Zhou Xian thought, but he shook his head quietly in his heart.

Just like the old lady of Chi family who rushed to marry the Duke's Mansion, if the merchant had something to do with the Ling family of the same name, the people from the fifth house would not be so unwelcome.

"Since there are guests at home, I will go back first. If there is something wrong, let Jiule go to the palace to find me." Zhou Xian said, and quietly retreated.

Chi Shi nodded, and when Zhou Xian left, he turned around and entered the room again.

She put the bag next to her, picked up the teacup and took a sip.

Yao was willing to put ice, and the room was very cool.

"Uncle, what blood relatives do our Yao family have left outside?" Chi Shi asked directly without hesitation.

Yao Mingtao was wondering why she was back. After hearing her question, he smiled and said, "Come on, our family tree is so thin that it can be written on a piece of paper. Your grandfather wishes that he could even write the name of the beggar named Yao on the street, which makes the family look more lush."

"If there is such a blood relative, then if you don't take the friend, you will still rob the person back even if you rob it."

Yao saw him, and his heart skipped a beat and said with a smile, "This child is really. The day before yesterday, I saw someone who looked like our Yao family imagined on the street, and I started to think about it."

"Look, I just saw too many strange things you gave."

She said, glaring at Chi, "What are you still doing while standing there? Why didn't you take your uncle to the guest room to rest. He ran all the way, and now he squinted. When he woke up, he was just going to eat late."

"The ice basin has been put in for a while, and the house should be cooler, go quickly!"

Yao Mingtao nodded with a smile, "Then I'm not polite."

Chi Shi glanced at Yao, picked up the bag again, went forward to lead the way, led Yao Mingtao into the wing room next to him.

The plum garden is not big, and there is only one room that can be used to entertain guests. This is due to the reason why Chi Zhu's concubine's concubine did not come to the capital.

On weekdays, they live in a family of four, but they don’t think there is any problem. Now someone has come and really feels that living here is not a long-term solution.

As soon as he entered the room, Yao Mingtao closed the door and waved to Chi Shi. The smile on his face instantly faded, "Did you see someone named Ling?"

Chi Shi was shocked. Does it really matter?

"My mother doesn't know?"

Yao Mingtao shook his head, "The family is unfortunate, and your grandfather is not happy to mention it. It was because of one occasion that I saw the Concubine Lau Shizi Ling when I checked the accounts in the silver building..."

Chi Shi knew that although Concubine Ling took advantage of the Buddha's worship to accompany the Empress Dowager in the palace, she had a son. Therefore, according to the rules of Daliang, after the death of the previous emperor, she lived with her son's house.

Therefore, Yao Mingtao met her in the silver building, which was very possible.

"After I went back, I asked my father, and he told me about the origin of our Yao family and the relationship with the Ling family. Don't tell your mother about this. She was born not like Concubine Ling, and even if she ran into it, it would be nothing."

"Since that person left the Yao family and became his son-in-law, he has nothing to do with our Yao family."

Yao Mingtao said, sat down when he greeted the pool, picked up the teapot and poured tea for himself.

"You must have been surprised that when someone has money at home, they want their descendants to get rid of their odor of money and study hard to get a Jinshi. From then on, they are no longer a lowly merchant and become a gentry."

"But no one of our Yao family, whether it is your uncle's generation or your cousins, isn't it good to study? Even so, why don't we come to the capital with so much money?"

"There are rich people everywhere here, and they can be cheated on each other... No, there are suckers everywhere here, what can't be sold? But we have been staying in Yongzhou for so many years and have not moved."

Chi Shi nodded, "To be honest, I haven't thought about it before. I've thought about it after I opened the coffin shop."

Yao Mingtao didn't care, "I just thought about it. I told my father that I am so rich, even if my son doesn't pass the exam, what's the matter? Just find an orphan juren and buy it as a son, and ask him to take the exam. Isn't our Yao family also an official?"

"But I was scolded by your grandfather, and he took me into the secret room later..."

When I saw Chi, I looked curious.

Yao Mingtao explained, "It's not the one you used to play with gold and silver, but the one that puts antique porcelain. The old man is afraid that I will get crazy. If there is porcelain, I feel sorry for money and will not do anything randomly."

Chi Shi twitched his mouth. Before he could think about it, he heard Yao Mingtao tell the shocking secret of the Yao family.

"Our Yao family is actually not surnamed Yao. They are surnamed Li and are orphans of the previous dynasty."

Chi Shi frowned, "Oh, the previous dynasty is gone, what's the use of orphans?"

When Yao Mingtao heard this, he slapped his hand with a bang, "No, I was as disappointed as you at that time. I thought that my family was a Taoist sanctuary hidden in the world, or that Tao Zhugong could live forever, and in our dynasty, he became my father."

“The result is that?

My family is so much gold and silver that can be spread out. Can the royal family? Anyone who wants to eat, drink, defecate and slap is stared at... It is not easy for me to be responsible for the endless gold of my family. Who wants to be responsible for the whole people of Daliang that cannot spend gold? Isn't that asking for trouble?"

"Fortunately, I destroyed the country," Yao Mingtao said, patting his chest in fear.

"But no matter how you say it, our lineage is indeed the orphans of the previous dynasty. After settled in Yongzhou, we took out a portion of the hidden gold and silver that we had before and used as capital to trade."

"No one thinks of restoring the country or not. When we are not good at the emperor, we didn't expect that we are good at doing business. After so many years, we have not lost money. Then we are just selling what we do and making money."

"The snow ball was originally big. If you roll over for a few generations, if you don't have enough wealth, you're sorry for the ancestors underground."

Yao Mingtao said, proudly thrusting his chest, then he looked contemptuous again.

"Of course, not everyone, like you and me, treats money as their own father."

Chi Shi shook his head, "Treat money like his own mother."

Yao Mingtao nodded randomly, "Yes, it's not your mother. When it comes to my father, your grandfather's generation, there are two brothers in total. He has an older brother named Yao Shan, but he doesn't like money and wants to take the imperial examination."

"But our identities are awkward. Although we are all hiding our names and are determined to be the sanctuary, but there are no ones who are not suspicious about being emperors? We make a fortune silently and no one cares about it, but if we reach our hands into the court, it will be inappropriate."

"As a descendant of the Yao family, no one took the imperial examination. Think about it, your ancestors were emperors, so you are embarrassed to be a bad minister for others? We don't bother, right?"

"Then Yao Shan is a smart person. He took advantage of the opportunity to go out to do business and prepared a household registration from another place. He secretly took the imperial examination and passed the exam. It's fine. He actually disgraced himself to change his ancestors and become a son-in-law for the Ling family."
Chapter completed!