rebirth first official

Yinhe pushed Gao Zhanming into the room in a panic, closed the door, and said anxiously in a low voice: "Master, it's not good, something happened!"

Seeing that he was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, Gao Zhanming hurriedly comforted him: "What happened, don't worry, just speak slowly."

Yinhe said: "Master, just now Liu Da sent someone to look for the servant, saying that the team of female prostitutes invited on the sixth day of May suddenly changed their minds and returned all the deposit, saying that the sixth day of the month would not be able to come. Liu Da went again I found several other female prostitute groups, and they all said that the sixth day of the junior high school has already been booked!"

Gao Zhanming frowned: "That is to say, there are no female prostitutes?" This matter is a bit strange, he invited the most popular female prostitute team in the capital, please move such a team, at least two months in advance Reservations arrive.It was already mid-April when he sent someone to invite, only half a month earlier, but because he was in the name of the Gaofu, it was possible to get things done.Now all of a sudden, the female prostitute team is hired by someone else?It means that the background of that person is bigger than him!

Yin He said: "Not only. The team of cooks we hired suddenly said that they would go back to their hometown and refused to do it. Liu Da sent someone to invite them, but none of the famous teams in Beijing were willing to accept our business! Also, Those precious ingredients such as abalone bird's nest have all been sold out, and there is no one selling them in the market!"

Gao Zhanming was even more surprised.He was going to hold a big banquet in the suburbs with 60 to [-] people, and his house couldn't find so many people, so he specially hired a team of well-known cooks from outside to prepare the dishes.However, not everyone can handle the food of these rich and powerful children, so the Gaofu is responsible for purchasing the ingredients, and finds a special person to supervise the process of the banquet.But at this time, the cook team also ran away, and the ingredients could not be bought, so what should I do?

It's not really a big deal that the troupe of female prostitutes is turned over by someone, it's just that the fun is lost, and it's okay to find other ways to make up for it.However, you can't buy expensive ingredients, and you can't invite top cooks to make dishes and soups. Could it be that these middle school students are invited to eat vegetables and tofu in the cold wind in the suburbs of Beijing? !He also collected more than 6000 taels of money. If it is too shabby at that time, wouldn't he be charged with enriching his own pocket? !

Yinhe anxiously said: "Master, what should we do? Today is the first day of May, and there are only five days left! If it can't be done... If it can't be done... Master, you shouldn't have taken up this matter in the first place. ah!"

Gao Zhanming shook his head and said: "Be safe and don't be impatient. The matter is already like this, it is useless to be anxious. Sit down and think of a countermeasure slowly."

Yinhe had no choice but to go to the side and sit down, still looking anxious, rubbing his hands together.

Yinhe is Gao Zhanming's accompanying student, he and Gao Zhanming are like grasshoppers tied to the same rope, the two are both prosperous and the other is damaged.In the past, Gao Zhanming was excluded in school, and he was always bullied even with him as a student companion.Now that Gao Zhanming suddenly wakes up, he has changed his eccentric and withdrawn temperament, and wants to reconcile the old relationship with the powerful children of the school, which is also a good thing for Yinhe. Should.But Yinhe was even more afraid that Gao Zhanming would be self-defeating and be expelled from the Zongxue.Once he left Zongxue, it meant that Gao Zhanming lost the chance to be recommended to the court, and he also lost the chance to succeed with his master. I am afraid that Gao Zhanming will only be able to rely on the support of An Guogong and the Queen Mother for the rest of his life.

Gao Zhanming looked calm on the surface, but in fact he was not very calm in his heart.He had already arranged everything, obviously everything was settled, and seeing that this matter could be done in five days, why did all those teams suddenly turn against each other?It's fine if one family refuses to do their business, and every family refuses to take their work. It's obvious that someone has designed to entrap him!Isn't it just a banquet, his original intention is also to make everyone happy and ease the relationship with everyone, but those people hate him so much, and they don't miss a chance to embarrass him? !

If the banquet is not done well, it's all right for him to lose some face, but he has already collected so much money. If the wine and water are too pitiful, someone who wants to accuse him of using this to make money, moral corruption, and punish him for several crimes , expelled him from Zongxue, that would really be self-defeating!

