readytorunbook Chapter 186 It Still Has to Be Silver
Chapter 186 It Still Has to Be Silver
This was Zhou Chang's first time in Yizi Hutong. Everyone would think he was a stranger, and no one knew where he came from.
"Not only the City Patrol Office, but also the government office, preferably the Dali Temple, so that we can explain why people from the City Patrol Office would appear in a place like this in plain clothes in the middle of the night. Don't say they are out for a secret visit." Zhou Chang's pair of almond-shaped eyes were curved like two moons, and he sat back on the chaise longue with a relaxed look.
Mr. Jin rolled his eyes, undecided.
Mei Sheng grabbed Zhou Chang's clothes and knelt down to beg: "Mr. Zhou, if you have any way, please save me, save me, I can't go to the government office."
Mr. Zhou?
Mr. Jin's eyes rolled around, searching his mind to see if there was any important figure named Zhou whom he should not offend.
"Don't worry," Zhou Chang tried to pull Mei Sheng up with one hand, "If we go to the government office, we can explain everything clearly. You didn't do anything, and I didn't do anything either, right?"
"No, no." Mei Sheng still shook his head desperately, "Mr. Zhou, I can't go to the government office. I can't go."
"Hehe, if you don't have something to hide, why are you afraid of going to the government office?" Jiang Lu's vicious little eyes rolled around.
"I can't go, Mr. Zhou, I can't." Mei Sheng desperately grasped Zhou Chang as a life-saving straw, his pair of black deer eyes filled with tears.
Zhou Chang became suspicious and suddenly remembered that Mei Sheng had just said that he was still waiting for the results to be announced.
But now was not the time to ask in detail. He glanced at Jiang Lu and said, "Hey, if we keep delaying, it will be dawn soon. What do you think? Should we go to the government office, preferably the Dali Temple?"
The repeated mention of the Dali Temple made Jin and Jiang even more suspicious.
Zhou Chang was just bluffing. If possible, he wanted to avoid this trouble: "Or, I'll give you another choice. Fifty taels of silver. You take the silver and get out of here. Today's incident will be treated as if it never happened."
Fifty taels of silver was the amount Zhou Chang had estimated in his mind just now. Not counting the expenses for Yizi Hutong, inviting Fengxian and Furong to play the piano and dance for an evening would only cost five taels of silver per person. Now it had increased tenfold in an instant.
"Humph, everyone has silver." Jiang Lu sneered, "If you want to get rid of us with fifty taels, then the City Patrol Department is really just a name for nothing."
"Fifty taels is too little?" Zhou Chang glanced at Jiang Lu and doubled the amount of silver, "One hundred taels."
The skinny monkey immediately took out a silver note worth one hundred taels from his pocket and slammed it on the table.
Jiang Lu sneered again: "What government office, what Dali Temple, it turns out they are just bluffing. You want to get rid of me with a hundred taels? No way."
Mr. Jin stood aside with a gloomy expression.
"Two hundred taels." Zhou Chang didn't waste any words. This was the limit of addition and subtraction she could do.
The skinny monkey then took out another silver note for one hundred taels and placed it on top of the previous one.
Yizi Hutong is an underground dark hall in Jindu City, where all the businesses are small.
Mother Liu had never seen such a scene before. She pulled Grandpa Jin's arm and said, "Grandpa Jin, this should be enough. One hundred taels of silver is enough to keep a girl here for a year. With these two hundred taels of silver, you can have whatever you want."
Mr. Jin was obviously tempted, and intuitively felt that Zhou Chang's background was not simple.
Zhou Chang raised his lips in a nice arc: "Two hundred taels is already a lot for the three of you. Is the annual salary of the city patrol officer 20 taels of silver?"
I don't know if the story of "Two Peaches Killing Three Warriors" is applicable here.
But two hundred cannot be divided by three, and even if Zhou Chang is a "bad math guy", he still knows that.
Don't stop doing one thing and two things
"Cough..." The colleague standing behind Mr. Jin had been silent, but now he coughed lightly.
If two out of three people are interested, then the matter is basically settled.
Zhou Chang glanced at Jiang Lu again and said, "You can't let others get the money you don't want. This is common sense in the officialdom."
Jiang Lu was originally tempted by the silver, but he was reluctant to part with Mei Sheng. However, after hearing what Zhou Chang said, he could only smile at Mr. Jin and said, "Brother Jin, I am new to Jindu, and I will listen to you in everything."
Mr. Jin hesitated for a moment, took a deep look at Mei Sheng, and then looked at Zhou Chang, before he whispered, "Brother Jiang, you are new here and don't understand the situation. Whether it is the business of the government or the people, it is to be done in the long run. Giving others a way out is giving yourself a way out, right? What's more, the City Patrol is not a place where people are not polite. As for this young man, since he is in my territory, are you still afraid that you will not have a chance in the future?"
Jiang Lu understood what Master Jin meant, licked his cracked lips and nodded: "Brother Jin is right, I was just impatient just now."
After saying that, he stared at Mei Sheng deeply, and turned and left first.
"Brother Jiang..." Mr. Jin didn't know whether Jiang Lu was sincere or not, so he hurriedly followed him out.
The last colleague who was left bowed slightly to Zhou Chang and said, "Mr. Zhou, may I ask where you are from? We have offended you just now. Since you are so generous, we don't need to take it to heart. I, Li, will apologize on behalf of my two colleagues."
People who come to Yizi Hutong are from all walks of life, but those who can be so generous must be rich or noble.
Zhou Chang sat still and said calmly, "You don't need to know who I am. Just take the silver and leave. Just pretend that what happened tonight never happened."
Li didn't expect that even after he "condescended" to talk to the other party, the other party's attitude was still so arrogant. However, since he wanted to take the other party's money, he had already humbled himself and there was nothing to say.
Mother Liu was afraid that she might say something wrong again, so she went up to pull Li and said, "Master Li is magnanimous and doesn't bother with us common people. The night is still long tonight, so you should enjoy yourself."
As they spoke, they picked up two silver bills worth one hundred taels from the table, stuffed them into Li's lapel without leaving a trace, and surrounded him as he walked out.
Having come to this opportunity, Li took the opportunity to back down and left.
As soon as the two of them left, the atmosphere in the room suddenly relaxed.
Meisheng collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath, tears streaming down his face. "Thank you, Master Zhou. Your kindness is so great. Meisheng doesn't know how to repay you."
"You can't go to the government office because you're afraid of revealing your identity, right?" Although Zhou Chang guessed it, he still wanted to ask.
Mei Sheng propped himself up after a while and nodded gently: "To be honest with you, Master Zhou, Mei Sheng still has the title of a juren. If I go to the government tonight, it will be difficult to clear my name. Now that the results have been announced, if I cause any trouble during this period, I will be disqualified. Although I don't care about losing my title, I will not be able to face the ancestors of the Lin family anymore."
Zhou Chang was indifferent. Indeed, people in ancient times valued face more than life.
The story of when it rains it pours is very old fashioned, but it always happens.
Zhou Chang didn't need to listen to Mei Sheng's miserable story, but anyone who saw those tearful little deer eyes couldn't help but feel sympathy: "Monkey, take a hundred taels of silver." "Sports is a kind of enjoyment, but I'm not the kind of person who covets enjoyment."