Chapter 49: Skilled by means of tricks

A fire in Chenjiazhuang burned the entire Chen Yuanwai family business. The next day it spread throughout Chenjiazhuang. Everyone watched from afar and talked a lot. Chen Yuanwai's family was covered in dust and was used to being domineering on weekdays and had to endure humiliation and cover up their faces. Even Chen Hong was ashamed. He was also angry after the fire in Chen Yuanwai, and funeral matters are now the most important thing.

"Let's go and tell Zheng Tu, just say I'm willing to sell the farm to him!" Chen Hong finally made this decision. Now the family is waiting for him to make a decision, so he sent a servant to invite Zheng Tu over.

Soon the servant turned around and said, "Official Zheng said that now Chen's family has been burned with fire. At this time, he proposed to buy and sell the farm. He was afraid that he would take advantage of the situation and dare not come over."

Chen Hong's face suddenly turned pale. His fingers tightly held a pillar that was burning halfway, and his knuckles turned pale. After a long time of dullness, he looked at his family members staring at him, and couldn't help swallowing a sip of water, and said a sarcastic voice: "He won't buy it, I'll just go buy it if I'll find someone!"

As soon as the words were finished, an old woman stood up and cursed at Chen Hong: "Unfilial son, your father's body has not been buried yet. How do you want to find someone to buy it? Could it be that your father will expose his body outside for how long?"

Chen Hong sneered at the old woman, "What is my mother saying? If I sell it to Zheng Tu like this, wouldn't it be a cheaper one? Hum, huh, I don't believe that no one wants this farm."

"I was confused. I originally expected you to support my family business, but I didn't know that you were so unpredictable!" The old woman said hatefully, "Then Zheng Tu clearly wanted this farm. If he sold it to others, who would dare to ask you, a ruined farm?"

Chen Hong said silently. After a while, he said hatefully: "Go and invite him here again!"

The servant had no choice but to invite him again, but he couldn't wait for a while and said, "Official Zheng said that it was your sincerity. If you don't have money to bury Chen Yuanwai, you can borrow some silver to come over. Just don't mention the matter of buying a farm."

Chen Hong was about to have an attack, but suddenly stopped, raised his foot and headed towards Chen Laoshi's house. He saw Chen Laoshi's yard from afar. Just as Zheng Tuli was talking to Chen Laoshi's daughter Luzhu in the yard, he stepped forward a few steps and crossed his hands at Zheng Tu and said, "I have met Zheng Daguanren."

Seeing this, Zheng Tu couldn't help but nod and said, "No need to be polite, but if you have anything to say, just say it!"

When Luzhu saw Chen Hong coming, he hurriedly hid in the house to avoid him. When Chen Hong saw Luzhu in, he said, "But it was still the matter of selling the farm. Now his father is still exposed to his body, and he hopes that the high-ranking official will buy the farm, so that it will be better for money. Burying his father is the top priority."

"This is not taking advantage of others' danger!" Zheng Tu said deliberately, "Don't harm me, I'll have a bad reputation for eating."

Chen Hong hurriedly swears and said, "How can I be such a person? If I say something about the great official taking advantage of the danger of others, the heavens will dislike him and the earth will abandon him, so that I will not have a good end!"

Seeing that he was speaking solemnly, Zheng Tu thought for a while before saying, "By your thoughts, I will not let you down, it's fine, now I have to do it this way, but you have to make it clear in the document, just say that you want to sell it to me, but I didn't want to buy it for you. In this way, I can buy your farm."

Chen Hong hurriedly said: "Make!"

"Then how much is this Zhuangzi worth?" Zheng Tu nodded and then got to the point.

Chen Hong silently said nothing, pondered for a while, then raised five fingers and said, "Now the village has burned some, but they are all some of the assets that I have saved, and they are not related to those farmers, so this number is definitely better."

"Five thousand taels are a little more!" Zheng Tu just shook his head and said, "Although Zhuangzi is a bit big, it's just that the Zhuangzi has been harassed by strong people. If I come again in the future, wouldn't I have no peace? If I can't succeed, I can't succeed!"

Chen Hong's face turned red. The price was indeed a real price just now. However, what Zheng Tu said was possible to issue again. He stretched out three fingers and said, "It's better than three thousand taels of silver!"

Zheng Tu closed his sleeves with both hands and said silently.

Chen Hong's face turned pale, he gritted his teeth and said, "Two thousand five hundred taels, if it's less, I'd rather sell it to others!"

Seeing this, Zheng Tu couldn't help but laugh and said, "So, I'm going to send you to the owner of Chen Xiao." After that, he made a gesture of inviting him. Chen Hong was already so angry that his face was pale. He pointed at Zheng Tu's hand and couldn't speak, and stomped his feet and was about to leave.

Fang raised his foot, but Zheng Tu sneered: "If I don't want to buy it, I will see who dares to buy it."