Yin He only sat quietly for a moment, and couldn't help but urged again: "Master, what should we do? Have you come up with an idea? Or...or we can go and beg Second Master, as long as he comes forward, those female prostitutes and cooks I must dare not not buy the second master's face!"

Gao Zhanming said: "It's clear that someone wants to embarrass your master! Who do you think has such great ability? You still let me ask Gao Huachong?"

Yin He wanted to cry but had no tears: "Then what to do, what to do! The second master is too much, is this really going to force the master to a corner before he will stop!"

Gao Zhanming waved his hand distractedly: "Okay, this matter is nothing, you have disturbed me enough! Go and get me a basin of hot water, don't gossip here."

Yinhe said: "Master, there are only five days..."

Gao Zhanming said: "I know, I know! Let me ask you, I remember that the restaurant that invites female prostitutes is called Fenghualou, Fenghualou returned the deposit, did Liu take it?"

Yinhe said: "Confiscated. When the deposit was returned, Liu Da felt that something was wrong, so he hurriedly asked someone to go to another place to ask. As expected, all the female prostitutes outside who could be invited to the stage were recruited on the sixth day of the lunar new year. He couldn’t even get them. So he didn’t dare to accept the deposit, so the people in Fenghua Building took it back, and quickly asked me to come to discuss the countermeasures with the master.”

Gao Zhanming rolled his eyes, thought for a moment, and said: "I see. After you take care of me to wash up, go back to the outside room early to rest, and go to Zongzheng's place to take half a day off for me tomorrow morning. I will go to Fenghua Tower in person tomorrow morning , to see if there is any room for maneuver in this matter. If it is really desperate, we will think of other ways."

Yinhe had no choice but to withdraw.

Early the next morning, Gao Zhanming dressed appropriately and went out.

Gao Zhanming led Yinhe all the way to Fenghua Building. Fenghua Building had just opened, and the business was still in a quiet period.Gao Zhanming drove straight to the ground and went up the stairs. Seeing that he was well-dressed, the waiters didn't dare to stop him, and welcomed him to the side room graciously.After a while, Aunt Shen, the shopkeeper of Fenghua Building, rushed over in person.

Female prostitutes were very popular in this dynasty, whether they were high-ranking officials or nobles, but ordinary people, even men and women, many people liked to watch female prostitutes' performances on the street or in buildings to pass their leisure time after busy work.In order to attract attention, female prostitutes are often good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and they also have extraordinary abilities. He will support his own team of female prostitutes in the mansion, and the best female prostitutes will be selected into the palace to perform for the royal relatives, and this Fenghua building is the best female prostitute hall among the people.The shopkeeper, Aunt Shen, was also known as Aunt Chess because she was very good at chess. Although she is now a middle-aged woman, her charm is still the same as before.

When she saw Gao Zhanming, she smiled before saying anything, and approached with lotus steps, bursts of elegant fragrance entered Gao Zhanming's nose, which really eased his anger a bit.Aunt Shen smiled coquettishly and said, "Young master came to my Fenghua Building early in the morning, why?"

As the saying goes, don't hit people with smiling faces, Aunt Shen is so soft and weak, Gao Zhanming is not easy to get angry with her.So he changed his sitting position, leaned casually on the back of the chair, took off his waist badge and threw it on the table, and asked with a half-smile, "I don't know if my aunt knows who I am?"

Aunt Shen picked up the waist card on Gao's mansion, her expression changed slightly, and she immediately bowed with a smile: "I didn't know that Gao Ye was coming, but my servants were far away from welcoming me, I really neglected it. How about Auntie, invite some girls to come to serve Gao? If the master sings a tune, it should be regarded as an apology."

Gao Zhanming put away his badge, raised his hand and said, "Not busy." He looked around and said, "Aunt Shen, your Fenghua Building is very beautifully decorated. The tables and chairs are all made of mahogany. Although they are elegant, they are not expensive. No, it seems that the business of Fenghua Building should be very good, right?"

Aunt Shen covered her mouth with a smile and said, "Master Gao is absurd."

