In the house, the maids had cold faces, and Mrs. Chen sighed: "People are officials to take money from the family, but you are an official, but you are getting poorer and poorer, and the clothes box has entered the pawnshop, where is the day to come out?" In two years, there will be no grass at home...... Alas! I advise you to go home as soon as possible, or have a bowl of rice to eat, I don't expect to enjoy the glory and wealth of you as an official, keep a family business, thank God Amitabha. ”

Speaking of this, Mrs. Chen couldn't stop crying, and Chen Ge had to sit aside, not able to speak again, with a guilty face.

The maids breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the old man knew that he was wrong, but who knew that the first lady stopped crying, and he came up again to plead softly.

The big guys were speechless, Mrs. Chen sighed, and said angrily: "You are a huge official, in charge of a huge Taiping Mansion, how can you have no other way except for me to break the dowry?" That's it, I know that if these suitcases are not sent to the pawnshop today, you will definitely not be able to eat today's meal. Come, come, come! Quickly take the key and open the door, as much as you want, you will toss all my things sooner or later, and you will lose your thoughts. ”

The maids were instructed, pouted one by one, reluctantly opened the door, and angrily took out the suitcase.

Chen Ge was full of smiles, happy in his heart, and turned around and shouted: "Come on!" ”

In an instant, the six or seven chiefs who had been on standby for a long time flew in, and the prefect ordered neatly: "Carry the suitcase." ”

I saw that the chief took off his coat and lifted his sleeves, lifted and carried them from the upper room with his hands and feet, and took out the eight big suitcases in a blink of an eye.

Mrs. Chen went into the room out of sight and out of mind, and the maids were so angry that they didn't say a word.

Only Chen Ge came out satisfied, and explained that a messenger was responsible for this matter, and the messenger stepped forward to ask: "Master, how much do you want to be?" ”

Chen Ge, who was holding his hands behind his back, stood in the courtyard and said, "I don't have enough 100,000 taels at the moment." But eight boxes aren't worth it. Well! You go and consult with someone else, and when he has 10,000 silver, he will get at least 8,000, and any less will be useless. ”

The errand officer cried and laughed and said, "Master Mingjian! The rules in the pawnshop have always been half-and-half. For example, a thing with ten dollars can only be used as five money, and when it is six, it is already affectionate. Even if the worship on the cabinet is dazzling for a while, seven or eight are still worth it. Now these eight boxes of clothes, if the clothes are really valuable. Don't say 8,000, even 10,000 families want it, I'm afraid that the price is not worth it, so I beg the master to open the box first and see what kind of clothes are good to take it in. ”

Chen Ge said unhappily: "I am half a pawn and half borrowed, take your grandmother's suitcase and put it in someone else's house as a mortgage, and redeem it after the New Year, so I asked you to go and discuss with others." If you look at something, estimate how many dollars you will value in advance. I can call anyone to take it for myself, why bother with you? ”

The errand officer understood, it turned out that he was not going to pawn something, but clearly asked him to use it as collateral. I can't help but have a headache, even if I make a deposit, I have to see the valuation of the goods in person, right? Ten taels of silver bet six taels of silver, which is comparable to pawning. It's just less profitable.

At this time, Chen Ge had already asked someone to take over sixteen seals and write them down himself. marked vermilion again, asked the family to paste the box with a cross, and clapped their hands with satisfaction.

and then forced the errand officer to do it for him, or say that Chen Ge is annoying! The officer had no choice but to ask someone to carry the box out, and as he walked, he thought of countermeasures with a sad face.

When they arrived at a nearby pawnshop, the messenger ordered the boxes to be carried in, and each box was affixed with seals, and no one was allowed to touch it.

Chaofeng, who was sitting behind the counter, didn't dare to slack off, and came out to ask the errand officer to sit down and watch the tea.

The messenger said, "I have been ordered by the Emperor of the Mansion to come and pay eight thousand pieces of silver." ”

Chao Feng said with a smile: "Don't say eight thousand, even if it is ten thousand, I should give it to you, but you have to see if the price of the thing is worth it before it can be decided." “

"This." The messenger said euphemistically: "The box was sealed by the adults themselves, who dares to open his seal?" There are valuable clothes in the horizontal and vertical, and if you do it this year, you will definitely redeem it next year. ”

"Oops." Chao Feng smacked his lips and immediately changed his expression, "The rule of the pawnshop is that even a needle must be evaluated, how can there be anyone who doesn't look at things and doesn't estimate the price?" Forget it, I advise you to go quickly. ”

"I don't have a master, I have a place to stay." The errand official is not a low-voiced person, and the back of this pawnshop is very hard, so he immediately got angry and went to another one, but he ran all over half of Wuhu County one after another, and none of them agreed.

In the last house, the errand officer ran so hard that he sat still, and he had to take the shelf, but the courtiers of this family did not agree, and while talking, the two of them quarreled.

The annoyed and angry errand officer brought a lot of people, and the people who carried the boxes were all young and strong Changsui, and with a shout, everyone rushed in and dragged the court outside, and punched and kicked them.

