Daming: The system rejected my request for salted fish

Chapter 1059

"Wait a minute!"

Hearing the voice of Master Zheng, the yamen runner turned around and looked at Master Zheng with some confusion.

In fact, even Wei Wu did not expect that Master Zheng would speak at this time, but he was also curious about what Master Zheng was going to do.

Just when everyone was confused, Master Zheng finally spoke.

"Since the Zhang family is in mourning, and Zhang Dengyue is a Jinshi from the Ming Dynasty, my young master, as a Duke, should also send some gifts."

"But we are not familiar with Suzhou. How about this, little brother? I have some money here. You can take it and help my young master prepare some things to send over."

As he spoke, Master Zheng took out several large silver ingots from his arms, some weighing five taels and some ten taels, which added up to almost thirty taels of silver.

The yamen runner looked at Master Zheng in confusion, but he did not dare to hesitate and immediately stepped forward to take the silver.

Then, Master Zheng said something that made him excited.

"Take this money and buy four things: a clock, a plow, an umbrella, and shoes. The rest will be your labor fee."

After hearing what Master Zheng said, Wei Wu didn't say anything, but he looked in Master Zheng's direction.

Actually, there is nothing wrong with giving gifts. The main thing is that the things given by Master Zheng are not very friendly to the family holding the funeral.

The bell represents the end of life, the plow symbolizes separation, the umbrella implies separation, and shoes have the same pronunciation as "evil", which are the most likely to bring bad luck to funerals.

Sending these four things to the Zhang family was not a token of appreciation at all, but was like stabbing someone in the heart with a steel knife.

Not satisfied with this, he also threw the Zhang family's face on the ground, spitting on it and rubbing it with his feet.

But the yamen runner was just a rough man and didn't understand these things. He just knew that he would make money soon.

Moreover, it was done in front of the prefect with the special permission of the Duke, so it can only be said to be a reward, not a bribe.

So he quickly put the silver into his arms and said to Master Zheng happily:

"Yes, yes. I promise to do it for you. I will send it over after you buy everything."

"Don't worry, I have another request."

Just as the bailiff was about to leave, Master Zheng spoke again, and his next words left the bailiff stunned.

"Everything you bought needs to be wrapped in red paper and decorated with red flowers. The more festive it is, the better, okay?"

Although the yamen runner did not understand the meaning of those things before, that was just his level of cognition and did not mean that he was stupid.

Red paper and red flowers are used for weddings, but the Zhang family is currently holding a funeral. If I really send them like this, I might get beaten to death.

All of a sudden, the temptation of money and life came into conflict, leaving the yamen runner at a loss as to what to do.

But at this critical moment, Wei Wu suddenly spoke and made the final decision.

"Forget it, don't make things difficult for the people below. Zhang Hai, you go with him. Let him do the shopping, and you deliver the gifts."

"Yes, Master!"

Zhang Hai was a man who was always afraid of chaos in the world. Upon hearing Wei Wu's order, he immediately stepped forward and patted the yamen runner who was still in a daze.

But just as they were about to leave, Zhu Zongshan finally couldn't help but speak.

"Sir, the dead are great, it's not right to do this!"

Wei Wu turned his head to look at Zhu Zongshan, and after pondering for a moment, he slowly spoke.

"The dead are greater? Master Zhu, I would like to ask you why Wu Zixu whipped the corpse of King Ping of Chu, after all, he was already dead."

"Do you really think it's right that hatred disappears after death and there's no vengeance after death? I can tell you that even though a person dies, hatred doesn't disappear."

"Believe it or not, if the farmers and tenants who have been oppressed by the Zhang family were not worried about retaliation, they would do even more extreme things than I did."

"You don't think they don't want to, do you? They don't dare because they can't defeat the Zhang family, and I happen to be not afraid of the Zhang family."

Having said that, Wei Wu walked towards the study door step by step. He continued until he stepped out of the threshold: