Chapter 629 Free is always the most expensive
Jiang Qingzhi took his men away.
Lu Bing stood in the tavern and laughed. Zhu Hao came in and said, "Commander-in-chief, Jiang Qingzhi doesn't know what's good for him!"
"He had a fight with Lu Song, and everyone thought it was about the expansion of the Tiger Guard Left Guard. But I dare to assert that Jiang Qingzhi had other plans."
"Commander, we should just watch the battle between Confucianism and Mohism. As for Jiang Qingzhi's mother-in-law being deceived, it has nothing to do with us!"
Zhu Hao felt that it was not worth it for Lu Bing to take action on this matter.
"You don't understand." Lu Bing shook his head. "Go check that pharmacy right away."
"Yes."
Zhu Hao took his leave. Lu Bing picked up the wine pot on the table, got a wine glass, and drank a few glasses by himself. There was a hint of coldness in his eyes, which made the shopkeeper who came over shudder and quickly leave.
"Xu Jie, Xu Jie, how long are you going to delay this marriage?"
Lu Bing chuckled and said, "You want to see my ability and whether I am qualified to marry you? Then I will let you see."
Jiang Qingzhi knew that Lu Bing must have a purpose in doing things, but he never expected that this guy wanted to find out the real reason for his fight with Lu Song and use it to demonstrate to Xu Jie.
The door of a drugstore in the west of the city was open, and a few elderly people walked in with smiles on their faces. A clerk came over to greet them, "Oh! You just got here? The whole room is waiting for you!"
In an instant, the faces of the old men became ruddy and they looked full of energy.
“How kind!”
Across from him, Jiang Qingzhi, holding a cigarette in his mouth, praised, "Very professional."
Sun Chonglou said excitedly: "Master, here they say that treatment is free!"
“Free is always the most expensive.”
Jiang Qingzhi ordered: "Go to my father-in-law's house and ask my mother-in-law to meet you. Find someone who has seen those scammers."
A guard went.
Sun Chonglou said in surprise: "Master, they are good people."
Nice guy? Haha!
Jiang Qingzhi smiled.
"Those old people..." Jiang Qingzhi pointed at an old man who got off the carriage with his cigarette, "They are not very rich, but they are also well-off. The old people in such families usually have no worries about food and drink, and no worries about their children and grandchildren. But they stay at home all day doing nothing..."
"Isn't it nice to enjoy the company of grandchildren?" Dou Jialan said. She always felt that such days were the most comfortable and she wouldn't exchange them even for a god.
"People need to prove their worth to others, so that they feel that their lives have meaning. It is human nature to follow others. But what is the value of an old man who does nothing? Where will the people come from for him to follow? Who will recognize his worth?"
Seeing Dou Jialan and the others looking confused, Jiang Qingzhi felt that his words were a sly shot. "Just like Mr. Xia, he has been wandering around the front yard lately when he has nothing to do..."
"Mr. Xia has been finding fault recently." Mo Zhan was a little embarrassed. "Either this is wrong or that is wrong. We dare not refute it, but just let him talk."
"No one pays attention to him, so he becomes more and more dissatisfied?" Jiang Qingzhi asked.
"Master, do you know about this?" Mo Zhan was surprised. He had told the guards not to make this public, but he didn't expect Jiang Qingzhi to know about it. He couldn't help but glance at the guards.
"No one reported it privately." Where there are people, there is the underworld, and where there is the underworld, there are unspoken rules. The guards are a small underworld, and there are many unspoken rules.
It is not allowed to tell tales in private, this is one of the unspoken rules. Anyone who breaks it will be isolated and excluded by the guards.
"There are a few old people in Xin'an Lane who love to quarrel for no reason. They have all kinds of reasons. They will even quarrel for a long time just because the other person looks at them, and they won't stop even when they have dinner..."
Jiang Qingzhi said, "Many people say that people become strange when they get old. What do you think?"
