MTL - My Stepmother is Soft and Charming-Chapter 424 Tong Jiannian

Chapter 424 Tong Jiannian

 The Tong family will make a fortune, largely because they benefit from river transportation.

 In the Daxing Dynasty, shipping was tightly controlled by the Su family, especially since they had several secret routes that people like them could not interfere with if they wanted.

 So the Tong family focused their attention on river transportation at that time, and cleared up a lot of relationships up and down, and then won the river transportation to the southwest.

If the Gu family had not become a rising star in the imperial business, I am afraid that the Tong family's reputation would have been even louder in Jinling City.

Now the river transport envoys are giving them several orders one after another, as if they are strangling them by the neck. They can still eat, but the food is not as smooth as before. Naturally, they are unhappy here.

Especially today, they had made a bold announcement to entertain the "officials" who were covering them, but now none of them showed up, and the face of the Tong family master was also very ugly.

"It's all the trouble you caused. What are you going to do with that missionary? See, you can't steal the chicken but lose the rice. It also annoyed Mrs. Xing. I don't know how she was bragging to Mr. Xing behind his back." The pillow trend has disrupted our business."

The head of the Tong family was targeting his wife and daughter-in-law. If the two of them had not made a fuss and made the Gu family and the Wang family unhappy, the Xing family might not have intervened in this matter.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were trembling and did not dare to say a word. If they had known that they would make such a fuss like today, they would not have started the game even if they were beaten to death.

Just when the whole family was anxious to get angry, Erlang from the Tong family suddenly rushed in and said overjoyed.

“Father, guess who I just saw?”

The head of the Tong family is annoyed, and seeing the cheerful look on his face, he is getting angry.

“I have seen your ancestors, who are you showing this ghostly smile to?”

Erlang's wife stepped forward and hurriedly pulled Mr. Hu's sleeves to tell him to stop talking, for fear of causing trouble later. Unexpectedly, Erlang was quick to speak and spoke immediately.

"It's the Gu family who are celebrating the first birthday of their three brothers. It's upstairs in the Shuyue Pavilion. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for my father. How about we go and congratulate him too?"

 When the head of the Tong family heard this, he was also quite surprised.

 But he rejected his son's proposal. After calming down and thinking about it, he told his son.

"Go and ask someone to settle Shu Yue Pavilion's account. If the shopkeeper asks, don't say anything. If the Gu family wants to repay this favor, there are ways to find out about us, so let's go."

 After saying this, Master Tong got up and left first.

Following him were naturally everyone from the Tong family. Although the table was cold, the excitement in the hearts of the Tong family was hot enough at this moment.

Tongjia Erlang followed his father's instructions and immediately went to handle the matter.

The shopkeeper is also a good person, and he even asked a question specifically.

 “But the family man came to settle the bill?”

The face of Tongjia Erlang was also familiar to the shopkeeper, so he remembered his father's words and naturally found a familiar face. Without revealing his identity, he just nodded and settled the account immediately.

 After the man left, the shopkeeper winked, and the clever clerk immediately followed him quietly. After a while, he saw the stranger going to talk to the second young master of the Tong family.

So he hurried back to report.

 “The shopkeeper is from the Tong family.”

"Tong's family?" The shopkeeper was not stupid, so he naturally knew that the Gu family's banquet was not something that the Tong family could afford, so he hurriedly told Du Jingyi.

At the banquet, when the shopkeeper came over, no one else paid much attention. After all, it is the shopkeeper's duty to say a few words to the guests.

Du Jingyi looked calm when he went out, but when he heard what the shopkeeper reported, he started to sneer.

“The people from the Tong family came here deliberately to settle the bill, and they also pretended to be family-minded people. I don’t know the purpose of this, so I ask the owner to deal with it carefully.”

Except for the three closest right-hand men, only the shopkeeper of Wangjiang Tower knows Du Jingyi's identity, so he calls Du Jingyi the head of the family.

“I know, don’t mention this to a third person again.”

 “The villain understands.”

 “Well, let’s go down.”

"yes."

After he left, Du Jingyi had some thoughts. It was not difficult for her to guess why the Tong family acted like this, but the Tong family's behavior made Du Jingyi feel that maybe the Tong family could take advantage of it.

If you want to eat up the seven rooms of the Gu family, Yan Zhiqing's ability is naturally not much.

 Just why bother yourself with so much trouble, so the best way is to invite the "accomplices" around you, and bite off his meat one by one, which may be more appropriate than swallowing it whole.

The Su family, the Yan family, and the Tong family, and the seven-bedroom Gu family is not so impressive.

Du Jingyi smiled when she thought of this, but she didn't notice that her husband had a curious look on his face when he saw her expression.

So, after the banquet was over and everyone started to go home, Gu Shaoyu did not ride a horse, but accompanied Du Jingyi in a carriage.

“What did the shopkeeper tell you? He’s been laughing since he came back.”

“The Tong family submitted the certificate of nomination themselves, so it’s in vain if you don’t use it.”

"What's the meaning?"

"They were also in Wangjiang Tower today. The general and Mr. Xing were a bit ruthless, so the Tong family's profits were cut by most. They were naturally anxious. They probably wanted to catch up with the Xing family by currying favor with our family. After all, my uncle is a river transporter, and the Shanwan River that his Tong family wants to take has a lot to do with what his men are in charge of."

"Then?"

"They settled today's debt and didn't leave their names when they left. They just wanted us to accept this favor and pretended to be surprised, so I wanted to put on a show with him. He used to Isn’t there a missionary in the family? I think the Nanyang people will come into contact with me in the future. If we follow their path, we should deal with the Nanyang people who have joined forces with Qifang first, and we can also comfort some of our grandfathers’ souls in heaven.”

Then Du Jingyi made the plan clear. Gu Shaoyu listened and thought it was a good idea.

When the carriage and horses stopped in front of Gu's house, the couple had discussed the plan in detail. Xing Zhao's cooperation was indispensable, so Xing Zhao would have to come over tomorrow to discuss it. .

 The children were playing hard today, so most of them fell asleep on the way back.

The wet nurses hurried back in their arms, and when Du Jingyi saw the wet nurse holding Tai brother in her arms, she could feel the obvious strain, and then she spoke to her husband.

"General, Brother Tai is getting bigger and bigger. I'm afraid it won't be able to be carried by only the wet nurse. But if there are suitable candidates for the boy, it might be better to choose two sensible people to accompany him."

 (End of this chapter)