Chapter Twenty-Five: A Strange Death
Great-Ancestor Hall nodded slightly, and said, "You're right! In your opinion, how much silver does it take to settle this matter?"
Dongguo Huanghuang thought about it again and said: "Outside, in my opinion, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no money to burn, as long as you ...... As long as the staff is willing to do it, it will cost ...... Spend ten thousand taels of silver, I, I promise to put this matter to rest......"
When the Great Ancestor Hall heard this, he immediately interrupted Dongguo Huanghuang's words and said: "Okay! If you have this certainty, it will be very good! Then you will have to worry a lot about this matter, you can handle it in your own hands, no matter how much money you spend, you can't let the gold-lettered signboard of 'Yuanlongshun' handed down from my ancestors be destroyed in my hands." Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
Dong Guo Huanghuang said: "Yes! I will do my best to serve the outside staff." ”
The Great Ancestor Hall waved his hand to Dongguo Huanghuang and said, "Okay! This matter will be hard for you! Then you should go and get busy first! If you have any news, come and tell me immediately." ”
Dongguo Huanghuang said yes and went out.
Zeng Zudian looked at Dongguo's brilliant back and walked away, and suddenly snorted coldly.
Although Du Shenfei and Yu Coaxing Immortal didn't know what this Great Ancestor Hall meant, they could already see that this Great Ancestor Hall didn't trust Dongguo Brilliant at all.
After a long time, Great-Ancestor Hall suddenly clapped his hands and said, "Come out!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a small door on the wall was suddenly opened, and a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old walked out. This man was tall, dark-skinned, with a youthful and healthy look on his face, and a pair of bright eyes that shone with a clever light, but with a hint of worry.
The Great Ancestor Hall asked him to sit, and he sat in the position where Dongguo Huanghuang had just sit.
Zengzu Hall said to Du Shenfei and Yu Coaxing Immortal: "He is the guy in the Yuanlong Shun silk cloth shop, called Wen Changqing, and he is the Tan County official he received." ”
Du Shenfei and Yuluxian were taken aback, they didn't expect that Wen Changqing not only did not flee far away, but actually hid in the mansion of the owner.
Zeng Zudian said slowly: "Wen Changqing has been with me for nearly ten years, and I know what kind of person he is. I trust him. Changqing, these two are my good friends, you can tell them about it again!"
Wen Changqing sat on the chair and bowed his body, and said, "Yes! The county official Tan came to buy two pieces of cloth in our store, one blue cloth and one watering cloth, which I personally inspected before letting him go out, and this is also the rule of our store for many years, that is, never to deceive customers with shoddy goods. But the county magistrate Tan carried the cloth back again, saying that one was a scrap of cloth that had been cut and the other was a rotten cloth that had been soaked in sewage. I sold the cloth to them, and of course I knew that this would never happen, and I thought that they must have done something in secret, so I refused to give them a change. But he scolded my ancestors for eighteen generations, and slapped me again. I couldn't get angry for a moment and pushed him. Unexpectedly, he was bleeding from the corner of his mouth and fell to the ground. And so he died. ”
Du Shenfei frowned and said, "Oh, if you push it gently, the corners of your mouth will bleed to death?"
Wen Changqing let out a long sigh and said, "That's not wrong at all!"
Yu Coaxing Immortal looked at Wen Changqing and said, "Let me ask you, have you seen or heard anything strange and abnormal in the store these days?"
When Wen Changqing heard this, he thought about it, only to see his eyes shine, and said, "That's right! I remembered something!"
Yu Coaxed Immortal hurriedly asked, "What is the matter?"
Wen Changqing said: "On the ninth day of the first day of November, the county official Tan bought a blue cloth and a watering cloth. Immediately afterwards, a man came into the store and said that he wanted to buy a cloth that was exactly the same as the one that the county official Tan had bought. ”
Yu Yuxian frowned and asked, "Oh? Which of the two pieces of cloth that the Tan county official brought back was soaked in sewage?"
