Rebirth of the Prime Minister's Wife

The early morning light in winter always comes very slowly. It finally cleared up a few days ago. Just when everyone thought there was finally a turn for the better, little did they know that the next few days would be gloomy, with fine snow mixed with cold weather. The wind makes people's faces hurt.

Wang Qi rubbed his hands that were red from the cold. Originally, he only stood outside the door to greet guests. Two years later, his identity suddenly changed——

Became the errand boy in the house.

As soon as he entered the room, he went to the stove to warm his hands until his whole body was warm and comfortable.

"What are you doing squatting here? Go get to work!"

A sinister voice sounded from behind Wang Qi. The fat shopkeeper rolled up the account book in his hand and hit the squatting man's head hard. , his expression was gloomier than the weather outside.

Wang Qi turned around skillfully.Apologize, bow and laugh.After a set of procedures, the fat shopkeeper's face turned from gloomy to clear.

"The weather is still bad today. It looks like it will rain." The fat shopkeeper glanced outside and said unhappily, "It seems that not many people will come today."

Since the snowstorm, the bank has had no business for nearly three months. The fat shopkeeper fidgeted with his fortune beads.

Although I have accepted this situation, I don't know why, but I am in a bad mood today for no reason.

As soon as he finished speaking, the wind chime hanging at the door rang softly.

At this time, someone pushed the door in from outside the house.

Wang Qi, who was diligently wiping the counter, perked up his ears. He immediately put on a warm smile and stepped forward to greet the others.

Perhaps it was a long time since he had had any guests, Wang Qi braced himself up, and before seeing anyone, he angrily said to the door, "Does the guest want to pawn or exchange... silver... taels..."

That passionate voice seemed to have been strangled by someone's neck, and became extremely weird. The sentence was cut into three parts before he could barely finish it.

The door curtain was opened, and a woman wearing a veil walked in, followed by a man and a woman.

The face of the veiled woman cannot be distinguished, but those eyes that are so calm and emotionless are something that people will never forget.

Wang Qi's hand shook and the broom fell to the ground.

The fat shopkeeper squatted under the counter and took stock of things. At first, he nodded with satisfaction when he heard Wang Qi's energetic voice. The tea can in his hand turned straight down when Wang Qi's voice sounded like a missing suona. He was shocked. After falling to the ground, the jar rolled down the small steps and stopped on a pair of embroidered shoes stuck to the snow and mud and embroidered with patterns.

The fat shopkeeper walked down quickly, and his hurried steps suddenly stopped when he saw the person coming.

The face full of fat looked like an overturned five-flavor bottle for an instant, and the blues and purples were extremely exciting.

His eyes glanced at the young man behind her who suddenly grew taller. His eyes suddenly turned frightened, and he pointed tremblingly with his hand, "You...you..."

His ancestors, what evil have they done today!

As soon as Qin Zhaozhao entered the room, he saw two familiar faces and couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Unexpectedly, the same group of people were still in the bank. I thought that when the county magistrate was changed in Xinxiang, the original shopkeeper would naturally be changed as well.

Qin Zhaozhao turned to look at the man with a dull face, "Shopkeeper, you're fine."

The fat shopkeeper's face trembled, and he didn't even bother to say polite words, "What are you doing here?"

Qin Zhaozhao smiled and raised his delicate eyebrows slightly, "Of course I'm here to make a deal with the shopkeeper."

The fat shopkeeper now has a psychological shadow over the word "deal" that she said.

He has not forgotten how he completed the "deal" with Qin Zhaozhao last time.

Qin Zhaozhao didn't know why the fat shopkeeper was always hesitant to speak. He thought he was weighing the pros and cons of this transaction, so he cleared his throat and said, "Shopkeeper, you don't have to worry so much. I'm here just to let you do what I want you to do." Just a little something.”

Little things?The fat shopkeeper's mouth twitched, he would be a ghost if he believed it.

Sure enough, every word that came out of Qin Zhaozhao's mouth made the fat shopkeeper's mouth tremble three times along with the flesh on his cheeks.

