Chapter 148: Assistance
Since Gong Tianyao moved to the new house, she was busy cleaning up and arranging the room on the first day, and Lianxin couldn't stop it, and the bones in her body that were tired at night seemed to fall apart, and she was so tired that she didn't have time to think about other people and other things, and the sadness in her heart could be suppressed temporarily.
Lianxin came back with water and served Gong Tianyao to bathe. Soaking in the hot water, feeling that the fatigue of the whole body was dissipating little by little, and the hot steam swirled in front of her, Gong Tianyao felt a rare comfort: she was so tired these days, she was physically and mentally exhausted, and a hot bath could revive her with full blood.
She closed her eyes, some things in her mind were clearer and more vivid, the light and shadow changed, everything revolved around one person, until the other party's face became clearer and clearer, Gong Tianyao suddenly became impatient, opened her eyes and stood up from the barrel, splashed the water on the ground, Lianxin was surprised: "Is the water cold?" The slave and the maid will go and burn it. ”
Saying that he stood up and was about to leave, Gong Tianyao's voice was tired: "No need, I'm tired and want to go to bed early." ”
Lianxin hurriedly came back, took a dry towel to dry her, and helped her to rest. Xu was too tired during the day, but this time she didn't toss and turn and couldn't sleep, and fell asleep as soon as her head was on the pillow.
The business of several stores is getting busier and busier, and after hiring a few more workers, Gong Tianyao is also busy all day long for this reason, and has no time to think about anything else.
Under her teaching, Lianxin was gradually able to take charge of herself, and she didn't need to interfere in many things, and Gong Tianyao could also have more time to develop prescriptions.
The matter of her separation from Song Zhaohe is still impenetrable, and even the eldest princess has no news at all, Gong Tianyao can't help but sigh that the tone of Song Zhao's side is really tight, and listening to the eldest princess and her nine brothers and sisters, she can only pretend that nothing happened.
On this day, she left the eldest princess's mansion, and under the pretext of going to the street shop to have a look, she politely refused the carriage that the eldest princess wanted to send to her in the palace of Nan'an. It's been a busy past few days, and she also wants to take this opportunity to walk around the street at will, so she should relax.
Usually because I'm busy, I wander around a few of my stores, and I don't have time to look elsewhere, so this time I deliberately picked a street that I don't often go to, and I was relaxed and thought about whether I could open the door over there.
Coincidentally, as soon as she walked to the street, she encountered a riot, more than a dozen officers and soldiers with knives and sticks, arrogant attitudes, scolding and scolding, a middle-aged man with a fat and round look coped with a bunch of them, clenching his fists, nodding his head, and saying endless good things, but no one bought his account.
Gong Tianyao stopped not far from the restaurant and listened carefully to what they were saying.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we are serious businessmen, and we have never done anything illegal, you rushed in with knives and sticks, and scared my guests away, what is going on?"
One of the officers and soldiers at the head stared at him like a copper bell, and scolded him viciously: "Someone reported that your store has tax evasion, we are ordered by the adults to come to investigate thoroughly, you have to cooperate, if you dare not cooperate, today we will smash your store!" ”
"Oh, sir, where did you start!" The owner of the restaurant complained bitterly: "The little ones abide by the law, even if they eat the bear's heart and leopard gall, they don't dare to evade taxes, this must be a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding." ”
"Misunderstanding is not misunderstanding, you say it doesn't count." The official snorted, picked his teeth with his little nails, and squinted at him: "If you are an acquaintance, hand over the account book honestly, otherwise, you will have a good look!" ”
The fat man hesitated for a moment, he asked himself about his innocence, he had never done anything without conscience, and the account book was also written clearly in black and white, not afraid of them checking. After thinking about it, I had to ask someone to take out the ledger for verification.
Who knew that as soon as the account book came out, the officials almost snatched it indiscriminately, arrogant: "This has to be taken to the yamen to check carefully, and as soon as there is any news, I will notify you!" ”
The owner of the restaurant couldn't stop him if he wanted to, so he only agreed, so he could only watch the people take the account book away. Gong Tianyao, who had been watching for a long time, shook his head and sighed: If the account book falls into the hands of others, isn't it for others to be slaughtered? When the time comes, others will change two strokes casually, and it will be useless for you to call it a broken sky.
The crowd gradually dispersed, and Gong Tianyao also left there, but he still remembered the incident just now, the restaurant looked good, the location was good, the business would not be bad, if he could buy it, it would be the best.
Thinking of this, Gong Tianyao deliberately paid attention to the movements of that restaurant. Sure enough, within a few days, there was news that there was a problem with the account book of the restaurant, and the fat boss had been arrested and imprisoned, just waiting for the county order to convict him a few days later.
Gong Tianyao saw this matter clearly, and it was clear that someone wanted to rectify the boss, and it was estimated that in two days, the merchant's property would be confiscated, and the restaurant or something would change hands.
She thought about it, and immediately sent someone to investigate the matter, and soon got a reply, it turned out that the owner of the restaurant didn't do anything bad at all, and now it's all because the business is doing too well and too big, and it attracts people's eyes.
The rich businessman is also self-made, and it took more than ten years of hard work to earn this huge business, but this rich person can not compare to the powerful, before the restaurant came to a distinguished guest, I don't know where to offend others, this went back quietly and used his power to manipulate him, he has a grudge and has nowhere to complain, he can only blame himself for being unlucky.
After Gong Tianyao knew the ins and outs of this matter, she felt that she should take action. Seeing that the road is uneven, she draws a knife to help, the rich businessman is innocent, since she knows the truth, she must not let him be framed to death, and besides, she has other thoughts, but now is not the time to care about that.
When Gong Tianyao went to the eldest princess, she seemed to unintentionally mention that incident, the eldest princess knew this very well, how could she not see her intentions. This kind of thing was just a word to the eldest princess, and the rich merchant came out of prison that afternoon.
Gong Tianyao went to the restaurant to see him, and saw him sitting alone on the table in the middle of the restaurant, holding a wine jug in his hand, and his eyes were red after drinking.
Hearing the footsteps, he didn't look back, he drank to himself, and said drunkly: "Guest, please go back, we don't do business here." ”
"I'm not here to eat." Gong Tianyao stopped not far from him, the smell of wine was pungent, she was a little uncomfortable, and said with no discomfort.
Hearing that he didn't come to eat, the restaurant owner turned around and saw that it was a delicate and delicate girl, and he was very curious: "I'm not here to eat, what is that girl doing in our place?" ”
"I want to buy your restaurant, as well as all the properties under your name, the price is negotiable." Gong Tianyao said calmly.
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