Long Tianba was moved, but he didn't have so much silver on hand, so he had to beg the steward of the gambling stone shop with a dead face, and let him bet the jade pendant that symbolized Long Sishao's identity here, made an IOU of fifteen million, and bought this piece of half-gambling wool.

It turned out that this piece of jadeite was made of green skin, except for the one where the skylight was opened, there was a thin layer of jadeite, and the others were all white flowers. The more than 10 million yuan he earned before was all lost, and he also took on the huge debt of 15 million before. Long Tianba suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and sat on the ground with his feet weak, unable to get up.

This is not like the last time in heaven and earth, thousands of taels of silver, my father can help him wipe his ass. More than 15 million taels of silver, even he, an idle young master who did not participate in the family industry, also deeply realized that so much silver was very likely to be the profit of the Long family for a year or even longer!

He suspected that it was a trap set on him by the gambling stone shop. However, they didn't tie you up to buy wool. If he wasn't greedy enough and left directly after earning more than 10 million, how could these things happen later?

This kind of thing can't be hidden, Long Tianba didn't know how he returned to the inn, and when he saw his father, he knelt in front of his father with his legs bent, and lost his voice in pain.

After Long Yikui understood the situation, he kicked him to the ground. After kicking his son a few times, he sat down in a chair and clutched his chest, panting for air. Taking out a heart pill from his bosom and taking it, he picked up the cup and took a sip of water. In a bad mood, he threw the cup heavily on the ground, and the flying porcelain pieces cut a bloody cut on Long Tianba's face.

"Dad, you dissipate your anger and beat me hard, it's all my son who is dizzy and doesn't control himself!" Long Tianba hugged his father's leg and cried like a child. He really knew that he was scared this time, and said that he would change his mind in the future and honestly not cause trouble for the family.

Long Yikui had already figured out the taste at this time, this was a trap set by someone for his unscrupulous son! There may be people who make a fortune overnight by gambling stones, but even those who are proficient in this business may not be able to rise every time they gamble like his son. The son is not a person with a strong heart, so he will naturally be blinded by this pouring wealth and get into the calculated game of others.

Thinking of the time when he took his son to the heavenly and earthly hall to apologize to the prince, he was still a little surprised at that time how the prince could forgive them so easily. I've been making trouble for a long time, waiting for them here. However, if it costs more than 15 million to make the prince and the Xuwang Mansion dissipate, maybe Sai Weng will not know if he is blessed.

However, the only thing that he couldn't understand was that there were strange people in King Xu's Mansion who could clearly judge the jade wool? Especially the piece of green half-gambling wool with the skylight open, the gambling is very high, and nine out of ten people will definitely think that it is likely to rise. In case that capable man looks away, won't he let his son of a loser drill a leak?

In King Xu's mansion, Zhu Yunxuan, the prince of King Xu, poured a cup of tea for Xiao Mending Tianshi, and said with a smile: "Thanks to Brother Yuan's help this time, I know that Brother Yuan doesn't drink, so I will thank Brother Yuan for tea instead of wine." ”

Although Zhu Yunxuan was very curious about the true identity of the Yuan Zi in front of him, why he was able to clearly judge whether there was jadeite in the rough stone and how much the jadeite was worth. He can even check it out by relying on the green skin, is it ...... Does he see through the eyes? However, the mother concubine once solemnly told him not to investigate the secrets of Yuan Zi. No matter how curious he was, he could only endure it.

Xiao Tianshi took a shallow sip of tea and put it down, glanced at the master's eldest son, and snorted: "It's called Uncle Yuan!" Speaking of which, when you were still in your mother's belly with small bean sprouts, Uncle Yuan saved your and your mother's lives. If it weren't for you, Uncle Yuan, and me to appear in time, you and your mother would have two lives! ”

Zhu Yunxuan flattened his mouth and said, "You always use this matter to gag my mouth, I'm annoyed if you don't bother me!" Well, since you don't want to talk about it, then I won't talk about it. However, you don't look much older than me, so don't you call you old? ”

"That's my seniority! Xiao Xuanxuan, children should be like children, don't always follow your father's example, and pretend to be adults with a straight face all day long! Xiao Tianshi stretched out his hand and wanted to stroke Zhu Yunxuan's head, but he avoided it.

"I'm thirteen, not a kid! When my father was about the same age as me, he traveled across the ocean with the emperor's order to find seeds for high-yield crops for the Ming Dynasty, and returned with honor! Zhu Yunxuan rolled his eyes at Xiao Mending Heaven Stone. In front of people he trusts, he will show such a childish side.

Xiao Mending Tianshi shook his head and said, "Your father went to the West at the age of fifteen and returned at the age of seventeen or eighteen. If you want to compare with him, wait a few more years for Mao to grow up! ”

"Your Royal Highness, the princess asked you to go see her if you are not busy now." Princess Xu's eldest girl, Chun Tao, entered the study after obtaining her consent and said with a smile.

