Seeing his brother-in-law toast himself, Wei Xiuyuan didn't take it seriously, of course he didn't want to drink, and if he drank alcohol, it meant that he wanted to open up and let these people go, since the emperor handed over such a heavy responsibility to himself, how could he tolerate the adulterer.

So Wei Xiuyuan lowered his head and ate the food, letting his brother-in-law's wine glass hang in the air.

The brother-in-law didn't know what to do for a while, he looked at Lord Liu, Lord Liu and motioned for him to sit down, but he didn't expect Wei Xiuyuan to be so ruthless, and he didn't even give face to the people in his own family.

"Lord Wei, I don't know what the emperor is going to do with the errand handed over to you?"

Hearing Lord Liu ask this, Wei Xiuyuan naturally deliberately pretended to be stupid and asked rhetorically.

"I don't know what kind of errand Lord Liu is talking about, you must know that I have been busy with official business recently, I don't know which one Lord Liu is referring to?"

Lord Liu frowned, he didn't expect Wei Xiuyuan to be so cunning, and he could pretend not to understand him, it was really a bit of a city.

"What the old man said naturally is that the emperor let you do it, and the household department has returned the arrears."

Wei Xiuyuan replied unhurriedly.

"Oh, what Lord Liu said is this matter, I have already thought about this matter, anyone who can't repay the arrears within ten days, I will send it to the emperor and immediately raid the house."

Hearing the word "copying home", the officials present were anxious, they didn't expect that it was true that they were not alienated this time, and they really wanted to raid their home, which was really hateful.

Seeing that these officials were so anxious on their faces, Lu Li sighed, he didn't expect Donglan Kingdom to be so corrupt and dying that these officials were still thinking about how to avoid the arrears.

"Ten days is too little, it's better to wait for twenty days."

An official proposed, but Wei Xiuyuan was selfless and unwilling to agree, and it was already serious enough to quit the household department's money and not pay it back, so how could it be done if he wanted to recover the arrears now, and he was still there for ten or twenty days.

So Wei Xiuyuan immediately said categorically at the dinner table.

"I said ten days, that's ten days, if you can't call out the arrears within ten days, don't blame me for being ruthless."

After Wei Xiuyuan left, these officials were naturally anxious, and they all looked at Lord Liu, although Lord Liu was a little annoyed at this time, he was not in a hurry, he was still in a hurry, Wei Xiuyuan could still deal with this little fire.

"Don't worry, I have my own way to deal with him."

The next day, Wei Xiuyuan naturally met the emperor in person, he met the emperor not for anything else, but to tell the emperor about the proposal to copy the house, and the emperor also felt a little serious when he heard that he was going to go to the point of copying the house.

"Wei Xiuyuan, isn't it a bit too much for you to do this, you must know that those are all important ministers, they are really raiding the family, where can they put their face?"

Wei Xiuyuan immediately said respectfully.

"Your Majesty, the country can't be overwhelmed for a day, if you tolerate them again, they will only delay the arrears for a longer and longer time, and only by issuing a death order can they return the arrears."

The emperor thought about it, but this was also the case, if he wanted to get all this silver back, he could only use some cruel methods, so he agreed to Wei Xiuyuan's request.

"Your Majesty, in addition to this proposal, the minister wants to recommend someone."

Hearing that Wei Xiuyuan wanted to recommend someone, the emperor naturally agreed, so he asked Wei Xiuyuan to call someone up, and the person brought by Wei Xiuyuan was naturally Lu Li, Lu Li is now wearing the person-skin-mask-mask made by Ah Yue, the emperor doesn't know him, but the emperor feels that this person's aura makes him a little familiar, and his body shape is also very familiar.

Seeing this person, the memories in the emperor's mind suddenly came up, making the emperor a little moved to see the emperor actually react like this, Lu Li was also quite surprised, it seems that the emperor still remembers their brotherhood, at least he can still miss himself after his death, and sacrifice with a glass of wine.

"Your Majesty, this is a friend of the minister, his name is..."

Before Wei Xiuyuan's words were finished, the emperor hurriedly interrupted it.

"This friend of yours is surnamed Lu?"

Lu Li was naturally not so stupid, he wanted to keep his original surname, only to see this Lu Li shook his head and said to the emperor.

"When returning to the emperor, the surname is not Lu, but the surname is Su, and his name is Su Shuo."

Hearing the name Su Shuo, the emperor was obviously a little disappointed, Lu Li did not deliberately abandon his original surname, and changed to Xiaoman's surname, but Lu Li's name is too eye-catching, if it is surnamed Lu, it will inevitably make people reminisce, so he gave himself a pseudonym at this time, so that he can move around in the court now.

"Back to the emperor, this Su Shuo is a friend of the minister's classmates, and he also has a lot of opinions on the government, and this time he wants to ask him to help in recovering the things owed by the household department."

