Chapter 533 Cunning Rabbit 3 Cave
Old Master Gu hit a wall with Gu Baishuang, so he gritted his teeth and went to find Gu Dashu.
I hope to borrow two hundred taels of silver from Gu Dashu.
Gu Dashu took a breath. His grandfather was really brave enough to speak.
Even though he was the young master of Jufulai and was paid like the other employees, he did not even have ten taels of silver on him.
Tong Huaqiong said that men would become bad when they had money. In addition, since he had a history of being in a casino, he was not allowed to have more than ten taels of silver on him. Even if he treated guests to a meal in the capital, he had to report it and use the public account.
If an account doesn't match, his mother will deduct his wages.
Originally, he had ten taels of silver for pocket money every month, but Liu Yue'e remembered that men would become bad when they had money, so she deducted five taels from the ten taels.
He will be frugal with these five taels of silver.
"Grandpa, Gu Ruinian is not my grandson, I don't have any money." Gu Dashu took out five taels of silver from his pocket and handed it to Grandpa Gu, saying, "I only have five taels of silver on me, I give it to you as a filial piety, I don't have more."
Without waiting for Old Man Gu to get angry, Gu Dashu continued, "My eldest sister is already married. She has never had a good life as a stepmother in the Nie family. We, as her family members, don't support her, but ask her to borrow money. If the Nie family finds out, how can my eldest sister hold her head up in the Nie family? Don't look for my eldest sister if you have any problems in the future. She doesn't belong to our Gu family, let alone Rui Nian."
Gu Ruinian learned from Nie Xiaofeng that Grandpa Gu asked Gu Baishuang to borrow money. He was already very angry, and then Grandpa Gu happened to dance next to him. Don't blame him for lecturing the old man.
Old Master Gu's beard was shaking with anger. The little bastard was giving him a lecture in a fatherly manner, which showed that he had never cheated Gu Baishuang before.
"You used to..."
"Don't talk about the past. I'm busy."
"Even in the past, my elder sister and I were siblings. Who does Gu Ruinian think he is?"
"Aunt, take these five taels of silver and make sure they are not taken away by that unfilial grandson Gu Ruinian."
Gu Dashu was afraid that Old Man Gu would mention that he had spent Gu Baishuang's money in the past, so he quickly stuffed five taels of silver into the hands of Gu Honglian, who had come to see him with Old Man Gu.
"Boss Xu, you are here, come on, come in and talk."
Gu Dashu went to greet a fat boss.
He was stockpiling charcoal according to Tong Huaqiong's request, and was recently busy looking for charcoal merchants to inquire about the price of charcoal. Gu Dashu left Old Man Gu and took Boss Xu's hand and went into Jufulai to find Tong Huaqiong.
Old Man Gu was so angry that he gritted his teeth.
Boss Xu is the largest charcoal merchant in Pingchuan. The winters in recent years have been warm, and the charcoal he has stockpiled cannot be sold at a high price. When he heard that Tong Huaqiong wanted to buy charcoal, he took the initiative to come to his door to discuss business.
Of course, Tong Huaqiong would not tell these charcoal merchants that this winter will be extremely cold, and she would not put 500,000 kilograms of charcoal on the charcoal merchants in Pingchuan or even Ningcheng. These local charcoal merchants know each other, and they will become suspicious of each other in private at that time.
Doubt would be detrimental to her.
Even if they couldn't guess that it was because of the weather, they would still suspect that Tong Huaqiong was going to enter the charcoal market. Based on her understanding of the charcoal merchants in Tong Dajiao's memory who watched people in danger and took the opportunity to make money, they would gather together to attack her and take the opportunity to raise the price.
She intended to stabilize coal prices when extreme cold weather arrived, but she did not intend to stop making money.
She planned to stockpile charcoal in a dispersed manner, some from local charcoal merchants and some from other places.
It just so happened that the Lu family had a merchant ship, and she planned to stock up some charcoal from the south.
When doing business, you have to have three burrows.
While Tong Huaqiong was talking to Tanhuo at Jufulai until he was exhausted, half of Jufulai's customers went to Wuji.
