Judge of the Song Dynasty Chapter 44: Blue-faced Judge

This fish that slipped through the net did not bring too many surprises to Zhang Fei, in fact, it was more panic.

It's different now.

A few days ago, he was still looking forward to those rich gentry coming to him, and even paid someone to record it, and even rented the teahouse.

This is what he longed for.

But now Zhang Fei is famous for nothing, but no one dares to get close to him.

Wow!

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty and all colleagues are united to deal with you.

You are amazing!

Let's stay away!

This reputation is more of a negative effect on him.

The only one who supports him now is the woman who quarrels with him every day.

What an irony.

Good!

This is indeed an opportunity.

But whether he can grasp it.

From an environmental point of view, this is obviously very difficult.

In addition, the other party knew that contacting him would be troublesome, but he was still willing to see him.

The other party's purpose must be very terrible.

All of this made Zhang Fei feel deeply uneasy.

However.

See or see.

The reason is very simple, Zhang Fei has no choice now.

Therefore, Zhang Fei's consideration now is not whether to see or not to see, but how to prepare and how to find opportunities from it.

There is a saying in the art of war, only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you be victorious in every battle.

He thinks that he needs to understand what the Ma family does first, and who is the owner of the Ma family. Now his impression of the Ma family is that the young man Ma Xiaoyi and his family are involved in the lending business. .

Early the next morning, Zhang Fei took Li Si to the largest bridge market in Bianjing.

Because it is close to the wharf, the goods come and go intensively, so this is the base camp of the Yaman. The Yaman goes in with his left hand and goes out with his right. They all open here, where transactions are frequent, and money comes in and out very frequently, including Ma's **** shop.

In addition, the people here are very busy, so there is no time to watch people go to court, and no one pays attention to the two of them while walking on the road.

Zhang Fei did not choose to go directly to the **** shop, but found a noodle stall with a good business nearby and sat down.

The stall owner is a woman in her thirties.

"Auntie, four steamed buns and two bowls of porridge. Thank you."

"Guest officer, wait a moment, it will be ready soon."

Soon, four warm steamed buns and two bowls of porridge were brought to the table.

Zhang Fei paid the money, and then asked: "Ma'am, do you know where the Ma's **** shop is going?"

"Go this way, turn left at the next intersection, and you will find the Ma's pawnshop after another fifty steps." The aunt pointed forward.

Zhang Fei nodded, "Thank you."

But his eyes secretly looked at the aunt.

The aunt turned around and wanted to leave, but suddenly she turned around and asked, "Why are you two brothers going to Ma's **** shop?"

Zhang Fei pretended to hesitate, "Uh, I want to borrow some money."

The aunt suddenly had such an expression on her face, and asked again: "What are you borrowing money for?"

Zhang Fei glanced at the aunt in surprise, and replied: "Business requires turnover."

When the aunt heard this, she couldn't help but look weird.

Zhang Fei has been paying attention, so he asked, "Why does Madam look like this?"

Before the aunt opened her mouth, a peddler sitting next to her suddenly turned around and said, "My little brother, if you need to turn around for business, I advise you not to go to Ma's to borrow."

Zhang Fei asked curiously, "Why?"

The salesman said: "The head of the Ma family, Ma Tianhao, used to be the instructor of the Imperial Army. Later, he was expelled from the Imperial Army for committing a crime and served two years in prison. After he came out, he did this pawnshop business. He is extremely generous. Although the interest given by the pawnshop varies from person to person, it is the most reasonable in Bianjing."

"Really?"

Zhang Feixi said: "It seems that I did not choose the wrong place."

"I'm not done yet."

The peddler continued: "Although the interest he gives is very fair, if you don't pay it, then his methods are also famously cruel. It is said that there is no bad debt in the books of the Ma family so far. , so everyone respectfully calls him the fourth brother on the surface, but secretly calls him the green-faced judge. You need turnover in business, which is unstable. His house."

The aunt nodded straightly and said: "This elder brother is right, if you are not sure that you can pay back, then don't go to Ma's house, that green-faced judge is not easy to mess with."

Zhang Fei nodded and said, "Okay, I'll think about it again. Thank you."

Just as he was about to thank him, a hangover old man on the opposite side suddenly said: "But the little old man also heard that some people went to Ma's house to borrow money, not only free of interest, but also extended for a long time."

"Really?" Zhang Fei asked, "And why?"

The old man laughed and said: "No one knows, maybe the green-faced judge is pleasing to their eyes."

"Really?"

Zhang Fei touched his face and said with a smile: "My face should be able to catch the eyes of his blue-faced judge."

The peddler jokingly said: "Brother, you are handsome, but the green-faced judge is not a woman. Maybe he hates a handsome brother like you. If you want to borrow it, you should borrow it from your aunt." /

"Haha!"

The guests next to him all laughed.

The aunt blushed and yelled: "Go, go, finish your meal quickly, leave quickly, you always make fun of me. It's really unreasonable."

Zhang Fei didn't notice anything, and laughed at himself, "Looks like there's no point."

