Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chen Zhao's family name is Zhao Ruya.Zhao Ruya's father, in modern times, is a scientist who studies cosmetics.Zhao Ruya's father improved and invented several types of powder, and also owned a small powder shop and a small workshop for making powder.Why is the business not doing well?Because in the Ming Dynasty, there was no advertisement, and the reputation of products mainly relied on word of mouth.Zhao Ruya's father had only Zhao Ruya as an only daughter, and Zhao Ruya married well. She Gao Pan married into a big family in the capital—the Chen family.A few years ago, Zhao Ruya's father died of illness. Before he died, he naturally left his makeup shop and small workshop to his daughter and son-in-law.

In the Ming Dynasty, the status of merchants was relatively low. As the daughter of a small merchant, Zhao Ruya Gao Pan married into the Chen family, but her husband's status in the Chen family was also relatively low, and he was a side branch.However, the two couples lived quite peacefully, and they also gave birth to a cute little girl——Xiaojie.

But gradually, the reputation of this small powder shop has been established, and the business is getting better and better.The immediate branch of the Chen family was jealous.Just like a family soap opera, anyway, in the end, it was a plunder, which directly took away the small workshop and the small powder shop.Only Zhao Ruya and his wife were given a fixed annual annuity, which allowed them to maintain a well-off level at most.This made the couple very unconvinced.

Because Zhao Ruya's father gave Zhao Ruya some makeup formulas before his death, so the two of them raised some money and opened another makeup shop based on those formulas.In order to prevent people from direct lineages from vying for the family property again, they borrowed a house in Gongshunhou's Mansion at high rent to open this makeup shop.They also vaguely have the taste of using the prestige of the Hou Mansion to protect their own family business.Because although the Chen family is a big family, it is a common people's family after all, and it is not always on the same level as the nobles.

But two things happened now: one is that a daughter of the Chen family's direct lineage also married into a noble family as a concubine; He also died a month ago.In this way, the Zhili presses Zhao Ruya every step of the way, hoping to take this makeup shop to the Zhili.Moreover, Zhao Ruya received news from the steward of Gongshunhou's mansion.Gongshun Hou Mansion has already given this shop to Wu Shigong, and it has become Wu Shigong's family property.This made Zhao Ruya a little at a loss.Today, she suddenly heard that Wu Shigong came to visit her, so Zhao Ruya wanted to find out about Wu Shigong.

And the main reason why Wu Shigong wanted to see the two shops his father gave him was that he wanted to use one of them to open a gambling house.Wu Shigong also opened an underground casino in his previous life, and he is also familiar with this business.Besides, the rent of these two shops is not high, and the rent for one year is equivalent to Wu Shigong's quota of selling three soldiers.Yesterday, he already knew that the shop on the other side of Xuanwumen was in ruins, so he wanted to see this makeup shop today.

At first glance, Wu Shigong was not satisfied. The powder shop does not occupy a large area. Although it is on the side of Chongwenmen, the location is not considered lively.There is another reason, he really likes the little girl named Xiaojie, and this Chen Zhao family is a widow, so it is not good to bully orphans and widows.Therefore, he had just decided to build a building on the ruins of Xuanwu Gate and put the gambling house there.Anyway, his father-in-law Xue Lian had agreed to him and asked the Ministry of Industry to help him build a building for free.

So, after saying a few unnutritious words, Wu Shigong and Zhao Ruya had nothing to talk about.Wu Shigong also casually said to Zhao Ruya: There is still room for improvement in the business of the makeup shop.Zhao Ruya became interested after hearing what Wu Shigong said, and she asked Wu Shigong to explain it in detail.Wu Shigong suggested: Ask Zhao Ruya to divide the makeup shop into two rooms, one for male guests and one for female guests.And let Zhao Ruya prepare some exquisite boxes, and sell the cosmetics as a set.In fact, this idea is not new. In modern times, it is nothing more than men's cosmetics and cosmetics set gift boxes.But Zhao Ruya's eyes lit up when she heard it, and she felt enlightened.Seeing that Zhao Ruya became more interested, Wu Shigong jokingly said to Zhao Ruya: I just came up with an idea. If Zhao Ruya uses this idea and loses money in business, don't go to him, and he will not take responsibility for it.

Seeing that there was nothing else to talk about, Wu Shigong wanted to say goodbye and leave.But Zhao Ruya seemed reluctant to speak, Wu Shigong waited for a while, seeing that Zhao Ruya still didn't say anything, he didn't care about anything, stood up from the chair and wanted to leave.At this time, there was a quarrel outside the door of the inner room.what happened?Thus, both Wu Shigong and Zhao Ruya walked out of the inner room.

