Daming female local tyrant

With a livid face, Xiao Yongqing threw the letter in front of his son Xiao Yanlu and grandson Xiao Yulang.

He said coldly: "Look at it, after reading it, tell me why the patriarch of the Shen clan wrote such a letter."

When the maid of Songhetang went to invite their father and son, the two of them had a bad feeling. On the way, the father and son asked the maid who passed the message to ask what happened, but the maid said that she didn't know, she just came by order It's just a message.

Walking into the main hall of Songhe Hall, when they saw Xiao Yongqing's face, they confirmed their previous guess that something bad must have happened.

Xiao Yanlu bent down to pick up the letter his father threw on the ground, opened it and read it carefully, his expression was not good after that.

Xiao Yulang waited until his father had finished reading the letter and his hand was hanging down feebly, then he quietly moved over, took the letter from his father's hand and looked at it.

At the end, a layer of sweat protruded from his forehead, and he lowered his head, not daring to look at his grandfather sitting in the hall.

"Do you have anything to say?" Xiao Yongqing held the armrests of the chair tightly with both hands, and his eyes rested on their father and son like knives.

Xiao Yanlu closed his lips tightly, looked at his son Xiao Yulang standing beside him in a blink of an eye, and squeezed out two words between his teeth: "Kneel down!"

Xiao Yulang knelt down with a bang, and kowtowed to his grandfather Xiao Yongqing in the hall like pounding garlic: "Grandfather, it's all my grandson's fault! Your lord has a lot, please forgive me!"

Seeing this, Xiao Yongqing knew that it was related to Xiao Yulang, the eldest grandson, just as he had guessed just now.

He slapped the table heavily, and said sharply, "Say! What have you done!"

Xiao Yulang fell on the ground and intermittently told his grandfather what he did recently to frame Shen Wan's "Tongwa", and of course he also told how it ended.

In the end, he said that Shen Wan must have written a letter to his grandmother and father to add fuel to the story, and Shen Chang, the patriarch of the Shen clan, wrote this letter, saying that he would no longer cooperate with the Xiao family to sell grain and go to the north...

"Shut up!" Before Xiao Yulang could finish speaking, Xiao Yongqing roared angrily and stood up.

He walked up to Xiao Yulang in a few steps, kicked towards his shoulder, knocked Xiao Yulang to the ground with one kick, then pointed at Xiao Yulang's nose and cursed: "You are useless! It's as small as a needle nose. Shen Wan made peace with you. You thought we were blind and didn't know what dirty things you did! Afterwards, I asked you to find the blood of Shen Wansheng's Xiao family, and you went and smashed the old house of the Shen family. , to be honest, it is not easy for Shen Wan to ask you to be locked up for two days. Then you actually made a trick to frame her. You thought she would be so stupid. Didn’t you know that this was something you bribed someone to do? You do When doing these stupid things, can you think of Gu Quan Xiao's clan, Gu Quan Xiao's family's face?"

Xiao Yanlu saw that his father kicked his son's shoulder hard, and his son rolled over on the ground, touching his shoulder with a painful expression, so he hurriedly begged his father: "Father, Yulang people are young and have little experience. don't know……"

Xiao Yongqing turned his face and scolded at Xiao Yanlu: "He is ignorant, are you ignorant at such an age? Yulang was taught by you, he is stupid, and you are no better. You father and son let me down too much!"

Xiao Yanlu's eyes twitched inexplicably when he heard the words, he didn't feel very good.

After a pause, Xiao Yongqing said worriedly: "I'm afraid my second brother will catch Yulang's fault this time and stir up troubles among the clansmen, making Yulang's position as the eldest grandson unstable. To avoid getting too involved in this matter , I am determined to abolish Yulang's qualification to take over the Xiao family."

"father!"

"grandfather!"

Xiao Yongqing was not moved by their pleading eyes, and continued: "From now on, send Wen Yuan, the son of Yulang's stepwife Peng, to Songhe Hall, and I will choose another wet nurse to take care of him. If he grows up, he will become a talent." , then he will take over the Xiao family from Yanlu, if he does not become a talent, then I will give up the position of head of the Xiao family to my second brother."

"father……"

"grandfather……"

Xiao Yongqing waved his hand wearily: "That's it, you go down."

Xiao Yanlu still didn't give up and said: "Father, didn't you make the Shen family happy by doing this? Also, since you did this, why didn't you go to see Shen Chang, saying that the Xiao family had already punished the unfilial son Yulang, and why did you not give up?" Can the Shen family continue to cooperate with us?"

After hearing this, Xiao Yongqing suddenly turned around, stared at Xiao Yanlu and said coldly: "You think I punished Yulang for the sake of the Shen family, you idiot! I did it to make your second uncle implicate you. Besides, we After all, the Xiao family is one of the four prominent families in Jinling. When the Shen family wrote such a letter, they must be thinking about Zhou Xiang. They are afraid that Yulang will take over the Xiao family in the future and become enemies with the Shen family, so they will not cooperate with our Xiao family. I don't want our Xiao family to continue to grow. Since they have made plans to break up with our Xiao family, how can they cooperate with us just because I pull down and ask for continued cooperation? I abolished Yulang and took over the Xiao family. Firstly, it can keep you, and secondly, it can show weakness to the Shen family, and it can also prevent them from getting into trouble, and then step on our Xiao family. Food can no longer be sold in Beijing, and we have to earn a lot less money every year , but you also know that the imperial court opened the sea ban, we can travel by sea and ship goods overseas to make money. The north road is blocked, we can go the south road, I don’t believe it, leaving the Shen family, our Xiao family can’t do it!”

