152 Pursuit
Bai Fan was a cautious person, and he quietly entered through the back door.
The Bai family's descendants are fighting fiercely, and they will secretly send people to keep an eye on them, so they have to be cautious, and because the descendants are not allowed to hurt each other's lives, if they are found out, they will be severely punished, and then someone will come up with a way, since they can't move the master's family, then a slave can still move, so the situation of the subordinates who follow the master becomes dangerous.
Because of this incident, the more loyal slaves died, and even shook the foundation of the Bai family, and then a head of the Bai family added another article, not to hurt the life of the slave, but the slave mentioned here is a house slave, but unfortunately, Bai Fan is not.
However, Bai Shi'an attaches great importance to him, as long as he thinks about it, he can guess that if Bai Shi'an can look at him differently, Bai Fan naturally has some ability.
Bai Fan directly looked for Fang Ce's personal servant Qin Xuan, and when Qin Xuan saw him, he felt strange: Didn't you go ......
Bai Fan Dao: If there is an incident, you have to tell the master. Fang Ce has a good relationship with Bai Shi'an, so Bai Fan and Qin Xuan are also familiar with each other.
Qin Xuan lowered his voice and asked, "What's the matter?"
Bai Fan Dao: There are people selling pork on West Street, and they cost eight cents a pound.
Qin Xuan was confused: What does this have to do with our Fang family?
Bai Fan said: The pork seller said that the Fang family wanted to move, this pork came out of the Fang family's Zhuangzi, it was very fresh, I remember that Mrs. Fang didn't like to eat pork, I remember correctly, right?
Qin Xuan's face changed: The Zhuangzi here has never raised pigs, and the pork is definitely not from the Fang family.
Bai Fan nodded and said, "Then I'll go, and the rest will be handed over to you."
Qin Xuandao: Don't worry, I will definitely tell the young master truthfully, we are a smart person like the second young man, he will definitely know what to do, you don't have to worry.
Bai Fan left quietly again, as if he had never been here.
It's good to be born as ordinary as him, it won't attract attention, if you are born like Yuan Huan and Fang Ce Changqian, even if you want to be low-key, I'm afraid you won't be low-key.
As soon as Bai Fan left, Qin Xuan went back to the house and told Fang Ce about the matter, Fang Ce frowned when he heard this, and he asked Qin Xuan to find the housekeeper.
The housekeeper is an old servant of the Fang family, and he is very loyal.
Fang Ce said: Uncle Cheng, there is a pork stall on West Street that says that the pork sold is from the Fang family's Zhuangzi, the pork is a little weird, only eight cents a catty, less than half the price of ordinary pork, Uncle Cheng, this matter will be handed over to you, go and take a look, don't let those people use the name of our Fang family.
The housekeeper's face stiffened: Didn't those people think that our Fang family was leaving, and they didn't care about them, so they started talking nonsense?
Fang Ce said: Uncle Cheng, remember, let everyone know that the pork matter has nothing to do with our family, I don't want to leave, the Fang family has a bad reputation because of this irrelevant matter, this is not cost-effective.
The housekeeper said strictly: Second young master, I know what to do.
After the housekeeper finished speaking, he asked cautiously: Second young master, do you want to tell your wife about leaving more people when you leave, and guard the Fang family well.
Fang Ce thought for a while, shook his head and said, "No need, just according to the number of people before."
Yes, young master. The butler listened respectfully and withdrew.
When the housekeeper took people to West Street, he saw that the front of the pork stall was full of people and there was a long queue, so he walked over quietly with the people and came directly to the stall.
The person in line stopped doing it: Why are you cutting in line, if you want to buy cheap pork, hurry to the back and queue up!
The housekeeper said with a cold face: I don't buy meat, I just came here to ask the stall owner something.
When the people in the queue heard this, they were still dissatisfied: What are you asking, don't you see that the line is so long now, can't you come again tomorrow, this pork will be gone after today, if we don't buy it, then it's all your fault!
The housekeeper didn't pay attention to the people who were shouting, he looked at the butcher who sold the pork coldly, and asked: You said that this pork was transported from the Fang family's Zhuangzi, is it true?
The butcher still had some eyesight, and saw that the person in front of him was dressed like a slave of a rich family, and he didn't want to offend, so he smiled and said: Exactly, when the Fang family left, there were too many things, so they left the fattened pig and sold it at a cheap price, so my pork is so cheap.
