son-in-law

Chapter 138 Chill
When he left the restaurant and returned to Wu's house, it was already late.The Wu family mansion is brightly lit inside and out. For the past month and a half, the festive atmosphere of the Wu family house has not dissipated.Or only the servants around the highest-ranking group of people in the family can vaguely feel that something is wrong. At this time, when they entered the gate of the house, a servant who was guarding the door came over carefully.

"The eldest young master is back. The second young master and the master have arrived home half an hour ago. In addition, the third master, fifth master, sixth master, shopkeeper Luo, and shopkeeper Nie have also come over, and they are discussing matters with the master in the side hall at this time."

This is not long after dinner for ordinary people. In the past month, many housekeepers have to socialize outside until late at night before they can come back. This is only the case for these two days.Wu Qilong nodded and walked silently all the way to the side hall before reaching the corridor, only to hear a bang inside, and the sound of a teacup falling to the ground.

"That means it can't be solved? But it's only been three days? So it can't be solved?"

At this time, it was his father Wu Chenghou who threw the teacup and was talking. Over the years, I have rarely seen him in such a runaway state.It is also because the consequences of this problem are too serious, and the turning point is too sudden, making everyone feel a little bit caught off guard.Suddenly, he was hit in the head, and then everyone was a little stunned.In the side hall, the fifth uncle in the clan was talking to his father at this time.The dyeing of the fabric is technically in charge of the manager Nie, but the most important manager is the fifth uncle.At this time, he was probably the only one who could talk to his father about bargaining.

"But...it really can't be solved. It's not a recipe that we have researched here. In the two months since I got it, the masters at home have also tried to change it, but this recipe is too sensitive, big and small changes. It will make a big change in color. The Su family even used some raw materials that were originally used for dyeing blue fabrics. Now... It's not that it can't be solved, maybe with luck..."

The fifth uncle Wu Chengke was also a little embarrassed at this time, Wu Qilong walked into the door, the father above gave him a look, waved his hand casually to let him sit next to him, turned his head and confronted the fifth uncle again.

"……luck?"

"Heh, it took the Su family two or three years to develop this recipe, and we don't have a clue now. Master Chen and the others said... maybe we can only rely on luck..."

Above the shopping mall, it is said that the problem is to be solved, but the answer at this time is that it can only rely on luck.Wu Chenghou above stared at him, and the entire main hall was silent.After a long while, Wu Chenghou opened his mouth a few times and sat back in his seat: "So, you can be sure? It's not that we have a problem, we are really... put together by the Su family?"

Among the people in the side hall, no one dared to speak, and no one dared to make such a conclusion.Maybe everyone has thought about it, but if this is the case, the price to be paid in the future is really terrible.In a moment of silence, Luo Minzhi shook his head:
"This matter is still strange and difficult to understand. If the Su family really set up such a game, wouldn't it be better for them to directly take over the royal merchants. Su Tan'er has spent several years doing this, and everyone can feel it. Look at the current Su family. Even if there is a turnaround, the movement in the past month and a half is enough to cause them to lose a lot. The third master, Nie, and the others have considered it. Conspiracy is too risky for the Su family..."

Wu Chengyuan, who was ranked third in the Wu family, also nodded at this time: "Brother Luo Xian is right, we didn't plan to use the recipe of the Su family, and only made up our minds more than two months ago. Su Jiaruo There is really another set of formulas, we can't be unaware, and after several deductions have proved that there is no problem with this golden brocade. To say that the Su family laid out this plan from the beginning, how could they be sure from the beginning We will enter the game. To say that they are so seamless, I don’t believe that Su Tan’er has no such ability, and even Su Yu, he is not as sophisticated as he is…”

"But no matter what, our current situation is like this..." Wu Qilong sat next to him and didn't speak since he entered the room, but he didn't seem to be in a high mood, and he just looked at everyone in the side hall lightly.Wu Qihao glanced at his brother a few times, and then he sighed and began to speak.

