Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

Chapter 18 Dividing the spoils and petitioning

On the back mountain viewing platform, Guan Er took out a thick stack of silver notes from his arms and said to Zhao Ran: "Brother Zhao, this time, apart from the capital you gave you, you will win a total of 8,000 taels of silver. Brother Zhao must not be fond of those hundreds of taels of broken silver, so he did not bring it. All the silver notes are here, please check it out."

Zhao Ran took the silver notes through the moonlight and saw that these silver notes were all large in value, with a total of more than 100 or 200, and there were also a few in fifty taels. This shows how big the gambling game tonight!

"Where is your farm? Have you won it back?"

"Thank you, Brother Zhao, don't worry, that sign has been burned by me." When he said this, Guan Er let out a long sigh, and the smile on his face was extremely refreshing.

"You didn't keep any of these silver?"

"When Guan can win the farm back, he is already satisfied... The most important thing is that he has not lost his family, and his family has been destroyed... It is all due to Brother Zhao's kindness. How dare Guan do it again?"

Zhao Ran nodded, pointed out three thousand taels from the silver bill, and stuffed them into Guan Er's arms: "Is this what you lost last time? Take it!"

Guan Er said anxiously: "How can this be done? Brother Zhao quickly take it back!" He stuffed the silver note into Zhao Ran's arms.

Zhao Ran waved his hand: "You look down on me and think I am a friend, just take it, okay?"

Guan Er's face was flushed, hesitated for a while, and finally nodded with a heavy emphasis.

Zhao Ran calculated that the total amount of silver notes in his hand was 8,000 taels, which was stacked up like a thick book. He had no property. So far, he was still sleeping in a room with others. At the same time, there were not many trustworthy relatives who could keep it on their behalf. He simply ordered a small denomination of one thousand taels and stuffed it into his arms, put the remaining seven thousand taels in the package and handed it to Guan Er.

"Please keep these silver notes for me, please keep them for me. Your Weiyuan Escort Agency has a great family and is very profitable. It is probably much safer to store them in your place."

"This..." Guan Er's face suddenly turned purple and he couldn't speak. He didn't expect Zhao Ran to do this at all. You know, this was a 7,000 tael of silver notes, which was definitely a huge fortune, but Zhao Ran easily handed it to him. God, what a great deal of trust is this!

Guan Er vowed: "Don't worry, Brother Zhao, I'm going to have a rest tomorrow. I will go down the mountain and I will definitely put these silver notes back to the escort agency. As long as the Weiyuan escort agency is still there, Brother Zhao's money will be there and I will never let Brother Zhao down!"

"By the way, I have another thing to ask Brother Guan. I have an uncle Zhao in Zhaozhuang, Shiquan County. I am a man named Zhaoqian. He and Aunt Zhao take good care of me on weekdays. I also asked Brother Guan to find someone who can trust to go to Zhaozhuang, add one or two hundred acres of land to his house, and then build a few spacious tiled houses to buy some useful items. I will repay him. All the expenses are on my head."

Guan Er nodded: "Brother Zhao is really a kind person. Don't worry, the money spent is not a big deal, so Brother Zhao doesn't have to worry about it."

Zhao Ran was not polite to him and nodded in thanking him.

So the two were full of ambition and turned back to Wujiyuan. There was no need to mention how Zhao Ran was excited that night. He said that he had turned around and after breakfast, Zhao Ran was yawning Lian Tian to go back to sleep, but found that Jiao Tan and Zhou Huai had already removed the Huogong Taoist robe and changed their clothes.

Both of them were in Shu brocade robes, with jade pendants on their waists and good cotton boots on their feet. The so-called man leaned on clothes and horses leaned on his saddle. After they transformed, they immediately showed their handsome and handsome figure. They clearly looked like such a young and rich handsome young man. How could they tell that they were hard laborers who swept the toilet?

It turned out that it was the day when we were resting, and the two of them were reluctant to sleep. They were preparing to go to Guyang County for a leisurely walk. They wanted to take Zhao Ran to go with them, saying that they wanted to let him see the prosperity of Guyang County. Speaking of which, this was the first time Zhao Ran had taken a break after coming to Wujiyuan. In fact, they were a little moved, but the playfulness could not stop the sleepiness. He was still not used to the life of day and night, so he had to express his deep regret.

