Chapter 27 New Opponent

Ji Ziqian stood under the hall and bowed to Wei Zheng Shufeng: "Ziqian has seen my aunt!"

Wei Zheng Shufeng sat at the top and looked at Ji Ziqian. Seeing that the young man was handsome, knowledgeable and polite, he was satisfied, and asked softly, "How old is it?"

"Thirteen years old, the same age as Chong'er, and two months older than Chong'er, why did my sister-in-law forget?" The woman who answered the conversation was a woman sitting next to Wei Zheng Shufeng. Qiwei Zheng Shufeng was even worse.

Her name is Wei Lanxin, and she is Wei Danbai's married younger sister.

Wei Zheng Shufeng patted his forehead: "Oh, I'm getting older, and my memory is not good. Ziqian hasn't come to our house for a long time, right?"

"Two years and four months." Ji Ziqian replied.

"Yo, I really remember the day clearly." The wife laughed.

"Being able to enter Wei's house is something Ziqian has always yearned for. It's just that he lives far away and it's inconvenient to come and go, but if he comes here once in a while, he will naturally remember it."

"He is really a talking child." The wife nodded in satisfaction, then turned to look at Wei Lanxin: "I think this child is not bad."

"You also think it's good, so there's a way to do this?" Wei Lanxin said with a smile.

Wei Zheng Shufeng was not in a hurry, he just said leisurely: "But Ziqian is also a child of your Ji family after all, and if he serves as a servant for Chong'er, will he be too wronged?"

"No, no!" Wei Lanxin waved her hands and said, "It is his blessing that Ziqian can enter Wei's house. He can't even ask for it. We don't ask for anything else, but everything we need is up to you." My family will come out on their own, as long as there is one spot.”

"How can it be done?" Hearing this, the wife was not happy, but frowned and said: "Since it is a servant student, the fee should be paid by the Wei family. There is no reason for your family to pay for it."

Ji Ziqian hurriedly said: "If my aunt can guide you into the academy, Ziqian is grateful and will repay you with a crush."

"That's a heavy word." The wife said with a smile, "it's all from my own family. There's no such thing as repayment. Sit down, don't be so polite, and I'll take you to see the old man in a while. Such a thing, the old man has to nod to make it happen..."

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"So, Madam has already agreed?" Standing in the flower garden, Tang Jie asked in a deep voice.

"I wasn't there at the time. Rouge told me about this, so I don't know the details, so I knew that I didn't directly agree, but I just pushed it to the old man, but it seems that it will be done." Shiyue said in a low voice.

"This is strange." Tang Jie was puzzled: "Isn't the wife directly able to decide this matter? Why did you push it to the old man?"

"How would I know?"

Tang Jie thought for a long time but couldn't find the reason, so he could only say to himself: "I think there is something wrong with it."

"What else are you thinking about? I said you are not in a hurry if the quota is almost taken away by someone?" Shiyue was very curious seeing his calm look.

Tang Jie replied indifferently: "If you need to be in a hurry, it should be Shimo Shimeng and the others who should be in a hurry first. Suddenly only one of the two places is left. It must have a big impact on them, right?"

Shi Yue covered her mouth and laughed: "Shi Mo has been very honest these days, and he may still feel that he has great hope. If he wants to know the news now, he might cry. But no matter what, there is only one place left, you and Shi Mo The hope of dreams has also become smaller, you have to be careful!"

"I know, by the way, I haven't thanked you for telling me about this." Tang Jie had already taken out some money and put it in Shiyue's palm.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Shiyue closed her hands, she gave him a glare: "You treat everyone like Yan Zhi, and you only help you for money? You idiot!"

As she said that, her face blushed, and she turned to leave.

Looking at Shiyue's back, Tang Jie couldn't help being stunned, then shook his head and smiled wryly.

Only the next moment, his face was covered with clouds.

He muttered to himself: "Ji Ziqian..."

He had heard about the Ji family.

The Ji family is a family in Yongkang City, Lingzhou. It can be regarded as a well-established old family in the Yongkang area. In terms of history, it is longer than the Wei family. It mainly deals in silk and satin.

But in the past ten years, the Ji family's silk business has gone from bad to worse, and has begun to gradually decline.

Yongkang's position in Lingzhou is not obvious, and the Ji family is gradually declining, so it is extremely difficult to get a place in the academy.

Under such circumstances, it was understandable that Ji Weilan wanted to seek a chance for her son as a servant.

However, his arrival has become bad news for all the servants who hope to become servants!

More importantly, if Ji Ziqian can suddenly take the spot today, will another Li Ziqian and Zhang Ziqian come tomorrow?

