A farmer's daughter who traveled through time: Marrying a sickly man

"Brother, how are your family members?" Xia Tian poured another cup of tea for Xia Yang.

"My family is all very nice." Xia Yang said with a smile, "Fourth sister, after you left, we opened eight more stores, not only in the prefecture, but also in nearby counties."

Speaking of the shop, Xia Yang turned around and took out a small cloth bag from the bag he was carrying. He opened it layer by layer and took out a stack of banknotes and handed it to Xia Tian, "Fourth sister, this is your share."

"My share?" Xia Tian was puzzled. "My share of what?"

"Oh, it's the money I made from selling braised food." Seeing that Xia Tian didn't take the banknote, Xia Yang stuffed it directly into her hand.

"Brother, I can't accept the money you make from braised food. You earned it with hard work, so you don't have to share it with me." Xia Tian quickly stuffed the banknote back.

"No, you have to accept this." Xia Yang stuffed it back, "If you hadn't brought us together to sell braised food, how could we have the life we have now?"

When Xia Tian was about to go to the capital and handed over the braised food workshop to him, he made a decision that no matter where his fourth sister went, all the income from selling braised food would be divided equally according to the previous agreement.

So in the past two years, no matter how many stores he opened or how much money he made, he always kept the share that was to be given to Xia Tian.

"Brother, I'm not short of money right now, you can keep these banknotes."

"No, you must accept this. If you don't, then the braised food shop will not open anymore."

Xia Tian saw that Xia Yang's stubbornness was quite similar to when they were in Qingquan Town. Although they had only been together for about half a year at that time, he still felt very familiar when he thought about it now.

"Okay, big brother, then I'll accept it." Xia Tian didn't hesitate any more. Since Xia Yang treated her as his own sister, she wouldn't be estranged from him.

We will visit each other often in the future. We are still a family and there will always be a time when I can help you.

In fact, Xia Yang's action still made her feel warm, which meant that she did not help the wrong person at the beginning.

Xia Yang was relieved when he saw that she accepted it, and smiled again, "Fourth sister, only if you accept it, big brother will feel at ease.

No matter how much the braised food business makes in the future, half of it will still be yours."

"That's good." Xia Tian said jokingly while holding the banknote, "Then whether I, the fourth sister, can get rich in the future depends on big brother."

"Brother, I'm trying my best." Xia Yang was also amused by her words.

Xia Tian looked at the thick stack of silver bills in his hand and counted them one by one. The bills had denominations of 100 taels, 200 taels and 500 taels, a total of 16,000 taels of silver bills.

"Brother, your business is really big. You actually make so much money." Xia Tian said happily.

"Hey, you don't know, our braised food is so delicious that it's in short supply every day.

Besides, my brother-in-law has the government officials take care of our family, and no one is causing trouble, so our business is getting better and better.

This is still some of the profit that I used to open a branch, otherwise it would be much more."

Xia Yang started to talk about business and became more talkative.

Xia Tian listened with a smile on her face. She had not expected that her elder brother had grown so fast. In just two short years, he had become a mature and experienced businessman.

Xia Yang mentioned business and stood up to bow to Shen Nian. "Thank you, brother-in-law, for having the government officials look after us. Otherwise, our business would not be that big now."

He felt this deeply. When he first arrived in the provincial capital, he was envied and threatened because of his good business.

Later, government runners often came to patrol. Later, he secretly inquired and learned that a high-ranking official in the capital had greeted their boss, so no one came to cause trouble again.

The government runners even asked him indirectly who the high-ranking official in the capital was.

Although Xia Tian did not make Shen Nian's identity clear when he left, he guessed that it must be no simple matter.

Later people said he was an official from the capital. The only person he knew who had connection with the capital was his fourth brother-in-law Shen Nian.

I knew that my brother-in-law must have helped with this.

"You're welcome, big brother. It's just a small favor." Shen Nian said modestly.

This was actually done by his subordinates who were secretly protected by him, and he only found out about it later.

But there is no need to explain it so clearly now.

Xia Yang remembered all the kindness that the two had shown to him, and then he remembered that he had not yet taken out the gifts he brought.

He quickly asked the servants to bring all the things in.

Xia Yang's family now owns property and has hired servants. He has also hired a lot of people to help run his braised food shop. He is no longer the peasant who digs in the dirt for a living.

In the summer, you can see silks, satins, snacks, local specialties, jewelry and clothes filling half the kang.

"Brother, are you going to buy goods?" Xia Tian couldn't help but exclaim in amazement. This was too much.

Xia Yang smiled embarrassedly, "I didn't bring so much with me when I left home. I just bought some that I saw along the way, and this is all I have."

"Then you can keep some and take them home later." Xia Tian picked out some and asked him to repack the rest and bring them back to his parents and younger siblings.

"No, no." Xia Yang quickly refused, "These are all for you, please accept them. I will buy more for my family when the time comes."

Speaking of family, Xia Tian also asked about the family situation in detail.

"Brother, you said last time that my uncle had passed the examination for Tongsheng. Did he pass the examination for Xiucai?"

"No." Xia Yang's expression was somewhat helpless. "Fortunately, I didn't pass the exam. You don't know that when I passed the exam, my grandparents wanted us to hand over the braised food shop."

He still felt a little scared when he thought about it now. If he hadn't been smart and made a prompt decision to move to the provincial capital so that they couldn't find him, he might still be being harassed by them.

I heard that he later went to Xia Yue to make trouble, but Xia Yue's in-laws were more powerful and did not let his grandparents get involved.

Otherwise, he would have to find a way to get Xia Yue to the provincial capital.

Xia Tian was also upset when she heard this. This old lady Xia really managed to push her boundaries every time.

"What is my father's attitude?" Xia Tian wanted to know her father's attitude towards the old woman of the Xia family. If he still couldn't help her, then there was no need to keep this father.

"Dad had some sympathy at first, but he endured it. Later, he got so annoyed by my grandparents' nagging that he stopped contacting them after we moved to the capital."

As Xia Yang's business grew bigger and bigger, he became more skilled in dealing with human relationships and was no longer blindly filial to his father.

Just like before in Qingquan Town, he gave his father a monthly salary, but did not give him any extra money, just to prevent him from secretly subsidizing other people in the Xia family.

Fortunately, his father was quite responsible. He was probably hurt by the old couple of the Xia family, so he did not take the initiative to contact them.

Sometimes the younger generation would ask someone to bring some things back to them, but they never let anyone know where they lived.

Therefore, no one else from the Xia family has come to visit him yet.

Xia Tian finally felt relieved, as long as his father could handle things clearly.

"What about Xia Shi? How's his studies going?"

"He was a very good student when he was young." Xia Yang smiled more when he talked about his younger brother Xia Shi. "He is studying in the academy in the prefectural city. His teacher said that he can take the exam next year."

"Really?" Xia Tian also became happy.

Xia Shi is only twelve years old, and he will be thirteen next year. It seems that he is studying really well.

"Yes. That's what the teacher said." Xia Yang couldn't stop smiling.

He now feels that the best decision their family has made is to send Xia Shi to school, and he is really a good student.

He is much better than his uncle.