102 The Zhou family's calculations
There are several people sitting here, Chen Yongyan is the prince of Chenjun Palace, Guo Dong is the eldest son of the mighty general's mansion, Shen Ze is the eldest son of Princess Lehua, and Li Dongzhe is the second son of the Yongyi Marquis Mansion, all of whom are the sons of the high-ranking families in the capital.
If you want to talk about this capital, there are really not many people in the background who are harder than them. Previously, Gu Qingwan wanted to do business in partnership with the Chen family, but she was afraid that she and Zhuang Yuexian, the two women's families, would start a business, and there was no backstage to rely on, but Chen Xinying's father was dismissed from office, although the Chen family had some power, but if they wanted to borrow power, they would inevitably give dividends to the Chen family.
Chen Xinying's aunt is mean and not easy to get along with. And the Chen family is a scholarly family in the end, paying attention to the name, and the way of excessive participation in business is not good-looking. The business is almost done, it's okay to make a little money, even if someone is red-eyed and the Chen family is standing behind, probably there will be no trouble. But if the business grows bigger, and the huge wealth and interests are placed there, no one will be able to find trouble.
After all, in a place like the capital, where royal relatives are everywhere, the Chen family is really not a big family. There are many mansions that the Chen family can't afford to mess with. And now Dafeng has been built for eight years, the capital has developed quite prosperous, and the magnates have carved up the interests of all walks of life.
If the four noble sons in front of you are also involved, it will be different, and then you will be able to break away from the Chen family, and you will not have to rely on the power of Uncle Chen Xinying, nor will you have to deal with the Chen family's room. No matter what kind of business you do, with Shen Xue behind you, you can do whatever you want, and you are not afraid that someone will pick quarrels and provoke trouble, no matter how prosperous the business is, no one dares to blush and calculate.
And Shen selected a few people who were short of money, and it was probably not difficult to persuade them to join the gang. What's more, if she can really start a business with a few of them, she will have her own connections in the future.
The more Gu Qingwan thought about it, the more feasible she felt, her eyes lit up, and she immediately remembered that she was leaving the capital, and after thinking about it so much, she didn't have the time and opportunity to implement it, so she was a little stunned for a while, and suddenly lost all interest.
However, with Shen Xue and a few people here, this meal was very lively.
After finishing the meal, a few people ate tea for a while, talked some gossip, and saw that there was only half an hour left before Gu Qingwan and Chen Xinying made an appointment, so Qin Yu took Gu Qingwan to stand up and said, "Master has something to do, let's go first, you can play." ”
Shen Xue and the others unconsciously swept back and forth on Qin Yu and Gu Qingwan with quite ambiguous and strange eyes, Gu Qingwan felt that their eyes were clearly saying that Qin Yu was really forgetful, as if Qin Yu had abandoned his brother and wanted to fly away with his male pet.
She didn't realize that her face was slightly hot, but Qin Yu was like a normal person, and reached out to hold Gu Qingwan's hand, pulled her and walked out of the Accord.
There was a sigh from behind Shen Xue and a few people, Gu Qingwan unconsciously shook the hand that was being held by Qin Yu, and said, "Why do you have to let them misunderstand that you are a good man!" ”
When Qin Yu heard this, he looked at Gu Qingwan and said, "When did you become a good man?" Ye is just good to you Shen Qing, they can't understand that they are stupid! ”
It's not a good man, it's just a good Shen Qing......
Gu Qingwan didn't expect Qin Yu to be so blunt about his love for her, so she paused slightly, and when Qin Yu looked back at her, she moved again to keep up.
The two of them went out of Xianyue Tower, but Qin Yu was not in a hurry to get into the carriage, but stood in front of the restaurant, looked at both sides, Song Ning greeted him, and reported: "Hui Ye, since the carriage entered the downtown area, there are people following in the open and in secret, but the subordinates have solved it, and the subordinates dare to guarantee that no one will follow anymore, so you can rest assured." ”
When Gu Qingwan heard this, her eyes flickered, but Qin Yu suddenly turned his head to stare at her, raised his lips and smiled, and said: "When the master went out, it attracted people to follow and monitor him openly and secretly, but he had never done this before." Qingqing said, who will these people be tracking? ”
Gu Qingwan was also afraid that those people were arranged by Lou Minning and came for her, hearing Qin Yu say this, her palms were sweating, and she always felt that Qin Yu was beating herself with something in his words, but looking at his expression, it didn't look like it, it seemed to be just a casual question.
