Chapter 388: Trick the Son-in-Law
"God is watching what you do. Do you dare to swear on Chunwang that you did not instigate the kidnapper to abduct my four children?"
Tong Huaqiong stared at Mrs. Luo.
Swearing by Chunwang, Mrs. Luo suddenly lost her temper.
She didn't dare to swear on her own grandson, she didn't even dare to think about it.
Mrs. Luo lay on the ground with her eyes closed pretending to be dead.
Anyway, Tong Huaqiong is just speculating and she has no evidence.
As long as the government has not convicted her, no one can lynch her.
"Mrs. Luo, I'm warning you, if you dare to go after anyone in my family again, I'll make you pay." Tong Huaqiong stepped hard on Mrs. Luo.
Chunwang hid behind a tree, looking at his grandmother in such an embarrassing state under Tong Huaqiong's feet, and dared not move forward.
Now everyone in the village knew that the disappearance of the four children of the Gu family was the result of collusion between Mrs. Luo and the kidnapper.
The villagers have a tacit consensus that no matter how the adults disagree with each other, they will not deal with each other's descendants.
Therefore, this matter touched the bottom line of the villagers. Who doesn't have children? If anyone sets this precedent, how can his descendants be guaranteed that their bloodline will not be cut off in the future?
Tong Huaqiong loosened her feet, and Mrs. Luo went home dejectedly amid the accusations of the crowd.
I didn't dare go out for several days.
At the end of the first month of the lunar year, Mr. Lu brought Lu Zhaoyang and others to Tong Huaqiong's house to discuss the marriage between the Huang and Lu families.
Mr. Lu felt very guilty about the Gu family losing their child on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and for the first time in his life he gave Lu Zhaoyang a few sticks.
If the kidnapper had not been arrested as well, Mr. Lu would have had to send Lu Zhaoyang to Qinghe Bay to apologize.
Lu Zhaoyang and Huang Jingshan’s wedding was scheduled for February 18th.
After they get married, Huang Jingshan will set off to Shengjing for the exam with Lu Zhaoyang.
Of course the Huang family was reluctant to part with their daughter, but they thought that Huang Jingshan would not have to visit her parents-in-law every morning and evening, and would be the mistress of the Lu family.
The Lu family also has a mansion in Shengjing, so there is no need to worry about living problems when you arrive in the capital.
Besides, in this era where a husband's honor is the wife's glory, it is a choice that everyone would welcome for Huang Jingshan to go to Beijing with Lu Zhaoyang.
This time, Mr. Lu went to Qinghe Bay and brought Tong Huaqiong one thousand taels of silver.
Tong Huaqiong exclaimed that the profits from the Maritime Silk Road were too high. She had invested less than five hundred taels of silver at the time, but she had doubled her profits.
Of course, the sea is treacherous and you may not be able to make money every time.
Merchant ships are easy to build, but routes are difficult to travel. It is said that some merchants built large ships with full confidence and went out to sea, but when they encountered reefs, the entire ship sank, and they never dared to go out to sea again.
Because the route is difficult and risky, you can make more money if you succeed in one go.
Otherwise, why is Mr. Lu the most popular businessman in the whole Ningcheng? Anyone who wants to do business at sea must come to his dock.
In previous years, Mr. Lu’s merchant ship would return before the New Year and set off in February after the New Year.
This time the merchant ship will not return until the first month of the lunar year, so Mr. Lu plans to prepare for the next merchant ship after his grandson's wedding.
Tong Huaqiong naturally got the opportunity to buy shares again.
This time she brought Gu Baishuang with her when she invested.
Originally, Nie Mingyuan was not satisfied with handing the money to his mother-in-law to invest in the company in her name. His ideal situation was to hope that the Nie family would establish a relationship with the Lu family, and he, Nie Mingyuan, would invest alone in the company, without getting involved with his mother-in-law.
Moreover, in Nie Mingyuan's opinion, investing alone would not satisfy his appetite.
What he wanted was to gain Mr. Lu's trust and recognition step by step, make a profit, charter a boat, and go out to sea along Mr. Lu's route.
