Chapter 43 Silver, and Other Vulgar Things
When the man saw her like this, he thought that Wei Qingqing was scared, and also, when she was kidnapped in the first place, she was scared like that.
The man smiled and reached out to grab her, but as soon as he grabbed Wei Qingqing, she bit his arm with a bite, so ruthless, as if he was going to tear off all his arms and belts!
The man couldn't help shouting, but looking at Wei Qingqing, who was obviously weak and could be pinched to death with a slap, but his eyes were full of ruthlessness, even if he had been killing people and setting fires for many years, he actually had a trace of fear from the bottom of his heart, and no matter how the person behind him explained, he directly slashed at Wei Qingqing's neck with a knife in his hand.
Wei Qingqing's eyes were cold, and he was about to take advantage of the situation to dodge and run towards the Wei Mansion, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a purple figure coming quickly, directly kicking the man to the ground, and Wei Qingqing, whose mouth was full of blood, fell into his wide arms.
Magnolia aroma, is it purple wind?
Wei Qingqing looked up, and saw the big shopkeeper who always ignored his love even in his previous life, but he could always do the things he explained, Helian Zifeng, but why was his hair all white?
She remembered the last time she saw him, it was half a year ago, and he said that he was bored in the capital and wanted to go to Yunyou. At that time, his hair was only half-white, could it be that he was seriously ill again?
"Little sister!"
Wei Xun heard the movement and hurried to find it, looking at Wei Qingqing, whose little face was pale and his mouth was full of blood, he was so distressed that he picked it up, and then looked at the man who was trampled on by Helian Zifeng and his arm was bloody, although he didn't know that he was the robber who kidnapped his little sister in the first place, but he still looked at Helian Zifeng deeply: "Thank you for saving this son!" ”
Helian Zifeng was wearing a veil, and others couldn't see his face clearly, but Fang Zijiao thought he was well-informed. He took a closer look at the jade spike hanging from Helian Zifeng's waist, roughly guessed his identity, and followed forward: "Brother Xun, this is Ling Mei's benefactor, why don't you please enter the mansion and rest for a while......"
"Not necessarily."
The little guy beside Helian Zifeng stepped forward and replied: "My son-in-law just happened to chase this bandit, but it shocked Miss Guifu, next time I will come to the door to make amends." ”
Helian Zifeng felt the uncontrollable tremor on Wei Qingqing's body, and hesitated for a moment, until Wei Xun stepped forward to support Wei Qingqing, and he didn't let go of his hand. But he didn't say a word, and walked straight away, as if he didn't know Wei Qingqing at all.
But seeing that he was still so ruthless, Wei Qingqing was relieved, he must have received his letter.
Chen Sanniang came out with him, and she also wanted to take care of Wei Qingqing with hypocrisy, but Wei Xun refused politely, only Fang Zijiao really didn't treat herself as an outsider. followed all the way and almost entered Wei Qingqing's boudoir.
"Little sister, you have a good rest first, the bandit ......" Wei Xun could see Wei Qingqing's fear, even if he knew that this little sister was not the little sister she used to be, but she was always in a trance, because she was delicate and timid, exactly the same as the little sister.
"The robber is the one who took me captive." Wei Qingqing struggled to control her trembling voice, and grabbed Wei Xun's arm tightly: "If he dares to appear in Yuqian Lane today, he must be instructed by someone." Maybe it was the same person who instructed him to kidnap me last time. ”
Wei Qingqing actually wanted to say that it was Rong Ruizhang, and only Rong Ruizhang had this motive, after all, if he ruined Miss Wei, he would be able to justifiably let the Chen family come out of his family, and then include himself in the mansion.
"I'll go to the government now, you can rest."
Wei Xun's fist hanging down to his side was clenched tightly, but he was still not at ease, so he simply called the cook to guard it before he dared to go out of the yard.
It was only when he came out that Fang Zijiao came over with concern, and his people had already brought a lot of ginseng supplements.
"Brother Fang, I'm afraid this is inappropriate...... Wei Xun looked at these precious things and hurriedly refused, but Fang Zijiao patted him on the shoulder and said, "Brother Xun, since you and I are brothers, why do you need to see me like this?" And in my heart, I have long regarded Miss Wei as my sister, and now I see that she is frightened, how can I, as a big brother, stand by and watch? ”
Wei Xun was even more grateful for Fang Zijiao's generosity.
Fang Zijiao saw that he didn't say much anymore, and gossiped a few words, so he led the words to Helian Zifeng: "That person just now, I guess most of them are the big shopkeeper of 'He Ji', this person is often dressed in purple, only the white hair is different from the past, but this Shenlong sees the head and does not see the end, and suffers from a dumb disease and only asks the little people around him to speak, it must be him." ”
"He Ji? That accounts for almost half of the capital's business? Wei Xun was surprised.
