Chapter Seventy-Six: Stealing
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Lu Aya said, "Brother Liu Xin found Shopkeeper Li's house yesterday, and said that the third grandmother wanted to see him and find Wang's mother's family, but the third grandmother was not easy to come forward, so he entrusted the third grandmother to help find ......."
Shopkeeper Li has also been looking for an opportunity to meet Lu Man, and he was excited to see that Lu Man took the initiative to send someone to contact him. They made an appointment to meet Jiang Zhanwei in Shangyatang, which deals in antiques, and in order to win more trust from the shopkeeper Li, Jiang Zhanwei also brought Lu Aya with him.
Before, Shopkeeper Li still had some reservations and kept silent. But as soon as he saw Lu Aya, he knew that it was indeed Lu Man who was looking for him through Jiang Zhanwei, and finally let down all his defenses.
Shopkeeper Li saw Lu Aya a few times a few years ago, and he saw it when Wang's mother led Lu Aya out of the house to run errands, but Lu Aya didn't notice him.
That chance encounter in the Zuichunxuan Restaurant, Shopkeeper Li first saw Lu Aya, and then saw Lu Man. Although he hadn't seen Lu Man before, when he saw that the girl looked exactly like his senior sister when she was young, and she was with Lu Aya, he guessed that she must be Lu Man, the daughter of her senior sister. Because Shopkeeper Huo was with him, he didn't dare to come forward to talk to Lu Man, and he was afraid of losing this rare opportunity, so he fell down the stairs on the second floor......
Shopkeeper Li heard Lu Aya personally say that Lu Man was doing well in the Eldest Princess's Mansion, and he cried excitedly. And he told him what he knew.
The shopkeeper Li's name is Li Yuan, and he is Chinese New Year's Eve years old today. He studied medicine with He Huang when he was a child, and his uncle was still the treasurer of Yuan Renhetang. When he was fourteen years old, He Mingzhu, that is, Lu Man's mother He Shi, married into the Lu family.
Who knew that three years later, He Huang suddenly dismissed almost everyone in Renhetang, leaving only an old Li shopkeeper and a pharmaceutical master, and two juniors who sold medicines. And the two little two who sell drugs include the current shopkeeper Li. Before, Shopkeeper Li learned to see a doctor, but in order to let him continue to stay in Renhetang, he had to be a junior who sold medicine.
Since then, Renhetang only sells medicine and does not diagnose diseases. Although it doesn't make much money just selling medicine, Renhetang's big shop is its own, it doesn't need rent, and it has a ready-made channel for medicine, so in addition to the capital, it can also earn dozens of taels of silver every month. They all wondered if they only sold medicine, and it was better to rent out the whole shop to make money.
Two months later, He Huang quietly wrote Renhetang into his daughter He's dowry list. He also privately instructed Lao Li to be the shopkeeper that if he had an accident in the future, no matter how difficult it was, he must work with the He family to keep Renhetang, which is the foundation of the He family for generations, and it is absolutely not allowed to sell. Even if you don't do business or sell medicine in the future, you can rent out the shop in front of you, and you will have an income of several hundred taels of silver a year. But backyards and wings cannot be rented, and even if they are empty, they cannot fall into the hands of outsiders. Remember, remember......
Three months later, He Huang was beheaded for "disrespect" to the then Wang Shufei. He has no brothers and no heirs, and only one wife is angry because she knows that he has been convicted, so the government only confiscated the He family's property, and did not care about the declining Renhetang, who had married his daughter.
Half a year later, Lu Fangrong was transferred to Wucheng, Liao Province, and Mrs. Lu suddenly had a hard time taking a leave of absence from He.
He left the capital and came to Renhetang, she said that she was going to Shuzhong to join her uncle's house, and at the same time asked Lao Li's shopkeeper to help take care of Renhetang. He also said that if she settled down there, she would ask someone to send a letter. But after so many years, He is like a kite with a broken string, and there is no news.
The reason why the He family left such an important Renhetang in the Lu family was mainly because she didn't dare to stay in the capital, and she was afraid that she would not be able to keep the family business by being a woman alone, and she didn't even know how long she could live. Leaving it to her daughter, the Lu family is always an official, and her daughter always has the blood of the He family......
When He left the Lu family, he also kept an eye on it, and handed over the deed to Mrs. Lu to run Renhetang, but the deed of Renhetang was handed over to Wang's mother and Baoqin for safekeeping. The He family's henchmen who stayed in the Lu family included Wang's mother's family and a girl named Baoqin.
He also asked Lao Li's shopkeeper to hand over all the silver obtained from Renhetang's operation to Mrs. Lu every year, half of which was used by the Lu family, and half was saved by Xiao Lu Man as a dowry. When Lu Man gets married, he will marry Renhetang to her. said that only in this way would Mrs. Lu help take care of Renhetang, and it would be better for Xiao Luman.
But as soon as the He family left, Mrs. Lu asked the second master Lu to come back and remarry her niece Xiao Chen. A year and a half later, Xiao Chen, the second wife of the Lu family, suddenly led people to rush the people in Renhetang, saying that He had asked someone to sell the shop in Renhetang to her for 5,000 taels of silver in the backyard a year ago, and took out the deed.
When Lao Li's shopkeeper saw the genuine deed, he was so angry that he vomited a mouthful of blood and fainted.
Li Yuan went to Lu's house to find Wang's mother, only to learn that it was Baoqin who stole the deed and handed it to Xiao Chen a year ago in order to be a concubine for Lu Fangrong, and also got a fake deed and put it there. Wang's mother only found out about this incident after this incident, and she was so angry that she cried.
After the uncle and nephew of Shopkeeper Li knew the truth, there was nothing they could do. One is that they can't fight the Lu family, and the other is that He Huang has been dead for a few years at that time, and he doesn't dare to make too much trouble about Renhetang. In that case, Renhetang will not only not come back, but will also be confiscated by the government if it is not done well, and the Lu family's crime will be cured.
Lao Li's shopkeeper felt that he was sorry for He Huang and He's trust, and his condition worsened, and he died a few days later. Before he died, he told Li Yuan to find a way to stay in that shop no matter what, wait for Lu Man to grow up, and then find an opportunity to help her recapture Renhetang......
After the death of the shopkeeper Li, his wife and children all returned to his hometown of Dingzhou, while Li Yuan stayed in the capital alone. Li Yuan rented a small courtyard near the original site of Renhetang, and would go there when he had nothing to do. It has been changed to a cloth village to sell cloth, he went to buy cloth a few times, and found an opportunity to make friends with the shopkeeper Huo, and often invited the shopkeeper Huo to drink and eat.
One day a few months later, he suddenly found that the shopkeeper Huo was looking for someone to build a small partial building next to the cloth village. Li Yuan was so angry, this is too disgusting. He guessed that Renhetang was written on the He family's dowry list, and Lu Man, as her only daughter, must have the inheritance of Renhetang, maybe Xiao Chen was afraid that Lu Man would not be easy to explain when he grew up, so he made a little Renhetang fool her.
Li Yuan gave a heavy gift to the shopkeeper Huo, saying that he was almost useless except for selling medicine, and he hated He Huang's crime even more because he didn't have a good life, so he asked the shopkeeper Huo to help him say a few kind words to the second wife of the Lu family, and let him go to Xiaorenhe Hall to sell medicine and eat.
The shopkeeper Huo really lived up to the trust, not only let Li Yuan sell medicine in "Renhetang", but also became the "shopkeeper" there.