Chapter Sixty-Four: It's All About Silver
Rong Ruizhang looked at Gong Chang who was carried back, his face was gloomy, he didn't say a word, and directly kicked Gong Chang over on the stretcher.
The people who came back were startled, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and didn't dare to speak, and after a long time, Rong Ruizhang, who was tired and leaning on the chair, slowly stood up: "Go and call Liuli." β
Liuli had been waiting for Rong Ruizhang's words, and when she saw him calling, she naturally quickly packed up.
"Xiangye."
Liuli secretly glanced at Gong Chang, and saw him lying motionless on the ground, knowing that he was afraid of death, so he tightened his clothes and lowered his head a little more.
Rong Ruizhang is so ruthless, even if it is his own people, it is no wonder that Miss is completely disappointed in him.
"Don't be afraid, it's none of your business."
Rong Ruizhang thought that Liuli was worried that he would punish her, although it was her idea to sell the dowry to Yinbaozhuang, but there was nothing wrong with this idea at that time, besides, Liuli has been staying in the inner house, even if she has been with Wei Qingqing for many years, where can she secretly transfer the prince?
Most likely, they were taken advantage of by their own negligence.
This person who used him to snatch his 100,000 silver, he will find out sooner or later, but now the top priority is to take the jade Buddha for the fourth prince.
"You've always been in charge of the title deeds and title deeds." Rong Ruizhang's tone softened a little and asked her.
"I have always been in charge of the concubine before, but a while ago, because of Aunt Liu's matter, the concubine's body was inconvenient, and I was afraid of delaying the affairs of the masters in the house, so I handed over all the deed to Aunt Wen. The title deed is still here with the concubine. As she spoke, she asked someone to get the deed.
When Rong Ruizhang heard this, his forehead couldn't help jumping.
A while ago, Aunt Liu's matter was handed over to Liuli to deal with, and now although Aunt Liu was quietly sent out of the capital, in order to prevent Rong Che from beating up, he didn't dare to easily dispose of this woman who was 'robbed' from Rong Che's hands.
Why are these people and things in the house so unreliable all of a sudden?
Not only is it unreliable, but it will only drag him back. Especially Aunt Wen.
Rong Ruizhang looked at Aunt Wen who came in a hurry, the makeup powder was floating on her face, and the bags under her eyes couldn't be covered, and she was even more bored. Is it really because they suddenly ran out of money that they lost their temper so much?
It must be yes, he is the prime minister's mansion that everyone envies, and there has never been anything wrong with it before, it was all silver money that caused trouble!
"Grandpa......"
Aunt Wen saw that he was staring straight at herself, and she shouted tremblingly, and then trembled and knelt on the ground like a withered flower.
Rong Ruizhang didn't like her to cower like this, but he was worried that he was too strict and scared her, so he had to endure his anger and stepped forward to help her up: "Lan'er, you don't need to be so careful in front of me, you just need to continue to be as generous as before, this time, I'm in a hurry." β
"Grandββ!"
Aunt Wen saw that he had become soft-spoken again, and apologized to herself, and when she cried in his arms, her heart fell back into her stomach.
Ruri watched coldly from the sidelines. Rong Ruizhang is still like this to a lowly concubine, but he is arrogant to his wife, as if everything the young lady does is taken for granted, but he praises this cheap concubine as the main mother.
Spoiling a concubine and killing his wife like this is only a wolf-hearted person like him who can do it!
Just thinking about it, the people of Liuli have come back and brought the title deed.
As long as the underground stewards take care of it, the four or five thousand taels of silver per year will definitely not be able to run, but unfortunately, as soon as spring begins this year, there was a natural disaster, and Wei Qingqing was burned alive by a fire before he had time to deal with it!
"Master, the title deeds are all here." Liuli said about the natural disaster: "Now the stewards in Zhuangzi are all unable to make ends meet, and they didn't even have the money to buy seeds a while ago, and they are still waiting for the Prime Minister's Mansion to allocate money." β
Because it was a natural disaster, even though Rong Ruizhang was angry, he couldn't speak, but Aunt Wen on the side said: "The stewards must not be careful, if they are careful, how can some natural disasters be resisted, every year there is a big flood in Jiangnan, and I don't see the people in Jiangnan starving to death." β
Rong Ruizhang couldn't listen to it, natural disasters and man-made disasters, so many starvations every year, Aunt Wen, as the young lady of the county government, couldn't even see it?
