Although Zhao Ze always tries not to ask for help from the second room of the Zhao family when he encounters trouble in order to avoid suspicion, he is not a fool, he is really in trouble, so he naturally has to find someone to help. When he ran the shop, he received a lot of guidance from Zhao Qixuan, and because of the goods, he was very familiar with the shopkeepers of the sixth room, so sometimes he was short of money, or he wanted to find someone to do things, he would first open his mouth to the people in the sixth room. Among them, Zhao Qixuan has dealt with him the most, so Zhao Qixuan's family is the most aware of his current situation.

Zhao Yuan told Zhao Xiu that in addition to the fact that the Niu family is indeed seriously ill and is still stranded in the Wang family, there is also the fact that Aunt Xiao Qian and Zhao Yan, Zhao Man, and Zhao Di's mother and son have moved out of the Wang family and lived in the small courtyard of Yongguang Temple West Street rented by Zhao Ze.

Niu's can't even move now, whether she has pretended to be sick or not, but her current condition is real. In order to save their face, the Wang family couldn't ask her to move out. Previously, they had taken the risk of taking people in their homes, claiming that they were sacrificing their future in return to their benefactors. Now, driving people out of their homes when they are seriously ill will not only be of no benefit to their future, but will also ruin their original reputation for benevolence and righteousness. They could only bite the bullet and keep Niu's left. And Niu's is old and sick, she asked her eldest granddaughter and girls to stay and serve the sick, and the Wang family had to agree. Anyway, as long as his son doesn't enter the inner house, and at the same time pays attention to restricting Zhao Xiang's range of activities, it is expected that she will not be able to produce any young moths.

But except for their grandparents, everyone else left the Wang family. Aunt Xiaoqian's mother and son must be unwilling to live in the Wang family. Don't worry about food and clothing, and live comfortably, who wants to leave? But Wang Dongsheng didn't say anything. Mrs. Wang and the subordinates of the Wang family have already revealed their unwelcome intentions between words and deeds. Wang Tongsheng, the second son of the Wang family, became friends with Zhao Yan, and he vaguely revealed his tone in private, so their mother and son knew that it was Zhao Xiang's delusional son who wanted to climb the family, and refuted Mrs. Wang's kind refusal to marry, which attracted the disgust of the Wang family. Aunt Xiaoqian secretly scolded Niu and Zhao Xiang while being persuaded by her son. took the initiative to move away and made a gesture of being sensible and taking the overall situation into account, which impressed Mrs. Wang. She also got a lot of good things for this. Even if you leave the Wang family, you won't worry about life in a short time. However, she did not hand over these belongings to the Niu family, nor did she let Zhao Xiang touch a cent, but deducted all of them and made them private. Secretly put it away. Then he took his children and lived in the courtyard rented by Zhao Ze.

Zhao Ze's master and servant lived in the shop on weekdays, and this courtyard was originally rented by him for the Niu family. Now that the Niu family is stranded in the Wang family, Zhao Xiang has left behind with a few girls to serve the sick, and the small courtyard has completely become the world of Aunt Xiaoqian's mother and son. Even the youngest son returned to her, and their life was simply not too beautiful. Wang Weisheng and Wang Tongsheng brothers also helped Zhao Yan find an errand and worked as a partner in the spice shop opened by Wang Dongsheng's father-in-law, a pro-soldier. Although it is only a small business, the salary is not bad, and the owner looks at the Wang brothers. is also very polite to Zhao Yan. Zhao Yan relied on his extensive contacts in the capital for many years to match. The shop has made several big deals, and now it is very valued by the owner.

If Zhao Yan's mother and son live in peace from now on, and Zhao Zejingshui does not violate the river water, it will be fine. But now they don't know which tendon they have drawn, and they are embarrassed to get Zhao Zelai.

Zhao Yan's new errand, in terms of monthly salary, also has one or two or five dollars of silver, which is a rare high salary among the new guys in the spice industry in the capital. If he can help the shop do business, he still has a commission, and after a month, there are two or three taels. But this figure is undoubtedly much worse than the previous income in the study shop. At that time, Zhao Ze gave him a salary of three taels of silver a month, and he often did some tricks and feet in the account, and asked for rebates for business, and the silver received every month was at least more than five taels. Now that his income is less, the owner doesn't let him take care of the accounts, he really wants to use some means, and he is afraid that the people in the store will sue the Wang brothers, so they will be estranged from him, so Zhao Yan doesn't dare to use the slightest side method. But this job was kindly introduced by the Wang brothers, and he couldn't say that he didn't like the money, so he resigned at will, so he had to find an opportunity from time to time to return to the study shop. Anyway, he is no longer officially working in the store now, and the Hou Mansion has a business trip, and Zhao Ze is also compensating, and it has nothing to do with him.

