Wang Jue looked at the Taiji dry rice shop on the corner of the street that had not yet opened, and swallowed.

- I really want to eat meat...... Your Majesty, why did you collapse, you can't eat meat for a hundred days, and it's only been three days for a hundred days.

"Little master, that meat is the best, on weekdays, you can smell the fragrance from afar." A middle-aged woman came to Wang Jue's side and chattered.

She was a servant woman that Wang Jue had just bought, and she was still holding some brooms and other utensils in her hands.

"Sister-in-law Zhang, you said don't call me 'little master', call me 'master', I opened my own house and lived separately, and I am the head of the family, understand?" Wang Jue casually tapped her.

"Yes, yes, our master is a capable person, he became an official at a young age, he is too capable......"

Saying this, Wang Jue was also happy.

Zhou Yan rewarded him with a house in the west of Jinan City, although it was very small, but the environment was good. Wang Jue took his mother-in-law and son out, and the family of three lived much more comfortably. As for why Wang Qin can agree, it is nothing more than that the courtyard of the Wang family in Jinan is not big, and too many people live in a panic.

In the past two days, the courtiers have been busy with the national funeral, Wang Jue is not in a hurry to go to Honglu Temple to take office, and no one cares about him. He buys things every day, teases his wife and son, and only feels at ease.

It's not without mess, for example, his eldest brother Wang may have trouble doing business in Nanjing; For example, Wang Xiao and Zhou Yan had a falling out, and it was not easy for him to be caught in the middle......

Wang Qin was so anxious about these things that he found Wang Jue several times to knock him.

"Little cub, you are not in a hurry all day long, you are still not the most promising child in my Wang family's Xifu?!"

"Hey, when did the child become promising?" Wang Jue was very surprised, "Which of the current brother or the laughing brother is not more capable than me, what do I worry about following behind?" It is not easy for children to live their own lives well, and it is not easy for their fathers and brothers to worry less. ”

Conversations like this happen from time to time, and Wang Jue has made up his mind not to mix them up.

At this time, he bought a few servants, and on the way home, he suddenly heard a loud roar on the long street.

"Wang Xiao, you are sick!"

Wang Jue ran over and stretched his neck to take a look.

- Hey, Brother Xiao and Xuan Ce also quarreled? Why does he quarrel with people all day long...... Ah, it's better to be nosy.

Just wanted to escape, he was slapped on the shoulder, and before he could turn around, he was held down.

"Ah...... You ......"

"This kid is a ghost...... Hey, it turned out to be the fifth son, please come with the humble position. ”

Wang Jue was taken to the carriage, and saw Wang Xiao sitting there for a long time, and when they met, he scolded: "Don't go to Honglu Temple to take office?" What are you hanging around in the streets? ”

"I just moved and came out to buy something."

Wang Jue cautiously responded? Suddenly, I heard Wang Xiao say something strange.

"Wake up, Eppurang, Depotugusi?"

Wang Jue was shocked? Cold sweat flowed down.

"This, this, this...... I didn't see that Franc man, I didn't see it......"

"Of course you didn't see it if you didn't go to Honglu Temple!"

"I was wrong."

Wang shook his head with a smile and sighed, "You don't learn? When you go overseas, how do you live? Want someone to accidentally get caught by a cannibalistic native over there? You can't beg for mercy. ”

"Huh?" Wang Jue was stunned.

"Go sell your house, right? It's only a few days since you left? Hurry up and pack up. ”

"Ah......h

"Wang laughs! What the hell are you going to do? Qin Xuance rushed up to the carriage and scolded angrily with the curtain lifted.

"It's okay to be idle, let's go to your house and sit down." Wang Xiao turned his head to look at Qin Xuance, and his expression with a straight face turned into a smile again.

~~

Climb the stairs and look? Can you see the tall and tall green pines in the distance? There is a faint sound of water and stone agitation, and the sound is like gargling jade.

