The next morning, Zhao Gong had just returned from a run with his team.

"Knock, knock, knock......"

The sound of regular crashing resounded throughout the house.

Zhao Gong and Zhao Xiaoyi came out strangely to check.

"Where's the ring?"

The two walked around the pond and saw Zhao Rui smashing the wall in a corner of the house.

Zhao Rui was wearing a single coat, holding a sledgehammer in his hand, smashing the wall expressionlessly, his forehead was already sweating slightly, Zhao Gong and Xiaoyi stood not far behind him and watched.

"What's wrong with the young master?" Zhao Gong lowered his voice and asked in a low voice.

"I'm afraid that Princess Arjuna ran away and made him sad." Zhao Xiaoyi also whispered in the same way.

"Well, I'll go check it out......"

Zhao Gong walked to Zhao Rui's side and back.

"Young Master, are you ...... What are you doing? ”

Zhao Gong looked at Zhao Rui's face carefully, but saw that he didn't have anything special about him.

"Open a store! The master said that our house is an excellent location, so I will open a door and build a shop here, and you can arrange for them to come and help me build the house in a while. ”

"Oh, okay, I'll go."

Zhao Gong turned around and shrugged his shoulders at Xiao Yi, meaning that the young master didn't seem to be sad!

Zhao Xiaoyi didn't think so, with a woman's intuition, the young master must have been affected a little bit!

Zhao Gong soon brought people here, thirty people built a shop very quickly, half a day's effort, the basic construction has been completed, and the rest is some professional work of plastering and tile.

"Xiaoyi, go out and order a signboard, and I'm looking for a bricklayer to finish the work!"

"Yes, young master!"

Xiao Yi turned around and went out, thinking that the young master must be venting, otherwise it would be better to find a few bricklayers to finish it all early.

Just thinking about it, Zhao Rui shouted in the back again: "By the way, find another painter!" ”

Xiao Yi answered, Zhao Rui went back to breakfast, took a bath, and went to the carriage to carry two buckets of red paint before returning to the yard in good spirits.

These two barrels of paint were brought back by Zhao Ruiyi when he was processing the iron box, and he wanted to paint the box to prevent rust, but he used galvanized iron sheet, and it really couldn't rust for a while, so he took it out and used it first.

Zhao Xiaoyi had already returned with two masons and a middle-aged man who looked like a scholar.

He was dressed in a green robe, and there were some dots of ink on his hands and sleeves, which should have been accidentally stained.

The scholar was a little surprised when he saw the Gaomen compound where Zhao Rui lived at a young age, besides, this location is generally the residence of officials, who is he?

The scholar thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't think of a reason.

"Young master, this gentleman sells paintings in the market, and the paintings are very good, so I brought him back!"

Xiao Yi explained, and took two more masons to work, Zhao Rui nodded and looked at the scholar with a smile.

"In Xia Zhang Zhennan, you are the owner? Don't know what kind of picture to draw? ”

"Oh, it's a mural, my yard is on three sides against the main road, you can paint three walls for me, the main purpose is to promote my shop." Zhao Rui briefly introduced.

What a big deal!

"This will take at least six or seven days, five taels of silver a day, what does the owner want?"

Zhang Zhennan said this price code ruthlessly, and he was worried about whether it was expensive, and looked at Zhao Rui's reaction with some concern.

But Zhao Rui smiled nonchalantly: "Okay, don't say five taels of silver, if you paint it, I will double it for you directly!" ”

"Oh, by the way, is it okay to paint with lacquer?"

Zhao Rui asked, pointing to the two buckets of paint on the ground.

"What! With lacquer? Paint three walls? ”

Zhao Rui didn't understand why Zhang Zhennan was surprised like this, but nodded puzzled.

"What, there's a problem?"

The price of lacquer in this era was expensive, and Zhao Rui did not know that it was because of the development of porcelain in the Song Dynasty that it replaced the original lacquerware, indicating that lacquerware was much more expensive than porcelain.

This man is too rich! actually used lacquer to make murals, Zhang Zhennan couldn't help but sigh in his heart that it would be nice to ask for more wages.

"No problem, I'll do it right away! Oh, by the way, what does the owner sell? ”

"Oh, nothing else, it's all ocean-bound strange things, white clouds, hairpins and something." Zhao Rui told the truth.

"What? Issuing? Could it be that you are Zhao Rui, the commander of the Musket Army? ”

Zhang Zhennan's eyes widened, and Zhao Rui couldn't help but smile in surprise: "Why, you actually know me?" I didn't expect that just a few days after Lin'an, even the painting seller knew my name. ”

"I'm quitting!"

Zhang Zhennan was good, suddenly changed his face, and was about to leave with his sleeves flicked.

"Huh? Wait, why did the gentleman leave suddenly? ”

Zhao Rui couldn't cry or laugh, and was actually despised by a calligraphy and painting gentleman.

"Humph! Just because you are an official promoted by Jia Yidao! I think I'm a big Song traitor, and there is a villain like you to help him, it's really a miasma, a nest of snakes and rats! I, Zhang, don't serve! ”

Zhao Rui just understood a little, looking at his angry look, it seems that the contradiction with Jia Yidao is not small, could it be that he is a suppressed official?

Zhao Rui did the opposite, and sneered: "It's useless to be a scholar, what you said is really not wrong at all!" ”

"What! Do you dare to say it again! ”

Zhang Zhennan's blood rushed to the top of his head, now is the time to be down, and he can't listen to others say that he is useless, so he stomped his feet and turned around to confront Zhao Rui.

