I fought back after reselling my engagement

The fat mother took out a "Body Contract" and handed it to Zhen Su. She glanced at it and saw "Hua Shiyi" written on it. This name is really... She is obviously the daughter of the second branch of the Hua family and a business genius. Perhaps she is the eleventh among her brothers and sisters and is not worthy of using her real name, so she uses "Hua Shiyi" instead. It is Hua Qiurong for sure.

When Hua Qiurong saw that she was really bought, she immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times, "Thank you, Princess. I have a good sister named Ye Qing'er. Please buy her as well. She knows martial arts and will definitely protect you."

Ye Qing'er is the female guard beside Hua Qiurong. She is also the wet sister who grew up with her. She is the daughter of her wet nurse. The two are as close as sisters. Ye Qing'er has been practicing martial arts since she was a child and has good martial arts skills.

Zhen Su called out, "Chun Yue."

"Princess, how can someone of unknown origin serve you?" Chunyue dissuaded.

Zhen Su didn't want to miss it. When she confirmed that the person hugging her legs was Hua Qiurong, her heart was already moved. Her aunt was a straightforward person. In her memory of growing up, the role of mother was played by her grandmother and her aunt Cui.

Cui lacked experience in running a shop, and the recipes given by the Cui family were not suitable for business. My grandmother's housekeepers who knew how to run the shop were all given to my aunt and mother. If she didn't help my aunt, who else could help?

Zhen Su said, "Take her and buy Ye Qing'er back. My courtyard happens to be short of two people." She took out another hundred taels of silver and handed it to Chunyue.

Chunyue looked worried, "Hua Shiyi, get up."

Chunyue took Hua Qiurong to buy people.

Ye Qing'er is now in the hands of a matchmaker. Because of her plain appearance, strong and sturdy body, and slightly dark skin, she has not been sold yet. A farmer's family took a fancy to her and wanted to buy her as a daughter-in-law, but when the matchmaker asked the price, the maximum she would give was twenty taels of silver, which was far from the fifty taels she had in mind.

Ye Qing'er knows martial arts and can guard the house, so how can she be sold for only twenty taels?

Chunyue brought Hua Qiurong and spent fifty taels of silver to buy Ye Qing'er back.

When the three came back, the masters were eating fruits. Several kinds of fruits were placed on a large plate, arranged in the shape of flowers, which was very beautiful.

The waiter of the restaurant collected the used bowls and chopsticks after the dishes were almost finished, picked out a few dishes that were not much touched, gathered together the dishes that were touched but still had most of the leftovers, and rearranged them on the table next to them. He then brought a large bowl of rice to the cold hot hands.

When the three of them came over, Su Qiniang's nurse called out, "Chunyue, Huashiyi, come and have dinner!"

Hua Shiyi had never suffered such injustice since he was a child. The Hua family fell and he was convicted of "collaborating with bandits". The head of the Hua family, the eldest son of the family, was beheaded, and the third son of the family who was involved in the case was also beheaded.

The second wife was implicated and was demoted to military service and sent to the northern border. Unfortunately, all the unmarried girls between the ages of six and eighteen in the Hua family were demoted to servants. The girls were the masters, but they were still demoted to servants. How could the young girls in the Hua family escape? All the servants were also put on signs and straw and auctioned off by the government in the vegetable market.

When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter. The Hua family has disappeared from Baihua County.

Hua Qiurong heard that the person who exposed the Hua family's collusion with bandits and brought disaster to Baihua County was the fifth old master, the fifth uncle of the head of the family. This playboy, who had been a playboy since childhood, always felt that there were many injustices in the division of the family back then, and relied on his seniority to jump up and down.

Not only did the Fifth Old Master bring disaster to the entire Hua family, he himself also suffered a bad fate, as he and his descendants were sent to the Northern Frontier to join the army. The difference was that the Fifth Old Master's granddaughters and great-granddaughters were able to go with their families, but unfortunately the unmarried girls from other branches were all implicated and demoted to official maids.

The court was talking about official maids. Pretty girls were mostly sold to official music houses, and some were even sold to brothels. Official maids and slaves were not allowed to become good-class citizens during their lifetime, and could only be slaves in official families. Unless they were taken care of by powerful people, they would have a chance to become good-class citizens.

Most official slaves and maids remained slaves their entire lives. They were even worse than ordinary slaves. Ordinary slaves could change their status by submitting slave documents, but the process of official slaves becoming free slaves was much more complicated.

Su Mo said: "Cousin Jiarou is inspecting my aunt's dowry shop today. How do you feel?"

Zhen Su said: "We need to integrate the shops. Shop No. 2 will continue to be a grocery store, and I plan to turn the shop opposite into a rouge and powder shop. Cui's cloth shop needs to be renovated. This shop has two storefronts and a small courtyard at the back, which we plan to convert into a clothing shop.

I grew up in the capital, and through correspondence with my friends and cousins, I was able to learn about the latest clothing styles in the capital and Luoyang, and I could also get sample pictures, which was an advantage that others did not have. "

Su Qiniang's eyes were burning. "My cousin wrote to the Ninth Princess. Can the Ninth Princess get the pattern drawings from the Needlework Bureau?"

Zhen Su said: "The embroidery room in the Su Mansion has excellent needlework, but what they lack is clothing illustrations."

Su Mo was eating melon slices, "Cousin Jiarou has a plan?"

Today she took a look around, checked the business and account books, and must have had an idea that opening a grocery store in this area was a waste of talent. Not long after Cui came here, she bought three shops in the name of her dowry shop. She managed them for several years, but she has not even made back her capital.

It is no wonder that Cui handed over the three shops to her niece when Zhen Su mentioned it. Aunts like Cui are rare in the world. Most importantly, Cui watched Zhen Su grow up. Zhen Su lost his mother at a young age. In her eyes, Zhen Su is just like her own child. But she is too generous.

After lunch, everyone got on the carriage and returned home one after another.

When Zhen Su was about to board the carriage, several noblemen gathered at the window of the teahouse opposite the First Class Restaurant, staring, "Who is this girl?"

Nobleman B said, "This is the granddaughter of Grand Commander Su, Princess Jiarou."

A young man in a dark green robe frowned when he heard this. His fiancée had jumped into the river on the Yueyang, and her life or death was unknown. Her body had not been found, but he heard that the body of her maid, Hu Yuanniang, had been salvaged. He could only judge it was her based on her clothes. Hu Yuanniang must have fallen into the river and been eaten by fish if she had not been found.

Princess Jiarou also jumped into the river, but she survived and gained a good reputation. Who wouldn't praise her as a chaste and extraordinary woman? However, her fiancée lost her life. According to the servants and maids of the Hu family who escorted Hu Yuanniang, Hu Yuanniang was a rare beauty.

At this moment, hearing his friends talking about Princess Jiarou, he couldn't help but stand up and walk to the window. Although she was wearing a veil, the girl's figure was graceful and slender, and her temperament was radiant and noble, which made people unable to take their eyes off her.

Nobleman A said: "Princess Jiarou is quite loved by the Emperor and the Empress. She grew up with the most favored Ninth Princess of the current dynasty, Princess Changle of Prince Gong's Mansion, and they are close friends, like sisters. This time, after the ship she was on encountered pirates and jumped into the canal, Princess Changle hired a boat to take people from the Beijing Canal all the way to the Hunan Canal to search for her. This kind of affection is no more than this for blood relatives..."