Chapter 166: Must Buy Land
Gu Jingzhe listened to Tong Huaqiong very much and didn't want to pay any attention to Fan Tong.
On second thought, I wondered if Fan Tong came to find me for some ulterior motive.
It's no wonder that Gu Jingzhe thought too much. In the first few days after he returned to school, Fan Tong ignored him completely. When he met Fan Tong in school and called him senior brother, Fan Tong was obviously impatient.
Now Fan Tong is too enthusiastic about himself.
He didn't believe that Fan Tong had discovered his good qualities in the past few days and was willing to make friends with him.
Thinking of this, Gu Jingzhe slowly began to ask Fan Tong questions.
Once people get anxious, they will show their true colors.
It didn't take much effort for Gu Jingzhe to force Fan Tong to frequently mention Gu Taohua and Tong Huaqiong's plans for their children's marriages...
Gu Jingzhe was originally a scheming and clever man. As soon as Fan Tong mentioned Gu Taohua, he understood that Fan Tong had taken a fancy to Gu Taohua.
That's not right. Isn't it said in the private school that Fan Tong is going to be the son-in-law of Mr. Huang?
Why is he interested in his sister again?
Gu Jingzhe only needed to think about it to understand that Fan Tong was abandoned by the Huang family and the family was turning to Tao Hua.
Is he planning to have an affair with someone else?
The idea is to make peach blossom desserts.
Gu Jingzhe is still not sure whether his sister and Fan Tong have had any private contact.
But no matter what, based on his understanding of Fan Tong, Fan Tong is not a good match.
He had to kill this thought, so he said coldly: "Brother Fan, there is no need to ask about my sister. My sister needs to be matched with a heroic and unparalleled man. You are full of bookish airs and can't even kill a chicken. You are not worthy of my sister."
Gu Jingzhe said this so directly that Fan Tong almost got angry to death.
This is calling him a weakling.
"Brother Fan, let's discuss academic matters from now on. If we want to discuss other things, forget it."
After saying this, Gu Jingzhe stood up and left.
Fan Tong stamped his feet, spat at Gu Jingzhe who was walking away, and cursed: "Your sister is still worthy of a heroic man, what are you dreaming about? Which heroic man would want a girl who can slap a pig unconscious with one slap? Your sister can only wait to be an old maid, right? If you ask me to be your concubine in the future, I won't even look at you."
Fan Tong cursed to his heart's content, but Gu Jingzhe didn't hear a word he said.
Gu Baishuang's son Nie Xiaofeng passed by and heard it, and asked Fan Tong: "Who is Brother Fan scolding?"
Fan Tong knew that Nie Xiaofeng and Gu Jingzhe's family didn't get along, so he wanted to win over Nie Xiaofeng and said, "The fat girl who scolded Gu Jingzhe is your fat aunt."
"Your uncle wants to marry your fat aunt to me. Tell me, I am a scholar after all. How can I marry a country girl who sells cakes on the street? What's more, she is so fat and speaks in a rough and wild way."
Fan Tong thought Nie Xiaofeng would stand on his side, but he didn't expect Nie Xiaofeng to roll his eyes and say, "Who are you trying to fool? You want to use me as a pawn to help you, right? You're dreaming. Did my aunt eat your rice?"
Nie Xiaofeng strode away angrily.
Maybe because he has strong limbs but is poor at studying, Fan Tong thinks he is not smart.
Who are you coaxing?
How could he not understand his cheap uncle? He would definitely not tell his cheap aunt to Fan Tong.
There is no other reason, just because Fan Tong's family is extremely poor, his uncle would not even mention this.
Nie Xiaofeng was also upset by Fan Tong's insults to Gu Taohua.
His fat aunt never had any disputes with his mother. Instead, she would say hello to his mother when she saw her.
Even though he had no good feelings towards Tong Dajiao's gang of villains, he had no reason to join forces with outsiders to trick his fat aunt, who had no conflict of interest with him.
The Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon.
This was the first important festival that Tong Huaqiong celebrated in this era.
The Gu family sent out a batch of holiday gifts and also received some.
