On the first day of the first lunar month, Wu Jin held Wu Yi under his arm, and Wu Yi held the money bag under his arm, and met Liu Boyu in the Liu family's large house, which was like a spiral hole.
Liu Boyu wanted to freeze Wu Jin and entertain guests in a waterside pavilion with drafts on all sides. However, after thinking about it again, Wu Jin was used to freezing, and he was afraid that he would catch a cold before Wu Jin did, so he had no choice but to give up.
Invite the Wu brothers to sit down in the warm spring-like flower hall, and the servants will serve refreshments - the Liu family's refreshments are also divided into three, six or nine grades, and this grade is the lowest. There are only a few tea leaves rolling in the tea cup, and the snacks are
It's a few lumps of oily dough left from the masked snake this morning.
Liu Boyu first heard Wu Jin explain the discrepancy in the accounts, nodded, and was willing to use Wu Jin's bill as the standard.
Then he took the small money bag, poured it out and counted it. He couldn't even laugh or cry. When he looked up at Wu Jin, he felt that Wu Jin had lost weight.
Within a few days, his cheeks started to become sunken, his face turned blue, and there were two huge black circles under his eyes.
"Wu Jieyuan, three hundred and fifty taels," he pinched his hand and clicked his tongue twice, "This is not enough for our family to reward our servants."
"I will write an IOU for the remaining money and I will pay it back." Wu Jin said without hesitation.
Liu Boyu laughed after hearing this: "Even if you can get twenty guan left over from selling cakes a month, you can only pay it back in a year..."
He calculated hard and said: "Two hundred and forty a year, if you want to pay off the rest, it will take forever."
Wu Jin replied: "Thirty-six years."
When Liu Boyu heard this, he really didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Jie Yuan, thirty-six years ago, I don't even know if I can live to that time."
He took a sip of tea to moisten his throat: "No, no IOU."
He didn't just bring back a tooth carving for these few thousand taels of silver or such a small amount of silver. What he wanted was for Wu Jin to say a word to the Mo family.
A mule can hide ivory half an arm long, jade as big as a fist, countless incense, and even quicksand after it has thawed. It is also necessary to use a mule to sacrifice.
Without mules, the Liu family's business of leaking ships could only be carried out on a small scale. Even though they tried their best like ants, they could only carry a trivial amount back.
He stood up and handed over to Wu Jin: "Jie Yuan, I beg you, go and beg the Mo family for a favor. Not only do I not want your money, but I will also give you ten thousand yuan every year. What a good deal.
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After that, he raised his eyebrows at Wu Yi: "Isn't that right, brother?"
Wu Yi felt resentful in his heart, but he didn't dare to look at him. He just lowered his head and stared at his toes.
Wu Jin did not allow him to avoid him, and put his palm on the back of his neck, forcing him to raise his head and answer - Wu Yi will not be able to grow if he does not stand up from behind him.
There are two kinds of things like this. Only when Wu Yi is truly heartbroken can he grow.
Wu Yi was forced to raise his head and look at Liu Boyu, still not daring to say anything, and just shook his head under Wu Jin's glare.
Wu Jin then let go of his hand: "There is no need to discuss the matter of begging for mercy."
Liu Boyu sat down, shaking his head with regret: "If you don't speak for us, I don't want your note, and you can't pay back your debts. What are you going to do? I will spread this ledger all over Kuanzhou."
In his opinion, Wu Jin, a scholar, had his head full of books from saints and sages, and wished he could be a perfect person, and his whole body was full of stupidity.
Once something really happens, he shows his incompetence, knows no flexibility, is useless, and is weak and can be bullied. Yet he still bears such a huge debt without saying a word.
ridiculous.
Pitiful.
Wu Jin shook his head: "It's not bad, but I can't repay it, so I can only appeal. There is no shipping department in Kuanzhou, but there is in Jeju. There is no shipping department in Jeju, but there is no shipping department in Kyoto."
