Gao Chen refused Scar Xu's hospitality, he felt that sitting and drinking with someone like him was simply torture for himself, and with his own status, he must be accompanied by beauties like Chunjiao and Lu'e, and with the drums and flutes that the literati and ink artists liked, that was the same enjoyment as his own taste.

"Big official, I have written an IOU and a letter of transfer, can you give me this silver?" Gao Chen asked a little dissatisfied, he did everything he should have done, but he hadn't seen the money yet.

"Hey, you almost forgot how happy I was, brother, did you bring the carriage?" Scar Xu asked politely. Gao Chen looked confused, and hurriedly asked, "There is no carriage, didn't you come as your carriage when you came?" What's wrong? ”

"Hahaha brother, this 300,000 cash is not a silver ticket, you don't take it with you in your arms, I don't have one or two carriages, I see how you can get it?" Scar Xu looked at Gao Chen with a blank look, and said very boldly: "In this way, I'll lend you two carriages, and then send someone to load the silver for you, you take it home, okay!" ”

Gao Chen looked at him a little gratefully and said, "In the hurry to get out, I didn't think about it so thoughtfully, then thank you to the officials." At this time, he suddenly felt that Scar Xu's face didn't look so disgusting.

When this usurer borrowed money, he was not amiable and angry, but when it came time to collect debts, he changed his face differently, and he could use any fierce and brutal tricks to bring people to the door, seize your property, sell your children, and punch and kick you.

Gao Chen left from Scar Xu with two carts of silver, along the way Zhao Si was very envious of Gao Chen, Gao Chen saw his villain face, although he looked down on it, but his face was still very useful, so he casually opened a box full of silver ingots, took out a piece of fifty taels of silver, and handed it to Zhao Sidao: "You take this to buy tea to drink, you and I will be close in the future, a good life will be long, follow me will not let Brother Zhao suffer." ”

Zhao Si saw that the two eyes of the silver ingot were shining, and he hurriedly took the silver and hid it in his arms carefully, as if he was afraid of being robbed. He said with a smile on his face: "Lord Gao, don't be so polite to me, in the future, I will rely on Lord Gao to mention something, and only Lord Gao will be the head of the villain in the future, so you should accept a follower, and if you have something, just tell me to do it." ”

Zhao Si can be regarded as having lost the face of the literati, although it is not a big sin to become inflammatory, but like him, he grovels to others as a slave for a little profit, which is despised by Confucian literati, and the so-called poverty cannot be moved. But how many people in this world today can not bend their waists for three buckets of rice?

Maybe some people live in the world just to be greedy for enjoyment and don't want to work hard, so although people like Zhao Si are morally low, they can often enjoy wealth and prosperity.

When Gao Chen was halfway through the road, he said to Zhao Si: "I have something to do here and go elsewhere, you get out of the car and go back to the city first." Zhao Si saw that Gao Chen was reluctant to take him, and he couldn't say anything, so he got off the car and walked back to the capital by himself.

Gao Chen asked the coachman to turn around and drive the carriage to Li Yuan's father's mansion, and the two carriages staggered all the way to the door of Li's mansion when it was nearly dusk. The red lantern has been hung high in front of the Li Mansion, and there are many luxurious carriages parked in front of the door, which is more lively than when Gao Chen first came before, and it really reflects the sentence: The poor are in the downtown and no one asks, and the rich have distant relatives in the mountains.

Gao Chen got out of the car and saw that no one was paying attention to him, so he went straight up the steps and said to the door: "The little brother is tired to go in and say that Gao Chen of the Yushitai wants to see your master." Menzi looked at him, and then at the carriage behind him, and without making a sound, turned and went in.

After a while, the housekeeper and Menzi walked out together, and when the housekeeper saw Gao Chen, he immediately smiled and said, "Uncle Gao, it's you, why do you have something to do with my master today?" ”

"Brother housekeeper, don't come unharmed, I came down today to find your master and want to discuss the matter with Xu Gongzi, and I bothered to report it." Gao Chen looked very polite, sure enough, he had money in his pocket, he was bold, and he spoke confidently.

