Volume 2: Eagle vs. Dragon Chapter 8 Family Tradition
The good thing about Changzai is that he can get ahead when faced with difficulties, so he nodded and agreed: "Okay!"
Ye Youyu wrote another letter and handed it to Changzi, then whispered, "Changzi, you just came back from a setback, the Wu family must not like you, and it's not a good time for you to come again, but we can't wait, so help me get this done, and I, the Third Miss, will be grateful to you."
Changzi was a very smart man. He understood immediately that if this matter was not handled properly, Ma would be angry, and he would not only have to go back to work, but his life would be even more difficult than before. So he plucked up his courage, took the letter and ran to Wu's house.
Someone else went to report to Ma, who sneered, "This is probably because he was defeated at the Wu family, otherwise he wouldn't have to go a second time."
Ye Haocai's eyebrows raised with joy: "I'll go and scold that little bitch right now!"
Ma scolded, "Stay still! Wait a little longer. Humph, they couldn't handle it the first time after planning it, how can they come the second time to get any good results? Let's wait until they can't hold it anymore, then we can go and watch the joke."
When Changzai arrived at Wu's house, it was already dusk.
There is no impenetrable wall in this Xiguan mansion. Today, Wu Qi let a night-drinking servant of the Ye family break into the empty house and meet Hao Guan. This matter has long been a laughing stock in the Wu family mansion, so Wu Dacheng also knew Changzi's identity and didn't even look at him when he saw him. And none of the servants who ran errands for Wu Qi were willing to inform him - Brother Qi was very upright, who would dare to offend him at this time?
Changzi remembered what Ye Youyu said, "It doesn't matter if you beg, throw a tantrum, or pester me." He gritted his teeth and came up with a bad idea. He found a pot repairman at the corner of the alley, took out the ten copper coins he had saved from his frugal life as collateral, and borrowed a broken iron basin from him. Then he took the basin, ran to the wall of Wu's house, and started knocking on it violently.
It was late at night and everything was quiet. Suddenly, a sharp voice of a boy was heard, singing loudly in the tone of a Shunde nursery rhyme: "Wu Qi from the Wu family of Yihehang, you owe me something, please don't return it.", Yihehang Wu family's Wu Qi, you owe me things, don't give them back!" He started yelling at the door.
He was a stutterer, and although he could not speak clearly, he could sing well. However, his songs did not rhyme at all and were very unpleasant to the ear.
Wu Dacheng was furious and ordered Changzi to stop talking and doing what he did, but Changzi refused and started from the gate, banging and singing all the way around the wall. This attracted countless people to watch the fun. Several servants from the Wu family rushed out, surrounded Changzi and beat him up. Changzi clung to him tightly, smashed the ground with an iron basin, and kept singing: "Wu Qi from the Wu family of Yihehang, you owe me my things, you must not return them!"
Although the Wu residence was not small, it was not the inner palace after all. Changzi's loud singing and banging on the basin went around half of the wall. It happened that Mr. Wu was taking a walk after dinner to digest his food. When he walked to the front yard, he heard the noise and asked, "What's going on?"
A servant came forward and said, "There is a lunatic talking nonsense."
Wu Guoying said, "What kind of lunatic are you? Do you think I'm deaf? I heard clearly that Wu Qi owed him something!"
Recently, the Wu family's momentum has been rising sharply. Wu Guoying is relieved, but also a little worried. He is also afraid that some servants in power, such as Wu Liu, Wu Qi, Wu Dacheng and others, will become bad after suddenly gaining power and do evil things outside by relying on the power of the Wu family. Many wealthy families have planted the seeds of bankruptcy in this way. Therefore, he is very concerned about such things and asked someone to: "Call that person."
Changzi was dragged in.
Wu Erliang helped Wu Guoying sit down in the yard. Wu Guoying looked at the child holding a broken iron basin and was beaten black and blue. He could not help but get furious and said, "Who beat him! Who beat him! Is our Wu family an official, a robber or a bandit? Whose power did you rely on to dare to beat him like this!"
He said to Wu Erliang, "Tell my sister-in-law to find the person who beat people in front of our house today. Punish them severely without mercy!"
Wu Erliang agreed. The servants were terrified, but they didn't even dare to beg for mercy.
Wu Guoying then looked at Changzi and said, "I am Wu Guoying. Where are you from, little boy? Why are you making a fuss in front of my house?"
Changzi stammered, "Wu... Master, okay, Wu Qi, Qi Ge... he blamed... me, Dong, Dong Dong Dong."
Wu Guoying thought that this child was still a stutterer, no wonder he wanted to sing, and asked again: "What do I owe you?"
Changzi said: "No, no... I can't say it!" In fact, Ye Youyu didn't expect that Changzi would be able to see Wu Guoying again when he came for the second time. Changzi was too cautious and didn't know if he could adapt, so he simply kept it to himself and didn't say anything.
Wu Dacheng was standing beside him: "Master, this little bastard is Ye Xiangzai from the Ye family, Master, don't listen to his nonsense!"
Changzi shouted, "No, no, no! I... didn't!"
Wu Guoying asked, "From the Ye family?" His focus was not on the word "Yexiang". Wu Guoying was not from a high-class family, so he did not look down on Changzi because of his humble origin.
