Chapter Eighty-Eight: A Loan Shark
The largest flower room on the third floor, the door is full of sweet and greasy smell of honey silk, Bu Tong was dizzy for a while, tightly clutched his sleeves, and insisted on coming to the door, the left bank was full of "seeing death as home", but still following Bu Tong behind an inch.
When Fang Cai was knocking out the little guy on the third floor, Zuo An still sighed deeply and sighed, "I'm afraid I really won't be able to go back to the General's Mansion." He quickly followed Butong's footsteps upstairs without a moment's hesitation.
Chu Yue's soft voice came out, "The slave family has seen the son. ”
Tang Xuanlin's cold voice came, and there was generally no half a minute of temperature as before.
"Miss Chu specially called her to come down, but what's the matter?"
Bu Tong's heart hanging in his throat finally fell, Chu Yue was charming and pitiful, "The slave family thought that they were going to commit themselves to a strange man today, until they met Gongzi, they didn't know what it meant to be willing?" Even if they can't see each other in the future, the slave family will miss the son for a lifetime. ”
Rao is Butong heard these beautiful tears, and he had an urge to redeem her.
Tang Xuanlin suddenly smiled coldly,
"Aren't we strangers? And Miss Chu misunderstood, it was not for herself that she was suffering, there was an adult next to her who was uncomfortable with the girl, and she was just doing a favor in the next place. ”
"What?" Chu Yue's voice was a little incredulous, "600,000 taels of silver, the son is all for others?" ”
Tang Xuanlin's voice slowly approached the door,
"Naturally, there is already a lady who has not passed through the door, and she doesn't mean to provoke, so please don't think about it."
These words made him choose himself cleanly, and he didn't leave any affection, Bu Tong finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the left bank also unloaded his tense nerves, leaned on the railing on the side and sighed quietly, "I can finally live." ”
There was a crisp kneeling sound in the room, accompanied by Chu Yue's low cry, "Childe, I also ask Gongzi to take Chu Yue in, the slave family sees Gongzi, like a god, I only wish to be satisfied with the side of Gongzi, and I will never dare to disobey the housewife for half a point." ”
Bu Tong secretly gritted his teeth, in his previous life, he still felt the sad situation of such a beauty, and he was quite sympathetic. Now it seems that Chu Yue is a low-level White Lotus.
Tang Xuanlin seemed to think about it seriously for a while, and then he spoke, "This can't be done, I'm afraid I'm wronged." ”
As soon as Chu Yue heard this, he suddenly became energetic and said, "The slave family is not wronged, I saw the son today, and the heart of the slave family has already been offered, and I will never commit to others, and I will not give up the ...... thanks to the son."
"You misunderstood," Tang Xuanlin's voice was three degrees cold in vain, directly interrupting the person's self-touching,
"What I mean below is that I don't want to wronged the lady who has not passed through the door at home, a woman like you is not enough to be a family member in the house."
Chu Yue was speechless for a while, Tang Xuanlin opened the door of the flower room and did not forget to turn around to mend the knife,
"By the way, there is another word below, since Miss Chu has made up her mind to do this transaction, it is better to put herself in the right position, and it is the girl who clearly marks the price, so why bother to say something like 'unwilling to commit'."
It turns out that "when and standing" can still be said to be so "euphemistic" and "direct".
Tang Xuanlin stepped forward and saw Butong and the two standing at the door without the slightest surprise, and reached out to hold Butong's wrist,
"Follow me."
The left bank decisively turned as a passing ......
There was a small garden in the small attic of Wanhualou, Bu Tong stood still and took a deep breath, and quickly admitted his mistake,
"I was wrong, I shouldn't have doubted you."
Tang Xuanlin smiled heartily, "It's quick to admit your mistakes." ”
Bu Tong "hehe" smiled, laughing at himself for the panic that he didn't come just now, and suddenly thought of what Tang Xuanlin had just said,
"By the way, Xuanlin, you won't bid for Lord Si Lin of the Ministry of Industry, right?"
Tang Xuanlin nodded, "Naturally." ”
Bu Tong spread his hands, "600,000 taels!" Why bother? ”
Tang Xuanlin looked like he saw through everything,
"Anyway, I don't have to spend this money in the end, so Wu Liang took such a big risk to come here for Chu Yue, I'm afraid that it is inevitable to get it tonight, and I can get a favor without spending money, what's wrong with this?"
Bu Tong smiled, and said bluntly,
"But Wu Liang has no money."
Tang Xuanlin nodded in agreement,
"I think Tong'er wants to do a 'money bank' business?"
Bu Tong smiled happily, jumped up and took Tang Xuanlin's hand,
"Xuanlin understands me, why can't I hide anything from you."
The official family has a specific style of acting, even Jinyiwei has its own rules, but if he is Wu Liang's creditor, and he has to mortgage these things to collect debts, it seems to be much more natural, and it can also greatly reduce the person's fortification.
Tang Xuanlin took out a stack of silver tickets, "You can take these." ”
Bu Tong didn't refuse, and took it with a smile, "Xuanlin can rest assured, tomorrow and tomorrow night, I will definitely be able to get what you want." ”
……
Back in the box, the left bank looked at him with a thief's look, "How is it, reconciled?" ”
Butong went back and sat firmly,
"We didn't have a feud in the first place."
The Left Bank is noncommittal.
