What Lu Zhizhang wanted was this effect, and he then continued, "Since Madam only wants justice, and everyone here is not a fool, then you can see if my statement is fair or not."
After Lu Zhizhang finished speaking, the housekeeper of Zhou Mansion was the first to say hello, and the others had no choice but to follow suit.
But no one jumped out to play against him again.
Lu Zhizhang continued, "Okay, since none of you object, then I will tell you what I think."
"I remember Mrs. Zheng once told me this. He said that she was just helping Mrs. Zheng take care of her, but now she said she wanted to go back."
"I think it would be better like this. Madam, if you guys are really serious about taking care of everything for the Zhou Mansion, then you might as well not go back today. How about you stay in the Zhou Mansion until Mrs. Zhou is released from prison, and until Zhou Shilang returns to the mansion?" In this way, you can be regarded as looking after the house for others. After all, you only took away the Zhou family's property but did not guard the Zhou family's house. That is not kind to the old people who guard the Zhou family. After all, you have to live, and they also have to live. ah."
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Zheng immediately jumped out and objected, "That's not okay! We also have a family, what's the point of staying here?"
Others naturally disagreed. After all, who didn't know that Zhou Mansion had actually offended a capital policeman.
The Zheng family has a deep understanding of this. After all, they are a businessman. The capital is prosperous and the business they can do is big. The third family is actually the most willing to stay in the capital.
Their son Zhou Xintian was even more ready to show his talents in the capital. However, their family's business was doing pretty well before Zhou's accident.
However, as soon as something happened to the Zhou family, the business they had previously negotiated with others had all come to naught. They would rather not have a deposit than do any business with their family.
Although their family took some deposit, when they first arrived, in order to make business, their deposit was actually not high, so now that the goods have arrived, but the sales have disappeared, they still suffered a huge loss.
This business alone cost their family everything they could earn in a year.
So Zhou Xintian was secretly worried. On the one hand, he only arranged for people to find other merchants. On the other hand, he only asked people to inquire in many places. Finally, after asking around, he found out that the Zhou family was being targeted and they wanted to take revenge on Zhou Shilang. , however, such revenge was obviously not enough, so their relatives and friends also became unlucky.
It was also because of this that they wanted to leave the capital and return to their hometown.
After all, his hometown is his base, and he has never encountered such a wall in so many years of business with his father.
However, his parents and uncle were obviously not willing to go back in despair.
After all, in this matter, they did not benefit when Zhou Shilang was prosperous, but now that Zhou Shilang is in decline, they are unlucky.
Although they already knew before that the remaining property of Zhou Mansion was no longer rich.
However, what they can get is a little bit, and their hard work cannot be in vain.
So they went to get things from the Zhou Mansion's warehouse and had a dispute with the Zhou Mansion's servants, so they all came to Lu Zhizhang.
Seeing that they were unwilling to stay, Lu Zhizhang continued, "Since you don't want to stay, how about you unpack your own baggage and return the property that was taken away from the Zhou Mansion? After all, what if Mrs. Zhou and Shilang Zhou come back?" If you take away all the property, how will they live?"
After hearing Lu Zhizhang's words, they were obviously unwilling to let go of their burdens.
The steward of the Zhou Mansion also immediately said, "If you are unwilling to put down your burden, then I will report to the government."
At this time, Lu Zhizhang just fanned the flames and said, "Managers can't report to the official. It would be very serious if they reported to the official. Then the people above are worried that they can't catch all the Zhou family. If you arrest them, no matter how far they run, The government will definitely arrest them out of revenge, and it will be difficult for them to come out."
Although Lu Zhizhang seemed to be helping them to dissuade the manager from reporting to the government at the moment, everyone knew that he was actually saying this to them and was helping the Zhou family manage the affairs.
Threatening them.
Nowadays, no one dares to joke with their own lives, especially young people of Zhou Xintian's generation who feel that it is not a good deal to go to jail for such a small amount of money, so Zhou Xintian couldn't help but take the initiative to persuade his parents, "Dad. , Mom, it’s not worth going to jail for these few taels of silver, let’s just let it go and go back quickly.”
Zhou Jiasanlang only felt that what his son said made sense, and he nodded along.
After all, this business can only continue if he survives.
However, Mrs. Zheng still refused to give up, "Not to mention the hard work we did, the business we did recently was a loss of a year's worth of property. If their family didn't have such a mess, those people would not agree to work with us. Do you want to do business? I’m really not willing to go back like this!”
Zhou Xintian also knew that it was useless to persuade his father. The real head of the family was still his mother.
