The night was deep, and the young man had been preparing for many days before the desk, including paper full of words and lifelike paintings.

The door was opened, and a similar-looking, slightly younger man entered.

"Big brother!" the man called out, and walked over to place a few pieces of paper in his sleeve on the table.

The young man picked up the new pieces of paper, looked at them hurriedly, and bowed slightly.

Seeing that the elder brother continued to be busy, the younger brother couldn't help but ask the doubts he had been asking for many days: "Do you need to be so troublesome?"

The elder brother looked up, only glanced at the younger brother, and then lowered his head and busied again.

"Huh. The younger brother scratched his head and smiled: "I'm just ......"

"Unwilling?"

"Uh, haha......"

"You've been observing that inn for a while...... "The elder brother looked up and asked the younger brother with a serious expression, "What is the biggest feeling?"

The younger brother smiled, was silent for a moment, and frowned, "There are many things, a lot! Not only are there many types, but also the quantity is large! I have never seen spices that can be sold as sand." ”

"The maritime merchants in the south, you and I are not new to today, have you ever seen such a scale in previous years?" the elder brother continued to write: "We don't know much about the sea, but we also know that the people in the south have made a lot of money in the past few decades. In Chang'an, there are many good things that can't be filled, so why hasn't anyone done this in the past years?"

"Seven clans and five surnames, hundreds of thousands of years of marriage can't do a piece of iron bucket, such a big piece of interests, how can one or a few families be able to suppress it?"

"Doesn't that mean......" The younger brother frowned slightly and said in astonishment, "These little beggars are better than them?"

"How is this possible? They've only been around for a few years!"

"It's not like we haven't done business before, the business of this warehouse has reached the scale it is today, and it is not only the Hu merchants from the west who are squeezed to death, it is impossible for those people in the south not to be affected, but now the business of this warehouse is still booming......

"I'm not sure if it's better than those people, I don't know much about the sea, maybe their ships are bigger and better......" said he didn't understand, but the intuition he had cultivated over the years still gave him an answer that was very close to the truth.

"At least their relationship in Chang'an is by no means as simple as it seems, and a prime minister can't hold up such a big stall!"

Think about your current predicament, the changes that have taken place in Chang'an in the past two months...... Although I only learned about it indirectly from intelligence, I also had a clear understanding of the energy of these "little beggars".

"If it's really so powerful, this little trick we prepared ......" The younger brother smiled awkwardly: "Can it work?"

The elder brother just cleaned up, got up and stretched, and said with a smile: "Smart people, there is always a problem! ”

"I'm not going to convince him, just induce him to think about some of the things we don't grasp, and he will think of them himself......" The elder brother hid what he had prepared, and walked out.

"Okay, take a nap, we'll visit as soon as it's dawn!"

"They have a high combat power, will they be beaten to death if they come to the door like this?"

"So you have to be polite, and don't stretch out your hand to hit the smiling person!"

"That's not right!" the younger brother suddenly thought: "You pointed out all the loopholes to them, what if everyone fills them in?"

"Impossible!" the elder smiled mysteriously: "There is a loophole that he will never be able to fill! This is also my greatest confidence in this trip......"

It will soon be dawning.

The teenagers have not been abandoned to the point of forgetting the morning exercise, and it is almost the same time, and the expanded school field has gradually become lively.

Unlike usual, Xu Chen also came over early and started practicing, in the past, he was always lazy in exercising, but today he is gone.

What is also different from before is the expression on the faces of some teenagers, they can't hide their tiredness when they don't wake up, although their physical fitness can already be immune to fatigue for several days, but the mental inertia still makes them appear "tired".

"Big, big brother!"

Some people suddenly spotted Xu Chen's figure, and then the fatigue began to disappear, and with the shouts that gradually spread, some guys who hadn't gotten up before they got dressed hurriedly got up.

"Okay, I haven't seen you for a few days!" Xu Chen waved his hand to disperse the surprise of the teenagers, and scolded with a smile: "Hurry up, don't be lazy when I'm not there!"

The sound of morning exercise on the school field was rare and enthusiastic again......

It was almost time for breakfast, and the boy at the gate of the courtyard received a beautiful greeting.

The two brothers, who were carrying a string of gifts in their hands, were very polite and waited for the transmission.

At this moment, the large dining room is divided into independent and interconnected single rooms by skilled craftsmen with curtains, screens and even potted plants.

Xu Chen didn't go to the small restaurant on the side, and it was not good to show a little nostalgia on his face, after all, it was the hard work of his younger siblings, and the slightest subtle attitude could cause immeasurable consequences.

What should this family become, Xu Chen only began to hesitate in his heart, and there was no definite answer yet......

When the young man handed over the prayer post and looked at the seal character "Cui" on the worship post, Xu Chen had some bad feelings.

"Invite the guests to the middle hall!"

Lu Hao, who was on the side, raised his head that was drinking porridge, glanced at the greeting post in Xu Chen's hand, and asked, "Cui family, which Cui family?"

But Zhang Li, who was next to him, lowered his head and muttered in his heart: "It's okay, I ran fast last night, I should be fine...... Right?"

"I'll take a look, you can continue to eat!" Xu Chen immediately got up.

