Donghuamen Street, where this feudal building is located, is the first and most prosperous place in Jiangning City, the shops along the street are carrying lanterns, and the lanterns are shining, making the night of Donghuamen Street brilliant and prosperous, the night is not late, the pedestrians on the stone street are blazing, and the cold wind blows, but I don't feel how much cold and lonely I feel.

Lin Lian, Zhang Yubo, and Lin Meng went to the street to find another restaurant, and Zhang Yubo said: "I know of a restaurant, Lin Gongzi doesn't want to be shabby......

"How?" Lin Jian said with a smile, he was afraid that Zhang Yubo would treat him too badly, even if he found a roadside stall to warm a pot of wine and drink it happily. Lin Meng saw that things were already difficult to ride, so it was better to drink a few drinks first, so he followed Zhang Yubo into the streets and alleys.

The restaurant that Zhang Yubo said is the mutton shop of Song Wusao's sister-in-law in Tieqian Alley, Lin Mengde also knows this, and praised: "Lord Zhang is really good at picking a good place, but I'm afraid that today is late, and I can't eat fried lamb eyelid meat with leeks," and introduced the beauty of the store's signature dish lamb eyelid meat to Lin Lian, "Each dish should use eight or nine sheep's heads, and only take the tender meat in the eye sockets to cut it off and fry the leeks, and the lamb eyelid meat made by Song Wu's sister-in-law is fragrant and crispy, Ji Chu is delicate, and it is difficult to describe it......" Lin Jingzhong swallowed saliva in the back.

Lin Lian smiled and walked into this inconspicuous courtyard together, the hall and the left and right wings in the courtyard were changed into wine pavilions, the candles were shining, and there were seven or eight diners drinking in the courtyard, Zhang Yubo was a frequent visitor here, they walked into the courtyard, and the middle-aged woman who looked like the hostess here with a goose yellow waist tied around her waist came over to greet her: "Lord Zhang hasn't come to the shop to eat mutton for a while, so that the little good people are worried about it......"

"I can't let my mother-in-law listen to this sentence, I can't wait for Song Wu's eyelid meat, and when I go home, I will be beaten by my mother-in-law's rolling stick......" Although Zhang Yubo was born in Jinshi, he has been doing an errand of catching thieves and rapists in recent years.

Lin Jian also smiled and made a gesture to Song Fifth Sister-in-law: "Disturb Song Fifth Sister-in-law." ”

The strict etiquette of the male and female defense is a matter of the deep courtyard mansion, but it is casual among the civilians and the market. Sometimes it is really difficult for poor families to live, and they even promise to pawn their wives to others within a certain time limit. Of course, pawn buyers are also poor families who can't marry a daughter-in-law seriously, pawn a wife back, have children and pass on the lineage, and then return the wife to others. Don't talk about pawn wives, it is a companion wife (a few poor partners or poor brothers marry a wife), this is not uncommon in Jiangning City, but the law of this dynasty, pawn wives are legal, companion wives are not legal, Zhang Yubo sat down and told Lin Jian about these market things.

The most popular fried lamb eyelid meat with chives is naturally gone at this time, Zhang Yubo told Lin Jian that the smoldering mutton here is also a must, and asked Song Wu's sister-in-law to burn five catties of mutton and send it up, and ordered a few side dishes with wine, and warmed two pots of good wine. Compared with the feudal mansion, a table of wine is often ten thousand yuan, and three or five hundred yuan is enough for a full meal here.

Lin Mengde thought that he had known Zhang Yubo for more than three years, both of them were Dongyang Township Party, but they were always separated by a layer, and he originally thought that Zhang Yubo was a Wenchen from Jinshi Qingliu, and he was a businessman who was stained with copper smell, and it was of course that he couldn't go together, but at this time, he saw Zhang Yubo and Lin Jian only met twice, and he was so frank and unabashed, and before entering this store, he was also commensurate with "Master Zhang, Lin Juren, and Lin Gongzi", and a pot of wine went down, and it became the title of "Brother Yu, Little Brother Lin", and sighed in his heart: How good it would be if Lin Jian was a disciple of this sect, he is a son of the side branch, how can the other clansmen be willing to obey him to the throne?

Lin Meng groaned a little, and said to Lin Lian: "You are also short of manpower to run the Jiyun Society, so I will lend four people to help you." The old fox of Fan Ding will swallow his anger, he will always wait until the time to deal with anyone, and then pounce on the opponent and bite the opponent without letting go, there is no need to worry about him for the time being, the old fox of Fan Ding, but the temper of the beautiful son of Fan Ding, it is difficult to guess ......"

