So it turns out that Lu Jie has been living here, and yet Lin Yuzhen didn't know about it at all? Doesn't she care? Has she been troubling her for so long?

  Has school been abandoned? What does that mean? When she rushed to lick people! Tao's family suddenly ignited, and didn't let anyone go to receive the gift box. With a cold smile, he said: "Madam is polite, thank you for what? If it wasn't for my family's young master who happened to meet Lu Xian falling into the water and kindly saved him, I wouldn't have known that they were studying at Mr.'s house. I don't dare to keep him here, but he caught a cold, and as his aunt, if I didn't care, people would say I'm heartless... Did the second young master really fall into the water?

  The second young master is a man of few words, he has never liked to talk much, but how could he not mention the longevity of this short-lived person at all?

  Old Lady Fang was taken aback all of a sudden and even forgot to pretend to be silly.

  After a few more days, the price of silver rose to one thousand coins per liang, and all the major silver shops were sold out. Many wealthy families took advantage of this opportunity to make a profit by selling their stored silver. When Mrs. Tao found out, she was filled with regret for not listening to Lin Jianrong's advice earlier: "If I had known it would be like this, I should have kept some. Keeping some wouldn't hurt even if the price didn't rise." She also blamed Lin San: "It's all because of that good-for-nothing who's been bothering me, making me worry and unable to think clearly!" Lin Jianrong couldn't help but secretly laugh when he saw her frustration and anger towards others: "I told you so..."

  Taoshi felt uncomfortable in his heart and poured cold water on Lin Jiner again: "Although you guessed that the price of gold and silver would rise, but look at the salt alkali land you bought. Didn't you say it must become a good field? I heard Ahquan said that within three to five years, don't think about having any movement! Even if a new magistrate who is enthusiastic about farming comes, he may not be willing to bring water to this piece of land!"

  Lin Jinyong had originally wanted to tell her that the land becoming good fields was indeed a matter of nailing nails on a board, but thinking twice about it, the matter of buying silver and entering tribute had already been settled by himself, plus another matter of salt alkaline land, others would not be suspicious if they didn't know, so it's better to keep a low profile. So he just smiled: "I said before that I was practicing my hand, I'm not an iron mouth straight cut, how can I guess everything? Moreover, it's not completely hopeless, leaving it will eventually become good fields."

  "It's also, I've already bought it, anyway, it didn't cost much money, let's just keep it and see. Mrs. Tao sighed again and started to regret: "How could I be so muddle-headed at that time? With all the gold and silver, if we had kept them at today's price, we could have made a whole set of the most dignified purple sandalwood furniture for you."

  Lin Jinyong's heart suddenly softened like a spring water, gently embracing Tao Shi's waist, burying his head in her arms, and said in a low voice: "Mother, I only want you and my sister and brother to be well, the rest I don't care about. Money can never be earned forever, more or less, this time missed opportunity, there is next time."

  Mrs. Tao was stunned for a moment, then suddenly smiled and hugged Lin Jingrong towards Grandmother Gong and others: "Look at what you said, let me... uh..." As she spoke, the corners of her eyes became moist, and she murmured: "Niangniang, mother didn't raise you in vain."

  Lin Jinyong looked up at her and smiled: "Mom didn't make any money, so she cried?"

  "You little rascal!" Mrs. Tao slapped Lin Jirong's butt with a loud smack, and Lin Jirong let out an exaggerated cry. Just then, Xia Ye called from outside the curtain: "Madam, the young master's family has come to take him home, they're waiting for you to pay your respects."

  Isn't Lu Jian said to be staying here for another month? How come the Lu family sent someone to pick him up at this time? Tao Shi was taken aback, let go of Lin Jian Rong, stood up straight, smoothed her hair and said: "Come in."

  The door curtain was lifted, and in came Fang's confidant, Lin Yuzhen.

