Chapter 110 – Big Brother, Long Time No See
Hearing the news of the Ming family’s bid, Fan Xian frowned slightly, seemingly not expecting the other party’s response to come so quickly, so old-fashioned, but in fact, his heart was still calm, this was originally expected, the Ming family is not a pig to be slaughtered, although the matter is now sudden, but the old wisdom such as Ming Qingda, surely have a better way to deal with it.
Eunuch Huang and Guo Zheng heard this news, the spirit of a revitalization, sit down for a long time your hips finally moved forward, full of expectations to listen to the sound of the courtyard.
Only Xue Qing remained in an old-fashioned demeanor, sipping the bowl of fine tea.
This is already the fifth bid, originally does not belong to the Ming family one of the goals, but they choose to bid at this time, the purpose is naturally in this time the scene of all the horses, when a head horse, a small pressure b four room Xia Qufei and his party’s temper, and the more important reason is to use a trace of nearly rogue means to drag the time, slow process.
So this round of bidding is extraordinarily uninteresting, even boring, far from the first round of Xia Qifei and Lingnan Xiong family tit for tat, double knife and fire intense situation, and even the previous rounds are not on.
The Ming family called the price is extremely low, simply can not see half sincerity, but Ming Qingda originally do not care about this, with a smile on his face to watch his son and the family shopkeepers to dilly-dally with the time.
A round of bidding took several quarters of an hour’s work, the Ming family calculations, like the first brother as shy, call up the price, like a yellow flower girl as shy, hand up the kraft paper bag, like a toothless old lady general mobility.
Anyway, it is how to drag how to drag, from the master to the tent, with the extremely tacit understanding, hard to let the crowd waiting for the heart of the anxiety, but there is no way to find out what the problem. Transit Division is responsible for singing the official has begun to stand on the stone steps yawn, this fifth bid has not yet ended.
Xia Qufei’s price has been pressing the Ming family a big cut, but three rounds of bidding has not stopped, no one can jump to the next link.
Around the Jiangnan merchants began to chat and drink tea, these old foxes can see out of the Ming old man stored what intention, know that within today, probably can only open to the fifth bid.
The sun in the sky slowly but surely moved towards the west, the Ming family’s talking action slowly and dragged. A small bird landed in the courtyard, curiously looking around at the people yawning and chatting, seemingly not quite understanding why everything in this courtyard seemed to be in slow motion.
The Ming family is not in a hurry.
The Jiangnan merchants were in no hurry.
Eunuch Huang and Guo Zheng were in no hurry.
Jiangnan Governor Xue Qing was in even less of a hurry.
I don’t know if the robbers in Room B4 would go crazy when they encountered this kind of slow simmering old soup, but Fan Xian still hid some of the agitation between his eyebrows in the crowd’s little peeps, his heart was clear, and he was full of admiration for the Ming family’s old-fashioned and brazen tactics.
The sun is gradually turning to the west, the shadow of the gate of the inner treasury courtyard dragged long like a girl’s skirt, that small bird that did not even find a piece of grass on the stone steps, raised its head to look around, full of grievances cooed twice, and lifted its wings and flew away.
When a statement of the gong sounded, on behalf of the inner library bidding success end of the firecrackers did not explode, because the fifth bidding for the third bidding has just ended, Xia Qufei again “difficult” to beat the Ming family, won the northern glass marketing rights, at this time the inner library of the new year open door bidding the first day will be forced to end.
The courtyard between the family businessmen booed, stretched his back, some palpitations wiped cold sweat, fortunately today, the last Ming family out, hard to wear out the time past, or to the beginning of the B four room momentum, ghosts know that this fat oil inside the library of the sixteen bids can still leave a few drops of soup to.
Eunuch Huang and Guo Zheng exchanged glances, smiled with relief, Xia Qufei’s outburst did surprise them, well in the end dragged the other side of the momentum, I think the Ming family this evening should be on tomorrow’s things arranged.
Fan Xian sat in his chair and raised his head, crossing over the high wall of the mansion courtyard, squinting at the sliver of red in the sky, but he could no longer see the setting sun.
The mansion courtyard began to clear, sealing the label, the merchants brought in the silver tickets and all the tools do not need to bring out, one for convenience, one for security, in this evening, by the Jiangnan Road, the Supervisory Court, the Transit Department, Suzhou Prefecture, the four Yamen joint defense, will be this inner treasury mansion courtyard closely guarded, it can be said that it is the safest place in the world.
