A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 222 The mighty father-in-law

When walking out of Wei's house, Wu Huaiyu was in a very happy mood.

Wei Zheng paid the price for his repeated provocations. Not only did he fail to get married with the Wang family in Taiyuan, but he had to pay Wu Huaiyu a thousand dollars, plus their secret recipe of Wei's home brew.

Mrs. Pei is very angry and keeps her word.

As soon as she got back the [-] volumes of books from the Qianjin Hall, she immediately took out [-] volumes and dedicated them to the East Palace. She also brought a set of notes written by Wei Zheng, which were all historical notes, Huaiyu accepted it with a smile.

After Zhang Chengde followed Wu Huaiyu to finish these tasks, he felt mixed emotions. He used to admire Wei Zheng, but today he saw with his own eyes how his idol was trampled into the dust by Wu Huaiyu. Wei Zheng didn't even have the strength to fight back.

"What do you think?" Huaiyu asked.

"Debt is overwhelming, I also borrowed a Beijing debt, and I am also worried."

"How much did you borrow?"

"[-] yuan. The price of grain has soared before, and there is no market for the price. The family has no food, so I have to borrow Beijing debt to buy some black market grain."

It is really difficult to raise a family with a salary of only [-] Shimi from a sixth-rank official.

"Is your family also in Chang'an?"

"Well, my hometown is in Hejian Prefecture, Hebei Province. My family is also a heirloom of farming and education for generations. My father was recruited by the Sui Dynasty to be an official. He once offered a lot of good words to Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty. Unfortunately, he was not accepted and was pushed aside by his colleagues. He even went to prison, almost died, and spent all his wealth to get out of prison and return home...

In the first year of Wude, I went to Chang'an to participate in the Jinshi Department, and finally passed the middle school. My father received the good news and shouted that the sky fainted with excitement,
Later, I gave the secretary the provincial orthography and brought the whole family to Chang'an. I originally wanted my parents, wife and children to enjoy themselves, but who knows that Chang'an is not easy to live in, but life is difficult, and I often have to borrow money to survive. "

Zhang Chengde has been in Chang'an for nine years, from Secretary Provincial Zhengzi to the current East Palace Prince's literature, from ninth rank to sixth rank. Although his official position has been promoted several levels, his predicament has not been alleviated in the slightest.

A petty official like him, who has no power or power, doesn't even have a salary from time to time, and his job field can only receive some food.

There is no other outside water, and I just rely on copying and writing epitaphs to earn some living allowances. I am not famous, and I don’t have much money to write epitaphs for others.

But the expenses are quite low, the rent is high, food is expensive, and everything is expensive.

"I've always wanted to find a foreign job, even if I could be a county magistrate, as long as it's not too remote."

People in his hometown thought that Zhang Chengde was a good mix, a sixth-rank official in the capital, or an official in the Eastern Palace, but in fact his underwear was all patched.

"Isn't the interest rate low?"

"Ten monthly profits, five thousand dollars a month," Zhang Chengde said helplessly. As a sixth-rank official, even if all the monthly salary was paid, the monthly salary was only two thousand four thousand dollars a month.

"Come to my place to get the money later, and pay off the Beijing debt first,"

Many Beijing debts are specially released to poor officials and small officials in Beijing. The interest is higher than that of ordinary public funds.

Huaiyu wanted to pay off the debt first for Zhang Chengde.

"The lower officials can't repay the money for laundering the horses for a while."

"It's only a few tens of thousands of dollars. Sometimes I say, don't worry, I don't want your interest or mortgage. This is mutual help among colleagues, which is different from Wei Zheng's."

Zhang Chengde was very surprised, why did Wu Xima treat him so well, but not so well to Wei Zuocheng, who held an important position?
"You are very puzzled why I treated Wei Zheng like that, right? In fact, Wei Zheng didn't show affection to me, and tried to tease me again and again. I always repayed my kindness with kindness. He found me for lack of money, and I didn't say anything to help him. Now I Although he is charged interest, it is already very face-saving, otherwise in other quality shops and Changsheng shops, others would not be so polite to him."

