Chapter 8 Han's Shopkeeper's Suggestion
Han Ziwang, as a debt collector under Lu Min, a wealthy businessman in Shendu, has no effort at all, and his debt recovery purely relies on the words and methods learned from years of mixing in the black market of Shendu, at this moment Wang Liu and others are powerless to resist, and Xu Wei's weakness has also been poked by Han Ziwang, and the initiative to recover debts has returned to Han Ziwang's hands.
And Han Ziwang, who already had the ticket to victory, wanted to take the initiative to make suggestions to alleviate the plight of Xu Wei and others, which made Xu Wei feel a little strange.
But Xu Wei had no choice, forcibly persuading the Liu family to leave Wang Liu was just a decision after all, Xu Wei himself was still a wandering person, he didn't even know what to do after delivering Deng Yunxin's relics and last words, and what way to be responsible for the lonely Liu mother and son?
"Boss Han, what can you do to relieve my predicament, please tell me quickly." Wang Liuzhi saw Xu Wei hesitating in place, and Liu Shi had palpitations, so he could only bite the bullet and say, "Half a month, I really only need a grace period of half a month, and when my next business is done, I will be able to pay off all my debts, really." ”
"Boss Wang, if you really only need to give half a month, then you don't have to listen to my bad idea, just now those two gold bars have paid in full for this month's profits, and the next time you want to make profits, it will be a month later, if you are sure to pay off all the money within half a month, I will leave now, how about it?" Han Ziwang has been dealing with businessmen for so many years, and this grace period comes and goes, and few people can really pay back the money.
Wang Liuyan was silent when he heard this, he did have a big business, and the buyer should have arrived in the past few days, but he hadn't even heard a little bit recently, although he said that it would be very fast, but in fact he didn't know whether the buyer would come to buy the rare collection in his hand. If the expensive buyer really doesn't come, according to Boss Lu's rules, he may not be able to pay off the 1,000 yuan that Wang left behind.
The thugs of the Lu family got up one after another, standing in groups and supporting each other, their eyes were full of resentment when they looked at Xu Wei, but then they looked at Han Ziwang, who was short, with admiration.
At this time, in the eyes of Wang Liu and others, one Han Ziwang was more intimidating than more than two dozen black-clothed thugs.
"My idea, those wasters under your command are not worthy of it, only this Xu Gongzi can." Han Ziwang smiled and looked at Xu Wei's gentle face, Xu Wei, who had lost his killing intent, could hardly see any difference between him and ordinary scholars, even if he was a little taller, he couldn't make people feel a little threatened.
Han Ziwang continued to explain: "Boss Wang should know that there is a Chengtouzhuang five or six miles east of here, and there is a Moon Tower on the outermost edge of the Zhuangzi. ”
As soon as Wang Liu heard Han Ziwang's description, he reacted, "You mean to let Xu Wei go to fight black boxing for your Lu family?" ”
"No, no, no, it's not fun to just fight black boxing." Han Ziwang was still shaking his head, looking very excited, "There is an unwritten rule in all the money houses of the Lu family, as long as you debtors dare to enter into a gambling contract with the Lu family, and fight with the warriors raised by the Lu family in the Mochizuki Tower martial arts arena, you can get rid of all the profits if you win, and the profits you paid before will also be regarded as returning the principal." ”
Han Ziwang moved his fingers to calculate it himself, "In the case of Boss Wang Liu, if Gongzi Xu can win the competition, then he only needs to pay back another hundred times, as long as he is willing to pay back a little bit every month, our Tianyuan Money Village will never bother again." ”
"And what if you lose?" Wang Liu asked in front of Xu Wei again.
"If you lose the fight, you will continue to repay the money, but the person who fights on behalf of you, that is, this Xu Gongzi, has to repay the money together as a guarantor." Han Ziwang stared at Xu Wei and said, "What's the matter, Gongzi Xu, do you dare to accept this bet?" ”
It is not difficult for Xu Wei to see that Han Ziwang's gambling contract is aimed at him at all, and the other party is full of grasp, in order to drag himself into the quagmire of Wang Liu's debt. Han Ziwang's proposal is not even a conspiracy, he could have directly asked Xu Weilai to guarantee the debts left by the king, but invited Xu Weilai to conduct a black boxing gamble, in the final analysis, in addition to forcing Xu Weilai to help the king retain the debts, the other purpose is probably to let the master of the Lu family teach him a good lesson to avenge today's revenge.
