Mr. Yangui

Chapter 65
Zhang family.

Zhang Yanbang, the eldest son of the Zhang family, looked at the invitation card in his hand and frowned.

The invitation was sent by Li Wuchang. It said that he had caught a madman who was trying to rebel. He might have something to do with the Zhang family. He wanted to invite his eldest cousin to discuss it.

People related to the Zhang family are trying to rebel?
What is this nonsense?

Zhang Yanbo immediately felt something unusual, and immediately reported to his father Zhang Xiu.

Li Wuchang is not easy to mess with, the Zhang family was hit hard by him last time.

After Zhang Xiu got the news, his first thought was that Zhang Yanbo had provoked Li Wuchang again, and he immediately ordered: "Call me that bastard Yanbo."

After Zhang Yanbo came, seeing his father and elder brother were very serious, he said with a smile, "Why is father looking for me?"

Zhang Xiu gave him a cold look, and said, "Have you messed with your cousin Li Wuchang again recently?"

Zhang Yanbo was startled, and whispered: "No."

Zhang Xiu snorted coldly and didn't speak.

After being silent for a while, he asked the big butler standing aside: "Is anyone not here at home?"

The big housekeeper said respectfully: "Master, the third housekeeper, Zhang Jincai, went to the West Market yesterday to do some business, but he hasn't returned yet. The old slave has already sent someone to look for it, but he couldn't find it."

After a pause, he whispered, "Master, do you want to report to the police?"

When he heard Zhang Jincai, Zhang Yanbo's eyes froze, his expression became tense, and he asked curiously, "Zhang Jincai hasn't come back yet?"

Zhang Xiu noticed Zhang Yanbo's change, and shouted: "What have you made Zhang Jincai do, why don't you recruit him for the truth."

Zhang Yanbo was taken aback, and said weakly, "I didn't do anything serious, I just asked him to find a few hooligans to go to Dongli Restaurant to make trouble."

After speaking, he raised his head and took a careful look at Zhang Xiu.

Zhang Xiu raised his voice: "That's it?"

Zhang Yanbo didn't dare to speak.

Zhang Xiu jumped into a rage, and said, "If it's just a few hooligans causing trouble, then why would that cousin of yours say that he caught a lunatic who was plotting rebellion, and asked your elder brother to go over and discuss it?"

When Zhang Yanbo heard that Li Wuchang had arrested Zhang Jincai, he said angrily, "He, Li Wuchang, is so courageous that he dared to arrest people from our Zhang family. Father, I will go to the Li family to negotiate with Li Wuchang. What kind of conspiracy is it? Li Wuchang wanted to scare people again."

Zhang Xiu jumped into a rage and scolded: "Can't you understand people's words? Let me ask you, besides being a hooligan to make trouble, what else did you let that idiot Zhang Jincai do?"

Zhang Xiu felt that this time the matter was very difficult, if that idiot Zhang Jincai did something out of the ordinary, and Li Wuchang took hold of it, the consequences would be very serious.

Zhang Xiu had learned Li Wuchang's idiot temper last time, and even Li Lingwu couldn't do anything about it.

This time Li Wuchang first caught Zhang Jincai, and then asked Zhang Yanbang to discuss.

Negotiating what?
Obviously, he had communicated with the Zhang family first, and took the opportunity to raise some conditions. If the Zhang family didn't agree to give him benefits, Li Wuchang didn't mind making a bigger fuss.

A lunatic trying to rebel?
Hmph, if you dare to say such a thing, you must have something in your hand, it is definitely not as simple as a few hooligans making trouble.

Feeling his father's anger, Zhang Yanbo didn't dare to hide it, and said in a low voice, "I asked Zhang Jincai to find someone to add some ingredients to the food in Dongli Restaurant that day."

Seeing that Zhang Xiu and Zhang Yanbang's complexions were getting darker, Zhang Yanbo hurriedly explained: "Don't worry, people won't die if you eat them. At most, you may experience dizziness, diarrhea and fever. I just want to ruin it..."

"Idiot!" Zhang Xiu interrupted, his face turning blue.

Zhang Yanbo didn't dare to speak immediately, but he was very unconvinced in his heart. Didn't he just add something to the food of Dongli Restaurant? There's nothing to be afraid of, this will definitely ruin the reputation of their Dongli Restaurant.

Father is really old and afraid of becoming like this.

There was silence for a while.

Zhang Xiu ordered: "Yanbang, prepare for the ceremony, let's visit Li's mansion right now."

