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He knew that her sister-in-law was angry, but her parents' family was her support, so she could only try to please them.

With a smile on his face, he said, "Sister-in-law is joking."

After thinking for a while, he said, "Yesterday I asked someone to send 1,000 taels of silver to Xiangling and 1,000 taels to Jiaojiao."

"They serve in the East Palace together. After all, they are cousins, so they can take care of each other."

He's words made Xu's expression change again and again.

She could accept that her daughter was not favored in the Eastern Palace, and she could also accept that others were favored.

But she felt extremely uncomfortable when Su Xiangling entered the Eastern Palace and was favored.

In fact, she also understood that if it wasn't Su Xiangling, it would be someone else, and the cousins ​​would always have someone to take care of them.

But I just can't get over it.

Now that He had given her a way out, she took the opportunity to step down.

He asked, "Thank you very much. Is there anything you need when you come back at this time, aunt?"

He thought for a moment and said, "This is what happened. Many of the herbs in the shop have gone moldy. I want to come back and ask my brother what to do."

Xu looked at her thoughtfully, "Then according to what my aunt wants to do?"

He replied cautiously, seeming a little guilty.

"Let's talk business. These herbs all came from the He family. They're moldy now. Can you give us a new batch?"

He had already asked an expert to check it out, and it was confirmed that this batch of herbs had been moldy for at least half a year. However, this batch of herbs was sent to the Su family's pharmacy three months ago, and what happened in between was thought-provoking.

He didn't want to break up with her family, but the problem of medicinal materials had to be solved. The Su family couldn't afford to bear the loss of so many medicinal materials.

When Xu heard this, her face suddenly darkened.

"You didn't keep it properly, and you're asking us?"

"I haven't charged you any money for these herbs yet. Even if I'm leaning towards my husband's family, I can't keep coming to my parents' house to ask for money, right?"

He's face turned red with shame. She didn't say anything excessive, so how did she become a beggar?

Today in the Marquis's Mansion, Su Chengyan and the old lady were not satisfied with her eldest brother, and they felt that they were cheated by the He family. When she returned to her parents' home, she was described as a poor relative who was begging for money.

He found an outlet to vent her grievances of the past few days, "Sister-in-law, what are you talking about? How am I taking advantage of you?"

"The Su family owes money to the He family, but we have also written an IOU."

"Now there is a problem with the medicinal materials, and my sister-in-law doesn't think about how to solve it, but just keeps scolding me. Then let's find someone to check it out and see when the medicinal materials became moldy."

Seeing her like this, Mrs. Xu also became angry.

He raised his voice and said unhappily, "Just check it out. Who can deceive those two sons of your Su family?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard footsteps outside the hall, followed by a man's deep voice.

"Why are you two still arguing? Stop it."

The person who came in was He Guangju, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple and He's biological brother.

Behind He Guangju is He Guangfu, the apparent head of He’s Medicinal Herbs Store.

After the two came in, He and Xu also calmed down.

After they exchanged greetings, they sat down as host and guest.

When He Guangju heard that the medicinal herbs sent to the Su family had all gone moldy, he looked at He Guangfu calmly.

He Guangfu turned his head away guiltily, not daring to look directly at him. He Guangju immediately understood the inside story.

He said, "Don't worry, sister. It may be that the warehouse staff was negligent. I'll have someone take away those herbs and send you new ones."

"As for these..." He glanced at He Guangfu, "Just take them outside the city and destroy them."

He Guangfu immediately became anxious when he heard this. This was all hard-earned money, how could it be destroyed?

"Cousin, think twice, that's not a small amount."

This cousin is good in every way. He is loyal to his brothers and willing to help his fellow tribesmen. But he is too pedantic and inflexible in his work.

How can you be inflexible in business? If everyone listened to him, how could the He family make so much money?

So when He Guangfu was in charge of affairs outside, he told some things to He Guangju, kept some things secret, and kept half of some things to himself.

Just like the batch of medicinal materials given to the Su family, many of them were moldy, but He Guangfu didn't say anything.

"Can we sell moldy herbs without destroying them? We want to make money, but we can't take other people's lives."

He Guangfu tried to persuade him in a low voice again, but He Guangju was determined to do so and remained unmoved no matter how he was persuaded.

He Guangfu was anxious, and suddenly an idea came to his mind. He said, "Cousin, doesn't the court want our family to provide disaster relief? I think this batch of medicinal herbs is just right."

"The people who received these medicines are all poor disaster victims. They have hardly seen medicine, let alone how to tell whether the medicine is good or not."

"When the time comes, we will distribute the good ones, and for the bad ones, we will boil medicine on the spot and distribute one bowl of medicine every day. The court and the people will say that we are benevolent and righteous, and we will also save money."

The more He Guangfu talked, the better he thought this was. They were just a bunch of ants. It was good enough for them to be able to drink the medicine. How could he expect to give them the best medicinal herbs?

After hearing what happened next, He Guangju's brows furrowed even more.

"How can this be possible? If someone dies..."

He Guangfu heard this and advised: "Even if someone died, they died of freezing or starvation. What does it have to do with us? Our medicinal herbs can't fill their stomachs, let alone bring them back to life."

After saying this, He Guangfu winked at Xu, signaling her to try to persuade him.

Xu had benefited a lot from He Guangfu in the past few years, and she also felt that what he said made sense.

Then he began to persuade: "Master, what Fifth Cousin said makes sense. This way we can save a lot of money."

"These are all for disaster victims. What problems can arise from eating them?"

"Besides, it's not just our family that's like this. The imperial court only gives out the lowest quality grain."

However, food is the least scarce item in this disaster relief effort, as the grain reserves in various state governments are sufficient to provide relief to the victims.

Finally, after persuasion from He Guangfu and Xu, He Guangju finally nodded and agreed to use this batch of moldy medicinal materials for disaster relief.

"Then send someone to bring back the moldy herbs."

He Guangfu heard this and said, "I think it's better to leave this matter to the Su family. It's the end of the year and I'm very busy."

"Of course, we won't let the Su family work in vain. We'll give them 30% of the money we save as a reward for your hard work."

He's brows lit up and she asked, "Then what about the medicinal materials in our shop..."

He Guangfu replied: "Of course we will add new ones. We can't let you have no herbs to sell."

He made a rough calculation and found that this batch of moldy medicinal materials was worth a total of 70,000 to 80,000 taels.

Thirty percent is more than twenty thousand taels.

This is not a small amount of money for the Su family.

Like He Guangfu and Xu, she didn't think there was anything wrong with feeding moldy medicinal herbs to the victims.

He Guangju didn't think much about it and thought that He Guangfu was feeling guilty and was therefore compensating the Su family.

He Guangfu then said to He: "Cousin, we need to send new medicinal herbs to the Su family, and I need to settle the bill."

"I will draft the document myself later, and I will have to trouble my cousin to sign it."

"Otherwise, after a long time, if I check the accounts and find that so many medicinal materials are missing, I won't be able to explain it clearly."

He did not doubt him, "This is as it should be. Just draft the document and I will sign it."