Qiao Xin has always encouraged healthy competition among her grandchildren!
Erlang, that little guy, relies on his intelligence and has a very lively personality. He wants to learn everything he sees, but he is not good at anything he learns.
Apart from making money, I have never seen him be passionate about anything for more than a year! But this guy is smart and can understand things at a glance, wasting his good conditions!
Qiao Erlang doesn't know that his fourth brother is now obsessed with surpassing him and has even joined forces with his grandmother.
The task of raising sponsorship finally fell on Qiao Erlang's shoulders. His Majesty actually made an exception and gave him a ninth-rank official position in the Changping Office.
He became the first grandson in the Qiao family to hold an official position.
But things did not go smoothly according to the bidding plan!
The original plan was for a total of 25 places, but now only six places have been sold, including his family, Xiaoyaohou Mansion, Wang family, Guan family, Pei family and Jiang family.
If he said there was no aristocratic family behind the scenes, he would tear his head off and kick it like a ball!
The clothes that the Qiao family had customized were purchased from the Pei family's clothing shop. I don't know what Master Pei was thinking, but he actually supported him in this incident!
As for other merchants, perhaps they were afraid of the power of the Kyoto family, or perhaps they did not want to be involved in the struggle between the two forces. They either remained silent or directly refused.
The current situation clearly puts them at a disadvantage.
Several classmates who usually had a good relationship with him had been avoiding him these days. They had once vowed to support him, but now there was no response.
His grandmother had long ago told him, "Human relationships are as thin as paper, and the world's affairs are like a new chess game each time." There's no need to care about these worldly matters.
I didn’t understand the meaning of the words when I first heard them, but after hearing them again, I understood them!
He thought he could do without caring, but when that day really came, he always felt something was wrong.
Even Xu Can has been missing these days.
When Guan Jianze was around, everyone was inseparable from Jiao and Meng, and Meng was inseparable from Jiao.
The talents are starting to separate. Is this small group just going to dissipate?
Qiao Erlang sighed, packed up his things, and planned to go back home first!
But he ran into the Heng Wen brothers halfway. He tried to avoid them, but they came straight to him!
"Where are you going? I'll take you there!" Heng Wen saw him and greeted him from a distance.
"Thank you, General Heng. I want to go home and I can go on my own!"
"Fourth uncle didn't even call you? You look listless, is there something wrong?"
Qiao Erlang grinned: "How could that be, Fourth Uncle, I'm fine, I just want to go back!"
"Well, I was originally thinking of looking for you to support two bidding places, but since you are too busy, forget it!"
Qiao Erlang turned around quickly and walked to Heng Wen in small steps, without any trace of perfunctory attitude from before.
"Uncle, you must have misunderstood. If you need help, I will do my best to help you. Just give me your orders!"
"You little bootlicker, you change your attitude according to the wind, what a mean person you are!" Hengliang who was accompanying him muttered with disdain.
"none of your business!"
"You are so self-degrading, you are sick!"
"I am sick, can you cure me?"
"What does it have to do with me?"
"You also know that it's none of your business, so why are you pointing fingers? Don't think I won't beat you up just because we're on the street! We already agreed not to interfere with each other, if you don't remember, I'll sew up your mouth!"
"Qiao Erlang, you are sick. You are a son of an official family, but you don't study hard and instead you are willing to be a lowly person and hang out with a bunch of merchants every day. Do you need me to say anything?"
"I am happy and you have no right to interfere! People with different ideals cannot work together. If there were no merchants, you would have to go out naked today, Mr. Heng San."
As soon as Qiao Jilang opened his mouth, he was full of firepower and raised the taunt value to the maximum!
I don't know if this guy is crazy or not. He dislikes him everywhere and goes crazy when he sees him.
Now all the young men in Beijing know that the two of them are at odds. In just this month, they have had two fights!
In Qiao Erlang's opinion, everyone in the Dingbian Marquis Mansion, except Heng Wen, is at odds with him.
Every time this guy sees him, he jumps out and bites people. He wants to be tolerant for the sake of Heng Wen, but the other party just has the ability to irritate him.
It seems like they are born incompatible!
Heng Wen didn't expect that in a moment the two of them would fight like a black chicken eye again.
He suppressed his anger and dispersed the people!
"Everyone, shut up. How can you make such a scene in public? Third brother, apologize. You were the one who said the rude words first, so don't blame others for fighting back!"
Hengliang looked at his elder brother hatefully, with a look of unwillingness on his face.
It’s always like this, who is your brother?
"Brother, forget it. Third brother didn't do it on purpose!
"Young Master Qiao, my brother is still a child and doesn't know much. I'll apologize on his behalf!" Heng An, who had been silent the whole time, seemed to be trying to persuade him.
"Well, I accept it. After all, he is a kid two years older than me!"
Someone in the crowd burst into laughter.
Heng An was secretly annoyed, and his hand holding the paper fan suddenly tightened, with a gloomy look in his lowered eyes.
What an ungrateful person!
"Okay, second brother, you take the third brother back first, I'll be there soon!"
Heng'an hummed, bowed to Qiao Erlang, took his brother and turned away!
Heng Wen jumped onto the Qiao family's carriage and turned around to wave to Qiao Erlang.
"Come up, I have something to tell you!"
"oh!"
Qiao Erlang held the edge of the carriage and easily jumped in.
Heng Wen raised his eyebrows and felt relieved at once.
This kid is quite skilled!
"Uncle, tell me what you want from me. You don't want to avenge your brother, do you? I advise you to forget it. Although it is better to resolve a feud than to create one, I also want to meet your brother and forget the grudges.
But he has a really bad mouth and he always picks on me! This is my first time as a human being, why should I put up with his bullshit? "
"Okay, I get it. I want to ask you, when will your father come back?"
"have no idea!"
Heng Wen chuckled: "You don't have to be on guard against me, I won't do anything to you."
Qiao Erlang looked him up and down, obviously not believing it!
"I heard that your bidding has not yet been completed. I want five places. Is that okay?"
"Okay, of course. I'll arrange the best positions for you and ensure adequate publicity!" Qiao Erlang's whole aura changed when he talked about business.
He took the silver bill handed over by Heng Wen, counted it in front of him, and then put it in his bag. He took out the paper and pen he carried with him from the secret compartment of the carriage, wrote down the receipt on the spot and handed it to Heng Wen!
"Thank you for your help, Fourth Uncle. When my father comes back, I will invite you to the mansion for a drink some other day!"
Heng Wen wanted to tease him when he saw how serious he was.
"Then you better get ready. I'll go visit your grandmother tomorrow!"
Qiao Erlang smiled and said, "That's great. I'll go back and tell my grandmother that she welcomes us very much."
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