Chapter 146 Sit Down
Chapter 146 Sit Down
However, after the meal, Shen Lingzhu did not ask Zhang Xiaobing to find the caravan manager. Instead, she said to him, "I want to see Master Wang Er."
"Didn't he say he was ready to travel? I'm afraid he's more than 10 to 20 miles away from the city now." Zhang Xiaobing was very surprised by her request. The person had just been released from prison safely, so why was she still looking for the victim?
Shen Lingzhu said: "The contract in his hand has always been a hidden danger."
If you study it carefully, you will find that the text on it is not very accurate and is probably a forgery. The signature on the paper is Uncle Qi.
Besides the requirement to pay five hundred taels as compensation for late delivery, it did not specify that the twenty sets of huanghuali wood chairs did not need to be made again.
If they come to ask for it again one day, it will be another complicated lawsuit.
"I know you can definitely find a fast horse to catch up with him." She couldn't ignore the hidden danger.
Zhang Xiaobing asked, "Why didn't you tell me before dinner? It would have been easier to meet him if he hadn't left the city."
Shen Lingzhu asked in return: "If I look for him before leaving, do you think he will be in the mood to deal with me?"
"Okay, I'll go borrow some horses for you. How many do you want? But don't tell me you're going after them alone.
Also, can the person going with me ride a horse? "Zhang Xiaobing would never take her alone.
Shen Lingzhu nodded and reported the number: "Yes, my eldest brother and uncle can do it.
Of course, I only know how to ride a donkey." The family didn't have the money to buy her a horse for her to practice riding.
Even my eldest brother learned horse riding and archery in the academy.
"Wait." Zhang Xiaobing immediately went to find a place to borrow a horse.
Uncle Huang Zongqi, who had been paying attention to the conversation in the yard, came out as soon as he saw him leave and looked back at Second Grandpa's room: "Agreed?"
Shen Lingzhu nodded, "Brother, have you finished painting?"
"I'm already hanging the drawing paper." Huang Zongqi thought for a moment and asked her, "Do you really want to do this?
The one your uncle gave you wasn't good enough, and you insisted on asking Xianzhu to draw more. I feel like you're showing too much weakness."
"Uncle, didn't we originally plan to exchange Uncle Seventh in this way?
Now it’s just a matter of exchanging people for deeds.
We are not locals, and if we want to do business in Bingzhou in the future, we cannot avoid these local wealthy businessmen.
And between them, in-laws are always in-laws, and if you get on bad terms with one family, you're likely to be tripped up in other businesses without even realizing it. Before leaving, my uncle repeatedly told me to avoid overly forceful, hostile approaches when a gentle solution is feasible.
Huang Zongqi sighed, "This is why I don't want to leave my hometown and venture out into the world.
One is that I have to endure all kinds of grievances, and the other is that I am single and my parents can’t stand anything.”
After a pause, he looked at his little niece carefully: “Little Bamboo, if you were not right in front of me, I would have thought you were talking to Big Bamboo.
It's not like you to suddenly be so calm and steady in explaining the pros and cons."
“It was my eldest uncle and second sister who repeatedly warned me that I remembered the above words.
It was your eldest brother who taught you to persuade your second grandfather to drink a few more glasses at the banquet just now.
Once he's asleep, it'll be convenient for Uncle Seven to go with us." Shen Lingzhu pushed it aside. It was too taxing to have her senior sister around. She would try to bring her senior sister along whenever she went out, and she would just have to obey.
She coughed lightly and collected her thoughts: "Uncle, you have to take me with you when we go riding later."
"No problem, I'm a good rider." Although Huang Zongqi didn't have a horse, he had mules, the offspring of horses and donkeys, as mounts, and he could also practice riding.
During the war, he was very good at learning and used the grassland horses he captured.
As long as the horse is not particularly unique, riding it for dozens of miles is no problem.
As soon as he finished speaking, Uncle Qi tiptoed out of the room and closed the door.
He asked, "Dad will probably sleep all afternoon. When are we going to come out?"
They rode their horses out of the city very quickly and in less than two hours, they caught up with the Wang family's convoy, which was moving slowly.
Shen Lingzhu looked at the convoy of more than ten carriages and horses, which seemed to have everything they needed, and couldn't help but shake his head. Look at other people, they have everything they need for a trip, it's just like an outing.
Incomparable.
However, she did not take the lead this time. She just sat on her uncle's horse and watched her seventh uncle go to find the second master of the Wang family.
After all, we are all businessmen. Even if we had a very unpleasant argument before, or even wanted to become enemies, we can still sit down and talk when we meet now.
It's nothing more than beneficial.
Master Wang sneered at Shen He and said, "I won't talk to you. Find someone who can take charge."
Shen He didn't take it seriously. He had met countless difficult people on his business trips.
What's more, it was indeed his own careless handling that triggered a series of consequences.
So he turned around and came to Shen Lingzhu and the others, "Xianzhu, I think it would be more appropriate for Xiao Zhuzi to come forward."
Shen Xianzhu said: "I am a boy, how can I let my sister take the lead?"
"I'll go with my eldest brother." Shen Lingzhu patted the cloth bag on his shoulder, which contained the rocking chair patterns drawn by his uncle and eldest brother.
Huang Zongqi silently carried his little niece off the horse and let Zhang Xiaobing take them to the roadside to talk with Mr. Wang Erye.
In just a short while, a table and two chairs were placed in front of Mr. Wang Erye.
There was even tea and candied fruit on the table, and he sat there leisurely drinking tea.
He glanced at the two siblings, then looked at Zhang Xiaobing who was dressed in military uniform. His eyes clearly said: We are all commoners, how can we talk with an official here?
Shen Lingzhu considerately turned around and asked Zhang Xiaobing to check the horses, and then he and his elder brother saluted together.
But seeing that Mr. Wang Er had no intention of standing up, she simply pulled out a chair and sat down. Shen Xianzhu thought for a moment and then followed suit.
He said bluntly, "I'm disturbing Master Wang Er this time because I want to retrieve the remaining deed."
"No." Master Wang refused coldly. No matter how he looked at it, the two people in front of him, the big and the small, did not look like the children of officials.
Not only did he not dress in a similar manner, he also spoke in a friendly manner without any arrogance.
Well, it seems that the elders in their family have only been officials for a short time, and their family is not the type that has been officials for generations.
"Let's exchange the blueprints." Shen Lingzhu didn't beat around the bush and directly took out the set that the other party had liked from Uncle Qi before.
Master Wang was stunned for a moment before he chuckled, "If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have done it in the first place."
"There are many misunderstandings here. We can be said to have known each other for a long time." Shen Lingzhu signaled his elder brother not to confront the other party and let him handle it himself.
Wang Erye, who was leading the conversation, couldn't help but sigh in amazement, "I didn't do anything."
"Well, it was just done through someone else's hands." When she brought the deed back, she looked at it carefully and found no traces of potion on it.
This could only be done by taking advantage of the soft and warm fragrance of Uncle Qi's body and quickly changing the contract to trick him into signing it.
"My seventh uncle was not careful, so we admit it.
But it's better to resolve a feud than to create one, and having more friends means having more paths to follow. " Shen Lingzhu was still very familiar, pouring tea for her elder brother and herself.
Master Wang raised his eyebrows and asked, "I wonder where your elder is herding people now?"
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