Although the scene that happened in the Guangzhou Prefecture Punishment Hall, although strictly speaking, it was not in front of the public, but in addition to the top officials in the Guangdong officialdom for a long time, there were also the officials of the government and the officials of the torture room, so where could it be a secret. Pang Xianzu, the prefect of Guangzhou, couldn't wait to publicize it himself, how could he give a gag order to his subordinates? As a result, the news that the servants and servants privately spread outside the world continued to ferment through various channels, and it was not much more exaggerated than the original facts.

"I heard that it was the patrol Yu Shi Wang Ye who went deep into the tiger's den and personally put the knife on the necks of Lin Afeng and Lin Daoqian!"

"Nonsense, it's clear that Wang Ye mobilized thousands of ships on Nanao Island to catch turtles in an urn!"

"The two feudal lords of the Buzheng Division were originally aggressive to find fault, and they just wanted to carry Wu Fu's death on Wang Ye's head, but as a result, they were generalized, and after I heard that I went back, I don't know which of them vomited blood."

"I heard that the great master of Tixue was also involved, and said that the person who committed the assassination had something to do with him."

"The most hateful thing is that Cai Tiju, right? It's just that because of the momentary anger, he turned such a big name behind his back, and it is no wonder that Ling Zhitai personally sent the Governor's Mansion to guard the city boss firmly! ”

When Zhou Congwen, the deputy envoy of the sea channel, welcomed Wang Fulin, who was visiting at home, he really had mixed feelings. Thinking that Wang Fulin was in Haojing and Xiangshan at the beginning, completely abandoning himself, and saying that Ling Yunyi personally tripped him, he was really aggrieved at that time. But when he arrived at the Tribute Courtyard, if it wasn't for the other party's help, he wouldn't have turned around on the ghost gate. Instead, he went directly to see Lord Yama. So he has a very different perception of people.

What I didn't expect was even more. It's just an occasional friendship this time, and he has become an ally with Wang Fulin, and Wang Fulin is even willing to let him show his face and hang up a sum of money for this splashing credit. On the day Wang Fulin hurriedly returned to Guangzhou City, he urged him to add a name to the note signed by Ling Yunyi, the governor of Liangguang and Yan Jifang, the deputy chief soldier of Zhangchao!

Therefore, now that most of the recovery has been made, Zhou Congwen, who is consciously re-governing in the near future, mentioned the murder case of the two Francophiles after Wang Fulin's greetings. He immediately lowered his face and said: "Killing people to pay for their lives, and paying debts for debts, this is clearly stipulated in the law, even if they are not from our country, if they commit crimes in our country, they should also be dealt with by the law." In this way, I will personally go to Haojing these days, if those Francophone people have any dissatisfaction or rebound, I will personally convene the three divisions to suppress! ”

Share the credit, then you have to share the responsibility. Therefore, Zhou Congwen has such a statement, which is also expected by Wang Fulin. He has not been idle for the past two days since he returned. He had already been to Xiangshan County once, and met with Father Francis, the representative sent by Jia Nailao, and had a lot of trouble, and sent Xu Xiucai to Haojing to serve as a communication between the two parties, and at the same time, he went to Xin'an County to have a cordial and friendly exchange with the Tang County Commander who shelved the murder case. At this time, when he heard Zhou Congwen say this, he couldn't help but care about the other party's physical condition, and reminded him that he might as well invite a doctor to accompany him, and only after the negotiation was properly negotiated did he get up and leave.

Ling Yunyi is now doing his best to calm Yao, and in vain he made a note in the credit book for appeasing the pirates this time, of course, it is not good to say anything, and he also smiled at Zheng Mingxian as a staff member. And Zhang Yuanxun, the general soldier of Guangdong, was originally dissatisfied that Wang Fulin actually stretched out his hand to Nanao Island, and put down the two groups of pirates that he had not been able to solve, but Wang Fulin used the joint recommendation of the Xiangshan general as an exchange condition, eliminating the estrangement, not to mention, and also narrowing the relationship between them. As for the others who were on his side, he mentioned them all in the song.

Compared with this, the two of the chief secretary offended when they offended, and he couldn't please everyone anyway.

