Chapter 28 Chapter 28 [VIP]
Chapter 28
The injured were the most important, so Qian Tong obeyed him and turned his back to wait for the doctor to treat his injuries.
The room was so quiet that the rustling sound of fabric being removed was awkward. Song Yunzhi stared at her back and asked, "Who is he?"
"Are you asking about Young Master Duan?" Qian Tong glanced sideways.
"No need to turn around." Song Yunzhi said.
Qian Tong wondered how a man like him could be more chaste than herself. Hadn't he seen her get hurt that day, and she hadn't said anything...
She told him the bandit's origins. "The bandit leader in Yangzhou is named Duan. He's been entrenched here for over twenty years. He's a man of few ambitions, obsessed with being the king of his own mountain. Regardless of peace or chaos, he only preys on wealthy merchants and avoids any disputes involving personal gain. Now in his fifties or sixties, he can no longer fight, so his son, Duan Yuanjin, manages all matters. Young Master Duan is also a man without ambition. He inherited his father's legacy and specializes in robbing our four major merchants..."
You could hear her hatred for him in her voice.
Song Yunzhi's previous understanding was only superficial, not as detailed as she described. His clothes had been stripped off, and most of his wounds were on his arms and back. One cut was in his lower abdomen, but he dodged it in time, so the wound was shallow. The doctor began to pour disinfectant liquor on him. He paused for a moment before asking, "The young master I met today was elegant and well-spoken, unlike other bandits."
Qian Tong also knew this. She said, "People are like this. They want what they lack. Old Man Duan never went to school and spent most of his life as a bandit. He didn't want his son to follow in his footsteps. When Young Master Duan was six years old, he invited a teacher into the mountains. Whether he took the imperial examinations or not was one thing, but his son couldn't be uneducated and become an illiterate and rough man like him."
"Once a bandit becomes educated, he becomes very difficult to deal with. He has had the Four Great Families completely under his thumb for the past few years. There's nothing he can't get..."
Suddenly, he heard a muffled groan and Qian Tong turned around subconsciously.
The doctor held a cotton ball stained with liquor and pressed it against the wound on his lower abdomen. The young man was much more robust than she had imagined. His skin, not as fair as his face, was a healthy, sun-tanned tan. He had broad shoulders and a narrow waist, and his abdominal muscles were clearly defined. It was unknown how many muscles there were...
Her face was filled with shame, but her eyes did not retract, and they swept over him unscrupulously.
She watched intently, and Song Yunzhi's gaze followed her moving eyeballs. Perhaps he was so angry that he forgot to scold her. Until she raised her eyes and unexpectedly met his fiery eyes, she heard him shout, "Turn around!"
Very fierce.
Qian Tong twisted his neck back.
Qian Tong couldn't recall where they were talking just now. The sight of the naked young man had a huge impact on her. She said, "How about I wait for you outside? I promise I won't leave."
Song Yunzhi didn't believe her, "It's right here."
Qian Tong sighed.
Song Yunzhi was afraid that she couldn't wait any longer, so he continued to talk to her, "What's written in the account book?"
"I don't know." Qian Tong said, "I just got it back. I haven't looked at it yet."
"Where?" he asked again.
Qian Tongm took out the account book that Ah Jin had given him from his lapel and waved it behind him, "Here."
The doctor was still there, and he was shirtless, so I couldn't ask her to bring it to him.
Song Yunzhi said nothing more, quietly waiting for the doctor to sew up the wound on his arm, apply some medicine, bandage it, and put on his underwear. The doctor who came tonight was the same doctor who treated Qian Tong that day. He ignored their conversation and said before leaving: "Sir, don't move around for the next few days, and don't let the wound get wet. I have written a prescription. After the medicine is boiled, you should take it twice tonight. I will come back to change the dressing for you tomorrow."
Song Yunzhi nodded, "Thank you."
After the doctor left, Qian Tong asked the person behind him, "Can we turn around now?"
"Um."
Qian Tong turned around and saw that Song Yunzhi was injured and was only wearing his inner clothes, but his belt was tied tightly.
He didn't need to be so defensive, she just didn't need to look.
She just needed to look at his face. The young master's face had lost its usual color, and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead. Qian Tong walked over and asked worriedly, "Does it hurt?"
Song Yunzhi didn't want to pay attention to her. His mind was on the account book in her hand. He shook his head perfunctorily.
This is not the first time that he has been stubborn and said it doesn't hurt. Who was it that groaned just now?
Qian Tong touched his forehead with a silk handkerchief. Song Yunzhi wanted to dodge, but she tried to grab him, but he was injured and couldn't do it. In a hurry, she grabbed his chin and turned it to her side. "Don't move. We are also courteous. Don't be polite."
presumptuous!
Song Yunzhi's face turned pale. Before he could burst out in shame at being offended, a unique fragrance belonging to a woman enveloped him. He paused for a moment, and his eyes fell on her exquisite nose, which was only five fingers away from him, and her bright red lips...
"Don't worry." Qian Tong noticed the disorder in his breath and soothed him, "I'll show you the account book."
Zhu wiped it away, deliberately grinding away the evil spirit from his body. Her words seemed to have worked, and Song Yunzhi was no longer hostile to him.
