Siheyuan: Start with a big car

In the tailor shop, after hearing this, Liao Yucheng raised his head and looked at Chen Xueru in disbelief. His eyes looked as if he didn't recognize the woman in front of him.

No wonder he feels so.

Liao Yucheng was only a temporary worker at the Zhengyangmen Subdistrict Office. Because of his good relationship with the deputy director of the Zhengyangmen Subdistrict Office, he got the opportunity to work as a public manager at Chenji Tailor Shop.

He is already married, but his wife is ugly and his family is poor.

Entering the tailor shop and seeing the beautiful Chen Xueru, Liao Yucheng suddenly had evil thoughts.

In addition, Chen Xueru comes from a tailoring family, and her family has quite a lot of money.

Although Chen Ji Tailor Shop is a public-private partnership, it still pays dividends to Chen Xueru every year.

If we put it in future generations, Chen Xueru would be a proper little rich woman.

Beautiful and rich, Liao Yucheng decided to pursue Chen Xueru at that time.

He concealed the fact that he was married and was courteous to Chen Xueru every day. At that time, Chen Xueru was at a low point in her life because of her ex-husband's departure.

The two soon fell in love with each other.

And now this woman who is about to marry her is actually watching him get hurt without doing anything. Why?

Liao Yucheng was also a smart man and realized something was wrong instantly.

He turned to look at Li Weidong and said coldly: "You, you guys know each other!"

Chen Xueru was a little hesitant at first, but after hearing this, she did not deny it.

He nodded and said, "This is Director Li from the steel rolling mill."

"Director? Let me tell you, Chen Xueru, why are you ignoring me? It turns out that you have fallen in love with a great director!" Liao Yucheng said with a cold snort. At this time, he was already sure that Director Li and Chen Xueru must have had an affair before.

Hearing this, Chen Xueru's expression changed drastically and she explained: "Liao Yucheng, what are you talking about? Director Li and I are old friends. We don't have the kind of relationship you imagined."

Chen Xueru's performance couldn't fool Liao Yucheng's eyes. Now that he saw Chen Xueru actually protecting Li Weidong, he became even more angry: "Okay, you two bitches."

"oops"

Liao Yucheng was originally going to curse a few words to express his anger, but the wound on his head suddenly opened, and he couldn't help but gasp in pain.

He stretched out his hand and touched it. His hands were sticky, and his face turned pale and he almost fainted.

"I'm going to die, I'm going to die."

Liao Yucheng didn't care about arguing with Chen Xueru and Li Weidong. He stood up and staggered out of the house.

He would deal with the matter of this bad couple later. He had to quickly find a place to bandage the wound.

Liao Yucheng's figure disappeared from the door of the store, and the room suddenly became quiet.

Chen Xueru was silent for a moment and smiled awkwardly at Li Weidong: "Director Li, I'm sorry, Manager Liao Yucheng has a bad temper. I thought you came to the tailor shop to cause trouble, so you got angry."

"It's not just because of the tailor shop." Seeing Chen Xueru's miserable expression, Li Weidong didn't ask further.

He took out the tiger skin from the sack, handed it to Chen Xueru and said, "Comrade Chen Xueru, I want to sew this tiger skin into a quilt. See if I can do it."

"It's really tiger skin!" Chen Xueru exclaimed, took it with both hands, rubbed the tiger skin with her palms, and said with a slight smile: "I didn't expect that after so many years, I would finally be able to fulfill my father's last wish."

Li Weidong was a little confused and asked with a smile: "What's the matter, is this piece of tiger skin useful to you?"

"It's so useful." Chen Xueru stood up and picked up the ruler. While measuring the size of the tiger skin, she said: "Chen Ruler near me. Others know that he is a famous tailor in the capital, but they don't know that in our Chen family's traditional skills , actually sewing fur.”

After listening to Chen Xueru's explanation, Li Weidong finally understood.

Chen Xueru's father, Chen Chizi, was not from the capital, but migrated from the Northeast. There is an allusion to this.

The Chen family is a family of cobblers. Chen Zhizi learned how to sew furs from his father since he was a child. He was clever and handy, and became a famous cobbler around him when he was just an adult. The fur coats he sewed reached first-class standards in terms of style and strength.

As his reputation spread, more and more out-of-town customers came to ask him to sew leather clothes, including bear skins, fox skins, and Chen Ruler.

