Shen Rong and the others sat in Minghui Courtyard for a while and then left.
They also greeted the Shen family's grandparents and then returned to Guiyuan.
In the evening, Juxiang brought food from the big kitchen and stood aside in a daze. Seeing this, Shen Rong couldn't help but say a few words of concern.
"Juxiang, are you sickened by the stench of that durian?"
Just now, Juxiang brought the durian to Minghuiyuan and then took it back from Minghuiyuan. Could it be that she felt uncomfortable after smelling it for too long?
Juxiang lowered her head and stared at her toes, not saying a word for a long time.
Shen Rong took a look at Juxiang's face and felt that she didn't look uncomfortable. "If you are not feeling well, go down and rest first!"
Juxiang shook her head and said, "Madam, I am not feeling unwell, it's just..." Juxiang was halfway through her words when she suddenly knelt down in front of Shen Rong.
"What are you doing?" Shen Rong hurriedly went to pull Juxiang.
Juxiang shook her head and knelt on the ground, refusing to get up. "Madam, I beg you, the old lady wants to sell Chunwang's family. Please don't let her sell Chunwang's family."
The Chunwang family mentioned by Juxiang are the servants of the mansion. They live in the back street of Houpingyang Mansion with Juxiang's family. The two families are neighbors. Juxiang and Chunwang are childhood sweethearts, and the two families are planning to marry off the two children when they grow up.
But things did not go as planned. The old lady wanted to buy a house in the West Mansion, so she decided to sell a shop and a farm to raise money.
Chunwang and his father were the shopkeepers, while Chunwang and his brothers were clerks. Now that the shop was gone, the Marquis's Mansion naturally no longer needed a shopkeeper and clerks, so the old lady simply sold the family and the shop.
By the time Juxiang found out, Chunwang's family had already moved away. It's no wonder that Juxiang was distracted.
After listening to Juxiang's story, Shen Rong felt uncomfortable for a moment.
Of course, she was not sad for Juxiang losing her childhood sweetheart, but she was sad because Chunwang's family was helpless.
She never expected that the financial situation in the mansion was worse than she had thought.
"Did you find out where they were sold?"
Juxiang nodded with tears in her eyes, "I just asked Madam Hua in the old lady's yard and she said that he was sent to the human city.
Chunwang's mother is in poor health and can't do any work, and his brothers and sisters are also unable to work. If they are sold, their family will definitely be separated..."
Juxiang's worries are not unreasonable. People buy people to work. Naturally, no one wants a woman and a child who can't work. Then Chunwang's family will have to be separated.
Shen Rong thought for a moment and said, "Please let me think about it."
The old lady sold the person just as she was selling him, and she bought him back right after. Isn't this an insult to the old lady?
If we want to save Chunwang's family, this problem must be solved fundamentally.
"Do you know which shops and farms to buy and how much silver they will cost?" Shen Rong asked.
Juxiang was stunned. Nanny Hua would naturally not tell her this, but she knew how much the manor and shop in the mansion were worth. After thinking for a while, she said, "About seven or eight thousand..."
Shen Rong frowned.
Juxiang explained hurriedly: "Although Aunt Hua didn't tell me, I know the approximate price of the farm in the mansion. The farm is in the suburbs and can be sold for about 4,000 taels. The shops in the mansion are mostly in the south of the city, in inconspicuous places, and can be sold for about 3,000 taels. If they are sold in a hurry, I'm afraid the price will have to drop a little."
"Come on, let me think of a solution first. Chunwang and the others just went to the human market, so the people shouldn't be sold out so quickly." Shen Rong consoled.
She gave five thousand out of the fifteen thousand taels of silver. If she could get seven thousand from selling the shop, it would mean that the mansion could only take out three thousand taels of cash.
Shen Rong had only earned a little over 1,000 taels of silver from selling Ganoderma lucidum in the morning. Even if she took it all out, it still wouldn't be enough to fill the hole from selling the farm shop. However, she could secretly buy the person first. But then, how to place him after buying him became a problem.
It is absolutely impossible to bring it back home, otherwise, it would be a slap in the face of the old lady.
Just when she didn't know what to do, she suddenly remembered that there was no one in Grandpa Changsheng's house.
"Tell Guardian Wang tomorrow to take you to the human market to buy someone. After buying the person, ask him to place the person in Grandpa Shen's yard to look after the yard." Shen Rong whispered.
Juxiang was moved and ashamed when she heard Shen Rong's decision. She lowered her head and mentioned the burden of Chunwang's family. "Madam, you don't have a farm or a shop. You're at a loss by buying Chunwang's family!"
Shen Rong thought that in the future when she could grow her own fruits and open a shop specializing in selling fruits and vegetables, she would also have to hire a shopkeeper and clerks. So she just thought of it as buying a shopkeeper and clerks in advance.
No one from the West Mansion came that day, and the old lady felt relieved.
Since she hadn't collected all the money yet, she naturally didn't want anyone to come to her house so early.
On second thought, the old lady also understood. The New Year was approaching, and if the people from the West Mansion were to move away, it would not be now.
Thinking of this, the old lady was no longer so anxious.
Things in the West Mansion were exactly as the old lady thought. Even if they wanted to sell the house and move away, they would have to wait until after the New Year.
Taking advantage of this period of time, the people in West Mansion decided to find out who wanted to buy a house in the west of the city.
After discussing it, the brothers from the West Palace still felt that the East Palace could not come up with 15,000 taels of silver, even though they knew that the old lady sincerely wanted to buy it.
In order to move out as soon as possible, they didn't care about anything else.
The shops and farms in the capital were still in great demand, and the items sold out within two days of being put up for sale.
Chunwang's family was also bought back by Shen Rong and sent to the Shen family's yard.
Shen Rong did not mention this to the old lady, but only to Sixth Grandpa and Sixth Grandma.
The two old people also felt very sympathetic towards Chunwang's family, but they didn't say anything.
Two days later, Wang Qing mysteriously asked Juxiang to tell Shen Rong that the matter had been investigated.
Shen Rong was a little confused at first, but after a while she remembered why he asked Guardian Wang to go there.
Seeing that Wang Qing found out about Shen Yuan's situation so quickly, he couldn't help but become curious about Shen Yuan's experiences in the past few years.
Wang Qing was a man. When Shen Rong saw him, she pulled Changsheng, who was writing in the study, to the front yard.
When the two of them arrived at the front yard, Wang Qing was already waiting.
"Shen Rong hurried forward and asked: "Wang Huyuan, what did you find out?"
Guardian Wang glanced at Changsheng, thinking that it was not something that could not be told, so he told him everything he had found out.
"Young Madam, you have good eyesight. The woman we saw in Baiweizhai last time is indeed the owner of Baiweizhai. Her surname is Chen, and she is the daughter of the Earl of Yiyong. The Earl of Yiyong was conferred by the late emperor a few years ago. I heard that the head of the Chen family was a criminal, but he made great contributions in the south and his title was restored. The whole family came to Beijing. Miss Chen was low-key at first, but later she opened Baiweizhai..."
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