Forced to be a concubine, I went to my husband's place to become a wealthy merchant

Chapter 218

When Ye Xi checked the accounts recently, she found that among the businesses she had previously invested in, except for a few that went bankrupt, the surviving businesses brought her a lot of profits.

She did some calculations and offset the losses from the bankruptcy, plus Zhiwei Tea was operating very well.

As long as she can deliver goods of guaranteed quality and quantity in the next ten years, she can still sustain this small business.

In fact, she had never thought about doing business when she first came here.

She felt that she was not cut out for it, and because of the differences in the cognition of different times, what she wanted might not be able to survive here.

Her original idea was to be a housewife, taking care of her husband and children.

What's more, she has a dowry, so if she has lower demands, her life can actually be very comfortable.

But everything changed too fast.

If she does nothing now and leaves Wei Jue in the future, there's no telling what a miserable end she will have.

The reason why she insisted on not becoming a concubine was because concubines were slaves, objects that could be bought and sold, including being given to others.

Maintaining a good record is the guarantee for her safe departure in the future, and doing business is her means of survival.

Life forced her to do her best.

When she was having dinner today, Wei Xuan suddenly asked her, "Mom, where is my brother? I miss him."

Wei Ye had indeed not come to her place for a long time, and she thought of the news she had heard in the streets in recent days.

It was said that the young master of the Duke's Mansion seemed to be ill, and the Duke had even invited an imperial physician.

Wei Jue hasn't come over in the past few days. He must be very ill and won't be able to come over in the short term.

"Xuan'er, be good. Brother is sick. When he gets better, he will come over to play with you."

Ye Xi comforted her, she was a little worried about the child.

The Duke's Mansion kept its mouth shut, and there were no rumors in the streets that Wei Ye had any illness.

It was just a guess based on the imperial physician who was invited. The reason for guessing that Wei Ye was sick was because the imperial physician was good at treating children's diseases.

Such a good child, I hope nothing happens to him.

Although she didn't like Wei Jue, she didn't have much hostility towards the child. After all, the child was innocent.

Ye Xi was worried about Wei Ye, but she was unwilling to send anyone to the Duke's Mansion to ask.

After all, her identity was rather embarrassing, so she did not go out for the following days, waiting for Wei Jue to appear and ask about the situation.

But Wei Jue never showed up, which made Ye Xi feel very bad.

Wei Xuan even gradually stopped mentioning Wei Ye because he hadn't seen him for a long time. The person he often talks about now is Ah Qi.

Wei Xuan’s third birthday is approaching, and Ye Xi originally wanted Wei Jue to bring Wei Ye over to celebrate together.

But there has been no news from Wei Jue.

Ye Xi also didn't want to miss Wei Xuan's third birthday, so she prepared a simple celebration and changed the original plan that included the two of them.

Two days ago, Ye Xi received a birthday gift from the Ye family for Wei Xuan - a little golden pig.

That’s right, Wei Xuan was born in the year of the pig.

Ye Xin said in the letter that he had originally wanted to go to Beijing in person to celebrate for his nephew, but his sister-in-law had just given birth to a baby boy for him and named him Ye Ming.

He has to take care of her at home since his sister-in-law can't come.

Ye Xi was very happy to hear this. She was so happy that her brother had both a son and a daughter, so she prepared a generous gift and sent a reply letter back to Hangzhou City.

Today is Wei Xuan's third birthday. Ye Xi asked someone to prepare a lot of food for Wei Xuan that he was not allowed to touch normally.

Wei Xuan didn’t know what a birthday was, he just knew there were delicious foods and he received a bunch of new and interesting things.

Even many of his extraordinary behaviors were allowed by his mother, who was very happy.

Ye Xi didn't want to restrict Wei Xuan on this rare day and let him indulge himself for a day.