Chapter 16: Chang Ye's ruthlessness
The black horse followed Xiao Song and happily looked at the house for a day, and in the evening, when they returned to their new house, all the green bricks in the front yard had been lifted.
The dark horse looked around and entered the main courtyard.
"Dachang, you're fast enough, this has already started?"
Seeing that there was no one in the yard, the black horse plunged into the kitchen and said to Da Chang, who was wielding a knife to cut meat and bones.
"Well, there's nothing wrong with you over there, is there?"
Dachang puts the chopped meat bones into the pot.
The black horse sat down in front of the stove and lit the fire.
"Yes! Damn, someone wants to calculate us, this person is very powerful, and that tooth line is very obedient! But that dental shop is a small dental shop.
You say, could it be the one surnamed Yin? ”
The dark horse took a sip.
"It's not like the surname Yin, if the surname Yin can be used to make the teeth move, our house, the teeth will not be released."
Da Chang chopped the bones, pulled a thick ball of green onion knots, patted a large piece of ginger, and threw it into the pot.
"I also have something to do here, I went to find someone to ram the ground, and I said that it was okay, and someone intercepted the work, and I paid a price of 10%, and he took it."
"Oh ho! Damn! This is taking advantage of the boss's absence to bully us! You gave him the live bag? How many out of 10? Twenty percent? Thirty percent? ”
"Ten percent."
"Phew!" The black horse took a cool breath and stretched out his thumb in front of Da Chang: "Master Chang! ”
"This price is rare, you can't just ram the main courtyard, I plan to ram all the places in this yard that can be rammed." Da Chang Hey laughed a few times.
The black horse laughed, and then picked up his teeth and became worried.
"It's easy for you to take advantage of this here, what should I do over there? You can't let this opportunity go in vain, right? ”
Dachang glanced at him and ignored him.
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In the afternoon, Gu Xi was in the Privy Council to check the rewards of the various armies at the end of the year, and Wen Cheng's little servant Baicheng ran with a fine sweat on his forehead, please see Gu Xi.
Gu Xi hurriedly called him in.
"What's wrong?" Gu Xi frowned and looked at the sweat on Baicheng's face.
"Lord Shizi." After Baicheng said a word to the prince, he looked at the Privy Council members who were sitting in a circle and stopped talking.
Gu Xi stood up and walked out of the house.
"What's wrong?"
"Hui Shiziye: The Chang master in the fried rice alley went to the yamen to file a lawsuit, saying that the coolie who tamped the ground for his family stole his family's silver ticket.
My uncle asked the little one to come over and ask the prince to show him. ”
Gu Xi's eyebrows raised.
The gang of people who often called to the fried rice alley to ram the ground, nine times out of ten are people from the Yongning Hou Mansion, stealing silver tickets?
It's not stealing silver tickets, it's looking for something they find useful!
"Jixiang, go and talk to the fourth master and let him go over and have a look."
Gu Xi commanded, and then turned to Baicheng Road:
"You go over with the fourth master to have a look, and go back to report to your uncle."
Baicheng agreed, withdrew, sent the little servant back to talk to his uncle, and trotted all the way to find Wen Shunzhi.
Wen Shunzhi got the order and hurried to the mansion.
When I arrived at the palace, there were already many people gathered at the entrance of the office.
There are many idlers in Jianle City, but whenever there is a lawsuit, there must be many people watching the excitement.
As soon as he left the yamen, Wen Shunzhi dismounted, took Baicheng and his two little guys, squeezed to the corner of the yamen, and stretched his neck to look inside.
The matter of stealing a few silver tickets is not a big case in Jianle City, there is no need to alarm Fu Yin, it is Qiao Tuiguan who is sitting high above.
There were four people kneeling in the middle of the lobby.
Three knelt side by side.
Da Chang knelt alone on the other side, he was big, if it was about land, he was alone and the three people over there were about the same. It also looks evenly matched.
The three people were kowtowing to Qiao, swearing and swearing, and repeatedly asked Qiaodui to search his body.
They didn't steal any silver tickets!
Qiao Tuiguan frowned, rubbed his temples with one hand, and when the three of them finished speaking, he turned to Da Changdao:
"You said he stole your family's silver ticket, but is there any physical evidence? You can't just talk about it. ”
"Master Huiguan, there is!"
Dachang urn sound urn airway:
"Our boss said that I was too coarse and stupid, and he was afraid that I would not be able to read the silver ticket, so he smashed the fart worm and filled a bottle, and asked me to order the silver ticket every day and wipe the fart worm.
The person who stole my silver ticket must have the smell of fart worms on his hands, please let people smell it.
