After crossing, I was forced to hold on to my thighs and build a kingdom

When they arrived home, Mrs. Sun and Mrs. Li were already smiling, and the atmosphere was harmonious again.

After Sun arranged everything for Li, she went to the inner room and took out fifty taels of silver. She then rummaged around and took out three taels of change. Then she sighed and walked towards Li with the silver in her hands.

"Cousin, this is the deposit I received from the Li family. I have never touched a single cent of it. Come and take a look at it."

Seeing Sun calling her, Li didn't refuse. She walked forward to take a look and nodded, "It is indeed fifty taels."

Sun took out a small purse and pushed it in front of Li. "Here are three taels of silver. Take it and use it for your business. If this goes through, I will give you a thank you gift."

Li said, "We are sisters, why be polite to each other?", but she took the purse without any hesitation.

No matter how much the deposit is, she has to take it back to report to the master in the mansion, and not a single cent can be touched.

But once the three taels of silver in the purse are in her hands, she has the final say!

Should she take care of it after she gets back or not? How should she take care of it specifically? Isn't that all up to her?

Looking at her cousin's eyes full of expectation and trust, Li felt a rare bit of sincerity.

"Cousin, I still want to persuade you. If the master of the mansion does not agree to cancel this marriage and insists on marrying Jin girl, have you thought about how to deal with it?"

Sun's eyes widened in confusion, and she asked uncertainly, "Isn't that the case? Although Jin girl is pretty, her temper is really not good. Few families would like a girl like her! There are so many good girls in our city, and the master has met so many. He can choose from others, and Jin girl won't be a problem, right?"

Mrs. Li shook her head and gave a meaningful smile. "Sister, you're wrong! In fact, many city gentlemen have different preferences from us common people. For example, the master in our mansion prefers girls with chaste and loyal personalities!"

"If my master really insists on having that Jin girl, then your opposition will be like hitting a rock with an egg. You're overestimating your own abilities! Besides angering the nobleman, not making any money, and getting yourself into trouble, what else can you expect? As for that Jin girl, she's powerless, and she'll eventually end up in our house."

Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed that Sun's hands on the table had unconsciously clenched, and her face had lost the relaxed look of relief. Li intensified her persuasion, "My cousin, you should ask your sister to go back and tell the master frankly that Miss Jin'er committed suicide and has changed her personality. She is no longer the gentle, obedient girl who listened to her aunt. You can't force her to marry this time!"

She approached Sun and said in a feigned intimacy, "If the master of the mansion still insists, you can cooperate. If it works, that's great. If not, it has nothing to do with you, and the master of the mansion will have nothing to say! This way, my sister, you can get away with it without offending the noble, and you can also get the fifty taels of silver for free. Isn't that more cost-effective than simply going to apologize and give silver, and then offending the noble?"

After saying this, Sun's eyes immediately lit up.

She happily hugged Li and acted coquettishly: "This is not my cousin at all, she is clearly my biological sister! My dear sister, if you hadn't explained it to me carefully, I wouldn't have known there were so many tricks involved..."

She said this cheerfully, but suddenly thought of Jinchu's stern face, and immediately hesitated, "But cousin, Jin'er is really fierce. If she knew we were plotting against her behind her back, I'm really afraid she would come to our house and cause trouble! You don't know, that girl also learned a lot of brute force from somewhere, and she doesn't hold back when she hits people! Last time, she pushed me casually and threw me far away. My waist still hurts now!"

After saying that, Sun subconsciously reached out and rubbed her waist again.

Li rolled her eyes at Sun and scolded her with a smile, "Look at your guts!"

After laughing, she said in a sinister voice, "Since that girl is so fierce, why don't we just be on guard against her? You and I know this, and if we don't tell anyone, how would that girl know that we were plotting against her behind her back?"

She narrowed her eyes and curled her lips slightly. "Besides, this is not just a simple calculation. This girl is alone with a child, and her brother and sister are both so eye-catching. Only by marrying into a mansion like the Li family can she live a peaceful life. Otherwise, you can let her marry an ordinary person and see if he can protect her and her brother! If you think about it this way, we are actually helping them!"

Li told these nonsense stories in a very exaggerated and appealing way.

Sun looked at her cousin with conviction, thinking that Jin'er was indeed a little ungrateful.

Seeing that Sun agreed to his suggestion, Li pretended to be generous and returned the fifty taels of silver to Sun.

Seeing that the fifty taels of silver that she had held on to for a long time and was reluctant to touch were back in her hands in an instant, Sun felt a kind of ecstasy as if she had regained what she had lost.

I got all these thanks to my cousin’s suggestion.

Thinking of this, Sun was even more grateful to Li. She simply stood up and took out two more taels of silver, pushing them in front of Li: "This time I can get these fifty taels of silver, it's all thanks to you, cousin. These two taels of silver and the three taels of silver are my thank you gifts, cousin, please don't refuse it!"

"Okay, then I won't be polite." Li reached out and grabbed the silver, then asked, "Cousin, how old is Jin's brother this year?"

"Oh, you mean Zhao'er? That child is about five or six years old!" Sun replied nonchalantly, then curled her lips with a look of disgust. "The child is not in good health and looks sickly. Moreover, he is in trouble all the time. He has a lot of things to do all day long."

Thinking of the implicated condition her son had suffered because of Zhao'er, Sun couldn't help but feel resentful in her words.

"Hey, what's going on? I have nothing to do, so tell me about it!" Li asked casually with curiosity on her face.

Seeing that her cousin was willing to listen, Sun immediately recounted the recent grievances and disputes between Zhao'er and the three children, Fudan and Ernou, of course, from her subjective perspective.

The final conclusion is still unsatisfactory: Not only is he a sickly person, he is also a bad boy.

"No wonder I didn't see the child being very active. It turns out he's just recovered from a serious illness. Even so, his little face looks rosy, with white teeth and lips. He looks clever and well-behaved."

Li tilted her head and asked casually, "I saw the child had a book with him today. Has he started learning?"

"Ah!" Sun slapped her head, a look of sarcasm on her face. "What kind of book is he reading? It's just that Jin'er had nothing better to do, so she took the initiative to teach her younger brother, hoping to satisfy her desire to be a teacher! What can she teach?"

Seeing Sun's disapproving expression, Li tentatively asked, "A child this old and good-looking, if a wealthy family were to take a fancy to him and adopt him as a son, or use him as a schoolboy for their own children, wouldn't that be another way out for her sisters?"

Sun curled her lips and snorted coldly, "Cousin, I'm the only one who's listening to you! I advise you not to go after Zhao'er. Jin's adamantine nature, she's so protective of her brother. If you dare to separate her from me, she'll dig up your ancestral graves!"