Chapter 107: Something to Ask For
Zhang Yuqing looked at him and asked, "Do you recognize me?" ”
The man laughed, "You're Mrs. Toshi!" ”
"Do you like to lie on the snow and talk to us, or do you like to sit down and talk to us?" Zhang Yuqing asked good-naturedly.
The man's smile deepened, and he said sincerely, "If Mrs. Dusi is willing, of course I want to sit down and talk." ”
So the guards tied the man up and pushed him into the room, and sat on a bed with only a broken cotton wool quilt.
The village chief hurriedly moved two chairs from his house and put the mattress on the chairs.
Zhang Yuqing and Lu Wei sat down and came face to face with the man.
"What's your name?" Zhang Yuqing asked.
The man said, "Didn't you and Lord Toji inquire about it?" ”
Lu Wei had long seen that this person was not pleasing to the eye, and always smiled at Zhang Yuqing, and just as he was about to speak, he heard the man say: "My name is Du Jingyi, and I am Shen Menglong's big shopkeeper." ”
Zhang Yuqing raised her eyelids slightly.
As early as when Liu Quan revealed that this person was the shopkeeper of a certain incredible big man, Zhang Yuqing and Lu Wei already had a vague guess in their hearts.
"Poor like this, or Shen Menglong's big shopkeeper? The fire maids in Shen Menglong's house are richer than you! Zhang Yuqing laughed, and her eyes gestured to the quilt with black cotton wool on Du Jingyi's bed, "If you don't tell the truth, I can only take some measures." ”
Du Jingyi smiled, "Actually, I'm curious about what kind of measures Madame wants to take." ”
Zhang Yuqing pointed outside and said with a smile: "That little boy outside is your comrade, right?" How about I cut off his hand first, and then gouge out his eye? ”
Du Jingyi laughed.
Zhang Yuqing looked at him expressionlessly, and once again deeply felt the meaning of being provoked.
Before Du Jingyi finished laughing, Lu Wei's long knife had already reached his neck and looked at him coldly.
Du Jingyi couldn't laugh anymore.
"I am indeed Shen Menglong's big shopkeeper." Du Jingyi said, "When I was thirteen years old, I started to do business for Shen Menglong, and I worked for a total of seven years from the buddy all the way to the big shopkeeper, mainly responsible for transporting salt, tea, and iron to the Hu people, and then transporting some things back from the Hu people. Relying on the trading in my hands, Shen Menglong made a net profit of more than 260,000 taels of silver last year, and a net profit of 230,000 taels of silver the year before last...... I don't remember exactly, but there was a ledger under the sixth brick from the side of the wall. ”
The guard lay on the ground, lifted a brick, and sure enough, found a thick old notebook.
Zhang Yuqing took the notebook and worked with Lu Wei, and their faces suddenly became solemn.
The book records in detail from where on which day, what goods were sold, and how much money was made, and it was detailed one by one, not like a fraud.
Zhang Yuqing closed the account book and teased: "Shopkeeper Du, you have made so much money for Shen Menglong, but Shen Menglong doesn't seem to be very good to you!" ”
Shen Menglong's big shopkeeper lives in such a place, it's a hell of a life!
Du Jingyi smiled and nodded, agreeing very much, "It's really not good, so I want to change the owner." ”
"What do you mean......" Zhang Yuqing asked hesitantly.
Du Jingyi looked at Zhang Yuqing with a sincere smile, "Mrs. Dusi, what do you think of me?" Your business is getting bigger and bigger, do you have to hire a good manager? ”
Lu Wei suddenly asked: "Two months ago, I led troops to suppress bandits, and someone told me about the dens of those bandits, but did you do it?" ”
"It's a trivial matter, I didn't expect Lord Lu to remember it." Du Jingyi said with a smile.
Lu Wei asked again: "Shen Menglong still doesn't know about my wife's business, and it's also your credit?" ”
If Du Jingyi was facing Shen Menglong, there was no reason why Shen Shoushan's father and son hadn't attacked him until now, how could the two fathers and sons, who saw the money and desperately pulled money into their pockets, let go of such a lucrative business.
"Compared with what adults and ladies do, what I Du someone does is not worth mentioning." Du Jingyi said, "Since the adults and Mrs. are still worried about it, then let me be someone else's vote!" ”
Zhang Yuqing asked, "What did Master Lu and I do?" ”
Du Jingyi's smile was a little heavier, and she said: "Guarding the border, strengthening the army, loving the people, and governing the Qingming Dynasty are all things that I and other people have been looking forward to for a lifetime!" ”
Zhang Yuqing shook her head, "Shopkeeper Du, you didn't tell the truth. You deliberately pushed Liu Quan and his mother in front of us to test our attitude towards them, right? ”
The corners of Du Jingyi's mouth curled, "Madame is really smart, she can't hide anything from Madame." ”
"Are you satisfied with our attitude?" Zhang Yuqing asked.
Du Jingyi nodded slowly, "Not only satisfied, but also shocked." I don't want to sell my life to Shen Menglong, I just want to sell it to someone like Mrs. Adult. ”
"I'm afraid it's conditional, right?" Zhang Yuqing asked.
Du Jingyi suddenly stopped smiling, her eyes flashed, "Naturally." If the adults and the lady can help me realize my wish, I am willing to smear the liver and brain of the adult and the lady, and die! ”
"Tell me about it." Lu Wei said.
