A hundred flavors of life

Chapter 745 is extremely ridiculous! (Please order in full!)

After Wang Xifeng returned, she immediately took stock of her belongings. Her dowry was fifty thousand taels. She had made some money from loan sharks in the past two years. Although she had made up a lot for the public school, there was still a few thousand taels left over.

More than 50,000 taels of silver are still far from the amount of 350,000 taels.

She also had some gold, silver, and expensive jewelry. Although she had to change those items into money, which amounted to several thousand taels of silver, she didn't plan to move them.

After all, she is also the grandma of the housekeeper now, so she can't live without even a piece of jewelry. She, Wang Xifeng, can't afford to lose this person, and she has to find a solution from her father-in-law.

He took the key to the warehouse and took Ping'er to the public treasury. After taking inventory, Wang Xifeng spat out.

In fact, she has been in charge of the family for two years, and she knows exactly how much money there is in the treasury of the Rongguo Mansion. In the huge treasury of the Rongguo Mansion, there are only 150,000 taels of silver left. If she hadn't provided usury money to supplement it, she would have had a lot of money. The family is so extravagant and extravagant that it can no longer support them.

After weighing it in my mind, I decided to keep only 20,000 yuan and take the rest to make money for Boss Cui.

At this moment, Wang Xifeng hesitated for a moment, but thinking of the Master Cai he saw today and the big business of Boss Cui, she immediately made up her mind and told Ping'er:

"Tell the person who came to Wang's house to ask her man to come over tonight to move money!"

The next day, Wang Xifeng barely scraped together 200,000 taels of silver from her own silver and the public silver. In order to facilitate transportation when she went to Shucuilou two days later, she asked Lai Wang to take it in batches and exchange it for 20,000 taels of gold. .

Now there is still a shortfall of 150,000 taels of silver, and if it is converted into gold, it is still short of 15,000 taels.

Wang Xifeng had already had the idea to go to the public treasury to find those valuable antiques and treasures, and first took them out and exchanged them for silver at a pawn shop.

Three-foot corals, glazed screens, jade horses from the Sui and Tang Dynasties, pearls from Liaodong, green Ruyi, there were dozens of treasures. They were divided up a dozen times, smuggled out of the house, found a distant pawn shop, and all were mortgaged. Work well.

The pawn shop saw that these items had extraordinary origins and did not dare to lower the price. They gave them a middle price of one hundred thousand taels of silver. Of course, if all these items were pawned, the price would double, but Wang Xifeng still thought of making money. To be redeemed.

The 100,000 taels of silver were exchanged for 10,000 taels of gold, leaving a shortfall of 50,000 taels of silver.

Wang Xifeng went to find someone to borrow the money as she had thought before. She didn't look for anyone but Lai Da. Firstly, she knew that the Lai family could come up with the money. Secondly, the fewer people who knew about this matter, the better. Jia Lai Da was there the day Rong and Jia Qiang borrowed two hundred taels of silver from her. I guess the other party must have had some suspicions, so they might as well just go to him and save the slave from his imagination by giving her some benefits.

In the evening, Wang Xifeng went to Lai's house in person and asked Lai Da to borrow 50,000 taels of silver, promising to pay it back within two months with half a month interest.

Lai Da was working for the government and had one of his legs broken at first. Later, he helped Wang Xifeng deal with Lin Chong and it was even worse. His son was also involved. To this day, he has not seen anyone alive or dead, and it is impossible to say that he has no resentment in his heart.

So I didn’t want to borrow it, but Wang Xifeng is the head of the family, so I still have to give him some face. Besides, they also give interest, so I can’t live with the money. Even though 50,000 yuan is already the Lai family’s wealth, since Second Mistress Lian wants to use it, she can take it. It's okay to go and do it, but the brothers have to settle the accounts clearly and have to leave an IOU.

Wang Xifeng didn't take it seriously. She asked someone to write an IOU, took her fingerprints, took away 50,000 taels of silver from Lai's house, and exchanged it for gold outside. The money was finally collected.

As for Lai Da, he started to think about it as soon as Wang Xifeng left. The last time Jia Rong borrowed money from Wang Xifeng, he said that he had found a way to make money. Now it seems that 80% of the way is true, and the profit is even bigger. Otherwise, how could Second Mistress Lian do it? Borrow money at interest.

