When I left the restaurant and returned to the Wu family, it was already late. The inside and outside of the Wu family mansion was brightly lit. In the past month and a half, the joyful atmosphere of the Wu family has not dissipated. Such joy can be seen in the spirit of every servant. Or only the servants who follow the highest-ranking group of people in the family can feel something wrong. When I entered the mansion, a servant guarding the door came over carefully.

"The eldest young master is back. The second young master and the master have arrived home half an hour ago. In addition, the third master, the fifth master, the sixth master, the shopkeeper Luo, and the shopkeeper Nie have also come here. They are discussing affairs with the master in the side hall."

This is the time not long after dinner has passed by ordinary people. In the past month, many of the house managers had to socialize outside until late at night before they could come back. This was the case in the past two days. Wu Qilong nodded and went silently to the side hall before he reached the corridor. He could only hear the sound of a teacup falling to the ground.

"Is this impossible to solve it? But it's only three days? Is it impossible to solve it?"

The one who fell teacup and was talking was his father Wu Chenghou. Over the years, he had rarely seen him lose control. It was because the consequences of this problem were too serious and the turning point was too sudden, which caught everyone off guard. Suddenly he was hit by a blow, and then everyone was a little confused. In the side hall, the fifth uncle in the clan was talking to his father. The dyeing of the cloth was technically carried out by Manager Nie, but the main manager was still the fifth uncle. At this time, he was probably the only one who could bargain with his father.

"But... it really cannot be solved. It is not the prescription we have developed here. In the past two months after we got it, the masters at home have also tried to change it, but this prescription is too sensitive. Changes of all sizes will greatly change the color. The Su family even used some raw materials that were originally dyed green fabric. Now... it's not that it must be solved, maybe if you have good luck..."

Wu Chengke was also in a dilemma at this time. Wu Qilong walked into the door. The father above glanced at him, waved his hand casually and asked him to sit down next to him, turned around and confronted him again.

"……luck?"

"Haha, it took the Su family two or three years to develop this prescription. We have no idea at all now. Master Chen and the others said... Maybe it's only by luck..."

At the mall, I said I wanted to solve the problem, but the answer I got was that I could only rely on luck. Wu Chenghou above stared at the eyes, and the entire main hall was silent. After a long time, Wu Chenghou opened his mouth several times and stepped back to his seat: "So, can it be confirmed? It's not that we had a problem, we were indeed...stand by the Su family?"

No one dared to speak or no one dared to make such a conclusion. Maybe everyone has thought about it, but if this is true, the price that needs to be paid in the future will be terrible. During a silence, Luo Minzhi shook his head:

"There is still strange and difficult to understand. If the Su family really set up such a situation, wouldn't it be better for them to directly take down the Imperial Merchant? Su Tan'er spent several years doing this, and anyone could feel it. Look at the Su family now, it is in a panic. Even if there is a turning point, the movement over the past month and a half will be enough to make them lose a lot. I, the third master, the shopkeeper Nie, and others have considered it. If there was any conspiracy two months ago, it would be too risky for the Su family..."

"I heard... it doesn't seem to be effective. Su Tan'er has the ability, but there was a Su Boyong behind her before. Now Su Boyong heard that she is paralyzed and has not been able to get out of bed recently. The original Li Jianian family is ready to stop working with the Su family's large house, and some small businesses are also affected. The main reason is that everyone is saying that Su Tan'er will not be able to control the big house's business soon. The Xue family is also recruiting these people recently. Once the Su family's business shrinks, it is better to cooperate with the Xue family first..."

Everyone has been busy with other substantive things recently, and they don’t know much about the real and specific things about the Su family. Luo Minzhi has paid a lot of attention to some of the dinner parties recently. At this time, everyone was talking in a mess, and Wu Qilong frowned: “Where is Su Taner himself?”

"Sustain the previous cooperative relationship." Wu Chengyuan smiled, "Su Boyong has fallen. At the moment, the business of the second and third bedrooms of the Su family is shrinking. She still wants to maintain the previous business and maintain all the things that were originally under Su Boyong's control. How could it be..."

Wu Qilong looked at Uncle San, his eyes did not change much: "But what are the entire Su family's big house doing?"

