[Quick Crossing + Red Mansions] I have a strong desire to survive

"Patriarch," Xue Hai saw that Xue Pei was not willing to give up the patriarch and the business, and called out unwillingly: "The Xue family has gathered together since the opening of the dynasty, and the plan is for the clan to support each other. So Everyone has been doing the same for a few years, but now the patriarch suddenly says that the head of the house will no longer support everyone, which makes people think that the patriarch is separated from the tribe."

Xue Pei really wanted to tell him that he didn't have a relationship with them, but he didn't know them at all.The expression on the face became colder: "I want to support each other with the clansmen. But now I am still here, but I have been ill for a while, and you are arguing about taking over the position of patriarch and taking over the business of the clan. Let's continue to support each other with you, and when I go, Pan'er will still get a share of dividends, and I really don't know if I can even keep my current family property."

What he said was blunt, but it was all the truth, even with a thick-skinned face like Xue Hai's, and he was too embarrassing to say anything else.

Xue Jiang felt that now was an opportunity to express himself, so he couldn't sit still, so he stood up and said to Xue Pei: "The patriarch is serious, everyone just thinks that it is not time to close the accounts, and some businesses are just half done. If Fang suddenly withdraws shares, who should bear the loss of the business?"

Xue Pei's face also changed when he heard this, Xue Jiang's face became a little pale when he saw it, and he swept the remaining six people from the corner of his eyes: "Look, what we said is so reasonable, the position of the patriarch besides me Who can do it?

Seeing that Xue Pei's face was loose, Xue Hai and the others also gave him a high hat, saying that since Xue Pei became the patriarch, he has always put the interests of the clan first, how can he just watch the clan's business fail?Therefore, I still ask Xue Pei to take into account the overall situation and never withdraw his shares.

Xue Tuan from Qifang even said that if Xue Pei withdrew his shares at this time, he would be a sinner who ruined the Xue family's business, and even if he died immediately, he should be ashamed to see his ancestors.

Other Xue Pan could bear it, but if someone said to his face that his father was going to die, Xue Pan could bear it?Jumping out, pointing at Xue Tuan who spoke just now, scolding:

"The silver belongs to our long house. We can take it back whenever we want. You came to rob my father's patriarch, robbed our family's business, and cursed my father to die. You obviously don't want to leave it to the long house." If there is no way to survive, then everyone will wait until the net of death is broken."

If the juniors of other families talked to the elders like this, Xue Tuan would have gone up and kicked them.But the person speaking in front of him was Xue Pan, who had always been known as the bully. He had an uncle who served as the governor of the Beijing camp, and an uncle who was in charge of the Rongguo Mansion. Xue Tuan didn't dare to open his mouth and pant. He reprimanded Xue Pan loudly.

When others heard Xue Pan's words, they didn't dare to say more, and apologized to Xue Pei one after another, saying that Xue Tuan couldn't speak, and they didn't mean to curse the patriarch.Only then did Xue Pei wave his hand: "Even a child as young as Pan'er knows the truth, don't say you don't know it. Humph," he sneered, making the seven of them tremble.

No matter what they were trembling about, Xue Pei's tone was unprecedentedly blunt: "Looking forward to my death? Even if I die, it should belong to my long-term house, and nothing will fall into other people's hands. It's settled like that , You go back and discuss it yourself, or directly share [-]% of the business with me, or convert it in silver according to the market price. Wait until the negotiation is complete and then come to see me together, I don’t see customers alone.”

After speaking, he supported Xue Pan to stand up, and shouted to the gatekeeper to see off the guests. He had already walked out of the flower hall, and only then did he hear an earth-shattering coughing sound.

Those who hadn't had time to leave looked at each other, and they all saw a meaning in each other's eyes, that is, Xue Pei couldn't last too long.So they walked faster than rabbits one by one, so they could go back and discuss whether they should procrastinate for a while, so that they can ignore the [-]% investment of the long house in the future.

Xue Pan also heard Xue Pei's cough, and it was the first time that he felt that the cough was so disturbing.He felt that he hadn't listened to his father's words just now, and interrupted twice so that his father had to turn against the seven patriarchs in order to defend him, and regret filled his heart.

