When I left the restaurant and returned to the Wu family, it was getting late. The lights inside and outside the Wu family mansion were brightly lit. In the past month and a half, the joyful atmosphere in Wu family has not dissipated. This kind of joy is felt by every servant.
It can be seen in spirit. Or maybe only the servants who are with the highest-ranking people in the family can vaguely feel that something is wrong. At this time, after entering the house, a servant guarding the door comes over carefully.
"The eldest young master is back. The second young master and the master arrived home half an hour ago. In addition, the third master, the fifth master, the sixth master, shopkeeper Jiao, and shopkeeper Nie have also come over and are discussing matters with the master in the side hall."
This is the time shortly after dinner for most people. In the past more than a month, many family members had to socialize outside until late at night before coming back. This was only the case in the past two days. Wu Qilong nodded and walked all the way.
I walked towards the side hall in silence and then reached the corridor. I heard a bang inside and the sound of a teacup falling to the ground.
"Does that mean it can't be solved? It's only been three days? Does it mean it can't be solved?" At this time, it was his father Wu Chenghou who was talking after he dropped the teacup. Over the years, he has rarely seen him so out of control.
state. This is also because the consequences of this problem were too serious, and the turning point was so sudden that everyone was caught off guard. They were suddenly hit in the head, and then everyone was a little confused. In the side hall
, The person who was talking to his father at this time was the fifth uncle of the clan. The dyeing of fabrics was technically in charge of Shopkeeper Nie, but the most important manager was 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 we developed here. In the two months since we got it," the masters at home have been trying to make changes, but this recipe is too sensitive, and there are big and small changes.
It will change the color greatly. The Su family even used some raw materials that were originally used to dye cyan fabric. Now... It's not that it can't be solved. "Maybe with luck..." Fifth Uncle Wu Chengke also
Somewhat embarrassed, Wu Qilong walked into the door. His father above him glanced at him, casually waved his hand and told him to sit down next to him, and then turned around to confront Uncle Wu.
"...Luck?", "Oh, it took the Su family two or three years to develop this recipe. We don't have a clue now. Master Chen and the others said..., maybe we can only rely on luck...", Above the shopping mall
, said that he wanted to solve the problem, but the answer he got at this time was that he could only rely on luck. Above him, Wu Chenghou stared, "The whole main hall was silent. After a long while, Wu Chenghou opened his mouth a few times.
He spoke for a moment, stepped back and sat back in his seat: "So, is it certain? It's not that we have a problem, we did go... and were tricked by the Su family?"
"Among the people in the side hall," no one dared to speak, no one dared to make such a conclusion. Maybe everyone has thought about it, but if this is the case, the price that needs to be paid in the future is really terrible. There was a moment of silence.
, Li Minzhi shook his head: "There is something fishy about this matter. It's hard to understand. If the Su family really set up such a situation," wouldn't it be better for them to directly capture the emperor's business. Su Tan'er spent several years working hard to do this.
Everyone can feel this. Look at the Su family now. They are in a state of distress. Even if there is any change, the news in the past month and a half has been enough to cause them a lot of losses. The third master, Mr. Nie and I have all considered it. "What if?"
He said there was some conspiracy two months ago, and the risk is too great for the Su family..." Wu Chengyuan, who ranked third in the Wu family, also nodded at this time: "Brother Xian is right,
We didn't originally plan to use the Su family's recipe. We just came up with it more than two months ago. If the Su family really had another set of recipes, we couldn't have known about it. Since then, several inferences have proven that there is no problem with the one we just used.
The Su family has set up this game from the beginning. How could they be sure that we would enter the game from the beginning? To say that they calculated it so perfectly, I don’t believe it. Su Tan’er doesn’t have such ability. Even Su
Hey, he is not so scheming...", "But no matter what, our current situation is this..." Wu Qilong sat beside him and said nothing after entering the room, but he seemed to be in a low mood.
He just looked at the people in the side hall indifferently. Wu Qihao glanced at his brother for a few times, then sighed and started to speak.
