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Chapter 512 Lessons
On the second day after going to the Wild Goose Garden to enjoy the flower feast, Jiang Shaoyan took Xiangli and two guards out to meet Fang Zhihui.

When I first came to the capital to take over the Fang family's business, although the Fang family only had a few shops in the capital, the location was not the best.It's not a question of money anymore, it's easy to buy a shop in the capital, just spend a lot of money!But you have to sit tight, a good location without a bit of protection will be plotted against!
The Fang family's foundation is not here, so Fang Zhihui didn't care about it, and the location of the shop was not ready to be moved, but just started accounting.

Although the shop's business is mediocre, but this account has not been checked for several years, so it is necessary to check it carefully.

After checking for several days, he forgot to go out until Jiang Shaoyan brought Xiangli to the door.

Fang Zhihui, who received Jiang Si's proactive door-to-door treatment, was overjoyed, and quickly threw away the pen in her hand and ran out to see Jiang Shaoyan.

I haven't seen her for a few days, the girl seems to be getting better, her skin is white, as if covered with a hazy luster, it can be seen that the past few days of being separated from her are going well.

The difference was her, Fang Zhihui stretched out her hand towards the maidservant beside her expressionlessly: "Bronze mirror."

The maid hurriedly handed over a carved bronze mirror.

Fang Zhihui took the bronze mirror from the handmaid's hand, looked down at herself in the bronze mirror, then wailed, pointed to the black bruises in front of her eyes for Jiang Shaoyan, and shouted: "Jiang Si, look! Look! !"

Jiang Shaoyan looked at the blackness in Fang Zhihui's eyes, paused, and said, "You have worked hard these days!"

"Can't you work hard?" Fang Zhihui threw the bronze mirror back into the hand of the maidservant, and hugged her hand, complaining, "How many years of accounts! I have to check every one, but I am exhausted!"

Jiang Shaoyan looked at Fang Zhihui who was complaining endlessly, smiled, and asked her: "Then shall we watch it for you?"

"Okay... What a fart!" Fang Zhihui, who was about to be happy when he heard that someone helped, quickly refused the word "Okay".

Refusing to come to your door for help really made people feel heartbroken. Fang Zhihui clutched her chest and said with a troubled expression: "I promised my elder sister that I will do these things myself! If I ask you to help, I will ask the third sister Come to the capital and exchange me back to Baoling."

Fang Zhihui didn't know about Fang Zhixiu and Zhou Fang's affairs, so Fang Zhiyao's "threat" was convinced, so she didn't dare to pretend to be others.

Jiang Shaoyan didn't say anything when she heard the words, she just paused and said, "I'm here to ask you for a favor."

I knew he didn't come to see her on purpose!Fang Zhihui snorted, struggled for a while but still asked her aloud: "What's the matter?"

Jiang Shaoyan said: "Look at the recent account books of your shop."

The five ledgers were spread out in front of her one by one. Fang Zhihui waved his hand and said boldly: "This is the ledger of the clothing store! It has been here for nearly a year, and it is also included with the reservation form for the clothes. it's here."

Jiang Shaoyan let out a "hmm", picked up the latest book and started to read it.

Seeing the girl looking through the account book with her head down, Fang Zhihui also sat back in her seat and continued to reconcile the accounts, but after a while, the girl asked her suddenly: "What is the material of your clothes?" What's new for your Fang family this year?"

Fang Zhihui gave a "hmm", looked down at the material of the dress on her body, and said indifferently, "It's new. If you like it, I'll give you two."

"That's unnecessary." Jiang Shaoyan shook her head, her eyes flickering slightly, "When I went to Yanyuan to attend Mrs. Li's flower viewing banquet yesterday, I saw several young ladies wearing clothes made of your material, so I asked !"

Fang Zhihui said "Oh" and looked up at her: "Then it's on the account book in your hand," she said, suddenly, as if thinking of something, she quickly threw the book in her hand. Pen ran to her side and asked, "What? Did those offend you?"

Jiang Shaoyan glanced up at her, smiled, but quickly turned to one of the pages, and said, "I saw their names."

Fang Zhihui looked at the names on the ledger, and could vaguely see the surnames Shi, Lu, and Cao, without any special markings. They seemed to belong to small families among the rich and powerful in Chang'an.

The girl didn't stay on that page, but turned back again. When she turned to the last page, she stopped and pointed to the name on the last page that started with the surname "Shi". , asked Fang Zhihui: "I looked through your account books, and this Miss Shi seems to be a regular customer here. The ready-made clothes in the shop are not cheap. She often comes to think that her family is rich, and there are not many people with the surname Shi in the capital. Can I ask, what is the relationship between this Miss Shi and the Shi family of the Five Cities Bingma Si?"

