After thinking about it, Xu Yin sorted out the current situation.
The Xu family started out in the spice business. It is now the third generation of Mrs. Xu’s family.
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 from other places, including goods 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.
It is conceivable how rich the Xu family has accumulated over several generations.
However, unfortunately, the Xu family does not have many heirs. I don’t know whether it is a family inheritance or the smell of musk in the spices. As of Mr. Xu’s generation, he only has one daughter, Yuan Shen Niang.
The old man and his wife have been childhood sweethearts since they grew up. They are in love with each other and love each other very much. It is impossible for them to take a concubine just to have a son.
This makes the surrounding wealthy households who are slightly inferior to the Xu family feel envious and jealous at the same time: look at it! 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 are no heirs 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 to Xiangcheng to beg for a son.
Unexpectedly, they encountered bandits on the way back and both of them encountered misfortune.
The original seedling has become a 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 queued 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 person you marry is a hen that can't lay eggs, at worst it will be enough to provide you with a few more concubines to support you.
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 eldest brother's filial piety to his parents and elders is silk brocade, nourishing medicinal materials, and breakfast. I'm so greedy.
No, I heard that my 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.
Afterwards, 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 supporting her, who would it be? Dare to bully her, etc... The gradual lobbying finally touched the original heart.
Just over the fourteenth age, he was spoiled by his family, and he was sinister.
In this way, step by step, I fell into Sun Mu’s plan.
It’s just that Sun’s mother initially 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 is 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, the niece can only stand aside.
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 illness worsened and she died at a young age.
Grandmother shed a few crocodile tears and found someone to imitate her niece's handwriting and wrote a suicide note. As a result, she got the Xu family's seven-jin mansion and ten thousand 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 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…
——“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: “…”
Just ending the Bai Garden of the Cultivation of the Small World, a lot of flower seeds have been collected. This is a task related to flowers related to flowers and not only flower planting?
System, please tell me 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】
(excitation is 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 at her side and a few random skills that she wanted to use to her advantage, Xu Yin suddenly felt a lot stronger.
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 did not dare to go back unless they picked you up. They have been 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 instructions, or do you listen to me?" Xu Yin gave her a sidelong glance.
This maid was very ambitious in the future, and she was obviously serving the original girl. However, 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's okay if she doesn't come and hang out 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 close by to come in:
“Go and tell the steward that I will do an accounting in half an hour and ask him to notify the accountant in the mansion and take the account book to the front yard study. No one is allowed to be missed.”