"Yeah! I don't even want to say hello to them." Sun Chonglou, the mascot of Xin'an Lane, obviously also knew about this.
"If the people who quarreled with them were gone, do you believe that those old people would become depressed and even leave early?" Jiang Qingzhi said.
The guards looked at each other.
Mo Zhan tried to probe, "Master, what do you mean... Lord Xia is just too bored?"
"It's not that he's bored, it's that no one recognizes him."
Jiang Qingzhi sighed, imagining that there would be such a day for himself. Suddenly, he felt that the sky was no longer blue and the air was no longer fresh.
The person who came from my mother-in-law's house was a maid. Jiang Qingzhi had met her many times and she was Chang's confidant.
"Greetings, Second Uncle." The maid bowed.
"How many of those scammers do you recognize?" Jiang Qingzhi asked.
"Three." The maid said through gritted teeth.
Jiang Qingzhi nodded, "Let's do it!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the guards rushed into the pharmacy.
"Second uncle, didn't those swindlers run away?" asked the maid.
"How could they bear to leave such a good place with stupid people and lots of money?" Jiang Qingzhi said lightly.
"Are you looking for trouble? Someone, come here!" The guy who was greeting customers in the pharmacy tried to stop them but was kicked away.
"Someone is coming, someone is coming!"
Amid the screams, there was a loud bang and the door to the inner room was kicked open.
The old man's yelling and cursing came, and it sounded full of energy. Then someone shouted that his children and grandchildren held such and such official positions, and if you don't get out, your children and grandchildren will punish you!
Jiang Qingzhi sighed, "Damn, what a bunch of idiots. It's no big deal if they scare the swindlers, but who's going to take care of it if they scare the old people into death?"
"Liar?" The maid was stunned. "My mistress asked me to look for them in the capital for a long time but couldn't find them. Only when you found out about them did you find them?"
"That's it." Jiang Qingzhi said, pointing at a man who was carried out.
"No way! Slave...it's you?" The maid suddenly screamed and rushed over, grabbed the man's head, leaned over to look at him carefully, slapped him in the face, and scratched him with both hands out of anger.
Amid the screams, Jiang Qingzhi coughed dryly, "That's enough! Don't scratch my face." The maid gnashed her teeth and said, "It's him, Second Uncle. This man is the liar's accomplice. It was them who deceived my wife! You bastard, you deserve this day!"
The man looked dismal, and lamented as he looked at his captured accomplice, "I told you that 50,000 yuan would be enough, but you guys were never satisfied!"
Chang was recuperating at home, and she looked dying and very weak.
"Those damn dogs!"
When her parents heard that she was ill, they sent a sister-in-law who was on good terms with Chang to visit her.
Chang told her sister-in-law about being cheated. Her sister-in-law scolded her but also advised her to swallow her anger.
"Just think of it as alms," advised the sister-in-law.
"Giving alms can add merits to your family, but if you give alms to a swindler, you may not gain any merits but may even be guilty of a sin." Chang had a cloth wrapped around his forehead and looked quite haggard.
"The Five Cities Army..." The sister-in-law hesitated for a moment, "After all, the truth will come to light. Why don't we report it to the authorities? Maybe we can catch those scammers and get some of the money back."
"How many people are cheated in the capital every year?" Chang sneered. "Many people report to the authorities, but who has the Five Cities Military Department caught? Reporting to the authorities is a waste of effort and will only make outsiders laugh at you."
"Then swallow this anger!" The sister-in-law patted the back of her hand, "Your husband's career is going smoothly now, you have two sons-in-law, the second son-in-law is in his prime, and the second wife is pregnant... The good days are still to come! Relax..."
"I just can't swallow this!" Chang patted his chest.
"Madam! Madam!"
At this time, there was a commotion outside, and the maid who had followed Jiang Qingzhi to escort rushed in. Chang saw her happy face and was startled, "What's the matter?"
