A few days after the Lantern Festival, Su San received a letter from Su Tong, which was full of her apologies to her parents.

The third master replied to the letter, telling her to live at her grandmother's house with peace of mind, and to take her back when things faded.

Su Mansion can be described as a miasma in the past few days, and even the day of the Lantern Festival was carried out in the yin and yang of the Wang family, and in the end, the old lady lost her temper, so she told the Wang family to shut up, otherwise she would not even be able to eat the reunion dinner.

On the surface, the Wang family didn't dare to quarrel anymore, but when they met the people in the third room in private, even if they were facing Su Zhen, the Wang family was extremely arrogant, and even made provocative remarks from time to time.

Although the third old man expected that the Wang family would not give up, he didn't expect that even Su Zhen, a child who was only eleven years old after the New Year, would listen to her foul language, and the third old man was very angry, but he couldn't do anything with the Wang family, so he had to send Su Zhen to Baishao Village.

He and the Yang family were more cautious in the house, and if the Wang family wanted to scold, let her scold, and the right to bark as a dog, but in private he and the eldest master again mentioned the matter of going out alone.

In fact, the Su family's family business had been divided when the old lady passed away, and all the shops were divided among the three brothers, each of whom took care of their own expenses, and also took the small accounts in their own courtyards, so the Wang family was able to bribe the prefect with as much as 100,000 silver without alarming the people of the Su Mansion.

However, because the old lady is still there, the three-room people still live in the Su Mansion, and the three-room people give a certain amount of silver to the old lady every month as maintenance expenses.

As an ancestral house, Su Mansion is naturally inherited by the eldest lord, so the human relations and the layout and repair of public areas in Su Mansion are all undertaken by the big house, but fortunately, the eldest lord is not short of money.

The rest has not been divided only the assets in the hands of the old lady, the old lady also helped the old lady to manage the business when she was young, and she also has some shops in her hands, and she has made a lot of money.

The third old man said that he didn't want the old lady, and just wanted to be able to move out of the Su Mansion.

Anyway, with the third master's own ability and cooperation with the eldest master over the years, he has really made a lot of money, there is no need to be angry for the little thing in the old lady's hand, and he is not born to the old lady, or he can't share much.

The eldest lord's face was embarrassed, he didn't want to share, the Wang family has become more and more nonsense in recent years, the second old man's temperament, let the Wang family lose his temper after saying a few words, he can't control it at all, and the whole Su Mansion is full of miasma.

It's just that the eldest master has his considerations: although the Su family's business is divided into three parts, the three rooms are still living together, and in the eyes of outsiders, they are still a family, if the two younger brothers are separated, it will be three families.

Of course, the eldest lord believes that the two younger brothers will still help each other even if they are separated, but the eldest lord does not believe in the Wang family.

This is the second point he considered, when the Wang family got married, the dowry was not much, and it was okay to decorate the façade, if you really want to use it to talk about it, I am afraid that it is not more than half of the Pei family.

So at that time, the Wang family strictly adhered to the rules of the daughter-in-law, and was not strong and strong, and after the separation, he probably had money in his hands, and he changed his style of life for others, and he was extremely generous outside.

It is said that the Wang family secretly transferred 100,000 taels of silver from the second room that time, and the second master went over to ask after knowing it, but in the end, not only did he not get it back, but he was coaxed by the Wang family to want to transfer some more, but fortunately, the eldest master found out and stopped it.

The eldest master was worried that once he was separated, without his constant supervision and mention, the little silver in the second master's hand was afraid that it would not be enough for the Wang family's disaster, and he thought that it would be best to wait for Su Wenhan to start a family before dividing it.

Another is that the old lady is unwilling, everyone loves her child, and the old lady is no exception.

Speaking of which, it's just that the second child of his family is not angry, and he can't even manage his daughter-in-law, otherwise why would he be so worried. Facing the third brother, the eldest man was still quite guilty, so he had to say: "You wait for me to think of ideas."

The third master could guess and know the eldest master's thoughts, so he was very resolute, and at this time, he saw that the eldest master was really thinking about this matter, but he didn't urge again, anyway, after enduring it for so many years, it was not bad for these few days.

He turned to the matter of the Wu Governor's Mansion.

It has been more than half a year since Wu Yongjun molested Su Xi, and Su Xi quickly became engaged to Lu Youzhen, and the Wu family couldn't figure out the attitude of the Lu family, so they didn't rush to do something to the Su family.

The Wu family's hesitation gave the eldest master and the third master sufficient time to lay out, and they had a relationship with Zhou Hao, the same acquaintance of Sifang City, Zhou Hao was sleek and sophisticated, and extremely ambitious, eyeing the location of the prefect.

The Su family is rich, Zhou Hao has the power, and the two parties hit it off and planned carefully for a long time.

Zhou Hao used his power to facilitate the secret collection of evidence, and used the Su family's money to pry the backstage of the Wu Governor's Mansion, just waiting for a suitable opportunity to present all the evidence.

The opportunity is this winter, this year's heavy snow in the north is extremely violent, and it came early, and many people are not fully prepared for it, and the heavy snow is coming.

Houses have been crushed, fields have frozen, and it is not known how long it will take to refarm in the coming year, and many cattle and sheep have been covered in snow and suffered heavy losses.

When the imperial court got the news, it naturally wanted to send people to provide disaster relief, but where did the food and silver money come from?

At this time, the court will always focus on these wealthy merchants in Jiangnan, and in order not to be slaughtered as a fat sheep by the court, the merchants can only obediently hand over the money.

The Su family, as the richest man in Sifang City, was naturally the first place to be patronized by the Wu Governor's Mansion, and he had the intention of revenge and forcibly raised the indicators of the imperial court by three times.

If it were put in previous years, the Su family would have to do a little bit, hoping to have less, but this year is different, Master Su pretended to prevaricate and agreed to give the silver, but he asked the Wu prefect to give the Su family the imperial court's expropriation order.

The prefect of Wu increased the price privately, so naturally he would not hand over the expropriation order to the Su family, and the eldest man pretended to find the Lu family to evaluate - I have to say that the Lu family's signboard is still very good.

Governor Wu had no choice but to write a receipt to the Su family and stamped the prefect's seal (he was probably too confident in his backstage, but he didn't expect to be pried into it).

Needless to say, the prefect of Wu only handed over the part required by the imperial court, and all the excess went into his pocket.

Wu Zhifu is still holding the silver in the mansion, how do you know that Zhou Hao also has his own backstage, all the evidence of Wu Zhifu has been placed on his desk backstage, just waiting for the most suitable time to present it to the palace.

And now that the Spring Festival has passed, the refugees in the north have almost been settled, the heavy snow has gradually subsided, everything is developing in a good direction, and the court that has been calm for half a month should continue to stir up, and the officials who are ready to move are gearing up.