Chapter 1082 The Little Overlord
The Wen family was a wealthy family in Jiangning City and had always had contacts with the Xia family. She had been there twice when the Wen family held banquets.
Although it has been a long time and she cannot remember the topography of the Wen family, she still remembers the address of the Wen family's mansion.
Xia Zihan was familiar with the family and went straight to the Wen family with Chu Jingqi.
From the back door of Wen's house, the two of them rolled over and entered.
As soon as he entered, Chu Jingqi heard footsteps approaching. He pulled Xia Zihan and flashed to the shadow behind a big tree.
Soon, a group of patrolling guards passed under the tree.
When they were far away, Chu Jingqi showed up with Xia Zihan.
He lowered his voice and said, "The Wen family is not simple. These guards can tell by their footsteps that they are good at martial arts. We must be careful not to be discovered."
"Well, I'll be careful."
The Wen family is headed by the eldest aunt of the Xinwang Palace, so it's strange that it can be simple.
Princess Xin of Prince Xin's Mansion was a biological sister to the late Queen's mother. When Princess Mingzhu married Ao Tianchen, Prince Xin was still an idle prince and did not care much about the affairs of the court.
Later, after the first empress married the emperor, the father-in-law was anxious to increase his power, so he recommended his wife's best sister and husband, Prince Xin, to the emperor. This was partly to please the second prince.
Later, with the help of the abbot and the second prince, Prince Xin gradually gained a place in the court.
After Prince Xin gained power, at first he would help the patriarch for the sake of his face. Later, the late empress repeatedly did things that displeased the Queen Mother. In order to keep Prince Xin's palace, Prince Xin , and gradually distanced himself from the father-in-law.
While the power of Prince Xin's Mansion was getting stronger year by year, the power of the Wen family was also developing rapidly. The Wen family, which was originally as famous as the Xia family, had left the Xia family three blocks away in just a few years.
This time, it was not without reason that the Wen family deliberately stole the Xia family's pawn tickets.
Although the Xia family and the Wen family maintain a good relationship on the surface, in fact, the two families have long been enemies after a conflict a few years ago.
This was five or six years ago. The second young master of the Wen family fell in love with Xia Ziqing and wanted to marry her. They invited a matchmaker several times to propose marriage, but the Xia family always made excuses to send the matchmaker away.
The Xia family had disgraced the Wen family several times, so the Wen family hated the Xia family.
In fact, the Wen family and the Xia family are both big families in Jiangning City. They are equally powerful and well matched. The Wen family even has an aunt from the Prince's Palace who is in charge, which is a bit higher than the Xia family's threshold.
Xia Ziqing married into the Wen family, which was considered a high achievement.
But the second young master of the Wen family has inherited all the shortcomings of his parents. Not only is he ugly, he is also a well-known little bully in Jiangning City.
He doesn't do anything serious all day long, he only walks his dog and fights birds, gambles and drinks, goes to flower houses, and even rapes women and oppresses the people.
When he sees a slightly attractive woman, he will come up and tease her, and if he gets too excited, he will even kidnap her and rape her.
Afterwards, they were either given some money to settle the matter, or threatened and intimidated.
In short, the second young master of the Wen family was the little devil and bully that everyone talked about in Jiangning City.
The matter of pawning the tickets this time was also deliberately stolen by the bully in secret.
The pawn shop that Wang Er and Ma San went to was the Wen family's shop. Unexpectedly, when they went to pawn something, the little bully happened to be in the pawn shop. He gambled all night and lost all his money. He didn't dare to go home, so he wanted to go to the pawn shop to see if he could get some silver.
As soon as they arrived at the pawn shop, Wang Er and Masan carried several large boxes of gold and silver jewelry into the pawn shop. At that time, the little bully welcomed the two of them in as happily as if they had seen a golden mountain.
Seeing that the two of them didn't know what they were selling, the little bully regarded the top-quality gold and silver jewelry worth tens of thousands of taels of silver as defective goods. After giving them three thousand taels of silver, he sent them away, and they still treated them as dead goods.
Wang Erma San was so happy that he got so much money at once. How could he bargain with the bully?
Taking the silver and pawn tickets, I hurried to the casino.
They rushed to Jiangning City, and all the money they spent on the road was spent on the road. They had been in Jiangning City for four or five days, and they almost ran out of money to eat. They hadn't been to a casino for several days, and their hands were itchy.
After the two entered the casino, they took out a stack of banknotes and started gambling. No one stole the pawn tickets while they were not paying attention.
However, that scene was seen by the waiter in the casino, and he happened to know the person who stole the pawn tickets.
The person who stole the pawn tickets was the Bully's guard.
After the little bully heard about the theft of the Xia family, he was worried that the Xia family would investigate and blame the pawnshop. He was also worried that Wang Ermasan would come to the pawnshop to cause trouble after learning about his deception, so he sent The guards had their pawn tickets stolen.
The little bully often went to the casino to gamble money, and he would always be accompanied by a guard. Therefore, the boy and the guard knew each other.
When Xia Zihan asked, the young man betrayed the Wen family's bodyguard for ten taels of silver. However, the young man did not reveal the mastermind, and both Xia Zihan and Chu Jingqi subconsciously believed that It was the master of the Wen family who still remembered the grudges from back then, so he deliberately sent someone to steal the pawn tickets.
Therefore, after the two of them found Mr. Wen's study, they searched there all night. Then they quietly went to Mr. Wen's bedroom and searched for a while, but they couldn't find the pawn ticket.
It wasn't until early in the morning, when they saw that it was getting late, that the two of them returned without success.
After the two returned to the other courtyard, they had breakfast and went to bed.
In the afternoon, when Xia Zihan got up, Chu Jingqi was no longer around, and even Chuan Qiong and Gan Song had gone out.
Chu Qing reported, "Master, the Wen family's wife sent someone to deliver a greeting card, saying that she would come to visit the master tomorrow morning."
The wife of the Wen family also had a title, and she was the Princess Jinghui granted by the emperor's grandfather. Her status was the same as that of Xia Zihan.
Logically speaking, the two people have the same title, but the Wen family's wife is the elder. If she wants to visit her, it is Xia Zihan who should visit her, not her who condescends to visit Xia Zihan.
Xia Zihan took the greeting card, opened it, took a look at it, and threw it to Chu Qing, "Write her a reply. I'll be free tomorrow."
She wanted to see what tricks the Wen family's wife was playing.
While sending people to steal the pawn tickets, they also sent people to deliver greeting cards...
Haha...
Chu Qing reported again, "Mrs. Xia also came here in the morning. However, she heard that the master had not gotten up yet, so she waited in the hall for a while and then went back."
"Did you say anything?" Xia Zihan put down the teacup in his hand.
At this time, the Xia family was in troubled times. If the eldest aunt didn't have something important to do, she would not leave the family affairs and come to her.
(End of chapter)