Xujiazhuang.

Inside the study.

After listening to Yang Qi's report on the situation in Fangqiao Town.

"Oh, that Fang family master is playing tricks on us, not only to sell the land at a high price, but also to harvest my son-in-law, as a long-term meal ticket, wishful thinking is quite loud."

Xu Yuan smiled, there are not no people who want to calculate him, but there are many, but it is quite rare to be shrewd to this extent.

Xu Yuan didn't feel very angry about this, he just felt ridiculous and funny, those landlords and gentry, as well as Confucian scholars and doctors for thousands of years, the greatest ability and ability is probably calculation.

If it weren't for Yang Qi's more clever and greasy discovery this time, he might have really fallen for the other party's way.

"Owner, that Fang Chengxiu deceived us, should this cooperation continue?" Yang Qi asked again.

"The field is still wanted, and the more the better, since the other party has the intention of selling the land, we don't need to refuse, but considering the Fang family's intentions, the price, can only give 100 taels and one mu, no matter how high it is, it is impossible, love to sell or not." Xu Yuandao.

"Yes, owner!"

Yang Qi nodded.

"By the way," Xu Yuan stopped him again and asked, "What do you think of the Fang family's maid named Fang Qingyan?" ”

"Uh......"

Yang Qi thought about it, remembered the beautiful face, and the eyes that were extremely stubborn and impressed him, and said: "The owner, this woman is extremely strong, she would rather die than give in when she was framed, and she was beaten by someone without saying a word, but she is an admirable woman, but her status is too low, and she is far from worthy of the owner." ”

"What is her age, her appearance, is she heavenly?" Yang Qi was a little interested.

"Eighteen years old, his appearance is quite good, and he has no foot binding."

"Okay, that's it! Although you can't marry a wife, it's enough to take a concubine, prepare a dowry, and take someone to the Fang family to hire it. Xu Yuandao.

"Owner, I'll do it right away!"

Yang Qi was overjoyed, great, the owner finally figured it out, and finally knew that he was going to find a woman to give birth to an heir for the manor, and everyone was most worried about this problem in the past two years, but the owner was not in a hurry at all, and now everyone can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Of course, Xu Yuan suddenly opened his mind and planned to take a concubine, not because he needed a woman, but because he had a physiological need, mainly for two reasons.

On the one hand, it is indeed the other party Qingyan who is a little interested in this woman, because she has a personality that is very rare for ancient women.

On the other hand, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the landlord and scholar class had extremely large energy and controlled a large number of resources, although this class was backward, decaying, and must be destroyed, but at this stage, Xu Yuan had not yet overturned their strength, not only could not be too offended, but also had to take some measures to establish cooperation with them, gain their trust, and then get more resources.

Finding a landlord to marry is a good way to integrate interests.

But he can't accept a woman with bound feet, he doesn't have that kind of perverted and deformed hobby, he only likes Tianzu.

So I haven't found a suitable partner, otherwise I wouldn't have become an older young man - of course, according to the standards of the Blue Star, he is still very young, and it is not too late to get married in a few years.

……

The next day.

Fangqiao Town, inside the Fang family's mansion.

"It's only 100 taels of silver per mu, this price is too low, how about 180 taels of silver again?" Fang Chengxiu shook his head again and again, it was difficult to accept, you must know that his previous psychological price was two hundred and twenty-one acres.

"There are only so many, my owner said, you can sell it at this price, you can't sell it." Yang Qi picked up the cup and took a sip of tea.

"This ...... Add a little more, how about 120 taels? "Fang Chengxiu is still not dead.

"Master Fang, if you hadn't lied to me yesterday, I could have agreed to this price, but after yesterday's incident, the owner of my family told me that this is the price, and if you don't agree, I'll leave now." Yang Qi stood up and said.

"Virtuous nephew, Yang Xian's nephew, there is something to say, in this case, the old man will not bargain, one hundred and one acres will be one hundred and twenty-one acres!"

Fang Chengxiu hurriedly said, his heart was dripping with blood, just because of a few evil obstacles, he lost hundreds of thousands of taels at once, and the Fang family's accumulation in a hundred years was not so much.

"By the way, nephew Yang Xian, you just said that the owner of your village has taken a fancy to the little girl and wants to be accepted as a concubine, is this matter serious?"

Fortunately, although the income from the sale of land is not ideal, but I didn't expect that the owner of Xu Zhuang actually fell in love with his concubine and intended to be a concubine, although it is far less than the main wife, but it is also an unexpected harvest, if you can get the favor of the other party and give birth to the eldest son, it may not be able to bring benefits to the Fang family.

"It's true, the dowry is on the way to be delivered, and the gift list is here."

Yang Qi took out a red gift slip from his pocket and handed it to the other party.

Fang Chengxiu opened the ceremony sheet and looked:

Two thousand silver dollars

Two sets of gold jewelry

Two bicycles

Twenty pounds of sugar

Twenty pieces of soap

Twenty horses of fine cotton

and other items, etc.

All together, the value is at least more than 10,000 taels of silver, and the wealth and generosity of Xujiazhuang can be seen.

Then came anger, an unquenchable anger against the sons of the wicked man.

If there were no such bad things, the price of land sold today would be 200 taels per mu; The dowry list received today is the dowry list according to the standard of the wife, and the amount will increase several times.

So after Yang Qi said goodbye and left, Fang Chengxiu gritted his teeth and said to the housekeeper: "Butler, prepare a stick with a thick bowl mouth for me, and then call those evil obstacles over!" ”

"Yes, sir."

……

The Fang family's mansion, the back house.

In a very dilapidated and cramped transept room.

