In the front hall of the main building of Nanyuan of Prince Su's Mansion, a delicate vase fell from Wen Qi's hand to the ground and broke into two halves.
Before Wen Qi could react, Zongwei Zhou Pu, who had been following him for the past two days, took out a booklet from his arms and recorded it without expression: "On the sixth day of the seventh lunar month, Song Dynasty porcelain was broken.
One, four thousand taels..."
Hearing this, Wen Qi jumped up immediately, looked back at Zhou Pu and said angrily: "Hey, you did it on purpose, right?"
It turned out that just now Wen Qi saw that the Ding Tao Song porcelain was quite exquisite. Out of admiration, he held it in his hand to look at it carefully. After all, for a poor student like him, Ding Tao Song porcelain was simply rare to have in his life.
Luxurious things that opportunity touches.
Unexpectedly, just as he was concentrating on admiring the exquisite patterns on the ceramic vase in his hand, Zongwei Zhou Pu walked quietly behind him and deliberately said quietly very close to him: "
This thing is worth thousands of taels, Mr. Wen should be careful."
However, before he finished speaking, Wenqi, who was startled by his sudden opening, subconsciously shook his hands.
As a result, a valuable and exquisite Song Dynasty porcelain became a pile of useless porcelain pieces.
"What?... I'm sorry that I can't understand what Mr. Wen said."
Facing Wen Qi's question, Zongwei Zhou Pu had a blank expression on his face, but in his eyes there was a hint of pride as if his conspiracy had succeeded.
Seeing this, Wenqi was so angry that he couldn't speak.
It's not that he has seen through anything, in fact, similar things have happened several times in the past few days, and Wenqi knows the reason without even thinking about it.
Holding back the anger in his heart, Wen Qi said coldly: "This matter has nothing to do with me. It was you who harmed me."
After hearing this, Zhou Pu was not anxious at all. He took the booklet in his arms and said with a smile: "You can save this to tell the stewards in the house."
As he spoke, he glanced at a servant who hurriedly walked out of the hall, and an inexplicable smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Although Zhou Pu's smile felt a little oozing, Wen Qi was not afraid in his heart. Thinking about it, he was not even afraid of Prince Su Zhao Hongrun, let alone any of the stewards of Prince Su's Mansion.
Thinking of this, Wen Qi also calmed down, sat down at the table with a slight hum, and poured himself a cup of tea.
But for some reason, Wen Qi always felt that Zongwei Zhou Pu and the other two servants who were cleaning the house looked at him with a hint of sympathy and pity.
"Does the manager of Prince Su's Mansion have a very important background?"
For some reason, Onsaki felt a little flustered.
I don’t know how long it took, but suddenly there was a scream from the door.
Wen Qi turned around subconsciously and was surprised to see a short manager standing at the door of the front hall... hmm? A little girl?
I saw the little girl, dressed as a man, wearing the clothes of a house steward, followed by several strong servants of the house. At this moment, a pair of beautiful eyes were staring at the broken vase on the ground, and her hands were holding something empty.
, with a crazy expression on his face.
"He did it." Zongwei Zhou Pu immediately pointed at Wen Qi.
At the same time, several other servants in the room also pointed at Wenqi in unison.
Before Wen Qi could react, he saw the girl who seemed to be the chief official in the palace, rushing to Wen Qi in a few steps, with her left hand on her waist, and her right hand repeatedly poking Wen Qi's heart, and angrily scolded: "You are so stupid
Is there something wrong with you!...Do you know how much that Ding Tao Song Porcelain is worth? Looking at how poor you are, even selling you won't be enough to compensate you, do you understand?!"
"I..." Wenqi was speechless.
Speaking of which, he considered himself to be eloquent, but when he met the person in front of him, he felt frustrated for the first time, because he couldn't get a word in, so he just listened to the little girl in front of him chattering angrily.
Perhaps because Wen Qi didn't talk back, the chief steward's anger gradually subsided. Taking advantage of this moment, Wen Qi quickly asked: "May I ask the girl..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zongwei Zhou Pu chuckled and introduced: "This is the chief steward of our Prince Su's Mansion, Miss Lu'er. All the chores in our Prince Su's Mansion are in charge of Miss Lu'er..."
Chief Steward, this is the guest invited by His Highness, Mr. Wen Qiwen."
"Is she really a little girl? She is actually the chief steward of Prince Su's Mansion?"
Wen Qi looked up and down at Lu'er, the chief steward of Prince Su's Mansion, with a strange expression.
At this time, Lu'er also looked at Wen Qi carefully and said with an ugly expression: "Wen Qi, I know you have cheated on me and drank in my palace for the past two days. The food and wine must be good. You are obviously just a poor man."
Scholars are very demanding..."
Seeing the girl in front of him speaking so bluntly, Wen Qi also felt a little embarrassed on his face.
Come to think of it, he had been imprisoned in Dali Temple for several months and had to eat prison food for several months. He was invited to Prince Su's Mansion by Zhao Hongrun two days ago. How could he have resisted the temptation to talk.
"girl……"
"What girl? I am the chief steward of the house!" Lu'er's eyes widened and she scolded with her hands on her waist.
Wen Qi twitched the corner of his mouth twice and changed his words: "Big Manager, it's not that Wen wants to eat and drink at the house for free, but His Highness Prince Su invited me to come over..."
"Inviting you?" Lu'er looked Wen Qi up and down and asked Zhou Pu suspiciously, "His Highness really invites this poor scholar? What ability does this person have?"
