"Sure enough, sure enough, it moved!" The onlookers were restless again.

The shopkeeper withdrew his hand and opened his slap to the crowd to prove that he had nothing in his hand. Hearing everyone's exclamations, his face was a little more proud, and then he said loudly: "Buy one and go back, you only need to move the mechanism once a day, and you can make this quarter of an hour go all day!" ”

"Can you let me move the mechanism too?" Shi Mo Guangyan still had some doubts in his heart: "If it is as you say, I will buy one and go back!" ”

Some of the onlookers began to heckle: "Let him try, let him try!" ”

The shopkeeper looked around, ordered the man to move a quarter of an hour back, moved it again, stopped it, whispered to Shi Mo Guangyan, and made a hand gesture to the right. Shima Hirohiko nodded, put his hand into the newly moved quarter-hour back hole, and sure enough, he felt an iron chain, and he pulled the chain to the right with all he could, only to hear the creaking sound of the mechanism, and then, the quarter-hour pendulum and the second hand actually started.

"Sure enough!" Shima Hirohiko was overjoyed: "There is such a delicate thing in the world!" ”

"This is the trick of Zhuge Wuhou's wooden cow and flowing horse! Unique in the world! The shopkeeper of the gold shop rolled his sleeves and patted his chest: "I have been opening a store in this royal house for more than ten years, and my neighbors testify, can I have a lie?" ”

"How much is this quarter of an hour?" Shima Hirohiko didn't bother to listen to his boasting, and asked bluntly.

"I have three quarters of an hour, if the guest officer is interested, please come into the store to enjoy." Hearing that Shi Mo Guangyan really intended to buy it, the shopkeeper's face smiled like a flower: "Please, please, Xiao Er, make tea for the guest officer!" ”

Shi Miyuan put down the sedan curtain, twisted his beard and groaned slightly, this quarter of an hour is really a rare and practical thing, his house is vast, and it is not too much to put two or three seats.

He was not originally a materialistic person, what he loved most was power, and as for his wealth, he was much lighter, and he was not elegant, almost all the prime ministers of the Great Song Dynasty were good at poetry, but he was an exception. He knew this himself, so he kept it as secretive as he could. It's just that this quarter of an hour is extremely convenient and practical, and a character like him can't help but be moved.

"Go and ask for the price." Shi Miyuan knocked lightly on the wall of the sedan chair, and a housekeeper understood, and immediately leaned in front of the window, and after listening to his instructions, he walked through the crowd and walked towards the gold shop.

Shi Miyuan put down the curtain, closed his eyes and recuperated, after a while, he heard the onlookers outside again, he quietly lifted the corner of the curtain, peeked out, and found that it was two guys from the gold shop, carrying a wooden box out, seeing that this wooden box is extremely gorgeous, and the quarter of an hour contained in it must be even more beautiful.

Hirohiko Ishiga brought his own companions, rented a carriage in the market, and placed the wooden box in the cart. The surrounding people were clamoring for him to open the wooden box and take a look, but Shima Hirohiko refused with joy on his face.

Shi Miyuan was also curious in his heart, he didn't know what kind of quarter hour was in the box, and the look of the buyer was not the same as the store's expression.

After a while, the butler he sent to inquire about the price came over and whispered to the sedan chair: "Back to Xianggong, he has three kinds of grandfather clocks, the most expensive one costs 1,000 yuan, the cheapest one costs 200 yuan, and the medium one costs 500 yuan." ”

"What an expensive price!" Shi Miyuan took a breath, even in Liangzhejiang, more than 30 guan can buy one mu of paddy field (Note 1), 1,000 guan, that is the price of 30 mu of paddy field.

However, for Shi Miyuan, money is not a big problem, his family has been a eunuch for generations, his father Shi Hao and himself have been high-ranking officials, not only have a good salary, the family has a wide range of land, but also some side branch children are in business. If this thing is used exquisitely, it can reflect his prime minister's style, and it deserves a thousand times.

"Let him send one of each to the house, and I will play with it." Shi Miyuan commanded again.