Changzi just yelled: "I'll do the work, leave it behind, east, east, west, Wu Qi, no no no no give it back to me!"
Wu Dacheng said: "What nonsense are you talking about? Who is Wu Qi? How can he blame you, a Yexiangzi, for his things?"
Both sides insisted on their own opinions. Wu Guoying didn't have time to listen to their argument, so he said, "Call Wu Qi!" This was the simplest way for the old man.
What Wu Qi heard alarmed the old man, who had been waiting by the small door, but did not dare to come out. Upon hearing this, he rushed out, knelt down and said, "Master, I didn't."
"Yes, yes!" Changzi shouted, "Huan...that, Huan!"
Wu Qi suddenly remembered that he had not returned the Sun Ring to him yet.
Wu Guoying asked: "Is there any?"
Wu Qi said: "Yes, there is, but the things are now with Hao Guan."
Wu Guoying frowned. After the disaster relief incident, the reliability of his son Wu Chengjian rose sharply in his heart. Now he almost surpassed Wu Chengjun. Whatever happened at home recently, he would rather damage his own prestige than let people doubt Wu Chengjian's authority. Besides, Wu Chengjian would not swallow the things of a servant, so he said, "What on earth is that thing?"
Wu Qi looked worried and could only say, "Master, can I whisper something in your ear?"
Wu Guoying guessed that there was something fishy going on and nodded. Wu Qi rushed to his ear and whispered, "Master, this is the servant sent by the third daughter of the Ye family. The ring he mentioned is the Sun Ring."
Wu Guoying let out a cry, and her mind was almost unable to wrap around.
Wu Qi whispered again: "I don't know what Hao Guan is planning, but he may be trying to manipulate the third girl. What do you think about this?"
Wu Guoying knew that this matter seemed absurd and boring, but in fact it might be mixed with the grievances between the Wu and Ye families, and might even involve the love between Wu Chengjian and Ye Youyu. In this case, it was not necessarily Wu Qi's fault. No wonder this stuttering servant refused to explain himself clearly, and Wu Qi wanted to whisper to him.
He immediately decided not to get involved in the matter, helped Wu Erliang stand up and said, "Take him to the room and talk things out. Don't make people quarrel."
Wu Qi brought Changzi into the room and sneered, "Well, you are really capable. You have embarrassed me twice and almost made me, Wu Qi, get punished by the family tonight."
Changzi stammered, "Seventh Brother... I'm sorry, but I have no choice."
Wu Qi said angrily: "Tell me, what do you want to do!"
Changzi took out the wrinkled letter and said, "A letter from Miss San. Please give it to Officer Haohaohao."
Wu Qi accepted it and said, "Okay, I'll take it, you can go . As for the sun ring, we will send it back when Hao Guan asks for it."
Changzi said, "Read the letter, then, Officer Hao, reply. I'm leaving."
Wu Qi said, "I told you to go back and wait for news! Do you really want me to send someone to kick you out?"
Changzi said, "I won't leave until there's a response." Then he lay down in the middle of the ear room.
This was also because Ye Youyu made the right decision to use him. If it were another servant, he might have retreated if he saw the situation was difficult. But Changzi felt that he had no way out, so he did something shameless.
Wu Qi was stunned. If this matter had not been reported to Wu Guoying, he would have had Changzai thrown out long ago. But because Wu Guoying knew about it, he couldn't use force and had no choice but to go to the Zuoyuan.
Wu Chengjian was having dinner - his recent schedule had become a bit like Wu Chengjun's, with no fixed times for eating and sleeping - and he was listening to Xia Qing telling stories about Wu Qi's embarrassing moments, laughing as he ate. When Wu Qi came in, Qiu Wen covered her mouth to look at him. Wu Qi felt ashamed and handed the letter to Wu Chengjian.
Wu Chengjian put down his bowl, casually opened the letter and glanced at it, then he said "oh" and there was a subtle change on his face.
Xia Qing asked: "Where did this vixen come from outside?"
Wu Chengjian smiled and didn't answer, so Xia Qing said, "Let me see the letter!" She snatched it away and saw that the letter had only nine words written on it without a beginning or an end: "Third brother, I have fish but I want to see you."
Xia Qing pouted and cursed, "This vixen outside is getting more and more shameless. She made such a big scene, but it turns out she just wanted to see you. Humph, she said she would only meet you once, but after the meeting, she will definitely use many despicable means."
Wu Chengjian asked Wu Qi: "Where are the people?"
"Still in the ear room!" Wu Qi said angrily, "Lying on the ground, saying he can't get up until he hears back."
Wu Chengjian said with a smile: "Although this boy is a stutterer, he has the rogue style of the Ye family."
Several maids started laughing when they heard this.
Wu Chengjian said, "Go tell him. I 'll have time for a meal after the Shenxianzhou night banquet. We'll meet at Baietan then - if she can come out."
Then he said to the three maids in the room, "Don't let anyone know about this tonight. It's related to business."
Xia Qing pursed her lips. Chun Rui glared at her before Xia Qing muttered, " I know ."
Ever since the tea-throwing incident in Huizhou, Chunrui has been keeping a close eye on the Wu family, especially the left courtyard.