Soldiers began to put seals on the rooms under the corridor and outside the flower hall, merchants have already come out, standing in the courtyard three or five together in one place chatting, when they saw the Ming family master and young master of the Ming family come out from the A one room, the people hurriedly go over to ask for a good day and salute, everyone speaks in a lower voice, but where the focus of the discussion is, naturally, the robber in the B four room.
Xia Qufei had a sullen face, leading his men to stand under the wall closest to the gate of the inner treasury mansion, where it was gloomy.
The people were discussing while looking at that place, looking at the group of people in the gloom, thinking of the previous tactics of these robbers, they felt more and more terrified in their hearts.
At this time, the four major officers in the main hall also walked down.
“Greetings Eunuch Huang.” “Greetings to Lord Xue.” “Little Lord Fan, you have to leave a mouthful of food for the little ones.”
The merchants all rushed forward at once, surrounding the four great officers in the center, greeting those who greeted them and complaining about their hardships, making it a hilarious scene. Fan Xian couldn’t help but laugh, looking at the Lingnan Xiong family’s Xiong Bai Ling who was looking a bit annoyed, comforting them and teasing them, “There are still eleven bids, what’s your hurry?”
The family spokespersons screamed in their hearts, thinking that of the eleven items left, the Ming family was determined to win the eight items in the bundle, so where was their meal.
Fan Xian sighed again and said, “There are too few sub-items, and there will always be people who won’t be able to take their turn; this is the court’s rule, and there’s nothing I can do about it.”
As soon as the crowd heard this, they immediately thought of Fan Xian’s initial proposal, and hearing him say the word rules, their eyes couldn’t help but light up. Xiong Bai Ling suddenly hemmed and hawed, lowered his voice and said, “This rule …… is still not set by people.”
These merchants have not competed for the benefits today, of course, inevitably for tomorrow s labeled items to produce a certain hunger.
Has been in the crowd outside the cold eyes of the Ming Qingda frowned, know that the Lord of the Qinzhi this is in the secret persuade those merchants and their own Ming family to compete for a share of the heart sneer, but on the face of the faint smile, imperceptible look at the yellow eunuchs a glance.
Eunuch Huang realized, smiled and interjected: “Gentlemen, we are also this idea.”
The crowd was happy, thinking that even the representatives of the palace also agreed to the proposal of subdividing the standard items, this thing seems to be a success. I didn’t expect Eunuch Huang then sighed: “just a pity that the court rules here, who dares to trespass ah …… this, can only wait for us to return to the capital, to go to the empress dowager and his majesty in front of the item for all of you, we dare to say, next year will certainly be better than this year.”
The crowd froze, embarrassed on their faces, but in their hearts, they were cursing the eunuch for only saying pretty things.
In this period of time, Fan Xian and the crowd talking, in fact, the mind is paying attention to the Ming family side, found that the old master Ming steep encounter today’s change, but the mind is still clear, the mood does not seem to be affected by anything, judgment things are still very fast and accurate, can not help but have some small worry.
Since it is to force the Ming family to faint, it seems …… that it is necessary to add more chips.
A should be sealed library work finally ended, the cloth defense has been, the inner library mansion door in this day was the second time slowly pulled open, the fresh air on the street rushed into the courtyard, let the spirit of all the people, decided to go back at night and then good discussion, tomorrow to seize the bid, has come to this time of the year, no matter what you Ming family Fan family, always have to grab a few business to do.
By this time, all the giant merchants have been from Fan Xian’s words, heard out the meaning of a certain party of the imperial court forces, is to target the Ming family. With the lure of profit and the guidance of power, the merchants began to drool over the Ming family, which had not dared to clash head-on. The leaders of several great families, led by the Xiong family of Lingnan and the Sun family of Quanzhou, looked at each other, laughed strangely, and drew up a plan to dine together at the Jiangnan Residence at night in the midst of their laughter.
The people secretly discuss to rob the Ming family’s bid, of course, pay attention to the movements of the Ming family’s old man, found that the Ming family’s old man at this time is talking with the Lord of the Chinaman, an old man and a young man with a smile on their faces, intimate and incomparable, this official and the businessman, in fact, are all hypocritical to the extreme of the profession, this kind of surface work naturally will be done, we are not surprised.
Just about to leave, but saw the Lord Qinzhi gently beckon, will have been left in the shadows of Xia Qifei and his entourage called over.
The merchants all stopped their steps to go out and looked curiously at the scene in front of them.
Fan Xian’s face was calm, looking at Xia Qufei with a light smile, and with his hands cuffed in front of his body, he made a gesture that only the two of them understood, but under his breath, he said, “Mr. Xia, you’ve made a big splash today.”