She couldn't help but smile and said, "Your Highness doesn't know who she provoked, how would I know." Otherwise, His Royal Highness asked the Song guards to catch two and interrogate them. ”
Qin Yu raised his eyebrows and smiled, but said, "Qingqing has a good idea." After saying that, he looked at Song Ning again and ordered, "Do it, but you want to see who is so bold and dares to follow and spy on you!" ”
Song Ning took the order and left, Gu Qingwan lowered her head and bit her lip, she just said that just to show her innocence, where did she think that Qin Yu would really let Song Ning arrest and interrogate someone with great fanfare, she suddenly felt like she was lifting a stone and hitting her own feet.
Qin Yuju was condescending, glanced at Gu Qingwan with a smile, and then pulled Gu Qingwan into the carriage, commanded, and said, "Go to the Golden Thread Tower." ”
The carriage moved slowly, but Gu Qingwan was surprised: "What are we going to do in Jinjialou?" ”
The Golden Thread Building is the largest ready-to-wear silk shop in the capital, and when she was still the first lady of the family, Gu Qing followed Zhuang Yuexian many times in the evening.
It's just that now it's almost the time to make an appointment with Chen Xinying, she thought that Qin Yu was going to send her directly to the teahouse to see Chen Xinying, but what did he take her to Jinjialou for!
Qin Yu glanced Gu Qingwan up and down, and said, "Didn't you just say that the girl of the Chen family doesn't know that you are Shen Qing, I'm afraid it won't be easy to explain, so it's appropriate for you to dress up like this to meet the girl of the Chen family?" But for your sake, I took you to the Golden Thread Building and cleaned up and dressed up again. ”
Gu Qing did tell Qin Yu that Chen Xinying didn't know that she was Shen Qing, but that was the excuse that she didn't want Qin Yu to follow her, so she refused to follow Qin Yu.
I didn't think about it, but now let Qin Yu block it
, now let Qin Yu take it to gag her mouth, and take the opportunity to ask her to change into women's clothes!
Gu Qingwan opened her mouth, what she had just said was still in her ears, she couldn't even say what she could tell the difference, she couldn't even slap her for a while, seeing Qin Yu raising her eyebrows and looking at her, she felt that if she said anything to refute again, Qin Yu would be able to overturn her previous words, and she had to follow her to see Chen Xinying.
Compared with asking Qin Yu to follow her to see Chen Xinying, Gu Qingwan felt that it was easier to accept it by changing into women's clothes.
She was about to vomit blood in her heart, but she had to smile and said, "Your Highness is still thoughtful." ”
The carriage went around two streets, and soon arrived at the Golden Thread Building, and drove directly into it from the side of the Golden Thread Building. Gu Qingwan followed Qin Yu out of the carriage, and the embroidery lady who was already in charge was waiting in the courtyard, stepped forward to salute Qin Yu, and said: "The slave maid has seen His Royal Highness King Yan Guang, Your Highness, please go to Cuiyu Pavilion to eat tea and wait for a while, this girl, the slave maid guarantees to serve her well, and she will be dressed up beautifully." ”
Hearing this, Qin Yu glanced at Gu Qingwan who jumped off the carriage, and casually said to the embroidery girl, and without anyone leading the way, he walked to the east wing room by himself.
The embroidery lady stepped forward and saluted Gu Qingwan and said: "The Song guards have said hello in advance, and they want the slave to change the girl into women's clothes, but it just so happens that our golden wisp building has made a few sets of new summer clothes early this morning, and the slave and maid look at the girl's appearance, and wear it to be brilliant, the girl please come with the slave and maid." ”
It's all here, so there's nothing to twist, Gu Qingwan nodded slightly at the embroidery girl, and then went to the east wing with her. But I thought in my heart, this embroidery girl obviously knew Qin Yu, and Qin Yu looked like she was very familiar with the Golden Thread Building, didn't she bring the girl over to buy clothes before, right?