The housekeeper asked: The Fang family is gone? Why haven't I heard? Although the third young master is gone, the lady and the second young master are still there, and the eldest young master, the housekeeper doesn't know his whereabouts, and he doesn't know where to go to the mountains and rivers.
The butcher's eyes flickered slightly, and he said, "You'll know in a few days."
The housekeeper raised his eyelids: In a few days, do you say that the Fang family will leave in a few days? So what's the matter with your pork?
When the butcher heard this, he became vigilant: The Fang family is leaving, so naturally they have to dispose of these things in advance, besides, the master of the Fang family has already left, and the rest are some subordinates, I heard that it is packing things, so it is a step slower, if you don't believe it, you will know in a few days.
After the butcher finished speaking, he secretly rushed to the people: Old man, I'm busy, look at this team, if you are okay, go over there to find someone to ask about the Fang family. He got accurate news, the old man of the Fang family was indeed gone, and the old man of the Fang family often treated people in the pharmacy, so there were not many people who knew him.
When the housekeeper heard this, he said slowly: Oh, it's a coincidence, I am the housekeeper of the Fang family, and the young master of my family heard that you were talking nonsense here, so he sent me over to ask what was going on.
When the butcher heard this, he was so frightened that he stepped back, and a fine sweat broke out on his forehead, and his lips trembled twice: this, this is impossible.
The housekeeper said coldly: My wife doesn't like to eat pork, and she has never raised pigs in the village, so you bought this pig from the Fang family, which Fang family?
The butcher didn't dare to breathe, don't look at him scary, but to say that he was just a flat-headed commoner, he couldn't afford to provoke those high-ranking families, and this time the pork was pulled by another person to dry him.
The housekeeper asked: Where did you get this pork from? The housekeeper's voice was not loud or small, and the people who were queuing up in front to buy pork could hear it clearly, and those people looked at the butcher in disbelief: Isn't this the meat killed by the Fang family's pigs?
The butcher blushed: This, this is the Fang family, but I didn't say that it was the Fang family in the town.
Which Fang family is that?
Naturally, naturally it is from Fangjia Village, and Fangjia Village is a little far from here, so you don't know. The butcher said nonsense.
The housekeeper smiled coldly: My ears are not deaf, you just said that you bought it from the Fang family's Zhuangzi, why, this time the kung fu has become Fangjia Village again?
The butcher was about to argue with the butler, when a voice came from outside: "Didn't you get this dead pork from somewhere?"
The butcher's eyes glared: nonsense! Say nonsense outside, get out of here! He could hear that the voice was not like an adult's voice, but like a child, and since it was a child, there was nothing to be afraid of.
The voice died down and never sounded again.
The butcher was so angry that he wanted to arrest someone, but the pork stall was full of people, and he couldn't get out at all.
The man in the first line was about to urge the butcher to weigh the meat, but when he heard the voice, he looked at the butcher suspiciously, then turned around and left the group.
There were two more people in front of them, and the people in the back only knew that there was an argument in front of them, and they didn't hear what was going on.
When the butcher saw that several people who bought meat had left, he was not happy, and he didn't get angry, so he pushed the housekeeper away, and he said impatiently: If you don't buy meat, go away, don't stop me from doing business. What's wrong with not buying it from the Fang family, it's just that it's easy to sell, and casually told a lie, isn't it all like this in buying and selling, you even came here to compete, I really didn't know that the people of the Fang family were so stingy before.
When the butler heard this, he was so angry that his beard was crooked, and he gave the servant on the left a look, only to see the servant shouting loudly: "Your pork is obviously not a live pig bought from the Fang family, and I don't know where you got it, what kind of heart do you have?"
What's the fuss, what's the fuss? Wang Zhukuai came over with two catchers, and he said with a straight face: I heard you arguing from afar, and blocked the street, what are you doing, making trouble?
The butcher hurriedly shook his head and smiled: "My lord, that's not the case, here's the thing, I sell pork well, and this person will come to make trouble."
The housekeeper said to Wang Zhukuai: This person sells pork in the name of the Fang family, and I will come to deal with this matter.
When Wang Zhuhai heard this, he was overjoyed, isn't this exactly the one who wanted to fall asleep and ran into a pillow, look at how lucky he is.
