About an hour later, Zhao Hongrun and Shen Yu found the shop on East Street that hung the plaque of "Su's Chujin".

Su's, it goes without saying, refers to Zhao Hongrun's branch.

According to the custom of the Wei State, after the descendants of Zhao Hongrun have intermarried with other clans for several generations, their descendants can be renamed "Ji surnamed Su" after losing the status of the royal family of "Ji surnamed Zhao", and respect Zhao Hongrun as the ancestor of the Su branch and reduce it to a public family. "Prince: A great nobleman with impure royal blood. The great nobles of this level have all descended from the royal family, and there is no possibility that the nobles with the surname who are not the king's surname will be promoted to the princes."

For example, now the monarch of Wei is Zhao Yuanxi, so the real bloodline is Zhao Hongrun and his brothers, but because within three generations, Zhao Yuanyan, Zhao Yuanzuo, Zhao Yuanli and other Zhao Hongrun's uncles are still regarded as royal clansmen.

But after three generations, Zhao Yuanyan, Zhao Yuanzuo, and Zhao Yuanyan will slowly break away from the royal clan and evolve into a side branch of the royal family, but they will eventually be demoted to the public family.

At that time, the descendants of Zhao Yuanyan, the second uncle of Zhao Hongrun, may be "Ji surnamed Yi", or "Ji surnamed Zong", and so on. "Note: Zhao Yuanyan was awarded the title of King Yi and served as the Zongzheng of the Zongfu."

This rule is a change made by the Wei State in the past hundred years in order to stabilize the purity of the royal family's bloodline.

After all, this family is like a tree, although there is only one main trunk, but the branches are getting thinner and thinner, and the clan does not want to see the situation of "throwing a stone on the street and hitting a member of the royal family", so this article was specially added.

The only exception is the princes and kings of Yuanyang and Chengling, who were handed down hundreds of years ago, and the ancestors of these people were all descendants of the princes and queens who made great contributions and sacrifices to the Wei State in the early days of the founding of the Wei State.

And Chu Jin actually refers to the bronze ware of the Chu State, that is, bronze. "Note: In ancient times, "gold" generally referred to copper, not gold.

Therefore, it is not difficult to guess that "Su's Chujin" is a shop specializing in selling Chu bronzes.

asked Shen Yu to tie the two horses to the tethered stakes outside the store, and Zhao Hongrun walked into the store.

I saw that in this store, the decoration is quite Chu style, those wooden shelves, full of all kinds of Chu bronzes, there are cooking utensils, food utensils, wine vessels, water vessels, musical instruments, carriage and horse ornaments, bronze mirrors, charcoal stoves, etc., etc., even the half-zhang high bronze tripod is placed several, and the most eye-catching, I am afraid that the bronze furnace that is more than one zhang high.

It may be that he saw Zhao Hongrun looking around in the store, and a young man dressed as a guy greeted him with a smile on his face, and said politely: "This honored guest, may I ask ...... you" As soon as he said this, he saw the young man's face change slightly, and he called out in surprise: "His Royal Highness King Su?" ”

Zhao Hongrun glanced at the young man who was about the same age as himself, and asked unexpectedly, "Do you recognize this king?" ”

I saw the young man sneering and said: "King Su, the servant is from the house, and my father is an errand in King Su's guard......"

"Oh." Zhao Hongrun nodded suddenly, and said in his heart that it was from his Su Wang's Mansion, no wonder he would recognize him.

It may be the first time that he has such a close contact with Zhao Hongrun, the young man seemed very excited, and said in a loud voice: "When did His Royal Highness King Su return to Daliang?" Belch...... It's the servants who talk too much, and they still hope that King Su is not strange. …… His Royal Highness King Su is here to find the little lady, right? The little lady was settling accounts in the room behind the store at the moment. ”

"Reckoning?" Zhao Hongrun glanced at the young man who was obviously chattering.

"Yes. The income and expenditure of the store, the little lady is recorded in the account book, this is not fast to the end of the month, and it is the end of the year, the little lady has to calculate the income and expenditure of this month......"

“……”

"That girl...... And what do you have to do?'

Zhao Hongrun was a little surprised, because in his impression, Yang Yu Xing, a little girl who definitely suffers from paranoia of being killed, in addition to being extremely well-behaved and obedient on weekdays, really can't see that she also knows how to operate.

However, when he thought of Yang Yu Xing's grandfather, the current county magistrate of Shangshui County, Zhao Hongrun didn't feel strange.

After all, that old man is simply a natural black-hearted businessman, philistine, flattery, snobbery, greed, opportunism, and a bastard who does not hesitate to coax his own granddaughter to take the initiative to climb into Zhao Hongrun's bed for the benefit of himself and his family.

Sometimes Zhao Hongrun really feels worthless for Yang Yu Xing: how could such a well-behaved and gentle little girl have such a bastard grandfather?

And when Zhao Hongrun lifted the curtain and walked into the inner room behind the store, he saw at a glance that the sheep tongue apricot was sitting at the table seriously, holding a brush that seemed a little big to her in her small hand, writing something with her eyebrows, and her immature face was full of seriousness.

『……』

I don't know what's wrong, Zhao Hongrun leaned against the door and looked at her quietly.

He suddenly found that this girl seemed to have something else besides being cute and well-behaved......

After a few breaths, Zhao Hongrun was full of excitement, covered his forehead and exhaled lightly.

