Chapter 69 Cleverness is mistaken by cleverness

Wuliu Huangfu, fairy paradise.

"Bang Bang ......"

Chen Ying came back from the Jindi Quan's compound, and before he could get close to the gate of the middle courtyard, he heard the sound of leather whipping into the flesh from the courtyard.

Although Chen Ying was the chief steward of the outer courtyard of the Huang Mansion, he also had many connections in the inner courtyard, so he did not rush in, but stopped and waved his hand to the small servant in the distance.

"Master Chen!"

"What's going on inside?"

The little girl looked at Chen Ying with palpitations: "Master Chen, it's Sister Taoxian!" ”

Taoxian is a first-class maid of the Huang Mansion, and Huang Liji's wife Zhou's personal maid. has a transcendent status in the Huang Mansion, and after Zhou's death, Taoxian felt that he had no backstage, so he worshiped Chen Ying as his godfather.

Compared with other first-class and second-class maids, Chen Ying's status in the Huang Mansion is second only to Huang Liji, Huang Dagongzi, and Huang Ergongzi, and can be ranked fourth, and even Huang Liji's concubines have to respectfully shout "Chen Ye" when they see Chen Ying.

Chen Ying heard that it was Taoxian who was beaten inside, and immediately became angry, Taoxian is his goddaughter, this is a well-known thing, it depends on the owner to beat the dog, not to mention the goddaughter who has always been obedient to him?

Chen Ying raised his legs and walked towards the Immortal Paradise.

Xianyuan is an independent courtyard in Huangfu, the main building is a huge hall, the courtyard is planted with a lot of bamboo and pines and cypresses, usually used to entertain literati and ink visitors, or listen to music, or chant poems against each other.

Walking along the corridor, the servants and maids around him bowed to Chen Ying one after another.

"Butler Chen!"

"Master Chen!"

……

Chen Ying didn't care about pretending to be kind, his face was a little hideous.

Since Huang Liji's disappearance, no one has been seen alive, no corpse has been seen, and no one has come to blackmail, and Huang's second son, Huang Zao, has become more and more tyrannical. Whether it is a maid or a servant, if something goes wrong, it will be directly tortured and killed.

Huang Zao has a very alternative habit, basically no one else does it, directly on it himself, these days he has killed more than a dozen maids and servants.

Chen Ying didn't know about it, but he couldn't manage it, and he didn't want to care about it.

Although Huang Zao is temperamental and moody, the maids and servants who are willing to follow him are eager to follow him.

Huang Zao is Huang Liji's continuation of the Zhou family, Jiangnan Zhou is a big gentry, the dowry is very rich, Zhou died, these properties became Huang Zao's private property, Huang Zao made a big move, so there are still people who are willing to sacrifice themselves to feed the tiger.

When Chen Ying arrived at Xianyuan, he saw Taoxian being pressed on a bench by two rough-dressed servants, and Huang Zao was holding a whip and beating Taoxian fiercely.

Taoxian's back and buttocks were all sucked open, and the blood was dripping, which was miserable.

A maid next to Taoxian poured tea for Huang Zao and accidentally spilled some tea, which caused Huang Zao to be furious, and kicked the maid so much that his mouth was bleeding.

Peach Fairy stepped forward to plead, but she didn't want to set herself on fire.

Huang Zao whipped the peach fairy for more than 20 whips, whipping her to death, her originally sloppy gaze, when she saw Chen Ying, finally regained some of her spirit: "Godfather save me......"

Chen Ying had a gloomy face, looked at Huang Er Gongzi and said, "Second Young Master, can you give Chen a thin face?" ”

Chen Ying is indeed very angry, unlike ordinary domestic slaves, Chen Fu has never sold himself to Huang Liji, nor has he sold himself to Huang Fu, he is a free body, just like a professional manager in later generations.

He never relied on nepotism, but on personal ability.

He worked for Huang Liji, and when he checked Huang Liji's shops or foreign relations, he said that the prime minister's subordinates were seven officials, in fact, this sentence was also correct, Chen Ying got the usual money in the Huang Mansion was rice grain, cloth, meat and wine, etc., seven plus eight together, between 1,200 taels and 1,500 taels of silver.

If calculated according to the price of goods in the Wanli period, one tael of silver can buy 377.6 catties of rice of general quality, and now the average price of rice is 3.94 yuan. It can be calculated that one tael of silver during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty was equal to 1,500 yuan.

Of course, the rice in the Chongzhen period is affected by disasters and human factors, and it is an abnormal phenomenon that more than two taels of silver per stone of rice is an abnormal phenomenon, and the vast amount of rice in the lake is between seven and nine yuan, and Chen Ying's salary is equivalent to between 800,000 and 1.5 million yuan, and it also belongs to the middle and high-income groups.

It can be said unceremoniously that if Chen Ying changes his court and invests in Quan Xu's door, Quan Xu really doesn't care about the annual salary of two thousand taels of silver.

Huang Li has one hundred and two large and small shops, and ordinary people really can't play it.

It's just that Huang Zao is not Huang Liji, and he doesn't have a good temper with Chen Yingke.

"Hmph, what are you, but a dog raised by our Huang family!"

Huang Zao raised his bloody whip and pointed at Chen Ying: "Believe it or not, I'll even smoke you?" ”

"Okay, please give the second son a beating!"

Chen Ying is really not afraid of Huang Zao, the second son, who is just a flesh wound, as long as Huang Liji comes back...... He can take advantage of this step to leave Huang Liji's broken ship.

