Red Mansion: Taming the Overlord

Bo Yang frowned, and was about to speak when Xuan'er had already brought out his clothes, so he had to stop and beckon him to change.

Although Xue Pan is two years younger than Bo Yang, he probably grew up among riches and riches, with adequate nutrition. He is half a head taller than Bo Yang's body, and his stature is also stronger than Bo Yang's. many.After all, this set of clothes was bought according to Bo Yang's figure. Although Bo Yang's clothes were too loose, they looked cramped when they were on Xue Pan's body.

Therefore, this young man from a noble family had to hold his chest slightly, for fear that the seams of his clothes would collapse if he exerted his strength.

When he stood in front of Bo Yang in this state, he naturally couldn't get angry.

"Sit down, speak slowly if you have anything to say." Bo Yang said.

Seeing that the two wanted to talk, Xuan'er reluctantly took Xing Nu who came with Xue Pan out of the cabin to make room for them.

After Xue Pan sat down, Bo Yang poured him another bowl of hot tea, and then said, "What's going on, we can talk about it now."

Xue Pan couldn't wait to tell his experience during this period of time in detail, and it took nearly half an hour to explain clearly.

It turns out that since he left the capital, Aunt Xue and Baochai, two female generations, have always felt uncomfortable guarding the yard empty-handed, so they simply moved to Jia's house again.This time when Xue Pan went back, he was going to pick up his mother and sister. However, Aunt Xue lived in Jia’s house, and she was accompanied by sisters to talk with her every day. , I feel so uncomfortable, so I don't want to leave anymore.

Although Xue Pan is the head of the family, Aunt Xue usually doesn't care about him, but in this kind of matter, it's not easy to be too forceful.What's more, when Baochai was in Jinling, she also had a few sisters in her boudoir, but when she arrived in the capital, she had to live alone, and she felt quite lonely. Now there are so many sisters in Jia's family, and she likes them in her heart.Xue Pan had always been filial to his mother and loved his younger sister, so he had to live in Jia's house after seeing this.

Xue Pan had always remembered Bo Yang's exhortation that he had to straighten out the shops in the capital before he could rest assured.Who knows that a group of relatives in Jia's family knew that he was coming, and they were all very enthusiastic. One person came to invite one today, and another one tomorrow.

At first, Xue Pan thought they were all relatives, but he left because of affection. Who knew that he made the first move, but later he couldn't get away.

When he said this, his words flickered and his eyes dodged, Bo Yang understood eight or nine points.After all, he is young, although Jinling is also a rich and prosperous town, and both banks of Qinhuai River are famous places for romance and moonlight in the world, with bloated makeup and beauties like clouds, but Xue Pan has never set foot there before.Besides, when it comes to all kinds of novelty and ingenuity, boasting of the powerful and competing for wealth, there is a huge difference between Jingzhong and Jinling, it is not the tricks that Xue Pan has seen before.

Therefore, it is not bad to be rich, prosperous and charming.

Bo Yang's face turned cold, but he didn't speak, and still listened to Xue Pan's continuation.

Xue Pan didn't notice for a moment, so he wasted the time for nothing.When he finally remembered that he still had business to do, the day lily was already cold.

It is not that difficult to exchange news between the capital and Jinling. Xue Pan originally only took up a word, but he wasted his time elsewhere. After cleaning up, and then leveling the accounts, nothing can be found out.

If it's just that, it's nothing more than the loss of some money from the Xue family, so be careful in the future and take precautions before they happen.

However, things did not end there.Geinxue's family had a pawnshop among these properties in Beijing.This kind of business is a little immoral, because it is a business for the poor, and the pledge is only given less than half of the price. If it cannot be redeemed at the maturity date, the pledged property will be owned by the pawnshop, and many people will go bankrupt because of this.

This kind of business, in the eyes of ordinary people, does not accumulate virtue, but the profits inside are very considerable.

However, Xue's family is an imperial merchant, although Ziwei Sheren started this business back then, but for the sake of future generations, the rules set by the shop were not too harsh.Word of mouth is the most important thing in this business, so the Xue family's pawnshop has a good business.Not only the poor people are willing to send their things here to collect as pawns, but even the rich and noble people are willing to mortgage in the store if they can't turn around occasionally.Coupled with the status of the imperial merchant, occasionally there are things that are not clean and difficult to sell, and someone will send them here.

That's all for the first two items, but the last item was stipulated by Mr. Xue back then, not to be touched by his family's shop.

