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Chu Huan and Li Fuzi entered the private room, which was much quieter than the outer hall. After they were seated, the waiter quickly brought tea and asked with a smile, "What do you two want to eat? Huachui kite, chicken tongue Soup, fried deer leg, chrysanthemum rabbit shreds, fried beef tendon with hibiscus... There are also gold and silver hoofs in ginger vinegar, eight treasure chicken. This is the most ordered dish in the building. You should try it!"

The waiter in this restaurant is eloquent, and the dishes are so familiar. Chu Huan was stunned when he heard it, but he was quite sighing in his heart. After a while, he sighed that every business is not easy, even the waiter in the restaurant must have an articulation Clever mouth, but secondly, he couldn't think that in a small county town, this restaurant, which doesn't look very luxurious, would have such high-end delicacies.

But he didn't know that Qingliu City was located on the main traffic road of the three states, and it was the only place to go from east to south. Regardless of the official and commercial traffic in the three states, they all had to pass through Qingliu City.

Officials or businessmen who come and go will also stay in Qingliu City, and because of this, Qingliu City is definitely one of the best in the county towns of the Great Qin Empire, and its prosperity is also top-notch.

Chu Huan was dressed in coarse cloth, so he looked like he came from the countryside. If it was just Chu Huan, the shop assistants might not be so enthusiastic. On the contrary, Master Li was dressed in a green robe, and he seemed to be a very cultivated person. The guy is very accommodating.

Master Li waved his hands and said, "Let's not be busy with this." After a pause, he said softly, "If someone calls himself Han Yuan, just bring him here. When the guests arrive, it's not too late to order."

The shop clerk agreed and went down.

Mrs. Li was born as a scholar, and he is a somewhat particular person. Now that he is in the elegant room, he feels that the place needs to be cautious, and even his voice is soft: "Erlang, let's wait, Han Yuan won't be here for long. It's time to come!" Seeing a painting hanging on the wall of the elegant room, he got up and went forward with his hands behind his back. The painting was a landscape painting, and the painting was quite charming, with a poem next to it, Master Li read it softly, and when he saw the inscription, he immediately shook his head and sighed: "It's really a declining world. These are Xu Congyang's poems. It's okay to imitate them, but Xu Congyang's name has to be signed on this inscription, but it's a bit deceitful!"

Chu Huan put the package next to him. When it landed, he heard a sound in the bag. It was a little strange. He opened the package and took a look, only to find that there were not only neatly folded clothes in the package, but also a string of copper coins. There were about seventy or eighty copper coins, which were strung together with a red string and sandwiched between the clothes.

After being startled for a moment, Chu Huan immediately understood that the copper coins were naturally placed by Su Niang. Although the amount was not large, according to the conditions of the Chu family, nearly a hundred copper coins were not a small amount. It was embroidered, Chu Huan saw it in his eyes, and was moved in his heart, knowing that Su Niang was worried that she would be penniless outside, so she put these copper coins in her bag.

Master Li had come back with his hands behind his back, and sighed to himself: "If I can see Xu Congyang's authentic work, I will have no regrets in this life!"

Chu Huan fastened the package and asked, "Uncle, who is this Xu Congyang?"

"It's no wonder you don't know!" Li Fuzi stroked his beard and smiled, "Speaking of which, this Xu Congyang is still from our village. He was born in Yunshan Mansion, but he left Yunshan Mansion 30 years ago. Now he is in the capital. But a high-ranking official... This Xu Congyang is not only upright, but also has a brilliant literary talent. Good calligraphy, and obsessed with calligraphy, the old man knew at that time that he would have great success in calligraphy, as expected, now everyone in the world knows that Xu Congyang's calligraphy is worth a thousand gold...!"

Chu Huan wondered, "Uncle, did you know Xu Congyang when you were young?"

Master Li was startled, then shook his head, his eyes flickering: "I don't know. The old man is just a teacher, and Xu Congyang is a high-ranking official in the capital, and he can't beat him...!" At this point, Master Li's eyes faintly showed With a gloomy look, he seemed to be lost in thought, and stopped talking.

Chu Huan only felt that Master Li's words were insincere, obviously hiding something, and thought to himself: "Could it be that uncle and Xu Congyang really have something to do with each other?"

At this moment, a "bang" sound was suddenly heard, and Master Li, who was thinking thoughtfully, was shocked and startled, but Chu Huan frowned, but he had already heard that the sound came from the next door. come over.

There are several elegant rooms connected here, but there is also an elegant room next to it.

"Mr. Fan, you are playing our brothers like monkeys!" A heavy voice came from the next door, and Chu Huan heard it very clearly: "Our brothers are all gangsters, no matter what others say, we will Loyalty is very important...you, Mr. Fan Er, are a person of status anyway, so it's possible that you don't even keep this bit of faith?"

As soon as the man finished speaking, Chu Huan heard a voice accompanying him and said carefully: "Fourth master calm down, calm down, you...you need to lower your voice, people come and go here...!"

