Lord Quan teases Houmen's poisonous wife

Chapter 201

Although the information Su Yan gave is not very comprehensive, and it even feels a little nonsensical to separate it, but for Lu Xiuyuan, it is a big step closer to the truth. At least what Su Yan said is what he has not been able to find out for the time being. ——His mother is related to Beiyan royal family.

Su Yan said that the jade pendant was not a decoration, but a secret order secretly issued by Emperor Beiyan.

So, is mother performing some kind of mission for Beiyan?

Calculated according to the time, the person in charge at that time could only be the first emperor of Beiyan, with the posthumous title of Emperor Chengxiao.

It's a pity that the emperor is already dead, otherwise, if he has a clear goal, he can spend money to send people to Beiyan Palace to inquire about news.

"Master." Wan Tong's voice sounded from behind, "This is a letter from the Duke's Mansion."

Lu Xiuyuan came back to his senses, took the sealed letter from Wantong's hand and slowly opened it.

Su Yan said in the letter that since Yi Bai is also investigating the matter of the jade pendant, it means that this thing has some origins with him. Besides, Yi Bai's mother died unexplained back then, maybe the jade pendant is also related to Yi Bai's biological mother. Lu Xiuyuan paid close attention to Yi Bai's movements, as long as that person finds out something, then the truth that Lu Xiuyuan wants should not be far away.

Turning the wheelchair to the candlestick, he put the letter in his hand on the hot flame, and it burned to ashes in a short while. Lu Xiuyuan sat quietly for a while, motioned for Wan Tong to step back, and then called out the head of the hidden guard, and ordered, "Give North Yan Zeng sent people to keep an eye on Yi Bai."

"Subordinates obey."

The snow outside has stopped, and everything is covered in silver, and there is an indescribable tranquility.

Lu Xiuyuan sat by the window to enjoy the snow scene for a while, and was about to go in for a rest when the Second Mrs. Lu came over.

"Brother Yuan." Second Mrs. Lu greeted her as soon as she came in with a smile on her face.

"Second aunt is here at this time, is there something urgent?"

"Isn't it the Spring Festival soon? The family has started to prepare new year's goods. Let me ask you, if there is anything you want to eat or anything else, Auntie will buy it for you later."

Look, Lu Xiuyuan is such a treasure in the Lu family. There is no need to say more about the kindness of the three uncles. Even the second wife of Lu has nothing to say about him. Even if her son is hungry, she will leave Lu Xiuyuan with the last bite. .

There is no mistress in the long house, all concubines, and the concubines are all eager to curry favor with Lu Xiuyuan, the "only heir of the long house". Once the power is in the hands of Mrs. Lu, no one can compete with her.

There are two reasons why Mr. Lu did not continue.

One of them is naturally based on Lu Xiuyuan.If there is no continuation, even if the concubines give birth to a son, it will only be a concubine, which will not threaten Lu Xiuyuan's position in the eldest house. One point, when he is not prepared to kill Lu Xiuyuan, it will be too late to regret it.

Second, the purpose of the continuation was originally to have a mistress to take care of the back house. The second wife of Lu is obviously good at this, and Master Lu is very fond of it, so feel free to give her the power, and someone will take care of it. There is no need to have another mistress come in and plot against me and plot against you all day long. They are a family of merchants, and more energy should be put on business instead of making the back house dirty.

However, the Lu family's back house will not always be peaceful and peaceful. After all, places with many women are always prone to conflicts. It's just that these so-called "conflicts" are trivial matters compared to those aristocratic families who entered the court. As for the point where you will die.

Lu Xiuyuan thought about it carefully, "Can Auntie know how to make chicken pancakes?"

The Second Mrs. Lu was stunned, "What, Brother Yuan, do you want to eat this?"

"Yes." Lu Xiuyuan nodded.

When he was a child, he lived with his mother in Luming Mountain. The happiest thing every day was to eat the chicken biscuits made by his mother. After coming to the Lu family for so many years, he never mentioned it, but today the second wife of Lu asked, A thought came to my head.

