Chapter 167 Make a Bet
Lu Zongping was nervous.
A female relative came to see me, couldn't it be because she disliked her youngest son's naughtiness and was afraid that he would lead their children astray?
Lu Zongping sighed silently in his heart. Originally, he didn't want Changfeng to come over. He wanted Changping, who was two years older and more sensible, to come over. But Changping was not at home, so he had to drag this troublemaker over with him.
"I want to talk to Captain Lu about Xu Jie."
Zhou Yunshu looked at Lu Zongping, who looked puzzled, and said, "Why don't we go to the study and talk in detail."
Lu Zongping frowned slightly, but when he looked at Feng Xujie behind Zhou Yunshu, he nodded. With him around, it wasn't considered rude.
But after arriving at the study, Lu Zongping's expression slightly restrained when he heard that Zhou Yunshu wanted to talk to him about the fleet.
"Madam, this is a matter between me and the young master."
The first time Lu Zongping met Feng Xujie, he knew that there was someone behind him, but he always thought that it was the helper left for him by Feng Xujie's father, so he told Feng Xujie that he would make a decision after meeting the person behind him.
But what he didn't expect was that this person was actually a woman.
He doesn't look down on women.
But women are the most taboo in the fleet.
"I think the young master hasn't made up his mind yet. I can wait." He would not cooperate with women.
Zhou Yunshu had anticipated Lu Zongping's rejection, so she didn't get angry after hearing what he said. She just said, "We can indeed wait, but I don't know if Captain Lu can wait."
Lu Zongping glanced at Zhou Yunshu, stood up, looked at Feng Xujie and said, “Young Master, if you really need people or can’t make the decision, we can choose not to cooperate.”
Feng Xujie was about to explain something when Zhou Yunshu said, "And then wait for the power you've worked so hard to build up in Jiangzhong to be slowly eroded by the people brought by Feng Kewen, right?"
Zhou Yunshu looked at Lu Zongping, who was frowning, and said, "I thought that Captain Lu would only care about profit and nothing else until now. I didn't expect that Captain Lu would be such a principled person."
"No wonder he stayed in the river as a helmsman."
It clearly sounded like a compliment, but Lu Zongping heard a hint of sarcasm in it.
He sat down again, looked at Zhou Yunshu and said, "Madam, how long have you been in Jiangzhong? Do you dare to brazenly talk about cooperating with me?"
Zhou Yunshu was not afraid of Lu Zongping's gaze at all, and said with a smile: "Isn't Captain Lu also moved?"
"Besides, Captain Lu sent Master Ling to my house today. Isn't it because he wants to cooperate with us?"
"Is the head of your Wu family a woman?"
Where is her husband!
Although women in Haizhou are freer than those in other states and even have a higher status, people like them who do maritime business on the seashore are actually very taboo about women.
It is not a good voyage to have a woman with you.
Women have strong yin energy and were not allowed to board ships in the past. Later, it evolved to the point where they are not allowed to interfere in maritime business, otherwise they will definitely suffer setbacks.
"It is indeed me who is in charge."
Lu Zongping looked at Zhou Yunshu, then at Feng Xujie, and said, "It seems that this business is no longer necessary."
He stood up again, looked at Feng Xujie and said, "Young Master is indeed too young. He doesn't even know some of the taboos in business."
"I won't tell anyone about what happened today, but," Lu Zongping said to Feng Xujie, thinking he was kind, "If you want to take back the Feng family's assets, you'd better stay out of the women's business."
After Lu Zongping finished speaking, he turned and left. When he reached the door, he heard a voice behind him.
"Captain Lu, how about we make a bet?"
Lu Zongping turned around, looked at Zhou Yunshu who had stood up, and said, "I, Lu, never bet with women."
Zhou Yunshu's eyes turned slightly cold, "Okay, then we won't bet."
"But you will definitely come back to see me before the New Year."
Lu Zongping sneered and turned away.
After Lu Zongping left, Feng Xujie looked at Zhou Yunshu with concern and said, "Sir, what should we do now?"
“A person who doesn’t know how to adapt will eventually fall down hard before he realizes that he must adapt if he wants to survive.”
Originally, she just wanted to sit back and watch the Feng family force Lu Zongping, and then wait for him to cooperate with her, but now, she doesn't mind helping the Feng family.
Zhou Yunshu looked at the door and snorted coldly: "Feudal superstition, nonsense!"
Feng Xujie sighed. This was why he had been hesitating whether to bring Lu Zongping to see Zhou Yunshu. These people were too stubborn.
After Lu Zongping left the study, he went to take his son home. Lu Changfeng refused and was carried back by Lu Zongping.
Seeing that Lu Zongping wanted to cut off ties with their family immediately, Zhou Yunshu thought that Lu Changfeng would not appear in her house the next day. But who knew that he would sneak over the wall and enter the house early in the morning with a bag on his back.
If Chuqi hadn't caught him in time, he would have almost reached the backyard.
"Hero, can't you really accept me as your disciple? I can change my surname and become your son to take care of you in your old age!" Lu Changfeng looked at Chuqi eagerly.
Chuqi threw him into the front yard and left without looking back.
Zhou Yunshu and Zhou Yunzhi, who happened to hear these words, were speechless.
Zhou Yunshu looked at her eldest brother. "If I remember correctly, he said yesterday that he wanted to be your son."
How much does this kid dislike Lu Zongping? He wants to be someone else's son every day!
Zhou Yunzhi smiled nonchalantly and said, "Believe it or not, if he had seen the skills of Chuwu and Shiliu, or even Chunque, we would have a few more of his parents in our house today."
Zhou Yunshu raised the corners of her mouth. She could imagine Lu Changfeng constantly recognizing her as his parents in front of her, and Lu Zongping gritting his teeth as he looked at him from behind.
It is not known whether Lu Zongping knew that his son had secretly run to the Zhou family. In any case, except for a few servants occasionally coming to pick up Lu Changfeng, Lu Zongping never appeared in the Zhou family again.
Time passed little by little, and the end of the year was approaching. Uncle He and Hu Zi and others rushed back from Dongchuan.
The few of them had traveled a long distance, but they were still in good spirits.
Uncle He placed a stack of land deeds and house deeds on the table and put the remaining silver next to them.
As Zhou Yunshu was looking through the land deeds and house deeds, Uncle He said, "During the days we were there, we bought two courtyards and three shops in Dongchuan City."
"The yard is not big, it has two entrances, and it is smaller than the current yard."
Zhou Yunshu nodded and motioned Uncle He to continue.
"I also bought land in Dongwang Village and Xiwang Village, about five miles outside Dongchuan City."
"You guessed right. At the end of the year, some local tyrants did come to the village to collect protection fees, resettlement fees, and other miscellaneous fees. I asked around, and besides them, the county magistrate also collected some."
They are really peeling off the skin of the people layer by layer.
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