Chapter Seventy-Four: The Huang Family's Affairs
Gao Huaiyuan was still lazy once in the morning, and before he woke up from his hangover, he heard Liu Er calling him softly outside the door.
"Young master, Huang Yan said that he was looking for you in an urgent matter, and he is waiting outside the door now!"
Gao Huaiyuan shook his head, he chatted with his dad very late last night, and unconsciously, he drank more, although his amount of wine was good, but Gao Jian was even more powerful, both of them were happy, and they actually drank a jar of good wine, and finally both of them fell down.
After hearing Liu Er's words, Gao Huaiyuan put on his clothes and walked out of the house, after no one lived for a long time, there was a musty smell in the hut, and he felt very uncomfortable.
"Boss, something happened to my family!" Huang Yan saw Gao Huaiyuan come out, so he hurriedly said to him.
Gao Huaiyuan was slightly startled, and said in his heart that the father of the Huangya family was a businessman, what could happen, so he hurriedly asked Huang Yan to come into the house to talk.
After asking, I learned that Huang Yan's father was doing business a few days ago, offended his peers, was run by his peers, and lost a lot of money, Huang Yan went home when the house was surrounded by a group of creditors in his house to collect debts, the family was tossed by the creditors in a mess, valuable things were moved by others, and now his family has declared bankruptcy, and the creditor also said that if his father does not repay the money, he will sue the government and let the government arrest his father.
After listening to the affairs of Huang Yan's family, Gao Huaiyuan really had a little headache, so he asked him how much his father still owed others.
Huang Yan stretched out his slap and told Gao Huaiyuan: "My father has already sold my house and the land outside the city, and now there are still 500 yuan missing, and my father's friends in the past are now unlucky and hiding far away, it's really annoying!" ”
When Gao Huaiyuan heard it, five hundred guan is not a small number, and he can't take out so much money now, if he is in Daye, it is okay, but it is very problematic here.
"Don't worry, I'll help you find a way to do this, you go back and appease your family first, and I'll help you find a way right away!" Gao Huaiyuan looked at the worried Huang Yan and patted him on the shoulder to comfort him.
Huang Yan had no one to count on now, so he nodded, said goodbye to Gao Huaiyuan, and went home first to wait for news.
Gao Huaiyuan thought about it for a while, five hundred guan should not be a difficult thing for the Gao family, but now it is difficult for him to borrow money from Gao Jian, and the relationship between father and son is just a little better, if he borrows so much money from Gao Jian now, I am afraid it will cause Gao Jian's misunderstanding, but the affairs of Huang Yan's family can't be ignored, where to raise five hundred yuan for Huang Yan's family to deal with this matter for a while?
Others can ignore it, but the affairs of the Huang Yan family can't be ignored, Gao Huaiyuan racked his brains to find a way, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he hurriedly recruited Li Cheng.
"You go to Shaoxing City to check, is there any shop of the Wang family or a shop of Jubao Zhai in the city, come back quickly and report to me!" Gao Huaiyuan instructed Li Tong.
Li Tong immediately nodded and agreed, and hurriedly ran out, and after Gao Huaiyuan washed it, he used a specially made bristle toothbrush, dipped in some toothpowder, and brushed his teeth, and then got up to ask Gao Jian for a peace, and according to Gao Jian's instructions, he sent the soap he brought back this time to the ladies at home one by one.
He knew that Gao Jian wanted him to have a good relationship with his family, so he did this thing with patience and patience, and as a result, the impression of those ladies in the house immediately changed a lot of his impression, and he actually gave them such a good gift, this thing they women have all heard of, or tried, and know its benefits, but they have not been able to ask for more, and now Gao Huaiyuan has no one to give them a piece, which is enough for them to show off.
So when I looked at Gao Huaiyuan again, they were much more polite and enthusiastic, and even Gao Huaiyuan's two sisters began to take the initiative to greet Gao Huaiyuan.
At noon, Li Tong ran back from outside sweating profusely and told Gao Huaiyuan that the Wang family did not have a shop here, but Jubaozhai had a small branch in Shaoxing.