Zhu Yunxuan said: "Okay, you go back to your mother's concubine, and your son will go over." ”

Seeing that Chun Tao had gone away, he said to Xiao Mending Tianshi: "Brother Yuan, what do you say the concubine is looking for me?" Did you tell the mother about our plan? ”

"I told you, it's called Uncle Yuan!!" Xiao Mending Heaven Stone successfully stroked Zhu Yunxuan's head, and smiled proudly, "Am I the one who can't keep secrets?" Your mother takes care of all the properties of the palace, can you hide everything you do from her? Hurry up and don't keep your mother waiting! ”

Yu Xiaocao saw her son, handed him a piece of her newly made pastry, and said with a smile: "Come, try the new apple pie made by the concubine." Knowing that you don't like sweets, I specially put less sugar. ”

"Hmmm! Delicious!! Zhu Yunxuan ate up a piece of apple pie very shamefully. He is a virtue like his father, and he will not praise the taste of food with nice words, but will only prove his love for this apple pie with his actions.

"Little Baozi, my mother has heard about what you have been doing outside recently. Let's stop this matter, lest we tell the truth and say that our Xuwang Mansion is bullying. Yu Xiaocao picked up another piece of caramel apple pie and ate it with relish, as if casually saying this.

Zhu Yunxuan said with a smile: "Mother, you don't have to worry about this matter, can you still worry about your son's affairs?" When my father led his troops out of Beijing, he specially told his son that he must protect you and your sister. If you just let others insult your mother, but your son shrinks his head, it is really in vain! ”

Her son's filial piety and maintenance made Xiaocao feel very warm, she stroked her son's smooth hair, and said with a smile: "Our little bun has grown up, and he is a little man who can protect his mother!" ”

Zhu Yunxuan said a little awkwardly: "Mother, can you remove the word 'little'?" My son is not small! ”

"But in the eyes of the mother, you will always be that little, soft, red little bun!" Yu Xiaocao held his son, who was taller than herself, in her arms, and watched his ears turn red little by little, so red that they were about to drip blood. flirting with his son, Yu Xiaocao is the most handy.

The gambling stone incident came to an end with Long Yikui raising more than 15 million taels of silver tickets and personally delivering them to the hands of the manager of the gambling stone workshop.

However, Long Yikui gradually found that it was becoming more and more difficult for him to go out of Beijing. First of all, he was deceived of a large number of high-grade silk, with a payment of more than 8 million, and the Long family, who had some difficulties in capital turnover, was tantamount to adding insult to injury.

Again, he found that he was in a silk shop in the capital, and his business was a little cold. The newly opened silk village opposite is getting more and more popular, almost fighting for his guests. And the supplier of the silk village is actually the sworn enemy of the Long family, the Qin family, who has been pressed by the Long family and can't turn over.

Not only that, Long Yikui found that the Qin family had begun to break free from the shackles of the Long family and grow stronger little by little. Almost all the silk merchants in the north have switched to purchasing from the Qin family, even if the quality and variety of the Qin family's silk are not as good as the Long family, even if the Long family lowers the price, they still can't win customers.

In Jiangnan, the business war between the Qin family and the Long family was in full swing...... The Qin family has been pressed by the Long family for so many years, if no one supported them, the Qin family would definitely not have developed so fast. Only then did Long Yikui realize that the original more than 10 million taels of silver could not calm the anger of King Xu's mansion, and the revenge of Prince Xu had just begun.

The trading in Jingzhong was no longer suitable for doing it, so Long Yikui made a decision, took the silk shop, and disposed of the high-grade silk inside at a low price. Even if he kept the price very low and couldn't cover the capital, no one was willing to buy it. If you bring it back, it will cost a lot of transportation. In desperation, he played a sign of selling at a three-fold discount. Eaten by a strange guest.

When Long Yikui was finishing up the shop, he inadvertently glanced at the Qin family's shop opposite, and found that the guest who had purchased all his goods was transporting goods to the other party's warehouse. Apparently, the silk had been purchased from him. What's even more annoying is that the Qin family played a five-fold purchase for a limited time, with a two-day deadline. The opposite side was full of people and crowded with customers who rushed to buy, which was in stark contrast to the desertion here.

And that's not all. The business war between the Long family and the Qin family in Jiangnan is just the beginning, and for a long time, the Long family has been in a state of anxiety, and the position of the richest man in Jiangnan has long been handed over to others. The Long family also removed the position of the head of the Long Yikui Long family because of a major mistake in Beijing, and transferred Long Yixing, who was in the fourth room, to succeed him.

Although Long Yixing is talented, the decline of the Long family has been decided, so he can only break his wrist by a strong man, cede some benefits, and ask people to ask for the soft-hearted Princess Xu, so that the Long family will not be destroyed......

After Zhu Junyang came back from the expedition, he heard about this incident and praised his son fiercely, and successfully attracted a few big eyes from his daughter-in-law.

Since then, the perception that "the prince of King Xu is not easy to mess with" has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the children of the powerful in Beijing. The fact that Princess Xu is the reverse scale of the Xuwang Mansion has been confirmed again......