Chapter 15: The Southern Guild
At night, Shang Xue's carriage arrived at the door of the General's Mansion, and let the porter make a report, and Li Huai came out, still dressed as a scholar, with Ying Hongsleeves and Ying Tianxiang also on his side. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Shang Xue watched the three of them come out of the general's mansion, was slightly stunned, and then got out of the carriage, "Why did you bring your family?" ”
"Family?" Li Huai smiled, but he didn't react for a while, "It's not interesting for me to be alone, and I won't be lonely with them." ”
"You kid, I knew this earlier, what else did I bother with?" The old man shook his head, walked to Li Huai's ear, and whispered a few words, but Li Huai was taken aback, and then looked at the carriage, his face couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, and he looked back at the Ying family sisters behind him.
"Xianggong go early and come back early, our sister is still going to Liyuan Spring, with Shang Lao accompanying you, we can rest assured." Ying Hongsleeve is so smart, as soon as he saw the old man talking in Li Huai's ear, he knew the roughly, and his words relieved Li Huai's embarrassment, Li Huai smiled, Ying Tianxiang was slightly surprised, but he didn't speak.
Shang Xue nodded, and then took Li Huai into the carriage.
"Sister?" Ying Tianxiang looked puzzled, "Is there anyone else in the carriage?" ”
"It should be a princess, otherwise Shang Lao wouldn't be waiting at the door." Ying Hongsleeves smiled.
Ying Tianxiang was a little surprised, the princess left the palace at night, and deliberately followed Shang Xue to pick up Li Huai, if this matter was reported, it would naturally be discussed, "Princess? She's going to the Wenhui too? ”
Ying Hongsleeves saw that the carriage had left, so she asked the porter to call the car in the house, "Let's go, let them go, he hasn't participated in such a cultural meeting for a long time, just to relax, if we go along, it will be uncomfortable." ”
Ying Hongsleeves said and pulled her sister into the carriage and drove in the direction of Liyuan Chun.
And on Shang Xue's carriage, Shang Xue's old god was there, and his eyes had been closed since he got into the carriage, Li Huai was also a little speechless when he looked at it, and Yuan Shanshan was also sitting upright, without a trace of a smile on his face, "It was your concubine who was outside just now?" ”
Li Huai was stunned for a moment, nodded, and thought to himself why this princess was so dignified and followed Shang Xue, "Li Gongzi's age is not too young, why don't you plan to marry a main room?" ”
Li Huai looked at the other party, but there was still no smile on his face, "It's bothering the princess." Li Huai said seriously.
Shang Xue couldn't help pursing his lips, but he didn't open his eyes, Yuan Shanshan looked at Li Huai coldly, and stopped talking.
In less than a moment, the carriage arrived at the place, "This is the Southern Guild Hall, all the businessmen who come from the south have to gather here, this cultural meeting is also the practice of the Southern Guild Hall over the years......" Shang Xue got off the carriage and introduced the things in the Southern Guild Hall while walking, Li Huai listened carefully, in fact, Hong Ji has always been developing in the north, Luliang, Liangshan and Liulin County and Yecheng are located in the north, several workshops are now developing rapidly, and the output has gradually stabilized, although Hong Ji has gradually developed to the Xia Dynasty, But it is also just in its infancy, but it is in the south, except for a few business with Fang La, there are no more opportunities.
"Do you know why Hong Ji's business can't enter the southern lands?" Shang Xue looked at Li Huai, "If you take a look here today, you may know the answer." The old man said, with a little smile on his face, and Yuan Shanshan on the side didn't speak, with a white veil on his face, and followed behind Shang Xue.
The Southern Hall, from the outside is just an old house, into the courtyard only to find that there is a cave, the pavilion of the water pavilion, the garden rockery, everywhere is a bit of grace and fine, the more you go inside, the more you can see the unique chic of the south, to the courtyard in the middle, you can see several people are chatting in the courtyard.
Shang Xue walked over, several people were polite and saluted, and a few of the young people even saluted the teacher, "They are also Shang Lao's students?" Li Huai asked Yuan Shanshan beside him in a low voice, "Rare and strange, the Shang family is a big family in the south, and Shang Lao is even more Confucian, naturally there are many people who worship his subordinates, do you think Shang Lao really took advantage of the power of the prince?" ”
Li Huai smiled, "Why do you always talk with prickly today?" ”
Yuan Shanshan ignored him and turned her face away, "Did you smell a sour smell?" Li Huai said seriously, Yuan Shanshan really asked, and after a while, he suddenly came back to his senses, "What do you mean?"
Li Huai smiled, "It's just a joke, don't be angry, princess." ”
Several young people in the courtyard had already noticed Li Huai and Yuan Shanshan, the woman was slim, and she came in with Shang Xue, coupled with the light veil to cover her face, it made several people have more associations, but seeing her talking to Li Huai, a few young people were not rash to come over.
And at this time, from the depths of the courtyard, a few old people came over with several young people dressed as scholars, "Shang Lao, there is a long way to go." The old man at the head was in good spirits, and his voice was also loud, and he walked in front of Shang Xue first.
"Moral education said with a smile, I just went to pick up a little friend of mine, so I came late, so you all waited for a long time." Shang Xue said apologetically, and several people hurriedly returned the salute.
Li Huai also bowed to a few old people, and several old people also nodded, led by the director of the Southern Guild Hall, Chen Deyu of the Southern Chen family, and behind him were representatives of several major clans in the Southern Guild Hall, and behind a few old people were naturally the leaders of each family's sons and nephews, and most of the young people's eyes had stayed on Yuan Shanshan's body, and for Yuan Shanshan's identity, they naturally knew it, but Shang Xue specially instructed them, and they were not entangled in the identity of the princess, and a few people exchanged a few words, led Shang Xue to the backyard, and left Yuan Shanshan and Li Huai to be taken care of by a few juniors.
The poetry meeting has not yet started, but several young people have already been tense in front of Yuan Shanshan, chanting poems against each other, showing their strengths, Li Huai picked up the fun to the side, found a place to sit down, Yuan Shanshan thought that he would at least come to help, but he didn't expect that the other party was completely irrelevant, and his heart was depressed.
"Miss Shishi is here?" I don't know when, Liang Shishi has arrived at the door, and there are a few southern students who arrived together, since it is a literary club, I always have to find some talented and beautiful people to come over, and among the women in Beijing, it is naturally Liang Shishi, and her appearance immediately attracted many people.
Li Huai looked at the door, and was looking at each other, the other party nodded, Li Huai smiled, it was a greeting, and then a lot of people arrived one after another, all of them were quite famous talents in Beijing, but the last ones were Yan Fan and Qian Lao, when the two came in, someone greeted them early, and naturally they didn't notice Li Huai in the corner.
Looking at the people who kept coming over in the guild hall, Li Huai was a little surprised by the strength of the southern businessmen, but a literary meeting was able to gather so many powerful people, and even the prince's mansion and the right prime minister's mansion had people coming, which showed the influence of the southern families on Shangjing.