"You didn't ask me to make an offer, what? Do you think it's too much now? ”

The noise downstairs started again, and it seemed that the conversation was smashed.

By the window on the third floor of the restaurant, Lin Shan, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke: "Look again, if it is really my junior brother, with his temper, he must offend many people in the Prime Minister's Mansion." ”

Li Gai heard another meaning in his words, and said with some doubts: "Do you think the reason why the shopkeeper is not relentless is not in the destroyed shop?" ”

"Maybe...... Regardless of whether that person is my junior brother or not, the result of this shopkeeper will not be very good. A chilling smile slid across Lin Shan's lips, "It's better not him, otherwise the end of this shopkeeper will be even more bleak." ”

Li Gai lost his voice and said, "Is your junior brother as exaggerated as you say?" ”

Lin Shan didn't answer again.

Li Gai had never seen Lin Shan's junior brother, and his initial impression was based on Lin Shan. For a while, he was not easy to accept the cool image that Lin Shan described to his junior brother, the same senior brother, there is a calm and gentle senior brother on top, where can the junior brother go?

But what the actual situation is, maybe as Lin Shan said, you can see it if you look at it again.

Downstairs, the onlookers formed a circle in the center, and the money bag that had just been given to the shopkeeper by the round-faced Xiangfu family had been smashed to the ground by the shopkeeper.

The arrogance of the shopkeeper grew, but no one answered his words from the four people in the Prime Minister's Mansion, only when the shopkeeper finished complaining for a while, and was about to take a breath to rest, the round-faced family finally spoke again, and his gentle tone was no longer there, "Fifty taels is a little too much, and I am just a person who runs errands for the head of the house, and it is impossible to always carry so many silver taels on my body." Your Excellency, please wait here a little longer, while I go back and fetch the money. ”

The shopkeeper snorted coldly. Didn't speak. There were a few sighs in the crowd of onlookers, and some people had already seen the abnormality, no one from the city patrol team came, and the fat-faced man said that going back to get the silver was probably not as simple as taking the silver.

At first, some people walked away with twinkling eyes, and one or two people came up to them, but no one paid attention to the differences in these changes.

It was the round-faced man who greeted the man he had brought. When he was about to turn back to his house, the young man holding the donkey, who had been standing aside without speaking or moving, let go of the rope in his hand and walked over slowly. He stooped down and picked up the money bag on the ground, gently dusted off the brocade bag, and placed it in the shopkeeper's hand.

He still didn't say a word while doing these things, but the people around him unconsciously stopped making noise. The real thing is out, but look at the way he looks. It's a bit mysterious, I don't know what he's going to do next?

In the minds of onlookers, this means that something good may be about to happen. The shopkeeper, who passively took the money bag, only felt a sudden feeling of fear in his heart, but more irritability followed, causing him to throw the money bag to the ground twice, and unfortunately smashed it in front of the young man leading the donkey.

The owner doesn't know. How much trouble will come to him, that fear is the wake-up call in the dark, and he will pay the price for his inflated rampantness.

"What do you mean by that?" The owner's tone is not good.

"This shopkeeper, don't you want compensation?" The young man said lightly: "Fifty taels of compensation, although ten taels is not enough, but I can't help but say that it is also one percent of fifty taels, why bother to be angry." ”

"It's not the compensation I want, it's that you should have compensated me in the first place. You said this as if I was overbearing and you were wronged. The shopkeeper said this. Impatience began to appear in his tone. "Hey...... Ay...... I don't want to talk to you, a scholar, I definitely can't get around you as a rough person, and I look like you don't want to compensate or apologize, so let's go to see the official! ”

"Then let's go see the official." Bending down in front of the shopkeeper and picking up the money bag for the second time. The young man straightened up and repeated the last words that the shopkeeper had just said. The same words, after coming out of his mouth, although the tone of his tone was less of the innocence of the shopkeeper, there was a hint of calmness.

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment.

When the young man picked up the money bag, it seemed that he was going to hand it over to the shopkeeper again, but when he said the words "see the official", he naturally put the money bag back into his arms. Before the shopkeeper could come to his senses before he spoke, the young man continued: "Before I see the official, I would like to meet the shopkeeper of this shop and take stock of the goods. He has more of the right to operate the shop, but he may not be as interested in seeing an official as you do. ”

The arrogant shopkeeper had just come to his senses, and after hearing the young man's words, he was stunned again.

Bursts of whispering in the crowd sounded again - after a long time, it turned out that this person was not a real shopkeeper, but just an impostor co-tenant! Then the meaning of this slander is obvious.

In Kyoto's two major business districts, it is not uncommon for some merchants to choose to share a shop in some areas.

After the young man pointed out the words, the onlookers began to pay attention to the goods in the shop, and sure enough, they noticed some differences. It's just that these different places are related, so just now, in the yelling under the anger of the shopkeeper, everyone's attention was not focused on this, so they didn't notice it.

At this moment, the impostor shopkeeper who was shouting just now suddenly realized that he was in trouble. The commercial nature of Kyoto makes the punishment for blackmail extremely severe - if fraud is rampant, what can business rely on?

But the impostor knew that if the goods and losses were counted, plus the fifty taels he had shouted just now, it was estimated that many people would hear it, and it would be difficult to get rid of the name of blackmail.

