"Yueyang, are you sure you're leaving?" asked Shen Zhuru.

"Miss, if you leave, the slave and maid will see it with your own eyes, and there will be no mistake."

"Okay, change your clothes, make the illusion that you're asleep, and we'll leave the inn for a trip."

"Miss, where are you going?"

"On the way back just now, I happened to see the figure of the little fish, and I wanted to make sure if I was dazzled. By the way, wasn't Xiao Yu'er handed over to Mu Fenghua to take care of? Can you determine the whereabouts of the little fish? Shen Zhuru was about to change her clothes, but suddenly came back to her senses, and immediately asked Yueyang when she thought of this.

"Miss, the slave and maid also know about Xiao Yu'er, and the person you see should be Xiao Yu'er. Three months ago, the slave maid had already received news that Xiao Yu'er needed to be trained to be self-independent and self-protective, and he would be fine. Usually when he survives alone at this age, there will be someone secretly watching over him, and when he can't hold on, or when everything is no longer a challenge to him, someone will take him away, miss, you don't need to worry so much at all. ”

"He's still so young, wouldn't that be too cruel?" Shen Zhuru was somewhat unbearable.

"It's not young, it's already the age to learn to be sensible. What's more, after leaving Chayang County, it is clear what his situation is, so how do you feel about the little fish you saw at a glance before? ”

Yueyang asked like this, Shen Zhuru thought about it seriously, but she also felt that the child who was suspected of being a little fish that she saw by chance at this time gave her a very different feeling from the dark child at the beginning, at least it was a lot more sunny and much stronger.

Maybe Yueyang is right, training him to be independent makes it easier to heal the wounds in his heart.

"Since Xiao Yu'er is fine, it's not too late to see you when it's suitable."

"Does Miss still need to go out?"

"Xiao Yu'er can't see it, but these people from the Mu family still need to be seen, don't get close, just look at it from afar."

"Okay. Slave maid, take Miss to where the Mu family's ancestral house is. ”

Shen Zhuru nodded, under Yueyang's arrangement. The master and servant left the inn and went to the main house of the Mu family.

Speaking of the Mu family's ancestral house, it is just a small courtyard with two entrances, located in a place called Xiao'an Village, ten miles outside the county seat of Qiyang County.

The development of the Mu family at the beginning. So that a small village has now grown to the size of a small town.

Xiao'an Village has now also changed its name to Anzhen.

It takes about half an hour to reach Anzhen from Qiyang County.

This place is not like the capital, when the city gate is closed, you can no longer enter, here in Qiyang County, as long as you are rich and powerful. Getting in and out of the city gate late is just a matter of spending some money.

When Shen Zhuru quietly left Anzhen, it was already completely dark, and in the dark night, only the town's restaurants and noodle stalls were still lit up, and there were some people who didn't want to rest nearby, and children were playing happily near the lights.

The door of the Mu family's ancestral house was closed, and only the faint lights in the two rooms could be seen through the gap in the wall, and it could be seen from the projection on the window paper that one room belonged to Mu Hongxun and his wife, and the other room was the residence of Lao Taijun and Cui Mama, as for Jiang Ruoyu, it was obvious that he did not come back. Or maybe they don't live here at all, and they don't see her.

"If you don't want to, you don't want to, what can I do. I'm just a daughter who married out, my father and mother can read the family affection to help us rice and grain has been benevolent and righteous, ask them to borrow money, several brothers have no money left in their hands to borrow you to make a comeback, I have said everything, can you blame me if you can't get the money? Mu Liu Xinyue said aggrievedly, with a hint of crying in her voice, full of grievances.

"I'm really blind. helped the Liu family like that at the beginning, even if they stabbed Lou Zi, as long as they could help them, they would never shirk it, and they didn't even know how many times they would deal with the aftermath. But now when he sees me like this, he can't even take out a thousand taels of silver, so he lends me to make a comeback. I'm really blind, I actually ......" Mu Hongxun's remorseful voice sounded, and he was a little unwilling in his heart, but the matter has come to this. Saying this can't change the facts, even if he blames his wife for being incompetent, he can't change the facts, and saying too much will only hurt the feelings of the husband and wife, and in the end he can't finish the sentence.

