At night, inside Fenghua Building.
Xie Xianzheng and Du Lingfeng exchanged cups.
In a few days, the two of them were fighting fiercely.
Xie Xian is not only a "highly educated" talent, but he also hangs out with a group of "robbers" to do business, so he has naturally developed the ability to talk to people and tell ghosts.
Du Lingfeng was no longer wary, and the two of them only talked about romance and not business.
After drinking for three rounds, Du Lingfeng's face turned red and he said excitedly: "Brother Xie's poems really opened my eyes!"
"I just wish I didn't get to know Brother Xie sooner! But when will I be able to write a complete poem?"
That depends on when the master can compose a complete song!
Zhuyu is here, I want to show you my poem, isn't it a slap in the face? !
Xie Xian rolled his eyes, picked up the yin and yang pot, filled it for Du Lingfeng, poured himself a glass of water, and then drank it quickly.
He waved his hands and said: "Ashamed, ashamed! Brother Yu can only write poems with the strength of wine... Alas, but he can't overcome the strength of wine!"
"If you have the chance, I will definitely compose a complete song! Brother Du, you are drunk. That's it for today. I will send someone to take you home."
Du Lingfeng drank the wine in the cup, pushed away the beautiful maid in his arms, and said with a smile: "Okay! It's getting late, so I'm looking forward to Brother Xie's masterpiece! No need to send it off, I brought someone here... "
After that, he stood up and staggered out of Fenghua Building.
After the others left, Xie Xian walked to the reception room deep inside the building.
At this time, a group of people in the house were eating. Seeing Xie Xian come in, Zhou Tie asked first, "Lao Xie, how are you?"
Xie Xian shrugged: "Same as before."
"I said... is there any need to go to such trouble?! Just tie him up, why don't you let us crush him into a round shape and flatten him?" Zhou Tie complained.
"No, what should we do if we alert the enemy? Although Du Lingfeng is a private salt dealer, I think he is a good person. We will have a showdown with him tomorrow. Let's try our best to be as quick as possible."
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The next day, night.
Du Lingfeng rode in a sedan chair and headed to Fenghua Tower as usual.
As soon as he stepped through the door, Xie Xian grabbed his wrist.
Du Lingfeng was stunned at first, but when he looked up and saw Xie Xian's serious face, he asked doubtfully: "Brother Xie, why are you arresting me?"
"Follow me!" Xie Xian didn't answer and pulled Du Lingfeng towards the second floor.
Du Lingfeng did not doubt his presence and was taken directly into a dark room.
There were no windows in the room, and only a few oil lamps were lit.
After the two of them sat down, Du Lingfeng realized what he was doing and couldn't help laughing: "Brother Xie, what are you trying to do with me?"
In the dark room, the lights flickered on Xie Xian's face, and he said in a deep voice: "Brother Du, you are in danger!"
"What?" Du Lingfeng's face wrinkled, and at the same time he felt wary: "Brother Xie, what do you mean by this?"
"Brother Du, if I'm right, you should be selling illegal salt, right?"
As soon as he said these words, Du Lingfeng inserted his hand into his cuffs and stared at Xie Xian coldly.
The experiences he had with Xie Xian these days kept flooding in his mind.
After thinking about it over and over again, I couldn't find anything wrong, so I said calmly: "Brother Xie, selling illegal salt is a beheading business! How can you say this nonsense? I am in the fur business, and you don't know that."
"Father goods?" Xie Xian smiled half-heartedly: "If you are in the fur goods business, you shouldn't be in Jianjiang at this time. You should go north."
"There's no need to hide it. You did business with the Sun family before, right? The head of the Sun family told me this personally."
"Lie! This is definitely a lie!" Du Lingfeng tightened the dagger in his hand: "Although I don't know why the Sun family slandered me so much, has Brother Xie ever thought about why he told you since he bought private salt?"
"Does Brother Du know Fang Zhengyi?"
