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Chapter 571 Master, Do You Say That?

"Our Zhang family was not a well-known family in Yunzhou before, but our family was well-off and well-known in the local area. My grandfather was a small official and there were five children under his knees. The eldest son suffered a serious illness shortly after he was born. , became a fool after recovering from illness, leaving three sons and one daughter, and the daughter married Qingzhou. At that time, my father was not long after he was born, and my father was about three or four years old. Because my grandfather couldn't understand a certain colleague's excessive taxation, and the fish and meat of the common people. So he wrote a letter to the prefect, but he didn’t expect that the other party would bite back, accusing the grandfather of accepting bribes, and the grandfather was dismissed and investigated.”

"Later, after inquiring by the family members, they found out that the other party had a deep background and that he would be punished. After learning the truth, my grandfather was very depressed. He realized that he might not be able to escape this disaster. In order to leave some incense for the Zhang family, he chose He sent two loyal servants, and sent his two youngest sons to his daughter in Qingzhou and a friend in Liangzhou respectively. Later, the Zhang family was ransacked, and his grandfather and second uncle were sent to serve in the frontier army. Fortunately, some Grandpa's friends in the officialdom begged for mercy, and those people finally stopped embarrassing grandma."

"Grandmother waited for two years, and when the limelight was almost over, she came to Liangzhou to find her father. She wanted to take him to Qingzhou to join her aunt, but when she arrived in Liangzhou, she found out that my grandfather's friend had moved away long ago. , my grandfather's friend is a hermit, he loves mountains and rivers, and enjoys painting. He has no wife and children, so no one knows where he went, and according to the previous neighbors, the man disappeared three years ago , It’s just that communication was inconvenient at the time, there was no QQ, WeChat, and the communication between different places was basically by letters. The grandfather and the other party belonged to the acquaintance of gentlemen. If there is nothing to do, usually only one or two letters a year. Counting the time, the last time between the two parties It happened to be three years ago when we contacted, in other words, when the servant brought his father here, he never got to see his grandfather and his friend, and after hearing the news, grandma couldn't help but feel dark."

"She stayed in Liangzhou for another half a year, running around looking for her father's whereabouts, until she spent all her money and had no choice but to leave temporarily, and went to Qingzhou to join her daughter and youngest son, and then her aunt also sent people I came to Liangzhou to look for it several times, but I couldn't find the whereabouts of my father. Then my grandmother passed away due to illness, and my aunt died with my grandmother a few years later. The attitude of my uncle's family towards my father became a little cold. He should live under the fence and rely on others. When he was 12 years old, he left that home and went out to make a living. Because of his grandfather's affairs, he couldn't gain fame, so he went to the capital to start a small business. With good luck, he quickly made a sum of money. I bought some property and land, and married my mother."

"A few years ago, the business was getting bigger and bigger. My father thought of a few relatives who were living abroad, so he asked the nobles in the capital to find out the whereabouts of my grandfather and uncle. Unfortunately, due to various reasons, the three of them are no longer alive. There may still be hope for your father. My father spent a lot of effort and finally found the servant who sent your father to Liangzhou. He stayed in the inn and ran away alone. My father found the innkeeper again. The owner recalled that the next day he found his servant missing and threw his father on the side of the street. He took your father away. My father continued to investigate, and finally narrowed down the target to Qingyang County, but at this time, the family's business suddenly encountered problems."

"He heard people say that he sold silk and tea to small countries such as Ryukyu and Koryo, and exchanged them for ginseng and gold. He would make at least five or six times the profit every time he came back, so he invested a lot of money in In terms of shipping, not only his accumulation over the years, but also a usury loan, but unexpectedly, our family’s cargo ship encountered a storm at sea, and in the end only one of the ten ships came back.”

"Oh, this is really terrible." Rourou beside him interrupted, with a look of lingering fear.

Ruoxi showed a reluctant smile, "We went bankrupt and sold all our previous fields and properties, and finally managed to pay back the money we owed, but my father couldn't bear such a big blow and hanged himself at home, we have no money to bury him He, and even that mansion has actually been transferred to someone else. They saw that we were pitiful and had nowhere to go, so they gave our family of three a few days' grace, but now that something happened, the other party felt that it was unlucky, so they sent me and my mother away. My mother rushed out, and my mother sold the only piece of jewelry on her body. It was a jade hairpin that her father gave her when she first married her. At that time, the family situation had just started to improve, and her father opened a second shop. , the funds at hand are not abundant, so the jade hairpin is not very expensive, but my mother has been carrying it on her head for so many years, and now it is the only valuable thing on us."

"My mother sold the jade hairpin and replaced my father and father with a thin coffin, and then took me back to my mother's house. When my father and father were alive, they sent a large sum of money to my grandfather's house every year. My uncle changed to a big house and lived a good life, but our family is now in decline, and they don’t look good on us and my mother. They say that we are free all day long. Grandpa and several uncles discussed how to make mother Marry again and be a concubine to a rich old man. My mother and I have no way to resist. The night before we got married, my mother called me into the room. Our mother and I cried, and my mother heard a few uncles say They wanted to marry me together, but they had to put it aside because the dowry was not negotiated, and they wanted to see if anyone would pay a higher price."

"This group of people is too beastly! It's like helping animals! How can you sell your relatives like goods, not to mention that your father helped them before and was kind to them. Now your father's bones are not cold It's too much for them to treat you two orphans and widows like this." Rourou was furious when he heard this, "These scumbags should be dragged into pig cages, Master, don't you think so!"

"Eh? Oh... what you said makes sense." Chief Security Officer Zhang didn't know what he thought of just now, and seemed to be a little distracted.

Falcon at the side couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "I've never been to the capital, and I always thought that the emperor's feet should be people who are courteous and trustworthy, but I didn't expect there to be such a shameless guy."

"Ha, the political and economic center, of course the most ambitious and speculators."

(End of this chapter)