There are only two servants in total, as long as there is another one, Tang Jie will be completely useless!

No one cares about the poor in the busy city, but the rich have distant relatives in the mountains.

The Wei family's family has a great career, and those who are related to each other are all caught up. It is not surprising that one or more applicants for servant education places will appear after a while.

Thinking of this, Tang Jie felt his head was as big as a bucket.

He didn't know how much effort he had put in to get into Xiyue College. Could it be that no matter how hard he worked, he couldn't get enough of his backer?

Thinking of the relationship between the Ji family and the Wei family, Tang Jie felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart.

No!

Tang Jie's eyes suddenly lit up.

The wife did not agree immediately.

Since she pushed the matter to the old man, it means that the wife does not welcome this matter. Although she still doesn't know why, the affairs of Ji's family are obviously not as smooth as it seems on the surface.

Then maybe I still have a chance!

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After doing good work in the afternoon, Tang Jie didn't go back to rest, but first went to see the chief steward Qin.

After talking for a long time, I took the time to go to my wife's Yichang Garden.

It was time for his wife to take a nap, Yan Zhi had nothing to do, so she was waiting outside the house, and she saw Tang Jie approaching from a distance, and gave herself a wink.

Yanzhi smiled secretly, walked over and said, "Oh, why are you free to come here today?"

Tang Jie replied: "The young master of the new flower art is tired of looking at it, and he wants me to make some new patterns. But my sister knows, how can my brother get so many patterns? It's not because I was worried that I couldn't do anything, but I thought that my sister was good at embroidery, so I decided to do it. Come here with a cheeky face and ask Sister Yanzhi for an embroidered face as a base."

Yanzhi slapped Tang Jie: "You can also ask for the embroidery of my daughter's house? If it spreads, how can I, Yanzhi, behave? You might think that I am private with you..."

She blushed, but did not continue, Tang Jie smiled and said: "Yes, I was abrupt, I didn't think of this level, since this is the case, forget it."

Said he wanted to leave, but Tang Jie didn't move, he just said: "By the way, Sister Yanzhi, I heard that there is another distinguished guest at your house?"

Yanzhi glanced at Tang Jie playfully, and snorted, "Yo, the news spread really fast, and that damn bitch Shiyue told you, right? It seems that asking for embroidered face is fake, This scouting news is true."

Tang Jie grinned and said, "I don't need to find any news, but I just need to confirm it. The Ji family and the Wei family are also in-laws after all, so the matter of servant education is definitely a certainty."

"That may not be the case." Yan Zhi snorted, "The madam didn't agree directly, she just pushed it to the old man to decide, but the old man said, we have to ask the master about this matter, the master didn't come back outside, so he just asked people to come back." In other words, there is no rush to finalize the matter of the servant school, let the young master live in the Wei Mansion for a while, and talk with the young master first."

"This is evading each other, but why?" Tang Jie asked hastily.

Rouge snorted and ignored him.

Tang Jie had already taken out some money and stuffed it into Yanzhi's hand. Yanzhi accepted it with a smile on her face, and seeing no one was around, she leaned into Tang Jie's ear and whispered: "I don't know why. My aunt came back this time and brought There are a lot of gifts, as I said before, as long as the Wei Mansion is willing to give the Ji family a place, all the expenses can be paid by the Ji family themselves. Unexpectedly, the wife did not appreciate it, and only took them to see the old man, and lost her temper after returning , saying something like, "Is my Wei family short of this money? Need them to pay for it? It's really inexplicable!" I don't know what kind of temper she lost."

The cost of the academy is expensive, even if the Wei family has to provide support for these disciples who are cultivating immortals every year, the cost is huge. It is a good thing that the Ji family pays the tuition fees themselves, why is the wife still dissatisfied? Rouge couldn't figure it out.

"So it's like this..." Tang Jie nodded and laughed out loud, and the doubts in his heart were finally resolved: "I said that this should have been done for sure, why hasn't it been implemented yet, the relationship problem is here Woolen cloth."

Yan Zhi was puzzled, and poked Tang Jie: "Hey, what are you talking about? Do you know why your wife is angry?"

Tang Jie replied: "The reason why the family is willing to choose servants to go to school with the young master is not only because they want to serve the young master, but also because there is another important reason, which is to cultivate their own immortal teacher. In order to obtain a truly trustworthy immortal teacher, how much money will be spent? It's all worth it. Although the Ji family and the Wei family are related by marriage, Ji Ziqian is not from the Wei family after all. He is not from his own family, so he can also enter his own family. But the aunt said that all expenses should be paid by the Ji family. It is clear that this is used as capital to reduce the leverage on the Wei family, that is to say, Ji Ziqian will still serve the Ji family in the future!"