After thinking about it, he suddenly became greedy. He got up and went to Dongfu. When he arrived at Ningguo Mansion, he met Lai Sheng, the second brother of the housekeeper, and said that he had something to discuss with Brother Rong.

Jia Rong had just been beaten by his father Jia Zhen today. His whole body hurt and his face was bruised. He didn't want to see guests, so he asked Jia Qiang to see Lai Da.

When Lai Da met, he stuffed him with ten taels of silver and asked about his suspicion that Wang Xifeng had taken Jia Rong and Jia Qiang's way of making money.

Jia Qiang's heart moved. He felt that Lai Da was also involved. In that case, wouldn't they get more benefits?

He immediately collected the money and asked Lai Da to wait while he went to the back to discuss with Jia Rong.

Jia Rong had just finished taking the medicine and immediately laughed when Jia Qiang said it. The two brothers thought of going together and immediately called Lai in.

When Lai Da saw Jia Rong, he was startled. He was beaten into panda eyes, but he knew that things in Dongfu were complicated, and it was hard to ask how he was injured. He simply talked about it and asked Wang Xifeng about it.

Jia Rong pretended to be reluctant at first, but Lai Da reluctantly took out another ten taels of silver and put it on the table. The former reluctantly explained the conditions that Boss Cui offered to Wang Xifeng today.

When Lai Da heard this, his heart suddenly became angry. With Wang Xifeng in front of him, he did not doubt that the matter was false. He only thought about the 20% interest per month of this financial opportunity. The Lai family had to have a hand in it.

He scolded Wang Xifeng in his heart for using my Lai family's money to earn interest. You take 15% for yourself and give half to my family. This Feng Lazi's heart is dark.

Lai Da made up his mind and said to Jia Rong with a smile: "Brother Rong, you see I have some money left in my hand. Can I also introduce you to Uncle Lai?"

Jia Rong felt that he had to ask Hua Twelve about this matter first, so he asked Lai Da to come back tomorrow. He would ask the person in charge first and then give a reply.

As soon as Lai Da left, Jia Rong and Jia Qiang went to find Hua Twelve.

When Hua Twelve saw Jia Rong's appearance, both eyes were black and his face was bruised, he said funnyly:

"I ask you to be careful when you come here. I understand if you put on makeup, so you don't look like a ghost!"

Jia Rong smiled bitterly: "Coach Lin, stop joking, I asked my father to beat me!"

Hua Twelve suddenly understood, and then asked with a half-smile:

"By the way, I heard that your father covets your wife and often asks her to bring him soup at night. If your wife doesn't come, your father will take out his anger on you. Is it true?"

Jia Rong was startled, and suddenly cried while hugging his head. Seeing him like this, it was obvious whether it was true or false.

Jia Qiang shook her head and smiled bitterly, thinking to herself that Coach Lin was really poking the wound hard!

Hua Twelve couldn't stand this and knocked on the table:

"Why are you crying, gentlemen? I heard that your daughter-in-law is a rare beauty. If you can protect her, act like a husband. If you feel that you can't protect her, divorce her quickly. Don’t delay and harm others!”

Seeing that Jia Rong was just crying, Hua Twelve was too lazy to mind other people's business and said impatiently: "Okay, if you have something to say, if you want to cry again, get out of here!"

Seeing that he was angry, Jia Rong did not dare to cry anymore and just sobbed. Seeing this, Jia Qiang quickly told Lai Da about joining the gang.

While Hua Twelve was thinking about this, he tapped his fingers on the table and suddenly smiled:

"Let him in, but tell him that the threshold is high. If you want to enter, it will cost you at least one hundred thousand taels!"

Jia Rong forgot to sob. Jia Qiang was surprised and said:

"My Lord, that Lai Da is just a slave of my Jia family. No matter how good he is, how can he get a hundred thousand taels?"

Hua Twelve chuckled: "You are looking down on me. A master may not necessarily be rich, and a slave may not be poor. Just tell him this when you get back. If Lai Da agrees, take him to see Shopkeeper Cui. Just do what Wang Xifeng did!"

The next day, Jia Rong told Lai Dayi about the situation. He didn't expect the latter to agree, but Lai Dayi happily agreed and went to see shopkeeper Cui for an interview.

