MTL - My Stepmother is Soft and Charming-Chapter 401 Royal business name

Chapter 401 Royal Business Name

 “The son has seen his father.”

 “Well, I’m ready.”

Seeing their father appear, Gu Yanguang and Gu Yanli could no longer continue talking about business matters. The family sat together, eating and sleeping without talking. This was a consistent rule in the family, and no one dared to break it rashly.

After having a meal in silence, the juniors all sat and talked in the hall, but the three brothers followed the seventh old man to the study.

As soon as he entered the door, the seventh old man slapped his third son on the face inexplicably, causing Gu Yanli to have stars in his eyes.

Obviously he is seventy or eighty years old, but he doesn't have much strength at all, and he still looks like a young man!

The eldest son Gu Yanguang and the second son Gu Yanxing looked strange, but the third son Gu Yanli, who had been beaten, knelt down in a polite manner. His face was red and swollen, but he did not dare to reply at all.

 “I’m sorry, look, Gu Shaoyu’s revenge is coming, and he will cut off most of your profits this year. Do you really think he is a vegetarian in Cezhou or Sui’an City?”

“Father, my son is just a joke, who knows he is serious? It’s shameless to get Dong Gong and the Guo family involved, so my son naturally made a mistake.”

"Gu Shaoyu's only biological sister married into the Guo family. He is the right-hand man of the Crown Prince of the East Palace. Even the current Queen Empress grew up in front of her sister-in-law when she was a child. Don't you know this kind of friendship? You really are more alive. Yue went back and put our family in danger for the sake of a breath."

The third uncle who was scolded felt angry. He was naturally unconvinced.

 He ​​did say what he said at the banquet that day on purpose. He just wanted to embarrass Gu Shaoyu and let him know who has the final say in Jinling City.

　　But now, he also regrets that no one can have trouble with his own money, and the money is about to go into his pocket, but he is taken away by someone like this. Of course, he is also unhappy.

The eldest brother Gu Yanguang standing next to him saw his younger brother being scolded and was unable to reply, so he had no choice but to come out and smooth things over.

“Father, don’t be angry. You can still make money if you lose it, but it’s not worth it if you get angry.”

Hearing this, the seventh old man gave his eldest son a piece of noodles and said no more.

After a moment of silence, he signaled his third son to stand up, and then spoke in a clear tone.

"The power of the East Palace is not something we can deal with at will at this moment, so you should give in and give up. Even if all the profits this year are invested, you can't make the East Palace angry. Do you understand?"

 “My son understands.”

Gu Yanli has been in business for so many years. Of course he knows the principle of abandoning his car to keep his commander. As long as he still wants to hang out in the Daxing Dynasty, he will naturally have to abide by the rules of the Daxing Dynasty, and the next maker of these rules will be the prince. His Highness is naturally not someone who can be offended easily.

 Otherwise, just giving him a random label will be enough to make all his hard work over the years come to naught. Therefore, no matter how unhappy or unhappy he is, he can only give up the profits.

Seeing some fluctuations in expression on his face, the seventh old man took a slow tone and continued.

"It's just a year's profit. No matter how well you manage, you will eventually get it back. However, the position of emperor merchant, which is elected every five years, will start in April next year. We must not make mistakes at this time, otherwise we will be passive in many things. Yes, do you understand?"

"My son understands!" The Gu family has been re-elected as an imperial merchant for two consecutive terms. In the past ten years, they have been leaping over the dragon's gate, and many of their auras are based on this, so no one in the seventh house dares to take it lightly.

 Seeing that the third son really had a solemn expression, the seventh old man let him go.

"Okay, go out and reunite with your family during the Chinese New Year. I have something to say with your elder brother, so I'll come back later."

 “Yes, father.”

After the two brothers went out, Gu Yanxing started questioning his third brother.

"what's the situation?"

Gu Yanli gritted his teeth and said.

"It's the end of the year, and our family's shipping was originally going to stop, but suddenly we received a message from the East Palace, stipulating that we must send the things we need there before the end of the year. As a result, something happened on the way, and the batch of things was not included in the ship. Not to mention that everything fell into the water, we still have to compensate for the losses to the East Palace. In order to satisfy the Crown Prince, I gave away 50% to 60% of this year’s profit. This settled the matter. Otherwise, you and I would only be afraid that this year I can’t even eat dinner anymore.”

“How come my eldest brother and I didn’t hear about the news from the East Palace?”

 No matter what, the two of them are parents and officials guarding Jinling City, and they have both literary and martial arts. How could they not know?

"Hey, if I had known that this news was released by the East Palace, would the brothers be so stupid and fall for it? The people of the Su family deliberately spread the news, saying that they were going to deliver goods to the dignitaries in Sui'an City. I thought that It wasn’t difficult, so I grabbed it. Who knew it would turn out to be a trap? I waited until the goods were gone and then said it was what Dong Palace wanted. What could I do?”

“You can’t detect the methods used by the Su family?”

"If it was just the Su family, I would naturally not be fooled by this. The boy from the Keyan family and the Han family in Sui'an City also joined in the fun. I thought it would be some kind of delicious food. Who knew that it would be all delicious after one bite. thorns!"

Hearing what his younger brother said, the second brother Gu Yanxing was not stupid, so he asked.

“Have the three families united to deal with you?”

Gu Yanli shook his head, and then said firmly.

"That's not true. I guess that guy from the Yan family just smelled it and came to join in the fun. As for the Han family, I heard that they also have contacts with the Du family and Prime Minister Guo's mansion, so I don't know the news. Disaster."

Even though he said this, Gu Yanli still had some doubts in his heart.

 It is a coincidence if it occurs once, but if so many coincidences occur together, it is not necessarily a coincidence.

So after having this idea, he began to think about how to fight back. However, this was exactly the trap that Gu Shaoyu and Du Jingyi jointly set for him. What they wanted was to make the third uncle hate him to the point of itching his teeth, and then Take action.

In the study, the seventh old man was a little unhappy about the loss of profits in the family, but these things could always be recovered, so he was more concerned about other things, so he deliberately left his eldest son behind and spent these days The news was revealed.

"I'm afraid your third uncle's family's affairs won't last for a long time. Since Gu Shaoyu has taken action to attack our family's business, to put it bluntly, he wants to cut the mess quickly and show it to outsiders! We have a lot of blood, and you two brothers are here. Hold on, he won't be able to bite off much in a short while, but your third uncle's family is much easier to deal with, so we should clean up everything that needs to be done, and don't let their troubles affect us."

 (End of this chapter)