Zuo Mingjing said: "Buying such a house, your husband also took a lot of thought. ”

"No matter how good Jinan is, it will eventually lose the capital." Zuo Mingxin sighed lightly? "I've been thinking a lot these days, 'Am I living in this courtyard?' Isn't it another kind of 'directly treating Hangzhou as Bianzhou'? ”

"In this case, you must not tell your husband that the war is already dangerous, and if you talk to him again, it will only make him embarrassed."

"I know, but I haven't told him." Zuo Mingxin said: "It's only been a few days since we got together, and I caught up with Your Majesty to collapse, and he stayed in front of the spirit, and it was rare to see him a few times." ”

"It's going to be okay anyway. By the way, that is Yi'an's former residence? ”

"How can it be called Yi'an's former residence?" Zuo Mingxin shook his head and said: "It can only be called the former residence of Li Gefei, the father of Yi'an Jushi, who moved to Bianjing when he was young, but because the "Jade Collection" is named after this Yuquan and the descendants are lyrical." Xuan Ce didn't inquire clearly, and said that he still cheated people out of money when he bought this house. ”

She said this because she didn't want to appear too good and provoke Zuo Mingjing to feel sorry for herself.

Zuo Mingjing just smiled, looked at the eaves in the distance and said, "It's worth it." Li Gefei is a protégé of Mr. Su Dongpo, and Li Yi'an also used to make up there. If you live here and be contaminated with talent, the children born in the future will be a generation of talents. ”

"Several uncles of the Qin family also said the same thing that day, saying that the Qin family can finally produce a literati......

The two talked for a while, and Zuo Mingjing said: "Coming here today can be regarded as recognizing the door, and I will go back." ”

Before leaving, another servant hurriedly came to tell Qin Xuance that he had returned home, and another Duke of Qiu Guogong came to visit Yunyun.

Zuo Mingxin responded, and asked Zuo Mingjing: "It's all old friends, can my sister see you in front of me?" ”

"I'm a widowed woman, where can I go to see me? Let's take my leave. ”

Zuo Mingxin couldn't hold back. Zuo Mingjing rode out of Qin's house from the back door, and couldn't help but lift the curtain to take a look when he walked around to the side of the road.

There was a carriage parked in front of the gate, presumably a visitor had already entered.

In the distance, several figures peeked out from behind the trunk of the tree, and then retracted after a moment.

Zuo Mingjing was slightly stunned, and whispered to his maid: "You go in and tell ......"

At this point, she hesitated, thought about it and changed her words: "I have something left behind, and I have to go and get it again." ”

~~

in the lobby.

"Why don't you buy the Yi'an Former Residence next door?"

"Can I afford it?" Qin Xuance said: "Why don't you go shopping around my house?" ”

"There's nothing to shop about." Wang Xiao sat down in the guest seat, beckoned a personal guard, and whispered two orders.

The guard turned around and walked towards the outside of the Qin Mansion.

"What are you doing here without looking at my house?"

"Take a break and do something trivial."

"One day, I don't know what you're going to do." Qin Xuance muttered, "I'll go change my clothes." ”

Wang smiled: "That's how you treat guests?" Hey, remember that you can't change your clothes, you have to wear them for a hundred days......"

"You don't need to teach."

Qin Xuance left Wang Xiao angrily, and ran to the backyard to see Zuo Mingxin, which was regarded as a fake Gongji heart to go home.

In the lobby, Wang Jue couldn't help but ask Wang Xiao, "Brother Xiao, do you really want to go to sea?" ”

"yes, you can clean up when you go back."

"However, you and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ......"

Wang Xiao looked at the screen, his eyes froze, and he suddenly stood up and walked behind the screen.

Wang Jue was stunned for a moment, didn't look at it, and made up his mind to be less nosy.

Behind the screen, there was a whispering sound of small fragments.

"Miss Zuo? Why are you here? ”

"I came to see Mingxin, but when I went out, I found that someone was secretly staring at Guogong, I was afraid that it would be unfavorable to Guogong, so I came back to remind me, please be careful......"

Through the screen, Wang Jue was stunned when he heard this, and he became worried in his heart - what if someone mistakes him for Brother Xiao'er? I'm so annoyed, I shouldn't have gone out with him today!

Behind the screen, there were a few more whispers.

