Chapter 803: Full-level Boss Dressed As a Peasant Girl
Chapter 803: Lu Sanzhu is Overlooked
Shu Yu's grandmother didn't think it was a big issue. Li Shi was annoying, but she wouldn't harm her own daughter.
So she didn't express any opinions about Lan Hua's marriage and asked Shu Yu to continue reading.
The rest of the letter didn't have anything particularly noteworthy. However, for some reason, Shu Yu sensed something strange between the lines of Da Niu's words.
This strangeness became clear to her when she read Da Bao's letter.
Da Niu's letter was short, so after reading it, Shu Yu went straight to Da Bao's.
After reading his first sentence of complaints and then the second sentence, she suddenly looked up at the Lu family and said, "I suddenly feel that we've overlooked Third Uncle by letting him stay in the village."
Grandmother frowned. "How did we overlook him? What did he write in his letter?"
Shu Yu replied, "Da Bao said that Third Uncle's wages have increased by one hundred wen."
The Lu family fell silent.
After a while, Shu Yu's grandmother said heavily, "Now that you mention it, I also feel like we've overlooked him."
Goodness, they received two letters, and his wages increased by one hundred wen in one of them. They began to suspect that when they returned to Jiangyuan County, Lu Sanzhu had already become the person in charge.
Shu Yu's grandmother had always thought he was lazy, sneaky, and didn't do his job properly. The fields were left abandoned, which made her heart ache.
But now, this person who wasn't good at field work, after going to the county town and becoming a assistant, had received two wage increases in such a short period of time.
"Did he mention how he got the raise?"
Shu Yu continued reading and then raised an eyebrow. "Third Uncle said that a customer had been frequenting the peach forest recently, even on cold days, reciting poetry there. The other assistants thought the person was crazy, but Third Uncle happened to discover that this customer had a good relationship with their employer."
So Lu Sanzhu occasionally approached the customer, expressing concern for him, and when the wind blew, he offered his own warm clothes to the customer. Then, the next day, in front of the customer, he turned around and sneezed several times.
The customer felt guilty and gave Lu Sanzhu one or two silver as a reward to buy medicine.
After that, his wages were increased.
The Lu family fell silent once again, and Shu Yu's grandmother scolded, "I knew he wouldn't follow the right path."
But it wasn't as if he had done anything bad. He was just pretending and using some clever tricks. He didn't harm anyone.
So after scolding him briefly, Shu Yu's grandmother didn't say anything more.
Shu Yu found it amusing and continued reading. However, her brows furrowed tightly.
Her expression looked strange, and the Lu family members couldn't help but become alert. "What's wrong?"
"Da Bao said that Auntie-in-law already knows the real reason why we came to the southwest."
The letter didn't mention the word "exile," but the meaning was clear.
Shu Yu finally understood why there was a hint of strangeness in Da Niu's letter. Da Niu probably wanted to mention it, but since he had someone else write the letter for him and didn't know how to bring it up, especially when it concerned his mother, he hesitated.
Lu Sanzhu, on the other hand, didn't have so many concerns. He blurted out everything he wanted to say.
In fact, Shu Yu had expected this. Among the Lu family members, the second branch had already come to the southwest.
The elder branch, including the uncle and Da Niu, were well aware of it. The third branch, including Lu Sanzhu and his wife, knew all the details.
Not only them, but also Tang Wenqian and his family were aware of it.
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