Chapter 521 Redemption
Qi Ning smiled and said, "Don't worry, if you want to see the emperor, you must report it in advance. I will inform the emperor that the poisonous king has come to the capital as promised. If the emperor summons him, I will send someone to notify the poisonous king immediately. By the way, the gambling king doesn't know where to stay in the capital?"
Swing Yi didn't talk nonsense, and said what he was going to do. After Qi Ning wrote it down, he said: "The Poison King has been there these days. When there is news, I will send someone to find you immediately, so as not to be summoned by the emperor, but the Poison King is gone."
Swing Yi sneered, "Are you worried that I will cause trouble for you in the capital? You took me into the capital. If I really killed someone and set fire, you wouldn't be able to take off your brocade waiting."
Qi Ning smiled bitterly and said, "The Poison King is a master of the world. If you really want to kill and set fire in the capital, this style is too low."
"Don't worry, I will not kill people and set fires. If I really want to kill people, I will only kill one person." Swing Yi said lightly: "Duan Qingchen defected to the Shenhou Mansion, and perhaps he was hiding in the capital. I naturally want to search for his whereabouts." His eyes were like a knife: "If I find him, I will naturally tear him to pieces."
Qi Ning just smiled and said nothing. Swing Yi stood up and said, "I'm leaving first." He didn't talk nonsense. When he walked to the gate, he suddenly thought of something, stopped, and did not look back. He just said, "Qinning, you have a good temper, no wonder the heroes of Jinyi family have some tricks." Without further ado, he left quickly.
After breakfast the next day, Qi Ning asked Gu Qinghan about the location of the pawnshop of the Gu family. Gu Qinghan was in a low mood and said, "After today, the money house will take over the pawnshop. You can still see that it is the pawnshop of the Gu family. Tomorrow, you will change your surname to someone else." Qi Ning told her that she would try her best to keep the pawnshop, but Gu Qinghan knew very well that the money in the bank could not be returned, and others would not be polite, but she could not find tens of thousands of taels of silver for a while.
Although there is still some silver in the treasury of Jinyi Hou Mansion, it is not enough to call the silver from the Hou Mansion. The expenses of the Hou Mansion are still counting on the silver. Besides, even if Qi Ning promises to use the silver to solve the urgent problem, the silver from the Hou Mansion is far from reaching that amount.
Qi Ning said a few words of comfort, but without saying much, he left the mansion and went to the pawnshop of Gu's family.
The Gu family's pawnshop was deserted, but Gu Weng rushed to the pawnshop early in the morning. The shopkeeper Jiang had already escaped. There were five or six servants in the pawnshop, but after the Gu family had happened, everyone knew that they could not even pay the wages, so they had already left each one, leaving only one Gu family tree to guard here.
The pawn shop is deserted, and the signs that are closed have long been hung outside the door.
"Uncle, is this shop really going to be taken away tomorrow?" The servant saw Gu Wen sat in a chair and approaching him, and asked carefully: "There is really no way to the third lady?"
Gu Wen shook his head, but this setback also made his aura disappear, and he smiled bitterly: "What else can I do? I was confused for a while. If I had known that I wouldn't have come to the capital at the beginning, so there wouldn't be so many things to do in Jiangling."
The servant said, "My uncle, even if you buy a shop, it is not a dead end. When we go back to Jiangling, food and clothing will not be a problem. The Gu family has a farm in Jiangling!"
"That's all been mortgaged." Gu Weng said angrily: "It's not my control now. After today, if someone surnamed Qiao really wants to take over the Zhuangzi and land in Jiangling, I can't do anything."
The servant said depressedly: "The Marquis is not helping him. As long as he is such a big official, who dares to accept our shops in Gu's family?"
"He has no choice but to do this." Gu Weng understood, "It is natural to pay back the debt. The palace owes money outside. Can you still be able to pay the debt?" He raised his hand and slapped himself in the face. "Anyway, this is all my confusion for a while, which makes me still worried at this age. Alas, I've been tortured all the time now, so I have no face to go back to Jiangling!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard footsteps outside, and then he saw several figures entering the pawnshop. The servant immediately went up and said, "I'm sorry, the pawnshop has closed down and will not be accepted, so I'll still!" Before he finished speaking, he heard the person laughing and said, "We are not here to be a thing, we are here to redeem the pawnshop."
Gu Weng was not in the mood to care about these people, and was sighing. Suddenly, he heard the sound. He raised his head like a conditioned reflex, looked over, jumped up from the chair, rushed forward in two steps, raised his hand and pointed at the person who came and said, "Is it you? You bastard, how dare you cheat me?" He waved his fist and was about to hit him.
The man immediately took two steps back, but two people came up beside him, both tall and big. He stopped Gu Wen. One of them reached out and grabbed Gu Wen's wrist. He was full of strength. Gu Wen couldn't move for a moment, but saw the man laughing and said, "Uncle Gu, what do you mean? If the guest comes to the door, you don't receive him well and you have to hit people. No wonder your store is going to close."
But Gu Wen recognized that the person who came to the door was the owner of the two fakes.
He thought that this man had been skewed by more than 100,000 taels of silver and had already disappeared without a trace, but he never expected that this man would bring people to redeem him.
