Water Margin official

When Zhang Zhengdao saw her deep in thought, he stopped talking and just ate food and drank wine. He was full first before talking.

After a while, Mrs. Wei recovered her thoughts and said slowly: "There is one thing, but I don't know if it has something to do with it?"

Zhang Zhengdao put down his chopsticks, took the silk scarf on the table, and wiped his mouth.

Mrs. Wei frowned and said: "You, the silk handkerchief from the slave family, are you using to wipe your mouth?"

Zhang Zhengdao put down the silk scarf and said nonchalantly: "Wash it and it will be clean."

"What's the matter? Is it convenient for me to tell you and listen to it?" Zhang Zhengdao asked again.

Mrs. Wei recalled: "In March last year, General Gao Jie of Jinwu Guard once asked someone to come into the mansion and wanted to ask the slave family to come over and become his eighth concubine, but the slave family refused."

"Gao Jie?" Zhang Zhengdao has never heard of this person.

Mrs. Wei continued: "He is the younger brother of Gao Qiu, the former commander of the palace."

"Gao Qiu has a younger brother?" Zhang Zhengdao asked doubtfully.

Mrs. Wei replied: "Then Lieutenant Gao ranks second, and there is an elder brother above him."

"In the first month of this year, the officials promoted Gao Qiu and made him the commander of the Imperial Palace, commanding the imperial army. His elder brother Gao Shen was also promoted to the Grand Bachelor of Xuanhe Palace, and his younger brother Gao Jie was granted the title of Grand Master of the Jinwu Guard.

General."

Mrs. Wei was full of envy when she mentioned the rapid rise of the three Gao brothers. Then she thought about her husband who was fighting at the border to gain fame but died in battle, and she couldn't help but feel a little sad.

Hearing this, Zhang Zhengdao couldn't help but shook his head and said: "I didn't expect that just by being good at Cuju, I became the Taiwei of the palace commander's palace. It's a good life."

Mrs. Wei also nodded and said: "That Gao Jie, before he became the general of Jinwu Guard, he liked the Nu family, but the Nu family didn't want to be a concubine for him, so he refused. Later, that man sent people to threaten the Nu family one after another.

I ignored him at all, but we have always been in peace."

Zhang Zhengdao looked at Mrs. Wei's beautiful appearance and it was not surprising that Gao Jie wanted to take her as his concubine.

After thinking for a moment, Zhang Zhengdao asked again: "Madam, why did you buy this wine shop in the first place?"

Mrs. Wei recovered her thoughts and replied: "Didn't I just say that it's because this is a real store."

Zhang Zhengdao smiled and said: "Madam, I understood it wrong. What I mean is, where did Madam get the news that this store was for sale, and how did she make up her mind to buy this store?"

Mrs. Wei was stunned. Yes, why did she want to buy this wine shop in the first place?

Seeing that Mrs. Wei had come to some understanding, Zhang Zhengdao continued to ask: "Did Madam learn this news by accident, or was there someone who specifically provided it to Madam and encouraged her behind the scenes to guide Madam to buy this wine shop?"

"During the purchase process, were there any competitors? How did Madam seize this wine shop from these competitors?" Zhang Zhengdao analyzed it for her bit by bit.

Mrs. Wei completely understood that although she was a womanizer, she was not stupid. At this moment, she was reminded by Zhang Zhengdao, and she recalled the events before and after, bit by bit, and then straightened them out. Suddenly she realized that she was actually

She fell into the trap carefully woven for her by others.

"You mean, the slave family has been deceived by others?" Mrs. Wei looked embarrassed.

Zhang Zhengdao smiled and said: "Madam, can you recall, why did you want to buy this wine shop?"

Mrs. Wei recounted: "It was the Lantern Festival at that time, and the slave's sister gave me some gifts, so the slave went to the palace to thank her. When I was returning home, I was passing by the Imperial Street. Someone stopped my bicycle and asked me to pay one hundred guan.

, to buy a jujube horse 'Chuanyundian' that I keep at home."

