A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 236 Wei Yutian

When Xu Fuxian returned home from the escort agency, he immediately called his son and daughter-in-law and prepared to go to his brother's house to pay his respects.

Xu Fuxian's son was also sad because his second uncle had died, but the two families had not had any contact for nearly twenty years, and Xu Fuxian would not allow him to go there during the holidays.

Xu Fuxian was not at home, so his son did not dare to act on his own. However, he still secretly prepared mourning clothes and wreaths, waiting for his father to come back and persuade him.

When Xu Fuxian returned home, he saw that his son had already prepared everything. He couldn't help but sigh deeply and said, "You are a chaste child for having such a heart. Our brothers' discord is our business, but he is your second uncle after all."

Xu Fuxian's son and daughter-in-law wore mourning clothes and brought mourning banners and wreaths. Xu Fuxian wrote a pair of elegiac couplets by hand, and the whole family went to Xu Shouxian's coffin.

After all the formalities, Xu Fuxian's eyes were filled with tears, unable to control his emotions.

When they were leaving, Ye Tian, the old butler of the Xu Mansion, came over, bowed deeply, and said sadly: "Master, you finally came..."

After Ye Tian finished speaking, he could not control himself and started crying.

Xu Fuxian looked at Ye Tian with tears in his eyes and said, "He left in a hurry. We two brothers originally had a lot to say..."

Ye Tian tremblingly took out a letter from his arms and said, "Master, the master left a letter for you."

Xu Fuxian took the thick envelope, and his heart trembled when he saw the font on the cover.

Xu Fuxian returned home and was alone in the study with the door closed. He sat at the desk and looked at the handwriting on the envelope for a long time before he cut open the seal of the letter and pulled out more than ten pages of letter paper.

Xu Fuxian wiped the tears from his face and began to read at his desk...

As Xu Fuxian read, he stood up from his chair several times because of his emotional ups and downs. After a while, he sat down again with a sad look on his face...

In his letter, Xu Shouxian first praised his brother for being right not to associate with him, saying that his boat would capsize sooner or later.

With my brother around, the Xu family can always be supported.

In the letter, Xu Shouxian told Xu Fuxian that he had returned all the money he had embezzled to Ruan Fengshan, and he expected that Ruan Fengshan would not make things difficult for his family's relatives and old friends.

After reading this, Xu Fuxian finally understood why Ruan Fengshan was willing to let bygones be bygones and allowed his colleagues in the escort agency to go and pay their respects to Xu Shouxian.

It turned out that Xu Shouxian had returned all the money he had embezzled to him.

Xu Fuxian stroked the letter and sighed, "Brother, you are still wise enough to have a backup plan, thus saving your descendants from disaster!"

Xu Fuxian continued reading. The letter read: "My concubines will not be able to stay after I die. Tell Ye Tian to give them some money and send them away. As for the two young sons, Zhier and Haner, please take care of them. I will pray for you every day in my grave."

Xu Shouxian had been childless in his early years and had consulted many famous doctors, but to no avail. Later, he accidentally took a few doses of medicine from a bald itinerant doctor on the street, and it actually worked.

He was in his fifties and had two sons in three years, which was a great pleasure in his later years.

When Xu Fuxian saw this, tears welled up in his eyes again. He was also heartbroken by the quarrel between brothers, and often tossed and turned in his dreams at midnight.

Xu Fuxian had already seen the last page of the letter:
"I have one more thing to say to you, brother. After I die, you will definitely be promoted to the position of accountant. But in my humble opinion, you have a stubborn and fierce temperament. If you take on the position of accountant, you will definitely offend the managers. Over time, it will definitely cause trouble! I speak from the bottom of my heart. Please forgive me if I offend you. After you are promoted to accountant, you will have to choose a virtuous person to replace you in three years at most. It is better for you to retreat to the position of head. This will be a long-term plan for the family. When a person dies, his words are good. I hope you will accept my sincere advice."

"Your younger brother Shouxian bows and kowtows again. I will write this on the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month."

Xu Fuxian stared at the last page of the letter with deep and shining eyes, and remained silent for a long time... Various rumors about the audit storm gradually dissipated, and the end of the year was getting closer day by day.

Every household started preparing for the New Year. Although Duan Rong was a lonely man with both his parents dead in this world, he had brought a lot of food to Liu Lu in the past two days, including cured fish, cured sausages, and braised ox heads...

Because after the twelfth lunar month, from the first to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, all the shops on the street were closed. If he didn't get some food, he would be hungry by then.

In an alley quite some distance away from West Street, there is a very spacious house. Unlike the bustling other places, this house is quiet.

This house has high walls and red doors, and the gate is always closed, so there are very few guests coming in.

Even the neighbors nearby didn't know who the owner of the house was in the early years, and the servants and maids all entered and exited through the side door in the backyard.

Occasionally, there were maids and servants who walked out of the house to buy things. Some curious people gathered around to ask what was going on, and then they discovered that those maids and servants were all deaf and dumb.

There were also wealthy families nearby who took advantage of the festival to bring some gifts and send invitations to knock on the doors to pay a visit.

There was an elderly concierge who accepted the gift and thanked the host politely, saying that he would return the visit when the host returned home.

But usually there is no follow-up, and gradually no one comes to visit anymore.

However, after several years, everyone has figured out who the owner of this house is. It is said that this is the house of Wei Yutian, the owner of two gambling houses, Weiyangfang and Chunmingfang.

At dusk, Wei Yutian sat in the pavilion next to the rockery in the backyard, sipping tea and looking at the koi in the pond. A breeze blew by, but his brows were tightly furrowed, as if he was filled with a deep and unresolvable sorrow.

As the year draws to a close, other mansions are mostly bustling with activity, as people are immersed in the New Year atmosphere, but this house is still quiet and lifeless.

Wei Yutian lived a lonely life, but what enveloped him more deeply than his lonely life was the lonely heart within him!

"Who?"

Wei Yutian stopped holding the teacup in his hand, turned his head and stared at the rockery not far behind him, and scolded.

In this backyard, except for his three personal maids, Bai Ai, Su Di, Pei Qing, and the old doorman Zhou Gu, no other servants or maids are allowed to enter!
Bai Ai, Su Di, Pei Qing and the others all knew his temper well, and would never disturb him when he was drinking tea in the evening without his order.

"What's so good about tea? Yutian, I brought a jar of good wine."

When Wei Yutian heard the voice, he smiled slightly, and the tension in his eyes immediately disappeared.

Luan Jingfu walked out slowly from behind the rockery, holding a jar of wine.

Wei Yutian looked at Luan Jingfu and said with a smile: "Didn't the captain say that things are tense recently and you can't come to my place unless there is a mission?"

Luan Jingfu walked into the pavilion, sat on the stone chair opposite Wei Yutian, put down the wine jar in his hand and said, "I am addicted to wine, so I don't care about so many things. Besides, the captain has gone to the hall in the prefecture city, not in Xiangu County."

"The captain went to the hall in the prefectural city?"

"He just left yesterday." Luan Jingfu lowered his voice and said, "I heard that in the past two months, three branches of Yuanyang Mansion were swept away in succession, and the hall master is furious."

(End of this chapter)