Rich and wishful

Chapter 186 Returning Home ([-])

Xiangqi comforted them: "From now on, these are the people in your yard. You can use them first. If you find any that are not convenient or you don't like, you can always report back to the old lady and replace them."

Xiangqi herself came from Mumao Villa, and the people who served Mo's family, the housekeeper and several important stewards also came from Mumao Villa, but not all the others.For example, there are only three or five people from Mumao Villa in this courtyard.

The people in the courtyard kowtowed to An Chengkang and An Yuan, and Xiang Qi beat them up according to Mo's wishes, and then let them all disperse, leaving only the steward of the courtyard, He Nanny, and said to An Yuan, " Ma'am, this is the steward of your yard, you can ask her if you don't understand anything in the future."

After the explanation, Xiangqi returned to the main courtyard to report to Mo Shi.
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"Cheng Wu, are your father and grandfather there?" An Lao Si stood outside the fence of An Lao Er's house and asked An Cheng Wu, the grandson of An Lao Er's grandson.

"Only grandpa is here. My father went to drink and will be back in a while. Grandpa, is the fourth grandpa here?" An Chengwu called into the room, and then called fourth An to come in.

"Fourth grandpa, come in, just stay for a while to drink with Grandpa."

"Okay." Hearing that there was wine to drink, Fourth An became even happier.

He walked into the yard, and then into the inner room, where Mr. An was sitting on the kang, and on the kang table in front of him was a small plate of peanuts and a plate of salted radish that was not much left.There is still a very shallow layer of wine in the wine cup, and the wine looks cloudy and gloomy.

An Lao Si took off his shoes and went to the kang, squeezed a peanut with his hands, threw it into his mouth, and started chewing.

"It's a coincidence for you to catch up." An'er Er looked at him angrily.He said that he would meet at least six times when he drank alcohol ten times.

"Second brother, I have something to tell you this time." Fourth An laughed, "Guess who I saw at the entrance of the village today?"

"Who?" Second An casually picked up the wine glass in front of him and drank it in one gulp. He smacked his mouth, wondering why the youngest son hasn't come back after buying wine for so long.

"It's Jingyuan's daughter-in-law."

An Laosi pinched another peanut and threw it into his mouth and chewed it vigorously. It was really delicious.To say that the second grandson of the second brother's family is capable, working as a waiter in the restaurant in the town, in addition to the monthly salary, there is also a lot of rewards, or it can afford the second brother to drink every now and then.

"Who is Jingyuan's daughter-in-law?" An Er Er thought for a long time but couldn't remember.

"Father, I'm back. Did you know that the daughter-in-law of Jingyuan, the third uncle's family, is back. The big house in the village actually belongs to their family."

Before Fourth An had time to elaborate, An Jingming, the eldest son of Second An, came in and said to Second Old An with joy on his face.

"You're talking about the big house newly built in the village? It belongs to the third family?" An's second son finally remembered who this "Jingyuan daughter-in-law" was, and couldn't help being taken aback.

"Apart from the newly built big house, where else is there any big house in our village?" An Jingming was very excited.He completely ignored his fourth uncle who was also sitting on the kang.

"Father, I haven't seen it, but I heard from them that there are dozens of carriages just for pulling things. They are horse carts, not ox carts, let alone mule carts."

"No, I almost didn't dare to recognize Jing Yuan's daughter-in-law's outfit, but after all I had the courage to go over and say a few words." Fourth An looked at the wine bottle in An Jingming's hand, and swallowed Swallow.

"You still talked when you saw someone? What did you say?" An's second child was also trembling with excitement. No one in the village had gone to see the newly built big house in the village. It only covers an area of ​​more than ten acres. According to those People who have worked as helpers say that the building inside is probably no worse than the emperor's palace.Could it be their property?

"Hey." An Lao Siguang smirked and didn't speak.

"Fourth Uncle, come and moisten your mouth with a sip of wine." An Jingming quickly took the wine glass and helped him fill it up.

Second An looked at him dissatisfied, "You still served it."

"Second brother, I didn't bring it up. You don't know that Jingyuan's daughter-in-law is different now. Didn't you see that there are more than a dozen girls around her who serve her, and their heads are full of gold, jade, and silver. Hairpins, bracelets and rings are all over the hands. Where have I seen that kind of situation? I managed to talk to her, and she also said that we should go to the door tomorrow, and someone will come to invite you in a while."

Fourth An shook his head.

"When Jingyuan disappeared, it was the people in the eldest brother's house who became greedy for their family's property, and sold their mother and daughter together. At that time, Jingyuan's wife's natal family only had her widow and one The sick nephew once came to our village to ask for justice, but was dismissed by the old man Jinghong with two taels of silver." Speaking of that year, An Lao Si suddenly stopped talking and became silent.

Not only the three of them knew about this past event, but even people in the nearby villages discussed it.

The eldest son of An's family did things too well. While receiving the favor of the third son An, he killed the only remaining granddaughter of his family. Although his granddaughter was adopted, she was on the family tree after all.

At that time, there was a lot of discussion behind everyone's back. Although they didn't dare to mention it in person, everyone had something to say in their hearts.Although there are precedents for this kind of thing everywhere, whoever really did that would not be stabbed in the back?
"." Second An also became silent all of a sudden.

Although their second and fourth families didn't participate in this matter, and they subconsciously distanced themselves from the long house afterward, they didn't say a word for their orphans and widows after all.

Who would have thought that mother and daughter would be as rich as they are today?How did they get rich?Could it be that Ruyi married a good family?But weren't they bought as slaves back then?

"Didn't you ask them where they got such a big family business?" Second An was silent for a while and finally choked out a word.

"How could I have thought of asking this at the time?" Old Fourth An whispered, not even in the mood to drink. Thinking of the past, he began to worry, "Second brother, you said that Jingyuan's daughter-in-law hadn't heard from her for so many years, and she suddenly came back to meet her." Isn't it for revenge?"

"Nonsense." Second An picked up the wine glass and poured it into his own mouth, only to find that there was nothing, the glass was empty.He held the cup and didn't put it down, with a flustered look on his face, as if he was comforting himself and said, "We never touched our hands back then."

"But we haven't been able to help." An Jingming also woke up from the joy. Thinking of what happened back then, he couldn't help but feel terrified. The initial joy was long gone. He cried sadly, "I did The masters responsible for those things have long since disappeared, could it be that they were the ones who did it back then?"

"Shut up." An Er Er yelled at his son in a low voice to stop his son from continuing.

(End of this chapter)