Liu Yue'e and Gu Taohua thought that Wu Ji had cast a spell on its customers, otherwise there would be no reason for the customers to run to Wu Ji.
Wu Ji's reputation is so bad that anyone who goes to Wu Ji to buy things will be looked down upon by people around them.
"Let's go and see what uncle is up to." Gu Taohua pulled her second sister-in-law Liu Yue'e and ran towards Wu Ji.
When we arrived at the entrance of Wu Ji, we saw people surrounding the door in three layers. They didn't look like they were buying anything, but more like they were eating melons.
"Auntie, what activities are Wu Ji doing?" Gu Taohua asked, grabbing an old lady's hand.
"It's bullshit. The second young master of the second boss of Wuji is having an affair with Madam Zheng. Now Madam Zheng's family members are coming to the door to make trouble." said the old lady.
The young wife next to the old lady knew Gu Taohua and knew that she was the young master of Jufulai. She said while eating melon seeds, "Aren't you from the same village as Madam Zheng's family? Just now, two ox carts of people came and rushed into Wuji with sticks and hoes. I wonder if Madam Zheng's adulterer was beaten to death."
Gu Taohua and Liu Yue'e, the melon-eating enthusiasts, became excited. With so many people from the Xu family coming, Gu Ruinian must be in danger.
The Xu family is not an easy family to get along with.
"Taohua, let's go in and take a look." Liu Yue'e took out a handful of melon seeds from her pocket and pulled Gu Taohua towards Wu Ji.
The two were just getting there when they were stopped by a familiar voice.
Liu Yue'e turned around and shouted in surprise, "Uncle."
It turned out that Liu Tielian, Uncle Gu and the head of the Gu family had come, followed by a group of Gu family members, including Gu Dahan.
"Brother, why are you here?" Gu Taohua asked.
Gu Dahan rubbed his hands and said, "I don't know what happened. I just came out of the pig pen and was pulled here by my second grandfather."
Gu Taohua was speechless.
"Taohua, go call your mother."
The Xu family was very aggressive, and Liu Tielian was afraid that someone would be killed, so he asked Gu Taohua to call Tong Huaqiong.
Only Tong Huaqiong can suppress the Xu family.
Even if Tong Huaqiong didn't want to get involved in this matter, if the Xu family went too far, she could use her title as a lady of the village to report to the authorities or something.
The peach blossoms in the valley are running towards the gathering blessings.
Tong Huaqiong had just negotiated a cooperation with Boss Xu and bought several thousand kilograms of charcoal at a price that was one-third lower than the market price last winter. She was happily seeing Boss Xu off when she saw Gu Taohua running towards her.
"Mom, second brother, the Xu family has sent two ox carts of people to settle accounts with Gu Ruinian. The village chief, second grandfather, and clan leader are also here with our Gu family members. Second grandfather and the village chief asked you to come over."
Since there was nothing to do, Tong Huaqiong walked towards Wu Ji, and Gu Dashu followed her.
Walk through the crowd and enter Wu Ji’s shop.
Uncle Gu asked Gu Dahan to guard the door and only allowed Tong Huaqiong, Gu Taohua and Gu Dashu to come in.
"What are you looking at? Stop looking." Uncle Gu shouted to the crowd outside who were eager to try.
He felt that Gu Ruinian had brought shame to the Gu family and caused Gu Dahan to close the door of Wu Ji.
Tong Huaqiong looked up and saw that the shop was in a mess. The shelves were smashed, the goods were scattered on the ground, and even the abacus beads were broken.
Wu Ren and Qiao's faces turned pale.
Tong Zhaodi and Tong Zhijie, brother and sister, took the opportunity to stuff things into the package, and when they saw Tong Huaqiong come in, they smiled ingratiatingly.
There were curses and cries coming from the warehouse...
There were shadows moving in the yard.
"No, that's my house. If you're destroying it, I'll report you to the police."
When Qiao saw several Xu family members rushing into her house with sticks and smashing things, she hurried to stop them, but she was still a step too late.
There was a loud bang in the kitchen.
Suddenly, a wailing sound came from the warehouse.