"It seems that Guogong already knew, and I took the liberty of it."

"Girl Zuo stays."

"Guogong?"

"Houyi doesn't know how to repay it, let's give Miss Zuo a gift in two days......"

Then footsteps sounded, and Wang Xiao turned back.

Wang Jue glanced at it, and when he saw the appearance of this smiling brother Yushu in the wind, he didn't know what he was doing.

"Look at what, shut your mouth."

Wang Jue is not an eventful person, he should come down honestly, only looked at Wang Xiao, and thought: "It's over, it's over, I'm as handsome as him, and I'm still wearing plain white linen, it's so dangerous......"

After a short time, the guard who had been sent out earlier came back and said, "Guogong, the people have brought it, and it is in the courtyard over there." ”

"Well, let's go."

……

Wang Jue followed Wang Xiao to a nearby mansion in a daze, and when he looked up, he saw the words 'Longquan Shuyu' on a plaque, and he couldn't help but exclaim.

"Wow, this plaque is a few years old."

When I entered the hall, I saw ancient books and jade placed around. Wang Jue's eyes swept and his mouth was full of praise.

"These antiques, all ...... It's all true? ”

"I don't know." Wang Xiao said casually.

"I know, it's all true! How much silver does this cost......" Wang Jue was amazed.

Wang Xiao ignored him and said, "Bring people here." ”

After a while, the guard brought a little fat man into the hall.

This little fat man looks seventeen or eighteen years old, and he looks quite rich, but he is also a filial piety suit.

"Li Kaicheng, a grass man, has seen Master Hou."

"This house is your property?" Wang Xiao asked.

"Lord Hou, this is the property of the ancestors of the grass people, my father passed away five days ago, and now this house can also be regarded as the property of the grass people."

Wang Xiao said lightly: "Your father's surname is Li, and his name is Peng'er?" ”

"Yes."

"You came to Jinan five years ago, bought this house, claimed to be a descendant of the Li family, and bought Wulongtan in the north?"

"Grandpa Yuguo, not claiming to be the distant ancestor of the grass people, Li Gong, is a protégé of Su Shi and gave birth to a talented girl Li Qingzhao......"

"Dare to quibble?" Wang Xiao squatted down and asked with a smile, "When did you become a thief?" ”

Li Kaicheng's face was full of astonishment, and then he exclaimed: "The grass people are wronged! ”

Wang Xiao didn't say much, took a letter card from his sleeve and shook it in front of Li Kaicheng's eyes.

"Ah......h

Li Kaicheng blinked, this time he was really stunned, and muttered: "Guogong, you are our seventh ......"

"Got it? Still quibbling? ”

"Don't dare to speak in front of the national government." Li Kaicheng said in a low voice: "That's it...... The small ones don't work under this seventh master, and the small ones are under the command of Gao Junshi. ”

"Happy Sheng?"

"Yes." Li Kaicheng said.

Wang Jue was startled, and said, "Wow, is that old boy?" He sent someone to Jinan? ”

The probe looked at the antiques in the lobby again, and he scolded secretly: "It turns out that this old boy surnamed Gao is not illiterate, and he really deliberately took a broken bowl to deceive me......"

"Shut up." Wang Xiao said to Li Kaicheng: "Go on, when did you start to be meticulous?" ”

"Yes, my father served in the rebel army eight years ago, but he didn't do it carefully, my father was...... It was for the Rebels to collect money. ”

"How? Grave? ”

Li Kaicheng was a little shy, and said: "Yes, the little ancestors are indeed not literati and celebrities like Li Gefei and Li Qingzhao, and the little ancestors all make a living by touching gold." After my father defected to the rebel army, Gao Junshi saw that my father had this craft, so he asked him to take care of the money and food. In the past, the rebels robbed a lot of treasures, and my father took them to Jiangnan to sell. Then buy medicinal herbs and iron tools and send them back to the rebels......"

