Chapter 182: The Angry Old Lady, the Grain Merchant Blocking the Gate
Mrs. Xu's birthday banquet lasted for three days from the day before, to the day of her birthday, and then to the day after. In terms of generation, even the grandmother Fang of the Xu family on Doosan Street is also the younger generation of Mrs. Xu and Mrs. Song, but because Fang's health has been a little unsafe these days, for fear of passing the illness to the two centenarians, he did not come over in person, and sent his third son and third daughter-in-law to bring some grandchildren to celebrate his birthday. Therefore, Xu Wei was on the morning of the third day with other cousins and set off for Fucheng. From yesterday to today, anyone can see that Miss Nine, who was still elated when she came, is now as listless as if she had wilted a dish.
As a result, those speculations became even more popular. Although the Xu family's family law on Doosan Street is strict, and the subordinates do not dare to openly mutter about their master, several of Xu Wei's cousins are not so peaceful, some are purely kind to listen, some are a little cautious and sarcastic, and some are purely chaotic...... As for the third master and the third wife who led the team, because they were not Xu Wei's parents, they hid any muttering in their hearts, and they only planned to go back to find an opportunity to report to the Fang family.
When she returned to the Cheng family's mansion on Doosan Street, Xu Wei was already depressed. But after meeting her grandmother with the others, she suddenly said that she had something to say to her grandmother, and asked to stay. When everyone else retreated, she knelt down on the edge of the bed and suddenly burst into tears: "Grandmother, I almost got into trouble this time!" ”
The strange eyes of the third son, the third daughter-in-law and the others just now, of course the Fang family could detect it, and at this moment, seeing the most beloved granddaughter suddenly look like this, her heart tightened. She didn't have any serious illness in the first place, so she immediately sat up straight at this moment and asked in a deep voice, "Say it." What the hell is going on. ”
Although Fang Clan had already made certain psychological preparations. But. Hearing Xu Wei sobbing and explaining what had happened, she was still very angry. After many years of vicissitudes, of course she knows that the marriage between Master Cheng and Xu Hanlin is definitely not only a good relationship between the two families, and while the Cheng family provides financial support for Xu Hanlin in the officialdom, Xu Hanlin will definitely support the Cheng family in other aspects. Such a win-win good thing was almost ruined because of his granddaughter's temporary fun. If it spreads, this is simply a deep hatred that falls from the sky, and there will be a deep rift between the Xu family and the Xu Village family on Doosan Street!
But Fang's anger came to his mouth, but in the end, it became a sigh: "Xiaowei, why are you so uneasy!" ”
"I know it's wrong......"
Although this sentence has been said to Wang Fulin once, when Xu Wei said it at this moment, it really brought out 100,000 points of remorse. Although Wang Fulin promised that she would hide the matter, she was not born to hide the mind, and she added entanglements along the way overnight. She chose to confess after all. She gritted her teeth fiercely, and then whispered: "Bad people are taboo to marry. I can't contain the fire in the paper, and my grandmother doesn't have to cover me, so I just twisted my hair and became a sister-in-law! ”
"Bastard, what nonsense!" Fang Shi was simply angry, and he pounded the bed and said angrily, "Do you really want this matter to make a storm in the city?" Let me ask you, did your sister Rong ever tell you about going on a blind date on her behalf? ”
Xu Wei was stunned for a long time, and then she said uncertainly: "It seems to be ...... No. ”
"You, you, if it weren't for the shy and kind Rong girl of Xu Hanlin's family, that Cheng Gongzi would have made trouble, but he didn't shout about things everywhere, Wang Xiaoguan is not a talkative person, there is almost no room for recovery in this matter!" Fang Shi pressed his chest with palpitations, and then whispered, "You go back to the room for me, don't leave home to reflect on it, don't give me cranky thoughts, I have other things!" ”
Xu Wei didn't expect her grandmother to put it down so gently, and her eyes suddenly widened in disbelief: "Grandmother......"
"Get out!"
Hearing this short and unquestionable voice, Xu Wei realized that her grandmother was not angry, and the deep anger was all hidden in her heart. She had to stand up slowly on her knees, and walked out of the room with her head drooping. And Fang's was upset, and after a while, Fang called a confidant mother and asked her to go outside to inquire about what happened during this birthday visit. When she finally heard about those nonsense descriptions and speculations, especially when Xu Wei heard that Mrs. Bao had a matchmaker for Wang Fulin, she actually smashed a tea cup, she didn't know what to say, and couldn't help rubbing her temples and laughing bitterly.
"If I knew I wouldn't let that girl go this way, maybe there wouldn't be so much of a thing!"
Although Wang Fulin once planned to go to the eldest sister Wang Yuanguan to ask for a plan, he thought that if more and more people knew about this matter, it would be difficult to contain the fire in the paper, not to mention that the eldest sister was married to a child of the Xu family, so he still dispelled this idea. He had the intention to find Master Li, who also avoided marriage from Ningguo Mansion to She County, and knocked on the side to find out what was the secret of avoiding marriage-after all, Cheng Naixuan's matter must not be regarded as experience-but early this morning, he was blocked at the door of his house by a group of grain merchants!