It turned out that a middle-aged man and woman came outside the door. They wanted to enter the inner room to find Zhao Ruya.But of course Xue Yong and Xue Qiang who were guarding the door of the inner room refused to let go. The lessons they learned yesterday are still showing on their faces.Seeing that both Wu Shigong and Zhao Ruya had left the inner room, the two sides stopped arguing.Wu Shigong signaled Xue Yong and Xue Qiang to come over, ready to leave together.The middle-aged man and woman also found Zhao Ruya, the real master, and started arguing with each other chatteringly.

Wu Shigong listened coldly to the side. Although he didn't fully understand the ins and outs, he understood that the middle-aged man and woman and Zhao Ruya were in the same family, and they had a dispute over some family conflict.After understanding, Wu Shigong turned around and was about to leave.He doesn't have the spare time to take care of that kind of shit, and it's hard for an upright official to break up housework.

The dispute between the middle-aged man and woman and Zhao Ruya became more and more intense, and finally, the middle-aged man and woman began to curse Zhao Ruya.The main player is the middle-aged woman, and the middle-aged man also chimed in from time to time.The swearing and obscenities came out endlessly, and Zhao Ruya was in tears.Looking at the situation, although Wu Shigong felt a little sympathetic to Zhao Ruya's experience, he was still prepared to stand by and not interfere in other people's housework.

But at this time, the shadow of the middle-aged woman's cursing shot onto Wu Shigong.We know that the ignorant woman likes to scold each other about the life problems of men and women in her cursing.That's the case with middle-aged women.Seeing that Wu Shigong and Zhao Ruya came out of the inner room together just now, they brought Wu Shigong in while cursing Zhao Ruya's life style.Of course, the middle-aged woman was not completely brainless, she knew that Wu Shigong was an official.But from the pattern on Wu Shigong's official robe, she also knew that Wu Shigong was not a civil servant. If she were a civil servant, she wouldn't dare to scold her ten times.In addition, the middle-aged woman's daughter married into a certain Gui Xun's family as a concubine, so the middle-aged woman felt that she had also joined the ranks of Gui Xun, so she got a little carried away.

Wu Shigong had already suppressed his anger this morning, and immediately launched a counterattack against the middle-aged woman's provocation.Of course it was with lip service, Wu Shigong hadn't been so low-handed as to do anything to a woman at will.Xue Yong and Xue Qiang immediately joined in, but the middle-aged man tried to persuade Wu Shigong because he was an official.Unexpectedly, the fighting power of the middle-aged woman's lips is quite strong, one-on-three, she is not inferior.Anyway, in the middle of the quarrel, there was nothing good to say, so the middle-aged woman finally asked Wu Shigong: Who is Wu Shigong, that Zhao Ruya, who wants Wu Shigong to take care of their housework?Wu Shigong's head became hot, and he patted his chest and said: From now on, he will take care of Chen Zhao's affairs.

At this time, Wu Shigong's guards and several servants of the middle-aged man and woman also came in after hearing the quarrel.Wu Shigong's head suddenly lit up, and he thought to himself: Why do I have to compare my words with that old woman?Who is Wu Shigong?Wu Shigong is the top leader of the Nancheng State Violence Agency.And this makeup shop is located in Nancheng, so I can use violent means to arrest that middle-aged man and woman!

Therefore, Wu Shigong ordered the guards to arrest the middle-aged man and woman, regardless of their cursing and begging for mercy.When Wu Shigong and the others were sent out of the powder shop, Zhao Ruya's eyes were crescent-shaped, and she said to Wu Shigong, "Thank you, Young Master, today."

The title of "Little Marquis" came again, and Wu Shigong felt the strange gazes from the guards around him again.However, when the middle-aged man and woman heard Zhao Ruya call Wu Shigong "Young Master", they completely shut up and became sleepy.

Wu Shigong continued to pretend to be confused, and ordered the guards to escort the middle-aged man and woman back to the Yamen.On the way back to the yamen, Wu Shigong also understood: in the end, Chen Zhao called himself Xiaohou Ye, that must be on purpose.She used herself as a shield.Use your own name as a weapon.The little widow doesn't look like a good guy either.However, although the little widow had a mosaic on her face, judging by her figure and her daughter Xiaojie's pink and jade-carved appearance, she must look good, if...However, now that I didn't get anything, I became a shield for no reason. That's almost standard: I didn't eat the mutton, but I got all sao.Wu Shigong couldn't help sighing in his heart: "It's really a lot of gossip in front of the widow's house!"

At this moment, Xue Qiang brought his pig's head to Wu Shigong's ear, and asked, "My lord, what charges are those two going to accuse?"

Wu Shigong was not angry, and shouted angrily: "You are a pig? You can choose two crimes, spitting or defecating everywhere. You are still asking me?" The words reached the ears of the middle-aged man and woman, and continued to disgust them.