Chapter 24: Too Little ‘Experience’

To put it all into context, the Chen family is now dazzled by the ‘future’ of silver. Steel smelting is related to the huge profits of millions of taels of silver, which is a temptation that no one in the Chen family can refuse or resist.

Therefore, anyone who secretly spy on the Chen family and threatens the Chen family’s secrets is regarded as the biggest enemy by the Chen family.

Listen to what Chen Cong meant, there is no weakness at all. You know, the Chen family is facing the Guan family, a family of officials. Even if the Guan family’s ‘Jinshi’ has been buried in the grave with extraordinary glory, the Guan family still has a ‘teacher’ to support it. Such power is not comparable to the current Chen family.

If it were a year ago, the Chen family’s choice would definitely be to give in and tolerate. But what about now? Chen Cong’s words were completely hard.

This was also figured out by Chen Ming when he returned to his bedroom. "I was wondering what was wrong, and it turned out to be here."

A family of clerks and a family of teachers from other places, the two families are not in the same county. If they fight, the Chen family will still not have much advantage, but the teacher has no real power, so he will not be defeated directly. As long as the silver is enough and Yue Wenhai is happy, the Chen family will have a reasonable and legitimate excuse, and there is no need to be really afraid of the Guan family.

Chen Ming does not know the specific strength of the Guan family, but he is very confident in the armed forces of the Chen family. If the two sides are ready to fight head-on, the Chen family will definitely win. But now my Qing Dynasty still has a strong deterrent power over the local countryside. It is true that the powerful rural party is very powerful, but it is all powerful under the framework and rules of my Qing Dynasty. This kind of lawlessness only exists in the mind and can never be really put into practice.

Chen Ming breathed a sigh of relief. Anyway, the person behind the scenes has been found, and who the "enemy" is is known. This is much safer than being watched secretly by a pair of eyes all the time.

Chen Ming has not received a word from his cheap father until now, which means that Chen Hui does not intend to tell Chen Ming the specific things, or in other words, Chen Ming still has no qualifications to get involved in this matter. After all, he is only 16 years old after the Chinese New Year. He is not much older than the students of engineering.

Chen Ming returned to Tumen Market this time for Huang's birthday. In ten days, the old lady of the Chen family will celebrate her 61st birthday. Although it is not a full birthday, this year's pomp is much smaller than the posture of Huang's 60th birthday last year, but for the Chen family, this is a big event!

As the eldest grandson, Chen Ming must show up.

There are still ten days before the birthday, and the entire Tumen Market has been busy with this matter. The Chen family has collected the purchases needed for the banquet as close as possible, but many things must be bought in the county town or even Ruzhou.

When the Chen family recently offended Qingtiaoling and confronted the Guan family, Chen Hui continued to organize a birthday banquet for his mother...

Chen Ming lay in bed and thought carefully, and suddenly laughed. Who the hell said that the ancients were all fools? Look at the wrist of his cheap father? Chen Ming himself couldn't hold it. Who thinks that he can show off his IQ in front of the ancients casually? He himself is a fool who was shown off by the ancients. Especially Chen Hui just sent someone to the Guan family.

After a beautiful sleep, he got up in the morning in a mist. After washing up, Chen Ming went to the old lady's room to pay his respects. He met the second aunt at the door. Chen Cong's wife has a closer relationship with the old lady. At the beginning, the old lady married her own niece to him in order to win over Chen Cong or to appease Chen Cong.

So, don't underestimate the wisdom of the ancients.

Respectfully saluted the second aunt, then the old lady got up, and the second aunt went in to serve. Although the waiter only stood aside and watched. After everything was done, Chen Ming respectfully greeted the old lady. The old lady asked her precious grandson to have dinner together, while the second aunt Huang went back home, as her second uncle still had her family.

The old lady seemed to know nothing about the current troubles of the Chen family. She took Chen Ming's hand and talked about his marriage in the near future.

Chen Ming and the Li family's marriage was scheduled for November 16, an auspicious day for marriage, sacrifice, and blessing. It can be said that with the relationship between the two sides at this point, Li Xiaomei is already considered a member of the Chen family.

Chen Ming was very afraid to chat with this old lady. In his original memory, Chen Ming and his grandmother were of course very close. Compared with the constraints Chen Hui gave him, every time he returned to the old house in Tumenji, Grandma Huang gave Chen Ming the feeling of unrestrained freedom. But now Chen Ming has changed his core, so there is a layer of emotional separation, and Chen Ming's main consciousness in the 21st century is not very willing to chat with elders.

When he was a child, he was often scolded by his parents - children should not interrupt when adults are talking. This "blow" again and again made Chen Ming develop the habit of letting adults talk and isolating himself when he was in high school - finish the meal quickly and leave directly. At that time, the adults talked again, "You don't know how to talk. When the uncles, uncles and aunts come, don't you know how to say hello? ? " Chen Ming just listened. He should be filial to his elders when he should be filial, but if you want him to chat with the older generation, he can't do it.

This character directly affects him now. He is really uncomfortable talking and getting along with the old lady.

In the next two days, Chen Ming got some news from his cheap second uncle, such as the Guan family refused to admit that they had any collusion with Qingtiaoling, and did not admit that they had conspired to kidnap Chen Ming to obtain the formula of bone china.

The Guan family completely denied everything. Whether you believe it or not, the Guan family believed it.

As long as the Chen family did not catch Zhao Chuanjing and let the high-level officials of Qingtiaoling identify him personally, no matter how much the Chen family talked, they could not hurt the Guan family at all.

Chen Ming had no idea what to do next. The Chen family could not drag their own team to fight against Qingtiaoling. Even if the latter did not have as many troops as the legend said, it was definitely not a soft persimmon. Similarly, the Chen family could not go to war with the Guan family. The world still belonged to the Qing government. The Qing government in the middle of Qianlong was not so far as to condone local tyrants to fight and kill.

Then Chen Ming had no idea how to eliminate the threat and take revenge. He didn't know whether to fight in public or in private, which would be more beneficial to the Chen family and cause less harm to the Chen family, but more harm to the Guan family and Qingtiaoling. He didn't know whether to file a complaint directly, or to fight with the team, or what...

Chen Ming, who was not even 16 years old, had too little "experience" in his mind to give him any inspiration at all.

But his intuition told him that the old lady's birthday party in a week would be a party with special significance!