Chapter 503
When leaving, Yuan Jing saw Zeng Lian hiding behind her aunt and looking at him timidly. Yuan Jing said nothing in the end. Although they were cousins, she also had Zeng Kang's blood in her body. He was not so selfless as to help this cousin.
Zeng Lian was really sad watching her cousin leave. She liked her cousin very much, but now there was a huge gap between them that she couldn't cross.
Liu Yiyi also gave Zeng Yuanxin some silver. She was not short of money now. Although she saved Zeng Yuanxin's life, it was Zeng Yuanxin who brought her to the capital, and she initially relied on Zeng Yuanxin to gain a foothold in the capital. So after giving the silver, she didn't think she owed Zeng Yuanxin anything anymore.
What Zeng Kang did was so contrary to her values that she couldn't even face Zeng Yuanxin. Now that he had ended up like this, she couldn't sympathize with him at all. Moreover, seeing Zeng Yuanxin's devastated appearance, she didn't believe that such a person could become the Duke of Yongyi in the future. So she doubted Han Miao's words that the fifth prince would inherit the throne. Anyway, she would not believe it until the dust settled.
Compared to Liu Yiyi, Han Miao was in a trance, often talking to himself: "It's impossible, how could history be wrong? I won't remember it wrongly, how could Zeng Kang be executed, how could Zeng Yuanxin end up with a white body? He will make meritorious deeds on the battlefield in the future and become a duke, what's wrong with it?"
Han Miao was afraid that history would change, but she didn't know that what she was doing was actually changing history.
She was afraid that history would change, because that would make her lose her advantage. What she feared most was that the change in history would shake the future of the Fifth Prince. Her greatest expectation was that the Fifth Prince would inherit the throne so that she could become a concubine and then look forward to the position of being second only to the emperor and above everyone else, becoming the most honorable woman in the world.
But if the Fifth Prince cannot become the emperor, then what is the point of her trying so hard to get into the Fifth Prince's backyard?
Panicked, Han Miao ran to find Liu Yiyi again and asked her if she knew the reason and what history she knew. Liu Yiyi asked curiously, "The history I know? The history I know does not exist in this time and space. How can I know what the original history was like?"
Only then did Han Miao realize that Liu Yiyi's afterlife was not in the same time and space as her own. The two of them must have come from different parallel time and space. Therefore, the history that Liu Yiyi knew was of no reference value to the current situation. After getting the answer, Han Miao left in despair.
Liu Yiyi had no good tone towards Han Miao. The shop diagonally opposite was still under renovation, and she was going to compete with her. Although she had a trump card, the things that the public would know in the future would definitely have an impact on her shop.
So Liu Yiyi spent her mind on how to expand her business. Who gets promoted has nothing to do with her? Instead of thinking about these things, it is better to make money. Isn't it happy to count money?
By the way, she is also following the book and has become a fan of the author Si Yao. She is waiting for the next volume of the series to come out. As soon as it comes out, she will rush to buy it with money in hand, and she will want to buy several copies. She tries to get one copy for each employee in the store.
At this moment, the author she was a fan of was standing in front of his uncle with his head down and being taught a lesson. Yu Jinkai said that what he had done before was too risky. If things went wrong, not only would he not be able to get revenge, but he would also be dragged down. He wondered if he should send a message to his uncle earlier. These matters should be left to their elders to handle.
Seeing his nephew lowering his head and listening obediently, Yu Jinkai felt soft in his heart again. In fact, he had never known that the child had a hard life in the Zeng family. In his opinion, one was Yuan Jing's uncle and the other was Yuan Jing's grandmother, so how could they not take good care of their nephew? Moreover, he went to the capital every year to send gifts, but he could not receive a single word of reply from his nephew. He thought that his nephew had not met him for many years and had no feelings for him as his uncle.
But because of his sister's matter, he was not able to go to the capital in recent years, for fear that the emperor would remember the past events. Until last year, his nephew started to send letters to him, but his nephew only reported good news and not bad news. He was completely kept in the dark by his nephew and had no idea what his nephew was doing behind his back.
Seeing the letters and evidence sent this year, Yu Jinkai almost fell down. He didn't care about anything else and wanted to rush to the capital as soon as possible. It was the words in his nephew's letter that calmed him down a little. He waited until he went to Beijing to report on his work before taking these evidences and the written petition to file a complaint to the emperor.
It was these evidences that lifted the veil that had been covering the past. Without hearing from his nephew himself, he could guess that his nephew could not have a good life in the Zeng family these years. His uncle was a wolf in sheep's clothing. How could he have a kind heart facing the son of his brother whom he had killed with his own hands? It was a pity that his uncle was kept in the dark, leaving his nephew to struggle in the hands of his uncle in the capital.
Fortunately, with the help of his sister and brother-in-law, his nephew is not the uneducated playboy as outsiders think. If that were the case, how could he reverse the verdict for his father and brother?