"You take the title deed first." Rong Ruizhang paused: "The stewards are also slippery when they think about it, you are in charge, and all the stewards have been replaced." Although he knew that it was none of his business, Rong Ruizhang decided to make an example of the chickens. In the past, Wei Qingqing was too good to these people below.
Aunt Wen thought that Rong Ruizhang had listened to what she said, and she was very happy, but Rong Ruizhang looked at her directly and asked: "What about the house deed, when Mrs. was alive, there were more than a dozen shops, except for the two you did, there should be more than a dozen." β
"Yes......"
Aunt Wen's face turned a little pale in an instant, but thinking of Rong Ruizhang's gentleness to herself, she had the confidence to ask someone to get the house deed, but there were only four or five left.
"Isn't the concubine going to hold a flower viewing party, this year's Guogong Mansion is grand, the concubine is thinking, it can't be as simple as the general arrangement when the previous lady was there, and it also saves the people of the Guogong Mansion from underestimating you, so ......" Aunt Wen explained coquettishly, Liuli stood aside and looked at Rong Ruizhang's shocked and complicated eyes, and almost didn't laugh.
He never thought that Aunt Wen would be stupid like this!
"A while ago, the concubine saw my sister's family quietly come to the house, but my sister can stay in the capital for a few more days so that she can participate in the flower viewing banquet?" Ruri asked suddenly.
Rong Ruizhang suddenly clenched his palms, what is the flower appreciation banquet, Aunt Wen is obviously taking the silver of the Prime Minister's Mansion to subsidize her mother's family.
Aunt Wen noticed that something was wrong with Rong Ruizhang, and hurriedly explained: "This year, Mrs. is not here, how dare the concubines keep them without authorization, and only send them back according to the rewards given to them by Mrs. in previous years......
"Slut ββ!"
Rong Ruizhang couldn't hold back any longer. A slap slapped Aunt Wen in the face.
But this slap also seemed to be slapped in the face. Aunt Wen is such a eater, why did he believe her so much!
Wei Qingqing seemed to have mentioned it before, every time Aunt Wen's family came, they opened their mouths?
Rong Ruizhang still remembered that when he heard Wei Qingqing mention this, he became more and more disgusted with her, thinking that she fell into the eyes of money, and she was reluctant to give up a few pieces of silver, especially Aunt Wen's family.
Aunt Wen was born when she was a concubine, and she was looked down upon by her mother since she was a child, although Rong Ruizhang was a concubine, she understood her pain very well, and every time the Wen family came, he would privately let the account room allocate some money to Aunt Wen to save face for her, but she didn't expect that now she would actually resist her own shop!
"Xiangye......" Aunt Wen was still aggrieved and at a loss, but as soon as she spoke, a burst of retching came.
Liuli was stunned for a moment, and Aunt Wen herself reacted instantly, it was not the first time she had given birth, and she immediately covered her stomach and began to cry out for pain.
No matter how ruthless Rong Ruizhang is, he will not be ruthless to his own flesh and blood, so he swallowed his anger and went to find someone to call the doctor, and after making sure that Aunt Wen was really happy, he had to grit his teeth and liquidate the remaining shops, but the remaining shops are all decent but not profitable livelihoods, and he wants to make up enough for 100,000 taels, Rong Ruizhang thought, unless he uses the old lady's own money.
When the news of Aunt Wen's pregnancy reached Wei Qingqing's ears, it was already the morning of the next day.
Had breakfast. Wei Qingqing pinched the dowry list and went to find Liu Quanfu.
Liu Quanfu has been a little haggard in the past few days, and when he saw Wei Qingqing coming, he looked at her for a long time before kneeling down and kowtowing.
"Since Shopkeeper Liu is willing to stay, he wants to do things for me?" Wei Qingqing asked him.
"The little one once promised his master that he would be loyal for the rest of his life." Liu Quanfu didn't dare to guess Wei Qingqing's current identity, but he knew that the young lady in front of him was worthy of his refuge!
Wei Qingqing breathed a sigh of relief, and after mentioning the bad things about the Prime Minister's Mansion for the past two days, he gave him his dowry list: "From today onwards, you are acting in the dark, these dowries, you have all turned them into cash, and I still have a four-season winery in my hand, so you start to take care of this winery." Prime Minister Rong, I will arrange for someone to make him have no time to take care of you. β
Liu Quanfu glanced at the dowry list handed over by Wei Qingqing, he was too familiar with the above items, although some of them were missing, but the rest were enough for him to show his strength.
"The little one understands."
