Poor Family

  Chapter 766 Asking for debt

Bai Shizhong's Xiangguo Mansion was located in the outer city, but the outer city was too deserted and the public security was not very good, so Bai Shizhong's family moved to the inner city to live in a separate house on East Street. The family currently has a small population. The eldest son, the second son and the third son all went south with their families to Hangzhou. The daughter and son-in-law also left. Bai Shizhong's wife died of illness three years ago. There are only a dozen or so people, and the villa with an area of ​​six acres is enough to live in.

Bai Shizhong's youngest son is called Bai Jin, Shiro of the Bai family, his wife is Cai Jing's daughter, and Bai Shizhong is Cai Jing's first running dog. , Cai Jing decided to upgrade the running dog to a party member and marry him as his in-laws. Bai Jin married Cai Jing's ninth daughter.

The matter of Bao Yanzhai happened to Cai Jing's ninth daughter. The cosmetics she used were all Bao Yanzhai's top products. A few days ago, she went to Bao Yanzhai's store and found that the store was out of stock. She was afraid that her cosmetics Out of stock, she forcibly bought all the last ten red treasure boxes in stock at one go, and the required purchase price was five hundred taels of silver. She told her husband and ignored it, but Bai Jin was also very busy. , didn't take this matter to heart, and as a result, both of them forgot.

Yesterday, Ah Mui came to the Bai family to ask for money. It happened that the people of the city gathered in Yujie to demonstrate. Everyone ran to watch the excitement. There was only one porter in the Bai family who didn't know. He treated Ah Mui badly and scolded her to blackmail Bai home, drive her down the steps.

   This was originally a trivial matter, as long as Amei came again and found the housekeeper, and the housekeeper saw the IOU and went in to ask about it, the matter would be resolved. Although the IOU was written in the name of her husband, the Bai family would not renege on the debt.

   But this matter was known by Li Yanqing. He is the young proprietor of Baoyanzhai. It is only natural to ask for debts for Baoyanzhai, but the matter is not as simple as asking for debts.

Li Yanqing needed to use this incident to refresh his impression in the minds of Zhao Huan and the civil and military officials. After all, 300,000 people gathered to denounce him, which made his reputation in the court a little bit bad. Most of the courtiers branded him after the gathering incident, and it was not a good thing to leave such a brand in the early days of his career.

Early the next morning, Bai Shizhong went to the court early, and Bai Jin also entered the palace to serve as a guard. At this time, more than ten people came in front of the gate of the Baifu on the East Street. They put up a huge sign on the street. There is a big line of words: "Bai Shizhong relied on power to bully the weak, bought and sold by force, and did not repay the debt", and the signature was "Bao Yan Zhai".

When the sign was erected, the entire East Street was immediately stirred up. They actually caused trouble in front of Xianggong's house. Soon, hundreds of people came to watch the excitement. At this time, the Bai family was also alarmed, and the housekeeper ran out with several servants to interfere .

   "You guys are so bold that you dare to come to Xiangguo's gate to cause trouble. Are you tired of your life?"

  A big man pushed the butler away, "What, get out!"

  The butler was pushed staggeringly and nearly fell down. A servant hurriedly supported him, and whispered: "The courtyard, it seems that Baoyanzhai came to ask for debts!"

  The housekeeper also saw the inscription under the sign, and then looked at a dozen burly and strong men. If they fought, he would definitely suffer. He hated and angry, turned around and ran towards the mansion.

   Mrs. Cai was sitting in the room drawing her eyebrows, when her servant girl ran over in a panic and said, "Young Madam, the butler said that Bao Yanzhai came to ask for debts outside, and there was a lot of trouble. I don't know what's going on?"

   Mrs. Cai was startled, Bao Yanzhai? Didn't the husband give them the silver?

She hurriedly got up and walked out of the room, only to see the butler standing anxiously at the gate of the courtyard, Cai said: "That's what happened, I bought some makeup a few days ago, but I didn't have enough money at the time, and then I asked Shiro to pay the money, no Do you know what's wrong? How about you give them five hundred taels of silver first, send them away, and then ask Shiro what's going on?"