Out of the gate of Zhou's house, he breathed a long sigh of relief, and when he was about to get on the horse, Qi Liang, who followed him when he came out today, suddenly muttered in a low voice: "I have been running around for several days when I came back, is this too public and selfless?" ”

Wang Fulin was stunned for a moment, and then he understood what Qi Liang was alluding to, and couldn't help but pat his head. In the three serial cases that were related to each other before, if Xiaobei hadn't pulled out Cai Changde from the city's Bo Division, how could it have gone so smoothly? He glanced back at Qi Liang, and remembered that when he was in Songming Mountain Village, it was Xiaobei who recognized them as Jinyiwei, and later those old pawns below Qi Liang once competed happily with the little girl, and he couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

No wonder Qi Liang specifically mentioned that he should not forget his wife!

Hundreds of pirates are now encircled on Nanao Island, Wang Fulin knows that he can't stay in Guangzhou City for too long, and now he finally has a vacancy, Qi Liang is "uneven" again, he naturally can't forget another hero, played a little trick of the golden cicada shelling, and came to Xiaobei's private house, who knows but pounced. An entourage guarding the house didn't expect Wang Fulin to come at this time, and hurriedly explained in a low voice: "Son, it was Master Pan who asked him to bring a letter and invite the young grandmother to go out for a meeting." ”

Wang Fulin has been around recently, and the affairs of the Pan family have long been forgotten, but Xiaobei stayed in Guangzhou City, the news of Haojing, the movements of these wealthy businessmen of the Pan family, all kinds of letters and news in the capital, all kinds of things are pressed on her, which makes her realize how troublesome it is to be an official - Wang Fulin's temperament of causing trouble when he has nothing to do makes him several times busier than ordinary patrols of the imperial history, and other patrols of the imperial history only care about supervising the local officials to find mistakes, or to wash up unjust cases among the people. Who will take the initiative to provoke a tricky place like Hao Jing, and who will take the initiative to provoke pirates?

Therefore, Wang Fulin became the shopkeeper, Xu Xiucai had to appease the Francois who was about to lose the right to lease the land in Haojing, Chen Bingchang couldn't deal with those who came to the procuratorate to ask Lord Qingtian to call the shots, and he couldn't deal with some letters, so these letters and letters were quietly sent to her. As a last resort, Xiaobei went directly to Lianxi Academy, and Wang Ji, who was addicted to lecturing and stayed in Guangzhou, recommended four talents from Wang Xue's sect to help him screen the situation and investigate the people's situation, and at the same time, the people he brought were responsible for the general supervision to avoid any mistakes.

And those letterheads that needed to be replied to still gave her a headache. Wang Daoyun's family letter. Master Cheng, Cheng Naixuan's father and son's letter, she can reply on her behalf. Father Ye Junyao and mother Mrs. Su don't have to go outside. Wang Daokun's letter...... So-so can also ghostwrite, but for example, Zhu Zongji, such as Shen Maoxue, such as Linhuai Hou Li Yangong, such as ...... More others, she had to let go. I have to say that in addition to the official documents of the imperial court, the post station resources in these years often carry private letters for these dignitaries or related people from all walks of life. Wang Fulin is also a person who has a wide range of contacts, and he can receive dozens of letters in a month, of which the vast majority of the letters are from irrelevant people, all of which are handled by Chen Bingchang, but the rest are piled up with her.

So, at this time, he walked into the private seat set by Master Pan, and as soon as Xiaobei sat down, he said: "To make a long story short, Master Pan, aren't you cleaning up your family business, what are you doing?" ”

Although Master Pan only met the young lady of the Wang family after he set off from Huizhou, he was not familiar with each other. But he has already understood that temperament from the other party's behavior before, and he will not beat around the bush immediately. Instead, he pushed the box on the table over. Seeing Xiaobei's eyebrows raised, with an expression of coming again, he pressed his finger on the machine spring, and when he saw the things inside, he frowned even more, and he hurriedly said: "Young lady, I don't mean anything else, this is Master Cheng's thing." “

Hey?

