Daming Yinghua

On the third day, early in the morning, Mr. Xu's men brought the silver over.

Qin Fang graciously let him into the living room, served refreshments, went to the backyard to invite Zheng Haizhu out, and opened the box in front of his host.

When the first box was opened, Zheng Haizhu observed that Qin Fang was slightly taken aback, but he immediately wiped off his surprised face, and hurriedly went to the counter to get the scale.

The few people from the Xu residence who came to deliver the money were a middle-aged man who was about the same age as Qin Fang, dressed most decently, wearing a long straight gown made of silk, and a net crown with a jade hairpin on his head, looking like he was in charge.

With a humble smile, the steward said to Zheng Haizhu: "My lord, Madam, please forgive me. I came all the way north to deliver the goods, and the silver received is not neat. It is not the silver ingots made by the government. Please trouble the shopkeeper of your name to name it."

Zheng Haizhu smiled, responded with a few polite words, and ordered the clerk to bring some finely woven handkerchiefs.

After writing the IOU and seeing off the people from the Xu Mansion, Zheng Haizhu asked Qin Fang: "You didn't expect it to be a silver nugget and not a silver ingot?"

Qin Fang nodded: "Yes ma'am. What is this Mr. Xu? The Guangzhou embroidered bijias that he sent earlier seemed not ordinary. He thought they were all silver ingots from dignitaries or big merchants. After all, the delivery of silver ingots is decent. It is convenient and easy to verify the authenticity."

Zheng Haizhu grabbed a piece of silver that was not too small from the box: "Then look, how good are these things?"

Qin Fang cut open the silver block and looked at it along the sunlight, his eyes became more and more complicated.

"Is it mixed with lead?" Zheng Haizhu asked.

"On the contrary," Qin Fang shook his hand, "Ma'am, I have been working as a dentist in Tongzhou for ten years, and I have seen a lot of silver ingots and silver nuggets. What came out was not official silver ingots, which is strange."

Zheng Haizhu thought for a while and said to Qin Fang: "Cut a dime off each big silver nugget, wrap it in a bag and give it to me. I want to go out. Now you can load the silver into our own car and deliver it to me." Go to the silk and satin shop in Chunshu Hutong west of Liulichang, it’s owned by Mr. Wang’s people.”

Qin Fang understood: "Madam thinks that Mr. Xu may suspect that Madam is not telling the truth, so his manager will not go far, and just keep an eye on our house nearby. Do you want to use this money to ask colleagues to transfer goods?"

"Well," Zheng Haizhu said, "Go out for a walk, think smarter about others, and it's not easy to stumble."

He turned back and greeted Li Daniu, "You go with Lao Qin, just to get some goods from Wang's silk and satin shop, and go to Jishuitan Wharf to find a warehouse to put them in, and make a full set of plays. Then Lao Qin came back, and Daniu worked hard, so he stayed there. Take a look at the unloading of Mr. Xu, what's going on?"

After Zheng Haizhu gave the order, he took a small bag of silver coins and asked Hua Er to call a few other partners to come out.

Chen Sanni also arrived in the past few days. Accompanying her were two senior female students from Songjiang School. They were both in their late teens and were preparing to serve as teaching assistants. They accompanied Zheng Haizhu to Ciqing Palace and followed the instructions of Emperor Zhu Changluo. , giving lectures to little princesses and clan girls.

Those who entered Beijing on the same boat also included Zhang Mingshi's eldest son, and three or four cronies sent by Xu Yilong who could fight.

When Zheng Haizhu rescued Zhang Mingshi from the imperial prison, he promised to reunite their father and son as soon as possible.As for Chen Sanni and Xu's servants, Zheng Haizhu asked them to expand Li Daniu's spy team, so it's not good to always rely on Wang Wenyan's manpower.

Chen Sanni was one of the female canal trackers back then. Like Mu Zaohua, she was brought out by Wu Bangdang.She also went to Wu Bangde's grave in Chongming to cry once, but she didn't know that Mu Zaohua had secretly gone to Liaodong. This time, she met Zheng Haizhu and learned that Zaohua died of the epidemic on the way north to Yanzhou. If it weren't for Zaohua's ruthlessness, the sisters would have been bullied by the men. They couldn't help but feel sad, shocked and sad.

