Gu Wenwen didn't know where Qi Ning was going to take him, but since Qi Ning was doing this, he was obviously ready to help him, thinking that he was going to find the officials of the court to help deal with this matter. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Gu Wenwen was afraid that Qi Ning didn't care about this matter, at this time, since Qi Ning made a move, he was overjoyed, and he was not verbose, the two of them did not take a car, they led two horses and went out, Li Tang and others followed the guards, Qi Ning whispered a few words to Li Tang, Li Tang led the way in front, turned a few streets, and arrived in front of a mansion, but the word "Yuan Mansion" was written on the door.

Li Tang stepped forward and knocked on the door, and instructed Yuan Rong Yuan, the eldest prince of Tongchuan, and said that Jinyi was waiting to come to discuss something.

It was already dark, and the street was very quiet, and it didn't take long for Gu Wenwen to see a boy in brocade clothes and jade belt coming out of the house, and when he saw Qi Ning, the boy said with a smile: "Master Hou, what kind of wind blew you here?" When did you go back to Beijing, you went to Xichuan, I was in the capital but I thought about it day and night. ”

Qi Ning said with a smile: "If you have nothing to do, go to the Three Treasures Palace, don't talk nonsense, find a quiet place, I have something to show you." ”

"What's that?" Yuan Rong looked left and right, and said disappointedly: "I thought you brought a beauty back from Xichuan, I said Master Hou, you went out and didn't think about bringing me anything?" ”

Qi Ning scolded with a smile: "Your Yuan Gongzi is suave and has a very high vision, even if I bring back the beauty, you will not be able to look down on it." ”

Yuan Rong laughed and led Qi Ning into the mansion, Qi Ning motioned for Gu Wenwen to follow, Qi Ning asked curiously, "Who is this?" ”

"This is my uncle." Qi Ning didn't introduce it carefully, the three of them arrived at the side hall of the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of Rites, the Shangshu Mansion was very quiet, and after sitting down, Yuan Rongcai said: "Say, what do you want to show me?" ”

Qi Ning took a picture scroll from Gu Wenwen's hand, walked to the table, unfolded the picture scroll, and said to Yuan Rong: "Master Yuan, come and take a look." ”

Yuan Rong approached with his hands behind his back, glanced at it, was shocked, and then perked up, turned around and took the oil lamp, held it in his hand and approached the flower scroll, Qi Ning said: "Yuan Rong, don't blame me for not reminding you, this painting is priceless, if it is burned, you will have to compensate in full." ”

Yuan Rong didn't pay attention to it, and watched carefully with the oil lamp, looking very excited at first, but after a while, he smiled faintly, put down the oil lamp, and said: "Master Hou, the third watch in the middle of the night, you came to my house to show me such a broken thing?" "Full of disdain.

Gu Wenwen's expression was even more embarrassed, Qi Ning thought to himself that Yuan Rong's skills in calligraphy and painting still existed, and after a casual look, he saw that it was a fake, and asked, "What, is it a fake?" ”

"Nonsense." Although Qi Ning is a marquis, Yuan Rong is used to him casually, and he is not very restrained, and said: "The paintings handed down by Han Shengzi are no more than ten paintings, and if anyone has his paintings, they are pressed at the bottom of the box and treasured, and it is impossible to show them off, so no one knows the whereabouts of those paintings so far." Among the paintings that have been handed down by him, the picture of the goddess is the most precious ......! Seeing that Gu Wen still had a picture scroll under his ribs, he asked, "That should be the picture of the goddess returning at dusk, right?" ”

Gu Wenwen smiled awkwardly, nodded, and Yuan Rong said: "The goddess picture is divided into two volumes, the goddess is looking at Lutu and the goddess is returning at dusk, since this picture is a fake, the picture of the twilight return in your hand is naturally not genuine." With his hands behind his back, he glanced at the picture on the table, and said with a smile: "But although this painting is a fake, the painting skills are not bad, and it is still worth a few hundred taels of silver, Master Hou, could it be that you went to Xichuan, someone honored you and took this fake to fool you, right?" ”

Gu Wenwen blushed and said embarrassedly: "These two paintings took ..... It cost more than 100,000 taels of silver to collect it. ”

"Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver?" Yuan Rong was taken aback and said in a lost voice: "Who received it?" Stupid, a few hundred taels of silver cost hundreds of thousands of taels, this is really wealthy, these fakes are used to fool those vassals and elegant fools......! At this point, he suddenly realized something, shook his head, and said no more.

Gu Wenwen's face had turned the color of pig liver, and Qi Ning sighed: "Your eldest prince Yuan said that this is a fake, it seems that it is really a fake." Yuan Rong, I have something for you to help with. ”

"Help?" Yuan Rong sat down on the chair and asked, "What do you want me to help with?" ”

"I know you know a lot of literati." Qi Ning said with a smile: "Tomorrow night, I will hold a banquet in the restaurant, and you can help me invite some people over." ”

Yuan Rong didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Qi Ning's gourd, and asked, "Invite someone?" Master Hou, what are you going to do? ”

"I suddenly became interested in calligraphy and painting." Qi Ning said with a smile: "Tomorrow night, I will set up three or five tables, you can help me invite twenty or thirty guests, you can invite them in your name, I will pay for all the expenses, I just want to talk about calligraphy and painting with these literati and artists." ”

Yuan Rong knew that it was impossible for Qi Ning to treat him on a whim, and there must be something strange behind it, so he thought for a while and asked, "Master Hou, do you believe in my vision?" He thought to himself that he recognized the picture of the goddess as a fake, maybe Qi Ning was not convinced, and he had a treat tomorrow night, but he was afraid that he would let more people identify it.

