Daming female local tyrant

Entrusted by his uncle, Qi Ming arrived in Jinling by boat and went straight to Shen's house.

He also came to Shen's house with his uncle before, and gave gifts to the second young master Shen Shilian, the son of the second master of the Shen family's clan.It was last year when Shen Shilian got married and had a big banquet. Qi Yunping brought his son and nephew to Jinling to give Shen Shilian a congratulatory gift, and they were able to meet Shen Shilian.

The person who connected them was a fellow villager surnamed Dong of his uncle, who worked in front of the second young master of the Shen family's clan.

At that time, the eldest uncle gave Shen Shilian a painting that had been handed down by the Qi family for hundreds of years. Only then did Shen Shilian meet them, say a few words, and ask someone to send them out to dinner.

Later when he came out, Qi Ming secretly asked his cousin Qi Zhong, did this count as a relationship with the second master of the Shen family's clan?

Qi Zhong asked his father Qi Yunping again, Qi Yunping was not sure, so he asked Guanshi Dong.

Dong Guanshi said: "The paintings you gave are not worth much, they just suit the appetite of my second young master. Don't worry, since he saw you, he will remember you."

When he said this, Qi Yunping became happy.

Because they had planned for a long time to hug Shen Shilian's thigh.

Qi Yunping wanted to curry favor with the patriarch or his children, but without the help of a fellow villager like Dong Guanshi, he couldn't figure it out.The next best thing to do is to curry favor with Shen Shilian, the only son of the second patriarch of the clan, and this is to take advantage of the opportunity of Shen Shilian's wedding and wedding ceremony to give gifts.The painting he gave Shen Shilian as a congratulatory gift was painted by everyone in the previous dynasty, and it is worth at least a hundred taels of silver now.

Hearing that Shen Shilian likes calligraphy and painting, he chose what he likes and gave Shen Shilian the painting heirloom from his family.

Dong Guanshi said that it would be beneficial to curry favor with Shen Shilian, and maybe in the future the Shen family would still be run by Shen Shilian.

Qi Yunping didn't quite believe what Dong Guanshi said, he thought it was Dong Guanshi's words to comfort him, making him feel that it was not a loss to give Shen Shilian the calligraphy and painting uploaded by his ancestors.The patriarch of the clan house has two sons, so Shen Shilian, the second young master, is probably the oldest among the sons and grandsons of the clan house.

But it is always a good thing to gain access to the clan of the Shen family in Jinling. Qi Yunping also wants to move the Qi family to Jinling in the future so that his son and nephew can work for the Shen family.Staying in a town like Suzhou, even though he opened a cloth shop, Qi Yunping felt that his children and grandchildren could not just live in that town for the rest of their lives.

Qi Ming was sent to Jinling by his uncle, because the last time he came to Shen's house, he knew the way to find the house where the second master of the clan house was, found a servant at the corner gate, and asked him to help him go in and find it. Manager Dong came to see you.Of course, he begged the boy to help spread the word, and he didn't forget to give him some money.

The doorman took his money, went in and found Guanshi Dong, and told him what he looked like and what his name was, asking to see him.

Director Dong heard this, and knew that this was Qi Ming, the nephew of Qi Yunping from the same village, begging to see him, so he asked the boy to go out and bring him to him.

When Qi Ming was brought into his room by the servant, he asked Qi Ming why he wanted him, where was his uncle.

Qi Ming explained the reason for his visit, and asked Guanshi Dong to explain why Shen Wan, the daughter of the eldest daughter of the clan's family, was exiled to Suzhou by the Shen family.Also, what does it mean that Mrs. Li asked her to manage the Xuetian and Yitian in Suzhou.

Director Dong explained why Shen Wan was punished, and after Mrs. Li convened people from all the households of the Shen family to discuss, the specific punishment for Shen Wan was given to Qi Ming.