"The whole Su family's big house, she..." Wu Chengyuan looked at the nephew, waved his hand, then stopped in the air, and after a while, he shook his head, but did not say anything. He seemed to have understood something, or had thought about it early in the morning, but he was unwilling to say this, and it was incredible and difficult to understand no matter how he thought about it. Everyone in the room changed a little, and what he thought of at this time was not a good thing.

"Actually..." Wu Qilong's wry smile was indescribable, and he spoke slowly, "Actually... Uncle Third and Uncle Five, you might have considered it a few days ago, right?"

"That's the cause, it's impossible." Wu Chengke said with a gloomy face.

"There is nothing at this time, even if it is the cause of the fallback..." Wu Qilong shook his head, "Three years of preparation, the Royal Merchants invested 200,000 taels of silver at one time, and they might have invested more before. Su Tan'er improved the looms under her. Originally, we thought she was going to cope with the demand for a large amount of annual cloth and was determined to win the imperial merchants. But after the matter between the Royal Merchants, she had not stopped. People outside thought she was crazy and had difficulty in riding the tiger. She wanted to increase the output and drive goods at low prices for our Wu family..."

"A woman can do anything if she is crazy." Wu Qilong murmured, "But if that isn't it... Dad, uncles and uncles, everyone will join forces to beat her if the market is broken, so we are never afraid of her actions. But from the beginning, this woman is staring at our Wu family's share and she is waiting for us to free up the share by ourselves, what will happen?"

Wu Chenghou, ahead, looked at her son for a long time, then spoke, his voice a little hoarse: "If this is true, she is almost ready now."

"Yes." Wu Qilong smiled tiredly, and the next moment, he raised his voice, "Now no one in the entire market is watching our Wu family. We are going to expand, and even walk over, everyone is thinking about how to get out of the way. Headed by the Xue family, everyone is staring at the current Su family, waiting for it to suddenly collapse on one day, and then divide the shares. But what if the Su family would not collapse at all? Only this woman took the imperial merchant from us..."

He waved his hand: "No, I was waiting before even taking down the Imperial Merchant. Once there was a problem with us, the cloth merchants in Jiangning would make a big joke when they stared at the Su family. Once the Wu family's market share was given out, the rest of the people could not react, and Su Tan'er would eat them all, and the rest could only stare at them."

"In a month and a half, we felt that no one had any problems, and we regarded them as defeated by their subordinates. But in fact, they had already attracted the focus of the entire Jiangning weaving industry and made all preparations secretly. Su Tan'er updated the looms under her to increase the current seemingly useless shipment rate. Everyone was laughing, only us, after reacting, they had been preparing for more than a month..."

An indescribable sense of suffocation enveloped the entire side hall. After a while, Wu Chengyuan shook his head: "This is the worst possibility. If this is the case, the game will be too exaggerated. How could we not feel it at all..."

Wu Chengke frowned: "Even if this is the case, the Su family is not having a good time now. How long can Su Tan'er last? How long can we last? At worst, we will postpone it, delay it for two months, and drag her to death..."

"Whether it is exaggerated or not, this is what is placed in front of us, and..." Wu Qilong looked at Wu Chengke, "Fifth Uncle, people will not wait for us to fall down. There was a problem in the workshop the day before yesterday and Uncle Qin fell ill. Did you notice yesterday? Someone posted rumors outside, saying that something happened to our Wu family in the imperial merchant... Of course, it is common to make random speculations in the mall, but this is not too fast. Everyone knows that someone is posting rumors behind it, but not many people pay attention to it at the moment, but..."

He took out a piece of rice paper from his arms: "Before I came back, I had actually checked Su Tan'er's actions for more than a month. Now I may see it more clearly. After the Imperial Merchants, all the adjustments and expenses were targeted by our Wu family, and we were deliberately trying to do it. In a month and a half, we walked forward without thinking. They had already set up all the swords, guns, swords and halberds silently, and each one was aimed at our vitals... Dad, Uncle Wu, do you feel it?"

Wu Qilong smiled bitterly, shook his head, and looked at the direction of the Su Mansion: "The woman has done all the preparations secretly... and started to do it..."

The rice paper was circulating in the hall. For more than a month, these seemed to be jokes. As long as there was no accident in the Wu family, all the wiring was meaningless. But what would happen to the Wu family? It was under this understanding that they sang all the way to the best direction. When they found that there was a dead place ahead and were still confused for a moment, they found that the surroundings were full of sharp edges.

