"Girl, have you gone to the wrong door? Our mansion has not done anything funeral?" The man guarding the gate looked at the girl in surprise and said.

"Does Huang Han live here?" The girl looked up at the door plaque with "Huang Mansion" written on the door, staring at the gate guard with expressionless face, and asked coldly.[]

"This is the Huang Mansion, you are..." The man guarding the gate immediately showed a look of vigilance on his face. From the tone, the girl seemed to be unkind.

"That's right." After getting the affirmation of the gatekeeper, the girl's face turned cold, raised her legs and broke straight into the yard.

"Girl, girl, if you have anything to do, I'll inform you." Seeing this, the gatekeeper hurriedly walked a few steps and chased after him, stretched out his hand and stopped the girl.

"What's the matter?" the girl snorted coldly and said coldly, "If you want to know, ask Huang Han."

As he said that, the girl continued to walk in. The gatekeeper hurriedly reached out to pull her sleeve, "Wait until I report to Mr. Huang, you go in."

"I am Huang Han's woman, please try touching me!" Seeing that the gatekeeper's hand was about to touch the girl's arm, the girl glared and said in a sweet voice.

The man guarding the gate suddenly stopped in the air, looking surprised. Tan Zong seemed to have never heard of him having a woman outside except for his ambiguous relationship with the girl Shi Shi.

But the girl's attitude doesn't seem to be lying. If she is really Tan Zong's woman, then she is really untouchable. Otherwise, she would be disrespectful to her relatives and would lose her job.

The guards in Tan Zong’s mansion are all recruited from the docks. They are well-fed, not only for food and accommodation, but also for meat and fish in meals, but also for five cents a month.

In addition to supporting the family, the guards can also spend some of their money every month. They are thousands of times better than being dirty, tiring and less wages on the dock. No one wants to lose such a good job.

The girl saw that the man guarding the gate did not dare to pull her, so she quickly walked towards the hall of the main courtyard.

Seeing this, the gatekeeper hurriedly called for someone. After a while, a group of guards and maids rushed over.

Perhaps the girl was too fierce, and no one dared to come forward to stop her, so he had to follow her and watch her enter the hall.

After arriving at the hall, the girl put the tablet on the table opposite the door, sat on the chair next to her, and sneered at the guards standing in the room, "Tell Huang Han, my aunt is here."

The guards looked at each other when they heard this. The girl's temper was a little too hot.

Meanwhile, the backyard.

"Master Huang, Master Huang, someone is looking for him." A guard whispered while knocking on the door of Tan Zong's bedroom.

"Who?" Tan Zong drank with Gu Tianyi last night and slept late. He was woken up from his sleep by the ward. After opening his sleepy eyes, he stretched his waist lazily and asked casually.

I don’t know who was so blinded, but came over early in the morning to disturb people’s dreams. If it weren’t for some important person, he decided to continue sleeping.

"It's a girl." The voice of the guard guard then passed by, "A girl wearing a mourning uniform and holding a spirit card in her hand."

"Girl! Mourning clothes! Spiritual cards?" Tan Zong was slightly stunned when he heard this, muttering to himself, but he didn't react for a while.

"Fuck, it's not that Xie Ying!" Suddenly, Tan Zong came to his senses, sat up from the bed, and shouted outside the door, "What words are written on the spirit card?"

"Master Huang, I don't know." The guard immediately laughed dryly. He was a coolie from a dock and could not read. "But that girl looks very fierce and kept shouting that it was your woman, and no one dared to touch her."

At this moment, Tan Zong was finally sure that it must be Xie Ying. After being stunned for a moment, he couldn't help but mutter, with a look of depression, "No matter what, it's a real sister, there's no need to send it here in such a hurry."

Tan Zong is now mute and cannot say what he has to suffer. Although he reached an agreement with Xie Liang to exchange Xie Ying for Xie Mansion and 500 taels of silver, it was for outsiders to see, so there was no specific date.

In Tan Zong's opinion, Xie Liang had to wait until Xie Hao's 37 passes before sending Xie Ying over. Now, just after Xie Hao's 7 passes, Xie Ying climbed the door openly, with mourning clothes and tablets, making him like a bully who forcibly robbed a woman.

After washing up, Tan Zong came to the hall of the main courtyard. The guards and maids had dispersed at this time. Xie Ying sat at the table and ate breakfast with big mouthfuls, while Shi Shi and Tao Ying were accompanying her.