Wu Liang suddenly got up and opened the curtain and came over, and saluted a little lamely, "The two sons have something to ask for below." ”
Left Bank's first reaction was to get up and kick this uninvited guest away, and Bu Tong hurriedly got up, "Please speak." ”
Left Bank was stunned for a moment, looking at Bu Tong as if he had other plans for this person, and hurriedly retreated to the side of the door.
Wu Liang wiped the beads of sweat from his head, "I just heard that the two sons are not here for Chu Yue, and they have never opened their mouths to shout the price, I wonder if I can borrow some silver money for you?" ”
Bu Tong obviously made this calculation, but he pretended to be unwilling to be embarrassed,
"We met this eldest brother Pingshui, but we are afraid that it is my debt, and my eldest brother is not willing to be involved."
When Wu Liang heard this, he felt that the two of them must also have some silver on them, of course, they didn't care about it, and nodded again and again, "I also ask the son to help a little, and the villain will be returned in the future, and you can leave a note today." ”
Butong seemed to think for a while, and then looked up at the left bank,
"Brother Zuo, go get a pen and paper."
Wu Liang thanked him repeatedly, and Bu Tong wrote down the note with a wave of his pen,
"We don't have a lot of silver on us today, fifteen silver tickets for ten thousand taels, is it enough?"
Wu Liang looked at Tang Xuanlin, who was there with the old god on the other side, as if he gritted his teeth ruthlessly, "Thank you, son." ”
Bu Tong handed over the note,
"Then sign and draw."
Wu Liang is also a shrewd businessman, this kind of note naturally has to be read carefully, and he almost trembles and forced himself in front of his eyes to let himself read it, "...... 150,000 taels of silver, a ...... for profit"
Bu Tong looked at him with a smile, "This big brother, Pingshui met, why did you borrow so much money from you for nothing, and didn't you say that you would return it soon?" It's not a lot of profit. ”
The interest of 1,500 taels may be too dark for ordinary people, but people like Wu Liang, although they think it is not low, but now the situation is still acceptable, "Okay, I'll sign." ”
Bu Tong watched Wu Liang turn around and leave after counting the silver tickets, and exchanged a look with Tang Xuanlin opposite, Tang Xuanlin's eyes tightened, and he turned back to the back of the curtain seat, his mother watched everyone sit down one after another, and hurriedly greeted with a smile, "Distinguished guests, the time is almost up, then let's continue to start, just this son bid 600,000 taels, but someone offered a higher price?" ”
Wu Liang quickly couldn't hold back his voice, "650,000 taels." ”
Tang Xuanlin seemed to want him to be completely polished, and he clenched it,
"750,000 taels."
Wu Liang gritted his teeth and spoke, "800,000." ”
Bu Tong looked at his appearance, thinking of the gambler he met in the emergency department last year, it was the same appearance, looking at this scene, it was about to be exhausted.
Tang Xuanlin naturally understands that he seems to want to break through Wu Liang's bottom line, and deliberately lowers the price, "810,000 taels." ”
Sure enough, Wu Liang got up and came to Butong, sweating profusely, and his head was lowered to his waist and abdomen.
"Ask for a ...... Son"
The implication is still obvious, you have to borrow money again.
Butong looked understanding,
"It seems that the eldest brother is really affectionate to Chu Yue, it's just that, we only have 20,000 silver tickets here, and we originally planned to have a good time tonight, so it is better to complete a good thing, but the IOU must be modified."
Wu Liang nodded again and again, and Bu Tong wrote a new IOU, "170,000 taels, take a look." ”
The mother downstairs shouted at the top of her voice, "Is there a higher price?" ”
Wu Liang hurriedly thanked him for signing and drawing the pledge, and then shouted, "830,000 taels!" ”
This is a figure that greatly exceeds Wanhualou's mother's expectations, and the fat woman laughed so much that she was about to lose her breath, "Uncle is generous, is there anything higher?" ”
As he spoke, he looked at Tang Xuanlin's position, and after a moment of silence, there seemed to be a sound of conversation behind the curtain, and Tang Xuanlin spoke,
"That's it, the brother on the other side is so persistent, we really can't win people's love."
Bu Tong quietly collected the two IOUs here, pulled the left bank and whispered,
"Let's go."
Left Bank hurriedly followed Bu Tong all the way to the distance of three streets, and then gasped for breath, "I said the county lord, what are you going to do here?" It's just a piece of cloth, why bother to cheat people like this? ”
Bu Tong took out two IOUs and carefully confirmed,
"Buyi? This Wu Liang is the first person in charge of repairing the river embankment, and he is very well hidden, and everyone in Dongchang can't get his handle, otherwise why do you think Xuanlin would come here today? ”
Left Bank suddenly said, "But since Master Tang has arrived, why don't you just take people down?" ”
Butong looked up at the moonlight above his head,
"General Zuo, do you think that if you take people down, he knows that he is helpless, and he will definitely not come up with anything beneficial."
Only then did Zuo An figure it out, and nodded again and again, "Or do you say that Master Tang is the only one in Beijing who is smart, which of us rough people who have been away all the year round can understand this?" ”
……
Bu Tong said goodbye to the left bank and returned home, but once again saw Jing Zhao's eagerly awaited appearance.
"Won't it?" There was something else to do at such a late hour, Bu Tong slowly rubbed over, "Sister Jingzhao, won't you be waiting for me here?" ”
The familiar scene reappeared, and Jing Zhao pulled Butong and walked inside, "The third prince is visiting, and the adults and ladies are all accompanying in the front hall." ”