Gao Zhanming said: "Who doesn't know that Fenghua Building is one of the best restaurants in Beijing, why should Auntie be modest? Auntie has a good management, which is a credit."

Aunt Shen smiled and said, "Master Gao's mouth is so sweet. I'll ask someone to make a cup of tea for Master Gao."

Gao Zhanming sneered and said, "But the fact that this store is big is not all good. There is a saying in the ancients that a big store deceives customers. I think the ancients will not deceive me!"

Aunt Shen had already turned her body around, but after hearing this, the smile on her mouth froze, she pretended to be calm and said: "What does Master Gao mean by this? How can this servant have the guts."

Gao Zhanming said leisurely: "Auntie, why are you pretending to be stupid? The people in my house originally booked the banquet for the sixth day of junior high school, and even gave the deposit to Guilou. Yesterday, Guilou suddenly returned the deposit, saying that the girls would no longer perform. You know about this, right? Could it be that Auntie thinks that this is the end of the matter after the money is refunded? Shouldn't you give me an explanation?"

Aunt Shen forced a smile and said: "This... the servant knows. The master listened to the explanation from the servant. The girl in our building was suddenly taken over by an elder a few days ago. She entered the mansion on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, and she cannot be given to others after the fifth day of the lunar new year. There is a performance, and Gao Ye has booked the sixth day, so..."

Gao Zhanming almost laughed angrily.What a big deal, in order to prevent him from hiring anyone, he bought all the female prostitutes in the entire building, and invited all the female prostitutes in the whole capital away on the sixth day of the lunar new year, just to spoil his business?It's just too much money to burn it!

Gao Zhanming said: "This matter was clearly decided by the master first, but you temporarily breached the contract and ruined the matter of the master, so you want to expose it so lightly?"

Aunt Shen laughed and said, "Didn't Gao Ye add [-]% of the compensation when the deposit was refunded? It's just that the people in Gao Ye's house refused to accept it, and we can't help it. Gao Ye calm down, why don't I call now?" The girls came to perform for Erye the most popular scene of riding, shooting and holding a ball at the moment, and apologize to Erye."

Gao Zhanming laughed and said: "Add [-]% compensation? You don't think it's because my surname is Gao that you can spend money?"

Aunt Shen was speechless for a moment.She also knew that this matter was definitely not a matter of a few hundred taels of silver, but she was really helpless and had no other better way.

Gao Zhanming said: "I won't take back the 500 taels of deposit. Since your Fenghualou store is bullying customers, I don't want to be polite. I wonder if Aunt Shen has read the laws and regulations of our Great Zhou Dynasty?"

Aunt Shen was startled, and forced a smile and said: "Your maidservant has little knowledge, I haven't read it."

Gao Zhanming said: "It doesn't matter if you haven't read it, then I will talk to my aunt, so that my aunt will not be confused when the officers and soldiers of the Criminal Ministry come to the door in a few days. You are the shopkeeper of Fenghua Building, and the gold and silver money of Fenghua Building , it is your responsibility. You took my business at first, but you temporarily regretted it and made me unrighteous. This is a lack of morality. I gave you a deposit of 500 taels of silver because of the contract between us. Now You want to break the contract, but I don't want to take back the money now, and the contract between us is no longer established. If you take my money for no reason, it is equivalent to the crime of theft. According to the laws and regulations of my Great Zhou Dynasty, all theft If the amount exceeds 500 taels of silver, you can be sentenced to death. You have already reached this amount. You don't have to feel that I am threatening you. There are cases to follow in this case. There was a precedent in Wu County 15 years ago. The prisoner has good character, and according to the law, he can be given a lighter sentence, but you are already a person with a lack of morality, and I am afraid that you will not be able to reduce your sentence."

Aunt Shen's face immediately turned pale.

Gao Zhanming said: "Besides, the members of the female prostitute group I originally appointed are also your accomplices, and none of them can escape!"

Aunt Shen bit her lip and couldn't say a word.She had no doubt that Gao Zhanming could do what he said.After all, Gao Zhanming is a child of the Gao family, and the empress dowager's nephew, not to mention that he has something in his hands now, even if he has never done anything, he wants to punish himself for a crime that he did not have, but he is just talking about it Things must be easy.