"Now that things are like this, we have to start thinking about the next response. My father and I talked with Mr. Dong today. There should be no problem in postponing the delivery date, but the trouble now is. Once we formally propose an extension to the Weaving Bureau,
Then this matter must be put in a formal official document, and then Mr. Dong will not be able to suppress it.
News of the Wu family's problems will inevitably get out, and it's hard to say what it will be like by then. There are still ten days left before the agreed delivery date, and after ten days we have to figure out how to deal with it."
He paused: "No matter if it is delayed by one month or two months, in order to solve the problem in the end, we still have to adjust this recipe. Uncle Wu, Uncle Nie, no matter whether you work hard or try your luck,
We can only give it a try. In addition, if the Su family has a real prescription, we probably have to give it a try. Then...brother, it will depend on you..." Wu Qihao said to his brother.
Looking at the other side, the sixth uncle of the clan shook his head and said: "If the Su family is not planning it, it is indeed possible to do this. We can't be sure about this at the moment."
"But now we can only deal with it like this." Wu Chengyuan interjected, "It's true that we can't be sure now, but if it's not the Su family's layout, but it's just a coincidence, we have a problem here and we can handle it.
If we don’t deal with it, we will become a laughing stock in the end.”
In the middle of the argument, Wu Qilong also stood up under the gaze of his younger brother. He patted Wu Qihao on the shoulder: "Dad, uncles and uncles, I...I have been dealing with the northwest recently.
As for the things that are developing on the side, Jiangning City has not really paid much attention to it. "I know a little bit about this matter, but I don't know too much detail. May I ask...what are the Su family doing recently?"
Wu Qilong has Wu Chenghou's demeanor. Although his voice was not high at this time, he obviously had some conclusions in his mind. Everyone looked at him and Wu Chengyuan thought for a while, then sat down on his seat: "There must be internal strife."
"The situation is not good. Su Zhongkan and Su Yunfang are working hard, and they are having a huge quarrel at this time." Wu Chengke also shook his head and said, "Su Tan'er is very anxious, apologizing everywhere, trying to build relationships, trying to maintain the original cooperation.
.”
"I heard...it doesn't seem to have any effect. Su Tan'er is capable, but there was Su Boyong behind her before. Now Su Boyong is said to be paralyzed. He can't get out of bed recently. The original Li Jiannian family has already
We are planning to stop cooperating with the Su family's Dafang, and some scattered small businesses have also been affected. Mainly because everyone is saying that Su Tan'er will soon be unable to control Dafang's business. The Xue family has also been recruiting these people recently, and Su
Once the family's business shrinks, it would be better for some people with whom we didn't have a close relationship to cooperate with the Xue family first..."
Everyone has been busy with other substantive matters recently, and they don't know much about the real and specific things about the Su family.
Li Minzhi had a lot of dinner parties recently, but he also paid attention to some. At this time, everyone was chatting in random, Wu Qilong frowned: "What about Su Tan'er herself?", "Maintain the previous cooperative relationship." Wu Chengyuan
Smiled. "Su Boyong fell. In the current situation, the Su family's second- and third-bedroom businesses are shrinking. She still wants to maintain the previous businesses. How is it possible to maintain the ones that were originally controlled by Su Boyong...", Wu
Qilong's eyes didn't change much when he looked at his third uncle: "But what are the whole Su family's big house doing?", "The whole Su family's big house, the land..." Wu Chengyuan looked at his nephew and waved his hand.
Then he stopped in mid-air, and after a while he shook his head but said nothing. It seemed that he understood something, or had thought about it early in the morning, but he just didn't want to say it. It felt weird and difficult to understand no matter how he thought about it. Room
Everyone's expressions changed a little, and what they thought of at this time was not a good thing.
"Actually..." Wu Qilong's wry smile was hard to describe, and he opened his mouth slowly, "Actually... Third and fifth uncles, you may have considered it a few days ago, right?"
"That's a reverse effect, it's impossible." Wu Chengke said with a gloomy face.
"There is nothing we can do at this time, even if the cause is the reverse..." Wu Qilong shook his head, "Three years of preparation, Huang Shang's one-time investment of 200,000 taels of silver before, the previous investment may be more
.Su Tan'er improved her looms. Originally we thought she was doing it to cope with the demand for a large amount of old cloth and was determined to win the emperor's business. But she didn't stop after the incident with the emperor's business, and people outside thought she was crazy.