Just smell it and you'll know. ”
Among the three people next to him, the one kneeling in the middle had round eyes, and without waiting for Qiao Tuiguan to ask, he hurriedly explained:
"I pinched a fart bug to death in the morning, and when I went to his house in the morning to work, it stinks."
"Where's the fart bug in the winter?" Da Chang muffled his voice.
"Smell it." Qiao Tuiguan gestured to the official with great interest.
Several officials stepped forward and grabbed the hands of the three men.
"Official, I really didn't steal his silver ticket!"
The man in the middle looked at the disgusting appearance of the servant and cried out anxiously.
"Then tell me, where did the smell come from on your hands?" Qiao Tuiguan asked as he nodded at the person in the middle.
"Back to the official, the little one really didn't steal, the little one ......"
The person in the middle kowtowed repeatedly, but his tongue was swirling and indistinct.
He rummaged through it, he really didn't steal it, what he was looking for was not a silver ticket at all!
But how can this be explained?
A middle-aged man dressed as a steward trotted all the way into the yamen, knelt down a few steps forward, kowtowed to Qiao Tuiguan, and said straightly:
"The little one is the steward of the tooth shop, and he received the instructions of our shopkeeper and told the official:
This person was just recruited by the trumpet before, just looking at his good skills, but I didn't expect it to be an unclean hand and foot.
It's all the fault of the trumpet, how many silver tickets Chang Ye has lost here, and the trumpet is willing to compensate in full.
Please forgive the sins, please forgive the sins. ”
"Well, it's up to you."
Qiao Tuiguan breathed a sigh of relief, twisted his beard, and was very satisfied with the attitude of the steward, and then turned to Dachang and asked:
"How many silver tickets have you lost? How much silver is there? Don't talk nonsense, it's all available. ”
"There are three in total, 10,000 sheets, a total of 30,000. They are all red-headed gold-stamped tickets from all over the world. ”
The answer is simply detailed.
"How much?" Qiao Tuiguan was taken aback.
"Thirty thousand, our brother is a bodyguard for others, and he exchanged his life for his head."
Da Chang Chong Qiao pushed the official with three fingers held high.
"Thirty thousand, did you hear clearly?" Qiao Tuiguan looked at the middle-aged steward and raised three fingers.
"Yes." The middle-aged steward gritted his teeth.
Qiao Tuiguan's two eyebrows were raised high, and he looked at the middle-aged steward from Dachang, and then looked back at the middle-aged steward from Dachang, and for a moment, he slapped the shocked wood.
"Since you admit it, so be it.
You hurry up now to get the 30,000 silver ticket, return it to Chang Shan in front of the official, and the case will be settled. ”
"I want a red-headed gold stamp!"
Da Chang hurriedly shouted with an urn.
Wen Shunzhi watched the middle-aged steward deliver three 10,000 red-headed tickets to Dachang, and then squeezed out of the crowd and went back to tell Gu Xi.
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In the evening, Gu Xi returned to Prince Rui's mansion, entered his courtyard, and saw Wen Cheng who greeted him, but before he could say anything, he laughed first.
Wen Cheng couldn't help laughing.
Gu Xi kept laughing into the room, pressed the tears that came out of the corner of his eyes with a handkerchief, looked at Wen Cheng and said:
"Last time you said that he didn't pay one-tenth of the wages for his house?"
"Well, last time Zhihe was already impressed, saying that he could press the price like that, it was really ruthless, I didn't expect it to ......"
Wen Cheng spread his hands and smiled again.
"Look, stupid like this, this is the Yongping Marquis Mansion. He was so clever when he killed me. ”
Wen Cheng was silent for a moment before he said in a low voice: "Lord Qin said, it is not appropriate to think about it. ”
"Big brother persuaded me to take a step back and divide this Prince Rui's mansion, just like it is now, into two." Gu Xi lowered his eyes and said.
"The second master is mediocre and cowardly, a hundred years after the emperor, the prince of Qin will be the auxiliary government, you are the Wen family, if you have the palace of Prince Rui again......"
Wen Cheng's words paused, and he sighed lowly.
"It's too high-powered, and the emperor's worries are understandable.
If the eldest girl Shen is the queen, and the Shen family is in charge of Prince Rui's Mansion again, at least it will not be a monopoly in the court. ”
"You think I should take a step back, too?" Gu Xi leaned at Wen Cheng.
Wen Cheng met his gaze and did not speak.
"I don't want to quit." Gu Xi raised his head.
"Adults are uncomfortable, we don't want to, or we think about a lot of things, but how many can get what we want?" Wen Cheng's expression was gloomy and he said in a low voice.
"Alas, you don't always blame yourself for peaceful things, this matter has nothing to do with you, don't think about it." Gu Xi patted Wen Cheng.