Xue Pei watched Xue Pan's face change, and felt amused in his heart, and he wanted to say: "Pan'er, don't be upset, I only have a trace of your blood for my father, so naturally I can win for you."

This is the second time Xue Pan grows up, and what he hears from his father is not disgust, scolding, his eyes are red, and he hates those clansmen even more: "Why didn't father write to uncle and uncle?" Uncle and uncle came forward, those people would not dare to force father out of the hospital bed.

Xue Pei sighed: "Silly son, do you think that your uncle and uncle are devoted to our family?"

Xue Pan was very surprised, and felt that what his father said was very unreasonable. His mother communicated with his aunt every month, and his aunt and aunt also brought some new things in Beijing to him and his sister from time to time. ?

"Just wait, if our family's gift or money to Beijing is not as rich as before, and your aunt and aunt still miss you, then it is really toward our family." Xue Pei began to warn Xue Pan Needle.

Xue Pan still didn't believe it, and felt that his family had so much money, why should he give less gifts to his uncle and uncle?Only then did Xue Pei see Aunt Xue's ability to brainwash her children.

Wanting to change Xue Pan's mind, it's not something that can be seen in a day and a half, so I want to make a bet with Xue Pan, let him hide the details of today's flower hall from Aunt Xue in advance, and wait for his family to give less courtesy in the future. If the Wang family still stayed at home as usual, then Xue Pei could agree to Xue Pan's request.

Hearing that he could ask for whatever he wanted, Xue Pan became happy all of a sudden, he even forgot the worry he felt when his father coughed just now, and he was thinking about what conditions he should ask Xue Pei, even if Aunt Xue asked him what happened in the flower hall Whatever happened, he impatiently snatched it away.

For two days in a row, Xue Pei asked people to invite the prefect of Jinling to Xue's mansion for a secret talk. No one knew what they were talking about, but they managed to get the people from the seventh house of Xue's family together to discuss what to do overnight. No one noticed that for the past two days, Xue Pei had been looking at the books of the Xue family, and from time to time, he was helped to the warehouse to check things.

Of course, Xue Pei didn't just want to check things. As soon as he arrived at the warehouse, he dismissed people and took all the ready-made gold and silver into his own space, leaving only some bulky furniture and cloths and other things that took up space to hide from people's eyes.There should not be any large porcelain or a few calligraphy and paintings in it, Xue Pei's heart aches to death.

On the third day, when the people from the seventh room of Xue's family came to the door again, Xue Pei had already figured out the entire Xue family's business, and even invited the prefect of Jinling, and Zhen Yingjia, who followed the prefect all the way, appeared in the flower hall together.

In Xue Pei's words, the prefect of Jinling and Zhen Yingjia came to testify for him, and the people in the seventh room of Xue's family couldn't find a reason to object.They didn't dare to object either—no matter who took over the head of the Xue family or the business, dealing with the officials and lords was inevitable, and now it would be a pleasure to drive the two of them away. Don't you want to do business in the future?

Zhen Yingjia didn't want to come, who asked the prefect of Jinling to invite him in person, and told Zhen Yingjia that Xue Pei intended to sell him [-]% of the Xue family's business, but the prefect of Jinling couldn't afford it himself, so he wanted to join forces with Zhen Yingjia.Zhen Yingjia knew that it was true that the prefect of Jinling couldn't eat enough, and it was true that he sold himself well, so she came here happily.

When Xue Pei saw the prefect of Jinling and Zhen Yingjia coming together, the surprise on his face made Zhen Yingjia very useful, thinking that he really didn't know that the prefect had invited him, and he didn't even care about the irony in Xue Pei's words.

Xue Pei still didn't take the initiative to speak, but Xue Hai and the others had already discussed that Xue Hai would take over as the patriarch, and Xue Jiang and Xue He would take care of the business together.But Xue Pei wanted to withdraw the shares, and the Qifang was unwilling to give up the business halfway, hoping that it could be converted into silver, and the Qifang would jointly fund it.

Xue Pei was noncommittal about this, and only asked Xue Hai's seven families how much money they were willing to pay for the 200% shares.Xue Hai looked a little embarrassed: "The old patriarch also knows that all the money in our houses has been put in the business, and there is not much cash to take out. For the time being, give the old patriarch [-] million taels for one house, and the rest will be sealed at the end of the year." Send the bill again."

