Lu Zongping was pounding in his heart.
If a female family member comes to find him, it's not because she dislikes her youngest son for being too naughty and is afraid of spoiling their children.
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 who knew that Changping was not at home, so he had to drag this troublemaker over. .
"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 to talk in detail."
Lu Zongping frowned slightly, but looked at Feng Xujie behind Zhou Yunshu and nodded. With him here, it wasn't considered rude.
However, after arriving in the study room, Lu Zongping's expression turned slightly away when he heard that Zhou Yunshu wanted to talk to him about the fleet.
"Madam, this is between me and the young master."
When Lu Zongping met Feng Xujie for the first time, he knew there was someone behind him. However, he always thought it was the helper left by Feng Xujie's father, so he told Feng Xujie that he had to wait until he saw the person behind him. After that, make a decision.
But what he didn't expect was that this person turned out to be a woman.
It's not that he looks down on women.
But in the fleet, women are the most taboo.
"I think the young master hasn't made up his mind yet. I can wait." He doesn't know how to cooperate with women.
Zhou Yunshu had already expected 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 and looked at Feng Xujie and said, "Young Master, if you really lack people or can't make the decision, we don't have to cooperate."
Just when Feng Xujie was about to explain something, Zhou Yunshu on the side said: "Then wait for the power you have finally established in the river to be slowly eroded by the people brought by Feng Kewen, right?"
Zhou Yunshu looked at the frowning Lu Zongping and said, "I thought that until now, Captain Lu would only look at interests and nothing else. I didn't expect that Captain Lu would be such a principled person."
"No wonder he will stay in the river and be a helmsman."
It sounded like a compliment, but Lu Zongping could hear a hint of sarcasm in it.
He sat down again, looked at Zhou Yunshu and said, "Madam, you have only been in Jiangzhong for a short time, and yet you dare to cooperate with me so brazenly?"
Zhou Yunshu was not afraid of Lu Zongping's gaze at all, and said with a smile: "Isn't Captain Lu also moved?"
"Moreover, Captain Lu sent Mr. Ling to my house today, didn't he just want to cooperate with us?"
"Is the head of your Wu family a woman?"
Where is her husband!
Although women in Haizhou have more freedom than other states and even have a higher status, people like them who do maritime business on the seaside are actually very taboo about women.
It is difficult to sail with a female companion.
Women have a strong yin energy, and they were not allowed to board ships in the past, but later it evolved to the point where they are now not allowed to interfere in maritime business, otherwise everything will be unfavorable.
"I am indeed the one in charge."
Lu Zongping looked at Zhou Yunshu, then looked at Feng Xujie, and said, "Then it seems there is no need to continue this business."
He stood up again, looked at Feng Xujie and said, "Young Master is really too young and doesn't even know some taboos in business."
"I won't tell others what happened today, but." Lu Zongping thought he was kind and said to Feng Xujie: "If the young master wants to take back the Feng family's property, it is better not to hang around among women."
After Lu Zongping finished speaking, he turned and left. When he walked to the door, he heard a word from behind him.
"Pilot Lu, how about we make a bet."
Lu Zongping turned around, looked at Zhou Yunshu who was getting up, and said, "I, Lu, never bet with women."
Zhou Yunshu's eyes were slightly cold, "Okay, then I won't bet."
"But you will definitely come back to me again before the end of the year."
Lu Zongping sneered and turned around to leave.
After Lu Zongping left, Feng Xujie looked at Zhou Yunshu with worried eyes and said, "Sir, what should we do now?"
"A person who doesn't know how to adapt will have to fall hard before he realizes that he must adapt if he wants to continue 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, I don't know what it means!"
Feng Xujie sighed. This was why he had been hesitant to bring Lu Zongping to see Zhou Yunshu. They were too stubborn.
After Lu Zongping left the study, he went to catch his son and take him home. Lu Changfeng refused and was carried back directly by Lu Zongping.
Zhou Yunshu saw Lu Zongping's eagerness to sever ties with their family immediately, and thought that Lu Changfeng would not show up at her home again the next day, but who knew that he would sneak in over the wall early in the morning with a baggage on his back? Home door.
If Chu Qi hadn't caught him in time, he would have almost touched the backyard.
"Hero, you really can't accept me as your disciple? I can change my surname and be your son to support you until you die!" Lu Changfeng looked at Chu Qi eagerly.
Chu Qi threw him into the front yard and turned around to leave 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 would be your son."
How much does this child 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 the fifth, sixteenth and even spring birds, we would have a few more parents in our family today."
The corners of Zhou Yunshu's lips curled up, and she could imagine Lu Changfeng in front of him trying to identify his parents, and Lu Zongping looking at him from behind, gnashing his teeth.
I don't know if Lu Zongping knew that his son sneaked into the Zhou family. Anyway, except for the occasional servants who came to pick up Lu Changfeng, Lu Zongping never appeared at the Zhou family again.
Time passed little by little, and it was almost the New Year's Eve. Uncle He and Hu Zi also rushed back from Dongchuan.
A few people had traveled a long distance, but they were in good spirits.
Uncle He took a stack of land deeds and placed them on the table, and put the remaining silver coins next to them.
When Zhou Yunshu was looking through the land deed and house deed, Uncle He said: "We bought two yards and three shops in Dongchuan City in the past few days."
"The yard is not big. It has two entrances. It is smaller than the current yard."
Zhou Yunshu nodded and signaled Uncle He to continue.
"I also bought fields in Dongwang Village and Xiwang Village, which are almost five miles away from Dongchuan City."
"You were right as you guessed before. At the end of the year, local snakes do go to the village to collect protection fees, resettlement fees and other miscellaneous fees. I asked about it and found that in addition to them, the county magistrate also collects some."
It’s really peeling off the skin of the common people layer by layer.
