Chapter 10 The Stranger
Ji Gu Zhai's subordinates chuckled: "I'm afraid the girl can't afford it, this number." ”
He raised two fingers as he spoke.
Duan Ling'er knew it in her heart, and when she looked at the sun, the dust in the air flashed a little, and she nodded: "Can you issue a deed of sale?" ”
Servant: "Of course! ”
Duan Ling'er smiled with satisfaction, turned around a few more times, picked out some calligraphy and painting jade, and spent the dowry silver that the Shen family had prepared for herself.
Duan Ling'er spent the money happily, but An Niang was frightened.
This little master somehow knew where the Shen family hid the silver ticket, and coaxed the Shen family to take out the dowry silver waiting for his daughter to marry for his own safekeeping, and the Shen family's ears were soft and poured ecstasy soup, and he really handed over the silver to his daughter.
Now Anniang saw the little master take out the silver, thinking that it was just to buy a few years of satisfactory jewelry on the street, who knew that spending money was like flowing water, scattering all the family wealth from his own antique store to move back to so many Laoshzi and then put it back to his home.
An Niang grabbed Duan Ling'er: "Girl, don't mess around like this, this, this money can't be moved!" If you insist on buying like this, I'm afraid you'll be angry with your wife. ”
When the subordinate heard this, his hands and feet stopped moving, and he looked Duan Ling'er up and down with an inquiring eye.
Duan Ling'er didn't care, and her jade-like fingers pulled the fake things on the elm platform: "It's easy to say, can the Duan family's store still make people?" If I take such a good thing home, my father and mother will be very happy. ”
Duan Ling'er said and smiled at the next person: "Please ask this little brother, pack the deed for me, and I will go back and put it in my house and watch it every day." ”
Su Yong, who was resting in the cabinet with his eyes closed, listened to the movement outside until his subordinates handed over the silver with joy on his face, and his face finally brightened, knowing that today was a big deal.
He glanced at the silver ticket and stood up, his eyes full of schadenfreude, ready to go out to see which one had been wronged.
These fakes are not worth even five taels of silver, but today they are sold for three hundred taels.
It's really a collision of fortune, and you can't hide it!
The five-colored bead curtain hanging in the cabinet moved, Duan Ling'er saw Su Yong walking out, she turned around and took out a veil from her cuffs to cover her face without hurrying, covered her face and ignored Su Yong, and asked An Niang to hold those fake antiques and leave Jigu Zhai with herself.
The words were divided into two ends, when Duan Ling'er was picking and choosing in the antique shop, Xie Ci had already chased the man to the north.
Xie Xi was a retiree today, and he had not yet worn an official uniform, and he thought in his heart that it would be inappropriate to forcibly stop this man and return the lost property, so it was better to go home with him and see the specific situation before making plans.
The man who sells oil is surnamed Zhu, with a single name, an older man who is not married, and there is only an old mother in the family.
Zhu Da came to Japan or picked up the oil as usual to go out, who knew that the luck was so good, I could pick up the silver in the middle, Zhu Da turned upside down, there were thirty taels.
These thirty taels of silver are enough to spend a year or two, or to fill some more, and it is unknown whether they can marry a daughter-in-law.
Zhu Da was overjoyed, and the oil was no longer sold, so he went home, Xie Ci and Song Yan followed far behind, seeing Zhu Da quickly entering the door, and said loudly to Zhu Lao Niang: "Mother, today we have two mothers, and I have picked up so much silver." ”
As he spoke, he wrapped the cloth and showed it to Zhu Lao Niang.
Zhu Lao Niang rubbed her eyes and stared at her son: "Although our family is poor, we have never been a traitor, have you been blinded by lard for a while, and have you done anything to rob and steal?" ”
Zhu Da hurriedly said: "When have I stolen someone else's things?" Mother, you don't want to talk nonsense! I don't know who lost this cloth bag on the side of the road, but I saw it and picked it up at once. We who are poor traders are easy to get such a partial fortune? Mother, according to my son's opinion, he should burn a profit market tomorrow, and use this money to return the original credit to others, and leave our mother and son to save and live a good life. ”
Xie Ci and Song Yan listened to it outside the door, it seemed that this man wanted to take the lost property for himself.
Although this man is poor, the lost property should still be found.
Xie Ci hesitated for a moment, and decided to try to persuade him to hand over the lost property to the government.
Before his finger knocked on the door panel, he heard the old lady say: "My son, as the saying goes: 'The rich and the poor are fate', if you deserve to enjoy it, you will not be born in the family of the person who carries the oil burden." In my opinion, although this money is not obtained by your will, nor is it earned by your hard work, I am afraid that it will be ruined and suffered. I don't know if this money is from a local? A faraway stranger? I don't know if it's my own? Or is it borrowed? I lost it for a while, I couldn't find it, this trouble is not small, maybe I will lose my life because of this incident. If you and I lose so many taels of silver, if we can't find it, I'm afraid I won't be able to think of throwing it into the river for a while, and it's better to return it as soon as possible. ”
Xie Ci listened outside the door and nodded involuntarily.
