"Second brother, the incense shops in Anping County don't just sell paper money and incense."
Their main products are coffins and funeral clothes, and they also sell paper money and similar items.
You may not know this, but in the eyes of the world, people who work in this industry are all people with tough lives.
Contact with them will inevitably leave you with some kind of bad luck.
Standing to the side, Madam Shen truly didn't want such in-laws, and quickly chimed in:
"Second brother, your father is right!"
Let alone becoming in-laws, even ordinary relatives would try to avoid contact with such people as much as possible.
You're about to take the provincial examination, and your parents want you to go safely and without incident.
You came back and immediately said you wanted to get engaged. Isn't that because you wanted to do it before the provincial examination?
No, I disagree!
If you really get engaged to the Xue family's daughter, what if you get tainted by bad luck and something bad happens?
Our family still owes the clan a lot of money, and we're counting on you passing the imperial examination to pay it off.
The thought that her son, who was excellent in every way and was about to become a scholar, would marry a girl from such a family filled Shen with resistance.
She could easily imagine that if her family actually married such a daughter-in-law, they would be laughed at to death.
Previously, they looked down on Chi Yu because she was a hunter's daughter from the deep mountains, feeling that she was not good enough for their outstanding son.
Now it seems that Chi Yu is quite good compared to the Xue family's daughter.
Although her family might not have that much money, at least she was of good social standing, and her dowry was quite generous.
The key point is that we were quite generous to them back then.
In their Qijia Village, she was the first daughter-in-law to use her dowry to support her family.
In this life, the fact that she and the old man were able to wear fine cotton clothes, live in a house with blue bricks and tiles, and be envied by everyone was all thanks to her.
Now that Chi Yu has divorced and left, and her son is about to become a scholar, she naturally hopes to marry a better daughter-in-law.
She wasn't a merchant's wife, especially not a woman engaged in such unlucky business.
When Qi Mingyu saw his parents' expressions change drastically and hear them say those things, he knew they meant well.
Actually, he was also bothered by it, especially since Xue Mengyu wasn't as pretty as his sister-in-law, let alone the bright and beautiful Chi Shi.
Unfortunately, their family was genuinely wealthy, generous, and aware of his family's situation, and they indicated they didn't mind.
Even more extreme, they said that after he passed the imperial examination, they would buy them a house in Jianzhou Prefecture.
If they can pass the imperial examination and become officials in the capital, then we will buy them houses and shops in the capital.
In any case, his in-laws will help him with anything he needs money for the future.
So, even though he was bothered by it, he couldn't help but be tempted.
Sure enough, for the sake of money, he turned around and tried to persuade Old Man Qi and his wife.
"Father, Mother, birth, aging, sickness and death are the natural course of life."
The Xue family runs a business, but they don't steal or rob, and they earn clean money!
Besides, you may not know this, but due to the disasters before the Lunar New Year, their family sold more coffins, funeral clothes, and other items than in previous years.
When everyone else was struggling to make money, the money someone else earned in a day was more than our family could earn in two or three years.
Besides, wealthy families like theirs always have their subordinates do whatever they sell.
"The Xue family members are gentlemen, ladies, and wealthy wives; why would they need to waste their time in those shops..."
Despite Qi Mingyu's words, Shen and Old Man Qi still felt it was inappropriate.
So what if you can make money? What's so great about making money off dead people?
Moreover, in such a disaster, it's not just the Xue family who can profit; the hunters from Chijia'ao can too.
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