……

Li Mansion, Caiyun Residence.

Li Wuchang, Zhao Xun, and Jiang Minglun were sitting in the living room drinking and chatting, while Nanny and Xiaoru were busy preparing food and drinks.

"Master, Madam!" The nanny's voice sounded.

It was Li Lingwu and Mrs. Zhang who came.

It is not common for these two people to come to Caiyun Residence together.

That's not all, there are a lot of people beside them, three father and son Zhang Xiu, three brothers Li Hu, two brothers Li Wufeng and Li Wuwei.

Mighty.

Li Wuchang was startled, and hurriedly led Zhao Xun and Jiang Minglun to stand up to greet him.

After saying hello, Li Wuchang asked everyone to sit down. Fortunately, the living room is big enough, otherwise there is really no room for so many people.

Zhao Xun gave Li Wuchang a questioning look, Li Wuchang nodded, and signaled him to stay calm.

The father and son of the Zhang family should have come here for Zhang Jincai. It seems that they were frightened by the words "attempt to rebel" on the invitation sent by Li Wuchang.

After the nanny and Xiaoru finished serving tea and snacks, Li Wuchang took the nanny's hand, took out a 1000 tael silver note, handed it to her, and said: "Nurse, I want to eat the pancakes from Cao's in Dongshi. Go shopping with Xiaoru now, after you finish shopping, take the rest of your money and go shopping with Xiaoru, you can buy whatever you want, including clothes and jewelry.”

Holding the bank note, the nanny said doubtfully, "This..."

Li Wuchang interrupted her, and continued: "When you are tired from shopping, go to our restaurant to have a rest. I will pick you and Xiaoru up at night."

After all, the nanny has some knowledge. Seeing so many people coming to Caiyunju, she knew that they must have a big deal with Li Wuchang, and Li Wuchang didn't want her and Xiaoru to get involved, so she sent them out.

He nodded immediately and said, "Okay."

After speaking, he pulled Xiaoru to salute everyone and retreated.

Seeing them walking away, Li Wuchang breathed a sigh of relief. To be honest, he really didn't want Nanny and Xiaoru to get involved, because he was afraid they would worry.

The father and son of the Zhang family had a bad expression and were obviously angry.

After Zhang Xiu came to Li's residence, he explained to Li Lingwu his intention of coming, saying that if Zhang Jincai offended Li Wuchang, he hoped that Li Lingwu could come forward to mediate, so as not to hurt the relationship between the two families.

The words of treason are too serious. Although there is no such thing, if it is spread, it will be very bad for the Zhang family's reputation.

Zhang Xiu believed that Li Wuchang did this with the acquiescence of Li Lingwu, and said a few words that were neither hard nor soft to secretly pressure, but Li Lingwu made it clear that he knew nothing about it.

In fact, after Li Qing failed to stop Li Wuchang in West Market yesterday, he reported the matter to Li Lingwu when he returned to Li's mansion.

Li Lingwu didn't give any instructions, only said that he understood.

Faced with Zhang Xiu's question, Li Lingwu proposed to go directly to Caiyunju to ask what happened to Li Wuchang face to face, and to explain to Zhang's family, in order to express that the matter had nothing to do with him.

This was the scene where everyone gathered in Caiyunju.

Li Wuchang coughed lightly, turned to Li Lingwu, and asked, "Father, I don't know why you all came to my small place today?"

Li Lingwu has not yet spoken.

Zhang Yanbo was the first to ask: "Didn't you say that you caught a lunatic who was planning to rebel, that he might have something to do with the Zhang family, and then asked my elder brother to come over and discuss?"

After Zhang Yanbo made a statement to clarify the matter, everyone remained silent and looked at Li Wuchang.

Li Wuchang smiled at Zhang Yanbo, and asked: "Second cousin, don't get excited. I did catch a maniac who was desperately trying to rebel. His name is Zhang Jincai. He said he was the housekeeper of Zhang's house. I want to find my eldest cousin." Confirm? To prevent someone from using the Zhang family's banner to commit rebellion, that would be unbeautiful."

Zhang Yanbo sneered, and said, "Have you seen Zhang Jincai? Are you sure? I don't know what the third butler of our mansion did to make you label him as an attempt to rebel. Li Wuchang, I warn you." Don't talk nonsense and ruin the reputation of my Zhang family."

Li Wuchang's eyes turned cold, and he said lightly: "So, Zhang Jincai is indeed from your Zhang family?"

Then he glanced at Zhang Yanbo with a half-smile.