Zhao Ze caught him twice, but he begged to let him go, but he always did it again. Zhao Ze also was ruthless, saying that if he was caught stealing the things in the shop again, he would be sent to the official, and he was not allowed to help in the shop again. But Zhao Yan just bought some things and went to Wang's house to ask for a good peace for the Niu family, and he didn't know what to say, the Niu family would call the eldest grandson over and scold him, and then ordered him half-dead to get along with Zhao Yan, and the silver earned by Zhao Yan was also for the family, and he just honored her grandmother for good things, how can he be an elder brother who is not filial to himself, and he still has to stop his younger brother from practicing filial piety?

Zhao Ze has a hard time, and he can't communicate with his grandmother, and he can't say anything, except that Zhao Yan is no longer allowed to participate in the operation of the shop, he can't do anything. Later, when he heard that Zhao Yan actually went to the shop in the sixth room and enthusiastically said that he wanted to help, he was suddenly frightened, and he couldn't say it clearly, so he could only hint to Zhao Qixuan in private. Zhao Qixuan understood in his heart, and asked Zhao Yan to go back to work in the spice shop with a smile, and there were enough guys in several shops in the sixth room, so there was no need for Zhao Yan to be helped by an outsider. He also lamented that he had dealt with the owner of the spice shop, and he hadn't seen him for a few days, so he planned to invite someone to drink and catch up when he was off...... Zhao Yan did these things, all of them were hidden from the people in the spice shop, and when he heard the words, he understood it, so he was honest.

However, he went to visit the Niu family more and more diligently afterwards, and every time he had to say bad things about Zhao Ze. Niu didn't know if he really believed it, and he had to send someone to the study shop every three or two days to count Zhao Ze for a beating, and once the girl who ran an errand relayed Niu's words, and even said: "What's the use of having a grandson like you?" In addition to being a concubine, what is there like a brother and a brother? If it weren't for my son's benevolence, I would have thought of your sister for pity. I have already divorced your mother, and you are no longer a sister-in-law, and they are the same as Brother Yan and Brother Yan. I have two good grandchildren who can provide for me in my old age. What else could I ask of you? If you sell it, you can still get a few taels of silver, isn't it better than now, when I am sick, I have to suffer from your anger every day! ”

At that time, the guys in the sixth room were delivering the latest batch of goods to the shop, and watched the whole process from beginning to end. They all felt that what they said was too much, and Zhao Ze was wronged. But Zhao Ze didn't do anything except go to Wang's house again and kowtow to his grandmother. He also had to obey his grandmother's commands. Give her four taels of five taels of salary every month to prepare for her daily expenses. Then, from mid-November onwards, Niu added new tricks. asked him to go to Wang's house every day to greet her, and report the day's itinerary by the way. She also had to give instructions to tell him how to use to do things in the account and fill his pockets. If he refuses to do so. The amount of money she asked for was not handed over to her. She will order her granddaughter Zhao Xiang to hit Zhao Ze's palm with a ring ruler as punishment.

Zhao Xiang had no feelings for his brother, and secretly complained that he proposed to the Wang family and his wife to move out together, so that she had to ask her grandmother to pretend to be sick, but the fake turned it true, and now she is in an embarrassing situation. Therefore, she was not soft at all when she started, and Zhao Ze's palms had to be touched a few feet every day, making them red and swollen. Zhao Qixuan found out by accident. When asked what was going on, he could only bow his head silently and weep. But he didn't say anything, or Lao Zhangtou cried and complained to Zhao Qixuan, and the latter learned the reason. These days, Zhao Ze has been running at both ends of the shop and the Wang family every day, because he refuses to follow the instructions of the Niu family to get money, and he has to be punished every day, and his life is miserable. Zhao Qixuan was so angry that he cursed and wanted to sue Zhao Wei, but Zhao Ze stopped him. He said, "It was a debt that he owed, and it should have been paid only."

He insisted on this, and Zhao Qixuan couldn't do anything about him. However, Zhao Qixuan promised Zhao Ze not to mention the matter to the people in the second room, but it does not mean that his wife and daughter cannot open this mouth.

Zhao Yuan said to Zhao Xiu: "Little aunt, Brother Ze is really pitiful, although he didn't have good parents and was not very sensible in the past, but now he has changed." Seeing him being tortured by his grandmother and brother every day made our family uncomfortable. Do you have any ideas? The old lady is his grandmother's elder, I wonder if I can take care of her? ”

Zhao Xiu didn't say anything. Although Zhao Ze sounded pitiful, in her opinion, this was also his own doing. In the face of Niu's kind of-stirring stick, what is he so stupid and filial? What if he didn't listen to her ridiculous orders? Could she still run to the store and accuse him? She and his sister Zhao Xiang can't even get out of the door of the Wang family, and the people of the Wang family won't be at their mercy. Since he was able to resist Niu's orders and refused to do anything in the account, why couldn't he refuse her daily summons? Let's just say that at the end of the year, business is busy and there is no time to go, what else can she do with him? He is now the pillar of the family, the biggest source of income, and he is still beaten and scolded at will by his grandmother who is too sick to get out of bed and his sister who is powerless, he is too useless, right?

