Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 84 The Opportunity Comes
Sure enough, something happened to the Xuji Kistler Museum. The Kistler Museum was surrounded by people watching the excitement, and people talked a lot, especially the vendors in the Kistler Lane. Some people were happy and some were worried that the Kistler Museum was closed down.

I saw more than a dozen county government servants carrying out large boxes full of stones and affixed seals, and several large Taihu Lake stones were also carried onto the boat.

"Uncle Li, what happened?" Fan Ning saw the peddler Li Amao, and walked up to him and asked with a smile.

Li Amao grinned and said with a chuckle: "I heard that it seems to be tax evasion, but it was Li Quan, the shopkeeper, who exposed it. It's really interesting!"

Fan Ning immediately understood that Li Quan must have been the scapegoat and hated the Xu family for being ruthless, so he exposed the tax evader of the Kistler shop.

"Uncle Li, how do such shops usually evade taxes?"

Another old man next to him smiled and said, "Young officials don't understand. We sit in a stall for a day and pay thirty yuan in taxes. We sell as much as we sell, and we can't evade taxes even if we want to.

But shops are different, they sell stones, and the commercial tax is [-]% of the selling price. The tax office will come to collect the tax every month. The key depends on how much you quote. If you put money on it, there will be a lot of water in it. "

Li Amao curled his lips, "Speaking so much nonsense, isn't it just that the price is reported at a lower price when filing taxes! Even many transactions are not accounted for at all."

Fan Ning's heart is like a bright mirror, where is it as simple as reporting only two pennies for ten pennies, but the collection price is taxed according to the market price!This tax is ruthless.

At this time, Fan Ning saw the figure of Dutou Lu Yougen in the shop, and he walked into the shop quickly.

Lu Yougen was instructing the yamen servants to move several large Taihu stones in the store, and Fan Ning saw the town hall stone that Zhou Lin had told him at a glance.

This is a piece of cyan Taihu Lake stone with a height of one zhang.

The whole stone is full of large and small holes, and the stone is slender, much like a coral, and it is extremely well developed.

Its name is Green Coral.

When Fan Ning first saw this piece of blue coral, he felt a sense of beauty.

The Qishi Museum certified it as a high-quality Taihu stone, but both Fan Ning and Zhou Lin agreed that it should belong to the category of the best.

The stone of the town hall is the title given to it by Zhou Lin, and the strange stone hall does not recognize it. Li Quan regards a two-foot-long Taihu stone shaped like a nine-story pagoda as the treasure of the town hall.

At this time, the nine-story pagoda stone was lying in Lu Yougen's arms, in a long wooden box.

This is a difference in the level of cognition. Low-level stone appreciators pay too much attention to the shape of the stone, but they don't know much about the soul of the stone.

Li Quan, the shopkeeper, is like this. Although he has been in the business for 20 years, his level of stone identification is still relatively low, and he lacks literary accumulation. Otherwise, he would not miss the travel stones.

He pays too much attention to the shape of the stone and regards the nine-story pagoda stone as a treasure, but he cannot understand the unique beauty of green coral.

However, according to the rules of the Kistler Museum, large Taihu stones must be appraised by the proprietor Xu Zhong.

The blue coral has just been purchased and has not yet completed the process, so it will not be sold for the time being. Zhou Lin is also waiting for the opportunity to buy it.

"Be careful when lifting these stones out, don't break them."

Lu Yougen turned his head and saw Fan Ning, he hurriedly stepped forward to meet him and said with a smile, "When did the little official come back?"

"I came back last night, what's up, did Zhou Damao catch it?"

Lu Yougen shook his head, "Now that things are getting serious, he probably won't dare to go home easily. I think it's a bit difficult to catch him!"

"Then my case will be settled like this?" Fan Ning was a little dissatisfied.

Lu Yougen looked around to see if there was no one around, and said to Fan Ning in a low voice: "Don't embarrass the county magistrate too much with this case, there is news from above that he was recommended as the county magistrate of Jiangning, and the court is going through the trial.

