Chapter 183: Distorted Human Nature
Sister Cao was originally a lively and loving person, she was the boss in Tianyue Building, and she was always the same, and everyone revolved around her. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info but when she married into the Wang family as she wished, she found that sometimes even the maids in the house did not look at her seriously - after all, the wife of the fourth young master was Miss Yuan, and she was the daughter of a famous family. As for Sister Cao, she is just a bankrupt family, born as a famous prostitute in Qinglou, and a concubine of the second master.
What is a concubine, in this era, a concubine can even give away, it is just a piece of goods.
Sister Cao didn't feel anything at first, and felt that she had endured the grievances first, and after a long time, everyone would stop talking nonsense. But the maid and the old mother who came with Sister Cao were angry with a lot of people in the house, which made Sister Cao unbearable, and the bullying was too much, who could not bear it, what Sister Cao said was also in the wind and waves, and she couldn't even deal with this little means, so how could she open a green building to do business.
Sister Cao waited for the right time to retaliate until Wang Yongan's family went to Shang. In less than half a month, two people were killed, three were disabled, and four people were driven away, and the old mansion of the Wang family was frightened by Sister Cao's methods, and they no longer dared to snub Sister Cao and her maids. It just so happened that at this time, Huang Bo wanted Sister Cao to help him blow the pillow wind, and while secretly bribing, he gave Sister Cao an idea, and encouraged Sister Cao to compete to be the wife of the main house, and guessed Sister Cao's thoughts. Sister Cao simply combined two things into one thing, which helped both Huang Bo and herself, so the two of them clamored for Wang Yongtai inside and out.
And because Huang Bo took the route of the general's wife and achieved great success, more and more people realized the role of Sister Cao, so they followed suit and held Sister Cao like a flower one by one. Sister Cao is a good moneymaker, and in the name of Wang Yongtai, she has scavenged a lot of silver in Yangzhou in the past six months.
Lao Tang said that although he was a housekeeper, it was Cao Li's henchman who was in charge of the money now, a personal girl named Mingzhu, but according to the guards' inquiries, Sister Cao had made at least 50,000 taels of silver in half a year.
"She really has a set." Wang Yongan touched his chin and smiled, "I'm not interested in the matter of the dog skin at home, she is unwilling to be a concubine, as long as my second brother is willing, I can let him be the wife of the main house, but now she has bullied me, which is unbearable." Old Tang, you go back immediately, detain all Sister Cao's people, put her under house arrest, and don't let her go without my order. ”
"Yes, host." The excitement on Old Tang's face shows how much he has suffered in the past six months, and now that he finally has the opportunity to retaliate, how can he not be excited.
After Old Tang left, Wang Yongan smacked his lips and smiled to himself: "This Sister Cao...... really made Lao Wei right, people's hearts are like sea water, unpredictable, especially women's minds, they are the deep blue of the sea, and the bottom is invisible. Then Wei Wenkang knew about it, and specially ran over to ask, Wang Yongan answered truthfully, Wei Wenkang smiled: "As I expected, women can't use common sense to scrutinize, you have to do the opposite." ”
Wang Yongan asked with a smile: "Quan'an, you old virgin seems to understand women very well." ”
Wei Wenkang was angry, shouting that he was not a virgin at the age of fourteen, he was just used to it alone, and he didn't want anyone around him to trouble Yunyun, so he left angrily - I won't play with you anymore!
Wang Yongan asked Lao Tang to put Sister Cao and the others under house arrest, just to scare them, so he didn't have the time and energy to take care of these things, but the treasury in the house didn't know how much money was left. Two days later, he took people back to the old mansion of the Wang family, walked into the underground silver vault, and was so frightened that he almost sat on the ground, and there were actually two large coffins in the cellar.
"What the hell is this?" Wang Yongan asked with a frown.
Old Tang said: "Back to the fourth young master's words, this is the group of tomb robbers dug up, said that it is a sarcophagus of the Tang Dynasty, which is very well preserved, and the tomb robber surnamed Luan said that this coffin is too valuable, and foreigners need to spend at least 300,000 taels of silver to buy these two Tang Dynasty sarcophagi." ”
"Is it that expensive?" Wang Yongan was skeptical.
Old Tang said: "The old guy said that there are very few sarcophagi in the Central Plains, and Yangzhou is located in the middle of the canal, with underground sediment precipitation and extreme humidity, and the coffin will rot after decades." And these two sarcophagi are the two most complete father-son sarcophagi preserved in the Qing Dynasty, which are very valuable. ”
Wang Yongan nodded and said that this is a national treasure, other objects can be sold, but these two sarcophagi must not be sold, but it is not like this at home, I always feel panicked. He continued to look at the other objects in the cellar, which were full of artifacts from various dynasties, and it seemed that the tomb robbers had significantly improved their work enthusiasm and efficiency since they were "ordered to dig graves by military order".
Of course, digging graves openly is extremely fast, not to mention that these people are different from archaeologists, their purpose of digging graves is only to find a clear weapon to make money, so they will not carefully protect the ancient tombs, if they can't dig up, they will use explosives. Medicine. Explode, simple, rough and direct......
After looking at the Ming utensils in the cellar, Wang Yongan found that there were still 170,000 taels of silver in the cellar, and Wang Yongtai only spent 30,000 taels these days, and it seemed that the second brother was very economical.
"Boss, what is here......" Old Tang asked.
Wang Yongan thought for a while and said with a smile: "I originally wanted to take it away before I came, but now it seems that I really can't take it away, forget it, let it be left for the time being, you will keep it." Don't let anyone else in, especially if you can't move a piece of the artifact inside. I now have silver, and I don't plan to sell these Ming utensils, if I have the opportunity in the future, I am going to build a museum, and display these Ming utensils in the museum** Future generations will wait and see. ”
Old Tang didn't know what a museum was, but he was still very happy to hear that he could serve future generations, and he conscientiously guarded the cellar.
Then Wang Yongan packed up his things and left the Wang family's old house. He didn't have any intention of taking revenge on Sister Cao, he also sympathized with Sister Cao in his heart, he was sold to the Qinglou in his teens, and he couldn't be the wife of the main house for the rest of his life, and he couldn't give birth, but he had the possibility of being the wife of the main house, but he was broken by himself. And Sister Cao used to be very good to Wang Yongan, as if she was a brother and sister, and it was very embarrassing for the two to meet at this time.
If Wang Yongan is really ruthless and doesn't miss the old love, it doesn't matter, but Sister Cao hasn't done too much, everything she does is in a woman's normal needs, the need for fame, and the need for money. Who would like to be a concubine, she can't choose her life when she becomes a prostitute. Female, when she could choose her life, she decided to be a lady of the main house.
Wang Yongan also heard from Lao Tang's mouth, although Sister Cao said good things for Huang Bo behind her back, she suggested that Wang Yongan be put on it. Hai, but Sister Cao tried her best to prevent the two brothers from falling apart, and the second time she sent ten carts of Ming utensils, Sister Cao strongly supported, she said to Wang Yongtai: "Jingyun is always your younger brother, we send him to the concession to be a duke, and we can't starve him to death." You have to let him know that even if they have conflicts, you are always his second brother. It's just that this royal family can only have one master. If he understands, he will naturally be honest in Shanghai and no longer care about the situation in Yangzhou. ”
With a sigh, Wang Yongan could only smile bitterly, it is really difficult to distinguish between good and bad people, and it is difficult to predict good and bad things, this is life. (To be continued.) )