It turned out that since Zhang Yueyun's sister and brother returned home alone, all family property was confiscated, and only a huge mansion remained. When Uncle Cousin's family was bombed away by the officials, he privately swept away all the remaining clothes, furniture and other valuable items, and kept saying that it was his own.

At that time, Zhang Yueyun, who was in a state of shock, sat in the main room of her parents with her younger brother in her arms, crying non-stop when she saw things, and the official did not disturb when she saw this, and the former family members did not know where to go, and they didn't know anything about it.

As soon as the official left, only the sisters and brothers were left in the empty Hou Mansion, and Zhang Yueyun, who had no support, hugged his younger brother and cried. Fortunately, Xu Hao then sent someone to send money, grain, brocade quilts and other things, and asked the guards to keep vigil at night, and the sisters and brothers who had been hungry for a day had a full meal and had a good sleep on the floor, which finally solved the temporary urgent need.

Xu Hao took a hundred taels of gold directly from the confiscated property in Hualou, and told Jinyiwei that this was to compensate Zhang Yueyun for mental losses and settlement expenses, and the angry command made Jiang Qin run to complain, and Zhu Yuanzhang just smiled when he learned about it.

One hundred taels of gold were redeemed one after another, and the rest were either unable to find it or unwilling to come back. As half of the shares of the newly opened silk shop, the contract certificate was sent to Zhang Yueyun's hands, so that there can be nearly two hundred taels of interest every month, which is barely enough for the daily expenses of the Zhang family. Xu Hao also plans to help the Zhang family buy some land and other industries in the future, which will be enough to support Zhang Yu until he grows up.

Xu Hao didn't want his sister and brother to remember his kindness, so he made up that it was all from the grace of the saint, and Zhang Yueyun accepted it with peace of mind. As the saying goes, killing rain and dew is Jun's grace, although the Zhang sisters and brothers died at a young age and experienced disasters, they did not have the slightest resentment towards Zhu Yuanzhang.

In the future, they will have to live their own days, Xu Hao can't help each other all the time, and he also intends to exercise Zhang Yueyun, and he has not shown up for many days.

Who knew that within a few days, those distant relatives of the Zhang family heard that in just a few days, the Zhang family stood up and immediately flocked with Bo Li.

At first, Zhang Yueyun was very happy, distant relatives are also relatives, how precious is family affection to her at this time? Moved to cry to see the seven aunts and eight aunts, the relatives cried with them, and proposed to move over to support the sisters and brothers nearby, Zhang Yueyun didn't think about it in the excitement, and readily agreed.

Just like that, the outer courtyard was full of relatives in an instant, and after a few days, seeing that Zhang Yueyun was weak and could be bullied, Zhang Yu and the children were ignorant, and they unceremoniously opened their mouths to ask for furniture and daily needs. The new housekeeper Zhang Jiu's father was the former steward of the Hou Mansion, and he wiped his neck in a fit of anger when he was in trouble, but he was a loyal servant, so Zhang Jiu became a housekeeper.

And Zhang Jiu himself used to be just an ordinary person who collected rent in the countryside, he was just thirty years old this year, and he had no ideas and knowledge, so he went to ask Miss Shi to see and agreed, so he contributed all the silver regardless of it.

The entire Hou Mansion has a total of so many silver taels, where is it enough to satisfy these greedy relatives? Talking to Zhang Yueyun to complain about his suffering, saying that everyone came to help with all their hearts, and those who abandoned their families and businesses came over, and the money in their hands was purchased for this and that, and they were expecting the government to help some, but who knew that it was stingy.

Zhang Yueyun has a strong temperament, and she doesn't understand these trivial things, and she can't understand the flaws.

She couldn't pull her face and then begged Xu Hao, one of her benefactors, and after thinking about it, she gritted her teeth and asked her relatives to go into the inner house by themselves, and if she found anything that could be sold for money, she would move out and sell it.

Relatives praised the girl for being sensible, and then they all poured into the inner house like a swarm. Seeing that the Taihu stone in the garden was valuable, he lifted it and took it; The only dozen or so potted plants left in Jade Xuan are good, and they are all pulled away; The messy tables, chairs and benches are good, and you can take them home to tinker with them for your own use; Even the partition window in the house is worth a few copper plates, and it is opened and taken away.

Zhang's family is like being copied three times in a row, and there is no need to say more about the one that was copied. It was only three or five days later that the relatives came together again, complaining that there was no food in everyone's house, and Zhang Yueyun had no choice, so she handed over the few pieces of jewelry she had to the housekeeper Zhang Jiu to sell them, and bought some rice, noodles, vegetables and vegetables and came back.

The problem is that there are more than 100 relatives who have brought their families together, enough to eat for a few days? In addition, weddings and funerals such as giving birth to a child for more than 100 days have to be gifted, Zhang Yueyun was unbearable, so she sold her sister and brother's clothes and other valuable things, and it only lasted for three days.

It's a pity that these relatives don't appreciate it, and they still continue to dig out all kinds of excuses, which are nothing more than asking for money and asking for money.

Zhang Yueyun gradually saw that this family had to be ruined again, not to mention that the younger brother had to be sent to study, and the subordinates had to give monthly money, everyone needed to eat, in short, they had to spend money everywhere, and they couldn't let their relatives be too unscrupulous.