"Sometimes, when I find out where there is a tomb of the king, my father will dig it. Five years ago, when he passed by Jinan, he heard that there was Qin Qiong's Mansion in the Five Dragon Ponds, so he asked people to dig it. This house was bought by my father for the elderly, and I want to wait for the righteous army to succeed in the future, so I will become a celebrity here, but we don't come here often. This time we were in Xuzhou, and a month ago, Meng Junshi wanted to use manpower to seconded my father to him and sent him to Jinan. Five days ago, my father went out on an errand and didn't come back, and died with the emperor of the Chu Dynasty......"

Wang Xiao asked, "Do you know how he died?" ”

"I don't know, the corpse is not ...... Wasn't it taken away by your brocade guards? ”

"What did Meng Jiu tell you to do next?"

"Potential Jinan, find out the news of the Chu Dynasty. Master Meng said that he would send another detail after that, and let me wait for someone to take over. ”

Wang Xiao asked again: "How much do you know about the fine work of Jiannu in the city and the fine work of Nanjing?" ”

Li Kaicheng said: "Master Meng asked us to check, Jiannu has a fine work hidden in a Jin cloth shop in the south of the city, and we sent someone to keep an eye on it. People from Nanjing are hiding in the Zhangjia clan of Jinan......"

"Xuzhou also has your people?"

"No, but my father has been doing business with a giant merchant in Xuzhou all the year round, and we sold treasures and antiques to him, and he helped us find all kinds of things that the rebels needed."

"Give me a copy of this man's information."

"Yes......"

After a while, Wang Xiao put a piece of paper into his sleeve, paced two steps, and said slowly: "How many people are you still in Jinan City?" ”

"This ...... There were thirty-two people. ”

"Including Meng Jiu's eyeliner buried in the palace?"

Li Kaicheng was stunned for a moment and said, "I don't know if Master Meng has eyeliner in the palace." ”

"Withdraw all your people, go back and tell Meng Jiu that if you want to cooperate, you must have the sincerity to cooperate, and if you dare to send someone to stare at me, I will kill one of you."

"Yes......"

Li Kaicheng breathed a sigh of relief, stood up again, and heard Wang smile again: "By the way, sell this yard to me?" ”

"What?"

"You can sell this yard to me. What is the price? ”

Li Kaicheng wiped the sweat on his forehead and muttered: "Guogong is joking, Guogong wants to take it...... This is the title deed. ”

"How's that going to work?"

Wang Xiao touched it in his sleeve again, touched the ingot of silver that Wang Kang gave him just now, put it on the table casually, and asked with a smile: "Is this enough?" ”

"Enough, enough......"

"Let's write another deed, and let people say that I, the countryman, sell and occupy the house."

"Yes."

"When you go out in a while, if someone asks, they will say that I came to buy your house......"

Wang Jue blinked, he only felt that all this today was very novel, and he really wanted to make friends with this Li Kaicheng.

- Wow, touch the gold, how many antiques you have to see. Wow, Brother Xiao bought such a big house for ten silver, hey, Brother Xiao said that he wanted to go to sea, so what did he do to buy a house......

~~

Palace.

Zhou Yan paced two steps and said anxiously: "No, I have to go and apologize to Wang Xiao." ”

"Your Highness, no." He Liangyuan said: "At this moment, it is really necessary for His Highness to calm down. ”

"Still calm? How can this palace sink? It's He Qing who said it, Wang Xiao won't really let it go. But now that he has let go, he will not transfer troops to defend Jinan, as soon as the army in Jiangnan arrives, what else can the palace do? ”

"Your Highness, don't panic, Duke Yu is just scaring His Highness." He Liangyuan said: "Your Highness, you think, no one has ever forced him to let go of power." As long as he intended, he could command his ministers at any time. What did he have to do, and why did he need to ask His Highness's opinion? The reason why he deliberately did not come forward was to let His Highness give in first. This is to slap Your Highness in the face. ”

Zhou Yan said: "It's still because He Qing can't restrain those guards in time, so you vented." Hurt the king to laugh and not come to the stage? ”

Speaking of this, he squinted his eyes and glanced at He Liangyuan, a little vigilant.

