Volume 3 The Storm Rises Chapter 192 The Son-in-law who is short of money
Wang Zhihao stared at Zhou Qiaoxin, who had just sat down, with bright eyes, and did not hide his appreciation, but in his heart he was thinking about how to deal with Shang Hui.
As Shang Hui said, although Wang Zhihao's father and Shang Hui's father belong to different camps, but those are all matters between the elders, and when the people of their generation grow up, who can say for sure what the situation will be at that time, maybe their alliance will be Shang Hui in front of him, so Shang Hui's words are not so easy to answer.
In fact, the matter started because of the head of the Heavenly Sword Academy, Li Jian, his daughter Li Zhen reached the age of leaving the cabinet, and he didn't know what he thought, but after mentioning this matter to Shang Peng, he mentioned it to Wang Liping, and Shang Peng, who was already preparing for the marriage, knew about it, and was so angry that he scolded Li Jian at home for being unrighteous, in order to compete for favor in front of the emperor, he played the despicable means of marrying one daughter and two marriages, and he strictly demanded Shang Hui that he must marry Li Zhen home, so as to make him feel bad in his heart.
The two who were in a dilemma this time were Shang Hui and Wang Zhihao, the two who had a good relationship might tear their faces because of this matter and completely turn against each other, which is neither what Shang Hui wants to see, nor what Wang Zhihao thinks, so after Shang Hui sent an invitation to Wang Zhihao, Wang Zhihao did not hesitate to come to the appointment, in order to be able to resolve the current passive situation of the two.
Retracting his gaze, Wang Zhihao opened his mouth and said: "My Fair Lady, the gentleman is good, Brother Shang, let's rely on our own abilities, is it okay to gamble and lose?"
"Okay! wait for Brother Wang's words, haha!" Shang Hui slapped the table, and his voice was a little louder, which attracted everyone's attention.
"I don't know why Shang Gongzi is so happy?" Hu Yu, who had just sat down, opened his mouth to ask, and the conversation between Shang Hui and Wang Zhihao just now was not loud, but he did not hear it.
Shang Hui and Wang Zhihao discussed something naturally impossible for Hu Yu to know, I saw Shang Hui smile slightly, pointed to Youjie and Youman, who were still standing in the center of the arena, and said: "Hehe, Brother Hu, I just discussed the dancing skills of the two girls with Brother Wang, and I was a little louder, but I disturbed you, I'm really sorry." β
Hu Yu laughed, and said to Youjie and Youman: "The two sisters are really fortunate to be praised by Shang Gongzi and Wang Gongzi, although the kid also likes you very much, but tonight I have to endure the pain of cutting love, you don't want to treat the two sons well, just now I heard the two sons on the next terrace and said that I want to reward you." β
Shang Hui and Wang Zhihao glanced at each other, and then said, "Brother Wang, Brother Hu is in the army of you and me." β
Wang Zhihao waved his hand nonchalantly, and after Youman knelt down beside him, he took out a silver ticket with a face value of fifty taels from his arms, and then handed it to Youman's eyes very heroically, and said loudly: "Reward, of course reward!"
Looking at the silver ticket in front of him, Youman's face showed an unconcealable joy, and he hurriedly reached out to take the silver ticket handed over by Wang Zhihao, and secretly glanced at Youjie who looked at him with envy.
Seeing that Youman put away the silver ticket, Wang Zhihao knocked on the small square table that was still empty, and said to Hu Yu: "Brother Hu, can you say that fifty taels of silver can't buy a glass of wine to drink?"
Hu Yu patted his head, quickly stood up, and said apologetically to Wang Zhihao and Shang Hui: "Look at my brain, I really neglected the two sons." β
After saying that, he shouted loudly outside the curtain: "Come on, why don't you serve wine and food quickly." β
Seeing that Wang Zhihao rewarded fifty taels of silver as soon as he made a move, Shang Hui was a little embarrassed, not that he Shang Hui was reluctant to reward silver, but that he really couldn't take out so much silver now.
Because Dacheng has clear regulations, from the second rank and above, the lord will get a fiefdom and be given a title, and the different levels of the title are divided into two ways: demoted hereditary and hereditary, so the person who obtains the title needs to designate a close blood of his own to inherit his title, and the designated person cannot enter the office or engage in business and production before obtaining the title, so although Shang Hui is the son of the prime minister and the heir of the Ming Shan Gong, he can only enjoy the superficial glory, and there is no actual benefit, and all his current expenses are from the Shangfu monthly allocation to him of the regular money, but there is no other source of incomeγ
And Shang Hui made friends again, and he was kind and charitable, where was the monthly money enough for his usual expenses, so he usually drank and held banquets in designated places, because these places could keep bills and accounts, and the consumption was recorded in the name of Shangfu.
