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

Hearing what his father said, Xue Pan was so sure that he really asked his two big servants to follow him, and started to stroll around the house.I saw that none of the slaves were working, and two or three people got together and didn't know what to talk about.Even if he saw his little master coming, no one greeted him well, and looked at Xue Pan suspiciously.

Messages pass among the minions the fastest.When Xue Cheng reported to Xue Pei that Ku Yin had been stolen, the news that there was no money in the mansion spread throughout the mansion as if he had grown legs.These slaves, they act as cows and horses for their masters every day. Isn’t it just that the food and use are better than the common people outside, and there is still a monthly payment?

Now that there is no money in the mansion, what do they eat and use, can they still issue monthly bills on time?Those who have that kind of mental activity don't get together with other people to gossip, but focus on the things or errands they manage, thinking whether to hide some things secretly by themselves, and wait until the master really can't send out the monthly report. I can also change myself to support my family.

After all, not all slaves, the whole family has errands.Those who have no errands at home can't skip meals, can they?

So after a while, Xue Pan ran into a servant with bulging arms, and when he saw Xue Pan, he immediately slipped away to hide.If Xue Pan hadn't been pointed out by Xue Pei, he wouldn't care if a slave avoided him or not.Now I feel that this servant is very suspicious, so I hurriedly asked my big servant Xue Gen to stop him: "Go and see what is in his arms, but did you take something from the mansion?"

The stealing slave was clever, but he was still guilty of letting the master take the current one. Xue Gen took out a five-colored kiln bottle from his arms, and even knelt down with an earthy face.

Xue Pan stepped forward and gave him a kick, insisting on asking him where he was on duty and who was in charge, and asked him to quickly call the steward who was in charge of this slave.According to Xue Pan's meaning, it was nothing more than calling the manager to take on the servant's job, which was regarded as killing chickens to make an example to monkeys.

Who would have thought that slave muttered, "The slave is in charge of the antique storehouse. Just now, Manager Lu just brought a box of antiques home. The slave just learned from Manager Lu."

One sentence can be regarded as stabbing a hornet's nest, and Xue Pan immediately ordered people to find the road steward to settle accounts. Who would have thought that those damn servants would not only not follow him after hearing this, but would also be quick to smear their feet with oil.

Xue Gen was afraid that Xue Pan would yell again, and a slave jumped over the wall in a hurry to hurt him, dragged him back to the main courtyard, and told Xue Pei what they saw just now.Xue Pei had expected it a long time ago, but he still didn't expect these slaves to be so courageous and anxious, they couldn't even wait for a day.

A villain is a villain, and I don't even think about the fact that Xue's family lost 600 million silver. It was the money that the magistrate moved into the mansion yesterday as a witness.Now they started stealing, but it was just an excuse for the magistrate to arrest them.

Not in the mood to sympathize with these servants, Xue Pei only asked Xue Pan: "Now do you know that even if you have no money in your hands, the servants in your house don't think of you even if you have a deed?"

Xue Pan still felt aggrieved: "If the master hadn't forced to give up the position of patriarch and the business, we wouldn't have lost so much money, and the slaves are still honest."

That disobedient look made Xue Peisheng very angry: "If you can support the mansion, even if I am dying, how dare the Qifang come to persecute me? How dare the slaves betray the master like this?" matter?" Xue Pan stopped talking.

After suppressing Xue Pan, Xue Pei still has to deal with the slaves in the mansion.As soon as he showed up, even if he was still in a sickly state, he could still be called a slave after all.He ordered a few people who were still loyal to guard the gate of the mansion, and then guarded the servant's room to allow entry and not to leave, Xue Pei waited for the magistrate to come to the door.

The magistrate was not slow to come, not to mention that Xue Pei had just handed over the business of the Xue family, but only said that among the lost money was 270 million taels that he saw carried into the Xue family. Xue Pei suspected that he, an insider, would send someone into the house to steal , it all makes sense.So the magistrate not only came quickly, but also brought all the yamen servants in Jinling.

