Chapter 40: The Widow's Door
Chen Zhao's family, whose boudoir was Zhao Ruya. Zhao Ruya's father was a scientist who studied cosmetics in modern times. Zhao Ruya's father improved and invented several kinds of powders, and also owned a small powder shop and a small workshop for powders. Why was the business not big? Because in the Ming Dynasty, there were no advertisements, and the reputation of the products was mainly based on word of mouth. Zhao Ruya's father had only Zhao Ruya's only daughter, and Zhao Ruya was married well. She married into the big family in the capital, the Chen family. A few years ago, Zhao Ruya's father died of illness. Before his death, he naturally left his powder shop and small workshop to his daughter and son-in-law.
In the Ming Dynasty, the status of merchants was relatively low. Although Zhao Ruya, the daughter of a small businessman, married into the Chen family, her husband had a relatively low status in the Chen family and was a side branch. However, the couple lived a very beautiful life and gave birth to a cute little girl, Xiaojie.
But gradually, the reputation of this small powder shop was developed and the business was getting better and better. The Chen family's direct company became jealous. Just like a family soap opera, it was a trick to take over the small workshop and the small powder shop. It only gave Zhao Ruya and his wife a fixed annual pension, so that the couple could maintain a well-off level at most. This made the couple very unwilling to accept it.
Because Zhao Ruya's father gave Zhao Ruya a few powder recipes before his death, the couple raised some money and opened another powder shop based on those formulas. In order to prevent direct people from competing for family property again, they spent a high rent to borrow the house of Gongshun Hou Mansion to open the powder shop. They also vaguely used the reputation of the Marquis' Mansion to preserve their own family business. Because although the Chen family is a big family, it is the home of ordinary people after all, and they are always not on the same level as the nobles.
But now two things have happened: one is that one daughter in the Chen family's direct family married a noble family as a concubine; the other is that Zhao Ruya's husband died a month ago because of the anger and hard work of opening a powder shop. In this way, the direct family pressed Zhao Ruya step by step, hoping to receive the powder shop to the direct family. Moreover, Zhao Ruya received news from the manager of the Gongshun Hou Mansion. The Gongshun Hou Mansion had already given this shop to Wu Shigong and became Wu Shigong's property. This made Zhao Ruya feel at a loss. Today, she suddenly heard that Wu Shigong came to visit her, so Zhao Ruya wanted to explore Wu Shigong's background.
The main reason why Wu Shigong wanted to see the two shops his father gave him was that he wanted to use one of them to open a gambling shop. Wu Shigong also opened an underground casino in his previous life, and he was familiar with this business. Besides, the rent for these two shops was not high, and the rent for a year was equivalent to the number of places Wu Shigong sold three soldiers. Yesterday, he already knew that the shop on the Xuanwu Gate had turned into ruins, so today I want to see this cosmetic shop.
After seeing it, Wu Shigong was not satisfied. The cosmetic shop did not occupy a large area. Although it was located on the Chongwen Sect, the location was not very lively. There was another reason. He really liked the little girl named Xiaojie. Chen Zhao was also a widow, and it was not good to bully the orphans and widows. So, he had decided just now to build a building on the ruins of Xuanwu Sect and place the gambling shop there. Anyway, his father-in-law Xue Lian had agreed to him and asked the Ministry of Works to build a building for him for free.
So, after saying a few unnutritious words, Wu Shigong had no topic with Zhao Ruya. Wu Shigong also casually said to Zhao Ruya: There is still something to improve the business of the powder shop. After listening to Wu Shigong's words, Zhao Ruya became interested and asked Wu Shigong to explain in detail. Wu Shigong suggested: Let Zhao Ruya divide the powder shop into two, one to receive male guests and the other to receive female guests. And let Zhao Ruya prepare some exquisite
Boxes, make a set of powder to sell. In fact, this idea is not new. In modern times, it is nothing more than men's cosmetics and cosmetics set gift boxes. But Zhao Ruya's eyes lit up and felt a sudden sense of enlightenment. Seeing that Zhao Ruya became more interested, Wu Shigong joked to Zhao Ruya: He had just come up with an idea. If Zhao Ruya uses this idea and loses business, don't go to him, and he will not bear this responsibility.
There was no other topic when he saw it, Wu Shigong wanted to say goodbye and leave. However, Zhao Ruya seemed to be reluctant to speak. Wu Shigong waited for a while, but when he saw that Zhao Ruya still didn't say anything, he didn't care about anything and stood up from the chair to leave. At this time, there was a quarrel outside the door of the inner room. What's going on? So Wu Shigong and Zhao Ruya both walked out of the inner room.