Zheng Haizhu waited for her to shed tears, and said softly: "Death cannot be resurrected. Zaohua has always been here, and she likes Mr. Wu. She went to the sky to accompany him, which is considered to be a continuation of fate. Do you feel better if you think this way? ? Sanni, you are in Zhenjiang, do you have a sweetheart you like?"

Chen Sanni shook her head resolutely: "Why do you marry? I want to be like my wife. I don't look for my husband's family, I don't have a baby, and I come and go. Those married women who fell into the mud from the clouds."

Zheng Haizhu said: "It's a good idea, I like it very much. But if you fall in love with any man one day, please tell me, I will prepare the dowry and send you to the sedan chair."

When Chen Sanni heard the words, not only did she not feel flattered, but she was even slightly disappointed.

Sister Zaohua was gone, and Madam summoned her to her side, but it seemed that she still didn't mean to rely on her as her right arm and be inseparable.

Zheng Haizhu saw her loneliness, and said lightly: "No matter what we do, it doesn't matter if it's open or dark. If you don't lose money, don't set up any barriers for yourself. If you don't want to marry, don't marry. Be good. Do things for me. If you want to marry someone, don’t be ashamed, and live a good life with that man, have children, and grow old as a companion.”

Chen Sanni frowned and said, "Then what if after getting married you gradually find out that he is a bastard?"

Zheng Haizhu said: "What kind of bastard law? Beat you and abuse you? Let you stay as a widow if you don't stay at home? Sanni, the law of this dynasty suppresses wives. The husband can stick a hundred sticks, and the wife can divorce and return to the family; the husband has fled for three years. If you don't pay back after a year, the government will give your wife a license to let her marry another person, and don't ask for a bride price. When the time comes, just leave, and come back to bring me apprentices. How can you get stuck in the mud and can't crawl out? Sanni, I said These are not only for considering your future, but also for you to understand that the more you are a spy, the more you can't focus on people and things, otherwise, many clues will often be missed."

"Sanny understands."

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At this moment, Zheng Haizhu was followed by Sanni, Hua Er and a group of young and vigorous girls, chatting and laughing, chatting about the well-known rouge and gouache shop in the capital, and walked out of the alley towards the market, looking like the head of a family It's not unusual to take the female relatives to buy things.

Walking near Qipan Street, Hua Er, who was dragging behind, came up and reported: "Madam, I didn't see those faces in Xu's residence in the morning."

Zheng Haizhu nodded: "You take everyone to continue to familiarize yourself with Zhengyangmen, and I will go to work."

After half a stick of incense, Liu Qiao, the governor of Beizhen Fusi, without his official uniform, walked to a teahouse in Nianzi Hutong and sat down at a table in the corner.

"Gu Qingquan knew that you went to Fahua Temple on the Buddha's birthday, but you met someone who wanted revenge and rescued you there. Are they in the same group? Just like I fell in love with you, I also fell in love with you ?”

"Well, that's why I didn't go into the Fusi yamen in your North Town, but invited Dudu Liu out to talk, in case Gu Qingquan would see it. Because Mr. Xu just lent me 3000 taels of silver."

Liu Qiao curled his lips: "It's not a small sum, it's worth three months' salary from the top to bottom of our yamen."

Zheng Haizhu spread out the veil: "The governor has a look, it's not official silver, but it's cast in good condition."

As a member of Jinyiwei, Liu Qiao has investigated Qin's cases for many years, and ransacking his home is commonplace, and his eyesight on all kinds of money is even higher than that of Qin Fang.

He stroked the silver ingot and judged: "It's not bad. If it is made into the shape of an ingot and engraved on the bottom, it will be a silver ingot from Xie Bian and Xie Jing, and the quality is no more than this."

Zheng Haizhu said: "Is it because the official silver from the treasury was melted and then minted?"

Liu Qiao blurted out: "Folk circulation, the ingots that recognize engravings the most, whose brain was caught by the door, ruined and recast?"

"Then if you don't want to be found out about the source of the silver? It's even more likely that the person who casts the silver is already quite powerful, so it's not a small workshop that fry the silver."

Liu Qiao was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "No wonder you want to borrow money."