Chapter 59 Harvest (Middle)

  "Take a look, whatever makes money."

  "Eldest son, let's not get involved in this." Shen Jing shook his head and said: "With this money, I can eat, drink and have fun for a year."

  "I believe in Chao Sheng!" The eldest son said firmly, with a hint of embarrassment: "And I also want to do something."

  "What's going on?" Shen Jing exclaimed in surprise.

  "I haven't figured it out yet either." The eldest son said with shame: "I've been thinking about it in the dark room for a few days, but I still haven't thought it through clearly."

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  At this time, the sun went down and the sky was completely dark. The three of them had to stop talking and agreed to meet again another day before parting ways.

  Sneaking into the Shen family's mansion through the back door, Shen Mo also parted ways with Shen Jing and hummed a tune that no one could understand as he entered Wen Tao's courtyard.

  As soon as he entered the Moon Gate Cave, he heard a rough and resentful voice behind him shouting: "Halt!"

  A moment of silence, and he immediately raised his hands in surrender. He only had three cents on him, not worth resisting.

  "Are you Shen Gongzi?" the man asked.

  He fell silent for a moment, then relaxed... If it was a robbery, they wouldn't be so polite. He turned his head to take a look and, oh, it was an acquaintance, so he asked cautiously: "Wang Erhu, you've been released?" It was actually the younger brother of that Wang Da Guanren Tiger, the guy who led people to beat up his own father.

  Following the faint light, Shen Mo saw Wang Erhu's face turn pale and purple, and his heart was tense again.

  Who would have thought that Wang Erhu would suddenly kneel down and say: "Shen Gongzi, I am Wang Erhu, please forgive me." As he spoke, he looked up at him with pleading eyes.

  He looked up at the sky in silence, and the moon was still rising from the east. He couldn't help but smile and say, "Are you still concerned about whether I, a poor scholar, forgive you or not?"

  "I don't care if you drop dead." Wang Erhu muttered under his breath, but on the surface he looked very obedient and said: "I really know I was wrong, I owe it to your father, I owe it to you, sir. I'm not as good as a pig or dog, so please forgive me this one time."

  She gave a strange, silent glance around, and seeing the big tree behind her seemed to have someone's shadow moving, she somewhat understood in her heart. Her eyebrows furrowed, and with a stern face, she said: "My father is still lying in bed now, whatever it is can be discussed after he recovers, you'd better leave."

  "If you don't forgive me, I'll kneel to death here." Wang Erhu was really anxious this time, knocking his head loudly: "I'm calling you ancestor, ancestor ah, please forgive your grandson."

  It's clear now, this guy was obviously forced by his brother to come and beg for forgiveness. Seeing that he didn't hesitate to use despicable means, Shen Mo really had no way to deal with him. After all, it wasn't easy to ease the tension with Wang Lao Hu, if he didn't give him face, both sides would inevitably become enemies again, which was meaningless.

  But it can't be just like that, after a moment of contemplation, Shen Mo said softly: "I can forgive you if I want to."

  "Thank you, thank you, thank our ancestors." Wang Erhu exclaimed with joy.

  "Don't be in a hurry, I haven't finished yet." Shen Mo waved his hand and said, "You need to agree to my conditions first."

  "You said it." Wang Erhu nodded and said, "I'll definitely do it." Boasting is tax-free, so why not boast?

  "It's actually not difficult. Those two who beat people that day, and those few writers you hired to stir up trouble," Shen Mo said calmly: "Shouldn't they be taught a lesson?"

  "What you said is right, it was those few winter gangs that found us." Wang Erhu nodded and thought for half a day with his hands supporting his head, before gritting his teeth and saying: "Alright, I'll have my two subordinates each cut off three fingers to apologize, as for those few scholars, one arm each will do!"

  He said with a straight face, but silently listened to his hair standing on end, staring and saying: "I'm not selling human meat buns, what do I want those things for?"

  "What's to be done?" Wang Erhu said with a worried expression.

  "I'm a bookworm, not good at fighting." Shen Mo said calmly: "You let them not come to apologize in person, so as not to affect our father-son appetite. It's better to use money to apologize. Twenty taels of silver for complete forgiveness, fifteen taels for basic forgiveness, ten taels for half forgiveness, five taels for a small half forgiveness, and less than that will not be forgiven."

  "Is this okay too?" Wang Erhu asked with a stunned expression.

  "Second condition, as I just said, you're their leader, so you should pay more. Let's double it." Shen Mo said with a straight face, "Isn't 40 taels of silver enough?"

  "It's not a lot... " Wang Erhu said with a big sweat on his head: "You can give me a few more days, I'll get it to you as soon as possible."

  "Twenty taels once and for all." Shen Mo shook his head and said: "The remaining half can be given to you for a half-month extension, how about that?"

  "Ah, okay." A man under another's roof has to lower his head. Wang Erhu had no choice but to reluctantly agree. He took down a small pouch from behind his back and presented it to Shen Mo with both hands: "This is four ingots and five taels of silver." When visiting someone to apologize, who doesn't bring silver? He happened to have brought twenty taels.

  He silently took the bag, reached in and felt it, and indeed it was a full 1 jin 4 liang of snowflake silver. He held it in his hand and said: "Alright, you can go back now. Once you bring the other 20 liang, I'll completely forgive you."

  It's probably enough, Wang Erhu got up and said: "I'll send it over in a few days." After finishing speaking, he ran away, not even wanting to stay for a moment.

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  Wang Erhu left, but Shen Mo stood still at the gate, staring intently at the big tree in the corner of the wall and said, "Come out, friend."

  A person suddenly flashed out from behind the tree. Before Shen could see his face clearly, the man was already smiling all over his face and said: "Young Master Shen, don't misunderstand, I am sent by our Lord Wang. First, to monitor whether Second Young Master has sincerely apologized, second, to bring you a gift of apology."

  "What is he doing?" Shen Mo asked knowingly in silence.

  "Mr. Shen helped us by removing the trees from our dock, which is equivalent to saving the lives of the boat people." The newcomer bowed and smiled: "The official is very grateful and admires your character. So he's very angry with the second master who caused the misunderstanding between both parties, and ordered him to come and kowtow to apologize to you. He also said that if you don't forgive him, he won't let the second master enter the house."

  "So that's it." Shen Mo had actually already guessed the reason for the matter, so he pretended to be greedy and wanted Wang Erhu to use money to solve the problem. In fact, he was doing it for Wang Lao Hu to see, wanting him to think that he could be bought off with money.

  Otherwise, it's hard to guarantee that Wang Laohu won't worry that he'll silently rise one morning and settle accounts with himself, and will take the initiative to strike first... No need to take his life, just cripple his legs, and he can bid farewell to the imperial examination forever, never to have a chance to rise again.

  If a person can't even tell who they can offend and who they can't at this stage, then they are not far from death.

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  Yeah, the biggest difference between Shen Mo and Qin Lei is right here. Seeking collection and votes... only a little different from third place, don't let them catch up.