Chapter XVII

Accompanied by the noisy voice of the guys, Xia Zhongda had been waiting for two teas in Wanxiang Building, and the weather outside also changed from a foggy morning sun to a cloudy day, and then it rained lightly.

After a while, the men of the Xia family led the old lady upstairs and entered the room, Xia Zhongda was about to pick up the old lady's hat, but was slapped by the old lady and opened his hand.

"Father, why do you bother?" Xia Zhongda naturally knew that the old lady was angry, but at the moment he didn't know how angry the old lady was, and he didn't know how much the old lady knew.

The old lady walked straight over, sat on the side with his back to the window, and asked Wang Defa to sit on the right side of the old lady, but ignored Xia Zhongda who was still standing on the side, and waved his hand to let Zhang Ma lead the group out to eat.

And Wang Defa is the shopkeeper of Tong'an City, and it was very unexpected that he was suddenly called back to Ningzhou City from the outside, and what was even more unexpected was that he wanted to go to Baidi City with the old lady to do business, and now he saw the owner at a loss. On the way here, the old lady asked a lot of business things in the past few years, Wang Defa just said according to the actual situation, I don't know why the old lady became more and more angry the more he listened, but the owner's affairs did not dare to ask casually, it was not easy to follow the owner's arrangement to do things, let alone have other thoughts. At this time, the atmosphere between the two fathers and sons was also tense, which made Wang Defa's already bent back even worse, and he didn't dare to look at these two people when he sat in his position.

Xia Zhongda saw that the old lady ignored him, and the shopkeeper Wang was also ignorant, and he didn't find himself under the stairs, so he was also very angry, but at the moment, this situation was not easy to attack, so he had to sit down stupidly.

If two of the three were not completely suppressed by the old lady's momentum, they still had a three-legged momentum, and the strangeness in the air had scared the guys who came in to add tea. "Tell me why you're here." In the silent air, the old lady finally spoke first.

Wang Defa thought he was asking himself, and just raised his head to answer that he didn't know, only to find that the old lady didn't look at him at all, a pair of cannibalistic eyes were staring straight at Xia Zhongda, and he hurriedly buried his head.

"I'm here to talk about the tea business." Xia Zhongda was still trying to ease the atmosphere, and immediately responded to the old lady, but among the three people present, I am afraid that only Xia Zhongda himself believes this, or he may not believe it, after all, the voice is so small that only he can hear it.

"Nonsense!"

Syllable! The white porcelain cup on the table jumped up with the sound of the old lady slapping the table, followed by a crackling sound, which frightened the other two almost jumped, especially Wang Defa, who didn't often experience this on the side, his body was already trembling a little.

"Father! I did all this for the Xia family! I have worked hard for the Xia family for all these years, and I have worked hard without merit, why do you still treat me like this! Xia Zhongda was so frightened, he was also a little upset, and all the grievances on weekdays came up, and he simply vomited out.

The old lady was still furious, pointing at Xia Zhongda's nose and scolding, "You keep saying that for the Xia family, look at what you have done all these years," and as she spoke, she threw a bunch of account books on the table.

Xia Zhongda reached out and took the account book, and hurriedly glanced at it, it was full of his expenses for buying jade over the years, some of which he remembered, and some of which he had forgotten, but they were all recorded in this account book. Xia Zhongda was stunned for a moment, looked at Wang Defa who was bowing his head on the side, and suddenly realized something, so he shouted, "Who remembered this!" Is that you? Wang Defa, my Wang Da shopkeeper, have you learned these things after following me for so many years! What a right-hand man! ”

That Wang Defa was still in a state of confusion, and hurriedly took the account book from the table to see that it was actually the account book to buy jade! Where did this come from, I don't know at all. But the proprietor said that he remembered it, and hurriedly explained, "Wronged, the proprietor, I have never let the account room record the jade in the shop in Tong'ancheng, and I don't know where it came from." After speaking, he came back to his senses, and the old lady was still on the side, so he hurriedly covered his mouth and said no more.

"As I said a long time ago, jade is much more profitable than the tea business! Shi Congwen is only less than thirty years old, and he has handled more silver in a year than I have in several years, and businessmen seek profits, so what's wrong with me doing a profitable business! ”

"Bastard thing! With your little brain, you still have to learn from others to do jade business! You don't have to weigh yourself a few pounds and a few taels with a rod scale! ”

Xia Zhongda was even more annoyed when he heard this, and he didn't care about it, like a hairy boy, he almost howled out, "Others do it, why can't I do it!" You've said I'm mindless, and I'm going to make a show for you to see. ”

"That's what you let me see! What are these things? Are you going to ruin my Xia family's century-old foundation! You son of a! The old lady suddenly moved, and coughed again, in the end, he was old and traveling.

Xia Zhongda stretched out his hand to smooth his breath, his hand was still beaten back, so he had to withdraw his hand stupidly, Rao didn't want to face it anymore, and he also knew that this jade business had lost money, not to mention that the profit of tea had been lost in recent years, and it had also been discounted, but the more people couldn't get it, the more they wanted to gamble, and Xia Zhongda was a person who didn't hit the south wall and didn't look back, and went all the way to the black.

After Mrs. Xia coughed for a while, she eased up a little, and then said calmly, "What are you going to do this time in the Ma family." ”

Xia Zhongda was taking the Ma family and had no choice, but he was stunned when the old lady asked him this, and after a while he remembered Liang Xian's idea, the idea was a little rotten, but there was no treachery, but when he thought that his father was unacceptable, he added oil and vinegar to moisten it, "The Ma family has become more and more unruly to me these days, and a few days ago, I was scolded by Na Ma Pinyuan..." ”

"It's light to scold you, this is also the old love of the Ma family, you can still stay here." The old lady didn't appreciate it, and directly interjected and replied.

Xia Zhongda didn't answer, and said angrily, "His Ma family is just a tea household who relies on us to eat, what is there to be proud of, as long as I spread the quality of his tea in the past few years, he will have to sell it if he doesn't sell it..." ”

Without waiting for Xia Zhongda to finish speaking, the old lady slammed on the table with one hand, the table was directly broken in half from the middle, and the white porcelain cup on the table also fell down and shattered into a ball, Wang Defa, who had been keeping his head down on the side, jumped up in fright, and the guy outside the door also pushed the door and rushed in, but was drunk by the old lady.

Before Xia Zhongda could react, he was scolded by the old lady pointing his nose, "You brute!" How did I give birth to such a brute as you! Not to mention that you caused my Xia family to lose half of the industry, are you going to smash the pot where my Xia family eats now! ”

The old lady was already very angry, and after scolding, he coughed on the side, Wang Defa stood aside and didn't dare to move at all, but Xia Zhongda had an unconvinced expression, but the three of them fell silent, only the old lady coughed.

Outside the door, Zhang's mother heard that there was no sound in the house for a long time, so she knocked on the door, "Master, I'm in." There was no answer in the house, so Zhang's mother entered the door by herself, and saw that the house was full of messes, and the old lady was still coughing, so she had to go to the old lady to smooth the way, and asked the little guy in the back to let the guys in the store clean up and serve a new cup of tea.

The three people on the seat finally barely ate lunch, although there was no more quarrel during the banquet, it was much more relaxed than just now, the old lady couldn't withstand such a big toss, Xia Zhongda was at a loss, he had long lost his former spirit, and Wang Defa's sweat on the side was stubble after stubble, and he rubbed endlessly, so that after Bai Dicheng went back this time, he was sick for more than half a month, but this is all a later story.