So he could only patiently persuade Mrs. Zheng, "Mom, I know you are not willing to give in, but do you want to go to jail? Or are you willing to stay in Zhou Mansion?"
Zheng shook her head.
Zhou Xintian then whispered, "Mom, back to our basic market, this new batch of goods I bought may be able to sell some along the way. In this case, we will not be considered a loss, but if we continue to stay here , then this batch of my goods will definitely fall into my own hands, and it won’t be good if they find a reason to arrest us one day.”
Seeing Zhou Xintian's analysis, Zheng finally nodded, "Okay, I'll listen to you."
On the other side, Zhou Yaoniang is also doing her parents' work, but she is not trying to persuade her parents to leave. She persuaded her parents to stay. .
After all, she was still waiting for Mr. Zhou to introduce her, and she was still waiting to marry into a wealthy family. If she returned to that small family, what future would she have.
People like her are afraid that they can only marry widowers or some wealthy families as concubines. She is not willing to marry ordinary people. She cannot bear the grievance of being a concubine of a wealthy family.
And after seeing the world in the capital, who would want to go back to that little shabby place?
So even if the current situation is not good, Zhou Ruyu is not willing to go back.
She just took her parents aside and secretly said, "Father, mother, let's stay for now. If Zheng and the others don't want to stay, then we can just keep this property for ourselves. This way we can divide it." But it’s more. This is much better than going back and guarding the dozens of acres of land. What’s more, we have someone in charge of the house. We can just stay for a year and a half, and it won’t be a big problem.”
Although Zhou Ruyu's proposal was very exciting, even the eldest aunt of the Zhou family couldn't help but turn to look at the head of her family and said, "Master, I think what Yu'er said makes sense."
However, the uncle who is the head of the Zhou family is much more rational than the mother and daughter.
Although Zhou Mansion in the capital now covers their accommodation and food, they do not cover other expenses, and prices in the capital are high.
His children are the ones who can spend money, so here, his expenses in a month are almost as much as his expenses in a year.
The most unsatisfactory one is his son. He usually likes to eat, drink, whore and gamble. There are such good places in the capital. He is really afraid that his son will find those places and ruin all his family property, or even get married. What kind of jail time are you going to get yourself into?
In fact, he had regretted coming to the capital since he knew that the Zhou family didn't have much money.
Now that there is such a safety hazard, he is naturally even more unwilling to stay.
So he just flatly refused and said, "No, we can't stay here!"
"Dad!" Seeing that her persuasion failed, Zhou Ruyu also started acting coquettishly.
However, this trick had no effect on her father. He said with a cold face, "It's useless no matter what you say, Yu'er, I know what you are thinking. I know you want to find a good marriage, but how can you Don’t think about it, is it so easy to find such a good match?”
"How could the wives of those princes and grandsons' brothers be from small families like ours? Even if you were the young master of the Zhu family back then, you were able to enter the house not just because of that Zhu family.
Another reason why my son is obsessed with you is that your parents still have some assets in the local area. Although it is not as good as his family's hundred acres of farmland, at least our family is still in their class. "
"But in the capital, what do we have? We are just a poor family who went to live with relatives. If your second uncle is still there and you rely on your second uncle, you can still find a small official and merchant to marry you. However, Something happened to your second uncle, and there are political opponents of your second uncle waiting to make things worse for your second uncle. What do you think will end well for you?"
The words of the eldest uncle of the Zhou family can be regarded as sincere words.
However, Zhou Ruyu had no intention of listening to her father talking to her. She kept looking at Lu Zhizhang.
It's a pity that Lu Zhizhang refused to even look at her.
The eldest uncle of the Zhou family also knew that Zhou Ruyu actually still thought about marrying to the Luhou Mansion.
But now it seems that the Zhou family who agreed to be a matchmaker has been imprisoned, although Zhou family once said that Lu Zhizhang didn't care much about external factors such as family status when marrying.
But the eldest uncle of the Zhou family didn't think that Lu Zhizhang could like his daughter, so the eldest uncle of the Zhou family just said to Zhou Ruyu, "Yu'er, let's go back? There is no way that Lord Lu can like you."
"No, I won't leave! Dad! I want to stay in the capital. If I don't fight for it, the opportunity will never come to me. Just like Mr. Zhu, I want to give it a try!"
"Try it? How are you going to try it? If you use the same dirty tricks again to disgrace my family, I will not recognize you as my daughter." The eldest uncle of the Zhou family does not think highly of his daughter.
Zhou Ruyu only said, "Dad, don't worry, my daughter won't be stupid again. Just give me one more day."
