Zhang Weize, the second master of the Zhang family, walked quickly to the yard of the eldest brother Zhang Yuze. There was a hint of anger on his face. The servants who met him along the way all carefully saluted him and did not dare to say or do anything too much.
"Brother!" Zhang Weize pushed open the door of Zhang Yuze's study and called him loudly.
"What happened in such a hurry?" Zhang Yuze put down the medical book in his hand and walked to Zhang Weize.
"Haven't you heard?" Zhang Weize took a sip of tea and looked up at him.
"Oh, are you talking about the goddaughter whom your father recognized is coming to the capital?" Zhang Yuze suddenly asked, "What's the point? Just come, she doesn't live in the house." He is not like his second brother.
Feeling disgusted with Lin Zhu, his daughter Zhang Manyun also sent him a letter saying
He was talking about the benefits of Lin Zhu both inside and outside, and his meaning was very clear, so that he could be good to her. His daughter Zhang Yuze knew it very well, and she had always been the most calculating in her heart. If even she recognized it, it meant that Lin Zhu was not as good as them.
As bad as you can imagine.
"Humph, I said before that I couldn't come to the capital, so why don't I come now? Now that I say that I won't live in our house, who will believe it?" Zhang Weize curled his lips.
"Second brother, why are you so disgusted with this Lin Zhu? Even if she lives in the mansion, she is only a teenager, how much can she eat?" Zhang Yuze didn't quite understand his behavior.
"This," Zhang Weize was asked. He couldn't say that it was because old doctor Zhang got a jade medal a few years ago. His son liked it very much and always wanted it, but unexpectedly, the old man gave it to Lin Zhu. He always held a grudge.
Until now. This is really embarrassing to say. "I'm afraid that others will laugh at our family, and anyone will dare to take it from home." He could only give such a far-fetched reason.
If the real reason is told, I guess Zhang Yuze will find it even more inexplicable. There is such a kind of person in the world who is born to dislike some people without any important reasons. Zhang Weize is like this. That's why he can't say anything more convincing.
reasons.
"If your father hears this, you will definitely make him unhappy again." Zhang Weize stood up, walked to the window, and wiped a pot of orchids. "Last time, you gave me a pot of top-quality orchids, half sold and half given away.
My father was very angry when he married the head of Lu Da of Muyue Trading Company. That pot of orchids was given by Miss Lin."
"So what, just for a pot of flowers, my nose is not my nose, and my eyes are not my eyes." Zhang Weize became even more depressed when he thought of this.
"Because that flower is so rare, Yun'er wrote to me and said that this Linzhu gave his father another pot, and the flowers were still blooming in the cold winter months. You can tell me yourself that such a pot of flowers was sold to you for the price of a cabbage.
Can father not be angry?" Zhang Yuze felt that this second brother was already the father of several children. He still didn't make much progress.
"Really? The flowers are still blooming now? How much are they worth?" Zhang Weize's eyes seemed to shine with silver light.
"You!" Zhang Yuze shook his head helplessly when he saw him like this. "I'm lucky to have two pots of this top-quality orchid, which can't be bought with money."
Zhang Weize didn't get a satisfactory answer from Zhang Yuze, so he left a little frustrated.
"Uncle, what's wrong with my second uncle?" Zhang Yuze's wife Wang entered the study with a cup of soup.
"He has never been very fond of the god-granddaughter whom his father recognized. Now I heard that this girl Lin Zhu is coming to the capital to settle down, and she has come to complain to me." Zhang Yuze sat at the table with Mr. Wang, "
Did you do it with your own hands again? You are already busy enough with the whole family, so why are you doing this?"
"I saw that my uncle has been too tired recently, so I thought of doing something that I could do." Wang smiled slightly, opened the lid of the cup, and a fragrant aroma came out from the cup.
"It smells so good. Only my wife has such skills. How can I be so virtuous as a husband? I married a daughter of the Wang family." Zhang Yuze said with emotion.
"My uncle is always making fun of me. Drink it while it's hot. Yun'er isn't around these days, and I really miss her." Wang said while serving him some soup, "I wonder when she will be back?"
"I've already sent a letter saying that I'll be back after the Chinese New Year. Yun'er's letter was full of praise for Lin Zhu." Zhang Weize's words made Wang frown slightly and asked in a bored tone, "Is this girl's surname Lin?"
Zhang Weize was shocked and quickly comforted her by saying, "Madam, she is just a country girl. She is no match for the Lin family."
"Humph, there are no good people named Lin. They have caused so much harm to my sister. They can still be so carefree and live so happily. It's really God's blindness." The person named Lin in Wang's mouth said,
She is the third child of the Lin family. She is Lin Zhu's father whom she has never seen or heard of. She is also Wang's niece. But no one knows about it yet.
"Madam, my little sister is living a good life in Jiangnan now, so don't worry about it anymore." Zhang Yuze gently patted Wang's fists that were clenched out of anger. "And those who know about that past event
It's not much. You keep it in mind all the time, but it's not good for the little sister." The little sister in Zhang Yuze's mouth is Wang's biological sister and Lin Zhu's biological mother.
"I just feel aggrieved for my little sister." Mrs. Wang gently wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.
"I know, it's just that my little sister is living a good life now. She has two children, which is enough." Zhang Yuze comforted her from the side.
