Traveling through books to ancient times, I provoke the love of villains and powerful ministers

After returning from Xichuan County, Gu Yu left early and returned late, sometimes even so busy that she didn't even have time for dinner. She was busy for several months.

In the past few months, Qi Qingxi has not been idle.

After returning to Linzhou Mansion, the servant girl said that a young man surnamed Shao had come to her many times. Qi Qingxi naturally knew that the young man surnamed Shao was Shao Hua, so she immediately sent someone to Shao's house to send a letter asking him to meet.

Shao Hua came here to discuss with her about opening a branch of a hot pot restaurant in Linzhou Prefecture. He has already found several suitable stores in the provincial capital, and he is waiting for her to come back to see which two are suitable.

Qi Qingxi was slightly surprised when he heard that he mentioned two families.

Shao Hua's meaning is actually very easy to understand. Food is the most important thing for the people, and the taste of this hot pot is indeed addictive. He originally thought that this food business was worth starting. When he was in the capital, he was forced to do so because he didn't have much money. Did not dare to open two more stores.

Now back in Linzhou Mansion, many shops in the city are owned by his family, and it happened that Qi Qingxi also came to Linzhou, so he decided to find two shops to continue their catering business.

After comprehensive consideration of many factors, Qi Qingxi and Shao Hua finally chose a suitable shop in the south and north of the city, and began to decorate according to the style of the shop in the capital.

Qi Qingxi even went to Xinjingcheng's store and found two suitable candidates to come to Linzhou Mansion to train the new recruits of the store here.

It was busy until the mid-autumn festival was approaching, and each family began to be actively busy with the mid-autumn banquet. Qi Qingxi, as a member of the magistrate's family, naturally received many invitations.

Qi Qingxi finally decided to accept the invitation of Shao Hua's wife, Guan Shi, to visit her home.

I have been with Shao Hua for a long time, so I have heard a lot about his family.

Shao Hua's mother died early, and his father was busy with business matters. Worried that the young Shao Hua would be left alone, he decided to remarry and married Shao Hua's current stepmother Ma Shi.

At the beginning, Mrs. Ma also treated Shao Hua as his own son and took care of him very meticulously.

But after Mrs. Ma gave birth to two sons and a daughter for Shao Hua's father, she began to have a different idea, wanting her son to replace Shao Hua as the heir to the Yongji firm.

Ma's family is also a business family, but they are small businessmen living under the Yongji firm. After knowing Ma's plan, they thought that if their nephew could accept the Yongji firm, the Ma family would also benefit from it. It is very supportive.

After Shao Hua began to slowly take over the business of Yongji Company, the Ma family began to make troubles, especially after Shao Hua's father was seriously ill and was bedridden, the Ma family intensified, and various methods emerged one after another.

But fortunately, Shao Hua was his father's chosen successor, and under his father's years of careful training, these methods were nothing more than trivial troubles to him.

Shao Hua is indeed able to handle matters in the business field properly, but Mashi Ma used those insidious means to deal with him in the back house, and if he resisted a little, he would be called unfilial and unrighteous.

Shao Hua had a hard time traveling in the back house, so he decided to go outside with the caravan to see the world.

Until he got married and married Guan Shi as his wife, Shao Hua didn't want Guan Shi to be alone at home and suffer from his mother-in-law, so he made up his mind not to travel far unless it was absolutely necessary.

However, Guan Shi looks ignorant of the world, but she is a girl with a deep chest. She often persuades Shao Hua, a good man, to aim everywhere and not to be confined to the back house all day long.

Moreover, in the face of the stepmother's difficulties, she handled everything properly, so that no one could find a single mistake.

When Shao Hua was relieved, he had the time and opportunity to continue going out for business.

Shao Hua is very happy to have a wife like this.

However, he knew that Guan's situation in his own home was very similar to his. Although he didn't have a stepmother, he was often bullied by his aunt.

It was only after marrying him that she could deal with Ma's difficulties so appropriately, but Shao Hua couldn't bear it.

He had already thought about it, after his father left, he would separate the family from his brothers no matter how much it cost, and then Ma Shi would naturally live with his own son.

Now, Guan can only be wronged and endure for a few more years.

Qi Qingxi naturally learned about the Shao family's inner house one after another, especially when he heard that the Guan family had a younger sister-in-law, who was extremely arrogant towards the Guan family because her father was the judge in the government office.

Qi Qingxi is now regarded as the magistrate's concubine, and he wants to support the Guan family.

But she knew that Gu Yu was very busy every day, so she probably didn't have time to go with her.

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Qi Qingxi changed her clothes and went to Shao Hua's home with the two maids of Ginkgo Sequoia.

The younger siblings of the Guan family naturally did not believe that the Guan family could really know the relatives of the magistrate's family, and could even invite people to their home as guests.

Because she had inquired with her prefect father early in the morning about the prefect's fiancée, who was said to be a girl from a general's family in Beijing.

For a woman from a merchant like the Guan family, can she know the girl from the general's family in the capital?

Of course, there is another possibility that her elder brother is acquainted with the magistrate, and the magistrate only let his wife come to the banquet because of her elder brother's face.

But this is even more a fantasy.

She also heard from her father that since the magistrate has been in office for so long, there are countless gentry and wealthy businessmen in the Linzhou mansion who want to curry favor with the magistrate, but the magistrate has never even looked at him.

He, Shao Hua, is just the young owner of a firm, how can he have the ability to surpass everyone and know that the master of the government is not favored?

Don't this Guan family really be so naive, thinking that if he sends an invitation card, others will definitely come to the banquet, right?

Then don't blame her for waiting to see Guan's jokes.

Until Qi Qingxi really came to the door, Guan's sister-in-law still didn't believe that Guan really knew the magistrate's fiancée.

She even suspected that Qi Qingxi, who came to visit as a guest, was the family member of the prefect who had been randomly found by the Guan family.

She wanted to test Qi Qingxi: "I was lucky enough to go to the back house of the government office twice before. There is a big loquat tree inside. I wonder if it still bears a lot of loquat fruit every year?"

Qi Qingxi glanced at her after hearing the words: "It's a coincidence, there happens to be a loquat tree in the courtyard where I live."

The sister-in-law of the Guan family immediately laughed secretly in her heart, she had been to the magistrate's back house many times since she was a child, and there was no loquat tree in it at all, the origin of this loquat tree was completely made up by her thinking of the tree in her yard.

I knew that this girl was invited by Mrs. Guan, and now she will show her secrets. Let's see if she doesn't expose the girl's false face on the spot, and see how Mrs. Guan can get down.

She immediately walked up to her mother-in-law, Ma Shi, pointed at Qi Qingxi and said loudly: "As far as I know, there are no loquat trees in the back house of the government office. Where did you come from? You don't know how high and earthly you are, and you dare to pretend to be a relative of the government."