"The Yang account room of the Four Seasons Brew has recently received a lot of shops from the Prime Minister's Mansion, Aunt Wen, but these shops are inconvenient to stay in our hands for a long time, so it is troublesome for the shopkeeper Liu to dispose of them together." Wei Qingqing commanded.
Liu Quanfu looked at her as neat as her former master, swallowed the doubts in his heart, and answered.
Wei Qingqing paused, and saw that Shopkeeper Liu seemed to fully accept him, so he mentioned another matter: "You think of a way to bring all Aunt Wen's family members to the capital, Lord Wen must be tired of being a small county official, and this time Aunt Wen is pregnant." You only said that Aunt Wen will be pregnant with a boy, so as to accommodate her liking, it is very likely that she will be the prime minister's wife. β
When Liu Quanfu heard this, a smile overflowed in his eyes.
If Rong Ruizhang really dares to correct Aunt Wen, he will not be able to escape the charge of killing his wife with a favored concubine!
"The little one understands, it just so happens that there are still some people in the Prime Minister's Mansion who know a little, and they can also help if they want to come." Liu Quanfu bowed down and replied, Wei Qingqing saw that he was still as effective as before, so he got up and left with satisfaction.
It's just that before leaving, Liu Quanfu couldn't help but ask her: "Miss, the previous people, do you want to recall all of them for you?" β
Wei Qingqing knew that he wanted to test himself, so he stopped slightly, looked back at him with a smile: "The shopkeeper only uses the person he thinks is suitable, and there is no need to mention me to them." β
Liu Quanfu looked up at the picturesque little woman in front of him, remembering that he had come to the capital in a hurry and only saw a black coffin, and nodded solemnly.
Leaving from the courtyard, Wei Qingqing went to the Four Seasons Brewing and mentioned a few words from Yang's account room. I also spent money from the Four Seasons Brewing, went to buy Wei Hu's favorite beef and offal, and then went back happily.
Wei Hu was detained in the courtyard by Ge Lao after being covered with medicine because of his injuries.
"Where's Master?"
As soon as he entered the courtyard, Wei Qingqing asked.
When Wei Hu saw Wei Qingqing, his original sullen appearance immediately disappeared, he jumped off the bed with a smile, and his facial features were distorted until he pulled the wound and gasped: "Master said that he wants to see a friend these days, so we don't have to wait for him to eat." β
Wei Qingqing blinked, Ge Lao didn't have many friends, and the one who could make him pay so much attention was none other than the one in the palace......
"Second brother, taste whether this beef is delicious."
Wei Qingqing asked Lan Zhi to hand him the meat he bought, and took a small pot of fruit wine before sitting down on the side and laughing.
Wei Hu was so moved that he was about to shed tears, his little sister had really changed, and he would feel sorry for his brother!
Wei Hu directly twisted a piece of braised beef offal in his mouth, bit it loudly, ate two mouthfuls of meat, and drank a sip of sweet fruit wine, which was so beautiful that he gave Wei Qingqing a thumbs up again and again.
Wei Qingqing looked at him like this, and his mood was much happier.
After Wei Hu had eaten, Wei Qingqing planned to go to Mr. Yan's place to take a look around, and take a look at Wei Xun by the way.
Wei Hu's neck shrank: "What did she do, I didn't provoke her!" β
"The county lord said that he came to bring you medicine for the wound." Xiao Baimin's lips smiled.
"Wound medicine? I'm afraid it's not the poison that wants to poison me, so I don't want it. You ask her to go back. Wei Hu huffed.
Xiaobai glanced at Wei Qingqing in embarrassment, the identity of the county lord of Chi Yang came to the door in person, if she was driven back directly, she would be able to come and demolish the Wei Mansion if she didn't protect Qi Ming'er.
And offending the king of Ruyang is not a good thing.
Wei Qingqing looked at Wei Hu, who refused to go out, and had to say, "Where is the county lord, I'll go and see you." β
"Little Sister ......"
"It's okay, the second brother is resting. I bought all this meat for you, and I also bought it from my father and eldest brother, and I took it to the kitchen to eat it in the evening. The second brother just opened his belly. After Wei Qingqing finished speaking with a smile, Wei Hu nodded hurriedly, and said: "Little sister, don't talk nonsense with that unruly county lord, just send her away, if she dares to do something with you, you just call someone to come to me, see if I treat her as a woman this time!" β
Wei Qingqing looked at him rolling up his sleeves and shook his head secretly, this stupid brother. The girl personally delivered the medicine to the door, what does this mean he still doesn't understand?
However, the temperament of the county lord of Chiyang is indeed too 'spicy'.