Qi Ning smiled: "Don't talk nonsense, just ask you, can you invite guests?" ”

"It's naturally easy to invite guests to dinner." Yuan Rong smiled: "Don't say twenty or thirty people, even if it is two or three hundred, I can invite you." After thinking for a while, he said: "If you don't know the night, it will be arranged in Cuideyuan, which is the favorite place for literati and ink writers." ”

Qi Ning nodded and said, "Okay, let's go to Cuideyuan." ”

"In that case, as soon as it dawns tomorrow morning, I will send someone to call for someone." Yuan Rong thought that Qi Ning had also helped him a lot, and now he ordered himself to do this little thing, which was naturally incumbent.

Leaving from the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of Rites and returning to the Gu Mansion, Gu Qinghan was already waiting in the hall, and when he saw the two of them coming back, he frowned and said, "Where did you go?" All of a sudden, there was no one. ”

"I went out to meet a friend and determined whether the picture of the goddess was real or fake." Qi Ning said: "Sanniang, how is the old lady's health?" ”

Gu Qinghan glanced at Gu Wenwen before saying, "It's nothing for the time being, as long as you don't see him, nothing will happen." ”

"That's good." Qi Ning said: "Uncle, it's late, let's go back first, you rest early, and go directly to Cuideyuan tomorrow night, yes, these two paintings must be remembered to bring." ”

Gu Wenwen was still confused, and he didn't know what Qi Ning wanted to do, but Gu Qinghan was on the side, he felt weak in his heart, and he didn't dare to ask more, so he nodded and said, "Okay, I'm ..... I'll bring the painting with me tomorrow night. ”

Out of Gu's house, Qi Ning still took advantage of the carriage with Gu Qinghan, Gu Qinghan was still close to the window, trying to distance herself from Qi Ning, and not having physical contact, she looked worried, Qi Ning was pitiful in her heart, and said softly: "Sanniang, the matter has happened, don't think about it, just leave this matter to me." ”

"Over to you?" Gu Qinghan glanced at Qi Ning suspiciously, and said, "Can you still conjure up so much silver?" He's telling you everything, right? Qian Zhuang owed 60,000 taels of silver, not to mention, Jiangling's house deed and title deed were also mortgaged by him, and in two days, if the person did not come back to redeem the money, Qian Zhuang would come to the door, not only to take all the shops, but also to live there is no place to live. At this time, he couldn't care about being angry, and said with a wry smile: "People clearly set up a situation to harm him, and took the silver and left, how could they come back to redeem it?" ”

She frowned slightly, her delicate face was full of sadness, Qi Ning smiled and said: "If that's the case, let the old lady and them come back to the Hou Mansion again, anyway, the Hou Mansion is very spacious, and I'm not afraid that I won't be able to live." ”

Gu Qinghan sighed lightly: "It's naturally okay for them to stay for a while, but after a long time, if the people in the house don't say anything, the people outside will also talk nonsense." And that's not always the way, Ning'er, I know you won't mind if they move over, but it doesn't mean that others won't mind. Besides, the Jinyi Marquis Mansion is not an ordinary place, if the Gu family really lives in, it is ...... unreasonable! You sighed and shook her head with a wry smile.

He knew that Gu Qinghan had always been shrewd and capable, but this time he was so helpless, and there was really no way, seeing her pretty face with sadness, he couldn't help but reach over and hold Gu Qinghan's white and tender hand, and said: "Sanniang, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, this time you will believe in me, and you will definitely get through it safely." ”

He held Gu Qinghan's jade hand, Gu Qinghan reflexively broke free, his reaction was quite violent, Qi Ning was a little embarrassed, Gu Qinghan also felt that he reacted a little too fast, it was not good to see Qi Ning, seeing Qi Ning leaning over there, his expression looked embarrassed with a hint of loneliness, but Gu Qinghan felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, and smiled reluctantly: "Ning'er, don't talk about those unhappy, did everything go smoothly when you went to Xichuan to do the errand?" ”

After all, she is a mature beautiful young woman, although she abides by some bottom lines, she also knows that she can't make the relationship with Qi Ning too stiff, and she doesn't want to hurt Qi Ning's emotions too much, so she spoke out at the right time to ease the atmosphere.

Qi Ning said lukewarmly: "Everything is going well. And no more.

Gu Qinghan hesitated and sighed secretly in his heart.

The two didn't talk again along the way, and when they returned to the house, it was already the middle of the night, Qi Ning wanted to go and see Tang Nuo, but at this time, it was quiet at night, and Tang Nuo was afraid that he had already fallen asleep, so he didn't bother.

The next day, Qi Ning slept until noon before getting up, ate something, and asked Manager Han if Tang Nuo was still in the house, only to know that Tang Nuo had gone to the pharmacy early in the morning, and at dusk, Qi Ning brought a few people and went straight to Cuideyuan.

Cui De Yuan is very easy to find, find someone on the street to ask, can also carefully point out the location, and Li Tang and others are also very familiar with Cui De Yuan, there is no need to inquire about the road, to Cui De Yuan, Qi Ning saw the restaurant up and down two floors, wooden structure, the front eaves of the building obliquely flew out, quite imposing, from the outside, it is known to occupy a very wide area, and when Qi Ning arrived, it was the brilliant lights, the night was dark.