After hearing the decision of her sister-in-law and nephew, the old lady first hit her for a while. She especially looked at Xiaoxiao, praising her for being broad-minded and capable of doing business.

"It's true that we work together to do big things," the old lady sat in the yard basking in the sun. A pergola was set up in the yard. She climbed the honeysuckle vine. A small honeysuckle had already bloomed, and a faint fragrance containing cold air was emitted. "But the rules of our Tang family are that brothers are not engaged in business together."

Zhen listened, and he felt a little sorry for the six hundred taels, but now he heard this, the old lady was reluctant to do the business for herself. It seemed that she really annoyed the Zhen family. The more she did this, Zhen felt that the business was a piece of fat. Even the six hundred taels were not distressed. At this moment, she was willing to take out a thousand taels in one go.

Xiaoxiao guarded the old flower limu yard table, sat on the bamboo chair, looking at his grandmother, and vaguely noticed something. If you guessed it right, this business would be nothing. The old lady did annoy the Zhen family, but in the eyes of this clear-minded mother-in-law, her daughter-in-law will always be surnamed Tang and she is not considered a foreigner.

My sister-in-law and nephew put away their thoughts, just looked at the old lady, waiting for her words behind her.

"It's said that you two women are working together, but there is no joke about the business in my Tang family. You are not two lonely people, and behind them are three and five rooms." On the table was a small basket of fresh honeysuckles. The old lady used a silver clip to pick up three or two of them into the licorice tea in front of them. "The ugly words always come first. There can only be one boss in any business, and only one person can make decisions. Now it sounds nice. Let the five girls make the decision. If the idea is not to the right place, do you still have to listen to this girl's movie?" The old lady put a small piece of rock candy into Zhen's tea.

Zhen was speechless, and these words really touched herself.

"After a long time, it will inevitably lead to a rift. Although men are smart in the business world, when they come back, they will always be confused in their heads. If the two brothers make enemies, it will not be possible for me to take it to the backyard to have a cup of tea and talk about it." The old lady held up the small bowl-shaped Ru kiln cup, blew open the delicate honeysuckle, and drank it. "Add to the contrary, the brothers seem to be united, but in fact they are narrowing the business pasta."

Xiaoxiao held her crystal cup, and the honeysuckle inside was like a fairy white and fluttering. She looked very vividly in the clear cup. Grandma chose this crystal cup for herself, just to make herself see more thoroughly: "Xiaoxiao made biscuits just for freshness, and she never thought about using this to do business again. Everything depends on grandma's arrangement."

Zhen looked at the black-glazed rabbit-haired cup in front of him, and the slender white petals floated and sank among the black cup, as if the flowers were in the dark night. Zhen raised her head and smiled: "I will listen to my mother's arrangement."

"Okay!" The old lady sat upright and stared at her daughter-in-law and granddaughter: "The person who is most aggrieved in this matter is Xiaoxiao. I don't want her to contribute money and effort to it."

In one sentence, Zhen was relieved.

"The fifth wife still paid you six hundred taels, and I added the rest of my old lady. I was considered to be accusing my granddaughter of my mistaken eyes."

"I dare not take this!" My sister-in-law and nephew said in unison.

"It's decided that I paid 400 taels, which is considered as the money Xiaoxiao paid in the shop. Xiaoxiao only took out all the ideas and cookie recipes before opening the shop. As for whether these ideas are adopted or not, it will be decided by the fifth wife. After all, you are the real boss." The old lady said the thoughts in her heart, in an unquestionable tone.

Both of them were in a complicated mood when they listened.

"If Xiaoxiao doesn't participate in the business, my old lady will naturally not ask about the business. But Xiaoxiao's 400 taels cannot be vain, and she will have a 40% bonus at the end of the year."

Zhen's lips trembled, and she was still smiling, but 40% of them were still too much. As for the matter of mother-in-law's investment in the third house, Zhen did not care about it. First, the Zhen family was wrong in the front, and second, the mother-in-law at home was convinced, let's listen to what she said later.

"Xiaoxiao will get married sooner or later. It would be really not good to share dividends with your aunt after marrying someone," the old lady patted Xiaoxiao's back of her hand, "This money will be given until you get married, which can be considered a dowry."

Xiaoxiao had no intention of building a pancake shop. She decided to cooperate with Aunt Wu to look at the face of the old lady because she promised her that the old man wanted to revive the biscuit shop. Now that she said this, there is no need to worry about it. Just take out a cookie recipe and give the store decoration a tip, and you don’t have to pay a penny. You can get 40% of the profit at that time, and you won’t suffer any loss. Anyway, in addition to cookies, Yuan Longchao’s biscuit recipes have already flown all over the sky.

When the old lady talks about getting married, the girl's family has to show her shyness: "Grandma jokes, but she refuses to marry her."