Du Jingyi said: "Presumably the adults and the lady already know that I also have a younger sister, and my mother sold her in order to treat me. Later, I found out that she had been sold into the Imperial Palace. I wanted to ransom her out, but no matter how much money I made for Shen Menglong, he refused to let her go. ”
"He has let people go, what will you do to make money for him?" Zhang Yuqing sighed lightly.
Du Jingyi's tears fell on the blackened cotton wool, "My sister entered the control mansion at the age of eight and became a prostitute, until I became Shen Menglong's shopkeeper, Shen Menglong didn't let her pick up customers, but if my business failed and I made less money, Shen Menglong would not punish me, but he would punish my sister, and pick perverted guests for her to receive ......"
"It's really shameless, and it's all conscience!" Zhang Yuqing said.
Du Jingyi sighed, "I understand now, even if I die to death, I can't redeem my sister...... The boundary of Liangzhou is so big, I don't know how many people are like me, separated from flesh and blood, and squeezed until the moment of death. ”
Zhang Yuqing said: "Do you want us to help you bring your sister out?" ”
Du Jingyi was silent for a moment and said, "This matter is difficult. If the Lord and Mrs. are unwilling to offend Shen Shoushan's father and son, I will not resent the Lord and Mrs. ”
"We'll discuss this matter." Zhang Yuqing said, "No matter how difficult things are, as long as you do them, you can always find a way." ”
Du Jingyi laughed and said with emotion: "You can say that, it proves that you are not wrong." There is also a reluctant invitation below. ”
Zhang Yuqing made a gesture to speak.
"Little Crane...... It's just a child who hits people with a slingshot, but he's worried about me, and he did something wrong in a hurry, can Mrs. not remember the villain and let him go? Du Jingyi said.
Zhang Yuqing smiled and shook his head.
Du Jingyi was choked, "Madame......"
"I can't let him go." Zhang Yuqing couldn't help but sigh when he thought of that terrible head, and his smile gradually expanded, "It was a waste of his talent for him to stay in the village to fight birds and rabbits, follow me, he will have a broader world." ”
Zhang Yuqing and Lu Wei took Du Jingyi away with Xiaohe'er's mother and son.
Snow began to fall again in the dark night, and the carriage struggled to move forward in the wind and snow, and the torches were connected into a long fire dragon.
Xiao He'er sat in the carriage with her mother and Zhang Yuqing.
Zhang Yuqing took out a plate of snacks from the drawer of the carriage, pushed it to Xiao He'er and his mother, and said with a smile: "Eat!" ”
His mother dared to eat it, and hurriedly said, "No, no, no need!" ”
"You're welcome, eat!" Zhang Yuqing took two pieces of dim sum with a handkerchief, and one of them put one in his hand.
Little Crane and his mother looked at each other and ate the snack in fear.
The moment the snack was entered, Xiao He'er's eyes lit up, he had never eaten such a delicious thing!
"Can you tell me, how did you hit someone else's nose with precision every time you hit the black light just now?" Zhang Yuqing saw that he was not as tense as he was just now, gave him another piece of snack, and asked.
Xiao He'er ate a snack and said, "You can't just look with your eyes, you have to rely on your feelings...... Hey, it's hard to say! Anyway, I can hit it very accurately! No one is as accurate as me! As long as the pheasant and rabbit I am aiming at, there is nothing I can't hit! ”
Zhang Yuqing's smile deepened, she really picked up a treasure!
In her previous life, she had seen an interview with a shooting champion, and the shooting champion was not clairvoyant as people imagined, on the contrary, many people were short-sighted and had bad eyes.
The target 100 meters away is like the size of a coin, and to accurately hit the center of the coin, it is not the absolute eyesight, but the indescribable feeling.
When he arrived at the Dusi Mansion, Zhang Yuqing arranged for Du Jingyi, Xiao He'er and his mother to stay.
I have been running outside since the second half of the night, and I have only come back until now, Zhang Yuqing entered the warm room, and then I felt that I was finally alive again.
Lu Wei looked at Zhang Yuqing's back reflected on the windowsill, and remembered that he was beaten by the guards today, otherwise he might be able to go further, so he couldn't help but walk over and knock on the door.
Zhang Yuqing opened the door.
Lu Wei was afraid that she would ask him to go back to sleep when she opened her mouth, so she preemptively said, "I see you sitting there in a daze, why don't you sleep?" ”
"I'm thinking about how to get Du Jingyi's sister out of the Command Mansion." Zhang Yuqing said worriedly.
Lu Wei said: "This matter is indeed not easy. ”
"I originally thought that it was almost the end of the year, and you would always go to the Command Mansion to pay New Year's greetings to Shen Shoushan, so it would be better to take advantage of Shen Shoushan's hospitality to drink wine, and you would ask his sister to accompany him, and when the night was over, you would ask Shen Shoushan for someone." Zhang Yuqing said.
In these years, the guests went to the host's house as guests, slept comfortably, and the prostitutes who fancied the night were to be taken away, which could not be more normal.
Lu Wei's face was normal at first, but the more he listened to it, the more ugly his face became, and finally he was gloomy and dripping, and he couldn't wait to take the hateful Zhang Yuqing over and bite it hard, what a bad idea!
"You're going to let me sleep with a prostitute in the Command?" Lu Wei asked through gritted teeth.
Sweetheart Theatre
Lu Wei: I will really thank you!