Chapter 70: Counting Higher
He Linwan and Zhao Qingqing sat by the window on the second floor of the cyclamen teahouse, listening to the people below talking from the Wei family's shop about the Wei family's grievances in the back house, all of which were a good big family of the Wei family, and this kind of thing happened because they married an unvirtuous woman.
Zhao Qingqing looked at He Linwan, who was indifferent to the excitement, and couldn't stop laughing: "This is the method you came up with? It's really very happy! With such a show, even if the Wei family wants to use the matter of the store to say that you are not filial, no one will stand on their side, but it will be a disaster." ”
He Lin saw that the dust had settled on the outside later, so he withdrew his gaze and concentrated on tasting tea, and said with a smile: "Sister Zhao doesn't think I spent too much money?"
Zhao Qingqing glanced at He Linwan obliquely: "What is the price of this? You can't fool others but you can't fool me! As long as these four shops are here, what are those things? Although it is half of the rice grain and medicinal herbs, the speed of the goods in the shops on Zhengyang Street is so fast, what is the half of it? It will not take half a year to earn it back. Because of this, the shops on Zhengyang Street will be hard to find. Speaking of which, the most valuable thing about these four shops is the location they occupy, as well as the source of customers and drinks accumulated over the years, otherwise you wouldn't rather come up with such a troublesome trick than sell the shop. ”
He Linwan couldn't help but shake his head and smiled: "Sister Zhao really deserves to be a businessman. ”
Zhao Qingqing shook the fan in his hand with a smile, and then said with some curiosity: "It's just that you guys are tearing your face with the Wei family like this? ”
He Linwan lowered his head and took a sip of tea, and said in a shallow tone: "There are many kinds of mother's family. There are those who can be counted on, and there are those who cannot be counted on. When there is no continuation, it will be disturbed. ”
Zhao Qingqing slapped the table heavily when she heard this, and said with a smile: "Okay! I like my sister's courage not to lose to men!"
He Linwan blinked when he heard this: "However, Sister Zhao, believe it or not, after this episode, the Wei family will not dare to tear up their faces with my mother, but will be in a hurry to mend the relationship." ”
Zhao Qingqing was stunned when she heard this, and after thinking about it carefully, she immediately understood, and couldn't help laughing: "Okay, you sister He." That's true. Unless the Wei family really wants to confirm their greed for dowry, they can only endure this breath. ”
He Linwan smiled faintly: "We just need to maintain a superficial relationship, as for what they think in their hearts, what does it have to do with my mother?"
Zhao Qingqing nodded thoughtfully: "What Sister He said is extremely true. ”
He Linwan looked at Zhao Qingqing. joked: "It is said that family ugliness should not be publicized." Today, I can expose a family scandal in front of Sister Zhao again. That's a big loss. ”
Zhao Qingqing couldn't laugh again, and then also winked at He Linwan, pretending to be mysterious: "Since that's the case." Then I also exposed a family scandal, how about it as a flattening?"
He Linwan thought that Zhao Qingqing was joking with herself, so she made a gesture of deafness: "Let's talk about it first." ”
Zhao Qingqing thought for a while, shook the fan and chuckled: "I didn't come to greet you when you came to the teahouse last time, do you know why?"
He Lin said lately: "I heard the shopkeeper say that your cousin came to Beijing from Jinan?"
Zhao Qingqing nodded, still smiling and said lightly: "Uncle Cousin came here to tell me that the clansmen spent a lot of money to buy me the identity of the adopted daughter of the prefect and the prefect, and planned to let me participate in this year's draft and enter the palace as a mother." ”
He Linwan was shocked when he heard this: "Sister Zhao, you want to enter the palace, but why you? You must be the only girl in your clan, right?"
Zhao Qingqing touched his face with a smile and sighed: "No way, no one makes them inferior to my natural beauty." They think I have the face of a favorite concubine. But ......" Zhao Qingqing snorted coldly instead, smiling and mocking, "If I'm not happy, I'll see how they force me to comply." ”
He Linwan comforted Zhao Qingqing and said: "Although according to the regulations, the daughters of the families above the fifth grade must participate in the election, but this dynasty is not strict with the draft, except for a few women who have already decided that they must enter the palace, if other officials and dependents do not want to enter the palace, they can report illness or get engaged to another marriage. ”
Zhao Qingqing smiled at He Linwan and said, "Don't worry, I know it in my heart." ”
He Linwan was chatting with Zhao Qingqing here, and Master Wei was sent back to the Wei family by Steward Lin.
Mrs. Wei and Mrs. Yao were startled when they saw that Mr. Wei was helped back by two people.
"Master, what's wrong with you, master?" Yao shouted as he threw himself on the side of the bed and cried.
Master Wei waved his hand palely, unwilling to speak.