When Yu Jinkai felt weak in the heart, he saw the tall Jing Lie standing beside him. He felt pain in his eyes and got angry again. He gritted his teeth and said, "Are you serious about this kid or are you just acting for others to see?"
Yu Liang was secretly happy watching from the side. He had been getting along well with Jing Lie in the past few days and had a great liking for Jing Lie. However, he was also troubled by the fact that Jing Lie had kidnapped his little cousin. He could see that his cousin and Jing Lie were serious about it.
Yuan Jing blinked innocently: "Of course it's true, why should I put on an act for outsiders? Uncle, this is natural to me, I can't change it."
Yu Jinkai secretly hated: "Is it Zeng Kang and the others who did this to deliberately lead you down this path?"
Yu Liang was stunned. Yuan Jing was also surprised. However, he quickly pushed Zeng Kang out as the culprit. He looked confused. "I don't know what my uncle said. Anyway, I don't like those girls touching me. Jing Lie is just right. Although the poison in my body is gone, there are still some sequelae."
Yuan Jing's words were vague, but Uncle Yu suddenly imagined many things. He blamed Zeng Kang's heartlessness for his nephew liking men, and also said that his nephew liked men because he had given up. His body was destroyed by the poison in the past, and he had lost his fertility and could not have offspring, so he no longer wanted to find a woman to start a family.
Imperial Physician Chen: ...Why don’t you come and ask me for confirmation?
Yu Jinkai showed a look of hatred and heartache. Although he didn't have a good face for Jing Lie who followed his nephew, he didn't reject his approach to his nephew. At most, he pretended that he didn't see it. Otherwise, what else could he do? Would he force his nephew to marry a woman? That would harm both his nephew and other women, and he couldn't live with it.
Although he didn't say it on the surface, Yu Jinkai, as an uncle, was secretly paying attention to Jing Lie, worried that his nephew would get hurt again. In his eyes, his nephew was a sickly child who needed to be taken good care of, so he didn't ask for his nephew to have a bright future, just that he could live the rest of his life in peace.
He was worried that Jing Lie was coveting his nephew's money, which was his nephew's support for the rest of his life. What if a bastard cheated his nephew out of all his money? In his opinion, how could an ordinary man live by relying on another man? Would this man still have a reputation? He would be despised and looked down upon by everyone. Didn't you see that Jing Lie was expelled from the Jing family?
Not only did he pay attention to it himself, he also asked his son to pay attention to it. Yu Liang also did it very seriously. Because he felt sorry for his frail cousin, for a while, no matter where Yuan Jing and Jing Lie went, he shamelessly followed them.
So Yu Liang saw a huge workshop, a spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing workshop. There were hundreds of workers working in the workshop. They were busy but very orderly. Everyone was busy with his own work. Batches of cloth were unloaded from the machines. He reached out and touched it. The cloth was really soft, definitely top-quality cloth.
"This is just one of the workshops. I'll take you to the other one." Yuan Jing could see the intentions of his uncle and cousin. Because they were really thinking about him, Yuan Jing was very tolerant of such actions and took Yu Liang to another workshop, which used water power to drive the spinning and weaving machines, which had higher production efficiency.
Yu Liang was extremely shocked: "You guys made all this?"
"Yes, it's Alie and I who came up with it. It took us a lot of time and brainpower to finally come up with it. In the future, we want to set up such workshops in other places. The cloth produced by Jinlie Cloth Shop will be sold all over the Daning Dynasty. No, it will be sold beyond the Daning Dynasty, so that Jinlie's reputation will spread throughout Daning and beyond." Yuan Jing looked forward to the future of him, Jinglie and Jinlie Cloth Shop.
Yu Liang looked at the machines and the working workers in front of him, and suddenly felt that what his cousin described was not an unrealistic fantasy, but something that could really be realized. So could it be said that Jing Lie lived by relying on his cousin?
No, Jing Lie has the ability to live well even if he leaves his cousin, so he stays with his cousin and does not leave him even if his reputation is bad. He really wants to live with his cousin.
Although the Yu family does not run as many shops as their ancestors did, they have never given up on business, because they understand better than anyone that no matter how high an official's position is, he cannot do without money, otherwise there would not be so many corrupt officials. The Yu family has its own money, so there is no need for Yu family members to be greedy for money when they become officials in the future.
It is for this reason that the children of the Yu family are not pedantic and have a certain business vision. Yu Liang can also see the prospects of these workshops and machines. How much money can be earned in the future? Would he compromise himself just to covet the money on his younger brother? If he really did so, he would be short-sighted.
Yu Liang was greatly shocked. After returning, he described the conditions of the two workshops in detail to his father. Yu Jinkai was relieved but also felt very complicated. He was relieved that his nephew could live a good life without relying on him and would not lack money. Although he did not make progress in his studies, he might have inherited the Yu family's talent for business.
The complicated thing is, if he acknowledged Jing Lie, wouldn't that mean he tacitly agreed to the affair between him and his nephew? Uncle Yu was unwilling to hand his well-behaved and lovable nephew over to the big-tailed wolf Jing Lie.
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