family to plot against him.
Wu Dacai was a big businessman, but he was not a brainless person. He acted promptly and lied that his wife was seriously ill after giving birth. He invited many famous doctors to see her. Finally, he came to the conclusion that she needed to go out and recuperate, preferably in a place with a pleasant climate.
With all this preparation, Wu Dacai simply closed his business in the north. Of course, he also pretended to give several stores that seemed to be crowded with customers but were actually going downhill to his wife's family, saying that he would take his beloved wife to Jiangnan to recuperate.
The Li family got the benefit, and the other party did it for their own daughter, so he naturally had no right to stop it. He could only watch Wu Dacai leave the capital and settle in the south of the Yangtze River where the climate was pleasant. Now it was far away and there was no way to ask for money from him, so he could only look forward to the annual New Year gifts.
Wu Youcai, who had just gone to the south, used the excuse that business was not doing well and that he was ostracized by businessmen from Jiangnan when he first arrived there. As a result, the holiday gifts he sent became less and less valuable each year. When the Li family sent people to the south to return the gifts and investigate, they found that Wu Youcai's family only lived in a small courtyard with two entrances and the home was quite shabby.
The Li family didn't believe that Wu Youcai's family fortune would be lost so quickly, so they urged him to return to the capital. Wu Youcai was indeed talented, and he said that he would get up where he fell, but unfortunately he never got up again.
In fact, when Wu Youcai had a daughter, Wu Lianyi, and knew that his wife could no longer have children, he began to make plans for his daughter. If his daughter inherited all his wealth after a hundred years, the Li family would surely rush over and eat their daughter like a shark smelling blood.
So after his daughter's first birthday party and when the Li family was preparing to give him another daughter as a concubine, he had already started planning.
When they arrived in Jiangnan, Wu Youcai told his wife Li all his plans. Li agreed very much. She didn't want her daughter to become a stepping stone for the Li family in the future, especially with the huge fortune earned by her husband.
The couple worked together to deceive the Li family. After a few years of peaceful life, Wu Youcai only had a rice shop and a shop for rent. The money he earned was only considered a small fortune, and he kept a low profile and did not attract attention.
In fact, privately, he used his money for investment and dividends, and he invested in the name of different people. He was considered an invisible rich man in Jiangnan.
After all, Li was injured and her parents' family was worried about her. After a period of comfort, she passed away when the original body was nine years old. The death of his wife also saddened Wu Youcai. The Li family seemed to smell something and sent people to attend the funeral, saying that they wanted to take the original body to live in the capital for a while.
Wu Youcai burst into tears and pulled the old servant of the Li family and cried:
"Father-in-law, you are going to tear my heart out! Wanwan just left, Lianyi is my only comfort at this moment, if you take her away too, how can I live?
I know you're worried that if Wanwan leaves, I'll marry someone else, which will be bad for Lianyi. I, Wu Youcai, swear to spend the rest of my life with my daughter, and I will never marry another woman, nor will I let anyone bully my daughter."
These words blocked the manager's words. The Li family was angry, but also a little unwilling. However, three years had passed, and Wu Youcai really did not remarry. He only depended on his daughter for life. The Li family secretly cursed it for being unlucky, and then they diverted their attention.
But Wu Youcai was ill at that time. Because he missed his deceased wife and had not been cured of hidden injuries from his youth as a businessman, his health became worse and worse. He eventually became bedridden and left his subordinates to handle business matters.
The servants were not as cautious as Wu Youcai, and they revealed their true colors when doing things. Then some rumors spread, including the rumor that Wu Youcai was a truly wealthy man.
At that time, Wu Youcai was already terminally ill and it was too late to stop the rumors, so he began to arrange a way out for his daughter little by little. He had to protect his daughter no matter what.
After receiving the news, the Li family in the capital immediately arranged for people to set off for the Wu family in Jiangnan. As long as they could capture Wu Lianyi, the rumored huge wealth would be in the Li family's pocket.
Unfortunately, they were one step too late. On the afternoon of the day they arrived, Wu Dacai breathed his last. The time when Lianyi entered was the same time when the original body was keeping vigil over his father's body on the night of his father's death.
The Li family became more and more daring. For the sake of the Wu family's great wealth, they, led by their young master, disguised themselves as bandits and rushed into the Wu family in the middle of the night with their faces covered, ready to kill people and rob them of their money. Unfortunately, they killed most of the people, but did not find any gold or silver treasures from the Wu family. They only found five thousand taels of silver notes inside and outside the house.
See you tomorrow! Fengling's allergy is back again!
(End of this chapter)
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