After Xu Zhiqian and Wang Ye left, Zhang Fei did not leave immediately. Instead, he sat alone in the hall, secretly tasting the remaining wine and food.
In fact, he is not the kind of person who has extremely high requirements for material things, but the life of the Xu family is too peaceful. They only have light food and tea every day, which really stifles him, but he has no complaints about it. , I am just grateful, because both Xu Zun and Xu Zhiqian are like this.
As the saying goes, don’t worry about scarcity but inequality.
It's rare to have some oil and water today, so don't reserve more.
While he was enjoying it, he suddenly heard the sound of light footsteps. Zhang Fei quickly put down his chopsticks and wiped his mouth again.
After a moment, Xu Zhiqian was seen entering the hall, seeming to be thinking about something, and did not notice Zhang Fei's little movements.
"Boyfriend?" Zhang Fei asked with a smile.
"Boy friend?"
Xu Zhiqian looked at Zhang Fei with confusion.
Zhang Fei hurriedly explained: "Oh! It's just my old sweetheart."
"What did you say?" Xu Zhiqian immediately glared at Zhang Fei.
"No, no, no, how do you say this? Oh, childhood sweethearts, childhood sweethearts." Zhang Fei also realized that he had said the wrong thing and was so anxious that he broke into sweat.
Xu Zhiqian glared at him: "Don't talk nonsense! You are a scumbag who only thinks about obscene and dirty things."
Childhood sweetheart? Childhood sweetheart? Is it also something obscene and dirty? Is it because I have limited talent and knowledge and don’t understand classical Chinese, or are you trying to fool me? Zhang Fei also felt aggrieved and said, "Just asking, why are you so angry?"
Xu Zhiqian said angrily: "If you hadn't lived in our house, could he have come here?"
Yes! After Wang Ye finished talking to me just now, he left immediately. Could it be that... Zhang Fei suddenly took a breath of air: "You're not jealous, are you? That's not right! Hey, hey, hey, I'd rather you think that I'm a scumbag, that I'm dirty, than that you think that I like men, or that I have any Men like me.”
I am a straight man, no one can bend me.
"You are really hopeless."
Xu Zhiqian's face turned red. She waved her long sleeves and turned to leave.
"Wait a minute."
Zhang Fei suddenly stopped her and said, "You woman are really duplicitous. You always blame me for living in your house, but secretly you want to keep me. What are you thinking about?"
Xu Zhiqian turned around and said angrily: "When will I keep you in our house?"
Wow! Why are you so fierce? Is that something happening, or is menopause arriving early? Zhang Fei said: "You said before that you asked Qingmei to help me find a house, but I asked Qingmei and you didn't tell her at all."
Did I say this? Xu Zhiqian blinked, and suddenly remembered that she had really said this, but she just wanted to tease Zhang Fei. How could she let her maid help Zhang Fei find a house? She rolled her eyes and said: "If you don't give me money, how can I find it for you?"
But obviously the confidence is insufficient.
Zhang Fei said angrily: "Whatever I give you now, you have to find the right one first. I'll pay after I check it out!"
Xu Zhiqian raised the corner of her mouth and revealed a sarcastic smile.
Zhang Fei frowned and said, "Why are you laughing?"
Xu Zhiqian said sarcastically: "Go back and read Song Xingtong carefully, you are a man of Erbi."
After saying that, she left directly.
Read Song Xingtong?
You tell me, an Erbi person, to read Song Xingtong?
What a shame!
Zhang Fei was angry.
Ignoring the fine wine and food on the table, he immediately went back to the house and angrily turned to Song Xingtong.
result......
It’s a little embarrassing!
"What the hell?"
Zhang Fei said in disbelief: "Buying a house must go through Fang Ya's hands, otherwise he will be treated as a thief. Wow... this is too exaggerated! It's so shameless to ask for money!"
I have to say that the Northern Song Dynasty government was really good at making money. There were so many miscellaneous taxes that you couldn't even remember them. How could the Northern Song Dynasty government give up on the everlasting business of buying and selling houses.
You will definitely have to pay deed tax.
But there is no banking system at present, so someone needs to supervise this matter. This power is delegated to the private sector. The court stipulates that all house transactions must go through Fang Ya, and all procedures must be handled by Fang Ya. To put it bluntly, Fang Ya In fact, they are non-staff members of the government.
No matter how many people buy and sell houses, the government will only ask Fang Ya for money.
If you don't give this money, you will be treated as a thief. You must know that in ancient times, the crackdown on thieves was very strong, and the punishment was also very severe.
It ranges from imprisonment to imprisonment, to exile, to acupuncture and whip chrysanthemum.
