When leaving Wei's house, Wu Huaiyu felt extremely comfortable.
Wei Zheng paid the price for his repeated provocations. Not only did he fail to get married to the Wang family of Taiyuan, but he also had to pay Wu Huaiyu thousands of dollars, plus their Wei family's secret recipe for home brewing.
Mrs. Pei is very energetic and keeps her word.
As soon as she got back three thousand volumes from Qianjin Hall, she immediately took out three hundred volumes and presented them to the East Palace. She also brought along a set of notes written by Wei Zheng, which were all historical notes. Huaiyu accepted them with a smile.
After Zhang Chengde followed Wu Huaiyu to do all this, he felt mixed emotions. He used to admire Wei Zheng, but today he saw with his own eyes how his idol was trampled into the dust by Wu Huaiyu, and Wei Zheng couldn't even fight back.
"What are you thinking about?" Huaiyu asked.
"Debts are crushing. I also borrowed a Beijing debt, and I'm worried about it."
"How much did you borrow?"
"Fifty thousand yuan. Previously, the price of grain had soared, and there was still no market for it. The family was deprived of food, so I had to borrow Beijing debt to buy some black market grain."
A sixth-grade official's annual salary is only ninety shi, so it is indeed difficult to raise a family.
"Is your little one also in Chang'an?"
"Well, my hometown is Hejian Prefecture, Hebei Province. My family has also been passed down by generations of farmers and scholars. My father was recruited as an official by the Sui Dynasty. He once gave many good suggestions to Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. Unfortunately, they were not adopted and he was ostracized by his colleagues.
He even went to jail, almost died, and spent all his money to get out of jail and return home...
In the first year of Wude, I went to Chang'an to take part in the Jinshi examination and finally passed the middle rank. When my father received the good news, he fainted with excitement and shouted, "The sky has eyes."
I later appointed my secretary Shenzhen Zhengzi and brought my whole family to Chang'an. I originally wanted my parents, wife and children to live with me, but who knew that living in Chang'an was not easy, and life was actually very difficult, and I often even had to borrow money to survive."
Zhang Chengde spent nine years in Chang'an, from the Secretary of the Provincial Department of Zhengzi to the current Donggong Prince Literature, from the ninth grade to the sixth grade. Although his official position was promoted several levels, his predicament did not ease at all.
For a powerless and petty official like him, even his salary is intermittent, and he can only receive a little grain from his position.
Without any other external resources, I just rely on copying and writing epitaphs to earn some living allowance. Without fame, I don’t have much money to write epitaphs for others.
But the expenses are quite low. The rent is high, groceries are expensive, and everything else is expensive.
"I have always wanted to find a foreign position, even a county magistrate, as long as it is not too remote a border area."
People in his hometown thought that Zhang Chengde was doing well, a sixth-grade Beijing official, or an Eastern Palace official, but in fact his underwear was patched.
"The interest rate is not low, right?"
"10% monthly profit, it costs 5,000 yuan a month," Zhang Chengde was helpless. As a sixth-grade official, even if the monthly salary and daily stipends were paid in full, the monthly salary would only be 2,400 yuan.
"Come to my place to get some money later and pay off the Beijing debt first,"
Many Beijing debts are specially lent to poor officials in Beijing, and the interest rates are higher than ordinary public money. If the debts are not repaid at maturity, the interest will be recalculated with interest on the principal.
Huaiyu wanted to pay off the debt first for Zhang Chengde.
"The official can't pay back the money for the horse washing for a while."
"It's only tens of thousands of dollars. Sometimes I say, don't worry, I don't want you to pay interest, and I don't want you to mortgage. This is mutual help between colleagues, it's different from Wei Zheng's."
Zhang Chengde was surprised. Why was Wu Xima so kind to him, but not so kind to Wei Zuocheng, who held an important position?