This time, Jia Rong and Jia Qiang were both confused. How could this slave be so rich?

He took Lai Da to see Shopkeeper Cui, and the discussion with Wang Xifeng was similar. Lai Da also asked for a land deed in Bianliang City as a guarantee, promising that after Wang Xifeng, he would come over to send money and sign the deed.

In the evening, Hua Twelve received the news sent by Shopkeeper Cui. After reading it, it was a bit funny. After Lai Da, Jia Rong and the others left together, they went around in a circle and came back again. When they met Shopkeeper Cui again, they actually wanted to increase the amount. He said that he would give another 200,000 taels of silver, and a total of 300,000 taels of silver would come out.

Hua Twelve was surprised that the Lai family was rich, and he laughed: "This is really a shameless person!"

On the three-day period of shopkeeper Cui, Wang Xifeng had several boxes of gold pulled in a carriage into the backyard of Zhucui Tower, accompanied by a specially invited scribe from Kaifeng Prefecture.

This clerk was not here to witness, but was invited to check the land deed book.

During the reign of Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty, forged land deeds were rampant among the people. In order to solve this problem, the court registered all houses and land. When disputes occurred among the people, the official registration books were used as a reference. Anything inconsistent with the books would be regarded as forged. Deed.

Subsequent house pawn sales will be based on the government records.

This time Wang Xifeng invested a huge amount of shares. Although he didn't think it was fake, for the sake of safety, he went to the government office to ask a scribe to come with the book to verify the authenticity of the land deed, and to serve as a witness.

Shopkeeper Cui didn't say anything about this. He first asked someone to weigh the gold that Wang Xifeng brought. When he saw that there was no difference in the amount, he took out the land deed and gave it to Wang Xifeng to verify his identity.

The scribe came up with the book and compared it, nodded and said, "The location, orientation, and number of feet of the house are all correct!"

Then he picked up the land deed and put it on the base book. The ink mark somewhere on the land deed matched the pattern on the base book, and he said again: "The hidden pattern matches, this is the real contract!"

Wang Xifeng smiled like a flower and nodded to Shopkeeper Cui.

Shopkeeper Cui asked someone to fetch the deed that had been written long ago. On it was written the amount of Wang Xifeng's "Liancaiheben", the amount of interest, the date of interest distribution, etc. Everything discussed that day was written on it.

Boss Cui smiled and said: "Second Mistress Lian saw it clearly, and then the two of us pressed our fingerprints, and the matter is settled!"

Wang Xifeng couldn't read all the words herself, so she specially asked a trustworthy accountant from the village where she was married to help her read the deed. The accountant read it to her while reading it. After she nodded in approval, he and shopkeeper Cui signed the contract together. fingerprint, and finally asked the scribe from Kaifeng Mansion to sign and seal it as a witness.

This 'Liancaiheben' business is settled.

Wang Xifeng left immediately and left happily taking the deed and the land deed. She thought that this business would definitely make a profit, and even if Shopkeeper Cui and the others lost money, the land deed of the towering green building would still be worth their money. Half an hour later, Lai Da and several of the Lai family's children also went to the backyard of Shucuilou to deliver gold. Beside him, the scribe who had been to Kaifeng Mansion before came again.

The same procedure as Wang Xifeng went through again, checking the authenticity of the land deed, signing the deed, and finally both parties pressed their fingerprints, so Lai Da successfully boarded the ship.

Time passed, and when the day came for dividends and interest payments, Wang Xifeng happily asked Lai Wang to take people to Shucuilou to collect the interest money. In order to collect the money, he even drove a carriage there.

Unexpectedly, when Laiwang arrived at Shucui Building and explained that he was here to collect interest money, he was kicked out by his clerk without even seeing Boss Cui's face.

One of the guys even spat in Lai Wang’s face: “Bah, you didn’t even ask where our tower is, yet you dare to come here and blackmail us!”

Lai Wangdeng was confused immediately and felt vaguely bad, so he quickly went back to find Wang Xifeng.

Wang Xifeng was waiting for the money at home. She didn't even go to see Jia Mu. When she saw Lai Wang come in, she asked, "Did you get the interest money? How much did you give?"

Lai Wang said quickly: "Grandma, something big happened. That Shucuilou refused to acknowledge the blame and kicked me out directly. They even spat in my face and said we were blackmailing!"

