Wanjin Lady

Chapter 106 Animal Alliance
When Zhu Wang happily counted the banknotes and hurriedly put them into his waist bag, Zhu Wang's wife was willing to let the servant serve tea.

The old woman finally gave Yuan Liulang a smile.

Yuan Liulang lowered his head to drink tea, and secretly sighed in his heart that the Zhu family was not presentable.

"Brother Zhu must have lost quite a bit of money this time. To be honest, a few days ago, my accountant did some accounting and found... I'm actually down several thousand taels."

Zhu Wang was already suspicious of the boy's unusual behavior today, so he was half-hearted in his words. "Oh, that's for sure. I've lost a lot. I've lost all my savings over the years! Sigh, bad luck, God is blind, this bad luck has happened to you and me!"

"Brother Zhu, do you still think it's just luck?" Yuan Liulang gently put down his teacup, his eyes suddenly becoming sharp. He exhaled slowly and spoke slowly, "I have a cousin who passed the imperial examination and is now a student of Yao Shizhen, a retired third-rank official. Yao Shizhen's reputation... perhaps Brother Zhu has heard of it?"

Yao Shizhen?
How did it get to Yao Shizhen?
Is he threatening Old Zhu?

Zhu Wang tightened his grip and subconsciously grabbed the banknotes in his waist bag. "Master Qiushan?"

"Correct."

As for Mr. Qiushan, he was often mentioned by the students of Qingshan Academy, and all of them wanted to become his disciples. He was a celebrity in Ping County and even in Bozhou area.

"I happened to see a letter from him in his study." Yuan Liulang spoke in a slow, cold voice that chilled one's bones. "He asked for Wen Wan's commendation to Wei Zheng, the governor of Tianshui Prefecture, for her advice on resolving Bingzhou's food crisis."

These words made Zhu Wang's pupils shrink slightly.

His hands also dropped from his waist bag.

His mind was a little confused, and he subconsciously asked: "What does this matter have to do with Miss Wen?"

Yuan Liulang's pair of narrow eyes slanted over, causing Zhu Wang's heart to tremble.

"The Bingzhou government announced a grain price of 150 coins per dou. All the grain merchants in Tianshui Prefecture rushed to Bingzhou, bringing grain from within a thousand miles. However, the government, citing a shortage of manpower, only agreed to accept 500 kilograms of grain per day. You and I ran around Bingzhou, begging for help everywhere, but in this vast city, we couldn't find a single warehouse to temporarily store the grain."

"why?"

Zhu Wang followed up blankly and asked, "Yes, why?"

Yuan Liulang smiled grimly, "Because that wicked woman, through Old Master Yao's help, managed to climb up to the high position of Lord Wei. She suggested to the government to raise grain prices to attract grain merchants to Bingzhou, to recruit the clerks in charge of the granaries, and to seal off or lease out all the warehouses in Bingzhou in advance."

After just two or three sentences, Zhu Wang felt as if he had fallen into a cold cave!
The autumn weather was not cold, but goose bumps stood up all over his back.

"In this way, once the grain merchants arrive in Bingzhou, they will be like fish on the chopping block and turtles in the jar."

"How...how could this be?" Zhu Wang's voice trembled. "That Miss Wen...is the most quiet and well-behaved! She's a woman who has never been involved in business before. How could she come up with such a vicious idea?"

Zhu Wang was not a fool. Even though he had doubts in his heart, he was unwilling to completely believe Yuan Liulang.

Yuan Liulang sneered, "My dear brother, don't you think about it? You and I went to Bingzhou and lost everything. And that thief...as if she knew what was going to happen, she sent her men to Bingzhou to wait in ambush, just waiting to buy our hard work at a low price!"

Zhu Wang was at a loss, still refusing to believe that the young lady who had affectionately and respectfully called him "Uncle Zhu" a few days ago had suddenly turned into a hideous and sinister villain. "Maybe... maybe she's just lucky?"

"Her winery is saddled with debt, yet she dared to bet all her profits from liquidating the warehouse on Bingzhou. Brother Zhu, at this point, do you still think our setbacks are natural disasters?"

"Wen Jing is well-behaved? Think about it, after she took over the winery, it only took a month for it to turn a profit and even started making new wine. Not even Wen Weiming could do such a thing!"

Yuan Liulang looked at Zhu Wang with disdain. "Brother Zhu, a dog that bites never barks." "You betrayed the Wen family before, instigating everyone to demand debts at Wen Wan's wedding banquet, making the Wen family lose face. Later, you conspired with me to buy grain and cut off the Wen family's escape route. Did Wen Wan really know nothing about these things?"

Do not!
A voice in Zhu Wang's heart suddenly shouted.

Suddenly, Zhu Wang remembered the father and daughter of the Wen family asking around in the restaurant, remembered Miss Wen running around the mountain with Yuan Jing on the day of grain harvest, remembered Miss Wen affectionately calling him "Uncle Zhu" at the dock, and remembered the little lady timidly saying she was afraid a few days ago -

So what is he doing now?
He was instigated by Miss Wen to deal with Yuan Jing!
Zhu Wang woke up suddenly, gasped in fright, and then slammed the table.

"This woman is going too far! She's treating us like monkeys!"

He stood up again, put his hands behind his back, and paced anxiously around the room.

"Over a thousand taels of silver, just wasted like that!"

Zhu Wang became angrier the more he thought about it. "We were the ones who took the grain she harvested to Bingzhou and sold it!"

Whenever Zhu Wang thought of this, his heart ached with anger.

Yuan Jing pushed the teacup over at the right moment, signaling Zhu Wang to calm down. "Brother Zhu, it's not too late to understand everything now. Although you and I had a disagreement over the grain sale, it was all caused by that evil woman Wen Wan! You and I should join forces and avenge our previous humiliation!"

"I have already signed a military order with my family, and I will take over the Wen Family Winery within two months!"

Zhu Wang shuddered and his eyelids twitched. He suddenly felt like he had just escaped from a tiger's den and fallen into a wolf's circle.

The young lady from the Wen family may appear warm-hearted but is vicious at heart, but how could Yuan Liulang be easy to get along with?

As if seeing through Zhu Wang's wavering, Yuan Jing calmly added, "If Brother Zhu is willing to help me, after the matter is completed, the winery will be mine, and the Wen family's house will be yours."

Zhu Wang was shocked. "Didn't Shi Jinquan steal the deed to the house and mortgage it to Xinlong Bank?"

Then he blurted out, "Xinlong Money House belongs to you?!"

Yuan Liulang did not admit it, but did not deny it.

Yes.

If Xinlong Money House was not on the same page with the Yuan family, why would it have rashly gone to the Wen family to collect the debt that day?
With Xinlong Bank joining the game, the Wen family has absolutely no way to break out!

Thinking of the family fortune he had lost on his trip to Bingzhou, and remembering Wen Wan using him as a scapegoat to deal with Yuan Liulang, Zhu Wang's anger grew, and he completely forgot about his previous grudge with Yuan Jing. "How does Yuan Liulang plan to deal with Miss Wen?"

Yuan Jing smiled coldly, "Of course it's an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."

Yuan Liulang and Zhu Wang were thinking about how to deal with Wen Wan, while Wen Wan was pulling her hair in pain because of the policy paper.

She sat curled up like a quail, while Old Man Yao opposite her was glaring at her with his beard, almost slamming the table to pieces.

Cheng Yunzhang sat cross-legged in the corner, drinking tea leisurely, as if he didn't take her seriously from beginning to end.

(End of this chapter)