Shen Zhuru heard the quarrel in the house outside the courtyard, and although she only listened to a few words, she also generally understood the situation.

Looking in the direction of the other room, I heard a cough followed by a sigh.

Today's Mu family is also down, and the place where they live is not even as big as the courtyard of the people at the beginning, but this will be the only substitute for Mu Fenghua, that is to say, this Mu Fenghua is not here, so where did he go?

Whether he was sent away, or whether he divulged his identity and left on his own, it is really difficult to guess.

"Miss, the old lady and the lady are very pitiful, if it is not for the young master to tell him not to interfere as a last resort, the slaves and maids are impulsively ready to leave a sum of money for the master to turn around, and the mountains will make a comeback."

"Yueyang, I didn't expect you to be confident in this."

"The slave is not full of confidence in the master, but over the years, he knows more or less about the master's wrists, and knows that the master has a lot of talent in business. It's okay to leave the silver to the master, at most you don't see each other. What's more, this silver is also owned by the young master, and if you give a thousand taels of silver to the master, even if the young master knows, he will not blame it. ”

"Didn't Mu Fenghua do something else, such as Xiao Yu'er, there are still people who are secretly protective, there is no need to worry about this."

"What Miss said is very true, but I'm afraid Miss will be disappointed, there is no one like a slave and maid around now, and I can't say anything to take care of anyone."

"How so." Shen Zhuru looked surprised.

Even Xiao Yu'er, a child who is known as an ominous person of the Liu family, Mu Fenghua can send someone to train him and protect him secretly, why is it obviously his own parents, why do he care less than an outsider.

Shen Zhuru was very puzzled.

"This slave doesn't know. Maybe the young master didn't send it, but the person hid it well and didn't notice it. ”

"That's in the past. But what about stand-ins? ”

"It should be in the name of Young Master Qiu who led people away, otherwise, with the temper of the old lady of the Mu family, how could he let people go so simply?"

Shen Zhuru glanced at the family's residence in the courtyard more, and didn't say more, at least although they had a hard time, at least they would not lack food and clothing, which was good.

Shen Zhuru was about to leave. Suddenly, seven or eight ruffians with sticks came over, and the posture of showing off their might with a stick in their hands was fully revealed.

"Open the door, open the door. Hurry up and open the door. The other party slammed the door viciously, startling Mu Hongxun out of the house.

"Master, why are you so noisy? Is something wrong? Mu Liu Xinyue grabbed Mu Hongxun's arm and asked worriedly.

"I went out to see, and we were down. But at least I don't owe anyone anything, and I have a hard time but I feel at ease, maybe it's something else, I'll go and see first, don't think too much. ”

"Then be careful."

Shen Zhuru and Yueyang hurriedly flashed to a darker and less obvious corner, looking at Mu Hongxun who came out of the house with a coat.

Mu Hongxun, who hadn't seen him for months, looked a lot haggard.

The glamorous clothes in the past have now been replaced with coarse linen clothes, and the gray hair on the head has increased a lot, which shows that life is not satisfactory.

"Here, stop shooting. If you shoot it again, the door will almost fall apart. Mu Hongxun shouted, and sure enough, the other party stopped knocking on the door, and he also opened the door bolt, opened the door, and suddenly eight people rushed in, entering this small courtyard that is not too big.

"You are Mu Hongxun, it turns out that the richest man in Qiyang County, the old man of the Mu family, right." The leader was a bald man, twenty-seven or eighteen years old, with this centipede-like scar on his cheek, which was slightly terrifying.

"That was all in the past. Don't mention it. I don't know you, but I'm not mistaken? Mu Hongxun spoke in a good voice, but the other party didn't appreciate it at all. As soon as he grabbed Mu Hongxun's neckline in his hand, he pulled it to meet his eyes.

"Although Master Mu doesn't know such a small person as me, it doesn't mean that he doesn't know the Liu family in Chayang County, right?"

"The Liu family? It's my in-laws, and although I don't want to mention it, it's a fact that can't be changed. I don't remember what I owe you all, though. Do you need such a big battle to come to the door? After all, Mu Hongxun is not a newborn calf, how can he not know anything, but he guessed the other party's meaning with just a few words.

But it was precisely when he guessed that there was an uncontrollable anger in his heart.