Xiaobei was surprised. Just the moment she opened and closed, she had already seen that there seemed to be a stack of deeds and something like that - the reason why she didn't guess the silver tickets was because the silver ticket numbers of the Hui merchants had not yet been opened here, and the silver tickets issued by those silver village ticket numbers were not popular in Guangzhou, but if it was a title deed or something like that, it was different. Thinking that Master Cheng also mentioned in his previous letter that although he was kind to the Pan family, he couldn't always squander such kindness, so he planned to change the way to recommend the shopkeeper, and he thought about it in a different way, thinking that it was related to the current box, she thought about it in her heart.

And after seeing Xiaobei's thoughtful expression, Master Pan went on to explain: "What Master Cheng wrote before meant that the Cheng family, the Xu family, and the Wang family, the three families accounted for half of the total, the Pan family accounted for half, and the four joined forces to operate a firm and a Yinzhuang ticket number in Haojing. Each family will either come up with real money or a corresponding deed. The Pan family accounts for half, and the share capital is 200,000 taels, which is almost the value of the things I have in the young lady's place. At present, these include three porcelain kilns in Foshan Town, two weaving workshops in Guangzhou, and a tea garden in Fuliang, which are worth more than 60,000 taels, which are Mr. Cheng's. ”

What does Master Cheng mean by this? The letters were all transferred to the post station to themselves, but such a large sum of money was directly given to Master Pan?

Xiaobei only felt very puzzled in her heart, but Wang Fulin and Cheng Naixuan were friends who were closer than brothers, and Master Cheng had not helped the Wang family in the past, even if she had doubts, she planned to write back to Master Cheng. But at this time, she only heard Master Pan say: "Actually, this is part of my dowry to the Cheng family, I want to remarry Master Cheng's adopted daughter Huang, and ask the young lady to be a big matchmaker." ”

It turned out that this was not Mr. Cheng's thing, but a dowry for Mr. Cheng...... The question is, does Master Cheng have an adopted daughter in his family?

Because of Cheng Naixuan's relationship, Xiaobei has also walked around many times to Huangjiawu Cheng's house, and what he remembers most clearly is that Cheng Naixuan has no sister, otherwise, in someone's words, he would have asked Wang Fulin to be his brother-in-law. Moreover, the statement of adopted daughter is very debatable, you must know that there has always been a custom among some Hui merchants to buy a girl such as a thin horse in Yangzhou, and give it to other families as a concubine as an adopted daughter, which is used to win over the relationship, but Master Cheng doesn't seem to have done this, right? However, this doubt only existed in her heart for a moment, and then a thought came to her.

"I think it's the fate you formed when you were the shopkeeper at Master Cheng's place?"

"Yes." Seeing that Xiaobei didn't refuse, Master Pan knew that this matter could be done, so he whispered, "At that time, I was a handful of people, and I was just a foreigner, and the second shopkeeper under the fence was still a widower who was not confused, died of his wife, and had a son, she was the only daughter of the big shopkeeper, but she fell in love with me. Originally, I didn't think that I could return to my hometown in this life, I just wanted to follow Master Cheng to do things, marry her in the future, and take her father's place, but I didn't expect her father to suddenly pass away due to illness, and the uncle of the family passed on to him, but she wanted to see the faces of her uncle and heir, and I went back to Guangzhou. I wrote a letter before, begging Master Cheng to accept her as an adopted daughter and want to marry her. ”

I heard that Mr. Pan had returned to Guangzhou, but he had not forgotten his old feelings. Xiaobei's face was a little pale. But such a big deal. It was another full 60,000 taels of dowry, and it was impossible for her to pass Wang Fulin's promise, and besides, she faintly felt in her heart that this matter was not so appropriate. She was about to speak clearly when she suddenly heard a sound of talking outside, followed by a knock on the door. Bizhu glanced at Xiaobei and saw that her young lady nodded, and she hurriedly stepped forward to open the door. only to find out that it was Wang Fulin.