"You child, why do you want to eat this instead of eating?" Second Mrs. Lu said angrily, and then asked: "What about the others?"

"Others, Auntie can do it by herself!" Lu Xiuyuan said casually, anyway, delicacies from mountains and seas are indispensable every year, and Lu Xiuyuan is used to it.

"Oh, by the way, someone is coming from your grandparent's house. I have to get some order later, and I'll make chicken pancakes for you later."

The second wife of Lu didn't know Lu Xiuyuan's real identity, so she naturally regarded Mrs. Lu's family as Lu Xiuyuan's ancestral family.

Lu Xiuyuan frowned, "So early this year?" There is still more than half a month before the Spring Festival!
The Second Mrs. Lu sighed, quite helplessly, "I just picked up someone. It sounds like it will cost 20 taels this year. After some time, the whole family will move to the capital, and they will set up a house, farm and shop here. not enough."

20 taels, even if measured by the prices in the capital, that is a huge sum of money, sky-high.

According to Mrs. Lu's death, people from her natal family have been coming to the Lu family's door to "collect debts" for so many years. Once a year, tens of thousands of taels can't get rid of the vampires of the big family. No one expects them to earn much money. The key is that the so-called "uncles" like Lu Xiuyuan are more shameless than the other. At first, they can go out and find something to do by themselves. Treating the Lu family as a cash cow, it got worse and worse, and even came to the door in person, saying that they were just a younger sister who died within a few years of marriage. It was all because the Lu family didn't love each other. Give people, or give money.

People are dead, how to give them?It was clear that he was asking for money.

Fortunately, the father of the previous generation in the Lu family was mercenary. The three brothers of Lu Jiaping's generation valued love and righteousness. Lu Jiaping was not stingy because of his relationship with Mrs. Lu for several years. The subsidy has been raised repeatedly, and it was mentioned nearly 15 taels [-] years ago.

Just imagine, 15 years later, if you do a long-term job for someone today, you can get two taels of silver a month. It's only three or four taels, and after a year, not counting the rewards and extra subsidies from the master, the monthly rate is less than a hundred taels.

And 15 years ago, when the price level was lower than it is now, Lu Jiaping gave the Yue family nearly ten thousand taels of silver every year, which is quite generous.

It stands to reason that if such a "huge sum" of money is received every year, even if it is a pile of mud, it should be put on the wall. However, the family is still clinking poor, and runs to the Lu family whenever they have no money.

There is no other reason. Lu Xiuyuan's two "uncles", one eats, drinks and prostitutes, and the other gambles. They all rely on the Lu family's wealth and wealth, so they become more and more unscrupulous. Anyway, if they lose all their money, they go to the Lu family to get it. Their family owes their sister a life. Woolen cloth!
The two uncles didn't look back and think, if it weren't for Lu Jiaping's magnanimity, would their sister from a humble background be worth these 10 taels of silver?If it fell into the hands of traffickers, it would cost at most a hundred taels of silver.After so many years of relief, the Yue family didn't say a decent word, but took the Lu family's "debt" more and more for granted.Back then, the reason why Lu Jiaping fell in love with Mrs. Lu was because he just happened to lack a regular wife that he had to have.I'm sorry, except for the officials, who can match up with the rich and powerful Lu family, the whole Nanliang really can't find them.

In this era of distinct classes, officials look down on farmers, farmers look down on workers, and workers look down on businessmen.

In most cases, it is difficult for merchants to combine with officials, and the span is too large.However, with the wealth of the Lu family, it is not difficult to marry an official's daughter, but it is impossible to be the one who has a head, a face and a future. out of the girl.

Lu Jiaping is also a proud person. If he wants to marry that kind of woman, he might as well just find a daughter from a lower family background. Anyway, their family is not short of money, and they don't need a commercial marriage. Why bother to find an official Yue's family Look at people's faces.

