Lao Cheng's words helped Wang Xi make up his mind, but Wang Xi's small house really couldn't take it, and it was really shabby to go to Dongshi to find a restaurant, and it was really shabby, tomorrow Yunmeng Tea House will sell twenty bags of tea again, Wang Xi heard from Master Cheng that his Yunmeng tea was fried to five hundred yuan in the black market, and now Wang Xi, who was in a hurry, directly priced Yunmeng tea at five hundred yuan per package!

Old man Zhang kept talking about going crazy, who would spend 500 yuan to buy a drink, when Rong Guogong was at his most beautiful, he was not so extravagant~~

However, Old Man Zhang still underestimated the strength of the Tang nobles, and the moment Yunmeng Tea House only broke the door with ornamental significance, the high-rollers who came to buy it pushed away to maintain order, and the Wannian county officials who came to buy it flocked in··········

Removing the commercial tax of thirty taxes and one, 9,700 copper coins are piled up in Wang Xi's small courtyard, and there is money!

The villagers of Zhangjia Zhuangzi looked at the copper coins like a hill almost stupidly, but Wang Xi frowned and looked at the mansion to the west of his house.

Anyi Fang has fourteen songs, and there are a total of three mansions in this song where Wang Xi is located. Among them, Wang Xi's small courtyard is in the middle, and the east side is a more dilapidated and small courtyard, and the two small courtyards account for one-fifth of this song, and the large courtyard in the west is eight times the size of Wang Xi's courtyard.

Since Wang Xi moved into Anyi Fang, there has been no one living on the left and right, and only this large courtyard in the west will have a family dressed up to sweep it every once in a while. Now that he has money, Wang Xi put his mind on this mansion.

Old man Zhang took Zhang Shi, Zhang Shou and others to Xunfang official to inquire about the owner of the mansion, but when Old Man Zhang came back, he looked stunned······

"Uncle Zhang, what's wrong, isn't the owner of the mansion easy to get along with?" Wang Xi asked curiously.

Old man Zhang seemed to have lost his soul, and Zhang Shou couldn't help but say: "Brother Xi, the owner of the big mansion in the west used to be the master of Daddy's family, and the Duke of Rongguo is here to protect his son!" ”

"What?" Wang Xi couldn't help but be surprised, it was really a coincidence.

Wang Xi asked about the situation of the children who came to protect their children's descendants, and now the family is mainly in the old house of the family in the south of the city, and the bag inquiry in the east market is very professional, and introduced the current situation of the family to Wang Xi 1510.

In the fourteenth year of the great cause of the former Sui Dynasty, Yu Wenhua and Jiangdu mutinied, killed Yang Guang, and came to protect his son rather than surrender, and was also killed.

Lai Hu'er had twelve sons in his life, Jiangdu mutinied, the family and all the sons were killed by Yu Wenhua, only the young Lai Heng and Lai Ji were spared because they were in the old house in Chang'an at the time, not in Jiangdu.

Now the main thing in the house is the first retainer to come to Hu'er at that time, this name Wang Xi once heard his father-in-law mention, the retainers who came to the house Wang Qi is the leader of the personal guard of Lai's family, and he is the chief steward of the whole family, responsible for all the business, mansion and other big and small things in the house.

Unlike Wang Qi, Lai Yuan is the son of the Lai family, who has been a slave in Laifu for generations, and was given the surname by Lai Hu'er.

After the Jiangdu mutiny, the family was killed, the whole family was hit hard, relatives and friends were either separated, or fell into the well, fortunately, there was a Laiyuan conscientious and conscientious, raising two young sons for the family, and also preserved most of the family's industry in Chang'an.

Lai Hu'er half a life of horses, but his two young sons who survived went to do learning, the older Lai Heng, because of his outstanding performance in the Guozi Prison, was examined as a Hanlin editor, although it is not yet in the grade, but it is already considered to have entered the court. The young Laiji is only eight years old, and now he is still studying in the house, but he is already a well-known little prodigy.

In the entire Chang'an City, there are a total of twelve large and small mansions, and Anyifang is just one of them.

Chang'an City is the Xijing Daxing City of the former Sui Dynasty, when Emperor Wen of Sui usurped Zhou Li Sui, ordered Yu Wenkai to build Daxing City on the Longshou Plain, at the beginning of the establishment of the city, the population was sparse, especially the Fang City in the south of the city was deserted, it was occupied by birds and beasts.

So Emperor Wen of Sui ordered all the nobles, especially the emperor's relatives and relatives of the mansion to be sealed in the south of the city, to Yang Guang ascended the throne, the square city in the south of the city was already the gathering place of the nobles of Chang'an, to protect the child was sealed in Daye Fang at that time, to the family will be set up in the ancestral hall and so on in Daye Fang as the ancestral home.

After Li Tang established the country, he did the opposite, most of the nobles of the former Sui were scattered, and the fang market near the imperial city in the north of the city became the residence of Li Tang's nouveau riche, while the south of the city became a gathering place for commoners such as peddlers and pawns.

Considering that the Lai family needs to keep a low profile, all the clansmen whose families are in the north of the city will be moved to the south of the city, so the house in Anyifang is empty, and only a few house slaves are sent to sweep it every once in a while.

Wang Xi took Zhang old man and Zhang Shou to the old house of Daye Fang, respectfully handed over the post, not long after, a better face of the child came out to lead Wang Xi several people into the house, Wang Xi looked at the layout of the house, the corridor is elegant, the small bridge flows, even if the family is decayed, there is such a look, you can imagine how brilliant this family was in the past.

