Chapter 120 Toast without eating
Chapter 120 Toast without eating
Wei Chengfeng's father was named Wei Wulou, the son of Wei Xiaokuan, a famous general of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. However, he was a concubine's son and was granted the title of Marquis of Changping County. He was responsible for managing the property of the Wei family.
Seeing his son being beaten, he was heartbroken and hurried to find his brother Wei Ji. Wei Ji was the oldest surviving son of Wei Xiaokuan. He served as the Shaoqing of Taichang and did not follow the emperor to Jiangdu, but was a left-behind official.
He was one of the main officials in charge of the lanterns during the Lantern Festival.
Wei Ji was also the head of the family. He was busy all night last night and slept for two hours in the morning. Just as he was about to go out, his brother Wei Wulou and Wei Chengfeng came hurriedly.
Wei Ji was a little overwhelmed. He was also being blamed for the conflict between the students of the Imperial College. He had been so overwhelmed these past two days that he had no time to deal with such matters. He said to Wei Wulou, "Let the children rest for two days first, and then go back to the Imperial College to ask for an explanation."
"What about the restaurant in Chongrenfang?"
Wei Ji thought for a moment and asked, "Is the other party going to retreat?"
"The other party refuses to return the property. I think the county government's transfer procedures are almost done and it will be done this afternoon!"
Wei Ji waved his hand and said, "If you don't want to return it, sell it quickly. If you sell it, it will have nothing to do with us."
Wei Ji got on the carriage and left in a hurry. He had to adjust the lanterns today, so how could he have the energy to take care of the restaurant's affairs?
Seeing that the head of the family was not enthusiastic, Wei Wulou said to his son, "On the contrary, you also gave your classmate a chance to cancel the restaurant. If he doesn't want to cancel, it's not your problem. The holiday starts tomorrow, so you should rest at home for two or three days. I will go to talk to your schoolmaster about this in a few days. Don't let him get beaten in vain."
Wei Chengfeng nodded helplessly. Since the head of the family refused to show up, he could only apologize to Xiao Xia secretly.
In fact, Wei Chengfeng also knew that the Wei family was neither one of the Five Surnames and Seven Families, nor a powerful and famous family. It was just an aristocratic family in Guanzhong, living under the powerful shadow of the Guanlong nobles.
When my grandfather Wei Xiaokuan was alive, the Wei family still had some say, but since my grandfather passed away, the Wei family began to decline, especially last year, when my uncles Wei Xiaogu and Wei Ziqian died suddenly, and my third uncle Wei Hou also passed away. The Wei family was like being possessed by an evil spirit, with three important figures dying in just two months. The living were trembling with fear, and the family's situation was extremely weak. How could they dare to confront the Guanlong nobles?
If the Dou family had not gone too far and actually wanted to use three thousand strings of cash to redeem the restaurant, which really hurt the family's dignity, the head of the family would have refused it outright. If the Dou family had been a little more polite and directly used the five thousand strings of cash offered by the Wei family to redeem the restaurant, the head of the family would have agreed long ago, and such a thing would not have happened again.
There is no other way now. The Wei family is eager to get rid of the bad luck and can only sell the restaurant as quickly as possible without delaying any longer.
At this time, Wei Wulou received a message from the doorman that the owner Ma of Baochen Shop wanted to see him.
Wei Wulou hurriedly went out to greet him, clasped his fists and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Ma, how is the transfer going?"
Shopkeeper Ma nodded with a smile and handed over an envelope containing a receipt and a receipt for withdrawing money. "The transfer has been completed. I came here to transfer the house money with Mr. Wei!"
Wei Wulou was overjoyed. The restaurant was finally gotten rid of and had nothing to do with the Wei family anymore.
In the afternoon, Dou Dexuan rushed to Xiao Xia's dormitory in a rage with several brothers. When they saw that the door was locked, they kicked it open, rushed in, and hacked the room to pieces.
Dou Dexuan walked out of the dormitory with a sword in hand. He saw Cui Lian next door peeking out. He pointed his sword at him and said, "Come out!"
Cui Lian had no choice but to walk out tremblingly, clasping his fists and asking, "Brother Dou, what's the matter?"
Dou Dexuan pointed his sword at Xiao Xia's dormitory and asked, "Where is that kid named Xiao?"
"He seems to have rented a room outside and didn't come back last night."
"Where did you rent a house?"