Mrs. Lu's background is not good, and her natal brother is still so dissatisfied, which makes Lu Xiuyuan a little annoyed. It's not that he can't get 20 taels of silver, but that he doesn't plan to get it, why should he get it?Many women married into their husband's family and died due to dystocia. The solution of many aristocratic families is nothing more than paying a pension to the Yue family after burying them. If a concubine enters the mansion, that's all other people's business, you have no right to interfere as a former Yue's family.Basically, it can be said that there is no other family that can be as benevolent as the Lu family, taking care of the Yue family for 20 years.

"Who is here this time?" Lu Xiuyuan's face was slightly cold, and his tone was tainted with a little sharpness.

The second wife of Lu was shocked, "It's the second uncle."

"Let him come to see me."

Second Mrs. Lu was stunned.

Brother Yuan has never interfered in this matter, why this time...

The Second Mrs. Lu was a little worried, and frowned, "To put it bluntly, your two uncles are rascals, and it's useless to reason with him. It's fine for Auntie to deal with this kind of thing. Brother Yuan, don't see him anymore. , so as not to offend you when he speaks."

"It's okay." Lu Xiuyuan's patience had reached its limit, even if Lu Jiaping didn't make a move this time, he still had to deal with these so-called "relatives".

Seeing his resolute attitude, the second wife of Lu didn't persuade him any more, and went out to call for someone. After a while, Lu Xiuyuan, the "second uncle" Chen Dong came to his courtyard with his sleeves rolled up.

Unshaven, dull-eyed, sluggish, with a look of overindulgence and sleepiness, wearing an old gray and white cotton jacket, and a hat that barely blocks the wind.

This relative of the Lu family just appeared in front of Lu Xiuyuan in such a big way.

Don't think about it, the money on him must have been cheated by a woman in the brothel again, and even the expensive clothes on his body were stripped down to his pants, so he had no choice but to change into an old cotton jacket that even the servants of the Lu family didn't wear.The abacus was rattling, thinking that if you come to the Lu family, you will be able to return home full of rewards, right?
Lu Xiuyuan raised the corners of his lips, with a half-smile, "If someone hadn't said hello beforehand, I would have thought it was the concierge who let the beggars from the street in carelessly!"

Chen Dongcai had no money on him, and he was half a dwarf, and he hurriedly showed a flattering smile, "Yuaner, don't you see that uncle is short of money and has nothing to do, so he came to you?"

Lu Xiuyuan didn't speak.

Chen Dongcai continued: "Look at you, you live in such a big mansion, and you are the richest man. The money in your family is so much that you can't run out. No matter what, you have to help poor relatives like us, or you will be in vain. Your mother gave birth to you." gone."

After all, he just wanted to use Mrs. Lu's life as an example.

However, Lu Xiuyuan was not that person's biological son. When he was in a hurry, who would not go to extremes, "Is the grandparent's family planning to sell their daughter?"

Chen Dong was taken aback, "What?"

Lu Xiuyuan said: "Every time the two uncles come here, they say that the Lu family owes their mother a life, and they should give you money, so I just ask, are the grandfather and grandmother planning to sell their daughter? Sister?" If she really sold her daughter, based on Chen's worth, 500 taels would not be higher, and in the past 20 years, the Chen family took away tens of thousands of taels from the Lu family, all of which were fed to the dogs.

Chen Dong froze, "We are a family, and we should help each other. It's a bit exaggerated to say that. Thankfully, that's your mother. How could you say that about her..."

"Second Uncle." Before he finished speaking, Lu Xiuyuan interrupted in a cold voice, "Since you said that we are a family and we should help each other, then it's just right, I have something to ask for your help right now."

As long as he has the money, Chen Dong is of course willing to do anything. He has already fantasized about the exquisite figure of a certain girl in a certain building in his mind. "What do you want uncle to do, you just say it."

"Please, get out of Lu's house."

Lu Xiuyuan looked at him with such cold and clueless eyes, as if looking at you one more time, you could turn into ice cubes.

Chen Dong took two steps back uncontrollably, "Yuan'er, I'm your uncle."