After Shi Shi experienced the incident of Yihong Building, for safety reasons, Tan Zong asked Shi Shi's family to move over and live in a side yard in the backyard. Anyway, there are many yards at home, so it is empty if you don't live.

"Brother." Seeing Tan Zong come in, Shi Shi and Tao Ying quickly stood up.

Xie Ying seemed to have not seen Tan Zong for a glance, and continued to bury her head and eat, using chopsticks to pull the porridge into her mouth, making a loud bang.

"I said, can you not make such a loud noise when you eat?" Tan Zong sat down on the chair beside him, looked up at Xie Hao's spiritual position on the table, and looked at Xie Ying with a blank expression, "Also, I am Huang's mansion, not your Xie's house. If you want to take your father's spiritual position, then don't enter the Huang's door."

Bang!

As soon as Tan Zong finished speaking, Xie Ying slapped the chopsticks heavily on the table, looked up and stared at him coldly, "That's my father-in-law, your future father-in-law, aren't you afraid of being punished by God when you speak like this?"

"Miss Xie, you seem to be wrong. You are here to be a maid, not my wife." Tan Zong almost choked to death by Xie Ying's words. Then, he smiled slightly and looked at Xie Ying with a condescending look. "If your brother hadn't knelt down and begged me, how could I want an uneducated wild girl like you? Do you know that if you came to my master, in addition to your Xie family's house, I would also give your brother five hundred taels of silver. In other words, you bought it for more than 1,500 taels of silver."

"You..." When did Xie Ying suffer such humiliation? She stood up and glared at Tan Zong angrily.

"If you don't want to be a maid, you can leave now." Facing the angry Xie Ying, Tan Zong leisurely raised his legs and looked at her with a smile, "But if you think clearly, I will take back the Xie family's house, and the five hundred taels of silver you want will fly away."

Looking at Tan Zong who was arrogant, tears of humiliation flowed down Xie Ying's cheeks instantly. She bit her lip tightly, picked up Xie Hao's spiritual position on the table and left.

"Brother." Seeing Xie Ying walk out of the room, Shi Shi felt unbearable and looked at Tan Zong.

"Don't worry, she will come back." Tan Zong smiled discontently, got up and sat at the table, "I'm hungry, bring the food up."

Shi Shi nodded with a smile, asked the maids to remove the leftover food Xie Ying had and exchange a new breakfast for Tan Zong.

Recalling the meeting between Tan Zong and Xie Liang by the lake, Shi Shi vaguely felt that Tan Zong treated Xie Ying so coldly, and there must be some reason.

Although Shi Shi had been in contact with Tan Zong for a short time, she knew that Tan Zong was not the one who took advantage of others' danger, nor was she the lustful person. Otherwise, she would have become his pillow.

After lunch, just as Tan Zong was bored reading an ancient book in the study, Tao Yong hurriedly walked in and closed the door after entering.

"Is there any news that the salt merchant has sold grain privately?" Seeing this, Tan Zong was excited, stood up from his chair, and asked in a deep voice.

"Brother, I asked. Since the beginning of the year, there have been three incidents of salt merchants smuggling grain at several wharfs in Yangzhou, all of which have been transported to the north." Tao Yong came to Tan Zong and whispered.

"Transported to the north?" Tan Zong frowned slightly when he heard this. Suzhou Prefecture was downstream of the canal, and the grain was transported to the upper reaches. In this way, it would be much more troublesome to find out where the grain was going. It seemed that the other party had prepared and had a very careful plan.

"Do you know whose product it is?" After pondering for a moment, Tan Zong looked up at Tao Yong.

"The brothers on the dock are just concerned with loading and unloading goods. If you want to know who the goods are, you can only find the Cao Gang who is responsible for the dock dispatch. I am afraid of arousing other people's suspicion, so I dare not approach them." Tao Yong shook his head and said.

"When was the last batch of grain transported out?" Tan Zong got up and walked out the window, looked at the big tree in the yard for a while, and turned to look at Tao Yong.

"One night two months ago, the goods were loaded at the Yujiakou Wharf in the north of the city." Tao Yong walked over and said in a deep voice, "There are three managers in the Yujiakou Wharf. The manager in charge of this batch of goods is named Pang Jun."

