After Zhao Ying left, Li Yinglong squatted in front of the jade stall again and looked at it, he found that one of the jade pendants in the pile was exactly the same as the one that the purple-shirted boy gave him as a mortgage yesterday, so he picked it up and looked at it and asked: Uncle, how to sell this jade pendant?

The stall owner smiled and said: Childe has good eyesight, this jade pendant is the best piece in my stall, the price is not expensive, it costs five taels of silver.

Hearing this, Li Yinglong smiled and said: Uncle, don't bluff me, you are a fake jade pendant, at most it is a penny of silver.

Hearing this, the stall owner hurriedly waved his hand and said: No, no, son, my jade pendant is different from the kind of silver you said, although my jade pendant is not carved from high-grade jadeite, but it is definitely a real jadeite, I don't believe that you bought it and went to a jewelry and jade shop not far from here to let people give an estimate, if it is not worth five taels of silver, I will immediately return the money to you.

Hearing this, Li Yinglong nodded and said: Okay, I'll buy it first, if you lie to me, I'll come back to you to settle accounts.

With that, he took out a piece of silver of five taels and threw it to the stall owner, and then walked out with the jade pendant.

Li Yinglong walked out of the bazaar and walked west for more than 100 steps to the gate of a jade shop called "Shen Yu Jewelry and Jade Shop", he first looked at the antique façade of this jade shop, and then walked over, pushed open the door and walked into the store.

There was a middle-aged man about forty years old in the store, wearing a foreign suit, who saw someone coming, hurriedly greeted him from behind the counter, politely gave a salute and asked with a smile: What does the son want to buy?

Li Yinglong returned the salute and said: The shopkeeper, I'm sorry, I'm here to ask for advice.

The middle-aged man hurriedly said: Childe is serious, please say anything else.

Li Yinglong took out the jade pendant that he bought for five taels of silver and handed it to the middle-aged man: Trouble the shopkeeper to identify how much this jade pendant can be worth.

The middle-aged man took it and looked at it carefully, and said casually: This is a piece of miscellaneous jade carving, although the color is very beautiful, but it is not valuable, at most it is worth five taels of silver.

Hearing this, Li Yinglong said in his heart, it seems that the stall owner did not lie to him, after a little thought, he reached into his arms and took out the collateral that the boy brother gave him yesterday and handed it to the middle-aged man: I still have a piece here, please ask the shopkeeper to identify it again.

The middle-aged man thought that this piece was not much better, so he took it and looked at it casually, suddenly, he was stunned, then took it to the front of him and looked at it carefully, and then took it to the door to look at the sun, and after a while, he asked: Childe, where did you get this jade pendant?

Seeing that the middle-aged man's expression was so solemn, Li Yinglong guessed that this jade pendant was not ordinary, but as for how it was unusual, he didn't know, in order to find out the bottom, he casually made up: It was a friend who owed me five thousand taels of silver and had no money to pay back, so he used this jade pendant to top, I couldn't trust him, so I took it to let the shopkeeper appraise it.

After that, he asked: Did he lie to me, in fact, this is a very worthless jade pendant, right?

Hearing this, the middle-aged man hurriedly waved his hand and said: No, no, the son has earned, this is a very precious jade pendant, the jade pendant itself is a very pure old pit glass kind of superb jade, this piece of jade itself is worth three or five thousand taels of silver, but it is also a thing in the palace, this special value is worth three thousand taels of silver, if you want to sell this jade pendant, its price should be between seven or eight thousand taels.

Hearing this, Li Yinglong asked in surprise: I see that this jade pendant is no different from the one just now, shopkeeper, how did you see that it was a palace thing?

The middle-aged man smiled and said: There are four small characters engraved on this piece of jade, Hetian Zhigong, that is to say, this jade pendant is directly tributed to the court by Hetian jade mine.

Li Yinglong made a sudden look and said: Thank you for the shopkeeper's help with the appraisal, how much appraisal fee should I pay you?

Hearing this, the middle-aged man waved his hand and said: No charge, no charge, the son does not have to be polite.

Li Yinglong gave a salute to the middle-aged man and said: Thank you again!

The middle-aged man returned the courtesy: You're welcome.

Li Yinglong took the piece of Hetian Zhigong jade pendant from the middle-aged man's hand, put it in his arms, turned around and walked out.

At the appointed time, Li Yinglong pushed open the door of the private room on time and walked in.

The purple-shirted boy was already sitting inside drinking tea, and when he saw Li Yinglong walking in, he hurriedly stood up from the seat and greeted: The boy is very punctual.

