Since the Rongguo Mansion planned to build the Grand View Garden, after all the servants' houses in the north and east of the East Courtyard were demolished, many servants of the Rongguo Mansion moved to the back streets. And this Liangshui Lane became the Rongguo Mansion.
A major gathering place for servants.
The Wang Teng family, one of Jia Lian's personal bodyguards, also lived here.
Because Wang Teng died gloriously, and his family received a large sum of money from the government, so even though Wang Teng was a slave, Wang Teng's wife decided to hold a grand event for Wang Teng's glory after discussing with Wang Teng's father.
Of course, the so-called grand event cannot be compared with that of gentlemen from aristocratic families.
In fact, ordinary ordinary people's homes can spend twenty taels of silver on funerals, treat relatives and friends to a feast, and hold a simple ritual, which is considered relatively decent.
But Wang Teng, for his pension alone, the Rongguo Mansion gave him nearly five hundred taels. In addition, Wang Teng worked as a long-term attendant with Jia Lian in the past and also earned some wealth for the family. Therefore, even if the entire Wang family spends a
It's not stressful to have two hundred taels of silver to pay for Wang Teng's funeral.
If you have financial resources, you will naturally have confidence. Therefore, when the servants from the two houses came to express their condolences, they were all envious when they saw the standard of the Wang family's funeral and the various expensive snacks for the children on the table in the courtyard. They all sighed in their hearts, this Wang family
Boy, it’s not a bad idea to die!
Several people, after expressing their condolences, collectively went to Wang Teng's father. After some small talk, they proposed to borrow some money from the Wang family for emergency...
Because they were sincere, either the son was getting married and was short of the betrothal gift, or the child's mother was seriously ill and lacked money to buy medicine. In short, the name of the loan was all legitimate.
Old man Wang was an honest man and couldn't hold back his dignity. In addition, he knew that his family was indeed richer than others, so he thought it would be okay to lend them a few taels of silver, so he said: "After my son died, my daughter-in-law took care of all the household chores alone."
"Yes, the money is also in her hand, I have to ask her first."
"It should, it should..."
So Old Man Wang asked his grandson to invite his mother.
People at the lower level are not so particular about it. Even if they are guests, they still have to treat others and there is no such taboo.
Everyone originally agreed to see Old Man Wang, thinking that they could borrow money, but unexpectedly, the Wang family's sister-in-law turned out to be a stubborn person.
On the one hand, she still has three children to raise, and on the other hand, she also hates in her heart that these people came to borrow money from her just after her husband died. They clearly meant to bully her, so as soon as they entered the teahouse, they kept talking to each other and refused to borrow money at all.
It doesn't even mean anything.
Those people were a little anxious.
"Sister-in-law of the Wang family, why are you doing this? After all, we all worked in the same house, so why can't we help you out of favor in the past?
Besides, Brother Wang is dead, and the Marquis has rewarded you with so much money that you can't use it all. Why not lend us a few taels of silver for envoys first, and when we are more relaxed in the future, we will return it to you, and you will not lose anything.
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Wang Teng's wife remained unmoved. After several verbal exchanges, she sneered: "Why, you still want to bully us orphans and widows?
The Marquis said yesterday in front of hundreds of people from both houses that no one is allowed to bully us. If you come here today to force me to borrow money, aren't you afraid that the Second Master will find out and cut your skin off?"
The expressions of those people suddenly changed.
Speaking of which, someone who can covet other people's pension money and then come to borrow money from others is naturally not a powerful person in the house.
Among the housekeepers in the two houses who have been in charge for many years, which one does not have hundreds of silver in savings?
The reason why they came to borrow money was partly because they were jealous, and partly because they saw that the Wang family had suddenly become rich, so they should not dare to offend them for a few taels of silver.
"Sister-in-law Wang's words are serious. How dare we go against the wishes of the Marquis? It's just that the family really can't get rid of the problem and has no way out, so we came to beg for mercy. It's not like we won't pay back the favor in the future.