The big man holding Gu Wen's wrist pushed hard. Gu Wen took a few steps back before barely standing firmly. His eyes were shattered and he said angrily: "Who are you?"
The man laughed and said, "I'm the one Kong and the small number Kong Erhu, Mr. Gu, you took my paintings and didn't even understand my name. Hahaha, your business is really good." He walked over and sat down on a chair. The four great men following him all had environmentally friendly and thick arms, standing behind Kong Erhu, each of them looked fierce and arrogant.
Gu Weng tried his best to calm himself down and asked, "Why are you lying to my money?"
"Uncle Gu, I don't understand what you said." Kong Erhu crossed his legs and pressed his right finger against his nostrils. "My two paintings are a good idea. I promised to redeem them within half a month. Today is the last day. I brought the silver to redeem them. There will be no problem?" He reached into his arms, took out a thick stack of silver notes, put them on the desk next to him, patted them gently, and took out the secret handprints from his arms, and said, "We said it very clearly that day. You can take back the two paintings for 130,000 taels of silver. I will redeem them for 160,000 taels of silver. Mr. Gu, here are 160,000 taels of silver. A penny is a lot. Take two paintings, and the 160,000 taels of silver is yours."
Gu Wen was stunned for a moment, and his heart sank. The two paintings last night had been burned by Qi Ning in public in Cui Deyuan. How could he take them out at this time?
After all, he is not a fool. His mind turns slightly and he understands it in his heart.
If there was no Cui Deyuan's burning painting last night, Kong Erhu would never have come to redeem it today. It was because Kong Ergou knew that the two fakes had been burned that he came swaying.
"Why, Mr. Gu, are there any problems?" Kong Erhu said proudly: "Can it be that the two paintings have any problems? We can agree in advance that if those two paintings are damaged, you will have to pay me 300,000 taels of silver."
Gu Weng sneered: "Kong Erhu, your two paintings are fakes, how dare you use fakes as real."
"Uncle Gu, I never said it was true." Kong Erhu smiled and said, "It was the shopkeeper of your pawnshop who told you that it was true. I just brought two paintings over. I don't know whether those two paintings are true or false. It is always good to be used as urgently as possible. But I am a man who believes in words. Even if they are two fake paintings, I will not cheat people. Today I will come back as promised to redeem them." His body leaned forward slightly, "It doesn't matter whether those two paintings are true or false. What's important is that you must exchange those two paintings for me now." He picked up the thick stack of silver notes, "Give me the two paintings, and the 160,000 taels of silver will belong to you. If you can't pay it, then you have to give me another 170,000 taels of silver. Is that right?"
The servant couldn't bear it and said angrily: "You are cheating, you uncle, let's go report to the official!"
"Report to the official?" Kong Erhu laughed and said, "Don't worry. If I really can't take out those two paintings, I don't need to report to the official. We will go by ourselves." He shook the deed in his hand, "It's written clearly on it. Even if you meet the official, you have nothing to say. Yes, I know that behind you is the Jinyi Hou, but Jinyi Hou must also be reasonable and not bully others by virtue of your power."
"Yes, Jinyi Hou never bullies others with power." As Kong Ergou finished speaking, a voice came from outside the door: "Jinyi Hou can only reason with others." Amid the words, several figures came in from outside the door, and the first one was Qi Ning.
Gu Weng saw Qi Ning coming, as if a drowning man saw the straw, was very happy and hurried over and said, "Marty, this guy is here to redeem him."
Qi Ning nodded with a smile, turned his head to look at the person beside him, and said with a smile: "Young Master Yuan, have you heard everything you said just now?" Beside him was Yuan Rong.
Yuan Rong smiled and said, "I can hear it clearly."
Kong Ergou looked a little panicked when he saw Qi Ning bringing people in. At this moment, there were many people around him outside the gate. There were shops on both sides of the pawnshop. Everyone knew that the pawnshop of the Gu family was cheated and something big happened. At this time, when he saw a group of people coming to the pawnshop, he couldn't help but be curious and crowded in front of the door to watch.
After Qi Ning entered the house, Gu Weng immediately ordered someone to hold a chair. Qi Ning and Yuan Rong sat down opposite Kong Ergou and looked at Kong Ergou with a smile. Kong Ergou was looked at by Qi Ning with a smile. He felt a little furry on his body. He didn't dare to sit there. He stood up, but he still tried his best to calm down and bowed: "Little Kong Erhu, pay homage to the Marquis!"
"Kong Erhu, good name!" Qi Ning smiled and said, "Kong Erhu, the accent seems to be a person from the capital?"
Kong Erhu reluctantly smiled and said, "My father and his father moved to Beijing twenty years ago, and the villain also followed him into Beijing. He has lived in Beijing for more than 20 years. He is considered a person in the capital."
"Where do you get those two paintings?" Qi Ning asked with a smile: "Is it a ancestral artifact or occasionally? Or is it someone asked you to send it to a pawnshop?"
Kong Erhu changed color slightly and reluctantly smiled, "Mr. Marquis, how to get it, it doesn't seem important, right? It's not convenient for the villain to say. The villain came today, and he was redeemed as promised. This did not violate the king's law, right?"
Chapter completed!