Gao Huaiyuan was overjoyed when he heard this, so he immediately got up and took out a small glass mirror from the bottom of the box, which was originally a gift he planned to give to Liu Er during the New Year, so that Liu Er would be happy, but at this time, he could only rely on this thing to help Huang Yan's family get through the difficulties first.
Just asked Gao Jian for instructions, saying that he wanted to do something when he went out, but someone ran to tell Gao Huaiyuan, saying that there was a young man with Huang Yan who was very anxious to see Gao Huaiyuan outside, so he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly went out to see Huang Yan.
Huang Yan said to him sweating profusely: "Boss, help me find a way, the people from the government came to my house and arrested my father!" ”
As soon as he heard this, Gao Huaiyuan was helpless, turned back home, saw Gao Jian again, and said to Gao Jian: "Daddy, the child has something to ask for, and I hope that Daddy can do the child a favor!" ”
Gao Jian now looked at Gao Huaiyuan's eyes and felt pleasing to the eye, so he waved his hand and said, "San Lang has something to do, just say it, and see what your father can help you?" ”
Gao Huaiyuan then told Gao Jian about Huang Yan's family, and told Gao Jian that this Huang Yan was his best friend, and he must ask Gao Jian to exercise in the official mansion, so that Huang Yan's father could not suffer in the yamen, and as for the arrears, he promised that he could pay them off within two days.
Gao Jian frowned, this kind of thing is not difficult to say, but at this time, it is almost the Spring Festival, and there are basically no people in charge of things in the yamen, but for the sake of Gao Huaiyuan, this is the first time he has asked him to do something, and he doesn't want to disappoint Gao Huaiyuan, so he immediately agreed, got up and ran to the yamen in person, this matter is not a big deal for him.
And Gao Huaiyuan immediately pulled Huang Yan, and under the leadership of Li Tong, he came to the shop of Jubao Zhai and found the person in charge here.
The person in charge didn't know who Gao Huaiyuan was, and he didn't know what he was looking for, but seeing Gao Huaiyuan's extraordinary bearing, he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly invited him into the inner courtyard to sit down.
Gao Huaiyuan was not polite, and immediately took out the glass mirror from the box, put it in front of the steward and said: "I think the steward should know what this thing is, don't ask me who I am, now immediately prepare six hundred yuan for me, I have an urgent need, for this matter, you don't let outsiders know, your big shopkeeper naturally knows the origin of this thing!" ”
The steward was surprised, the matter of the glass mirror, he had learned from the branch of Lin'an, but he had not seen this thing, after seeing it today, he was also very surprised, knowing that this thing was indeed valuable, and he also knew that the glass mirror that Jubao Zhai sent to Lin'an actually sold for a price of 5,000 yuan, although this glass mirror was smaller, but Gao Huaiyuan asked for 600 yuan, absolutely not much.
And he also knew that about the matter of Jubaozhai glazeware, their business name was strictly confidential, and the shopkeepers of these semicolons like them didn't know who it was from, and today someone actually took this thing to exchange money, which made him a little surprised.
But considering that the glass is only available to their firm, he didn't dare to snub Gao Huaiyuan, so he immediately accepted this small glass mirror, took six hundred yuan from the shop, and handed it to Gao Huaiyuan.
"You quickly take this money, go and pay off your family's debts, and buy some New Year's goods for the rest, find a place to live first, you can't let your family spend the New Year on the street, as for the future, let's find a way in the next few days of the New Year!"
After Gao Huaiyuan came out of the Jubaozhai semicolon, Gao Huaiyuan immediately handed over the money to Huang Yan, and Huang Yan burst into tears of gratitude, but he knew Gao Huaiyuan's temper, and he didn't say anything grateful to Gao Huaiyuan, nodded, wiped his tears, and immediately turned around and walked home.
After dealing with the affairs of Huang Yan's family, Gao Huaiyuan looked at Huang Yan's back and sighed slightly, it is really a blessing and a curse, who would have thought that Huang Yan's family would have such a solid family background, overnight, and it would be gone? Fortunately, he still has some way, otherwise, Huang Yan's family is afraid that this time it will be destroyed!
Seeing that the time was not early, Gao Huaiyuan remembered that after coming back, he hadn't seen Zhao Yuju, the little guy, so he turned home, and after seeing Gao Jian, Gao Jian told him that Huang Yan's father had been personally bailed out by him, and he went home first to wait for news, Gao Huaiyuan naturally had to thank Gao Jian.