"Why not half of the capital?" Fang Zijiao was about to say, but he felt that he didn't understand what he told Wei Xun, a scholar, so he only said: "This person is an extremely powerful character, and it is really rare for the little sister of the Wei family to have a relationship with him today......"
"Brother Fang!" Wei Xun interrupted him with a little displeasure: "Little sister is in the boudoir, how can she have a relationship with a foreign man?" ”
Seeing that he was so rigid, Fang Zijiao secretly felt a little dissatisfied, but he only smiled on his face, but no matter how much he hinted that he wanted to tie up Helian Zifeng, Wei Xun would not understand the words and generally diverted the words.
When Fang Zijiao came out of the Wei Mansion, he took a spit: "It's really an elm head, rotten wood can't be carved." ”
"What does Childe have to do with him, anyway, in the end he still has to lie at your feet and wag his tail and beg for mercy." The entourage on the side hurriedly coaxed.
"Hmph, let him be a dog who can't wag his tail, so it's better to kick it away." Fang Zijiao snorted coldly, and thought of Wei Qingqing again. rubbing his chin and revealing a sneer: "I didn't expect that this Nizi not only has a good face, but also has the ability to hook men to her side, first Rong Xiang and Rong Erye, and now there is Helian Zifeng, so, I want to get her." ”
"It's still childe smart." Followers chimed in.
Fang Zijiao thought for a while and ordered: "Go and call someone Yazi, let her pick a few clever maid rings, and Ming'er will send them all to the Wei Mansion, and serve Miss Wei for me!" "There are people who have their own people blowing the wind around Wei Qingqing all day long, and he doesn't believe that Wei Qingqing, a little girl who has never seen the world, can bear it.
In the dark, a pair of eyes stared at Fang Zijiao and left, and finally returned to the Guogong Mansion.
After hearing this, Ah Kun's eyelids couldn't help jumping, this Fang Zijiao really seemed to regard Miss Wei as an innocent white rabbit.
"Master, Helian Zifeng appeared, does it mean that Miss Wei is ......?"
"Hmm." Rong Che didn't let Kun continue, his slender fingers lightly tapped on the table, pondered for a moment, and then said, "Tell me to go down, don't worry about Yun Niang." ”
Ah Kun couldn't help but raise his head, looked at Rong Che's cold appearance, and knew that the master was planning to give up his plan, so he asked Miss Wei to take this evil breath first.
"Minions understand."
"I heard that Chen Kang has been in close contact with several imperial histories recently?" Rong Che asked again.
Ah Kun nodded, Chen Kang would not let go of the Wei family easily because of the loss of his beloved son. Although Chen An's death was not Wei Hu's work at all.
"Chen Kang has a brother who secretly has a close relationship with the prince, so let people say that Prime Minister Rong has been ill for a long time because of the woman's affairs, and the court cannot go without a picture for a day, and then arrange a few people to fold and recommend this person as the prime minister." Rong Che spoke.
Ah Kun's scalp is a little numb, is the second master going to pick the Chen family to pay attention to the Prime Minister's Mansion? But in the final analysis, the Prime Minister's Mansion is still on the side of the Guogong Mansion.
"Second master, this matter ......"
"Can't you do it?" Rong Che stared at Kun.
Ah Kun heard the threat in it, where did he dare to think of anything else, and hurriedly went down to do it.
Only after Ah Kun left, Rong Che got up: "Change your clothes and go to Dali Temple." In the past, he was always worried that Wei Qingshan was too incorruptible, but now that he thinks about it, it is better to arrange more people to serve in the Wei Mansion first, and as for Wei Qingshan, let him be awkward.
Rong Ruizhang woke up again, and it was already night.
The bead curtain sounded softly, and I saw Liuli coming in with a decoction.
Liuli is very good-looking, it is the kind of small jasper gentle as jade, Rong Ruizhang fell in love with her as early as when Liuli came to marry, and later even hinted to Wei Qingqing a few times that she would open her face to be her aunt, but Wei Qingqing pretended to be confused, saying that Liuli was unwilling.
If Liuli is really unwilling, will she beg to serve herself after Wei Qingqing's death? It's just Wei Qingqing's own jealousy and stinginess.
Rong Ruizhang was sarcastic.
Liuli looked at Rong Ruizhang, who was half-leaning on the side of the bed, with a hideous face through the dim candlelight. The hand holding the medicine bowl couldn't help shaking, and then he stabilized his mind and stepped forward to salute.
"Come here."
Rong Ruizhang coughed a few times, only to feel that his head was still dizzy, half leaning on the side of the bed, looking at the medicine brought by Liuli, and probing with a silver needle, to make sure that there was no problem, he asked her to serve herself and drink.
