Chapter 71: The Bell and Drum Tower

The matter of the bell tower was so big that he could only stay in Yicheng for a while to carry out the initial preparations.

Qi Zhentao, who quickly got the news, immediately found Ye Tao and asked Ye Tao to organize a briefing for him and a group of top maritime merchants. After answering various feasibility questions until his mouth was dry, Ye Tao finally satisfied these top maritime merchants. They will negotiate with Qi Zhentao to donate a huge amount of money, but they will ask for this bell tower to be named by them. Ye Tao later learned that Qi Zhentao was uniting some maritime merchants to organize a cooperative organization called Seven Seas Trading Company to mobilize the forces of all parties to do all the business related to the sea and ocean trade, and wanted to squeeze out the giant-level maritime merchants in Chunnan, so that the maritime merchants of Dongping could break through the obstacles of the maritime merchants and officials of Chunnan and taste the first-hand sweetness of Nanyang trade and more distant trade, instead of relying on the unstable source of goods of some merchants who had special feelings for Dongping, such as Muhammad. The establishment of Tissot Watch Company has given Qi Zhentao irreplaceable cargo resources in his hands, and it has also made Qi Zhentao's ambition greater. They were not short of money, and after the union and reorganization of the already stable trade, they had higher profits and efficiency, and they lacked the influence that made the name of the Seven Seas Trading Company a big influence. And the naming rights of the bell tower, they felt, were worth throwing the money.

After Peng Detian learned the news, he was inexplicably surprised. But he also got more inspiration from here, and after agreeing to the proposal of the Seven Seas Trading Company headed by Qi Zhentao, in order to make up for the shortfall in the construction cost of the bell tower, he and Ye Tao organized a briefing together. Peng Detian was not in a hurry to obtain funds directly from these wealthy merchants who were inferior to the many merchants who could join the Seven Seas Trading Company, but calmly and cautiously explained that the Seven Seas Trading Company had now used 600,000 taels of silver to start the capital and sixty percent of the expenses incurred in the entire construction project to obtain the right to name the bell tower. And after the completion of the bell tower, all those who contributed to the inevitable landmark building of this Yicheng. You will see that the bronze nameplate at the entrance of the bell tower has its own name.

It may not be a great honor, but in this era when the status of businessmen is not too high, any such opportunity to make a name for itself will be firmly grasped. Peng Detian cautiously did not accept donations for the time being, but whetted everyone's appetite.

The two-foot-eight-inch-tall model of the bell tower was placed in the banquet hall, and those invited to this briefing could always catch a glimpse, consciously or unconsciously, of this scale model of a building that may not be entirely in line with the aesthetics of today, but no one could ignore her grandeur and magnificence, and the atmosphere of the banquet hall was so warm under the rendering of Peng Detian and Ye Tao.

Build a bell tower. This is something that Ye Tao has never imagined, and even if this very typical European architecture has been improved and accepted, it is even more interesting. What's even more interesting is the letter from Danyang that came from the harrier eagle. After learning that Yicheng Port was preparing to build a bell tower, some ministers and big businessmen in Danyang wanted to ask if it was possible to build a bell tower in the new city of Danyang City...... Then, they were fooled by Her Royal Highness Princess Zhaohua, and the appearance of the bell tower drawn according to Her Royal Highness Princess was not like anything else. It's just like Issinger in the Lord of the Rings movie. Talking about Weixin's humor, perhaps only Ye Tao can understand. Is she implying that in this world, Ye Tao and her have great potential to become demon kings?

With such a catalysis of fun. Ye Tao was easily drunk by those friendly businessmen, stuffed into a carriage, and sent back to Chun Nuanju. And Ye Tao, who was a little drunk, became Sophie's big problem.

Ye Tao, who was drunk, did not vomit everywhere. He just lay there in a daze, not asleep, not in an alcoholic coma, but in a half-asleep and half-awake state of wanton fantasies, except that his brain could not accurately control his body.

When Ye Tao's maid and little secretary had been removing the clothes from Ye Tao's body for so long, and wiping off the sweat on his body due to the increasingly hot weather and alcohol, Sophie would not blush and heartbeat like she had at the beginning. Hands trembled. But with the contact between the hand holding the sweat towel that was wrung out vigorously and Ye Tao's body, Sophie's breathing would unconsciously follow Ye Tao's breathing, and even her heartbeat seemed to resonate with Ye Tao. No one knows better than Sophie herself that she is just a beautiful maiden who is dominated by admiration.

