Song Sanniang's Journey to Wealth

Chapter 247 The situation is tense

Madam He's expression fell instantly, but she soon put on a smile again and said to Zhuang's mother and daughter,

"You two should go out with the servants and enjoy the flowers first. Walk around for a while. I want to talk to Miss Song."

Zhuang's mother and daughter tactfully withdrew, and when they left, they glanced at Song Sanniang with contempt.

After the two left, Madam He finally stopped pretending. She sneered and said, "Miss Song, I admit that you are quite capable. My youngest son has taken notice of me and I treat you differently.

But you should know yourself. With your background, you cannot enter the He family. But I love my son, so I can let you in.

As you have just seen, Miss Zhuang is the daughter-in-law I have chosen. Her grandfather was the Minister of Personnel, and her father was the prefect of Xiantao Prefecture.

She and my Pingdu family are a perfect match. After they get married and have children, I don’t mind letting Pingdu bring you home.”

Song Sanniang smiled and said to Madam He, "Are you done talking, Madam? Is it my turn to speak?"

The Third Master is a very nice person, but there is nothing wrong between me and the Third Master. We are just partners, so I think you have misunderstood.

I don't have the blessing to be your concubine. I wish you can marry your daughter-in-law as soon as possible. I have said what I want to say. Can I leave now? "After saying this, she stood up and wanted to leave.

Madam He shouted in a deep voice, "Stop, I haven't explained it clearly yet, you are not allowed to leave."

Song Sanniang then turned around and sat back in her chair, looking at Old Madam He leisurely.

"Then please finish what you want to say at once, old lady, so that you don't have to invite me to your house again."

Madam He really didn't like Song Sanniang's attitude. Everyone was respectful to her.

She was the only one who dared to look him in the eye and left without waiting for him to finish speaking. She was indeed a country bumpkin, so rude.

Madam He suppressed her anger and spoke again, "Tell me, what do you want? If you want to pester the youngest brother to marry you, forget it.

With your background, you are not even qualified to be a concubine, but I am willing to give you money and a chance to be a concubine."

Song Sanniang discovered that some people really couldn't understand what people were saying, just like the old lady in front of her.

To be honest, when the old lady said that the third master was interested in her, she couldn't believe it.

But when she thought about it carefully, he seemed to have always had an indescribable feeling towards her.

She thought it was because he treated her as his sister, and maybe he had a crush on her. She thought it was just her personality that made him feel fresh, and she wouldn't think too much about anything else.

But this old lady kept asking her to be a concubine, which really made it hard for her to talk to her properly.

She looked at Madam He steadily, and then asked, "Madam, do you know what it means to be a concubine?"

Madam He didn't look at her. She took a sip of tea slowly before replying, "Don't worry. Being a concubine in our He family is more respectable than being a wife in other families.

Once you enter the house, you will have everything you want, including food, clothing, shelter and transportation. Others can only hope to have them for their entire lives."

Song Sanniang sneered, and then said, "Yes, old lady, my family was a poor family that couldn't even afford meat a few years ago.

Over the years, I have worked very hard to make money, and finally I was able to feed my family. Now we have everything, including gold, silver, jewelry, cars, houses, and shops.

I can also travel around. I have been to many places. The world outside is so wonderful.

I ride horses on the grasslands, I walk on the beach, I climb mountains, and I roam freely in the world.

Together with your granddaughter, I have made it possible for women to avoid early marriage and bear the risk of childbirth. We have also prevented inbreeding, thus saving the world from many tragedies that should not have happened.

We do charity work, helping the poor old, young, widowed and weak women. My shop gives many country people a chance to make money besides working hard on the farm.

I have done so much just to tell you at this moment that I do not want to be a concubine in your He family.

People like me are not meant to stay in your square, boxed-in world.

It's not to humble myself to you, to serve you tea and water, so that you can humiliate me like you did today.

You think you are high and mighty, you think you can make clouds and rain with a flip of your hand, but today I will tell you that I, a commoner, do not want to be your concubine.

You have been a caged bird for decades, trapped in this deep courtyard where you can only see the sky in all directions when you look up.

You think that serving a man and being submissive in exchange for some gold and silver jewelry, and in exchange for a man entering your room and giving birth to children is a great thing.

But I am not! "

Madam He's face turned red with anger after hearing the last words. She shouted, "How dare you!"

Song Sanniang smiled faintly and said, "What? Are you anxious? Isn't that what a concubine is supposed to do? Prostrate yourself on the ground as a slave and serve men with your beauty. You made me a concubine because you know what a concubine should do, right?

You don't have the grace of an old lady. You like to use your dirty mind to speculate about others.

Because you are such a person, you think everyone is like you, willing to be a concubine for a little bit of so-called glory and wealth,

Which lady from a rich family would allow someone to be her concubine? That's a brothel owner!"

"How dare you, how dare you, you bastard who talks nonsense!" Madam He was so angry that she threw the teacup on the ground. The nanny beside her hurried forward to calm her down.

She seemed to be very angry and continued to say sternly, "You think you can talk nonsense in front of me just because you make that little money? I will immediately have someone shut down your business.

You rely on our family to do business. Our He family will not cooperate with you anymore. Get out of here immediately!"

Seeing Old Madam He so angry, Song Sanniang felt relieved. If Old Master He was still in power, she would never dare to speak to the old lady like that.

Since the old man was no longer an official, the old lady was no longer a first-rank lady with imperial edict. Moreover, the titles of lady with imperial edict given to her two sons were given on behalf of their wives. After all, she had been a lady with imperial edict for decades.

She laughed and said, "Old Madam, you can ask me to leave if you want me to. My business is a partnership with the Third Master, and we signed a ten-year contract.

If you want to drive me away, you have to compensate me. In addition to the remaining six years' profits, you have to give me three times the compensation.

Let me do the math. If each store makes a profit of 40 taels a day, I'll take 50% of it. There are 32 stores in total, so you have to give me more than 1.3 million in profit, not counting the compensation.

Madam, are you going to give me cash? Or how else can I settle the bill? I'll go back and make a detailed list and settle the accounts."

Although Song Sanniang is now in charge of more accounts of Pink House, she also has to summarize the accounts of Sweet Home regularly, so she can almost figure out the approximate number without using an abacus.

Madam He and Nanny Jian were shocked by the figures Song Sanniang said. They thought Song Sanniang only made a few hundred taels of silver from the He family.

I didn't expect that the income in just a few years would be such a huge amount. You have to know that the wealth accumulated by the three generations of the He family is about this amount, and it's not cash that can be taken out at any time.

Old Madam He was very worried. She hated her son for letting outsiders make so much money, and she also hated herself for looking down on this business in the first place.