"I want to spread porridge in a tent to feed the hungry people, but now I am short of pots, bowls, and even more people." Qin Zhaozhao said bluntly, "I hope the shopkeeper can help."

"Besides, I want the shopkeeper to use his connections to stop those... people with ulterior motives and evil intentions. After all, if I block other people's way, those people will naturally not let me go."

The fat shopkeeper felt more and more outrageous and laughed out loud after hearing this.

When Qin Zhaozhao spreads a tent to give out porridge, whose way is he blocking?

Naturally, it belongs to the county magistrate Liu Qu.

Once the porridge service started in the tent, the people would increasingly accuse the county magistrate of eating the meal with the dead body, and the public resentment would be overwhelming. If the supervisory censor sent by his subordinates noticed it and reported it to the emperor, Liu Qu would lose his head.

Liu Qu didn't want to lose his head, so he would naturally choose to lose his head to anyone who blocked his way.

Now that Qin Zhaozhao came to him to do this business, wasn't it just to push him to death?

The fat shopkeeper sneered and said, "Miss Qin, this is a bank, not a place for doing good deeds. Since you talk about a deal, you always want me to do everything for you. You have a good plan."

"Don't you think I'm being taken advantage of? You can take whatever you want, but you can't take it!"

As he said this, he actually became annoyed because there was a giant Buddha standing behind her. Thinking about what had happened before, he did not dare to get angry.

After Qin Zhaozhao listened quietly, he walked to the table and pointed to the seat opposite him, "Don't worry, shopkeeper, let's sit down and talk in detail."

The fat shopkeeper snorted coldly and sat down as instructed.Wang Qi, who was following him with sharp eyes, poured a cup of hot tea for the two of them and stood aside quietly.

Qin Zhaozhaoyu twisted the tea lid with his fingers, gently stirred the tea, took a sip and put it down, and said straight to the point, "Hasn't the Qianzhuang's harvest been bad in the past two years?"

"The former one was defeated by the newly appointed county magistrate Liu Qu. The two have always been incompatible, and now they are just the winner and the loser." Qin Zhaozhao tapped the table with his fingertips, and the sound of the knock made the fat shopkeeper feel in his heart. Hanging a bucket of water up and down. "So I remember well that the shopkeeper is a distant cousin of the former county magistrate...and the imprisoned gentleman, right?"

"The first thing Liu Qu did when he took office was to collect his money. You are obviously not what he wants." Qin Zhaozhao smiled, his eyes were penetrating to the essence, "I heard that another bank has opened in Xinxiang, and there are many old customers. Have they all gone there? That's natural. After all, anyone with a discerning eye knows that it's Liu Qu's money bag. If you want to continue doing business in Xinxiang, even if it's for the sake of better relations in the future, you have to give him more or less. Give me some support."

"As for you, Qian Wansan, you have no room for maneuver at all. You can only let the bank gradually decline in the past two years. Now I am afraid that it cannot make ends meet and is about to close its doors."

Qin Zhaozhao looked at this place with regret, "You must have spent a lot of energy here, right? Are you willing to end in such a hasty way?"

She was like a devil seducing people's hearts, pulling him step by step into her trap, "Those people in your family are still waiting to see your jokes."

Qian Wansan sounded a little depressed at first, until she called out his name, his pupils swayed, and he stood up in a panic, almost tripping over.

He felt as if he was struck by lightning, and his whole body trembled unconsciously, "How do you know my name?"

Qian Wansan has never revealed his name and is stationed here almost anonymously. Even if someone calls him Fat Shopkeeper, he acquiesces.

Having not been called this name for a long time, Qian Wansan was stunned at first, and then he was filled with panic——

Could it be someone sent by my family to monitor him?

Qin Zhaozhao was originally just testing, but when he saw his reaction was so huge, he suddenly understood.

The Qian family's businesses are spread all over the world, and they are known as the richest merchants in the world in Beiyan. The reason why their family is in Shengjing is because the Qian family has been merchants for generations, and it is rare for this generation to have a civil servant.