If you don't look at the monk's face or look at the Buddha's face, we are all working in the same house. We will see each other many times in the future, so why does the Wang family's sister-in-law have to worry about this?"
These people spoke softly and hard, and then encouraged old man Wang to help. For a moment, it seemed that Wang Teng's wife was ignorant of current affairs and unreasonable.
However, Wang Teng's wife saw clearly that these people did not dare to disobey Jia Lian's explicit orders, and was not afraid of them at all.
"I said, if you come to pay homage to my family, I'm very welcome. If you come to borrow money, you won't get a cent.
All that pension money was paid for by my man's life. I still have several children to support, and I still think the money is not enough."
Wang Teng's wife said these words and went out to board the meeting, but those people never left. Instead, they kept instigating her husband to come and plead for mercy.
Just as he was getting annoyed, the eldest son ran over quickly, "Mom, Uncle Zhao and the others are here!"
When Wang Teng's wife heard this, she naturally knew who her son's Uncle Zhao was. Not to mention that her husband and Zhao Sheng had worked under Jia Lian's tent in the past few years, but that this time, Zhao Sheng personally sent the man's bone urn back.
Through what happened today, she also saw that although Jia Lian's words came first, Jia Lian was still so high up that there would be times when the eyes could not see it.
Therefore, we have to rely on Zhao Sheng and others to take more care of her in order to completely suppress those who covet her family's money.
So he immediately dropped everything else and received it in person.
Zhao Sheng and others went to worship Wang Teng's soul, and then said to Wang Teng's wife: "Sister-in-law, there is no need to be polite. We are here on the order of the Marquis."
"Master Hou?" Wang Teng's wife was surprised.
Wang Teng's eyes were already looking at the few people who heard that he was coming and went out to check on the situation.
"Please sister-in-law, please identify who are the people who wanted to borrow money from my sister-in-law forcibly?"
As soon as Zhao Sheng said these words, Wang Teng's wife still didn't understand that Zhao Sheng was here to help her family. Although she didn't know why Zhao Sheng knew that someone was borrowing money from her and brought so many people here.
She hesitated a little, whether she should take the opportunity to complain or show some mercy to those people.
After all, those people didn't care about her just now. If she complained, she would completely offend them.
"Sister-in-law, don't worry. The Marquis has long expected that something like this would happen, so he ordered his servants and others to take more care of your home.
So sister-in-law, just say, I will deal with them on behalf of the Marquis."
When Wang Teng's wife heard this, she didn't care about the many people and pointed at the people who were trying to hide on the corridor, "He, him, him, and him. By the way, there are also the three boys from Uncle Zhou's family, the concierge.
They have been hanging on my house, trying to force me to lend them money!"
Zhao Sheng sneered and said to the boys under his command: "Why are you still standing there? Take these people out of the door! You two, go and find Wednesday's baby!"
Those who were accused by Wang Teng's wife heard that Zhao Sheng was here on the orders of Jia Lian. If they dared to resist, they could only admit their mistakes and beg for mercy, while being captured without mercy.
Even Wednesday's baby, who secretly hid in the ditch in the backyard of Wang's house when the situation was bad, was quickly found.
After these people were escorted out, Zhao Sheng glanced coldly at the people from the other two houses around him, and then said loudly: "I don't care what you think in your heart, but I tell you, the Marquis has already given orders, whoever dares to disobey
Let me deal with the matters he repeatedly ordered, regardless of life or death!
Today, I think it was the first time that they committed a crime, and they have not made any big mistakes. Each of them will be given forty sticks. If something similar happens next time, don’t blame Zhao for not caring about his kindness."
As Zhao Sheng's words fell, bursts of crackling sounds suddenly sounded outside the white-walled Wang family's door, along with violent screams, making all the servants of the two mansions who came to offer condolences and help feel terrified.