"I'll go over too!" Lu Hao followed.

Zhang Li and Zhang Tianyi on the left glanced at each other, and then smiled awkwardly: "Why don't we go over too?"

Zhang Tianyi looked at the other people at the same table, and saw that they all looked like thieves, so he had to propose: "Do you want to go behind the screen?"

"That's good!" Zhang Li praised: "That's a good idea!"

After speaking, a group of people hastily gnawed a few bites and jumped out like a swarm.

"I took the liberty to come to the door, I bothered!" As soon as the two brothers entered the door, they were courteous and thoughtful, showing the style of the family.

"Please sit!" Xu Chen used a chair to entertain guests here, and he didn't care about the jokes of those wealthy nobles, if he really wanted him to sit in his own house with someone in a dangerous situation, Xu Chen had not yet reached the point of finding guilt.

The two brothers of the Cui family didn't care, and after sitting down, they reported to their home: "In the next Cui Yan, the younger brother Cui Shi, and the county Wang Boling Cui ......."

Lu Hao's gaze suddenly sharpened, but Xu Chen nodded lightly.

"I wonder what the two of you came to the door today?" asked Xu Chen.

"There are some things I want to show Brother Xu!" he said, taking out a stack of papers from his sleeve, handing it to Cui Shi on the side, and motioning for him to hand it over.

Cui Shi couldn't help but roll his eyes, depressed in his heart: "Is there such a brother?

Even though he thought about it, he still reached out and took it, after all, he was here to negotiate, and he couldn't lose the shelf he was making, and he had to do it himself.

Carrying a careful hand, he handed the thing to Xu Chen, and when he saw that the other party caught it, he immediately turned around and left, his movements were very sensitive, and Cui Yan was speechless for a while.

With doubts, Xu Chen looked down at the things in his hand.

As the papers were placed on the table beside him one by one, Xu Chen's expressionless face gradually frowned.

Lu Hao, who was a little impatient, directly pulled out the paper on the table, only looked at one or two, and then said angrily: "What do you mean by this?"

The few photos Lu Hao looked at just recorded Lu Ying's words and deeds when he visited the market yesterday.

Cui Yan ignored Lu Hao's anger, and asked leisurely: "I heard that the tea in the house is well cooked, can you be lucky enough to see it?"

Xu Chen only saw half of it, still speculating about the other party's intentions, and when he heard such a request, he was even more puzzled in his heart, and he didn't feel like he was going to leave immediately, so he simply looked at what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd.

"Come on, serve tea, serve good tea!"

The tea came soon, Cui Yan savored it carefully, except for a few words of praise for the tea, but he was not in a hurry.

Xu Chen's speed of watching became slower and slower, his brows were relaxed and tight, and he faintly guessed the other party's intentions in his heart.

And Lu Hao was still angry, but he didn't show it anymore, but he moved a lot when he looked at it.

Cui Yan is naturally also observing Xu Chen's movements, after all, all the previous predictions have no real basis, and it is unknown whether they can really be effective, but for people like them, as long as they have confirmed the guess, they can't easily change even if they see some facts.

But observation has long become instinct, and it is up to you to distinguish between truth and falsehood.

"You're in the Cui family, aren't you an ordinary person?" Xu Chen was still watching, but he also raised his head and asked.

"Those old things are very afraid of death, and they just pull out a person like me who came out of the five suits a hundred years ago to be the head of the house......" Cui Yan's face was full of helplessness: "It's nothing more than the golden cicada coming out of its shell, and it's not the first time they've played such a trick!"

"If I really have the ability to turn the tide, the next generation of family heads will not be able to give birth to my son, and even they can make me unable to give birth to a son!"

Cui Yan shook his head with a wry smile, and said in a deep voice: "But after all, my surname is also Cui, and so many side branch disciples are also living people......"

Cui Yan's short sentences are full of drama and information!

What should have been said was said, but not a word that should not have been said was revealed! What is the golden cicada coming out of its shell? What would happen if it was unable to turn the tide? These were obviously more important to Xu Chen than whether he could give birth to a son or not.

Xu Chen only stayed on this for a short time, and then forced himself to quickly break away.

The rhythm can't follow each other's coming!

"What's the news from the third child?" Xu Chen turned his head and asked Lu Hao: "Why hasn't such important news been transmitted?"

"I'll get it!" Lu Hao has indeed relaxed his attention to Wang Ce's side recently, after all, he needs to take the exam, and there will be a palace exam after the exam......

Lu Hao is also a county prince who has read poetry and books since he was a child, and the desire for the title of the gold list has never disappeared from the bottom of his heart, but the repeated changes in the past few years have made him lose this idea.

But the day he walked into the examination room, when he recalled the memories of hard study under his father's strict supervision when he was a child, such thoughts inevitably came to him.

While the teenagers' physical fitness has improved, their memory has also been greatly enhanced, and they dare not say that they will never forget it, but it is not far behind.

said that he was prepared for another hand, but after three days of trying, Lu Hao couldn't tell whether the answer sheet he filled in was prepared in advance or reprocessed by himself......

dignified, the title of the gold list, such a thought may have been rooted the moment he lifted the pen.