Hats off?
Okay, I'll kill you later.

Zhang Yanbang noticed that Li Wuchang's smile was unusual, coughed lightly, and said, "Cousin, don't hide it, just speak up if you have something to say, after all, we are all relatives."

Zhang Yanbo said anxiously: "Brother, why are you being so polite? He arrested Zhang Jincai without making a sound, obviously looking for trouble."

Zhang Yanbang said: "Shut up."

Li Wufeng and Li Wuji didn't speak.

Li Lingwu, Zhang Xiu and other elders did not speak, watching the confrontation between the younger generations.

Li Wuchang looked at Zhang Yanbang's words, and said with a smile: "Big cousin, you are misunderstanding my younger brother by saying that. I am sincerely thinking about the Zhang family."

After a pause, he sighed: "You may not know how daring this Zhang Jincai is, what he has done is simply insane, and more importantly, he said last night that he was instructed by his second cousin. I don’t believe it, so I specially sent an invitation to my eldest cousin to discuss how to suppress this matter.”

Judging by his appearance, he simply regards the Zhang family's affairs as the top priority.

Zhang Yanbo said: "Stop alarmist talk there, tell me what Zhang Jincai has done, it has something to do with treason."

Li Wuchang said: "A few days ago Zhang Jincai sent some ruffians to Daodong to make trouble in the restaurant, has Second Cousin heard of this?"

Zhang Yanbo sneered and said, "It's just a few hooligans making trouble, what's the big deal, when will there be no hooligans making trouble?"

Li Wuchang shook his head and said, "Second Cousin, this is not an ordinary matter."

Zhang Yanbo looked at him coldly, waiting for the next sentence.

Li Wuchang coughed lightly, and said: "Everyone knows that Khitan and Goryeo are attacking Jizhou, Liaodong and other places. The imperial court is in urgent need of military pay. Dongli Restaurant's business is very good and it makes money quickly. This way, it can pay more taxes for the imperial court and serve the imperial court. contributed."

After a pause, he continued: "Zhang Jincai sent people to Dongli Restaurant to make trouble, clearly destroying the business of Dongli Restaurant and reducing the court's tax revenue. In this case, the military salary will also be reduced, and it will affect the whole body. Maybe the Jizhou battlefield might be defeated. Therefore, I suspect that Zhang Jincai is a spy of the Khitan or Korean people."

Hearing Li Wuchang's tirade, Zhao Xun and Jiang Minglun who were standing behind Li Wuchang almost laughed out loud.

But the Li family and the rest of the Zhang family looked incredible.

This Li Wuchang is too good at talking.

Li Wuchang continued: "Second Cousin, you were deceived by Zhang Jincai. His trick of buying gangsters to cause trouble is clearly a conspiracy, and it also damaged the Zhang family's reputation. Tell me, if it gets out..."

Zhang Yanbo's face was livid, and he interrupted Li Wuchang, saying: "Nonsense, do you think others will believe you?"

Li Wuchang shrugged and said: "How about this, I will hand him over to the Ministry of Punishment or Dali Temple, and ask them to check carefully whether this Zhang Jincai is a Khitan spy or not."

When Zhang Xiu and Zhang Yanbang heard the words, their expressions changed at the same time.

If Li Wuchang did that, even if the two yamen won't convict Zhang Jincai in the end, this matter will definitely cause trouble all over the city.

At that time, Zhang Xiu, as the head of the family, will inevitably lose the reputation of not being strict in teaching children and incapable of managing the family.

This is extremely detrimental to the Zhang family.

Looking at the unscrupulous Li Wuchang, Zhang Yanbang said in a low voice: "Cousin, I believe that Zhang Jincai is just a moment of confusion, and he has absolutely no guts to rebel. Otherwise, I will accompany my cousin, and my cousin will give Zhang Jincai to me. Teach him a lesson, and I will make up for the loss of the restaurant."

Li Lingwu and the others nodded silently.

Zhang Yanbang is indeed better than Zhang Yanbo by more than one grade.

Li Wuchang shook his head and said, "Big cousin, if it's just hooligans making trouble, it's okay to say that an extremely bad incident happened in Dongli Restaurant a few days ago. Someone put a lot of Hedinghong in a large pot of porridge in the kitchen Fortunately, it was discovered in time, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous."

Glancing over the Zhang family's father and son, he continued: "I checked, it turned out that Zhang Jincai did the trick, big cousin, do you think it's a trivial matter?"

Everyone's expressions changed at the same time.

(End of this chapter)