Chapter 290: A Plan Within a Plan

Rather than saying that Xie Zhan accompanied Chen Baozhu back to her parents' home, it would be better to say that he sent her back on the way.

Originally, Xie Zhan had to go to Chen's house almost every day to help Chen Jiaye deal with the affairs of the Chen family. And he went there rain or shine, without a single day of slacking off.

Chen Jiaye was very satisfied with him and felt that it was the right thing for the Chen family to recruit him as a son-in-law.

When they arrived at Chen's house, it was almost noon and Chen's house was just setting up dinner, so they sat down to eat together.

There was a fish dish in the meal prepared by Chen's mother, which was placed right in front of Chen Baozhu. She couldn't help but feel sick and wanted to vomit when she smelled the fishy smell.

Not long after, the doctor who was invited diagnosed that Chen Baozhu was more than a month pregnant.

Everyone present was very happy to hear this.

After dinner, Chen Jiaye and Xie Zhan went to the study to discuss matters.

As soon as he entered and the door was closed, Chen Jiaye couldn't wait to ask, "Ah Zhan, what's the situation on Xiao Zhuya Island?"

Xie Zhan came back from Zhuya Island last night. In fact, Chen Jiaye had already learned the results from his cousin Chen Jiayu who went to Zhuya Island with him, but he still wanted to hear Xie Zhan's personal account.

Xie Zhan knew that he was asking about the gold mine found in the Chen family's territory on Zhuya Island.

For some reason, he was very knowledgeable about gold mines.

When he got the Chen family's information about Xiao Zhuya Island, he felt something was wrong. When he was arranging the site later, he went to Xiao Zhuya Island in person and found a gold mine there.

After Xie Zhan's on-site survey, he concluded that the gold mine would not be very large and the quality was average. He did not hide this matter and told Chen Jiaye, so he gained his full trust.

After Chen Jiaye learned the news, he secretly sent people to survey secretly, but the answer he got was that the quality of the gold mine was not ideal and the entire mine would not be very large.

Chen Jiaye was not satisfied with this answer. He thought that the gold mine was discovered by Xie Zhan, so he arranged for Xie Zhan to go to Xiaozhuya Island for investigation.

In response to Chen Jiaye's question, Xie Zhan shook his head and said, "I can't see it, but Master Ma and the others are experienced. It shouldn't be wrong to listen to them, right?"

After Xie Zhan said this, he shut up. How to decide is completely left to Chen Jiaye.

Chen Jiaye sighed in his heart that the children of the rich families are knowledgeable and can even discover gold mines.

Looking at others and then looking at his youngest son, Chen Jiaye was very upset.

Fortunately, Xie Zhan is now his son-in-law, and can be regarded as a half-son. Thinking of this, Chen Jiaye felt a little relieved.

But Chen Jiaye was only happy for a while. Thinking of Xiaozhuya Island, he sighed, put his hands behind his back, and walked around in the study.

At the beginning, Xie Zhan needed such a place to implement the plan for their Chen family.

He thought of Xiaozhuya Island in Zhuyazhou at that time.

The plan had been made at that time. Xie Zhan went to investigate the terrain and accidentally discovered a gold mine in their territory!

When Xie Zhan reported the situation, he had never expected that the land of their Chen family on Zhuya Island would contain such a big surprise.

By the way, this place was obtained for their Chen family when Xue Guangxian was there. At that time, Xue Guangxian strongly wanted them to take over Xiao Zhuya Island, and gave up other interests for this.

God knows, when he learned about this big surprise, he almost fainted.

Unfortunately, the gold mine is not big and the quality is not ideal.

So, what should he choose next?

Discovering the gold mine and submitting it to the court is also a merit.

But because the gold mine is not big and the quality is poor, even if it is reported to the emperor, the merit will not be great.

So, are they now directly reporting the gold mine discovered on Zhuya Island to the court? Or are they carrying out the original plan, but just changing the bait to a more fragrant small gold mine?

Now their plan can be changed to use the gold mine of Zhuya Island to lure the Zhu family into the trap and get a sum of money.

After the payment, later on, they will report the Zhu family's private mining of gold to the emperor to gain merit. When the emperor deals with the Zhu family, the Chen family, which is ready to go, can quickly erode the power zone and market share vacated by the Zhu family after the fall of the Zhu family, thereby strengthening the Chen family.

If the plan goes well, their Chen family can eat up half of the Zhu family, and then it is not impossible to be compared with the Gu and Lu families.

Chen Jiaye didn't know that his original plan was just a part of Xie Zhan's plan.

Xie Zhan sat aside, watching his nose and his heart, occasionally sipping a sip of tea. On the surface, he didn't care about it and left it to Chen Jiaye to decide.

However, he was counting silently in his heart.

Xie Zhan was gambling, gambling on Chen Jiaye's ambition.

Chen Jiaye made a decision quickly, "Let's execute it according to the plan."

Hearing this, Xie Zhan's heart burst into a flower, obviously, he bet right.

"At present, all the layouts before launching the plan have been arranged."

"Then let's start the plan. You will be in charge of the follow-up matters. You know what kind of result I want."

Xie Zhan: "Don't worry, father-in-law, I will arrange it. After this is done, father-in-law, don't forget the previous promise."

Chen Jiaye smiled and patted his shoulder, "Don't worry. You are my son-in-law, we are all family, I will not treat you unfairly."

Suddenly, Chen Jiaye asked a very abrupt question, "I heard that you and Lu Yuan's daughter Lu Fei met alone in Jingci Temple?"

Xie Zhan frowned, "That day, Zhao's stomach was uncomfortable, and my mother said it was a collision. Later, I accompanied my mother to Jingci Temple to ask for a peace amulet for her and the child in her belly."

"At that time, the horses in the carriage that Miss Lu was riding in were frightened, and she was about to fall out of the carriage, so I had to ask someone to rescue her. After Miss Lu was rescued, she came to thank me. That's probably what happened."

Chen Jiaye nodded and let the matter go, because he found out that it was indeed the case.

"But father-in-law, this matter was an accident, and I can use Lu Fei..." Xie Zhan roughly told him about his next move.

Chen Jiaye nodded, "You can do it, everything depends on our plan."

When Xie Zhan came out of the Chen Mansion, it was afternoon, and the sun was dazzling.

Before walking out of the Chen family's gate, he squinted his eyes and looked at the scorching sun, his eyes were as sharp as an eagle looking for food.