Chapter 48 Liquidation
Pang Yulou has three older brothers, namely Pang Jinlou, Pang Yinlou and Pang Xilou.
Pang Jinlou was capable, but his two younger brothers were still ignorant and had already grasped the Pang family's shop. Pang Yinlou was smart and knew that he could not get help in the Pang family's shop. So he coaxed Pang's father to privately get money and money for him, and opened a tea house. Pang Xilou has been a mess since he was a child and likes to punch and kick. He learned a few tricks in the county martial arts hall. He couldn't get involved in the affairs of the shop, and he was unwilling to serve people like Pang Yinlou. In those months of hard work, he had no drinks or drinks, so he simply started a business of collecting accounts and lending money with several brothers who had good fun in the martial arts hall.
Dou Shishu knew what the Pang Zheng brothers were going to do as soon as he heard this.
In order to curry favor with the Wang family, they couldn't wait to be a knife envoy for the Wang family. Now that the Wang family is going to marry the Dou family, they are afraid that they will be abandoned by the Wang family because of their previous actions, so they simply acted as a play of apologizing for their thorns. I have already bowed my head and lost in front of the neighbors. You, Wang and Dou family, can't beat us to death, right?
Although he understood it in his heart, Dou Shishu was a little surprised by the Pang brothers' grasp of the current situation, their decisive decisiveness and their shamelessness in declining reputation.
He had no intention of interfering in the affairs of the East Mansion and the Wang family, but was a little displeased with the news that the Pang family had received so quickly that the Dou and Wang families had married each other. He smiled at the second wife who brought the female family to see him off with him, "I don't know why the Pang family suddenly became arrogant at first and respectful at the beginning?"
The second wife turned her son's words in her heart and understood what her son meant.
She smiled and said, "There is a cause that must be a cause, and there must be a result that must be a cause."
It means that I will investigate this matter.
Dou Shishu smiled and said, "I don't know how long it will be for the seventh brother. Lord Gong is still waiting for me to see me off at the inn. I'll wait for my seventh brother at the inn! It's just right that I can talk to Lord Gong."
The newly appointed parents in Zhending County are Gong's surname.
Although Dou Shishu is not the patriarch of the Dou family, he is the highest official position in the Dou family. Now there are people making trouble in the Dou family. It is said that Dou Shishu should go to mediate. But when he thinks about why the Pang brothers had a chaotic relationship with the Western Palace... Er Tai knows people couldn't help but mutter in his heart. (Look at Ye Zi You~ You) Could it be that his son, who is a dignified third-rank, will he ask about such a broken thing? She naturally hopes that the sooner his son leaves, the better this is a place of fault.
She nodded hurriedly and said, "Although you have reached the third rank, you are better off taking care of the current official position. You have to take care of your family affairs. You must not be spoiled and offend your Lord Gong and ask your Lord Gong to wait for you, that's even more unstoppable!" After that, he urged Dou Shishu to go and see your Lord Gong quickly.
Dou Shishu thought for a while and said, "Sixth brother. Do you take your sixth brother and sister, Shou Gu and I to the inn with you?"
Dou Shiying didn't come, but Dou Zhao couldn't say goodbye to Dou Shiying. Since Dou Shishu made up his mind to bring Dou Zhao close to the people of the Eastern Palace, the less contact Dou Zhao had with the Western Palace, the better.
Ji did not want Dou Zhao to fall into the conflict between these adults.
She looked at Dou Shiheng with a smile on her face, as if you agree that I can hold Dou Zhao and set off now.
Dou Shiheng felt that this was the business of the East Mansion after all. If Dou Shiying needed it, he would ask the manager to ask for help. If Dou Shiying didn't need it, he shouldn't help him rashly. Seeing his wife looking at him, he smiled and hugged Dou Zhao and said, "Shou Gu, can we follow your fifth uncle to see the inn in Zhending County?"
Dou Zhao giggled.
She didn't bother to pay attention to the broken affairs of the Wang and Dou families.
Dou Dechang also clamored to go, but the second wife instructed Madam Liu to hug him in the waist: "Your father and your mother are in the important matter, why are you going to join in the fun?"
Dou Dechang pouted in grievance.
Dou Shiheng and Ji ignored him and took Dou Zhao into the carriage.
The magistrate Gong County was a man of similar age to Dou Shishu. He was handsome and extremely arrogant. He claimed to be a Jinshi in the Xin Chou subject, four lower than Dou Shishu, and he respected Dou Shishu very much.
Dou Shishu's expression was also very modest.
Everyone had seen the gods, the magistrate of the palace, Dou Shishu and Dou Shiheng talked in the hall of the post road. Ji avoided and took Dou Zhao to look at the flowers and plants in the backyard of the post station.
It was not until noon that Dou Shiying came over. [Click com]
He bowed to Dou Shishu and others for reparation.
Dou Shishu did not care and introduced the magistrate of the Gong County to Dou Shishu.
The magistrate of Gong County praised Dou Shiying as a good talent: "I am worthy of being a son of Xie Tang."
After Dou Shishu and Dou Shi were humble, the magistrate of the Palace and County held a banquet to Dou Shishu, Dou Shiying saw him off, and Dou Shiheng accompanied him.
Ji, who was eating in the back hall, saw that the dishes brought were too much oily and sauce, so he picked up a few light dishes and fed them to Dou Zhao: "Hold on, I'll go back and make lotus leaf soup for you."
Dou Zhao was never picky about food. After eating the food, he ate another steamed bun. He was so full that he was drowsy. He didn't know when he returned to the East Mansion.
