Chapter 487: Bullying
The first to notice the situation was Jin Lian, early this morning, when Jin Lian got up to prepare breakfast for the family, she found that the food shelves in the kitchen were empty.
And a family like Wu Zhi, a big family, every morning there will be someone to send fresh vegetables and fruits in advance, Jin Lian gets up on time every day, basically every time she first arrives in the kitchen, the maids just send the ingredients into the kitchen.
The suppliers who transported the ingredients for the Wuzhi family are the partners of Fan Lou for many years, and they are the most punctual, not to mention the small batches of ingredients of the Wu Zhi family, which are the large-scale supply of Bianjing Fan Lou and Deyi Building, and they have been ensuring timely supply all year round, rain or shine.
Moreover, one of the most commendable features of this supplier is that the worse the weather, the earlier they are.
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Today's weather is good, although the weather is a little cold, but looking at the nascent sun in the distant sky, it is extremely bright.
Therefore, Jin Lian looked at the empty food shelves in the kitchen, and couldn't help but wonder, she was in charge of all the big and small affairs in the house, and she knew the punctuality of the supplier, so she called the housekeeper of the inner courtyard, Mrs. Xie - Mrs. Xie was the housekeeper who was newly invited by Wu Zhi to be responsible for managing the maids in the house after she came to Bianjing, and was introduced by the shopkeeper of Fan Lou Zhou.
Aunt Xie is not tall, fat, cautious and careful, but she doesn't like to talk, which is a bit similar to Lao Bao, the housekeeper in the front yard, who can express it with gestures or expressions, they definitely can't speak.
After calling Aunt Xie to ask, Aunt Xie also shook her head with a puzzled face, she handed over the supply list to the supplier by hand yesterday, and there should be no mistakes in this regard.
Helpless, Jin Lian had to wait for a while, but seeing that Wu Zhi and they were about to get up, Jin Lian anxiously went to the back door with Aunt Xie to wait and see, originally the ingredients came a while Later Jin Lian would not be in a hurry, but Xue'er was a little weak recently, Jin Lian originally planned to cook a pot of red dates, lotus seeds, blood bird's nest porridge for Xue'er to recuperate, this kind of porridge takes the most time, she is afraid that it will be too late.
However, Jin Lian and Aunt Xie had not yet arrived at the back door, but Lao Bao from the front yard came to report that the ingredients had been delivered, and they walked through the front gate.
Hearing the front front gate of the ingredients, Jin Lian was even more puzzled, ordinary people don't have to say it, but the main gate of a large family represents the face of the family, the entry and exit of ordinary maids and maids, and the transportation of daily necessities, basically do not go through the front door, but through the back door.
But today, why did the food supply break the rules and not go through the back door, but through the front door?
The donkey cart of ingredients stopped in front of the main entrance, and people saw it, wouldn't it be insulting?
After thinking about it, Jin Lian's face was full of anger, and she had the majesty of a female master, so she led Lao Bao and Aunt Xie to the front yard outside the main gate to question the delivery person.
There must be a reason for it, after Jin Lian asked about the situation, her forehead suddenly frowned, and Lao Bao and Aunt Xie on the side were also angry at this time.
"Go and do your business, for you just don't know about this matter, and tell your subordinates not to cause trouble."
After lightly instructing Lao Bao and Aunt Xie, Jin Lian calmed down and went back to the kitchen to continue cooking her porridge as if nothing had happened.
At breakfast, the family tasted the golden lotus's moist, sweet and glutinous red date bird's nest porridge, Xue'er drank two large bowls, and Wu Zhi was also satisfied. After the maids cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, everyone sat comfortably and chatted and joked, and Jin Lian also took the opportunity to tell Wu Zhi and them what happened in the morning.
"What?!"
After Wu Zhi listened to Jin Lian's words, he suddenly became angry.
"They blocked our back door overnight? How dare they! ”
In fact, the matter is very simple, that is, the neighbor to the west of Wu Zhi's house, Zhang Biao, who served as the waiter of the Ministry of Works, and the Zhang family built two walls overnight to seal the back door of Wu Zhi's house on the grounds of preventing thieves.
Originally, if the back door of Wuzhi's mansion was really open behind the mansion, then even if the Zhang family was arrogant, they would not dare to build a wall in front of Wuzhi's house, and the reason why the Zhang family was able to seal the back door was because the back door of Wuzhi's mansion was nominally the back door, but because of feng shui and planning considerations, it was not opened behind the mansion, but on the side of the mansion.
It was in the alley to the west of the mansion, towards the Zhang family's mansion.
Although there are many luxury mansions in Bianjingdong City, the overall plan is very neat, each mansion is facing the street in front of and behind, and lush bamboo is planted in the back to protect it; And there are wide alleys between each mansion, and all the mansions have their back doors open to the west, and so on.
After all, they are all big families, with all kinds of miscellaneous dark entrances and exits, and it is better to open the back door in the alley than to open it in the back and face the street.
But it was precisely because the back door was opened in the alley that the Zhang family built walls at both ends of the alley between the Zhang family and Wu Zhi's mansion, and the back door of Wu Zhi's house was completely sealed. After sealing the back door of Wu Zhi's house, the person who delivered the ingredients had to go around a whole street to get to the main gate of Wu Zhi's house.