Xia Qufei smiled, arched his hand and saluted to the surroundings, “All thanks to the modesty of all the bosses.”
The merchants no matter how much they hate him, but know that the other party is after all a gangster character, it is best not to offend face to face, and see clearly, this person is Fan Qinzai’s beloved, and so also on the face of the return a few sentences, said Mr. Xia ten years do not Ming Ming, a Ming Ming Ming, how the clouds and clouds.
Ming Qingda narrowed his eyes and looked at this sudden enemy in front of him, and suddenly opened his mouth and asked, “Mr. Xia, why are you suddenly interested in doing business?”
The scene quieted down.
Xia Qufei lowered his head, and only after a long time did he slowly raise his head, looking at the master of this generation of the Ming family, and said with a smile rather than a laugh, “Although Xia Mou has been in the jianghu for a long time, his family has been in the business for generations, and when it comes to my generation, I no longer need to inherit my late father’s legacy.”
“Oh?” The corners of Ming Qingda’s eyes wrinkled more and more, tiredly asked, “So it turns out that Xia Dangjia is also a merchant family for generations, but I don’t know where he is a merchant, maybe I had a friendship with your father back then.”
The merchants all looked at this scene curiously, after listening to this conversation, they were also curious as to what Xia Qifei’s family originally did.
Xia Qifei quietly looked at Ming Qingda’s face that often appeared in his nightmares, his heart surged with unknown emotions, a moment later, the corner of his lips twitched slightly, quietly said, “There is naturally a friendship, my father, is your father, could it be that Master Ming would not recognize?”
The crowd in the field somewhat did not understand this sentence, Xiong Bai Ling began to subconsciously dig his ears, Ming Qingda was slightly stunned, looking at Xia Qufei in front of him, did not say anything.
Although Xia Qufei didn’t know why the Lord Qinqian wanted to expose himself in advance, but standing in front of the Ming family again was his strongest desire over the years, and today’s dream came true, making his mood incomparably agitated.
But he still kept calm on the surface, only the right hand hanging down by his side hidden in his sleeve was trembling a little, he looked at Ming Qingda and said in a clear and light but ghostly and chilling manner:
“Big brother, haven’t seen you for more than ten years, don’t you recognize Xiao Qi?”
Xia Qufei is the seventh young master of the Ming family! It is the Ming family’s seventh young master who was rumored to have inherited the Ming family’s property, but ended up strangely disappearing!
The merchants looked at Xia Qufei incredulously, like they had seen a fierce ghost crawling out of hell, a monster that should not exist in this world. How is this possible? Although no one dared to discuss, but anyone can guess, is the Ming family of that old lady as well as in front of the eyes of the Ming old master will be that Ming Qi Gongzi killed, how he is still alive, but also become the Jiangnan water fortress of the big head?
Ming Qingda stared blankly at Xia Qufei in front of him, staring at that face for I don’t know how long, suddenly his body began to tremble, he finally saw a trace of familiar shadow from this face, that year that youthful and unaware little brother, that skinny body that he had poisoned with his own whip, that face full of resentment and the thrill of revenge!
“Father!”
Ming Lan Shi was also overwhelmed with shock and fear in his heart at this time, looking at Xia Qufei, that legendary little uncle like a demented person, but realizing that his father’s body was already shaking, he hurriedly held him up.
In Ming Lan Shi’s opinion, today this inner treasury mansion is like a yin mansion, can’t stay for long at all, holding up his father who seems to have aged a lot in an instant, and leading the clan personnel towards the outside of the inner treasury compound.
The merchants in the field were still staring at Xia Qufei with shocked faces, softly discussing something.
When the Ming family members walked to the main entrance, to everyone’s surprise, Ming Qingda, the master of the Ming family, violently broke away from his son’s support, forcibly stood up straight, and turned around.
Master Ming family’s face was a little pale, but he used his strong self-control to return to a temporary calm, he looked at Xia Qufei in the courtyard and calmly said, “Mr. Xia is joking, my poor seventh brother died of an unfortunate illness more than ten years ago, please don’t say this kind of jokes to ruffle the old man’s heart.”
The merchants fell silent, knowing in their hearts that it was fortunate that the old man of the Ming family stood still at this time and turned back to say such a sentence, otherwise, if they were shocked and revealed the empty door, allowing this news to spread around without the Ming family’s rebuttal in the background, the state of affairs would be more and more uncontrollable.
Fan Xian slightly inclined his head, looking at the pale and tired master of the Ming family on the stone steps, and sighed in his heart, “Pity, admiration.”