At this time, not only Xiaobei stood up, but Master Pan also hurriedly got up to greet him. Wang Fulin only nodded, glanced at the box on the table, he didn't care too much, let alone explain the reason why he could find this place, but said directly: "It seems that I was in time." Master Pan, this trip to Chaozhou Mansion, the gold exchanged from you is of great use, I have to thank you. ”

"How dare you be a thank you word for Lord Wang." Master Pan hurriedly humbled himself. But he knew that it was a good time, so he hurriedly said what he had just said to Xiaobei again. Without waiting for Wang Fulin to agree or refuse, he added, "The Pan family has been in trouble with the mother and son before, Master Cheng's proposal is really kind, but I don't dare to receive deep friendship like this, and Wang Ye's kindness has not been repaid, and I am even more uneasy." I also gave a dowry gift to Master Cheng, but I haven't ...... yet."

"Do you think that Master Cheng will repay the favor with a smile, accept your dowry with peace of mind, and then casually send his adopted daughter a little dowry, and marry someone to you?"

Wang Fulin interrupted Master Pan's words, and when he saw that he was stunned for a moment, he said slowly, "In the business field, what is important is not only a hammer deal, but also a long stream. Some people feel that they can't repay the favor because they are too heavy, but they feel that the favor is a burden, but I think that with your Pan family's family business and your own ability, it will not be so shallow. You have to repay the favor, just operate with your heart, and give returns to the three shareholders, that is the long-term benefit. I believe that there is a specialization in the art industry, for sea trade, no one in Huizhou is more familiar with your Pan family, as for the Yinzhuang ticket number, you also have to borrow your Pan family's reputation in Guangzhou. Therefore, the four joint stocks mentioned by Master Cheng are also genuine joint stocks. In addition to the silver, the three of us will only send the shopkeeper to help or reconcile the accounts, and you are the only one who makes the decision. “

Master Pan didn't expect Wang Fulin to speak so thoroughly, and he suddenly broke out in a sweat. He died early, and his only son was still sick, and he really liked that bright woman, but it was difficult to repay the great kindness, which was a problem in his heart.

And after the Pan family was confused by his father and the mess of the woman, there was not much silver left in the account, and Wang Fulin had exchanged a sum of gold with something like pearl agate before, so he made up his mind to exchange all the dowry gifts for the industry to Master Cheng, these things were not worth 60,000 taels as he said at all, but twice as high, if they were sold slowly, more than 1230,000, he only thought that if Master Cheng refused to accept it, then he took out 60,000 taels of real money and silver to buy shares. It just so happens that you can exchange high for low discount into cash, and you will be rewarded with a part of the kindness.

But now Wang Fulin said this, it means that the people are not trying to annex the Pan family, otherwise why should the three families together account for fifty percent, and they can squeeze out the Pan family's share!

"If you have just joined the Pan family and publicized this marriage, it is inevitable that the Guangfu Business Gang will treat you as an outlier in the future. Ling Zun has long run out of oil and dried up, and it is a miracle to be able to support it to this day, but it should not be able to take off for a few days, even so, for the sake of heirs, once he has any mistakes, you will do the marriage as soon as possible in the name of filial piety in the hundred days of filial piety, this is really for your fiancée. As for the dowry, it's not me here to help Master Cheng boast, if you prepare a dowry, how can he return two dowries to you, don't make him embarrassed. ”

When Xiaobei followed Wang Fulin, who was obviously an uninvited guest but was mainly anti-guest, left the restaurant from the back door and got into the mule cart, she couldn't help but quip: "It is worthy of being a person who goes around to protect people and pull fiber, and he said that Master Pan was sweating in a few words, and I think he is about to be embarrassed by you." ”

"I don't know how long I can do it, so I have to take precautions." Wang Fulin laughed, and then said very seriously, "Besides, if you don't send him away quickly, how can we run away?" Just because I went around after I came back, I didn't come to thank my good wife for the great help I received from sitting in Guangzhou, but someone had already shown me a look. ”

Hearing the word running away from Wang Fulin's mouth, coupled with these pointers, Xiaobei heard a loud cough outside the mule cart again, and she couldn't help laughing, but she deliberately diverted the topic and asked: "You, a busy person, are running around all day long, and it is rare to have a loophole, but you are still supervising the Guangdong Township Examination, so you don't care about the results of our Jinbao Qiufeng this Nanzhili Township Examination?" ”

PS: Fortunately, there is a manuscript, I went out at 10 o'clock yesterday and came back at 9 o'clock in the evening...... When I get old, I eat and have meetings, and I am tired to death after a day of party (to be continued. )