Coincidentally, these yamen servants first helped Xue Peiping to quell the civil strife in the mansion: taking advantage of Xue Cheng to report the case, Xue Pei stole more than just Lu Guanshi while Xue Pei was ill. Pei told the magistrate that it is not necessary to be unfaithful once, and the whole family is not used if one person is unfaithful, so these slaves and their families, the prefect just take them away, and the Xue family has nothing to do with killing or selling them in the future.

From those homes, it was found that it should be something from the public, and it was roughly calculated to be two to three hundred thousand taels of silver.Let the magistrate secretly smack his tongue, saying that a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and today he has seen it.Therefore, he felt that it was wise for Xue Pei not to keep anyone related to these slaves.

But now these things are not the focus, the lost money is the most important thing.It's a pity that the famous criminal master brought by the prefect searched and searched, searched and searched, except for the rotten lock that Xue Cheng picked up, he didn't even check where the thief entered Xue's house, and how he moved the money out of the house. come out.

Hearing this result, Xue Pei was furious, and said to the magistrate not politely: "The magistrate knows that these are the money that my Xue family saved. Now that the money is lost, my Xue family can't say that every family has it." Go drink the northwest wind. Even if others don't give me a way to survive, I don't want this face."

The magistrate knew very well what Xue Pei meant by shamelessness. No one in Jinling's official circles knew that Xue Pei had the right to tell the truth. He was going to sue.The magistrate who didn't know that Xue Pei had already written three secret papers, but knew that once Xue Pei's secret papers were published, the impression of his incompetence would be left in the heart of the saint.

At that time, let alone Zhen Yingjia, even if the fourth prince came forward in person, his official position might not be guaranteed.The magistrate had no choice but to say to Xue Pei in a low voice: "Master Xue lost such a large sum of money, it is natural to be in a bad mood. But please rest assured, Master Xue, I am a local parent, and I will get the money back for Master Xue as soon as possible .”

Can Xue Pei believe his lies?You must ask the magistrate to tell you a time limit, and he also said that if you still don't see the money by the time limit, you can only ask the sage to send Jin Yiwei to uphold justice for you.

The magistrate understood that Xue Pei was really not trying to scare him, more than 500 million taels of silver, even if it was placed in the household department, was a large amount, the emperor would be tempted to hear it, not to mention the Jinyiwei, the legendary dark guards may come to Jinling to investigate the case.

But if he was asked to name a time limit, the magistrate couldn't say it, so he had to beg Xue Pei to give him more time.After all, Xue Pei was not affectionate, and after getting the guarantee that the magistrate would investigate the case as soon as possible, he had no choice but to let the magistrate go out.

However, Xue Pei also asked the magistrate to leave ten servants in order to frighten the servants in the mansion—don’t look at more than a hundred slaves who were taken away today, but there are still more than 200 slaves left in the mansion. If people steal things again, the Xue family will really have no way out.

As soon as the magistrate left, Xue Pei asked Xue Cheng to bring all the books in the mansion, and then re-register the remaining things in the treasury. After counting, the things can still be worth one hundred fifty or sixty Tens of thousands of taels of silver was considered a sigh of relief.

Aunt Xue went to Xue Pei again to show her presence, saying that she had written a letter to Jingli, and asked Wang Ziteng to write to the magistrate so that he could quickly investigate the case and retrieve the lost money for Xue's family.

Xue Pei really didn't want to see her, so he asked coolly: "Second uncle is far away in the middle of the capital, and he can't quench his thirst if he is far away. Shouldn't the eldest brother also send a letter there?"

Aunt Xue's face turned red all of a sudden: Wang Zisheng is in Jinling, and something so big happened to Xue's family, it's impossible for a person walking on the street not to know about it.But no matter whether it was Xue Pei's poisoning or the branch of the Xue family, Wang Zisheng didn't even send someone to ask about it. It can be seen that he didn't take the matter of this girl's family seriously.

Only when Aunt Xue found a reason to go out embarrassingly, Xue Pei was able to look at the account book quietly again.After watching for a long time, Xue Pei hung up a code sign outside the main room. Xue Pei continued to "sadly" inspect the two black holes, and waited for the emperor's reply when the secret book was taken away.