They are riding a tiger and want to target our Wu family to increase production and sell goods at low prices..." "A woman with a bad brain can do anything." Wu Qilong murmured, "But what if...Dad, everyone
Uncle and uncle, if the price is low and the market is bad, everyone will unite to beat her, so we are never afraid of her actions. But if from the beginning, this woman has been eyeing our Wu family's share, she is waiting
What will happen if we free up the share ourselves?"
Wu Chenghou looked at his son in front of him for a long time, and then he spoke with a hoarse voice: "If this is true, she is almost ready now." "Yes." Wu Qilong smiled tiredly, and the next moment,
He raised his voice and said, "No one in the entire market is staring at our Wu family now. We are about to expand. Even when we walk there, others are thinking about how to get out of the way. Led by the Xue family, everyone is staring at the Su family now.
, wait for it to suddenly collapse one day, and then divide the shares. But what if the Su family will not collapse at all? Only this woman will take the Royal Merchant from us..." He waved his hand: "No, even take the
We were already waiting before we went to Huangshang. Once there is a problem here, the entire Jiangning cloth merchants and those who are staring at the Su family will make a big joke. Once the Wu family's market share is given up, the rest of the people will
Before anyone can react, Su Tan'er will eat them in pieces, while the rest of the people can only stare."
"For a month and a half, we felt that no one had any problems, and we regarded them as the losers. But in fact, they had attracted the attention of the entire Jiangning weaving industry and secretly made all preparations.
Su Tan'er updated the looms under her hands to improve the shipment rate, which seemed useless now. Everyone was laughing, except us. After we realized it, they had been preparing for more than a month...", indescribable suffocation
The feeling enveloped the entire side hall. After a while, Wu Chengyuan still shook his head: "This is the worst possibility. If this is the case, this situation is too exaggerated. How could we not feel it at all..."
,..." Wu Chengke frowned: "Even if this is the case, the Su family is not in a good situation now. How long can Su Tan'er hold on? How long can we hold on? In the worst case, we will postpone it, delay it for two months, and drag her to death...
..., "Whether it's an exaggeration or not, what's in front of us is like this, and..." Wu Qilong looked at Wu Chengke, "Fifth uncle, they won't wait for us to pour it ourselves. They just came out of the workshop the day before yesterday.
Question, Uncle Qin just fell ill. Did you notice it yesterday? Someone spread rumors outside that something happened to our Wu family in the Imperial Business... Of course, it is common for people to make random speculations in shopping malls, but
This is too fast. Everyone knows that someone is spreading rumors behind the scenes, but not many people pay attention to it right now. But...",..." He took out a piece of rice paper from his arms: "I actually checked it before I came back.
Su Tan'er's actions in the past month or so. Now maybe we can see it more clearly. After Huangshang, all the adjustments and expenditures were made for our Wu family. They were carefully planned. In a month and a half, we have no idea.
We walked forward mindlessly. They had already set up all the swords, guns, swords and halberds silently, and each one was aimed at our vital points... Dad, Fifth Uncle, do you feel it?"
Wu Qilong smiled bitterly, shook his head, and looked in the direction of the Su Mansion: "That woman has secretly made all the tea... and started to do it..." The rice paper was circulated in the hall,
For more than a month, these have seemed like jokes. As long as nothing happens to the Wu family, all the wiring is meaningless. But what will happen to the Wu family? With this understanding, they sing all the way towards the best.
After passing the direction, when they realized that the front was a dead place and were still confused for a moment, they realized that the surroundings were full of sharp edges.
It was an indescribable feeling. Looking at the piece of paper about Su Tan'er's plan for the Wu family in the past month and a half, everyone almost felt chills running down their spines, and a cold breath came up from there. If
This is real……
"I still don't believe it." Wu Chengyuan suddenly waved his hand, "If this is the case, then we didn't go in by ourselves, but they lured us in. From more than two months ago or earlier, they
Has Su Tan'er been plotting against us? Has Su Tan'er worked hard for three years to set up such a trap? It's not like we haven't considered getting fakes before. If the whole thing is deliberate, everyone will see it! No one can set up such a trap.
situation! This matter...can't be done just by thinking about it. Everyone knows how difficult the whole process is and how many accidents there are. It is impossible for Su Tan'er, and Su Yu will not take risks with such a thing.
