It was a lavishly furnished room, with a soft and heavy hand-embroidered Persian carpet on the floor, and the walls were covered with splendid Shu brocade, among which hung Yan Liben's original drawings of palace ladies and Yu Shinan's calligraphy were hung, and on a couch made of ivory, several beautiful maids were carefully serving an obese man of nearly forty years old.

He is Qing Wang Li Cong, Li Longji's eldest son, the official worship of Situ and Taiyuan Mu, at this moment he is squinting at a ruby in his hand, a size like an egg, round and smooth gem, he looked at it for a long time, but he couldn't see anything special about this gem.

He couldn't help frowning and said, "Did they really give you two hundred taels of gold to steal this ruby?" ”

A man in black kneeling below said: "Back to Your Highness, my subordinates don't understand why this Hu Shang asked us to steal this ruby with two hundred taels of gold, we couldn't see the secret for a while, so we bought a similar ruby and handed it to Hu Shang, and we specially dedicated this gem to His Highness." ”

Qingwang Li Cong heard him say this, and looked at it carefully for a long time curiously, but he still couldn't see anything special, so he smiled and said: "It's rare that you have this filial piety, it's very good!" Go and find out the origin of this precious stone, and the two hundred taels of gold will give you twenty taels, and the rest of the gold shall be handed over to me. ”

The man in black was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly kowtowed: "Thank you, Your Highness, for the reward, my subordinates will go and inquire." ”

The man in black slowly retreated, and at this time, a man in his fifties walked in from the outside, tall and thin, with a white beard and hair, quite a bit of fairy style, he entered the door and smiled and said, "Your Highness is looking for me?" ”

This man's surname is Yan, called Yan Kai, is a jinshi in the Kaiyuan period, because of the unsmooth career, he committed himself to be a staff member of the powerful, and has become Li Cong's staff since the previous year, giving advice for him, and is deeply trusted by Li Cong.

"Mr. Yan is here, quickly help me sit up."

The two maids hurriedly helped the obese Li Cong to sit up, Li Cong casually threw the gem into the gold plate on the table, and said with a smile: "I got a strange gem today, which is said to be very valuable, but I don't see anything special, it's just an ordinary gem." ”

"Oh? Let me see. ”

Yan Kai took the gem curiously, squinted his eyes and looked at it for a while, shook his head and said, "This is a very ordinary ruby, worth two hundred pieces at most. ”

"But isn't it strange that a Hu merchant is willing to pay two hundred taels of gold for my two subordinates to steal this gem?"

Yan Kai was stunned for a moment, then looked at it carefully, and then asked, "Where did they go to steal this gem?" ”

"I heard that it was stolen from Anzai Nakaro who stole Li Qing'an's residence."

"Li Qing'an?" Yan Kai smiled and said, "If it's him, then this gem is fake, how could that shrewd guy let people steal his gem so easily." ”

Li Cong heard that he admired Li Qing'an quite a lot in his tone, so he shook his head disdainfully and said, "Mr. Yan, you must think too highly of this person!" I don't see any shrewdness on his part? ”

"Your Royal Highness, don't underestimate this person, as soon as you enter Beijing, you will teach An Lushan a hard lesson, so that he can have suffering, this is a skill, and he defeated Shi Siming in the house of Yang Sanjie, the means are amazing, even the saint is full of praise for this person, and last time he returned the pleadings to His Highness, which shows that he is tactful, I heard that he offended Li Linfu, this is an opportunity, I persuade His Highness to take this person into the account, and it can definitely be used in the future."

"Let's talk about it later!"

