Volume 1 Small Events in a Big City Chapter 3 Fan Wuchang's Careful Thoughts(2/2)
Several yamen runners dragged Fan Wuchang out, beat him up, and imprisoned him in prison.
After leaving the house, the master whispered, "Master, the Daming Lu is the "Ming Gao" issued by Emperor Taizu, but it is not a human being."
Zhou Xiao sneered, "Do you think I don't know? Fan Wuchang has two silk shops and an inn in Suzhou City. They are all trades that make money every day. I have been thinking about it for a long time and finally got into a lawsuit. If I let it go so easily, wouldn't this official I bought for 300,000 taels?
The master couldn't help but look at Master Zhou with admiration. He was from Shaoxing and had no hope of career. By chance, he became an aide to "Zhou Xiao". He looked down on Zhou Xiao, a illiterate person. However, after more than a year, he found that Zhou Xiao had no other skills and had first-class methods of making money, so he gave a thumbs up, "Master wise!"
Zhou Xiao looked at the words hanging on the wall and said, "It's rare to be confused."
The master asked again, "What should I do next?"
Zhou Xiao said: "No hurry, lock in first, stay with a few thieves for a few days, and notify his wife to redeem the people. The governor sent a post last month saying that his old maid was about to celebrate his 80th birthday. I was wondering how to take the gifts. Damn, how can this old man live so much?"
At sunset, Fan Wuchang did not come back. Zhao Langjiang sat at the door, waiting. He hadn't eaten for a whole day. Fan Wuchang, a terrible guy, searched through the entire Fan house and found only half a piece of moldy roasted sweet potato. He couldn't even find a grain of rice. He was hungry and pressed against his back.
Xiao Jinyan doesn't care. He is used to hunger, as long as he has wine.
Li Qingcheng is a wealthy young man, and his own book boy Qingcao went to make food. Little Red Fish was a woman, who coaxed Qingcao to offer food obediently. Qingcao also invited Zhao Langjiang, but Zhao Langjiang did not go to eat. He had his logic, and Li Qingcheng also came for the Wu Jing. When he robbed Wu Jing in the future, he would sooner or later. He would eat people softly, so he refused to owe this favor.
At this time, two yamen runners came to knock on the door.
"Is this Fan's house?"
Zhao Langjiang said: "That's right, what's the point?"
The yamen runner said: "Sen Seng Fan has committed a crime and is now in prison. We will send us a detention ticket and notify our family by the way to use the money to redeem the people!"
Xiao Jinyan was happy, but asked, "I wonder what happened to Sir Fan?"
The yamen runner said, "How do I know?" and stretched out his hand.
The yamen runners thought that you lived in the Fan family, so it was naturally related to Fan Wuchang. Since ancient times, the people did not fight with officials. Since he went in, it was inevitable that he would have to spend a few days of hardship. The master had the master's way of making money, and the ones they were working on were working on, so that they could make money. If you were sensible, take some money to clear it up, and we brothers would take good care of it so that he would not suffer too much in prison.
Xiao Jinyan didn't know how, but he deliberately did not mention this matter and took the detention ticket. "It's very hard for a few messengers to come from afar. Come in and drink some water before leaving." As he said that, he ordered Xiao Hongyu, "Don't you go and fetch water?"
Little Red Fish stared at him, "Why should I go?"
Xiao Jinyan said, "I can't help others."
"Then why should I listen to you?"
"You are going to follow me and you are unwilling to do this, so let's go."
Little Red Fish looked dissatisfied and went to the well to fetch water. When Qingcao saw it, he hurriedly said, "Sister Red Fish, I'll help you."
Two yamen runners came in.
Xiaohongyu scooped a scoop of cold water with a scoop and handed it over and said, "My cousin, please drink water!"
When the yamen runner saw it, he felt angry and said, "No need."
Xiao Hongyu was called by Xiao Jinyan as a maid, and was angry and said angrily: "Give me a drink!" He pushed forward with one hand, and flew horizontally, landed on the stone table in front of them, and actually smashed the stone slab into a pit, but no drop of water was spread out. Zhao Langjiang's eyes lit up, "Good Kung Fu."
The two men had never seen this skill before. They immediately changed their faces and said, "No thirst, no thirst."