The emperor is more troubled than Xue Pei now!

Knowing that Xue Pei, the spy whom he installed to monitor the officialdom in the south of the Yangtze River, made his identity as a secret agent known to everyone, and then was poisoned, the emperor was so angry that he dropped the memorial.

At that time, he felt that it would be better for Xue Pei to be poisoned to death directly, otherwise it would be hard to get rid of his hatred—as an emperor, he cannot be tolerant, and he still supervises the officials he appoints. It is shameful to say that, only Xue Pei If the spy is dead, it is considered dead without proof.

He didn't want to receive a memorial from Xue Pei the next day, saying that Zhen Yingjia was collecting money in the name of the fourth prince, which made the emperor feel that Xue Pei was a bit honest, otherwise how could he not see that Zhen Yingjia was collecting money for the fourth prince?Such an honest Xue Pei, does he really dare to publicize that he is a secret agent?

Therefore, in Xue Pei's second memorial, the emperor had already criticized Xue Pei to let Xue Pei understand that the identity of the secret agent in the memorial was leaked.

The third seal came one after another, and the content was that the emergency money that Xue Pei had secretly ordered Xue Pei to leave behind had been stolen!That was the reason why the emperor dared to pay more money in the south of the Yangtze River. The vain money of more than 100 million taels was cremated to nothing, not even a scum was left, and no silver water was left. Who would believe that it was burned by fire?

The emperor had to recall Xue Pei's previous memorial, saying that Zhen Yingjia asked Xue Pei not to toast and eat fine wine.

Thinking of the second memorial, the first memorial came back to the emperor's mind. Xue Pei once asked the emperor to send someone to replace him as spy and imperial merchant as soon as possible!If it was really Xue Pei who revealed the identity of the spy, he would rather die in office than someone else take over - any spy who takes over will investigate the execution of the predecessor, Xue Pei really revealed his identity, It cannot stand the investigation.

Thinking about it this way, Xue Pei's fourth memorial came again, and this time the matter was even more serious. Xue Pei was forced by his clansmen to separate the clan, and was forced to sell 270% of the Xue family's shares, and received [-] million silver The taels of silver, plus the Xue family's original silver, were evacuated overnight just like the previous silver.

The emperor has now determined that Xue Pei is completely innocent: even the money for living in the future was stolen overnight, which is clearly the rhythm of Xue Pei's death.

Who is this person who wanted Xue Pei to die, the emperor already had a judgment in his heart.Why did Xue Pei die, the emperor also had his own ideas.

It was obviously Xue Pei who blocked other people's money, otherwise how could Zhen Yingjia collect 270 million taels of silver to buy stocks in just two hours?The day before, he went to Xue Pei to ask for money, but when he didn't want the money, he became angry and told Xue Pei not to toast or eat fine wine.

If Zhen Yingjia didn't know that Xue Pei would be forced to sell shares, would she have prepared so much money in advance?The emperor had already figured out a series of actions by Zhen Yingjia fanning the flames behind his back, inciting the seventh house of the Xue family to attack Xue Pei.

It's a pity that Xue Pei, a loyal and loyal person who worked hard for him, let Zhen Yingjia, a half-hearted minister, be ruined like this!Perhaps Zhen Yingjia was not the only one who ruined Xue Pei!

You must know that Xue Pei’s living silver has been stolen, and he wants to use the remaining wealth of his family to make up for the 110 million taels of silver that the emperor lost. He has never thought about how he will live in the future, and how his children will marry. manage.

Because of this pity, the emperor sent a person who had been in contact with Xue Pei before to replace Xue Pei as a spy, and also issued a secret decree to this person who replaced Xue Pei, asking him to find out twice. Who is the person who stole the silver? Once it is found out, it can be done cheaply.

At the same time, the emperor asked this person to give Xue Pei a metaphor, which was Xue Pei's loyalty. The emperor knew that Xue Pei's current body was not suitable for the spy job, so the emperor asked someone to replace him.

