Chapter 8 Prepare, Young Master Enters the Casino!
It turns out that Lie'er Wang Qiang is a native of Huaiyuan City, and his family has been rich since he was a child.
When Wang Qiang's father was alive, he operated several businesses related to silk cloth in the area of Qidang Street, and the Wang family was also a well-known and wealthy family.
When Wang Qiang was fifteen years old, one evening, a foreign merchant who had been in and out of the store all year round suddenly transported a huge amount of silk and satin cloth.
It is an old customer for many years, and it is late, Wang Qiang's father only checked a few bundles of brocade on the surface, and found no problems, so the two sides said that they would immediately take stock of the goods and settle the settlement when they opened the store in Tianming.
This time, the quality of the merchant's goods is very high, and the price is extremely low, Wang Qiang's father moved his mind and was ready to borrow money to eat it all, if this transaction is completed, the profit will be enough for the expenses of several stores for two years.
Who would have thought that disaster would fall from the sky, and that night the warehouse of the Wang's family was burned down by a bizarre fire, not only the original goods were lost ninety percent, but the so-called high-quality silk cloth newly entered the store was even more lost and turned into ashes.
The foreign business traveler immediately changed his face, not only did the six relatives not admit that they were not accommodating, but also said that the price of the high-quality goods should be compensated at a price much higher than the market price, and even forced the Wang family to repay the money immediately, otherwise they would be sent to the official for disposal.
Wang Qiang's father was in a hurry and couldn't afford to get sick, and it was difficult for the family to sell their property and not be able to repay the losses of all parties.
Those real estate and jewelry that are not easy to sell or have no one to take over for a while have to be mortgaged in the rising store and exchanged for silver taels.
I don't know what the reason is, except for Yue Ji Qisheng store, other Qisheng shops seem to make an appointment and generally do not trade with the Wang family, in desperation, the Wang family was Yue Ji Qisheng store at an inhumane low price, taking away most of the real estate and almost all valuable objects.
In the process of this difficult negotiation, foreign business travelers continued to press step by step, and even did not hesitate to buy the government for the record and issue an ultimatum.
As a last resort, Wang Qiang's father had no choice but to take out a loan to warm up the money for emergency, and this time it was even worse, except for the old store of the Zhang family that was willing to let go of the warm money, the rest of the families avoided it like a plague.
In the end, Wang Qiang's father could only use the "ten days and three percent" profits, which set the highest record in the history of the street, to borrow the recovery money to pay the business travel and the government.
It wasn't until he worked hard to suppress this trouble that he found that the pawn money he got from Yue Ji's ascension store was not even enough to repay the principal of the borrowed money, let alone the high scary and staggering interest.
Seeing that he could only sell the only remaining old house and ancestral old shop, his wife and children no longer even had a foothold to shelter from the wind and rain, Wang Qiang's father became ill and died, and Wang Qiangniang couldn't resist the pain of losing her husband repeatedly, and committed suicide by hanging herself that night.
Since then, Wang Qiang has been considered to have lost his family and has nothing, but he was only 15 years old at the time.
The entire Qidang Street knew that the Yue and Zhang families were jointly engaged in foreign business travel, but no one dared to be angry and dared not speak.
After that, I finally met a kind person and arranged for Wang Qiang to join the army, and he would not starve to death when he was a soldier, as for whether Wang Qiang would lose his life because of the war, it all depended on his own creation.
"Lose all conscience, deceive people too much!"
Hearing Wang Qiang finish telling the ins and outs, Zhifeng scolded angrily, his face was gloomy, and his eyes were as sharp as real arrows, and he could kill people in the air at any time.
Grievances and hatred poured into my heart, and the tragic situation of my own family was remembered in my mind, and Wang Qiang, who had been seriously injured on the battlefield several times and had never shouted half a word of bitterness, had already cried tears and wept silently.
After a pause for a long time, Wang Qiang barely suppressed his sadness, and then continued, "Two years later, I met another well-informed fellow villager in Shiwuli, and I finally knew all the hidden secrets of the year!" ”
"It turns out that those so-called high-quality silk fabrics have never existed at all, and the foreign merchants only put the top two layers of each cart of goods on the real products, and the rest are tattered and tattered cloths mixed with flammable materials."
"They calculated that the goods would be purchased at dusk, and it was late at night when they arrived at the warehouse, so they didn't have time to carefully inspect them. In addition, the two sides are also acquaintances who have dealt with each other for many years, and the goods are placed in our Wang store, so my father would never have thought that there would be a risk of being deceived. ”
"I regret that my father should not have been cautious all his life, and he poured his life on the foundation he created, but because he mistakenly believed in the traitor once, he was devoured by this group of evil ghosts and scum..."
Touched by sad things, the hero was full of tears, speaking of this, Wang Qiang remembered the appearance of his father and mother in the past, recalled the love and happiness of the family, and remembered the pain of being bullied by the broken family, and finally couldn't help squatting on the ground and weeping!
Everyone was silent, and after a while, Zhifeng helped Wang Qiang up, "Heaven can still do evil for people, but you can't live!" I will take your revenge! ”
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The afternoon sun was so distracting that the group left the street to wander elsewhere.
"Okay, I said two sisters, let's almost shut up, I don't know, I think I bullied you, young master."
Walking out of the street for a long time, Linghua Meihua was still immersed in Wang Qiang's narration and couldn't extricate herself.
Zhifeng is helpless, didn't you look at the eyes of people looking at us along the way?
The two big girls are crying and wiping their tears, and the two entourages are depressed like mourning, how can I, a beautiful son, have a tall image!
After passing through a few streets, it is another famous place in Huaiyuan City, Transshipment Lane.
When you come to this transfer lane, things in front of you are completely different, compared to the cold and deserted streets, most passers-by are sad and hurried, and the transfer lane is a completely different scene.
There are many shops from all walks of life, bustling with traffic, shouting to buy, selling, juggling and talking, there are all kinds of things.
Zhifeng looked at the familiar and dream-like scene in front of him, and his heart was mixed, Nima, isn't this the scene of the costume drama of the Zhudian Film and Television Base on TV, it seems that later generations still have a good grasp of the life of the ancients.
Through this life, Zhifeng is most satisfied with the fact that in this unplanned time and space that does not exist in history, whether it is political life or humanistic customs, it is surprisingly consistent with the Tang and Song dynasties described by later generations.
There was a similar division of ranks, there was the same system of weights and measures, and even in this era there were religions preached, Buddhism, Taoism, and all kinds of ghosts and gods.
"Maybe it's not some extradimensional time and space, it's just a blind spot in the history books, a history that has been missed!"
Knowing that the young master was muttering to himself and was losing his mind, he suddenly heard Jian Thirteen's soft voice in his ear, "Young master, here, here!" ”
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The most lively business in the transfer lane is the Zhentian Casino, and Zhifeng and his party are in the front hall of the Zhentian Casino.
The earthquake casino is built magnificently, far beyond the general large house, inside pai gow, sic bo, turn the stall, bet on the size of the many types, lively extraordinary.
It is said that the earthquake casino has been open for two or three years, because it is good at management and has a deep background, the development is extremely rapid, and it is already one of the largest in Huaiyuan City.
Jian Shisan and the others didn't ask much about what Zhifeng meant by coming here, he had wandered around these days and entered a few gambling houses, but they only looked at it casually, and they didn't try his skills.
Just when everyone thought that they would turn around like in the past, Zhifeng walked straight to the signing table, "Little girl, I will exchange these things for a hundred taels of silver!" ”。
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