As the saying goes, there is no wind and no waves, since Jin Yiwei arrested Huang Liji, he smelled an unusual smell.

was beaten by Huang Ergongzi and took the opportunity to leave the broken ship of the Huang family, this was the method that Chen Ying thought of in an instant.

After all, leaving the Huang family for no reason, Chen Ying is not good at finding the owner again, the end of the Ming Dynasty is not a later generation, loyalty is far more important than ability.

At this moment, before Huang Zao could speak, he heard Huang Yulang, who had been with him for more than ten years, say: "Second young master, the master has a letter!" ”

Huang Yulang walked over with a jade pendant and a letter: "A beggar just came to the door, came over with this jade pendant and a letter, and said that someone asked him to come with a letter, and we will give him ten taels of silver!" ”

Huang Zao continued the letter, only to see that it was written crookedly: "I found a jade pendant under the bottom, the jade is transparent, the carving is exquisite, it can be of the highest grade, the price of the jade shop in the city of the Daimyo Mansion is one hundred taels of silver, the Huang family intends to bury 500,000 taels of silver in three days, buried under the poplar tree in the pine forest on the north bank of the Jindike, I will return this thing to the original owner the next day after I get the silver......

Huang Zao is not a fool, on the contrary, he is not stupid, the jade pendant is already in his hands, the so-called return of this thing to the original owner is to let the owner of the jade pendant come back.

Huang Yulang said in a low voice: "It's the master's personal jade pendant!" ”

Chen Ying ignored the yellow algae, he picked up the peach fairy and walked towards the door.

Huang Zao frowned: "Five hundred thousand taels? Golden Causeway Pine Forest? What is that place? ”

If you want to ask Huang Zao Jingshi which brothel has good goods, he is a clear door, and if you want to ask him how many secret prostitutes there are in the daimyo's mansion, and what are the fun places to go, he can count the treasures.

The Jindi pine forest, he didn't know at all.

Huang Yulang said: "Second Young Master, since the other party has made a price in the jade shop in the city, we might as well start here......

Without waiting for Huang Yulang to finish speaking, Chen Ying sneered: "Therefore, don't bother with the little trick of the suspicious formation, the Jindi pine forest is in the southeast of the Daimyo's Mansion, I just came back from there, no accident, this is also a plan to lead the water to the east!" ”

According to normal logic, if Quan Xu kidnapped Huang Liji, he should deliberately find a place that has nothing to do with him, instead of trading in a place less than two miles away from the Quan family's compound.

Of course, Chen Ying didn't know that Quan Xu took advantage of this.

As the saying goes, it is called dark under the lamp, and it is also called being smart but being mistaken by cleverness.

Chen Ying already suspected Quan Xu, so Quan Xu pushed the boat down the river and carried the pot to himself.

Huang Zao was thinking about 500,000 taels of silver at this time, which was too much.

The Huang Mansion is rich, when Huang Liji was in Beijing, he cooperated with Wei Zhongxian to crack down on the Donglin Party, don't look at the Donglin Party opening its mouth and country, closing its mouth and closing its mouth, when the board falls on them, they should be bribed to bribe, and kowtow to admit their mistakes in private, in short, through less than four years, Huang Liji has collected more than 300,000 taels of silver.

Of course, these are only cash, and there are a lot of houses, shops, and fields.

Huang Zao was a little distressed about the money, after all, if he took out 500,000 taels of silver, the Huang Mansion would return to the pre-liberation period one day.

Looking at Huang Zao's painful face, Chen Ying was even more determined in his plan to leave Huangfu.

Huangfu relied on no one else, it was Huang Liji.

As for the eldest son Huang Yuruo or the second son Huang Zao, both of them are typical tiger fathers and dogs, of course, dogs are not counted.

If there is no Huang Liji's Huang Mansion, the Huang Mansion is not even a fart.

At least within three generations, there is no talent in the Huang Mansion who can get their hands on it, let alone prosperous development, these family wealth is a big fat sheep in the eyes of the famous gentry.

Without Quan Xu and Lu Xiangsheng doing it, the famous gentry would also be interested in this gluttonous feast.

Chen Ying didn't have the heart to pay attention to Huang Zao, he was just a little ghost who was worried about Lord Yama.

Dare to extort Huang Liji for 500,000 taels of silver, even if Huang Liji is still in the position of the first assistant, the Huang Mansion will hurt his muscles and bones. And even more so now? The Huang Mansion will definitely be greatly injured by taking out 500,000 taels of silver.

Of course, it can also be proved from the side that the other party offended Huang Fu to death, and Huang Liji's hope of coming back is very slim.

The person who can be the master of the house in Huangfu is not Huang Zao, that night, the eldest prince Huang Yuruo returned from Beijing, he did not dare to report to Lu Xiangsheng, but asked people to collect the silver in the house, and pretended to sell the wealth, he was ready to use the true and false way, half of the real silver, half of the fake silver, first buried the silver in the pine forest, waiting for the lord to take the bait.

Everything in the Huangfu is under Quanxu's drone surveillance, and he is naturally not afraid that the Huangfu will play tricks with him, and he can play slowly when he has time.

Just when Quan Xu left the Doomsday Fortress and came to the main courtyard with Sanniang, Yuan Shiqing came to say: "The prefect is here!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng did not come alone, he brought more than 30 officials of all sizes, such as the prefect of the Daimyo Mansion, the scribes of the study, the scriptures, the experience, the officials, and the scribes, and came to the Quan's compound.