Chen Hong stopped his footsteps, and he couldn't understand these threatening words. He just remembered his mother's words. This guy was indeed ill-intentioned. He just said something and did not dare to take advantage of others' danger. Now he is acting, but he is not taking advantage of others' danger. What is it? His body trembled and his figure is firmly nailed here.

After a while, Chen Hong gritted his teeth and said hard: "Good official, let me tell you a price."

Zheng Tu nodded and said, "I am a happy person. I think your family is in trouble, so I also have a sense of mercy. One thousand taels of silver is only the price." After that, he raised a finger.

"You - you - are too bullying!" Chen Hong was so angry that he trembled, pointing at Zheng Tu, almost unable to speak.

"So dirty and innocent?" Zheng Tu shook his head and smiled, "It's just a voluntary sale. Maybe you can't sell it without me?"

"Okay, okay, okay!" Chen Hong said three times, and didn't know where he developed his temper. He turned around and left without hesitation.

Seeing that Chen Hong had gone far, Zheng Tu just entered the room, but saw Luzhu looking at him with a gaze. He couldn't help but walk over, touched her hand and smiled, "Just eavesdropping on me just now?"

Luzhu couldn't help but blush, lowered her head, and whispered: "But I heard it accidentally, Dad, don't be weird!"

"Well, it's just eavesdropping on people's words, but it's not good!" Zheng Tu deliberately shook his head and teased her.

Luzhu was anxious and couldn't help but say, "I just heard that his house was burning. After all, it was very miserable. My father died. In such a situation, why didn't my father raise the price a little bit?" After that, he seemed to have made a mistake, staring at his little feet and whispered: "I know my father has his own ideas, but Nunu is too much talkative!"

Zheng Tu knew that this girl was pitiful. She shook her head and touched her little head and sighed, "Don't I think so? If it's an ordinary family, it's okay to give more money. However, the Chen Hong family has plundered many grains and silver from the merchants on weekdays. Chen Hong is also a bully good person and has done a lot of things that harm the heavens. This was just a retribution last night, and the strong man was just practicing the law for the heavens. He just thought that he had plundered him and returned it."

"Just--" Luzhu wanted to say something, but couldn't say it.

"If you do evil, you will have to pay it back in the end, but you don't know if it weren't for your father, I'm afraid you will be the concubine of Mr. Chen, who is not practicing, so how could you speak here peacefully?" Zheng Tu shook his head and said, "If you didn't punish such a bad person seriously and make him turn over, I'm afraid you will harm others in the future!"

Luzhu finally felt relieved and tidied up in the kitchen. When Luzhu left, Chen Laoshi came out of nowhere. He approached Zheng Tu and nodded and smiled, "Son-in-law is a good method!" He had already called Zheng Tu in person.

"Oh?" Zheng Tu looked at him, frowned and said, "What good method?"

Chen Laoshi hurriedly smiled and said, "Is this fire not given by my son-in-law?"

Zheng Tu suddenly changed his color and said, "Where did you hear the bastard? It was clearly the one who did it by the strong men on Wuling Peak? But who told you?"

Chen Houshi didn't want Zheng Tu to react like this, so he couldn't help but panic and said hurriedly: "But he is just an old man from the neighbors. He also has some knowledge on weekdays, so he said this last night."

Zheng Tu couldn't help but be stunned. He thought he was doing something perfectly, but he still saw the clues. However, this old man had a little vision, so he wanted to meet him, and first, he could block his mouth. Second, if it was worth making friends, he would have to share with him. Then he said to Chen honestly: "This is not what he said. You must also know that I have killed the Five Village Masters of the Wuling Peak. How could they be my envoy? If someone said it again, just block his mouth."

Chen thought honestly and nodded and said, "But it's this ceremony, how can you help your enemy like this?" After that, he said, "The little farmer owner just got angry and left, but I'm afraid he won't turn around anymore. What if he really sold the farmer to others?"

Zheng Tu couldn't help but smile and said, "It's okay, he naturally wants to come back and beg me." Yin said to Chen honestly, "Who is that old man? Let's attract us to meet him."

Chen Laoshi hurriedly agreed and went there in a hurry.

Soon after, he turned around, but saw Chen Hong sitting in the main hall, as if they were discussing. Seeing that Chen Laoshi had to come in alone, Zheng Tu hurriedly said, "The rest are not busy in advance, so I went to invite the village to come over, be a witness, and be a guarantee."

"Let's go!" Chen Laoshi saw that Chen Hong was as if he was betrayed, and saw that although Zheng Tu's color did not change, he looked confident. He knew that things had been done. He also responded happily and left hurriedly.

Not long after, Li Zheng came over, and said some sacrificial words to Chen Hong. Then he turned to the topic, wrote the document to buy the farm, signed the contract, and pressed the handprint. Li Zheng also marked it on it as a name for the protection, and the transaction was over. Zheng Tu took out a thousand taels of silver on the spot and handed it to Chen Hong. Chen Hong got the silver and left immediately.
Chapter completed!