"Since this is the case, we have to start thinking about the next response. My father and I talked to Mr. Dong today, and there should be no problem with the delay of the delivery date, but now the trouble is. Once we officially propose a delay to the Weaving Bureau, Then this matter has to be put in an official document, and it will not be something that can be suppressed by Master Dong. The news of the Wu family's problems will inevitably spread, and it will be difficult to say what it will look like at that time. The delivery date is still ten days away, and after ten days, we have to figure out how to deal with it.”

He paused for a while: "It doesn't matter if it's delayed for a month or two, we still have to adjust this formula to solve the problem in the end. Fifth Uncle, Uncle Nie, no matter how hard you work or how lucky you are, We can only try it. In addition, if there is a real recipe on the Su family's side, we probably have to try it too. At that time... Big Brother, we have to look at your side..."

Wu Qihao looked at his brother, and on the other side, the sixth uncle of the clan shook his head and said, "If it wasn't for the Su family's layout, it would indeed be possible to do this, and I can't be sure about this right now."

"But now we can only deal with it like this." Wu Chengyuan interjected, "It's really uncertain now, but if it wasn't for the layout of the Su family, but because of a coincidence, we have a problem here, and we can handle it. If you don't deal with it, you will become a laughing stock in the end."

In the arguing with some hasty voices, Wu Qilong also stood up under the watchful eyes of his younger brother at this time, he patted Wu Qihao on the shoulder: "Father, uncles and uncles, I... I've been dealing with Northwest China recently. On the other hand, I haven't really paid too much attention to Jiangning City. I know some things, but I don't know too much detail. Recently, what is the Su family doing?"

Wu Qilong had the demeanor of Wu Chenghou. Although his voice was not high at this time, he clearly had some conclusions in his heart.Everyone looked at him, Wu Chengyuan thought for a while, then sat down on the seat: "It's infighting."

"The situation is not good, Su Zhongkan and Su Yunfang have exerted their strength, and they are making trouble at this time." Wu Chengke also shook his head and said, "Su Tan'er is devastated, making apologies everywhere, pulling relationships, and wanting to maintain the original cooperation. ."

"I heard... It doesn't seem to have any effect. Su Tan'er has the ability, but there was a Su Boyong behind her before. Now Su Boyong is said to be paralyzed, and he can't get out of bed for a while. The original Li Jianian's family has already I am going to stop cooperating with the big house of the Su family, and some small businesses are also affected. The main reason is that everyone is saying that Su Taner will not be able to handle the big house business soon, and the Xue family is also attracting these people recently. Once the business of the Su family shrinks, it would be better for some people who were not very close to cooperate with the Xue family first..."

Everyone has been busy with other substantive things recently, and they don't know much about the real and specific things about the Su family.Luo Minzhi has had a lot of dinners recently, but he also paid attention to it. At this time, when everyone was talking indiscriminately, Wu Qilong frowned: "What about Su Tan'er himself?"

"Maintain the previous cooperative relationship." Wu Chengyuan smiled, "Su Boyong has collapsed. In the current situation, the business of the second and third bedrooms of the Su family is shrinking, and she still wants to maintain the previous business, which was originally owned by Su Boyong. The ones in the palm are maintained, how is it possible..."

Wu Qilong looked at the third uncle, his eyes did not change much: "But what is the entire Su family doing?"

"The entire Su family, she..." Wu Chengyuan looked at the nephew, waved his hand, then stopped in mid-air, shook his head after a while, but didn't speak, as if he had understood something, or I have thought about it early in the morning, but I don't want to say it. No matter how I think about it, I find it bizarre and incomprehensible.The expressions of everyone in the room changed a little. What they thought at this time was not a good thing.

"Actually..." Wu Qilong's wry smile was indescribable, and he slowly opened his mouth, "Actually... Three uncles and five uncles, you may have thought about it a few days ago, didn't you?"

"That's the cause, it's impossible." Wu Chengke said gloomily.

"There's nothing we can do at this time, even if the result is the cause..." Wu Qilong shook his head, "For the three-year preparation, the Imperial Merchant invested 20 taels of silver in one lump sum before, and maybe even more. Su Tan'er improved the looms under her hands. We originally thought that she was to meet the demand for a large amount of annual cloth, and she was determined to win the imperial business. But after the incident with the imperial business, she has not stopped. People outside thought she was crazy, riding a tiger. Want to increase production and sell goods at low prices for our Wu family..."