"Hehe," Zhen Yingjia, who was supposed to be listening, sneered, "The Xue family's business is spread all over the south and north of the Yangtze River, and 200% of the shares only come out with [-] million taels of silver. It's a little ugly."

Xue Hai blushed when he was told that the amount they had negotiated was less than [-]% of the Xue family's business, so they hoped that Xue Pei would still be like the original owner, focusing on the family business and accepting the money first.As for saying that the remaining money will be sent after the account is closed, that is all a fool.

Not to mention whether Xue Pei is still there, even if Xue Pei is still there, he has already collected the money once, and wants to collect the second time?The rest of the money had to be divided equally among the seven houses.

After countless calculations, Xue Pei actually invited the prefect of Jinling and Zhen Yingjia to be witnesses. Even if Xue Pei received the money now, with these two witnesses, he can get back the rest when the account is closed. of.

It would be better to directly respond to Xue Pei's request that day.

This is the common idea of ​​the Xue family's seven families, but now they have to talk to Xue Pei - they really can't get so much money together for a while.Xue Pei, on the other hand, looked at Zhen Yingjia with an unexpected look on his face, and bowed his hands to him: "Thank you, Mr. Zhen, for your righteous words." After Zhen Yingjia said something good, he continued to listen.

A little anger appeared on Xue Pei's face: "I thought I was a villain at first, but I didn't expect that I have gained insight today. If you can't get the money, then I will put the words here, no matter who gets it Give 500 million taels of silver, and I will transfer [-]% of the shares to whoever."

Everyone in the room was shocked.Even if the prefect of Jinling and Zhen Yingjia knew about Xue Pei's plan in advance, they were still very shocked to hear him say it in person: it was the Xue family's business, and outsiders had nowhere to intervene, but now Xue Pei would let anyone pay the money. to whom?

Everyone felt that Xue Pei had broken the hearts of the Xue family members, that's why he said such words.The people in Qifang took turns to persuade Xue Pei to think twice, hoping that he would give them some time for the sake of his fellow clansmen, and not do things that make loved ones hurt their enemies.

Who knew that Xue Pei would not enter, and only said that he had been forced by his clan to give up his position and business as the patriarch, so that he had recognized who was relative and who was enemy, not to mention that Qifang just now wanted to calculate half of his money , he was ashamed to say that he was of the same race as these people—outsiders would not calculate him like that.

As the only two outsiders, the magistrate of Jinling and Zhen Yingjia really couldn't talk to each other, so they had to watch Xue Pei tear up the seven houses of Xue's family.In the end, everyone was in a hurry to talk, and Xue Pei even spoke out his angry words with the Qifang Fenzong.

I don't want Xue Hai to allow Xue Pei to talk back, saying that Xue Pei thinks that the tribe is like a bandit, so it's meaningless for everyone to mix together, just divide the clan!

Xue Pei's heart is clear, this Xue Hai is afraid that with him, the old patriarch, he, the new patriarch, will not be easy to gain authority in the clan.If the first house of his own is really separated from the clan, the second house will become the eldest house, and it is justifiable not to want to hand over the position of patriarch to others in the future.

All of a sudden, Xue Pei was irritated by Xue Hai's tone, saying that he is a branch clan, then everyone will understand now, don't think about taking advantage of him and assigning a bad name to him.

So the problem has returned to the price of 200% of the shares.The people in Qifang were dumbfounded all of a sudden—they got the 300 million taels out of the treasury, let alone 30 million taels, even [-] taels.

Now that they have broken up with Xue Pei again, no one is ashamed to ask Xue Pei for mercy.The magistrate of Jinling stood up at this time, saying that his son was about to reach adulthood, and he wanted to buy some family property for his son, and he intended to give a piece of money to buy the shares in Xue Pei's hands.

The members of the seventh house of the Xue family got together to discuss it, and felt that it would take a long time to count on the magistrate of Jinling to take care of it in the future. Besides, how much money a fourth-rank official can have, and the shareholding will not take up much.If the prefect of Jinling agreed to take a share in it, would Xue Pei still dare to ask for the money owed?