But it is easy to invite God and difficult to send God, and Zhang Yueyun couldn't bear it, so she had to be cheeky and let Zhang Jiu go to the silk shop a few times, and withdraw the next month's income, barely satisfying the greed of her relatives.

Seeing that these people were especially dissatisfied, their appetite became bigger and bigger, and they often gathered people to drink and gamble, attracting some indiscriminate people to live in the house, and the men and women of each family hooked up with each other, and there were fights and brawls every day.

Thanks to the fact that the Zhang family is already a family with four walls, there is nothing to care about, and the children of each family are allowed to sneak into the inner house all day long, steal and steal, and make bad nonsense everywhere to demolish the building, and the Zuihou people are too lazy to clean up.

These relatives also relied on their identities to put the master on the shelf of the subordinates, yelling at the girls, molesting the girls and scolding the little guys, stirring up the Zhang family into a miasma, Zhang Yueyun hid in the house It was useless, the subordinates came to complain all day long, some family members could not bear it, and even the whole family gradually became aware of it.

Leaving aside the departure of the Zhang family for the time being, relatives come to ask for money every day, until recently. Zhang Yueyun really didn't want to endure it anymore, so she invited all the elders over. With tears in his eyes, he said that the family had been ruined so far, and the big guys had seen it, and they really couldn't feed so many people, uncles and aunts, you can do well, just go home.

When the relatives heard this, they immediately stopped doing it, and shouted together, saying that everyone's surname is Zhang Nai, and when did this family not give everyone money, food, silk and other rituals? Since the family broke the bones and connected tendons, after the family fell, we came over to help collect the body and bury it, and contributed money and efforts, and when your sister and brother came back, not only did we not let you pay back the money, but the customary monthly money and food were not mentioned, didn't we?

Zhang Yueyun immediately nodded gratefully, and these relatives smiled secretly in their hearts, and their faces became even more energetic. He also said that we came over with some kindness to help you support the family business, but I didn't expect that when you have established yourself now, you want to drive all your relatives away, which is too black-hearted, right?

Zhang Yueyun hurriedly shook her head and said that this is not the case, it is really a difficult situation at home, and I can't support the whole family's food and drink expenses, but as long as I can support it, I won't open my mouth if I am killed.

At this time, the sixth uncle, who was the most senior, stepped forward and shouted to calm everyone. Ask Zhang Yueyun, don't you have half of the industry of the silk shop in your hands? That shop is full of people coming and going, and business is prosperous, why did it take you two hundred taels of silver a month to be handed over?

Zhang Yueyun didn't know anything about the silk shop, she only knew that it was a hundred taels of gold rewarded by the emperor in exchange, and she didn't know that because she was too anxious when she ransomed the person at that time, she agreed to the asking price, otherwise she had to negotiate back and forth, and she might have to toss it until when.

Among the twenty or so people, there were also five or six girls who were the most expensive, and on average, each of them spent more than a dozen taels of silver, and in fact, the remaining sixty taels of gold were less than seven hundred taels of silver, and they couldn't even buy one percent of the shares.

Zhang Yueyun said bluntly with a bitter face that I don't know about these things, and it is all because the benefactor has mercy on me and my brother. Now the relatives are energetic, and they are shouting that you must have been deceived if you don't do anything.

According to his experience over the years, the silk shop is well located, close to the Qinhuai River, very close to the palace where dignitaries and nobles gather, and the decoration is very magnificent, the place is also large and bright, and there are constant customers every day, at least 8,000 taels of silver can be sold.

Otherwise, each of our families will take some money out, and make up three thousand taels, and take the remaining half of the property over, and in the future, we will take care of it from our own families, and ensure that there will be at least five or six thousand taels of silver profit every year, and the most unfortunate thing is to rent out or sell the house, and the store is now worth one or two thousand, which is enough to buy several manors and comfortably feed the whole family.

Zhang Yueyun felt that something was wrong, so she said that since it was such a profitable business, why did it change back to fifty percent of the silver in the first place? Besides, buying and selling is buying and selling, and shops are shops, how can the two be confused?

The sixth uncle, who relied on the old man and sold the old, said with a triumphant smile, it must be because of the emperor's instructions, intentionally marrying you to the benefactor who has never met, otherwise why would people help you so generously? In terms of identity, you are the real daughter of the Hou Mansion, and if the other party is willing to spend a lot of money, it must be that he has climbed our family. didn't say anything, just because of this, he had to send the silk shop with the honest hands of the deed, otherwise he wouldn't even think about this family matter.

Now Zhang Yueyun understood everything, it turned out that they had gone around in a big circle, and they planned to come over Engong's property and house for nothing without paying a penny? Gasp! Are you greedy people who have no bottom line? No, I can't let them do evil, otherwise I will continue to ask for more money in the future, and I will not hesitate to put my reputation into it, which is really unbearable.

Suddenly, Zhang Yueyun didn't say a word, turned around and went back to the room with a cold face, no matter how persuaded by the sixth uncle, he couldn't come out. Seeing that they were afraid that each other had torn their faces, the angry relatives immediately turned their faces and scolded the Zhang family for how a woman with her arms turned out, and smashed the house to pieces when she left.

Zhang Yueyun, who couldn't bear it that night, cried a lot, and sent a trusted family member to Xu's house outside the city.

Now, I can only pin my hope on Engong Xu Hao alone.