Mr. Lu will eventually grow old and retire to the second line. According to him, Lu Zhaoyang, the only male grandson of the Lu family, is not interested in doing business and wants to go to Beijing to take the imperial examination and pursue a career in officialdom. In the future, he will replace the Lu family and become the number one maritime merchant in Ningcheng.
If Lu Zhaoyang wants the Lu family's merchant ships to continue to make money, he must protect him with his official status.
But his cheap mother-in-law Tong Huaqiong was slippery. No matter how he visited her, she refused to give in. Even if Mr. Lu was willing for her to invest, it would have taken a lot of effort, and it was absolutely impossible for her to accept the Nie family investing alone.
"You know my stepmother. She is always like this. You are now desperate to invest in the Lu family alone. She is afraid that you will make money by stepping on her and forget about her. This time, let's invest in her name first, and give her 30% of the profit. She will naturally give in when she sees the money."
"We can't eat a fat man at once, we have to do it step by step. Besides, even if we can buy shares now, Mr. Lu is just looking at my mother-in-law's face, and he doesn't really trust us. What we want is to use my mother-in-law to make the Lu family trust us completely, not just this one business. There will be many opportunities in the future."
Nie Mingyuan was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan. He was helpless and could not resist the temptation of huge profits in Nanyang. After being persuaded by Gu Baishuang, he finally accepted to invest together with his mother-in-law Tong Huaqiong in exchange for money.
When the spring breeze in February was as sharp as a pair of scissors, Gu Baishuang delivered the silver invested by Nie Mingyuan to Qinghe Bay.
In addition to silver, Nie Mingyuan also ordered a batch of porcelain.
With Nie Mingyuan's familiarity and vision in porcelain, Tong Huaqiong believed that this batch of porcelain could make a lot of money.
Gu Baishuang and Tong Huaqiong smiled at each other, knowing each other well that Nie Mingyuan had boarded her and Gu Baishuang's boat, and it would not be easy for him to get off once he wanted.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, several children of Man'er were abducted, which further strengthened Gu Baishuang's determination to control the Nie family's money business.
If it hadn't been for that incident, she wouldn't have completely seen through the minds of her two step-sons and two daughters-in-law.
It turns out that in their hearts, Gu Baishuang was a predator from the beginning to the end.
The two stepsons even suspected that the kidnapper's extortion of the Nie family was a drama staged by Gu Baishuang and the kidnapper in order to put the Nie family's money into their own pockets.
I don’t know what the two stepsons said to Nie Mingyuan, but Nie Mingyuan actually began to doubt the matter.
Gu Baishuang was disappointed.
Once you feel disappointed, your heart becomes hard.
“This is an agreement to buy shares.”
Tong Huaqiong handed a contract written in black and white to Gu Baishuang. Gu Baishuang was illiterate, so Tong Huaqiong invited Master Su, who had recently taken a day off and headed to Qinghe Bay, to explain the contents of the agreement to Gu Baishuang.
Gu Baishuang was startled and looked quite uncomfortable. The first thing she thought about was whether she had done something to make her stepmother distrust her, otherwise she really didn't understand why her stepmother wanted her to sign an agreement.
Tong Huaqiong saw what Gu Baishuang was thinking and said, "Don't worry. In business, one must be one and two must be two. Brothers and mothers and children must settle accounts clearly. Not to mention you, I also signed a profit-sharing agreement with Dashu Yue'e when she worked for me. This is yours, take a look to see if there are any problems, if not, put your fingerprint on it. We agreed that if we make money this time, we'll split it 30% and 70% respectively. If we lose the money and goods that Nie Mingyuan paid for, it's his bad luck, but I won't pay for it anyway."
After hearing Tong Huaqiong's analysis, Gu Baishuang knew that her stepmother was not targeting her, so she asked Master Su to interpret it.
After Master Su finished his interpretation, Gu Baishuang expressed no doubts. With Master Su's witness, Gu Baishuang pressed his fingerprints.
The moment she pressed the fingerprint, Gu Baishuang's eyes became moist.
This was the first time she was treated so seriously.