"San Lang doesn't open his mouth easily, how can your father let your face fall to the ground? You don't have many friends, so it's good to know that helping your friends is good! However, we also have to pay attention to the fact that our Gao family is not an ordinary family, and the people of the three religions and nine streams on the market should not pay more, and on the other hand, they meet evil people with ill intentions! Gao Jian felt that although Gao Huaiyuan was now sane, he was not deeply involved in the world, so he clicked on him.
"Daddy, don't worry, San Lang has remembered it, San Lang will never make that kind of friend!" Gao Huaiyuan knows that Gao Jian, as an official, attaches great importance to the object of daily communication, in this era, although the Song Dynasty did not restrict businessmen from doing business, but the status of businessmen in the eyes of the world is still not high, for businessmen, even if they are rich, it is difficult to enter the upper class society, and their children and grandchildren are not allowed to participate in the scientific examination, even if they want to get rid of the identity of businessmen, they must leave the country for three generations before they can participate in the imperial examination, so it is normal for Gao Jian to look down on businessmen.
But Gao Huaiyuan does not have this kind of hierarchical concept, and in his opinion, most of the officials are some sanctimonious villains, because in this era, there are few innocent people who are officials, and almost every official operates some industry, or owns a large number of fields, and their Gao family is the same, don't they still have private boats running in Mingzhou? Otherwise, with only Gao Jian's little money, it would be impossible for the Gao family to have such a large yard and support so many family servants! To put it bluntly, the officials are also in business, but they still look down on businessmen, which is outright hypocrisy, but his thoughts will not be said to Gao Jian, but he respectfully agreed.
Because Gao Huaiyuan came back this time, he became a celebrity in Gao Jian's eyes, and the natural treatment was not bad, some people suggested that Gao Huaiyuan go home, so he immediately sent a sumptuous meal to Gao Huaiyuan's yard, and sent some brand-new mattresses and other things, and replaced all of them for Gao Huaiyuan, and also sent incense to deodorize Gao Huaiyuan's house, and he was very thoughtful.
Originally, Gao Jian wanted Gao Huaiyuan to live in the house where Gao Huailiang lived before, but Gao Huaiyuan used the excuse of getting used to his previous residence and did not agree, because of this matter, he offended Gao Jian's wife Zhang, he couldn't live here for a few days, and more than one thing is better than less.
When he took Li Tong and Liu Er to Zhao Yuju's house, Zhao Yuju had just learned that Gao Huaiyuan had rushed back for the New Year, and was about to go out to Gao's house to find Gao Huaiyuan to catch up, and Gao Huaiyuan arrived at his house.
This time Zhao Yuju was very happy, and when he saw Gao Huaiyuan, he was excited and tearful, and he didn't know what to say.
"Very good! Yu Ju has grown a lot taller and stronger! Gao Huaiyuan took Zhao Yuju as his little brother, stretched out his hand and touched Zhao Yuju's head happily, and said to him with a smile.
"Big Brother Gao is finally back, little brother is about to die Big Brother Gao!" Zhao Yuju couldn't help but hug Gao Huaiyuan's arm, looking a little coquettish.
The two of them walked into the small courtyard of Zhao Yuju's house hand in hand, and met the whole family with some things, drying in the yard, the whole courtyard is still clean, but it still looks very poor, and Zhao Yuju's younger brother Zhao Yurui is playing in the yard, as soon as he saw Gao Huaiyuan and his brother come in, he ran over to find Gao Huaiyuan to ask for something fun, the little guy is not timid, and vaguely remembers that Gao Huaiyuan used to get him something interesting from time to time.
Looking at Zhao Yuju's family background, Gao Huaiyuan sighed a little emotionally, if he didn't know that Zhao Yuju was a royal clansman, he couldn't believe that he still had the identity of a royal clan.
After seeing Gao Huaiyuan coming, Quan's hurriedly put down the work in his hand, and was busy making tea for Gao Huaiyuan, looking very kind, she was very grateful to Gao Huaiyuan for taking care of his family and Zhao Yuju in the past two years, and did not treat Gao Huaiyuan as an outsider at all, today she also heard the news that Gao Huaiyuan came back to Shaoxing, so she deliberately let Zhao Yuju rest for a day and go to Gao Huaiyuan to catch up, and saw that Gao Huaiyuan had not forgotten her home and came to visit in person, and her heart was quite moved.