At this juncture, he doesn't dare to make trouble, so please don't bring up the matter of the jade. "

The county magistrate of Wu County is from the eighth rank, and the county magistrate of Jiangning is the eighth rank. This is two ranks, and he has been promoted to a Beijing official. No wonder Li Yun is so careful, and he dare not ask for his own travel stone.

"Is this the meaning of the capital, or the meaning of the county lord?" Fan Ning asked tentatively.

"Of course it's the county lord's intention!"

Fan Ning carefully looked at the surrounding Taihu stones again, with a hint in his eyes.

He smiled and said to Lu Yougen: "I don't dare to embarrass the county magistrate, I really can't find that piece of jade, so I can only accept it, but my loss should be compensated!"

Lu Yougen immediately understood, and he laughed, "Don't worry, the county lord will compensate you, let me know which one you like later."

Fan Ning was overjoyed. He took a quick look at Qingshan and clasped his fists together: "Then Lu Du will have to worry about it!"

Speaking of this, Fan Ning asked curiously: "The Xu family is also a family of officials and eunuchs. If your county lord copied his shop, wouldn't you be afraid of revenge from the Xu family?"

Lu Yougen snorted coldly, "Xu Chong's grandson ordered his servants to steal, and the shop he opened was evading huge taxes. If the news spreads to the capital, will Xu Zhong's son keep his official position? Grandson still wants to take the imperial examination?"

Now it's too late for the Xu family to beg the county monarch, how dare they take revenge? "

"Has the county lord communicated with the Xu family?" Fan Ning asked again.

"There should be! The county lord said that Xu Daru is going to Xuanzhou to serve as the governor of the state school, so he doesn't plan to take this store."

Lu Yougen said again in a low voice: "The key is that Li Quan handed over a ledger, which recorded every transaction of the Kistler Museum in the past 15 years, and the tax evasion of the Xu family was at least nearly ten thousand taels of silver."

Fan Ning nodded. It should be that Li Yun and Xu Zhong reached some kind of deal. Li Yun will not pursue tax evasion, and then send these Taihu stones to the capital. It is estimated that Li Yun's promotion is certain.

If the Xu family doesn't want this store, is this my chance?
Fanning's heart skipped a beat. He needed to plan carefully for this matter.

The tolerances carried all the Taihu stones onto the boat, and sealed the gate, and the tolerances boarded the boat and walked away.

The vendors in Qishi Lane refused to disperse, and they were still discussing around. The closure of the Qishi Pavilion will undoubtedly disturb the Huashi Market in Mudu Town.

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Early the next morning, Fan Ning changed into a brand new blue satin scholar's robe, which he made during the New Year, but he didn't wear it during the New Year, and he didn't change it until today.

Today is Zhu Yuanfu's [-]th birthday, and Fan Ning received an invitation the day before yesterday to go to Zhu's residence to pay his respects.

"My son really has face! The Zhu family in Mudu Town only sent out ten invitations, and you were the only one."

Zhang Sanniang was combing her son's hair while muttering.

"Yesterday, the lady from the Gu family next door showed off to me, saying that her uncle had received an invitation from the Zhu Mansion, so I showed her your invitation. Guess what, she was dumbfounded at the time, huh! It would be nice if I didn't show off to her." , she even showed it off to me."

"Mother, I'm classmates with Mr. Zhu's granddaughter, and I take good care of her. Isn't it normal for him to invite me to the birthday ceremony?"

"Bullshit!"

Zhang Sanniang slapped him hard on the head, "Is your mother a fool? If you didn't get the first place in the county examination, he would give you an invitation card?"

Fanning suddenly realized that if he didn't want to be attacked again, the best way was to shut up.

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According to the customs of Wu County, birthday celebrations are the same as drinking wedding wine, and usually take several days.

The front gate of the Zhu Mansion was extremely lively, hundreds of guests had already arrived at the Zhu Mansion one after another, the wide open space was full of carriages, and even hundreds of gorgeous boats were parked on the special pier of the Zhu Mansion.

The Zhu Mansion sent out a total of [-] invitation cards. The guests came from all over the world, even the capital city. Of course, the guests were mainly from the south of the Yangtze River.

