Chapter 157 Chapter 157 Manpower
Zhou came in with breakfast and said to the two children, "Yan Hui, Yan Sheng, you are wrong. This is your uncle. You should call him uncle."
Fu Lieyun breathed a sigh of relief and forced a subtle smile.
Being called dad by two children puts him under a lot of pressure. He is not married yet and doesn't know how to be a father to his children.
The two children turned to look at their grandmother and asked in confusion, "Uncle?"
Zhou first put breakfast on the table, then waved to them. After the two children came over, she touched their heads.
"Yes, he is your uncle."
Fu Yanhui and Fu Yansheng said hesitantly: "But, isn't he my uncle's elder brother?"
"Grandma said that our dad is our uncle's elder brother."
They are six years old this year. They have been brought up smart and can understand the relationship between generations. They know that the uncle's elder brother is their father. This uncle who looks very serious, the uncle calls him elder brother, so he is their father.
Zhou's eyes showed some sadness, but she smiled: "Although he is also your uncle's brother, he is the oldest and ranked first, not your father."
The two children were puzzled: "What about our dad?"
"Your father is second."
"Is that Second Uncle?"
“…”
Zhou was a little confused, "What second uncle? The second one is your father!"
The two children said "oh" and looked very disappointed. They pouted and said, "So, we don't have a dad?"
Zhou held them in her arms, patted their backs gently, and said nothing.
Because of this, the atmosphere at the Fu family's breakfast was a little depressing. Even Meng Xingzhou hesitated to speak and wanted Fu Lieyun to just be the father of the two children.
It's really pitiful.
Seeing their little faces wrinkled like this, don’t you feel bad?
After dinner, Yu Li and Fu Wenxiao went out together.
On the way, Yu Li asked: "Mom looked very sad just now, is it because Yan Hui and Yan Sheng's father has already..."
The Fu family initially announced that the parents of the two children had passed away.
Fu Wenxiao hummed softly and whispered, "My mother was originally my mother's personal maid. Later, my mother decided to marry her to my father's personal guard. They have a son, who is my foster brother. My foster brother, Brother Lie and I grew up together."
"Later...Brother Lie went to the Northern Frontier, my brother was killed, and I was poisoned and taken to Qingshi Village by my mother."
Hearing this, Yu Li couldn't help but remain silent.
No wonder my mother-in-law looked so sad just now. Birth, aging, sickness and death are the most helpless things in this world.
Fu Wenxiao held her hand, his wide sleeves covering their clasped hands. He said gently, "Ali, don't think too much."
He didn't say this to her to make her unhappy.
Yu Li quickly cheered up and hummed.
Then the two went to the shop on East Street.
When I entered the store, there were still quite a few customers in the store. They all came here because of its reputation. Then they found that the rouge and powder in the store were very good and would buy some.
This time Fu Wenxiao did not enter the store with her. He said something to Yu Li and turned away.
Yu Li went to help greet the guests.
After finally seeing off a group of customers, Yu Jin asked the other girls to look after the store, and the three sisters took Yu away to the backyard.
There was no one in the backyard, so the sisters could talk freely.
Yu Jin said: "Sister, I heard that the police went outside the city yesterday to arrest some criminals and brought them back. Those people were seriously injured..."
Yu Yin and Yu Zhu also stared at Yu Li.
After Yu Li left yesterday, they had been worried, always thinking that she would personally go find those who attacked their store. Later, when they heard that the police had captured a lot of criminals outside the city, they intuitively felt that it was her who did it.
In addition, the fact that everything was calm last night and no one caused trouble made them more determined in their thinking.
Of course, it is also possible that those people had given up and had no intention of taking action last night.
Whatever it was, they felt they should ask their eldest sister if she had done anything.
Yu Li hummed and said, "Don't worry, no one will come to your store to cause trouble in the future."
When I heard this, I knew she was admitting it in disguise.
The three Yu Jin sisters were not surprised at all. They asked curiously, "Sister, who are those people? Why did they attack our store?"
Yu Li thought for a moment and said, "Actually, you were implicated by Xiao Ge'er and me."
"What?" The three Yu Jin sisters were stunned and looked at her in confusion.
Yu Li simply said, "Xiao Ge'er and I have some grudges against them, and they plan to attack you first so that they can lure me out of the city to deal with me."
After hearing this, the three of them turned pale with fright and looked at her worriedly.
"Sister, you..." Yu Jin bit her lip, "How did you and your brother-in-law become enemies with them? Did it have any impact on you? In fact, we are not afraid. If they dare to come again, we will fight back."
Yu Zhu also hurriedly said: "Sister, I will work hard to practice physical skills in the future, and I can help you beat the bad guys."
Yu Yin clenched her fists tightly and made up her mind: "At worst... it doesn't matter if this store is closed. We won't let them hurt you, big sister!"
Of course, my eldest sister is more important than doing business.
