What a lucky world!

Chapter 165: Second Mother Teaching Her Son
The night is dark and windy.

Zhang Mu and Ye Hanzhou stood on the hill, looking at the warehouse below. The lights were on and teams of guards were patrolling back and forth.

This is one of the three warehouses of the Jiang family provided by Bai Jingqi.

After tying the face scarf, Zhang Mu glanced at Ye Hanzhou. Their eyes met and they nodded to each other.

Zhang Mu patted Xuan Ji who was sitting on his shoulder. Xuan Ji meowed and turned into a ball of black smoke, wrapping up Zhang Mu and Ye Hanzhou. Then she turned into a ball of smoke and flew towards the warehouse at the foot of the mountain!

……

Sucheng, Bai family study.

Mrs. Bai leaned back on the custom-made couch and flipped through the account book in her hand.

Second Mrs. Bai was over forty years old, but perhaps because she took good care of herself, she looked only in her early thirties, quite charming. She glanced at Bai Jingqi, who had walked into the room and sat obediently across from her, and snorted coldly, "What? Aren't you going to the brothel today?"

"Are you not afraid that Li Annu will be kept by someone else again?"

Bai Jingqi laughed heartily: "Mother, what are you talking about? She's just a prostitute. My son is just playing around with her. How can you take her seriously?"

"Didn't you teach me that? People need to have weaknesses, but they can't really have weaknesses."

"Son, after much thought, I can only create a weakness for myself! Then we'll see what big fish we can catch!"

"You're so talkative!" Second Grandma Bai chuckled. "Didn't you just catch a fish yesterday..."

Bai Jingqi nodded: "A mountain fish!"

Second Mistress Bai put down the account book in her hand and said, "I rejected him before, and specifically asked the housekeeper to hint to that Li Quan, asking them to work on you."

“They do know how to find a place!”

"I heard you drank quite a bit when you came back. I guess you had a great time chatting with me!"

"I'm here to report to my mother..." Bai Jingqi stood up and sat on the couch. He reached out and patted Second Mrs. Bai's calf, saying, "That boy is quite interesting."

Second Mrs. Bai adjusted herself to a more comfortable position and said, "Even a naughty boy like you finds this interesting. It seems we've talked about something quite significant. Tell me about it..."

Immediately, Bai Jingqi recounted the conversation between Zhang Mu and him. After listening to it, Second Grandma Bai was silent for a moment, then laughed.

"The winter solstice is approaching, and the Jiang family is sending 100,000 rolls of cloth and silk to the palace, of which nearly 20,000 are high-quality Su satin. If something unexpected happens to the warehouse, only the other three of us can help him raise such a large amount in a short period of time!"

"Business is business. When the time comes, the Jiang family will have to make sacrifices!"

"It certainly did trap us."

At this point, Second Lady Bai's tone became more serious: "After all, they are from the mountains. They are very familiar with murder and arson."

"This is really brave..."

"That's why my son likes it!" Bai Jingqi didn't care. "The Jiang family stabbed our Bai family in the back. Even grandpa was so angry that he became sick. He deserves this!"

Second Grandma Bai looked at Bai Jingqi and suddenly said, "Aren't you worried that the Jiang family will blame our Bai family for this?"

Bai Jingqi shook his head and said firmly: "No!"

"Oh? Why?" asked Mrs. Bai Er, but her words hinted at a test for Bai Jingqi.

Bai Jingqi said seriously, "Because this method is too insidious and cannot be put on the table!"

"If the Jiang family dares to blame the Bai family, do you want to retaliate?"

"As long as it's revenge, should my Bai family fight back?"

"Now that Jiang and Bai are fighting, do the other two families want to remain unscathed?"

"If you burn my warehouse, I'll kidnap your embroiderer..."

“In the end, everyone is doomed.”

"Some things, if not weighed, are not even four ounces, but if weighed, they are weighed a thousand pounds!"

"So, they won't blame, nor dare to blame!"

Second Mrs. Bai listened, a kind smile appeared on her face, and she nodded: "That's right." "But, son, you made a mistake!"

Bai Jingqi asked in surprise: "What?"

Second Lady Bai raised her hand, and Bai Jingqi quickly handed over the tea at hand. Second Lady Bai took the teacup and took a sip, then said -

"What does this have to do with my Bai family?"

"Isn't this the result of their offending those lawless bandits?"

"If the Jiang family makes a mistake with the goods in the palace, it will be my Bai family who will clean up their mess..."

"There's that old incident from decades ago that's still hanging in the balance. My Bai family can afford it!"

"The Jiang family should thank us!"

Bai Jingqi suddenly realized: "So, my Bai family did nothing, but also did everything!"

Second Wife Bai nodded slightly, and sighed approvingly, "Setting fire, even a bandit would think of it."

"But he used arson as a means to drag my Bai family into the mess and clean up the mess for him, and he even made us think there was something profitable in it!"

"Even grudges from decades ago are taken into account."

"This person is not simple!"

After a pause, Second Mrs. Bai put away her admiring expression and said seriously, "So, what does he want?"

Bai Jingqi quickly said, "He wants to take back the Yongxiu Chamber of Commerce, and he wants us to take good care of it in the future and look after its operations in Sucheng!"

"He knows his limits!" Second Mrs. Bai nodded, then remembered something and said, "I heard that child is even younger than you?"

Bai Jingqi nodded: "He and I are not of the same age, but he is definitely under 20."

After hearing this, Mrs. Bai thought for a moment and said, "When you see him again, tell him two things."

"First, don't underestimate the Jiang family. Burning a few warehouses won't give us much initiative. If we want to take action, we have to move the Jiang family's mulberry fields in the east of the city."

"We must ensure that not a single mulberry leaf grows on that field for at least five years."

Bai Jingqi stared at Second Grandma Bai with his eyes wide open.

This is... a plan to wipe out the entire family!
This cruel woman, is she my real mother?
"Secondly, tell that kid that after this is done, in addition to Yongxiu Trading Company, my Bai family will give him 10% of the profits from future sales!"

Bai Jingqi hesitated for a moment: "Over in Sangtian, I heard there is a worshiper..."

Second Grandma Bai waved her hand: "That's not something we should worry about!"

"If you don't have enough money, you can't eat at the table with us."

"Besides, if they don't fight that person, my Bai family will still not be innocent..."

After saying that, Mrs. Bai picked up the account book again and continued reading the part she had just read.

Just then, there was a commotion outside.

"What's going on?" Bai Jingqi shouted outside.

"Reporting to the Seventh Young Master, there is a fire in the warehouse in the south of the city!" someone replied from outside.

Bai Jingqi pushed open the window and immediately saw the sky in the distance was a fiery red, illuminating the night sky like a fire dragon swimming around.

Mrs. Bai also looked at the fiery red sky, put down the account book in her hand, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

"I haven't seen such a bright night in a long time."

"What a good omen for prosperity!"

……

That night, the three major warehouses of Jiang's Cloth Shop all caught fire, and flames shot up into the sky, illuminating half of Suzhou City!

(End of this chapter)