"Of course, if Wei Zheng didn't treat me like the white-eyed wolf, I can actually talk to him about human feelings again,"

Zhang Chengde understood.

When Wu Huaiyu gave tens of thousands of money directly to Zhang Chengde, and specially sent a steward to find the Beijing debt lender to help him settle the debt, Zhang Chengde was deeply moved.

The tens of thousands of Beijing debts may not seem like much, but to him, it is like a rope around his neck getting tighter and tighter, and he is already suffocating.

The most frightening thing is still not paying, compound interest.

Zhang Chengde left with a thousand thanks.

"Your way of buying people's hearts is too simple," Fan Xuanfu said with a smile.

"Sometimes it's more effective to be simple and direct."

Fan Xuanfu asked him, "Did you handle the matter of the Wei family properly? I heard that Wei Zheng is appreciated by the sage."

"I've done enough to give Wei Zheng face, but if he slaps me in the face again and again, there's no reason to talk about it. It's only natural to pay back the debt."

Fan Xuanfu leaned into his ear, "You can't hide it from me. Quan Zhirang's impeachment of Wei Zheng and the Wang family's high-paying companion wealth made His Majesty angry. In the end, the marriage turned out to be a mess. Didn't you do it secretly?"

"Don't talk nonsense, that day Quan Zhirang not only impeached Wei Zheng and Wang Ji, but also impeached me and your family?"

"This is your brilliance. If you drag yourself into the water, others will not suspect that you are behind the scenes."

Huaiyu chuckled, "You have a pretty good imagination, but you must not say this outside, or Wei Zheng and his wife will have to jump over the wall and come and chop me."

It's a good thing to marry a woman with five surnames, but after the fact, the Wu family married Wang Ji's family, and then Wei Zheng lost face inside and out, and lost a thousand coins, and even took part in the secret recipe of Wei's family brewing. If he knew about this Yes, I must find Wu Huaiyu desperately.

"You are really bad, you can kill without blood, but I like it!" Fan Xuanfu said with a smile, "I have looked down on that old man for a long time, and I have been troubling you, this time I am being polite to him. Next time If I dared to do this again, I covered my face in the middle of the night and picked up a knife and chopped him off."

"You're still ruthless," Huaiyu gave her a thumbs up. He believed that she could really do it. After all, she had stabbed Xue Wanche in the street with a knife before.

"It can be regarded as a lesson for Wei Zheng. By the way, he vented his anger. Let's just leave it at that. As long as he doesn't pick on me again, I have to forgive and forgive others."

"Aren't you afraid that if you beat a snake and survive, you will suffer endless troubles?" Fan Xuanfu asked.

"You have to know that Wei Zheng is a person who has direct access to heaven. If he doesn't rebel and make trouble, who can beat him to death with a stick? So, accept it when you see it."

"It's cheap for him. If you dare to commit another crime next time, we will take over his house. It happens that the two houses are merged together, and we can clear up all the rags over there and build a garden." Fan Xuanfu You're not welcome at all, after all, this man was born in Wuling, and when he was young, he suffered a change and his family was not a slave. A few years ago, there was another big change. His grandfather was murdered in a conspiracy and his father seized the title and seized the official position.

She had a deep understanding of the ferocity of the struggle at a very young age.

But Wu Huaiyu wasn't kind, but he wanted to kill Wei Zheng now, but he couldn't do it. Besides, although Wei Zheng always impeached him, the things he impeached were not fatal, and they couldn't endanger him at all.

"I, Aye, heard that you are collecting books, and specially made a thousand volumes to present to the East Palace."

Huaiyu was not very happy when he heard this, he pulled Fan Xuanfu aside, and said to her in a low voice, "I will go to Xiaying State Mansion with me later, one thousand books are too many, please donate one hundred books .”

"Don't worry, it doesn't cost too much money for a thousand books. Although I, Aye, have no culture, I am not short of money."