Although Yan Kai thought highly of Li Qing'an, Li Cong still didn't take Li Qing'an in his eyes, he snorted, and then took out a letter and said: "Mr. Yan, I came to you, I still want to discuss the Yangzhou incident with you, this is an urgent letter written by Liu Changyun, saying that the Yangzhou government sent a large number of capable people to investigate the salt case, I estimate that the East Palace side is unwilling to give up easily, and wants to take away the Jianghuai transfer envoy position, this matter is very important to me, I want to ask Mr. Yan to go to Yangzhou to help Liu Changyun stabilize the situation." ”

After reading the letter, Yan Kai agreed: "Your Highness has an order, and your subordinates should obey it, but please let Your Highness tolerate me for a few days, and when I settle down in my family, I will go east immediately." ”

Li Cong nodded, he took out a jade plate from his waist and handed it to Yan Kaidao: "I will give full authority to Mr. Yangzhou affairs, this jade plate can transfer people, and you can also withdraw my Yangzhou treasury, but you also have to save some money, don't spend extravagantly, you know?" ”

"My subordinates know! Then Li Qing'an's side ....."

"I'm only interested in his gems."

Yan Kai saw that King Qing didn't look down on Li Qing'an, so he had to sigh secretly, "My subordinates have taken their leave." ”

"Go ahead! Do a good job in Yangzhou for me. ”

After hesitating, Li Cong said again: "And that Du Bosheng must be caught, I have 100,000 taels of gold hidden in his secret warehouse, this is the salt profit I have earned over the years, you have to get it back for me no matter what." ”

"My subordinates will do their best!"

Yan Kai left, Li Cong picked up the gem and looked at it for a moment, and said to himself, "Is this fake?" What would that really look like? ”

He tugged on the rope on the wall, and a young man walked in from outside, half-kneeling and bowing, "See Your Highness!" ”

Li Cong handed him the fake gem and said, "This gem is fake, but I want the real gem, I will leave this matter to you, you can go to the Wu brothers, they know better." ”

The young man took the gem and said in a deep voice, "My subordinates will definitely do it!" ”

Li Cong paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, and after walking for a while, he suddenly said, "Go and call the little prince." ”

After a while, Li Li hurriedly came, bowed down and said, "Father, are you looking for me?" ”

"I asked Yan Kai to go to Yangzhou, but I'm still a little worried about him, you also go there, on the one hand, to watch him, and on the other hand, after the matter is over, transport all my money in the treasury back to Chang'an."

"The child obeys the order, but Mr. Yan has always been cautious in doing things, and his father has always trusted him."

"It's not that I don't believe he does things."

Li Cong stretched his voice and said: "And my silver money in Yangzhou, I'm afraid that he will call it indiscriminately." ”

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On the first day of the first month, Li Qing'an's residence was burglarized, although there was no loss, but he knew in his heart that the other party stole the fake gems, he would not give up, and he would definitely come again, a gem was easy to hide, but he was worried about the personal safety of the three little girls, and he decided to send them away immediately.

As soon as night fell, Li Qing'an rented a carriage, packed up his belongings and set off with his three young ladies, and the carriage drove into Yishanfang and stopped in front of Gao Lishi's mansion.

"Big brother, where is this?" The three little ladies looked at this magnificent mansion and asked in surprise.

"This is the mansion of an important minister of the imperial court, and I have a good relationship, you can live here for a few days temporarily, and when I buy a house in the past two days, you can move to your own house."

At this time, Gao Lishi's butler greeted him and said with a smile: "General Li, why did you come here today?" ”

Li Qingan pointed to the three little ladies and said with a smile: "These are my three younger sisters, there is no place to live for the time being, I want them to borrow it for a few days in Gao Weng's mansion, I don't know if it is convenient?" ”

The housekeeper thought for a while and said, "This is a trivial matter, so be it!" I'll arrange it for you first, and General Li had better go and talk to my master. ”

"Is Gao Weng in the house?"

"Yes, the master has just come back from the palace and is reading in the study!"

Li Qing'an originally had a separate courtyard in Gao Lishi's mansion for him to rest when he practiced, and the housekeeper hurriedly found some servants to help carry things, and led them to Li Qing'an's residence.

Li Qing'an came to Gao Lishi's study, and a guard reported for him, and after a while, Li Qing'an entered the study.