Glancing at Wen Qi, who had an ugly expression, Zhou Pu said with a smile: "I don't know the details, but I know that this person owes money to the house?"
"What?" Lu'er's face suddenly changed after hearing this, as if someone had robbed her treasure, she stared at Wen Qi and asked: "How much do you owe?"
"Originally it was four thousand taels, but now..." Zhou Pu took out the book, took a look at it, and said with a smile: "There are already six thousand four hundred and thirty taels."
"Six...six thousand four hundred and thirty taels?" Lu'er immediately jumped to his feet and said angrily: "I'm going to die! He actually lent this poor scholar more than six thousand taels?!"
Wen Qi's face turned red when he heard this, but when he looked at Lu'er, there was also a trace of confusion in his eyes. He thought to himself, I also owe His Highness Prince Su, not you. Why are you so excited, little girl?
Before Wen Qi could react, Lu'er turned his head and stared at him. Those eyes reminded Wen Qi of the jackals he encountered while walking on the mountain road in the middle of the night.
"More than six thousand taels... You shameless poor scholar, you owe so much money to my house, and yet you dare to shamelessly ask for this and that every day..."
After that, there was a series of verbal humiliation and attacks, which made Wenqi feel ashamed and angry.
He immediately stood up and angrily shouted: "I'll just leave!... Why should I, a seven-foot-tall Wenqi man, be humiliated by you here?!"
"Want to leave?" Lu'er heard this and sneered twice, then angrily said: "Okay, pay back the money you owe!"
"You..." Wen Qi was speechless for a moment, and then said angrily: "Even if I owe this money, I owe it to His Highness Prince Su. What does it have to do with you? Do you think this palace belongs to you?!"
After hearing this, Lu'er's little face flushed slightly, and she insisted: "Although...although it is not mine, I am the chief steward of the house, and everything is in my hands!... You are so shameless.
I am a poor scholar who owes my palace a lot of money, and he ate and drank freely in my palace for several days. Now he still wants to run away without paying back the money he owes?"
"When did I say I was going to run away?" Wenqi said angrily: "It's just that I don't have any money on me for the time being. If I have money in the future, I will naturally return it in full."
After hearing this, Lu'er immediately calmed down and asked coldly: "When will you have money?"
"Uh..." Wenqi was speechless for a moment, and after a while he said, "I still have two acres of Susukaya in my hometown and asked my neighbors to take care of it..."
"Two acres of thin land?" The corner of Lu'er's mouth twitched twice, and then he yelled angrily: "What can two acres of thin land do? It's not even enough to pay back the fraction!" After that, he looked at Wen Qi up and down, and said with a sneer.
: "Since I don't have money, I'll do chores for the government..."
"You..." Wen Qi's face turned red with anger and he said angrily: "How dare you bully a scholar like us?"
After hearing this, Lu'er's eyebrows stood up, she raised her voice and scolded in a high-pitched voice: "A scholar can not pay back his debts?!...I tell you, the scholars my aunt has met said that none of them are generous with their wealth.
You spend money like water, look at you again... I just noticed that what you are wearing is also the clothes from my house? You are so stinky.
The poor scholar with such a shameless face has been eating, using, and wearing my aunt's clothes these days. How dare you talk about being a scholar in front of my aunt? Do you believe that I will immediately ask someone to come to the street to give you some idle shouting?" "Note:
The yelling here refers to asking a group of people to yell on the street. It was a common method used by store owners in ancient times to deal with some shameless and forced residents.』
After hearing this, Wen Qi lost his face immediately. You must know that his reputation in Daliang is no longer comparable. If this little girl sends people to shout on the street for a while, then how can he, a scholar, still
If you have the nerve, stay in Daliang again.
Thinking of this, he said angrily: "You...how can you, a little girl, be so philistine?"
It can only be said that he does not know the origin of Lu'er. You must know that Lu'er was sold to a waterside pavilion in Daliang since he was a child. He has seen too many different religions and schools since he was a child. Although he does not have great wisdom, he knows the things in the market well.
When he scolds people, he also has the attitude of a shrew, which is something that a scholar like Wenqi can't handle.
No, Wen Qi, who had a sharp tongue and a sharp tongue, was no match for Lu'er. His face turned pale after being scolded, and he couldn't say a word from the beginning to the end.
Even by the end, the poor scholar looked in a daze, and from time to time he showed a look of shame and anger.
"Come on, if you keep scolding me, this scholar will probably kill himself in shame..."
Zhou Pu, who had been watching the show for a long time, finally came over and took the confused Wen Qi away.
Taking Wen Qi to the Xiyuan wing where the latter lived, Zhou Pu poured Wen Qi a cup of tea.
At this time, Wen Qi had obviously not recovered from what had just happened, and was still mumbling words such as "It is difficult to raise a villain with a woman", with the shock on his face still lingering.
Seeing this, Zhou Pu joked maliciously: "Mr. Wen was shocked, otherwise, Zhou asked the family to prepare a table of wine and food for you to calm down the shock?"
Hearing this, Wen Qi trembled as if he was frightened. Then, after swallowing his saliva, he looked back at Zongwei Zhou Pu and said, "Lord Zongwei, may I ask where His Highness King Su is now?"
"Your Highness?" Zhou Pu frowned slightly, and then he seemed to have guessed something, and said with a smile: "At this moment, His Highness may be in the Smelting Bureau... Mister, would you like to visit?"
How could Wen Qi not hear Zhou Pu's teasing, but for him, no matter where he went, it would be fine, but he didn't dare to stay in Prince Su's Mansion any longer.