This statement was also agreed by Yu Jin and Yu Zhu. If they had to choose between money and their eldest sister, they would definitely choose their eldest sister.
At that moment, the three sisters thought of the worst outcome and were ready to take drastic measures.
Life is good now, they can eat and wear warm clothes, and they will no longer be beaten and scolded by others, and sold as losing goods. They are really reluctant to give up such a life, but compared with their elder sister, it is nothing.
They always remembered that their fate changed the day their eldest sister came back.
The eldest sister is very important to them, and they don’t want to lose her again.
Seeing that they were getting more and more serious, Yu Li interrupted them: "It's not that serious, you're overthinking it."
"real?"
The three of them looked at her hesitantly, and after she assured them again and again, they finally believed her.
Then Yu Li told them that she had often helped the government to suppress bandits and collect rewards in the past two years, so she had made some enemies outside.
But now they don’t have to worry, because those people won’t come back to seek revenge in the future.
Since Fu Wenxiao promised that such a thing would never happen again, there was no need to tell the truth to his three sisters.
Telling them would only make them worry in vain.
Facing her three younger sisters, Yu Li seemed to understand why Fu Wenxiao and Zhou had kept the secret from her. It was not because they did not trust her, but because those things were too far away from here. There was no need to tell them yet, and there would be no use telling them now.
Not long after, Fu Wenxiao brought two people over.
Yu Li recognized the two men; they were Fu Lieyun's subordinates.
The Yu Jin sisters looked at the two men behind Fu Wenxiao in confusion. They were tall and looked strong and capable of fighting.
Fu Wenxiao said: "In the near future, they will stay in the store to protect your safety."
"ah?"
The three sisters were surprised. They didn't expect that their brother-in-law brought these two people here to be their bodyguards.
Yu Jin said: "Brother-in-law, it's not necessary..."
Since the eldest sister said that the matter has been resolved, they should not need anyone's protection, right?
This was the first time the three sisters had encountered such a thing since they were little. They felt very uncomfortable and didn’t feel like they needed anyone to protect them.
Fu Wenxiao said, "You keep them first, and I'll bring you some smart ones in a few days."
Do we need to replace them with smarter ones?
The three sisters were confused by him and subconsciously looked at their eldest sister, but the eldest sister didn't say anything and seemed to agree.
Leaving the two men behind, Yu Li and Fu Wenxiao left the shop.
On the way, Yu Li asked him: "You just said that you want to replace them with a smart person, who is that person?"
She knew in her heart that the two men would not stay in the county town for too long, and they would follow Fu Lieyun after he recovered from his injuries.
He must have understood that, too.
Fu Wenxiao tilted his head and smiled at her, saying, "Since someone already suspects that I'm still alive and has sent people to test me, I can't just do nothing, right? It's just right, I can call some people over." Then he said, "Isn't my second sister going to run a girls' school? I heard that the girls' school has been short of people and can't find a good manager to help run it. I can recommend a few people to help..."
In February, Yu Jin and the county magistrate's wife opened the only girls' school in the county.
This girls' school opened quietly and did not attract people's attention. In the final analysis, it was because the girls' school had just been opened and lacked everything and was not perfect. No one knew that it was a girls' school specifically for educating girls. They thought it was just like the orphanage run by the government.
It just so happens that the county magistrate’s wife is also present in this girls’ school, which makes it even more similar.
This was a good thing, so naturally no one opposed it. Some scholars even wrote poems to praise it, and some reputable businessmen wanted to invest money in the girls' school.
Yu Jin confiscated their money. It was obvious that he was trying to please the county magistrate's wife and was doing it on purpose. He was not sincere. He also made a lot of demands, which made people extremely annoyed.
Her purpose in setting up a girls' school was to sincerely help girls in need.
Yu Jin was extremely depressed and could only comfort himself by saying that everything is difficult at the beginning and he had to take it slow.
But sometimes when she felt really upset, she would go talk to Yu Li and scold those who were making trouble. Fu Wenxiao would sometimes hear a few words.
Yu Li didn't expect that he would take this matter to heart.
She turned to look at him and asked, "Do you have enough manpower?"
"That's enough." Fu Wenxiao said with a smile, "Jin Niang and the others are your family, and they are also my family. I have to protect them. And what Jin Niang is doing is good, so naturally I have to support her..."
After hearing this, Yu Li let him make the arrangements.
As he said, her sister did a good thing, and if he really had the energy, he could certainly help her.
With someone to help, Jin Niang's work will surely go much more smoothly and save a lot of trouble, so why not? Even if you want to train Jin Niang, there is no need to train her in such a place and let her suffer.
Seeing that she didn't refuse, Fu Wenxiao smiled and said softly, "Mother Li, don't worry. My sisters will live well in the future. They can do what they are interested in."
He said this lightly, but it was also a reassurance.
Hearing this, Yu Li's heart moved slightly and he looked at him again.
