The Rich and Powerful Chang An Chapter 9

Chapter 9

By the time Xu Chang An woken up, it was already Wang Residence dinner time; it was Yang Momo who had woke him up. He got out of bed and waited for Xiao Qing Yan for quite a while, but did not see that person coming by the time the dishes were almost cold. When Xu Chang An called people to warm the dishes, Xiao Qing Yan over there had send messenger who said that Wang Ye would not be coming over for dinner.

Xiao Qing Yan would not come over, and Xu Chang An felt that the dishes did not need to be heated again, and he immediately ate it.

In the past when they were living at Zhuangzi, several people had dinner together. At the beginning, Yang Momo was still unwilling to do so. But later at the end, Xu Chang An's food was nothing different from theirs. Even afterwards later the food was not better than a domestic servant, Yang Momo did not decline, eating together could make young master feel good a little.

After dinner, Xu Chang An wanted to go out for a stroll. He was afraid that he would have to stay here for a long time. It was necessary to be familiar with Wang Residence's surrounding.

Xiao Qing Yan was originally the present emperor's most loved prince and the Great Xiao Dynasty most honorable prince. His residence naturally covered a wide area. Xu Chang An only remembered to get into the Wang Residence's entrance and still had to spend more time to get to the main courtyard. In addition, in front of Wang Residence's main courtyard there were Wang Residence's front hall and rear hall. However, Xu Chang An actually did not need to care for those places because even if he was nominally the other master of Wang Residence, he might not be able to go to those places. That were the places where Xiao Qing Yan met with local officials and dealing with official duties.

Now, his side of the world was only this Wang Residence's back courtyard.
Wang Residence's guanjia surnamed was Zhu, he was born to the late Huang Hou's parent family, Zhu Family, and was naturally loyal and devoted to Xiao Qing Yan. Xiao Qing Yan also had much of great respect for him. Once out of the main courtyard, Xu Chang An run into Zhu guanjia and his subordinates. After everyone gave a greeting to Xu Chang An, the Zhu Guanjia started to talk. Xu Chang An knew that the long list of people behind the guanjia turned out to be the people Xiao Qing Yan instructed to give to him.

"Wang Fei, Wang Ye made clear that from hereafter, when you go out, it is necessarily for you to bring Wang Residence's imperial bodyguards at your side. There also must not be less yahuan and pozi serving you. You are Xian Wang Residence's Wang Fei, the face of Wang Residence, you cannot neglect the established customs." Zhu Guanjia used Xiao Qing Yan's original words. He somewhat was unable to understand, Wang Ye obviously concerned about Wang Fei, why on earth talked very stiffly. Yet wanted to make himself specially gave Wang Fei the words to heed.

*yahuan = slave (or servant) girl; maid
*pozi = middle-aged (or older) woman servant

Knowing that Xiao Qing Yan's arrangement was certainly related to his own injury, Xu Chang An also felt that Xiao Qing Yan's words were justified. He did not ask any more, directly accepted the people.

The imperial bodyguards could not stay in the inner courtyard of Wang Residence. Xu Chang An brought two people to go back. Afterwards, he let them formally giving him the greeting ceremony, then made them to go to the front courtyard. The ten yatou that came with were given to Chunyu and Dongxue to arrange a suitable work for each of them.

In the evening, Xiao Qing Yan still did not come. Holding onto the usual time Xiao Qing Yan would come, he continued to wait for another quarter of an hour. After Xiao Qing Yan still had not come, Xu Chang An was at ease and took a bath then gone to sleep, but also, he still slept on the large bed in the inner room. Many days he did not sleep on such a wide and comfortable bed, and there was no Xiao Qing Yan to make him scared witless, Xu Chang An slept to his heart content a good night's sleep.

Early in the morning of the second day, Xu Chang An brought his own two imperial bodyguards, Chunyu and Yang Momo to go out. The horse carriage prepared by the guanjia for him today was significantly more luxurious than yesterday.

The two tall, big and mighty force of the sword-carrying imperial bodyguards, rode on top of the big horses took the lead at the front, the coachman did not need to worry about someone blocking the road, he was riding the Wang Residence's authorized horse carriage, even if this was the country capital city under the foot of the Son of Heaven, except for the reigning His Imperial Majesty, the people sitting on this vehicle, no one had the ability and entitled to make them taking the long route or to get out of the way.