"Take it, Gongzi Xu, you are so capable that you will be afraid of a Lu family." Wang Li, who had just been beaten to the ground and couldn't stand up, now seemed to have the strength again, and he didn't think it was a matter of time to see the excitement: "I don't have the ability, at most I have been a big soldier for a year, that Xu Gongzi is a noble person's guard, and he has also defeated the West Wolf Clan, he is a big hero, is it possible that he is still afraid of this gambling contract?" ”
Xu Wei glanced back at Wang Li, and the latter's unsightly face grinned again, and there was nothing but schadenfreude and bad luck between his eyebrows.
Wang Liu also gave him a deep bow before Xu Wei responded: "Thanks to Xu Gongzi's high righteousness, my king has stayed here and thanked him, Xu Gongzi can rest assured, as long as I can get through this difficulty, I will definitely thank you heavily, as long as you have any dispatch in Stone City in the future, my Wang Liu will go to the soup and fire." ”
"No need to ......," Xu Wei said as he looked at Deng Shan, who still had tears on his face, "If you can get through this difficulty, you will immediately take the Liu family into the door and settle their mother and son well." ”
"Or else...... I'm going to make your troubles one after the other. Xu Wei no longer hesitated, a strange brilliance was released in his empty eyes, and he had made up his mind to take care of Deng Yunxin's affairs to the end.
"Sure, sure......" Wang Liu's heart was not to mention how happy he was when he saw that Xu Wei was willing to make a gambling contract, and he was most happy not that he had the opportunity to pay off the debts owed to Boss Lu, but that he had the opportunity to save more than 1,000 yuan, even if he did a big business with a noble buyer within half a month that could earn 10,000 yuan, and returned 1,000 yuan to Boss Lu, there would be 9,000 yuan left, which made him more uncomfortable than cutting Wang Liu's meat.
Xu Wei didn't know what Wang Liu's calculations were in his heart, he just sincerely hoped that this matter would have a good ending, and now the only thing he wanted to do in this world was to fulfill Deng Yunxin's last wish, after all, if it wasn't for the care of this good brother in the camp, he wouldn't be able to return to his homeland alive.
So Xu Wei agreed to Han Ziwang's proposal and made a bet with him on the spot, as long as he could win the warriors raised by the Lu Mansion in the Mochizuki Tower competition three days later, Wang Liu would only need to repay the remaining capital of 1,000 guan, about 100 guan; But if Xu Wei is unfortunately defeated, he needs to repay the debt with Wang Liu according to the rules of the Lu family's money village, unless they can pay off the 1,000 yuan at once, otherwise they will have to continue to repay 100 yuan every month until they die.
In the remaining three days, Xu Wei lived directly in Wang Liu's mansion, and Wang Liu's thought that Han Ziwang would send other thugs from the Lu family to surround the mansion in case Xu Wei regretted and escaped overnight. But Han Ziwang didn't do this, and he and the rest of the Lu family didn't appear again for three days, as if he wasn't worried that Xu Wei would run away at all. But thinking about it, Han Ziwang has now eaten Xu Wei's weakness is that the Liu family and his son Deng Shan, who can run away from the monk and can't run the temple, in his opinion, this shackle is more reliable than putting Xu Wei in a cage.
In the past three days, Wang Liu and others were also polite to Xu Wei, and they were entertained with good wine and food almost every day, and the mother-in-law who used to be the housekeeper of the Deng family would often come to Xu Wei to ask what happened to Deng Yunxin in the barracks.
In the early morning of the third day of living in Wang Liufu, Liu took the maid to visit the small courtyard where Xu Wei lived, and before Xu Wei could speak, she gave Xu Wei a burden and said, "Xu Gongzi, you better leave here quickly, the thugs raised by the Lu Mansion are not ordinary people, this kind of thing even the small people like us know it, I thank you for your kindness to Yunxin, but you really don't need to stay here to drip this troubled water." ”
"A few days ago, I didn't find the time, now Master Wang, he went to Stone Town to do business, it's a good time for you to leave, let's go, I think even if Yunxin is alive, he won't be happy to see you being involved in the conspiracy of the black money bank for me and Shan'er." Liu didn't give Xu Wei a chance to answer, almost to drive him out.