There are even some rare furs, some of which even Chen Zhizi’s father dare not touch rashly.

You should know that sewing fur is completely different from sewing satin clothes, because fur is born from animals, and the quality of each skin is different, so it is easy for problems to occur during the sewing process.

Seeing that Chen Zhizi was a little unsteady and refused to accept anyone who came, Chen Zhizi's father could only remind him to be more cautious and not accept that kind of precious fur.

However, Chen Chizi considered himself to be the most famous master cobbler in the country and wanted to do a big business, so he did not listen to his father's words at all.

In the following time, instead of restraining, the needle was called Chen Yizhen. The needle here was not a sewing needle, but a large needle needed to sew leather.

There is no first place in literature and no second place in martial arts. Among cobblers, there is no so-called first place. Chen Ruler's arrogance has also attracted dissatisfaction from some colleagues.

One day, a merchant from the capital came to Chen's fur shop with a piece of tiger skin and wanted Chen Zhizi to sew the skin into a waistcoat.

In those days, although tiger skin was considered a valuable fur, it was not uncommon. However, the skin of the merchant was a white tiger skin.

Moreover, the identity of the merchant is not ordinary. He is a housekeeper of a palace in the capital. This leather waistcoat is a birthday gift from the prince to the old lady of the palace.

After seeing the white tiger skin and learning the identity of the merchant, Chen's father's first reaction was that he could not take the job.

For this reason, while throwing away the work in the fur shop to entertain the merchants, he invited Chen Zhizi to the wing in the backyard.

"Son, this leather goods is too valuable and has a great origin. If something goes wrong, we will definitely get into big trouble." Father Chen advised Chen Chizi.

Chen Zhizi disagreed: "Dad, don't worry, I have just checked the white tiger skin. It is a top-quality leather. There is no problem in terms of flexibility or solidity. There will definitely be no problem. Besides, , I have long been looking forward to encountering such a rare fur. Every famous cobbler has famous works, like Zhang Cobbler in Dongshan, he once sewed a red fox fur for the county magistrate in the government. Liu's cobbler once sewed a kind of white bear skin.

If I don't have a famous work, no matter how many leathers I sew, I can't become a master cobbler, and I can't bring glory to our Chen family. "

"But this time it's leather"

Father Chen still wanted to give advice, but Chen Chizi was already impatient: "Dad, your skills in sewing leather are actually very good, but why haven't you made a name for yourself after so many years? It's because you are too timid. Look at me , I have only been in the industry for seven or eight years, and my reputation has already surpassed yours.

Do you think you should give me advice? "

When Chen's father heard this, he knew that Chen Chizi was determined and had no choice but to give up.

But it was not that he was unprepared, and while Chen Zhizi was sewing leather, he took out two hundred taels of silver from the store's cash box, put it in a jar, and buried it next to the Chen family's ancestral grave.

He always felt that something might happen to Chen Chizi. This feeling had no basis. It was just what the old cobbler came up with based on decades of life experience.

Facts have proved that Father Chen’s premonition was accurate.

After Chen Chizi took the job, he locked himself in the shop and began to concentrate on sewing the leather. At the beginning, it was quite smooth, and the leather took shape smoothly.

Chen Chizi suddenly became excited. He had already begun to imagine his future after becoming a master cobbler. His sewing wages could be increased five times, and no matter where he went, others would give him a thumbs up.

At this moment, with a slight tearing sound, the entire leather split from the middle.

Chen Chizi was shocked and squatted on the ground in fright, shouting that it was impossible.

As if he was going crazy, he picked up the broken leathers and soon discovered the clues. He put the leathers to his nose and smelled carefully. He smelled a strong smell of potion.

This kind of potion is very familiar to Chen Zhizi. It can stick several broken pieces of leather together, which is enough to deceive others.

It's just that the leather is already in pieces, and as long as it shakes a little more, the leather will fall apart.

Generally speaking, those shops that sell leather goods will use this method to cut off the good leather from the inferior leather and stick it together to sell it to customers as a piece of intact leather.

Only after the customer returns with the leather and starts making the leather will he realize that he has been cheated. The leather goods store will reject the customer's request to return the leather based on the rule that they are not responsible for the leather leaving the counter.

This method is not difficult to see through. After all, the potion has a strong smell. You can detect it with just a few sniffs.

But the leather was sprinkled with perfume, and the scent masked the taste of the potion.

