For his mansion, Gu Qing actually didn't have too many emotional ties, in his eyes, this mansion was just a place to stay.

It's a house, not a home.

There are housekeepers in the house, but there are no relatives and lovers, he is the only master in the whole house, and every day he sees the faces of the servants who are sincerely frightened, in this mansion, no one dares to talk to him loudly, he frowns, and the maids will be so frightened that they kneel to plead guilty.

Sometimes he even felt that Li Twelve Niang and Zhang Jiuzhang's mansions were more like his home, and Gu Qing could feel the warmth of family affection in their mansions, so this was also the reason why Gu Qing would rather go to Li Twelve Niang's mansion for a banquet than go back to his mansion after returning to Chang'an.

However, after seeing Steward Xu's surprised face at this moment, Gu Qing stood in front of the door and suddenly felt a brief stunned.

In a house that he didn't call home, there were still people who treated him as family.

With Steward Xu's angry shout, the door of the mansion opened, and a group of subordinates hurriedly stepped forward to salute, some cleverly swept the dust off Gu Qing with a duster, and some grinned woodenly, and the maids stood in the front yard, and hurriedly ran into the backyard to clean up the bedroom after saluting timidly.

The moment he stepped into the house, Gu Qing immediately adapted to his role as the head of the family.

Steward Xu bowed down and followed him, nagging as he walked.

"Talking is three years, Hou Ye finally went home, I don't dare to go so far in the future, there is a family and everything is enough, stay at home to be at peace in my heart, Hou Ye, the ginkgo tree in the front yard has grown a circle, you see, there are peony flowers in the east courtyard, a few blooms and a few thanks, several rounds have not seen the owner of the house to enjoy the flowers, if the flowers have spirituality, I learned that the owner of the house is back, next year will be more delicate than in previous years......"

"In the past few years, the family has changed a few people, the old man kicked away a few lazy people, and recruited a few diligent people, last year there was a maid whose hands and feet were not clean, and stole a good inkstone in the backyard study to sell for money, and was exposed by other maids in the backyard, the old man let people beat the board, and drove him out of the house, the matter is not big, the old man did not let the official, I am afraid that I will make people laugh when I say it, and the reputation of the Hou Ye will be ruined......"

Gu Qing walked very slowly, with a smile on his face all the time, listening to the housekeeper chattering about the trivial things in the family, and his mood unconsciously became happy.

Away from the wind and sand outside the plug, I returned to Chang'an and experienced the familiar smell of fireworks in the world, and this mansion became more and more homely.

Steward Xu was nagging, and two figures suddenly appeared from the oblique thorns, one fat and one thin, and Gu Qing was caught off guard and grabbed by his sleeve.

Hao Donglai and Shi Daxing dragged him with snot and tears, Hao Donglai cried: "Hou Ye, Hou Ye, you can count it back, in the past few years that you have been away, the villain has not thought about tea and dinner, and he can't sleep at night, thinking about you all the time, remembering that you have eaten well and dressed ......warmly in Anxi, which is thousands of miles away."

Shi Daxing wiped his tears and said: "Master Hou, don't believe him, after you left, Hao Fat Man ate more than anyone else, look at his figure, he is even fatter." ”

Hao Donglai's face froze, his teary eyes glared at Shi Daxing, and he said sharply: "The surname Shi, you have to get along with me, right?" ”

Shi Daxing said coldly: "I can't see a hypocritical villain deceiving the Hou Ye." ”

Gu Qing looked at Hao Donglai with a smile, touched his chin and said, "Shopkeeper Hao seems to be really rounded, and his face is bigger......

Hao Donglai's fat face turned red, and he stammered: "Yes...... It's fat, the body is sick, the kidney yang is lost and the fat is caused by the loss, Hou Ye, the villain is not meat, it is the disease that has been taken care of by the hard work! ”

Gu Qing suddenly: "To the point of losing kidney yang in doing business, Shopkeeper Hao really tried his best, which made me feel very moved......"

Before Hao Donglai had time to be happy, Shi Daxing next to him calmly made up for it.

"There may be 'spirit', but 'exhaustion' may not be...... After the Hou Ye left, this fat man simply lived in the Qinglou, and the girls in the Qinglou in Chang'an Pingkangfang were few who had not been ruined by him......"

Hao Donglai was completely angry, he couldn't care about etiquette anymore, like a toad that only eats, his belly bulged high, and then he bumped into Shi Daxing, and shouted in his mouth: "The surname is Shi, I fought with you!" ”

Gu Qing blinked, quickly turned around and took a look, Steward Xu was standing behind him, his smile remained unchanged, obviously accustomed to the vicious fight between the two shopkeepers, and even the people around him had a calm expression, not panicked at all, and no one came up to persuade him.

Gu Qing smiled, the fireworks in the world were even stronger, the taste of the yang world.

Throwing down the two of them in the yard, he stepped into the backyard, Gu Qing said as he walked: "Steward Xu, after the two goods are finished, they will be punished to stand in the yard and hold hands for an hour, and they will look at each other affectionately, I will make up for sleep first, and see me in the backyard after they finish holding hands." ”

Steward Xu responded with a smile on his face.

More than an hour later, Gu Qing came out of the bedroom with a yawn.