Cui Lian said helplessly: "He has only been in the Imperial College for four days. We are not familiar with each other at all. How could he tell us where to rent a house? I can't possibly know it."
"impossible?"
Dou Dexuan placed the sword on Cui Lian's neck, exerted a little force, and a stream of blood flowed down. He said coldly: "I think you are tired of living."
Cui Lian was so frightened that he was shaking all over. His crotch felt hot and he lost control of his bladder. He knelt desperately and begged, "Even if you give me ten thousand guts, I wouldn't dare to deceive you!"
Dugu Huai'en was amused to see Cui Lian was so scared that he peed himself. He stepped forward and patted Dou Dexuan on the shoulder, "Forget it, big brother. He probably doesn't know!"
Dou Dexuan put away his sword and said, "Let's go!"
The five men walked away, and Cui Lian collapsed to the ground, bursting into tears.
Walking out of the yard, Dou Dexuan gritted his teeth and said, "This Xiao guy refused to accept my toast and actually dared to transfer the ownership. I must kill this bastard!" Dugu Huai'en smiled and said, "Brother, it's actually easy to find him!"
"How to say?"
Dugu Huai'en whispered, "The monk may escape, but the temple cannot. Once he gets the title deed, he will definitely go to the restaurant to check. Let's go to Chongrenfang and wait for him."
Dou Dexuan nodded, "You are right, let's go to Chongrenfang!"
Dou Dexuan and his four brothers rode their horses towards Chongrenfang.
The five people came to Qingfeng Restaurant, which was also the property of the Dou family. It was about fifty steps away from the restaurant that was being sold. The shopkeeper hurried out to greet them.
Dou Dexuan pointed at the restaurant with his whip and asked, "Has anyone come to see this restaurant this afternoon?"
The shopkeeper shook his head, "No one came this afternoon!"
"Prepare a table of food and wine for us by the window on the second floor. We can eat while we wait."
The five men threw the horses to the servant and went upstairs.
In the mansion of Qinrenfang, Xiao Xia was riding a horse and practicing archery in the backyard. He nailed a row of nails on the wall and tied a copper coin to each nail with a rope.
The area of the backyard is about five acres, which is actually not small. It is equivalent to three and a half acres today, 2,400 square meters, 30 meters wide from east to west and 80 meters wide from north to south.
This area was barely enough for practicing horse riding and archery. Xiao Xia drew his bow and shot an arrow while running. The arrow did not hit the coin at all, but hit the wall and bounced to the side.
If he was stationary, he could hit the target, but when he was running, he had no control at all, not even when he was breaking through obstacles.
Xiao Xia sighed. All the methods he used to practice archery on horseback were recorded in Xiao Moke's Archery Techniques. All the techniques of archery on foot and on horseback were recorded in detail.
He had already studied archery thoroughly, and he practiced it very well on foot because he had a foundation in flying needle, but he was not so good at horseback archery. Learning from books is one thing, and practicing is another.
It seemed that he had no choice but to hang the target on the wall and practice horse archery from scratch.
At this time, Lao Tian shouted at the door: "Sir, the shopkeeper Ma is looking for you!"
"Please ask him to sit in the living room for a while, I will be there soon!"
Xiao Xia tied the horse to the pillar and walked quickly towards the courtyard.
Shopkeeper Ma was standing in the courtyard looking at the jujube tree. Xiao Xia came out and said with a smile, "This jujube tree seems to be very old."
Shopkeeper Ma nodded and said, "This jujube tree was transplanted from the Weiyang Palace in the old imperial city. It's a very good variety. You'll see in the fall when the tree is full of red dates, which is very tempting!"
Xiao Xia laughed and said, "I will definitely send a bag to Shopkeeper Ma when the time comes."
"Thank you first, sir."
Shopkeeper Ma handed him a bag and said with a smile, "This is the deed to the Chongrenfang Restaurant. From now on, the restaurant belongs to you, young master."
"Thank you for your hard work, Shopkeeper Ma. Let's go to the Metropolitan City now. I'll transfer the money to the shop!"
Shopkeeper Ma said cheerfully, "It's still early, you can go to Chongrenfang and take a good look at the restaurant."
"Have the goods in the restaurant been moved?"
"They moved out yesterday. Now the entire restaurant is empty."
Xiao Xia was overjoyed and quickly put the house deed into the safe. He then handed the horse to Lao Tian, and then he got on the ox cart of the shopkeeper Ma and went to the city to handle the house payment settlement procedures.
(End of this chapter)