When Qi Ming heard that Shen Wan's dowry and belongings were confiscated, and the old lady only asked her to take away the clothes, curtains and other things in the house, he couldn't help but slapped his thigh, and said, "I said why did she want to clean up uncle and uncle?" For Liu Zhuangtou's accounts, they were asked to pay tribute with money, but it turned out that they had no money."

"How do you say that?" Director Dong hurriedly asked.

Qi Ming said: "Before coming, my uncle and Liu Zhuangtou were both called by Mr. Yan to meet Miss Shen, and Miss Shen called a farmer to put on a good show, asking my uncle and Mrs. Liu Zhuangtou can’t get off the stage. He took this opportunity to threaten my uncle and Liu Zhuangtou. If they don’t settle their accounts clearly, they won’t be called the head of Suzhou Shenjiaxuetian and Yitian next year. By the night I got on the boat, My uncle said that the eldest lady wanted him and Liu Zhuangtou to spend a total of 800 taels of silver to honor her, so she agreed to expose the matter."

"Then did your uncle and Liu Zhuangtou get the money for the young lady?" Director Dong asked again.

Qi Ming replied: "I'm afraid I took it. My uncle said that Miss has a deadline of two days."

Director Dong sighed after hearing this, thought for a while and said: "You wait, I will report this matter to the Second Young Master and see what the Second Young Master has to say."

Qi Ming asked: "What can the second young master know? I told you about this matter because I saw that you had a good relationship with my uncle. After all, my uncle and Liu Zhuangtou have taken advantage of the Shen family a lot over the years. , If this matter gets out, I’m afraid I’ll bring trouble to them.”

Dong Guanshi snorted and said, "Maybe if the second young master and the second master find out, you can get back the silver that your uncle gave away. Your eldest uncle is relying on the second young master. Maybe you are still worried that you won't be able to be a village head?" What? How many good errands are in the hands of the second young master, as long as you please the second young master, are you afraid that there will be no money?"

Hearing what Guanshi Dong said, Qi Ming was also a little moved. He thought that what Guanshi Dong said was right, so he said, "Then I'll wait for you, and you can report to the second young master."

Director Dong immediately stood up and walked out of the room, going to the second young master's study at the back. At this time, the second young master usually sits in the study and handles some chores.

Sure enough, he found Shen Shilian as soon as he walked, and then he told Shen Shilian what Qi Minglai had told him.

Shen Shilian took it very seriously, he asked Guanshi Dong to go out to accompany Qi Ming, and told Qi Ming not to leave, he went in and reported the matter to his father.

Director Dong agreed, and withdrew, and followed his advice to keep Qi Ming to stay, waiting for news from the second young master.

Shen Shilian went directly to a small courtyard behind where his father lived alone, where his father practiced alchemy all the year round.

When he went, his father was dressed like a Taoist priest, and he was watching something carefully around the alchemy furnace in the house.

"Father, I have something to report to you." Shen Shilian said respectfully to his father as soon as he entered.

Shen Chang stared at the pill furnace without blinking, and asked Shen Shilian: "What's the matter?"

Shen Shilian leaned over and told Shen Chang in a low voice about Dong Guanshi coming to report to him.

Shen Xian stopped looking at the alchemy furnace after listening, turned to look at Shen Shilian, and asked, "Is this really true?"

Shen Shilian: "Of course it's true, and that Qi Ming said that the cousin probably already accepted the respect from Liu Zhuangtou and Qi Zhuangtou."

"Hmph! I didn't expect that she would get money so quickly after being married."

"Father, about this matter... can the money my cousin collects make her spit it out?"

"If you want her to spit it out, you have to shout about it. It's a trivial matter if Liu Zhuangtou and Qi Zhuangtou can't be Zhuangtou, but our Shen family's face in Suzhou will be wiped out. The old lady definitely doesn't want to do this Yes. If they had sent someone earlier, I could still support them so that they would not take out the money. In the end, Shen Wan could only stop them from being the head of the village, but she couldn’t get 800 taels of silver. It’s over, we can give them a good job casually.”

"Then shall we pretend we don't know about it?"

Shen Xian pondered for a while: "This matter still needs to command my elder brother's army. You can go out and tell Qi Ming that in a while..."