Putting the sweat towel back into the copper basin, Sophie knelt on the edge of the bed and looked at Ye Tao quietly. Then, she leaned down and pressed her face against Ye Tao's bare chest. Her ears could clearly hear Ye Tao's heartbeat. For a maid. It's disrespectful, but it doesn't matter how long you've lived in this country of worship and subtlety. Sophie could never erase the romantic, impulsive Franconian blood that flowed through her body.

Ye Tao gently grabbed Sophie's head in a daze, his fingers reached into Sophie's long hair, and rubbed it lovingly as if he was serving a little beast. Sophie heard it, and in a daze, Ye Tao hummed a tune she had never heard before......

"My home is in the second ring road......"

"People here have so much time to ......"

"They're talking, whose three long and two short ......"

“…… They're looking at you, pulling out some brand of cigarettes......"

If Tan Weixin heard it, she would definitely recognize this song He Yong's "Bell and Drum Tower", and then knocked Ye Tao's head with her weak arm to warn him not to show his stuff. However, Sophie only felt that the song was really soft and beautiful, but it was so helpless, I don't know what kind of association the construction of the bell tower evoked Ye Tao.

“…… Who came up with the question so difficult, there are correct answers everywhere", muttering this lyric repeatedly, but Ye Tao woke up.

"Young Master......" Sophie felt the movement, just straightened up, but suddenly felt a whirlwind of the sky. It turned out that Ye Tao hugged Sophie and lifted her to the bed at once, and then rolled down, already pressing Sophie under him.

“…… Sophie...... It's a blessing to have you in my life......" Ye Tao's eyes, which were still confused, were clear, he looked at Sophie in his arms, and his mind turned around, maybe there was a previous imagination and thoughts about this almost identical image and body, or there was a tacit understanding formed in the past few years with this beautiful girl originally called Fumeer, as well as cordiality and trust. And it was this whisper that I don't know what it came from, which ignited Sophie's already unguarded mind and body.

Sophie wrapped her arms around Ye Tao's neck in accommodation, raised her upper body slightly, and kissed Ye Tao's lips.

Heavy breathing ensemble, dripping sweat mixed together, and when Sophie's body that had been trained by the dancing girl for many years to apply sesame oil for many years exuded the most instinctive and instinctual aroma in the world because of emotion, the skills that Sophie had heard and witnessed many times in her years of dancing training but had never had the opportunity to try were finally presented over and over again in Sophie's ideal object......

Sophie, who has always taken care of Ye Tao's daily life diligently, finally failed to continue her perfect performance in this regard the next day. Until the third day of the day, Lu Danhu suspiciously and a little anxiously knocked on the door of the most core group of houses in Chun Nuanju, and came to the door of Ye Tao's bedroom to urge Ye Tao to hurry up to the luncheon set up by the governor. It took too much physical strength for the two to be woken up.

Ye Tao was very willing to lie in the arms of the beauty for a while. Although Sophie's gentle and delicate fragrance will never have any intersection with the star that came to mind when he named Sophie, there is a difference between longing for a character and actually owning one. If there is anything that makes people feel particularly stable in this era, it is that he can truly have a person from the legal standings. And when this kind of possession is now combined with physical fit, spiritual belonging, and emotional dependence, there is no more perfect relationship, at least, for a man who is accustomed to the insecure gender relationships of modern society.

"You sleep a little longer." After imprinting a kiss on Sophie's forehead and hugging Sophie again, Ye Tao still got up.

Although Ye Tao quickly took a shower with cold water, and then quickly put on the clothes that were always as simple and simple as they were and walked out of the door, Lu Dan still sensed something.

Lu Dan didn't say anything, he just showed a wicked smile in front of Ye Tao, intentionally or unintentionally. Judging from his current performance, Lu Dan is a qualified manager, but he is by no means a manager who will abide by Ye Tao's dignity and humility that he doesn't care too much about.

Half of it was because of the myriad preparations for the bell tower, and half of it was because considering Sophie's body, Ye Tao, who had been away from Danyang for a considerable time, and it was not good to delay the trip back to Danyang any longer, but he stayed in Yicheng for three days. The busy Ye Tao didn't notice anything, but Sophie was embarrassed. After all, in Yicheng, she trained with all the dancing sisters except Kassandra, and Ye Tao's mother, who was always silent and middle-aged woman. However, compared with the ridicule of the sisters and the tireless digging into the details of Sophie and Ye Tao's actions, it was the Ye family's housewife's behavior of stuffing a pair of jade bracelets that may not be considered property for the current Ye family into Sophie's arms, which made Sophie feel even more worried. She knew that she would not be the one who stood next to Ye Tao at the wedding, and she would not be the one who waited in the room with a red hijab at the banquet. But, without a doubt, she has been content to be the first to begin happiness and will certainly be the first to get used to it......