Chapter 303: Scumbag (1st Update)
The dart master next door heard the movement and climbed over the wall.
Seeing that it was Han Youning, he stepped forward and saluted affectionately, "The county lord is here!"
Han Youning asked him, "When did Yu Niang leave?"
The dart master said strangely, "After returning from the Dingguo Mansion the day before yesterday, I packed up my things and left, saying that I had already told you the county lord. Don't you know?"
Han Youning shook his head slightly, "Do you know where she went?"
"She didn't say it, she just said that she married a good man, and that person was rich, so treat her well."
Han Youning remembered that Yu Niang had said the person's name.
She struggled to remember, "Come, king! You check where this man lives, and Yu Niang can't say that he went there!"
The dart master responded and left.
Han Youning waited in the courtyard, and after waiting for an hour, Huo Shan came, followed by a middle-aged man in a navy blue robe.
"The county lord, he is Wang Lai, a tea merchant."
Wang Lai knelt down and kowtowed, "The grass people are coming, please say hello to the county lord."
Han Youning looked at Wang Lai, looking at his dignified appearance, his eyes were shrewd and exposed, no wonder Yu Niang would take a fancy to him. Yu Niang has no resistance to good-looking men.
"Get up and speak, and know why I have come to you?"
Wang Lai got up, stood up straight, and replied respectfully, "Back to the county lord, Yu Niang used to be the steward of Yuxiang Pavilion, and Yuxiang Pavilion is the county lord's dowry shop, presumably the county lord is here for Yu Niang."
Han Youning suddenly discovered his cleverness, and before he knew the other party's intentions, he didn't state his position, only answered the question literally, and didn't clarify his relationship with Yu Niang.
Han Youning said, "Yes, so you know that she left the Jade Fragrance Pavilion."
"Back to the county lord, yes." Wang Lai hesitated for a moment and asked, "County Lord, did Yu Niang do something wrong to leave the Jade Xiang Pavilion?"
Han Youning took a sip of tea and said lightly, "She did something wrong. No, I don't want the house, so I'll leave. Since you know that she left the Jade Fragrance Pavilion, you must have seen her in the past two days. Do you know where she went?"
Wang Lai's eyes moved slightly, and he arched his hand, "Back to the county lord, she went to look for the grass people, said a few words and left. No wonder she was in such a hurry to leave, and the house couldn't be sold, something really happened."
Han Youning said lightly, "How many words did you say? I've heard that you're going to marry her. Why, when I heard that something happened to her, I had to clear up the matter?"
Wang Lai hurriedly said, "The grass people don't dare! Yu Niang behaved frivolously, and from the first meeting, she teased the grass people a lot, and asked the grass people to marry her. Although the grass people are widowers, they are also innocent, and even if they continue to marry a good girl from a pure white family, they will never marry a widow of unknown origin!"
Han Youning said, "So, Yu Niang went to find you and asked you to marry her, but you refused?"
Wang Lai said, "Back to the county lord, exactly. She wanted the grass people to take her away and fly high and go back to the grass people's ancestral home. The grass people can't insult their ancestors, and they can't ignore the business in Beijing, how can they respond to her?"
Thinking of Yu Niang's pride and shyness when she mentioned him on the day she left, Han Youning couldn't help but be angry.
She sneered, "Widow of unknown origin, you have given her a lot of gold and silver brocade clothes. Did you see that she was in trouble, and there was no backer of the Dingguo Mansion to rely on, so you changed your face?"
"The grass people don't dare! She bought those things with her own money, and the grass people were just accompanying her. She said that she was not short of silver, and that she would never spend a man's money to dishonor her status."
Wang Lai paused, and his tone was disdainful, "The grass people think that she wants to get away with it, and once she spends a man's money, she will be ruthless."
Han Youning threw the teacup in his hand out, and was falling to Wang Lai, shattering to the ground.
Wang Lai was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt down.
"Want to get away with it? As long as she stays in Yuxiang Pavilion, she will have countless amounts of silver, where can I see your broken silver! She just thinks she's found a true person and wants to live a stable life with you. But I never thought that your king was a despicable villain who used her to cling to the powerful!"
Han Youning stood up and walked up to him
, looked at him condescendingly, "Aren't you a tea merchant? Isn't it reluctant to do business in Beijing? Then I'll make your business in Beijing untenable."
Wang Lai's face changed drastically, "County Lord, your status is noble, but you can't bully others! Capital...... There is still a king's law in the capital!"
Han Youning sneered, "I can't make you a business, so why do you have to violate the king's law. The prince just gave me a shop, the place is quite large, I didn't think about what business, now I think about it, it's good to do tea business. But if you are a customer, I will supply them at a price 10% lower than yours, and who do you think they will buy?"
Wang Lai's heart sank. Finished.
Businessmen seek profits, and naturally where they go with more profits. Not to mention the price, just because the other party is the princess of Jin, they will also compete to do business in order to tie up the imperial power.
Huo Shan said in a deep voice on the side, "I'm afraid Boss Wang's business in Da Zhou is not easy to do, whether it is water or land transportation in Da Zhou, all businesses can sell Huo Mou's thin noodles. From today onwards, no one will be willing to help you transport tea, and even if you form your own caravan to transport it, I am afraid that there will be no dart bureau willing to give you a bodyguard."
The king's face was as white as earth.
This means that his business is completely finished.
He looked up at Han Youning, "The county lord is so ruthless, just because the grass people don't marry Yu Niang?"
Han Youning said, "Yes."
"Didn't Jade Niang make a mistake and leave? The county lord can't find her, so he can't spill his anger on the grass people."
Han Youning said, "The mistake that Yu Niang made was to say goodbye. She Yu Niang can walk sideways in the Dingguo Mansion, but she has been wronged in front of a villain like you. I can swallow this mouthful, but I can't swallow it!"
Wang Lai knelt on the ground and looked at Han Youning in disbelief, extremely remorseful.
It turns out that Yueniang has such a high status in the heart of the future princess!
He hurriedly kowtowed, "The county lord spared the grass people! The grass people and the jade lady fall in love with each other, and they have plans to get married! It's just that the elders in the family have a slight complaint about the identity of Yu Niang's widow, and the grass people are caught in the middle and are in a dilemma...... What I just said is all angry words!"
Han Youning shook his head in disappointment, "Yu Niang is really blind. If you don't say this, I can still praise you for having a backbone."
She instructed the master to "take him down."
The dart master pushed Wang Lai and went out.
Han Youning looked at Huo Shan, "Uncle Shi, the whereabouts of Yu Niang, you can help find it as soon as possible."
Huo Shan said, "I've already arranged it. The county lord doesn't need to worry, she has been wandering around for so many years, and she always has the ability to protect herself."
Han Youning frowned.
Han Youning frowned, "That being said. She left to protect my reputation, and Wang Lai was the last destination she sought for herself. Now that she has no destination, she refuses to come back, and it is not a good thing to be so determined."