He asked with a righteous face: What is going on, you tell me carefully.
The housekeeper said: This is said that the pork is bought from the Fang family's Zhuangzi, but our Fang family has a Zhuangzi, but there are no pigs in the village, my wife does not eat pork, so she does not raise pigs, who knows what kind of meat this person sells, dead meat and bad meat are possible, and it is also relied on my family's body, in case something happens, who will bear the stake?
Wang Yu nodded quickly, and said in his heart, it turns out that this pork is not from the Fang family, and it seems that there is a little more possibility that there is a problem with this pork.
The butcher explained: I just want to use the banner of the Fang family, this pork will be easier to sell, and I have no other ideas, if the Fang family refuses, then I will not say that this meat belongs to the Fang family in the future, sir, what do you see?
Wang Zhuhai laughed quickly and asked the butcher: Okay, then let me ask you, where did your pork come from?
The butcher bowed his head and said: I bought it from Fangjia Village.
Wang Zhukuai frowned: Fangjia Village, why haven't I heard of this village?
The butcher was overjoyed, but he hadn't heard of it, and the butcher said kindly: It's far away from the town, and you have to walk for three hours.
Wang Zhu quickly stepped forward and asked the butcher: I can touch your pork.
The butcher said a little nervously: You can touch it.
Wang Zhukuai was not polite, pressed a few times on the pork, and sniffed the blood on it, looking at it, he felt that there was really nothing wrong with the pork, since there was no evidence, and no one reported that there was a problem with the pork, so he couldn't arrest anyone.
Wang Zhu quickly finished reading the pork and said to the butcher: Since this pork is not from the Fang family, don't lie in the future.
The butcher replied, "Yes, yes, I know."
After the butcher finished speaking, he apologized to the housekeeper again: It's me who is wrong, I will never ripped the name of the upper family next time, just spare me this time.
The housekeeper thought that the Fang family would move in three days, and he didn't want to cause more trouble, so he said: Okay, since you sincerely repent, then this matter will be like this, you can remember, if there is a next time, you will never let it go.
The butcher bowed his head and replied: Yes, yes. No matter whose pork it is, as long as it is sold out and the money is collected, he will leave, and making money is a big deal, face or something, it's a fart.
The butler saw that the butcher was still sincere, and said, "Then, if this is the case, then this matter will be revealed."
The butler went away with his men, and when they walked into the crowd and could not see the butcher, the butler said to the two men on the right, "Stay here and watch the butcher."
Be.
After the butler left, Wang Zhuhai was about to leave, but he suddenly remembered that there was no routine interrogation, so he returned to the butcher and asked, "What is your name?" Where did it come from?
The butcher's face tightened, and he said, "My surname is Ai, my name is Aiyu, and I am from the next county."
Wang Zhuai frowned, not from this county?
He asked, "Where is your way?"
The butcher sneered: Originally, I came to visit relatives, and this side is also close, so I didn't do that, and it only takes a day to come and go, so do you have to do a road guide? I've been here many times before, but I've never heard of a wayfinding thing.
Wang Zhu's eyes narrowed: What about this stall...... A person from another county, who came with a big grin, still dares to set up a stall?
The butcher hurriedly said: I am watching this for someone, not my trouble, really, that person will come over immediately.
Wang Zhu said quickly: Okay, then I'll wait here.
The man in line to buy meat was impatient, and he urged: Why do you keep talking, is this meat still for sale? Stallholder, if you don't sell it today, then I'll go.
The butcher wanted to say that he was selling, but his companion hadn't come yet, and he had said that he was from another county, and the catcher was still staring here, but how could he sell it? He muttered in his heart, this catch is really too grinding, the previous catch was not like this.
Because the queue to buy meat was dead, many people shouted: stall owner, whether to sell it or not, we are still waiting to go back to cooking!
yes, how long will we have to wait?
The stall owner reached out and touched the sweat on his forehead, and glanced at Wang Zhukuai again.
Wang Zhukuai's temperament is good, the eyes of the catcher next to him became impatient, he said: Brother Wang, didn't the head catcher let us check the origin of the pork, or let's take this person back, he said Fangjia Village, but he didn't say which Fangjia Village, we don't know where Fangjia Village is, and when the time comes, the head catcher may send us to Fangjia Village to see, it is better to go back and let the head catcher ask directly.