As he said that, Tang Jie sneered: "For poor families, the tuition fee may be a barrier to entry, but for rich families, the quota is really valuable. You know, the annual quota , that can’t be bought even if you have money, and if you rarely release some, you can easily sell it for tens of thousands or even more than one hundred thousand taels of silver, which is thousands of times the tuition itself. Quota for Moon College! And the Ji family didn’t give anything in return, they just wanted to take away a quota from the Wei family. How could this not make my wife angry? The Wei family said it was a quota every year, but every year they stare at this quota Yes, but there are hundreds. The Wei family has to spend a huge amount of money for this quota every year, and others have to spend a huge amount of money to buy extra places from the Wei family. The Wei family balances income and expenditure by entering and leaving quotas. In order to provide for his children to go to school, otherwise relying solely on their own business, the Wei family will not be able to afford this bottomless pit of millions of silver. Therefore, the entry and exit of this quota has long been a business, and he The Ji family probably has the lowest bid among all those who want it!"

Speaking of this, Tang Jie snorted: "It's no wonder that the Ji family is depressed and neglected. They are so short-sighted and unwilling to give even the minimum contribution. How can they get long-term rewards? Of course, it may be because of relationships. You can only do this relatively recently, but it's a pity that this aunt obviously overestimated her price, even the old man would not agree to throw away tens of thousands of money for a daughter who is already married."

What he said was casual but profoundly meaningful, Yan Zhi was already stunned to hear it.

She was a servant girl who served her wife, and her vision was very limited. Although she knew that spiritual masters were honorable, she never had a specific concept. She only thought that the annual tuition fee of several hundred taels of silver was sky-high, but she didn't know that the quota itself was the most valuable.

As a maid, she could be excited for several days by getting a tael of silver, but now that the tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of silver were thrown down, she immediately became dizzy and dizzy.

Listening to Tang Jie's last few words at this moment, I finally understand why Shiyue treats Tang Jie so well.

This dead girl of feelings understands all this better than she does, so she chooses one early... She is investing in the future!

Different from Shi Mo, Shi Mo is still pinning his hopes on the young master, but Yan Zhi and Shi Yue knew that his chances were slim, Yan Zhi alienated him because of this, but did not ignore him directly for the sake of money, but unexpectedly, Shi Yue would be more Further, he directly started hooking up with Tang Jie.

After thinking about this, Yan Zhi secretly hated herself for being blind, thinking that she was smart, but being confused by petty gains, and on the other hand, that servant Yue looked quiet on weekdays, but secretly exhausted all means.

After thinking about this, Yan Zhi's expression also changed, and she smiled at Tang Jie: "So that's the case, but you are clever, and you figured out the key in a moment. It seems that they can't make it happen."

She actually flattered Tang Jie in reverse.

"That's not necessarily it!" Tang Jie said seriously: "In any case, the two families are relatives by marriage. As long as the aunt is willing to let go, the old man and the master may not be able to save face. I see, the Ji family is doing business. I'm used to it, and I'm playing the game of asking prices all over the sky and paying back the money after landing. But sooner or later, my aunt will still agree to some conditions, and by then, Ji Ziqian's enrollment will really become an unchangeable fact."

Speaking of this, Tang Jie looked at Yanzhi and said with a smile: "Sister Yanzhi, although I haven't been in the house for a long time, I have been taken care of by my sister these days and helped me many times, and I am grateful in my heart. Soaring into the sky, I must repay my sister well. But now it seems that there is little hope."

As he said that, he shook his head appropriately as a sigh: "It's a pity that Ji Ziqian is the young master of the Ji family after all, and no matter how he becomes successful in the future, I think it has nothing to do with my sister."

Rouge was upset when she heard that.

Thinking about it, Ji Ziqian is different from Tang Jie, he comes from a family and has countless servants, so there is really no need to curry favor with his servants. Even if Yan Zhi wanted to hug Ji Ziqian's thigh, she probably wouldn't have a chance.

Thinking of this, Rouge hurriedly said: "Isn't there still a quota?"

Tang Jie said earnestly: "There are still two years before the young master enters school. How can Sister Yanzhi be sure that no one else will come during this time? Besides, there are always no two places for one quota, which is reassuring. Plan ahead, really. If you wait until the second quota is gone, it will be too late to worry!"

Rouge completely changed color.

The hope that had just been raised in her heart was poured down by Tang Jie's pot of cold water, so one can imagine how she felt.

Seeing Yan Zhi's appearance, Tang Jie knew that the heat was almost ready, so he murmured again: "But it's not impossible..."