"Auntie, don't be busy, Huaiyuan is not an outsider, I came here today to visit Mrs. and Yu Ju!" Gao Huai said from afar, so he asked Li Tong and Liu Er to bring in the gift from Daye this time and hand it over to the Quan family.
"What a good thing that is! I'm very happy that Young Master Gao can remember our Yu Ju, and Young Master Gao has already helped my family a lot, how can I still accept these things from you? Quan looked at the dazzling array of New Year's goods in front of him, and he was so excited that he didn't know what to say, so he was at a loss and didn't accept it.
"Madame, don't be polite, Yu Ju and we are like brothers, this is also what we should do, I haven't seen it for more than a year in the blink of an eye, what are these things? Huaiyuan is not talented, and now he has a solid amount of money, this little thing is nothing! Gao Huaiyuan persuaded.
Zhao Yuju did not take Gao Huaiyuan as an outsider, so he persuaded the whole family to accept these gifts from Gao Huaiyuan, so that the whole family was grateful to Gao Huaiyuan, and felt that Zhao Yuju could make such a friend, it was really his luck, so he reluctantly accepted it, thinking that she was a widow's family, leading two children to live in her mother's house, this day was also uncomfortable, Gao Huaiyuan's help, to a large extent alleviated her family's predicament, at least with these things, her family's Spring Festival is finally a little bit of a look.
Seeing that Gao Huaiyuan and Zhao Yuju were talking happily, the whole family hurriedly made dinner for Gao Huaiyuan and them, saying that they would leave Gao Huaiyuan at home for a meal and chat about their hearts.
Gao Huaiyuan was not polite, agreed to stay, and continued to chat with Zhao Yuju, I haven't seen him for more than a year, Zhao Yuju has been concentrating on reading during this time, and he has been much more elegant in conversation, and he has also grown a lot of insight from the book, which makes Gao Huaiyuan very happy for him.
When he was chatting, there were several teenagers' cries outside the door, and it turned out that the news of Gao Huaiyuan's return had been heard by his former little brothers, so he went to Gao's house to look for him, but he was empty, so he immediately thought that Gao Huaiyuan might be at Zhao Yuju's house, so everyone pulled Zhou Hao and ran to Zhao Yuju's house together.
Everyone was happy to see each other, Zhao Yuju's house suddenly became lively, so that the whole family was also very happy, these teenagers for more than a year, although Gao Huaiyuan was far from Shaoxing, but two or three of them from a well-off family, will also come to visit the whole family and Zhao Yuju from time to time, more or less from the family to get some things, to the whole family, so that the whole family is very grateful to these teenagers, at least since the beginning of knowing Gao Huaiyuan, Zhao Yuju has never been bullied by others, these are all thanks to Gao Huaiyuan, Although she is a woman, she is also very clear in her heart.
In this way, Gao Huaiyuan spent a relatively smooth Spring Festival in Shaoxing, and on Chinese New Year's Eve, he also got a boss's red envelope from Gao Jian, which contained a lot of money, although Gao Huaiyuan didn't care about these things, but at least represented a part of Gao Jian's heart, so that Gao Huaiyuan looked at his father, and he was no longer so annoying, and from time to time he would feel a trace of family affection.
With the help of Gao Huaiyuan, Huang Yan's family finally spent this Spring Festival, and nothing happened again, several opponents heard that Huang Yan's father was personally bailed out by Gao Tong, so they also restrained a lot, and did not dare to toss the Huang family anymore, so that the Huang family could pass this year peacefully, for Gao Huaiyuan's help, Huang Yan's father was also grateful to Dade, and went to the Gao family to thank him, but he did not say that Gao Huaiyuan gave him 600 yuan of money, otherwise, Gao Huaiyuan would really be exposed.
Seeing that the Lantern Festival had also passed in a joyous manner, Gao Huaiyuan remembered that there was still a butt of things waiting for him to deal with on Daye's side, so he resigned from Gao Jian.