After thinking about it, Xu Yin sorted out the current situation.
The Xu family started out in the spice business, and it is now the third generation of the Xu family to have a family like her grandfather (to be precise, because her father is a married woman and she takes her mother's surname).
Needless to say, the family has a strong financial background. In addition to the land, house, and silver, there is actually an extremely huge invisible income: the Qizhen Pavilion, which is favored by the nobles in the capital and must be snapped up every time a new product is released, is also the Xu family's property.
Most of the Xu family's spices are shipped in from other places, including products from the Western Regions and overseas.
The ancestors of the Xu family who were good at business would bring back some rare treasures from other places to sell while buying spices. The quantity is not large, so it is only placed in the Qizhen Pavilion in the capital for dignitaries who are not short of money to buy and play with.
One can imagine how rich the Xu family has accumulated over several generations.
Unfortunately, the Xu family did not have enough heirs. Whether it was a family inheritance or the smell of musk in the spices, Mrs. Xu had only one daughter, Yuan Shen Niang, in her generation.
The old man and his wife had grown up as childhood sweethearts. They were in love with each other and loved each other very much. It was impossible for them to take a concubine just to have a son.
This made the surrounding wealthy households, who were slightly inferior to the Xu family, feel jealous and gloating at the same time: Look! Is the spice business so easy to do? My son was all smoked to death!
This is also the reason why Mr. Xu decided to recruit a new wife.
The family has a great business, but there is no heir to inherit it. When the only daughter gets married, won't the Xu family be cut off? Cease to exist?
However, recruiting a son-in-law did not alleviate the situation of the Xu family's meager number of heirs - the original person's parents had been married for several years, and they only had one daughter.
The old man spent a lot of money to find out the secret recipe for begging for a child. Finally, before he died, he found out that there was a temple in Xiangcheng that was extremely effective for begging for a child. He left his last words and asked his daughter and son-in-law to go there to ask for a child.
So, when the old man's three-year filial piety period was over, his parents rushed all the way to Xiangcheng to beg for a son.
Unexpectedly, they met bandits on the way back and both of them met with misfortune.
It turned out that this single seedling had become the meat and potatoes.
If her parents hadn't just passed away and the white gauze on the door of Xu's house hadn't been removed yet, these people would have lined up to send matchmakers to propose marriage.
Marrying her is equivalent to marrying the Xu family's huge family fortune. Who wouldn't be tempted? Who doesn't take action?
Even if the one he marries is a hen that can't lay eggs, at worst it will be enough to provide him with a few more concubines to support him.
What does it matter if you are young? It's not like there are people who marry their in-laws at the age of fourteen.
Everyone else was so moved, let alone the Sun family in Fengcheng, who had a close relationship with the Xu family.
When my grandma returns to her parents' home during festivals, she will always receive a gift from her eldest brother's envoys, but what she receives is basically food for the occasion, while what eldest brother gives to his parents and elders is silk brocade, nourishing medicinal materials, and breakfast. I'm so greedy.
No, I heard that the eldest brother and his wife were both killed and passed away. I couldn't help but feel moved when I thought that the Xu family's huge property fell on their only niece.
Subsequently, a series of sincere letters were sent from Fengcheng to Luocheng, comforting her, pitying her for being lonely and helpless, and sincerely inviting her to come to Fengcheng to relax. With her aunt as her support, who knows? Dare to bully her, etc... The gradual lobbying finally touched the original heart.
The original person, who has just turned fourteen and has been pampered by his family since he was a child, does not know that people's hearts are sinister.
In this way, step by step, he fell into Sun Mu's plan.
However, Sun's mother originally had the idea of marrying her son as soon as the three-year filial piety period was over, so that all the Xu family's property would belong to her grandson.
Unexpectedly, my son was actually quite capable. Not only did he pass the examination, he also won the first prize and was appointed by the Holy Emperor as the Prince Consort.
Grandmother smiled from ear to ear and said that her ancestors had protected her.
As a result, my niece had no choice but to step aside.
But she was unwilling to let the Xu family's wealth fall into the hands of others when her niece got married, so she thought about finding a way to win over her niece without offending the princess.
But before she could come up with a plan to get the best of both worlds, her niece fell ill first and was sent to Zhuangzi to recuperate. As a result, her condition worsened and she died at a young age.
Grandma shed a few crocodile tears, asked someone to imitate her niece's handwriting, and wrote a suicide note. As she wished, she got the Xu family's seven-jin mansion and thousands of hectares of fertile land.
It's just that she didn't know that the Qizhen Pavilion in the capital also belonged to the Xu family, otherwise her tail would have been raised to the sky.
After sorting it out, Xu Yin decided that Qizhen Pavilion should continue to operate in its current state. The Xu family has two large merchant ships suitable for long voyages, so they cannot waste them.
As for the spice business…
[Ding - "Flowers are fragrant at all times, and the flower spectrum is connected to the fragrance spectrum." Inheriting the fragrance family, we have developed a legendary fragrance that will amaze the world. Completion will reward you with 5,000 energy points and a chance to unlock random skills]
Xu Yin: "..."
I just finished my retreat trip to the Garden of Cultivation Small World and collected a lot of flower seeds. Now comes a flower-related task that is not just about flower planting?
Please tell the system honestly: Did you snoop on the screen? If you want to pick some rare flower seeds from my sister’s hands, just say so.
Now that the system is online, Xu Yin puts aside the plans at hand, logs into the personal center of the system, and checks the completion status of the last small world task and the rewards received:
Energy point balance: 20,000.
Task progress bar: 24%.
Maximum time ratio: 2400:1
Random skills currently owned:
【Permanent Divine Power】
[Floating Light and Rain] (Excitation limited)
【Universal Voice Actor】
[Hidden (non-permanent)]: 8 chances left, each time limited to 0.5 hours.
【Avoid water】
[Prosperous luck and disaster relief (non-permanent)]: 2 chances left.
With 20,000 energy points nearby, and a few random skills that she wanted to use to her advantage, Xu Yin felt a lot stronger in her waist.
At this time, Ziyao came in again and reported: "Girl, the people from the Sun family who came to pick you up said they were ordered by the young master cousin and they didn't dare to go back until they picked you up. They were waiting at the door."
Xu Yin picked up the tea cup and moistened her throat, and said calmly: "Then fight it out!"
Ziyao: "!!!"
"What? Do you listen to your cousin's orders, or do you listen to me?" Xu Yin glanced at her sideways.
This maid later became very arrogant, obviously she was serving the original girl, but after she went to Sun's house, she ran errands for Sun's mother or Sun Zhiqian all day long. Later, it seemed that he became Sun Zhiqian's roommate.
It would be fine if she didn't come and wander in front of her. She wandered around twice in a row. Even if Xu Yin wanted to ignore the side details of the plot, it would be difficult for her.
So after Ziyao resignedly left, she stretched and called another maid Zi Yuan who was waiting closely to come in:
"Go and tell the housekeeper that I will do an accounting in half an hour. Ask him to notify the accounting office in the mansion and take the account book to the front yard study. No one is allowed to be missed."
