Chapter 136: Encountering Old Acquaintances in a Foreign Country
Jiang Li understood a little: "Is he in trouble?" Could it be that someone from the imperial court came down and happened to find the head of the surname Zhang? ”
"Probably not. Although the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info had been rumored to send someone to the capital a few months ago, it was impossible not to get a little news in advance with the network of the surname Zhang. Today's auction was booked in advance, and just yesterday, I personally checked with his brother-in-law, when Mr. Zhang was drinking upstairs with his brother-in-law, and he personally replied that the auction would be held as usual. "Shopkeeper Ding is still very sure.
Jiang Li smiled, "Then do you think the man in green shirt next to Zhang Tuiguan looks like an official sent by the imperial court?" ”
"It doesn't look like it. The man was more like a down-and-out charlatan. However, in these years, people cannot be judged by their appearance. "Shopkeeper Ding knows countless people, and his self-confidence is poisonous.
As far as Jiang Li knew, the eldest brother of the Fan family did not hold an official position in the imperial court.
Therefore, Jiang Li is not sure what he said: "It is difficult to say whether he was sent by the imperial court, but the man's father and younger brother are both officials in the imperial court." His father's official position was not low. ”
Sixi interjected: "It's not low." First did Hanlin, and then raised a few levels in a row. Half a month before we left Beijing, we officially sat in the position of governor and temporarily replaced the former prime minister of Qin. ”
Sixi, who has been walking around the capital, knows a lot, and Jiang Li, the old man of the Fan family, has been promoted to prime minister for the first time today. So I was surprised and casually asked, "Really?" I didn't even know. ”
"We all knew that we thought that the master didn't want to hear from the Fan family anymore, so we didn't say it." Xiao Xiang said from Lijiang's side.
Jiang Li smiled. Her two sisters, as the daughters-in-law of the prime minister of the Fan family, followed suit. But these riches are better than being a rich man now.
Shopkeeper Ding was shocked when he heard this: "So the man in the green shirt is the son of the new prime minister?" This sucks! He was caught red-handed by the surname Zhang for selling a large number of iron tools, and the unlucky person surnamed Zhang was sentenced to death. ”
Jiang Li snorted coldly: "Mei Xianju provided them with a venue, but let's open the door to do business, don't steal or rob, can't we still pick up customers outside the door." The imperial court has allowed the people below to buy and sell for many years, but there is something wrong with the people who do business in our duty. ”
You have to be calm after saying that something really happened here, and the court will not reason with small businessmen and share responsibilities. Jiang Li calmly thought about discussing with the shopkeeper Ding: "While the auction has not started yet, and the brother-in-law surnamed Zhang has not yet come, you can send a guy to the door to stop his brother-in-law and ask him to change the quotation." I'll lure the man in green shirt away, and then you can ask a guy to quietly reveal the news to the official surnamed Zhang, so that he won't be able to match the caliber temporarily. ”
The crime surnamed Zhang deserves death, even if there is no accident in Mei Xianju, people can catch evidence elsewhere.
"It's good, but where do we let him change it for the time being? If the man in the green shirt came prepared, someone must have guarded the door. Shopkeeper Ding said.
"I have." Jiang Li took out a thick stack from his sleeve. When she went out of Beijing, she was going to open many textile workshops and brocade workshops, and she needed to quote for buying and selling silk and satin, especially for weaving gold brocade.
Jiang Li took out a part of the thick stack, "Take some to him." Since the imperial court set up the brocade silk courtyard, the more expensive brocade is exclusively for the royal family, although it is a new rule, and the penalty will not be very heavy if something happens, but it really has to be traced down, so that my new workshop can not be opened, but the gains outweigh the losses. ”
Shopkeeper Ding took the voucher and handed it to a guy, who quickly went to the door to wait for someone.
Shopkeeper Ding arranged one side, and immediately made another difficulty: "I'm afraid it's not easy to lead away the man in the green shirt." ”
"Let me try." Jiang Li said and got up to pick up the pen.
She is also acquainted with the eldest brother of the Fan family, and the death of those brocade weavers before leaving Beijing has not yet been resolved, she asked someone to send Fan Yancheng the plum blossom needle of the Seven Poisons Sect at that time, and he should have questions to ask himself as a person from the Shadowless Gate.
"I think he'll be happy to ask about the Seven Poisons Sect."
After Jiang Li finished speaking, he picked up a pen and wrote a few words, handed the note to the guy, and told the guy to go over there and ask for someone.
Jiang Li stood at the window and saw the guy walking over.
The guy walked over. Usually looking at the arrogant Lord Zhang, he sat beside the man in the green shirt in fear, and the guy called out to Master Zhang diligently, and then handed the note in Jiang Li's hand to Fan Yancheng.
Fan Yancheng glanced at it quickly, looked up in surprise, and followed the man's finger to see Jiang Li standing in the window opposite him.
"What's wrong?" The woman beside him asked in a soft voice.
Fan Yancheng said: "I didn't expect her to be here." ”
"Who?"
"The ninth lady of the Jiang family who was engaged to the third brother." Fan Yancheng frowned, "This girl looks quiet, but she is a troublemaker." According to us, she's in trouble right now. ”
"She's asking us for help?" Woman questioned.