The silver kept by Xue Pei was taken into consideration by the thieves, and it was not for Xue Pei to lose it if he wanted to, so there was no need for Xue Pei to make up for it, let Xue Pei not always think about it, and just give the emperor a discount if something happened , the emperor will still call the shots for him.

It was already ten days after Xue Pei saw his successor, and it was seventeen days since Xue Pei sealed the first seal to the emperor.Xue Pei didn't feel that he had been waiting for a long time - if the successor left after the emperor received his first seal, Xue Pei would not have received the emperor's word of mouth.

How could a loyal spy like Xue Pei, who is dedicated to the saint, cause the saint to suffer losses because of the emperor's word of mouth? He still followed his original plan and asked the successor to appraise the price together with several shopkeepers of the big pawnshop in Jinling. He handed over 120 million taels of antiques and other things in his mansion to the successor, saying that it was to make up for the shortfall.

The successor, Master Luo, received the things and gave the receipt, before he bowed his hands to Xue Pei: "Brother Xue can escape unscathed, I admire you. If you have any embarrassing things for Brother Xue in Jinling in the future, just ask the younger brother." Yes, I can’t guarantee other things, but my little brother can still do errands and work hard.”

Xue Pei coughed: "Time, fate, and luck. I didn't expect that the Xue family would be defeated by me. In the future, I had to go to the countryside to find a quiet place to urge my brothers and sons to study. If I can succeed, I will be happy in the future." Let them serve the sage for me, in order to thank the sage for his kindness."

Master Luo smiled again: "I don't know if Brother Xue has found a place, and how many people will he take with him? I'm new here, I don't have eyes for Jinling, and I have the audacity to ask Brother Xue for someone, so that I can do things in the future."

Xue Pei asked him how many people he wanted and which ones.Master Luo reported the names of five or six people in a row, all of whom had served Xue's family for many lifetimes.Xue Pei asked Aunt Xue to ask for a few people, together with their family deeds, and handed them to Master Luo: "Even if I go to live in the village in the country, I won't need many people. Why don't I give them all to my brothers."

Master Luo didn't refuse, and asked Xue Pei how far the village he was going to was from the city, so that it would be inconvenient for him to be a guest in the future.Xue Pei knew everything, and told them one by one frankly, before asking Master Luo if everything was settled.

Master Luo smiled and said bluntly that he had seen a few houses, but they were not as pleasing to the eye as Xue Pei's current house, and he had to inquire for a while before he could settle down completely.Xue Pei smiled and asked the man to accept his house, saying that he was afraid of looking at things and thinking about his feelings, and he didn't want to look at this house again in the future, so it would be better to fulfill Master Luo.

Master Luo is very satisfied with Xue Pei's knowledge and interest.He directly gave Xue Pei 10 taels of silver as an envoy to buy a house. Xue Pei thanked him again and again, and the two broke up happily. It was agreed that Xue Pei would move out with his family in five days.

Since then, Xue Pei has asked Xue Cheng to sell people every day. If the family can be sold together, try to sell them together as much as possible. If they can't sell together, there is no way.Everyone in Jinling knew that after two thefts, the Xue family was poor and had to sell their belongings and slaves to survive.

Qifang, who has already divided into clans, is proud of himself. Xue Jiang and Xue He are eager to discuss business and economics with others, but they don't want to, but they are repeatedly slapped.After asking, I found out that when Xue Pei was negotiating business with people, everyone knew that he was an imperial merchant, so they praised him in face and gave way to him in terms of price.But Xue Jiang and Xue He, who do others recognize?

It's not that Xue Jiang didn't tell people apart, saying that he had already taken over Xue Pei's business, and that the imperial merchant would be the two of them in the future.Those who listened immediately sneered: "Is the imperial businessman letting it go at his own words? Don't say that the Ministry of Internal Affairs has no records, and it's okay to show us the procurement list of the Ministry of Internal Affairs this year."

Xue Jiang and the two were really dumbfounded. At the beginning, they gave 200 million taels of silver in real money, and then took over the Xue family's business from Xue Pei. , Now someone told them that even if they took over the Xue family's business, they are not imperial merchants?

That's not how jokes are made.