Li Yinglong smiled and said: Let's meet again.

The purple-shirted boy said with a smile: This time, Your Excellency believes that I am not a liar.

Li Yinglong said: Of course Childe will not be a liar, otherwise I would still come.

Hearing this, the purple-shirted boy was stunned and said: Oh, the son is so sure.

Li Yinglong reached into his arms, took out the jade pendant of the purple-shirted boy, and said: I am not sure, but I went to do some investigation.

Hearing this, the purple-shirted boy was stunned and asked: So the boy asked the connoisseur to do an appraisal of this jade pendant?

Li Yinglong nodded and said: Yes, an expert said that the value of this jade pendant is between seven or eight thousand taels of silver.

Hearing this, the purple-shirted boy smiled, and said with a smile: Since the prince knows the value of this jade pendant, why do you still come to the appointment, isn't it worth exchanging twenty-two taels of silver for more than seven thousand taels of silver?

Hearing this, Li Yinglong smiled and said lightly: A fool and an idiot can calculate the difference, but I am not a liar. As the saying goes, a gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way, although I am not a gentleman, but I am not a villain who loves to be cheap, so I must go to the appointment to come here to return the jade pendant of the son.

Hearing this, the purple-shirted boy smiled and said: You are very interesting, yes, I made you a friend.

After that, he made a gesture of invitation with his hand and said: Son, please sit, I will be the east today, and we will have a good drink.

Li Yinglong was not polite, pulled a chair and sat down, the purple-shirted boy sat opposite him, Li Yinglong put the jade pendant in his hand in front of the purple-shirted boy, and the purple-shirted boy picked it up and stuffed it into his arms without looking at it. In his eyes, it seemed that this superb jadeite worth seven or eight thousand taels of silver was no different from ordinary objects.

Seeing this, Li Yinglong smiled and said: Why don't you take a look at it, aren't you afraid that I will return a fake one to you.

The purple-shirted boy smiled and said: If that's the case, will you still come to the appointment?

Li Yinglong nodded and said: You are very good at knowing people, yes, I recognize your friend.

Hearing this, the purple-shirted boy said as if jokingly: If I don't know people, then the world won't be in chaos.

Li Yinglong also jokingly said: The world may not be in chaos, but your family will definitely be in chaos.

Hearing this, the purple-shirted boy said as if jokingly: My home is very big, if my home is in chaos, the world will be in chaos.

After that, he paused, and then said: Let's not talk about this, come, let's drink.

After that, he picked up the wine glass and touched it with Li Yinglong, and then toasted it alone.

Putting down the cup, the two picked up the chopsticks and ate the food.

Suddenly, Li Yinglong patted his head with his hand as if he remembered something and said: Look at me, I have met twice, and I have drunk wine, but I don't even know your name, Childe, it's rude, it's too rude, may I ask Childe's name?

The purple-shirted boy said casually: My surname is Zhao Mingheng.

Li Yinglong heard the difference, and couldn't help but say strangely: Zhao Hong, a girl's name, hey, why did you come up with a woman's name.

After that, he seemed to think of something and then said: I know, it must be that your family is afraid that you will not be able to raise you well, so they gave you such a girl's name, right?

Hearing this, Zhao Heng said: It's not red red, it's the eternal Heng.

In fact, anyone who is familiar with history will know what this name means, there are only two people who called this name in the Great Song Dynasty, and both of them are emperors, one of them is the third emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Zhenzong - Zhao Heng. The young purple-shirted boy in front of him is Song Zhenzong. But unfortunately, although Li Yinglong knew some historical knowledge in his previous life, he didn't know much about the names of the emperors of previous dynasties. Therefore, he didn't know that the young purple-shirted boy in front of him was the emperor Song Zhenzong of the current dynasty.

After that, he asked: What is the name of the childe?

Li Yinglong said: My name is Li Yinglong, and I am from Suzhou.

Hearing this, Zhao Heng was stunned and said: Listening to Li Gongzi's accent, it doesn't look like he is from Suzhou, but like he is from Hebei.

Li Yinglong said: Yes, I am from Tiangui Mountain, Hebei Province, and I was sent to Suzhou by mistake, so I became a native of Suzhou, and then I became a scholar and a talent.

Zhao Hengdao: So, Li Gongzi came to the capital to participate in the Beijing test.

Li Yinglong smiled and said: Logically, yes, in fact, I am not.

Hearing this, Zhao Heng asked very strangely: What do you mean?

Li Yinglong scratched his head and said: This matter is quite complicated, this ------ tell you this, I came to Beijing this time to take the exam just to go through the motions and take a walk.