Chapter 233: Viyan's Journey (Part II)
Huangfu Wujin's carriage slowly stopped in front of the Eight Immortals Bridge, at this time it was almost dusk, the setting sun shone on the Eight Immortals Bridge, sprinkling a layer of golden yellow and magnificent colors on this prosperous commercial place, although the sky was dusk, but the Eight Immortals Bridge was still full of people and business.
The business of the Jin Fu Ji Restaurant at the north end of the Eight Immortals Bridge is particularly hot, it is full of dining guests, and from time to time there is the voice of Luo Xiucai greeting the guests, he has become the second shopkeeper of this restaurant, his voice is still the same as before, he can speak well, and can make the drinkers willing to become old customers, but the tone is full of a kind of self-confidence that he did not have before, which is a kind of self-confidence that has his own career.
Wu Jin smiled, but did not enter the restaurant, directly walked across the Eight Immortals Bridge, facing the Eight Immortals Bridge, is a newly built bookstore, a large wooden book carved from wood on the roof, quite eye-catching, the main entrance of the bookstore hangs a quaint bookmark, with the seal characters written 'Burrow Zhai' three words.
This is the new bookstore of Su Han's uncle Yan Yushu, and at the same time, Wu Jin also noticed that behind the bookstore, in Hu Min Lane, there is another shop, and there is also a large wooden pipa carved on the roof, which is the musical instrument shop of Jingniang's uncle Chen Jinjin.
At this time, Hu Min Lane is no longer a deserted side alley, the wooden bridge next to the God of Wealth Temple has been repaired, Hu Min Lane has become a shortcut from the City God Temple to the Eight Immortals Bridge, people come and go, particularly lively, Wu Jin only saw a few seven or eight years old little lady each holding a new pipa from the musical instrument shop out of the musical instrument store, and some people went in to repair the musical instrument, the business is also prosperous, even better than the best bookstore in the city, it seems that the business is a little better.
Wu Jin stepped into the bookstore, only to see that the bookstore was no longer as deserted as Shuyuan Street, but there were more than a dozen readers buying books, but Yan Yushu was gone, only one guy was greeting everyone, he saw Wu Jin coming in, and hurriedly stepped forward and smiled: "Guest, what book do you want to buy?" ”
"I'll take a look!"
"Guests, please feel free!"
The guy didn't care about him anymore, Wu Jin walked around the bookstore, and couldn't help frowning slightly, it was exactly the same as the books sold in Shuyuan Lane, they were all esoteric Four Books and Five Classics and the like, there was not a single popular book on finance and economics to make money, there was no popular romance novel, and even the book he and Jiutian wrote at the beginning of the Havoc in the Heavenly Palace, there was no shadow, no wonder there was no business here, it seems that it is not a problem at the mouth of the market, but in Yan Yushu's concept.
"Man, where's Uncle Yan?" Wu Jin looked back and asked.
"The guest turned out to know the proprietor Yan."
The guy hurriedly laughed and said, "The proprietor Yan went to Yuhang County to participate in the reading club, and he will come back in a few days." ”
Wu Jin knew that the reading club was a club spontaneously organized by some cultural industry people, with more than 1,000 people and all over the country, which was basically the cultural industry alliance of the Daning Dynasty.
"Business isn't very good here!"
The guy sighed and said: "It's really not good, it's better to have a bookstore on the side of Shuyuan Street, after all, it is a place where businessmen gather, and the proprietor Yan is going to convert this place into a teahouse next month, called the Jin Fu Ji Teahouse, which is invested by the proprietor of Huangfu, and there will be a gentleman to talk about the book in the future, and the proprietor Yan said, Mr. will talk about the county history of Weiyang County, and tell the story of loyalty, righteousness and filial piety, maybe those businessmen are willing to listen." ”
Wu Jin nodded, reading is better than listening to books, this is not bad, it seems that Yan Yushu has also kept pace with the times, he walked around the bookstore, bought a copy of "A Brief Examination of Chuzhou Customs", and left the bookstore.
He was not in a hurry to go to Qianzhuang, Suo surnamed walked around Hu Min Lane, passing by the musical instrument shop, Wu Jin stopped and took a look, the musical instrument shop is called 'brocade musical instrument', the business is very good, not only selling musical instruments, but also teaching to play musical instruments, repair musical instruments, the business is very wide, but he did not see Chen Jin, it is estimated that he is busy in the back, and his aunt and cousin A Bao should have set off to Jiangning Mansion to visit Jingniang two days ago.
Wu Jin didn't go in either, in fact, as long as everyone is doing well, this is the greatest comfort to him, what does it matter if he sees it or not?
Wu Jin bypassed Hu Min Lane again, and when he got to the back, the situation behind him startled him, when did it become so lively? Originally, it was a wasteland of five or six acres of land, and there was only a lonely temple of the God of Wealth in the wasteland, but now it has completely changed, and a three-zhang wide flat wooden bridge was built on the river, so that the Temple of Wealth and the opposite City God Temple were connected, and the incense of the God of Wealth Temple was much more prosperous than the City God Temple.
The temple of wealth is surrounded by the back of each shop, and now a large circle of simple wooden sheds has been built along the wall, all of which sell all kinds of special snacks, whistle noodles, sauce duck rice, wonton, dumplings, buns, all kinds of small fried small explosions, osmanthus wine, daughter red, etc., all available, as well as selling small toys, little boy's wooden knife and wooden sword, little girl's red copper jewelry, rattle, small wooden horse, etc., only to see the head of the crowd, very lively.
