Chapter 15 - The Wei Family's Past
"Okay, you all go and get busy, I have something to do, let's talk to Mr. Zhao alone." Ignoring Zhao Fan's playful eyes, Wei Ruqian instantly returned to the style of a strong woman, and said to the people in the room.
Steward Liu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then his face turned blue, and he took Liu Junxiang and a few people to brush his sleeves away, and the atmosphere of the scene suddenly became a little subtle.
Zhao Fan felt as if he was being stirred into something, but he didn't care too much, and if something really happened, he must be on Wei Ruqian's side.
He thinks very simply, eat the king's fortune and bear the king's worries, this is the moral standard he identifies, he is now taking the salary given by Wei Ruqian, and it is such a high salary, so he should help her bear the problems she has to face, this is Zhao Fan's bottom line.
"Voyage, come and sit." Wei Ruqian reached out and poured Zhao Fan a cup of tea, and pointed to the cushion opposite her.
Zhao Fan scratched his head, glanced at Wei Ruqian, and sat down cross-legged.
Wei Ruqian stared at Zhao Fan for a long time, and then said, "Yuanhang, you are very talented and capable, but you are not smart enough. ”
"Huh? ……”
"You shouldn't offend Steward Liu, after all, he is still very influential in the Wei Mansion, like just now, Liu Junxiang has already apologized to you, you should give Steward Liu a face." Wei Ruqian picked up the teacup and took a sip gently, with a hint of blame in her eyes.
"I..."
"I know you have your grievances, in fact, this is also to blame me, I shouldn't have arranged you in the account room, I should have thought that this would attract the attention of 'those people', and I should have made it clear to you." Wei Ruqian interrupted Zhao Fan, who was explaining, looking a little lonely.
"Those people?" Zhao Fan was a little confused when he heard this, and asked with some curiosity.
"It's a long story." Wei Ruqian hesitated for a moment, and then began to talk to Zhao Fan about the ins and outs of the matter.
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After some explanation, Zhao Fan realized that the Wei family was founded by Wei Ruqian's grandfather at the beginning, and Steward Liu was her father's scholar, whose original name was Liu Gouyu, and later changed his name to Liu Zhijian.
Wei Ruqian's grandfather is a very kind person, who took in Steward Liu when he was down, and has been cultivating him, wanting him to assist Wei Ruqian's father well, hoping that they can cooperate well and make the Wei family's family business bigger and bigger.
Wei Ruqian's grandfather was very good to Liu Zhijian before his death, not only trained him to go to private school, but also bought him a big house in the city, and introduced him to a family business, which was like treating his own son, and Wei Ruqian's father also regarded Liu Zhijian as a brother since he was a child, and he respected him very much.
And Liu Zhijian is also talented, not only very strong in learning, but also very talented in management, under his management, the annual turnover of the store where he is located has increased by 4%.
As for Wei Ruqian's father, he was even more remarkable, he was quite a father when he was young, assisting his father to manage the Wei family in a reasonable manner, and the business was getting bigger and bigger, and he also had high attainments in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and he was also a famous talent in Jinzhou City when he was young.
After Wei Ruqian's grandfather died, Wei Ruqian's father successfully took over the Wei family, and arranged for Liu Zhijian to become the Wei family's housekeeper.
However, an accident happened, seven years ago in the autumn of the Wei family suddenly caught fire, Wei Ruqian's parents and young brother, lost their lives in their sleep, and when they were rescued, they were almost burned into charcoal, not human, only Wei Ruqian, who lived in the embroidery building, escaped.
After the funeral of her loved ones, the young Wei Ruqian took on the responsibility of the rise and fall of the family, and took over the Wei family's family business with difficulty without relatives.
But after all, she is young, and she is a woman, Wei Ruqian is not smooth in the process of managing the family, although everything is normal on the surface, but few people obey her in private, and more people feel that women should be married and taught children at home, instead of running around outside all day long, showing their heads.
In desperation, Wei Ruqian had to turn to Liu Zhijian and a group of old people left behind by her father, so that the Wei family, which was able to stabilize the road and avoid internal and external troubles, was completely divided by several other major families in Jinzhou City.
But people will always change, as Wei Ruqian slowly grew up, and began to slowly become sensible, she found that the group of people who originally followed her father have gradually disappeared from her side, and the second housekeeper who was closest to her when she was a child also became a groom because of mistakes, and the whole family, except for a few old shopkeepers, was replaced by people she was not familiar with.
By the time she found out that something was wrong, it was already too late, Liu Zhijian had already mastered most of the Wei family, and Wei Ruqian could only rely on the support of several of her father's old subordinates to barely maintain the Wei family from being taken away by outsiders.
But just half a month ago, Liu Zhijian actually drove away the original old bookkeeper on the grounds of account problems and arranged his son into the account room, intending to control the last financial power of the Wei family.
And just when Wei Ruqian was anxious, she happened to meet Zhao Fan, who was talented in mathematics, and invited him back without hesitation, hoping to arrange him in the account room to contain Liu Zhijian and his son, so as not to be too rampant.
But they didn't expect that the father and son of the Liu family would react so much, and they just invited Zhao Fan back, and they couldn't wait to drive him away.
Zhao Fan was originally a little strange, Wei Ruqian, a weak woman, could actually become the head of the Wei family, although the Tang Dynasty was open, but after all, it was still a feudal society, and the social status of women was not high, but I didn't expect that there were so many stories behind it.
"According to what you said, Steward Liu should have found a reason to oust you from the position of head of the family, and then change to someone with better control to be the head of the house, why didn't he do it?" Zhao Fan changed to a more comfortable posture and asked a little puzzled.
"This is very simple, the reason why he didn't do it is because he doesn't want the Wei family to be torn apart, it's not what he wants."
"What he wants is a complete Wei family, all owned by the Wei family." Wei Ruqian added tea to the cups of the two of them, and said helplessly.
"How is this possible? Unless you take the initiative to cooperate with him, it will be absolutely impossible for him to take away the entire Wei family, and there will always be someone to support you. ”
"No, he has a way."
"What's the solution?"
"Marry me." Wei Ruqian turned her head to look out the window, her tone was full of desolation, "As long as he marries me, he can smoothly get the entire Wei family." ”
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