But the more business you are not allowed to do, the more profiteering you will be.Xue Gong was naturally able to restrain his family in Japan, but it has been passed down from generation to generation. Since Xue Pan's father passed away, their restraint on the shopkeepers has been greatly reduced.In addition, Xue Pan has not been doing his job properly all these years, and the shopkeepers all know it well. Seeing that this big family business is about to collapse, it is inevitable that they will have other thoughts.

The other shopkeepers were just skimping on deductions and making a fuss on the books, with the idea of ​​evacuating the store little by little.However, the shopkeeper of this pawn shop is not satisfied with this. He is bold and considers that the master's house is useless. Seeing that the good days are not long, he wants to get a big ticket.

At the beginning, it was just more harsh, and all the rules set by Mr. Xue were abolished. No matter how good things were sent in, they would be worthless. The original [-]% pledge price was also reduced to [-]%.Naturally, the extra part was swallowed by himself.Later, seeing that there was no one to take care of the Xue family, and the capital was far away, he even took over the business that was originally a taboo.

The Xue family's reputation is easy to use. Over the past few years, the shopkeeper has used it to amass a lot of money.Now knowing that Xue Pan suddenly became enlightened and wanted to reorganize the family's business, the shopkeeper thought that at most others would just be fined and evicted, but these things he did can be sent to the officials to do it, so there is no luck.After thinking about it, in the end, all the assets in the pawnshop were swept away, and he fled far away!He ran away, and before he left, he lit a fire and burned the pawnshop!

In this way, all his criminal evidence was burned away. Even if the government came to him, there would be no proof.Although the fire was extinguished later, the surrounding people suffered some losses, and the pawn shop was completely destroyed.

Xue Pan originally wanted to follow Bo Yang's instructions to investigate in detail, but before he could do anything, the people from the yamen had already come to the door and asked him to deal with the matter.Neighbors in the neighborhood needed compensation and didn’t mention it. The pawnshop burned down and had to be overthrown and rebuilt to open. Just those guests who heard the news and gathered around the door of the shop to ask for an explanation gave Xue Pan a splitting headache.

Originally these people sent things to the pawn shop, but nine times out of ten they had the intention of pawning them to death, and they would not redeem them again.However, something happened suddenly at the sword pawn shop, and he wanted to take advantage of it.The shopkeeper fled, but Xue Pan, the boss, couldn't escape.When everything was destroyed by a fire, they would have to pay compensation for nothing with the pawn ticket, so how could they miss it?

That's all for ordinary things, the Xue family can't afford to pay for them, but it's not so easy to solve the things that the few rich people use as turnover.After all, people are not short of money, they only want things, where can Xue Pan get them?

In addition, the most terrible thing is that there is also a little eunuch in the inner mansion who has always been in contact with the Xue family, who stole things from the palace and came out as a pawn.It must be Xue Pan's bad luck, but at this time the incident happened, the palace pawned the ticket and came to ask for something, but how did he come out?

It doesn't matter that the shopkeeper escaped, but it caused Xue Pan a lot of trouble. In the past few months, he has been entangled in this matter and can't get away.With great difficulty, with the help of the Jia family and the Wang family, all these matters were private, and this was a sigh of relief.

However, after this incident, the Xue family paid a large sum of money, but it was a serious loss of vitality, and it was not as good as in the past anyway.Besides, Aunt Xue was frightened by this matter, and knew that Xue Pan's failure to go to Beijing during the Chinese New Year was due to the troubles in Jinling's shops, so she felt uneasy, and even said that all these shops would be closed. .

Although these words were said out of a sudden, it was not unreasonable to think about it carefully.Although the Xue family's business is big, but in the past few years, it seems to be going downhill, and the prospects in the shop are getting less and less every year. I thought it was a difficult time in the world, but now I realize that it is actually a bully!It can be seen that if I hadn't been staring at the things in this shop every day, many incidents would probably have happened on the ground.

So Aunt Xue discussed with Xue Pan that it would be better to live in Beijing in the future, relying on the help of relatives, the business will not fail.As for the shops in Jinling, it would be better to close them.

However, they haven't reached a conclusion yet. The clansmen in Jinling had already heard the news and rushed to the capital.

Although the business of the Xue family is inherited by the direct branch, the whole family has a share. Now that Xue Pan has mismanaged it and caused heavy losses, everyone demanded tribute and adjudication, taking away Xue Pan's power to take charge of these matters, and handing them over to others do it.

They came prepared, together with several respected clan elders, but Xue Pan was alone and not good at words, so in a hurry, he had no choice but to agree.However, he kept in mind what Bo Yang had said to him before, most of these things that happened recently were probably caused by someone in the clan who wanted to seize the family business, so they got together, so he proposed to let Xue Biao take over these businesses.

No matter who the victim is, and what is the purpose of such a plan, he can't let them get what they want!