Chapter 3 (Part 1) Appreciation of Gratitude
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Zhang Shitou is not very literate but smart, and is very reliable in doing things. Not long after our Young Master Zhang continued to explain, he brought the owner of the White Girl ship. Our Young Master Zhang first pulled the owner down and squatted down, and asked, "Are you the boat's owner of that boat? Do you know where the girl on your boat is? What's the name? Where? Are there anyone else who rides the boat with her? Who is her person in the coffin?"
"Young Master, why are you asking about these things? Who are you from the female guest?" The ship owner looked up and down at our Master Zhang. Naturally, the more he looked at our Master Zhang, the more he became disliked. The more he looked at us, the more he was worried, for fear that our Master Zhang would be uneasy. Our Master Zhang didn't talk nonsense, and directly smashed out a tael of silver, held the owner's collar, and asked viciously: "Can you tell me now?"
I don’t know if it’s because of the bright silver or because of our young master Zhang’s aggressive appearance, but the boatman told the truth, “This young master, the villain is the owner of the cargo ship carrying coffins. The girl on the boat was a boat on the Zhenjiang Canal Wharf. I don’t know what kind of name she is, and I didn’t dare to ask casually. I only know that her surname is Xiong - the bear, the bear. She brought a maid and handed over two taels of silver, saying that she wanted to transport the coffin to the canal wharf in the capital, and transport it to the place to give one tael. Of course, the person in the coffin was her elder - by the way, it seemed to be her second daughter."
"On boarding the boat in Zhenjiang? Five taels of silver were transported to the canal dock in the Beijing city? The coffin was filled with the little beauty's second lady?" These keywords flashed quickly in our young master Zhang's head, which was basically not filled with good things, and combined together. An idea that was so unethical that it smoked gradually emerged from our young master Zhang's heart. However, when we should calm down, we rarely get impulsive, and then carefully asked the owner of the ship, "Why did your ship stop at Linqing Wharf? Why didn't you go to the capital directly?"
The ship owner hesitated a little, but after our Master Zhang threw out another tael of silver, the ship owner said the truth, "I dare not deceive the young master. In fact, it is because my boat is too worn and older than my son who is soon to find a wife. The bottom of the ship is leaking. When I set off, I could still block it with a plug and block it. When I arrived at the Linqing Wharf, I accidentally touched it on the wharf. The water leakage was even worse. If the bottom of the ship was repaired, I would not be able to go north, so I had to stop."
"Then have your ship been repaired?" Our Master Zhang asked nonsense. The boatman smiled bitterly and replied, "Master, if the ship is repaired, we should hurry up immediately? My son went to buy the materials and hasn't come back yet. Even if he comes back, he probably won't leave until the evening."
"Bang!" Our Master Zhang put the folding fan in a very coquettish manner, slapped his palm, and then asked the boatman with a wicked smile: "Old man, how much does it cost to buy a boat like you? I'm talking about the price of a new boat, not your broken boat, just offer it."
"Young Master, why are you asking this?" The ship owner was also very blessed and subconsciously offered a price to quarrel in confusion. "If the villain's ship is a new ship, it will be worth at least twenty...9 taels of silver, yes, twenty-nine taels of silver!"
"Fuck your grandma, even if it's black, isn't that dark, right? You can still be worth twenty-nine taels of silver if you take a broken ship?" Zhang Shitou was anxious when he heard this, and almost cursed. Our Master Zhang waved his hand even more coquettishly and shouted: "Zhang Shitou, there is no share for you to speak here, so pay thirty taels of silver!"
"Young Master..." Zhang Shitou felt a little aggrieved and thought that no matter how rich Zhang Haogu's family was, he could not be so careless. However, our Young Master Zhang was determined that no one could change it. In the end, Zhang Shitou had no choice but to take out a few silver notes and some broken silver from the purse kept for Young Master Zhang. There were five silver notes in total, and each of them had a denomination of twenty taels, and only seven or eight taels of broken silver. Zhang Shitou couldn't help but say: "Young Master, isn't this change enough?"
