White House Hall.

When Gu Bei and Bai Luoshi came to the hall, the third prince was sitting upright on the red sandalwood circle chair, squinting slightly, and two slender and tender white fingers that made the woman envy them were unconsciously tapping on the table, and next to him stood a middle-aged man dressed as a scribe of about thirty or forty years old.

At the flower-viewing poetry meeting, Gu Bei saw the three princes once, and his impression of the three princes was quite deep and very good. At the poetry meeting, Gu Bei and the third prince didn't exchange a few words, and the third prince suddenly came to visit him, and he was a little confused. In short, the feeling to Gu Bei is that he doesn't like the third prince, and he always feels that the third prince is inconsistent on the outside and is not as gentle and polite as the rumors say, and he also feels that the third prince doesn't seem to like him either.

Gu Bei and Bai Luoshi stepped forward quickly, and they were about to bow down, and the three princes who were squinting opened a pair of deep eyes, showing a kind smile and hurriedly grabbed them: "No need to make a big salute, I am here to congratulate you, I heard that Luo Shi is happy, I happened to be in Yingtianfu for a few days, and I will come in person to congratulate the two of you when there is no time." ”

Gu Bei and Bai Luoshi bowed, the two glanced at each other, and Bai Luoshi opened his mouth and said, "How dare His Highness come to congratulate him?" This is not to torture our couple, a little trivial, but I can't afford to congratulate His Royal Highness, grandpa is not here today, let His Royal Highness wait alone in the hall, we lack the number of courtesies here, and hope to forgive the sin. ”

"What do you say? What is the number of etiquette? Where do you get so many rules? I came to congratulate me in a private name, Luo Shi, with our friendship, you have also begun to be polite to me. Don't overcomplicate things, just congratulate me as a friend. Come on, bring up the congratulatory gift. The third prince smiled as he instructed the people beside him.

The middle-aged scribe next to him bowed down and walked out of the hall, and after a while, he led a few guards to carry two heavy mahogany boxes in, and after uncovering the wooden box, a box full of silver ingots was suddenly shining, and a box was full of some supplements that Gu Bei couldn't call famous, and it was worth a lot of money at a glance.

"I heard that Luo Shi was happy, and I didn't know what to give. Thinking about it, I can only give some silver and some supplements, some small gifts, not as a tribute, please accept it. The third prince smiled.

Bai Luoshi and his wife hurriedly waved their hands and said, "No, no, how dare we accept such a heavy gift?" What's more, it is to let His Highness break the bank. We are grateful for Your Highness's wishes, and we will never accept these gifts. ”

The third prince said: "What you want to collect, what you want to collect." This is a congratulatory gift, how can you not accept it? ”

Before Gu Bei could speak, Bai Luoshi shook his head resolutely and said, "I can't accept it, I definitely can't accept it, and I ask Your Highness to be considerate." It is a great honor for His Highness to come. But I definitely can't accept these gifts. ”

"Luo Shi, this is not for you, it is a little meeting gift for the little guy in your belly, is it possible that you got married and began to see me." The third prince said to Bai Luoshi with a smile.

Seeing this, Bai Luoshi made eye contact with Gu Bei for a while, knowing that it seemed that he couldn't refuse, and when the third prince talked about this, it was not good to refute his face, no matter how good his friendship was in private, after all, he was also the prince of the Great Xia Dynasty.

"Since His Highness is so sincere, if we don't accept it, I'm afraid that we won't know how to lift up, and it's too hypocritical, so I thank Your Highness." Bai Luoshi said with a smile.

The two couples hurriedly bowed down and thanked each other, looking at each other suspiciously, not knowing what the purpose of the third prince was for coming today.

Seeing that the two of them finally agreed to accept it, the third prince raised his hand to help him. The third prince glanced at Gu Bei very meaningfully, before Luo Shi received the gift, but asked Gu Bei with his eyes, and accepted it only with Gu Bei's consent. It's only been less than two months, and this Gu Bei has such a big influence in Baifu that he can actually influence Luo Shi's thoughts.

He is actually a smart person, he understands Luo Shi's thoughts, Luo Shi doesn't want to accept his favor in vain, and he doesn't want to be involved in the battle between the princes.

"Your Highness, I am grateful for your gift today, and I also have some small gifts for Your Highness." Gu Bei said with a smile.