When Gu Qingwan followed Qin Yu into the Golden Thread Building, it was on the same street as the Golden Thread Building, not far from the Quanfeng Pawnshop, but at this time, a carriage slowly stopped at the back door, and two men wearing hats came down from the carriage one after another, looking at an old man, and a very young man.
The two got out of the carriage and entered the Quanfeng pawnshop directly through the back door.
This Quanfeng pawnshop is the most famous pawnshop in Daqin, since the previous dynasty has this name, the proprietor's surname is Liu, is the previous dynasty of the imperial merchant background, very good at business.
After the chaos of the previous dynasty, the head of the Liu family took refuge in the first emperor, who was still a prince at that time, and gave up one-third of his family property to support the first emperor to fight the country. It was also the good vision of the head of the Liu family, and later the first emperor really built the Great Qin Dynasty. In return for the peach, the Liu family also got a false seal from the Marquis of Mingyi, and the Liu family's business was even bigger than in the previous dynasty.
In particular, the Liu family's Quanfeng pawnshop seems to be the most reputable and largest pawnshop in Daqin. A century-old brand, the rules are also very strict, when things arrive at the Quanfeng pawnshop, the dead will never be repaid before the deadline, and they will be disposed of in advance by the pawnshop in private.
The two people who entered Quanfengdang were the young man named Zhao Qing who was like Gu Xianzhen and Xiao looked for by Jin Quan with the Zhou family.
When the two entered Quanfengdang, a guy greeted them, and said with a smile: "Do you want to redeem them, or do you want to be something?" ”
The guy saw that the two of them were wearing hats on their heads, but they didn't care, many rich and noble people who wanted to save face, and they didn't want people to know that they couldn't live their lives, and they had to go to a place like a pawnshop, so they hid their heads and tails and went in and out of the pawnshop through the back door.
Zhao Qing took out a pawn ticket from his sleeve and handed it to the guy, saying, "The master is here to redeem it." ”
The guy bowed down and took it, unfolded it and looked at it twice, his face was slightly straight, and said: "The two masters of this pawn ticket were two years ago, and it was handled by our Wang shopkeeper himself at that time. ”
Zhao Qing glanced at the back of his head when he heard this, and saw that Jin Quan nodded almost invisibly, and then he responded: "Master is still in a hurry, please hurry up." ”
The guy answered and went with the pawn ticket in his hand. Jin Quan and the two sat down in the Tianzi Hall, patiently used half a cup of tea, and then a middle-aged man with a head wrapped in a square scarf and dressed as a shopkeeper walked in quickly, and said with a smile after saluting Zhao Qing and the two: "This son's pawn ticket villain has already seen it, when the thing was delivered to our pawnshop, the guest and the trumpet made a deed, and it was stated that at the time of redemption, in addition to this pawn ticket, it is also necessary to come to redeem the person, the face and fingerprints are attached to the voucher left by it, if there is one that does not match, this pawn ticket will not be counted, Stuff can't be taken away. If no one has come to redeem it, this object will have to be kept for it all the time, in fact, it is a pawn ticket, but this thing is stored by the guest in our pawnshop, and enough honorarium was paid that day. ”
The shopkeeper took out an envelope and said with a smile: "This is the voucher for redemption left when the guest stored the object that day, and after the guest sent it, it has been sealed, and this fire paint has not been touched, can you two check it?" ”
Hearing this, Zhao Qing stood up, took the envelope and looked at it twice, before handing it to the shopkeeper Wang, and said, "Your account is famous, and you really do things properly." ”
The shopkeeper Wang took back the envelope with a smile and said, "I don't know that Gongzi is the ransom designated by the previous guest?" If so, the villain opened the envelope. ”
Zhao Qing said: "Naturally, there is no doubt about the master, otherwise this pawn ticket will not be in the hands of the master." The shopkeeper's peace of mind is. ”
The shopkeeper opened the envelope carefully, covered it with his hand, unfolded the paper inside, looked at it twice, and said: "This is really a portrait and fingerprint, and please take off the curtain and compare it with the villain, if it is correct, the villain can take the things out of the library and hand them to you." ”
Zhao Qing took a deep breath and lifted the curtain, the shopkeeper Wang took the portrait and compared it back and forth, but he wrinkled his eyebrows and stared at him for a while, Zhao Qing unconsciously looked at Jin Quan who was sitting.
