The Yu family's workshop is not large, and it only occupies a courtyard.

There are not many people, and this always makes Gui Mingyue feel that something is wrong, but she can't say anything for a while.

In the end, I reacted that it turned out that this workshop was full of male craftsmen, and there was not a single woman!

Faced with his cousin Gui Mingyue's doubts, Yu Hongbo shook his head gently, so that she didn't have to ask more.

Yu Hongze took the model drawing, his expression was as excited as Mrs. Yu, and he immediately called a few old craftsmen and pondered together.

Gui Mingyue looked around the workshop, looked at these craftsmen, and looked at the jewelry made, and couldn't help but sigh, and returned to the wing room with a stomach full of questions.

"Miss Cousin, the old lady asked the slave maid to come and invite you to go to the side hall for dinner." A girl dressed plainly, but with a generous and smart smile, walked in.

Now there are less than ten girls and girls in the Yu family's mansion and the little maids, but all of them are exquisite and clever loyal servants for many years. In the past, when the Yu family was in power, there were groups of slaves, but they were mixed, and not everyone was a kind person who was loyal to the master's family. After the Yu Mansion lost power, it was the time when the loyalty and treachery appeared.

Because the old lady specially instructed the mother-in-law in the kitchen to cook more Jiangling special dishes for Gui Mingyue, it was especially sumptuous for today's dinner.

There are not many rules in the Yu family, and during the banquet, Yu Hongbo talked about what he saw and heard along the way, and the big guys were full of interest.

"Old lady, old lady, ...... outside" The porter came to the side hall to report out of breath, and before he could finish speaking.

"Hey, you dead minion, what are I running when I see the young master," Yu Hongji turned his head to the two little guys and said, "Hurry up, put me down, put me on the couch, it hurts me to death." ”

It turned out that this Yu Hongji was carried all the way.

"Brother Ji, what's wrong with you?" Old lady Yu saw that the nephew and grandson of the second brother's family should be injured a lot, so she asked Mrs. Yu to go to Zhang Luo to find a doctor.

Mrs. Yu didn't move, but she didn't hear it, so she put a fresh bamboo shoot soup dumpling in Gui Mingyue's bowl and told her to eat it while it was hot.

Old lady Yu saw that Mrs. Yu ignored it, and went to signal Yu Hongbo and Yu Hongze, Yu Hongbo snorted coldly, buried his head in eating, Yu Hongze had to sigh, and ordered the people in the house to carry his cousin Yu Hongji to the side room.

"Hey, I haven't eaten yet, remember to bring me a few good wines and dishes! Oops my legs! Tap and call the doctor! ”

In the dining room, Mrs. Yu ate a little food with a gloomy face, and then went back to the room with the help of her eldest daughter-in-law. Old lady Yu sighed and finished eating, and after the meal, he asked Yu Hongze to take care of his cousin, and then got up too.

The remaining young people looked at each other, and Gui Mingyue asked the eldest sister-in-law Zhen in confusion: "Who is that person?" ”

"That is Yu Hongji, the only son of Uncle Yu Ren of the second old lady's family," Zhen replied, the second old lady is the younger brother of the old lady Yu, and he has two sons, Yu Ren and Yu Zhi. This Yu Hongji, who was discounted by the gambling house, is Yu Ren's only son.

"Why didn't he go back to his house to recuperate?" Gui Mingyue still doesn't understand, how can someone who has her own father and mother break into someone else's house like this.

"Hey, our family owes them" Yu Qianqian, who was usually soft and weak and silent, suddenly sighed and said with a resentful face.

Zhen refused to say anything more, and the remaining few people left the table in a hurry.

Since coming to her grandfather's house, Gui Mingyue has many questions, such as why there is no woman in this jewelry shop; There are also those jewelry, such as home-made jewelry, will be engraved with the imprint of Angelica Pavilion on the inside, and when the shop is not opened, it will also be imprinted with the mark of the Gui system, and the jewelry in the grandfather's workshop is indeed engraved with the imprint of the Wang family and the Zhou system......