Wang Xifeng's head buzzed and her body swayed. She was quickly supported by Ping'er, who advised:

"Grandma, don't worry, didn't we sign the contract?"

Wang Xifeng suddenly came back to her senses: "Yes, yes, we have a written deed and a land deed. They want to take advantage of us, but there is no way out. I want to blind them!"

He turned around and hurriedly went to look for the book and deed.

He took out the hidden book deeds and land deeds from the red paint treasure box. When he looked at it, Wang Xifeng felt his chest explode, his throat sweetened, and a mouthful of blood spurted out more than a foot away, dyeing the wall in front of him red. , and fell down when he raised his head.

Ping'er quickly hugged her behind her and cried loudly: "Grandma, what's wrong with you? Someone come quickly, grandma is vomiting blood."

She saw the book deed tightly held in Wang Xifeng's hand. When she saw it, Ping'er also swayed and saw that the book deed and the land deed were all blank, with not a single word on them.

The incident of Wang Xifeng vomiting blood and falling into coma alarmed everyone in the Rongguo Mansion. Just when Jia Mu asked Jia Zheng to ask the acquaintance Dr. Wang, someone suddenly came to report that the housekeeper Lai Da had also vomited blood and died!

Everyone present was shocked, thinking what happened today?

Only Jia Baoyu was a little impatient and said: "We can't help here, why don't we come back to visit later. Didn't Sister Bao say yesterday that she would hold a poetry meeting in Lixiangyuan? How about we go to Lixiangyuan first?"

Everyone felt as if they were meeting Baoyu for the first time, even Xue Baochai, who had just entered the palace. Normally, Jia Baoyu called Wang Xifeng both sister and sister-in-law, and looked close to her. But now she is vomiting blood. What do you care about? it is this?

Jia Zheng was extremely angry: "Get out or see if I don't beat you to death!"

Jia's mother scolded Jia Zheng and said, "Why are you still showing off your prestige here? Why don't you go and find the imperial doctor!"

When Dr. Wang was called over, he administered acupuncture and medicine, and finally revived Wang Xifeng. However, Dr. Wang said that his vitality was greatly damaged this time, and it would take at least half a year to recover.

But Wang Xifeng couldn't care about that much and just shouted: "Brothers Rong and Qiang collaborated with others to defraud our family of money."

Everyone was shocked when they heard it, and then they didn't believe it. Ning Rong was one, and Ning Guofu's brother defrauded Rong Guofu's grandma of money? This is impossible no matter how you think about it.

But Wang Xifeng insisted that she was deceived.

As a last resort, Jia's mother asked Jia Lian to go to Dongfu again and invite Jia Zhen, Jia Rong and his son, and Jia Qiang to come and talk.

When others arrived, Jia Zhen listened to Wang Xifeng's accusation without asking whether she was right or wrong. She gave Jia Rong a slap in the face and then added another one:

"Bastard Seed, if you dare to lie to your aunt, I will beat you to death today." Just as he was about to give his own son a gas-consuming root, he was quickly stopped by the people around him.

Mother Jia touched the ground with her crutch and said aggressively: "What's the matter, wait until we find out what happened. How could you beat your own son like this?"

Jia Rong was lying on the ground, his eyes full of resentment. He felt like a mirror in his mind. He had helped Qin Keqing block his father's harassment several times in the past few days. Now his father was using the situation as an excuse, and he was afraid that he would just beat him to death.

Just listen to Jia Zhen shouting: "You two beasts, tell me clearly how you deceived your aunt!"

Jia Rong and Jia Qiang knelt on the ground, refusing to admit anything and not knowing what was going on.

Ping'er pointed at them and said, "They are the ones who collaborated with others to defraud grandma of her money!"

Wang Xifeng was weak and took out two pieces of white paper: "They tricked me into releasing money for interest. They also deposited the land deed and wrote a book deed. But now it's the day of interest release, and the book deed and land deed have all turned into white paper." "

Jia Rong covered her crotch after her own father had touched her vaginal leg, and asked with some pain:

"If auntie wants to be cheated by me, she can report it to the official. Don't use two pieces of white paper to accuse your nephew. I have never heard of deeds and land deeds turning into white paper by themselves. If you want to accuse your nephew, you should also find a better one. Excuse"

When everyone heard it, they thought it was right. After all, no one had ever heard of a deed or a land deed turning into blank paper on its own.