It turned out that a middle-aged man and woman came outside the door. They were going to enter the inner room and come to find Zhao Ruya. But Xue Yong and Xue Qiang, who were guarding the door of the inner room, certainly did not allow him. The lesson they learned yesterday is still on their faces. Seeing that Wu Shigong and Zhao Ruya both left the inner room, the two sides stopped quarreling. Wu Shigong signaled Xue Yong and Xue Qiang to come over and prepare to leave together. The middle-aged man and woman also found Zhao Ruya, the main master, and started arguing with each other.
Wu Shigong listened coldly, although he didn't fully understand the whole story, he also understood that the middle-aged man and Zhao Ruya were family members, and they had a dispute over family conflicts. After understanding, Wu Shigong turned around and left. He didn't have the time to pay attention to such broken things, and it was difficult for a clean official to make a decision.
The dispute between the middle-aged man and Zhao Ruya became more and more intense. Finally, the middle-aged man and woman began to curse Zhao Ruya. The main player was the middle-aged woman, and the middle-aged man also spoke a few words from time to time. The filthy words of cursing were endless, making Zhao Ruya cry. Seeing this situation, although Wu Shigong was a little sympathetic to Zhao Ruya’s experience, he was still ready to stand by and not to interfere in other people’s housework.
But at this time, the middle-aged woman's curse alluded to Wu Shigong. We know that the ignorant woman likes to scold the other person's life problems in curse. This is the case with the middle-aged woman. Seeing that Wu Shigong and Zhao Ruya came out of the inner room just now, they cursed Zhao Ruya's lifestyle problems, and brought Wu Shigong in. Of course, the middle-aged woman was not completely brainless. She knew that Wu Shigong was an official. But from the pattern on Wu Shigong's official robe, she also knew that Wu Shigong was not a civil servant. If it were a civil servant, she would not dare to scold her. In addition, the middle-aged woman's daughter married to a concubine in Guixun's family. Therefore, the middle-aged woman felt that she had joined Guixun's rank, so she was a little proud.
Wu Shigong was already full of anger on the morning, and immediately launched a counterattack against the middle-aged woman's provocation. Of course, Wu Shigong was not as despicable as he was to attack the woman at will. Xue Yong and Xue Qiang also immediately helped him. Instead, the middle-aged man persuaded him repeatedly because Wu Shigong was an official. Unexpectedly, the middle-aged woman had a very strong fighting ability, and she was not inferior to one-on-three. Anyway, she was irresistible in the quarrel and said, "Who is Wu Shigong, Zhao Ruya, and wants Wu Shigong to take care of the housework between them?" Wu Shigong became hot and patted his chest and said: He will still be in charge of Chen Zhao's affairs in the future.
At this time, when he heard the quarrel, Wu Shigong's guards and several servants of the middle-aged man and woman also came to them. Wu Shigong's head suddenly lit up and thought to himself: Why should I compare myself with that old woman? Who is Wu Shigong? Wu Shigong is the highest leader of the national violent organ in Nancheng. This cosmetic shop is located in Nancheng, and he can use violent means to capture the middle-aged man and woman!
So, Wu Shigong ordered the guards to capture the middle-aged man and woman, regardless of their scolding or begging for mercy. When he sent Wu Shigong and his party out of the powder shop, Zhao Ruya's eyes were crescent-shaped and said to Wu Shigong Yifu: "Thank you, little marquis, today."
The name of the little marquis came again, and Wu Shigong felt that the guards around him shot out that strange gaze again. However, after hearing Zhao Ruya's name of Wu Shigong as "Little marquis", the middle-aged man and woman completely shut up and became depressed.
Wu Shigong continued to pretend to be confused and ordered the guards to take the middle-aged man and woman back to the yamen. On the way back to the yamen, Wu Shigong also understood: In the end, Chen Zhao called herself the little marquis, which must have been intentional. She regarded herself as a shield and used her name as a gun. This little widow didn't look like a good person either. However, although the little widow had a mosaic on her face, her figure and her daughter Xiaojie's pink and jade-like appearance must have been good. If... But now she has nothing to get, she has become a shield for no reason. That is simply standard: she didn't eat mutton but made her slut out of sex. Wu Shigong couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "There's so much trouble in front of the widow!"
At this time, Xue Qiang put his pig head in Wu Shigong's ear and asked, "Son-in-law, what are the charges do those two people want to be given?"
Wu Shigong was not angry and shouted loudly: "Are you a pig's head? You can find two charges, spitting or urinating anywhere. Are you still asking me?" Wu Shigong's voice was very loud, and he wanted to pass his words to the middle-aged man and woman, and continue to disgust them.
Chapter completed!