Chapter 128 Cooking Wine
On the Qinhuai River, Xi Junyu looked around in the small boat that was a little dark because some lanterns were turned off. Wu Qilong smiled and took out a rice pot from the side. He went over to fill it with rice, then sat down at the table next to him and poured a plate of vegetables into a bowl.
“It’s like this every time after a lively event. The food on the table is staggered here and there, but I don’t know who is really full.” In the flickering light, Wu Qilong picked up a handful of green vegetables and threw it into his mouth. A crackling sound.
"At least I'm not hungry." Xi Junyu replied lightly.
"I feel hungry every time... Once I was very envious of Ning Liheng. Not long ago, we invited him, shopkeeper Liao and shopkeeper Luo to dinner..." Wu Qilong thought for a moment , "He keeps eating, he really eats."
"People who have nothing to do with each other can naturally be full."
"That's right."
After a simple conversation, the two sat there and ate the food, although it seemed that it was just some leftovers. Although it is grilled, it has indeed been carefully cooked by famous chefs, and it still tastes quite good when eaten at this time. The sound of chewing echoed in the cabin, and the water rippled gently. After a while, Wu Qilong put down his chopsticks and tapped his fingers on the table.
"Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and the night after tomorrow, everything will come to a showdown. At this time, no news is good news. Brother Xi, there shouldn't be any changes, right?"
< br>"No." Xi Junyu shook his head, "Chen Er confessed that the assassination was ordered by others. The crisis in front of him has been resolved, and the imperial merchant is gone. Everyone is very happy about the obstruction. Although they are not going to get carried away, at least everyone can see clearly that if the emperor's business is taken down, everything in Dafang will be solved. From now on, there is no way out... They have no way out and can only move forward with the current trend. It is impossible to change anything.”
"This is the good news." Wu Qilong poured himself a glass of wine, smiled, and drank it in one sip, "I have already made preparations here. I won't say much, but my father just asked Mr. Dong to make arrangements that night. Let’s take a look at the order, haha, one of the weavers from my Wu family To overtake the Su family, just take advantage of it, and leave the rest to the heads of the Weaving Bureau..."
After he said this, he smiled and waited until Xi Junyu over there finished his meal. Things, put down the bowls and chopsticks, and just shook them Shaking his head: "Two days later, Su Tan'er has basically no possibility of taking over the Su family. The Su family is fighting internally. Those idiots will only lose all the family business. There is no future there. Do you really want to come to my Wu family?"< br>
Xi Junyu looked at him Eye: "You know what I'm going to do."
"You and I have known each other for many years. I invited you to my Wu family a few years ago, but you refused because of Su Tan'er. I understand. Now you do it for me. A woman who has become another man's wife, tusk, you are really good..." Wu Qi Long Yiyi sighed, then looked at Xi Junyu's expression and smiled again, "Okay, I know that they haven't consummated their marriage yet. After the royal merchant ownership is decided, of course you can also manipulate some shopkeepers to deal with Ning Liheng, so that they will never have anything to do with it. Opportunity to consummate marriage , Su Tan'er's years of hard work have been wasted, and she must find someone to vent her anger on. But in the end, this is really difficult. Xi Junyu, if the Su family collapses, with Su Tan'er's temperament, she will definitely take it on. When the time comes, you will help me from behind for a few years or more. In the future, if she accepts your love, you may be able to be together, but it will be really difficult..."
Wu Qilong paused, and here, Xi Junyu said calmly: "And by then, the Wu family has already The time has come to become an imperial businessman. You can go to this day. The next best thing is over. The Su family has accumulated so much over the past few decades. Once the old man dies and collapses, we will no longer be able to compete with each other for decades. It’s natural for me to be against you. There is no threat anymore.”
"I never cared about such threats, it's just a pity." Wu Qilong frowned, "Jiangning is the same place. Me, my second brother, Xue Yan, and you can't compare to Su Tan'er. Honestly speaking, in a few years Time, she seizes one thing and keeps pushing until this point. This is the right way in the business. She is really powerful, and none of us are as good as her. In the shopping mall, except for Su Tan'er, only Puyang Yi from the Puyang family and Tang Xu from the Tang family can make me feel inferior. But she is a woman after all, although I may not be able to do what she does if I were put in her position. But she has limitations after all, and there are many extraneous troubles.”
Wu Qilongshui. He took a breath: "To be honest, I have never had the idea of dealing with the Su family specifically. If it weren't for this situation, both my family and the Xue family were eyeing Huangshang. Since Su Tan'er was prepared, then it would be What she earns is what she earns, and no one competes with her. When she wants to take action, everyone is focused on it. It can only be said that she was unlucky. Now that she has entered the game, intrigues are like this. But I never thought about who I would deal with. It was just business. My Wu family has long been the number one cloth merchant in Jiangning. Brother Xi, Jiangning is just a pond. "You could have gone to the sea, but do you really want to stay in this pond?"
Xi Junyu smiled. He smiled: "It's just doing things, how can there be so much truth."
"That's true." Wu Qilong smiled and shook his head, "I know what you think, life is just about doing things. Just do what you want to do, but... you're just a woman. One day when you go a little higher, maybe. You will feel that these things are boring. Or you will regret it when you find that this woman is ordinary and no longer has the same feeling as before. You know? I got married when I was eighteen, and she died three years later. , I vowed never to touch another woman, but suddenly one day a year later, when I thought of her, I forgot No matter what she looks like, I married two concubines... Women are the same."