At the beginning, Chen Zhizi was also surprised and asked the merchants why they sprinkled spices on the leather.

The merchant lied that this was the hobby of the old lady in the palace. Chen Chizi was a cobbler in a small place. He didn't know much about the life in the palace, so he didn't care.

This is how you get cheated.

Chen Chizi had predicted at that time that the merchant must have many plans in setting up such a big plan.

So, with the last glimmer of hope, he took the leather and went to find the merchant. Unexpectedly, the merchant was guarding him at the door, and there were several servants behind the merchant.

When the merchant saw Chen Ruler coming out, he sneered for a while and then asked: "Chen Ruler, what's the matter? Is my old lady's leather waistcoat finished?"

Chen Chizi smiled bitterly and said: "Uncle Bai, the piece of leather you gave me is scrap leather. Even if I have great skills, I can't make it into a leather waistcoat."

The merchant's face became serious when he heard this: "Chen Chizi, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't talk nonsense. When I handed the white tiger skin to you, you personally inspected the goods. It was a complete piece of fur, and there was no trace of it at all. Any damaged area, but you now claim that it is a piece of broken leather, did you accidentally break the leather while sewing!"

Hearing this, Chen Chizi knew that the other party was going to blackmail him, so he didn't say much: "Uncle Bai, your hands and feet are clean this time. I admit defeat. This white tiger skin is indeed rare. So, I will give you two thousand taels of silver. Compensation for the white tiger skin.”

Two thousand taels of silver is equivalent to more than one million in later generations. This is almost equal to all the savings of the Chen family. Chen Zhizi is already very sincere.

It's a pity that the other party didn't set up such a big game just for the sake of silver.

Butler Bai looked at Chen Chizi coldly and said, "Yes, the average white tiger skin is indeed worth only two thousand taels of silver, but this white tiger skin was taken from the white tiger that my prince personally hunted in the mountains. This represents Our prince’s filial piety towards the old lady.

You want to use two thousand taels of silver to send me away. I can't explain it to the prince when I return to the capital. "

When Chen Chizi heard this, his expression changed drastically, and he asked with a cold face: "How much do you want?"

"Twenty thousand taels!" Butler Bai stretched out two fingers and sneered: "This is because I think you are young and have a bright future. If it were anyone else, I would have already informed the government to arrest you. If you dare to do this, You are so tired of destroying our prince's favorite thing!"

Twenty thousand taels. Chen Chizi's vision went dark, he staggered and almost fainted on the ground.

He also understood at this time that Butler Bai wanted to kill him!

He regretted not listening to his father's words, but there was nothing he could do about it.

Butler Bai's design was so strict that even if he wanted to cheat, there was nothing he could do.

In the end, there was really no other way, so Chen Ruler could only delay.

"Twenty thousand taels is really too much. Can you give me some time to raise it?"

"Of course! But I'm warning you, don't even think about escaping." Butler Bai was obviously prepared. The dozen or so servants he brought surrounded Chen Ji's leather shop so tightly that even flies couldn't fly out.

Although Chen Chizi bought time, he had no way to escape.

Just when Chen Chizi thought about seeking death, Chen's father, who had not been seen all day, suddenly climbed in from the window of the shop next door.

When Chen Chizi saw his father, he knelt down on the ground with a thud: "Dad, the child didn't listen to you and caused big trouble for our family. Don't worry, I won't drag you down. Now I will find a piece of white silk to commit suicide." , give those people an explanation. ’

Chen Chizi knew that those people were targeting him. As long as he died, those people might not embarrass Chen's father.

Although Chen's father was angry at Chen Chizi's disobedience, he was grateful for his filial piety. He helped him up and said, "Son, I have buried two hundred taels of silver in the ancestral grave. After you escape, take the silver with you." Run away."

Chen Chizi was overjoyed when he heard this, but immediately his expression became serious: "Dad, why don't you run away?"

Father Chen smiled bitterly and said: "The old man is over seventy years old this year. Even if he wants to escape, he can't escape. Besides, this leather goods shop is handed down from our ancestors. I lost my ancestors' things. Even if I go to Jiuquan Now, there is no way to explain it to my ancestors, so just let me disappear from this world together with the shop."

Chen Chizi looked at the kerosene barrel on the ground and immediately understood what Chen's father wanted.

The target of those people is Chen Ruler. They will not give up until Chen Ruler is taken down, and Chen's father wants to replace Chen Ruler.

(End of this chapter)