Ancient merchants pay attention to the three festivals to clear the accounts, that is, every year to the May Festival, the August Festival and the Spring Festival after the day to verify the accounts, to the August Festival, the uncle Zhang Guangyuan in the inventory of the accounts, found the second to take the silver, a total of more than 10, add up to more than 3,000 taels of silver.

At that moment, Zhang Guangyuan called Mr. Ledger over and asked about it, Mr. Ledger's surname is Wu, he is the old man of the Zhang family, and Mr. Wu is in charge of the ledger when the old man is alive, so this Mr. Wu has very high seniority in the Zhang family, it is the uncle Zhang Guangyuan, and the second master Zhang Guangqi has to respectfully call Uncle Wu when he sees it.

"Uncle Wu, the second child has taken so much silver, do you always know? What did he do with the money? Zhang Guangyuan took the account book and asked.

Lao Wu in the account room lowered his head, swallowed, and said truthfully: "I know that in the past few months, the second master will come over to get the silver almost every ten days, a few hundred taels each time, and said that the uncle let him get it, and the old slave didn't ask much." ”

Zhang Guangyuan looked at Old Wu and knew that he must know what his second brother was doing, and then asked: "Uncle Wu, you are an honest person and don't lie, otherwise how can my father and I leave the family's finances to you to take care of, what is the second brother doing?" Spent so much silver? ”

Hearing the uncle's questioning, Lao Wu couldn't hide it anymore, and immediately said: "Uncle, I'm afraid only you don't know about this matter, now the second master of Nanwangying who doesn't know the Zhang family likes to visit the kiln, and he is generous, spending money like dirt, uncle, you still take care of the second master, if it goes on like this, the family's money will be all lost." ”

Zhang Guangyuan was angry when he heard it, but it was not easy to get angry at Lao Wu, so he suppressed the anger in his heart at the moment, and said calmly: "Okay, this matter is over, I will go back to the second child and say that from today on, if the second child asks for silver again, you will not give it, let him find me to ask for it, go down." ”

"Yes, the old slave is retired." Lao Wu answered, turned around and retreated.

After Lao Wu left, Zhang Guangyuan snorted coldly, his eyes were fierce, and he said to himself: "Second brother, second brother, if you don't go to heaven, you can't go to hell, you can vote for it, it's no wonder to me." The idea of killing Zhang Guangqi came to mind.

It is said that Zhang Guangyuan will not kill Zhang Guangqi for such a thing, Zhang Guangyuan has already had this idea, but he has no chance to rush, but he didn't expect Zhang Guangqi to give him a great opportunity.

Zhang Guangyuan has enjoyed the glory and wealth since he was a child, and the care of his stepmother, but when he grows up, people's hearts will deteriorate with the change of time, it depends on whether it changes in a good direction or a bad direction, Zhang Guangyuan is changed in a bad direction, Zhang Guangyuan always thought that this family wealth was inherited by himself, but a stepmother came, and gave birth to a Zhang Guangqi, and his family property was to be divided into half of his own, the more he thought about it, the more unbalanced Zhang Guangyuan's heart became, and he raised the idea of killing the second Zhang Guangqi, Today's events are just a beginning.

At night, Zhang Guangqi still came back from the Qinglou, it was already night when he arrived at home, it was already dark, Zhang Guangqi hummed a little song and walked into the hall, it seems that he is in a good mood today, but as soon as he came in, he saw his eldest brother Zhang Guangyuan sitting on the chair, Zhang Guangqi whispered in fear, "Brother." ”

The father of the two died early, so Zhang Guangyuan is like Zhang Guangqi's father, and he is also in charge of him on weekdays, the eldest brother is like a father, and Zhang Guangqi is also a little afraid of his brother.

"Press, the second is back? Tired of the past few months, right? Zhang Guangyuan nodded, expressionless, and said calmly.

After listening to his brother's words, Zhang Guangqi lowered his head even lower, knowing that his brother knew about his visit to the Qinglou, Zhang Guangqi was originally a scholar, and he still knew etiquette, righteousness and shame, but when Zhang Guangyuan asked him like this, he was even more ashamed, standing there, bowing his head and not speaking.

Zhang Guangyuan looked at Zhang Guangqi, beckoned, and said, "Come and sit." ”

Zhang Guangqi nodded, walked over resignedly, and carefully sat next to Zhang Guangyuan, there was a small square table in the middle of the two people, on which were placed four dishes of side dishes, fried vegetables, cut sauce meat, and a pot of Fenjiu next to it, two pairs of bowls and chopsticks, this wine and meat were all prepared by Zhang Guangyuan a long time ago, and he specially bought a pound of poison from the outside pharmacy, mixed it in the wine and food, and waited for Zhang Guangqi to come back, poison him to death, and then monopolize the family property himself.

Zhang Guangyuan reached out and picked up the wine jug and poured a glass for Zhang Guangqi, and said: "Man, who doesn't make a little mistake, Qinglou is indeed very tempting, but the second child, my father died early, and my mother raised you and me with hard work, I have no hope, but you are still young, study hard, and you will be famous in the future, and you will be worthy of your father and mother, you have to study hard in the future, you can't go to the Qinglou anymore, what is there to tell my brother." ”

Zhang Guangqi also knew that it was a good thing, originally he thought that his brother was going to scold him and scold him for being a dog blood sprayer, but he didn't expect to be so kind and pleasant, and after listening to his brother's words at the moment, he also felt that he was too disagreeable, so he immediately raised his head and followed his brother and promised: "Brother, don't worry, I will never go, just study hard at home and prepare for the exam." ”

After listening to Zhang Guangqi's words, Zhang Guangyuan smiled and said, "That's right, come to drink and eat." As he spoke, he sandwiched a piece of chopsticks and meat for Zhang Guangqi.

Zhang Guangqi didn't eat much in the Qinglou, he was in that place to communicate and communicate feelings, how could he have the time to eat, he was really hungry now, he picked up the chopsticks and ate it in a big gulp, a mouthful of wine and a mouthful of food, and he was very happy.

After eating halfway, Zhang Guangqi suddenly found that his brother didn't move a mouthful of food, didn't drink a sip of wine, just looked at himself with a smile, and immediately gave his brother Zhang Guangyuan a chopstick, swallowed the meat in his mouth, and then said: "Don't just eat me, brother, you also eat." ”

Zhang Guangyuan hurriedly waved his hand and said, "I don't eat, I can't afford to eat, it's specially prepared for you, you can just eat it." ”

Hearing Zhang Guangyuan say this, Zhang Guangqi didn't let it anymore, and then gobbled it up, and ate it in a hurry, after a long time, the wine and food were almost finished, Zhang Guangqi was still alive and vigorous, and he didn't mean to die at all, but he was more energetic, which made Zhang Guangyuan a little puzzled, did he buy fake poison? Or is it not enough?

Just thinking about it, he saw Zhang Guangqi fall to the ground with a thud, foaming at the mouth, bleeding from his seven orifices, kicking his legs, and he couldn't die anymore, Zhang Guangyuan was overjoyed when he saw that Zhang Guangqi was dead, and immediately took out the sack that had been prepared from behind the table, and it took a long time to put Zhang Guangqi's dead body into the sack.