In addition, why is this Yu Hongji so reckless in his words and deeds here?

In the face of her questions, Yu Hongbo did not intend to hide them, and told the cause and effect as if venting.

It turned out that more than ten years ago, Mrs. Yu learned a superb hairpin-making skill, which can be said to be self-made, and developed the Yu family in just a few years. At that time, the Yu family not only had its own huge workshop, but also had a few decent shops in Jiangling Mansion, and Mrs. Yu also did business along the Yangtze River to Yunmeng, Ezhou and other places.

Just when Yufu's family business was getting bigger and bigger, and there were more and more craftsmen in the workshop, something happened.

It was this incident that made the Yu family fall from the peak of prosperity to the bottom overnight.

Fifteen years ago, Yu Mansion.

"Ahh The maid who fetched the water screamed, waking up the entire mansion.

"What's wrong? I listened to you crying wolf early in the morning," the housekeeper rubbed his worried eyes and walked to the well, complaining: "The eldest young master has been unwell these days and needs to recuperate, what are you shouting here...... Yes! Dead person! ”

"How can there be dead people in the well?!"

This incident alarmed the government, and finally the bodies of two women were fished out of the well in the backyard of the Yu mansion.

The two bodies belonged to the two female workers in the workshop.

In the end, Yu Xin, the eldest young master of the Yu Mansion, was arrested by the government as a suspect.

A few days later, Yu Xin fell seriously ill and died in prison, and at this time, there were two more female corpses in the backyard of Yu's mansion.

Mrs. Yu was greatly stimulated by Yu Xin's death, thinking that the government had beaten him up, and went to the governors of the three provinces to complain, and the government found out that Yu Xin was indeed sick and died. It was only after this that the female workers in Yu's workshop jumped into the well one after another and died.

For a time, it was rumored in the entire Jiangling Mansion that it was Yu Xin and the revenge of the eldest young master, which made the people of the Yu Mansion panic, and all the female workers quit one after another. In order to comfort the families of the female workers who died, the Yu family paid a lot of silver taels. Mrs. Yu was also devastated by the death of his only eldest son.

Just when the case was about to be concluded, the housekeeper and a mother-in-law went to the government to complain to Mrs. Yu for misdeeds to the female workers, prompting the female workers to commit suicide by throwing themselves into the well in humiliation! also took out Mrs. Yu's personal jade pendant as evidence.

Mrs. Yu couldn't argue and had no intention of arguing, and he was about to be imprisoned. At this time, the second old lady of the Yu family, that is, the younger brother of the old lady Yu, stepped forward to go to prison instead of the elder brother, and the old lady Yu could really be said to be grateful at that time, and spent almost half of her net worth of silver to make a point, and finally the second old lady was sentenced to ten years in prison.

Yu Mansion has been taking care of the second old lady's relatives during this period, they themselves are poor and destitute families, the second old lady is a lazy man who is lazy and lazy, and the family has been living a precarious life relying on the relief of the old lady Yu.

Because of this great kindness, the Erfang family lived a more luxurious life than the old lady's family. During the period, Yu Ren, Yu Hongji and his son were good gamblers, and once they offended people by losing a bet, and almost put two names into it, and finally it was Mrs. Yu who put a few jewelry shops into it to rescue the two of them.

Yu Zhi is the second son of the second room, but he is quite normal and decent, and he will not be as open-minded as his brother on weekdays, although there are many wives and concubines, the family is still calm.

After the second old lady was released from prison a few years ago, she said that she wanted to change her mind and support herself, and told her eldest brother that she wanted a shop, and vowed to open her own shop to make money.

Mrs. Yu's initial gratitude had already been exhausted by what their family had done, and of course she refused to agree. But Mrs. Yu couldn't stand his brother's bitter crying with a gun and a stick, and finally compromised, handed over the last shop to him, and promised to offer him jewelry at a very low price.

