At dusk, Xu Min came from his heart.

After all, he is an official appointed by the emperor, and more importantly, there seems to be the shadow of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince inside and out, up and down.

At this point, Xu Min seemed to have realized how big a pot Wu Zhong, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, had thrown himself in.

.....

"Let's go! I'll go too, let's go together to see how difficult it is for this Wang Siqi to please! ”

"My lord.. Forget it, it's still too late tomorrow.. Shangshu-sama didn't say it had to be today. ”

"No way!"

"If you don't go, where is the face of the Ministry of Industry, the official has specially invited people, but he can't come back... Then I have to go myself? ”

After that, Xu Min asked people to prepare the carriage, and he kept thinking about what he should say and how he should say it after meeting Wang Siqi.

......

The door of Liu Kee's pawnshop.

Shopkeeper Liu looked at the calligraphy and paintings, porcelain, cultural toys and various handles, ornaments, and rare jewels that were picked out one by one by the fiery eyes of the official of the Ministry of Industry, and the cold sweat continued to fall drop by drop.

The body trembled visibly.

Wang Siqi didn't say anything, just sat on the rocking chair that was originally the shopkeeper Liu, and slowly closed his eyes... The sunset that is about to disappear.

"Young Master.. has all been counted, and at least more than 30 pieces are missing in comparison, and there are still twenty or thirty pieces that are not accurate, so they should be fakes. ”

"Alas. Shopkeeper Liu.."

"It's in vain that I've trusted you so much, for so long... I've never been anywhere else, just take care of your family's business. ”

"You're now? What does this mean? ”

Shopkeeper Liu's expression revealed a bit of despair.

In the end, he could only explain tremblingly: "Young Master Wang... It's my ghost who is obsessed, it's my unruly, I just ask Young Master Wang to be able to raise his noble hand, and this time the silver is missing... I must make up for Young Master Wang with a lot of points. ”

"Silver?"

Wang Siqi shook his head and said to Wu De on the side: "Come, go and bring the box containing the silver ticket, and let Shopkeeper Liu see if there is a shortage of silver in our Qingyuan Bofu." ”

"Okay! Master.. Lack of silver? Can our young master be short of silver? ”

"Isn't this pure swearing?"

While speaking, Wu De got up and hugged the box on the side, untied the lock on it, opened it and said: "Shopkeeper Liu, you can take a good look at it, there are 300,000 taels of silver tickets in this box, now do you know why my young master can't look down on the silver you said?" ”

Shopkeeper Liu was dumbfounded, he had never seen so many silver tickets.

This is a full 300,000 taels of silver, and I am afraid that there are only a handful of people in the huge capital who can easily take out so much cash.

Now, in the past, the little young master of the Wang family, who wanted to come to him for 1,800 taels of silver, had such a huge sum of silver.

"Young Master Wang... It's because I have eyes and don't know Mount Tai, or else.. You allow me for a few days, I will find a way to make money, and I will definitely find all the things in our house and redeem them... There will be no problem. ”

"I have to say... Shopkeeper Liu really thinks very well. ”

"But Shopkeeper Liu... Do you know that even if you break the rules, it's nothing, and if you pay me money according to the rules, it's over, but the problem is that Wu De came to you every month before to renew the ticket, and you didn't hesitate to pocket the money. ”

"You're like this... It seems that our Qingyuan Bofu seems to be a big injustice. ”

"What.. What kind? Young Master Wang! I was wrong.. I was wrong! As he spoke, Shopkeeper Liu couldn't stand anymore, and knelt on the ground with a plop, and the tears and snot on his face burst out in an instant.

The capital is huge.

The core of power in the entire Ming Dynasty is here, and the merchants, people, and officials who come and go every day don't know how many.

The capital is small.

It often only takes a short time for a thing to spread throughout the capital's circle by word of mouth.

What's more, Shopkeeper Liu is facing Wang Siqi at the moment.

"The Wang family has never owed you a penny of silver, since you broke the rules first, don't blame me...."

"That's... What does Young Master Wang mean? ”

Like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, Shopkeeper Liu asked softly without daring to breathe.

Wang Siqi waved his hand.

"There is no need for Shopkeeper Liu to look for things again, and the next thing... Somebody will do it themselves, but... This Liu Ji pawnshop may have to change its name and surname in the future and call it Wang Ji Pawnshop. ”

"What??"

Hearing what Wang Siqi said, Shopkeeper Liu understood that no matter how stupid he was, Wang Siqi wanted his own shop.

It is the current industry that wants Liu Kee Pawnshop.

their own momentary greed.

But he let himself fall into a catastrophe, and more importantly, he lost the ancestral business of Liu Ji's pawnshop, which made Liu Shopkeeper acceptable, and immediately cried bitterly.

"Young Master Wang... Young Master Wang, this is absolutely unacceptable, this Liu Ji pawnshop is the property of my ancestors, and it can never be given away! ”

"Young Master Wang.. You make a price, you say a number that you are satisfied with, even if I smash the pot and sell iron, I will make it up for you, and you will be satisfied! ”

There are rules in one line, and the shopkeeper Liu at this moment regrets it very much, but it is too late, saying that these just don't want to throw away his ancestral business.

"Shopkeeper Liu.. Do I have to make it clear? ”

"Liu Ji pawnshop, I don't want it in vain, I will give you silver at a discount according to the market price... With this money, you can start from scratch in a different place, and from now on you will act as if you broke the rules of the pawnshop as if it had never happened. ”

"But if you don't let go, you insist on it."

"I'm sorry about that.. Shopkeeper Liu, have you ever thought about what you would do besides the pawn business, in addition to the pawn shop? What else can you do? Think... Then let's go, shopkeeper Liu, think about it. ”

After finishing speaking, although Shopkeeper Liu couldn't calm down in his heart for a long time, he could only say a word in his mouth for a long time.

After a long time.

As if he had figured it out, Shopkeeper Liu sighed deeply and said, "Young Master Wang... It's me who broke the rules, and you have the right words. ”

"What to do, what to do..."

"I... Admit it! ”

"Good!"

"Wu De, count the silver for Shopkeeper Liu!"

"Okay!"