The housekeeper said with a smile on his face: "Okay, okay, I'll send someone to unload the things on the carriage immediately, you wait, I'll go in and report to my master." As he spoke, he asked Menzi to help move down the six big boxes on the carriage, and trotted in to report to Li Yuan's father.

Gao Chen watched them finish unloading, and then the two carriages returned the same way and left. Li Yuan's father and the housekeeper rushed out, only to see him smile at Gao Chen and said, "Haha, where have you been these days?" They don't come to me to walk around, but they want to mess with me. After speaking, he stepped forward very emotionally and took Gao Chen's hand and didn't let go.

Gao Chen exchanged a few words with him, and Li Yuan's father pretended to be surprised and asked, "Brother Xian, what are these boxes?" Gao Chen smiled and said: "This is not to ask Xu Gongzi to walk the way for me, so I raised a little scattered silver, but I don't recognize Xu Gongzi's mansion, I thought that he is usually close to your eldest brother, and he may meet you here, so I took the liberty to bring this silver over." ”

As soon as Li Yuan's father heard that 300,000 cash was in front of him, his eyes were green like weasels, and he smiled again and again: "Hey, don't worry about this matter, I'll let someone invite Xu Gongzi to come over, and this matter will be on me." Then he turned around and asked the butler to send someone to put the boxes in the storeroom for storage.

Gao Chen was taken into the backyard by Li Yuan's father holding hands, it was still the same scene or the same person, but Gao Chen felt that there was a taste in his heart as if he was in another world, and his thoughts about Chunjiao and Lu'e in the past few days let him know what it means to not see each other for a day, and then followed Li Yuan's father to a side room, Li Yuan's father said to him: "Brother Xian, you take a moment here, I still have a party over there, and I will come to accompany you soon." ”

Gao Chen saw that Li Yuan's father turned around to leave, and hurriedly asked, "Big brother, is that ...... What about Chunjiao and Lu'e? ”

Li Yuan's father turned around and smiled at him: "Brother Xian, don't worry, I will let the two of them come over to accompany you in a while, you are here now to drink tea, don't be impatient." ”

It turned out that Li Yuan's father had recently established a relationship with some children of wealthy families in the capital who had a little money but had unsatisfactory careers, and pulled people to the house every day, and introduced them to Xu Gongzi one by one, wanting to let him go. So this Chunjiao and Lu'e are very busy, accompanying those children of the scholar clan who are in a similar situation to Gao Chen, a few of them are so fascinated that they don't spend less money on the two of them, and in just two or three days, there are already individual sons and brothers who have thrown in tens of thousands of taels of silver.

So to be honest, this Li Yuan's father's house is no different from the brothel of the Qinglou, it is nothing more than a little more luxurious and a little hidden, and those elegant people and lustful people who are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, male thieves and prostitutes, aren't they all seduced to linger here. The literati have been like this since ancient times, criticizing the ugliness of the world under the slogan of justice, but they are tired of those filthy and obscene things under the table, and they enjoy them pervertedly.

Gao Chen waited restlessly in the house, the sound of staggered and lively in the living room outside never stopped, and after nearly an hour, Li Yuan's father walked quickly, and as soon as he entered the door, he said to Gao Chen very apologetically: "Let the virtuous brother wait for a long time." I've been so busy in the last few days. Look at me...... Alas"

Gao Chen didn't complain, he still had to ask him now, so he said very indifferently at the moment: "Big brother said that he was funny, if you have something to do, just let Lu'e and Chunjiao accompany me." "He's there.

