Wanjin Lady.

Chapter 7 Repaying kindness with hatred
"Miss, what happened? I asked that girl Lu Ping, but she was hesitant and couldn't explain clearly." Aunt Liu was getting dressed as she walked. When she entered the house, she found Wen Wan sitting by the window. There was a silk screen in the room. As soon as Aunt Liu entered the room, Wen Wan waved at her, "Aunt, don't worry. Daddy is fine. Everything is fine."

Only then did Aunt Liu slow down her pace.

She walked behind Wen Wan and caught a glimpse of a pointed reed pen on her desk, with a piece of paper next to it covered with dense handwriting.

Aunt Liu couldn't understand a single word.

I just think that this girl is really amazing.

Nowadays, there are few educated people and even fewer educated women.

Even though Wen Wan had only practiced calligraphy for a few years with her scholar grandfather, and her handwriting was not elegant at all, it did not prevent Aunt Liu from adding a halo of goddess to Wen Wan's head in her heart.

"Auntie, sit down."

Wenwan gestured to the chair nearby.

Aunt Liu sat down as she was told.

"Has Aunt Cui been settled?"

"Yes. I gave her twenty taels of silver, and I gave her five taels from my own pocket. She filled three boxes with clothes, shoes, and socks."

Three cages.

In Ping County, the luggage is considered quite rich.

Aunt Liu always likes to bicker with Aunt Cui, and Wen Wan thought that the two of them were incompatible.

It can be seen that Aunt Liu... really has no bad intentions.

Seeing Wen Wan looking over, Concubine Liu raised her voice in embarrassment, "Ah, after all these years of fighting, I still don't understand her? She's just a little bit scheming, and she's from a wealthy family, she doesn't have any tricks or schemes at all! Now that she's gone... what about this cousin from Bozhou? I was worried that she'd be cheated out of everything."

Pants?
Wen Wan could not possibly associate underpants with the delicate Aunt Cui.

Wen Wan chuckled softly, "Why didn't Aunt Liu scold her for being ungrateful?"

"Didn't Hongmei scold us on everyone's behalf?" Aunt Liu waved her hand and sighed. "Everyone has their own aspirations, and we shouldn't force them. She used to be a young lady, and only came to the Wen family after falling into poverty. She doesn't have much affection for the Wen family, and we're not on the same boat! Besides, water flows to the bottom, and people strive for higher places. She has a better future, so why should we be the bad guy and stand in her way?"

"You've really thought it through." Wen Wan's gaze drifted down upon Aunt Liu's face. "Hasn't Aunt ever thought of seeking a better future? You're only thirty now. With Aunt's looks, if you're released from the Wen Mansion, it won't be difficult for you to find another one."

"Hey!" Aunt Liu scowled coldly, "Don't try to sow discord between me and your father!"

Wen Wan frowned: "My father... is he okay?"

Old Man Wen may be a successful businessman and a qualified father, but he is definitely not a qualified husband.

Apart from his deep love for Wen Wan, Old Man Wen's two concubines were purely tools for him to expand his family.

Although Aunt Liu came from a butcher's family and was of low status, she had no worries about food and clothing, and would never fall to the point of becoming Old Man Wen's concubine.

"Okay! Of course! The master is the most handsome man in the world!"

Wen Wan's eyes twitched. "Aunt, my father is the best man in the world. I reluctantly admit it. But the word 'best'... I'm afraid my father can't bear it."

Who says no.

With Old Man Wen's appearance, if he had not married Wen Wan's mother, I'm afraid that Wen Wan would have been born ugly.

"What do you know as a little girl? Your father..." A girlish blush appeared on Aunt Liu's face, and she was delicate and shy, with misty eyes. Wen Wan could only interpret it as that Old Man Wen was good at that.

Just be.

Only thunder but no rain.

This resulted in the best fields having no harvest.

The girl's eyes were bright, and she smiled faintly, "Aunt, I'll let you go home, just like Aunt Cui."

Aunt Liu was startled, "What?"

The lights in front of me almost went out.

Wen Wan gently swished the oil lamp, stopping Aunt Liu, who was anxiously rambling on. "Aunt, how much cash do we have left in our household?" Aunt Liu didn't know why Wen Wan was asking at this time, but she still answered honestly, "I just calculated it a few days ago, and there are about eight hundred taels in total. After deducting the repair costs for the door that was damaged yesterday by debt collectors, Aunt Cui's expenses, and the master's medicine, it's estimated to be a little over seven hundred taels."

Seven hundred taels, one tael of silver is about six or seven hundred wen, and taking the middle number of six hundred and fifty wen, it is about RMB 500,000.

Wenwan held her forehead.

As expected, with the low productivity in ancient times, 500,000 yuan could blind the tribesmen's titanium dog eyes and make them come to attack.

“Is this a public account or a private account?”

"The master's private account. The official account is in Shi Jinquan's hands. No one has ever seen it."

Right.

Aunt Liu is from the inner house and cannot interfere in the business of the winery.

The winery's account book was in the hands of a man named Shi Jinquan, known as "Shi Zhangfang".

Coincidentally, this man came to visit her yesterday and asked her to find someone more capable to manage the winery, obviously intending to leave.

It’s a pity that the original owner didn’t care about the Wen family’s business before, and Father Wen doted on his daughter and didn’t force her to study.

It was only after Old Man Wen fell ill that the original owner started to cram.

Obviously, the original owner had no talent in this area.

At least in Wenwan's memory, the winery's business was a mess, with so many complicated connections that she had no clue what to do.

She only knew that the Wen family owned a winery on a tributary of the Taohua River, with fifty or sixty employees. Their main product, Bifang wine, sold well and was quite famous in the Bozhou area.

There is nothing else.

"Is this Shi Jinquan trustworthy?"

Speaking of things outside, Aunt Liu was just as clueless as she was. "I don't know. Anyway, he has been with the Master for many years, and all the accounts of the Wen family, big and small, have to go through him. The Master trusts him very much."

"In other words, all the money of the Wen family is in his hands?"

"Probably...yes?"

Wenwan frowned slightly.

The company is not big now. The chairman is seriously ill, the financial director is leaving, suppliers are asking for payment, and senior executives have run away. These days are becoming more and more hopeful.

at the moment.

There is no other way except to trust the people around you.

"Madam Liu." Wen Wan didn't hide anything and revealed all her guesses about the Qi family. "The person Dad sent to the Qi family has returned. He said he waited outside the Qi family for two days but didn't see any of the Qi family members."

Aunt Liu's heart skipped a beat.

How many times has this happened?

The Wen family has at least sent people to deliver four or five replies to the Qi family, right?

The Qi family is nowhere to be seen. Who would believe them if they said they weren't hiding from the Wen family?!

Aunt Liu frowned, "What do you mean by Qi family?!"

Wen Wan scoffed, "Maybe... he wants to trick us."

If the Qi family does not agree to marry into the family, according to the law, Wen Yue, the daughter-in-law who marries out, can also get some money.

Concubine Liu was so angry that she was shaking all over. "Eldest Aunt...how could she do this? She is the master's biological sister!"

She stood up again and paced anxiously around the room. "How could there be such an ungrateful person in this world? She used to come here every ten days or half a month, and she never went back empty-handed! Two years ago, her eldest daughter-in-law had a difficult labor, and it was the master who spent fifty taels of silver to buy her a ginseng to keep her alive! If not, her eldest grandson would have died in the womb long ago - and now, she's repaying kindness with hatred!"

Before I joined Twitter, I couldn't update too quickly. I'll slow down a bit. These past few days, I've been updating with 2,000 words at a time. Sorry.

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