"drink!"
The two of them were so scared that they drank a scoop of water, and did not dare to say a word, so they were scared away.
Xiao Jinyan breathed a sigh of relief, shook the detention ticket, and said, "Look, Fan Laocai was arrested, and it's no point to live here. Why not go back to their own houses and find their own mother?"
Li Qingcheng shook his head, "If you don't help me, I won't leave."
Little Red Fish also shook her head, "Where are you going, where do I follow you."
Xiao Jinyan asked, “Take it serious?”
"really."
Xiao Jinyan said, "I'll go to the cottage, are you here?" Xiao Hongyu said ok, and he really followed him. Xiao Jinyan had to give up and secretly scolded the sky, what's the matter? He was thinking about it and trying to get Fan Wuchang in, so these people retreated with the difficulty.
Zhao Langjiang couldn't sit still, so he turned around and left with a knife.
Xiao Jinyan said: "Brother Zhao, there will be a date later!"
Zhao Langjiang strode away without saying a word.
An hour later, Zhao Langjiang walked in with a listless Fan Wuchang in his hand.
Seeing this, Xiao Jinyan felt a chill and asked, "Where have you been?"
Zhao Langjiang said, "I went to the prison and got Fan Wuchang out."
Xiao Jinyan showed a look of worry, "You are robbing prison, what should you do if you are discovered by the government?"
Zhao Langjiang: "No."
Qingcao also asked next to him: "Why?"
"I put the knife around Master Zhou's neck and told him that he had arrested Fan Wuchang and no one cared about me for food, so he let him go."
Xiao Hongyu said: "You still have this ability?"
"I don't have it, there is a knife." Zhao Langjiang put Fan Wuchang down, "Boss Fan, go cook soon, I'm almost starving to death."
Fan Wuchang said angrily to Xiao Jinyan, "It's all your bad idea! Zhou Bapi locked me up and asked me for 10,000 taels of silver. If it weren't for Brother Zhao, my life would have been explained there."
Xiao Jinyan laughed and said, "If a person makes mistakes, a horse makes a mistake, it's just 10,000 taels of silver. You are known as Fan Bancheng, and this little silver is nothing."
Fan Wuchang said, "I would rather not live than take a tael of silver!"
Xiaohongyu asked: "Did you come up with this idea?"
Everyone looked over, Xiao Jinyan scratched his head, "Everyone, I suddenly became a little sleepy. If you have anything to do, let's talk about it tomorrow!"
After nightfall, Fan Wuchang lit a kerosene lamp with a wick, rummaged through the cabinets in the study, searching for a long time, and found a book called "How to deal with people who eat overlords". The author still has three views. This was bought by him when the inn was just opened. At that time, it was quite effective to deal with those who were eating for free, so he planned to learn from other things and find a way to drive these people out.
But after reading for a long time, the above method was not suitable. I saw the introduction on the last page. There was also a book called "How to drive away tenants who don't pay rent". I thought to myself that this is exactly what I want. The next day, Fan Wuchang went to the second-hand book shop and bargained for 16 pm to buy the book.
After leaving the store, I hurriedly read it, but I saw a lot of nonsense written in Nuohou’s book, which summed up in one sentence.
"How to deal with tenants who don't pay rent? I'll give you a word and type it! What should I do if I can't beat you? I'll give you another word and endure it!"
At this time, a young man who looked like a poor scholar saw the book in Fan Wuchang's hand and asked: "Boss, how do you think this book is written?"
Fan Wuchang was about to get angry, but when he saw this, he sneered, "Okay, very good, very good!"
The scholar said, "I'm not sure about it, this book is actually... "
Fan Wuchang said again, "If I see this book author, I will kill him."
The scholar was so scared that he shivered, "Why is this?"
"What a shitty thing to write!"
The scholar opened the book and laughed out loud, "This boss, I'm afraid you've been fooled."
Fan Wuchang said strangely, "What does it mean?"
The scholar said: "If you read this book, you won't have any typos, no typos, and no punctuation marks. If you look at the paper that is too rough and the ink is uneven, it is obviously a pirated version. If you want to read this book, you have to buy the genuine ones."
"Where can you read the genuine version?"
Chapter completed!