Wang Zhu's mind moved.
The butcher wanted to cry without tears and said: Adult, small people...... Xiaomin didn't do anything, he didn't want to enter the yamen.
As he was talking, a man with three white eyes and sharp-beaked monkey cheeks came over, and before he could get closer, he shouted loudly: "Lao Ai, look what I brought you." He had a jug of wine in his hand, good wine!
When he got closer, he saw three catchers standing in front of the stall, his face changed, and he threw down the wine jug and ran away.
Running is a problem!
Wang Zhukuai chased after him with two catchers, and in a hurry, they forgot about the butcher in front of them.
When the butcher saw that his partners had run away, he hurriedly closed the stall, waved his hand and said to the people in line behind him: The owner has something to do, and if he doesn't sell it, he won't sell it.
Where are those people willing to follow, pulling the butcher to not let him go, the butcher looked back at the direction where the three catchers left, and he thought quickly in his mind, the catcher has gone far, or, sell some more?
The butcher thought about it like this and began to shout: If you don't cut it, don't cut it, sell it whole, seven cents a catty, who wants to buy it?
Me, me!
Sell me, sell me!
The butcher shouted: Don't squeeze, give the silver, quickly! Suddenly, he gritted his teeth and said: "Three taels, if you give me three taels, you can take all the pork in front of this and in the back."
When the people in line heard this, they all squeezed forward like crazy, but unfortunately they had fragments of silver in their hands, but it was still a little difficult to take out three taels at once, at this time, a person squeezed over, he stuffed the silver in his hand into the butcher's hand, hehe smiled: I bought this meat!
The butcher was overjoyed and said, "Okay, then this is all for you!" He took the money and then ran into the crowd, and suddenly disappeared without a trace.
He pondered as he ran, they still had a lot of pork left, and this pork could not be sold in the town, so it could only be pushed to the township to sell, and it was better to go to the countryside a little farther away from the town, so as not to attract quick catch.
The butcher was secretly glad that he had put the pork in the nearby village and had not been pulled to the town, otherwise it would be troublesome to leave the town.
Let's talk about the pork stall, after the man bought the pork stall, he stood in front of the stall happily and shouted: Pork is ten cents a catty, if you want to buy it, buy it quickly, it's too late!
Ten texts!
Obviously, it was still eight wen before, but the butcher still said seven wen, and this blink of an eye the kung fu rose to ten wen, and those people stopped doing it, they argued: Why did it rise to ten wen just now, your heart is too dark.
The man held his head high and smiled: Why don't you go to the pork stall next door and buy it? That's fourteen cents a pound, don't bargain, go ahead, I won't stop it.
When the people who wanted to buy meat heard this, they hesitated for a moment, except for a few people who scolded and left, most of the rest were still in line, and even if it was ten yuan, it was four yuan cheaper than the usual pork.
Many people secretly regret it, why didn't they come earlier, come early for eight wen a catty, but it is enough to be cheaper than six wen!
The man looked at this mess full of meat, and became sad again, he had never been a butcher, but he couldn't stomp meat! No, you can learn if you don't stomp, just take the pig-killing knife and cut it down, besides, let those people buy as much as you cut, hum, don't believe those people don't.
After the man thought about it, he began to sell pork enthusiastically.
He was troublesome, cut the meat big, and then let people buy it, and some people were not happy at first: You cut too much, I can't ask for it.
The man doesn't care: you don't want it, forget it, someone always wants it, the next one!
In this way, unconsciously, this meat was sold faster than before, mainly because the meat was cut too big.
There are also smart people, who bought more than a dozen catties of meat and felt that they couldn't finish it, so they carried the meat to find the people behind the team, and he quietly asked: I have more than ten catties, I can't eat it, I can sell you ten catties, do you have what you want, ten Wen, no price increase.
I can't get ten pounds! The man said with a bitter face.
It's okay, I want it, I want it! It turned out that the person standing in front of them heard this, turned his head and said, "Let's divide the three of us."
The eyes of the two people lit up together, so the three of them happily divided more than a dozen catties of meat, and some people saw them doing this, and they were also moved, and began to imitate this practice, and the meat that could not be sold to the back, anyway, the people behind were tired of queuing, and they were naturally willing to ask for this cheap pork.
