Qingcheng Tan Mansion.

A few days ago, letters came back from other places, and the head of the family, Tan Gang, would come back from Jizhou in the next few days.

People in the middle of the house began to hang lanterns under the eaves of the gate and in the corners of the courtyard, and even the couplets were newly pasted, as if they were celebrating a festival.

In the hall, the Xue family pulled his son Tan Feifei to his side and whispered, "When your father comes back, don't mention the fact that you made a mistake and gave Ma Gongzi three thousand taels of silver, let him know that he has to pick your skin!" ”

Tan Feifei looked nervous and nodded again and again, his father Tan Gang's temperament is just the opposite of his mother, but he prefers his sister Tan Yuanyu, and he has never had a good face for his son.

"Mother, what if my father looks at the account book?"

"Don't be afraid, there have been a lot of fine linen silk in the warehouse recently, and my mother has asked the housekeeper to settle the accounts."

"If it weren't for the fact that Wen Chen, who killed a thousand knives, had built a water-powered textile machine, my Tan family wouldn't have needed to be so down-and-out during this time......"

Xue said, sighing hatefully.

The vast majority of cloth merchants in Qingcheng had the same calculation as her at the beginning, and after the fall of the Li family, they filled the vacancy in one fell swoop and became the upstart of the cloth industry in Qingcheng.

So, in the days when the news that the imperial court let Li Jiawen 300,000 horses of summer cloth just came out, the major cloth mills began to hoard raw materials frantically, and some even went to the money village to borrow silver to buy silk.

Not only did the Li family not fall, but with the help of the water-powered loom invented by Wen Chen, they robbed the business that should have belonged to those small cloth mills at this time in previous years.

"Feifei, do you say that you want to sell the raw materials hoarded in the warehouse to the Li family at the original price as your sister said, and you can also recover some costs."

Due to the continuous expansion of the production scale of the Li family in the past few days, there is a shortage of raw materials, and they began to recover silk and linen raw materials from the major cloth merchants in Qingcheng at the original price.

If it weren't for the fact that the Xue family was afraid that he would be punished by the master for making a deficit in business, he would not have had such an idea, after all, selling raw materials to the Li family not only lost the cost, but also helped Wen Chen in disguise.

But Tan Feifei obviously didn't take into account his mother's worries, and as soon as Xue Shi proposed the idea, he angrily refused:

"Mother, what are you talking about? My Tan family is so spineless, I have to look at the face of that slave to act?! ”

"Even if those silk hemp rot in the warehouse, I will never agree to sell them to Wen Chen, that dog minion!"

Xue shook his head helplessly.

As he spoke, a voice of surprise came from the front hall.

"The master is back!"

The mother and son hurriedly tidied up their clothes and trotted out.

Tan Yuanxuan was already waiting outside the door, glanced at the mother and eldest brother who came in a hurry, and pursed her lips slightly.

A black carriage with a rattle bell in front of it stopped steadily at the gate of Tanfu, the curtain was lifted, and a slightly tired face of the Chinese character poked out of it.

"Daddy!"

Tan Yuan screamed excitedly, and hurriedly stepped forward to help his father down.

Tan Gang patted his daughter's head dotingly, "Dad has brought gifts for you and your mother, open it and take a look!" ”

As he spoke, he took out two flat, long boxes from the carriage and handed them over.

Tan Feifei shrank aside for fear of revealing his feet, so he didn't step forward to ask if he had his share, and smirked vigorously in place.

But when Tan Yuan unpacked the box, the mother and daughter were dumbfounded.

One black and one white in the two boxes, it turned out to be the stockings that have recently swept the city!

On the side, Tan Gang also proudly showed off, "This thing is called black silk and white silk, it is a fashionable line that has just begun to become popular in Jizhou, my father saw that those women were dressed well, so he asked someone to buy two pairs back, this thing is not cheap, a pair asked me for twenty taels of silver!" ”

The corners of Tan's mouth twitched, and sure enough, even his father, who has always been serious, is not exempt from vulgarity, like those stinky men, look at women first and look at their legs!

"Dad, on your way into the city, didn't you open the curtain to see what the girls on the street were?"

Tan Gang was stunned, "Dad slept in the sedan chair for a while, and he really didn't pay attention to ......"

"What? Listen to what you mean, my stockings have also become popular in my Qingcheng? ”

Tan rolled his eyes, "It's not just popular!" This thing came out of Qingcheng! ”

What?!

Tan Gang was taken aback, and hurriedly pulled his daughter to the house, "Tell my father well, which cloth workshop has researched a new thing?" ”

Tan Yuan forgot to glance at the eldest brother behind him who suddenly began to be nervous, and snorted, "Wen Chen of Wen's Cloth Workshop." ”

"Wen Chen?"

Tan Gang frowned, "Coincidentally, Dad remembers, the reading boy next to your eldest brother seems to be also called Wen Chen......"

"That's right, it's that Wen Chen!" Tan Yuan sneered, "Big brother was in Wanhualou that day......"

Before he finished speaking, he saw Tan Feifei running in front of him like crazy, kneeling on the ground with a plop at Tan Gang, crying and grabbing the ground:

"Daddy! Wronged, child! ”

"That day, Wen Chen had to tempt the child to Wanhualou to drink flower wine, and the child was fascinated for a while, and he was in his way, but this kid looked honest, but he was a shameless man who forgot his righteousness, and he was in full view of everyone, molesting the female companion of his nephew Ma Ruyi, and the child was eager to protect him, and accidentally injured Ma Gongzi!"

"But I didn't expect that this kid and Ma Gongzi were old acquaintances, and set a trap for the child, and even used this matter as a threat to force the child to hand over three thousand taels of silver, otherwise he would be sent to the army for the crime of beating people!"

"The mother was worried that something would happen to her son, so she spent money to avoid the disaster, and Wen Chen, who framed the child, was also ransomed by Ma Ruyi with silver......"

After saying this, even Tan Feifei himself felt proud of the words he came up with in a hurry, it was really leaky!

As soon as Tan Gang heard this, his expression immediately became serious, and he turned his head to look at his daughter.

"Hey, what your eldest brother said is the truth?"

"Dad, that's not the case!" Tan Yuxuan hurriedly said, "It's clear that the eldest brother is ......."

"Tan Xuan!" Tan Feifei, who was kneeling on the ground, said bitterly, "Big brother knows that you have to pee and Wen Chen are good, and he accommodates him in everything, but things have developed to this point, do you still have to turn your elbow out?!" ”

"I'm your big brother!"

"But ......"

"But what is it?" Tan Feifei scolded sternly, "Isn't Wen Chen harming my Tan family badly enough?" ”

"If he hadn't asked his mother to hoard silk and hemp, saying that the Li family would fall soon, would there be so many raw materials in my Tan family's warehouse that I couldn't sell?!"

The eyes of the Xue family, who were following aside, lit up, and said secretly, it's not my extremely smart son!

So he immediately knelt down side by side with Tan Feifei, and complained with a crying voice, "Master, during your absence, the slave family broke their hearts for this family......

"Wen Chen, the white-eyed wolf with no conscience, hated my Tan family for treating him as a human being, set traps everywhere for us to jump into, and Ma Gongzi cheated us out of three thousand taels of silver, not to mention, but also secretly united with the Li family, released false news for us to hoard silk and hemp, many cloth merchants in Qingcheng have lost a lot of money because of this matter, you see, during this time, he encouraged Li Youcai to use the original price to recycle silk and hemp, this is not to cut off our way of life!"