The end of the year is approaching, and the capital has become particularly lively, and the people are busy taking stock of the year's harvest and then starting to prepare for the New Year.

Merchants from other places also began to lower prices, in order to sell the goods as soon as possible, so that they could go home early for the New Year.

The thousand-year-old tradition of the Chinese people, even if they only stay at home for a while, they will rush home thousands of miles away, and the inheritance of thousands of years has also created the most industrious race in the world, and there is no one.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, it seemed that the whole capital was moving, Ye Xun liked this atmosphere very much, and early in the morning, he came to the market with a few guards in micro-clothes.

The most direct manifestation of a country's economic stability in this era is food prices.

Walked around, not bad, polished rice thirty wen, brown rice only a dozen or a few pennies, and this is not very easy to sell, because with the economic prosperity, the life of the people in the capital has also improved a lot, if you want to buy brown rice to eat, it is to be laughed at, and the people who buy brown rice, most of them go back to feed the livestock, not their own consumption.

The scheduled meeting time with Zhang Sangongzi was noon, and this kid even set up a brothel in order to hide people's eyes.

Fortunately, Ye Xun is not a real eunuch, otherwise he would have decided this place for him, and he would have to turn his face with him, how would it be to bully anyone who doesn't have that thing.

Looking at the bustling and lively bazaar, Ye Xun was in a good mood, Daming can have today's resurrection, it can be said that it was completely created by him, and it is unintentional to say that it is fake.

After walking around for a while, I felt a little hungry, and there happened to be a wonton stall on the side of the road, so I went over and asked for a bowl of wonton noodles, and chatted with the old man who set up the stall while eating the steaming wonton noodles.

"Old man, where are the people? With so many people, business must be good, right? ”

"Thanks to you, the little old man Huainan, after the two Huai sent water the year before last, he dragged his family to the capital, you are also blessed, today is the last day of the little old man's stall, and he will be ready to go back to Huainan tomorrow, I heard that there is under the question of Ye Gonggong, the life of the villagers is better, and the river embankment has been repaired, although the capital is good, but it is not as good as home!"

Few of those who praise and flatter themselves in person are sincere, and only when they hear the voices of the common people can they feel the joy of being loved and grateful.

didn't want the old man's next words, but it made Ye Xun's mood change.

"In fact, although the old man wants to go back to his hometown, the children are unwilling, always saying that this place is more prosperous than his hometown, and there are more opportunities, these young people!"

The old man shook his head incessantly, as if there was something unspeakable.

"The old man is too worried, and the young man should be aggressive, otherwise he will live up to the good time of the youth"

Later generations of this situation is called North Drift, and in ancient times, once there was a famine, the first thing the people thought of was the capital, after arriving in the capital, greedy for the prosperity of the capital and unwilling to leave, there are also a lot of people, but the Ming household registration management is extremely strict, if there is no special channel, it is difficult to stay in the capital.

Each has its own way of living, and when the water is clear, there are no fish, and Ye Xun will not meddle in these things.

"When you see that the distinguished guest is a foreigner, you don't know, the life in the capital is getting worse and worse."

"Oh! Why is that? ”

It may be that he is leaving tomorrow, and the old man has a lot to say today.

After looking left and right, he said in a low voice: "The distinguished guest is a foreigner, I don't know, now many shops are worshipping the nine-thousand-year-old god statue in their homes, if you want to say it, you can offer it!" After all, people who are 9,000 years old have made great contributions to the imperial court, but they can invite this statue back, as little as 500 taels, and as much as 1,000 taels, those rich people don't think anything, people like us, that can afford it! ”

A nine-thousand-year-old idol!

Hearing this term, Ye Xun's eyes immediately narrowed, only Wei Zhongxian was called nine thousand years old in history, but now Wei Zhongxian has already been ambushed, so who is this so-called nine thousand years old, it is about to come out.

After eating half of the wonton noodles, he was no longer in the mood to eat them, so he took out a silver coin from his arms and threw it on the board, forcibly suppressing the anger in his heart, and said gently: "Do you know where the old man sells the nine-thousand-year-old god statue?" ”

"Oops! This little old man didn't know that it was the servant master of Shuntian Mansion who came to inform us before, but he just told us to prepare the silver, and if we didn't invite the nine-thousand-year-old idol home, we would either leave Beijing or go to prison."

Shuncheon Mansion Yin is Liu Zongzhou, and he just took office yesterday, so it is impossible for him to do this matter.

And in this matter, what made Ye Xun most angry was Hu Jiucheng, as the head of the West Factory, how could he not know that such a big event happened under his nose? Or do you know that you don't report it?

Ye Xun is no longer in the mood to go shopping, if this matter is not clear, the good reputation he has worked hard to accumulate will be ruined.

The footsteps were raised, and after thinking about it, he put it down, how could he only listen to the words of an old man who set up a stall for such a big matter?

Turning his head and nodding to one of the guards beside him.

The guard had already heard Ye Xun's conversation with the old man who was setting up the stall just now, and after seeing Ye Xun's eyes, he immediately understood what Ye Xun wanted him to do, so he bowed and bowed, then turned around and strode away.

The old man who set up the stall did not have a good look in his eyes, and it was not until this moment that he found that the distinguished guest in his mouth seemed to be more than a distinguished guest, and the strong men next to the stall seemed to be random, but for a long time, except for this distinguished guest, there was no guest to patronize, and it was not like this in the past.

"Honored guest, you, you..."

Ye Xun smiled slightly, took out more than ten silver coins from his arms, threw them on the board, and said, "Old man, borrow your place for use, please forgive me for the disturbance."

The old man was scared stupid, he couldn't earn these silver coins by selling wonton noodles for a month, but people easily rewarded him, how rich this person is!

It's not that the old people haven't seen the world, before the copper coin has not completely withdrawn from circulation, among the small people at the bottom, it is still the main circulating coin, and the silver coin is the same as the gold ingot, which must be kept at home to press the bottom of the box.

There was not much time, and the guards went and returned, holding a statue in a Taoist robe in his arms, and the statue was carved vividly, and it was eight points similar to Ye Xun.

"Go and send this thing to Hu Jiucheng, tell him, I'll wait for him here, if there is no result for an hour, he will disappear by himself!"

Ye Xun had already forgiven him for Zhang Ziwen's incident last time, and even if he found out about this matter this time, Ye Xun would have to consider whether it was time to transfer him from the position of the head of the West Factory?

Without his knowledge, he made himself a nine-thousand-year-old name, and forced the merchant to buy the statue at a high price, this is no longer as simple as smearing his face, and the person who operates this matter is definitely sinister with sinister intentions.

Hu Jiucheng returned to Beijing more than a month earlier than Ye Xun, and he returned to Beijing directly from Dengzhou, and the Japanese side of the matter can be said to have been very successful, but this cannot be used as a reason for him to exonerate himself.

I don't know when it started, the originally noisy market suddenly quieted down strangely, and everyone's eyes looked at the wonton stall...