In the past, the second wife of Lu gave all the money directly. If he had known that his white-eyed wolf nephew would be treated like this, he might as well have reached out and asked the second wife for money and left. Anyway, Lu Xiuyuan is in his eyes. They are not relatives in the true sense, but just a bridge between the Chen and Lu families for them to get money easily. As for their younger sister, it would be more valuable if they died. Otherwise, how could their family have given him money for so many years? Debauchery.

"From today onwards, no more." Lu Xiuyuan picked up the teapot on the brazier and poured water into the teacup, and said slowly: "I have ordered someone to write the petition for the Chen family to blackmail the Lu family, and it will take less than three days. Everyone in the Chen family has to go to the yamen to drink tea, Second Lord Chen, please walk slowly."

Chen Dong turned pale, "Lu Xiuyuan, what do you mean?"

Lu Xiuyuan smiled lightly. In fact, with his personal power, it is very easy to get rid of a Chen family, but he doesn't want to do it. It is not a pity for these people to die. It is better to let them spend a few more years in prison, otherwise they will never People are used to taking money in their hands, and they don't know the hard work of making money.

What if the Lu family is the richest man, so what if they have too much money?That's what he earned penny by penny. Could it be that it just fell from the sky?The premise that he doesn't care about money is that the money is spent on someone who is worth it. The Chen family is a bottomless pit. After the father dies, there is still a son, and after the son dies, there is still a grandson. It is estimated that within three generations, the Chen family will continue to ask for Mrs. Lu's death. money.

ridiculous!Their daughter is a fairy?Why should the Lu family pay for so many people?
"Literally." Lu Xiuyuan said directly: "If you don't want to be beaten to death with a stick like a beggar, I advise you to leave as soon as possible, otherwise I will be unhappy in a while, and maybe I can do anything."

Just as Lu Xiuyuan finished speaking, a group of skilled servants and nurses rushed over from outside. They all looked at Chen Dongcai with fierce eyes. As long as Young Master Lu gave an order, they would tear this shameless second uncle alive. They definitely don't frown.

Chen Dong had come to Lu's house to ask for money for so many years, but he had never seen such a battle before, he was so frightened that his calves trembled.

Lu Xiuyuan signaled, "Throw it out."

Immediately, five or six strong men came in, straddling their arms and legs, not allowing Chen Dong to resist and struggle, and directly threw him out of the gate of Lu's house and fell into the snow.

Chen Dong was in so much pain that he cried for his father and mother, and finally ran back to report the letter wiping his nose.

Lu Xiuyuan did what he said, and he was sued by his "grandfather" family.

Three days later, except for the elderly grandmother and grandfather, everyone else who spent more than a thousand taels of Lu family silver were all sent to prison.

You want to ask the charges?With Lu Xiuyuan's ability, it's no problem to give such troublesome people a reasonable charge. He doesn't pay attention to the process. His purpose is to let these moths go to prison to "enjoy" the life that those who offended him should live .

When Lu Jiaping learned of this, he was rather surprised and came to find Lu Xiuyuan in person.

"Does father think I've done too much?"

Lu Jiaping said: "Yuan'er, I just didn't expect you to personally intervene in this matter. As for the Chen family, we don't pay attention to such a small amount of money every year. The reason why I ignored it before was because I kept reading The husband and wife relationship with the wife, thinking that her parents are not easy to raise her, give some money to give some money! Who would have expected them to be so excessive this year, 20 taels, does that mean they can get it out? ? It's good if you take care of it, it saves a lot of trouble, and I don't have to let people walk around to give gifts in the coming New Year's Eve."

Lu Xiuyuan nodded, "As long as father doesn't blame me."

How could it be possible to blame?Lu Jiaping complained that in his eyes, Yuan'er was closer than his own son, and he devoted all his efforts to him, not that he wanted to train Lu Xiuyuan to be an heir, he just wanted this child to live a better life than others, after all His legs are already like that, in other aspects, if you can make up for him, let's try to make up for it!

(End of this chapter)