There is a way that when the enemy meets, his eyes are extremely red, and as soon as the two look at each other, Wang Fulin clearly perceives that when these guys look at him, they can't wait to stare him out of two holes. But I still have to squeeze out a warm smile on my face, how fake it is. It is certain that if it weren't for the fact that there was a big man standing behind him as the governor of Yunyang, I was afraid that they would be able to devour themselves alive.
"The little official is a busy man, we have been here several times, and today we finally didn't make a splash." Wu Xingcai, the most unlucky grain merchant, started up, although he endured and endured, his words still brought out a little anger, "Pity us grain merchants with small businesses, who work hard every day to make money, but in the end they end up being accused of being a profiteer." ”
"What's the matter, didn't the Wu Dong family get the loss of Nanxi Nanwu veterans? Besides, I didn't hear that you all raised the price, and if the price increases, you are not profiteers. Wang Fulin pretended not to understand, and when he saw that the other party was suddenly stuck, he said with a smile, "I was really busy a few days ago, and I was rarely at home, so I waited for you slowly, come, talk in the hall." ”
A few times before, Wu Xingcai and others had directly eaten the closed-door soup, and it was the first time they came to this mansion facing the back door of the county magistrate's office. These are all human spirits, and the drill camp ability to inquire about the news is first-class, who doesn't know that this is a house under Wang Daoguan's name, and Wang Fulin can live here, which itself represents the attitude of the Wang family brothers.
So, no one looked left and right, and followed up the Ming Hall one by one. As soon as I sat down, I saw a girl hurriedly come in to serve tea, and the utensils were just ordinary white porcelain tea cups, someone deliberately said: "I can't imagine that the little officials are so frugal, and the official kiln tea set doesn't need a few dollars." I have a brother in Jingdezhen who specializes in the porcelain business, and he came back to bring him a set of fine blue and white porcelain. ”
"Thank you very much." Wang Fulin deliberately took other people's ridicule as sincere, and when he saw that the other party's face was stiff, he said with a smile, "These utensils were all prepared when I borrowed my uncle's house, and I was just a host, and I didn't want to buy utensils, it was too troublesome." After all, my family is a poor man with a lot of debt, and I can't compare it to the rich and rich. ”
Wang Fulin's little family background, with his fame, has long been dug up. Especially his father Wang Daoyun, who managed the family's salt business but lost a lot of money in the past, is even more talked about among Xiao Xiucai's enemies, but the creditors Wang Daokun and Wang Daoguan brothers have nothing to say, what can outsiders do? At this moment, Wang Fulin directly shouted poverty as a scoundrel, and the grain merchant who generously sent porcelain was eager to slap himself in the mouth.
A set of fine blue and white porcelain in Jingdezhen, how much does it cost? Why did he want to be broad?
After shouting poverty, Wang Fulin asked with sincerity: "I don't know why you came to me today?" ”
Although everyone wanted to tear Wang Fulin's smiling face, the problem was that they had stopped accepting people to sell grain as a countermeasure, which they had used; Later, the collective price increase, giving up the purpose of stopping the collection of grain from the people, and wanted to force the villagers who had sold cheap before to go back and make trouble, and this countermeasure was also thought up by them. But they were all yin by Wang Fulin twice in a row, and they even wondered if there was a mole in the middle! Even now, they are far from being what they seem.
Therefore, at this moment, they look at me, and in the end, Wu Xing saw that other people's eyes fell on him, and he suddenly wanted to scold. But who let the matter be provoked by the little guy under him" He could only take a deep breath and break the deadlock with a low profile.
"Wang Xiaoguan, we are fighting on both sides, but letting others see jokes also fuels the arrogance of those mud legs. The small officials should also see the posture of the villagers making trouble before, they are just profit-seeking, and when they take the cheap, they say that they are good, and they will make trouble if they lose a little. Since the petty officials have already opened the store, let's take one more rice store in Huizhou Mansion, everyone is a family, why make a fuss? ”
"You're right, if you continue like this, of course, you will definitely lose both." Wang Fulin smiled and took a sip of forsythia tea. There were no rules for serving tea to guests these days, so he didn't have to worry about misunderstandings. Glancing around at the grain merchants who had come over today, he coughed lightly.
"As a businessman, you have a shop in the city, there are guys, and you seem to be rich and leisurely, but you need money to collect grain, the warehouse where you store grain costs money, the shop costs money, and you need money to hire a shopkeeper. But it's more than we've earned here in a year or even years. ”
Speaking of this, seeing that the expressions of many grain merchants were a little subtle, he said: "It is said that Huizhou merchants are the best in the world, but everyone also says that only the most unpromising and unenterprising Huizhou merchants will stay in Huizhou." As a sitting businessman, are you willing to be scolded for being unproductive, or being scolded for being a profiteer, and you can't make much money? ”
PS: Ask for monthly passes and recommended tickets again! But no matter what the ranking of the monthly ticket list is, the small outbreak of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow is still the same, anyway, I have a clear conscience, the thousand yuan bonus is not important, this month's struggle is important! (To be continued......) R1292