The pork was dead pork from the south, and I don't know how those southerners used to save the pork, it was not rotten, but the meat was sold at a cheap price of one penny and one catty.
Go and arrest the meat seller. After he finished speaking, he said to the people who bought meat: "Put down all the pork for me, and return the money to the stall owner, this pork is dead pork, and I can't eat it."
Someone in the crowd shouted: Pigs will naturally die when they are killed, and what we eat on weekdays is originally dead pork.
Wang Zhu said angrily: If you are told to return, you will return to me, the south is flooded, who knows if there is a plague, if it reaches the town, who is responsible!
How can it be so evil, doesn't it say that this meat belongs to Fangjia Village?
Oh, yes! The meat of Fangjia Village has become the meat of the south.
Don't say it, let's buy meat and leave quickly, do you want to be caught in prison?
yes, that's a quick catch.
All the people who bought the meat ran away, and a few of them were frightened by the plague and were about to retreat, but after only two steps, the people in the queue who were still in line pulled his meat and asked, "Don't you want it, if you don't want it, sell it to me, I'......
I want it, I want it! The others turned around and ran away with the meat.
But everything that was robbed was a good thing, and the man thought, since everyone could eat it, why couldn't he eat it, so he still brought the meat back.
The man who bought the pork stall for three taels of silver was arrested, and he began to tremble as soon as he saw the catcher, and the knife in his hand also fell to the board.
When Wang Zhuhai came to him, the man howled as if he had returned to his senses: My lord, why did you arrest me, I didn't do anything!
Wang Zhukuai sighed, this person was not the butcher he saw before, he frowned and asked: Who are you, why do you sell pork here? What about the butchers who used to sell meat?
Villain...... The villain's surname is Deng, and he is known as Deng Sizhi, and the person who sold meat before is gone! Deng Sizhi trembled and said, that's right, it was Deng Sizhi who bought the pork stall! He just came out of the house, and he wanted to go to the casino to have a look, but the mother-in-law of the family only gave him three taels of silver because her daughter was promising, and her temper was also good.
In other words, since Deng Sizhi lost fifty taels, even five taels of silver is not considered money in his eyes, and he lost in two games, but he was still ready to go, because Deng Xinger kept warning him not to borrow silver from the casino again, and he gradually listened to it.
If Deng Xinger hadn't climbed to the Du family, he wouldn't have taken this daughter's words to heart.
As soon as the Deng family mentioned Deng Xing'er, he would be proud: If I hadn't brought my daughter to the gambling house, how could she have a chance to recognize Young Master Du, and this is due to me.
When he came over today, he saw a long queue here, so he asked, it turned out to be cheap pork, at that time he thought about it, he wanted to buy two catties, go back to honor the two elders in the family, this pork is eight pounds a pound, two pounds is only sixteen pounds, he has dozens of copper plates, enough!
He thought hesitantly, if Xing'er knew about this, he would definitely give him a reward, so he squeezed over, and when he came over, he heard that this butcher was selling pork cheaply, and it was still a mess! When he heard this, he was mad! This full of pork may be sold for ten taels! With this money, he can have a good time in the casino.
I never thought that this catcher would come to arrest him, why!
What, pork is dead pork, what's wrong with dead pork, dead pork is not the same to eat!
However, Deng Sizhi was a coward, and he didn't dare to say this when he saw the catcher, he shrunk his neck and his voice was very quiet.
Wang Zhu asked him quickly: Where did the man go before? Why do you sell pork here?
Deng Sizhi said with a sad face: I, I bought this stall, so I thought about selling the rest to make some money.
When Wang Zhuai heard this, he smiled coldly: You also sold it? It's so good, take it back with you.
What about this pork stall?
Take it back with you.
When Deng Sizhi heard this, his whole person softened, and he suddenly remembered his capable daughter, so he shouted: I am related to the Du family, you can't arrest me, you can't arrest me!
When Wang Zhuai heard this, he looked at Deng Sizhi and sneered: Du family? It's up to you? Why didn't we know that the Du family had a relative surnamed Deng, you wouldn't be trying to fake the tiger and make it up.
The prestige of the Du family is valid!
Deng Sizhi's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said: I didn't make it up, my daughter is Young Master Du's concubine, and she is very favored, isn't Young Master Du my half son-in-law!
He was confident.
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