Just when Jin Quan also thought that he had made a mistake, probably when the ticket was not for Gu Xianzhen to pick up, the shopkeeper Wang said: "This portrait and the real person can't always be like a ten, the villain will inevitably be cautious, so that the guests will wait for a long time." Please also ask the guest to press you
Please press your handprint and compare it. ”
As he spoke, he folded the portrait, put it back, unfolded another piece of paper, and motioned for Zhao Qing to press the handprint.
That day, Jin Quan eavesdropped on the conversation, and when he heard that he was going to press the fingerprint of his right thumb as proof, he saw that the portrait was matched, he breathed a sigh of relief, showed joy on his face, and nodded at Zhao Qing.
Zhao Qing was determined, walked forward, walked to the table, and was about to press the handprint, but heard a sudden sound of noisy fighting outside, and someone shouted, "Come on, stop him, stop him!" ”
The shopkeeper Wang was obviously startled, and instinctively took two steps out, and went to look, over there Zhao Qing took advantage of the shopkeeper Wang's lack of attention, quickly took out the wrapped broken palm from the wide sleeve, quickly dipped it into the ink, and left a handprint on the paper.
"What's going on?" The king's shopkeeper's inquiry sounded at the door.
Then came the man's reply, saying: "I don't know where I came from, I have no money to redeem it, I even thought about snatching things back, and almost injured Shopkeeper Li, and now I have let him take it and send it to the official." Don't look at what kind of place we Quanfeng are, it's ......"
"Okay, since it's okay, don't say anything more, disturb the guests!" The shopkeeper interrupted him without waiting for the man to finish speaking, waved his hand to make him stand down, and came in with a smile on his face, saying, "Sorry, sorry, I disturbed your guest." ”
Zhao Qing waved his hand and smiled slightly, turned around and took the paper with the handprint to the shopkeeper Wang, who took out the previous credentials from his sleeve, but only compared them twice, then his face was slightly gloomy, and he handed back the pawn ticket and the paper with the handprint to Zhao Qing, and said: "I'm afraid this master is mistaken, this handprint can't be compared, this thing please redeem the trumpet can't be given to you, two please." ”
The king's shopkeeper said that, turned around and was about to leave. Zhao Qing was stunned for a moment, and looked at Jin Quan, Jin Quan first thought that the portrait was right, so it showed that he really wanted Gu Xianzhen to redeem it, and the broken palm was Gu Xianzhen's, and the handprint would never go wrong.
He couldn't help but stand up and arched his hand: "The king is slow to shopkeeper, will he press the wrong finger?" Can you let our master press it again, so that we can compare it. ”
Zhao Qing was also busy saying: "Yes, this pawn ticket was handed over to the master by his father on his deathbed, and he said okay, let the master come over in person, compare the portrait and press the palm print to take things, how can it not be right, is it that the shopkeeper of the king is wrong, or you will compare it again?" ”
When the shopkeeper Wang heard this, his face was unhappy, and he said: "The villain has been doing it in Quanfengdang for more than 20 years, but this bit of eyesight is still there, and the handprint is really not comparable, even if you press it one hundred and eighty times, it will be the same." The handprints don't match, and the trumpet can't take things out of the library, so the two of you might as well go back and figure it out and come back again. ”
He said, brushed his sleeves and left.