Calm down so you can talk slowly.
She let go of him, called Fu Yin to boil the medicine, then sat beside him, took out the account book and opened it, "Let's look at it together."
The attraction of the account book made him focus his attention on the account book in her hand. She did not move towards him.
Qian Tong flipped through two pages, reading the accounts one by one, his expression growing increasingly nervous. Finally, he looked up at him in shock, "The Cui family is really smuggling!"
She moved too quickly for him to react, so when she turned her gaze away, her eyes were away from him.
intersect.
A dense and strange stream of thoughts came to their mind, and they both moved back and turned their heads at the same time.
After a long silence, the young lady spoke first, not knowing whether she was celebrating or gloating, "You and I are now completely in the same boat."
He showed his face in front of the bandits and robbed them of things that were worth thousands of gold.
This grudge has become serious.
Song Yunzhi didn't want to watch her fake performance. Didn't she think of this when she decided to plot against him to steal the account book?
Song Yunzhi was too lazy to waste time with her, so he reached out and snatched the account book from her hand. He flipped through it carefully. The young lady sat aside, holding her face in her hands. Seeing the expression on his face, she asked, "What should we do? We seem to be in big trouble."
Song Yunzhi didn't even raise his eyelids.
"What do you think? If we hand it over to the government, will Lord Wang and the important figure behind the screen give our Qian family a salt permit?" Seeing him suddenly look up, Qian Tong's eyes brightened. "Of course they will. Compared to the two ships of tea, what our Qian family needs most right now is the salt permit."
Song Yunzhi questioned whether she went to so much trouble to obtain this account book for the sake of salt permits?
Don’t want tea anymore?
Qian Tong was lost in thought. The more he thought about it, the better he felt about this idea. "Let me analyze it for you..."
"First, we've offended Young Master Duan. He'll definitely not let us go. He might even come after my husband and fight us again." She gestured with her fingers. "Second, the Cui family's smuggling is no small matter. The government is investigating, and other merchants in Yangzhou are also paying attention. There's no telling how much mud will come out of pulling out a radish. If anyone knew we had this account book, there might be a big snake behind it. Our Qian family is weak and can't afford to offend..."
She clapped her hands and made a decision. "So, I will hand it over to the government tomorrow, so that the master will completely give up and never bother us again. That way, we will have our salt permits and peace..."
But what Song Yunzhi wanted most was peace.
The more muddy the water in Yangzhou is, the better.
Once the account book was given to the government, there was solid evidence of the Cui family's smuggling case. The government could use this account book to thoroughly investigate the smuggling case, and in this way, they would be in the open.
The Park family has been lying dormant for the past year and must have prepared a backup plan. An account book cannot bring him down, but instead makes him prepared, knowing that the court is going to take action against him.
It alerted the enemy.
If the other party secretly got the news that the account book was in the hands of the Qian family, they would definitely come to negotiate with Qian Qi Niangzi, and then he would know who the other party was.
The account books cannot be given to the government.
And he himself is a government official.
He had already looked at what was in the account book, so it would be a waste if he took this.
Song Yunzhi looked at her confident expression and asked, "You, don't want tea?"
Hearing him talk about tea, Qian Tong's face became conflicted again. He said in a distressed tone, "Who wouldn't want it? Three hundred thousand worth of tea... is enough for me to run a teahouse for a year. Now that the Cui family has fallen, tea is in great demand. If I could get some tea now, I would make a fortune..."
"If you want it, go change it."
Wouldn't it be more worthwhile for her to exchange his nearly lost life for two ships of tea?
But Qian Tong was greedy, she wanted both. "I also want the salt permit. My Qian family has been mining salt for a hundred years. You can't just leave it in my hands. Otherwise, how will I explain to my ancestors when I die in the future?"
Song Yunzhi looked away.
"You saw it that day, too. Wang Zhao, the man from the imperial court, had a pit of stinky, hard stones, and he wouldn't eat or drink..."
Song Yunzhi's throat rolled.
"Forget it, let's just live in peace. I can't put you in danger. If anything happens to you again, I won't be able to live..."
Song Yunzhi sneered in his heart, she will live well.
However, she couldn't hand the account books over to the government yet. He paused and said, "Since the court refuses bribes and values fairness, you can have Lord Wang personally inspect the Qian family's salt wells and salt piles. The Qian family has extensive experience in salt production. If another company were to replace them, they would have to adapt and the market would be impacted. Unless there are serious faults, the court will not easily change salt merchants."
This was the first time Qian Tong discussed important matters with him tonight. He didn't expect that a bodyguard like him could have such insight.
Qian Tong's eyes lit up, and he asked in surprise, "How do you know this?"
Song Yunzhi remained calm, "I've been to Kyoto before, so I understand the rules of officialdom."
Qian Tong thought about his suggestion again and said after a moment, "Let's calm down for a while. Thinking at night can make us more impulsive. You should heal your wound first. I'll come to see you tomorrow morning."
Qian Tong stood up and walked out, considerately closing the door for him. Before closing it, he softly said to him through the crack in the door: "Drink your medicine and go to bed early."
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