"You are very confused about why I did that to Wei Zheng, right? In fact, Wei Zheng didn't show mercy to me and tried to mess with me again and again. I have been repaying kindness with kindness. He came to me when he was short of money, and I didn't say anything to help. Now I
Although he is charged interest, it is already a great deal of face, otherwise others in other quality shops and Changsheng Shop would not be so polite to him."
"Of course, if Wei Zheng hadn't treated me like a white-eyed wolf, I could actually have some favors with him again,"
Zhang Chengde understood.
When Wu Huaiyu gave tens of thousands of dollars directly to Zhang Chengde and specially sent a steward to find the Beijing debt lender to help him settle the debt, Zhang Chengde was deeply moved.
These tens of thousands of Beijing debts may not seem like much, but to him, they feel like the rope around his neck is getting tighter and tighter, until he is about to suffocate.
The scariest thing is that the profits are compounded.
Zhang Chengde left with many thanks.
"Your method of winning people's hearts is too simple," Fan Xuanfu said with a smile.
“Sometimes simplicity and directness are more effective.”
Fan Xuanfu asked him, "Is it appropriate for you to handle the Wei family matter like this? I heard that Wei Zheng is highly appreciated by saints."
"I have given Wei Zheng enough face, but if he slaps me in the face over and over again, I have no mercy. It is only right to pay back debts."
Fan Xuanfu leaned close to his ear and said, "You can't hide it from me. Quan Zhi ordered the impeachment of Wei Zheng and the Wang family's high-paying family fortune, which made His Majesty angry. In the end, the marriage was ruined. Didn't you do it secretly?"
"Don't talk nonsense. Quan Zhirang not only impeached Wei Zheng and Wang Ji that day, didn't he also impeach me and your family?"
"This is your brilliance. If you drag yourself into the water, others will not suspect that you are the one behind the scenes."
Huaiyu chuckled, "You have a good imagination, but please don't say this outside, otherwise Wei Zheng and his wife will have to climb over the wall and chop me off."
It ruined the good thing of marrying a girl with the fifth surname, but afterwards the Wu family married the Wang Ji family, and then Wei Zheng lost face and lizi inside and outside, losing a thousand coins, and even got into the secret recipe of the Wei family's brewing. If he knew about this
Now, I will definitely have to fight Wu Huaiyu.
"You are really bad, you kill people without blood, but I like it!" Fan Xuanfu said with a smile, "I have long looked down on that old man, and I have always made trouble for you. This time I am polite to him. Next
If he dares to do this again, I will go over to him with a knife and cover my face in the middle of the night and chop him down."
"You are still ruthless," Huaiyu gave her a thumbs up. He believed that she could really do it. After all, she had stabbed Xue Wanche in the street with a knife before.
"It can be regarded as a lesson to Wei Zheng. He vented his anger at the same time. Let's leave it as it is. As long as he doesn't find trouble with me in the future, I will have to be merciful and merciful."
"If you're not afraid of killing a snake, there will be endless troubles?" Fan Xuanfu asked.
"You have to know that Wei Zheng is a man who has direct access to heaven. If he doesn't rebel or cause chaos, who can kill him with a stick? So, just accept it."
"It's an advantage for him. If he dares to attack again next time, we will take over his house. The two houses just happen to be put together. We can tear up all the rags there and build a garden." Fan Xuanfu.
It's not polite at all, after all, this man was born in Wuling. When he was young, something happened to his family and he did not become a slave. A few years ago, another big change happened. His grandfather was killed in a rebellion, and his father seized the title and official position.
She deeply experienced the ferocity of the struggle at a very young age.
However, Wu Huaiyu is not benevolent, but if he wants to kill Wei Zheng now, he simply cannot do it. Moreover, although Wei Zheng always impeaches him, the impeachments are not about life-threatening matters and do not endanger his fundamentals.
"I, Aye, heard that you were collecting books, and specially made a thousand volumes to present to the East Palace."
Huaiyu was not happy after hearing this. He pulled Fan Xuanfu aside and whispered to her, "I will go to the Duke's Mansion in Xiaying later. One thousand books are too many. Please donate a hundred."
