*No matter how bright the light is, there are places where it can't be irradiated or warmed.

In a small garden of the old house of the Wang family in Meixian County, a hundred flowers are vibrant, a tree such as forsythia, lilac, double-petaled plum blossom is blooming, and the branches are hanging down a little, and the bees and butterflies are buzzing to add liveliness, but the two people sitting in the garden have no interest in appreciating the flowers.

Tian, dressed in a big red spring shirt, sat in the pavilion, swept the flower branches with his hands, pinched off the blooming double-petaled plum blossoms one by one, threw them at his feet, and crushed them with his feet in disgust.

She glanced at her husband who was sitting opposite and bowed his head to taste tea, and saw that he looked leisurely and complacent, and couldn't help but scold him in her heart for being inconsistent, but she still asked softly: "I heard that the Zhang family opened a restaurant on Silk Street again, and several of the skilled cooks in our store were pried away by them?" ”

Wang Mingli paused, but his brows did not wrinkle, he drank the spring tea in the emerald jade cup, closed his eyes and tasted it before he said confidently: "It's just two old minions who don't reuse." ”

Tian clenched his fists, crushed the petals in his hand, pinched his blood-red nails on his palms, and answered with a smile: "I see, it's not a pity to leave." Xianggong, yesterday when I went back to the house, my mother mentioned that my father's Shangguan came to us to visit, and the Shangguan liked the calligraphy and painting of the previous dynasty, and the concubine remembered that the eldest brother didn't buy a few celebrity calligraphy and paintings when he was alive, and I don't know if he was still there. ”

Wang Mingli frowned at this time, a little annoyed by his mother-in-law's insatiable greed.

"That's what the eldest brother gave to the sister-in-law, even if you can't move it."

The smile on Tian's face couldn't hold it anymore: "My sister-in-law has died a long time ago, is it possible that those calligraphy and paintings will also be burned, and it will not be possible to follow her to the underworld!" ”

"Bang!" The teacup in Wang Mingli's hand was placed heavily on the white jade table, "Sister-in-law is just missing!" Why are you still so ignorant of the rules and open-mouthed! ”

Tian Shi trembled, she was a concubine, and she couldn't listen to others say that she had no rules and was not educated! My husband really still thinks about that fox, and he can't even mention it!

"If it goes missing, we have been searching for it for a year, and why is there no news at all? Could it be that she flew with wings! ”

Wang Mingli didn't want to quarrel with his wife, so he stood up and walked out of the pavilion: "I heard that my aunt is unwell, so you sent someone to take the blood bird's nest in the warehouse and send it to her old man!" ”

"The concubine knows." Tian replied respectfully, constantly feeling sorry for the superb blood swallow, there were not many good things in the storehouse.

Wang Mingli walked through the garden, paced to the front yard in a dashing manner, and as soon as he arrived at the front yard, he saw the housekeeper rubbing his hands in a hurry, stretching his neck to look, and when he saw Wang Mingli coming out, he hurriedly stepped forward to salute, bent down and followed him into the house.

"How?"

"No matter how the villain persuades, even the monthly money has doubled, those guys still have to leave." The housekeeper Wang Chengsu said anxiously, "I'm afraid that the restaurant on our Silk Street can't be saved." ”

"What about Wang Chengtu, isn't he the manager of this store, so he let this store collapse?" Wang Mingli's face was gloomy, he sat on the carved chair and kept tapping his fingers on the tabletop, and the sound knocked on the butler Wang Chengsu's heart, and his waist bent lower.

"The villain has just found out the news, when the uncle was alive, he had already instructed the two brothers to only listen to the orders of the uncle or the eldest young master, and seeing Yu Pei's actions, the villain can't control them now!" I'm afraid that the people in the store will go so fast, and they have arranged it in advance.

Wang Mingli frowned: "Hmph, the eldest brother is really a good skill!" ”

Wang Chengsu was obedient on the face, but in his heart he thought that if he was ruthless, his master would definitely be above the uncle Wang Mingzhe, but when it came to business acumen, it was far behind.

"Go down. Send a few outsiders to make trouble in the newly opened shop of the Zhang family on Silk Street, it is best to make their reputation stink. ”

"Yes."

