One day two years ago, not long after Duan Xiaolou left Yangzhou with Ling Miaoyi and returned to Beijing, He Angelica and Liao Qinger went to school together, and as soon as they entered the academy, they heard a group of young ladies talking about something, "My biological father doesn't want her mother, and I don't want her, I don't know what her mother did to be virtuous......

"No, I guess that He Jingxian is not her father either, otherwise why wouldn't the He family want her ......"

"That's right, her mother married again soon after she was sent back to Luofu, so it can be seen that she is a woman who can't stand loneliness......"

"My second aunt has been widowed at home for ten years, and every time someone comes to tell her a matchmaker, she hangs back every other day, she is really a model for our women......"

He Angelica and Liao Qing'er's ears keenly captured keywords such as "He Jingxian" and "Luofu", and there was nothing they didn't understand. And He Angelica only couldn't hear, and in the eyes of everyone like substance, he walked into the piano house and wiped her ukele as usual. But Liao Qing'er couldn't suppress her anger, ran to everyone with her hands on her waist, her tongue fought with the crowd, and shook off the feathers of the young ladies who had gossiped about He Angelica, Miss A is the daughter of a concubine, her mother committed the crime of stealing in her husband's house, Miss B was rejected for delivering a letter to a certain son, squatting by the river and crying, Miss C, uh, I let go of a fart in class one day......

Although Liao Qinger's cockfighting appearance temporarily suppressed everyone's excitement, it could not slow down the spread of rumors, and what a tempting topic "The Criticism of the First Golden Branch's Life Experience" was, compared to the troubles of those young ladies, it was not enough to see at all.

Liao Qing'er was indignant and vowed to find out where the source of the rumors was, and drag the dark villain out of the gutter to bask in the sun. So, she hung a black cloak and called herself "Sherlock Holmes", and pulled He Angelica, who lacked interest, to pretend to be a doctor "Watson", but there was no body in this case to "Watson" for examination, and the reasoning level of "Sherlock Holmes" was also lacking, the two stumbled and checked for a few days, and the blind cat bumped into a dead mouse and grabbed a few scholars who spread bad tabloids in the academy, and then, He Angelica recognized at a glance that the original paper of the tabloid was the Qingzhu rice paper of Wenzhuxuan in the capital.

As soon as the two came to the conclusion that the rumors were flowing from the capital, Liao Zhiyuan rushed to Yangzhou in a hurry. He apologized to He Angelica and said that after Duan Xiaolou fell in love with her, he and Lu Jiangbei investigated her life history a little, and collected the relevant investigation letters in Baisha Villa in Yinma Town.

Until then, He Angelica knew that Ling Miaoyi, who liked to wear red clothes the most and was known as "Little Pepper" and "Liar Spirit", was his cousin, and the other party knew that there was such a layer of kinship, so he stabbed himself in the back. He Angelica didn't know how to feel about this result, and Liao Zhiyuan stuffed her with a handwritten letter from Lu Jiangbei and left.

The letter was written in a messy manner, which did not match the gentle and elegant Lu Jiangbei in He Angelica's impression, and the letter said that he was extremely sorry for investigating her life history without authorization and keeping it for not keeping it well so that the news could be leaked. It's just that Duan Shao asked him to be a matchmaker in the middle of the water business view, and he regarded Duan Shao as a younger brother, so he asked the spies to enter the capital and Hefu to inquire about her life experience. Now that the consequences have been done, no amount of apology will help, but he will try to make it up to her as a sign of guilt.

Since then, He Angelica has never seen Lu Jiangbei bring letters, let alone Lu Jiangbei himself, and gradually put this matter behind, and she is not too angry with Lu Jiangbei or Liao Zhiyuan, after all, they are not the culprits who spread rumors, and they also helped her find a very important golden lock in the past.