Zhao Qing was still planning to chase after him, but he was stopped by Jin Quan, shook his head, and said, "Don't startle the snake, go!" ”
After that, he took the lead in putting on his hat and strode out, and Zhao Qing also hurriedly grabbed the hat and followed.
When the two arrived at a secluded place in the courtyard, Zhao Qing saw that there was no one around, so he couldn't help but take two steps forward, and said urgently: "How is this good, the portrait is obviously right, but the handprint is not right." Jin Ye, what does Master Zhou want to take from Quanfeng? With the power of the boss, he directly ordered Quanfeng to take it, so why bother spending so much time. The subordinates didn't believe it, and Mr. Zhou spoke, this Quanfeng dared to disobey his fate! ”
This Zhao Qing is just something they came to pick up, although he accused his family, but he is not a confidant, and this matter is very important, they naturally will not reveal any news to Zhao Qing, and even Zhao Qing doesn't know who he is taking for Quanfeng.
At this moment, when Jin Quan heard this, he groped for the string of sandalwood beads he was wearing on his wrist, but he glanced at Zhao Qing with sharp eyes, and said in a deep voice: "What do you know!" Even if you are a big man, you are the first assistant, and you can't abuse your power! ”
If you can really overwhelm people with power and take out things, why do you need to spend so much effort. Quanfengdang is not an ordinary shop, the development to this day, several powerful people behind are occupying dry shares, the pawnshop is very complicated, just afraid that a little wind and grass, can make a few powerful people behind the pawnshop smell wrong.
The things that the Gu family stored in Quanfengdang are very important, and the Zhou family can only take them out quietly, if it alarms others, it will definitely cause an uproar.
Zhao Qing was reprimanded by Jin Quan twice, and didn't dare to say more, the two of them hurriedly walked out of the back door of the Quanfeng, but saw that there was another carriage at the back door, Jin Quan paused, his face changed slightly, and he saw that the corner of the carriage was opened, revealing Zhou Jiangyan's face.
Jin Quan breathed a sigh of relief, waved his hand and motioned for Zhao Qing to get into the carriage in front of him, but he boarded Zhou Jiangyan's car.
As soon as he got into the carriage, Zhou Jiangyan couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "Have you got the things?" ”
Jin Quan knew that Zhou Jiangyan was in a hurry, so he personally chased here, and sighed unconsciously, and said: "The portrait is right, but the handprint is not, and Quanfeng doesn't admit it!" ”
Zhou Jiangyan's face became ugly, and he slapped his palm on the wall of the car, saying, "How can this be!" Could it be that the severed palm is not Gu Xianzhen's? Did Xiao Nanjiang do not do well and failed to kill Gu Xianzhen, but casually found someone with a black mole on his hand to fool us? ”
Jin Quan pondered for a moment before shaking his head and said, "I'm afraid it's not, the young master is very loyal to the Zhou family, and this broken palm can't be wrong." In the past, when the old man was in the Gu family, he had also seen the girl from the Gu family, but her appearance was five or six points similar to his brother Xiao. The portrait may be depicting the appearance of the Gu girl's men's clothes. ”
Zhou Jiangyan heard him say this, and after a little thought, he understood, and said, "That's right! There is also this possibility, since the brother and sister are very similar, it is not surprising that the portraits are compared, and the handprint is for Miss Gu's, so it is naturally wrong to use Gu Xianzhen! ”
Jin Quan said: "Only now, let's go back to the house first, and let people go to find that Gu girl Fang Cheng." ”
Zhou Jiangyan sneered, nodded and said: "What Jin Bo said is that Rui'er also moved to marry that Gu girl in the past, but unfortunately he hasn't proposed marriage yet, but let the Zhenguo Mansion take the lead, but now Rui'er is ...... Now that Zhao Qing is here, if you find the girl, you don't have to leave her name, and you can also take your life, borrow her palm. As for the corpse of the Gu girl, it just happened to be married to my son, and she would not become a lonely ghost, and it was also her blessing to be able to serve my son and be the daughter-in-law of my Zhou family! When my son was alive, my father, I couldn't let him get his wish, and now that he is gone, he has nothing to worry about. ”
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