"This horse was my husband's favorite horse during his lifetime. He kept it in the house and was reluctant to sell it." Mrs. Wei said slowly: "When the man refused to sell it, he increased the price to 150 guan. The slave wanted to

After thinking about it, I felt that it was useless to keep this horse at home, so I decided to sell it."

"What happened next?" Zhang Zhengdao took a sip of wine.

Mrs. Wei said: "The slave family asked the housekeeper to discuss with him, and finally sold it for 160 coins."

"After selling the horse, the man invited the housekeeper of my house to come to Judezhai for a drink. So he learned that the wine shop was going to be sold, and the housekeeper told the slave family about it." Mrs. Wei frowned, feeling that this was the case.

Things are reasonable and reasonable, and there is nothing suspicious at all.

Zhang Zhengdao smiled and said nothing and continued to listen to Mrs. Wei.

"The housekeeper said that business here is booming. He came to have a drink and had to wait outside. He heard that the wine shop was selling, and thought it was a way to make money, so he inquired about the price and reported it to the slave family." After Mrs. Wei finished speaking, she stared.

Zhang Zhengdao asked: "Do the officials think that the housekeeper in my house is suspicious?"

After she finished speaking, she shook her head and said, "Steward Wei has been in the house for more than three years and has never done anything out of line. It should not harm the slave family."

Zhang Zhengdao replied: "It's difficult to draw a dragon or a tiger. It's difficult to know the person but not the heart."

Mrs. Wei continued: "The housekeeper said that after taking over this wine shop, we can make a lot of money every day, and it is a real shop, so we are not afraid of losing money, so the slave family also thought about it and let the housekeeper make the decision to take over the wine shop.

."

"How much money did you spend?" Zhang Zhengdao asked.

"It cost about 55,000 yuan." When Mrs. Wei said it, she was shocked.

Not only was the family's savings used up, but all the rewards given to my sister in the past two years were also sold and stuffed into this wine shop.

Zhang Zhengdao knew, however, that in Bianliang City at this time, every inch of land was at a premium, and an ordinary house in a better location would cost tens of thousands of dollars.

It stands to reason that although Jude Zhai is a bit remote, it is indeed worth fifty thousand guan.

Based on the land price, Mrs. Wei actually didn’t pay too much for the land, so the deal was quite a bargain.

However, if the business still does not improve and the wine shop cannot change hands, this will really be a bottomless pit, guarding a place where no money can be made, dragging Mrs. Wei to death.

In desperation, this woman is not at the mercy of outsiders.

Even if she is Wei Xiurong's sister, so what? Is it possible that the official brother-in-law will help out? I'm afraid it's just a fantasy.

Zhang Zhengdao heard from Wei Gui that Wei Xiurong was not favored by Zhao Ji in the palace. Although he had been in the palace for many years, it was only with the help of Concubine Qiao that Zhao Ji unexpectedly gave birth to Zhao Gou one night, so he was canonized.

For beauty.

Wei Xiurong was able to enter the palace thanks to the late Prime Minister Su Song.

The Wei sisters were born into poverty. In their early years, they worked as bed-warming maids in Su Song's mansion. One night, Wei Xiurong couldn't stop urinating. Su Song thought she had the appearance of a noble person, so she took her sisters to Bianliang City. Wei Xiurong fell in love by accident.

Work as a maid in Prince Duan's Mansion.

After King Duan ascended the throne, he really flew to the branches and became a nobleman in the palace.

"Wei Shi, a native of Kuaiji, lived in Danyang as an official during the Shao Sheng period. He first took him to the couch, and spent the whole night drowning in it. He said in the ode: 'This is very expensive. I can't live here, so I should take it with me to the capital.'"
Zhang Zhengdao is a person who has read a lot of "books", so he naturally remembers this.

Looking at Mrs. Wei in front of him, Zhang Zhengdao couldn't help but think about it again. He wondered if this Mrs. Wei was as sensitive as her sister.

"Is Madam from Kuaiji?" Zhang Zhengdao couldn't hold back and asked.

Mrs. Wei was thinking about her own affairs when she suddenly heard Zhang Zhengdao ask this inexplicable question. She was also surprised, but she still asked back: "How do officials know?"