Chapter Twenty-Four: The Cold Moon and the Blue Frost (Part II)
"Naturally remember, what's wrong?"
"You left early, I don't know what happened later, but your two poems were copied by Xu Shilang's granddaughter Xu Ming'er and donated to auction."
"Miss Xu mentioned this to me, so what?" Zhu Youzhen was a little puzzled, I don't know why Zhang Zhiji mentioned this matter, and he was so excited.
"Don't you know, just two pieces of rice paper that have not yet been framed, but they were auctioned for a sky-high price of 62,000 and 1 taels, and in the whole auction, only Mr. Xingzhi auctioned a box of archives handed down during the voyage of Sanbao, and Fang Shihong's auction of a Jiaowei qin exceeded this price."
"Oh? And people who are so lacking in heart? I'm afraid the auctioneer is not a fool. Zhu Youzhen didn't ask who the auction was, but focused on the box of files that Zhang Zhiji said, "Isn't the box of files you said legendary to have been destroyed by Liu Daxia?" ”
Zhu Youzhen didn't notice his words, and after finishing speaking, Zhu Ying'an's face turned the color of pig liver.
"I don't know about this, the thing has been identified by Shi Qian, it shouldn't be fake, but the fool you said is sitting next to you."
After Zhang Zhiji finished speaking, except for Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Ying'an, everyone else in the room laughed, these people all knew that Zhu Ying'an spent more than 60,000 taels to shoot two pieces of paper yesterday, and Zhu Youzhen realized that the person who took the two pieces of paper should be Zhu Ying'an.
Zhu Ying'an glared fiercely at the entourage who was laughing, and the entourage immediately shut up, but his face was red and he didn't dare to make a sound.
Zhu Youzhen patted Zhu Ying'an's arm and said, "In this way, I said the wrong thing, Brother Yuan Ting thought that he was here to take care of our affection." ”
"You are wrong again, there is more than one fool who lacks the heart and eyes you said, and that Fang Shihong also came out of 62,000 taels, but in the end he lost to Brother Yuan Ting, because of the gap of one or two, he was forced to climb out of the door of the auction hall."
Zhu Youzhen sat back and said, "Bai is moved." ”
Zhu Ying'an smiled wryly and didn't speak.
Zhang Zhiji continued, "Actually, this matter is not completely unrelated to the fifth brother, at first these two poems were also persuaded by me to Mr. Xingzhi to put them in the second auction, so I asked Brother Yuan Ting to help me auction more than 10,000 taels, and because of Fang Shihong's provocation during the auction, there was a later auction between Brother Yuan Ting and Fang Shihong for more than 60,000 taels." I went back yesterday and found someone to frame the two poems, today I just want the fifth brother to take the two framed words back and inscribe a word and stamp, if you can be lucky enough to ask the emperor to inscribe a word, it would be better, and you can't let Brother Yuan Ting lose too much, right? ”
"It's easy for me to inscribe and stamp, it's hard to say whether the emperor's grandfather will ask the question, Ziyu, you can take it directly, I'll try it." Zhu Youzhen did not refuse.
"Ziyu is wrong in what he said, after today, my tens of thousands of taels are not a loss at all, but I have made a lot of money, but you are the one who loses, how embarrassed am I to ask you for these two words." Zhu Ying'an smiled proudly.
"If you don't want it, then I'll keep it when the inscription is good, why don't we go to the house that Lao Luo picked for the fifth brother to have a look now? It happened to be not far from my house, so I went to pick up the two paintings. ”
"Without further ado, let's go over now." Qin Jue said excitedly.
Several people rode on horses and ran to Xingning Hutong, and even Gao Sheng and Gao Han got two good horses given by Qin Jue.
Chengguo Mansion and British Mansion are in Xingning Hutong, Xingning Hutong is not far from the horse race alley, riding a horse after three streets to arrive, Luo Yangxing led a few people to a magnificent mansion in front of the door, saying that this mansion is not accurate in Xingning Hutong, the mansion occupies a huge area, the main entrance is in Xingning Hutong, the back door is in Qipan Hutong, the left is Chang'an Street, and the right is Chengguo Mansion.
The government plaque has not yet been hung on the door of the house.
"This mansion is the mansion of Yan Song's righteous son Zhao Wenhua back then, in addition to the palace, even the prince's mansion, the Guogong Mansion, including my family can't compare to this mansion, Zhao Wenhua was destroyed because he built such a luxurious mansion." Luo Yangxing introduced to several people.
Zhang Zhiji continued, "I have also heard of this, at that time Zhao Wenhua was still the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and Jiajing asked the Ministry of Industry to repair the dormitory, but Zhao Wenhua embezzled money to bribe Yan Song and Yan Shifan, and the construction period of the dormitory was delayed for several months on the grounds of lack of funds. and said that Zhao Wenhua embezzled the materials for the emperor to repair the palace to repair his own mansion, which caused the palace to be repaired for a long time, which made Jiajing Ye furious, coupled with Zhao Wenhua's failure to build the Zhengyang Gatehouse before, and finally led to Zhao Wenhua being dismissed and raided. ”
Zhu Youzhen knew this allusion, and several other people wanted to see how grand this mansion that could make the emperor angry was after hearing it.
Steward Qiao opened the door, several people entered the house, entered the door is a wall, the tall wall is like three huge screens, three layers of cornices, the highest one in the middle is carved with a picture of a tiger going up the mountain, the left is the pine crane longevity map, the right side is the unicorn sending the child picture.
Just see the wall, you know that the luxury of this house can be seen.
Bypass the wall, enter the view is the magnificent mansion, the palace building is solemn and solemn, Shang Pu goes to China, the Ming Corridor leads to the ridge, the atmosphere is magnificent, I am afraid that it is second only to the palace where the emperor lives.
The house is composed of a number of courtyards, divided into three roads in the east and west, each road has three courtyards, and the back house in the middle road has a two-story back cover building, and this is only the first half of the whole courtyard, only this part occupies nearly 20 acres of land.
The second half is the back garden, imitating the garden style of Suzhou, the small bridge and flowing water, and the pile of earth and stone for the mountain, the cave of the Fangshan stone pile, the pavilion built on the top of the mountain, the scenery of the whole garden can be observed, the ancient trees in the garden are towering, the rockery is craggy, the mountain is surrounded by water, the pavilions and pavilions are pavilions, and the corridor turns around. This part is as much as 50 acres as far as the eye can see.
Except for Luo Yangxing and Steward Qiao, who had already been here many times, the others were all amazed. This mansion is not to say a skateboard, even if it comes to ten more and each can be sold for 30,000 taels, it is difficult to buy, no wonder it is said to be the first mansion in the capital.
"In the future, if you are an idle prince, you will live here, and I am afraid that it will be second only to the palace, and now I live in such a big mansion, I am afraid that it will take a lot of effort to take care of it." Zhu Youzhen joked.
It should have been uninhabited for a long time, but it is often taken care of, so there is no sense of dilapidation.
"Only the fifth brother lives here, and if you change someone else, I'm afraid you will overstep." Luo Yangxing said, this is also the reason why he doesn't live here in such a good mansion, "I'll arrange for someone to come over tomorrow, and the fifth brother can come and live at any time." ”
"Thank you Lao Luo, I'll be disrespectful." Zhu Youzhen hugged his fist at Luo Yang and thanked him.
Just as everyone was about to leave after visiting the mansion, they saw that the door was suddenly pushed open, and a man from Sihai Manor led a panicked little eunuch to run in in a hurry.