The men in the pawnshop shouted at the top of their voices that the robbers were coming, and there was a lot of noise, and many people ran out of the house when they heard the news.

The messenger said angrily: "You blind turtles, why don't you open your dog's eyes and look at the seal on the box to see if it belongs to the prefect?" ”

The people were speechless, and an old courtier was alarmed inside, and when he heard what the prefect's seal was, he put on reading glasses, walked out of the counter and walked to the box to take a closer look.

However, the young courtier's head was smashed into a big hole by the official with a brick, and the blood flowed profusely, and the officer's face was also scratched with a few blood marks, so neither of them would let go.

A guy had already rushed in to find someone, and the person who managed the pawnshop called him a big stall hand, and the big stall man said: "The prefect is an official, how can he not know the king's law, and can arbitrarily oppress the small people?" For the sake of today's plan, whether he is true or not, the matter has reached such a point, let's go to the official together. If the prefect protects the murderer and simply takes care of the owner, we will not do business behind closed doors, and we will all go to the capital to complain. ”

The guys all said, "That makes sense." ”

These words were heard by the officials outside, and he thought that he was sent by the prefect, and his waist was harder than anyone else, and you were no one in Wuhu County. Gotta give him three points.

Now the pawnshop manager is going to see the official with him, he sneered disdainfully, dusted off his clothes with one hand, and held the courtier who was covering his head with the other, "Very good!" Let's go back to my house together. ”

When a group of people came out of the pawnshop in a hurry, Chang Sui still followed behind with a suitcase, and walked several streets, causing the people on the street to stop, and they watched the excitement on both sides.

Xu Hao, who was eating xiaolong buns, accidentally bumped into this scene, was very surprised, got up and paid and followed.

This pawnshop is far away from the government office, but it is very close to the county government, and the group walked to the front of the county government office, and the official continued to walk forward with his chest up.

The big stallman secretly glanced at him, and the guy in the pawnshop immediately snatched it out, shouting all the way that he was wronged. The people behind also rushed in, and the poor officer couldn't help himself, and was pushed in by the big guy.

However, the errand officer knew in his heart that the county master was the protégé of his own adult, and there was no reason to help outsiders, so he was not afraid, or even had no scruples.

Soon the entire yamen was alarmed, and the officials went in to report to the officials on duty, and the officials went in to tell the master, and the master went up to report the county order.

When the county magistrate heard that it was the official of the government who fought with someone because of the pawn, he thought it was the official himself, who would have thought that the prefect would be so poor that he pawned the suitcase? Because he wanted to avoid suspicion, he said: "You can do this kind of trivial matter yourself, do you need to make a fuss?" ”

The master hurriedly explained: "This errand official was sent by the Fuzun, and the eight suitcases of the Fuzun are now carried together in the lobby. “

The county commander was shocked, got up and said, "Nonsense! Now that the imperial court has raised the salary, coupled with the rewards of the New Year's holidays, the human relations are miscellaneous, and the prefect has thousands of taels of silver a year, and he is afraid that it will not be enough? Even if it is not enough, no matter which yamen bureau raises hundreds of taels, can you reimburse a sum of money casually? It's impossible, it's probably the people under his hands who take advantage of the situation to swagger outside and bully the people, so they can't help but inquire and ask.

As for his old man, he doesn't even have the money to be a prefect, and our official is several levels worse than him, so don't you drink the northwest wind every day? It must be that you didn't figure it out, so go find out and report it. ”

"Yes." The master came out at a trot and asked, it was indeed a prefect's pawn, and there was a seal of the new post as proof.

The master said that he had seen a ghost, and ran to report the county order.

The county magistrate was surprised and said: "It's strange that adults are so poor that they are things!" But also, when Lord Chen was punished for managing the Elephant Garden, he really didn't have the money to hire someone to clean the courtyard himself. But over the years, Mrs. Chen's family has obviously reached it, and Lord Chen spent a lot of money, and last month Lao Wang's father died, and he also sent five hundred taels. ”

The bewildered county magistrate muttered to himself, walked to the second hall and sat down, and ordered the officials to call the people on both sides together.

In a short time, the officials brought all the people in. The swaggering errand officer walked in the front, saw the county master, the two knew each other, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask for peace, and then stood aside in a proper manner, no matter how good the personal relationship was, he had to abide by the rules of officialdom.

After all, the big stall heads and courtiers in the pawnshop were civilians, and they were a little less courageous, and they had already knelt on the ground.

The county magistrate was just about to ask, and the people in the pawnshop were the first to cry and complain. The county magistrate said angrily: "Shut up! This official is not allowed to mess around here, and I will wait until I ask you before you speak, otherwise you will be dragged out and beaten with a killing stick. ”

In a word, the pawnshop man was suddenly honest. The messenger took advantage of this opportunity to take a step forward, recounted the matter in detail as it was, and said: "These people do not have our prefect in their eyes, and they also scold our prefect for being a robber. And he refused to accept the reprimand, and reached out to scratch me, so the fight began. ”

The county magistrate didn't care about the fight, and asked directly: "Other gossip is slow, let me ask you, why do adults want to pawn?" (To be continued......)

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