He leaned into Shen Shilian's ear and said this, Shen Shilian nodded repeatedly, and finally said: "Father, son, go and do what Daddy says."

Qi Ming sat in Director Dong's room for about half an hour, drank tea for a while, and a servant came to tell Qi Ming to go to the second young master's study to talk.

Feeling flattered, Qi Ming hurriedly followed to Shen Shilian's study.

Shen Shilian asked the boy to bring him a chair, asked him to sit down opposite, and then said: "How dare you ask to see my old lady and tell her that the young lady blackmailed your uncle and Liu Zhuangtou?"

Qi Ming originally thought that it would be a good thing for him to be summoned by the second young master of the Shen family, but he didn't expect Shen Shilian to ask him to do this.

Going to sue the eldest lady of the Shen family for accepting the filial piety from her uncle and Liu Zhuangtou, wouldn't that reveal the fact that her uncle and Liu Zhuangtou privately embezzled grain from the Shen family's Suzhou Xuetian and Yitian for money?

At that time, the eldest lady of the Shen family will return the 800 taels of silver, but my uncle and Liu Zhuangtou will withdraw the remaining thousands of taels of silver, and if this matter is revealed, their Zhuangtou's errands will be gone. .

So he said with an ugly face: "The villain is just entrusted by my uncle to go to Jinling City to find out what happened to the Shen family recently, and he can't be a master."

Shen Shilian knew that Qi Ming didn't agree to sue Shen Wan so easily, so he immediately said: "You don't have to worry about your uncle and Liu Zhuangtou's errands are gone, I just told my father, he said Without the errands in charge of the fields in Suzhou, we can arrange other errands for you in Jinling, and keep more money than the farm heads they are doing now. Also, my father guaranteed that they will be fine, he will keep them and quit We will also pay for the money that comes.”

As soon as these words came out, Qi Ming was a little tempted, but he has always been a prudent person, even if the conditions offered by Shen Shilian are attractive, he still has concerns.

He thought that if his uncle and Liu Zhuangtou completely took refuge in the side of the Second Master of the Clan House, and helped make Miss Shen spit out the 800 taels of filial money, even if everything went according to what Shen Shilian said, there would be no loss of money. There will be better errands than the Shen family's Suzhou Xuetian and Yitian, and he believes that the second master of the clan can do it.But the reputation, the reputation of his uncle and Liu Zhuangtou, such things as stealing money from the master's house will be looked down upon and shouted out everywhere, will they hold their heads up when they meet acquaintances and fellow villagers?

Back then when my uncle gave up his love and gave Shen Shilian an ancient painting heirloom from his family, it was not for the sake of his nephews, he wanted them to rely on the Shen family and come to Jinling to live a dignified and prosperous life.

Lost face, just rich, that's almost like a mouse who can't see the light, he feels that he doesn't want to live this kind of life.

Therefore, he still put on a embarrassed look and said: "For this matter, let the villain go back and report to uncle, and he will decide everything."

"Hmph! I really don't know how to flatter you!" Seeing that Qi Ming still refused to agree, Shen Shilian turned cold and said coldly as he slapped the desk.

Qi Ming's face became even more ugly, and he was also taken aback by Shen Shilian's slap on the table.

However, he bit his lip and continued to insist on his own opinion, he wanted to go back and report the matter to his uncle, and he thought that even if he had to go to the old lady to sue Shen Wan, it would not be a few days away.He immediately went back and told his uncle, if his uncle agreed, he would go to Jinling tomorrow.

Seeing that the lure and threats did not change Qi Ming's mind, Shen Shi could only let go, and told Qi Ming to go back and tell his uncle to come to Jinling as soon as possible.

Qi Ming quickly agreed, and then hurriedly left Shen Shilian's study.

When he got outside, he wiped the sweat from his brow, and went out to board a boat back to Suzhou without even saying hello to Director Dong.The reason why he didn't go to see Guanshi Dong was because he was afraid that Guanshi Dong would stand on Shen Shilian's side and force him to go to see old lady Li right away to sue Shen Wan.