Wu Jin found out that the main entrance of the original brocade musical instrument was here, and a large wooden carved pipa was placed at the door, and a big sign was erected: 'Brocade musical instrument', this side is a prosperous business, and from time to time I heard the sound of various musical instruments playing on the second floor.
At this time, Wu Jin suddenly saw Feng Wu and Little Lori Suyi, who were throwing copper coins into the big copper tripod of the 12 zodiac signs, and the little girls standing around were also throwing money into it with great interest.
Seeing that they didn't find out, Wu Jin had a prank in his heart, he slowly stepped forward, and suddenly grabbed Feng Wu's shoulders and smiled: "Did you make any financial wishes?" ”
Feng Wu was taken aback, and when he turned around and saw that it was Wu Jin, he immediately raised his hand in anger and beat him, "You villain, do you want to scare me to death?" ”
"Brother Wujin!"
Su Yi jumped over like a little sparrow, with a smile on her face, "My second sister Qi threw money in the competition, and I won all three times!" ”
"Huh! If you don't go back soon, your grandfather will be angry. ”
Su Yi pursed her lips and said unhappily, "Every time I just see you, do you let me go?" ”
"There will be a chance in the future, your sister will let you go to Jiangning to live for a few months! Are you going or not? ”
"Of course you want to go?" Su Yi smiled again, and even Qi Fengwu couldn't help but shake her head now, this little lady was innocent, when she was as old as her, she had already started to check the accounts, but it was discouraged to think about it, she didn't seem to have been as innocent and happy as her.
She stepped forward and grabbed Su Yi's hand and smiled, "Go back quickly!" Your grandfather is really angry, he won't let you go to Jiangning Mansion. ”
Su Yi thought about the anticipation of going to Jiangning Mansion, so he had no choice but to agree, "Okay! I'll go back now, Second Sister Qi, you can promise, take me with you when you go back, I want to take your big boat. ”
"Don't worry! I must call you when I go. ”
Su Yi was helpless, said goodbye to Wujin, crossed the bridge, got into a carriage in front of the City God Temple, and went home.
Watching Su Yi's carriage go away, Feng Wucai took Wu Jin's hand and said with a smile: "You promised me to invite me to dinner!" ”
Wu Jin pointed to the distance and smiled: "I invite you to eat noodles at that small noodle restaurant, do you want to go?" ”
Feng Wu's eyes lit up, "I'm going!" ”
Wu Jin was about to turn around and order his own soldiers, but a manager of Qian Zhuang rushed over, he saw Wu Jin, and hurriedly said: "Uncle, more than 20 guests came to Qian Village, they came to look for you, saying that they came from overseas, surnamed Chen, an old man or a legless person, was carried in." ”
Wu Jin was stunned, it turned out to be Chen Zhiduo who came in person, he turned back to Feng Wu and said, "It's the head of the Phoenix Society who is here, and it's also my grandfather, you and I will meet them together." ”
Qi Fengwu nodded, "Then let's go eat noodles at night." ”
"Okay, I'll go with you in the evening."
....... There are more than a dozen guests sitting in the noble room of Qi Dafu Qian Village, the leader is Chen Zhiduo, he has no legs, sitting on a soft couch, next to his son Chen Anbang, as well as Chen Biao Chen Hu brothers, the second grandson Chen Zhu did not come, stayed in the Phoenix Society to lead the army, on the right side of Chen Zhiduo stood granddaughter Chen Ying, she bit her lip, the look in her eyes was very complicated, she wanted to see Wu Jin again, but she was afraid to see him, and hated him even more for having married a wife and betraying the oath of the year.
At this time, there were footsteps outside, and Chen Zhiduo turned back to Chen Anbang and said, "It's up to me to say everything, you are not allowed to intervene!" ”
"Yes! Father. ”
Since his son betrayed and disappeared, and his brother Dingguo was killed by his son, Chen Anbang suddenly seemed to be ten years old, his temples were gray, and his expression was no longer as bold as before.
Footsteps sounded at the door, and Huangfu Wujin walked in with Qi Fengwu, "Let everyone wait for a long time!" ”
Chen Zhiduo still met him when Wujin went to Ryukyu Island a few years ago, and the Wujin in front of him was completely different from the Wujin at that time, although the appearance was still the same, but he had completely changed a person, and his demeanor was full of a kind of ruler's majesty, and flashing wisdom in his eyes.
This made Chen Zhiduo sigh secretly, it was precisely because of Wujin's stupidity that they completely gave up supporting Wujin as the king of the Ryukyus, but today, what they saw was a future lord of Middle-earth.
Wujin took Qi Fengwu to Chen Zhiduo and knelt down, "Grandson Wujin and granddaughter-in-law Qi knock to see grandpa and uncle!" ”
Although Wu Jin didn't like the Chen family, especially Yu Hailan told him about the past, he had an even more disgust with the Chen family in his heart, but after all, this was his grandfather, the first time they met, he had to kneel and bow, this was the minimum etiquette, and as a leader, he would not mix personal emotions with state affairs.
Chen Zhiduo waved his hand slightly and smiled: "Wujin, please get up!" Come, sit down. ”
Wu Jin smiled at Chen Ying, and said hello to Chen Biao and Chen Hu, he sat down, but Chen Ying's eyes suddenly turned red, and he turned his head, Qi Fengwu heard Yu Hailan talk about the past of Wu Jin and Chen Ying, she sighed secretly in her heart, stepped forward and took Chen Ying's hand, "Let's go outside to talk." ”
Chen Zhiduo also nodded and smiled: "Go ahead!" Ying'er, go outside to talk with Miss Qi. ”
Chen Ying was silent, ignored Wu Jin, and followed Qi Fengwu out.
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(To be continued)