The third son of the Shen family, who was a huge rich man in Yanjing, left the scene angrily.

He knew that instead of being entangled in front of His Royal Highness the Prince, it was better to put on a righteous and awe-inspiring victim posture, and perhaps the next day, the entire Yanjing City would spread his reputation for not being afraid of power.

It's just that the ideal is very beautiful, but the reality is always very realistic.

On the second day after the news spread, what he was waiting for was a month's stay at home to temporarily avoid the limelight, and the local wealthy businessman and the Qiao family began to have nothing to do with each other.

Even after a period of time, when Qiao Wei visited the Shen family in person, the father who pretended not to know even called out Shen Sangongzi and reprimanded him fiercely.

Of course, this is all a matter of later information.

At least he had just stepped out of Qiao's store, and he was still very proud of his impromptu response.

Lu Rong watched this gentleman who was not more than second-rate in Yanjing City, brushing his sleeves away, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and he muttered something that surprised Qiao Wei softly: "Why don't you hurry up and make a show to win people's hearts?" ”

Qiao Wei, who came back to his senses, called the shopkeeper and whispered a few words, and the shopkeeper hurriedly walked to the door and shouted at the crowd of onlookers, which was nothing more than a generous self-defense and righteous indignation, coupled with conventional means such as "celebrating the return of the prince to the city, selling at the store price", "Fake one pays three, never break the word" and so on, without the deliberate fanning of the flames, everything will naturally return to nature.

In fact, for the people who don't know it, many times the right and wrong are just a matter of who is louder and louder.

These aftermaths were dealt with by someone, and after taking care of all this, Qiao Wei welcomed Lu Rong into the inner hall of the store.

It was pitiful for Zhao Buyan, the prefect of Shuntian Mansion who was still on the periphery, seeing that His Royal Highness the Prince did not seem to have any intention of introducing him, so he had no choice but to go back to the house by himself after waiting for a long time.

On the way back to the city, the fourth-grade member of the imperial court thought about it, but he was never sure whether His Royal Highness the Prince's seemingly reckless handling was intentional or whether he really didn't know how to control people's hearts.

But it's really like the general's arrogant style of helping relatives and not helping them.

The mood is not bad, Lord Zhao thought secretly.

In the inner hall, Qiao Wei waited for Cuijuan to serve tea and then retreated, still as lukewarm as always, not at all grateful for Lu Rong's move to relieve the siege just now, but bowed his head slightly and said softly: "Why is Your Highness here." ”

Lu Rong smiled and said, "I want to come and see, I heard that you came here here, it's also a coincidence." ”

Qiao Wei's eyes flickered slightly, and he said with a smile: "Yes." ”

The antique decoration in the inner hall of Qiao's shop, perhaps because of the sale of jade playthings, there is a quiet aroma in the house that makes people lazy, which is refreshing.

It seems that this is the first time since the two have known each other that they have been alone in a room.

Lu Rong took a sip of tea, looked around, and said with a smile: "There have been a lot of troubles recently?" ”

Qiao Wei exhaled unconsciously and said a little tiredly: "Well, it's a little tricky, the people of Youzhou are strong and xenophobic, and it's better to see it than to hear it." ”

Lu Rong smiled: "Why didn't you mention me?" ”

Qiao Wei said lightly: "A little mundane thing, I don't dare to insult the name of His Highness." ”

Lu Rong joked: "Walking all the way, can't you see that I am also a layman." ”

Qiao Wei smiled, the journey from Fenzhou to Yanjing is thousands of miles, if you really talk about it, it seems that the gentle and elegant Wu Bei is more like an emperor than the man in front of him.

At least in that case, Wu Bei would definitely not be so straightforward and strong for the Qiao family.

However, this is in line with the identity of His Royal Highness the Prince, after all, in this Youzhou, there is no child of the family who can say more than him.

This land is surnamed Tang, but the people here only recognize Lu.

"Let's get down to business?" Qiao Wei smiled, at least in some things, she was as used to going straight as Lu Rong.

"Okay, I want your Qiao family's channel to help me do a few things." Lu Rong is also unambiguous.

"I want to hear about it." Qiao Wei nodded, unconsciously sitting up straight.

