Chapter 235 is really high

Songbai House is a time-honored brand in Chang'an City, and the owner of this restaurant has a deep background, and it is said that he has an inexplicable relationship with a certain big man in the court. Horse-drawn carriages with the logos of various wealthy families are often seen here, and it is said that many adults in the court and China like to dine here.

The dishes of Songbai House are indeed exquisite, and it is said that there is a master chef in charge of the kitchen who once stayed in the palace. Another factor that makes business good here is that the environment is fantastic. The building of Songbai Building is actually only a quarter of the size of this store, and the courtyard behind it is the most expensive place to consume here. In the backyard, small courtyards are separated, not connected to each other, separated by high walls, and even the guests in the two adjacent courtyards do not know who the person next door is.

And the house in the small courtyard doesn't know what means are used, and the sound insulation effect is excellent.

If you haven't been to the back garden of the pine and cypress building, you don't know that there is a hole here. If you don't enter the house in the back garden, you don't know the magic of this house. Even if they do, they don't pay attention to these things.

The most secluded courtyard of the Songbai Building has been closed for a long time, and it is rare to see guests entering and leaving. Even when no guests are inside, the courtyard is not open to outsiders. When asked by a guest, the young man would politely reply that it was a place for our proprietor to rest, not a private room in a restaurant.

Hearing such an answer, no one will doubt anything.

In fact, it was a place where many adults in the DPRK and China held secret meetings. And adults don't come here to meet except for important things. Some small things were discussed while eating and drinking in other courtyards.

On the evening of the second day of the second month of February, the door of this small courtyard opened, welcoming in a dozen people with gloomy faces. They were all draped in thick hats, their hats covering their foreheads, and they could only see their faces below the eyes, but they still could see that they didn't seem to be in a good mood.

Xiao Er, who is in charge of serving, is also a close confidant of the owner of Songbai Building, and he doesn't go out of this yard at all when he has nothing to do on weekdays.

After more than a dozen people entered the courtyard, Xiao Er immediately closed the courtyard door. The group walked quickly into the house, took off the big coat from the outside and hung it on the hanger at the door. They sat down on the chairs in the room, and no one spoke until Xiao Er had finished serving the tea and exiting.

"Wu Yiyi is too much."

A tall and thin man said dissatisfiedly: "Since we have entrusted Prince Yi to come forward, we have left him a way back." If he is willing to honestly hand over everything and then leave Chang'an City, it will be regarded as a spring and autumn dream for his goods to travel through the world, and he will end up with a good job. Could it be that money and merchants are more important than his life? We've given him enough face, but he doesn't know what to do! ”

Another slightly chubby man sighed: "No matter what, it can't be delayed, this time Wu Yi is hiding from us to help His Majesty transport troops to the northwest, and the strength of the goods to travel all over the world has already shocked His Majesty." Before His Majesty makes a decision to collect the goods from the world and belong to the imperial court, we must let Wu Yi bow his head! ”

"Right"

The person sitting in the outer seat said: "Your Majesty is obviously interested in the goods through the world, if there is a decree to bring the goods to the imperial court, there will inevitably be people from the household department, the official department and even the criminal department to go down to check the accounts...... If Your Majesty knew that half of the people in the imperial court had a part in the world, he would be furious! ”

"And that's not the point...... The point is, none of us are clean. ”

A person sighed: "At the beginning, Prince Yi passed the news, saying that it is a real thing to make money by buying goods all over the world, how can we not believe it when the prince speaks?" So I voted more or less, who knew that Wu Yiyi was really bold enough, and he didn't refuse...... Later, we really made money, and we threw more and more money into it, and our hands naturally became more and more unclean. You and I know these things, we may have had some discord in the past for the sake of dividing dividends, but now we must sit down and discuss a way to make Wu Yiyi bow his head. ”

"Before His Majesty's will comes down, we must all withdraw, and we must all withdraw, and withdraw!"

A man with an elegant temperament shook his head and said, "Have you ever thought about it, why would Wu Yiyi rather offend half of the officials of the imperial court than let go?" ”

"He's an idiot!"

Someone scolded hatefully.

"He's not an idiot!"

The person who spoke before thought for a while and said, "I have been thinking about Wu Yiyi's mind for a day or two, and it was only yesterday that it suddenly became clear. The reason why he didn't hesitate to offend us all, even Prince Yi contradicted us, for what? ”

He paused for a moment and continued: "Naturally, he is reluctant to give up his family business!" His fight with us now is not a real struggle, his fight with His Majesty is a real struggle. He didn't let go of so many things in his hand, he just wanted to blackmail us. Let us speak in the court and stop Your Majesty from collecting the goods all over the world! He wants to force us to help him keep his family business, no matter who works hard to build such a big industry, he will be like cherishing his own children, and whoever wants to get involved will resist, even if it is ...... It's Your Majesty. ”

"You mean, he's not going to give in anyway?"

"Difficult!"

"What then?"

"Kill?"

"What's the use of killing Wu Yiyi alone, I don't know where he hid the ledger, and those things that we haven't seen for many years, Wu Yiyi must remember them one by one. He must have hidden something somewhere that no one else could find, otherwise how could he be so fearless? ”

"Not knowing where things are is a nuisance. It's easy to kill Wu, if killing can settle this matter, you and I will sit here and discuss? ”

The person with the elegant temperament before hesitated and said: "We have analyzed it before, Wu Yiyi sent his daughter Wu Yinyu to Qingle Mountain in the south of the Yangtze River before going to the northwest, maybe that thing is in the hands of his daughter!" He wouldn't trust others with such an important thing, so unless he kept it himself, it was with Wu Yinyu. ”

"It's been almost two months!"