Li Qing'an walked into the study quickly, bowed to Gao Lishi and said, "Qing'an wishes Gao Weng a New Year!" ”

Gao Lishi put down the book and said with a smile: "Shichiro, you are the first guest to come to my house this year!" ”

"Gao Weng, I'm in a little trouble, and I want to ask Gao Weng for help."

"Is it your inspection that has been deposed?"

Li Qingan shook his head, "The inspection envoy is just a temporary position, that's it, I don't take it to heart, I have another private matter to ask Gao Weng for help." ”

"A private matter? Tell me about it. ”

"Yes, I have a very rare gem that I got when I was in Ansey Fort ......"

Li Qing'an told Gao Lishi about the origin of this bright eye and the things that people kept looking for, and Gao Lishi was very surprised when he heard it.

"Shichiro, could it be that you are talking about the treasure of Shiguo?"

"I don't know, I heard that this gem is the incarnation of their main god, maybe it's it!"

Li Qing'an took out the Eye of Light and put it in front of Gao Lishi, Gao Lishi was curious, he picked up the gem and squinted at it for a long time, and sure enough, he saw a flame rising under the lamp, burning more and more, this kind of gem with flames He really saw it for the first time.

However, he has seen a lot of treasures, although he is curious, but it is not rare, he looked at it for a while, then returned the gem to Li Qingan and said with a smile: "This is their divine sect holy relic, maybe it is very precious to them, but for us, it is just a relatively rare gem." ”

Li Qing'an put away the gem and said: "I'm not afraid of anything, but I'm worried that they will hurt my family, it's three little girls, I want to temporarily place them in Gao Weng's mansion, is it convenient for Gao Weng to see it?" ”

Gao Lishi smiled slightly: "Shichiro, are they your sisters?" ”

"One is my stepsister, and the other two are ......"

"Needless to say, I know!"

Gao Lishi smiled and waved his hand, shouted to the door, walked in from outside the door of an old family member, bowed down and said, "Master, please command!" ”

"Go and tell the housekeeper that General Li's family is my family, let them live in the Furong Pavilion, and then arrange someone to serve them well."

The next person went to report, and Li Qingan hurriedly thanked: "Gao Weng, thank you so much, when I buy a house, I can settle them." ”

"Does Shichiro want to buy a house?" Colliers asked with a smile.

"I heard that the housing prices in Chang'an are synchronized with the price of rice, and it is said that the price of rice is going to rise again, so I want to go to see the house in the next few days, after all, I want to start a family."

"I have at least seven houses in Chang'an."

Gao Lishi smiled and took the map of Chang'an from the table, spread it out, he pointed to Guangfufang next to Suzaku Street and said: "Among them, there is a middle and upper house in Guangfufang, covering an area of eight acres, with green trees, a small river passing through the house, the scenery is very good, if Qilang is interested, I will sell it to you cheaply." ”

Li Qingan was overjoyed, and hurriedly got up and thanked: "Then I might as well be respectful." ”

He smiled again and asked, "I wonder how much cheaper Gao Weng can be?" ”

Colliers stretched out a finger and smiled: "Consistent money, I will sell it to you as long as I have consistent money." ”

Consistent money is just a symbol, in fact, Gao Lishi gave him the house, if it was Li Linfu, he Li Qingan would not want this house, but Gao Lishi gave it to him, he could accept it, if he refused, it would not be good.

Li Qingan thanked him repeatedly, Gao Lishi waved his hand, smiled and asked him to sit down, picked up the teapot again, and poured him a cup of tea himself.

"Qilang, the matter of Cui Ping you told me last time, I happened to approve the appointment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for His Majesty the day before yesterday, he was originally Sima of Shenzhou, so I transferred him to the county order of Xuyi County, Sizhou, this is Shangxian, and he should be able to fulfill his wishes."

"Thank you, Goon!"

Gao Lishi picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, he pondered for a moment, and then smiled faintly: "Qilang, the prince and I have been talking about you a lot recently......"

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(To be continued)