Steward Lin, who came back with Master Wei, said: "Brother-in-law, I was so angry that I was angry and hated, and I was very angry for a while, but the doctor said that there was no big problem. ”
Old Madam Wei came over and said hurriedly: "What's not a big deal! You used to have heartaches from time to time, where is the problem of internal organs a trivial matter? Mama Xia hurriedly sent someone to invite the Tang Imperial Doctor, who was familiar with us. Even if Zhenniang sent someone to the shop today, you shouldn't have made such a big liver fire!"
The Wei family also got some news, but none of them expected the direction of the matter, and they didn't know that the people on Zhengyang Street now knew about it.
Steward Lin immediately told everything that happened today, and when he heard that the four shops had been taken over by Wei's people, Yao was the first to shout in a sharp voice: "What? That little slut! How dare she!"
Old Madam Wei was also stunned for a long time, then sighed and sat aside a little tiredly.
Yao was still there and said to Steward Lin: "Why don't you stop her! Why did you let her people into the shop? Won't you find someone to blow them out?"
Old Man Wei, who was sitting on the bed, said angrily: "That's not her person! It's the person who requisitioned and lost the treasury by the imperial court! Do you know what the crime of blocking the person who requisitioned the depot is?"
Yao Shi was anxious for a while, and said: "It's just a little yamen with no taste, master, you are a third-grade official of the imperial court, and they dare to punish you?"
Master Wei has nowhere to go: "Shut up! A woman's opinion! On weekdays, it's good to say that this is just wartime, and it is treason to obstruct the imperial court from collecting grain and grass! Don't say that I am just a third-grade official, even when the imperial master says that his house is raided, his house will be raided." ”
Yao Shi was taken aback, and some didn't believe it: "This, so serious?"
Wei Shengwen clutched his chest and said angrily: "What do you think! If you can, do you think I don't want to kick them out?"
Yao's face was very ugly, and he said gloomily: "In this case, our Wei family doesn't recognize her as a daughter anymore, master, you quickly remove her from the clan and drive her out of the Wei family! I see that she has no mother's family, how will her husband's family be spurned in the future." ”
Before Wei Shengwen could speak, Old Madam Wei said angrily: "Shut up! You stupid woman! If you want to watch my son lose his official position, the future of the next generation of the Wei family is gone, you can just pry my son to exterminate Zhenniang!"
Yao didn't believe it, thinking that Mrs. Wei was reluctant to give up her granddaughter: "Mother, does that little slut regard this place as her mother's home, but has she ever cared about you and the old man? What are you still protecting her for? Why don't you spread the news that her father is angry and ruined her reputation, so what can she do in the future except rely on her mother's family? When the time comes, if she doesn't return all the shops, she will be expelled from the Wei family! I don't believe that she won't give in!"
Old Madam Wei didn't pay attention to Yao's family, but said to Wei Shengwen with a cold face: "At the beginning, I didn't agree with you marrying a fool who was good for nothing but a face, you had to marry in life or death, and for this reason, she was angry with the mother of the virgin mother, and now it is really the news of the world, and the reputation of the Wei family has ruined her, and she is so stupid that she can't see the situation clearly!"
Yao had never heard Mrs. Wei say such heavy words to herself, so she couldn't help but be stunned, and after she reacted, she threw herself to Master Wei and cried: "I'm not alive anymore! I've been giving birth to your Wei family, making cows and horses for so many years, and if you have such a thing as your mother, you still divorce me! If you divorce me, I will immediately break a rope and break myself......"
Wei Shengwen looked at Yao's crying in front of him, if he had coaxed before, but today's anger in his heart has not subsided, Yao's making such a fuss made him very upset, so he pushed Yao away.
Yao looked at Wei Shengwen in amazement.
Wei Shengwen said irritably: "What are you making trouble! Mother is really right when she says that you are stupid! Didn't I kick my daughter out of the Wei family at this time and have a grudge against the rumor that the store was asked to go back? Even if I am not afraid of rumors from outside, should I have any scruples about those imperial histories that I will participate in when I look at the wind? Zhen Niang has donated a huge amount of money to the imperial court, and it is estimated that she will be rewarded by the palace, do I want to go against Your Majesty and the lady in the palace?"
Yao couldn't help but be stunned: "Then, then we have no way to take her?"
Old Madam Wei closed her eyes, and said in a complicated tone: "It's strange that Zhenniang borrowed this Shang Fang sword too well this time, the prince of heaven and earth is the teacher, and the king is in front of the relatives, at this time, even if we accuse her of disrespecting the elders, she also has the name of a loyal monarch in front of her, even the imperial history will be on her side, but it will make Shengwen be questioned for this." ”
Wei Shengwen gritted his teeth and said: "I knew that she was so cunning, I shouldn't have let her give birth in the first place, and sure enough, like her mother, she is a scheming person." ”
Only then did Yao understand the situation, knowing that these four profitable shops were really no longer his own, so he couldn't help but weaken his legs and turn pale.
In fact, the annual income of these shops is several percent more than what she asked Steward Lin to report to Mrs. Wei, and she has made a lot of private money for herself through the convenience of her cousin's shop over the years.
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Solve the scum, hurry up and vote for our wise and martial girl...... O(∩_∩)O
(To be continued......)