After getting off the carriage, Caishu greeted him with a smile: "Sixth Master, Sixth Mrs. Zhao, Anxiang's Mrs. Zhao, is back from Ganquan and is talking to the Grandma. The Grandma asked you and Mrs. Liu to take Miss Fourth to pay their respects to Mrs. Zhao as soon as you come back."
Dou Zhao, Dou Shiheng and Ji were both shocked, and Dou Zhao was even more excited: "My aunt is here? When did it happen?"
Caishu hurriedly said, "It's almost an hour since I'm here, I'll have enough food in the house of Mrs. Tai. At this time, I should have tea with Mrs. Tai in the banquet room."
Dou Zhao took Ji's hand: "Let's go!"
Ji laughed and hugged Dou Zhao: "First wash your face and change your clothes so that your aunt won't be covered in dust."
Dou Zhao smiled awkwardly, followed Ji's wash and went to the second wife's place.
My aunt has lost weight compared to when she was in Anxiang, but she looks much more energetic.
She threw herself into Mrs. Zhao's arms and shouted "Auntie", and asked her again: "Is uncle good? Are you good at three cousins? Why did you suddenly reply to Zhending?" One sentence after another, the words were sincere, which made my aunt cry almost out: "But no longer see each other for two or three years, our Shou Gu suddenly became a big girl and knew to greet him."
The second wife hurriedly said, "For more than half a year, Shou Aunt has followed her sixth aunt - you know her sixth aunt. She is from a famous family in Jiangnan and the most virtuous person. She always takes her everywhere on weekdays, and in order to take care of her at night, she even arranges her to rest in her own gauze cabinet. You don't have to worry."
With a little exaggerated tone, Mrs. Zhao felt suspicious when she heard it. She raised her eyelids and saw Dou Zhao’s pink and white sweethearts. After a summer, she didn’t even bite a mosquito bite. I think that Ji did take good care of Dou Zhao, and it was natural for people to claim to be meritorious.
She bent her knees and saluted Ji: "Madam Six has troubled you."
But Ji heard some of the wind from it.
The mother-in-law still wants her to help take care of the children in Xifu.
Dou Zhao heard the second wife’s thoughts and accompanied her aunt to settle down in the guest room in the East Mansion. She said to her aunt: “…Grandma asked me if I like the sixth aunt or not, and asked me if I would let the sixth aunt be with me forever!”
Mrs. Zhao didn't want to see the people from Xi Dou, so the second wife kept her in Dong Dou's room to rest, and she immediately agreed.
After hearing Dou Zhao's words, she left Mama Peng by her side, and then Dou Zhao asked her with her hand: "Do you like Aunt Six?"
"I like it!" Dou Zhao said, "She bought me a beautiful puppet, made me new clothes and new socks, fanned me at night and dyed my nails." As she said that, she reached out to Mrs. Zhao, "Auntie, is it beautiful?"
Mrs. Zhao felt extremely sad when she heard this.
This should have been something my mother should have done, but now it has been done by a cousin.
Madam Peng whispered from the side: "It would be nice if Miss Cousin followed that Sixth Lady, it would be better than being able to do a low-volume in front of Wang Yingxue."
"I think so too." Mrs. Zhao said, "Whoever raises someone likes someone, it is better to find someone in the East Mansion than Wang Yingxue. However, this matter needs to be discussed for a long time. What does the Madam mean? I have to take a closer look. With half of Xi Dou's property as a dowry, Shou Gu is not the Shou Gu he used to be."
Madam Peng sighed as she heard this: "The master's move is too dangerous. I'm really afraid that Miss Cousin will be raised."
"There is no way!" Mrs. Zhao sighed, "We didn't expect the Dou family to agree." She paused slightly and said again. "When the master received a letter from Shou Gu's fifth uncle, he said terrible, and said that Shou Gu's fifth uncle never talked wildly. Since we asked us to come back with the consent form, we were very sure that Shou Gu's grandfather would agree to our conditions... Otherwise, fortunately, we also made plans and brought Master Qian Gu whom we invited to the master.
Come, otherwise, just by the women and children, how can we know how much money the Dou family has? Which farms have good harvests? Which shops are disgusted with money? If they fool us with the unrecycled farm, we are afraid that we will find it difficult. In the past few days, we will grind our teeth with the Dou family members, so that Master Tang can also secretly touch the Dou family's property so that we will not be in the dark. If the Dou family says anything, Shou Gu has freely claimed that he has "divided half of the property of Xi Dou."
As he was talking, a little maid said through the curtain: "Mrs. Gao Sheng's wife from the West Mansion led a few maids. The mother-in-law came over to greet you."
Gao Sheng is Dou Shiying's close servant.
Mrs. Zhao You were surprised: "Even if I come to greet us, it should be Madam Yu who came to greet us. What fun should she join in?"
Since Zhao Guqiu's death, the Zhao family has been very disgusted with people from Xi Dou.
Madam Gu advised, "Let me see you! If you like it, listen, and if you don't like it, don't listen."
Mrs. Zhao nodded.
Madam Gu went to bring Gaosheng's wife over.
Gaosheng's wife is a fair and innocent young woman. She looks only seventeen or eighteen years old.
She saluted Mrs. Zhao and Dou Zhao shyly, and then took out a thick letter from her arms: "This is what Master Qi specifically asked me to bring to you when he left."
Dou Zhao was stunned when he heard this.
Father, have you known about the arrangements of the fifth uncle?
She couldn't help but lean on her aunt's shoulder, wanting to see what was written in the letter.
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The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and there are a lot of housework. Today's chapter is a bit urgent. I guess there are a lot of insects. Everyone will read it first, and I will catch insects immediately... To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.)
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Chapter completed!