Zhu big lips snorted, wanted to say something, and listened to the old lady teach: "Mother heard that the ancients Pei Du also brought virtue, you went to the place where you picked up the silver today, see if anyone came to find it, if there is, quickly return it to him, this is also a collection of yin virtue, God will not bear you." ”
Zhu Da has always been a responsible person, and he was comforted and taught a lesson by Zhu Lao Niang, thinking that this is indeed the case, and responded in a loud voice: "Yes, yes!" ”
Xie Ci and Song Yan glanced at each other, but they didn't expect that the old lady of a poor family was rare in educating her son.
The two of them walked briskly to the side, pretending to pass by.
I wish the big bag of silver, and hurried to the place where I found it.
This Zhu Da was out of breath all the way, and ran to the alley just now, only to see a group of people shouting around a man in brocade clothes, who was about forty years old, dressed richly, and was angrily screaming to the heavens and the earth.
This man is a foreigner, a big family of medicinal materials in Lingxian County, and he came to Yangzhou to pay for medicinal materials on this day.
He was in a hurry to urinate in this corner, and the cloth bag hidden at his waist when he untied his pants was lost here, and the loss of thirty taels was just a small amount for him, but the loss of the fixed money was a very frustrating thing for the businessman, and it was a sign that the business was not going well.
Therefore, he was so angry that he stamped his feet and shouted loudly whether he had picked up the lost property, and he was willing to pay the reward.
The people on the street were all hugging and watching, and when they heard that they had lost the silver, they all shook their heads secretly, which fool has dozens of taels of silver and didn't want to give it back to you for nothing to earn a few taels of reward?
Zhu Da stepped forward and asked the stranger, "How much money do you have?" ”
The stranger brushed the placket of his silver silk embroidered shirt and replied indiscriminately: "There are sixty or seventy taels." ”
Zhu Da said honestly: "But is it wrapped in a white cloth?" ”
When the outsider heard this, he grabbed Zhu Da: "Exactly, exactly!" Did you pick it?!
Xie Ci frowned, obviously there were only thirty taels in the cloth bag, and he had never seen the oil seller hide other parts all the way back and forth, where did he get as many as sixty or seventy taels?
But looking at this stranger's dress, he is a rich man, I don't know if there is anything else he doesn't know.
Zhu Da continued to nod: "I really found it, and I came to find the lost and return it." ”
The stranger thought that he was anxious and angry when he lost the money, but suddenly someone returned the lost property and was overjoyed: "You returned me, and I am willing to give a reward." “
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Song Yan looked up and down the clothes of the stranger, identified the person's net worth, and knew that a dozen taels of silver were only a drop in the bucket for this person, so he said quickly: "Such a kind person specially found you back, according to the reason, half of the points should also be divided." ”
Everyone also nodded, and the merchants and vendors who usually recognized Zhu Da secretly gave him a thumbs up in their hearts, and echoed: "If you find money, you wish you could hide it." How have you ever seen this man go to his lord and return him? That's an honest man. ”
Xie Ci nodded: "It may be easier for a rich person to pick up gold, and a person who suffers can see so much silver and return it to its original owner without being moved, it must be a kind person." ”
Zhu Dashuang was praised by the villagers and neighbors, his face was embarrassed, he took out the cloth bag with both hands and returned it to the outsiders.
When the stranger checked out the wallet and looked at it, he knew in his heart that it was the original thing that was not moving.
But this stranger is a notoriously iron rooster, stingy, and when doing business, he is the only one who takes someone else's, when has someone else taken advantage of him? When the silver was gone, he was anxious to say that he was rewarding, but now that the silver is in front of him, he doesn't want to give up a penny.
This stranger was only afraid that Zhu Da would ask him to give a reward, and he was afraid that everyone would advocate that he divide it equally, so he couldn't help but look up and down at the oil seller in front of him, only to feel that Zhu Da was dressed simple and poor, and he was really an honest and deceitful person!
The stranger took it to heart, and saw that Zhu Da was in a hurry to run, and a few copper coins hidden in his sleeve were exposed.
Suddenly, his greed was raging, and he didn't do anything, not only did he not pay the reward, but he also cheated this man's money to give his new business a happy start!
The stranger had an idea in his heart, glanced at the cloth bag, and said: "My silver originally said to have sixty or seventy taels, but now there are only these left, you have more than half of it yourself, hurry up and return it to me!" ”
Zhu Da originally thought that he had not thanked the money for repaying the silver, and there was a thank you, but who knew that the other party asked him to lose money again, and when he heard that it was enough to accompany thirty or forty taels, he was anxious and exclaimed: "I just picked up this silver, and I was forced by Zhu Lao Niang to go out and visit the original owner. ”
The stranger made up his mind, wishing him a short and short of his silver taels.
Xie Ci frowned: "My brothers and sisters saw with their own eyes that this man picked up the money and returned it to you without taking a penny, if you really lost the other half, it has nothing to do with this man." ”
The outsider looked at the thanks, and said with a breath in his nostrils: "What proof do you have?" Don't say whether you really saw the whole thing, even if you did, maybe he quietly hid it, and you walked away. ”
Song Yan said angrily: "Why are you so unreasonable? ”
The stranger beckoned, and the two housekeepers who were looking for him on the other side of the street ran quickly and stood beside him with their waists in their arms: "Master! ”