Chapter 35
At the entrance of Hadley & Co., Manager Xiao sent Wang Wenwu out with a smile on his face.
"Master Wu, I have asked someone to send a telegram to Vladivostok. It will be delivered to you within two months at most."
"Then when the time comes, please inform me!"
"Okay, okay, Master Wu, please walk slowly and be careful."
"Okay, let's go."
After Wang Wenwu paid the money to the boss, he went to HSBC Bank to exchange the check for 15,000 silver dollars into a deposit certificate of 12,000 silver dollars and 3,000 silver dollars. Because the amount was not small, the bank manager personally handled it at a speed of
Much faster.
After coming out of the bank, Wang Wenwu went to Hengxingxiang again. After all, shopkeeper Zhao from Hengxingxiang was so helpful that he didn't even take the money for tea.
When I walked into Hengxingxiang, I saw shopkeeper Zhao calculating accounts.
Wang Wenwu came forward and said, "Shopkeeper Zhao, what are you busy with?"
Shopkeeper Zhao looked up and saw that the person who came was Wang Wenwu, and immediately stood up: "Hey, Master Wu is here, come on, please sit down."
He turned to the waiter and said: "Go and make tea quickly and get my good tea."
Wang Wenwu hurriedly said: "No, just keep it normal."
Shopkeeper Zhao said to the waiter: "What are you doing here? Why don't you go make some tea?"
He said to Wang Wenwu: "Master Wu, here you are, how can you not make good tea?"
"Just don't kick me out later,"
"How come? You are joking, how could I attack you?"
"Then please accept this first." As he spoke, Wang Wenwu handed over thirty silver dollars.
Shopkeeper Zhao looked at the thirty silver dollars and said, "Master Wu, what do you mean?"
When Wang Wenwu saw that shopkeeper Zhao had confiscated it, he said, "I sold the leather."
"What do I mean? You'd better take the money back," he said, pushing the money back to Wang Wenwu.
Wang Wenwu looked at the money that was pushed back and said, "I bought some things at a foreign company. The price they gave me for the leather was not bad, so I sold it all to the foreign company."
"You don't have to tell me this. You didn't sell me this time. There will be another time. Besides, we are all so familiar."
"Shopkeeper Zhao, I would be embarrassed only if we are familiar with each other!"
"In this business, the price is always high, so don't be embarrassed."
"You put it like that, oh, compared to you, I'm just a chicken." Wang Wenwu put the money away again as he spoke.
"Wait a minute, wait a minute, I'll be the host. Let's go to Guangfu Tower. What do you think?"
"No, no, I have made an appointment with someone at Lanweizhai. Besides, how can I let you be the host? It must be me. Don't rob me, rob me. Be careful that I get in trouble with you. Do you understand?
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"I know, I know, I heard that Lord Wu gave birth to a son last month."
"Oh, you misunderstood. She is a daughter, and my wife is worried that it will affect her graduation."
"Oh, it turns out that Mrs. Sister-in-law is a female gentleman."
"I haven't graduated yet, and I haven't even graduated from school. I can't be called a female teacher."
"That's right, that's right, Lord Wu, you are really good at it!"
"Yeah, I'll be the host. You can order whatever you want at Guangfu Tower!"
"Okay, okay, you are a blessed person, you have several sons!"
"There are already five kids, and the oldest one is only two years old now. We have reached an age where people are idle and dogs are bored. I get a headache just thinking about it now."
"Drink, just smile secretly, you don't know, last time when your little five had a full moon, Mr. Cheng's shopkeeper Cheng Ji stared at your little five and his eyes almost popped out."
"There were so many people at that time that I really didn't notice what happened to Shopkeeper Cheng of Cheng Ji."
"What else can he do? He just doesn't have a son. He just doesn't have a son. Counting last year's number, there are thirteen girls."
"Shopkeeper Cheng seems to be young and still has a chance."
"He's not old yet. He's almost in his prime. If he doesn't have a son, Cheng Ji, he will have to change his surname."
"Hasn't he thought about adopting an adopted child? Isn't there an old saying that it's better to raise one's kindness than to give one a favor? It's not a bad idea to have a younger one and raise one yourself."
"You think he doesn't want to? When he was young, he thought he was okay. After all, he didn't want his family's property to be given to his own children."
"That's right, what about now!"
"He is about to know his fate, but he may not be able to hold on any longer. At this time, if he adopts a young man who doesn't understand anything, then wouldn't the old man eat up everything? The older man is afraid of being with him.
If you don’t get close to me, you’ll even sell a few girls. Didn’t you marry a concubine again last month?”
"That's what I said. There's nothing wrong with giving Cheng Ji to his daughter, at least it's his own cub."
"Then you have never seen a family that has been wiped out. That's a cruel thing. There are only women in the family. If there is no man. For people who have been kicked out of a household, it means they are making a fortune. Those who died are their relatives, but they
But he is not sad at all. On the contrary, he has already started planning how to divide the property of the orphan and widower. Often, as soon as the person is buried, relatives who have been deprived of the family will come to visit. All valuables in the house will be looted, including pots and pans.
Not to mention their family’s land and real estate, and what’s even worse is that some women will be sold directly by them.”
"This is not a robbery. Cheng Ji wouldn't do this in BJ City."
"This is also the case in big cities in the countryside. And when the time comes, the relatives will force the Cheng family to set up a running-water banquet, and they will keep setting it up, inviting everyone to come and eat, and the family will eat it all. This kind of running-water banquet can often last for two
For three months, the relatives thought that it was useless to keep the money anyway, and there was no one to inherit it, so they might as well give it to everyone. As for the life or death of the girl in the family, it was not up to them."
"According to what you said, shopkeeper Cheng's eldest wife can't keep it at all, right?"
"There are only two ways, one is to give birth to a boy, and the other is for the wife of the Cheng family to be particularly strong. But now he doesn't occupy any of his family."
"It seems there was a big drama when shopkeeper Cheng left."
"Who says it's not the case? Shopkeeper Cheng is in good health now, but I heard that a poor relative came to visit. Shopkeeper Cheng hasn't been able to get rid of him for more than a month. He lives and eats at home for free."
"Is this the beginning of a desperate situation?"
"What? They're just little shrimps now. They haven't even come close yet."
"I've been eating for more than a month this far away!"
"No, why else would Shopkeeper Cheng be jealous of your son?"
"No, why can't we drive away relatives who are far away?"
"I heard that he was sent by the Cheng family. They said they wanted Shopkeeper Cheng to give him a job so that he could make ends meet, but that person was completely useless. After Shopkeeper Cheng drove that person away,
The clan immediately sent someone to ask him to make arrangements, otherwise he would not be allowed to enter the ancestral grave and be included in the family tree after his death."
"Shopkeeper Cheng is not dead yet!"
"But we are just outsiders. Once Shopkeeper Cheng leaves and his belongings are confiscated by the family, it will be a matter between relatives and friends. Shopkeeper Cheng has descendants, but he is still young, so he may still be exterminated."
Wang Wenwu took a breath. "Doesn't that mean Shopkeeper Cheng is determined not to take it anymore?"
"It all depends on whether Shopkeeper Cheng has a wife or not, and how long he wants to live until the child is old enough."
Chapter completed!