Cao Ruinan was served by Qiaolian and quickly ran out of lunch.

During the meal, Cao Ruinan behaved elegantly, maintained the etiquette of a noble son from beginning to end, and naturally carried a noble connotation and bearing of a famous family. This is not something that can be practiced in a short period of time, but a etiquette habit that has been formed imperceptibly since childhood.

Wu Kun is a little cramped and restrained in comparison, and he seems to be petty.

In fact, he also wants to be like Cao Ruinan, who is moderate and elegant, but he is always a little awkward to do it himself, and he is suspected of being a good follower, so he simply gave up, what should he do, there are some things that he can't learn.

The two finished their lunch, Qiao Ling and Qiao Lian commanded their subordinates to clean up the table, knowing that the two had something to discuss, so they bowed down and retreated.

It's just that when she retreated, Qiao Ling An An didn't say anything, but Qiao Lian looked up and glanced at Cao Ruinan, and saw that he didn't even look at her, so she couldn't help but leave gloomily.

After the subordinates retreated, Cao Yong and Cao Hai guarded the staircase, and the other hid near the window, so that outsiders did not want to enter the building to listen to the movements inside.

When only Cao Ruinan and Wu Kun were left in the room, Cao Ruinan put away his frivolous demeanor in front of Qiao Lian, changed his deep expression, and asked seriously: "There won't be anything wrong with things, right?"

He began to look for candidates in Jiaozhou ten years ago, grabbed wealth for the Cao family, and finally chose the Wu family, which had a certain amount of power in Jiaozhou. It's a pity that Wu Jiangfeng, the second son of the Wu family and his sister-in-law, didn't know how to lift him up and rejected him. He gave up Wu Jiangfeng and chose Wu Jiangxiong, the eldest son of the concubine.

At that time, Wu Jiangxiong had already secretly cultivated his own power and was well-known in Jiaozhou City. But most people in Jiaozhou City still value the difference between concubines and concubines, mainly because it is the son Wu Jiangfeng who inherits the Wu Mansion, who will take care of the eldest son of a concubine?

Even if there is someone who accostes him, he just wants to get close to Wu Jiangfeng through him.

Wu Jiangxiong was on an errand in the government at that time, and the prefect at that time still gave him a position in the face of the Wu family. However, he was ostracized everywhere in the government and was not happy, so he was very depressed and unhappy.

So, he consciously approached him and became ordinary friends with him. Wu Jiangxiong is very sensitive, extremely defensive, and not easy to approach. Later, he played the sad card, telling about his difficulties in the house, how to find a glimmer of life in the cracks, even if he was asleep, he would keep one eye open, lest he be plotted and so on.

The two have similar identities, they are both concubines in the house, and they both have a stomach full of bitter water, and they soon sympathize with each other and become friends who have forgotten their years.

When Cao Ruinan showed the prince's hole card, and promised to take advantage of his career and money, the two hit it off, and Wu Jiangxiong soon became the Cao family's tool to make money in Jiaozhou. Later, under Cao Ruinan's advice, his younger brother Wu Jiangfeng soon had an accident, and the Wu family naturally fell into his palm.

After that, they began to look for targets in the city, and soon several small businesses were bankrupt by them, and some even died, and the family was forced to leave Jiaozhou. Having tasted the sweetness, their appetite grew, and the target began to shift to those medium-sized merchants, and they soon got their wish.

Later, they cooperated with the Japanese people and robbed several large families along the coast. The huge profits made them red-eyed and a little carried away, and finally attracted the attention of a person in Jiaozhou, and secretly collected a lot of evidence from them, especially the evidence of their cooperation with the Japanese people, and wanted to denounce them to the imperial court.

It was Cao Ruinan who made a quick decision and destroyed the family at night before calming down the truth.

This incident was a wake-up call for them to know that they couldn't do it again. Therefore, the two quickly changed their tactics and changed to a more ingenious and concealed strategy, even if someone suspected that it was their hand, there was no evidence, and they could only consider themselves unlucky, which continued this road of wealth without danger.

In order to hide people's eyes, Cao Ruinan did not contact the Wu family openly at first, but secretly contacted. Later, after Wu Jiangxiong gradually took the entire Jiaozhou into his hands, he began to visit Wu's house as Wu Kun's classmate.

Even if he knew that he was the son of the Cao family, no one suspected that he had ulterior motives. Because he officially came to the door at a banquet of the Wu family, in front of everyone, many sons of the family also visited the Wu family that day. It's just that after knowing his identity, everyone secretly envied the Wu family for having such a kind of creation, and being able to become friends with the son of the Cao family in the capital, which was a good thing that couldn't be begged for.

Who is the Cao family? It was the grandfather of the crown prince of the dynasty! And the prince's maternal grandfather commanded 150,000 soldiers and horses in the southwest, and Cao Ruinan even if he was a concubine, he would throw off the so-called famous sons of the family in Jiaozhou City a few streets. And the Wu family has the Cao family as a backer, who doesn't flatter and stammer? Who dares to provoke it?

Cao Ruinan and Wu Kun's logical interaction invisibly raised the identity of the Wu family, which not only whitewashed the relationship between the Cao family and the Wu family, but also made Cao Ruinan come to Jiaozhou every time he came to contact Wu Jiangxiong on the bright side.

But in order to avoid suspicion, Cao Ruinan contacted Wu Kun every time he came, and only when it was late at night would Wu Jiangxiong come to negotiate with Cao Ruinan. And everything in the Wu family, although Wu Jiangxiong doesn't like his eldest son Wu Kun, but the second son Wu Peng is useless, he can only gradually let Wu Kun know everything in the family, and there is Cao Ruinan's question just now.

Wu Kun thought carefully about the various links before and after, and felt that there would be no mistakes, so he nodded very seriously: "Don't worry, it will be fine!"

After that, the two discussed some details in detail, until they thought that nothing was wrong, and Wu Kun left Duyue Xuan.

After Wu Kun left, Cao Ruinan glanced at the door, silently counted the hours in his heart, and when he counted to more than ten breaths, Qiaolian's figure appeared at the door.

She changed her frivolous demeanor in front of people, restrained her breath, and bowed down to stand under Cao Ruinan with low eyebrows.

"Are there any accidents in the mansion?" Cao Ruinan asked in a low voice.

Qiao Lian is ostensibly the eyeliner arranged by the Wu Mansion by his side, but in fact, it is the Cao family, and it is also a nail that he buried in the Wu family a few years ago, of course, this nail has already been used by him. Women, give some sweetness appropriately, and she will be dead set on you.

He and the Wu family are in a relationship of mutual use, and no one is worried about anyone, which is why Wu Jiangxiong has only been a general judge for so many years.

With Wu Jiangxiong's means and strategy, it is more than enough to be the prefect of a state, and even if he is a feudal official, he is not incompetent.

It's just that in that case, not only will the target be too conspicuous, but if you steal money in secret, people will pay attention to it, and if you don't do it, you will quickly capsize.