The Evil King's Favorite Concubine: Genius Perfumer

Chapter 9 Selling the ancestral house?
"You guys! What are you doing at Gan's house?"

Gan Tiantian raised his head and saw a middle-aged man in a blue gown with a short beard coming in from the door, followed by several murderous government servants in soap clothes.

She didn't recognize this person, but Tan Yushu went up to meet him in surprise, and called out, "Scholar Cao."

"Call Brother Cao." A kind smile appeared on Cao Shuli's slender horse face, but Gan Tiantian always felt that... this smile was a bit fake.

"Hehe, why are you here..."

Shopkeeper Liu walked over with a smile, and kept nodding his head. The gangsters behind him had long since lost their arrogance.

Gan Tiantian realized that this was probably her father's old colleague from the past.

According to the system of the Xiao Dynasty, prefectural and county yamen had chief officials, secondary officials, subordinate officials, teaching posts, miscellaneous posts, official codes, and servants.

In a county like Deling, the chief official is the county magistrate, the second official is the county magistrate and the master book, and the subordinate official is the history of the classics, and there are teaching positions such as teaching and teaching. The above are the national civil servants who are being compiled. .

However, small officials like Father Gan are staff outside the establishment. They are commonly known as "Liufang scribes", which is the collective name for the six rooms of officials, households, soldiers, and criminal workers. In fact, there are far more departments in the yamen than Liufang. .

These low-level officials are the busiest people in the yamen, basically taking care of all the specific affairs in the yamen, but they can only maintain a normal life without any welfare guarantee.

For example, Gan Wenfu died of illness, and the orphans of the Gan family were ignored by the government.

As for the yamen servants, they are one level lower than the petty officials.After all, the petty official is an educated person, and what he does is clerical work, while the third class of yamen servants are all doing rough and dirty work.

But no matter what, as long as a person works in the yamen, he can get along better than ordinary people.Especially since he still has a few wolf-like tolerances, not to mention his deterrent power.

"Declaration?"

Cao Shuli's face became even more ugly after listening to shopkeeper Liu's explanation. He pointed at a few gangsters and said unceremoniously, "I don't care if you ask for money, but what are these people doing?"

The gangsters who were gearing up to hit someone just now, faced Cao Shuli's shouts, but they didn't say a word.Gan Tiantian is fine, but Tan Yushu and the Gan brothers have complicated feelings—it turns out that when Father Gan was around, these people also had the same attitude towards their own family.

But now... oh!

Shopkeeper Liu quickly left with his people, not daring to talk about reminders.

Cao Shuli changed his smiling face again, and told Tan Yushu that he heard that someone bullied the Gan family brothers and sisters last night, so he happened to be doing some business nearby with his colleagues, so he stopped by to take a look.

As he said that, he also took out two packs of jerky, saying it was a small gift for his condolences.

This also makes sense.When the Gan brothers and sisters were smashed into the stall yesterday, Yamen Hu was there, but he let go of it later. It is not surprising that Cao Shuli knew about it.

But Gan Tiantian thought to himself, how close is your relationship with my father?

If you are really such a close and good colleague, why haven't I seen you since my father passed away?It's not reasonable.

She wanted to think about it, but it was impossible to say it, and she had to help greet the guests into the small hall for tea.

The small hall was narrow, and the yamen servants each drank a bowl of tea, said hello and left, leaving Cao Shuli still chatting with Tan Yushu.

Gan Qiu was the boss at the side, and Gan Dong and Gan Tiantian went to the kitchen to decoct medicine, and were worried about whether they should keep Cao Shuli for lunch.

Their family's lunch is only corn bread.The only meaty smell is a bowl of lard residue fried by Gan Tiantian, which is sprinkled with salt and eaten with steamed buns to deceive the mouth.

"Oh, well, cut up the guest's jerky and serve him." Gan Tiantian went to the well to wash the jerky, but saw Tan Yushu and Gan Qiu sending Cao Shuli out.

Cao shuji couldn't help but refuse the Gan family's meal, and left with a smile.Gan Tiantian closed the courtyard door, but when he turned around, he saw that both his younger uncle and elder brother looked unhappy.

"what happened?"

Gan Tiantian couldn't help asking, feeling a little flustered in his heart.

What did Shuli Cao and the little uncle talk about?
It turned out that Cao Shuli first expressed his sympathy for the predicament of Gan's family, and then asked them if they had any difficulties in life and needed his help.

Knowing that Gan's family still owed money to many shops, Cao Shuli said, those people came to trouble them last night, probably it has something to do with the creditors, right?

"No way," Gan Tiantian was stunned: "Just for a few bucks?"

That's right, ten strings of money is a huge sum of money for the current Gan family, but it's only a matter of a few taels of silver for each creditor.

Which shop is short of this money!Besides, if they ruined their small business, wouldn't they be unable to repay their debts?
Tan Yushu was thoughtful, and said, "I don't think so, but Cao Shuli said..."

Cao Shuli plausibly told Tan Yushu that he had seen too many such things in the yamen.He said that the creditors are all vampires. After giving your family a few months to repay the debt, they have a reason to come to the house to move and grab things. Often the value they get is much more than the original debt.

"I'm afraid they are worried about what valuables your father left behind during his lifetime, and they are afraid that you will not be willing to pawn them to pay off the debts, so they come to snatch them with excuses! Look, if I didn't happen to be here today, they would give up. ?"

Well?Speaking of it this way, it seems to make sense, doesn't it?
Gan Tiantian is also confused... Is it really like Cao Shuli said?

Thinking about it carefully, it's also possible, because shopkeeper Liu seems to be looking for trouble while the man from the Gan family is not at home.If Tan Yushu and the others hadn't come back early, maybe shopkeeper Liu's people would have robbed the house long ago?

"But Father didn't leave anything behind!" Gan Dong muttered bitterly.Gan Qiu sighed, and said, "Who says it's not? If you can be a family member, you should have already given it to Dad."

"But it's hard for us to guess what outsiders think." Tan Yushu also sighed.

Seeing the two of them sighing at the same time, Gan Tiantian felt that what Cao Shuli said must not be that simple, otherwise why would the two of them be so black-faced.

Under her questioning, Tan Yushu revealed the real reason for their entanglement.

Cao shuji said that he wanted to pay off their debts, but the condition was-sell this house to him!
"Sell the house?"

Gan Tiantian exclaimed, "How can this be done?"

Although this house is small, it is the ancestral home of the Gan family, where it has been lived for several generations.Selling the ancestral house, no matter what, people will poke their backs, and besides, where can they live after selling the house?

"Why is our yard only worth ten pennies?" Gan Tiantian is a person who has been to a dental shop. Despite her young age, she has a good abacus: "When we enter the house in the streets and alleys, it is worth two yuan. Thirty."

"Scribe Cao told us to give us thirty guan." Tan Yushu said with a wry smile, "But neither A Chang nor I agreed."

A Chang is Gan Qiu's nickname.Although at home, everyone respects Tan Yushu as an elder, but Tan Yushu is still very conscious when it comes to important matters involving the Gan family's ancestral house—Gan Qiu, the boss of the Gan family, is the serious heir to the property.

Gan Qiu's temperament is simple and simple, but he is usually very stubborn when he recognizes the reason for death: "This house cannot be sold. Father said it before he was alive."

"actually……"

Tan Yushu hesitated for a moment, and said, "There is something I want to discuss with you..."

(End of this chapter)