Just when the impostor shopkeeper was a little ownerless, the real shopkeeper had been invited out of the store by the young man who came with the round-faced man, whether the identity was true or not, took out the deed of the rental shop, and looked at the name on it.

The inventory of the goods was soon over, and the guys in the store didn't know if they had been instructed by the shopkeeper in advance, so they were very cooperative. The whole of the more expensive furs hanging in the shop belonged to the shopkeeper who came out later, plus some small leather pieces, which also had hot stamps left by the supplier whose provenance was found.

As for some of the fur products of mountain rabbits placed in the stalls outside, pieces made of pig bristles. and some fur corners, all of which belonged to the fake shopkeeper - needless to say, you can understand whose mountain goods belong to the mountain goods that are not hotly stamped.

Among the onlookers, there were some shop owners who closed earlier, and the connoisseurs looked at the inside affairs, and those things were not more than five or six taels in total.

Five taels of silver are enough for half a year's ration for an ordinary family of three in the city, which is indeed a big sum for poor households. And if this shop is counted, the gray fox skin that was trampled on. If you pay an extra five taels of silver, it is estimated that there will be about one or two surpluses.

But fifty taels! It is estimated that there is enough to buy one-third of the stock of the entire store - but the worst thing is that this shop is not owned by the man who is clamoring for fifty taels!

The real shopkeeper seems to have given up a corner of his shop in front of his shop out of friendship with his peers, so that the merchant who sells 'mountain goods' can sell something. The shopkeeper's own goods, the valuables, were all in the room, and there was not much to lose, and it was evident that the real shopkeeper was as the young man had said. He didn't want to cause trouble, and his losses were really too much to go to the yamen to sort out, so he quickly negotiated with the round-faced man and paid compensation.

The young man unconsciously revealed a sense of irony in compensating the real owner of the shop with the ten taels of silver he had just picked up from the ground and had been paid to the impostor shopkeeper.

The miscellaneous matters are cleared, and the only thing left is the officer.

may be because he was usually cheated by this impostor shopkeeper. So a few people in the crowd squeezed from the back of the crowd to the inside of the circle. Their loud voices began to rise, mostly condemning the fraudulent behavior of the impostor shopkeeper. It seems that if young people invite them to testify at the yamen, they will probably not refuse.

The real shopkeeper had already beckoned the job back to the shop. It is estimated that he also regrets that he agreed to let the person outside borrow his shop corner to do business, and now he just pretended to be gone, so that the capable person could completely discharge him outside Kyoto, so as not to be annoying anymore.

Looking at the young man's gaze, although he didn't say anything, he was already saying the word "please".

The impostor found out for the first time. The light from those quiet eyes was sharp. At the same time, he was annoyed in his heart. The man who told him to stumble on the donkey puller didn't say that this man was so difficult to deal with! I knew that it was so troublesome, and he would let himself fall into it and not be able to pull it out, even if he loved to be greedy for a little cheap, he would not use the price that he would not be able to do business in Kyoto in the future to pay for the "hard work" of two taels of silver!

Now I really fell into a big pit. Fell miserably!

"Your Excellency, please move." The young man leading the donkey who was looking at the impostor shopkeeper finally spoke, "I also want to be clear and fair, don't say fifty taels, that is, the ten taels of silver that was compensated to the owner of the animal skin shop just now were all borrowed by my friends." In the next cloth-clothed civilian, it's not that I don't want to compensate, but fifty taels is really embarrassing, but if it is right, I am willing to sell the naughty donkey and go to the dock to do hard labor, and I must make up enough compensation. ”

The soft cotton contains knives, and the front and back are pinched, and the impostor has no fork in the road. It is not so much to go to the yamen to judge the shopkeeper as to go to the yamen to expose the recalcitrant businessmen.

……

"Alas......"

By the window of the private room on the third floor of the restaurant, Lin Shan, who had been quietly watching the qiē happening downstairs, suddenly sighed.

Li Gai retracted his gaze and turned his head sideways and said, "Based on what you just said, that person should be your junior brother." I just remembered that you mentioned to me before that your junior brother's name is Cen Chi, and I laughed at the time that this name was so tongue-twisting. ”

Lin Shan nodded silently.

"I thought your evaluation of your junior brother was a bit too much just now, but now it seems to be appropriate." Li Gai's face showed a smile that seemed to be smiling, "Next, I went to the Yamen to find out what happened, with your junior brother's relationship in the Prime Minister's Mansion, I am not afraid of what kind of big backer the impostor shopkeeper can pull." If the charge of blackmail is confirmed, and if you are on the black list, you will not have the right to lease a shop, and it will be difficult for the businessman to gain a foothold in Kyoto. ”

Li Gai paused before saying the next sentence: "The result of this kind of behavior is almost a collapse." Your junior brother doesn't look like a troublemaker, and some of them are as cold as you, but if he wants to pit anyone, this pit must be the largest and deepest to dig. ”

Thinking that the person he was talking about was Lin Shan's junior brother, Li Gai deliberately circled half a circle when he spoke.

Lin Shan raised his eyes to look at Li Gai, as if he was not in a very happy mood, and slowly spoke: "Why, it's only been ten years, and the phenomenon of relying on power and arrogance in Beijing has been so frequent?" ”。 (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )

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