Chapter 224: Honoring Parents
That night, Zhang Xian quietly came to Lu's house and told them what had happened in the imperial study during the day.
Lu Desheng stood up and said, "I'm going to the study!"
Jiang: "Don't go!" Don't think she doesn't know what he wants to do.
"lady?"
Jiang quickly grabbed him and said, "Be good, let's be patient."
My daughter only asked Luo Tieniu to bring back one secret plan, and now it's all gone. What if he goes to deal with Zuo Anmin and gets stuck in Chang'an? My daughter is far away in Pingzhou, and she has to find a way to rescue him.
Now that the goal of external release has been achieved, it's best not to create unnecessary complications at this critical moment.
"As the saying goes, revenge is never too late."
Lu Desheng: But he is a villain. His motto has always been, revenge for villains, from morning till night!
He looked at his nervous wife and thought, forget it, for the sake of his daughter and the family reunion, he might as well be a gentleman for once. But he had already decided: before leaving Chang'an, he would give the small notebook containing the records about Zuo Anmin to Zhang Xian, and let Zhang Xian give him a hard time from then on. Humph!
Just when Lu Desheng received the confirmation of his transfer, Xu Zheng, Yang Wei and his party also returned to Chang'an City.
The two did not rest. Xu Zheng did not even go home. Instead, he went to the yamen to hand in his task, and then went to the Lu family with Yang Wei and Lu Mingzhi.
After discussing the departure time with Lu's father, they each went back home and persuaded their family members to move to Pingzhou together.
The next day, Xu Zheng, Yang Wei, Wu Ren, Hu Guangcong and others brought some medicinal material samples to the Lu family again. Most of the remaining brothers stayed in Yang Wei's escort agency to guard the batch of medicinal materials they brought back.
The most urgent task was to deal with the batch of precious medicinal materials they brought back before leaving Chang'an.
The medicinal herbs are all good, now we just lack buyers.
When Lu Desheng heard that they had brought back a batch of medicinal herbs from Pingzhou and wanted to sell them, he wanted to earn some money for the journey. He did not ask for the specific amount, but simply handed the matter over to Lu Zhiyuan.
Lü Zhiyuan had been dealing with merchants recently, and since his father-in-law was a medicinal herb merchant, and he himself often helped his wife's family, he knew some of them. With him acting as a middleman, selling the herbs shouldn't be a problem.
After Xu Zheng came back, the Xu family also started packing their bags.
Although Xu Zheng returned to Chang'an, he began to be busy from morning till night and was often not at home. The Xu family was large and did not need his help to clean up.
This escort trip made Xu Zheng realize that the official's identity was quite useful. Therefore, he had been busy with the government office lately, trying to get a transfer order so that he could transfer his official status to Pingzhou.
In fact, Uncle Lu Desheng was sent to Houcheng as a county magistrate. If my family went to Houcheng, it would only take a word from Uncle Lu to find a position there.
But he made an extra preparation and waited until he arrived in Xiangping to see what arrangements the Sixth Young Master's wife had made.
He also has to help with the medicinal herb trading and can't leave it all to others.
This time, Lu Zhiyuan successfully invited the herbal medicine merchants and drug store owners from Chang'an City.
Those medicinal herb merchants that Lu Zhiyuan approached were all heartbroken at first.
They were too scared, but they didn't dare not come.
Lü Desheng had been making quite a fuss lately, stirring up trouble and bringing disgrace upon many officials of the imperial court. Now that they were being targeted, what good could they possibly get out of it?
They thought they were going to lose money this time, and exchanged obscure glances. They accepted their fate, and thought, "Never mind, never mind. If nothing works, just spend money to avoid disaster."
But when they saw the neatly arranged boxes of medicinal herb samples, they rushed over and there was no fear or worry at all.
They all knew what they were talking about and recognized that these were authentic medicinal herbs from Pingzhou, and they were also precious medicinal herbs!
Pingzhou was too far away from Chang'an City, so the medicinal herbs there were very rare and expensive. Even for the same price, they couldn't get such good quality.
The first herbal medicine merchant spoke up, saying with great wealth, "How many herbs do you have? We at Chuncaotang want them!"