The boy led Wang Xi and the others to a living room and left, Wang Xi was looking at the furnishings of the living room, and a young man in a Confucian robe who looked like a seven or eight year old man followed by an old man in brocade clothes walked in.

The boy's voice is immature and crisp, but his tone is quite old-fashioned: "I came to the family twelve, I didn't just come to Ji, I have seen Bailuhou." ”

Wang Xi bowed and returned the salute, after all, it was the master of his father-in-law's house.

Lai Jiyi waved his hand: "Please sit down, come here, serve tea!" ”

Wang Xi and Laiji sat opposite each other, and the old man in brocade knelt behind Laiji.

The little guy served the tea soup, of course, it was not Wang Xi's Yunmeng tea, but the green onion and ginger tea soup that was customary for the aristocracy.

Lai Ji arched his hand and said: "I have been studying behind closed doors in the alleys in the south of the city, and I heard that the prince and the marquis were knighted yesterday, and I haven't had time to go to congratulate them, and I don't want to be lucky enough to have the prince and the marquis come to the door in person, so I feel very honored." ”

Wang Xi was a little disgusted by the appearance of the young man who came to Ji, so he directly looked at the old man in brocade behind him: "In the past, the family suffered a great disaster, the heirs withered, and only the two young sons survived. ”

Lai Yuan's face changed, and he hurriedly bowed to the ground and said: "Lai Yuan, a family slave, how dare you be so praised as a prince." ”

Wang Xi sighed: "Deserve it, do you know who so-and-so is?" ”

Lai Yuan looked at Wang Xi in surprise, he didn't know what this new marquis meant, Lai Ji was a little dissatisfied with being neglected: "Although he lives in a bad alley, but the Bailu Marquis is famous in Chang'an, and Lai Ji has also heard that the prince is the descendant of the great sage Guiguzi of the pre-Qin Dynasty, I don't know what the prince is doing here?" ”

Old man Zhang finally couldn't hold back any longer, and said in a trembling voice to Lai Yuan: "Chief Steward, don't you recognize me?" ”

Lai Yuan's cloudy old eyes looked at Old Man Zhang suspiciously, and only after a long time did he say excitedly: "You are······ Zhang Zhenggu···· You're still alive..."

Old man Zhang walked to Laiyuan excitedly and cried: "It's me, the big steward, the little old man survived·······"

Lai Yuan also had tears in his eyes: "Okay, good, it's good to survive, it's been eight years, when you followed the Duke of the Kingdom to the old mansion in Jiangdu, I thought you were all ········· It's good to survive······"

Wang Xi got up and bowed to Lai Yuan: "Junior Wang Xi, I have seen Lai Gong." ”

Lai Yuan hurriedly pushed away the old man Zhang, kowtowed, and said: "Lai Yuan is just a slave, how dare you be such a great gift as a prince!" ”

Wang Xi helped him up: "Lai Gong naturally deserves it, since Lai Gong knows my name, he should have heard who my stepfather is." ”

Lai Yuan said excitedly: "What········ You ····· Is your stepfather really Wang Qi? When I first heard that the prince's father-in-law was named a man in Yong'an County, I thought it was a coincidence, and it turned out that the king's father-in-law was really the former prince of the country······"

Wang Xi helped Lai Yuan to sit down, and Old Man Zhang sobbed and told him in detail about the incident when he and Wang Qi fled and finally lived in seclusion in Zhang's Zhuangzi.

Lai Yuan's angry face turned red: "Qinghe Cui family! You can't rest with it! ”

A few people recounted the old again, knowing the recent situation of the old man Zhang and others, Yuan was also embarrassed for a while, and when he heard that Wang Xi came to buy the house of Anyi Fang, Lai Yuan thought about it for a long time, and then said: "Come to the house without stingy a house, and have such a relationship with the prince, even if it is sent to the prince, it doesn't matter, it is just a house, but I heard that the current situation of the prince is extremely bad, and the heirs of the family are difficult, in order to protect the national public incense, a certain does not hesitate to let the two little masters abandon Wu Congwen, and now they just want to quietly spread the branches and leaves, and they don't want to mess with any right and wrong. Please forgive me! ”

Wang Xi sighed, and helped the Lai Yuan who was on the ground: "Eight years of hard work to raise two little masters, but also to keep this family business, even if my father-in-law is reborn, I should also thank the Duke for this painstaking work, a certain will not make the Duke embarrassed, this matter has been revealed, if the family is useful somewhere in the future, you can come to find some, this is the former father-in-law's trust, Wang Xi should do his best." ”

Lai Yuan came to the little master to come to Ji to salute Wang Xi, and said: "The prince is slow, and he can no longer withstand the big thing, but the sale of the mansion is not a big deal. ”

Wang Xi was moved: "It's not easy to come to the house to keep your business, what kind of face does a certain dare to take your mansion lightly!" ”

Lai Yuan waved his hand and said with a smile: "The prince is serious, the family is not prosperous, and many of the spare mansions are also idle and useless. ”

Wang Xi looked at Laiji and said solemnly to Laiyuan: "In this way, so-and-so will be cheeky to take it, and so-and-so can give you a promise, as long as you don't die one day, you won't let Laijia decline." ”

With such a heavy promise, Lai Yuan pulled Lai Ji to kowtow to Wang Xi and made a big salute.

Wang Xisheng received this gift, this is the former father-in-law's entrustment to himself, and today he has always promised to help himself, which can be regarded as some explanation to his father-in-law.

Although he knew that he would come to the capital to worship the prime minister in the future, he had decided to try to help Li Chengqian, Wang Xi firmly believed that he could change history, after all, Li Yuan's early move to Da'an Palace had happened, and who would know what would become of him in the future?