Chapter 300: Not Against Your Will

Immediately after Wei Yi-chen pulled out from his pocket a letter written by Xu Feng-yuan: “The women of the boudoir should not have correspondence with outside men, today this letter is Xu brother asked why you resisted the marriage between the two families, after you read it don’t answer the letter, what ideas directly tell big brother, big brother to help you to bring the words to Xu brother.”

Wei Ruo scrutinized Wei Yi Chen’s earnest and serious expression and asked, “Will big brother really carry a message for me? Even if I am trying to sabotage this marriage?”

“As long as it’s not out of the ordinary, I’ll help you bring it to you and won’t go against your wishes.” Wei Yi Chen promised.

Wei Ruo didn’t answer, but scrutinized Wei Yi Chen.

Wei Yi Chen sensed Wei Ruo’s lack of trust in himself and was a bit lost, but felt helpless, so he added, “The lintel of the Wei family should be supported by the men in the family, and will never rely on a woman’s high marriage to consolidate it.”

Wei Yi-chen was deeply influenced by his father, Wei Ming-ting, who believed that the sisters in his family should grow up in pampering, and that it would be good for them to have a smooth life.

Wei Ruo said, “Then I’ll be grateful to big brother.”

Then he took the epistle in Wei Yichen’s hand and opened it in front of Wei Yichen.

The content is quite simple, there is nothing over the line, the meaning expressed throughout is: politely ask Wei Ruoco is on the Xu family of what is not satisfied with him, or there is any misunderstanding, hope to be able to communicate in a timely manner to avoid misunderstandings.

And in order to avoid the letter falling into the hands of bystanders to lead to unnecessary trouble, the letter does not have a header and the end of the letter.

Wei Ruo read the letter and then returned it to Wei Yi Chen, “Please tell Mr. Xu that I have no resentment towards him or the Xu family, but I know that I am not capable of being the head of the family. What’s more, Mr. Xu is going to be an official in the future, and I’m a person who has been accustomed to being capricious in the countryside since I was a child, so I can’t be a good domestic helper, and I can’t be subjected to that kind of constraints either.”

“Okay, big brother knows, big brother will bring Ruo’er’s meaning to Mr. Xu.”

Wei Yi Chen nodded, and then without stopping Wei Ruo, he watched Wei Ruo walk in the direction of Listening Pine Court.

It wasn’t until Wei Ruo’s figure was out of sight that Wei Yi Chen withdrew his gaze.

Today, having cleared two things from his mind, Wei Yi Chen felt much more relaxed.

Walking back Wei Yi Chen encountered Wei Yi Lin, who was standing just around the corner, his small eyes looking right at Wei Yi Chen.

“You’ve just been watching me and your big sister?” Wei Yi Chen inquired.

“Uh-huh.” Wei Yi Lin nodded a bit, “I don’t want to see you two fight again.”

“It won’t be, last time it was big brother who was impulsive, at that time father was critically ill, he was in a hurry and couldn’t control himself, that’s why he accidentally hurt your big sister, in the future such things big brother will try to avoid and mustn’t commit the crime again.”

Wei Yi Lin nodded heavily, “That’s good.”

Wei Yi Chen laughed and couldn’t help but touch Wei Yi Lin’s head, “You’re really getting more and more understanding now, you know how to worry about things between big brother and big sister.”

“I was already very understanding, of course I want everyone to be well, although I used to quite dislike big sister, thinking that it was because of her that she made sister Wanwan unhappy. But after getting along with her, I think she’s not that annoying, and she’s also a little bit pitiful. And she’s a member of our family, as a man in the family, of course I should protect the women in the family.”

“Uh-huh.” Wei Yi Chen touched Wei Yi Lin’s head, “Big brother’s time at home will become less and less behind him, and father will have to stay in the barracks from time to time, so the family will have to rely on you in the future.”

“Don’t worry big brother, leave it to me!” Wei Yi Lin patted his chest.

The brothers went back to the courtyard where each of them lived while talking.

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After returning to Listening Pine Court, Xiu Mei asked Wei Ruo: “Miss, is what the young master said just now true? Will he really help Miss reject the Xu family’s marriage? Madam is very optimistic about this marriage, and looking at the movements in the house these days, I’m afraid that ……”

“Believe it or not it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t affect my intentions. Really forced me to rush, I can do anything, the so-called barefoot not afraid to wear shoes, as long as I’m not afraid of bad reputation, the initiative is pinched in my hands.”

Yun can pinpoint Wei Ruo marriage premise is Wei Ruo care about their own reputation, but also want to marry a future as long as Wei Ruo open up, then the initiative in Wei Ruo’s own hands.

Of course Wei Ruo also knows that this matter she still has to master the proportion, can not be overdone.

If it really passes, and the Wei family, for the sake of reputation, directly lets her a white ling hang, then she really has no place to talk about it.

Wei Ruo returned to her room and began to look at the account books, recently there were a bit too many account books, except for the Nurse and Steward Yu who were able to help her with some of them, the other parts Wei Ruo basically had to check them herself and do it herself.

Xiu Mei can not help much in this regard, whenever Wei Ruo picks the lamp to read the account book, she can only cook some ginseng tea and snacks for Wei Ruo, accompanied by the side of the wait.

Wei Ruo current hands of the store, in addition to the grain store has been closed and suspended, the other stores are still as usual, the business situation is certainly not as good as before, but also are profitable.

Especially the item of white wine, the earnings greatly exceeded Wei Ruo’s expectations, two jars of wine per day, stable sale of ninety-eight taels of silver (fifty taels for the halibut store, forty-eight taels for the sale of the Drunken Immortal Residence).

Sibaozhai, paper is still in short supply, the city can afford to buy this paper are noble children, willing to spend a lot of money on reading, even if the situation outside is not good, but also can not affect the daily expenses of these noble children.

Pen, ink and inkstone sales have declined, so last time Wei Ruo specially let the four treasures Zhai held an event to hide the ink treasure of the forest priests and a year’s supply of paper as a prize to attract the majority of literati to come, in order to increase a wave of sales, to a wave of inventory.

After that, she will appropriately reduce the purchase of brushes, ink and inkstones in the purchase of goods, to avoid squeezing too much inventory.

Because the pens, ink and inkstones are all imported from elsewhere, once the stock is squeezed, it will be very unfavorable to her.

The sales of the marinade store is not much change, originally this period of time sales should be to decline a little, but also because of the heat of the Thyme drive the sales of marinade, the combined daily turnover compared with the previous is not too bad.

Drunken Immortal Residence side of the seasoning supply has also basically remained unchanged recently, the reason Wei Ruo estimated and marinated food store situation is similar, probably the launch of the Thyme increased customer traffic, hedge because of the recent economic downturn caused by the decline in customer traffic.

Xingshan County side of the mushroom planting industry in the first half of this year expanded a lot, especially after the wave of cold wave, Wei Ruo is to increase the investment in mushroom planting, recently almost Xingshan County, west of the nearby all suitable for planting mushrooms in the caves all to buy down.