He is the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, naturally different from ordinary rich families, the housekeeper got the order, and then entered the store again. Shi Miyuan stepped on the bottom of the sedan chair, and the sedan chair man got a hint, immediately got up the sedan chair, and carried him away.

"I don't know where this thing came from, but it's a lucrative business." Shi Miyuan thought so in his heart, then shook his head and put this matter behind him.

Unlike the former imperial capital, Miyagi mostly lived in the north of the city, Lin'an was temporarily there, Miyagi lived in the north of the city, monopolizing Phoenix Mountain, and Shi Miyuan's own mansion was in Qingyuan Mansion, which was built when the son gave land today, named "Daguan Wenfu", but because he lived in Lin'an all the year round, there was also his prime minister's mansion in Lin'an City (Note 2). Along the way, Shi Miyuan let out a long sigh in his heart, feeling that the things that had troubled him these days seemed to have disappeared a lot.

"The ancients forgot about the landscape, but I forgot about the market." After getting off the sedan chair, he said to Yu Tianxi, who was waiting at home.

Yu Tianxi is only in his early thirties, slightly bearded, he is a pure father, and the family is a friend of the Shi family, his father Yu Di was hired by Shi Miyuan's father Shi Hao as a tutor in the family school, and in his generation, he was hired by Shi Miyuan as a Xixi. He is a steady and quiet person, so although he has not been in Shifu for a long time, he has won Shi Miyuan's trust. Hearing this, he smiled and said: "The small is hidden in the wilderness, and the big is hidden in the city, like Xianggong, it can only be hidden in the temple." ”

"Pure Father's words......" Shi Miyuan shook his head with a smile, and gently patted Yu Tianxi's shoulder with his hand: "If it weren't for the fact that you know each other very well, you would have to say that you are bragging." ”

"The student is not Ding, and the Xianggong is far superior to Kolai Gong (Note 3)." Yu Tianxi said in vain.

The two looked at each other and smiled, and after entering the house and sitting down, Shi Miyuan said: "I saw a novel thing on the royal street today, and I thought it was quite useful, so I asked someone to send it, and I played with the prime minister." ”

"If you can enter the eyes of the public law, this thing must be good." Yu Tianxi showed just the right amount of surprise: "It seems that the students have been able to open their eyes today." ”

The two chatted for a while, and the butler walked in, and when he was at the door, he gave a deep salute: "Qi Qi Xianggong, the shopkeeper is here." ”

Shi Miyuan put away the smile on his face, straightened his clothes, and put on the style of being the prime minister: "Let him in." ”

After a while, the shopkeeper nodded and entered the door, and he didn't dare to look at Shi Miyuan, so he just turned over and bowed down, and kowtowed one after another: "The villain greets the minister!" ”

"I heard that your account is selling something called Quarter Hour, which is said to be a great treasure, using the mechanism of Zhuge Wuhou Wooden Ox and Flowing Horse?" Shi Miyuan said slowly: "I don't know if I have brought it, I want to see it." ”

"It's a blessing to be able to get the blue eyes of the public." didn't hear Shi Miyuan let himself stand up, and the shopkeeper kept kneeling on the ground and replied: "Bring it, the housekeeper in the Prime Minister's Mansion has orders, and the villain brought three seats!" ”

Note 1: Shi Miyuan's confidant Cheng Qin used 32,000 guan to buy 1,000 acres of land at a time in order to renovate the lake during the Jiading period, which is a historical fact.

Note 2: Ningbo Daguan Wenfu is a historical fact, and part of it was later incorporated into the famous "Tianyi Pavilion", but Shi Miyuan's residence in Lin'an City has not been able to find relevant historical materials.

Note 3: Referring to Ding Wei and Kou Zhun, Ding Wei was Kou Zhun pulled up one hand, and when the two were feasting, Ding Wei saw that Kou Zhun had soup on his beard, so he wiped it off, and as a result, Kou Zhun taught him that "the minister who participates in politics is the prime minister." The two have since turned against each other.