She was replaced by a husband, married the future tyrant and farmed to fight back

Chapter 45 Liu Yingyue investigates the cause overnight
Although Liu Yingyue was urging her, Qin Xiuzhu still stood there motionless.

I don't want to change places.

Chen Baian smiled and said, "The location at the intersection is better than ours, Miss Xiuzhu, you should move there to set up your stall. There are many people who want to grab a stall but can't. Your sister-in-law is amazing to be able to get one."

Qin Xiuzhu raised her eyes and glared at Chen Baian coldly. She angrily put the backpack on the donkey cart and said to Liu Yingyue, "Let's go."

Liu Yingyue blinked. What was Qin Xiuzhu angry about again?
But she was busy at the moment and was too lazy to coax Qin Xiuzhu.

The two came to a crossroads.

The donkey cart stopped and Liu Yingyue helped Qin Xiuzhu put away the backpack. Before they could shout, someone came up and asked them what they were selling.

"Fragrant and crispy scones, with red bean filling, mung bean filling, pickled vegetable filling, and sprinkled with sesame seeds. Two cents each."

Qin Xiuzhu opened the white gauze wrapped around the scones and let the guests see the scones.

"It's a bit bigger than the others. Give me three."

"Okay." Qin Xiuzhu took the thin oil paper for wrapping the pancakes, wrapped three pancakes and handed them to the customer.

Just after seeing off the customer, two more people came to buy cakes.

One person buys three and one person buys one.

The two men walked away, and then someone else came.

Although they are all individual customers, buying in groups of three or five, or two or three, there is still a constant stream of customers.

Qin Xiuzhu did the business of five people at once and sold twenty pancakes.

With the business, Qin Xiuzhu soon forgot that Chen Baian didn't try to keep her.

Liu Yingyue was still thinking about renting a shop, so she told Qin Xiuzhu that she would be away for a while and would be back later.

Qin Xiuzhu was busy and waved her hand impatiently, "Go and do your thing."

"Xiuzhu, can you handle the business by yourself?" Liu Yingyue asked.

Qin Xiuzhu, who was busy soliciting business, turned around and glared at Liu Yingyue, "Do you think I need your help? I have been busy alone since this morning, and you didn't help me sell a single cake."

The fact that she could say such things shows that she dares to do business alone.

Liu Yingyue said, "That's good. I feel relieved."

She put the empty backpack on the donkey cart and walked towards Tian Fangzheng's house.

Tian Fang was harnessing a bullock cart at the gate of the courtyard. When he saw Liu Yingyue approaching, he smiled and waved, "I've been waiting for you for a long time, Madam Liu. Let's go now."

"Thank you, Tian Fangzheng." Liu Yingyue said with a smile.

You Tianfang was driving a ox cart, taking Liu Yingyue to a village ten miles away.

Mr. Liu's family is the richest in the village, and their house is quite large.

The gatekeeper must have known Tian Fangzheng. When he saw Tian Fangzheng coming, he immediately opened the door and invited him in.

Liu Yingyue looked at the houses in the yard and found that there were two rows of houses on the left and right.

From the layout of the house, it can be seen that the two brothers of the Liu family live in a large courtyard.

Tian Fangzheng was taking Liu Yingyue towards the main house in the east row of houses.

Mr. Liu, who was in his early fifties, was sitting in the main room to rest. He saw Tian Fangzheng coming and said that he brought someone to buy a house. He was very happy and asked Liu Yingyue to sit down.

Businessmen like to get straight to the point.

Liu Yingyue didn't beat around the bush and immediately stated the purpose of her visit.

"I want to buy your shop, but can the price be cheaper, Mr. Liu?" Mr. Liu immediately shook his head, "No, two hundred taels, not even one tael less."

Liu Yingyue said embarrassedly, "But this price is really a bit high. The shops on the market street are not so expensive."

She had inquired about other shops, and found that the prices were only around one hundred taels. This shop was the same as the others, a two-story wooden building with a shop in front and a small courtyard in the back.

The price is twice as much.

Besides, if the price was two hundred taels, she couldn't afford it.

She had sixty taels of dowry and some privately saved silver, which added up to more than one hundred yuan.

"If you can't afford it, then go back. My shop is in a good location, so naturally there will be big buyers coming." Mr. Liu waved his hand unceremoniously.

"Mr. Liu, Madam Liu really wants to buy it, so why don't you give in?" Tian Fangzheng spoke up for Liu Yingyue because she had found her son.

"No, no, you guys can go now." Mr. Liu stood up with an expression as if he was seeing someone off.

Since this didn't make sense, Liu Yingyue had to think of another way.

As she stood up, a middle-aged man in his forties who looked very similar to Mr. Liu strode into the main room.

Tian Fangzheng greeted him with a smile, "Mr. Liu Er."

The man nodded in response as a greeting, and then walked towards Mr. Liu, "Brother, is there a buyer for the shop?"

"The price hasn't been agreed upon." Mr. Liu shook his head.

"Brother, you have been trying to sell this shop for more than two months, but it still hasn't been sold. Why don't you let me sell it?" Mr. Liu flicked his sleeves and sat down next to Mr. Liu.

Mr. Liu glanced at Liu Yingyue and Tian Fangzheng, frowned, and said to them, "I'm sorry, the shop can't be sold, please go back."

Tian Fangzheng brought several people to buy a shop, but none of them were successful and they were turned away. This was common to him.

"Then you go on with your work, Mr. Liu. I'll come back when you find a suitable buyer." Tian Fangzheng waved to the two old brothers of the Liu family and left with Liu Yingyue.

After leaving the village, Liu Yingyue saw that there was no one on the road to the village, so she asked, "Tian Fangzheng, are there any conflicts between the two brothers of the Liu family?"

"You figured it out? Well, isn't it just a conflict? The two brothers have been fighting over the shop left by their parents. Then again, this kind of thing is not uncommon in the village." Tian Fangzheng shook his head, "The poor fight over food, and the rich fight over unequal distribution."

After he finished speaking, he reminded Liu Yingyue not to tell anyone.

Liu Yingyue smiled and said, "I won't tell you."

Tian Fang was turning the ox cart around to send Liu Yingyue back to the market street.

Liu Yingyue was still thinking about the shop. She wanted to go back to the Liu family's house to check the situation secretly, so she said, "Tian Fangzheng, I remembered that I have a relative in a village ahead. I want to visit my relative before going back. You go back first."

Tian Fangzheng said, "That's fine. If you want to buy a shop, come find me again."

"However, I would like to trouble Tian Fangzheng to go back to the market street and tell my sister-in-law to go back first. I will be back to the village later. She sells baked cakes in front of Liu's shop. Her surname is Qin."

Tian Fangzheng said cheerfully, "Okay, I'll definitely pass on the message."

After Tian Fangzheng left, Liu Yingyue walked towards the Liu family's house again.

She was not from the village, so she wouldn't get anything out of him if she asked openly.

Seeing that the sun was setting, Liu Yingyue planned to sneak into Liu's village at night to investigate the situation.

She spent a few cents, bought a bowl of rice from an old woman's house, and sat in the yard to rest.

It was not until dark that Liu Yingyue arrived at Liujiazhuangzi, found a low wall, and quietly climbed over it.

(End of this chapter)