The rumors came and went quickly, and even He Angelica himself couldn't remember which day she went to school, she lost everyone's attention, and she didn't appear in everyone's after-school topic anymore, so the incident faded like that. At this time, I suddenly heard Chang Nuo mention Lu Jiangbei and have a relationship with her stepfather He Fu's case, which made He Angelica suspicious, Lu Jiangbei stepped on He Fu along the water, could it be that this is his "compensation" for himself?

No wonder she thinks like this, Lu Jiangbei is the commander of the high-ranking Jinyi Guard, and he is the kind of "Mr. Yes", it is hard to imagine that he himself will have any old grudges with He Fu. Since Lu Jiangbei has investigated her life experience, she is naturally very clear about the past between her mother and He Fu - the rich lady Xiu found a poor boy, and then the poor boy ran away with the money, and everyone went to the Taoist temple sadly to escape the world.

In the context of such a story, the poor boy He Fu is the living Chen Shimei, and Lu Jiangbei believes that she also hates He Fu, so she will collect all kinds of evidence of He Fu's bad officials, and tell He Fu to walk around without eating, so as to compensate for the trouble caused to her after revealing her life experience that day.

Before her life experience was exposed, she was vaguely identified as Miss Cousin of the Luo family, and outsiders only said that her father's identity was not high and she couldn't report a loud name, so she reported the name of her grandfather's family. After her life experience was exposed, the most painful thing that everyone scratched was that her mother remarried out of moderation, so that her family education was not good, so that she fell into the hearts of male students as a "concubine who can be fostered", and she was always entangled with her.

Thinking about it this way, Lu Jiangbei did cause her some trouble, and now she can accept this compensation method calmly. However, He Angelica still didn't understand it, and asked Chang Nuo: "Since He Fu's family property has been confiscated into the official, how can you secretly transfer it to me?" This is not a joke, Brother Zhou, which temple are you the god of, give me a thorough understanding, otherwise I will be worried about the silver, and I will never dare to do those illegal things, and I don't have a backer like my fourth sister, and I am not afraid of killing people and setting fires. ”

Chang Nuo smiled and said: "You don't dare to do anything illegal, but you dare to be disrespectful to the prince in front of me, I see that you are more daring than me." Don't worry, Sister Qingyi, I will do this without leaving a trace, even the Emperor Lao Tzu can't find out on your head, and your backers are more than Luo Baishao, in time you will know that even if you poke a hole in the sky, there is a man who is determined to support the sky and plug the hole. ”

"Come on, you don't have to say good things for King Ning in every way," He Danggui sighed, "It seems that you don't know King Ning as well as me, in this world, there will not be any woman who can let him live without him, and you really think too highly of me, a mediocre woman like me will not only not help King Ning's achievements, but also pull him back and make him regret it." ”

Chang Nuo's face was soft, and he said with relief: "You don't have to worry, the prince doesn't ask you to do anything for him, he just wants to ......"

"Whether I am a sail with the wind or the water against the current, you will be able to see in time," He Angelica, who couldn't listen to it, immediately interrupted his nonsense, the person he was talking about was not Zhu Quan at all, and he didn't hear it a hundred times, she asked angrily, "How much does He Fu's family property have?" How much money will I earn you by doing ten days of hard labor? I'm more interested in silver. ”

"Sister Qingyi, are you very short of silver flowers?" Chang Nuo tilted his head to look at her, "It's impossible, not to mention that the 'love tokens' given to you by the prince are worth no less than 100,000 taels of silver, and the silver tickets I attach at the end of each year alone are 3,000 taels, why do you resolutely refuse to accept those silver tickets?" ”

He Angelica stretched the corners of his lips and said: "I only earn the silver I deserve, He Fu's silver was deceived from my mother, and I can get back one tael for my mother." As for those gifts from King Ning, I was afraid that they would be broken in my yard one day, and I would not be able to repay them in the future, so they were all stored in the treasure cabinet of Qibao Qianzhuang, and the keys were kept in my hands, and the annual storage fee of fifty-six taels was really expensive, I don't know if you can afford half of it. ”

