MTL - My Stepmother is Soft and Charming-Chapter 420 will come

 Chapter 420 is coming

Jin'er is now over half a year old, and her appearance has grown a lot compared to before.

Perhaps because her father comes from the Su family and is also related to Mrs. Gu by blood, so she looks very much like Mrs. Gu, and you can tell she is a beauty at a glance.

 It's just that her temperament is much softer. Most Jinling women are as gentle as water, and she has inherited this very well.

Especially when there was a brother Wen standing next to her who was squirming in an unknown way, Du Jingyi couldn't help but sigh.

"My daughter is still considerate. Look at these boys. They are already struggling in Qiwu Courtyard even before they can walk. When they are two or three years old and can run and jump, they are still not allowed to go to the house to build tiles. , it gives me a headache just thinking about it.”

“My sister-in-law likes her daughter, and she wants to have another one. Now that the three brothers are older, they won’t be so clingy.”

Gu Xiaochun looked like he had a woman and everything would be fine, but he did his best to love her.

Du Jingyi also thought about it, but compared to her thoughts, it was Gu Shaoyu's unwillingness that obviously had the upper hand, so even if they had sex, they were very cautious, and there was no way she would get pregnant.

It's just that she wouldn't talk about such private matters casually, so she smiled and said.

“Children are fate, let’s see, if fate comes, God will give me a daughter.”

Hearing this, Gu Xiaochun felt the same way.

She is not in a hurry to have another child. After all, her daughter is still young and she has to raise her daughter until she is one year old before talking about anything else.

The aunt and sister-in-law had been discussing raising children for most of the day, so they had a very comfortable meal.

After the excitement subsided and everyone returned to the courtyard, Du Jingyi talked about going to Wangjiang Tower to hold a first-year banquet for the three children.

Gu Shaoyu didn’t have anything to disagree with, as long as it wasn’t too loud.

"Wangjiang Tower is your territory, it's up to you to arrange it. It's just a banquet outside, so we won't invite so many people to avoid being gossiped about. I've been a little busy these past two days and have to make arrangements for the Huben Army, so If you have anything important to do with me, just ask Luo Yuan to make a trip."

"General, you can go and do your business, but I have some domestic affairs here, so it doesn't matter."

Gu Shaoyu was not polite to her, after all, he was really busy.

At the beginning of June, when the heat wave swept through Jinling City, there was another piece of news that made everyone in the city panic.

Because the 50,000-strong Hu Ben Army had received His Majesty's imperial edict and said they were coming to learn the skills of a navy master, the Grand Administrator of Jinling, Gu Yangguang, received the news only three to five days ago. Under the leadership of Lieutenant General Zheng Deli, they had already arrived. Outside Jinling City.

That huge black mass made the two brothers Gu Yanguang and Gu Yanxing look livid.

Even though the second uncle, Gu Yanxing, was in charge of the city defense of Jinling City, he also had 50,000 soldiers at his disposal.

 But when compared with the 50,000-strong Tiger and Ben army, it is like a house sparrow seeing an eagle, and people can tell who is superior and inferior by looking at it.

Originally, Gu Yanguang wanted to station them in the wilderness twenty miles north of the city on the grounds of insufficient preparation, but Gu Shaoyu did this deliberately and arranged all the soldiers in the fields near Qingshui Town.

 The reason is that this place is closer to the naval camp, and it is also convenient for communication between the two sides. After all, Gu Shaoyu is a second-grade official and has the support of the Tiger Army, so Gu Yanguang disagrees and can't give any suitable reason at the moment.

Therefore, they could only be allowed to camp in that area blatantly. By coincidence, they happened to occupy the territory near Huxiao Cave.

When the seventh old man heard about this, his nervous hair turned white. But after three days of rest, they were training jointly with the navy battalion every day, and they didn't seem to see anything wrong.

 But even though the meaning on the surface is so straightforward and visible to the naked eye, everyone is still guessing what the purpose of the arrival of the Tiger Army is.

Xing Zhao's father, Mr. Xing, knew what was going on here. After all, he was once a disciple of Prime Minister Guo, had such a relationship with the Gu family, and held the official position of the river transport envoy. Naturally, he could not escape from these things.

Therefore, taking advantage of his position, he secretly helped Gu Shaoyu target several corrupt people in important positions.

Gu Shaoyu has not yet reached the age of worry, so it is difficult to leak or even deal with these matters in advance, so he can only endure it and follow the clues to search a series of people under their lines.

 But look it up, it’s easy.

Going up, but there are no clues.

So, these days, Gu Shaoyu ostensibly went to the Huben Army's camp to keep an eye on La Lien, but in fact he went to investigate the shipping tax issue, so he was naturally very busy.

After the two of them washed up briefly, Gu Shaoyu went to bed first. Du Jingyi was not sleepy yet, so he lit a lamp outside and read the previous account books.

 After a few months, she finally figured out how the seven houses worked inside.

 Shocking inferior products as good ones is a method used by fools.

In the few years since Qifang took over the Gu family's business, through reasonable transactions and the name of the Royal Merchant, many of the Gu family's valuable or profitable businesses have been transferred to several hands, and they have been sold in other names. He returned to Qifang's hands.

 Qi Fang is really patient. Some transactions last for five or six years, so it’s really hard to tell without looking at them carefully from the beginning.

Du Jingyi went back and forth with the account book several times at first, but he didn't see any problems, so he simply changed the direction later and used his power in Jinling City to inquire about all the businesses Qifang had acquired over the years.

Comparing the two, we can see the problem.

The ones that Qifang replaced under the name of the Gu family are not some junk. They can still make money, but the profits are not as good as before.

A golden hen is replaced by ten laying hens. In a short period of a few years, naturally there will be no difference. After all, the quantity is where it is. But if it is stretched over a period of twenty or thirty years, naturally, the difference will not be noticeable. It’s so powerful that one waxes and wanes.

 It’s no wonder that the seventh branch of the Gu family has become so prominent in recent years.

I thought it was because of the blessing of Huang Shang, but there was actually such a hand behind it!

It was indeed a good skill, so what she had to do now was to sort out all these things. Since the people in the seventh house were cheating and defrauded most of the Gu family's property, she would also use the same method to force the seventh house. Fang Jiang will spit out all the profits he took in!

The lights were brightly lit until late at night. Gu Shaoyu had already woken up, but Du Jingyi was still burning the midnight oil to fight.

Probably because she drank two cups of strong tea during the day, she is in good spirits now.

 (End of this chapter)