The bright April sunshine shines on him, revealing his leisurely and calm demeanor with a sense of dignity and elegance.
She suddenly remembered that since she knew him, she rarely saw him in a state of distress. The only time he was in a state of distress was probably when he fell to the ground in pain when the poison took effect.
He had indeed lived a miserable life in the past few years. Apart from a wet nurse and two children, there was no one else around him. It was obvious that he was just waiting to die silently.
Once he knew he wasn't going to die, the man seemed to fear nothing.
Even those people didn't dare to do anything to him openly, and they had to deal with her and her sister in a roundabout way. It was obvious that they were picking on the weak.
**
A few days later, Meng Xingzhou came to tell Yu Li that someone went to the county government office and wanted to take those people in the prison away.
"Who is coming?" Yu Li asked.
Meng Xingzhou said, "He was sent by the prefect of Heqiu Prefecture."
Yu Li was at a loss. She knew that Heqiu Prefecture was a prefecture under the jurisdiction of Nanjun Province, but she had no idea which prefect was it.
Fu Wenxiao understood something, he smiled and said, "He is the Third Prince's man."
Yu Li suddenly realized that the one who wanted to attack her this time was the Third Prince.
She asked, "Does the Third Prince already know that I was the one who took away the evidence of the Kang family's crimes?"
So those people specifically targeted her?
Hearing this, Fu Lieyun and Meng Xingzhou couldn't help but look at her with a somewhat subtle look. Could it be that the Third Prince's maternal family, the Kang family, fell so quickly because of her intervention?
From what she said, it turned out that she was the one who found the evidence of the Kang family's crimes?
Their prince's wife is indeed different from others.
Fu Wenxiao said: "He doesn't know. The Third Prince should think that I ordered someone to do it."
The third prince was a little stupid, but he had some useful people around him. When Governor Yuan brought down the Kang family, he must have found out about the relationship between Governor Yuan and the Fu family. He even thought that Governor Yuan's move against the Kang family was at his instruction. He also had someone send the evidence of the Kang family's crimes to Governor Yuan.
It is natural for them to think this way, and no one would associate it with Yu Li.
Even though they knew she knew some martial arts, they wouldn't think too much about it. After all, no one would believe that she had the ability to collapse mountains and split the earth without seeing it with their own eyes.
No matter how rich a person's imagination is, he would not dare to think like this.
Yu Li said "Oh", so he is taking the blame for her?
Thinking about it this way, it seems a bit unfair to him. It was clearly her who did it, but those people blamed him. I don’t know what’s wrong with them.
**
Half a month later, someone from the Fu family came again.
The people who came were a burly man with a scar on his face and a woman in her thirties. The woman had an ordinary appearance, a smile on her face, and looked very friendly.
When the two saw Fu Wenxiao and Yu Li, they bowed to them respectfully.
"Greetings to the Crown Prince and the Crown Prince's wife."
Yu Li was really not used to being called "Madam", so Fu Wenxiao pulled her to sit down and accepted the greetings from both of them.
Then Fu Wenxiao gave them a few instructions and let them leave.
Yu Li thought that only two people came this time. But when she went to the shop on East Street, she found that there were a few smart girls in the shop. They were about twenty years old and their looks were not outstanding, but they were smart and very capable.
Seeing her, Yu Jin pulled her to the backyard and asked nervously, "Sister, are these people brought by my brother-in-law? Where did he find so many people from?"
"A lot of people?" Yu Li was puzzled.
"Yes, in addition to the ones in the store, there are also some in the girls' school and in the stores in the capital." Yu Jin's expression was complicated, "They are really amazing. Not only can they write and count, but they can also fight and kick. No one can take advantage of them..."
Yu Li was also a little surprised when he heard this, and said, "That's good."
"It's just too good to be true." Yu Jin took a deep breath, "They came to the store to help. Every day they spend time teaching the girls in my store, saying that they want to train them to be independent..."
Originally, Yu Jin felt that she was short of people, but now with these people's help, after those girls are trained, she will be able to do more.
She knew clearly that her brother-in-law only let these people help her and would not influence her decisions or interfere in her business.
It's like an elder taking care of a younger person, guiding and helping her when she has difficulties, but not controlling her life.
"That's great." Yu Li said with a smile, "In that case, Jin Niang, you guys should do your best."
Yu Jin nodded, looked at her with a complicated expression, and asked hesitantly: "Sister, my brother-in-law..."
She suddenly felt that her brother-in-law Fu Wenxiao was very mysterious. Was the Fu family really just a traveling merchant in the past? Or was the traveling merchant so well-established that even though they were already in decline, they still had so many people at their disposal?
Yu Li told her not to think too much: "Just bear with it. You will have a lot of things to do in the future. Now is a good time to train your own people."
Yu Jin nodded silently.
She always knew what she had to do, and she also knew how much help Fu Wenxiao would give her by having those people come over.
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