Hearing Wei Xiuyuan's reasonable request, the emperor naturally agreed with a wave of his hand, and now Wei Xiuyuan officially found a reason to hand over this matter to Lu Li.

After meeting the emperor, Lu Li and Wei Xiuyuan naturally returned to the mansion, thinking that Wei Xiuyuan had already said his death order, and these officials would soon start to act.

I saw that the first person to come to the door was Xia Wanrou's younger brother Xia Dong, Xia Dong knelt in front of his brother-in-law with a handful of snot and tears.

"Brother-in-law, I beg you to spare me, I borrowed so much money from the household department, how can I pay it back."

Xia Dong was like this, which made Wei Xiuyuan very puzzled, so Wei Xiuyuan asked.

"When I saw you at the dinner table that day, I felt angry, how on earth did you borrow so much silver?"

"I only saw the constant begging in the summer and winter, I can't help it, after coming to Beijing, there are entertainment everywhere, if you don't want to be paid, how can you mix with those officials, if you don't get together, don't they just exclude me, so I can't ask my sister, my sister won't give it, I asked my father, and my father also said that I don't understand the way of a gentleman, isn't it forced to go to the household department to borrow five thousand taels of silver."

Hearing the five thousand taels of silver, Wei Xiuyuan suddenly felt that his head was big, if he and Xia Wanrou were a little money, they could help him make up a little, but he didn't expect that this Xia Dong actually received five thousand taels, this amount is really too big, and Wei Xiuyuan has no way at this time, but if he doesn't want to use his brother-in-law, how will he serve the public in the future.

Seeing this, Lu Li, who was incarnated as Su Shuo, said slowly beside him.

"Lord Xia, although you say so, but I heard that you just bought an antique shop in Shangjing, and all the antiques in it are genuine, do you use money to live, or use money to have fun?"

Hearing that Lu Li's investigation was clear, Wei Xiuyuan's temper suddenly came up.

"Good boy, you actually took five thousand taels of silver to buy some antique shop, I don't think you can find anything to play! Waste of silver in vain! ”

Seeing that Lu Li had exposed his old bottom all of a sudden, Xia Dong was no longer pretending, so he scolded Wei Xiuyuan directly.

"What kind of brother-in-law are you! If my sister is here, she will definitely not let me pay back the money, only you are ruthless, and you have to find me to recover the money! ”

If you want to say that Xia Wanrou is a person, Wei Xiuyuan knows best, if he knew that his younger brother did such a thing, I am afraid that he would use the family law to beat him, how could he still persuade himself not to ask him for money, insulting the Xia family like this, insulting Xia Wanrou like this, it is really not the reason for being a younger brother.

"Don't talk to me! If your sister were here, she'd help me beat you!" Aren't you afraid that your sister will know that it will be sad! ”

But this Xia Dong didn't care at all.

"My sister is sad? Don't be funny, you bullied his brother like this, which made my sister sad, maybe I will go back and leave you! ”

After saying this, Xia Wanrou's younger brother went out angrily, without saying much to Wei Xiuyuan, and went directly to Lord Liu's mansion, this Lord Liu originally wanted to deal with Wei Xiuyuan, but now when he saw Xia Dong coming, he naturally wanted to use him to try Wei Xiuyuan's depth first, so after discussing with Xia Dong for a while, he came up with a trick to deal with Wei Xiuyuan.

I saw that Wei Xiuyuan hurriedly came to the Lu Mansion the next morning, at this time Lu Li and Xiaoman had just gotten up, and Li Niang was already sitting in the front hall drinking tea because she was a person who got up early and went to bed early.

I only saw that Wei Xiuyuan was in a hurry, as if the whole person was burned, and he looked very anxious, Xiao Man immediately said.

"Xiuyuan, what's wrong with you, did you say something, or did you say that the cashier didn't go well?"

Wei Xiuyuan sighed and hurriedly took a sip of the tea that Xiaoman handed him.

"What else is going well, I haven't taken back a penny! And you know, what did Xia Dong actually do! ”

Lu Li hurriedly asked.

"Tell me something."

"Don't you know, Xia Dong he actually moved all the valuable items in his mansion to the market today and sold them at a low price, at the mercy of the people, there are many things that are rewarded by the emperor, and some are Wanrou used his dowry to subsidize him, no matter how good or bad he is in the market, isn't this obviously losing the face of the Xia family and the face of the officials in the capital!"

Lu Li frowned, if it was just some ordinary objects, and even Xia Wanrou's dowry was given by the emperor, he would take them out and sell them like this, it was really a little wrong.

Did he "say, why is he going to take these things out and sell them?" ”

Wei Xiuyuan sighed again at this time, and he didn't know whether he had done something wrong, or if he was stupid and hateful in Xia Dong.

"He said that it was because I pressed him too hard, and he couldn't pay off the five thousand taels of silver within ten days, so he sold his property."

Li Niang listened to it next to her, and laughed, but she didn't expect that Xia Dong still had some ability.