Xie Chen blocked his hand, "If I say no, I just can't." He picked up the envelope and stuffed the reply in his hand into his bosom. Turning his head, he commanded, "Prepare pen and ink." ”

"Yes......" promised.

The man withdrew his hand, pursed his lips, opened the folding fan and fanned it gracefully, "I heard that your noble man is here today?" ”

Xie Chen, who had just picked up the pen, paused with his fingers, raised his eyes to look at him and said, "It's good to know, haven't you always wanted to be the richest man in Jiangnan?" This is your best chance for the Rong family. ”

"Really?" Rong Jiarong Qi took the folding fan, leaned over and smiled: "If I become the richest man, then what should you do with the Xie family?" ”

Xie Chen raised the tail of his eyebrows, "What is the conflict between the Xie family and your Rong family?" Besides, wouldn't it be better if you were a businessman and I was an official? ”

Rong Qi couldn't help but stroke his palm with the handle of the fan, "Okay, so I can rest assured, so as not to turn around and be served by you." He squinted at him.

Xie Chen hooked his lips, his gaze moved from the window to the river, and the wind lifted a strand of hair from his sideburns and floated to his perfect chin, provoking people to just reach out and brush it away for him.

There was silence for a while, and I only heard him say: "Rong Qi, I remember that a few days ago, you told me about the Ding family, right?" He reached out and dipped his hand in the ink, nodding slightly.

Seeing this, Chang Sui quietly retreated.

"Yes! Coincidentally, I was just called to run into it. ”

Xie Chen smiled and glanced at him, "Oh? You're in luck. ”

Rong Qi paused slightly, looking at him vigilantly, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Xie Chen didn't answer him again, just wrote two letters by himself, put them in different envelopes, and wrote his name with a pen.

Rong Qi saw that one of the envelopes was written - Shen Jingyi.

There was no need for Xie Chen to order, the chief took the letter casually and went out.

At this time, when the afterglow remains, the river surface is sparkling, and the wind blows, like the Nine Heavens Xuan River. From time to time, there were some laughter and intermittent singing voices from the painting boats.

Here, at night, it is the real Jinling scene.

……

"Childe, the clue is here, if it is broken again, I am afraid it will be really difficult to overturn the case for the Ding family." Chen Yu stood at the bow of the boat, and in front of him stood Zhu Zhanwen, who was wearing a Confucian shirt.

Hearing this, he only waved his hand holding the jade bone fan, "It's okay, since you're here in Jinling, let's enjoy it!" He looked at the early lights, the wine was fragrant, the tune was ambiguous, and the piano was beautiful on the Huai River, and he couldn't help but regret: "Jiangnan is beautiful, Jinling Imperial State." I said that this Jinling is a good place, and my grandfather built the capital in the north. ”

Chen Yu glanced around when he heard this, only to see a painting boat gradually approaching, and there were two long-bodied people standing at the bow of the boat, one holding his hand and the other shaking a paper fan painted in ink, seeing that the clothes of the two were not ordinary people.

He lowered his eyes, "Childe, there's someone ahead!" ”

Zhu Zhanwen raised his eyelids and looked at it, but said with a smile: "Well, it seems that the news is quite well-informed." ”

Hearing him say this, Chen Yu raised his eyebrows noncommittally and looked at the two people who had already come to the opposite side.

"There is a thin wine prepared in the boat, and the son has come from afar, why don't you move and sit and talk." Xie Chen nodded at him slightly, on the bow of the boat, he was dressed in brocade and jade, his black hair was high, and the lights on the Huai River became his embellishment.

Zhu Zhanwen flicked his wide sleeves, the corners of his mouth curled, and said, "Since it is a warm invitation from the eldest prince of Xie, how can it be reasonable not to go?" With that, he lifted his feet and jumped onto their boat.

