If the business woman does not help the poor, the villain's dream of prosperity will be shatter

After the meeting, Qin Jingchang walked very fast back to Xifu, and Liu Yinghua almost couldn't keep up with him even at a jog.

After returning to the room and closing the door, Qin Jingchang gnashed his teeth and said in hatred: "I should have killed her too!"

Liu Yinghua didn't hear clearly, so she asked quickly, "What did the master say just now?"

Qin Jingchang snorted and said, "Nothing. I really underestimated this damn girl. She has a good plan!"

Liu Yinghua spat and said, "It seems that this damn girl still has a large sum of money. As long as the master agrees to sell the shops, it is not certain who will get these shops."

She thought for a moment and then continued, "You said that the last time she met her brother, he was plotting this?"

Qin Jingchang was stunned for a moment before he replied, "What you said is not without reason."

But why did he always feel that the girl from the East Mansion had more intentions than that?

Liu Yinghua smiled and said, "What does it matter if she has a lot of money or a lot of shops? Once the funeral is over, won't she be at our mercy?"

When thinking of the piece of pork today, Liu Yinghua felt like she had swallowed a fly. "It's just that the people in the tribe are a bit troublesome, and they are all like poor ghosts. When the shrouds and jade items are delivered, if she finds faults, will we just let her do whatever she wants?"

Qin Jingchang said coldly: "What can we do? The net has been tied and the prey has been hooked. If we fail to meet the requirements of that damn girl, she doesn't even need to open her mouth to bite people, those people in the tribe will eat us alive!"

He suddenly remembered and quickly reminded her, "Tomorrow, send someone to Xieyunfang and Wen's shop to find their shopkeepers and order the best gold-embroidered clothes and jade articles."

Liu Yinghua was a little reluctant, "Master, do you really want to use the best?"

"Tomorrow, the tribe members will definitely go to these two stores to inquire about the prices. What if they have negotiated with the shopkeeper in advance and sold us inferior products as good ones? Once the tribe members can produce evidence, we will have to pay them the money."

Liu Yinghua was a little frustrated and said bitterly, "This job is really impossible to do! How much more money will it cost if it goes on like this?"

Qin Jingchang comforted him, "Just work hard for a few more days. Once these items are finalized, the rest won't be a problem."

He leaned over to look outside the door, leaned over to whisper in Liu Yinghua's ear, and lowered his voice, "Once the funeral is over, you will..."

He repeated this in detail in Liu Yinghua's ear.

Finally, he raised his hand and crossed it hard across his neck.

Liu Yinghua was so frightened that her face turned pale. "If people knew about this..."

"No one will know." Qin Jingchang narrowed his eyes slightly and said meaningfully: "We don't need to do this ourselves, it will be done without anyone noticing!"

Liu Yinghua's eyes turned and she asked, "Then, what about the Cheng family?"

Qin Jingchang walked slowly to the short couch and sat down, chuckling and saying, "It can be seen that Mr. Cheng is still very fond of our Yi'er."

He narrowed his eyes slightly, and his low voice became more ruthless, "Second Master Cheng, you must, and can only, marry our Yi'er!"

Qin Jingchang thought the matter over and over again in his mind, and then told Liu Yinghua, "How much money do we have left in our house?"

Liu Yinghua said unwillingly: "Not much..."

"How much is too little?" Qin Jingchang opened his mouth to interrupt Liu Yinghua's words, and said with a gloomy face: "Go and see how much you can take out. If it's not enough, you can only go out and borrow."

Over the past twenty years, especially in the past few years, my eldest brother subsidized their Xifu with 3,000 taels of silver every year.

It only became five thousand taels five years ago.

In the past, Liu Yinghua always used various excuses to take money to subsidize her parents' family.

Anyway, the money is not earned by myself. If I spend it this year, my elder brother will send it to me on time next year.

He didn't feel sorry when Liu Yinghua took the money out.

Although he accepted the money reluctantly, it at least helped him solve his food and drink expenses.

