Chapter 4: The Date Tree is Good to Keep

Yunchu stopped looking at Listen to the Rain.

 Her eyes fell on a couple of children.

 The eldest young lady, Xie Ping, was thirteen years old and standing tall.

 The eldest young master, Xie Shi'an, was still kneeling at the shrine.

 The second youngest, Xie Shiyuan, is eight years old and has not come to ask for peace, so he probably hasn't woken up yet.

 The three oldest children are all from He.

 The third young master is also known as Xie Shiyun.

 Second Miss Xie Xian, born of Aunt Jiang, is currently only three years old.

 Aunt Tao is pregnant with the future fourth young master ...

Yun Chou glanced over everyone and said in a faint voice, "I still have things to take care of, so you all go and get busy too."

After she married into the Xie family, she took over the mansion's common affairs, so the old madam and the wife purposely exempted her from the daily greeting.

 Just after the people who had asked for peace had left, the stewardesses of the Xie Mansion came.

 One by one, the grannies report matters.

 Yunchu blew on the tea froth.

The Xie family is considered to be a family of cultivation and study, Xie Jingyu's father passed the examination, the nearby townships will be listed in the name of the Xie family to avoid taxes, and as a result, a lot of silver.

When Xie Jingyu entered the court as an official, her father-in-law will take these silver in the suburbs of the capital to buy some property, bought a few stores.

Those stores a year's revenue is about five thousand taels of silver, a large part of the Xie Jingyu taken to dredge up the career, the remaining silver can not afford the Xie family up and down so many people living in fine clothes and food.

 In her last life, she always felt ashamed of the Xie family and wanted to do what she could.

 So her dowry was emptied a little.

So much so that later, when the Yun family had an accident, she wanted to take the silver to the dungeon to make some money, but at this time the dowry was less than a thousand taels left ...

 "Ma'am?"

 Seeing that she only drank tea without saying anything, the reporting granny was a bit apprehensive.

 Yun Chou retracted her thoughts and spoke in a faint voice, "Where were we just talking about?"

The granny busily said, "Spring is here, it's time to change the flowers in the yard, will it be orchids or azaleas this year?"

 Yunchu laughed softly.

Xie family is a cold family, the mud spots on the legs have not been washed clean, want to learn the capital those big families to plant flowers every season to hold a flower viewing banquet.

Every year in the spring for orchids, chrysanthemums in the fall, quite a simple thing to do down to a lot of silver.

 For the past four or five years, she's paid out her own dowry to maintain the decency of the Xie family.

 But now? ...

She put down her teacup, "This flower change around is just so, not too much trouble, this year all change to plant fruit trees."

 The granny thought she heard wrong: "Plant, plant fruit trees?"

 Yunchu pondered for a moment or two and said, "The jujube tree's skin is good to feed, so let's go with the jujube tree."

 The woman was stunned.

The capital's ladies love flowers, every year in the spring of each house competing to do flower-appreciation banquet, Xie family is not willing to lag behind, this is a good time to make contacts.

At first, when the lady said that she would plant fruit trees, she thought that it would be peach trees or pear trees, after all, peach and pear blossoms are also considered to be a scenic spot.

And the jujube flowers are small, unattractive, and hidden under the leaves, and I have never heard of any house in the capital that grows jujube trees.

 It's unheard of!

"Is there anything else?" Yun Chou's voice was light, "If there's nothing else, then all go down."

The grannies had long heard that Madame had punished the eldest young master in a fit of rage yesterday, so they dared not say anything else and retreated with their heads bowed.

"Listen to the wind, go ask Uncle Chen to come over." Yun Chu opens her mouth and commands, "Listening Frost, Listening Snow, the two of you organize my dowry, what's missing and what's missing, and what's been used on the Xie family, write down each item clearly."

 Listening to the wind hurriedly went outside to invite someone.

 Hearing Frost speak hesitantly, "Ma'am, is something wrong?"

Since yesterday the madam has been a little out of place, punishing the eldest young master counts as a cause, immediately after letting Aunt Rain and the third young master move out is a little strange, and now she even wants to count the dowry ... Something extraordinary must have happened.

 Yunchu looked to Hearing Frost.

Among the four dowry maids, the smartest and most stable belongs to listen to the frost, but listen to the frost died early in the fire.

If Listening Frost hadn't died, with Listening Frost's sensitivity, she might have been able to discover the wolfish heart under Xie Shi An's exquisite skin ...

Yun Chu looked at her and said in a warm voice, "Nothing happened, don't think too much, go and get busy."

Hearing Frost curbed the worry in her eyes and walked with Hearing Snow towards the storehouse where the dowry was kept.

 A quarter of an hour later, Listen to the Wind came with Uncle Chen.

Uncle Chen was also the person Yunchu brought into the Xie family, called Chen Defu, almost fifty years old, and specialized in taking care of her dowry for her.

After she took over the Xie family's common affairs, she handed over several of the Xie family's stores to Chen Bo to take care of as well.

Her father-in-law is a scholar, not good at business, Xie family several stores a year on the top of more than a thousand silver income.

 After being in the hands of Chen Bo, the yearly income became four or five thousand taels.

"Greetings to madam." Chen De Fu walked in, "Is there something urgent that madam called the old slave over in such a hurry?"

 Yun Chu spoke up, "Is there a small steward surnamed He under Uncle Chen?"

"There is one, called He Xu." Chen De Fu raised his head, "Is there something wrong with it being this number?"

 Yunchu lowered her eyes.

She only realized after the Yun family's accident in her last life that He, the housekeeper of the Xie Mansion, was actually He's own elder brother.

When she knelt at the door of Xie Jingyu's study to beg for a ray of hope for the Yun family, He Xu, relying on the fact that he was Xie Shi'an's own uncle, repeatedly molested and insulted her ...

 But she is in the end the Xie family's main wife, and He Xu only dared to verbally flirt.

Listening to the snow and listening to the wind is just a maid, without any ability to resist, was He Xu spoiled ... Later she died of a cup of hemlock, these two girls must have gone with her ...

 Seeing Yun Chou's ugly face, Chen De Fu knew that things were a bit serious.

 He clenched his fists, "Just do as you command, ma'am!"

"It's not necessary to do anything on purpose." Yun Chou hid the chill in her voice, "Give him the opportunity to climb up, the higher he climbs, the more miserable he will be when he falls."

Chen Defu was a man in the business world, naturally he understood what this meant and immediately led the order.

Yun Chu put down her tea cup and stood up, "Uncle Chen, take me to the dowry store to have a look."

In her last life, her dowry stores were sold one by one, and most of the silver she exchanged was used in Xie Jingyu's official career.

Seven or eight dowry estates on the outskirts of the capital, half of which were given to Xie Shian's wife, and the other half to Xie Ping as a dowry ...

This is all the dowry that her mother had carefully prepared for her, spending most of the Yun family's wealth, but in the end it all fell into the hands of the Xie family.

It was only after experiencing the despair of the destruction of the Yun family that he realized what a wonderful thing silver was.

Living again, she not only wanted to keep her dowry, but to make it triple, tenfold, or even a hundredfold!