When he arrived in Suzhou and returned to Jinhe Town, it was the time when Shen Wan took Jing Lan and others into the city to get money from the bank, bought silk and satin clothes and returned to Shen's old house.

Shen Wan and the others were in a happy mood with smiles all over their faces, but Qi Ming had a bitter face and flustered.

To be honest, he was quite afraid of not agreeing to Shen Shilian's request. He was afraid that he would offend Shen Shilian and let his uncle give away the famous painting handed down from his family, not to mention that he would incur revenge from the second patriarch and his son.

At that time, Qi Yunping was sitting and drinking tea in the main room in the north room behind the Qijia cloth shop opened by his son, and he reckoned that his nephew Qi Ming would be back by this time.

Sure enough, he counted it right, Qi Ming hurried in, followed by his son Qi Zhong.

After the two entered the room, Qi Yunping saw his nephew's flustered expression, and he felt uncomfortable in his heart, so he hurriedly asked: "Ah Ming, you asked what happened, why are you so flustered?"

Qi Ming poured himself a bowl of tea and gulped it down, then said, "Uncle, if I knew it earlier, I wouldn't be going to Jinling."

As soon as he said this, Qi Yunping and his son were taken aback, and hurriedly asked him what happened to him when he went to Jinling.

Qi Ming then told their father and son what Shen Shilian said when he saw him, and finally said: "Because this matter is of great importance, I dare not make a claim, so I came back and reported this matter to my uncle, and asked him to make a decision." .”

Qi Yunping and his son were stunned when they heard Qi Ming's words, and after a while they sighed the same as Qi Ming: "It would have been nice if I hadn't gone to Jinling to inquire about the eldest lady."

Qi Ming said: "It's too late to say these things now, uncle should think about what to do? Should he listen to the second master of the clan house to go to the old lady Li to sue the eldest lady, or not listen to him. My nephew is on the way After thinking about it several times, I still feel that it is difficult to choose.”

After panicking for a while, Qi Yunping said: "This matter is to look at the long-term or the immediate. In the long-term, you have to worry about the reputation of the Qi family. Without a reputation, not only in Suzhou, but also in Jinling. If you look at the immediate, It must be that it is easier to benefit from relying on the clan's second master and his son."

Qi Zhong, who had been silent all this time, added at this time: "Father and my cousin never thought that they would take refuge in the second master of the clan to sue the eldest lady of the Shen family. That would be to offend the current elder of the clan. It is also the patriarch of the Shen family, the eldest lady's father. After offending the patriarch of the Shen family, do we still want to rely on the second master to gain a foothold in Jiangnan?"

Qi Yunping stroked his beard and nodded: "Yes, what about this level? The second master of the Zongfang and his son didn't think about us at all, they just wanted to coax us to do things for him. In the end, we were the only ones to suffer."

Qi Ming then said: "Then uncle and cousin mean that they don't listen to the patriarch and sue the young lady. I'm afraid that their father and son will bear a grudge against us when they see that we don't do things for them, and they will punish us then."

Qi Zhong: "If they really do this, we will go and seek refuge with the eldest lady of the Shen family and the elder lord of the clan. Let's say that the second master and his son of the clan threatened us to sue the elder lady. If we don't obey, they will punish us." us."

Qi Yunping was overjoyed when he heard the words, and praised his son Qi Zhong for being smart. He said that in this way, the Qi family would not be desperate.I couldn't find a way out before, but now I have this excuse to catch up with the relationship of the head of the Shen family.

Qi Zhong went on to say: "I heard from the coachman Geng Jiu that the eldest lady went to the city today and bought a lot of silk and satin materials and came back to make clothes. Tomorrow I will let my wife cut and sew them for them. My wife's craftsmanship is no better than that of this town. The tailor is poor. Since we have plans to seek refuge with the patriarch of the Shen family clan, we might as well flatter the eldest lady earlier and make preparations for the future."

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