"Call Wang Tiangui over to me."

"Yes, the villain will go."

Wang Tiangui was doing something in the house and a big girl in the house, and he was about to do a good thing, but when he heard that the second brother was looking for him, he was so frightened that he suddenly lost interest.

"Second brother, are you looking for me?" The Wang family is clearly distinguished, the concubine is not in the ranks, can only be regarded as half of the master, since Wang Mingzhe went, Wang Tiangui knows Wang Mingli's ruthlessness even more, and every time he sees him, he is trembling.

Wang Mingli saw his cautious appearance in front of him, and his mood improved a little: "You followed your eldest brother out to run business, and you can see that he has a round jade pendant with a hollow carving of the Liuyun Baifu picture?" ”

Wang Tiangui recalled it for a while, and then nodded: "I've seen it." Once the eldest brother took it out drunk, as if it was a promise token given to him by his sister-in-law, and the eldest brother kept it with his personal seal. ”

"When the eldest brother dies, can the jade pendant be on him?"

Wang Tiangui shook his head: "No." This jade pendant brother rarely leaves, it should be that when Wang Chengde left, the eldest brother handed over the jade pendant to him and asked him to send it over to his sister-in-law. Second brother, this jade pendant ......"

"I also got the exact news at the beginning of the year, the groceries and rice grain shops in Xicheng turned out to be the private property of the eldest brother, but the shopkeeper in the store is not our Wang family, the eldest brother is gone, these shops are still running steadily, and they only recognize the eldest brother's jade pendant or Wenxuan as the master. Each of the shops has thousands of taels of silver. Wang Mingli deliberately exaggerated the numbers, and sure enough, when he saw Wang Tiangui's body shaking, his eyes flashed greedy, and he pulled the corners of his mouth mockingly.

Wang Tiangui said angrily: "I'll just say, where did the money in the library and the account go, it turned out that it had been swallowed by the eldest brother a long time ago!" Second brother, don't worry, I'll take someone over, if it really doesn't work, I'll go to the yamen to sue him, and let him shed his skin if he doesn't die! Second brother, it's not up to you to decide the affairs of the yamen, so it's better to send a few officials over and arrest them. ”

Wang Mingli frowned when he saw his doggy appearance: "Nonsense, the yamen has the rules of the yamen, how can it be messed up!" ”

Wang Tiangui hurriedly bent down and said yes, but scolded secretly in his heart, if he couldn't mess around, how could he put Wang Chengde and his son in prison for a year, without interrogation, without questioning, and without letting them out, I don't know how much silver was taken away from the big house! Damn the old woman too, she's really willing to be a slave!

"You go to the prison to find out the tone of Wang Chengde's father and son." Wang Chengde is the old housekeeper of the Wang family and Wang Mingzhe's confidant, even after Wang Mingzhe's death, he did not betray his master, and his mouth is very reliable. Except for the old lady who lives in the Buddha Hall, I am afraid that only he knows the whereabouts of his sister-in-law and Wenxuan. Although he knew that Wang Tiangui had gone in vain, he should also go and see how the father and son had been doing.

"Yes, little brother, let's go."

Seeing that he was so obedient, Wang Mingli added: "On the face of those shops, a few shops are from the Zhang family and the Lan family, don't talk nonsense, save yourself from getting into trouble." ”

Wang Tiangui hurriedly responded.

After he also stepped back, Wang Mingli pulled the corners of his mouth and chuckled, it was impossible for him not to say nonsense! Look at it, the big house is going to be lively again!

"I didn't expect there to be these shops...... It seems that it is also time for Wang Chengde's old thing to come out, how can he find his sister-in-law and Wenxuan, and then ......" Wang Mingli pondered, countless thoughts flashed through his mind.

Wang Tiangui left the Wang family, first went to Huajie for a turn, and went to his good secret door before he reluctantly came out and went to the Meixian prison.

Greeting the people who watched the cell, Wang Tiangui pinched his nose and walked into the cell and walked to the wooden prison where Wang Chengde's father and son were held.

"Steward Wang, I haven't been here for a while, it seems that you are doing well."

