Transmigration: From Farmer To Empress-Chapter 2019 - 2027: Destroying Scum (5)

However, despite this, he still secretly opened two shops, one a fur shop and the other a pawn shop, both of which are doing extremely well, earning three to five hundred taels of silver every month with ease.

Unfortunately, he has to do business sneakily behind his family’s back, otherwise, if he were allowed to proceed openly, earning thirty to fifty thousand taels of silver a year would be no problem!

Now it is December, the busiest season for his fur shop business, with daily transactions reaching hundreds of taels of silver. He is earning a fortune, feeling very satisfied.

To welcome his future sister-in-law, he also specially set aside two pieces of excellent black fox skin, intending to give it to his future sister-in-law as a meeting gift. All the things for the New Year at home have been prepared, just waiting for his brother and sister-in-law to return for the celebration.

On the nineteenth of December, he was at home playing chess with his father and suddenly saw his little boy, Yaochu, come in and say to him: "Young Master, just now the son of the Marquis of Jian’an sent someone with a letter inviting you to lunch at Fragrance Gathering Pavilion at noon, what do you think..."

Mu Zhongqing heard and put down the chess piece and said: "Since it is a classmate inviting, just go. A great man must make a wide circle of friends to thrive outside, but remember, do not cause trouble or do anything that would bring shame to the family door..."

Wu’er agreed, after Yaochu came out, Yaochu whispered as soon as he went outside: "Young Master, just now a beggar came to our fur shop carrying a land deed and house deed from more than ten years ago of the fur shop, saying the fur shop is his, and he just left for more than ten years and couldn’t manage the fur shop in time due to some reason, and he wants to go to Ying Tianfu to accuse you, saying you have cleverly seized and robbed people’s property."

Mu Chongwu said in surprise: "The fur shop I bought with real silver, how could it be his? He must be either a lunatic or a liar, right?"

Yaochu said: "An old shopkeeper in our shop knows this beggar, who was once the first master’s son-in-law through marriage. This fur shop was initially set up to test him, and after the man married in, the old master gave him the fur shop, letting him be the shopkeeper of it. Who knew this little boy was a fool, on the third day after marrying, he made a fuss wanting to go back to honor his ancestors, but in fact, honoring ancestors was false, going back to see his mistress was true. Later on, for some unknown reason, it was said that in order to redeem his courtesan mistress, he stole things from people and went to jail for ten years."

Mu Chongwu thought for a moment and said: "The person you are talking about, I vaguely remember hearing my mother and sister mention him when I was a child. It seems he was once the son-in-law married into the Qing County Official Shen family, called Li Jing or Li Qing? He was even a scholar, others called him Li Sheng. At that time when he married into the Shen family, many people said he was lucky to have gone to Sister Shen, such a good woman, who would have thought he ended up in this field, really such a pity!"

"Indeed, the servant also heard people say, this beggar was once a scholar, even a sheng student. Unfortunately, for a courtesan, he was first deprived of his scholarly honor, and then imprisoned for ten years for her, when he came out, he almost died, while the courtesan had long married and had children. He was gravely ill, with nowhere to go, and it was by the kindness of the monk at the temple that he was taken in, allowing him to recuperate in the temple, heard that it took two or three years to heal, and as soon as he was well, he struggled, begging all the way to the capital, seeking Lord Shen and his madam."

"Hehe, he probably still thinks Sister Shen could remain chaste for him or even still waiting to make him a husband, really laughable!" Wu’er rare smiled at others’ jokes, today after hearing Li Sheng’s actions, he unexpectedly laughed.

Yaochu also laughed: "Indeed, thinking back to the good opportunity he did not grasp, and now being neither a person nor a ghost before regretting. Seeing the Shen family moved away, he unexpectedly dreamily wants to reclaim the shop, how could there be such shameless people in the world?"