“Young Master, do you think all this years, Laoye have already or not changed all the people in Zhuangzi shops, ah?” Apart from when Yang Shi was still alive, up until now had been three years. If Xu Yongnian wanted to depend on Xu's wife Yang Shi's dowry using underhanded method, it was already done at an earlier time.

When Dongxue was given medicine treatment last night, Chunyu instinctively thought that it was Xu family member that hit them, she had no doubt that when young master went to the shop he met with Xu family's people! Those people truly had the audacious in the extreme and impudence to dare to raise a hand to strike at young master, also to hit Dongxue into such a way. Indeed, they did not know life and death, must let Wang Ye know about this.

Chunyu was distressed and furious, and naturally her mouth did not blocking the condemn from coming out. Who would have known that she had been stopped by Dongxue. After listening to Dongxue's explanation, she was scared to death. Jing Wang mighty name was known to everyone in the capital city! She must not let anyone heard what she had just said, or she will die! But if it was discovered, maybe young master would get implicated!

Being so scared, Chunyu remembered the words of young master, and then she felt with lingering fear that master was simply master, who understood much more than the slave girls and maidservants. As expected, inside this imposing dwellings and spacious courtyards everything needed to be conduct cautiously, ah.

"But young master don't be afraid! If the people in the shop are really changed by Laoye, we'll just drive them all out. Anyway, we have the title deeds and also the original slave contracts of those people. Right! There's also Wang Ye, we have nothing to fear!" After being jumped frightened by herself and recovered last night, Chunyu quite naturally attributed the fault on Xu family's people. She felt that the Xu family was very bad, she really be sure to think so. About her condemning Jing Wang, therefore in essence was still Xu Family's fault.

Xu Chang An all along had quite indulged his two yatou. Looking at Chunyu's complacent manner he unexpectedly did not wiped out her enthusiasm, just let her have her way of talks. Only waited until reached the clothing business in the town, would he make Chunyu to shut her mouth and restrained a little.

"I remembered my mother said that the old manager is a competent person on my maternal grandmother's side. Mother married, so maternal grandmother for the sake of her let people handled it, as well as conveniently let him manage quite a few shops for mother. Let's go to him first, then make him dispatch people to go tell the other people to set a date to invite them to go to Wang Residence to meet with me.”

"It should be this way, young master is the master, which master go to meet each and every bondservants. It should be them to come and meet young master, it is only right to come and meet their own new master." Yang Momo had always most abide by the rules, her spoken out words let people not think there was any fault. Today however she was contrariwise had not said that hit Xu Chang An's opinion in his mind.

Xu Chang An knew the greedy nature of the Xu family people. The reason why he let people to go to Wang Residence to meet him was only in order to warn them to have no more illusion about and wanted to bring up little by little that Xu Family had acted as those managers' master for more than ten years. Let them knew who was their master now, and also for their former master in front of Wang Residence not to flip over to rise storm. Hereafter, they wanted to be a wholehearted people only toward their own alone.

"Who is your manager here?" The two imperial bodyguards were tall, big and carrying swords, Xu Chang An didn't want to scare the customers inside, so he only brought in Chunyu and Yang Momo and let the two waited outside at the front.

When Xu Chang An arrived at Wang Residence, his clothes could not have been worse. When the young server saw the three people entered, he quickly welcomed them with a smile.

"Patron, our manager is inside talking with the employer. What kind of design and color of the material you want to select, tell me and I'll bring it out. I can help you select, satisfaction guaranteed." The young server's face was glowing with enthusiasm, he believed that his way of talking had no any fault, that he knew his own entire write down words. Standing in the middle, the young master's face sank, at the side the pozi and yatou were also not pleased!

“Employer? What employer? Your family's employer is right in front of your eyes! You, a person without eyes, immediately call out of your manager!” Chunyu usually spoke carelessly, but she was not really stupid, this young server said employer, certainly it was Xu Family's people. She really never seen such a shameless person! This obviously was already young master's stuff, dared to come to monopolize, really shameless!

Xu Chang An could naturally deduce on what Chunyu thought of, but he did not get as angry as Chunyu. Instead, he looked around and then looked for a place to sit down.

Yang Momo looked at her young master and said nothing. She asked directly to the young server: “What is your family's employer's surname?”

“It's Yang, ah.” This young server still knew, and from the first day he worked here, the manager had told him.

“This is good then.” The young server's answer made Yang Momo's heart comforted, at least this old manager still knew, who's family people he was. “You said the manager talked to the employer earlier. Then you know who the people are inside. What about the person sitting next to you now?”