Fang Zhihui didn't hesitate after hearing the words, and directly called the shopkeeper of the Fang family in the capital, and said, "Who is this regular customer, Ms. Shi?"

The shopkeeper of the Fang family replied: "It's not someone else, but the direct sister of Master Ma Sishi, the soldier of the Five Cities!"

Fang Zhihui said "oh", then turned to Jiang Shaoyan and said, "You can ask me anything else!"

Jiang Shaoyan nodded, and asked the shopkeeper of the Fang family: "I remember that the eldest son under the old Mr. Shi's knee was already weak 20 years ago. Is this Mr. Shi the eldest son of Mr. Shi now or...?"

The shopkeeper hurriedly said after hearing the words: "He is the eldest son of Mr. Shi. He is over 40 now. Ms. Shi is five years younger than Mr. Shi. She was married once before, and later reconciled with her husband's family, so she returned to Shi's house and made another marriage. Back to Miss Shi."

I see!Fang Zhihui flipped through the account book suddenly, and said: "I think the color of the cloth clothes that Miss Shi bought is more old-fashioned than ordinary young ladies. If the adults are five years younger, that's right!"

However, people are always curious, Fang Zhihui couldn't wait for Jiang Shaoyan to speak, and couldn't help asking the shopkeeper: "Then why did Miss Shi reconcile?"

After all, it is an old customer, although he will not inquire in front of people, but after so many years of old business, the shopkeeper will not know anything about the old customer.

The shopkeeper sighed, and replied: "Miss Shi's ex-wife was good-looking. Marrying Miss Shi was for the sake of the power of the Shi family. After marrying her, she took advantage of the power of her brother-in-law and then exposed her nature. There are several outhouses raised outside, and the better-looking maids born in the house also have constant lawsuits with him, Miss Shi couldn't get angry, so she started arguing with him, but what do you think of the ex-husband?"

Fang Zhihui and Jiang Shaoyan shook their heads together: I don't know!

The shopkeeper said: "That Shi Da from Wucheng Bingmasi was tall and strong, with dark skin, because he is a man, so that's better. Miss Shi looks exactly like her elder brother, but she is a woman..."

Everyone was stunned, Fang Zhihui immediately slapped the table and said angrily, "Is my ex-husband despising Miss Shi's ugliness?"

The shopkeeper nodded: "The ex-husband bluntly said that Ms. Shi gave birth to five big and three rough, like a black night fork."

Being insulted like this, any girl with a bit of a temper would naturally reconcile angrily. Lord Shi took off the robe of Wucheng Bingmasi, came to beat up that ungrateful ex-husband, and made Miss Shi to be with that heartless man. And left.

"Miss Shi, who was so excited by this marriage, doesn't want to get married anymore, and her dowry is enough for her to live, so she just lives alone in the courtyard of her natal family." The shopkeeper said, looking at the account book, and suddenly sighed. He took a deep breath and said, "Although this matter has passed for many years, the ex-husband who got rich through the elder brother-in-law later lost the care of the elder brother-in-law, and his life is not very good. Miss Shi has never seen her ex-husband again, but In the end, there was some shadow left in my heart because of this incident.”

It is common for women to love beauty, and the regular customers who come to their shop every day are all beauty-loving people, but Miss Shi is obviously different.

"Because of her ex-husband's stimulation, she is very paranoid about beauty. What about unlined eyebrows, cherry makeup, etc., no matter whether it suits her or not, she has to make it for herself. A piece of clothing can't be worn five times. I have to change it, and when I hear other people laughing, I become suspicious, suspecting that they are making fun of me." The shopkeeper sighed, "But apart from this, Miss Shi herself has no other serious problems."

"I see!" Jiang Shaoyan put down the ledger in her hand, and thanked the shopkeeper with a smile.

Fang Zhihui looked at Jiang Shaoyan's actions and didn't react for a while, until a few days later, when the government office of the Ministry of Industry was handling corruption errands, it was said that a group of Beijing officials who were helping under the errands were found by chance, and the families of several old regular customers in the shop were impressive. Fang Zhihui had only vaguely noticed Jiang Shaoyan's purpose that day when he was in the row.

……

Fang Zhihui was not the only one who noticed something was wrong.

The last batch of female relatives did not see any relics from the sea, and Mrs. Li had a headache.In the past few days, his son Li Xuan went out early and returned late all day long, and he didn't even see anyone. Mrs. Li didn't want to tell Li Xuan the bad news, so she just dug out the roster again, and couldn't help but sigh at the roster.

How about...try again?
Just thinking like this, a servant girl trotted in from the outside, went to Mrs. Li's side and called "Ma'am", then hurriedly whispered a few words in Mrs. Li's ear.

Mrs. Li let out a "huh", her worried expression turned into surprise: "What did you say?"