"Look at Master Mu, you seem to know something." The leader touched his smooth brain and grinned, a mouthful of black teeth saw it in the night, and he was really a little cautious.

"Although my Mu family is down, but you have never owed anything to others, you are so blatantly coming to the door, and you don't look like people from Anzhen, but you are obviously coming to our family. I don't want to know that there is a reason for this, although I have some thoughts in my heart, but I still want to know what kind of situation this is. Even if you die, you have to die to understand, don't you? ”

"Master Mu is worthy of being a big businessman, even if he is down, he still has this observation. I'll be honest with you, it's not for nothing that our people came to the door. Do you still remember the guarantee you made for the Liu family? ”

"As a guarantee?"

"A guarantee for a hundred sets of flower-glazed porcelain?"

Mu Hongxun's face changed slightly.

"It seems that Master Mu has remembered. The list should have been handed over last month, but at least half of the finished products made by the Liu family were not able to be used at all, so it was necessary to compensate for the loss. The Liu family lost half of the payment for the glazed porcelain, but there were still more than 1,300 taels of compensation that had not been received. According to what the Liu family said, half of this money is owned by the Mu family, and the compensation naturally cannot be compensated by just one family, you also need to be responsible. No, our brothers were ordered to come and collect the debts. ”

"Commanded! Accounts receivable! By whose command did you come? Mu Hongxun asked in a deep voice.

"Liu family!"

With a bang, the door was pushed open, and Mu Liu Xinyue walked out shaking in disbelief.

"You are lying, how could it be that someone from the Liu family sent you over to collect the accounts, now everyone knows what the situation of the Mu family is, let alone a thousand taels of silver, even if it is a hundred taels of silver, it will not be able to take out at all, if the Liu family really does this, it will simply force us to a dead end. The head of the Liu family is my eldest brother, he won't do this, impossible. ”

"Mrs. Mu, I don't have to lie about this kind of thing. What's more, if I didn't see you pitiful and didn't want you to be kept in the dark, I wouldn't have told you this. Let you know the truth. Actually, can't you Mu family really take out so much silver? Not necessarily. Women like to save money for their private houses, and they can always take it out if they dig it out, even if it is not enough, isn't there still this ancestral house? It's still worth one or two hundred taels of silver, and it's enough to make it up. ”

"That's enough."

With a babbling sound, the door of the old lady's room opened.

Cui Mama was in charge of the old lady and walked out of the house, and there was a red sandalwood box in her hand that was worth a lot of money at first glance, even if it was empty, this box alone was enough for a few hundred taels of silver.

"Mother, why did you come out, your body is not good, you should go back to rest." Mu Hongxun hurriedly stepped forward to support, even if he was down, at least he was still a filial son.

"Son, although my mother is old, she is not deaf. If you want to do business, your mother wants you to hit a wall, and you can ignore it when you see the true face of some people, will you blame your mother? ”

"The son is the mother's son no matter what, no matter what the mother is, the son will not blame the mother."

"Silly boy, my mother knows that you have also been sad, but this is fine, at least now you also see clearly, some people's freedom will be icing on the cake when you are developed, but once you are down, you can't wait to fall into the well, so that you will never turn over. Daughter-in-law, have you seen the true faces of those people in your family? In previous years, I was not willing to go with you, but I saw the nature of that big family, and you are a child who knows how to measure, so I have never stopped you. Now, you can see it. ”

"Mother, I'm sorry. It's the daughter-in-law's fault, if it weren't for the daughter-in-law's love for vanity, she was used to being praised by the family, so that she got carried away and begged her husband to take care of them in every way. I thought that so many years of kindness and family affection would at least not let them die without help, but the daughter-in-law really didn't expect the result to be like this. The daughter-in-law was wrong. Really wrong. ”

"Mother, my son is wrong."

"It's good to know what you're wrong. What's more, it's not just you who are wrong, even I still understand that the so-called gateway view, if there is only interest between each other, and there is no family affection at all, once you are down, it will be the result now. People from large families value profits, only interests can be combined, and there is the so-called intimacy, but ordinary people, as long as you are kind in nature, you are good to her, and she will repay you with a spring. If I was wrong, I was very wrong, if I didn't want to marry Princess Gao, the Mu family would not be in the current situation. (To be continued.) )