As for Zhao Yan, the mother and son have never been able to get along with him, he just ignores people, his mother, brother, and sister are all people he is qualified to control. When he came to Fengxian at the beginning of the year, he also played tricks in front of his clansmen, why did he become a little white rabbit now?

If Zhao Ze himself doesn't change his mind, no matter how many others help him, it's useless.

Zhao Xiu was silent, Zhao Yuan couldn't figure out what she was thinking, so he didn't continue the topic very clearly, but mentioned another thing.

Although Zhao Yan hasn't been to the Liufang shop recently, he heard that after he left Wang's house, he appeared at the Tongzhou Wharf from time to time, and asked a few relatively large and reputable shipping companies about when the boat going to Jiangnan would be able to pass again in Mingchun? How much does the ride cost? Where does the ship pass? Wait a minute. Before opening the boat shop, Liufang often cooperated with those big ship houses because of business, so the shopkeepers were familiar with each other. A steward of one of the shipping houses had seen Zhao Yan in the shop of the sixth room, and heard that his surname was Zhao, and he was only a member of the Zhao family, and when he saw him behaving like this, he curiously told the guy in the sixth room, and the man knew that he was on guard against Zhao Yan, so he reported to Zhao Qixuan.

The sixth room of the Zhao family now also has a boat line, which is co-organized with the Cao family of the General Mansion of the Zhu State. Although the Zhao family does not admit that Zhao Jue's clan is a clansman, if Zhao Yan's family intends to take a boat back to the south, it is not impossible to take a ride along the way, and they can be exempted from the fee. But he didn't ask about the boat in Liufang, but asked other families, and he didn't hesitate to spend money to take the boat, which had to make people wonder. Zhao Qixuan asked Zhao Ze and learned that his family had no plans to return to his hometown in the south, so he felt that Zhao Yan might be secretly planning something.

Zhao Yuan said to Zhao Xiu: "Brother Ze went back and asked Brother Yan, but Brother Yan didn't admit that he was going back to the south, but only said that Aunt Xiaoqian had come back from the exile and wanted to report the safety of her mother's family, so she asked when the boat going south would be able to sail, so that someone could send a letter back." In the past few months, our family's business house has made two boats back to the south every month, and he didn't say a word, and he didn't say anything about what kind of letter he wanted to carry, but now he has held up others. Little aunt, do you say weird? ”

Quirky indeed. Zhao Xiu thought about it secretly, could it be that Aunt Xiaoqian and Zhao Yan and their mother and son planned to hide from Niu's, Zhao Ze, Zhao Xiang and others, and take a boat back to their hometown in the south? This is not incomprehensible. After all, Aunt Xiaoqian still has relatives in the south, maybe she is planning to go back to join her relatives, it is better than staying in the capital to see the faces of the ancestors and grandchildren of the Niu family. If they really left, Zhao Ze could still breathe a sigh of relief, so that there would be one less group of people who bullied him. However, when the time comes, the Niu family may have to hold on to Zhao Ze even more. And the more Zhao Ze suffered, the more the Zhang family knew, and the more pity he would be. I don't know how many bad things will happen then.

Zhao Xiu's heart moved, and a thought flashed vaguely.

At this time, Zhao Yuan's mother Ma Shi was sitting in Zhang's house, and she was also mentioning Zhao Ze's matter to her: "It's so pitiful, that child is full of grievances, but he refuses to tell anyone, and only silently obeys his grandmother's orders." No matter how much we tried to persuade him, he was still beaten every day. Our husband and wife couldn't help but feel distressed when they saw it, but they didn't know what to do to help him. ”

Zhang's heart was sad when he heard it, and he wanted to ask someone to summon Zhao Ze to ask what was going on, but after thinking about it, when Chongyang was in Chongyang, he had an unpleasant quarrel with his grandchildren for Zhao Ze's matter, and now the family is harmonious and beautiful, if there is a quarrel over Zhao Ze's matter, it will not be good. In her heart, no matter how much she pitied Zhao Ze, it was impossible to cross Zhao Wei and Zhao Xiu.

She hesitated for a moment, and then said to Ma's: "You also know that it is not convenient for our family to be too close to that side, and we are afraid of gossiping, and we are also worried that those few uneasy things will climb up the pole and not make people disgusting." I only pity Brother Ze, but I can't help him. Since you husband and wife have the heart to pull him, why don't you come forward for me? ”

Although Ma felt that it was insufficient, Zhang's willingness to lend a hand was already unexpected, and he hurriedly said: "Uncle and grandmother, don't worry, you just tell you." As long as we can do it as a husband and wife, we will do our best to do it. ”

Zhang's heart was happy, and he hurriedly asked her to get closer, and was about to give an order, but suddenly saw Lu's mother hurrying over: "Oh no, old lady." The old man of the shop came to report urgently, saying that Brother Ze was stepping on a ladder in the shop to pick up the goods, but his feet were empty, he fell from a high place and fainted! ”

Zhang was taken aback. (To be continued......)