"Haha"

There was another burst of laughter.

Then these people started chatting about the green-faced judge again, and it wasn't until many guests came here that everyone gradually stopped talking about it.

Seeing that it was about time, Zhang Fei and Li Si got up and left.

"Third brother, let's not go to Ma's house." Li Siwei said ruthlessly.

Zhang Fei asked: "Why?"

Li Sidao: "He is nicknamed Judge Green Face, so he must not be easy to provoke."

After all, he is from the village, has never seen the world, and is timid in the face of everything.

Zhang Fei coughed: "Actually, well, I'm not easy to mess with."

Li Si glanced at Zhang Fei, "I think you are very good, third brother."

Zhang Fei sighed: "That's because Mrs. Xu's light is too dazzling, illuminating my shadow side. But let's not go today."

He didn't intend to go at all, because they changed the appointment to meet him tomorrow night, which proves that the other party knew that he would bring trouble, so he came to the door rashly, which is of course not good.

After walking a few steps, Li Si suddenly stopped and said, "By the way! Third brother, don't you want to rent a house?"

Zhang Fei was taken aback, how could he still be in this mood now, and asked, "Why did you bring this up all of a sudden?"

Li Si hurriedly said: "I have inquired about it before, and the biggest Fang Ya in Beijing is this Fang Ya of the Chen family."

As he spoke, he pointed across the street.

Zhang Fei turned his head to look, but saw a shop on the opposite side of the street, the door of that shop was two or three times the size of the shop next to it, and there was a word "house" hanging on the sign.

He didn't say whether to go or not, but just looked at the shop in a daze, as if thinking about something.

At this time, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old Xiao Yalang suddenly came over, "You two, are you renting a house?"

He has good eyesight, and he doesn't miss anyone on the other side of the street. He is a good salesman. Zhang Fei glanced at the little Yalang, nodded, and asked, "What can I introduce?"

The little Yalang listened to Zhang Fei's accent, he was not from Bianliang, he looked at Zhang Fei very openly, and then said: "Brother, if you want to rent this private house, it is very expensive, at least You have to count, renting public housing is very cheap.”

Li Si hurriedly asked: "How much?"

Xiao Yalang said: "The cheapest public housing is only 170 Wen per month."

Li Si was surprised: "So expensive?"

Xiao Yalang snorted: "If you think this is too expensive, then you should sleep on the street!"

No loss, it is a monopoly industry, it is a cow! Zhang Fei said with a smile: "But as far as I know, the only way to rent a public house is to go to the store to rent it."

Since he was satirized by Xu Zhiqian that time, he has studied the relevant real estate laws hard.

Because of the extremely advanced commercial culture in the Northern Song Dynasty, the population of Bianliang was increasing day by day. This house could not be supplied at all, and ordinary people could only sleep on the street. Exclusively rented out to ordinary people.

For this reason, the government also set up a special administrative unit called Dian Zhai Wu, which is responsible for the rental and maintenance of public housing.

The little Yalang said twice: "Do you think you can rent a house if you go there?"

Zhang Fei asked: "Can't you rent it?"

"You have such a beautiful idea." Xiao Yalang snorted, "Those servants in the yamen are still waiting, how could it be your turn again."

Zhang Fei asked again: "That is to say, can you rent it for me?"

The little Yalang smiled.

Zhang Fei suddenly understood.

You don't need to think about it, you know for sure, the store housework must have business dealings with their tooth shop. After all, the shop housework has a government background, they can't decide the price at will, it's the court that has the final say.

However, if they cooperate with a dental firm, the profit will be huge once they transfer their hands.

For example, if you rent it to a dental firm first, and then the dental firm raises the price and rents it out, the profit will come.

Now the store's house affairs accounts show that the annual income is about 150,000 yuan, and the profit in it is really self-evident!

"Ahem!"

Suddenly heard two coughs.

The little Yalang looked back and saw an old man about fifty years old walking over, he hurriedly called out: "Uncle."

The old man came over, waved his hands and said: "You don't need to take care of this place, you can go and get busy."

"Huh? Yes."

Na Yalang looked at Zhang Fei in surprise, and then left.

The old man cupped his hands to Zhang Fei and said, "Old Zhuo is the owner of this tooth shop, Chen Maoqian. I don't know your surname or name."

"Zhang Fei. The old man calls me Zhang San."

Zhang Fei bowed immediately.

Chen Maoqian's expression changed slightly, he led his hand to the back room and said, "Please come inside, Your Excellency."

"Thank you."

Chen Maoqian led Zhang Fei to the back room, and after sitting down, someone came to offer tea.

After the servant leaves.

Chen Maoqian said with a smile: "The man just now is the old clumsy nephew. I originally asked him to welcome guests in front of the door. I never thought that the kid would make his own decisions and talk nonsense. I will teach him a lesson later. After a while, I hope you don’t want to have common knowledge with him.”

Looks like I still have some power left! Zhang Fei laughed and said, "My old man is serious, I'm only here to find a house."