New Return of the Pearl: The Group's Pet Swallow Flies

When Xiaoyanzi saw the conflicted expressions on her uncle's and the others' faces, she couldn't help but chuckle.

After hearing what Xiaoyanzi said, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. They were really afraid that the princess would become serious and force them, the relatives, to kneel down and call her princess. That would be extremely frustrating.

After all, their royal status is real, but it is also true that they are relatives of the princesses and are older than the princesses.

"Xiaoyanzi, Ziwei, can you take your cousin to play with your brothers?"

Du Xueying felt that once the two children's identities were revealed, their parents would not dare to be too casual with them, so she let the children go out first while she and her husband counselled them.

Xiaoyanzi and Ziwei nodded, stood up and walked to their cousin Du Shaoan. Xiaoyanzi stretched out her hand and said crisply, "Cousin, Xiaoyanzi will take you out to play."

Looking at the soft, white and tender little hands in front of him and listening to the cute voice, Du Shaoan couldn't help but look up at her. He saw that his sister had clear eyes and a smile on her lips as she looked at him. She was so well-behaved.

"it is good."

Du Shaoan nodded, stood up, took the soft little hand, and followed her out of the living room.

He glanced at the sister next to him named Ziwei. She was the emperor's biological daughter and had no blood relationship with him. Although she was nominally his cousin, for the sake of conservativeness, he decided not to hold her hand.

Ziwei seemed to see her cousin's concerns, and she was happy and at ease. She took Xiaoyanzi's hand and walked out with her.

Seeing the children all walked out the door, Du Xueyin put away her smile and asked her parents in a serious tone, "Dad, Mom, brother and sister-in-law, have you encountered any difficulties?"

Du Cheng and the others were stunned, and then they said with an unnatural look on their faces, "No way, we just came here to see you, don't think too much."

How could Du Xueyin not see the forced expression on her parents' faces? She couldn't help but continue to ask, "Dad, Mom, you have seen our current identities. My husband is an earl personally appointed by the emperor, Xiaoyanzi is Princess Huanzhu, Ziwei is Princess Mingzhu, and we have a younger sister, who is Ziwei's mother, and she is Concubine He.

Among the children outside, there is the Fifth Prince, the emperor's favorite prince, and Princess Qing, the child of the emperor's younger brother, the current prince. Our family also has a friendship with the prince. Qing'er and Xiao Feng have a good relationship, and now they are sworn siblings.

You see, we are all of high status now, and we are also related to the royal family. If there is anything, as long as you tell us, we can think of a solution together. If we can solve it, we will solve it for you. If we can't solve it, we can find someone to help us. Can you tell me the truth?"

After hearing Du Xueying's words, the Du family fell silent. They swallowed and admired in their hearts that Xueying's family had become so wealthy that they were even related to the royal family. It was really amazing.

However, they did not have the slightest envy, jealousy or hatred in their hearts, they only wished Xueyin's family a good life.

Hearing Xue Yin say this, Du Cheng and his wife Hua Yan looked at each other, and they both sighed helplessly.

Afraid that his parents would not be able to speak, Du Xueyang pursed his lips and spoke with difficulty, "Our Du family has been harmed by thieves, our reputation has been ruined, and our business can no longer continue.

When we first received the letter that my brother-in-law had become the earl, we wanted to use it to blackmail those people. However, they refused to believe it because we had no token. They also said that even if it was true, distant water could not quench immediate thirst, and by the time you came, our Du family would have been doomed.

We were just trying it out, but they were so reckless that our Du family was suppressed and had no chance to make any progress. In the end, we had no choice but to close down."

Du Xueying and Xiao Zhihang were shocked when they heard what their eldest brother said.

Xiao Zhihang couldn't help but ask, "Isn't the Du family the richest family in Suzhou? Who did they offend? How could the Du family, which has been rooted for decades, lose all its business in such a short period of time?"

Yang Anxia sighed and told the Du family about their experiences one by one, "Our Du family was originally the richest family in Suzhou. We can't be said to be the richest in the area, but we are also one of the richest businessmen in Suzhou.

Just last year, there was an unexpected plague in Suzhou, and many people developed inexplicable rashes, and some people had high fevers.

The county magistrate at the time ordered the city gates to be blocked to prevent outsiders from knowing.

They arranged for a doctor to come and treat the disease themselves, but as they watched the plague spread from person to person, gradually expanding and infecting many people, the doctor said that the epidemic was very dangerous and that they urgently needed various ginseng and elixirs to boil water for treatment.

At that time, all the ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum in the city were bought by the county magistrate to the county government, and the boiled water was given to the people to drink. It did have some effect, and many people drank it and their symptoms were relieved a lot.

However, the doctor said that one ginseng root can only be boiled in water once, and one ganoderma lucidum is only enough to boil water twice.

We know that ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum cannot have only these few uses, but the doctor has something to say and the people listen.

So the magistrate summoned all the wealthy businessmen in Suzhou City to serve as magistrate.

He said that he wanted to donate money to the people so that they could receive medical treatment every day. He took out three million taels of silver from his private treasury. Let’s not talk about how he, a small county government, came up with such a large sum of money. He also asked all of us wealthy businessmen to take out the same three million taels of silver.

We wealthy businessmen are engaged in trade and jewelry business, so we naturally don't have so much money. We said that at most we could offer one hundred taels of silver.

The county government took the money and asked us to pay the remaining two hundred taels of silver. We said we didn't have that much money, but the county government didn't listen. When he saw that we didn't take the initiative to give the remaining two hundred taels of silver, he incited the people and said that we, the rich businessmen, were heartless and did not help others in need, and that we, the county government, knew how to take care of the people.

The common people didn't understand what was going on. They only heard from others that the county magistrate had donated a lot of money to them and was a good man, so the rich businessman who watched them suffer without helping was a bad person.

This incitement of public opinion has caused those who are sick and their family members who are not sick to no longer think about how to save their lives, how to live a good life and make money, but only think about how to overthrow us merchants.

Those people who were once kind began to call for our death because of conflicts of interest. They even smashed our shops and beat our people, just to vent their anger.

Several of us wealthy businessmen were very angry and thought about joining together to pool the remaining two million. However, what we didn't expect was that just as we pooled the remaining money and gave it to those wealthy businessmen, preparing to give it to the county magistrate together, we didn't expect that they actually cooperated with the county magistrate and turned against our Du family.

As a result, our Du family lost all their money and their reputation was ruined. We simply cannot defend ourselves.

After all, the money we gave out was not seen by the people. Even if they did see it, they would be incited and deceived and then start to bite us back.”