"I know that the Fan family is related to the Xu family, the Hao family, and the Zhang family's Anlu family, but this matter has nothing to do with money."

"Then why?"

"Although the crown prince is the crown prince, he is still young. Don't act so close. After all, Aye is a military commander. He is still serving as the general of the right prison gate. It is very important to keep a proper distance from the crown prince," Huaiyu said. It's more obvious.

Fan Xing should not think about currying favor with the prince now, just be a loyal minister of the emperor, and be loyal to the emperor alone.

Prince, just maintain proper respect.

So this time, if you donate a hundred volumes, it is following the trend and showing enough respect to the East Palace, but if you donate a thousand volumes, it will be too much.

After all, people like Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng only contributed a hundred volumes or three hundred volumes.

"Is it that complicated?"

"Of course, things related to imperial power are the most complicated. Now that the crown prince is young, these things are not sensitive yet. If the crown prince is older now, it will be very dangerous for your father to do this."

"Then you are the crown prince washing horses now, and you are still presenting books so grandly, wouldn't it be more dangerous?"

"That's different. First, I'm an official of the East Palace now. Second, it's still the same sentence. The prince is still young and still has time. It's my job to do these things."

"Why do I feel that you don't seem to be optimistic about the prince, did you find something?" Fan Xuanfu asked in a low voice.

"No, but your father's identity and status are sensitive, so you really have to be careful about the boundaries."

Huaiyu took the Xuanfu back to the old man's house.

As soon as he arrived at the door, Fan Xing greeted him at the door in person. He came here often recently and got to know Fan Manzi well. Although this man is a bit brutal, his temper has tempered a lot in recent years, and he is not as tyrannical as before. , Ai Wu Ji Wu, Fan Manzi is also very polite and fond of Wu Huaiyu.

After Fan Xuanfu entered the mansion, he pulled Fan Xing to the side and whispered for a while, Fan Xing patted his thigh, "My son-in-law is still smart, I didn't expect it to be so deep, I listen to my good son-in-law, a hundred volumes will be a hundred volumes, and the rest Take the thousand volumes of books that you have, and go to your home in Yongxingfang,

Anyway, I also have a headache reading those books. "

"Ah Lang, can you read to Xiuyi, Xiuwu, Xiuwen and others?"

"Don't mention it, those bastards are all like me, useless things that can't read, send them to study in the Imperial College, and end up with cockfights and horse betting all day long, or hunting and playing polo, wait a little longer, Lao Tzu They were all kicked to southern Xinjiang to serve as soldiers on the frontier, and let them have a hard time."

"Son-in-law, you've been married for a while now, why doesn't your belly move a bit, you have to work harder, I've been looking forward to becoming a grandfather for a long time."

These words were so fierce that Fan Xuanfu blushed, and stared fiercely at Fan Xing.

Fan Xing said, "Daughter, what Aye said is good. You are the first wife. You can't let go of this matter, let alone delay it. You have to hurry up, and you can't let the concubines and maidservants take the lead."

"Son-in-law, I recently got some tiger penis and tiger bones from my hometown, Wuling Mountain. You can take them home and eat them later. They are definitely good things."

"Ah Lang, you don't want to eat indiscriminately." The current emperor's great-grandfather was called Li Hu, so he called the tiger a tiger. You still eat tiger whips, aren't you afraid of committing a taboo?

Besides, eating tiger whips and bones at a young age is not all a good thing.

Besides, I am Wu Huai Yulong Jinghu fierce, use that thing, who do you look down on?

"I just ate one recently, and I steamed it directly, and the effect is very strong. To tell you the truth, the Yeyu four are not inferior!" Lao Fan boasted.

"Or, son-in-law, let's cook wine for you, Ah Lang, and drink a cup occasionally in the future. It's wasteful to eat it directly by steaming, and it's too fierce. I'm afraid your body won't be able to bear it." Huaiyu had to remind him.

(End of this chapter)