Chen Wang entered the main room with a bored look on his face. As soon as he sat down, Ye Jingxian came out from behind the screen wearing a long cotton skirt and holding a handkerchief in her hand.
When she first saw Chen Wang, Ye Jingxian was startled, and then approached him, "Master, are you back? Have you found Shopkeeper Su?"
Chen Wang frowned and avoided the woman's eyes impatiently, "Shopkeeper Su has been in trouble recently, how can I contact her?"
"What? Something really happened?" Ye Jingxian tightened her hand holding the handkerchief, and her plain brows and eyes were filled with worry, "What about our store?"
As she spoke, Ye Jingxian wandered around anxiously, "After so many years of hard work, the ancestral business fell into the hands of others. How can we explain this to our ancestors?"
Chen Wang sat beside him dully and said nothing. Ye Jingxian glanced at him and became more and more worried, "Master, please think of a way. As long as we can get it back, no matter how much money it is, we will find a way to get it together!"
But before Ye Jingxian could finish her words, the man waved his hand impatiently, "Come on, come on, it's easy for you to say, and you don't even think about it, that's not fifty taels of silver, that's a full five hundred taels!"
"What's more, Su Liuye is a businessman. The shop she bought for 500 taels does not necessarily require 500 taels to be returned to us! Besides, last time I was in jail, our money was almost spent, so how could we still have money for these things? ?”
His tone was irritated, but Ye Jingxian was just stunned, and then reached over, still with a low eyebrow, and gently smoothed Chen Wang's chest, and then comforted softly, "What are you afraid of? I still have some..." Dowry?"
Chen Wang remained silent, and Ye Jingxian sighed again, "I just asked casually. It would be best if we could get this land back. If we can't get it back, it's not impossible for our family of three to live a good life in the future..."
Saying that, Ye Jingxian carefully poured some tea for him, "I know you were used to drinking mountain clouds, but unfortunately our family is in such a situation now that we can only drink some Longjing. You need to calm down the fire first."
From the beginning to the end, the woman always looked so gentle and soft-spoken. Chen Wang was silent for a moment, but in the end he didn't get angry again. Instead, he sat down with his head in his hands and a look of pain on his face.
"Jingxian, I'm not blaming you, I just hate myself. I have a century-old foundation, but it happened to be in my hands, and it became someone else's in the blink of an eye... I blame myself for being useless! If I could live in peace and do business well , even if I make less money, I still can’t get there..."
"But I was confused for a moment, and not only did I become what I am now, I also caused you all to suffer..."
Before he could finish his words, there was suddenly another sound of footsteps not far away.
As soon as Chen Wang looked up, he saw a boy of 14 or 15 years old walking in side by side with a girl two years younger.
Both of them were in their teens, but their clothes were a bit rustic.
Seeing Chen Wang's decadent look, the young man frowned, then looked helpless, "Is father thinking about the ancestral business again?"
The girl also had distressed eyes, "Father, our ancestral heritage is important, but your safe return is more important to us than anything else!"
"Yeah..." Ye Jingxian also leaned over, still reaching out and stroking Chen Wang's back, "At least our family still has an ancestral house. No matter what, we can still eat..."
"No!" Chen Wang suddenly stood up and forced a smile to the people in front of him, "Don't worry about the ancestral business. I will find a way sooner or later."
With that said, Chen Chenwang picked up the tea next to him and drank it in one gulp. "I'll go out first. You don't have to wait for me for lunch."
Seeing Chen Wang hurriedly walking out, the boy and the girl looked at each other, and then they all looked at Ye Jingxian, "Mother..."
Ye Jingxian shook her head, with deep worry in her eyes, "It's probably because of the Chen family's ancestral property. I'm a little worried. If he can't think about it later, something else will happen sooner or later..."
Saying that, Ye Jingxian sighed and turned to look at the two children beside her.
"Zi Rui, Zi Yun, you two brothers and sisters, one is sixteen and the other is fourteen, were supposed to get married soon. Suddenly something like this happened. We are sorry for you... I could have arranged a good marriage for you, but now I'm afraid it will be difficult..."
However, before Ye Jingxian finished speaking, Chen Ziyun had already come over and hugged Ye Jingxian's arm, "Mom, what are you talking about? You can let us grow up in peace, and that's enough!" As for getting married, I don’t want to get married in such a hurry, I still want to stay with you and give you a few more years of filial piety!"
While speaking, Chen Ziyun did not forget to give Chen Zirui a wink, and Chen Zirui nodded quickly, "Yes, mother, I'm not in a hurry. Getting married is a lifelong event, and we should make a good choice!"
"Yes, mother, didn't you also say that as long as our family is safe and together, it's better than anything else!"
The two of them were talking to each other, and Ye Jingxian insisted on saying, "You two are a pair of treasures! It's a blessing that we haven't even gotten married yet, otherwise, I really wouldn't be able to bear the separation of you!"
"Then we will stay with mother and be together all the time!"
The two of them spoke seriously, completely unaware that Ye Jingxian's eyes welled up with tears again...
At this time, as soon as Chen Wang went out, he unknowingly reached the edge of the city gate again.
Looking at the direction of the cyclamen from a distance, Chen Wang didn't move for a long time.
After all, it was his family's century-old inheritance that suddenly belonged to someone else. Chen Wang still felt depressed in his heart.
After hesitating for a moment, he pressed the brim of his hat and walked towards Cyclamen.
As soon as he entered the door and glanced at the passage next to him, Chen Wang felt a little complicated.
Apart from anything else, after just a few days of seeing each other, the restaurant had changed so much that he couldn't even imagine it.
The original antique yellow tables, chairs and walls were all changed by Su Liuye and replaced with the same red color as Cyclamen.
The place where the two buildings are connected is not just a simple small door, but the stairs on each floor are all designed to be connected together.
In this way, if any diners really want to go to the original Chen's from here, they only need to walk directly from the current floor, and there is no need to go downstairs to transfer.
Chen Wang himself sighed when he saw this design. It was not without reason that Su Liuye was able to expand in such a short period of time...
Walking all the way in from the gate, a waiter soon came up and greeted him respectfully, "Sir, are you dining or staying in a hotel? The first and second floors of our hotel are public halls, and there is a lobby upstairs from the third floor. No. 1, what do you need in the private room?"
After glancing around, Chen Wang coughed lightly and covered his face again, "I'll go to the lobby on the second floor... and have a look!"
"Okay, sir, please come this way!"