He was always so careful, Liuli lowered his eyes, served him and drank medicine, and only then told him about Liu Qing'er.
"What do you think about it? The old lady's meaning, the concubine is stupid, and she doesn't understand it very well. ”
"Mother wants you to dispose of it?" Rong Ruizhang couldn't tell why, he always felt unhappy in his heart, he never talked about these trivial things in the inner house before, but now that Wei Qingqing is dead, it seems that there is no one in charge of the house.
"There are also expenses in the house, and the master let the concubine and Aunt Wen take care of it. But the concubine's ability is limited, and Aunt Wen doesn't like to look at the account book, so she only leaves it to the steward to take care of it. Yesterday, the concubine went to ask the steward, only to know that in the past few months, the eldest lady had paid three thousand taels of silver, and the old lady had also paid five or six thousand taels of silver, and now there are only more than 1,700 taels left on the account, and the house alone will expel a few hundred taels of silver per month, and there are also the old lady and the eldest lady's monthly silver plus clothes and jewelry......"
"Alright." Rong Ruizhang felt bored when he heard the silver, how could he take care of such a vulgar thing?
It's Aunt Wen, she is proficient in poetry, calligraphy and painting, and it is really difficult for her to take care of these mundane things.
"These trivial things, you can do it yourself." Rong Ruizhang waved his hand and motioned for her to go out.
"But ......" Liuli looked at him embarrassedly: "The shopkeeper of several shops in the house has come during the day, saying that the shop can't turnover, and I'm afraid that I won't be able to hand over the silver for half a year, and the old lady just broke her leg, and she wants to ask the best doctor, no less than five hundred taels." The old lady also said, let you Ming'er be free, go to General Wei's Mansion, and let the General's Mansion come to propose marriage earlier. ”
"Broke a leg? Propose? ”
Rong Ruizhang was a little confused, didn't he just faint for a day, what happened?
Only then did Liuli explain what happened word for word, and Rong Ruizhang immediately blushed.
Liuli said again: "This month is about to end." It's time to start preparing for the next month's silver everywhere. Aunt Wen is going to hold a flower viewing party at the beginning of next month, asking for 1,000 taels of silver, and ......"
Liuli slowly said to Rong Ruizhang, and seeing that his face was getting darker and darker, he finally accepted the words and said, "If only that fire hadn't happened, with Madame here, at least you don't have to worry about the silver." ”
Rong Ruizhang stared at Liuli gloomily, but there was only a faint look of regret on her face. I was sure that she was not deliberately ridiculing herself, and sent her down sullenly, but this night, he couldn't sleep no matter what, but the more he thought about it, the more annoying he became, and the more he slept, the more irritable he became, and he simply got up in the middle of the night and ordered someone to find all the accounts and account books in the house.
When Liuli sat in the room and listened to Yahuan's reply, her clenched hand finally loosened a little.
Now, he still treats the young lady well to him. Take it for granted?
In the dark night, Wei Qingqing was calmer than Liuli.
After Huang Ying took Wei Qingqing's pulse, he looked at her solemnly: "It is good to arrange a few talents around the master, today Lord Wei went to borrow silver from his colleagues again, this is not a long-term solution, I thought about it, it is better to let our people disguise themselves as staff members who admire Lord Wei, and Lord Wei will always accept the silver sent by the staff." ”
"A gentleman doesn't eat what he eats." Wei Qingqing laughed, Wei Qingshan's temper, she could figure it out.
"But it's always ...... like this"
"It won't always be like this." Helian Zifeng is back, and her tavern will open soon, and she has already calculated that when the time comes, Lage will be a living sign for her.
Huang Ying saw that she insisted on maintaining Wei Qingshan's self-esteem, so she had to give up: "Yun Niang's affairs have been arranged, and there will be movement in the next few days, but this matter is bound to be inseparable from the Prime Minister's Mansion." ”
"Hmm." Wei Qingqing didn't plan to let the Prime Minister's Mansion take a breath, after so long, according to the progress of Rong Jinning and Mrs. Zhang's squandering of gold and silver, the 10,000 taels of cash silver she left in the mansion before her death should have been used almost enough.
"Do you remember Aunt Wen from the Prime Minister's Mansion?" Wei Qingqing asked.
Huang Ying's mind immediately appeared that Aunt Wen, who claimed to be the first talented woman in Jiangnan, had only passed the door not long ago, Rong Ruizhang sent an envoy to Jiangnan, and when he came back, he brought Wen Lan, the daughter of Jiangnan County with a strong stomach, and directly placed her in the mansion regardless of the master's face.