After thinking about it, Wei Qingqing had already walked out of the house.
The Wei Mansion is not big, and after only passing through two gates, I saw the county lord of Chi Yang who was feeding the fish and fiddling with his hair from time to time next to the fish pond in front of him.
"The courtiers have seen the county lord."
Wei Qingqing came over to salute, Chi Yang heard her voice, turned his head suddenly, and saw Wei Hu's figure, the shyness on his face disappeared in an instant, and he only bit his lip and stared at Wei Qingqing: "Why are you, your second brother?" β
"The second brother has broken his muscles and bones, and now he is resting in the house, I'm afraid it's inconvenient to come out to see the county lord, otherwise it will scare the county lord, and the second brother will definitely feel guilty." Wei Qingqing explained, Chi Yang listened, the corners of his mouth were obviously about to rise, but he still snorted lightly: "What kind of guilt, I don't believe he will feel guilty." β
"The county lord is the daughter's family in the end, no matter how rude and stupid the second brother is, he will not be unsympathetic." Wei Qingqing saw that Chi Yang really had that kind of thought, and she was a little worried about Wei Hu, and she didn't know if this kind of peach blossom luck was good or bad.
"That's it, you can bring him all this medicine."
Chi Yang said, the maid on the side took a lot of medicine, Wei Qingqing looked at it, most of them were still the wound medicine given by the emperor, they were all excellent things, and hurriedly thanked Wei Hu.
However, Chi Yang still had no intention of leaving, Wei Qingqing had to talk to her hard, but she didn't need to find words, Chi Yang seemed to have come to check on Wei Hu today, and asked him about his previous affairs, until it was not early, Chi Yang asked with a little twist: "Then your second brother...... Have you ever decided to be married? β
Wei Qingqing looked at her with a smile, Chi Yang was blushing at her, and snorted coldly: "Don't think you're smart." It's not what you think. β
"Yes. The second brother has not yet decided on a relationship, but the eldest brother has not yet married a wife, presumably the second brother will not marry before the eldest brother. Wei Qingqing tactfully told Chi Yang that Wei Hu was not her lover, but Chi Yang only heard the first half of the sentence, so he left happily, and before leaving, he couldn't help but tell Wei Qingqing: "Although you are the water spilled by the daughter who wants to marry, but your little cleverness is still collected, Rong Erye is a clear person, and you can't see those pickled eyes." Besides, a big man must not marry you alone, and you have a low status, if you are conscious, you can give up your position earlier, and you can also gain a virtuous reputation, and when Rong Erye's real confidant enters the door, you can also get along with her. β
Wei Qingqing knew that the so-called confidant in her mouth meant Wei Susu, so she only smiled lightly: "The affairs of wives and concubines, the courtiers and daughters are all up to the elders." β
Chi Yang frowned: "You will suffer a loss in the future." Don't blame me for not telling you. β
"Yes, thank you for your advice." Wei Qingqing still responds with kindness.
Chi Yang shook the whip in his hand, endured it again, and walked out of the Wei Mansion angrily.
As soon as he came out, he heard that Wei Qiongwei's leg was broken: "County Lord, shall we go and see Miss Susu?" Yahuan Lichun asked.
"Naturally, I'm going to take a look." Chi Yang replied, and before leaving, he couldn't help but look back at Wei Qingqing, who was standing obediently at the door, and pouted again: "That's it, I still won't go today, and it's not that Su Su is injured, go back to the palace." β
Wei Qingqing was a little surprised, but seeing that Chi Yang had already gotten into the carriage and left, he couldn't help laughing.
This county lord is a little interesting.
However, she always thought that Su Su was too timid and shy, so that she had no friends except for her sister, but now it seems that she not only knows how to win the love of the ladies in Beijing, but also knows how to make people pity herself.
"Miss, something happened."
Just thinking about it, Da Ming ran back from outside.
Wei Qingqing looked at Da Ming's sweaty appearance, puzzled, didn't the eldest brother listen to Mr. Yan's lecture in the mansion today, what could happen?
Wei Qingqing signaled to speak inside, Da Ming also looked around vigilantly, and then wiped the sweat on his forehead and followed Wei Qingqing into the house, just arrived at no one, Da Ming cautiously said what had just happened: "It's the lady of the Chen family, today suddenly ran to the government to sue the eldest son, saying that the eldest prince broke into her house last night and lightened her, and she still has the token left by the eldest son, and now she is determined to be our eldest son, and the eldest prince must marry her back!" β
Hearing this, Wei Qingqing knew whose handwriting was behind this!