"People are like this," Wu Qilong said, "Men of my generation want to do big things. , women can't do anything, and they are all the same. If you let go of Su Tan'er, you will find that there are many others like her. . You know, many women like to show off, whether she is pretending or not, once, I will never put my mind on her the second time, but in these things. Here’s a message for you: It’s useless to think about lovesickness. If you don’t care, I’ll stop.”
"There's a lot of nonsense today."
"Oh, I know you may not listen, but whenever possible, I have to say it, because there are still three days, this matter will be resolved, you just because someone didn't consummate the marriage , and you plan to stay with her for ten or twenty years? If you take one step forward, you can see the sea, and you will be completely different in the next ten or twenty years. But Huangshang Even if it is given to the Su family, I don't care about it. Our Wu family is still the Wu family. If you and I join hands, the situation will never be limited to Jiangning."
Wu Qilong smiled: "This is the case. After all, you have to think about it yourself.”
The more someone knows how to do things, the stronger his will is. It’s not that Xi Junyu doesn’t think about things. It will definitely be difficult to convince him, but he still has to speak when it’s time to speak. Open your mouth. After he said this, Xi Junyu still had a calm expression. After a long time, he said.
"In the last two or three days, don't make any extraneous matters. Su Tan'er is not simple, and she may not have nothing to do. She has withdrawn funds from various places for the New Year's cloth and has been preparing for more than two years. At this time, Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver have been spent, and when the emperor makes the announcement, all her expectations have been dashed. No one can tell what she will do. ”
"Haha, Brother Xi, are you talking about lowering prices to increase sales?" Wu Qilong laughed happily, "I really wish she would do this, break the rules, everyone will come together to beat her, and the Su family will collapse faster. Your old man won't Even Su Zhongkan and Su Yunfang would not let her do this. , if she does this, she will drive the entire Su family crazy."
He shook his head, and his voice became louder due to happiness and confidence: "To say what I am wary of now, Su Tan'er and shopkeeper Liao. In order to bring the Su family's momentum to such an extent, everyone He has tried his best. Su Yu is the most powerful person. He supported the Su family alone and established the third position in the Jiangning cloth industry. After that, he might be able to turn the tide, but he is old and the Su family will not last long. It's a matter of the future, now he has let go The role that the hand can play is limited. Who else is there? Could it be Brother Ning who was called upon to turn the tide in the face of danger?"
Xi Junyu narrowed his eyes and looked lazy. To be honest, He didn't like hearing that name very much. An incompetent person chose to marry Su Tan'er, and at this time, the Su family actually pushed him out to temporarily take charge of the situation. An incompetent person just took away what he could have had: "Don't be arrogant, I am the most talented man in Jiangning, and he is full of poetry. If you do dirty things secretly, be careful that he will criticize you afterwards."
"Haha, that makes sense, that makes sense." Wu Qilong patted the table and laughed. , and then looked slightly solemn, "This man is not stupid. Judging from his demeanor, he is actually much more sensible than everyone else in the Su family. Although he has been acting clumsily these days, he is not very reckless. It shows that he still has his own thoughts. , he learned it with all his heart, but the Su family's situation made him unavoidably anxious. If some small things happened in normal times, it would be hard to make a big mistake by letting him take charge of the situation, but now...he is a scholar in such a situation, and his opponents are not on the same level. He, a smarter beginner, can do it. To what effect, he was not involved in this matter from beginning to end. All I can say is... ...It’s not the right time.”
“After this time, he will understand a lot.” Xi Junyu thought about some of Ning Yi’s actions in the past few days, then shook his head lightly, and then turned around and walked out. , "As long as there is nothing else to do, thank you for the hospitality."
"I don't say thank you for the kindness, so you should repay it with a spring." Wu Qilong joked, then waved his hand, "Think about what I said, there is the sea in front of you, it's not worth it for a pond, the gate of Wu's house , open to you at any time. Oh, and there is that sentence...it's useless to miss you..."
"If you don't care, I will stop." Xi Junyu repeated it as he walked out, his back melting on the side of the ship. In the dark, "It's better to never have this kind of thing again" We met.”
“It’s settled, nothing will happen again,” Wu Qilong replied, and he sighed when the hazy figure followed the boat. , put aside the bowls and chopsticks in front of him, stood up and turned to leave: "What a pity..."
The voice murmured and sighed, no matter what, Xi Junyu is the talent he has always wanted to recruit. To control the Wu family, you must have your own team. It’s gratifying that the Wu family now has the imperial merchant, and some plans can be advanced to add icing on the cake, but even if they don’t get it, the Wu family is still the Wu family. He is still young, and there are many opportunities to develop in the future. Only such talents are rare. What he really values is the future, not the current interests.
However, since there is such a benefit, of course there is no need to take it easily. He stood on the side of the ship, thinking of the panic the Su family had been in for more than a month, the panic hidden in the radicalization, the anxious running of the old lady Su who claimed to have brought the Su family to the top of Jiangning with one person, and Xue Xue across from him. He smiled gleefully at his misfortune, and couldn't help but smile and shake his head.
How ridiculous.
The light on the river dimmed a little more, and the small boat sailed forward in the waves.
It gets bright, and then it gets dark again, and it’s August 24th. When it gets bright again, it’s the morning of the 25th. Ning Yi slept in and missed the morning meeting. That evening was the annual general meeting of cloth trades held by the Weaving Bureau. Since autumn is the harvest season, such general gatherings among various trades would also be held once a year. *************
Tomorrow’s flight will be last year, and the update may be unstable in the next few days. I will take my handbag with me, uh, try to be stable, if there is any problem , will be notified in advance^_^
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