"Thank you Third Uncle for your concern," Lin Jian shook his head and smiled, "Didn't you see that the little marquis has been standing by tonight?" Fan Zhimei has a son's temper, but I'm afraid that it will be difficult to have a chance to have a seizure, and I will be careful myself. If you help me like this, I'm afraid that the second son's side will not be able to talk about it. ”

"Second son?" Lin Mengde shook his head and said, "It's hard to ......" This is the first time he has exchanged views with Lin Xuan, in his opinion, in this situation, Lin Xuzong still wants to take the position, and the possibility is very low.

Lin Jian didn't expect Lin Mengde to be able to completely help him at this time, and being able to be so frank compared to his previous vigilance was a big improvement.

Zhang Yubo listened to them talking about the affairs of the Lin clan, sat next to him and didn't interject, and after a while, he remembered something and asked, "By the way, what do you mean by hearing you mention Jiyun Society in the domain?" ”

"The younger brother wants to set up a business in Jiangning, and he took this cheesy name, and Master Gu also has a share of money in Jiyun Society, and Jingzhong is the head of Jiyun Society," Lin Jian introduced Lin Jingzhong without care, when he was in the domain building before, he only introduced Lin Jingzhong's name, and asked Zhang Yubo, "Is Uncle Yu interesting?" I don't talk to Uncle Yu either, I hope that Uncle Yu can put a little thought into Jiyun Society in the future, and it will be counted as two hundred taels of silver per year. ”

Lin Mengde thought to himself that Lin Tie was really not simple, in recent years, some Wenchen boasted of being clear, and the hands and feet of extorting money were extremely sharp, but few of them wiped their face and directly joined hands to do business, after all, it would damage the reputation of the Qing Dynasty, but I didn't expect Lin Tie to let the Gu family put shares and money in Jiyun Society, but they didn't know that Lin Tie took the route of his wife, and Gu Wuchen only half-pushed and half-agreed.

Hearing that Gu Wuchen also invested in stocks, Zhang Yubo naturally had no hesitation to pretend to be high, and Shuang Li agreed: "Cheng...... But this money, I must give it out, and I will have someone send it to your house the next day. ”

In this era, the high interest rate of money is unimaginable after a thousand years, and the annual interest rate of money lending is not 100%, which is embarrassing to call usury, and the family can get two to three percent of the annual interest rate if they have surplus money in the pawn shop, of course, the risk is much greater than that of the bank deposited after the millennium.

It is difficult for outsiders to check the accounts of the firm, and the silver shares of the firm (also known as the financial shares) have two types: dividends and fixed income, Lin Tie will not let the Gu family and Zhang Yubo participate in the operation of the firm, nor will he report the accounts of the firm to them regularly, so naturally give them fixed-rate silver shares, which is similar to the form of giving money to the pawn shop to get money and interest on a regular basis, but Lin Tie will not ask Gu Wuchen and Zhang Yubo to really take the principal out.

Lin Jian smiled and said: "The New Year Festival is coming, this year's money and profits are enough, Brother Yu should not take the principal of the shares, run back and forth, it will be very troublesome......"

Zhang Yubo smiled, so he didn't dwell on this issue, and knew that Lin Jian was not greedy for his principal, and continued to drink, and Lin Jian told Zhang Yubo a little about Jiyun Society's underwriting of Gujia tea goods, so that he would have some other confidence in Jiyun Society.

They were drinking, the courtyard door was pushed away from the outside, a gust of wind rushed in, blowing the curtain here, and I heard someone in the yard shouting: "Okay, you Qian Xiaowu, when will the money and debt owed to you Lai Wuye come to be paid?" If you don't pay it back, you will sell it for a discount, your mother-in-law looks okay, but there is no meat, but the master has already found a good buyer for you, as long as you nod and agree, we will clear the two......"

Hearing this familiar name, Lin Jian put it on the chopsticks, and Zhou Pu lifted the curtain to look out, sure enough, it was the young man Qian Xiaowu who they had come to Jiangning to help with errands on the day they first came to Jiangning. In the past few days, he had just recovered from his injuries and was carrying a basket into the courtyard in the cold wind, but he saw a man with five big and three thick faces barging in from the tea room in the left wing, grabbing the young man Qian Xiaowu like a chicken, and forcing him to sell his wife to pay off his debts with a vicious face.

