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Chapter 240 Pirates
Master Jiang Liu lowered his eyes and nodded, "Go and find out." He said and walked towards his carriage.

After a while, Uncle Jiang came back, "... I grew up with Lord Xiaoliang and Mrs. Changping Hou. I said it looked familiar. It turned out that he was the head of the Xu family who had been making a lot of trouble in the past two years. He went to sea last year. There are also a lot of goods, and he personally went to Fujian to talk to our Jiang family, but we received a lot of people at that time, and I only saw it once from a distance!"

"Could it be that Mr. Xiaoliang, besides handing over the money to us to buy shares, also purchased goods with the Xu family? No wonder I said why the Liang family's goods have not been too much or too little in the past few years." Master Jiang Liu frowned, "It's us So negligent."

Uncle Jiang thought this was an opportunity, "Sixth Uncle, the Xu family should have a lot of goods this time, what he did just now, did he just talk to Mrs. Changping Hou about it?"

Master Jiang Liu was also agitated in his heart.

"Master Xiaoliang has left Beijing, we can't find anyone now, if he stands on the same front as us, maybe we can also meet Mrs. Changping Hou, at least we can win some bargaining chips for our family!"

"You're right," Mr. Jiang Liu turned around and pulled out a mezzanine, took out a box from it, opened it and took out some silver notes, and said, "Take these things and hurry up to prepare gifts. From the Pinghou Mansion, the identity does not match, I will wait for you here."

Uncle Jiang took it and said "yes", got out of the car and rode away.

Master Jiang Liu will continue to guard here.

……

Xu Runxin simply tidied up the guest room, and then went to pay his respects to Mrs. Tai. At this time, Liang Yimei had just pulled the four boys out of the space, and looked at them with a dark face.

Brother Qiao and Brother Qian glanced at their mother with some trepidation, while Brother Chen hugged the fruit in his arms in confusion, Brother Jin gnawed the fruit in his hand unknowingly, and looked up to see that neither brother nor brother had eaten it. , he is the older brother, so he can't grab his younger brother's things, so Brother Jin shifted his gaze to the hands of Brother Qiao and Brother Qian, "I still want to eat!"

The two immediately hugged tightly, "We haven't eaten yet, this is ours!"

Brother Jin touched his head in confusion, "Then why don't you eat it?" It made me lose my appetite now.

The two brothers were speechless. Besides him, who else could eat under the obvious stare of their mother?Even Brother Chen knows to hold on tightly and not eat!
Liang Yimei took a deep breath, this fruit was originally in the space, except that there was no fruit to eat at the beginning, and in order to get rid of some impurities in the body, the rest of the time almost did not move, and those fruits would not be like her The fruit planted in the space will fall when it is ripe, but it will not fall if you don't pick it.

These four children are good at finding good things. In the past, Brother Chen had just started climbing and couldn’t even walk steadily. But after bringing the triplets in, Hou Yunping and Liang Yimei made a mistake, and the child climbed up the tree. , these four children know the taste of food, and they clearly told them not to eat it every time they went in, but they still climbed up to pick it off.

Liang Yimei was a little worried: "You can't eat so much, or there will be no more in the future."

Brother Jin said confidently: "It won't grow any longer!"

Seeing Brother Jin's satisfied face, Liang Yimei was speechless. This child ate the most, Brother Qian and Brother Qian let him go, and Brother Chen could only hug him, and let her squeeze juice for him later...

Liang Yimei wanted to say something more, Ying'er reported outside: "Ma'am, Mr. Xu has just gone to Mrs. Tai."

Anxiety flashed across Liang Yimei's face, she had already wasted enough time, and she didn't know what Brother Xu wanted her for?Liang Yimei coaxed Brother Chen, "... Mom will help you put it away, and when Mom comes back, I will make sweet juice for you, okay?" This thing can't be seen by others. Others don't know what it is, even she can have no idea.

Brother Qiao and Brother Qian heard what their mother said, so they carefully took out their own and gnawed slowly. Brother Jin watched enviously, even though he wanted it very much in his heart, Brother Jin didn't open his mouth. My father said that if everyone has a share, he can't take it from his elder brothers and younger brothers, unless it is given to him by his elder brothers and younger brothers!
Brother Jin is a good boy, always remember it!
Brother Qiao took a bite, ran to the side, picked up the knife, thought for a while, then cut off half, and handed the other side that was not bitten to Brother Jin, "Eat quickly, or people will see it!"

Brother Jin struggled for a while, put his hands behind his back, shook his head firmly and said: "Brother already eats less than me, so I can't ask for more from you!" But he swallowed involuntarily.

Brother Qian went up to take the half, cut off another half with a knife, cut his own in half, and divided the other half, and gave the two parts to Brother Jin, "Eat, these two parts are for grandma."

Liang Yimei put away Brother Chen's, stepped forward and hugged them in comfort, and said: "Okay, mother will give it to them at grandmother's place, and now mother has something urgent to see Uncle Xu, so you just stay in the room and don't go out to know." ?"

Brother Zhuo packed the ticket and said: "Don't worry, mother, I will take good care of my brothers!"

Liang Yimei told Ah Tao to take care of the children, and took Ying'er to Mrs. Tai's yard.