"Old Xu, you can't eat alone. We at the Rejuvenation Hall are also short of these good herbs."
"Master Lu, please sell it to us, Baicaotang. The price is negotiable."
Lu Zhiyuan smiled and said, "I can't make the decision on this matter. I'm just a middleman. If you want to buy it, go and talk to them." As he said that, he pointed at Yang Wei, Wu Ren and others.
These medicinal herbs are indeed easy to sell. Yang Wei and Xu Zheng looked at each other.
Wu Ren stepped forward with a smile on his face, "Don't worry, shopkeepers, everyone will have a share. Now let's quote the price."
The medicinal material merchants were intimidated by Lu Desheng's power, and with the presence of their colleague Tian Qinglai, they offered very fair prices.
But this fair price sounded like the sound of nature to Yang Wei, Xu Zheng and others.
They made it! But they suppressed their excitement, not wanting the other party to notice anything.
Wu Ren said with a friendly smile, "Everyone, this is the price. I'll be in that room doing registration in a moment. You all line up and come in one by one to tell me the quantity you want, and I'll make the quantity for you."
So, these herbal medicine merchants went into the house one by one and told the types and quantities of herbs they needed.
After Wu Ren calculated the amount they needed to pay for the herbs, he asked them to pay a 10% deposit. Then he told them to go back and wait while he delivered the herbs and then paid the balance.
The medicinal material merchants all thought this was a great idea. After paying the deposit, they went back and waited patiently.
Tian Qinglai took his eldest son to help his in-laws, and then went to see his daughter, and then left reluctantly.
He knew that his in-laws would soon leave Chang'an for Pingzhou, and he didn't know when they would meet again. He also knew that the Xu family would join the Lu family on the road, moving the entire family to Pingzhou.
Tian's father had once considered moving to Pingzhou, but he had more than one daughter, Tian Yan, and doing business depended on connections.
Pingzhou was a completely unfamiliar place to them. If they moved away from Chang'an, it would mean giving up all their years of business and starting over from scratch. Almost everyone in the family disagreed with the move.
After the order was negotiated, the next step was to transport the medicinal materials and settle the balance. Hu Guangcong's men and Yang Wei's escort agency all went out, and in just one afternoon, they sold all the medicinal materials and brought back boxes of gold and silver.
When they moved the gold and silver back to the Lu family and placed them in the main hall, Lu Desheng realized that this deal was a bit big and they earned a lot of money for the travel expenses.
As soon as the accounts were settled, Wu Ren counted them and after confirming that everything was correct, Xu Zheng directly took out three thousand taels and moved them to Lu Desheng.
Lu Desheng was stunned: "What is this for?"
Xu Zheng smiled and said, "This is what the Sixth Young Master's wife instructed."
The Sixth Young Master’s wife, his daughter?
"Uncle Lu, take this. These three thousand taels are a gift from the Sixth Young Master's wife to you and your aunt."
Lu Desheng sighed, then pulled his wife Jiang to count the silver happily, "Madam, come and see, this is a gift from our little girl."
Lü Mingzhi, who was a step behind: ...
It's over! Does his second sister have to act so quickly?
Sure enough, after counting the silver for a while, Lu Desheng suddenly felt something was wrong. He slowly turned his head and looked at Lu Mingzhi, glaring at him, "As expected, your second sister is the most filial!"
Lu Mingzhi handed over the one thousand taels of silver in his hand and weakly defended himself, "I just didn't have time yet." He was also very filial, but not as fast as his second sister.
After Lu Desheng took it, he said with disdain, "You're so slow, are you a turtle?"
In fact, he wanted to say that he was so slow that he couldn't even eat hot shit, but then he thought better of it. After all, he was his son, so he should hold back and not scold him so harshly.
"Just one thousand taels?"
Lu Mingzhi: "Yes." One thousand taels is a lot, right? He only made three thousand taels in total! In the words of his second sister, Dad and Mom, you are getting carried away.
"Look, this is given to me by your second sister, three thousand taels!" Lu Desheng said proudly, and after the corners of his mouth curled up, he couldn't suppress it.
Lü Mingzhi: How can he compare to his second sister? His father thinks too highly of him.
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