"It's not." Fan Yancheng took the woman's hand and got up, and glanced coldly at the fat-brained guy beside him, "Master Zhang, you'd better sit honestly, I'll come when I go." ”
"Eh! I must sit honestly and not go anywhere. Please rest assured. The head surnamed Zhang nodded like a chicken pecking rice.
The woman followed Fan Yancheng and walked a few steps, reminding in a low voice: "Aren't you afraid that he will leak the news?" Why don't I stare here? ”
Fan Yancheng glanced at the guy leading the way in front of him, and lowered his voice: "There are our people staring outside, and he can't deliver the news." Besides, the girl of the Jiang family is very sharp-toothed, and she is much more profitable than this corrupt official. I don't want to grind my teeth with her, you women talk to each other, it's best to get some useful news for the third brother. ”
Fan Yancheng entered the Wuyingmen to practice martial arts when he was a child, the woman was his junior sister, and the two made a private lifelong agreement, but brought it back to Beijing but his mother disliked it, and reluctantly let his junior sister make a side room.
This time, it was originally the task of the third brother Fan Sicheng to come out to investigate the reselling of evidence, but the third brother supported him, the eldest brother, and forcibly stuffed him with the identity of an adjutant.
As for Fan Sicheng, according to him, the eighth prince gave him a more important task, so he hurried to Jiangnan to carry it out. A few months before leaving, he had been sending people to keep an eye on Jiang Li, and according to Fan Yancheng's understanding, the matter that the third brother wanted to investigate had something to do with this Miss Jiu of the Jiang family, plus the matter of the Seven Poisons Sect, so he decided to meet Jiang Li.
The man led them around the corridor and walked towards the No. 1 room.
Jiang Li stood at the window and saw Fan Yancheng get up, and said, "He's coming this way." ”
Shopkeeper Ding quickly arranged for the remaining guy to talk to Zhang Tuiguan.
"Uncle Ding, go down too. It's best not to let people know about my relationship with Mei Xianju. Jiang Li stared at the movement in the commercial building, and when he came into contact with Qiu Shuang and the young man's surprised gaze, he bowed slightly.
Shopkeeper Ding answered. The fact that there is too much to arrange.
"Zhao San, you go and walk around outside the door, if Fan Gongzi is really sent by the imperial court, there should be officers and soldiers in ambush outside now. If not, maybe we are too worried, maybe Fan Gongzi is just passing by. Zhao San didn't say anything after hearing this.
"I'll go too." Sixi said, "If it's a false alarm, I'll get back the evidence that my master sent out." ”
There was a knock on the door outside. Jiang Li's brain was not enough, so he nodded and responded to the four joys.
Sixi stepped forward to open the door, and when Fan Yancheng and the two entered the house, Sixi went downstairs.
Fan Yancheng walked in, and saw Jiang Li, who was dressed in plain white men's clothes, standing up respectfully, and standing beside her was a gray-clothed guy with long hands and long feet, not slender and not weak.
"Brother Fan." Jiang Li gave a generous gift.
Fan Yancheng returned the salute, still cold. He is used to seeing his daughter's family wearing men's clothes on the rivers and lakes, but the girl of the Jiang family guards the days of peace and wealth, but she has to come out to provoke right and wrong, the Seven Poisons Sect is also okay, and there are those reckless people in Qingfeng Village. Fan Yancheng felt sorry for his third brother when he thought about it. Therefore, he couldn't put on a good face to Jiang Li.
Jiang Li didn't care about his cold face, thinking that he could drag him down and say that it would be done for a while. If it weren't for her ulterior motives, she wouldn't have taken the initiative to greet the people of the Fan family.
Thinking of this, she warmly greeted the woman next to Boss Fan: "Dare to ask what this sister is called?" ”
"My name is Yuanbi. I'm glad you can call me sister. The woman smiled affectionately at Jiang Li, her eyes were clear, her appearance was clear and her demeanor was gentle, which made people feel familiar at first sight.
"Then I'll call you Sister Yuanbi, and you call me by my name, Jiang Li." Jiang Li seemed to have a good impression of Yuan Bi, and stepped forward to take Yuan Bi's hand.
The two women clearly met for the first time, but they sat down affectionately hand in hand.
Fan Yancheng raised his eyebrows, and there were so many benefits to having Yuanbi by his side. His eyes swept to Zhang Tuiguan opposite, a guy was filling him with tea, he was obviously very thirsty, and he drank a cup and asked for another cup. The guy turned around and walked away, looking like nothing was wrong.
Fan Yancheng turned his head, "Miss Jiang, tell me something quickly, I still have friends waiting over there." ”
"It doesn't matter. First, I want to ask you about the plum blossom needle, and second, I want to say hello to you when I meet my old acquaintance in a foreign country. Jiang Li also watched the movement over there. The goal was achieved, and my heart was relaxed.
Fan Yancheng replied honestly: "I know that the plum blossom needles belong to the Seven Poisons Sect, but we have not found any trace of them. Even if we know that Qin Yuanhua instigated it, we can't catch the evidence. ”
"However, I've heard that the Seven Poisons Sect has a bounty for catching you. They want to arrest you, and I can find out the people of the Seven Poisons Sect by following your clue. Fan Yancheng said.
Jiang Li saw that his eyes were blazing, there was no schadenfreude, no care, only the calmness of the bystanders. Knowing that the Shadowless Sect had always been incompatible with the Seven Poisons Sect, he might be really using himself as bait when he said this.