An indescribable feeling was that everyone looked at the layout Su Taner had made for the Wu family in the past month and a half, and everyone felt their spine start to feel cold for a moment, and a cold breath came up from there. If this is true...

"I still don't believe it." Wu Chengyuan suddenly waved his hand, "If this is true, it's not that we went in by ourselves, but that they tempted us into it. They have been calculating us for more than two months or earlier? Su Tan'er has been working hard for three years to set up a game like this? We have not considered getting fakes before. The whole thing is a little bit deliberate, and everyone will see it! No one can set up a game like this! This thing...it's not something that can be done by thinking about it. How difficult the whole process is and how many accidents are there, everyone understands it. Su Tan'er cannot, and Su Yu will not take risks with such things! Why don't they take the imperial merchants? If they can't take it, why did they build momentum to that level before, and almost couldn't cheat people. Just say that getting a prescription item is too difficult and we can't get it. If it's too simple, we won't believe it. Later, we reviewed it many times to make sure that this matter is fine. Who can do this level!"

"She has started to do something, and it will be seen in a few days. Actually, I hope I'm just guessing..." Wu Qilong sat there, shook his head and was a little quiet, "But if it wasn't, then the whole incident would be...ha, it would be very interesting..."

"Su Tan'er was really sick at that time. Su Yu couldn't handle such a thing during that time. After all, he was old. But there was a person who might have been neglected, or we didn't take him seriously except at the beginning. Look... he didn't seem to have done anything in the whole thing, but after Su Tan'er fell ill, he actually did everything. He took us around in circles, and he was like he was telling jokes every day. But behind this, he ran out in a daze and said that he wanted to promote the yellow cloth with great fanfare and promote their Su family's most powerful..."

"It's actually a bit interesting to think about it now. Whether I or the people of the Xue family, we had a habitual idea at that time. Every time we say in a restaurant and teahouse, we can't forget to remind others: Su Tan'er is very powerful, and the Su family is still using the most open and upright method to steal the imperial merchants, so don't be fooled by Ning Yi's performance. As a result, everyone is smart, and everyone is staring at the piece of cloth in the Su family."

"Uncle San, do you still remember what you told me when I was a child? If you want to see something, the best way is not to put it in the most conspicuous place, but to put it there to cover it with something, or bury it on the ground and lay a layer of sand. If you want to cover it, there is no silver here... Ning Yi told us from beginning to end that the Su family has the best Busu family has the best Busu family has the best Busu family! And... we all feel that we are smart people. After seeing the key points behind, we gradually lose our vigilance..."

"He is a fool, a business idiot. Su Tan'er is sick and it is inevitable that there will be some omissions. If Su Tan'er himself came, we might be more alert, because some small mistakes should not have been made. But he has been 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 yellow cloth prescription, and he just watched it like that, and then... the white prime minister knew that he was still pressing his sword... After he finished his work, he threw away the things and left. For the past month and a half, he had been the same as before, and he was too lazy to even look at these things in the mall, but no one knew it yet. He might not take these things seriously at all..."

Wu Qilong finished talking to himself as if he was talking to himself, and sat there and smiled sarcastically. Wu Qihao, who was beside him, frowned: "Ning Yi? Why... is this impossible..."

Wu Qilong raised his head and said, "Ha, I hope I've made a mistake, but do you know? Today I went to talk to our inner-command in the Su family. He told me something. When I was chatting with the shopkeeper Zhou, who was in charge of the Su family, the shopkeeper Zhou got drunk and said something. He said that in the entire Su family, the people he admired were Su Yu, the son-in-law Ning in the family..."

Someone's eyes widened.

Wu Qilong paused: "Anyway... there are a few days left. No matter what, within ten days, we have to ask the Weaving Bureau for an extension. At that time, if the Su family really set up the plan, everything will follow. At that time, we will know whether he was acting or clearly in his heart. If this is the case..." He looked at the darkness outside the door and remembered the figure of the scholar, "I will be a little afraid of him..."

Recalling Ning Yi's performance during that time and recent times, everyone was still silent, shocked and exchanged unbelievable eyes with each other, but if that was true, the feeling that made the backs chill would be so strange.

After a while, Wu Qilong rubbed his forehead and sighed murmurly.

"Poor Xi Junyu, he doesn't know..."

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Chapter completed!