However, Zhen was secretly calculating Xiaoxiao's marriage period. She would be able to get a day off if she married one day. She is almost thirteen this year. She is beautiful and smart. She will definitely get married in less than five years! Thinking of this, she would not suffer any loss, so she also said with a smile: "Xiaoxiao is such a talent and will definitely get a good son-in-law. Then my aunt will give you a big gift!"

Seeing that both of them were satisfied, the old lady smiled and drank a sip of tea, looking at Zhen: "It's the same. No matter whether this shop is bigger or loses money, even if it needs to be sold over to the shop in the future, it will not have any connection with the Zhen family!"

Zhen's smile froze on her face. The old lady has become a grudge with the Zhen family this time. If her two daughters get a cookie shop as a dowry in the future, she will definitely not be able to marry into the Zhen family.

After saying everything about the shop, the old lady leaned on the bamboo chair and rested: "Xiaoxiao didn't go to school today. I took someone to take a leave, and only said that you were feeling a little uncomfortable. Mr. Yan from school asked you to rest at home."

"My granddaughter knows, I won't be able to talk about it when I get to school tomorrow."

The old lady smiled: "It's almost noon. We'll all go to the flower hall to eat today. You go and call your sisters and go to the flower hall in Guishulin to wait for the meal. Baodi is inconvenient, so let's go and go with her!"

Xiaoxiao understood that the old lady had something to say to Aunt Wu, stood up and smiled and said, "Sun'er is so happy now. She had long said she wanted to eat quails with flowers!"

Xiaoxiao walked along the corridor with a brisk step, and the only ease left in the courtyard seemed to be taken away by her.

A large-sized thin cloud slowly covered the sun, making the whole yard dark.

Zhen sat on a bamboo chair west of the tea table, facing a large cluster of newly blooming anemones, with snow-white petals clustered with dark flower cores, and a light red dizzy edge. Zhen looked at it for a while and felt like a bunch of burning eyes, which were very uncomfortable being stared at.

"Mrs. Uncle has not been so diligent recently." The old lady's voice sounded in her ears.

When he mentioned his parents' home, Zhen felt uneasy: "No, it's not true. He opened a branch shop much more busy than before. Besides, the cookie recipe was even more shameless." Zhen lowered his head and said lightly, trying to break back the impression his parents gave to the old lady.

"If you remember correctly, your eldest nephew married last year. I heard that he had a daughter?" The old lady was talking about family matters.

"I gave birth to a sister in mid-chun." Zhen had not yet figured out the old lady's intentions, so she could only ask questions and answer questions at this moment, not daring to say a word, for fear that she would stumbling up her as she said it.

"Your second nephew came to our house to play when he was a child, but he is still at the age of discussing marriage?"

"My brother is only eleven years old, but he is as old as Smile, so he is not in a hurry." Zhen secretly wiped his sweaty palms with a veil. Thinking of his sister-in-law's unrestrained look today, the wind must have blown into her mother-in-law's ears.

"My mother is talking quickly, and she doesn't treat herself as an outsider under the roof of others," the old lady smiled faintly. "I never interfere in the affairs of my daughter-in-law's room. My sister-in-law ran into my mother's house to discipline my son-in-law's concubine. It was a joke when she said it, but if you don't say anything, I will turn a blind eye."

The sweat on Zhen's palm was soaked with half a veil. At this moment, he simply stood up and listened to the lesson. He wanted to admit the wrong one for his sister-in-law first, but he couldn't even spit out a word when facing the old lady.

"Keju took her to my room to raise her when she was three years old, and returned to your yard at the age of seven. Do you know why?"

The more my mother-in-law's tone was, the more feared Zhen was. The gentleness at this moment seemed to be the brief silence before the boiling water boiled. Zhen swallowed with difficulty and said dryly: "Cuixian dare not understand the mother-in-law's intention." Zhen stood up straight and became completely respectful. Anyway, she would probably be scolded by a name with a surname in a while.

"The concubine daughter is also the granddaughter of the Tang family, and she is the master. She is not bullied by her Lu family as a maid!" The old lady's hand rubbed the armrest of the bamboo chair and gradually exerted force. "If my person hadn't happened to run into it, I would have been kept in the dark. She said that she would be 'despicable' on weekdays and 'raised by a prostitute'. The child would pinch and twist and poke her face with a hairpin during her confinement period! When Sister Ju was leaving, she would simply beat and kick it up," the old lady knocked on the table hard, "Beating my granddaughter is like beating a dog! This is the rule of your Zhen family?!"

Zhen was shocked. When he was a child, he was indeed beaten by his sister-in-law Lu when he was a child, but it was not as serious as the old lady said. It can be seen that a servant reported the situation to the point of being ignorant. Zhen did not dare to defend himself at all. The more he said, the more wrong he was. Now he had to kneel straight down and listen to Hou's resignation.