Fifth sister-in-law Song walked out of the inner room and said to the man: "Lai Wu, Lord Kou Zhang, the left secretary of the Soldiers and Horses Division, is drinking here, you won't be more restrained!" I'm looking for money Xiaowu to buy mutton, if you want to collect debts, don't ask for it in my yard. ”

The man Lai Wu's voice was a little more restrained, and he still said strongly: "Lord Zuo Sikou can't stop me from collecting debts, give your face to the fifth sister-in-law, I won't collect debts in your yard, but Qian Xiaowu, you don't want to go out of this courtyard......" He lost his eyes to the two subordinates and said, "You go to the gate of the courtyard to guard, today Qian Xiaowu / If you don't pay off my debts, you will go directly to his house to pick up his mother-in-law." ”

Zhang Yubo shook his head and said to Lin Lian: "This is surnamed Chen, who usually puts Yinzi money in Xichengtou and collects debts for others, and raises dozens of green-skinned gangsters under his hands, it seems that he is a cousin of the chief steward of the Muguo Mansion......"

Lin Jian said to Zhou Pu: "You invite Chen Laiwu in and talk about the money he owes me......

Zhang Yubo and Lin Mengde didn't know what money Jiangning's local snake owed Lin Lian, so they watched Zhou Pu walk out, put his arm on Chen Laiwu's shoulders and invited him and Qian Xiaowuqiang to this wine pavilion, and Song Wu's sister-in-law also walked in.

Chen Laiwu entered the wine pavilion and saw Zuo Sikou joining the army Zhang Yubo sitting at the table, salivating and saying, "If Lord Zhang calls me over and has any instructions, Lai Wu will help you do it immediately." ”

"I'm looking for you," Lin Jian put on his glass, "I guess you know who I am...... A few days ago, I gave Qian Xiaowu a silver ingot to run errands, and I heard that I was robbed in the middle of the road, please come and ask about it! ”

Chen Laiwu snatched the ingot of silver that Qian Xiaowu took to pay off the debt, but later he heard from his subordinates that the family who had newly moved into Dustpan Lane actually pulled out the two eyeliners of Qingfeng Xing without any scruples and beat them up, he didn't know that the bottom of the water of this family did not dare to offend easily, so he returned the ingot of silver to Qian Xiaowu that night, so as not to offend people; He didn't go to Qian Xiaowu again to ask for debts during this time. After these days, when he saw Qian Xiaowu helping Song Wu's sister-in-law's family, of course he forgot about Lin Tie in his mind, grabbed Qian Xiaowu and forced him to sell his wife to pay off his debts, where did he think that it would be such a coincidence that Lin Tie would bump into this matter.

Chen Laiwu salivated and said with a smile: "Childe, that's really a misunderstanding, besides, didn't the silver be returned to Qian Xiaowu later, didn't this beast buy things for Childe with peace of mind?" I'll drag this beast out and give it a beating! ”

"Chen Laiwu, what's going on, do you have to ask me to detain you to the yamen before you can say it?" Zhang Yubo asked Chen Laiwu with a gloomy face.

Although Chen Laiwu is a local snake, after all, he is still afraid of the three points of the official, not to mention that the soldiers and horses are like fierce gods and evil people who take these ruffian leaders, Zhang Yubo can be said to be the person he dare not offend directly, Zhang Yubo's face was gloomy, his legs and stomach trembled, and he was detained to the yamen for a while to kill the powerful stick and eat it, this month's mutton will be in vain, and he will lie in bed for a winter. He hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy: "What a misunderstanding, when I saw Qian Xiaowu holding silver in his hand, I was thinking about repaying his debts, but I didn't expect that Qian Xiaowu was using Gongzi's silver to do things, and he almost missed Gongzi's business." Lai Wu really deserves to die, he offended the prince, offended the friend of Lord Zhang, Lai Wu must go to the prince's mansion to apologize for the crime......"

"Okay, I just forgot about it, and I didn't mean to take you as an official," Lin Jian said lightly, "After all, Qian Xiaowu is the one who did things for me, I can't see him forcing you to sell your wife to pay off your debts, how much does he owe you, I paid him back today......"

Chen Laiwu was really a bachelor, knelt on the ground and took out the debt deed from his arms, spread his hand to Lin Tie, and tore it up on the spot, saying: "Lai Wu's crime deserves death, where do you dare to let the prince repay the debt, Lai Wu and Qian Xiaowu's debt can be regarded as two clear, if there is a repentance, the sky will hit five thunders." ”

"Okay, okay, I still have to drink with Master Zhang, if you have anything else, go out and talk about it." Lin Jian waved his hand and drove Chen Laiwu, Qian Xiaowu and others out.

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