"The first thing is to help me prepare some precious gifts in Tianjing City." Lu Rong didn't think about it at all.

This time to go south to Beijing in addition to the edict to meet the Son of Heaven, Lu Rong also has some plans of his own, the center of the dynasty is not as determined as the general of Youzhou, the imperial capital that brings together the elites of the Central Plains has too many parties and disagreements with different political opinions, some people have some things that Lu Yuan is inconvenient to see and inconvenient to say, it is best for him to do it.

"There are so many rare and strange treasures in the Yan Palace, Your Highness still wants our Qiao family to help prepare, are you reluctant?" Qiao Wei made a rare quip.

"I can't press a few truckloads of goods to the capital like you do." Lu Rong raised his eyebrows and said with a smile.

"What level?" Qiao Wei smiled and asked an insider, the matter of gift-giving is quite particular, preference is only one of the aspects, and the Qiao family is responsible for this matter exclusively for the guests.

Lu Rongzhi didn't expect so much, hesitated for a moment and said, "Eh, you should be good at this, like my level?" ”

Qiao Wei smiled: "A level like His Highness? What does Your Highness think of the eldest and youngest two? "The eldest child is the two maidservants who served Lu Rong in Qiao's Mansion but were returned to Zhao completely, and the young lady blurted out for a while, but then regretted it.

Sure enough, Lu Rong smiled and replied: "It's not as good as the young lady's national beauty and fragrance." ”

Qiao Wei's heart fluctuated slightly, but his face did not change at all, and he changed the subject: "What about the second thing?" ”

Lu Rong was no longer teasing, and said with a smile: "Don't worry about other things, I'll talk about it when I come back from Tianjing." ”

"Okay, what kind of price does Your Highness want to offer?" Qiao Wei nodded and looked at Lu Rong with a smile. Along the way, eating for nothing and taking the Qiao family can be regarded as benevolent and righteous, the truth of human feelings and sophistication is sometimes so shallow and vulgar, blindly paying only makes people think that it is cheap, and Qiao Wei, who is well versed in this way, understands it better than anyone else.

"Worthy of a businessman. There is no need to mention the money, and your family is not short of silver. Lu Rong was not surprised at all.

"Hmm."

"I heard that you have visited the Shuntianfu Yamen several times, but the people are not allowed to enter? Then let's go directly to see Zhao Buyan later. Lu Rong said with a smile.

"Did you say yes for me?" Qiao Wei asked.

"That's not true, it's just that Lord Zhao and I are watching the play outside." Even if he didn't meet the prefect by chance, Lu Rong also wanted to support the Qiao family, the reason why he seemed to be reckless and forced to stand up for the Qiao family was that instead of trying to please a group of local nobles who were entrenched and couldn't see through their minds, it was better to protect a new upstart with good strength who would definitely stand on his side.

Lu Rong's power is still too thin, and now he can't afford to play with two sides and three swords.

"Why didn't you say it earlier?!" Qiao Wei frowned and stood up to go out accordingly.

"It should have been gone." Lu Rong said unhurriedly.

Qiao Wei stopped and said with a cold face: "Why don't you introduce it to me directly?" ”

Lu Rong deliberately hated that iron could not become steel, and sighed: "I introduced you and myself to the door, there is a world of difference, miss!" ”

Qiao Wei stopped, turned around and looked directly at Lu Rong for a long time, until his brows furrowed slightly.

Lu Rong picked up the teacup by himself, the water was cold, and the tea tasted slightly bitter.

The noise outside the inner hall gradually subsided, and the turmoil seemed to have passed, and the sun was very warm through the window, gilding the slightly old tables and chairs with a layer of warm warmth.

Putting down the teacup, Lu Rong looked at the graceful and beautiful woman with a smile, and said with a smile: "Curious to ask, if I wasn't there just now, what are you going to do in the end?" ”

Qiao Wei was half cold and half indifferent: "What does Your Highness think?" ”

Lu Rong sighed and said regretfully: "It's a pity that I missed the show." ”

Miss Qiao's young lady played with taste: "It seems that His Highness's way of mastering is not proficient enough." ”