The tall and thin man said: "There is no news from the people we sent to Jiangnan, this Wu Yiyi is an old fox!" I'm afraid that I had expected this day for a long time, so I spent a lot of money to send Wu Yinyu to Qingle Mountain to cultivate. I used to think that he was just doting on his daughter, and he would give Wu Yinyu whatever he wanted, but now he understands that his mind is thinking so far! ”

"I can only wait, if the people who go down to Jiangnan can't bring back the good news, this matter can only be solved in the capital. If it really doesn't work, let's get rid of Wu Yiyi first. and then slaughter all the cronies around him, so that even if His Majesty wants to find the account book, there is no way to find it. If we can't get it, no one can get it. Wu Yiyi in order to keep it secret, there must not be many people who know about this matter. So, I can't kill a few people. ”

"That's called Fang Jie...... I have been living in Sanjin Houfu for a while now, you say...... Will Wu Yiyi give him something? ”

"It shouldn't be possible, how could Wu Yiyi trust an outsider?"

"Prince Yi has already sent someone to that Fang Jie, if Wu Yiyi really gave things to Fang Jie, he would definitely be able to find out."

The last person to speak was Prince Yi's steward, Qin Liuqi!

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Breeze view

Prince Yi looked at the surrounding scenery while walking, and couldn't help but praise: "This view is one of the most clean and comfortable places in Chang'an City, and it is no wonder that real people never go out after arriving in Chang'an City." I've been here for a long time, but I'm afraid that even Gu will be obsessed with this quiet and serenity. ”

Accompanying him was none other than Xiao Zhenren, the leader of the Qingle Mountain Single-Spirit Sect and the leader of the Great Sui Dao Sect. This veteran Taoist with a superb status in the rivers and lakes does not seem to have the temperament of a fairy wind and bones. If it weren't for the black Taoist robe that symbolized the identity of a real person, he would not be remembered wherever he walked in the clothes of ordinary people.

Such an old man, even if he passes you by on the street, you will not leave any impression. Ordinary, too ordinary. Walking a few meters behind them, the Qingfeng Guan Guan and the red-robed Crane Daoist also looked more like a Daoist than Xiao Zhenren.

Xiao Zhenren said with a smile: "The prince is in the dust, and he didn't expect to have a Dao heart. ”

Prince Yi laughed: "Where is there any Dao heart, but I am a little tired of being in the hustle and bustle for too long, and suddenly being in this Taoist temple is like walking into a paradise, and my heart is a lot purer." According to Lone's temperament, really let Lone live here with the oil lamp road longitude, and not suffocate to death? ”

Xiao Zhenren said: "Don't you dare to ask the prince to stay for a long time, otherwise it won't take long for the courtyard to be full of warblers and swallows in this temple." ”

Prince Yi smiled and leaned back together, and said as he walked: "Xiao Zhenren can really see it, and in the last half of his life, he can't do without three things. One, fine wine. Second, beauty. Three cuisines. If Lone Zhen lived in this courtyard, maybe the girls in the buildings in Chang'an City would really come to find it. ”

Xiao Zhenren smiled and didn't answer.

Prince Yi walked outside the main hall, turned around and looked at the road he had walked and said with some emotion: "This is the highest place in the Taoist temple, and when you look back, you can see the road in full view." It's better to stand on a high place and see the scenery, the higher the better. Standing on the highest place, it is worth the hardship of walking halfway. ”

Xiao Zhenren said indifferently: "It's cold in high places." ”

Prince Yi said: "Then wear thicker." ”

Xiao Zhenren said again: "The cold on the body is not cold, no matter how thick the clothes are, they can't cover the cold in the heart." ”

"Why are real people cold?"

Prince Yi asked, "Could it be because you are standing too high?" ”

Xiao Zhenren said: "No prince has stood tall, how can it be considered too high?" ”

He pointed to his feet, which was indeed a step lower than Prince Yi. He didn't go up to the small square in front of the main hall, only one step away.

"Why don't you take another step, as tall as the one standing alone?"

Prince Yi asked.

Xiao Zhenren was silent for a while and then said seriously: "I am standing where I should stand, no matter how high I am. If you stand in a place where you shouldn't stand, no matter how short you are, you still stand tall. And sometimes the prince looks at the high place too beautifully, in fact, as far as the scenery is concerned, there is no difference between the top of the mountain and the place where you are one step away from the top of the mountain. I stood on the stairs below the prince, and it was expected that there would be no difference from what the prince saw. ”

Prince Yi nodded and said, "That makes sense." ”

He looked down and then up: "Standing on the top of the mountain and standing one step away from the top of the mountain, there is certainly not much difference between what you see. But what you see from standing on the top of the mountain and standing halfway up the mountain must be very different. But as long as you are still in the world, standing on the top of the highest mountain and looking down is still only a poor sight. What if you leave the world and stand in heaven and look down? ”

Xiao Zhenren shook his head with a smile: "No one can stand in the sky, no one can." ”

Prince Yi smiled, paused and asked, "Xiao Zhenren, there is something I have always wanted to ask you, but because I was not polite enough, I kept putting up with it." Since it happens to be high and low today, Lone will ask it through this topic...... Do you think, are you taller, or Dean Zhou is taller? ”

After Xiao Zhenren was silent for a moment, he said word by word: "I don't know how tall Dean Zhou is, so there is no way to compare." But I know how tall I am...... I'm not afraid of the prince's jokes, I'm really tall. ”