Jiapingguan Chronicle

"They are doing business in Jiangnan while cultivating their own power. They have already confessed about this."

"No, they can't confess. They won't tell you their private business so easily. That is their life-saving talisman. If they can get out of here alive one day, it will be the confidence for them to claim credit from their master. ." Mrs. Ning smiled at Shen Cha, "You are still too young, those are a pair of old foxes, and everything they tell you is half truth and half false."

"But Mrs. Luan already suspects that Boss Luan has an affair outside, so she still wants to continue to defend him?"

"That is their own private matter, and their private business is closely related to their overall situation. Even if they part ways, even if one of them dies, they will not reveal this secret." Mrs. Ning said lightly. He raised his eyebrows and said, "If I hadn't secretly checked their background, I wouldn't know exactly what they were doing."

"Mom, what kind of business did Boss Luan do that makes you so disgusted?" Ning Cheng looked at his adoptive mother and couldn't understand why his adoptive mother hated Boss Luan so much. "I remember that the Luan family seemed to only be involved in There are cloth shops, tea, some jade and so on, but nothing else."

"It's like that on the surface, but it's not so clean in private." Mrs. Ning held out a finger, "The two families have a lot of involvement in the business on both sides of the Qinhuai River. They control several brothels and brothels overtly and covertly. There are also two underground casinos on Gusu City East Street, which are also related to their family."

"How did the old lady know?"

"They should have told you that after barely gaining a foothold, they began to make friends with local prominent families and wealthy businessmen, right?"

"Yes!" Shen Cha nodded, "That's what they said. However, they also said that the posts submitted to the big clan mansion usually never come back. No one pays attention to them and is willing to come to the banquet. Basically, they are people of the same status as them, that is, some merchants and their wives." She blinked and asked with some suspicion, "Isn't this also a lie?"

"Of course not!" Mrs. Ning waved her hand, "They post seven or eight times a year, completely ignoring the seasons and Jiangnan's habits. Of course no one goes there. You also know that big clans have long eyes. At the top of my head, basically no one will pay attention to such a guy who doesn't understand the rules. Of course, there are some small families who are willing to make friends with them. After all, they are barely considered new rich. If something happens in the future, they can also get a share of the pie. , isn’t it?”

"I understand, it's just like the Ning family back then."

"Yes!" Mrs. Ning sneered, "Their hands and feet are well done. If Ning Changguo hadn't said it himself, even I wouldn't have known it, let alone my grandfather, father and mother. I was kept in the dark when I passed away, and I didn’t even know that the so-called life-saving grace back then was just a calculation, just to get into this relationship. So, I would rather do it with Ning Changguo They are a nominal couple in name only, and they refuse to break off the engagement, that's why." She raised her eyebrows slightly, and the irony on her face became more intense, "If you don't serve yourself, the sentence will be destroyed by heaven and earth. This sentence is engraved on them. It’s in our bones and blood, and it’s engraved in our hearts.”

"That's true. This sentence is so useful. I always use it to talk about things!" Ning Cheng also said bitterly, "Those who commit crimes will use this as an excuse once they are caught. , they’re all nothing.” “That’s right!” Mrs. Ning sighed, “Boss Luan and his wife are the same, trying every possible means to catch up with the wealthy families in Jiangnan, but they know that the wealthy families will not accept them. I won’t go to their banquet, so they changed their approach.”

"What method?" Ning Cheng looked at her adoptive mother curiously, "You can't be stuck in traffic, right?"

"That's not the case, but it's almost the same." Mrs. Ning was a little tired from sitting, and stood up slowly while holding on to the table. Sister Ning Cheng next to her quickly stood up and supported her. She smiled and said, "No need to help. Me, I just walk around the house slowly, sitting like this all the time, my back hurts a little."

"I'd better support you!" Sister Ning Cheng smiled, "I don't like to sit all the time. I don't feel very comfortable."

"Okay, let's walk around slowly." Mrs. Ning walked slowly and said to Shen Haolin and Shen Cha as she walked, "They are indeed capable of doing this kind of thing, because I have encountered it before. I was drinking tea in the tea house, and Madam Luan barged into my box without saying hello and told me that she had admired me for a long time and wanted to make friends with me, but by chance we met today, could I have a cup of tea?"

"So..." Sister Ning Cheng really didn't know how to comment on such behavior. She thought for a while and found a more appropriate word and said, "Is that rude? That Mrs. Luan should also be from a scholarly family. Given her background, isn't she afraid that such behavior will spread out and people will laugh at her for not having any rules? Or does she think that she is a businessman and it doesn't matter if she doesn't follow the rules? "

"Maybe it's because I don't think it's important and I'm not afraid of being embarrassed!" Madam Ning patted Sister Ning Cheng's hand and continued, "I was young at the time and had a bad temper, and I was too lazy to deal with such people. He immediately fought back."

"What did the old lady say?"

"I just said that Madam has such a big face. I have never met her before, so why are you spreading rumors and causing trouble? I have never met Madam, and I have no reputation outside, so why have I admired her for so long?" Mrs. Ning smiled. , "Her face was all green and red at the time. Maybe she never expected that I would deny her face. After all, in her imagination, even if the Wang family was displeased, they would not be so aggressive. A scolding."

"That's true. The old lady's reaction probably caught her off guard and made her unable to react for a while, so she showed her flaws, right?" Seeing Madam Ning nodding, Shen Cha sighed softly, "She's so shameless Thickness was all tempered by the Empress Dowager. After all, the Empress Dowager had ordered her to seduce Uncle Wang several times, but she was not so bold at that time, so she did not follow the Empress Dowager's wishes. Follow After Uncle Wang broke off the engagement, he married into the Luan family and truly became a business woman. Perhaps the embarrassment in his heart had been thrown away long ago. What's more, the old lady was a woman and she was in the box. There's nothing to worry about. It's just..." She looked at Mrs. Ning with some confusion, "How did she know where you were, and how did she find your box accurately without alerting others? "