Yang Momo's rhetorical question made the young server choked, but also did not need to make things difficult for him, the onlooker at the side right away seemed as if wanted to stand up and hit, already run to go in to tip off the manager.

“My family young master's mother, Yang Shi, came from Feng Province. The shops around here were the dowry of the Yang family gave to my young master's mother those years ago. My young master's mother already died three years ago. I would like to ask is there anyone else except for my family young master claimed to be the employer of the shops here?” Yang Momo's words neither urgent nor slow but eloquent and rousing. The young server was already scared dumb at the moment, now the brain became empty, not even knew what should be said. Yang Momo wanted to speak again, but she heard a voice that rather familiar behind her, only the voice already be a bit older.

“Mei … Yatou?” Yang Momo did not marry for a lifetime. When she was young, she became a dowry yatou for Yang Shi and after obtaining Yang Shi's consent, she did not became Xu Yongnian's bed warmer. Afterwards, Yang Shi searched for a husband to give her but she completely rejected. Further afterwards, Yang Shi met with misfortune where Xu Yongnian had detested and rejected her. Yang Momo was reluctant to leave behind her own family young lady, she had been taking care of her and had been around for more than 10 years. The Mei yatou of yesteryear had became Yang Momo.

“Uncle Yang, now I'm no longer Mei yatou but Yang Momo.” Yang Momo was sold to the Yang family by a human trader. The time before she became a yatou, the young lady had named her Lamei, and later she decided not to marry for life. The young lady allowed her to follow her young lady family's surname. Then she even became Yang Momo.

After the manager came out, the employer that the young server mentioned had not yet come out. Xu Chang An guessed that they certainly had matter that still had not talk completely. Someone went to report that outside had people created trouble, and the manager came out to see it.

Looking around, there were a lot of people whom were choosing cloth materials. Xu Chang An did not want to delay his own matter, also did not want to be heard when he wanted to speak for a moment, thus he got up and said: "Let's go, let me go and see this so-called 'employer'.”

Xu Yongnian had been prepared to come by himself since he had made a bad idea in his heart, but when he was about to leave the door yet changed his mind and asked Liu Shi to come and discuss with the manager. After all, he was an official appointed by the imperial court. If he with employer status appeared in this small shop and was seen by people, where would he want to put his face on. He was a scholar and he was afraid to be given condemn to death by people.

In order to demonstrate her status as the master's wife, Liu Shi had brought out many followers today. There were four or five yatou, and there were two powerful and vigorous pozi. When she was sitting on the chair and let people served, she kept thinking a moment ago when she entered, she saw a few rolls of best quality cloth materials. She pondered for a while about to bring them home to give her own son to make a few new clothing.

"Liu Yiniang? Is this a place where you should come?" Simply knew that the people inside were certainly Xu Family's people, and it's definitely the greedy Liu Shi. After Xu Chang An scornfully laughed, the words spoken in his mouth were all naturally ridicules.

Liu Shi's most unwilling to hear now were exactly the three words of Liu Yiniang. Granted that those years she was utterly helpless. Now that the slut who made her be Yiniang had died, her son also got married off, nowadays in Xu Family who dared to regard her as Yiniang, that did not spoke of Furen to call her as?

*Furen = lady; madame; Mrs; wife

“Humph! Turn out it is you this little bastard! What did you just call this Furen? Why did you all still stand idly for? Not trying to teach this unworthy son who's eyes cannot distinguish between seniors and juniors a lesson for me!” Xu Chang An was the son of Xu Yongnian. In Liu Shi's eyes, she had became the wife of Xu Yongnian, and naturally became Xu Chang An's mother. Therefore, listening to Xu Chang An called her Yiniang, her only response was to take her motherly status and teach him a lesson!

Xu Chang An knew that Liu Shi was a rural village woman, but he couldn't think that there was still a rural village woman who was stupid as a pig! Did she possibly regarded Xu House as the whole land under heaven? Thinking that she became the mistress of the Xu family and by right also the mistress of the land under heaven?

*Land under heaven = the world; the land of China

“This monstrously audacious person! Have the impudence to hurl insults to Wang Fei, allow me to slap!” Not waiting for Xu Chang An to speak, at the side Yang Momo had already vocalized. Then Xu Chang An's ear rang with a crisp sound, and Liu Shi's face showed unbelievable and shocked look!

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The author has something to say: I think I have improved, and I have written many chapters

The translator has something to say: Have I improve?

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