"She's only fourteen, she's fourteen, she's fourteen......

After muttering a few words in his heart, Zhao Hongrun walked over with a look, wanting to see what made this little girl frown.

"Is it a silent calculation?"

Seeing the little girl put down the brush and calculated with her fingers distressed, Zhao Hongrun felt so interesting.

What's even more interesting is that this girl's chubby face is stained with ink, and I don't know when it was stained.

Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but smile and reminded her: "Two two hundred and sixty-three silver, six thousand three hundred and twenty-one large (round) money, and five hundred and forty small (round) money." ”

"Huh?" Yang Yu Xing turned his head in surprise, and saw Zhao Hongrun standing behind him, his expression was stunned, and then he actually grabbed the brush and pounced on it, and called happily: "Husband." ”

Originally, Zhao Hongrun wanted to remind her to pay attention to the brush in her hand, but when she heard this "husband", he was shocked that he didn't take the brush in Yangyu Xing's hand seriously.

"Hey, don't shout."

As soon as the words fell, I saw the little girl raise her head in his arms, her face was full of confusion, and said: "The slave is not shouting, His Royal Highness is the husband of the slave......"

Looking at those innocent eyes, Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but recall the appearance of the little girl sitting at the table to settle accounts, and his heart trembled slightly: because of his negligence, he let such a weak woman, no, girl, no, girl, let her shoulder the expenses of the entire Suwang Mansion.

"When did the husband return to Daliang?" Sheep's tongue apricot asked.

"Today." After Zhao Hongrun subconsciously replied, he realized that he actually acquiesced to the title of this female "husband".

"Why did you come back here?"

"......" Zhao Hongrun looked at the little girl deeply, selectively ignored the title of "husband", and said in a deep voice: "I went back to the palace, and I heard from the people in the palace that you opened a shop here, so you came to see ......."

Hearing this, the little girl seemed to realize something, her little face turned a little pale, and she said timidly: "The slave made his own decision and opened this shop, the husband won't be angry, right?" ”

Zhao Hongrun naturally guessed why the little girl showed such a frightened expression, it was nothing more than that she opened this shop without Zhao Hongrun's permission, after all, the women of Chu State had almost no status.

Well, in fact, the status of women on the Wei side is generally not high.

After thinking about it, Zhao Hongrun deliberately said with a straight face: "If I don't want to be angry, you tell me first the purpose of your store." ”

The little girl quietly broke away from Zhao Hongrun's embrace, lowered her head as if she had done something wrong, and said in a slurred voice: "After the husband went on the expedition, there was no livelihood in the house......"

Out of fear, she secretly glanced at Zhao Hongrun's expression when she said a few words, and it took a long time to explain clearly.

In fact, it can be summed up in one sentence: when Zhao Hongrun led the army to the expedition, he did not leave money for the Su Palace, and the palace did not have any channels to make money.

Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun felt a little sad and guilty.

"I'm not angry...... he sighed lightly, took the initiative to hold the frightened sheep's tongue apricot in his arms, and said sincerely: "Thank you for your hard work." ”

may be because this is the first time Zhao Hongrun has taken the initiative to hug himself, and the fear that is still hanging on his face has long been replaced by surprise, his chubby face is slightly red, and he said happily: "The husband is serious, and he is in charge of the family business, this is the slave's business......"

"What a woman, but it's a pity that she is fourteen years old......

Zhao Hongrun's heart trembled, and he quickly let it go quietly, and asked differently: "However, where did you get the money to buy this shop, as well as those bronzes of the Chu State...... I looked, the workmanship is quite fine. ”

"The slave wrote a letter to his family and sent it to Shangshui to his grandfather, who bought these utensils for the slave and brought several boxes of copper coins......

"Mother's money?"

Zhao Hongrun muttered, and then after coming to his senses, he quickly put this incredible idea behind him.

"Your grandfather?"

Glancing at the sheep's tongue, Zhao Hongrun's mind subconsciously appeared with the old man's sheep's tongue with a smiling face.

In his opinion, tending to the flames is definitely referring to a guy like this old man.

But then again, although Yang Yu Tao is tending to be inflammatory, and he does not hesitate to let his granddaughter, who was only thirteen years old at the time, climb onto Zhao Hongrun's bed in order to cling, which is simply a villain without humanity, but it is undeniable that this guy does know how to behave, and he really has some ability, at least Shangshui County is now governed by him in an orderly manner.

is a talented and virtuous villain.

But no matter what, Zhao Hongrun still didn't want to have anything to do with that guy.

"Girl, you ...... to your mother's house Bah! How much did you borrow from your grandfather? I'll give it to you, pay the money back. ”

Unexpectedly, when Yang Yuxing heard this, he hurriedly said, "No! Before the loan period arrived, my grandfather borrowed money from slaves, but he received two cents of interest, and he repaid the money early, wouldn't our couple lose money and earn money for his grandfather in vain? ”

Zhao Hongrun was stunned when he heard it, and he didn't bother to care about the sentence "our couple", and asked in surprise: "Yang Yutao borrowed money from you, but he actually wanted to collect profits?" ”

"Husband also feels very angry, right?" The little girl said angrily, clenching her fists and waving them, "The slave wants to earn this money back!" ”

“……”

Zhao Hongrun opened his mouth, but he was speechless.

"That talented and virtuous villain is really a smart ......" (To be continued.) )