"Madam, we caught them, we caught them!" the maid said happily, "We caught those swindlers!"
"Who caught him?" Chang came back to life in an instant, quickly peeled off the quilt, put on her clothes and shoes in one go, so skillfully that her sister-in-law who came to visit her was stunned.
Is this a patient?
"It was the Second Uncle!" the maid said, "The Second Uncle brought some people to block a medicine store and caught those swindlers."
Chang was stunned, and slapped his forehead suddenly, "Okay, God has eyes, God has eyes!"
This unsolved case was actually solved?
How much manpower did the long-time baron mobilize for this? How many connections did he mobilize... The sister-in-law from her natal family was very excited, thinking that such a powerful person was actually her relative, and it was indeed the blessing of her ancestors!
"Where is the money?" asked my sister-in-law.
The maid said, "Second uncle asked on the spot, the money has not been touched, now it is in their residence, second uncle sent someone to get it, he said it will be delivered later. Congratulations, madam!"
My sister-in-law also smiled and said, "You found a good son-in-law!"
"When I first saw Qingzhi, I felt that he was a son-in-law sent by heaven. It turned out to be true. Hahahaha!"
The money was not moved. Jiang Qingzhi asked why, and the scammers said it was because the spoils were not evenly divided and they were still arguing.
"The more money you have, the more trouble you will have." Sun Chonglou sighed.
This guy... Dou Jialan, who still hadn't paid off his debt, wanted to hit him. But Mo Zhan frowned slightly and said to Huang Bing: "Why does Shitou's words sound like those of a great monk?"
Huang Bing nodded. "Those monks want merit money and incense money, saying it's for offering to the gods. Shitou's words are purer than theirs. There's really a sense of selflessness."
Jiang Qingzhi went back home.
It just so happened that Chang sent someone to the Bo's house to announce the good news, asking her daughter not to be angry about this matter.
"…The second uncle and his men blocked the pharmacy, kicked open the door, and shouted: Who cheated my mother-in-law? Get out now! Oh my! The second lady could no longer imagine the second uncle's prestige. Those liars knelt on the ground and cried, regretting deeply…"
Li Tian listened attentively and whispered, "He said there would be a result today, and it's not even half a day yet!"
This is his husband!
Li Tian looked up and inadvertently saw Jiang Qingzhi outside the door.
"It's not that exaggerated." After the maid left, Jiang Qingzhi sat down and held Duoduo in his arms. "This matter is simple. The easiest people to deceive in this world are not children, but bored women and old people..."
Jiang Qingzhi spoke slowly and Li Tian listened attentively. Before he knew it, he fell asleep.
Jiang Qingzhi covered her with a quilt, went out quietly, and said to Huang Yaner, "Wake me up half an hour before dinner."
"My wife hasn't slept well these past two days. How about letting her sleep a little longer?"
"Slept too much and took a walk." Jiang Qingzhi said.
"My Lord, you even know this?" The little maid looked admiring.
Ha ha!
Jiang Qingzhi couldn't help feeling a little elated, and then he slapped his forehead.
Am I seeking recognition from others?
The next day, Li Tian had a big appetite for breakfast and ate two big meat buns in a row. Then she asked for some fried dough sticks and was about to start eating. Jiang Qingzhi quickly snatched the dough sticks away. "During pregnancy, you are not allowed to eat fried food!"
"Then what should I eat?"
"Two big meat buns aren't enough?" Jiang Qingzhi couldn't help but point at her belly. "Don't you know how much of your belly is baby and how much is fat?"
Li Tian pressed her lower abdomen and said, "It's fat... I can't live anymore."
After dinner, Jiang Qingzhi went to the front yard.
"My Lord, Wang Yiqi from the Ministry of Works sent someone to tell him that he will go to the Armory today." Xu Wei said with a smile.
"I hope that Old Wang will be able to stand firm after seeing the newly renovated Arms Bureau." Jiang Qingzhi said lightly.
(End of this chapter)