"I heard about this, and I didn't delay it for a while and let someone take Sister Ju back. If the old man hadn't persuaded him to 'all the family', how could there be a way out for your Zhen family?!" When the old lady was angry, she also poured out a lot of forbearance from that year. "Among the few wives, you look the smartest, but in fact they are the stupidest! I wanted to turn things around without mentioning some of them, but if you don't remind you, you can be stupid for the rest of your life!"

Zhen almost couldn't kneel down, her knee cramps were a little cramped, and the old lady's words made even worse, almost making her faint. "After carrying Keju back, I even looked for Yanran's stepmother. With my Tang family's family background, it's not difficult to find a new unmarried woman with a clean and innocent life experience and tutoring for Tang Laowu."

Hearing this, Zhen was really about to collapse. The tinnitus sounded like a drum in his ears. He was so exhausted that he suddenly remembered that about five years ago, the Zhen family's snack business suffered a catastrophe and almost overturned! Now, I think about it, wasn't it just that year that Keju was taken away by the old lady?! Zhen had never been so afraid of her, and she was naturally in awe of her mother-in-law in the past, but now when she thought about what happened five years ago, she thought about her mother-in-law's always calm expression, and she felt creepy. Her mother's family almost broke up, and she was almost retired by the Tang family. The whole Zhen family was almost swept out of Kyoto by the Tang family like sweeping cockroaches! Zhen's lips were trembling, thinking of thanking her grandmother for her "for the grace of not killing", but she was trembling and unable to say anything.

The Zhen family gradually became popular later, and it was also relying on the financial prestige of the Tang family. Because the uncle Lu got the help of the Tang family, he naturally knew how to hold his tail and behave. Every time he came to the Tang family, he was respectful. Although he still spoke ill of Aunt Sun, he was much more restrained than before, and he did not dare to beat and scold the servants in the fifth room at will. In the past two years, the Zhen family's snack business was getting better and better. Lu's dog belly could not hold two taels of spice oil, so he started shaking at his sister-in-law's house again.

Stupid woman! Zhen cursed secretly, not knowing whether she was scolding Lu or scolding herself.

"Mrs. My uncle is now also interested. Regardless of the rule of "not returning home if you don't return home with your husband's blood", I will come to your in-laws with you."

"I dare not! My wife has bitten her a word and never agreed to her!" Zhen was so scared that she kowtowed, "Mom, the marriage of the three granddaughters of the fifth house is all up to you!"

The old lady seemed to remember something and laughed in anger: "Fifth Room? She is afraid she wants to interfere in the marriage of the Third Room?"

"How could it be?! Zhen Lu's family would never dare! Mom must have heard someone's slander..." Zhen's soul was almost scared away.

With a bang, the Ru kiln cup was thrown to the ground by the old lady: "I'm a foolish woman with no stinginess! Her paws are stretched out, and the girls in the Tang family's next room are all her turn to comment on it? What is her Ming Ge'er?!"

Zhen's face was lying on the cold stone floor. If he hadn't been awakened by this ice, he would have been completely paralyzed.

"It's not that my old lady scared you. You know your third brother's temperament. If you get along well, you will naturally be willing to give you good things. If you touch his scatter," the old lady looked at Zhen who was kneeling down on the ground and signaled Qingsi to help her up. "Tang Lao San's affairs are all put into the business field to solve. You should have heard of how the Chu family, which was called "Wen Chu's color change" in Kyoto back then, fell.

Zhen was supported and sat on the chair. She felt her face was cold. Then she realized that tears and snot were flowing all over her face at some point. She hurriedly wiped it with a veil. Thinking about the powerful weaving Chu family, who was able to compete with the Tang family, was flattened by Tang Sanye in just three years. Zhen had heard of the cause of this incident. Chu also studied under the old Mr. Lanxigu, and seemed to have had the idea of ​​begging Gu Shanniang.

After not being able to do it, I couldn't help but say some sour words. Once I had a drink with many merchants, I talked about the daughter of this mentor who I was obsessed with. I couldn't help but make a fuss. So I used the alcohol to say that I had lying on the wall and peeking at the junior sister washing her hair in the yard. She said vividly, even how long the hair was, what smell of soap beans used, how white the neck was exposed, and how much the clothes were wet with hair...

Many people say that the fall of the Chu family was actually a revenge by Mr. Tang San for the matter.

The clouds passed, and a ray of sunlight shone through the awning. Qingsi personally brought water to wipe the fifth wife's face, but Zhen still fainted unyieldingly.

Before Zhen fainted, he heard the old lady say, "Mrs. Uncle, don't instigate the girls. Some words are pricked even if the servants hear them. It's a little ugly. It's a big deal to delay the girls' future. In the future, if someone comes to Zhen's family again, there is no need to enter the garden, just meet them at the door."
Chapter completed!