The eunuch hurriedly knelt down in response, stood up, and continued: "Your Majesty, there is one more thing that you may not expect, that is, the age of this calligraphy master. ”

"What's his age, calligraphy master, can reach this kind of Cheng dù, I think it should be more than seventy or eighty years old, by the way, do you know his name, since he is such a calligraphy master, then he should be very famous." Emperor Wanli asked with a puzzled face.

The eunuch shook his head with a smile, and made a compilation to Emperor Wanli, "Your Majesty, the little one can't be imagined, those adults said that this calligraphy master is only in his twenties, and he has just arrived in the capital recently, and his name is Chen Yi." ”

"What, more than twenty years old, impossible, impossible, such a young person, the calligraphy written by such a young person is impossible to be praised by Wu Bin and these ministers, let alone called a calligraphy master, Chen Yi's name, I have never heard of it at all." After hearing the eunuch's words, Emperor Wanli was shocked, and then shook his head vigorously.

The eunuch hurriedly knelt on the ground, "Your Majesty, the little ones don't dare to deceive, they are all listening to the talk of those adults." ”

"Get up, I don't blame you, I just think it's impossible, in this case, then pass the decree and announce that Chen Yi to enter the palace, well, slow down first, you said that Chen Yi will hold a calligraphy party in a few days, so will there be ministers to attend." Seeing the eunuch's movements, Emperor Wanli waved his hand and made him stand up, and just as he was about to give an order to let Chen Yi enter the palace, he suddenly thought of something and asked the eunuch.

The eunuch thought for a moment and shook his head, "I heard from those adults. They will let their son-in-law participate. They should not be able to wipe their faces. ”

Hear here. Emperor Wanli's eyes lit up, "Okay, little Lizi, you prepare, in a few days, go out of the palace with me to participate in this calligraphy gathering, I want to see it with my own eyes." How can a man in his twenties write such amazing calligraphy? ”

"Little Leader, Your Majesty, this calligraphy gathering is not for everyone to attend, and you need to have at least five thousand taels of gold to be eligible to be selected." The eunuch spoke out the rules he had heard.

Emperor Wanli waved his hand, "I've left it to you to do it, I haven't been out of the palace for a long time." Go ahead and do it, yes. There is no need to announce Wu Bin to enter the palace. ”

While the Wanli Emperor was talking to the eunuchs, Chen Yi was in Lu Zigang's jade carving workshop, discussing jade carving with Lu Zigang.

Although they were communicating with each other, Lu Zigang never revealed the secret of the Kunwu knife, but only studied these jade tools with Chen Yi.

Chen Yi naturally didn't mention Kunwu Dao, compared to patience, he was far better than anyone else.

Even if there is no Kunwu knife, some exchanges with Lu Zigang have benefited him a lot, after all, Lu Zigang is a master of jade carving, even if some of the credit belongs to Kunwu knife, but Lu Zigang's own jade carving skills are also extraordinary.

In the process of continuous identification of Lu Zigang, Chen Yi also knew the origin of the Kunwu knife in Lu Zigang's hand, which was indeed unexpected, and he got this important information, and he was a little more confident in achieving the plan.

In the evening of that day, when leaving the jade shop, Chen Yi suddenly noticed that there were some people following him, and after appraising it, he couldn't help but smile, so he walked to a nearby alley.

After arriving at the alley, these people who followed behind him suddenly knelt down towards Chen Yi, "Hero, it's us, let us go, it's been five days, we've been living in dire straits these days, and we're really faceless." The men said as they removed the cloth from their faces.

After a few days, the black marks on these people's faces still did not fade, and they looked exactly the same as the previous days.

They originally thought that even if Chen Yi didn't give them the antidote, maybe it would be gone after a few days, but after a few days, the black on their faces had not been washed off at all.

Every day when they go out, they have to cover their faces with cloths, and as for stealing passengers' belongings, they have no energy, they feel that in a few days, the whole person will definitely go crazy.

This morning, they were waiting for Chen Yi here early in the morning, but Chen Yi got out of the carriage and went straight to the jade shop, and they didn't dare to chase after them, so they had to wait here until now.

"Oh, it's the fifth day now, it's a little fast." Chen Yi said with a smile.

"Hero, it's definitely the fifth day, we don't dare to lie to you." As he spoke, these people kowtowed to Chen Yi a few more times.

Looking at these people, Chen Yi waved his hand, "Get up, tell me what you have done in the past few days, and how you feel." ”

A strong man with a face like black charcoal arched his hand towards Chen Yi, "Hero, we have been staying at home for the past few days, and we haven't done anything harmful at all, as for the feelings, we feel that we have a desire to die." ”

"Oh, if you want to die, then die, and save me the antidote." Hearing the words of this strong man, Chen Yi couldn't help but smile, waved his hand and said, if you want to die, just want to die.