Lying on a bed with a door panel, taking off half of his shirt, revealing part of his back, and Zheng, the mother of a woman with most of her white hair and a face full of vicissitudes of life, who looked like a fifty-year-old woman, was holding a bone-setting medicine and smearing it on her daughter's black and bruised wounded parts, and said with great distress:

"My heart and liver, I was beaten like this by several young masters, why are you so stubborn? They have wronged you, you just admit it, and if you are beaten for nothing, will you be wronged less often, and will you be beaten less? It's better to let them go, admit your mistake, at most a few whips, lock up the firewood room for a few days, your mother will bring you food, if you are so stubborn, you will be beaten to death by them sooner or later. ”

Zheng's tears poured into her eyes, and she was distressed and helpless for this only daughter, and she persuaded many times, but it was useless, so she could only wash her face with tears.

"Mother, the bicycle is a very expensive thing, it costs tens of thousands of taels of silver, if I admit it this time, in order to give an explanation to the distinguished guest, I can be directly beaten to death, if I don't admit it, I can also die innocently, rather than so, it is better to choose innocence."

Fang Qingyan turned her head and explained, her face still stubborn.

In fact, the problem encountered that day was not serious, the bicycle was just a chain off, and it was easy to repair, but several young masters didn't understand, thinking it was broken, so they were in a hurry to find someone to take the pot, it happened that that day out of curiosity about the bicycle, Fang Qingyan stood far away and peeked, and was caught, it can be said that if she was not so curious at that time and didn't go over to join in the fun, maybe there would not have been this incident.

She herself has a certain reason.

But even so!

Even if she encounters similar frame-ups again, she will never admit it, and she can't admit it even if she is killed, because she is such a character.

Because she knows that even if she confesses her guilt, there will be no good results, her life is still in the hands of others, whether she makes a mistake or not, life and death are in the hands of others, if she really wants to take her life, just find an excuse.

Like his own mother, if she is weak and gives in, she only seeks peace in everything, and she does not get any good results in exchange for any kindness and kindness, but only in exchange for intensification, and you must not have any illusions.

"Mother, when my injury heals this time, I will take you out of the Fang family, this place can't stay any longer, our mother and daughter will die sooner or later, only by escaping can we survive and live a good life."

Fang Qingyan suddenly said her plan, which was also a plan she had been brewing for a long time.

"Leave? This must not be! ”

Zheng Shi was taken aback and shocked: "The outside world is more bitter than the Fang family, we are all women, we encounter human traffickers, we encounter murderers and bandits, there is no way, even if we don't meet those, how can we support ourselves?" Where to stay? Good daughter, don't think about this anymore, you must not escape, leave the Fang family, we two will not survive, we will only become lonely ghosts. ”

"Why can't I live, I have strength, I can work!"

Fang Qingyan said: "I have inquired clearly these days, Xujiazhuang is expanding the village, to recruit a lot of workers, female workers too, when the time comes, I will do heavy work, mother, you cook for them, it's really not good, I find a man who is good to me to marry, as long as he agrees to your mother's mother, you will eat with me, I will marry such a man, I don't believe I can't find such a man!" ”

"This ......"

Zheng couldn't help but be stunned, her daughter's feasible plan, she didn't know how to evaluate it for a while, and she occasionally didn't think about leaving the Fang family, which gradually made her feel desperate, but she immediately shook her head and denied it, but her daughter is still young, she still has a future, and her personality is so strong, leaving the Fang family may not be a good choice.

"Good! is worthy of our daughter, who does not accept her fate, and is exactly the same as the old man. ”

A cheering voice came from the door.

Brush it up.

Fang Qingyan's face suddenly turned pale, and Zheng's face was full of despair, so he hurriedly came to Fang Chengxiu, knelt down with a plop, and begged: "Master, spare Qingyan's life, punish me if you want to punish me, it's all my fault!" ”

"Hurry up, what's wrong with you?"

Fang Chengxiu helped her up, who was like chaff, and said, "The old man repented today, and he was shocked to realize that he owed a lot to your mother and daughter, rest assured!" I have broken my legs in those few evil obstacles, and I will not bully you in the future, and I can't live in this ear room anymore, I have ordered my subordinates to pack up a set of side rooms and come out, your mother and daughter will move to the side room immediately, and you have to arrange two maids to serve, in the future, your Zheng family is the concubine of the Fang family, you Fang Qingyan is the daughter of our Cheng Xiu, if the next person is disrespectful, the rod will be killed! ”

"Yes, sir!"

The people who came over said one after another.

It can be said that in just a few words, Fang Chengxiu greatly improved the status of the Zheng family in the Fang family, and also officially recognized Fang Qingyan's daughter, re-establishing her status, and no one could be bullied in the slightest.

"Master, my lord!"

Zheng exclaimed, full of surprise, bitter and sweet, bitter and sweet, countless times with tears on her face, this moment she finally looked forward to.

"Don't be pretending!"

Fang Qingyan climbed down from the bed, walked in front of Fang Chengxiu and said, "I don't want the charity you give, Master Fang, if you treat me as your daughter, allow me to leave the Fang family and fend for myself!" ”

"Of course the father wants to let you out of the Fang family, and he also found a good husband for you, look at this dowry list, the owner of Xujiazhuang has taken a fancy to you, and wants to accept you as a concubine, I really don't know if it is a good blessing that has been cultivated in several lifetimes, and in a few days, you can go to Xujiazhuang to enjoy the blessings."

Fang Chengxiu took out a gift slip from his sleeve, handed it to her, and sighed with a smile.

See the red gift slip.

Fang Qingyan was stunned, she didn't know what to say for a while, she had started to have the dream of escaping from the Fang family many years ago, and this was about to come true?