The Evil Mother-in-law: Torment Children, Work Hard, Be Rich!-Chapter 104: Good News

The next evening, Gu Dashu and Jingzhe returned from town, bringing exhilarating news for Tong Hua.

Firstly, Crispy Food Garden was bombarded by numerous customer refund requests, completely ruining their new products, taro paste crisp and pork floss cake, further reinforcing the authenticity of Taohua Dessert.

Just two days without a stall, many people started missing Taohua Dessert and yearned for Tong Huaqiong to open up.

Some even speculated that the sudden disappearance of Taohua Dessert was due to Crispy Food Garden’s underhanded tactics, otherwise why wouldn’t a perfectly good pastry stall seize the opportunity and open a shop?

Regarding the first piece of news, Tong Huaqiong had already heard it from Ma Huateng.

However, hearing it from her son was different, giving her an inexplicable sense of involvement.

Secondly, they indeed identified Manager Feng’s weakness—his supposed adopted son, Feng Chuan.

As Jingzhe’s classmate, Meng Yanping said, Feng Chuan was just a gambling addict.

He spent all day in the town’s gambling den.

Jingzhe and Dashu easily targeted him.

"Mother, I’ve already gotten close to Feng Chuan, I even know where his house faces." Dashu said proudly.

Not to boast, in just two days of interaction, he and Feng Chuan had become sworn brothers.

Dashu couldn’t help but touch his neck, his wound had already scabbed over thanks to modern anti-inflammatory medicine.

He felt a deep sense of pride now that he could take the lead in dealing with Manager Feng.

Through the matter with Manager Feng, he was about to wash away the image in his mother’s heart as an unruly son who couldn’t handle matters.

"Knowing where the door faces is useless, we’re not robbing his house." Tong Huaqiong said.

"Mother, aren’t we using Feng Chuan to threatened Manager Feng?"

"Why did my younger brother let me get close to Feng Chuan then?"

Dashu didn’t quite understand, he thought the goal was to bind Feng Chuan and threaten Manager Feng with Feng Chuan’s life, just like Manager Feng holding a knife to threaten his mother.

His mother wasn’t intimidated because there were other sons in the family, but Manager Feng was different.

He had no sons, looking at his age, he didn’t even have a drop of life’s water left; he needed Feng Chuan to perform funeral rites and rituals; threatening Manager Feng with Feng Chuan’s life would surely succeed.

Tong Huaqiong looked at Dashu speechlessly, she was recently moved by Dashu’s filial piety, yet now Dashu offered her a contradictory thought.

Even in ancient times, it’s not like lives could be casually taken; wasn’t the government watching?

Even if Manager Feng wanted Tong Huaqiong dead, he didn’t dare wipe them all out on the road causing a murder scene.

As an ordinary entrepreneur striving upward, Tong Huaqiong wouldn’t gamble with human lives.

"Brother, we do intend to threaten Feng Chuan, but there needs to be a method that neither puts us in trouble nor lets Manager Feng underestimate us, ideally forcing him away from Crispy Food Garden and Yan Guan Town." Jingzhe said with a smile.

Tong Huaqiong cast an appreciative glance at Jingzhe.

Her youngest son’s insight into human nature once again surprised her.

Jingzhe was truly talented!

Hence, she dared include Jingzhe’s complete participation and control in the plan against Manager Feng.

"How to intimidate him, how to make him leave?"

Dashu felt that Jingzhe’s tone was too confident.

What kind of place was Crispy Food Garden? It was visibly run by Manager Feng, yet deeply connected to the Zheng Family; it wasn’t easy to defeat.

If it were that easy to defeat, why had Yan Guan Town only had one pastry shop, Crispy Food Garden, for so many years?

Their Gu Family was from Qinghe Bay’s impoverished households, without a father, just relying on a widowed mother with several children, how could they fight Crispy Food Garden?

Jingzhe responded silently, then turned to Tong Huaqiong, "Mother, do you think my idea is correct?"

Tong Huaqiong nodded, saying, "Correct, absolutely correct."

Then she nudged Jingzhe, saying, "Your mind works incredibly well, no wonder the scholarly administrator praised your exam paper; I wouldn’t worry if you used your mind for upright endeavours."

Jingzhe lowered his head, saying, "Mother’s teachings are right."

Taohua became impatient, saying, "Why are we talking so much about this? We haven’t answered the second brother’s doubts about how to actually control Manager Feng?"

Taohua and Dashu exchanged a glance, questioning why Tong Huaqiong and Jingzhe were being sentimental now.

They just wanted to tackle Manager Feng, avenge the grudge from that day in the woods.

Taohua also needed to reclaim the suppressed feeling of losing the Taohua brand over the past three days.

"No rush, you’ll naturally understand when the time comes." Tong Huaqiong said.

It wasn’t that she intentionally kept Dashu and Taohua in suspense, but her plan wasn’t ready to be revealed to these two rash children.

She worried these two would prematurely leak it.

Tong Huaqiong glanced at Jingzhe, Jingzhe’s mouth curled into a smile, mother and son knew each other’s intentions.

"Second brother, just listen to me, keep close to Feng Chuan these days." Jingzhe said.

"Alright, I’ll follow my younger brother." Dashu nodded, firstly Tong Huaqiong didn’t oppose, secondly he felt Jingzhe was the smartest among the unruly ones in the family, listening to him was right.

Tong Huaqiong thought for a moment and glared at Dashu, saying, "Did you have any sinister thoughts at the casino? Didn’t throw a round?"

Dashu raised his hand and swore, "I swear to Dad I didn’t."

Tong Huaqiong chuckled; for someone addicted to gambling, not selling their own father for gambling money was good enough.

"Mother, second brother really didn’t." Jingzhe defended Dashu.

Tong Huaqiong knew Jingzhe wouldn’t deceive her.

She still wanted to intimidate Dashu a little.

Dashu was quick-witted; once Taohua Dessert opened, he needed to work as a clerk temporarily.

The casino was close to Rouge Alley, she truly worried Dashu couldn’t resist temptation.

She planned to use Feng Chuan’s gambling problem against Manager Feng while also giving Dashu a strong warning, completely eradicating his previous casual gambling notion, ideally leaving him a lifelong fear. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

If he couldn’t resist temptation later on, she’d certainly abandon this errant second son.

"Good, if you haven’t." Tong Huaqiong said casually.

Dashu was sweating with fear, he felt his mother was scarier than her past antics.

"Jingzhe, take a knife to town tomorrow. If your second brother shows any signs, cut off his finger." Tong Huaqiong instructed Jingzhe.

Jingzhe confirmed, saying, "Got it."

Dashu trembled, sensing finger pain.

He hadn’t gambled, only played for fun before. He had no doubt if he dared gamble now, his younger brother would unhesitatingly sever his finger, without even reporting to mother.

Too terrifying.

Seeing Dashu’s terrified expression, Tong Huaqiong felt satisfied.

She then shared with the brothers Ma Huateng’s agreement to sell her the shop; naturally, when she mentioned the shop was under her name, none of the brothers raised objections, believing the shop should belong to Tong Huaqiong.

Tong Huaqiong sighed; this was the good part about these two sons, they demonstrated a sense of blind filial piety towards her.

Blind filial piety was great; she wasn’t like Tong Dajiao exploiting their blind filial piety recklessly until losing her life; she’d only use it positively to guide these two morally dubious ones onto the right track.

Tong Dajiao’s spirit in heaven would certainly appreciate her.