He Liangyuan was stunned and said, "Your Highness won't think that the minister deliberately revealed the news, right?" ”

"This palace will not suspect He Qing." Zhou Yan said: "But why is it that only the quarrel between the palace and Wang Xiao has come out?" Why were those guards snatched from He Qing by Qin Xuance? ”

said that he did not doubt, but the meaning of the words was all doubt.

He Liangyuan was stunned again, and said: "Your Highness Mingjian, this matter is definitely not done by Wei Chen!" ”

Zhou Yan obviously didn't believe it.

"Your Highness, what the old minister said is true. The old minister had absolutely no intention of releasing rumors and forcing the Duke of Yu to not come to power. He Liangyuan said full and sincerely, he thought about it, and suddenly exclaimed: "The minister understands...... It's a rumor released by Yu Guogong himself! ”

Zhou Yan shrugged his shoulders, obviously not believing it.

"Your Highness, really! It's really a rumor of discord with His Royal Highness released by Duke Yu himself! He Liangyuan spoke quickly, and said: "The minister understands, that's why he is like this." He deliberately asked the old minister to come to see His Royal Highness, let Qin Xuance control those guards, and then release the rumors, and then he threw off the political affairs and made a look of being untalented. He just wants to form a false image, so that the world thinks that the old minister is separating him from His Highness, and making the world think that His Highness is jealous of him. ”

"Why did he do that?"

He Liangyuan pondered for a while, and said, "The minister thinks about it, but he is afraid that he still wants to suppress His Highness's prestige. Originally, the news did not come out, and even if His Highness gave in to him, it would only lose face slightly. But now that the rumors are spreading, His Highness will apologize to him again, it will be really disgraced......"

Zhou Yan shook his head annoyedly.

It's been two days, and the temperament in his heart has disappeared a lot. And Ben felt that this was just a trivial matter of quarrel between himself and Wang Xiao, but with Wang Xiao's actions, this matter seemed to be sliding in an uncontrollable direction.

"I have to go and apologize to Wang Xiao!"

"Your Highness, no. He's putting pressure on you, and Your Highness can only get through this if you hold on......"

"Pressuring?" Zhou Yan said: "If he really doesn't care, the palace will be over." ”

"No, it won't." He Liangyuan said firmly: "He will not let go, no one is willing to leave such power in his hands." ”

"What if?"

Zhou Yan insisted on refusing to listen to He Liangyuan anymore, so he ordered someone to get out of the car and drive. The next moment, an attendant entered the palace and reported to Zhou Yanyu in a low voice.

Zhou Yan was a little stunned, turned his head to He Liangyuan and said, "Half an hour ago, Wang Xiao bought a house in Jinan City. ”

"Your Highness." He Liangyuan arched his hand and said: "This matter shows that what the minister said is good, he never thought of really letting go, he is reminding His Highness to make His Highness soft to him." ”

"That'...... What is Hongu going to do? ”

"Your Highness has to carry it, only by carrying it, can the courtiers understand that Your Highness is the king, not a puppet pinched by Wang Xiao's hand......"

Zhou Yan let out a long sigh.

When it comes to the end, he is still inclined to believe He Liangyuan.

He Liangyuan is different from the Song brothers. The Song brothers have always paid attention to efficiency in their deliberations with him, and they directly told Zhou Yan the result of what to do, without talking about Zhou Yan's feelings. He Liangyuan patiently explained to Zhou Yan the cause and effect, and discussed the plan according to Zhou Yan's feelings, which made people feel like being a superior.

Half an hour later, Zhou Yan summoned Wang Jue again.

"I heard you went out with your brother-in-law today?"

"yes, I'm tired."

"What did you do?"

"I went to Qin Xuance's house for a walk, and then Brother Xiao bought the house next door to the Qin family."

"Do you think my brother-in-law really wants to leave?"

"He kept saying that he wanted to leave, but looking at what he did, it didn't seem to be." Wang Jue sighed: "Your Highness, don't be angry with Brother Xiao'er, okay?" It's hard for me to get caught in the middle. ”

On this day, Zhou Yan and Wang Xiao still did not reconcile. What the ministers of Jinan didn't expect was that this originally small matter was slowly brewing, and finally out of control......

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