Chapter 371 Just Pamper Him
Governor's Mansion
As soon as Lu Yiliang left, Shi Tao rubbed his forehead and was about to take a rest when his second daughter came in.
After Shi Xue came in, she rushed straight to him and the first thing she said was, "Dad, you have to make the decision for me."
Shi Tao felt the veins on his forehead throb. He glanced at his daughter, whose eyes were red, and then at his wife, who was chasing after her. "What are you doing?"
He couldn't help but feel strange. Usually it was his daughter who made people very angry, but few people could make his daughter so angry.
The governor's wife, Xing, said, "Master, let me tell you. This is what happened..."
Shi Tao never expected that the annihilated Liufu Village would kidnap his daughter?!
Thinking back to when Lu Yiwei had recently attacked Lu Desheng over Liufu Village, Shi Tao felt a little uneasy. But he quickly let it go. As a subordinate, it was inevitable that he wouldn't feel wronged. If Lu Yiwei could handle it, why couldn't Lu Desheng?
"Master, I've seen Qin Liu's portrait. He's indeed a handsome man. He comes from a military family. Since he was able to become the main force in attacking the mountain stronghold, he must be very capable."
"It's his good fortune that our Xue'er likes him. I was thinking that if this could be accomplished, firstly, my daughter would repay Qin Liu's life-saving grace, and secondly, with your help, the Qin family could be rehabilitated as soon as possible and get rid of their status as exiles, which wouldn't be considered a disgrace to the Qin family."
Xing spoke these words slowly.
Shi Tao narrowed his eyes slightly, wondering in his mind the emperor's attitude towards the Qin family.
The Qin family's treatment in Liaodong County wasn't like that of exiles. Could it be that the emperor was planning to employ the Qin family?
Thinking of it, his heart was burning.
"However, Qin Liu and the Lu couple refused. Actually, it would have been fine if they had refused in a more tactful way. But they didn't give us any face at all and actually kicked our Xue'er out directly. This is too much!" When she said this, Xing couldn't help but slammed the table.
"The reason I'm so angry is, firstly, that they are so ungrateful! Secondly, this also shows that the Lu family father and daughter have no respect for you, the governor."
Thinking about Lu Desheng's performance after taking office, Shi Tao felt that his wife was right. Lu Desheng was indeed very disrespectful to him.
Shi Xue, who was standing by, took the opportunity to say, "Dad, please help me to teach Lu Desheng a lesson!"
Shi Tao raised his eyelids and said, "What nonsense?!"
Xing gave her daughter a look and said, "Xue'er, stop talking. Your father doesn't need you to point fingers at him when he's doing things."
Shi Xue pouted.
Shi Tao really doted on his second daughter, who looked 40% to 50% like him.
His eldest daughter was beautiful, and he had already sent her to Chang'an for the palace election in the second half of the year. She had a great chance of being selected.
It is not impossible for the second daughter to marry Qin Liu.
Shi Tao said slowly, "Qin Liu is unmoved. Are the other members of the Qin family also unmoved?"
If the Qin family is so tough, then he will have to consider making the entire Qin family suffer.
Xing frowned, "I heard from Xue'er that the women of the Qin family seem to be quite protective of Lu."
Shi Tao didn't take it seriously. He thought that the Qin family valued Lu's identity as Lu Desheng's daughter. Then, wasn't his daughter Xue'er's identity more noble than Lu's?
"Try it. Just do as I say."
"Alright."
On the other hand, along the way, Lu Desheng had a friendly conversation with his two neighbors Wu Chi and Lei Xin.
It was not until they were almost at Houcheng that the three of them said goodbye to each other reluctantly.
When he returned home, he found Qin Sheng accompanying his wife.
As soon as she saw her husband, Jiang asked with concern, "Did you get any trouble when you went to the governor's mansion?"
"Don't worry, they can make things difficult for me if they want. I'm not a pushover. If they want to make things difficult for me, it depends on whether I'm willing to be embarrassed by them."
At this time, Qin Sheng brought him a cup of tea with great tact, "Father-in-law, have some hot tea."
Lu Desheng took the teacup and looked him up and down, "There's something wrong with you."
Qin Sheng was embarrassed.
Lu Desheng didn't drink that cup of tea.
Mrs. Jiang, standing by, advised him, "If your child is offering you something out of filial piety, just drink it. He's your son-in-law, offering you a cup of tea out of filial piety, can you really not drink it?"
Lu Desheng thought about it and decided that since he was his father-in-law, he could still afford to have a cup of tea from him. So, he used the lid to skim off the loose leaves and took a sip of the tea.
Seeing him drink it, Jiang said, "After drinking Ah Sheng's tea, you can't argue with the child."
puff!
I can't drink this tea at all.
Lu Desheng put the tea aside and looked at Qin Sheng. "Tell me, what's wrong with you?"
Qin Sheng obediently told the story about Shi Xue.
As soon as Qin Sheng finished speaking, Jiang on the side couldn't wait to say, "Don't blame Ah Sheng for this." He just saved the person and he was just a little handsome, what's wrong with that?
Lu Desheng looked at his wife helplessly and said, "Just spoil him."
Jiang said, "It's not that I'm biased towards our Ah Sheng. It's that Shi Xue who is shameless. She knew he was already married, but she still forced her way in. She even wanted our Ah Li to ask to leave the marriage. Ugh!"
Lu Desheng nodded, "What did my daughter say?"
"My daughter said that when an enemy comes, we will fight him with our army, and when a flood comes, we will block it with earth. You just have to bear with it for the time being."
Lu Desheng: ...So this is the purpose of that cup of tea?
Southland, Ji Mansion
On this day, Ji Wuyin received two letters from Liaodong County.
One was a letter from the eldest son reporting that he was safe.
The other letter was written specifically for him by Lu Songli.
He opened the first letter. The letter from his eldest son was thick and the content was long-winded.
After the eldest son reported that he was safe, he talked about his meeting with Madam Qin Liu, and then mentioned the new things in Liaodong County. He also mentioned his previous plan to get a batch of new things from Liaodong County and sell them in the south before leaving, and finally make a fortune. However, this idea was dissuaded by Madam Qin Liu.
The corners of Ji Wuyin's mouth twitched. His son probably thought that his old father was very strong, right?
He strongly agreed with Lu Songli's advice, that is, never think about making the last bit of profit, and you have to leave when it is time to leave.
The second letter was very thin. When I opened it, I found that it was indeed very short, but the content was very important.
After reading it, he thought for a moment and called his trusted butler to give him instructions.
After his eldest son went north, he was not idle during this period and was always preparing to leave.
There were still some non-core industries that he hadn't dealt with yet. However, the South was experiencing a major disaster and the economy was in a slump, so some shops and fields couldn't be sold at a high price. He simply left them alone for now.
The large-scale withdrawal of Ji's industries still had an impact on the South. Although Xie Zhan had made remedies based on the advice of others, the economy of the South had become much more depressed.
Because Lu Songli stopped Master Ji from betraying his father, Ji Wuyin was able to travel north freely.
When Ji Wuyin left, Gu Huaisheng went to see him off.
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