After hearing this, Xiao Yanlu was stunned for a moment, then bowed down and said, "Father, my son really admires you so much."

Xiao Yongqing turned around slowly, stopped talking, and walked into Songhe Hall.

Xiao Yanlu could no longer hear his father's footsteps, so he went to help Xiao Yulang up.

Seeing it, Xiao Yulang was crying.

He had no choice but to persuade his son to think about it. Although his son could no longer be the head of the Xiao family, isn't his son's son still qualified?

"Can it be the same? Dad, I'm so unwilling!" Xiao Yulang said sadly, wiping his tears with his sleeve.

Xiao Yanlu slapped him on the head and scolded him: "What else do you want to do? Do you still want to make trouble? Do you want to be kicked out of the Xiao family by your grandfather? Be honest with me, don't cause trouble again!"

Xiao Yulang shrugged and agreed.

He hated Shen Wan even more in his heart now, but now he had no choice but to swallow his anger and continue to live.

The fact that the Shen family and the Xiao family no longer cooperated was soon known by Xiao Yongtai and others from the second room of the Xiao family.

Sure enough, as Xiao Yongqing had expected, Xiao Yongtai provoked the Xiao clan to make trouble, not only demanding that Xiao Yulang be abolished as the head of the Xiao clan, but also to hold Xiao Yanlu accountable, and even expelled Xiao Yulang from the Xiao clan.

In the end, it was Xiao Yongqing who took out a mine to the second room, so that Xiao Yongtai and others stopped making trouble, and accepted the abolition of Xiao Yulang's qualification to take over the Xiao family, so that his son Wen Yuan and the second room's Xiao Yongtai's great-grandson Wenhan had the same chance to take over the Xiao family. The qualifications of the family, this matter subsided.

The things that happened in the Xiao family spread to Shen Chang's ears not long after. In addition to the news from outside, there was also the news that Mrs. Yu was in the Xiao family's ears and eyes.

Shen Chang told these things to his mother, Mrs. Li.

The old lady Li said: "It seems that Xiao Yongqing is not old-fashioned. I know that his grandson is useless, and we can't hand over the Xiao family to him. This is the end of the matter. Our Shen family will find it with Wan'er in the future." Those two big grain merchants cooperated to transport grain to the capital for sale. From now on, we will have nothing to do with Xiao’s well water.”

Shen Chang nodded.

After coming out of Yanniantang, he went to his study and wrote a letter, writing down what happened to Xiao's family recently, as well as Jun Pei's recent situation, and sent someone to the Shen family's old house in Suzhou.

When Shen Wan received her father's letter, it had already entered October, which happened to be Jun Pei's first birthday.

With her daughter not around, she, the mother, got Zhao Siniang to buy a lot of vegetables early in the morning, planning to cook a few tables for her daughter's birthday today.

Jing Lan accompanied her to the temple in Suzhou to pray for Jun Pei and pay homage to the Buddha, and did not return to the Shen family's old house in Jinhe Town until noon.

The two had discussed before that on Jun Pei's first birthday, Jing Lan would not go to the silk shop and accompany Shen Wan.The shop was taken care of by Ping An and a few newly recruited buddies.

The servants and guards of the Shen family's old house knew that today is the little lady's birthday, so they all came to congratulate Shen Wan respectively, and each sent some things for the children to play with, saying that these worthless things belonged to them. With all my heart, I hope that the little lady grows up safely and healthily.

Shen Wan accepted it and asked them to enjoy the good wine and food by themselves, while she and Jing Lan ate in the banquet room of Xici Room.

After lunch, the two sat on the arhat couch under the south window of the Xici room, drinking tea and chatting together.

Outside, Bai Ju reported that someone from Jinling's Shen family had delivered a letter.

Shen Wan asked Bai Ju to bring in the letter through the curtain, took the letter out, took it out of the envelope and read it carefully, after reading it, she handed it to Jing Lan with a smile, and said: "Lan'er, take a quick look, this It's also a gift for Jun Pei, and my father said that Jun Pei can call people, and he looks good, so I'm very happy."

Jing Lan said "Oh", took it over, read it from the beginning to the end, and finally laughed and said: "Sure enough, it is a gift. This time Xiao Yulang knows what is good and bad. Will he dare to provoke you in the future? The Xiao family Chang is still a sensible person, knowing that the Xiao family will be finished in his hands."

Shen Wan took a sip of the chrysanthemum tea, and said slowly: "You didn't pay attention to the letter saying that the Xiao family is no longer transporting grain to the north, but instead bought a few ships and recruited people to go to the South Seas. If everything goes well, The money earned by going to the sea is not less than the money earned by transporting grain to the north. Xiao Yongqing, the head of the Xiao family, should not be underestimated. It seems that we planned to make the Xiao family decline more and more, and could not gain a foothold among the four prominent families in Jinling. Wishes are not easy to come true."

Jing Lan looked down at the chrysanthemum tea in front of her, and said, "Since Xiao Yulang is no longer in charge of the Xiao family, if the Xiao family wants to go to sea, let them go. It's not a big deal for them to earn more money than the Shen family possible."

Shen Wan pursed her lips, looked out of the window, and said, "But I'm afraid of Xiao Yulang's wolfish ambitions, he won't let it go so easily. Also, Xiao Yongqing's thoughts are too deep, and we have to guard against it."

Jing Lan walked over, looked at Shen Wan, and asked in a low voice: "Then Wan Wan, what do you mean..."

Shen Wan smiled slightly, and turned to look at Jing Lan: "It's better to make the Xiao family mess up. If you beat a snake, you have to hit seven inches. If you are soft-hearted, if the snake turns into a python, there will be endless troubles."