The servant girl glanced at the roster of women's relatives laid out on the table by Mrs. Li, and said: "There are a few young ladies who have troubles at home, Madam don't need to look any further."

As for who had the accident, the servant girl had just whispered in her ear.

Miss Lu, Miss Shi and Miss Cao.

Mrs. Li may not be able to remember which of these girls is which, but because the three of them laughed at Miss Jiang Si at her banquet a few days ago, so that these girls are at Mrs. Li's place. After a while, it sounds familiar.

Is that a coincidence?Mrs. Li's eyelids twitched.

After a long pause, she heard herself ask.

"Is it a group of Beijing officials working under the government that were discovered by the Ministry of Industry when they were handling major corruption cases?"

The servant girl nodded and said, "I heard it is true! Lord Lu, Lord Shi and Lord Cao are among them."

Mrs. Li: "..."

Such a coincidence, she didn't believe it was a coincidence.

"It seems that what I said was wrong!" After a long silence, Mrs. Li said quietly, "It's not that I have a bad temper, but I went back to my father to make decisions."

Is there anything wrong with a girl who was wronged outside and went home to ask her father to make decisions?Mrs. Li didn't think there was anything wrong.

Uncle Dongping's only daughter doesn't know how to go back and find her father to help her, is she stupid?
"Bo Jiang Zhao of Dongping works in the yamen of the Ministry of Industry, and he is also one of the case-handling officials. There is nothing wrong with finding out about Lord Lu, Lord Shi, and Lord Cao," Mrs. Li said, "Master Lu, Lord Shi, and Lord Cao himself If your body is clean, don’t be afraid of him checking it!”

But as soon as the words were finished, a voice came from outside: "Mother is wrong! The matter between Lord Lu, Lord Shi and Lord Cao has nothing to do with Uncle Dongping."

While speaking, Li Xuan actually walked in from the outside.

After not seeing her son for a few days, Mrs. Li's eyes lit up, and she looked at Li Xuanjing who walked in.

"Mother!" Li Xuan went to the table and sat down, and said to Mrs. Li, "These families are involved in corruption cases, no matter how good they are, they cannot marry in."

The son meant that she should stop thinking about the girls from those families.

Dr. Li glanced at him and said, "Even without this matter, mother would not choose these girls for you." After talking about the events at the banquet that day, he said, " I thought it was because Miss Jiang Si kept silent at the time and went back to tell Uncle Dong Ping."

Li Xuan didn't know about this matter, but recently he was dealing with Ji Shizi, Lin Shaoqing and the others, and today he heard Lin Shaoqing and the others talk about this matter during the day, and specifically mentioned Uncle Dongping, so he knew about it.

"This matter has nothing to do with Uncle Dongping, it's the news from Shi's family at Wucheng Bingma Division." Li Xuanjing said.

One of Ji Feng and Lin Yan is the Minister of Dali Temple, and the other is the Shaoqing of Dali Temple. He believes what these two people say.

Shijia?How did the Wucheng soldiers and horses have anything to do with these sixth-rank Beijing officials?Mrs. Li was puzzled.

"Master Shi has a reconciled sister, and the relationship between brother and sister is very close. This Miss Shi..." After Li Xuan told Miss Shi's past, he said, "Because of that incident, Miss Shi later treated Mei. She is very paranoid. Ordinary fashion is good, and she is extremely sensitive when it comes to her appearance. A few days ago, the daughters of the Shi family, the Lu family, and the Cao family attended the summer banquet of Princess Liufang. Unfortunately Very soon, Miss Shi's carriage broke down after leaving the city, so they could only wait in the pavilion outside the city. At this time, Miss Shi was also waiting in the pavilion because the carriage broke down. The lady of the Lu family mocked Miss Shi's appearance, saying that she looked like a black night fork..."

Mrs. Li listened, nodded subconsciously and said: "It's not surprising at all, these people are such people, otherwise they wouldn't be mocking Miss Jiang Si."

Such ignorant offenders will always hit the iron plate. Not everyone has a good temper and doesn't care about them.

"Miss Shi cried a lot after she went back. Master Shi was naturally furious. Although the Shi family is not comparable to the first-class dignitaries in the capital, it is not anyone who can step on it..."

Mrs. Li couldn't help but nod her head: "So, this matter is considered to be that Mrs. Shi is acting out for her younger sister!"
But Li Xuanjing's next words made her suspicious of the whole matter.

"I heard from Lin Shaoqing and the others that Mr. Shi's original plan was to find someone to find an opportunity to put bags on those ignorant women and their families, and beat them up. They even bought the sacks," among other things. The matter of putting on a sack and beating the sap is indeed something that Shi Chong can do, Li Xuanjing's expression became subtle when he spoke, "As a result, early the next morning, the concierge of the Shi family found a letter thrown in.

(End of this chapter)