"Three?" Tan Zong pondered for a moment when he heard this, and asked, "What is the relationship between this Pang Jun and the other two managers?"

"These managers at the Yangzhou Wharf belong to different fragrant masters of the Caogang Zhongyi Hall. Pang Jun is the cousin of the fragrant master Pang Shaohui. Relying on the support of the master Pang Xiang, he is usually domineering. He is arrogant at the Fisherman's Wharf and looks down on the other two managers." Tao Yong knew that Tan Zong was not clear about what was happening at the dock, so he explained to him, "Five years ago, because he had to rush to load a batch of goods, Pang Jun and another manager named Hou Fu had a conflict, which led to Jiang Xiang and Pang Xiang's documents and a life-and-death battle. If the master had not arrived in time, the two people from the fragrant master would have fought."

"Master Jiang Xiang?" Tan Zong was slightly stunned, looking a little surprised, "Are you saying that Hou Fu is Jiang Qing's person?"

"Does the eldest brother actually know Master Jiang Xiang?" Tao Yong was a little surprised when he saw Tan Zong ask this and explained, "Hou Fu is Jiang Qing's brother-in-law."

"Jiang Qing and I have met several times. If you prepare a gift to meet Hou Fu, you will say that he will take care of the future water transportation business." After hearing Tao Yong say this, Tan Zong immediately made a plan in his heart and told Tao Yong in a deep voice, "Don't be afraid of spending money or not enough money, go and find Miss Shi. No matter what method you use, as long as the owner of the goods can be collected from his mouth."

"I understand." Tao Yong bowed to Tan Zong and stood up and left.

"Pang Shaohui, Jiang Qing!" Tan Zong paced back and forth in the room for a few steps, muttering to himself. It seemed that the Cao Gang was not a solid piece, full of various interests. This would be an opportunity for him.

Just as Tan Zong was considering whether to invite Jiang Qing to have a banquet and establish a good relationship with him, a maid walked in, "Master Huang, Miss Xie is here."

"Take her here." Tan Zong then remembered that there was something troublesome at hand, so he nodded at the maid.

After a while, Xie Ying, wearing a blue skirt, was taken into the house by the maid, and glared at Tan Zong with a frosty face.

"You go down first." Tan Zong waved his hand to the maid, and the maid stepped out. He didn't know what he thought, but when he went out, he actually brought it to the door.

"What do you want to do?" Seeing that the door was closed, Xie Ying was startled and immediately looked at Tan Zong with a warning, with a hint of panic in her eyes.

"Haha, a lonely man and a widow, what do you think I'm going to do?" Tan Zong called Xie Ying and wanted to warn Xie Ying to stay in the mansion honestly and not cause trouble. After noticing her panic, he was about to take the opportunity to hit her, then stood up and walked over in a daze.

"You... don't come over, otherwise I will scream and let everyone know about your scandal." Facing Tan Zong who was walking over step by step, Xie Ying was shocked and stared at Tan Zong with a calm look.

"Hmph, you are the maid I bought with money. I can do whatever I want. Who can control it?" Tan Zong snorted disdainfully when he heard this, then looked at Xie Ying with an ambiguous look, with pride in his eyes, "Besides, this yard is full of mine, you just shouted to death, who can know."

"You...you..." Xie Ying's face turned pale in an instant, and she retreated repeatedly. Tan Zong was right. Since she entered the Huang Mansion, it was already the fish on the chopping board and allowed Tan Zong to slaughter.

Finally, Xie Ying retreated to the door, pressed her back against the door, and she could not retreat. After all, she was a young girl in the flower season who was not very experienced in the world. She had never experienced such a terrible thing. In her eyes, Tan Zong was simply a demon who did everything evil. She subconsciously turned around and pulled the door, trying to escape in panic.

With a snap, before Xie Ying could open the door, Tan Zong rushed up, reached out and pressed the door tightly, and pressed it tightly. Xie Ying pulled it hard for a few times but couldn't pull it open.

"Let me leave, let me leave." In the moment of shock, Xie Ying pulled the door and screamed, making Tan Zong's eardrum hurt.

"If you step out of this door today, then the agreement between me and your brother will be invalidated. I will take it back to Xie's mansion immediately." Tan Zong let go, and took his arm away from the door. Xie Ying opened the door. Just as he was about to rush out, Tan Zong smiled coldly and said.
Chapter completed!