If this Aunt Wen is a good one, it would be fine, but she relied on Rong Ruizhang's love, becoming more and more vain and presumptuous, painting with the most expensive paint, writing only with the best ink, really regarded herself as a fairy who only loves calligraphy and painting without fighting with the world, if she didn't give birth to only one daughter later, I am afraid that Rong Ruizhang would dare to let Rong Ruizhang correct her.
"How did the master think of her?"
"You arranged for someone to talk to Aunt Wen, and said that there were a few pots of excellent Molan in the capital recently, and the ladies of the family were all vying to buy it, and if it was too late, they wouldn't be able to buy it." Wei Qingqing spoke.
Huang Ying smiled slightly, and even laughed. If Aunt Wen knew, she would definitely buy these pots of Molan at all costs, and that pot of Molan would be worth thousands of gold!
"If that's the case, in addition to Mo Lan, I know a few good things, all of which are valuable and useless." Huang Ying knew Wei Qingqing's plan, and he also had an arrangement in his heart, so that Rong Ruizhang still disliked the vulgarity of his master's silver, and now asked him to see how this vulgar thing tortured him.
Before dawn the next day, Wei Qingqing had just gotten up and was about to dig out the fruit wine made from the jar of Lansheng wine to go to Ge Lao to endorse her tavern, when she saw the cook running over excitedly: "Miss, there is a good thing." ”
Hearing the three words of good deeds, Wei Qingqing raised his vigilance instead.
In a blink of an eye, I saw Wei Xun leading an old woman with a mole on her chin to come, Wei Qingqing recognized this person, the famous Wang Yapo in the capital, but the maid who was sold to her from the master's house. There is no one who is not skinned by her.
"Little sister, it was Brother Fang who said that it was not good for you to be taken care of by no one, so he asked this Ya woman to bring a few girls to serve you." Wei Xun said.
Wei Qingqing saw that he seemed to agree with Fang Zijiao, although he knew in his heart that Fang Zijiao would definitely have bad intentions, but after thinking about it, it was not a good thing to let the eldest brother see his true face clearly with his ill intentions.
Wei Qingqing looked at the people brought by Ya Po, they were all fourteen or fifteen-year-old women, such a big girl ring is no longer easy to train, this Fang Zijiao is really 'bothering'.
"Leave two maids to wait." Wei Qingqing didn't plan to keep too many people.
Ya Po hurriedly smiled and said: "Ouch Miss, you are all people who are going to marry into the Guogong Mansion, and you need to keep a few more people around, at least eight ......"
"I only need two." Wei Qingqing glanced at this Wang Yapo coldly.
Ya Po's face tightened, and she hurriedly looked at Wei Xun.
Wei Xun also said: "Brother Fang said, he bought all these people, you just have to pick and choose, don't worry about the silver." ”
"I'm not worried about silver, I don't like it when there are too many people, just two are enough." Wei Qingqing knew that Wei Xun was not a person who was greedy for cheapness, and if he was so favored, he would definitely repay him twice in the future.
Besides, leaving so many people who have entered the house with hidden eyes, Wei Qingqing is really too lazy to deal with them.
Wang Yapo wanted to say more, but Wei Xun thought about it, stopped Yapo, and only let Wei Qingqing leave these two.
As soon as this Wang Yapo left, Wei Qingshan sweated profusely and led another Yapo back, this time this Yapo brought an eleven or twelve-year-old girl and a forty or fifty-year-old old mother.
"Daddy?"
Wei Qingqing couldn't cry or laugh a little, could it be that Wei Qingshan has been thinking deeply these days, just thinking about this?
"It's all the poor people who have committed a crime in the master's family and have been betrayed." Wei Qingshan was a little embarrassed to say that he and his colleagues borrowed silver to buy it, and the colleagues still borrowed this silver for the sake of Rong Che.
Wei Qingqing took a look at those subordinates, except for those with blank faces, the rest were all pale, which was very different from what Fang Zijiao sent.
"Qingqing, you are a woman at home, and my father is really not at ease." Wei Qingshan said a little crampedly, not only lamenting that he was useless, he had been an official for half his life, and his delicate daughter was not as good as the people in the market, and he also sighed that his wife died early, so that his daughter had no mother since she was a child, and she was bullied by others.
Seeing him like this, Wei Qingqing simply stopped refusing, and generously picked two little girls with clean eyebrows and eyes, and two rough grandmothers, and arranged the rest to go to all parts of the house.
Wei Qingqing looked at Wei Qingshan, who was thin and vicissitudes on one side, before entering Beijing, he was an honest and upright parent official, but after entering Beijing, he was bent by a few taels of silver.
Doesn't Rong Ruizhang always dislike that silver is a vulgar thing? Fortunately, if he dislikes it, then she will take it all back.