"I just don't know where my poor niece is now? She has been in the capital for so many years, and there is no news about her at all. Could it be that she was killed by that ungrateful Lin Laosan?" Wang said when she thought of this.
This possibility made my whole body tremble.
"How is it possible that tiger poison does not eat its seeds? You are overthinking it. I have also been secretly asking around these years. I have never heard that any daughter of the Lin family died young. She must be alive and well." In fact, Zhang Yuze just
This was just to comfort his wife Wang's heart. Although he had been keeping an eye on her for many years, there had been no news about the child. In his opinion, he was probably no longer alive. But how could he open his mouth to his wife?
Little did they know, the child in their mouths was getting closer and closer to them.
Shopkeeper Du of Muyue Trading Company sent a manager named Fang to the capital to find a house suitable for Lin Zhu's requirements. But this manager Fang relied on the fact that he was an old man in Muyue Trading Company (actually Muyue Trading Company was only established four years ago).
Only five years), and because Shopkeeper Du came a year later than him but still took care of him, he had long been dissatisfied.
Seeing that he had arranged such an errand for himself, and did not give him the full authority to handle the money, he would not get any benefits at all, so he became even more passive and sabotaged. After walking around the capital for several days, he finally found a few
He thought Shopkeeper Du lived in the house himself, so none of the houses were in prosperous areas. One of them was not far away from the famous ancient red light district.
He thought he had dealt with Shopkeeper Du, but he didn't expect Shopkeeper Du's face to darken immediately after hearing what he said. He looked at him with an angry face, and the anger in his eyes seemed to burn Manager Fang.
He was so frightened that he couldn't help but shrink a little.
"I'll find the house myself. You go to this place to supervise the work and make sure the craftsmen build the house according to this plan." Shopkeeper Du didn't punish him severely because he wanted to give Lu Mingtao face. For the sake of Manager Fang's following, he also
He was assigned an easier job.
I didn't expect that my good intentions would be treated like a donkey's liver and lungs. Even a supervisor could ruin his job.
Manager Fang saw that he was sent to a countryside seventy or eighty miles away from the capital to work as a supervisor for a house. It was even more uncomfortable than having him look for a house in the capital. Therefore, he often treated the craftsmen with a face that was neither his face nor his nose.
He acted in a disorderly manner and did not supervise the work well. He often went out to drink. The craftsmen could not get the plans for building the house, so the building was a bit messy.
When the house was about to be completed, Shopkeeper Du and Lu Mingtao came over to check it out, and almost lost their temper. The original courtyard of Sanjin was built into a large courtyard, with houses on the front, back, left and right, but the courtyard was surrounded by
It is a square building with a very small door that cannot even pass a carriage. The materials used in the house are also very crude. Compared with the money spent by Shopkeeper Du, it is simply the dregs of dregs.
Because the steward was not notified of the arrival of the two, he was not seen in the courtyard and could only wait in the courtyard.
When Manager Fang returned to the courtyard drunk, he saw Lu and Du standing in the courtyard with livid faces. He immediately woke up with fright. He plopped down and knelt down in front of Lu Mingtao, but could not utter a word of defense.
"Go back and pack your things and get out!" Lu Mingtao didn't waste any time and drove them away. Manager Fang still wanted to plead for mercy, but was frightened by the sharp look in Lu Mingtao's eyes. He had no choice but to run away in a hurry.
"Master, I also have to take some responsibility. He was sent by me. Please punish him." Shopkeeper Du didn't show any anger at the other manager. He was very angry and didn't say anything. What's even more hateful is that he said it again and again.
provoke his anger.
"Okay, you don't need to say more. I know very well what he was thinking. It was purely a mistake. He doesn't deserve sympathy." Lu Mingtao waved his hand to stop Shopkeeper Du from speaking.
"Go and find the head of the craftsman here." Lu Mingtao ordered.
"Why don't you build it according to the drawings? Can you see if this house can be lived in?" Lu Mingtao pointed at the nearly completed house and asked sternly.
"My boss, it's not the villain's fault. The gentleman just did what he said." The leader of the craftsman said with a helpless look on his face, "The villain also tried to persuade me, but that gentleman did it."
He said you must do as he said, otherwise you won't be able to
Pay wages. We haven’t paid wages for a long time. Everyone in this family is still waiting to buy rice to put into the pot. Please ask the boss to do a good job and give the wages to the little people." After saying this, the craftsmen gathered together.
He knelt down to Lu Mingtao and Shopkeeper Du.
"Okay, you surnamed Fang, I can't spare you." Shopkeeper Du was so angry that he cursed, but the matter at hand still had to be solved. He paid the craftsmen the money according to the wages agreed before, and then
Each person was compensated with a hundred coins. This was able to appease these people.
"Shopkeeper Du, it seems that I still need to trouble you with this matter. After Miss Lin and the others arrive, they can only live in the house in the capital. It won't be built for a while." Lu Mingtao looked at the house in front of him.
Not only was it uninhabitable, it had to be demolished and rebuilt, but he had already thought about how to punish Guanshi Fang, letting him come here to work as a coolie for no wages, so that he could borrow the courage from heaven to actually dare to break ground on Tai Sui's head.
Shopkeeper Du also nodded in agreement, and that was all. Fortunately, the house he was looking for in the capital could be moved in with only a few repairs, so the situation was not the worst. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come.
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