People like Gu Baishuang, Huang Yuanwai, County Magistrate Liu, and the Lu family all sent gifts.
Tong Huaqiong accepted them all.
Even on the festival day, Taohua Dessert's customer flow remains unabated.
In order to reward the staff of Taohua Dessert, Tong Huaqiong booked a table of delicious food.
In view of Tong Huaqiong's precautions against Manager Qian, she booked a table at another restaurant this time. When Manager Qian found out, he was very disappointed and wanted to visit him several times to ask him how he had offended Tong Huaqiong.
After all, I didn't dare.
After the Dragon Boat Festival, the Gu family became busy again.
Because according to the previous agreement between Gu Baishuang and Gu Dahan, their parents were to be buried together.
Of course, Tong Huaqiong did not participate in this busyness. Her decision was very firm: whoever wanted Old Man Gu could take him, but she didn't want him.
As a filial son, Gu Dahan was asked by Tong Huaqiong to be responsible for the burial of his parents. As a daughter-in-law, Chen Sufen was asked by Tong Huaqiong to help at home.
As for the three bad bamboos in her own home, Tong Huaqiong did not make any demands.
Gu Taohua had the same attitude as Tong Huaqiong. There was nothing for her to get involved in this matter. As a girl of the Gu family, she was not even included in the family tree. Why should she get involved in such matters? It was better to make money.
Gu Dashu was also unwilling to participate. He felt that Tong Huaqiong had made a great sacrifice for this matter, and he was unwilling to pay homage to his father's original wife.
As for Gu Jingzhe, he participated in the whole process.
He was not singing a different tune from Tong Huaqiong. It was mainly because Gu Dahan was too honest, so Tong Huaqiong asked him to support Gu Dahan.
Tong Da Jiao has parents-in-law and an unmarried sister-in-law. After Old Man Gu died, they moved to another place with Old Man Gu's younger brother.
This couple of parents-in-law, as well as Old Man Gu's younger brother, were not easy people to get along with. They would always try to get what they wanted. Tong Da Jiao had many quarrels and fights with them when Old Man Gu was alive.
They are not only at odds with Tong Dajiao, but also with everyone in the Chuang Dafang family.
Including Gu Dahan and Gu Baishuang.
Tong Huaqiong was worried that they might cause trouble with the burial of Old Man Gu and Yuan Gong, so she asked Gu Jingzhe, a black-bellied young man, to stay at home with her eldest brother.
However, Tong Huaqiong was worrying too much. The two elders of the Gu family and the second branch of the Gu family never came back.
Although Tong Huaqiong didn't know the reason, she didn't want to spoil her happiness and she would rather he never come back.
She didn't want to deal with this family.
Even more, he didn't want to tie her to Old Man Gu's parents in the name of filial piety.
Old Man Gu and his original wife were buried together very smoothly.
This made Tong Huaqiong gain more favor among her stepson and stepdaughter.
Especially Gu Baishuang, who had previously doubted her stepmother's motives. After Chen Sufen told Gu Baishuang what Tong Huaqiong had done to the first wife's family during this period, the dissatisfaction Gu Baishuang had with Tong Dajiao almost disappeared.
Tong Huaqiong has no time to care what her stepdaughter thinks of her.
She is planning to buy land.
Last time, the old man of the Lu family asked Lu Zhaozhao to give her a gift of three hundred taels of silver. Together with the two hundred taels she extorted from Mrs. Yan and the Xu family, she had a total of nearly five hundred taels of silver to go around.
She surpassed Xu Zaohua's father Xu Jin and became the richest woman in Qinghe Bay.
She would like to do other business, but she has not found any new business opportunities yet. She wants to spend the money as it gets hot in her hands.
In this era, there is no better business than buying land.
After all, where there is land there is production.
Tong Huaqiong searched Tong Dajiao's memory and found out which prince in this era was plotting a rebellion, and there would be a period of unrest when the army passed through Yanguan Town.
When unrest comes, if it really affects your business, you can just go home and live on your own land.
So she had to buy land.