Wen Changqing immediately said: "It's that watering cloth that has been soaked in sewage, and when I got it back, there was still a lot of mud in it." ”
Yu Coaxed Immortal thought for a while, and then asked: "Let me ask you again, does your Dongguo shopkeeper have any different behaviors from usual?"
Wen Changqing grabbed his head and thought for a long time, then suddenly slapped his thigh heavily and said, "Yes! Recently, there is a strange man in his thirties who often comes to Dongguo's shopkeeper, and then the two go out to drink tea. On the second day of the first day of November, the shopkeeper of Dongguo went out with the man again. Because the Zhu observer in Hexi wanted to purchase 200 fine satin, and the bargain price was four taels and one horse, and he had to be in a hurry, waiting for the goods in the store, I couldn't be the master, so I came to the 'Xiaoxi Tea House' where the shopkeeper of Dongguo often went to find him and asked him to make a decision. I was outside the door and I heard the two men laughing, even more like a duck. As soon as I entered, I vaguely heard the man say, 'If you do this well, President Bai and Mr. Gu will not treat you badly, and still let you be the treasurer, and the salary will be twenty taels ...... a month.'"
As soon as Du Shenfei and Yuyu Xian heard "President Bai" and "Mr. Gu", they immediately thought of Bai Xiyan and Guchuan Mountain of the Illuminati.
Du Shenfei said: "Old fish, what you said is completely right! This thing must be done by the Illuminati Society." ”
Yu coaxed the immortal and said: "It must be Bai Xiyan and the ancient mountain that did it." These two men have always been adept at seizing other people's shops by intrigue and intrigue. ”
Hearing the words of the two, Zeng Zudian was slightly surprised, and asked: "Xiao Du, Xiao Yu, this Bai Xiyan you are talking about is not the white hero Bai President who is chivalrous and righteous, jealous and hateful, and willing to preside over the justice of the rivers and lakes." ”
Yu Coaxed Immortal heard this, and said with a smile: "Outside, if you really think that this Bai Xiyan is some kind of bullshit hero, you are very wrong. Among the people I have seen, there is no one more hypocritical and treacherous, greedy for money and profit. In my opinion, this Dongguo Glory must have been bought by this Illuminati, and used treacherous tricks to seize the Yuanlong Shun silk cloth shop outside the staff step by step. ”
Hearing this, Zeng Zudian nodded, shook his head again, and said, "I also think this Dongguo Brilliant is a little strange recently. But if it is said that the Illuminati will buy Dongguo Brilliant to do such a profit-seeking and murderous business, I still find it a little hard to believe. ”
At this time, Du Shenfei also said: "Outside, this Bai Xiyan is indeed a sinister and cunning villain. Because we had heard of the good reputation of the Illuminati before, and had joined the Illuminati, we knew the true face of this Baixiyan and the Ancient Inheritance Mountain, and although we didn't know what they did, we had seen a thing or two. ”
Zengzu Hall frowned, and said: "I have long heard that this Bai Xiyan is a chivalrous man, once when the Jin soldiers invaded Tanzhou City, I also saw with my own eyes that the Illumination Society ran around in this city to raise money and food for the victims. You see, if you don't have good intentions, how can you come to do such an idle thing as disaster relief and disaster relief?"
When Yu Xiang Xian heard this, he laughed and said, "Don't tell the outside world, as for the matter of raising funds for disaster relief! I was a nobody, and I raised nearly 10,000 taels of silver, but I actually donated 2,000 taels of silver, and the remaining 8,000 taels were my personal income. The name of Bai Xiyan's benevolent and righteous heroes is spread far and wide, and maybe they can raise three or four hundred thousand taels at a time, donate three or five hundred thousand taels, and the rest will belong to them. You see, it is a wise move to use the reason for collecting donations for disaster relief to gain a good reputation as a great benevolent person, and second, to earn a lot of money and reap a lot of white money. ”