Wang Chengde's father and son were both wearing prison uniforms, and after more than a year of detention, his face was pale and his body had lost a lot of weight, but his facial expression was very calm, and his eyes did not show any panic. Seeing Wang Tiangui come in, he only raised his eyes to look, and then continued to teach his son to plan the plate.

Seeing him like this, Wang Tiangui couldn't help but grit his teeth and said, "Wang Chengde, you old thing, it's really a stone in a thatched house, it's smelly and hard!" You're not afraid here, hmph, if I find a spring peach one day, see how I clean her up! ”

Wang Chengde's son Wang Chunrong heard him say this, raised his head and glared angrily, and was about to scold, but was stopped by his father, angry with this kind of villain, it was unnecessary: "Your second master, what is wrong with coming over today?" ”

Wang Tiangui is the son of the long house, according to the rules of the Wang family, he is called the second master of the Wang family, and his younger brother is called the third master of the pillar.

Wang Tiangui scolded and said a few words before he said: "Lord came here today just to ask you, what token can you hand over when the eldest brother is separated from you?" For example, his jade pendant that he can't leave and the like. ”

Wang Chengde's face was expressionless, but his hand grabbed the straw under him, it seemed that they had found the shop.

"The uncle confessed to the villain, since the uncle didn't tell the second master, that is, you shouldn't know."

Wang Tiangui's eyes widened, and he remembered that he was a cow and a horse in front of his eldest brother Wang Mingzhe, and he was even more like a slave than Wang Chengde, but he still didn't get his trust!

"You don't give me a lot of rampant, don't think that you can't do anything!" Wang Tiangui cursed a few words before turning around and leaving

A moment later, a cell boss walked into the cell with a barrel, knocked it with a stick, and shouted, "It's time to eat." ”

The prisoners stretched out their arms from the prison one after another, and the broken wooden bowls in their hands leaned forward, and the cell boss used a long-handled spoon to put the rancid meals in the wooden barrels into the prisoners' bowls one by one, but Wang Chengde and his son remained motionless.

When all the food in the barrels was scooped up, the prisoners who had not eaten had to retract their bowls and compete for food from their fellow cells. At this time, the cell leader came to the door of Wang Chengde's father and son's cell and put down a basket.

Wang Chunrong then got up, opened the lid of the basket, and took out two large bowls of white rice, two hot dishes and a jar of hot soup from inside.

"When you smell it, it's my mother's handiwork. Daddy, hurry up and eat it while it's hot. Wang Chunrong was sixteen or seventeen years old, and he was also thin and white at this time, but fortunately, he had his father by his side to teach him in prison every day, so he didn't go crazy.

Wang Chengde walked to a corner of the cell, poured out a wooden bowl of water from the jar, washed his hands briefly, and said to a prisoner in the next cell who closed his eyes and recuperated: "Brother, it's time to eat." ”

The prisoner had a fierce face, he naturally reached out and served a bowl of food handed over by Wang Chunrong, and devoured it, and the prisoners in the same prison all had a frightened expression, and only dared to swallow saliva secretly.

After Wang Chengde and his son finished eating, they put the dishes and chopsticks into the basket, and put the water in the jar into the jar, and then began to sit on the straw again.

The bamboo basket placed outside was a little closer to the next cell, and a greedy prisoner quietly reached out and stretched his arm straight, thinking of dragging the basket over and drinking two sips of leftover soup.

The fierce-looking prisoner kicked the door of the cell, and the wood of the cell made a muffled noise, and the prisoners shuddered, and the prisoner, who wanted to steal food, curled up in a ball, and did not dare to move again.

The cell boss came in, took the bamboo basket away, went to the cell as usual and looked through the contents of the cell, and found that there was nothing suspicious, so he walked out of the cell and handed the bamboo basket to a middle-aged woman waiting outside, and the few pennies she handed over to her subordinate who was at ease.

"This big brother, are the two of them father and son okay?"

The cell boss nodded and said with a pleasant face, "Okay." ”

Can it be good, he has lived in a cell for more than a year, not only has he not been tortured or beaten, but people have come to deliver food every day, and his life is much better than his. This big family has silver, and he only has envy.

"Thank you, big brother, little woman will come back tomorrow."

Reluctantly, the woman turned and left, and even if she was worried about her husband and son in prison, she could not enter the cell to visit. R1152