Waiting for them to agree to the prefect of Jinling's shareholding, it was still only [-]% of the [-]%, and he felt even more relieved, thinking that Xue Pei was stealing chickens this time.Who knows that Zhen Yingjia also spoke at this time: "In the end, I had a friendship with Mr. Xue. Even if there was some misunderstanding before, it was over. I really don't want to see him suffer like this. How much money the remaining shares are worth is up to you. I'll make it up."

Not to mention the Patriarch of the Seventh House, even Xue Pei is as tired as if he had eaten a fly: "Master Zhen, why should you take advantage of others? If Mr. Zhen takes over the business, it would be better for the Xue family to remain as it is." The division of sects doesn't seem to let Zhen Yingjia take advantage of it.

But Zhen Yingjia has been thinking about the Xue family's business for a long time. Every time she asks Xue Pei for money, she will die, but the Xue family's business is a hen that lays golden eggs.With [-]% of the members of the Xue family in his hands, and with his status as the prince's uncle, no matter who the Xue family lets in to take care of the business, they will all be servants who work for him. The prince doesn't have to be shy when giving money.

The fourth prince has enough money in his hand, whether it is buying people's hearts or raising soldiers, it is not difficult. Is the day when the Zhen family will be Cheng Engong still far away?

"Master Xue is afraid that I'm just talking about it, and I won't be able to get the money?" Zhen Yingjia felt that she understood why Xue Pei would rather maintain the status quo than give up the shares to herself, and smiled confidently: "Is there too much? The family is changing, and the 270 million taels of silver can still be paid out."

Xue Pei kindly reminded Zhen Yingjia that even if he took out 270 million taels of silver, he would only buy [-]% of the shares, not the [-]% he thought.In Zhen Yingjia's eyes, [-]% is also the largest share of the Xue family's business, and it suits him to take less money but be able to leverage such a large business of the Xue family.

So before the seventh house of Xue's family opened his mouth, Xue Pei already gambled that he would see Zhen's money soon.Within two hours, the money from the Zhen family had already been brought over, and Xue Peiru's appearance of being struck by lightning made Zhen Yingjia feel unspeakably happy.

But Xue Pei wanted to go back on his word again, saying that there was no reason for his shares to be cleared at one time, and he only received half of it. Now the person who forced the Xue family's seventh house to pay the 200 million silver became Zhen Yingjia, plus Jinling who was beating the side drum. Prefect.

Until Qifang handed over the silver bill to Xue Pei, the 30 taels of silver from the prefect of Jinling was still a mirror of water and moon. Zhen Yingjia was afraid that Xue Pei would take advantage of it, so he didn't mention it. Qifang of Xue's family didn't want to understand I clearly planned to take advantage of it, but how did it become a big business and belong to the Zhen family? I can't remember to mention it.

As for the prefect of Jinling, the deed of how the Xue family's business will be distributed is in his hands. Will he remind these people that they should also pay the money?

In the flower hall, the head of the Seventh House of Xue's family was very excited, Zhen Yingjia's happy words were very swaying, and the magistrate was very comfortable with everyone.Only Xue Pei, with a disheartened face, watched everyone sign the contract, watched everyone press their fingerprints, watched everyone leave the flower hall to go to the government office to get the official seal, and no one persuaded him when he was so hopeless.

Xue Cheng came in with tears and helped Xue Pei up: "Master, don't be sad. It's better to stay away from such tiger and wolf clansmen. Waiting for our uncle to study and become an official, these people will come up to curry favor, slaves." I must persuade the uncle to beat them out."

Xue Pei looked at Xue Cheng's tears, and cried himself: "Xue Cheng, I didn't expect the Xue family to be defeated by me. In the future, sir..."

"Master," Aunt Xue's voice had already come, complaining as she approached, "Master, why didn't you tell me that those cruel-hearted thieves forced him to give up his position as patriarch and business? How can we do this in the future?" Live. If I had sent a letter to my brother earlier, those people would not have dared to..." As he spoke, he remembered that his family would not pay dividends in the future, and he was afraid that he would not be able to live a life of treating money like dung, so he also started crying.

Xue Pei glanced at Xue Cheng, Xue Cheng nodded towards him, and took the people to put the money just collected into the warehouse. Xue Pei took those silver bills by himself, and let the girl help him back to the main room.