"Women can do anything if their brains are broken." Wu Qilong murmured, "But if it wasn't... Dad, all uncles and uncles, if the market is broken, everyone will join forces to beat her. , so we are never afraid of her actions. But what if this woman was staring at our Wu family's share from the beginning, and she was waiting for us to vacate the share ourselves?"

Wu Chenghou looked at this son for a long time in front, and then spoke with a hoarse voice: "If this is the case, she is almost ready now."

"Yeah." Wu Qilong smiled wearily, and the next moment, raised his voice, "Now no one in the entire market is staring at our Wu family, we are going to expand, even walking over, everyone else is thinking about what to do Get out of the way. Led by the Xue family, everyone is staring at the current Su family, waiting for it to collapse suddenly, and then divide those shares. But what if the Su family would not collapse at all? Only this woman took it from us Under the royal business..."

He waved his hand: "No, we have been waiting even before we won the royal merchants. Once there is a problem on our side, the entire Jiangning cloth merchants and those who are staring at the Su family will make a big joke. Wu As soon as the family's market share is released, before the rest of the people can't react, Su Tan'er will eat them all, and the rest of the people can only stare blankly."

"For a month and a half, we felt that no one had any problems, and we left them behind as the defeated generals. But in fact, they have distracted the attention of the entire Jiangning weaving industry, and secretly made all the preparations. Su Tan'er has updated the looms under her control to increase the shipment rate, which seems useless now. Everyone is laughing, only us, after reacting, they have been preparing for more than a month..."

An indescribable feeling of suffocation enveloped the entire side hall. After a while, Wu Chengyuan shook his head: "This is the worst possibility, if so, this game is too exaggerated, how can we not feel it at all? can't come out..."

Wu Chengke frowned: "Even if this is the case, the Su family is not having a good time now. How long can Su Tan'er last? How long can we last? If it's a big deal, it will be postponed for two months, and she will be killed..."

"Whether it's exaggerated or not, what's in front of us is like this, and..." Wu Qilong looked at Wu Chengke, "Five uncle, people won't wait for us to fall by ourselves, there was a problem in the workshop the day before yesterday. Qin Uncle just fell ill. Did you notice yesterday? Someone spread a rumor outside that something happened to our Wu family in the royal business... Of course, it is also common to speculate wildly in shopping malls, but this is also a common occurrence. It's too fast, everyone knows that there are rumors behind it, but not many people pay attention to it at the moment, but..."

He took out a piece of rice paper from his arms: "Before I came back, I actually checked Su Tan'er's actions for more than a month. Now maybe I can see it more clearly. After the emperor's business, all adjustments and expenditures are aimed at We came here from our Wu family, and we were very careful. For a month and a half, we walked forward without thinking, and they had all the swords, spears, swords and halberds in place silently, and each of them was facing our vital points. Come here... Dad, Fifth Uncle, do you feel it?"

Wu Qilong smiled bitterly, shook his head, and looked in the direction of Su Mansion: "The woman has already done all the preparations secretly... It's time to start..."

The rice paper was circulated in the hall. For more than a month, these seemed to be jokes. As long as there was nothing wrong with the Wu family, all the wiring was meaningless.What will happen to the Wu family.It is with this understanding that they sang in the best direction all the way, and only for a moment when they realized that the dead place was still in doubt, they realized that the surroundings were full of sharp edges.

It was an indescribable feeling, looking at the layout that Su Tan'er had made for the Wu family in the past month and a half listed on the piece of paper, everyone felt that their backs were starting to get chills for a while, and a cold breath came from there.If this is true...