"Haha, it's good that Brother Xian can be so magnanimous, but Chunjiao and Lu'e are not in the house tonight, they go to the other courtyard to do business, and they can't come back until tomorrow, just now the housekeeper also told me, Xu Gongzi has something important tonight, it is estimated that he can't come, he will come over tomorrow, Brother Xian, or you will ...... tonight" Li Yuan's father wanted him to go back first and come back tomorrow.

Gao Chen's 300,000 taels of silver were still in his treasury, how could he go back with such a casual drink, so he also said very shamelessly at the moment: "In this case, the little brother is here to bother the eldest brother tonight, I don't know if it is convenient or not?" ”

Li Yuan's father was also very stunned at the moment, and then smiled: "That's ...... Naturally, there is no problem, I will ask someone to prepare dinner for you first, you haven't eaten yet, have you? Gao Chen nodded honestly, and said in his heart: It's not easy to come once, if you don't eat a meal of delicacies from the mountains and seas, how can you be worthy of me?

So Li Yuan's father reluctantly asked the housekeeper to prepare the wine and food, and he accompanied Gao Chen to drink a few glasses, Gao Chen, who was full of wine and food, was still not satisfied, and asked Li Yuan's father to arrange other maids to sleep with him, and he also said shamelessly: "It's okay to have the two maids in the teahouse with you last time." "Therefore, it is more shameless to deal with shameless people to fight poison with poison than him, today Li Yuan's father has met an opponent, and he can only arrange for the maid to come over to accompany Gao Chen.

There was nothing to do that night, and Gao Chen was woken up by Li Yuan's father's housekeeper before he got up early the next morning, and it turned out that Xu Gongzi came to the house early in the morning.

Gao Chen came to the living room after freshening up, and saw that Li Yuan's father and Xu Gongzi were already drinking tea, so he stepped forward very politely and saluted: "Xu Gongzi, this is polite." ”

Xu Gongzi and Li Yuan's father hurriedly got up when they heard the sound, Xu Gongzi was a little less arrogant today, and he even replied very politely at the moment: "Master Gao, don't come to harm?" I heard you have something important to do with me? ”

Gao Chen found a seat to sit down, Li Yuan's father hurriedly ordered someone to serve tea, and then said to the housekeeper: "I am talking about things with the guests here, don't let them come over to disturb the idle people, and tell the doorman, Master, I am not feeling well today, and I will close the door to thank the guests." The butler respectfully agreed and retreated.

The three of them took a sip of the teacup, only to hear Gao Chen speak: "Don't hide it from Gongzi, since you told me about buying an official last time, I also thought about it when I went back, it is indeed a way to make a fortune, so I want to ask Xu Gongzi to walk around for me today, I don't know what to do?" ”

Xu Gongzi said with a smile: "Master Li told me about this, it shouldn't be a problem to buy the head of the Xingtai Mansion for 300,000 silver." Gao Chen was not interested in a small official like Xingtai, and said very politely at the moment: "Although the official position of this Xingtai is good, it is too far away from home, and I still have elderly parents at home. ”

Xu Gongzi said a little angrily: "When others ask me to do things, I usually arrange something for him when I see any idle duties, no one has ever picked and choosed, 300,000 taels of silver may be a huge amount of money for ordinary people, but for me Xu is just a drop in the bucket." It means that he really doesn't like Gao Chen's silver.

As soon as Li Yuan's father saw that the two of them were going to talk about the rhythm of collapse, he hurriedly made peace and said to Xu Gongzi: "I said Xu Gongzi, you just look at my virtuous brother for the sake of filial piety, and find him a new seat in the capital, besides, if you don't look at the monk's face, you have to give my brother a few thin noodles, right?" ”

Xu Gongzi pretended to be silent for a while, so he raised his head and said to Gao Chen and Li Yuan's father: "Okay, it is also a filial piety to read in Gao, so let's let my brother take the emperor's edict to go to the Ministry of Officials, and find a position for you in Dali Temple, that is Jiuqing." Three hundred thousand pieces of silver are enough. After speaking, he deliberately mouthed at Li Yuan's father Nunu.