Take the consumption in this Lin Youlou as an example, every time Shang Hui is the account of the Shang Mansion, at the end of the month, there will be an account room to settle the account, and he does not need to pay the account in advance, and his own money is used to reward tips, and most of them are three or five taels of rewards, where is like Wang Zhihao, a shot is dozens of taels.
Now that it is the end of the month, Shang Hui's regular money has already been spent by him, and there are less than a dozen taels of silver left in his pocket.
After Xiao Er brought up the wine, Shang Hui hurriedly picked up the cup and poured a glass of wine himself, and then drank it all, but it was a little bit like a stuffy wine, and now this person was thrown to his grandmother's house.
Wang Zhihao discovered Shang Hui's abnormality, turned his head to Shang Hui and said, "Brother Shang, what's the matter? Why do you drink alone?"
Wang Zhihao didn't know that his casual actions were another Shanghui in a predicament, although he also said that he also had a title to inherit, living on regular money, but on weekdays he stayed in the mansion more, studying qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, and he was not very interested in this fireworks alley willow land, so he rarely needed to spend money, in his opinion, rewarding these geisha is just to fight for a face, of course, you have to be generous, if not the largest denomination in his pocket is fifty taels of silver tickets, if there is a larger denomination of silver tickets, he will not hesitate to take out the reward, in his opinion, dozens of hundreds of taels of silver are just some small money, because he never worries about money, it's not that he deliberately wants to embarrass Shang Hui.
In Wang Zhihao's cognition, Shang Hui should be the same kind of person as him, so the more he rewards, the more he can show his pride, his original idea was to fight back against Hu Yu, but he didn't expect to accidentally hurt Shang Hui.
Seeing that Wang Zhihao didn't seem to be a fake, but really didn't know his current predicament, Shang Hui could only knock out his teeth and swallow it in his stomach.
Although Youjie didn't receive Shang Hui's reward, there was a little bit of loss in his heart, but whether to reward or not depends on the mood of the guest officers, and in most cases, the guest officers will not give the reward, so there is nothing to complain about.
Poured a full wine for Shang Hui, picked up the grapes on the table obediently, and peeled them one by one, looking like a virtuous wife, serving her father-in-law without the slightest complaint.
Shang Hui opened his mouth to take the grapes fed by Youjie, a very rare expression of embarrassment appeared on his face, after spitting out the grape seeds, Shang Hui gritted his teeth, took off the white jade wrench in his hand, and then hugged Youjie's waist and put the wrench finger into Youjie's palm.
Although Shang Hui was very reluctant in his heart, he still pretended to be casual and said: "Youjie, right? Today's dance is really good, why have I never seen you before? This wrench should be put away, and it will be regarded as a meeting gift for you." β
The warm and clear wrench finger still has Shang Hui's residual warmth, and when she saw that this wrench was not ordinary, she raised her head suspiciously, although she likes silver money, but some things are not so easy to take, just like this jade wrench, it is not something that can be bought by dozens of taels of silver.
Wang Zhihao also looked at Shang Hui with a puzzled face, silver money is just a small thing for him, and personal items are different, people who can give away personal items must be extremely close to people, but he didn't say anything, what Shang Hui sent out, it was not his turn to discipline, but if he wanted to break his scalp, he would not think that the dignified Shang Mansion Shang Gongzi would worry about the silver money, and sending out the wrench was just to resolve his embarrassment.
However, Shang Xiaoyu, who was sitting opposite, couldn't sit still after seeing Shang Hui send out the jade wrench, his face was obviously resentful, the jade wrench was given to Shang Hui by him, and now Shang Hui actually wanted to give it to a Qinglou woman, and he didn't care if he would reveal his identity at the moment, after letting go of Youna, he picked up the wine glass and walked in front of Shang Hui, looked at the jade wrench in Youjie's hand, and then turned his head to stare at Shang Hui and said: " Brother Shang, this jade wrench is brought by our eldest master, and it is not suitable for you to give it to Youjie girl, but the younger brother likes this wrench very much, why don't you sell it to the younger brother?"
"What does Brother Li mean by this? I have already given it to Miss Youjie, does it mean that Brother Li thinks that I am still missing that little bit of silver?"
Although Shang Hui is indeed very short of silver taels at present, but giving the jade wrench finger and selling the jade wrench are two different concepts, and besides, he has already given the jade wrench to Youjie, how can there be any reason to take it back and sell it to Shang Xiaoyu? Isn't this deliberately embarrassing him? In addition, he always feels that Shang Xiaoyu has bad intentions, so his tone has become a little cold.