In the room, four children were sitting around on the couch. At this time, brother Jin was not as anxious as before. He followed the example of his two brothers and savored carefully.

Brother Chen looked at this and then that, suddenly pouted his mouth a little bit aggrieved, he also has teeth, but mother just won't let him eat.

Brother Jin picked a little bit and stuffed it directly into Brother Chen's mouth, Brother Qiao hurried to stop it, but it was too late, Brother Chen smashed it and smacked his mouth, and said in a childish voice: "More! "

Brother Qian lowered his head to look at his teeth in doubt, and shouted: "Brother, Guoguo will melt when you enter it!"

"Huh?" The three children immediately came to Brother Chen and coaxed him, "Open your mouth and let Brother Chen see..."

Not to mention the research of the children in the room, as soon as Liang Yimei arrived at Mrs. Tai's room, Mrs. Tai said to Xu Runxin: "You are such an old man, but you are still so impatient! Well, I know you have something to do." Discuss, hurry up!"

Xu Runxin smiled flatteringly: "Isn't that in front of Mrs. Tai? People outside call me a little fox!"

It made Mrs. Tai laugh lightly, and the person she told Mrs. Tai was not Hou Yunping, Liang Yimei, or Li Xuanran, but Xu Runxin.

As soon as the two arrived in the study, Xu Runxin's smiling face collapsed, and he said anxiously: "Our ship was robbed!"

"Japanese pirates?" This was Liang Yimei's first thought.

Xu Runxin smiled wryly, "It's not necessarily true. We don't even receive news about the ship. We only know that the ship was robbed by pirates! No one showed up."

"What about the Li family's statement?"

"Old Master Li has already taken people out to sea to suppress the bandits! I haven't received any news yet!" Xu Runxin said bitterly, "However, there is not much hope. It doesn't matter if they can find the pirates, or they will find them..."

Even if they found it, [-]% to [-]% of the goods were almost stolen by the Li family. How much of the rest was distributed to the soldiers?What's more, the imperial court required military pay for sending troops, and maybe the imperial court would ask Xu Runxin and the others to pay this part of the money, Liang Yimei's face was a little ugly.

"How much did you take this time?"

Xu Runxin said with red eyes: "It's a small 60 yuan. The things that go out are earned back. How come there are nearly 80 seafood. If they can arrive safely..." Then the Xu family will be able to grow steadily without making any money within five years. walking, but...

Liang Yimei's face turned pale, "How come, how come there are so many? In previous years, you were only 20 at most? This risk is too great..."

Xu Runxin scratched his head, and said helplessly: "In the past two years, a lot of money has been invested in the affairs of southern Xinjiang. Although I am the master of the Xu family, and the Xu family has only me as the only seedling, there are still many side branches. Yes, for this matter, many people in the family have opinions," Xu Runxin smiled wryly, "Although they can't affect anything, they belong to the same family after all. I can't completely abandon the family, right? So I thought..."

The ancients attached great importance to the family.

"Then do people in the clan know about this?"

"Don't worry about this. They can't get in these hands. They don't even know how much I have sold. It's just that the funds can't be received. If they hide it for a while, they will be discovered after a long time. What's more, it's 80 taels , I am not willing to give up like this, so I came to you to find a way."

Liang Yimei thought for a while and said, "Where's the Jiang family?"

Xu Runxin shook his head, "The Jiang family can't protect themselves now. I only have one boat, but the Jiang family has three, and there are a lot of good things on board. The guys on the boats are all from the Jiang family, not to mention the goods. The Jiang family cannot sustain the loss of these people!"

"You mean that the wrecked ship belongs to the Jiang family?"

"Yes, we all rented the Jiang family's boat and went together." Xu Runxin wanted to get involved in the sea-going ship, but Fujian's interests had already been distributed, and he still had no ability to clean up the dishes, so he could only rely on the Jiang family Going to sea, he also did the same in the past few years, but Liang Yilin was simpler, he gave the money to the Jiang family and Xu Runxin, he didn't even care about buying any goods, as long as he came back and gave him the money, as long as he came back safely, he would make money!
Liang Yimei didn't know much about these things, so she didn't dare to give him any random ideas. After thinking about it, she said, "I'll send a letter to Lord Hou, and ask him to come back. Second brother's loss is quite big this time, second brother It’s still [-] to the Jiang family, and [-] to you, but fortunately, these are all from spare money, it’s just a little heartache!”

In fact, if the Xu family had not expanded too much in the past two years, and spent a lot of money in southern Xinjiang, 60, it would be okay for the Xu family to struggle. Xu Runxin only sent two trusted stewards and a few buddies. Going out to sea with the ship, compared to the loss of the Jiang family's personnel, I don't know how many times better!
The two discussed in the study room. Xu Runxin didn't have much hope for that batch of goods, so he could only embezzle funds from other places. "The situation in southern Xinjiang has stabilized, and the investment there can be slowed down. Since last year, their medicinal materials have made a lot of money. Although other things still account for a small amount, mosquitoes are also meat." Having said this, Xu Runxin smiled, "Especially those seeds you gave me, last year's harvest very nice."

"I still have some money here, and I can make some money from my second brother. You can't be so reckless in the future!"

Xu Runxin nodded with a smile.

(End of this chapter)