Those who came to pay respects to the birthday were either rich or noble, and became a very eye-catching sight in Mudu Town, causing a sensation in the entire Pingjiang Mansion.

For this reason, Pingjiang Mansion also specially sent hundreds of town soldiers to the town to maintain order. During the three days of the birthday, it brought a little bit of inconvenience to the life of the townspeople.

Some people in Mudu Town also received invitations, mainly the neighbors and friends of the Zhu family who usually get along well.

In the morning, Fan Ning came to the gate of Zhu Mansion alone, holding a wooden box painted with gold and vermilion in his arms.

Inside the wooden box is a bottle of wine he distilled and purified, about [-] degrees, which can be regarded as the crown of baijiu in the world. This is his birthday gift to Zhu Yuanfu.

Behind him was a porter, carrying Fan Ning's three Taihu stones.

There were more than [-] steps away from the gate of Zhu Mansion, and a housekeeper who had been paying attention to Fan Ning came up to him.

It's no wonder that a young man with a porter doesn't look like a birthday guest.

"Little official, please stay!"

The butler was very polite, stepped forward and bowed to Fan Ning, "Where is the family of the little official?"

He thought Fanning came with his parents.

Fan Ning handed him the invitation, and the butler immediately respected him, "So it's Xiaoguan Fan, I'm sorry, please come with me, Xiaoguan."

The steward gave the porter more than a dozen coins, and then replaced a servant to carry the stones for Fan Ning.

As soon as they got to the gate, they saw Zhu Pei running out of the mansion, followed by her guard Jian Meizi.

Today Zhu Pei changed into women's clothes, wearing a dark red narrow-sleeved short jacket, sewn with high-quality su satin, printed with cloud-like patterns, embroidered with gold thread on the cuffs and lower skirt, and wearing a large light yellow gold-edged skirt , wearing a pair of light green embroidered shoes.

From a distance, her dress is extraordinarily colorful and eye-catching, and her eyebrows are specially drawn on her face, which makes her pretty face as crystal clear as snow, and her facial features are exquisite and lovely, just like a little fairy among flowers.

She was in a good mood, seeing Fan Ning, her pretty face burst into a smile, but her tone was still complaining.

"Dumb, why did you come here!"

Fan Ning scratched his head and smiled, "It's still early!"

"But I'm in a hurry!"

Zhu Pei took a good look and saw three Taihu stones, she immediately smiled, "That's great, you really brought the stones."

"Of course, I'm a trustworthy person. There are three Taihu Lake stones here. You choose one."

Fan Ning is pretending to be generous, he is betting that Zhu Pei has not seen the map of traveling in mountains and rivers.

"Really?"

Zhu Pei smiled slyly, "Don't regret it!"

Fan Ning suddenly realized something was wrong, and he copied the Mountain and Stream Traveling Stone in his hand, "This one doesn't count, you can choose one of the other two."

Zhu Pei curled his lips, "You are really not sincere. If someone cheats casually, you will be cheated out of your old background. No way! I want the piece in your hand."

Fan Ning realized that he had been fooled, this stinky girl was too shrewd.

He laughed dryly, "This Taihu stone is just a general grade, and the other two are top grade and high quality."

"Nonsense! If it's just a general product, the shopkeeper of the Kistler shop will send a thief to steal it?"

Fan Ning was taken aback, "You also know?"

"I just found out yesterday. You are very powerful! My grandfather even praised you to the sky when you ran to find the county magistrate alone."

Fan Ning thought for a while, then handed her the Taihu Stone in his hand, "Okay! This one is for you."

Zhu Pei looked at him for a moment, "Are you giving it to me sincerely?"

Fan Ning nodded, "My third uncle is doing well now, thanks to your help, this stone is called Xishan Traveling Stone, which can be regarded as the best Taihu Lake stone, and its taste is even higher than that columnar Thousand Cave Stone."

Zhu Pei was a little moved, she smiled, "I'm actually teasing you, I'll choose one of the other two!"

(End of this chapter)