"Don't dare, villain don't dare."

The sweat on Aju's forehead fell straight down. He didn't dare to look at Du Zheyan, and lowered his head to tell the situation just now.

Of course, as Du Zheyan's personal servant, although most of what he said was true, he still favored Du Zheyan in his words.

But just like that, he still made Old Lady Du angry enough, pointed at Du Zheyan and scolded: "Do you think that if you climb up to a Young Master Qi, you will be the first in the world?" Let me tell you, the old lady of the Qi family is a scholar of the Ministry of Officials, and he is a second-class person. Even if the kid surnamed Du doesn't have much power, he has the Qi family as a backer. Young Master Qi is in front of the Qi family (I didn't think so much about this surname when I first came up with this surname, and now I find out that the two words are homophones.) Fortunately, everyone reads the text, not listens to the book, which should have little impact), then it is nothing. In front of Young Master Qi, you are evil and embarrassed his friends, are you trying to bring trouble to our Du family? ”

Because Du Zheyan got an official for his father because of Qi Siyu, the Du family was suddenly elevated from a scholarly family to an official eunuch's house, and his psychology has been very inflated recently. If in the past, Old Lady Du was angry, he wouldn't even dare to speak, but this time he was not convinced.

He said: "Isn't the old lady Qi Zhishi?" Zhishi came back with a white body, do we need to be like this because Du Jinning is a friend of his grandson? If he is allowed to hang the plaque of the Du Mansion there, what will the people in this alley think of us? admit it in front of a kid who is nothing, maybe someone will want to step on us when the time comes. ”

Old lady Du was originally quite angry, but when she heard his words, she felt very reasonable.

The Du family's big house and second room have been secretly fighting for power and profit. The grandchildren of the two rooms have also been competing.

At this time, Du Zhexin saw that his grandfather seemed to be moved by Du Zheyan's clever words, and hurriedly said: "How does the third brother know that people are nothing?" Isn't it possible to spend so much money to buy a piece of land and build such a big house? ”

"He offended Young Master Qi, so Young Master Qi naturally wants to investigate him." Du Zheyan said triumphantly, "That person's name is Du Jinning, but he is just a farmer, and he couldn't even read when he was a child." Or because he was a little clever, he coincidentally worshipped the mountain chief of Lishui County Boyue Academy as a teacher, and his life was better. As for how he had the money to build a house, it is unknown. Maybe this money was given to him by Guan Shanchang. Now that Guan Shanchang has gone to the capital, he has no backing except for some friendship with Young Master Qi and Young Master Liang. If such a person can step on our heads and don't take us seriously, how can we gain a foothold in Fucheng in the future? ”

Du Zhexin wanted to say more, but Old Lady Du waved his hand: "Okay, Zhexin doesn't need to say more." ”

He called Du Zheyan: "You go and bring the ink treasure of Master Yan in my house, I will go to find the old lady Zeng, and then ask his family to go to that house no matter which young master of the family." The strong dragon can't suppress the head snake, that is, Young Master Qi and Young Master Liang have to give face to the Zeng family, not to mention that kid. ”

Whenever he wanted to say "Du family" or "Du boy", he felt awkward, so he simply replaced it with "that family" and "that kid".

Although their Du family has never had any officials, they have been in Fucheng for decades, and they live in a place like Hulu Lane, so they naturally still have some connections. No, the Zeng family next door has been neighbors with the Du family for six or seven years, and they still get along well. Under the intention of Mrs. Du, the old men of the two families often talked about poetry and painting together.

Although the Zeng family has not had any big officials, the old man Zeng is a general judge in the government office, and he is a six-grade official, in charge of grain transportation, family land, water conservancy and litigation. The general judgment of the Song Dynasty also served as a supervisor, that is, he could directly report to the emperor about the situation of all officials in the prefecture and county. So even the prefect didn't dare to offend him.

An official like this is Qi Bokun himself who has to give some face. He would never stand out for a peasant boy who was good friends with his grandson.

The Du family is not just for the name of "Du Zhai" now, they want to show their strength to others. Although their family can't study, no one is an official, but the business is doing quite well. There are several restaurants under the name of the Du family, and from time to time they can show their strength, so that people dare not underestimate them, and they can avoid a lot of trouble.

"It's not distressing to sell Yetian", not to mention a pair of ink treasures. can teach Du Jinning a lesson, no matter how big the price is, Du Zheyan is willing.

He immediately ran as fast as he could, and soon took out a roll and handed it to Mrs. Du.

Old lady Du opened it and looked at it, confirmed that it was the word, and went to Zeng's house next door with Du Zheyan's support.

Seeing this, Du Zhexin gritted his teeth with hatred.

Regardless of the family, most of the property is passed on to the eldest son. But recently, because the second master Du, that is, Du Zheyan's father, became the head of the county government, and there was such a little sycophant as Du Zheyan who climbed the big tree of the Qi family, the old lady Du, who originally relied on the eldest son and eldest grandson, slowly tilted the balance towards the second room. This made Du Zhexin and his father very unwilling.

Their father and son carefully run the restaurant, how much effort they put in, don't make wedding clothes for others at that time.