Generally, the alleys west of each mansion are their own private boundaries by default, not to mention blocked, even idle people will not easily pass by, so those who deliver ingredients will go around so far. And the Zhang family was so arrogant that they sealed both ends of the alley of the Wu Zhi family, which is simply a bully!
"Zhang Long Zhao Hu!"
was clearly bullied, where could Wu Zhi endure it, he immediately got up and rolled up his sleeves and called a personal guard.
"Order a few good players, bring a shovel, and follow me to tear down the wall!"
Damn, the two neighbors of that thing, when Wu Zhi's family first arrived in Bianjing, they let the female relatives deliberately humiliate their three ladies, Wu Zhi hasn't figured this account with them, they actually intensified their bullying, really when Wu Zhi is a soft persimmon, how to pinch it?
"Officials and slow!"
Jin Lian stopped Wu Zhi.
"According to the guy who delivered the ingredients, when they arrived in the morning, the housekeeper of the Zhang family was directing the craftsmen to lay the last few bricks, and the guy was angry when he saw this, but he questioned them a few words, and the housekeeper of the Zhang family said that according to the land deed documents of the government, the alley to the west of our house is the boundary of their family, and they can move as they want.........
Speaking of the back, Jin Lian's voice was much quieter.
"Humph!"
Listening to Jin Lian's words, Wu Zhi snorted coldly with a gloomy face, it turned out that the wall was built in the early morning, but Wu Zhi didn't believe the words of the Zhang family, this mansion was built by Bai Sheng and them, and there would definitely be no problems on the land boundary, but the head of the Zhang family was a waiter of the Ministry of Works, and it was too easy for him to do anything about the filing of the official land deed.
"What if the place is his? I'm going to take over their place today! Wu Zhi waved his hand at Zhang Long and Zhao Hu, "Go copy the guy!" ”
Since the title deed has been passive, it will only be a mess if it is more serious, Wu Zhi simply doesn't care whether the title deed is not a land deed, and directly regains his own territory! With Wu Zhi's current relationship with the emperor, even if he forcibly occupies the territory of the Zhang family, the emperor will support himself!
"Official!"
Wu Zhi had already taken a step, and Sanniang, who had been secretly angry next to Xue'er, stopped Wu Zhi again.
"It's a strange thing, and officials don't want to fall into someone else's trap."
was reminded by Sanniang like this, Wu Zhi immediately stopped.
Fang was angry for a while, but he was a little impulsive, now he thought about it, tomorrow is the day of the last dynasty, and Zhu Mian will definitely be difficult for himself at that time, and now the Zhang family's deliberate fault finding fault is obviously not just to prevent Wu Zhi from being convenient.
"You two stand down first."
After letting Zhang Long and Zhao Hu step back, Wu Zhi slowly walked to the chair and sat down, and Youxue Er served a cup of soothing tea.
The three girls deliberately kept quiet to give Wu Zhi time to think, Wu Zhi took a sip of tea and immediately saw through the general situation.
In fact, there is nothing profound about this matter, because what people use on Wu Zhi is a blatant "yang scheme"! Create a neighborhood dispute for Wu Zhi first, once Wu Zhi makes trouble, this kind of dispute between the ministers of the court will definitely spread out, and it will definitely be a damage to his reputation, and Wu Zhi has no connections in the court, and if he wants to recapture the alley, he will definitely turn to the emperor for help.
Sometimes having a good relationship with the emperor does not mean that you can find the emperor for everything, and you can still find the emperor for this kind of trivial matter of neighborhood disputes...... Wu Zhi himself feels embarrassed when he thinks about it.
But if you don't find the emperor, Wu Zhi still forcibly seizes the land, the other party is also a big official, and he will definitely not agree, and in the end he can only fall into a deeper dispute.
In short, no matter what the result is, it will be unfavorable for Wu Zhi, and Wu Zhi can only endure it first.
But even if Wu Zhi endures it, it is still a trick, because this is a dumb loss, and the back door of the martial arts family will not be able to be used in the future.
This is where conspiracy is more powerful than conspiracy.
"Our family is not large, and it will be okay to walk through the gate in the morning and evening for large and small miscellaneous items." Jin Lian saw that Wu Zhi's face softened, and she said empathetically.
"What Sister Jin Lian said is that officials are open-minded, and they don't have to deal with villains."
Sanniang and Xue'er are also comforting Wu Zhi.
"Hmmm......"
Wu Zhi nodded slightly, the fist shrunk in the cuffs, but the clucking sound, in front of the ladies, it was really a bit embarrassing to be bullied like this and have no power to fight back.
"There aren't any moths in the Hu family in the east, right?" Wu Zhi asked.
The family on the east side is Hu Zhi of Ren Taichang Temple Shaoqing.
"Not really, it's just that our family's wagon carrying ingredients is not allowed to pass through the East Lane.........
Wu Zhi didn't speak, just closed his eyes slightly, others are "distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors", the neighbors on both sides of themselves are good, first bullied their own ladies, this account has not been settled with them, and then they bullied Wu Zhi and his family!
"Good! It won't be long before we settle the old accounts together! ”