Marrying into a rich family by mistake, it is difficult to be a mistress

"Since you said that the shop is mine, the goods and people are yours, then these people have been doing business with me for so long, so please pay the rent."

"Rent...rent?" Ji Qingyuan's face froze.

"Yes, rent." Ji Chuhe sat down calmly and fiddled with the abacus beads on the table.

"You want me to pay you rent? You're dreaming! Ji Chuhe, don't think you can act arrogantly now that you've married into the palace! You know exactly how this shop came into your hands! I advise you not to go too far!"

Ji Chuhe slowly put the abacus beads back to their original positions and looked up at Ji Qingyuan. "If you don't pay the rent, put down these goods. My people will count them one by one according to the detailed inventory of the warehouse. If there is anything missing, it means that my sister stole it."

Ji Qingyuan was so angry that her face turned blue, and for a moment she couldn't find any way to refute Ji Chuhe's words.

"I don't think my sister would want to be charged with theft, right? And Mr. Shen..." Ji Chuhe glanced at Shen Chengjing with contempt, "You came here with my sister today, so you are also involved in this, so you will inevitably be charged with the same crime as my sister."

A trace of panic flashed across Shen Chengjing's eyes, and he quickly pulled Ji Qingyuan's sleeve, "Yuan'er, I think we should just forget it."

"Are you afraid of her?" Ji Qingyuan pointed at Shen Chengjing, "How can you be afraid of her! Don't you have a way to deal with her? Just let her say whatever she wants!"

In the previous life, didn’t Ji Chuhe listen to Shen Chengjing in everything?

Shen Chengjing was so capable. He first came up with six strategies for military service. Later, even though he was forced by them to have no place to stand in Huaiyang and had to leave his hometown and go to the imperial capital, he was able to rise to prominence with his own strength and later became a powerful official second only to the emperor.

Why is there such a big difference between Shen Chengjing in this life and his previous life!

Ji Qingyuan questioned in her heart, and Shen Chengjing also looked at Ji Qingyuan in surprise.

Does she know what she's talking about?

Ji Chuhe is now the Crown Prince's wife, someone he cannot afford to offend!

Ji Qingyuan was so ignorant that she asked him to deal with Ji Chuhe. Wasn't that asking him to become an enemy of the palace?

Shen Chengjing ignored Ji Qingyuan and walked straight to Ji Chuhe and bowed.

"Madam, I didn't understand the situation today and thought these were my wife's things, so I came to help. I didn't expect them to be my wife's. I'm really sorry. I'm a scholar and I don't pick up things on the road. How could I do such a thing as robbing or stealing? Please understand, Madam."

Ji Qingyuan was furious at Shen Chengjing's attitude towards Ji Chuhe. She pulled Shen Chengjing over and said, "I don't allow you to talk to her in that tone!"

"I'm telling the truth." Shen Chengjing retorted in a deep voice.

"Why am I doing this? It's for you and the Shen family!"

"A gentleman does not accept food given out of pity."

"Shen Chengjing, you are so noble! You are amazing! Everything you eat and use now belongs to me!"

Ji Qingyuan's words severely hurt Shen Chengjing's self-esteem.

"I won't argue with you. I don't have to live in the new house with you. I can continue to go back to the Shen family."

"You!" Ji Qingyuan was extremely angry.

She was so good to him, buying him a house and opening a shop, but he actually wanted to abandon her to live with the Shen family!

Ji Chuhe watched the two people arguing and just found it funny.

In her previous life, Ji Qingyuan had feelings for the successful Shen Chengjing.

How could the Shen Chengjing at that time be compared to the Shen Chengjing now?

It can be said that Shen Chengjing’s position as a minister, second only to the emperor and above everyone else, is all due to her efforts. She is the one who trained him.

What does Shen Chengjing have at this time?

There is the inherent poverty and arrogance, and the mentality of thinking oneself superior after reading for two days.

Apart from these, that’s all!

When Ji Qingyuan woke up, she realized that the Shen Chengjing in front of her was not the Shen Chengjing she met in her previous life.

Ji Qingyuan failed to regain her face in front of Shen Chengjing. When she turned around and saw Ji Chuhe smiling slightly, she felt even more uncomfortable.

"Ji Chuhe, how long have you owned this shop? You still have the nerve to ask me for rent!" She is not afraid of Ji Chuhe, and she will never back down on this matter today.

"Of course it starts from the time on the title deed."

Ji Qingyuan choked. Ji Chuhe was referring to the time when the Ji family bought the shop, which must have been at least seven or eight years ago!

"Ji Chuhe, are you crazy about money? The shop belonged to my mother before, what qualifications do you have to collect the rent at that time! Is it the way you calculate? Even if you want rent, I will calculate it for you from the day of your wedding."

Ji Qingyuan is still planning to take these goods.

The shop is not going to be taken back, so Ji Chuhe cannot let these goods get away with it.

If we calculate the rent from the wedding day, even at the lowest cost, it wouldn't be much. Compared with these goods, it's nothing.

"The shop is mine, I can calculate it however I want." Ji Chuhe was not here to reason.

Besides, the truth is always told by the strong to the weak.

"You!" Ji Qingyuan was so angry that she couldn't speak.

"This shop has been open for seven or eight years, right? I haven't made any profit. The deed is in my hands now. Is it too much for me to charge a little rent?"

Ji Chuhe started to count the beads on the abacus again. "The monthly rent for a shop in this area is at least five taels of silver. Twelve months a year is sixty taels, and eight years is four hundred and eighty taels. You pay four hundred and eighty taels, and all the goods here will be yours."

Four hundred and eighty taels is an astronomical figure for Ji Qingyuan!

These goods were worth at most a hundred or eighty taels, but Ji Chuhe asked for four times the price!

She also said that she was a thief, but in her opinion, Ji Chuhe was the bandit!

"Ji Chuhe, aren't you afraid that your father will be disappointed in you if he knows about this?" Ji Qingyuan remembered that Ji Chuhe cared about his father very much. In her previous life, as long as she used her father to pressure Ji Chuhe, Ji Chuhe would always compromise. This time, she wanted to use the same trick again.

Ji Chuhe laughed, laughing at Ji Qingyuan's stupidity.

In her previous life, she didn’t even know why she cared about her father Ji Qingyuan.

That's because she thought her father would help Shen Chengjing and let him enter the officialdom because she was also his daughter, so that her life would be better.

But the result?

My father only adds icing on the cake, but never helps in times of need.

"Father should care more about my thoughts now and whether I will be disappointed in him." Ji Chuhe responded indifferently.

Ji Qingyuan: ...

These words really hurt Ji Qingyuan.

This was also the first time after being married for so long that she re-examined her and Ji Chuhe's identities.

The gap made her panic and confused.

In her previous life, when she was in the palace, the princess never gave her so much power!

Even the prince looked down on her.

Why?

Why does Ji Chuhe win the favor of the princess and have the power to manage the palace's internal affairs?

She even heard some news that Ji Chuhe dared to openly offend Concubine Xu!

Why is this life different from the previous one?

What is going wrong?

Ji Qingyuan began to doubt her life.

"Sister, it's your choice whether to buy the goods or pay rent." Ji Chuhe reminded.