Du Zhexin squinted slightly, thought for a while, and instructed his little servant: "Go check again and see what the Du family is from." The surname is Du, and he looks so similar to the Seventh Young Master, doesn't it have some relationship with our family? ”

"Yes, young master." The little guy said yes and went out to run errands.

Du Zhexin's father and son are the eldest sons and grandsons of this family, and they are controlled inside and outside the family, so it is much more convenient than Du Zheyan to check something and do something.

The old lady next door has coveted the ink treasure of the old lady Du for a long time, and this time I heard that Du Jinning is so ignorant of the rules, a latecomer, and a young junior, actually hangs the same plaque as the old resident, and he also knows that Du Jinning is not the young master of a powerful family, but he is close to the Qi family. The old lady Zeng relied on her son to make a general judgment in the government office, and she was not afraid of others.

But he is different from Mrs. Du after all. When someone in the family is an official, he is much more cautious. The official who was concerned about Zhishi, he told Mrs. Du that there was no problem, but he did not act at that time, but planned to wait for his son to come back at noon and ask his son to see if he could help the Du family out.

Unexpectedly, Zeng Tong judged that there was something wrong that day, and he did not come back at noon, but took his subordinates to the countryside to inspect the water conservancy project.

Mrs. Du waited all morning and saw that there was no movement in the Zeng family. He couldn't hold his breath, went to Zeng's house in the afternoon, and said to the old lady Zeng: "If Brother Zeng is not willing to offend people for our old neighbor, I will not be strong, I will let the eldest grandson go over and talk to him again in a while." ”

This is the method of agitation.

The reason why Old Lady Zeng was able to talk to Old Lady Du like this was that the vision level of the two must be very close. And because the general sentence made by his son is that the prefect has to be pleased, he, the old lady, is used to being flattered, and his psychology is a little inflated, and he can't hear others say the word "don't dare".

At that moment, he called a grandson who was studying at home, told him, and said, "Go ahead." If you do this well, your grandfather will reward you with a good piece of jade. Didn't you say that you fell in love with a piece of jade that was full of fasting? ”

The Du family runs a restaurant and has a lot of money. As soon as Old Lady Du heard this, he hurriedly said, "Which piece of jade does Brother Yu fancy about?" Grandpa Du sent you. As long as you help me do this, I will send someone to help you buy that piece of jade back in a while. ”

The grandson of the Zeng family is only fifteen or sixteen years old, and because of his good looks and sweet mouth, he is very fond of the old lady Zeng. He seems to be smart, but in fact he is a heartless child, who doesn't care about anything other than eating, drinking, and having fun. On weekdays, he also messes around with his fox friends and dog friends. Everyone looked at the face of his father's sentence, and they didn't care about him as a child. Over time, he developed the problem of arrogance in his night.

At this time, when he heard that Grandpa Du wanted to buy himself the jade pendant that he had coveted for a long time, and his grandfather also acquiesced, he was immediately happy, patted his chest and said: "Grandfather, Grandpa Du, don't worry, I will definitely ask him to remove the plaque." New to us, it's not okay not to abide by the rules of our gourd lane. If he doesn't keep it, I'll teach him to keep it. ”

Zeng Yu and Du Zheyan are about the same age, and the Du family wants to tie up the Zeng family, so naturally they can't just burn one stove. If the old lady Zeng was killed, wouldn't the money that the Du family had filmed in the past be in vain? Therefore, whenever Mrs. Du came to the Zeng family, she would bring her grandson to cultivate a relationship with the Zeng family's children. Among them, the one who brought the most was Du Zheyan and Du Zheyu of Dafang. These two children are sweet and sweet-mouthed, and they are very much liked by the old lady Zeng.

Zeng Yu saw Du Zheyan standing there at this time, so he waved his hand and said, "Du Zheyan, let's go." ”

"This ......" Du Zheyan hesitated, looking at his grandfather.

His original intention was not to go into battle himself, but to let the Zeng family do it for him. gave a painting worth a hundred taels of silver, plus a jade pendant worth dozens of taels of silver, the Zeng family still didn't give them a head, and wanted him to come forward to fight with Du Jinning? After a few contacts, he suffered several losses at Du Jinning's hands.

Old lady Du was also dissatisfied with the Zeng family in her heart, but she couldn't say anything on her face, so she said to Du Zheyan: "Go, you two brothers together." ”

"Grandfather, it's not that I don't want to go. For the sake of my own business, even if it is up the knife mountain and the sea of fire, I will not have half a point of excuse. Du Zheyan said with a bitter face, "But you don't know, that Du Jinning is the most cunning." I suffered a big loss from him in the examination room. If I went, he would definitely not answer Zeng Yu's words, and directly pointed the finger at me, and he couldn't get along with me alone. In this way, we are passive. ”

"This ...... Brother Zeng, look ......" Old Lady Du looked at Old Lady Zeng in embarrassment.

Old lady Zeng groaned slightly: "What Brother Yan said also makes sense. Then Brother Yu, go by yourself and bring a few more people. Afraid that his grandson would not understand what he meant, he added, "Take that mouth with a sharp mouth." ”