Du Lingfeng frowned and said: "Of course they know that Fang Zhengyi came to Jianjiang to provide disaster relief. Who doesn't know? Didn't Brother Xie do things for Fang Zhengyi in the first place?"
Xie Xian sighed and said, "Yes, I did do things for him."
"The Sun family had colluded with Liu Xun, the prefect of Jianjiang, and Fang Zhengyi had the evidence, but he did not report it. Instead, he secretly took the Sun family as his own."
"When I returned to Jianjiang this time, the Sun family always mistakenly thought that I came back to work for Fang Zhengyi, so they told me the truth."
"Brother Du, do you have anything else to say?"
Du Lingfeng's eyes began to wander: "Since Brother Xie has determined that I am selling illegal salt, what else can I say?"
"If people from the Sun family have recognized me a long time ago, why did Brother Xie come to see me privately today?"
Hearing this, Xie Xian's expression suddenly became tangled, as if there was some pain in it: "Brother Du and I have known each other for a long time, and I only found out about this two days ago, but I want to see how Brother Du is like. "
"After knowing each other for such a long time, I think Brother Du's character is naturally excellent. And in the final analysis, this matter has nothing to do with me, so why should I lose this friend?"
Du Lingfeng's face softened slightly, but he still didn't let down his guard: "Brother Xie, isn't he working for Fang Zhengyi? That Lord Fang is well-known in Jianjiang City for being upright and devoted to the people. I heard that you often followed him when the disaster was serious. He's together."
Xie Xian smiled disdainfully: "Huh? That's just Fang Zhengyi's pretense. Otherwise, how could he annex the Sun family?"
"To tell you the truth, when I helped him, he promised me that he would give me an official position."
"For this illusory official status, Fengyuelou has already changed its surname to Fang instead of Xie!"
"Oh? What can I say?" Du Lingfeng became interested.
"When I established Fenghua Tower, I originally wanted to make money, but when Fang Zheng found out about it later, he used Fenghua Tower to recruit wealthy businessmen in the city to provide relief."
"After the disaster subsided, Fenghua Tower's huge interests were targeted... As soon as Fang Zheng promised me to be an official in Beijing, the condition was that Fenghua Tower be transferred to his slave's name."
"But after I followed him back to the capital, he refused in every possible way and abandoned me. In anger, I left a letter and returned to Fenghua Tower."
"Now, I am only responsible for the management in name in the building, but in fact, not a penny of the profit has anything to do with me... The official word means two things, but I was too naive and believed his lies!"
Next door, a group of people were leaning on the wall and eavesdropping.
Zhao Lie muttered: "Sir, you can do it now. How dare you arrange it like this..."
Qian Desheng's eyes lit up. He turned around and walked to the desk with a happy face. He picked up a pen and paper and wrote down everything Xie Xian said.
Zhao Lie came to him out of curiosity and saw that he was saying bad things about Xie Xian. He immediately stretched out his hand to stop him and said angrily: "What are you doing?"
Qian Desheng licked his lips in embarrassment: "I'm going out to do some work. I can go back and report to the master!"
Isn’t that what we did around His Majesty before? how? Can Fang Zhengyi be more difficult to serve than the emperor?
Hey, this time when I go back and report a dozen, our family will become confidants!
Seeing the two arguing, Zhou Tie also came over and looked at the contents on the paper with a contemptuous smile.
"Damn eunuch! It's true that a dog can't change its habit of eating shit!"
Qian Desheng sneered and glanced at him.
Damn Zhou Tie, I can’t kill you if I go back! See if you believe me, you still believe me!
"Tear this thing apart! Don't remember this nonsense in the future. We are here to do things, not to fight among ourselves." Zhao Lie said with a serious expression.
Zhou Tie pulled him away and said in a low voice: "What do you care about him? Go back and discount this old guy's legs! No one in the county has dared to make a snitch in many years, so this old bastard is not afraid of death so let him do it!" "
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