"Hero, we have reformed and will never do those things again, please let us go." Hearing Chen Yi's words, these strong men knelt down to Chen Yi again, except after pleading, they really had no other way, and they couldn't beat Chen Yi.

Chen Yi was also not interested in staying with these people for a long time, and suddenly asked, "You have really reformed yourself." ”

"Absolutely rehabilitated, and I won't do those things again." The strong men said heavily.

Chen Yi nodded, waved his hand and said, "Go get a basin of water." ”

Hearing Chen Yi's words, the strong man led by him hurriedly asked the two of them to fetch water, and soon, a basin of water was served.

Chen Yi took out a packet of powder from the storage space, poured it into the water, and let them mix it casually twice, and then said, "Okay, just wash your face with this basin of water." Then he headed for the mouth of the alley.

Seeing that Chen Yi was leaving, these strong men didn't even bother to wash their faces, and knelt down again, "Hero, take a slow step." ”

"What do you want to do?" Chen Yi couldn't help but turn around and asked.

"Hero, we want to follow you, please accept us." These strong men kowtowed heavily to Chen Yi, they felt that Chen Yi was a strange person, and if they followed, they would definitely be able to soar.

Looking at these people, Chen Yi said a little boredly: "Accept you, I don't have so much spare time to feed you." ”

"Hero, we all have some martial arts, just follow you and give us food." These strong men hurriedly said.

Chen Yi looked at the identification information of these people again, there are indeed some martial arts, and some of them are not bad, they are just going astray, after thinking about it, he nodded, "Go to Xinglong Pawnshop tomorrow morning, find the shopkeeper Xu, and say that I let you go, report my name, Chen Yi." ”

Xinglong Pawnshop does lack some manpower, he asked the shopkeeper Xu to recruit some strong men, and he did recruit some, but these guys don't know any effort at all except for being strong, just like Erzhuang, it all depends on strength.

Now Xinglong pawnshop is not big, but Chen Yi's goal is not just to let the shopkeeper Xu guard a pawnshop, after this calligraphy gathering, the time for them to officially establish an auction house is also coming.

Hearing Chen Yi's words, these strong men hurriedly kowtowed, "Thank you, thank you, thank you." ”

In the early morning of the next day, there were still six days before the calligraphy gathering, Chen Yi still got up early at home and went to Li Wensheng's home, where Er Zhuang still lives in Li Wensheng's home, on the one hand, to protect Li Wensheng, and on the other hand, to do some work for Li Wensheng's family.

When he arrived at Li Wensheng's house, Chen Yi found that the middle-aged fat man who was lending usury was coming, and a group of his subordinates stayed outside the courtyard, while the middle-aged fat man was in the courtyard, talking to Li Wensheng, and the second Zhuang next to him was looking at him with fierce eyes, as if he didn't agree with him, and he was about to start the bulldozer function.

"Oh, fatty, why are you here again, what are you doing with such a big battle, didn't the money be returned to you." Chen Yi slowly walked into the yard, looked at the fat man and said.

When the middle-aged fat man saw Chen Yi, his face suddenly became happy, "Chen Gongzi, Chen Gongzi, you are finally here, I have been waiting for you for a long time, I am not here to find trouble, but to send money." ”

"Brother Chen, he did say just now that he was here to send money, but I don't believe it." At this time, Li Wensheng said with a strange face, really like what Chen Yi said, this guy has come to send money.

Chen Yi smiled, "Oh, I came to deliver the money, do you believe what I said before?" ”

"Believe it, believe it, Chen Gongzi, you said that you have such extraordinary abilities, I don't dare to ask for half a penny."

The middle-aged fat man said with a wry smile that in the past few days, the news he has heard the most is that there is a calligraphy master named Chen Yi, who wrote a calligraphy, which shocked the wealthy families in the capital.

This is only part of what he heard, as for what to confront Liu Gongzi, Wu Gongzi is polite to him, and there are countless rumors.

He couldn't believe that it would be this person he met at Li Wensheng's house before, but he secretly went to Xinglong Pawnshop to take a look, it was really this Chen Yi, which made him die and came over obediently with the money.

"Hehe, say it earlier, if I had said it earlier, would you believe it." Chen Yi said lightly.

The middle-aged fat man smiled bitterly again, this time, he was planted, but fortunately, he had said it before Chen Yi, otherwise, with Chen Yi's friendship with those sons of the family, he probably didn't know how to die. (To be continued......)