Chapter 13: The Copper Ingot is gone

The place where the scales are crossed is not far away, and you can reach it through the two corner gates. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Steward Xu walked into the main hall, there were a lot of people inside, most of them were familiar faces.

In the middle sat Lord Zhengqing Wang of Dali Temple, and below sat the former prime minister Gao Jingyuan, next to Gao Jingyuan stood a half-sized child, and Chen Siwei stood next to the kid.

Steward Xu walked forward quickly with small steps, and first looked deeply at Lord Wang: "Butler Xu Ping of the Chen Mansion pays a visit to Lord Wang. ”

"Excuse me, this is not a lobby." Lord Wang always had a friendly smile on his face: "I heard that the Chen Mansion came to pay the red copper today, so I came here to take a look." You just have to rest assured and boldly go to the scales, who dares to do the slightest trick, I will not be spared. ”

What Lord Wang said was so ingenious, it was simply perfect and seamless. Whoever dares to do anything with the slightest hand, I will not spare it. This sounds like he is supporting the Chen Mansion, saying that those officials who are responsible for inspecting, weighing, and counting will not be spared if they dare to do anything.

In fact, everyone knows that Lord Wang's words are meant for Chen Siwei, and this is by no means to support the Chen Mansion, but to warn Chen Siwei that if he dares to do the slightest trick, he will not be spared.

"Yes, thank you, Lord Wang." Xu Ping knew in his heart that the surname Wang was just saying a beautiful sentence, he couldn't do something beautiful, if he hadn't prepared enough eighty catties of red copper today, I'm afraid he would be the first to turn his face.

He Yushi followed Steward Xu closely, walked in front of and behind his feet, and greeted Lord Wang warmly when he entered the door: "Brother Wang Nian, you are so idle." ”

Seeing He Yushi walking in, Lord Wang hurriedly stood up: "What kind of wind blew you here?" Lord Wang instructed the boy next to him: "Hurry up and sit on Lord Wang." ”

The waiter moved the chair and put it opposite Gao Jingyuan, and He Yushi walked to the seat proudly.

Steward Xu looked at Gao Jingyuan to the end: "Xu Ping greets Gao Xiangye." ”

Gao Jingyuan smiled and said, "Excuse me, where am I still a master?" It's just a bad old man. ”

Gao Jingyuan's words were said to He Yushi, you and him. blind? You don't even say hello to me, you just want to sit down? You're an ass. Is the stock sinking?

He Yushi was really blind, he entered the house a few steps later than Steward Xu, he only saw Steward Xu giving Steward Wang a trick, and he also heard what Lord Wang said.

He really didn't see Gao Jingyuan, and Bai Jingchen and Chen Siwei stood side by side next to Gao Jingyuan, blocking him tightly.

He Yushi was just about to sit down, when he suddenly saw Steward Xu bowing to the opposite side, and he thought that Steward Xu was bowing to Chen Siwei. It wasn't until Steward Xu bent down and said 'Meet Gao Xiangye' at the same time that he saw Gao Jingyuan. As soon as the strand touched the surface of the chair, it immediately bounced up as if it had been pricked by a needle.

"Xiaguan He Yuanjiu pays a visit to Gao Xiangye." He Yushi hurriedly bowed to the end, and because the movement was a bit big, the gauze hat almost fell off. He reached out comically to cover his gauze hat, this thing couldn't be lost.

Gao Jingyuan only said 'um' in a nasal voice, which can be regarded as looking at him as a person. He took two steps back and sat down honestly.

He Yuanjiu will also beat Xiao Jiujiu, he knows that Gao Jingyuan is angry that he is late to greet him, but this is just a trivial matter, and Xiangye does not care about this trivial matter.

The people in this hall were all rushing to see Chen Siwei pay the red copper, and it could be inferred from Lord Wang's attitude that Gao Jingyuan also had the same thoughts as them.

If Gao Jingyuan has a different opinion, Lord Wang will definitely take care of Chen Siwei a little, and there is no need to be so formal, pretend to go through a procedure, and this matter will be fooled.

Report to the emperor that the Chen Mansion has been handed over, and then Dali Temple will take eighty catties of red copper to pay in advance. Others can't take out the red copper, Dali Temple is not lacking.

Lord Wang set up a frame to seriously enforce the law, and it was clear that he wanted to have a 'Ding is Ding, Mao is Mao' with Chen Siwei. This is the most basic difficulty, the amount can be weighed with a scale, but there is no fixed standard for the color problem, it depends on the mood of the appraiser.

He Yuanjiu expected that Gao Jingyuan was on their side, in order to alleviate the small embarrassment caused by the impoliteness just now, he hurriedly expressed his attitude, he had to let Gao Jingyuan know that he was actually targeting Chen Siwei.

He was afraid that Gao Jingyuan would see that he was coming in with the housekeeper of the Chen Mansion, so he suspected that he was with Chen Siwei.

"Gao Xiangye, I came here because I was ordered to urge the Chen family to pay the red copper, because the holy order is in my body, so I don't dare to be distracted, so I lost my mind just now, and I hope that Xiangye will forgive."

If he didn't take a stand, Gao Jingyuan would still be able to breathe a little bit of anger when he saw him. His stance is tantamount to drawing a clear line with Gao Jingyuan. Gao Jingyuan didn't even want to hum him, and turned his head directly to look at the weighing place.

The scale used for weighing is not a large scale that can weigh hundreds of catties, but an ebony (pronounced děng) that can only weigh 20 catties at a time. The ebony pole is similar to the kind of scale used in modern society to scale traditional Chinese medicine in pharmacies, the scale rod is ebony, and the weighing stone and weighing pan are brass.

Steward Xu used to direct Jia Ding to open a box, a neat layer of red copper ingots, which was the red copper that had been refined before, and Chen Siwei asked the blacksmith shop to melt the red copper ingots in order to calculate the weight.

Later, due to the lack of time, I did not melt the red copper ingots again. Anyway, as long as it is pure red copper, it doesn't look at the shape, just look at the weight, why bother melting copper.

Bai Jingchen pulled Chen Siwei, and the two of them also walked over. Chen Fu Ding took out ten red copper ingots of the same size and shape, and after the inspector of Dali Temple carefully checked them, he began to weigh them on the scale.

A copper ingot weighs about three taels, ten copper ingots are thirty taels, one catty is sixteen taels, and ten copper ingots are not even two catties. There is a special person next to him who is responsible for putting away these ten copper ingots and recording the weight.

The inspector said to the family of the Chen Mansion: "How many such copper ingots are taken out, and after this inspection, you don't need to go on the scale, just count." ”

If it's all copper ingots, then it's worry-free, but how can there be so many happy things? The Chen family took out all the copper ingots, and it was less than half a box.

It was very surprising to take out the copper ingots in the box, but I didn't expect that Huai'an Houfu was really not simple, and there were a large number of copper ingots. Just when He Yuanjiu and Lord Wang thought that they were going to watch the Chen Mansion arrogant this time, the Chen Mansion couldn't take out the copper ingots.

Pulling the bottom of the box and pouring it down, all that came out was irregularly shaped 'rotten' copper. Due to the irregularity of the size and shape, the inspection is very slow.

When I opened the second box, the upper layer was full of red copper artifacts that had been collected. It seems that the Chen family has such a box of red copper, and it is surprising enough to have nearly twenty catties of red copper.