As for Qian Wansan's identity... Qin Zhaozhao remembered it accidentally.When her father Qin Yuanming was the magistrate of Chaisang County, he investigated all the county magistrates and found out that there was a magistrate named Qian in Xinxiang. He even mentioned it, including the one who was driven there by the Qian family. eldest son.

Although Qian Wansan was the eldest son, he was born from a concubine and had a low status. He had no support from his mother's family and had many brothers. Once he lost power, he was driven to this remote area.

"I have my own way." Qin Zhaozhao smiled, looking more mysterious and unpredictable, "Shopkeeper Qian, if you agree to this, you will definitely severely dampen Liu Qu's energy and the reputation of your bank. It will definitely rise a lot inside.”

"Secondly, it is said that businessmen attach great importance to profits, but the word profit is based on 'faith' - although your boss Qian is a snobbery, he is better at being honest. What is missing now is a person who can make everyone 'convince' you Opportunity."

"No one is blind. Whoever provides help in times of crisis will be the one everyone will turn to."

Qin Zhaozhao spoke very slowly, but each word fell on Qian Wansan's mind, "Anyway, your situation can't get any worse, right? It's up to you to fight for a better future or to live or die. in a moment."

"Do you still want to stay in this small temple in Xinxiang in obscurity and disappear from the sight of the Qian family in Shengjing?"

She stretched out her hand, and although she was questioning, her posture was filled with absolute determination, "If you cooperate with me, this will be a very profitable business, Shopkeeper Qian."

Qian Wansan had always endured it. His long-buried unwillingness and ambition were easily aroused by Qin Zhaozhao's few words. He narrowed his eyes slightly, with a ruthless light in his eyes.

"Give me another reason to agree to you." Qian Wansan approached, and the calculating look returned to his face, "Since you know me so well, you should know that I will not do anything that is not a profitable transaction. .”

Qin Zhaozhao put an extremely ordinary jade pendant on the table without hesitation, "The shopkeeper travels all over the country, so he naturally knows what this is."

Qian Wansan was stunned and reached out to take it. He recognized the complicated patterns on it at a glance, "A token of Tongbao Bank?"

Then he turned around and saw a subtle engraving, and his pupils suddenly dilated.

The hand holding the jade pendant began to tremble unconsciously. He suddenly raised his head and looked at Qin Zhaozhao, his excitement beyond words, "This is the general chapter! It is the general chapter of Tongbao Bank!"

"As long as there is this thing, there is nothing you can't think of, and there is nothing they can't do! Even if you ask Tongbao Bank to do a business of killing people and stealing goods, they will not refuse!"

Qian Wansan's eyes showed obsession, and he was as careful as holding a treasure. It seemed that it was the first time he saw this object, and he murmured in a daze: "Is this chapter yours? How can it be yours?"

Qin Zhaozhao remained calm, but silently wrote down his words.

Tongbao Bank has thousands of tokens, among which the tokens can be redeemed all over the country, and can touch the unknown dark side of Tongbao Bank, which is called the "General Chapter".

It seems that the identity of the mysterious man is indeed extraordinary.

If it were announced to the whole world that she had met the legendary head of Tongbao Bank, I am afraid that even the dignitaries in the palace would be alarmed by the news.

Qin Zhaozhao quickly suppressed these thoughts and acted indifferently, "It's just a gift from someone who knows me."

"With this thing, is Shopkeeper Qian still worried about not being able to deal with Liu Qu?"

One sentence made Qian Wansan stand in awe and look at Qin Zhaozhao with something different.

He didn't hesitate at this moment and made the decision immediately, "I'll take this deal."

"Give me a day."

Qin Zhaozhao raised his eyebrows, smiled and clapped his hands, "Shopkeeper Qian is really cheerful."

Hearing this, she stood up and said, "Please ask the shopkeeper to set up a shed and set up a boiler at the entrance of the workshop before tomorrow. I will be waiting for you."

……

The news that Qin Zhaozhao donated porridge out of his own pocket spread throughout Xinxiang overnight.