  Fang's aunt was only about the same age as Huang's wife, but because she had become a housekeeper, she dressed more conservatively. She wore a semi-new blue satin jacket with a green pleated skirt, and on her head, she inserted a shiny double-strand gold hairpin, making her look several years older than Huang's wife at first glance.

  Lin Jinrong glanced at Fang Ayi and then lowered her eyes. In her past life, she had dealt with Fang Ayi countless times and knew her temperament - following Lin Yuzhen closely, able to clearly convey Lin Yuzhen's intentions, yet also able to use a fearless smile and an air of foolishness to make it clear that she was just a messenger, a slave who couldn't help herself. Strictly speaking, Fang Ayi wasn't a great villain, but neither was she someone you could trust. Therefore, Lin Jinrong didn't have a good impression of Fang Ayi, but she also didn't hate her.

  The old lady smiled and greeted the Tao family and Lin Jingrong, presenting a black lacquered box with both hands. "My mistress didn't know that your estate was nearby until recently, thinking that the second young master had always been living at Mr. Zhu's house. Only yesterday did she learn that the second young master was being disobedient, causing you so much trouble for so long, and her heart is truly filled with regret. Let me present this gift of gratitude to thank you for taking care of the second young master for so long." She paused slightly here, observing Mrs. Tao's expression as she continued, "With the exams approaching, my mistress fears that the second young master's love of play will ruin his studies, and has sent me to take him back, first to send him to the Taoming estate to get accustomed."

  So it turns out that Lu Xian has been living here, and Lin Yuzhen didn't even know about it? Is she not aware of the situation? Has she been troubling her for so long? Wasting her studies? What does this mean? When did she start flattering people?! Tao Shi suddenly became angry and wouldn't let anyone take the gift box. She coldly said, "Madam is being polite, what's there to thank me for? If it weren't for my family's young master happening to meet Lu Xian when he fell into the water and kindly saved him, I wouldn't have known that they were studying at Mr. Zhu's house. I don't dare keep him living here, but since he caught a cold, as his aunt, if I didn't care about it, people would say I'm heartless..." Second Young Master actually fell into the water? Second Young Master is someone who doesn't like to talk much, which is fine, but how come this life-threatening incident wasn't even mentioned?! Fang Yini was suddenly shocked and even forgot to pretend to be stupid.

  Mrs. Tao glared at her with a shocked expression, and was even more convinced that Lu Jian had not told Lin Yuzhen anything. The relationship between mother and son had reached this point, it was really ridiculous. She wanted to add another sentence "If Lu Jian had any accidents, I'm afraid your wife would cry and scold me again, saying that I harmed her." But the words were on the tip of her tongue, she thought about Lu Jian being a good kid, why should she curse him? So she threw out a hard sentence: "It's not like I'm forcing him to stay here, if you want to take him back, just take him back! Take your things. I'm not running an inn! Ridiculous!"

  Being kind to relatives, but ending up like this, anyone would be uncomfortable, let alone the sensitive Mrs. Tao. Although Fang's mother felt that Mrs. Tao's words were unpleasant and showed no respect, she knew she was in the wrong and could only smile foolishly: "Auntie is joking, Auntie is joking. Our mistress is really grateful to Auntie, she wanted to come thank her personally, but unfortunately there's something at home, so she couldn't make it..."

  "Fourth Aunt, no need to thank me, my mother and I believe that good deeds will be rewarded. Even if it's not a family member, but a stray cat or dog, or a beggar who falls ill in front of our door, we can't help but give them a bowl of rice to eat." Lin Jing inserted a sentence coldly, she had long known how Lin Yu Zhen would react, thinking that Lu Xian was a treasure, and all the girls were eager to marry him; or else, if Lu Xian didn't do well in this exam, he would definitely not let anyone off easily.

  Miss Fang looked at Lin Jinyu with surprise. Lin Jinyu wore a goose-yellow robe, paired with a hundred-pleated skirt embroidered with green jasmine flowers, silver-red embroidered shoes on her feet, her face was white with a hint of red, the corners of her mouth were raised in a smile, a pair of beautiful long eyebrows stretched out, her eyes sparkled brightly, without any sign of fear or intimidation, only teasing and mockery.

