Chapter 119: Prologue (1)
Today's weather is exceptionally good, Wei Qiao greeted the newborn morning sun, took a deep breath, and looked comfortable.
Behind him, Wan'er, Xiangling, and Xu Maoju looked at his back with wide eyes, and the worry in their eyes couldn't be hidden.
Wei Qiao stretched his waist, let out a loud 'ah', turned his head, looked at the stiff expressions of the three of them and said with a smile: "What's the matter, young master, my prestige is so low?" β
Wan'er pursed her lips, Xiangling frowned and stared wide-eyed, but she didn't speak.
Xu Mao glanced at the two little girls, looked at Wei Qiao and said, "Young Master, your prestige is very high, at least in my heart." β
Today is the beginning of the Chamber of Commerce, and since last night, the state of the three people has been obviously different.
Wei Qiao stretched out his hand and rubbed the heads of the two little girls vigorously, and said, "Okay, it's not good-looking, and it's gloomy and gloomy, young master, I don't owe you any money." After speaking, he ignored the two little girls pouting and rolling their eyes in protest, turned his head to Xu Mao and said, "Dashan, have you eaten enough?" β
Xu Mao was stunned for a moment and said, "I'm full, young master." β
"Hold on?" Wei Qiao replied.
The two little girls pursed their lips and laughed strangely.
Xu Mao's small eyes blinked, and he said suspiciously: "No." β
Wei Qiao said angrily: "Then why do you have a coffin face?" β
Xu Mao's little eyes blinked again, turned his head to look at Wan'er Xiangling, and said, "They are all like this." β
The two little girls snickered, Wei Qiao glared at them again, turned around and said, "Dashan, come with me, young master, I will take you to see what the big scene is." β
"Ao" Dashan agreed, glanced at the two little girls again, and followed behind Wei Qiao.
Wan'er looked at Wei Qiao's back, biting her lip gently, her eyes full of worry.
Xiangling stared at Wei Qiao's footsteps with slanted eyebrows, and said in a low voice: "Sister Wan'er, don't worry. β
"Huh?" Wan'er, who was in a daze, was stunned for a moment and turned her head to look at Xiangling. The Wei family's crisis this time is unprecedented, and she is now up and down in her heart, and she has no thoughts at all.
Xiangling Ghost said in a low voice, "I have carefully watched the young master's walking steps, you see, the young master's steps now are the same as the last time he went to the Imperial Historical Observatory, which shows that the young master is very confident, and he will definitely be able to." β
Wan'er blinked her eyes, stared at Wei Qiao's steps, frowned, and said, "Really? β
Xiangling nodded her little head with great certainty, and said, "Really, last time the young master went to the Yushitai, didn't you see the appearance of Yin Huo in that mansion?" must have been frightened by the young master. β
Although Wan'er didn't believe Xiangling much, she couldn't help but exhale softly after hearing it.
The teahouse held by the Chamber of Commerce is diagonally opposite Jinling Mansion, Wei Qiao and Xu Mao walked on the street, smelling all kinds of fresh smells on the road without hurry, and they all looked left and right with a light smile.
"Dashan, do you have any ideals?" Wei Qiao turned the beads snatched back from the little girl's hand in his hand, and smiled slowly.
Xu Mao's small eyes blinked, stretched out his head and said, "Young Master, what is the ideal?" β
Wei Qiao turned his head to look at him, his eyes were a little innocent, and then said, "What do you want to do in the future?" β
Xu Mao nodded, shrank back, thought about it very seriously with a frown, and said for a long time: "Young master, I'll still follow you, so that I don't starve." β
Wei Qiao actually guessed that Xu Mao would say this, and sighed with emotion in his heart, he only knew how happy the people who ate were so happy.
The two walked slowly on the road, shouting at them from time to time at the roadside stall early, Xu Mao politely asked Wei Qiao if he wanted to eat, Wei Qiao waved his hand, he grabbed the bun in his hand, and followed Wei Qiao to eat very happily.
"Young Master." After not taking a few steps, Xu Mao suddenly said in a low voice.
Wei Qiao's feet didn't stop, and he made a faint 'um' sound.
Xu Mao pointed to the teahouse in front of him and said, "Young master, someone is watching us." β
Wei Qiao was stunned for a moment, looked in the direction of his finger, and sure enough, one head stuck out of the railing and was looking at him with a smile.
-- Chen Ting.
Wei Qiao's eyes flashed, and he said in a low voice: "Don't pay attention to him, let's continue to go." β
Arching his hand at Chen Ting from afar, Wei Qiao turned around the corner.
As for why Chen Ting had no scruples about delaying the time of a stick of incense, what did he want to do, Wei Qiao was silent on his face, but he was curious in his heart, and he was faintly worried.
Xu Mao glanced at Chen Ting, swallowed the bun, and followed Wei Qiao around the corner.
The two soon came to the teahouse that Li Xiluan said, looking at the three big characters of Yueran Building, Wei Qiao turned his head to look at Xu Mao and said: "Dashan, when you beat people later, be ruthless, don't expect to be lame and break your feet, just lie down for a month or two." β
When Xu Mao heard this, he nodded heavily, and still said with a simple face, "Well, young master, don't worry." β
Wei Qiao glanced at the plaque again and raised his feet to enter the door.
"Wei Gongzi." As soon as Wei Qiao's left foot hit the ground, a shout came from behind.
Wei Qiao was stunned, but when he looked back, it was Yin Shaoyi of Jinling Mansion.
No matter what, you always have to get by in terms of face, and Shao Yi is a local snake, so you always have to scruple about three points.