After Chang Nuo heard this, he shouted in his heart, a woman's heart, a needle under the sea, an eleven sister is enough for him to have a headache, and now there is a very principled Qingyi sister, which really makes him confused, and he doesn't understand what the meaning of her persistence and tough attitude is. The prince held a mountain of rice for her, but she didn't touch it, but she wanted to go to the rice field to hold the grain one by one, and said "I'm more interested in silver", but it gave people the feeling that she was not moved by gold and silver. This strange sense of disobedience is exactly the same as his eleventh sister, who shouted that she was hungry, and when he made her a table of meals, she found that her meal was smaller than that of a sparrow, and she stopped chopsticks after two bites.

Chang Nuo doesn't understand what women pursue all their lives, even if they are not as straightforward as men and go straight to the point, at least they shouldn't go too far, right? But the girl in front of him gave him a feeling that he was surrounded by deep clouds and mist, and he was about to go around to the sky. He really couldn't screw her, so he had to give up the theme of "finding a woman for the prince", followed her train of thought, and counted her small accounts: "Fifty-six taels of storage fees per year, plus the carriage and horse expenses for Qingyi's round-trip carriages, and the tea expenses that will make you thirsty after saving things, I will pay you a whole number of one hundred taels, three years is three hundred taels, how about it?" ”

He Angelica smiled: "Talking to the broad people about trading is refreshing, originally I shouldn't have taken advantage of you to collect so much, but there are contacts, I believe that this time is definitely not the last deal for you and me, this time I will earn an opening lottery, and the next time you patronize me, I will also give you a good price." In other words, how much is He Fu's family property, haven't you found out your eyebrows? ”

"Twenty thousand taels." Chang Nuo replied.

"Twenty thousand taels?" He Angelica's first reaction was, "Are you looking for an excuse to stuff King Ning's silver to me again?" ”

20,000 taels?! Her business with Qing'er is booming, and it can almost be said that it is popular in the whole of Yangzhou, and a lot of whirlwind has been rolled up in the fields of aphrodisiac and Qinglou, and it took three years to get a dividend of more than 20,000 taels of silver.

The original capital, in addition to the money she bought the fragrant wooden coffin and the old lady's heirloom "contribution bonus", as well as more than 6,000 taels of silver tickets brought out by Qing'er from the Liao family, and then added a private money from Sister Pearl, with these capitals, coupled with her and Qing'er's strong business acumen, plus Qing'er's business experience in the real estate business in her previous life, she bought several good store sites with the most development potential with the least amount of silver, and the business was so big that she had Qing'er's net worth of 20,000 taels Her net worth of 15,000 taels and Sister Pearl's net worth of 8,000 taels.

And He Fu, the guy who doesn't learn and doesn't know how to do it, before he went to the capital four years ago, he coaxed and deceived her from her mother to get nearly two thousand taels of silver, and went to the capital to be an idle official who couldn't get oil and water, and it was only four years, how could he turn two thousand taels into twenty thousand taels? Impossible, impossible in every sense of the word.

"I really didn't lie to you, the 20,000 taels are He Fu's own family assets," Chang Nuo said in a deep voice, "I asked the jailer to torture He Fu and inquire about the source of his silver. Although I don't know how much your mother's dowry is, but a family like my family only prepared a dowry of 14,000 taels for my aunt when she got married, how could your mother give away 20,000 taels of silver in a big way? Twenty thousand taels is not a random amount in our Cao Gang. ”

He Angelica stroked the plum blossoms on his cuffs, and analyzed according to the clues in his words: "You can go in and out of the Jingwei prison at will, give orders to the prison officials, and you are from a higher family than Luofu, but you are willing to abandon your original identity and come to Yangzhou to do business, this kind of entrepreneurial spirit is really admirable." ”