Everyone says that it is scary to owe loan sharks, but loan sharks belong to the private sector after all. You can still hide from them. At worst, you will run away and you will owe money to the government. Haha, hurry up and buy a coffin!
Zhang Fei, who was still frightened, quickly started to review.
If he fell on this house, it would be really... Well, it doesn't seem to be very unfair. Who can escape this hurdle?
.....
Not long after Zhang Fei returned to the house, Xu Zun quietly returned home from outside. After looking around for a while, he saw Xu Zhiqian sitting on the swing under the big tree, so he walked over and said, "Qian'er, the official family has left?"
Xu Zhiqian did not stand up to salute. She glanced at Xu Zun depressedly and complained: "Dad, how could you let me, a woman, entertain the officials? It's really unreasonable!"
She was also holding back her anger, and suddenly told her that the emperor was coming and she had to entertain him, but she was not frightened to death. She was really trembling when she spoke just now.
Xu Zun did not tremble this time, but explained in a low voice: "Dad doesn't want to, this is all ordered by the officials. If dad is sitting here, how can he and Zhang San speak freely? Daddy himself has to If you look forward and backward, you are afraid that the boy will find out something. Your brother is not at home, and you are the only one in the house, so I can only let you go."
Xu Zhiqian wondered: "But why did the official come to our house to meet an ordinary Erbi person? This is really puzzling to my daughter."
"Mediocre?"
Xu Zun glanced at Xu Zhiqian and said angrily: "When he went back to Kaifeng Mansion, the whole court was so noisy that it was even more noisy than those censors. Have you ever seen such an Erbi person? In the officialdom, he How can you not be curious?"
"The noise is earth-shaking?" Xu Zhiqian asked doubtfully: "Then does Chen Yuteng have such great ability?"
"It has nothing to do with him."
Xu Zun waved his hand and said: "The key is timing. Now Wang Jiefu has been preparing for the reform. For him, this case is like help in the snow. He used it to criticize the disaster of private debt in the court and demanded that Chen Yuteng be severely punished. Li Si and Zeng were treated leniently.
However, many people objected. Many officials believed that Zhang San was just playing word games and the government should ignore it. "
Xu Zhiqian stood up excitedly and said, "If you want to talk about this word game, it was Chen Yuteng who played it first. Why didn't they say anything?"
"Why didn't you say anything?"
Xu Zun sighed: "This is where the difficulty of this case lies. For example, Grand Scholar Sima and Magistrate Lu all know that Zhang San is just treating others in their own way, not to mention Wang Jiefu's efforts to protect Li Si, Zeng, in fact, they themselves do not want to punish Li Si and Zeng, but they do not agree with Wang Jiefu's theory and do not respect the law, but if they do not deal with it together, there is no other way to solve it, so they have been delaying it until now."
Xu Zhiqian lowered her eyebrows and thought for a moment, then said, "If Chen Yuteng takes the initiative to admit his mistake and is willing to compensate Li Si as a sign of reconciliation, can this be resolved?"
Xu Zun stroked his beard and said, "The people follow the private contract, but the officials ignore it."
Xu Zhiqian asked: "How much compensation will I have to pay?"
Xu Zun shook his head and said, "Then I don't know."
Xu Zhiqian murmured to herself: "It won't be less than a hundred strings anyway."
"What did you say?"
"No...nothing."
Xu Zun didn't pay attention, and suddenly asked Xu Zhiqian: "By the way! How was the conversation between the officials and Zhang San?"
Xu Zhiqian curled her lips and said: "The officials seem to like Zhang San very much, and even have the idea of letting him join the court as an official."
"Really?" Xu Zundao said, "What did Zhang San say to make the officials so happy?"
Xu Zhiqian recounted the conversation just now to Xu Zun.
"I see."
Xu Zun nodded thoughtfully.
Xu Zhiqian hummed softly: "Actually, Zhang San's theory is not a high-level theory. I really don't understand why the officials are so happy."
"What is a lofty theory?"
Xu Zun shook his head with a smile and said: "Zhang San's argument not only reveals the root of the problem, but also reveals the solution. Any further argument can't be more than this!"
Xu Zhiqian said: "But similar discussions to this have been mentioned by many high-ranking officials in the DPRK."
Xu Zun sighed: "But they are not as thorough as Zhang San. Most of the high officials in the court also talked about the disaster of usury. However, the disaster of usury is just a cover-up, endangering the people's burden."
Xu Zhiqian was startled and suddenly realized, thinking, it seems that that person really has some skills. But he said: "It's not that they don't know, they just pretend not to know."
Xu Zun laughed and said: "Therefore, we should solve it by legal means."