An angry Xue Jiang gathered the people from Qifang, and also included Zhen Yingjia, and Qiqi arrived at Xue's mansion, and asked Xue Pei to make it clear to them: he took 500 million taels of silver, and wanted to occupy the name of the imperial merchant, and wanted to beauty.The name of the imperial merchant must be handed over, or the five million taels of silver will be refunded!

They knew that Xue Pei's 500 million taels of silver were stolen by thieves before they could warm it up. They had sold antiques in the past two days and slaves lived. Definitely get it!

Also coming with them is Zhen Yingjia, he is the uncle of the fourth prince, it's fine if Xue Pei wants to cheat Qifang, even the uncle of the fourth prince dares to cheat, is it because he has the guts of a bear? !Zhen Yingjia was the one who gave the most money, and even without the presence of Qifang people, Zhen Yingjia could crush the half-dead Xue Pei to death on the spot with just one finger!

Xue Pei received these people very politely, even though these people looked at him as if they were killing their father and enemy, they still thoughtfully invited them to sit down and buy tea, which was completely different from the attitude of the Xue family's seventh house two times before.

This makes the visitor feel more confident—this time is different from the past, Xue Pei is no longer the richest man in Jinling, nor is he an imperial merchant who can control the prices of Jiangnan's prices. Farewell.

When Xue Pei listened to these people's intentions and said something, the pride of these people suddenly disappeared:

"Huangshang, when did I tell you to give up Huangshang? It was clearly written in the deed that everyone read that day. I sold the position of the head of the Xue family and [-]% of the Xue family's business. Have you forgotten that I But as I said, I only sell the position of patriarch and the business, other than these two things are not given up. Where did the word "Huangshang" ever be mentioned?!"

Amazement, astonishment, panic, amazement... Whether it's Xue's Qifang or Zhen Yingjia, the final feeling is horror!

Without the name of Huangshang, where would Xue's business start, even if he took all the shares, it would be useless.When they happily got the [-]% shares from Xue Pei, everyone thought that the imperial merchant followed the business, and no one thought that the business followed the imperial merchant!

Now Xue Pei told them that he spent a lot of money to buy the shares, but he didn't buy the name of the imperial merchant. silver...

Xue Pei listened quietly to their accusations against him, without changing the expression on his face.Zhen Yingjia knew that he was being tricked by Xue Pei, but the 270 million taels of silver was intended to be used by the fourth prince as a private soldier, and he was hoping to earn more money from the Xue family's business. ?

"Master Xue acted in a grass-snake and gray line, foreshadowed thousands of miles, and the officials admired it. But some money is not earned this way. Some money, if you have a life, you have to see if you have a life flower."

There was a possibility that Zhen Yingjia didn't want to say these words.But now the fourth prince is still waiting for money to be used. Zhen Yingjia, who is only thinking about the position of Duke Cheng En, is not willing to fall short.

This set again?Xue Pei looked at Master Luo who was already standing outside the flower hall, and smiled at Zhen Yingjia, not to mention his eyes, even his eyelids, which made Zhen Yingjia feel as if he was being targeted by a poisonous snake:

"The grass people don't understand what Mr. Zhen said. It wasn't the grass people who begged Mr. Zhen to buy shares, but Mr. Zhen must have a hand in the Xue family's business. For this reason, he had some petty disputes with the Xue family. "Xue Pei deliberately made Master Luo feel ambiguous.

Not only Zhen Yingjia was speechless, even the Patriarch of Qifang was also speechless.What Xue Pei said was correct. It was not Xue Pei who took the initiative to abdicate at that time, but they first became greedy and wanted to take advantage of Xue Pei's illness to snatch the position of patriarch and the business of the Xue family.

But the business they want is obviously the business after the word "Huang Shang", and that is the most profitable business.Now that Xue Pei told them that what he took the trouble to grab was not what he wanted most, how could they just let it go.

Xue Hai couldn't help but said to Xue Pei: "When the deed was made that day, why didn't you tell us that the name of the Imperial Merchant didn't come automatically with the business, but had to go through the Ministry of Internal Affairs to change the name?"