"I still don't believe it." Wu Chengyuan waved his hand abruptly, "If that's the case, then we didn't go in by ourselves, but they lured us in. From more than two months or earlier, they Has he been plotting against us? Su Tan'er has worked hard for three years to set up a game like this? It's not that we haven't considered getting fakes before. The whole thing is a little deliberate, and everyone will see it! No one can set up such a game. This is something that can't be done just by thinking about it. Everyone understands how difficult the whole process is and how many accidents there are. It's impossible for Su Tan'er, and Su Yu wouldn't take such a risk! Why didn't they get the Emperor Merchant? If they couldn't get it, why did they have to build momentum to such a degree that they couldn't cheat anyone. Just say getting the recipe, if it's too difficult, we won't be able to get it. If it's too simple, we won't believe it, and after we have reviewed it many times, we can confirm that this matter is no problem, who can do it to such an extent!"

"She has already started, and it will be seen in a few days. In fact, I also hope that I am just guessing..." Wu Qilong sat there, shaking his head a little quiet, "But if not, then the whole incident Just thinking about it... heh, it's interesting..."

"It's true that Su Tan'er was ill at the time. Su Yu couldn't handle such a thing during that time. After all, he is old. But there is one person, maybe we all neglected, or we didn't take him except at the beginning. Take it as one thing. Look...he didn't seem to do anything during the whole thing, but after Su Tan'er fell ill, he was actually doing everything. He took us around in circles, every day it was like There is a joke there. But behind this, he ran out in a daze and said that he wanted to publicize the yellow cloth with a big fanfare, to promote their Su family as the most powerful..."

"It's actually interesting to think about it now. I, as well as the Xue family, all had a habitual idea at the time. Every time we talked about Ning Yi in the restaurant and teahouse about what silly things he did recently. At that time, I couldn't forget to remind others: Su Tan'er is very powerful, and the Su family is still using the most open and honest method to rob the royal businessman, so don't be deceived by Ning Yi's performance. In the end, everyone was smart, and everyone was watching. Wearing the cloth of the Su family."

"Third uncle, do you remember what you told me when I was young? If you want people to see something, the best way is not to put it in the most conspicuous place, but to put it there and cover it with something, or bury it in the Spread a layer of sand on the ground. To cover it up, there is no silver 300 taels here... Ning Yi told us from the beginning to the end that the Su family has the best cloth! The Su family has the best cloth! And... ...We all feel that we are smart people, and after seeing the important points behind, we gradually lose our vigilance..."

"He's a fool, an idiot in the business world, Su Tan'er is ill, and some omissions are inevitable. If it was Su Tan'er himself, we might be more vigilant, because some small mistakes shouldn't have been made. But he keeps making them. Small mistake, none of us think it's abnormal. Hehe... In the end, he didn't do anything, anyway, we finally got the yellow cloth's recipe, he just looked at it like that, and then... Prime Minister Bai kept pressing his sword... ...he finished his work, threw things away, and left. For the past month and a half, he has been the same as before. He didn't even bother to take a look at these things in the mall, but no one knows until now. Maybe he didn't Take it seriously..."

Wu Qilong seemed to have finished talking to himself, sitting there and smiling sarcastically.Wu Qihao on the side frowned: "Ning Yi? Why is this...Impossible..."

Wu Qilong raised his head: "Oh, I also hope that I made a mistake, but you know, today I went to talk to the neiying we arranged in the Su family, and he told me one thing, he told me two nights ago. When the shopkeeper Zhou, who was in charge of the dyeing party of the Su family, was chatting, the shopkeeper Zhou was drunk and said a word, he said that in the entire Su family, besides Su Yu, the person he admired was the family's uncle Ning..."

Someone's eyes widened.

Wu Qilong paused: "Anyway...there are still a few days, no matter what, we have to ask the Weaving Bureau for an extension within ten days. At that time, if the Su family really makes a layout, everything will be released. When he followed, we knew at that time whether he was acting or had a clear mind. If that's the case..." He looked at the darkness outside the door and remembered the figure of the scholar, "I would be a little afraid of him. …”

Recalling Ning Yi's performance during that period and the recent period, everyone was still silent and stunned, exchanging unbelievable eyes. It's downright weird.

After a while, Wu Qilong rubbed his forehead and murmured a sigh.

"Poor Xi Junyu, he doesn't know yet..."

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