"Go to the capital?"

Ji Rong widened his eyes in surprise, looking at his sister a little confused and helplessly.

"Why do we have to go to Beijing? Aren't we doing well here?"

She lived so much that the farthest place Ji Rong had ever been to was Yancheng. She could hardly imagine that she would move to another place where she was unfamiliar with her.

Seeing his sister's panic rejection, Ji Wan sighed and slowly told the truth about how her mother was expelled back then.

Ji Rong's expressions kept changing, shocked, angry, fearful, confused, sad...

Living in the countryside since childhood, I have never experienced the intrigue among wealthy and nobles. The most terrible thing I have ever seen was the assassination of the robbers last night. Before that, there was the insanity of the He family burning the Wang family. How could I know that there are such dirty things in the world?

"Sister, if we go to the capital, will the Zhou family accept us? My mother was expelled from the house at the beginning. Now when I go back, will those who know her before bring up the old story?"

Ji Wan frowned.

This is also one of the reasons why she rejected going to the capital.

My mother wanted to rely on the Zhou family to give them a good future, but after all, the incident that happened back then was too big. Although more than ten years have passed, many people have forgotten it. But there are too many people who witnessed that incident at the beginning, and there are still some people who still remember it.

There is no shortage of gossip among women. As long as someone reminds me, it will be like sparks.

She didn't want her mother to put herself on the target of public criticism just to find protection for them.

"I don't know either."

Ji Wan said softly: "Mom said, I want to go back to worship my grandmother to fulfill my filial piety."

Ji Rong lowered his eyes and said softly: "What should we do with the real estate here? Houses, fields, and you want to open a hot pot restaurant? It's almost ready to be installed there, and I spent so much money, didn't it all go away?"

"I've thought about it."

Since the Zhou family has sent people here, and with the attitude of their mother, they probably will go to the capital sooner or later, so Ji Wan has to make plans, "If the real estate can be sold, sell it, and if it cannot be sold, keep it. Hotpot restaurants and workshops can be handed over to the uncle and the others, and sauce duck and sausage are made for our servants. We can send people to the hot pot restaurant every quarter to collect the accounts. The workshop only has those two or three months, and at the end of the year, it is with the harvest of hot pot. Whether it is the workshop or the hot pot restaurant, they are all booked in the government. Our servants are used to it, and there are records in the county government, so they will never leak the prescription."

She thought about it and could continue to open a shop and a workshop when she went to the south.

The south is rich and the capital is a place where wealth and honors gather, so you don’t have to worry about lack of business.

Even if she wants to leave, at least after spring, it will take a few months to make the reputation of the hot pot restaurant come out. It will be much easier for her to open a store in the south in the future.

Ji Rong didn't know much about business, but her sister said so confidently that there would be no problem. She was just a little afraid and confused about moving to a strange city.

During dinner in the evening, Ji Wan told her mother what she thought.

Zhou looked at the eldest daughter's shiny gaze, feeling both distressed and guilty. As a mother, she was incompetent and could not shelter her children from the wind and rain. At a young age, she had to work hard to make money to support her family. When she was a bride, she couldn't tell her a more decent marriage to her.

My daughter is too handsome and has a reputation early on. If she doesn’t have a backer, how can she ensure her safety in the second half of her life?

Zhou knew in his heart that the reason why she couldn't raise her head in front of her mother-in-law was not only because of her cowardice, but also because she had no support from her parents. Her mother-in-law knew that she was alone and no one was making decisions for her, so she bullied her so unscrupulously.

Now my younger brother is willing to support their mother, maybe his daughter can live a better life in the future. But Zhou is even more worried that his previous reputation will affect his daughter?

This is the key to Zhou's indecision.

On the Jiang family... Fortunately, the marriage has not been implemented yet, so it is not considered untrustworthy.

Changfu did not come alone, and the accompanying guards and servants also moved into Zhou's house. Others did not know about it and thought that her family had a new servant. Only her neighbor, Mrs. Jiang, was the most sensitive and noticed something unusual.

"It's not a New Year holiday. How could the prince of Anguo Duke's Mansion and the son of the prefect's family come to the Zhou family for no reason?"

She frowned, very puzzled.

"I have asked someone to go to the county government to inquire. The new servants from the Zhou family have not been registered and registered in the county government."

"Mother means..."

Qiu also felt puzzled. The restaurant that the Zhou family had already sold from the Jiang family, Ji's hot pot.

She didn't understand what hot pot was. But she knew that the Zhou family had bought a few more chefs, and it was obvious that the hot pot restaurant should be about to open. If it was necessary for this store, it would be possible to recruit people and there was no need to buy it again.

Even if you sign a dead contract, you will have files in the yamen.

Mrs. Jiang turned the beads on her wrist and thought casually: "Unless their household registration is not here, they need to transfer their household registration before they can register again in the yamen. But they have just moved in for a few months and their foundation is unstable. They must be cautious and cautious in employing people, and they definitely don't have to buy such complicated origins."

After a pause, she looked at Qiu.

"Didn't you say that Zhou is from the south?"

"Yes, she..." As soon as Mrs. Qiu spoke, she suddenly realized, "Why did my mother say that those were sent by Zhou's family?"

Mrs. Jiang was silent.

Qiu was shocked, "No, no, right? Zhou had suffered so many crimes in her husband's house before, so didn't he even go to court with her mother-in-law? The Zhou family has not asked about it for so many years. I think it's because they have already broken contact, so why did they suddenly send someone here?"

Mrs. Jiang didn't answer the conversation, but she knew in her heart that the marriage between Changsun and Ji Wan was considered a waste.

It's not without regrets.

Not to mention the conditions of the two families, Mrs. Jiang was extremely satisfied with the girl Shan Jiwan.

Since ancient times, the official and businessmen have made their business so big, so it is naturally because of some background. It is precisely because of this that we can easily find out some news from the yamen. Mrs. Jiang knew that Zhou was from the capital, and although she didn't know too much inside story, she could at least guess one or two. At least she was a girl from an official family.

Once Zhou's family has a supporter, her children's identities will also rise. How could she look down on a merchant family like the Jiang family?

Because of this, Mrs. Jiang urgently wanted to reach a consensus with Zhou to settle the marriage between the two families in private.

But unexpectedly, it was at this gate that the Zhou family came to the Zhou family.

"I'm tired, you go back."

She rubbed her eyebrows tiredly and said, "Tell me to Sister Yan and the others that if there is no need to go to the Zhou family in the future. Even if you go to Zhou, don't mention Brother Yuan in front of the Zhou mother and daughter."

She also wants to remind her granddaughter.

Qiu was stunned and realized instantly.

"yes."
Chapter completed!