Aunt Xue didn't stop crying all the way, Xue Pei endured it and said: "I don't feel better now, and it's expected that those people are worried about it. Fortunately, I still managed to sell the shares for a good price. In the future, no matter whether Pan'er establishes a career or Chai'er gets married, there will be no shortage."

Aunt Xue couldn't hear it, she whimpered and said: "The master said it lightly, we have the name of an imperial merchant, compared with other merchants, we have more confidence, and children can also look for it when they get married. Now that the name of the imperial merchant is gone, in the future when the children get married, should they just look for ordinary merchants?"

Xue Pei didn't argue with her, he just said that he needed to sleep when he was tired, and asked Aunt Xue to take care of the inner tent, so that he could see if he was better in two days.

When she heard that Xue Pei still had to look at the internal accounts, Aunt Xue's face became a little flustered, and she hurriedly asked Xue Pei to rest in peace.

Xue Pei didn't poke her. After a good night's dream, before he got up to eat, he heard Xue Cheng crying and reporting: "Master, it's not good, there are thieves in the house. Yesterday, the money collected yesterday, and All the money in the treasury is gone, my lord!"

Xue Pei fell down on the chair as if the sky had fallen, and asked with a glimmer of hope: "Did you read it wrong, didn't you personally lead someone to put the silver into the warehouse yesterday?"

Xue Cheng was even more anxious than Xue Pei. That was a total of 510 million taels of snowflake silver. In addition to the silver put into the treasury yesterday, there was also 240 million taels of silver in the mansion, which was all the money in the mansion.Now the master's position as patriarch has also been given up, and the business has been taken away by others. Without these money, what will the Xue family do!

"Master, they are all slaves and useless. After putting the silver into the treasury yesterday, we thought that our mansion has always had a nursing home, and the old treasury is hidden, so we didn't send someone to watch it. Who knows, who knows that the thief who killed that day seems to be Knowing that our house collected the silver yesterday, it smashed the lock, and there was not a tael of silver, a tael of silver left."

"The sky wants to kill me, Xue Pei, the sky wants to kill me, Xue Pei." Xue Pei roared into the sky, with blood overflowing from the corner of his mouth.

"Master, Xue Cheng, what's going on?" Aunt Xue also rushed over when she heard the movement, along with Xue Pan and Xue Baochai.However, the two children found that their father and the housekeeper were crying, and they were too scared to speak, especially Xue Baochai, who wanted to cry with his little mouth curled up and down.

When Aunt Xue asked about the situation and cried together with Xue Pei, Xue Pan and Xue Baochai couldn't bear it anymore and burst into tears together.It was Xue Cheng who withdrew his tears first, and then persuaded Xue Pei:

"Master, the thief stole such a large amount of silver, even if he moved it, he would have to move it for a while. It's impossible for no one to see it. It's even more troublesome to transport it out of the city - all the silver in our house is signed by Xue's family." It’s a seal. I’d better ask the magistrate to quickly send someone to catch the thief.”

Xue Pei was already at a loss, and he nodded at whatever Xue Cheng said, until Xue Cheng had already run out to report the case to the magistrate's yamen, then he came back to his senses and said to Aunt Xue: "Just pointing at the prefect of Jinling for this matter, I'm afraid it won't be right." No, my wife should write a letter to Jingli, asking my uncle to put pressure on the magistrate."

Aunt Xue was not much better than Xue Pei, so she hurriedly wiped away her tears and wrote a letter.Xue Pan didn't understand anything else, he only knew that his family was really poor this time, and he really couldn't think about buying anything in the future, and cried more sadly than Xue Baochai.

"It's useless for you to cry now. You should walk around the mansion more. If you see slaves stealing, let them be arrested quickly, or you won't be able to keep the rest of the clumsy things." Xue Pan said in tears.

Xue Pan didn't believe it: "Those servants are old people of several generations, and the deeds are still in our hands. No one dares to accept them if they steal something. Who dares to touch the things in the mansion."

I didn't expect this silly boy to have some brains, but unfortunately, he only thought of ordinary people's hearts, and he didn't know that this person was greedy, so he didn't care about his deeds or his loyalty.

Xue Pei waved his hand to Xue Pan: "Go, go and see what the tree falls and the monkeys scatter. Bring two more people. If you can be shocked, just leave things behind. If you can't be shocked, just let him go." Go ahead and don't hurt yourself."