Wei Qiao turned around, clenched his fists and smiled, "I've seen Lord Shao." β
Shao Yi's fat body hurriedly took two steps forward and said, "Don't dare, I have offended a lot before, and I hope that Gongzi Wei will forgive me." β
Wei Qiao smiled indifferently and said, "Lord Shao is serious, I have to thank you for your help in Wei Fa's matter, and I will definitely invite you to have a drink!" β
Shao Yi trembled in his heart, and secretly said, "How dare I go to eat", but with a smile on his face, Maitreya Buddha smiled, and said, "No, no, no, it should be me who invites me to apologize..."
Wei Qiao naturally wanted to be modest, the two were polite, and another person came not far away.
The two of them were stunned and turned their heads to look at each other.
Yushitai, the Yushi Zhongcheng that Wei Qiao had seen, walked towards the two of them in civilian clothes.
Wei Qiao has already found out his name, Liu Zhengxu, the person Lin Fengzheng promoted.
The two glanced at each other and quickly turned around to greet each other. This kind of person is a terrifying existence that is not exaggerated by the third level of the official university, and no one wants to upset them. Of course, Wei Qiao's psychology is different.
"I've seen Lord Liu." Wei Qiao took the lead in arching his hand. There was a hint of gratitude on his face.
Shao Yi naturally couldn't lag behind, and as soon as Wei Qiao's voice fell, he also hugged his fists.
Liu Zhengxu returned the salute to Shao Yi, and said to Wei Qiao with a smile: "I know that Wei Gongzi is estimated to be in some trouble today, so I will be a witness to him, so as not to let someone go crooked and evil and spoil the atmosphere of Jinling." β
This sentence is half private and half public, and the private behavior is completely expressed under the pretext of fairness.
Wei Qiao's face hugged his fist with gratitude, and said: "Thank you, sir, please come inside, please come to the celebration banquet." β
Liu Zhengxu nodded and smiled, and said, "Hehe, Wei Gongzi is confident." β
Liu Zhengxu walked in with a smile, but he didn't agree with a vague mouth. After all, he is the fourth grade of the dynasty, although there may be some meaning of Fu Mingzheng and Lin Fengzheng, but for a talent who has not yet taken the big exam, he actually doesn't have much opinion in his heart, at most he has some talent. But how many talented scholars will be produced in Daqi every year, but how many people can really enter the court and shine? Although he was appreciated by Fu Mingzheng, in Liu Zhengxu's opinion, the current Wei Qiao has not yet let him lower his stature and make friends on an equal footing.
He came today, and he was already handed in.
Wei Qiao didn't pay any attention to the arrogance of Liu Zhengxu's every move, perhaps because of the self-confidence of thousands of years of knowledge, or because he had slapped Wang Yuanhui's brilliant experience, Wei Qiao did not have the slightest displeasure with Liu Zhengxu's arrogance.
calmly, waved his hand, and let the two go in first, and he and Xu Mao followed behind.
The two entered Yueran Building, but they did not rush to the third floor, but made an appointment and sat down together in the private room on the first floor with a smile.
Wei Qiao frowned slightly, and even understood. Now that the Chamber of Commerce has not yet begun, these 'nobles' cannot go ahead of the 'sluts'.
Although he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, Wei Qiao didn't say anything, and walked to the second floor by himself.
"Hey, isn't this Young Master Chen?" As soon as Wei Qiao and Xu Mao took a few steps, three people walked out of the stairs on the second floor, looking at Wei Qiao's sneering yin and yang strange qi.
Wei Qiao looked up, but he had seen these three people, and they had been fighting with the Chen family very hotly recently, as if they believed that the Chen family would definitely win the president of the Chamber of Commerce.
Wei Qiao slowly stepped back, Xu Mao's little eyes blinked, and he also stepped back.
The three of them were all young people, as if they had just taken over the family's business, watching Wei Qiao retreat to the staircase, the sneer on his face became thicker, and he glanced at each other, and the three of them walked down laughing.
"Haha, Wei Gongzi, you won't be afraid of us, right?" The first young boy who took the lead walked down laughed with a fake horror on his face.
Another young man opened his eyes wide, shrunk his head, and said with a frightened smile, "Yes, I heard that Wei Gongzi is talented and the first in Jinling, no, I'm really scared, right?" β
The last one looked a little more normal, looked at Wei Qiao and rolled his eyes with a puzzled expression: "Wei Gongzi, the three of us, it's not so scary, right?" β
Wei Qiao tilted his head, his face was indifferent, and he looked at a few people with a smile.
Xu Mao looked naΓ―ve, Wei Qiao didn't speak, and he didn't speak. The corners of his mouth hooked an arc, and he smiled.
"Don't speak?" Brother Gongzi, who was the first to speak, opened his mouth in surprise, and then closed the folding fan in his hand, walked over with a chic and calm face, circled around Wei Qiao, with a look of amazement, and finally stood in front of Wei Qiao, less than two inches, stared at Wei Qiao's face, and said softly: "Wei Gongzi, am I so terrible?" After speaking, he turned his head to look at the other two and said, "You say, am I so terrible?" β
The two shook their heads again and again, "No, no, Brother Zhao is suave and elegant, and he is a model of my generation, how can you use the word terrible?" β
The first boy turned his head, tilted his head and raised his eyebrows to look at Wei Qiao.
Wei Qiao's expression did not move, and he smiled lightly: "Finished?" β
The boy who was standing in front of Wei Qiao took a step back, with a provocative look on his arms, stretched out his head and opened his eyes wide, "It's over, how is it?" β
(To be continued)