  The butler was a little dumbfounded. It was true that the young lady owed money and didn’t pay it. He came to ask for a debt. He said after a long while: "Okay! I'll ask again."

  He turned around and walked outside. Of course, the housekeeper wouldn't be so stupid as to actually give away the five hundred taels of silver. Wouldn't it be settled that the Bai family owed the money and wouldn't pay it back? The master's reputation is about to be lost.

  The butler thought for a while, and immediately said to a servant: "You go to the Kaifeng government office to report the case, and say that someone has come to Xiangguo's mansion to make trouble, and ask them to send someone to protect the Bai mansion immediately."

  He sent another servant to the palace to report the matter to the master.

  The housekeeper immediately closed the door, ignoring the provocations outside the mansion.

At this time, seven or eight thousand people had already gathered on Dongdajie Street. People in the capital were extremely sensitive these two days, and they thought it was a big deal if there was any trouble. So once there was a party, spectators would come from all directions like a snowball. The East Street was crowded with people, and people talked a lot, denouncing Bai Shizhong's son for relying on power to bully the weak, disregarding human life, and committing tragic things that outrage nature and reason.

This is called three people becoming a tiger. Most people can't see the content on the sign. They can only rely on guesswork to make up their minds and interpret Bai Shizhong's son as a bully and bully. Spreading, when this matter spreads throughout the entire East Street, it will be completely changed. In fact, the truth is not important at this time. What is important is that everyone's life has seasoning.

   "Damn it! The girl was only sixteen years old, and she raped her to death. The poor parents came to ask for a word, and even beat her violently. The wicked are in power, the sky has no eyes!"

   "I saw this incident with my own eyes. Bai Shizhong's son took a fancy to other people's shop and forcibly occupied it without paying him. He beat the shop owner to death. What a tragedy!"

  The poor Bai family doesn't know who they are offending, isn't it because they forgot to bring money when shopping? In the end, he caused a show and became notorious.

  At this time, there was a commotion in the crowd, and someone shouted: "The government is here to arrest people!"

   "Officials protect each other, it's too dark!"

   Nearly ten thousand people on the street roared, yelling angrily.

Needless to say, this is the officials and yamen servants from Kaifeng Mansion. The officials who came here are of high status. They are the new Governor of Kaifeng Mansion Xu Bingzhe. He was personally recommended by Bai Shizhong. Zhao Huan was dismissed by Zhao Huan in a rage over the gathering of 100,000 people. Xu Bingzhe, who was officially appointed as a scholar of Zizheng Palace, was strongly recommended by Bai Shizhong to be the Governor of Kaifeng.

  Throwing peaches as rewards, Xu Bingzhe heard that there were thugs in Bai Shizhong's mansion who came to make trouble, he was immediately furious, and personally led dozens of yamen servants to arrest the thugs.

But when he got to East Street, he realized that something was wrong. There were tens of thousands of people gathered, and hearing the roar of the people, it was Xiangguo Bai Shizhong who condemned Zongzi for murder. This made Xu Bingzhe hate and fear, and hated the Bai family. If he didn't tell the truth to himself, he was afraid that he would repeat Nie Shan's mistakes and be dismissed because of the gathering incident.

   "Everyone give way, Kaifeng Prefecture will handle the case, and it will definitely handle it impartially!"

  The yamen servants yelled and opened a road, and soon, Xu Bingzhe came to the gate of Baifu surrounded by dozens of yamen servants.

  At this time, Xu Bingzhe also saw the huge billboard. He was a little confused. What's going on?

   "Who are you? What are you doing here?" Xu Bingzhe asked.

  A big man stepped forward and bowed to salute: "We are the clerks of Baoyanzhai. Bai Shizhong's son bought our rouge and never gave any money. We came to ask for it!"

"ah!"

  Xu Bingzhe opened his mouth wide and couldn't close it for a long time. Didn't he just come to ask for money? How did she become a prostitute/girl in the mouths of the common people, and the son committed a murder?

   "Fu Yin, this is called three people becoming tigers!"

  The master secretary sighed in a low voice: "It's obviously just a trivial matter, but it turned out to be a rumor, and it was finally passed on by the good people."

  (end of this chapter)