"You don't have to chase me away. I don't want you to drink here." Wang Hongfu stood up and said in a neutral tone, "You should enjoy life to the fullest when you are happy. While you are happy, you can enjoy yourself to your heart's content. I won't disturb you...but don't get carried away." After saying that, he glanced at Zhang Shixun, snorted through his nose, shook his sleeves and left.
"Something bad is going to happen!" Gao Yanei said with a frown as soon as he left.
"Are you saying this guy will do something bad?" Zhang Shixun asked.
He Ji also said, "If he doesn't do something bad, then hell no one will. The Wang family father and son are notoriously petty. You two caused Wang Husun to go to jail. Wang Fu will definitely take revenge."
"Revenge has already begun." Zhang Shixun told the two of them everything about the kidnapping of Wang Dong with a cold face.
He Ji waited for him to finish and then asked, "Are you sure it was the Wang family who hired the Wuyou Cave thieves?"
Zhang Shixun said, "It will happen soon. I have caught two thieves from Wuyou Cave who were spying on my family. They have been sent to Kaifeng Prefecture. I believe there will be a result soon."
"You're too optimistic." He Ji sighed, "I guess those two thieves are dead by now."
"You mean, the Wang family would kill to silence witnesses?"
He Ji nodded.
"But the prefect of Kaifeng is Nie Chang. He has a grudge against Wang Fu. How can we allow him to tamper with the Kaifeng prison?"
"It's true that he's the prefect of Kaifeng, but he can't possibly be in charge of the prison himself. If the Wang family is willing to pay, someone will surely help him take advantage of the situation. If you don't believe me, just wait and see."
"We'll talk about this later. What I'm most worried about is that the Wang family father and son will do something bad and ruin the military exam." Gao Yanei couldn't drink any more and stood up and said, "No! I have to go back and tell my father that I must finalize the military exam before they do."
Zhang Shixun grabbed him and said with a smile, "Don't worry, young master. If it rains, it will rain, and if my mother wants to get married, let it be. Didn't Wang Husun say before he left? We should enjoy life to the fullest. We can't let a stink bug ruin our drinking mood... Come on! Let's continue drinking."
"But his father is the prime minister and the deputy prime minister of the current dynasty. He has much more power than my father. If he does something bad, the cooked duck will fly away." Gao Yanei said worriedly.
Zhang Shixun smiled and filled his glass with wine. He said, "Young Master, it's no big deal if you don't pass the exam. I don't care. Why should you care?"
"But we have a deal. If this goes wrong, wouldn't our Gao family lose our trust in you?"
Zhang Shixun raised his wine glass and said, "You've done your best. No matter the result, I will be grateful... Although General Gao doesn't have the power of Wang Fu, he is still a close official of the government. The examiners will always consider his position and will not give him any face."
Gao Yanei nodded and said, "I'll ask Dad to keep a close eye on this matter later."
"Whether I pass the military exam or not, I still have to make a living." Zhang Shixun didn't want to talk about this matter anymore. Instead, he asked, "My cousin wants to buy a farm. Does the yamen have any way to help him?"
"Your cousin wants to buy a farm?" Gao Yanei was very surprised. "That's not easy to do. Land prices near the capital are not cheap, and even if you have money, you may not be able to buy it, let alone a farm."
"Yes! A wasteland is fine, preferably near the Yellow River beach."
It is a good idea to build a private estate with the Yellow River behind it.
"There are quite a few saline-alkali lands and sandy lands near the Yellow River beach, but crops cannot be grown on those lands... Your cousin is really mentally ill. Why does he want a shabby farm?" Gao Yanei was very curious.
"He has a mental disorder because he is too smart."
"Too smart?" Gao Yanei thought he had heard wrongly.
"There's a saying that goes, 'Heaven is jealous of talented people.' Have you heard of it, Yanei?"
"I've heard of it. What you mean by this is that your cousin is a talented person?"
"Let me put it this way. When he's not having an attack, the three of us put together wouldn't be as smart as him alone."
"Brother, don't lie to me. Your cousin is smart. How can you say that?"
"You will know it after you have more contact with it in the future," said Zhang Shixun.
Gao Yanei shook his head. "Forget it. I get scared when I see his mysterious look. The farther away from him, the better."
"Okay, whatever you want! But about Zhuangzi's matter...?"
"Leave this to me. How much do you plan to pay for the farm?"
Zhang Shixun took out the hairpin and said, "The princess's hairpin, use it to exchange."
Gao Yanei saw the hairpin, snatched it away and said, "You're exchanging a priceless treasure for a shabby farmhouse. Did you get your head stuck in a door or kicked by a donkey?"
He Ji saw the hairpin and his eyes widened. "What kind of treasure is this?"
Gao Yanei carefully held up the hairpin for He Ji to see, saying, "This is a priceless treasure that the two brothers brought back from overseas... Look at it! I guarantee you've never seen or even heard of such a treasure."
He Ji reached out to take it and look at it, but Gao Yanei refused and said, "Don't touch it, just look at it."
He Ji stretched his neck and leaned in to examine the hairpin for a long time. "What color is it? I've been looking at it for a long time but still can't figure it out."
"Of course you can't see it. It changes in thousands of ways. It's one color when you look at it from the front, and another color when you look at it from the back... Let's put it this way, you can see different colors when you look at it from different directions." Zhang Shixun said as he watched the two idiots look silly.
He Ji turned his head to look at the hairpin from different angles and praised: "It really is a good treasure."
"What you see now is only part of it. At night you will see that it is still a night-shining pearl."
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