"Why don't you make me angry?" said in a heavy voice, "Our brothers on the road are talking about the word 'righteousness'. If you don't keep your word now, that's slapping my blue-faced fourth son!"

Chu Huan and Master Xu looked at each other, feeling very puzzled.

Only the voice of Second Master Fan came over: "Fourth Lord, sit down and talk first, it's not the first time we have dealt with each other, just sit down and talk about something!"

The rough voice was lowered a bit, but Chu Huan could still hear him clearly, and only heard him take advantage of his voice and say: "There is nothing to talk about. Fan Yizhen, you have paid the deposit, and you still owe 500 taels after that." Silver, just recently my brothers in Balitang are short of money, I will not talk nonsense to you, at the latest one month, if the money has not been delivered to my hands, hehe... you, Fan Yi, don’t keep your word Don't blame me for breaking the rules with my blue face!"

Second Master Fan's voice became anxious: "Fourth Master, you... what do you mean by that?"

"What do you mean?" The blue-faced fourth child sneered, "Mr. Fan, you are a smart person, don't say you don't understand what I mean."

Second Master Fan's voice was full of annoyance: "The blue-faced fourth, are you going too far? I have already paid 200 taels of silver as a deposit, and this matter is over. I don't want the deposit anymore. What else do you want? You ...Don't deceive others too much!"

"I'm deceiving you too much?" The blue-faced fourth child said coldly, "We agreed beforehand that the deposit was 200 taels of silver. Afterwards, you were asked to pay 800 taels of silver to make up 1000 taels of silver. There was some friendship in the past, and I gave you 300 taels, and now 700 taels will settle the matter. This is a good thing, are you going to go back on your word?"

"Why did I ever go back on my word!" Fan Yichen said angrily, "Isn't this something changed, so you don't need to do anything? You don't need to do anything, just sit and collect 200 taels of silver, isn't that enough?"

"What we want is 700 taels!" The blue-faced fourth child sneered and said, "If you make a decision, you must keep your promise. You buy and I sell, and we don't return the goods. You pay the money and we sell the people. The things that are said, change. No, even if we don’t need our people, you still need one or two taels of money.”

He heard the sound of a chair sliding from over there, and then heard Fan Yichen's voice soften: "Fourth Master, to tell you the truth, if things don't change, let alone 700 taels of silver, it's 7000 taels of silver. It's not too difficult. It's just... well, fourth master, I have spent nearly a thousand taels of silver for this matter, and I still sold the last two shops... I really can't get your 500 taels of silver come out."

"How many shops do you sell? It has nothing to do with me!" The blue-faced fourth child's voice was very indifferent: "What I want to see is money and what I want to hear is sweet words, not your nonsense." After a pause, the voice lowered again Going down, Mr. Li couldn't hear it anymore, but Chu Huan's hearing was very good, and he faintly heard the blue-faced old four: "Mr. Fan, how about I come to help you with an idea?"

Chu Huan didn't listen to Fan Yichen's words, and after a while, he heard the blue-faced old man say, "Don't you still have a big house? Even if the big house is sold at a low price, it will cost four to five hundred taels of silver... !"

"No!" Fan Yichen's voice was a little panicked: "My mother is still here, the old house... the old house cannot be sold... and the house deed and land deed are now in the hands of my mother, even if I have this heart, it is... that is...! "

The blue-faced fourth child laughed and said, "It's not like we at Balitang are ignorant of Mr. Fan's methods. At the beginning, your Fan family was also a wealthy family with a wealth of [-] yuan... Now there is only one old house left. These years, Mr. Fan lived a fairy life. On a normal day, you can control the wealth of the Fan family at will, but in the end, you can't even control an old house?"

"You...!" Fan Yichen coughed violently and was speechless for a while.

The voice of the blue-faced fourth child still pierced into Chu Huan's ears: "Since the old house can't be sold, didn't Second Master Fan still spend 500 taels of silver to buy a concubine two years ago? As far as I know, your concubine Beautiful appearance, romantic figure, good at singing and dancing, I saw it a while ago, although I am two years older, but I think it has a lot of flavor, coquettish and seductive, that upturned butt... tsk tsk... the second son of Fan is now I'm tired of playing, why don't you exchange her for 200 taels of silver... If you think my price is low, you can send her to the Nephrite Pavilion yourself, and Mother Chen may give you a good price... !"

"boom!"

There was a heavy slap on the table from the next door, and Fan Yizheng said angrily: "Youth with a blue face, your mouth should be cleaner, are you really trying to blackmail me?"

He became angry, and the blue-faced fourth child was even angrier than him, and said harshly: "Fan Yizhen, listen to me, don't fucking treat yourself as a rich young master, what is your Fan family like now, not to mention Qingliu City, just In the entire Yunshan Mansion, how many people don’t know? If you want to put on airs in front of me, fuck you!” He let out a “bah” and continued: “Listen to me, a month later , right here, come here with 500 taels of silver, if I don’t see anyone then, hum, don’t blame me for being cruel!”