As soon as the genius was revealed, waves of people had gathered in the city. In addition to the refugees, there were also people who were starving due to no harvest.

The falling snow was falling, and most people were tightly wrapped in clothes that could only cover their bodies, and stood in a long line with red faces.Because there were people standing all around with sticks and fierce looks, no one dared to make a fuss over it. They just sighed and looked at the rising fog in front of them, and swallowed hard.

People spread the word that the porridge was distributed by the famous Qin brother and sister two years ago. When they heard that Xinxiang was in trouble, they used all their savings to help the people tide over the difficulties.

What’s even more shocking is that Tongbao Bank helped.The fat boss turned out to be a kind person who was secretly hiding. When all the businessmen and officials were trying to avoid him, he was the only one who stood up resolutely and helped the Qin siblings.

Sure enough, a person cannot be judged by his appearance.

In just one day, the reputation of these three people spread far beyond Xinxiang.I don’t know who heard that this idea was thought up by Qin Zhaozhao, and the people praised her as a woman, like the reincarnation of a living Bodhisattva.

At this time, inside the county magistrate's house.

It is snowing heavily outside, but the heat is rising in the inner room, and the birds are singing and dancing.The dancing girl in scantily clad clothes twists her waist, and the strings of the piano are plucked to play a melodious song. The smell of wine and the fragrance of rouge intertwine into a turbid atmosphere, all of which reveal the drunkenness and dreams.

"well!"

The indistinct shouts were rising and falling. Liu Qu was very drunk, with the smell of alcohol filling his cheeks. His eyes were blurred as he looked at the trembling peaks as the dancer approached and then suddenly moved away. He smiled happily. He rushed forward, grabbed the woman and kissed her hard.

The dancer smiled, pushed him away, and walked away with a smile.

Just when he was enjoying himself, the door was pushed open behind him, and a biting cold air dispersed the scorching heat in the room, waking up Liu Qu who was standing at the door.

He turned around unsteadily, and his outer clothes fell sideways with the movement, and the corners of his clothes were wrinkled into shape. Before he could see the person clearly, he cursed, "Which bastard dares to disturb my mood, master?"

"Come here, drag him out and hit twenty boards!"

Seeing his ridiculous appearance, the master shook his head and said, "Sir, it's me."

Liu Qu blinked hard and seemed to find the voice very familiar. He thought for a long time and suddenly grinned, "Ah, it's you."

"What's the matter?"

The master lowered his head, "Someone is beating drums to complain, wanting to sue the Qi family for seizing farmland and raping women."

Liu Qu frowned and thought for a while, "Qi family? The Qi family who gave me the Nanshan Shoushi Stone two days ago?"

The master nodded, "Exactly."

Liu Qu waved his hand, "Kick those people out with a dozen sticks. Those who dare to sue the master for my cover-up, are you impatient?"

The master's expression remained unchanged, as if this was expected, and he reported the second thing, "There is someone in the city who is setting up a tent to provide porridge. Now the people praise him, but they are talking about you..."

"It's all scolding."

Liu Qu suddenly woke up.

He spat fiercely and stood up angrily, "Which unscrupulous person dares to overstep his authority and act like this?"

"I heard it was a woman named Qin Zhaozhao and her younger brother Qin Changqing. These two people were famous in Xinxiang. Qin Changqing was a gambler a few years ago. Qin Zhaozhao went into a gambling house alone for him and had a conflict with Liu Laoliu. Just brought the person back."

"He disappeared for the next two years. It is said that now he heard that Xinxiang was in trouble and came back spontaneously to help the people tide over the difficulties."

"Is there a problem?" Liu Qu's eyebrows became more sinister, and he slammed his fist on the table, "That's nonsense! Where is the problem under my jurisdiction? Where is the problem!"

"This group of unscrupulous people, protected by my officer, just kneels in front of the county magistrate's house every day and kowtows to thank me, but they actually make these troubles and disturb my interest." Liu Qu gritted his teeth, "Call all the arresters. , I want to see what kind of unruly people dare to ride on my head, the official!"