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"Don't worry, a thousand books don't cost much. Although I, Aye, don't have much education, I am not short of money."
"I know that the Fan family, the Xu family, the Hao family, and the Zhang family are the four most famous families in Anlu, but this matter has nothing to do with money."
"Then why?"
"Although the prince is the crown prince, he is still young. Don't show such closeness. Aye is a military general after all, and he is still serving as the general of the Youjianmen. It is important to keep an appropriate distance from the prince," Huaiyu said.
It's more obvious.
Fan Xing should not think about currying favor with the crown prince now, just be a loyal minister of the emperor and be loyal to the emperor alone.
Prince, just maintain appropriate respect.
Therefore, if you donate a hundred books this time, you are following the trend and showing enough respect for the East Palace. But if you donate a thousand books, that would be too much.
After all, people like Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng only contributed a hundred or three hundred volumes of books.
"Is it so complicated?"
"Of course, things involving imperial power are the most complicated. Now that the prince is young, these things are not sensitive yet. If the prince is older now, it will be very dangerous for your father to do this."
"Then now that you are the prince washing your horse, wouldn't it be even more dangerous if you present a book in such a grand manner?"
"That's different. Firstly, I am now the official of the East Palace. Secondly, as I said before, the prince is still young and still has time. What I do is part of my job."
"Why do I feel that you don't think highly of the prince? Did you discover something?" Fan Xuanfu asked in a low voice.
"No, but your father's identity and status are sensitive, so you really have to be careful about the boundaries."
Huaiyu returned to his father-in-law's house with Xuanfu.
As soon as he arrived at the door, Fan Xing personally greeted him at the door. He came here often recently and became familiar with Fan Manzi. Although this man is a bit fierce, his temper has been polished a lot in the past few years, and he is not as domineering as before.
, Love Wujiwu, Fan Manzi is also particularly polite and fond of Wu Huaiyu.
After Fan Xuanfu entered the house, he pulled Fan Xing aside and whispered for a while. Fan Xing patted his thigh, "My son-in-law is still smart, I didn't expect it to be so deep. He listened to my good son-in-law. A hundred volumes are a hundred volumes, and the rest is
Bring all those thousand scrolls to your house in Yongxingfang.
Anyway, those books gave me a headache."
"Alang can read to Xiuyi Xiuwu Xiuwen and the others."
"Forget it, those idiots are all just like me. Those who can't read are useless. Send them to the Imperial College to study. As a result, they spend all day either fighting cocks, betting on horses, or hunting and playing polo. When they are older, I will
Kick them all to southern Xinjiang to guard the border and serve as soldiers, so that they can taste the pain."
"Son-in-law, you have been married for a while, but there is still no movement in my wife's belly. You have to work harder. I have been looking forward to becoming a grandma for a long time."
These words were said so fiercely that Fan Xuanfu blushed and glared at Fan Xing fiercely.
Fan Xing said, "Daughter, what Aye said is a good thing. You are the first wife and the first wife. We cannot relax on this matter, let alone delay it. We must hurry up, and we must not let the concubines and maids get ahead of us."
"Son-in-law, I recently got some tiger whip and tiger bones from my hometown in Wuling Mountain. You can take them back to eat later. They are definitely good food."
"Alang, you don't want to eat indiscriminately." The great-grandfather of the current emperor was named Li Hu, so he changed the name of the tiger to a big insect. You still eat tiger whip, are you not afraid of violating the taboo?
Besides, eating tiger whip and tiger bones at a young age is not always a good thing.
Besides, I am as powerful as a jade dragon and a tiger, and I can use that thing. Who do you look down on?
"I just ate one recently. I steamed it and ate it. The effect was very strong. To tell you the truth, Ye Yu and the other four are no different!" Lao Fan boasted.
"Otherwise, my son-in-law should prepare the wine for you, A Lang, and drink a glass occasionally in the future. Steaming and eating it directly is wasteful, and it is too ferocious and may be too strong for your body." Huaiyu had to remind him.
