"Looking back now, a girl's family really needs to go through more experiences. Managing stores and estates is no easy task, ensuring profit while keeping servants in check is truly a test of one's abilities."
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That afternoon, Yan Zhigao summoned Yan Zhiyuan to the main courtyard.
Although he had only called him, the people from the second branch all came.
Daohua and her husband Yan Wenxiu also came over, sitting by the side.
Yan Zhiyuan knew he had made a grave mistake. Upon seeing Yan Zhigao, he knelt down immediately, "Big brother, I have wronged you. If it weren't for me, you would not have suffered this prison calamity. Please punish me!"
Yan Zhigao looked at Yan Zhiyuan sternly, without telling him to rise, and thoroughly interrogated him about all the things he had done behind the family's back over the years.
Hearing that Yan Zhiyuan had accepted almost ten thousand taels of silver over the years, the faces of the Yan Family members changed again and again.