!Why don’t they get Huangshang if they can? If they can’t get it, why did they build up the momentum to such an extent before that they almost couldn’t deceive others. Let’s just say that getting the prescription is too difficult. If it is too difficult, we can’t get it.
, If it was too simple, we wouldn’t believe it. How many times did we review it later to confirm that it was okay? Who can do it to this extent!”, “She has already started to take action, and it will be obvious in a few days.
In fact, I also hope that I am just guessing..." Wu Qilong sat there, shaking his head and feeling a little quiet, "But if not, then the whole incident will be very interesting...", "
It was true that Su Tan'er fell ill at that time, and Su Yu couldn't deal with such a thing during that time. He was old after all. But there is one person, maybe we all ignored it, or in other words, we didn't regard him as a human being except at the beginning.
Same thing. Look at "...he seemed to be doing nothing during the whole thing, but after Su Tan'er fell ill, he was actually doing everything. He took us around in circles, and every day it was like
He was just telling a joke. But behind the scenes, he came out in a daze and said that he wanted to publicize the yellow cloth in a big way and promote that the Su family is the most powerful...", "Now that I think about it, it's actually quite a bit...
It’s interesting. Neither I nor the Xue family had a habitual thought at the time. Every time we talked about Ning Yi’s recent silly things in restaurants and teahouses, we never forgot to remind others.
: Su Tan'er is very powerful, and the Su family is still using the most fair and honest method to rob the imperial merchants, so don't be fooled by Ning Yi's performance.
It turns out that everyone is a smart person, and everyone is staring at the piece of cloth from the Su family."
"Uncle Third, do you still remember what you told me when I was a child? 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 under a
A layer of sand was spread on the ground. To cover it up, there are no three hundred taels of silver here... Ning Yi told us from beginning to end that the Su family has the best cloth. The Su family has the best cloth! And the Su family has the best cloth!
...We all feel that we are smart people, and after seeing the important point behind it, we gradually lose our vigilance...", "He is a fool, an idiot in the business world. Su Tan'er is sick, so some oversights are inevitable. If it is
When Su Tan'er comes in person, we may be more vigilant, because he shouldn't have made some small mistakes. But he keeps making small mistakes, and none of us think this is abnormal. Ha..., in the end, he didn't do anything.
, anyway, we finally got the prescription for the yellow cloth, and he looked at it like that, and then... Prime Minister Bai Zhiyu pressed his sword... After he finished his work, he threw the things away and left. In the past month and a half, he has been the same as before.
Likewise, he doesn't even bother to take a look at these things in the mall, but no one knows yet, maybe he doesn't take these seriously at all..." Wu Qilong seemed to finish saying this to himself.
, sat there and smiled sarcastically. Wu Qihao on the side frowned: "Ning Yi? How is this... impossible?"..."
Wu Qilong raised his head: "Oh, I also hope that I am wrong, but do you know that today I went to talk to the spy we arranged at Su's house, and he told me something. I talked to him two nights ago
When the Su family's shopkeeper Zhou, who was in charge of the dyeing process, was chatting, he got drunk and said something. He said that in the entire Su family, the person he admired, besides Su Yu, was Ning Gucha in the family...
", someone's eyes widened.
Wu Qilong paused: "Anyway...", there are still a few days left, no matter what, we have to request an extension from the Weaving Bureau within ten days. By then, if the Su family really has laid out the plan, everything will be
They will all follow him. Then we will know whether he was acting at that time or whether he knew it in his heart. If this is really the case..." He looked at the darkness outside the door and thought of the scholar's figure, "I
I will 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 looks with each other, but if that was true, that kind of shocking
The feeling of shivers down my spine is probably extremely weird.
After a while, Wu Qilong rubbed his forehead and sighed.