As long as he needed the money, Qin Jingchang didn't care where the remaining money went.

Since he took two concubines a few years ago, Liu Yinghua became stingy.

The expenses in the mansion have also been cut down a lot, so there should be at least 18,000 taels left, right?

Unexpectedly, when she heard him asking for money, Liu Yinghua began to hesitate, "There are many people in the mansion, and Ning'er and his three brothers need to buy pens, ink, paper and inkstones... The two in the wing room need rouge and powder today, and clothes and jewelry tomorrow. How can four hundred taels of silver be enough for a month?"

Seeing Qin Jingchang staring at her with a cold face, Liu Yinghua became more and more flustered, "Only, less than two thousand taels..."

Qin Jingchang jumped up when he heard this. "How come there is only so little left?! How can you manage the family? Look at my sister-in-law. With my brother's money in her hands, how can she borrow money to make more money? How can you only know how to spend it?!"

When Liu Yinghua heard this, she immediately quit, "How much money does big brother make a year? Our family depends on this five thousand taels of silver from big brother a year. You are so stubborn that you won't give me even one tael more..."

As she spoke, she began to wipe away her tears. "I am still wearing the clothes I cut last year. The monthly salary for those two is forty taels each."

She stammered, "This alone costs five hundred taels of silver a year. Some time ago, that damned girl insisted on supplementing her dowry of one thousand taels of silver, and I took it out of our house."

Liu Yinghua lowered her voice and complained again: "Brother, you know to expand the garden for that damn girl, but you don't know that Ning'er is already eighteen years old this year, and it's time to get married?"

She curled her lips, "A girl will have to get married sooner or later. They gave her such a big yard to live in, but they didn't even mention buying a house for Ning'er. They even only gave two thousand taels as a gift for the engagement. I was afraid of being laughed at by my in-laws, so I gave her a little more money from the money I saved..."

Qin Jingchang leaned back with a gloomy face: Yes, my elder brother earns so much every year, but he is only willing to give him such a small amount of money.

It's like sending away a beggar.

Just like when the eldest brother made money, his mother asked him to give her half of it, but he took all the money to redeem his eldest sister-in-law's dowry.

Over the years, has his elder brother ever treated him as his own brother?

Even when talking to him, he had an air of superiority and would often scold him for being idle and doing nothing.

He is a scholar and doesn't write poetry or essays on a daily basis. Should he go into business like his elder brother?

How could others respect a businessman of humble status and full of the smell of money if he did not have his brother, a scholar, to support the family?

Liu Yinghua glanced at her husband and saw that he showed no sign of pursuing the matter further, so she breathed a sigh of relief.

Qin Jingchang thought to himself: If I want to borrow money, I must not borrow from my clan. What if those people don't want the money but want the shop? Wouldn't it be a waste of his efforts?

But outside...

Most of them are loan sharks.

The interest alone is shockingly high.

Borrowing 1,200 taels of silver, with interest compounded, would be enough to empty out a small wealthy family in less than two months.

Qin Jingchang had been thinking about it all night, and even in his dreams, he was borrowing money everywhere.

From childhood to adulthood, when has he ever worried about money?

It’s all that damn girl’s fault for being nosy!

Qin Jingchang gnashed his teeth in hatred.

Early the next morning, Qin Jingchang asked the butler Qi Wu and Madam Qi to go to Wen's shop and Xieyunfang respectively.

As soon as Madam Qi entered Xieyunfang, she saw the eldest wife, Ms. Qiao, from the second master's family, coming down from the second floor, chatting and laughing with the owner of the shop.

When she saw Aunt Qi, a flash of embarrassment flashed across Qiao's face, and then she smiled and said, "Isn't this Aunt Qi? Aunt Qi, are you here to order a golden dress from Master Ming so early in the morning?"

Madam Qi's eyes turned, and she stepped forward and bowed to Mrs. Qiao, saying, "Madam, it just so happens that you are here, and it is not someone else's business. Please help me take a look and choose."