But Wang Xifeng's master and servant insisted that they were deceived by Jia Rong and Jia Qiang, which made everyone a little unsure.

Finally, Mother Jia asked: "Girl Feng, how much money have you been defrauded of? If it's one thousand, eight hundred taels, I'll just give it to you. Why get angry and hurt the harmony between the two houses?"

The corners of Wang Xifeng's mouth began to bleed again, tears fell, and she said with a trembling voice: "Three hundred and fifty thousand taels."

Mother Jia's voice was also trembling: "Girl Feng, are you confused? How can you have so much money?"

Wang Xifeng could no longer hide the emptying of the public treasury, and finally a thunderstorm broke out. Only then did Jia Mu and others know that there was less than 20,000 taels of silver left in the entire treasury of the Duke's mansion.

When Jia Mu found out the news, she said angrily: "Girl Feng, you didn't just touch thirty-five taels of silver."

Wang Xifeng argued weakly: "I only took 150,000 taels from the public treasury and mortgaged some things. The rest was my own dowry and the borrowed 50,000 taels. When I took over the public treasury before, , the money is less than this, I only earn this amount by lending money to supplement the public income."

When Jia Mu heard this, she looked at Mrs. Wang in shock and asked: "When I taught you how to run a house before, you always had hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. Where did the money go?"

Mrs. Wang was so frightened that she knelt down and said weakly: "My second brother needs money for business operations, so my wife will give it to him first."

Jia Mu asked again: "How much did you use?"

"Five, five hundred thousand taels."

Mother Jia's body shook angrily: "Okay, okay, you Wang family are all good wives, you are really more daring to reach out than the other."

Wang Xifeng cried: "Ancestor, it's better to get the money back first."

The matter finally reached the government, and the Kaifeng government took it very seriously and invited the parties involved to confront him in court.

However, both Boss Cui of Shucuilou and the witness scribe at the time denied that such a thing had ever happened. The former was even more amused and said: "Why don't you grab the interest money that is 20% of the monthly interest? Go ahead and dream. There is everything in dreams!" These words are all taught by Hua Twelve.

Both sides insisted on their own opinions, and there was no clue about the case. Kaifeng Prefecture Yin was planning to investigate first, and the case was scheduled for trial on another day. He heard someone beating a drum outside, saying that he was also cheated, and the person who complained was Ningguo Prefecture. Butler Lai Sheng.

Fu Yin called Lai Sheng to the lobby. The latter also said that he had been deceived by Boss Cui, and Boss Cui simply didn't even look at him.

The governor first asked about his identity, and when he learned that he was a slave of Ning Rong's second mansion, he then asked how much money he had been defrauded of.

Lai Sheng opened his mouth and said, "Sir, my family was defrauded of three hundred thousand taels of silver!"

There was an instant uproar in the hall, and everyone in Ning Rong's second house looked surprised. Boss Cui smiled contemptuously, and even the governor of Kaifeng laughed, but it was just a sneer:

"I originally heard that the handwriting on the deeds and land deeds disappeared, and I thought I had never heard of it. But I didn't expect that now I have gained knowledge. A slave's seed has been defrauded of 300,000 taels. Then I have become a beggar. You're a beggar, what's the point of interrogating me, quit the court!"

After saying that, he stood up, waved his sleeves, and left angrily. Lord Fu Yin felt that this matter was extremely ridiculous.

In fact, the disappeared handwriting was ink prepared by Hua Twelve using cuttlefish ink and several herbs. It is a mixture of animal and plant proteins. Although it looks the same as ink, if you use it to write, it can last up to half a month, and then The ink will automatically decompose.

The land deed was also done in this way. As for the records of Kaifeng Mansion, it didn't matter. With Gao Taiwei here, the scribes were all his own.

Just when Hua Twelve thought that today was a good day and decided to leave for work, he invited his colleagues to have a drink at Shucuilou. A monk, a monk, and two monks came outside his house.

　Thanks to: 08a, Brother Xiao Xiaohu in the Demon World for the reward, and thanks to the brothers who voted for monthly votes and recommendation votes, thank you very much.

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