Miss Xu has lived in the red-light district for nearly ten years. The girl from back then has grown into a great beauty. Xu Qiushui has round almond eyes, a small upturned nose, and cherry lips that make her look exceptionally well-behaved. However, this lady does not like to be so well-behaved, so she must wear rouge on her lips every day, and it has to be a dark red color.
Her father rushed in through the door in a disheveled state, then sat down at the table and began to sigh.
"What's wrong? Tell me, don't sigh. What can't money solve?" Xu Qiushui put down her teacup and said.
Well, as expected of the daughter of a royal merchant, Xu Zheng taught her a saying since she was little: anything that can be solved with money isn't a problem.
Xu Zheng didn't want to tell his daughter about Lady Hou's affairs, not because he was afraid that Xu Qiushui wouldn't accept this stepmother, but because the child got along well with Hou Xiangxiang and Lady Hou.
Even if Xu Zheng is no longer an imperial merchant, a starved camel is still bigger than a horse, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call him the richest man in Jiangnan.
Despite her family background, she was still beaten out by the child's maternal grandfather.
"Speak, Father." The woman was a little anxious, hesitating, as if there was something she couldn't say.
"Your Aunt Hou is pregnant, and the child is mine."
Xu Qiushui put down her teacup and looked at her father with a smile. "I asked you to solve the problem, not for the problem to solve you."
Indeed, Xu Qiushui had always been mocked by her "plastic sisters" in Jiangnan since she was a child for not having a mother and no one to discipline her. Deep down, the women envied Huo Xiaolong and his girlfriends.
How wonderful it is to have a mother! Cen Ang will wipe Huo Xiaolong's bottom, He Yi will cook and comb her hair, Madam Hou will always support her daughter and stand behind her, and Aunt Wang will always treat Da Ni'er as a treasure.
She wanted it too, and she longed to have it.
However, this does not mean that the biological father will be dealt with directly.
"Then what?"
"Did Aunt Hou say when they got married?"
"Father, have you gone to propose marriage?"
How much betrothal gift should our family prepare?
Xu Qiushui is now in charge of the Xu family business. Xu Zheng has been living a retired life for a long time. While others are playboys in their teens and twenties, her father is a middle-aged man in his thirties who walks around with his birdcage every day.
Who knows if the biological father wants to drink tea or see people.
I knew he was up to no good.
"Your Aunt Hou didn't agree to my request..."
Xu Qiushui closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and her disdain for her own father reached its peak. All I wanted was a mother, and even with a child, she couldn't stay with him. If Xu Zheng hadn't treated her well, she would have wanted to call him a good-for-nothing.
"Qiushui, don't worry, you will still manage all of the Xu family's businesses. After your father dies, everything will be yours. Your father's private savings will be divided in half, one half for you and one half for him. Neither your younger brother nor your younger sister can surpass you."
—Slap
It was the sound of a teacup being slammed onto a wooden table, followed by the woman's exasperated tone.
"Do I care about that little bit of money?"
"If we're really going to argue about money, Dad, I want half of the family fortune that I earned myself. The rest can go to him, or Aunt Hou, it's fine too. Can't you use that half of the family fortune to bring my mother back?"
“When I was little, people would say I didn’t have a mother when I went to banquets. It wasn’t until I went with Aunt Hou and Xiangxiang a few times that I realized what it feels like to have an elder protecting you.”
"Can't you even grant your daughter this small wish? Look at General Huo, he'd climb a ladder and pluck the stars from the sky if Huo Xiaolong wanted them!"
The man who went out looking wealthy did nothing today; he was just a doormat.
"Dad wants to too..."
Xu Zheng's voice was low. It wasn't that his father didn't want to, but that his father couldn't do it.
"Can you stop using your business tactics? If you don't want to, then go and fight for it, work hard, like you worked hard when I was a kid and you were working in the business world."
"Dad, you're almost forty, you can start working harder now."
The man found these words somewhat strange, but nodded nonetheless. Then Xu Qiushui asked...
"Aunt Hou will definitely not be happy with how you divide the family property. From now on, just listen to me."
“It’s alright, that’s how your Aunt Hou’s family divided things too. The family property went to Xiangxiang, and the remaining private property was split equally between the children,” Xu Zheng replied.
"Aren't the private savings of the Hou and Xu families enough for him to spend?"
"That's enough for him to squander for a lifetime."
Xu Qiushui felt a pang of sorrow as she looked at her father, who was talking eloquently about money.
When will I finally be able to take my mother back to Jiangnan to show her off? I wonder if she'll be able to outshine all the other girls when we go back. Who is Aunt Hou? She's the widow of the former governor of Beining, one of the top three businesswomen in Beining.
Aren't they better than those mothers who only know how to stay at home and teach their daughters to be good wives?
Fate is so coincidental. Xu Qiushui, who was climbing a tree to watch the sunset, happened to meet Hou Xiangxiang, who was also climbing a tree. The two looked at each other and, although they were both in their own yards, they could chat.
"So, from now on, does that mean you'll be my little sister?" the woman said first.
Thinking of Xu Qiushui, who had always been a spendthrift and a money-grubber since childhood, as her older sister, Hou Xiangxiang grinned and just stood there smiling.
"What's wrong? Why aren't you saying anything? You don't want me to be your older sister?" Xu Qiushui is different from Xu Zheng; this girl has a bit of a yandere side.
"Of course I'd love to, I'd be more than happy to, I'd love to."
"How is Aunt Hou's health?"
"That's good, I'm catching up on sleep now."
"I'll give you some money. I'll treat Long'er and Dani'er to shopping tomorrow."
Xu Qiushui wrapped a small gold bar in the silver note and threw it towards the Marquis's residence. The little girl didn't know martial arts and couldn't catch it. There was a cry of "Ah!" and Huo Xiaolong's voice came from under the tree.
"Oh my god, little sister, money is falling from the sky!"
"There are also gold bars, and this silver note is worth five hundred taels. Heaven is truly my grandfather, he is so good to me."
The girl in white rolled her eyes and said...
"My sister gave it to me."
Who's your sister?
The girl in red leaped onto a tree branch, her toes barely touching the ground, and saw Xu Qiushui sitting opposite her. Huo Xiaolong swallowed hard.
"I also want to call you 'sister'."
Xu Qiushui's head ached at the sight of Huo Xiaolong's grinning face. This kid was indeed good at making money; every business he partnered with had made a fortune.
But Huo Xiaolong was like a little Pixiu (a mythical creature believed to bring wealth and prosperity), disliking broken silver notes. This big girl carried only a few taels of silver and jingling copper coins in her pocket, making a clattering sound when she walked.
"Where has Miss Huo been making her fortune lately? She's been so busy for months that we haven't seen her at all."
For the past few months, Huo Xiaolong has been taking Hou Xiangxiang and Dani'er to watch military training in the deep mountains every day, so he doesn't have time to run around in brothels.
"I'm working on a big business, and there's a chance I can help you get rich!"
"Sure, whatever Miss Huo does, I'll invest."
Later, this statement proved prophetic. It wasn't a big business, but how could rebellion not be a big business?
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