But these two people were reluctant to go out and kept persuading him. Zhao Ran was very clear. After thinking about it, he understood the intention of these two people. He immediately took twenty taels of silver croaker and gave ten taels to each person, saying that it was a temporary loan and that they would return it when they had money in the future. When the two of them happily went down the mountain, Zhao Ran fell on the bed and fell asleep soundly.

Not long after he slept, Zhao Ran was awakened by a sound of smashing the door. He got up in confusion and opened the door, but it was Yu Zhiyuan at the entrance of the living room. When Yu Zhiyuan saw Zhao Ran, he said happily: "Fortunately, you didn't leave, otherwise you almost missed it. Get up quickly and follow me down the mountain."

It turned out that the Master Zhou of Long'an Prefecture held an elegant gathering in Bijia Mountain, and Yu Zhiyuan also received an invitation. It is said that this elegant gathering is mainly based on calligraphy and painting, and invited many famous calligraphers and painters from around Long'an Prefecture to participate, and was about to join Zhiyuan's good luck. However, the servant who came to deliver the post was delayed on the way and arrived at Wuji Mountain early this morning.

Bijia Mountain is located in the southeast of Long'an Prefecture City and northwest of Guyang County, less than 30 miles away from Wuji Mountain. Fortunately, the official road is spacious, so it only takes one hour to get by carriage. As for carriages - because Wujiyuan is resting today, many carriages have been waiting at the foot of the mountain. Everyone knows that in Wujiyuan, whether it is Taoist or Huoju, they are all rich people, and their hands are extremely generous, so how can the handlebars miss this opportunity to make money?

OK, Zhao Ran admitted that he really didn't see it. Yu Zhiyuan was also considered a "famous calligrapher and painter"? He thought to himself that since even Yu Zhiyuan could get invitations, he would never be embarrassed to follow him.

In fact, Zhao Ran is more sleepy than before going to bed just now, but Zhao Ran dared to reject the invitation from Jiao Tan and Zhou Huai, but was embarrassed to say no to Zhiyuan. He didn't have any generous new clothes, so he had to put on a clean Huoju Taoist robe and hurriedly followed Yu Zhiyuan down the mountain.

As soon as he left the Wujiyuan mountain gate, Yu Zhiyuan patted his head and asked Zhao Ran to wait for a while, saying that he was going back to sample the object. Zhao Ran was bored and circled in front of the mountain gate, but found someone holding a wooden board in one corner, with the big word "injustice" written on it.

Zhao Ran was very interesting and thought that there was also a saying in this world that "petition" was said. He became curious and took a step over to see what was going on.

Holding the wooden board was an old man. A young woman holding a pipa was sitting beside the old man. Her skin was slightly dark, but she looked so beautiful.

When he saw Zhao Ran coming, the old man shouted, "Tao Master - Xiaomin is wronged-"

After hearing this, Zhao Ran immediately got goosebumps all over his body. There was nothing else, but the old man used singing style.

Before going through time, Zhao Ran was a real-time department-level cadre. There were too many such petitions. Many petition incidents have complicated relationships. If you are not careful, you will make you feel uncomfortable. Therefore, he did not dare to get too close. He just looked at the two of them in a row, but half of his eyes fell on the woman sitting on the ground.

When the old man saw that Zhao Ran could not come, he turned the wooden board around, but the back of the board was full of words, which was Chen's letter of injustice.

Zhao Ran was so happy that he was very happy, thinking that these petitioners were all the same. Looking around, he saw that what Chen's injustice wrote was accusing Jin Jiu and Zhang Ze of rape of the civilian daughter and committing murder. Because it was related to Jin Jiu and Zhang Ze, Zhao Ran became interested and looked very carefully.

Seeing Zhao Ran looking carefully, the old man explained in detail, saying that Jin Jiu and Zhang Ze, relying on the power of the family, not only defeated their own daughter, but also even if the slaves injured their son, their daughter now declared that they were dirty and no one to marry, and their son was bedridden and could not go out. The family was getting increasingly difficult, and they were about to lose rice to the pot. And so on, they were crying.

The old man cried and his eyes were still rolling around. Whenever the young woman on the side saw Zhao Ran's gaze projecting over, her face turned red, and her eyes were filled with a scent of refusal and still welcome. Her body was slightly twisted, and she was indescribable.

Zhao Ran was attracted by this woman and was already dry-mouthed. His mind was filled with the hot scenes of Jin Jiu and Zhang Ze and the woman being flirted with. He couldn't tell whether he was envious or jealous.
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next