However, Aunt Shen has seen the world after all. She has seen many high-ranking officials and nobles over the years, and all the bad-tempered playboys have come to serve her. I was joking with the servants, and the servants will call a group of girls to make amends to Gao Ye, and Gao Ye must be satisfied."

Gao Zhanming suddenly stood up from the chair, with a cold expression: "No need, I've finished what I should say, I still have things to do, so I'll go back first."

Gao Zhanming strode out, but just as he reached the door, Aunt Shen jumped up and stopped him.Gao Zhanming didn't want to pay attention to her at first, but Aunt Shen begged in a low voice: "Master Gao, please listen to me."

Gao Zhanming stopped.

Aunt Shen looked helpless, and said softly: "Master Gao, from me to the girls in Fenghualou, they are just small people. You Gao brothers play for fun, and we small people are caught in the middle, and no one can offend you. This I have been working hard to manage Fenghua Building for ten years. I have raised the girls and taught them arts. They are like my own daughters in my heart. The girls in my building, after learning arts, are here. They all only have an eight-year contract, and when the time comes, they are left to decide what to do. But as soon as the master came, he signed them all to death without saying a word. Good girls, sold themselves into slaves for nothing, who of us Dare to say no? How can I do it willingly? Master, you want the life of your slaves, and it’s just a matter of moving your fingers. The lives of slaves are cheap, and you can’t blame others. What kind of people are you Gao family? How could you not know? If not, who would want to offend you? It's just involuntary. What kind of crimes Gao Ye wants to accuse the servants, the servants have to grit their teeth and admit it, but Gao Ye said that the slaves lack morals and are unscrupulous People, slaves... have no choice but to cry for injustice!" Speaking of this, Aunt Shen was a little choked up.

Gao Zhanming didn't expect Aunt Shen to say such words to him, so he couldn't help being stunned.He came here this time not really to accuse the people of Fenghualou of any crimes. He threw out a big talk, just to scare the people of Fenghualou and see if there is any room for maneuver in this matter.Even if the matter fails, he will not really go to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to sue. After all, Aunt Shen is not like Tang Gan, she did not do anything big and evil.

However, Aunt Shen's heartfelt words made him feel guilty.After all, he was born as a private businessman, a scholar, a farmer, a businessman, and although his family is considered well-off, he was often ostracized by others. Those officials who just find a name to blackmail them, they have to obediently earn their own money I handed over the money to please those bureaucrats, no matter how much I hated it, there was nothing I could do.Therefore, he can empathize with Aunt Shen's mood at the moment.He originally came to this Fenghua Building to cause trouble in desperation to protect himself, but now that he thinks about it, he was actually bullied by someone more powerful than him, so he came to bully these people who were born lower than him. It's not authentic.

Gao Zhanming walked out of Fenghua Tower dejectedly, led the crane to catch up, and said, "Master, what should we do?"

Gao Zhanming shook his head and said, "Go and ask them to get back the deposit money."

Yinhe said: "Then this matter..."

Gao Zhanming said, "Let's think about it again."

Yin He anxiously said: "Where are those cooks? Are you still looking for them? What about the ingredients?"

Gao Zhanming had a headache and said, "Don't look for it anymore, why bother to embarrass others. Don't rush anymore, I will find a way!"

Yinhe had no choice but to shut up, and obediently walked aside to lead Gao Zhanming's horse.

Gao Zhanming raised his head and looked at the blue sky.Suddenly, he began to hate the Gao family a little.Powerful people don't use their power to do things that benefit the common people, but there is a drama of brothers fighting among themselves, and they don't hesitate to spend so much money and involve so many innocent people, just to let Embarrassed alone?And this kind of drama has been going on for so long, and no one from the Gao family has come forward to say that it should not be done?Gao Huachong bullied him in school and did these things, even if his peers did not dare to point them out, are the elders of the Gao family blind and deaf and don't understand the truth? !These aristocratic families don't know the sufferings of the people and only care about their own enjoyment and private affairs, but these people occupy high positions and control the government. Don't they put all the people in the world in trouble?

no.He didn't want to go on like this anymore.

One day, he will change this situation!