Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 834 One Pit Then Another Pit

"Never die..." Chi Rui looked at Chi Ergongzi, "It's easy to say, but it's even more difficult to do. We are bound by blood with our father, not to mention that he is our elder. If we It’s really endless, if you fight him to the death, what will those people outside think of us in the future? And those students of his are all famous now, and we may not be able to bear their verbal criticism. "

"What's the matter, it's just killing relatives in righteousness." Young Master Chi waved his hand, "Brother, you really think too much."

"They won't say that we are just killing relatives, they will only say that we are adding insult to injury, that we are unfilial sons. I don't need to tell you how ruthless a scholar's mouth and pen can be. Don't say anything else How many of those people in Yushitai are my father's students? Although they may have disagreements at ordinary times, but if something happened to their teacher, they will stand together because of their teacher. If they are impeached every day , being pointed at the nose and scolded every day, do you think you are suffering?"

"There's nothing I can't stand." Seeing the sneer on Chi Rui's face, Second Young Master Chi asked curiously, "What did the elder brother think of?"

"It's nothing, I just think my father is very powerful." Chi Rui sighed quietly, "His layout is well laid out, peaches and plums are everywhere, no matter what, someone will speak for him."

"Other things may be possible, but this matter now..." Second Young Master Chi shook his head disapprovingly, "Not necessarily, not as pessimistic as you think."

"Oh? How did you say it?"

"Didn't you notice? Ever since our house was raided, have his students and old friends stayed away from us? If it's a normal thing, someone has already interceded why, and there must be some who came to visit my father." Quite a few, look now? I haven’t even seen a single person.”

"It's not that no one intercedes, there are, but..." Chi Rui shook his head lightly, "It seems to be suppressed."

"How did you know?"

"I won't hang out with you, there will still be one or two friends who will come to see."

"Then do you know that His Majesty went into a rage in the hall and scolded all those uncles who had intersected with our family like dogs?"

"Where did you hear about this?"

"Your Majesty's younger brother, what Prince Li said is to tell us not to expect others to save us, but to save ourselves." Second Young Master Chi sighed, "The current situation is actually very unfavorable to father and Chi Hong. People who get close to them and play well with them on weekdays are all in danger. What I am afraid of now is not that they will break away from the relationship, but that they will step on the back. So, at this time, if our brothers kill our relatives righteously, we must It will be praised to the sky by them, and it will be hyped up."

"Your description is really...very appropriate, but once my father is fine, they will bite us to death like mad dogs."

"How could it be okay? What he has done these years, he knows in his heart that just leaking the news of Prince Ning's Mansion will make him unable to eat and walk away. This is the late emperor and today's Ni Lin."

Chi Rui lowered his head and thought for a while, and felt that what the second son of Chi said was very reasonable, and nodded slightly, "That's right, plus he's involved in the salt and iron business, if this is going to explode, I'm afraid it will turn the court upside down. "

"I don't know what kind of poison Chi Hong put on his father. He even dared to get involved in such a business that lost his head. They didn't show up themselves, but they just wanted to push me up."

"You never refused?"

"Brother, no matter how filial I am, I know how to be filial. Naturally, I have refused, and more than once." The second son of Chi sighed, "After returning from the Kingdom of Jin with the eldest son of the Qing family, I feel that the merchant is really my kind." The thing I want to do most in my life, since I have this convenience, I should continue to do it well. Therefore, I summed up the experience of this line of work with special care, summarizing that Jin people not only like the silk and porcelain of Daxia, but also I am interested in something in Daxia, and I made a serious plan to go to various places to buy it myself." He looked at Chi Rui, "Brother should remember that I took a year-long vacation that year, and I was out for half a year ,Right?"

"Yes, I remember."

"I spent half a year searching outside, and bought some items that I thought were unique and could represent Great Xia, because I wasn't sure if they would really be liked by Jin people, so I bought There are not many, so it is just a matter of throwing stones to ask for directions. After preparing these things, we have also made an appointment with the Qing family for the next departure time. Just when we were about to show our talents, something happened. Just over half a month before our departure One day, my father said that he introduced me to two veteran businessmen. I didn't suspect anything, so I went with him. The people I met were indeed businessmen. Not too small."

"What's the background?" Chi Rui frowned slightly, "What's the background?"

"It's a businessman authorized by the government to sell salt and iron." Young Master Chi raised an eyebrow at his elder brother, "Didn't expect that?"

"They... they are so big, what do they want to do with their father? Their business should make them a lot of money, right?"

"Businessmen are all greedy. The more money they make, the less they think it's too much. The price of salt and iron given by the government is basically the same for decades, but the price of private salt and private iron is the same every day. , especially selling salt and iron to neighboring countries, that is even more huge profits. It is absolutely impossible to say that they are not tempted at all, but they are suffering from no one to build a way."

"Although it is a huge profit, the risk is too great, and it may be a disaster at any time."

"They are after this kind of excitement, and of course they don't mind it." Young Master Chi sighed, "But I do, so when they offered to take my motorcade to Yiqing Mansion, I sternly rejected it." That meal... broke up badly. After returning home, I had a big fight with my father. I was so angry that I didn’t go home for several days, but lived in a shop that hadn’t opened yet. Later , Chi Hong came to the shop several times to be a lobbyist for my father, hoping that I could agree to this request of my father, but I didn't let go until..."

"Father is sick." Chi Rui nodded, "I remembered. At that time, I blamed you and Chi Hong. If there is something that cannot be resolved properly, I must make my father sick."

"Yeah, I was still scolding you in my heart for not hurting your back when you stand and talk. If it were you, you would have made the same choice as me."

"That's right." Chi Rui nodded, "Because your father is ill, so your heart softened and you decided to help them this time?"

"Yeah, at least it was to appease my father, but I didn't expect..." Second Master Chi smiled wryly, "I jumped from one pit to another, and my father and Chi Rui set me up with a series of tricks." Seeing Chi Rui's puzzled expression, he explained, "Every time I help them deliver goods, my father can be paid with a gold brick. Some of the gold bricks in our cellar come from this way. Later, my father and Chi Hong's appetite has grown, and they thought about starting this business by themselves, but before they could realize it, their home was ransacked. Also because of this, I completely offended Mr. Qing, and I can no longer visit."

(End of this chapter)