"What are you talking about?" Master Zhang snatched two silver notes in anger and handed them to the owner of the ship who was already smiling and couldn't close his mouth. He said in a big way: "Young Master buys your ship, don't need to look for it."
"Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you." After repeated confirmation that our Master Zhang was not joking, the ecstatic ship owner quickly reached out to receive the silver bill. Unexpectedly, our Master Zhang suddenly took back the silver bill and smiled at the owner of the ship: "Don't worry, if you want me to buy your boat, you have to do something for me."
"What do you want the villain to do? Please give me your order." The owner of the ship stared at Yinbao and swallowed his saliva, and added with a smile on his face, "As long as it is not a violation of the king's laws or a harm to the will of heaven, the villain is willing to do it."
"As the saying goes, a tricky stick is malicious, and wealth brings conscience. Of course, this young master will not ask you to be a director who violates the king's laws and harms the sky." Master Zhang seemed to be afraid that others would know his trick, so he carefully leaned into the owner's ear and muttered quietly. The owner of the boat smiled at first, and patted his chest and said it was no problem, but after hearing it, the owner frowned and asked in embarrassment: "Master, what are you planning to do? What if something happens?"
"Then do you want to sell a boat?" Master Zhang reached out to the ship's house and shook it, and asked lazily. The ship's house hesitated for a long time, and finally reached out to take the silver bill, and said carefully: "After the matter is done, the little man will leave Linqing immediately. Nothing happens here has to do with the villain."
"Of course, go and prepare." Master Zhang waved his hand with a kingly look, let the boat house leave, and called Zhang Shitou to his face, whispered and ordered in his ear, then pointed to a teahouse next to the dock and said, "Go and do it quickly, I'll wait for you in that teahouse."
"Young Master, is it okay to do this?" Zhang Shitou was a little embarrassed, but he couldn't resist the repeated urging of our Master Zhang, and finally went to execute the order obediently. Ma Jun and Wu Er Shao and other groups of playboys were confused and hurried over to find out what Mr. Zhang was planning to do. Our Master Zhang was not in a hurry to reveal it. He just threw the fan away and shook the big figure in a coquettish manner and said, "What's the hurry? Let's go to the teahouse to have a cup of tea and wait for a good show. To tell you the truth, I will win your money today; and the beautiful tigress, I will also eat it today."
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Because it is only the first month of the year, there is no newly picked Rainbow Tea in the teahouse this year, which makes our Master Zhang very dissatisfied. Fortunately, our Master Zhang has changed his master, so this teahouse is very lucky that it has not been smashed by our Master Zhang for more than a dozen tea cups. After drinking tea for half an hour, Zhang Shitou ran back with two packages on his back. When our Master Zhang saw it, he was overjoyed and hurriedly left a group of friends, found a free private room and went in.
When our Master Zhang and Zhang Shitou came out of the room again, Wu Ershao, Ma Jun and Wang Shaodong's family and other dandy boys were stunned. For some reason, our Master Zhang actually changed into a snow-white filial piety dress, erect shoes, and a tall filial piety hat on his head. Zhang Shitou carried a sacrificial platter, which in addition to the five-color sacrificial platter and a knife of paper money, as well as ten small silver ingots. Judging from the appearance alone, this pair of smoky master and servant must have gone to the dead relative's house to pay tribute.
"Mr. Zhang, what relative is your family dead? Why haven't we heard of this before?" Ma Jun blurted out. Master Zhang knocked his head with the handle of the fan and shouted angrily: "Fuck! Your relative has just kicked his legs!"
As he said that, our Master Zhang picked up a piece of old ginger from the sacrificial plate, turned it into two pieces, and then used exposed ginger to squeeze to his eyes. In the blink of an eye, our Master Zhang's eyes became red and swollen, and two lines of hot and emotional tears flowed out. Our Master Zhang threw the ginger away and said casually, "If you want to watch a good show, follow me, but don't get too close."
Chapter completed!