"No, no...... I can't just leave. Xu Wei stood up and said, "Mrs. Xie cares, but if I leave, what will you and Deng Shan's mother and son do?" ”
"Wang Liu has treated my mother and son well in the past two years, and will definitely protect us, otherwise I will not be committed to him, after you leave, I will send Shan'er back to my mother's house in the countryside first, and then take it back when everything settles." Liu couldn't bear to say, "It's a matter of righteousness that you can go all the way to return Yunxin's relics to me, I must not let a young man be ruined here, you still have a lot of good life to live." ”
When Xu Wei heard this, he fell into silence for a while, "Pretty much...... Brother Yunxin seems to have said it before. ”
Hearing Deng Yunxin's matter, Liu's mood calmed down a little, "He, he has known how to protect his juniors since a long time ago, he can stay in the Jiangnan Military Mansion as a battalion officer, but he has to go to the border to defend against the West Wolf Clan, if he doesn't go, his little brothers will have to die there." ”
"How do you think he has such a skill?" Liu laughed and cried, covered his mouth and said with tears, "How good it would be to stay in Jiangnan and grow up with Shan'er......
"Brother Yunxin, he has this kind of ability, and we have encountered countless dangers in the process of conquering the West Wolf Clan. If there is no him, I am afraid that today's Great Sui Dynasty will lose several nobles, if there is no him, the children of the gate lords who went out with the army in Chang'an are afraid that they will have to die, Brother Yunxin is a hero, and it should be him who should come back instead of me. Xu Wei turned his head to look at the fallen leaves in the courtyard and was stunned.
"If I had known that he was not dead, I would have starved to death with Shan'er and would not have remarried." Liu couldn't hold back her tears, her tone was full of remorse, she thought in her heart that if her husband Deng Yunxin's heroic soul returned home and found that he had remarried two years ago, and he was still a businessman, how sad he would be, "It's me who I'm sorry Yunxin." ”
"No, there is no such thing, Mrs. Sister-in-law, you came at the right time, here is the letter that Brother Yunxin brought with him, I am afraid that he knew that he might die and prepared it in advance, you can collect it first."
Saying that, Xu Wei took out a piece of yellow paper from his arms and put it in Liu's hand, with a puzzled expression: "Brother Yunxin asked me to tell you before he died, I haven't seen you for three years, he misses you and Deng Shan very much, he originally wanted to follow the nobles to make great achievements, and work hard to open a mansion and return to his hometown with the prominent official position of the three divisions, so that you and Deng Shan can live a good life, but in the end the success fell short." He regretted it, he regretted not being able to stay with your mother and son; But he doesn't regret it, after all, he drove away the West Wolf Clan, everyone in the Sui Dynasty and his small family are no longer intrusive, Brother Yunxin said that he can't stop you, there has been no news for three years, if you have a chance in the next life, you can beat him and scold him, just ask you to have a chance to meet in the next life. and take care of Deng Shan, so that he can learn a craft and live a stable life. ”
Xu Wei saw that Liu couldn't cry anymore, and comforted him: "Sister-in-law, don't worry, since I bring Brother Yunxin's relics and last words, I must not watch you being bullied, although I don't have any skills to reach the sky, but even if I give up this life, I will protect you and Shan'er, only this is something that Han Ziwang would never have imagined, just as Brother Yunxin often said, 'We Zuo Xiao cavalry guards, when it is time to win, we will definitely win'." ”
"But......" Seeing that Xu was so resolute, Liu didn't know what words to use to persuade him for a while.
On the contrary, after thinking about it, Xu Wei still persuaded Liu in a low voice, "Since I got along with Wang Liu, I deeply feel that this person is cunning and full of rhetoric, and he is definitely not a person who can be trusted. If I really suffer an accident this time, I hope that my wife will clear up the relationship with Deng Shan as soon as possible for the sake of herself and Deng Shan. In fact, there are four gold bars left by Brother Yunxin, it is an accident, so I left two in the mansion of Xuanwufang by the riverside, you go to report Brother Yunxin's name, and the boss will take out the gold bars to you, and Mrs. Sister-in-law can decide for herself......"