  Lin Si's appearance was completely transformed compared to six months ago, no wonder Huang Niang said she was formidable. Fang Yini secretly praised her, but also felt a bit stifled - what a good girl, how could her mouth be so vicious? However, after all, she could still get along with the madam, and it's not like the young lady would necessarily look down on Second Young Master, otherwise why would she speak so recklessly? Thinking of this, Fang Yini didn't say anything more, just smiled foolishly and put the gift box on the tea table.

  "Madam, Young Master has arrived."

  Lu Xian walked in, gave Fang a faint glance, forced a smile towards Tao Shi, and paid her respects: "Aunt, thank you for taking care of me for so long, I've caused you a lot of trouble. My nephew is leaving now, does Aunt have any instructions?"

  "Just go and study hard then, so that no one will blame me for delaying your studies by staying here." Mrs. Tao waved her hand at him with a bad temper, still feeling unhappy.

  "Yes." Lu Xian lowered his eyelashes and remained silent for a moment, then looked at Lin Jianrong. Lin Jianrong didn't look at him, pointing to the wooden box: "Fang Ayi, remember to take this away."

  "Fourth Miss, don't be hard on an old servant..."

  Lin Jinyong looked at her with a smile, as if he hadn't heard: "Auntie is planning to leave immediately, right? Afraid of delaying your journey, so I won't keep you for dinner." He then instructed Li Zhi: "Help Auntie put this in the carriage."

  Miss Fang's face turned bright red, she didn't want to do something that would offend people, but if she didn't do it, who else would? She wanted to say a few more soft words to ease the tension, but Lu Xuan had already turned around and walked out: "Let's go."

  Mrs. Fang could only smile foolishly and bow, then hurriedly chased after them. Li Zhi followed closely behind, holding the gift box, directing people to take all the gifts brought by Mrs. Fang back to the Lu family's carriage, and returned to her room. The horse carriage started moving, with no one seeing them off. Only Miao Yu and Tie Er Niu stood under the tree shade watching, Tie Er Niu thought of going forward to greet Lu Xian several times, but seeing the pale face and obvious fear of Zhang Shou, he gave up in the end.

  This time, Tao and Lin Yu Zhen have completely fallen out with each other.

  Taoshi's face sank, and he became sullen. The more he thought about it, the angrier he got, and the more unwilling he was to accept it. Lin Jirong smiled and said, "See, I advised you at the time that you couldn't afford to provoke him, but you didn't believe me."

  "I'm so kind-hearted that I've become a donkey's liver and lungs! From now on, even if someone from his family dies in front of me, begging me with tears in their eyes, I won't even bother to take a look."

  "Madam, this is her being unreasonable, why must you stoop to her level? If word gets out, people will only say she's ungrateful, what's the point of getting angry?"

  "It's not worth getting angry, don't waste your energy. Just avoid dealing with them in the future!" Lin Jinrong stood up with a smile, "I'll get someone to thoroughly clean the west wing, get rid of the bad luck!"

  Tao was depressed for some days, and then she received a letter from the Tao family in Qingzhou. She learned that although her gold and silver had not been sold at a high price, they had still fetched a good price - originally, she had only hoped to exchange one or two pieces of silver for 50 coins, so getting 850 coins was already very satisfying. But Tao Shunqin had actually exchanged them for 900 coins, which was twice her expected amount, and this made her very happy.

  Lin Jinrong was even more delighted, she also received a letter from Tao Fengtang, Tao Fengtang was a trustworthy person, he really exchanged her gold for silver and waited until recently to take action. Calculating it, her one or two silver actually sold for 1020 wen! She began to miss the thousands of salt alkali fields in Pingzhou City West. Although she currently doesn't have that financial power, nor does she have such a big appetite, and doesn't want to swallow everything whole, but after all, she has gained a foundation.

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