Xie Chen and Rong Qi both took two steps back and moved sideways. Chen Yu followed, passed by Xie Chen, paused slightly, looked at him and said, "Jinling Xie family, Xie Chen, eldest son Xie?" ”

Xie Chen bowed his head, "Exactly!" Looking at each other, he also looked at him, hooked his lips and said, "Chen Shizi, look up for a long time." ”

"Luckily!" Chen Yu returned the salute, nodded to Rong Qi who was smiling on the side, and stepped into the painting boat.

Looking at his back, Rong Qi sighed twice, "I heard that this Chen Shizi is the most ...... in the capital" He turned his gaze, saw Xie Chen's gaze looking at him, and swallowed the words behind him, "Ahem...... Let's go inside! ”

Xie Chen retracted his gaze, raised his feet and walked in, in the painting boat, Zhu Zhanwen sat in the middle, saw him come in, shook his fan and said: "It is said that this Qinhuai River is the first gentle township, why don't you see a beauty?" Before he could reply, he tapped his head again, "By the way, I heard that there are still dancers on the boat here, but?" ”

"Yes, if the son wants to see it, I will order someone to go down."

"Then hurry up......" Zhu Zhanwen said happily.

Xie Chen leaned over slightly, beckoned an attendant to whisper a few words, and then the attendant bowed to everyone and left.

As soon as he sat down, Zhu Zhanwen pointed to the person beside him again, "Who is this?" ”

Xie Chen glanced at Rong Qi, who had become personable again, and replied: "This is the seventh son of the Rong family, the first merchant in Suzhou, Rong Chu." ”

Rong Qi raised his hand and saluted one of them, "Rong Chu has seen Zhu Gongzi and Chen Gongzi. ”

Zhu Zhanwen waved his hand, "No need to be polite, you are from Suzhou, then have you heard of Ding Chengyong, the envoy of Suzhou?" ”

The smile on Rong Qi's face froze, and he glanced at Xie Chen, and then he came back to his senses, what did he mean by the phrase "really lucky" in the afternoon.

So, he said with a bitter face: "Grass...... Villain...... I've heard a little bit ......."

"Oh......" Zhu Zhanwen nodded, and didn't ask any more, only to see that there was suddenly an extra painting boat outside, twice as big as theirs.

There was a faint sound of sound around them, and on the painting boat where they were, the bamboo curtains around them were pulled up, and from the window, the scenery outside could be seen at a glance.

On the top of the boat, a masked woman in a white gauze dress with a slender body and a coquettish physique slowly swayed slowly as she stepped on lotus steps.

Take the lights as the scenery and the Huai River as the ground.

Flying, how many men are intoxicated.

I don't know who sang the tune with the pipa, with the woman's dance steps, affectionate and lingering.

After listening to it for a while, Zhu Zhanwen knocked on the low table and said, "This song is good." ”

Xie Chen understood and glanced at the waiter in the boat.

After a while, the bamboo curtains around were lowered, and there was a woman with a beautiful face and spring eyebrows and eyes in the painting boat.

I saw that her slender ten fingers holding the pipa were as white as green onions, small and delicate.

With such a pair of hands, it's no wonder that the pipa is so good.

Zhu Zhanwen seemed to be very interested, and said with a smile: "What are you singing just now?" ”

The woman blessed the body of Furuo Liu Fufeng, "Back to Gongzi, it is a song of heaven." ”

"Tianxing Song ......" Zhu Zhanwen nodded, "Sing it again." ”

"Yes......"

Turning around, Zhu Zhanwen said a few words to Rong Qi, who was quieter than usual, which made his originally tense heart relax a lot.

At this time, Xie Chen also raised his glass to Chen Yu, "It's better to see than to hear, the prince of the world, please." ”

Chen Yu raised his wine glass and drank it all in one gulp, put it down and said, "Grand Prince Xie is far away in Jinling, how could he have heard of Chen's name?" ”

[Cousin Xie is out, what do you think of your cousin and the son??? 】

(To be continued.) )