I haven't been home for a few years, and the bedroom is unexpectedly not musty, obviously there are maids cleaning every day, and there are a few hollow aromatherapy copper balls hanging in it, the smell is very comfortable, Gu Qing has not slept so comfortably for a long time.

Stretching out of the bedroom, Hao Donglai and Shi Daxing stood side by side with loveless expressions, their eyes looked at each other inadvertently, and then they showed a disgusting expression.

Gu Qing called the two into the room, and after the two sat down, Hao Donglai was just about to say something, but Gu Qing waved his hand to stop him.

"How have we been doing business in the past few years? Expanded? ”

Hao Donglai showed a proud look and said with a smile: "There are our shops in the entire Guanzhong city, and Shuzhou celadon has now been sought after by many powerful officials, and they can't get one if they want one." After all, it is tribute porcelain, and it comes from the hometown of the noble concubine Niangniang, and is loved by His Majesty and Niangniang, and the powerful officials below are naturally crazy to follow suit and buy it. ”

Gu Qing sighed, and said, "How much profit do you make every year?" ”

Shi Daxing thought for a while and said: "Excluding the expenses of shops and hiring people every year, the net profit is about 40,000 or more, and the shops are more open, and all kinds of expenses are inevitably heavy, mainly because the porcelain kiln in Shiqiao Village burns too little porcelain, otherwise the profit should be far more than that......

Gu Qing said with a smile: "In a few years, you have expanded the shop to the entire Guanzhong, which is already very powerful, and it did not disappoint me......

As soon as the two shopkeepers showed happy expressions, Gu Qing's smile suddenly rose, and he said with a serious expression: "What I want to say next, you will do it immediately, if you don't manage it and don't understand, you all have to do it right away." ”

The two shopkeepers were stunned for a moment and hurriedly responded.

Gu Qing said slowly: "Next, all our shops will be closed, and all the shop guys will be dismissed, including the shops in Chang'an, they will also be closed, and no one will be left, so collect the money from the sale of the shops and give it to me as soon as possible." ”

The two shopkeepers widened their eyes and were stunned for a long time, Hao Donglai trembled all over his body, and said angrily: "Master Hou, why is this?" Why stop a good deal? ”

Gu Qing sighed: "Because the world is about to be in chaos, if our shops continue to open, it won't be long before they will be burned and smashed, and there will be no return, we must take advantage of the situation to stop as soon as possible, and we can recover a little bit of loss......

The two shopkeepers were stunned: "The world is in chaos? Why did Master Hou say this? ”

Gu Qing said coldly: "There is a top-secret matter, no one is allowed to say anything about it when you leave this room, otherwise you will die." …… An Lushan of Fanyang is about to rebel, he has 200,000 elite soldiers in his hands, once he raises an army, it will sweep the world, do you think I should sell the shop? ”

The two shopkeepers were shocked: "An Lushan rebelled? ”

Gu Qing sighed: "You know that An Lushan and I have an enmity against the sky, if he rebels, no matter which city he invades, if you know that there are shops in my name in the city, what do you guess will happen to the shopkeeper and his fellow shopkeepers?" Hurry up and end the shop and dismiss the shopkeeper and the guys, you are saving their lives, understand? ”

Hao Donglai said: "Also...... Does it also include Chang'an? Will An Lushan enter Chang'an City? ”

Gu Qing was silent for a long time, and said slowly: "Yes." ”

The three of them were silent, and after a long time, Shi Daxing said with a sad expression: "Brilliant and prosperous, will it collapse in one day?" Where can I be safe in the world? ”

Gu Qing said softly: "Go to Shuzhong, go back to Qingcheng County, according to my guess, the rebels should not be able to enter Shuzhong, and it will be safe there for the time being." ”

"Don't tell them the reason for the dismissal of the shopkeeper and the gangster, some of them are more capable and loyal to us, you can take a few of them away appropriately, and return to Shu with their families, don't be lucky, the rebels are powerful, and there will be no eggs under the nest."

Hao Donglai gritted his teeth and said, "I'll go and handle the sale of the shop." ”

Shi Daxing also said: "I'll go and dismiss the guys." ”

The two shopkeepers looked discouraged, as if they were dozens of years old in an instant, the two got up and were about to retire, Shi Daxing suddenly stopped and asked: "Master Hou, such a big event, why is there no wind in the Chang'an court?" Don't our Tang Dynasty's sons of heaven and courtiers know? ”

Gu Qing said in a deep voice: "The Son of Heaven may have suspicions, but he probably still can't believe that An Lushan really dares to turn against the Tang Dynasty, and the courtiers may know something, they, like the Son of Heaven, can't believe that he can enter Chang'an, and I, as early as Anxi, knew that An Lushan was about to rebel, but I didn't dare to say this news to the Son of Heaven, for fear that he would treat me for the crime of dividing the monarch and ministers......"

Smiling self-deprecatingly, Gu Qing said, "Interesting, right?" The kings and ministers are suspicious and tempting, and the traitors are on the verge of breaking out, but I, the one who really knows, do not dare to report it, because the one who ripped off the last fig leaf is not only useless, but guilty. ”

The two shopkeepers were silent.

Yes, the last fig leaf of the so-called prosperous era, before the knife reached the neck, everyone was whitewashing the peace, knowing that the minister was no longer a minister, he still naively thought that he did not dare to fight, thinking that he still had loyalty, filial piety, good and evil in his heart.

Those who are truly sober are already fighting hard.