Gui Mingyue couldn't listen anymore, and interrupted: "It's really bottomless!" And then let them do nothing all the time? ”

Yu Hongbo sighed deeply: "It's not all, in less than half a year, the only jewelry shop was ruined by them, and they owed a lot of debts, all of which were paid back by our family." It's good for them to continue to live a fairy life of clothes and food. ”

"Just because of such a kindness, a good family will be dragged like this, and we will pay it off all these years!" Gui Mingyue said angrily.

"All of us thought so, but my grandfather was too stubborn. I heard my grandmother say that in fact, he also regretted it deeply, and often said that even if he was beheaded at that time, he was unwilling to let the second master go to prison for him, but it was too late to regret all this...... We juniors don't dare to say anything, lest we make my grandfather sad again. Yu Hongbo said helplessly.

"Because I don't have my own shop, can I only consign my jewelry to someone else's shop?" Gui Mingyue said.

"Yes, those shops require our jewellery to be stamped with their imprint, otherwise they won't let us sell it on consignment." And the price is also very low, because of the tragic death of the female worker that year, the entire Jiangling Mansion is very repulsive to the Yu family's jewelry.

Gui Mingyue lowered her head and thought about the whole thing, in fact, there were still many loopholes in that case back then, for example, why did the housekeeper and mother-in-law report the case after so many years, and they still rebelled against their own master. For example, who framed his uncle Yu Xin for killing the female workshop worker? These are doubts.

It's just that because of his uncle's death at that time, my grandfather was too sad and unintentional and unable to explore these things, and the two cousins were still young at that time, so they naturally didn't understand.

Now that so many years have passed, I don't know if I can reveal the truth of this case.

"Second cousin, in that case, I wonder if I can let the heads of those ten scenes of Dongting not be engraved with the marks of other families first?" Gui Mingyue said that she was really reluctant to let her works be sold under the name of another company.

"Okay, I'll talk to my eldest brother later!" Yu Hongbo agreed without thinking about it.

Neither of the two brothers and sisters spoke, sitting there and not knowing what to think, especially Gui Mingyue, who frowned deeply.

At this time, there was a noise outside the courtyard, and Jin Qi'er followed the sound and went out to check what was happening.

When he came back in a hurry, he said anxiously: "Miss, young master, go to the main house, the old lady has fainted!" ”

When Yu Hongbo heard this, he didn't say a word, and ran out directly.

Gui Mingyue walked behind as she asked, "What happened?" "My grandmother has always been in good health, how could she faint.

"It was said that the young master Ji had ruined a box of medicinal supplements brought by the young lady, and he came to ask the old lady for silver to fill the gambling debts......"

"So my grandmother was stunned by him?" Gui Mingyue's voice suddenly turned cold.

Jin Qi'er whispered: "I heard that I was stunned by the old lady......"

Gui Mingyue was stunned for a moment, but after thinking about it, she understood, sighed, and knew that it was her grandfather who connived at the second old lady's family without any limits, and let them do whatever they wanted, which made her grandmother more and more disappointed.

When Yu Hongbo and Gui Mingyue arrived at the main house, they saw Yu Hongji holding two silver tickets, and walked out triumphantly with the support of the little maid.

happened to have a face-to-face with Gui Mingyue.

"Hey, you are your cousin Yue'er," Yu Hongji looked Gui Mingyue up and down: "Tsk, this face is really white, these eyes are beautiful!" It's beautiful! ”

Gui Mingyue hated his face very much, and she didn't want to talk to this kind of scoundrel, so she just ignored him and asked to pass by.

Unexpectedly, his wrist was grasped by Yu Hongji.

"Let it go!"

"Let it go!"

Yu Hongbo scolded loudly, and a thin ice-like chill appeared on Gui Mingyue's surface, although the voice was not loud, it gave people a strong sense of persecution.

Yu Hongji was shocked by Gui Mingyue's momentum for a while, reacted, looked at the little girl in front of him who knew that her chest was high, sighed, and was about to reach out again, but was punched to the bridge of her nose by Yu Hongbo next to her.

"Ah" fell to the ground with a miserable scream, and howled: "Yu Hongbo, you kid dare to hit me?" ”