Liu Boyu's face changed color, and after a moment, he smiled: "Does the shipping company in Luoshui, Jeju, not know that there is a leaky shipper in Kuanzhou? What if the shipping company comes? Can they still catch me?"
His eyes grew colder and colder: "Besides, there are always places where Miss Mo's eyes cannot see, and there are always gaps where her hands cannot reach. Don't make yourself stupid by reading!"
He suddenly realized that Wu Jin was not only full of sourness, but also had a body full of hard bones, broken bones and dust, and the ashes were choking.
exasperating!
The smile is not funny, and the words are not nice, but the look on his face is never vicious, making it difficult to tell whether he is saying harsh words or joking - his face is indeed round, which embellishes his viciousness.
Very honest.
Wu Yi was scared and couldn't help but lean on Wu Jin, trying to make Wu Jin's strong spine and back an indestructible shield.
Wu Jin lowered his head to look at the few tea leaves sinking to the bottom of the tea cup. He felt that the tea leaves were like several aggrieved eyes, watching his every move.
The sky suddenly darkened, and there were no candles in the flower hall, so it also became dark. The light and shadow shrouded Wu Jin's face in darkness. His long eyelashes trembled, and there was a clear soul inside.
"I know that your Liu family will not obey the law."
"I just think that for a magistrate, behind the magistrate, there are countless enemy parties waiting for them to make mistakes. The arrival of the City Shipping Secretary will definitely make them uneasy. Even if there is no movement at the moment, it cannot be confirmed that they will not happen together in the future, which will lead to the city
Do you want to use the Liu family of the shipping company again? It will not be difficult to support a new shipping company."
Liu Boyu's heart beat uncontrollably, and the incense burner in the room slowly spit out a thick and sticky aroma, which permeated the Xuan Mansion along with Wu Jin's words.
He saw the fear in his heart - Wu Jin just captured what the Liu family was most afraid of.
Wang Yunsheng and others would not care about the conflict between the Liu family and Mo Qianlan over the mule, but they would take care of it if the wolf was lured into the house because of the mule.
If the official circles in Kuanzhou work together, they can create another shipwreck merchant, and the Liu family, which loses its protection, will gradually disappear.
The north wind gradually picked up, and the bells under the eaves were tinkling. Liu Boyu looked at Wu Jin, thinking that in addition to being irritating, this person was also hateful.
And scary.
He gently pinched the Liu family's weakness and left an IOU that would take decades to repay. This not only intimidated the Liu family, but also left no leverage for himself.
A scholar who is trapped in the shell of "gentle, courteous, thrifty and generous" can still see the tricks and tricks with ease and skill.
He must be killed, otherwise when the Liu family and the Mo family conflict in the future, he will definitely side with the Mo family, and the Liu family will suffer the consequences.
But you have to kill smartly, and if you fail the first time, you can't do it a second time, so as not to attract Mo Lingfeng's attention.
In the silence, he was filled with murderous intent. The bright and sometimes dark light filtered in from the clear paper. Although it was dark, it was very soft and reflected the porcelain cup like glass.
Liu Boyu's ten round fingers were tangled together, and he spoke while thinking: "Okay, I will let you write an IOU and pay thirty guan every month until it is paid off. There is no need to ask a third party to bear witness. I
I believe Wu Jieyuan is a human being."
After saying that, he ordered his servants to get pens, ink, paper and inkstones.
In a short while, the servants laid out the rice paper. Wu Jin dipped his pen in ink and wrote: "The debtor is named Wu Yi, a disciple of the Wu family in Shishi Street, Kuanzhou Prefecture. Today he owes money to Liu Bowen, Liu Chixiang, Kuanzhou Prefecture.
Eight thousand six hundred and twenty taels of silver, this evidence is specially established on the first day of the first lunar month in the 23rd year of Yuan Zhang."
After writing, he put the IOU in front of Wu Yi: "Sign."
It will take a long time to do some useless human affairs in the afternoon, so today I can only do one update.