Quick Travel: The beginning is Shura Field

Chapter 1439: Green Tea Auntie Becomes a Favorite with Her Beauty (18)

Dai Ke pretended not to notice Zhao Zijin's anger and continued to provoke him: "Don't you need a backer? When I become the mistress, won't I be a more stable backer?"

Zhao Zijin was so angry that she laughed: "You said you like me, but you actually want to be my adoptive mother?"

Dai Ke seemed to have noticed something. He put his elbows on the table and smiled at him with his face in his hands: "Are you angry? Or do you want to have some other relationship with me?"

"Are you deliberately testing me again?"

Dai Ke said aggrievedly: "Who told you to be indifferent to me? I don't feel safe either!"

Seeing that Zhao Zijin had lost his patience, Dai Ke changed the subject: "How did you know about the fall of the Minister of Personnel?"

Zhao Zijin knew about it at noon after attending court in the morning. Isn't this too fast?

What's more, the downfall of a minister would not be known to everyone. Even a small general like Zhao Zijin would have heard about it, right?

"Nothing to do with you."

"Humph, I haven't hidden anything from you, but you're hiding everything from me. How annoying~"

Dai Ke's coquettish voice made Zhao Zijin's teeth itch: "Can you speak normally?"

"Humph, you actually still despise me."

Zhao Zijin's eyes suddenly became sharp, and he stood up and said, "Someone is coming, I'll leave first."

As soon as Zhao Zijin climbed out, Fang Zhishan pushed the door open and walked in.

He looked at the two sets of bowls and chopsticks on the table, and was filled with joy: "Ke'er, you understand me and knew I was coming, so you prepared two sets of bowls and chopsticks?"

"I always feel lonely when eating alone, so I put out an extra set of bowls and chopsticks."

Fang Zhishan sat down, his eyes darkened as he lowered them, but they returned to normal when he raised his head: "The Minister of Personnel has been dismissed, and now the Seventh Aunt has no one to rely on, you can do whatever you want with her."

"Thank you, Master Fang."

"Why are you still calling me Lord Fang? Just call me Ashan."

Dai Ke smiled as he poured wine. Fang Zhishan grabbed Dai Ke's wrist, pulled him onto his lap, and hinted with his eyes: "It feels like a long time since we last met."

"Sir Fang, you are indeed from the Ministry of War. I am not fully recovered yet, so I have to trouble you to be patient."

Hearing the other person praising his good health, Fang Zhishan laughed heartily and said, "I grew up on horseback killing enemies and defending cities at the age of seventeen. If it weren't for the recurrence of my old leg injury in the past two years, I wouldn't have been transferred to be the Minister of War."

"I've been scheming against a bunch of civil officials every day, and I've been sitting in the Ministry of War for a long time. I haven't been able to wield a sword or a gun for a while, so I can't use up all my energy."

"But I really am not feeling well."

"Don't worry, if you don't want to, I won't force you. Just finish the meal with me."

"Then I will feed you, sir."

After the meal, Fang Zhishan came out of the room and signaled the two guards with his eyes.

"What are your orders, sir?"

Fang Zhishan stared at the two people with cold eyes: "Who entered Ke'er's room before I came?"

"Your Excellency, the Madam was resting yesterday and no one came to see her, and no one came here today either."

"No one?" Fang Zhishan narrowed his eyes. "Someone must have been here. You should keep a close eye on us next time and make sure to find this sneaky thief!" The chair was hot when he sat down.

Although it was midsummer, the room was still cool and the bench could not be hot, so someone must have been sitting in the room for a long time before he entered.

To be able to evade the guards trained by him personally, this person must be very skilled in martial arts.

"Yes, I will conduct a thorough investigation!"

After leaving Zhao's house, Fang Zhishan was muttering to himself all the way.

Dai Ke can no longer be kept in the Zhao Mansion. He must be kept under his nose to prevent others from coveting him.

But he doesn't have much real power now, and he's afraid of being impeached by others, so this matter needs to be carefully decided.

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"Master, you have to help my father. My father has helped you a lot, and you can't be ungrateful!"

Seventh Aunt kept pestering Zhao Wei for the whole morning, but failed to get him to agree to help.

"It's not that I don't want to help you, but once your father went bankrupt, the Zhao family's business also went downhill. I can't take care of myself these days, how can I take care of your father?"

Mr. Zhao’s current achievements are all due to the connections in the woman’s family.

Otherwise, as a businessman, if he offends someone one day, he may easily lose everything.

Now that Seventh Aunt's father has fallen, those who had come to care for her father have cut off contact with her, and her shop was forced to close down by her rivals.

Now he is so busy with shop disputes every day that he has no time to take care of Seventh Aunt's affairs.

Madam Zhao walked in and said sarcastically, "That's right, sister, you are too ignorant. The master is already very tired from the shop's affairs, and you still come here to bother the master. If I were you, I would stay indoors and give the master peace." The seventh concubine gritted her teeth and was about to say nothing when Rongsheng came in hurriedly, "Oh no, master, a group of debt collectors came to the door, and they brought..."

Rongsheng glanced at Madam Zhao and said, "She also brought Madam Zhao's brother Zhou Du."

The Seventh Aunt, who had just held her breath, said sarcastically, "I heard that the eldest lady's brother is only eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, and not doing his job. I guess he lost a lot of money in gambling, and now the debt collectors have come to the Zhao Mansion. It's really embarrassing for the master!"

Madam Zhao didn't have time to argue with Aunt Seven, and hurriedly begged, "Master, please go and help Zhou Du. Those debt collectors are inhumane. What if they hurt our brother?"

The debt collectors outside have come to his doorstep, and Zhao Wei has no choice but to ignore it.

He had not eaten breakfast and was still full of anger, so he rushed to the mansion in a hurry.

Before they even stepped out of the threshold, a blood-covered creature was thrown towards them.

"Sister...save me..."

Zhou Du was covered in wounds and was beaten beyond recognition. He reached out to Madam Zhao, hoping to get her protection.

The leader outside the door, Scar, was carrying a stick, and behind him was a group of thugs with unfriendly faces.

"Master, look how they beat my brother. You must seek justice for him!"

Hearing the eldest lady throwing herself at Zhou Du and crying, the seventh aunt did not forget to add insult to injury: "I think Zhou Du is not going to breathe much longer, the eldest lady should not think about saving him, and arrange his funeral as soon as possible!"

The Seventh Aunt's face was full of sarcasm. Anyway, the master could not interfere in their family affairs. If she could make the First Lady angry, she would feel much better.

Anyway, her father just lost his official position. At most, he could make a comeback by doing some business with the money he had embezzled.

But if the eldest lady's brother died, the group of evil spirits in their family would definitely not let her go.

"Master, they just want money, and we in the Zhao Mansion have plenty of money!"

Zhao Wei pinched his brows. He had invested a sum of money yesterday to settle the shop. Now he didn't have much money saved at home, but he still had tens of thousands of taels.

Thinking that Zhou Du probably didn't owe you much, he asked, "How much money does he owe you?"

If this group of debt collectors continue to make trouble here, it will have a bad impact on the Zhao Mansion. If we send them off with a few thousand taels, we can still have some peace and quiet.

Scar unfolded the loan agreement and handed it to Zhao Wei: "Look, he borrowed 100,000 taels from the gambling house, plus the interest these days, a total of 200,000 taels!"