Concubine's three acres of pastoral garden

Chapter 138 War Escalation (4)
It wasn't until a long time after Luo Jinxing and the others passed by that An Guang let the team out of the forest. He spent a lot of thought on covering Luo Jinxing's whereabouts along the way, and was still worried until Xu Lin. If Luo Jinxing couldn't come as scheduled if something happened, When it came time to sweep the tomb, he really couldn't explain it. Knowing that Luo Jinxing had already gone to Songning first, he finally felt relieved and led others forward with ease.

After arriving in Songning City, Luo Jinxing and Xianglai separated, and then made an appointment on the return date, and then the two separated.

Xianglai first inspected the various businesses in Songning City, and saw that under the management of shopkeeper Chen, they were more prosperous than when he was there, and felt more at ease. After a short stay, he left Songning and returned to the farm in Erdaoji .

During the busy spring and summer, Shunzi is here to help Dachang and Xiufen. It has been a few days since he went to Huikang. When Deli came back, only Xiufen was guarding the main farm. It expanded a lot, Shunzi and Tianlai stared at the paddy field all day long.

Seeing Xianglai and the others come back, Xiufen was overjoyed and exclaimed excitedly: "Xianglai, Guifang, Huiling! You are all back!"

Now she and Guifang can't tell who is sister-in-law and who is sister-in-law, so they have to call each other by first name. They are both of the same generation anyway, so it doesn't matter what they call each other.

The three Xianglai and the others were also very happy to return to the gang, the four women chatted together and left the man Xu Che aside and ignored them.

In the evening, Dachang, Shunzi, and Tianlai all came back, and it was quite lively when everyone got married together.

Knowing that they haven't been home for a long time, Xianglai asked them to explain the matter at hand, and they all returned to Yanjiang Village the next day.

In the past two years of being pampered and pampered, Second Auntie's temperament has also changed somewhat, she has become more or less graceful, and she is no longer the same as when Zhang and Wu Zhaodi scolded her for herding cattle in Dachang.

After sweeping the graves of her parents with them, Xianglai returned home. Thinking of her confusion about her mother's life experience, Xianglai couldn't help but asked again: "Second aunt, you have been with my mother for so long, have you heard her mention Where is my hometown, and who are my grandparents."

The second aunt said: "No, your mother doesn't like people asking about her affairs, so I didn't ask."

After thinking for a while, Xianglai took off the bracelet and showed it to Second Aunt, and said, "Did Second Aunt see this bracelet? Mother said that my father gave it to her, but wasn't father also sold by grandpa to be a servant? Where can I have the money to buy such an expensive thing?"

Erniang's eyes were a little dodgy, she took the bracelet and looked at it, and said, "Why is this thing so valuable? I haven't seen your mother take it out, um...your father never told me to give it to your mother." ..."

Xianglai regretted showing this to Second Aunt, seeing her expression, she must feel uncomfortable, such a good thing, father only gave it to Mother but not to her, so she took back the bracelet and said: "Oh, I just guessed this Did my father buy it for my mother? If not, it was left to my mother by my grandparents. If I know where this bracelet came from, I may be able to find my mother's relatives."

The second aunt said: "Although I haven't heard your mother say where her hometown is, but I know that there is no one in her mother's house, so Xiang'er don't look for it."

Xianglai said: "Mother only told you that there is no one at home, but didn't she say that there is nothing left?"

The second aunt said: "I don't know, your mother never said that."

Saying that, she turned out of the house to tend her vegetable garden.

Seeing that the second aunt didn't want to talk anymore, Xianglai had no choice but to not ask, but she vaguely felt that she seemed to be hiding something from herself, but she stayed at home for too short a time, so she never found a chance to ask carefully.

When she returned to Songning from Yanjiang Village, Luo Jinxing had already gone to the royal tomb to sweep her mother's grave. Since the poison on his body was cured and he brought Mr. Han back to the Shizi Mansion, the meaning of his sacrifice was only to miss his mother.

In order to cooperate with him, An Guang led the people from the Shifu Mansion to stay in Wangling for two more days, so as to avoid the situation when he came here again, and he was the one who was in trouble.

Xianglai not only brought Guifang, Huiling, Shunzi and Tianlai with him this time, but also asked shopkeeper Chen to pick out many useful people from various shops in Songning. There are dozens of counties in Huikang Prefecture, and almost every There are Xu Zongde's businesses in every county, and it really takes a lot of manpower and material resources to cover all these counties.

It was already two months later when they returned to Huikang City after bypassing more than half of Huikang Mansion, and except for Xu Che, Luo Jinxing and Xu Lin were two companions beside Xianglai, and everyone else stopped. Stationed in various counties, it is almost true that whenever there is Xu Zongde's business, there must be a shop under the name of Tianxiang next to it.

Xu Zongde had already received this news, and the battle in Huikang City had caused him a lot of trouble. Unexpectedly, Xianglai would escalate the war again and set up a battlefield to fight him to the death.

While Xu Zongde was annoyed, he also laughed at Xianglai's self-deprecation. After all, his family business was run by two generations. No matter how good Xianglai's business is, it has only been in business for two years. The way to fight against herself, I don't believe that she can beat him.

This time Xu Zongde didn't even look for Cao Mingquan, he directly informed the stewards all over the place to cut the price directly, and he must squeeze Chen Xianglai out of the store when it is not stable, and he can't be as careless as the Huikang mansion.

He can think that Xianglai can't ask for it. The shops opened this time are the cannon fodder released by Xianglai. Up to now, she doesn't think that she is a businessman, but a fish that stirs up a pot of soup for revenge. When Xu Zongde is finished, he will stop. At that time, Huikang's business order will return to normal. Now, it will be difficult for other businessmen to follow suit.

As she thought, not long after, due to the grievances between Tianxiang and the Xu family, all businessmen in the entire Huikang Prefecture and its subordinate counties were unable to continue doing business with the two companies, and ended half a year of dismal business. One by one, they left Huikang packed up and went to other places to find a way out.

It's just that it's not easy for Xianglai to fight Xu Zongde's war of attrition in this way. Now only Songning and Huikang are the only places under her name that can be suspected of money. It depends on the silver support of these two places.

Fortunately, the two bosses, Luo Jinxing and Yu Zixi, are the same as Xianglai. They are the masters who take money instead of money. As long as they can help Xianglai achieve their goals, they don't care whether they can get dividends at the end of the year.

In a flash, another few months passed, the auspicious snow was fluttering, and it was time for all shops to check out at the end of the year.

The gates of Xu's mansion were filled with stewards from all over the place, but this year, they went in with a sad face and came out dejectedly, just like a concubine.

Not only did the shops have little income this year, they were even unable to make ends meet. The thick-skinned managers asked the owner for money to go back to pay the staff, and the thin-skinned ones went back to close the shop and leave after being scolded bloody by Xu Zongde. shocked.

(End of this chapter)