The third prince glanced at Gu Bei and said with a smile: "Oh, I don't know what kind of gift it is." ”

"Your Highness, what do you think of this?" Gu Bei smiled mysteriously and took out a porcelain bottle from his arms.

Since His Royal Highness sent a gift, he was afraid that Luo Shi would insist on not accepting it, so he let the third prince not be able to step down on the spot, which offended His Royal Highness, so he secretly asked Luo Shi to agree to accept it. He roughly estimated that the silver and precious supplements sent by the third prince were about five thousand taels, so he planned to send back a batch of gifts worth more than five thousand taels.

"Oh, is this the heavenly fragrance dew worth a thousand gold on the black market?" The third prince glanced at Gu Bei in surprise, and now a bottle of Tianxiang Dew on the market has been fried to a sky-high price. Even his imperial sister, who was far away in Beijing, heard about it and clamored to let him pass a few bottles.

"Your Highness, good eyesight, this thing is Tianxiang Dew." Gu Bei said with a smile, these days, Xianglu is giving away a few bottles, and Luo Shi and Xiaoyi know that he made it.

"Could it be that this is the gift that Gu Gongzi said?" The third prince was worried, and someone came with a pillow.

"Nope." Gu Bei smiled and shook his head.

The third prince looked at him with a smile, did not answer, and waited patiently for him to continue, since he took out this heavenly fragrance dew, he must have a good intention.

"Your Highness, what do you think will happen to the profits if this Tianxiang Dew is launched on the market?" Gu Bei then asked.

The third prince pondered for a while, played with the porcelain bottle in his hand, and said: "If this Tianxiang Dew can be manufactured in large quantities, once it is launched, the profit will be considerable, and it can be said that it is simply a huge profit." ”

He had heard that the fragrant dew had come from a country called Persia in the West.

But what was the meaning of those words, he asked? Suddenly, he remembered a few messages from his subordinates. At that time, he didn't care about it, and felt that these subordinates had also reported some messy news, and now thinking about those news, one is that Chen Jinwang, the proprietor of Yashilin Bookstore, frequently goes in and out of the Bai family and has a close relationship with Aunt Bai, and the other is that Chen Jinwang bought two of the best stores in two lots, with a wide courtyard.

The third prince now understands that Chen Jinwang is the spokesperson of the Bai family's aunt, and he also bought the shop and yard for Gu Bei. But it doesn't make sense, you can do business by buying a store, and what can you do when you buy a yard?

At this time, Gu Bei's words lifted the fog, "Your Highness, if I say that this Heavenly Fragrance Dew is made below, will Your Highness believe it or not?" ”

"I believe it." The third prince said with a smile.

"The gift mentioned below is to give His Highness a year's profit from a shop, that is to say, the profit from the sale of Tianxiang Dew in that shop for a year is all His Highness" Gu Bei took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and continued: "I don't know if Your Highness can accept it?" ”

Bai Luoshi, who was listening, now understands that she still complained a little bit about Gu Bei and asked her to agree to His Highness.

After hearing this, the third prince also understood how big the gift Gu Bei was, and he also understood the meaning of Gu Bei's words, if you give me a gift, I will also double the gift to you, this is called a gift exchange, so that Baifu will not accept his gift for nothing, and there will be no offending him, and others will probably praise Aunt Bai when they hear about it.

The third prince glanced at Gu Bei with interest, and had to say that Gu Bei gave him a problem, although Tianxianglu has not yet been sold, I don't know how much net income a store has, but think about it, there are tens of thousands of taels of silver a year, and even hundreds of thousands of dollars are not necessarily, although he is a prince, tens of thousands of yuan can also be taken out, but it will hurt to take out hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

The third prince made a choice in his heart, he gave a gift of five thousand taels of silver, which is estimated to be close to Baifu, he wants to fight for that position, and it is estimated that the old man will not support him, after all, he knows how much his father trusts the old man.

Once he accepted Gu Bei's gift of more than 100,000 taels of silver, he could do a lot of things.

Whenever there is a calm atmosphere in a major event, Gu Bei is not in a hurry to drink tea. He knew that this Highness would make the right choice.

"Gu Gongzi, generous, I accepted this bottle of Tianxiang Dew." The third prince sighed and said, although he didn't like him, he had to admire his generosity.

"Whereever, His Royal Highness personally came to the door with a heavy gift to congratulate him, and our husband and wife are grateful." Gu Bei knew that it was done, alas, but he had lost a lot of silver, which was a little painful, but he understood that what should be spent still had to be spent.