"I said that you are a scholar who is just an incompetent person, why, you are still not convinced?" Zhao Rui looked at him angrily, and he was in the middle of it, but he still put on a cold look.

Zhang Zhennan was really angry, and his sleeves were trembling slightly.

"Zhao Rui, I am the champion of this year's examination, although I was canceled by Jia Yidao, but it is not your turn to insult me!"

It's still a champion?

Zhao Rui was surprised, now in this dynasty where literati are everywhere, it is really not easy to get a champion, and he can't help but pay some attention to it in his heart, and he also has the idea of recruiting.

"Whether you are the champion or what, in today's Tartar pressure situation, you don't want to do something for the country and the people, but you divide the party here, don't you think it's ridiculous?"

For the country and the people? This is not the rhetoric of Jia Yidao's group of traitors, is he really not in league with traitors?

Zhang Zhennan gradually calmed down, but he still had a somewhat defensive look.

"Although I am an official position arranged by the Taishi, it is just a means for him to entrap me, and he needs the powerful power of my musket to defend against the enemy! You say, I don't know what kind of prime minister the Taishi is? Hehe, I'm just taking this opportunity to fight against the Yuan army, and I can put everything else behind me for the time being! ”

Zhang Zhennan blinked, looking at Zhao Rui's natural expression, and his words did not look like a fraud at all.

"Lord Zhao, it turns out that you think so, I'm sorry, I'm too abrupt!"

Zhang Zhennan felt that he was too arbitrary before, so he solemnly apologized to Zhao Rui.

"Oh, I don't have to."

Zhao Rui hurriedly held up Zhang Zhennan's arm and asked, "I see that Brother Zhang is upright, why did he fall to such a state?" ”

"Humph! It's not because of Jia Yidao, a traitor! ”

Zhao Rui felt that the two of them had been standing and talking for too long, so he invited Zhang Zhennan to the pavilion in the courtyard, and ordered Zhao Xiaoyi to serve green tea.

Zhang Zhennan sighed, and then opened the conversation.

It turned out that Zhang Zhennan was the champion of this spring's examination, and after the palace examination, he was directly awarded the post of Guangzhou system envoy and pacification envoy. Just as he was about to leave for Guangzhou, he unexpectedly learned the news that the second city of Xiangfan was trapped, so he wrote a chapter to show the emperor.

However, it turned out to be Jia Yidao's person in the Hanlin Academy, and Jia Taishi found a reason to revoke Zhang Zhennan's official position and drive him out of the palace.

Zhang Zhennan was dedicated to the country, and he was not afraid of losing his official position at all, but shouted loudly outside the main hall about the affairs of Xiangfan Ercheng.

As a result, it was heard by the people in the harem, and somehow, the three transmissions reached Zhao Yuan's ears.

No matter how stupid Zhao Yuan was, he knew the truth that the soldiers would block the water and cover the earth, so he called Jia Yidao to inquire about it.

Of course, Jia Yidao didn't admit it, so he deduced that the Yuan army had been repulsed, told the emperor not to worry, and pretended to be angry, saying that if the emperor didn't believe him, he would resign and go home.

Frightened, Zhao Yuan was retained with snot and tears, and later the master asked who transmitted the news, Zhao Yuan was drunk all day and couldn't remember clearly, so he pushed a palace maid.

Later, Jia Yidao actually executed this palace maid in the name of disturbing the Holy Hearing!

Zhang Zhennan hated Taishi even more, but in order to survive, he went to the market to sell paintings and live.

"Why don't you just follow me?"

Zhao Rui said seriously: "It is reasonable that the musket army needs a civilian job, and Brother Zhang is enthusiastic, and it is also like-minded with me, let's kill the Tartars and resist the Yuan together!" ”

"Zhao Tongzhi, what you said is true?"

Zhang Zhennan's surprise was overflowing, and then his face sank, and he said worriedly: "Zhao Tongzhi, if you rashly use me, you are not afraid of what Jia Yidao will do to you?" ”

"Haha!"

Zhao Rui not only didn't care in the slightest, but stood up and looked up to the sky and smiled.

"Brother Zhang, it's not my Zhao Rui's style to think about it before and after thinking about it, it's better to think more than to do more, now that the Song Dynasty system is corrupt, it's just a matter of stealing a living, after I accumulate strength, what does the court count, what does he Jia Yidao count!"

Belch!

Zhang Zhennan opened his mouth wide, he was really shocked by Zhao Rui's remarks!

I didn't expect him to be so ambitious, and he didn't even take the court seriously, in comparison, Na Jia Yidao was really nothing.

Follow Zhao Rui has a future!

With a plop, Zhang Zhennan hurriedly knelt down, and said in fear: "Thank you Zhao for your appreciation, Zhang will definitely work for your filial piety!" ”

attracted a champion to join the gang, Zhao Rui was also very happy, and hurriedly helped him up.

Zhao Rui then promised him that after painting the mural, he could go to the Musket Army to join the army.

So Zhang Zhennan was full of energy, and he looked a little impatient, so he hurriedly carried a paint bucket to paint outside the house.

"Where is Zhao Gong?"

Hearing the call, Zhao Gong hurriedly ran to Zhao Rui's side and said, "Young Master, what are the orders!" ”

"Call everyone, take the guns, and follow me to the Musketeer camp!"

"Yes!"

A moment later, more than thirty people, each armed with rifles and riding horses, marched out of the city.