Seeing that her husband was about to speak, Xie Shi hurriedly intercepted his words: "Okay, the three young masters came here to discuss knowledge with Chongwen, don't keep boasting about your own children, and the children themselves are embarrassed." ”

Saying that, she said to Zhao Jingli and Zhao Jing'an: "Do you want the eldest young master and the second young master to go to Chongwen's house to sit?" It is also good for us to ask Chongwen to ask the two young masters for advice and teaching. ”

"I don't dare to ask for advice, we should ask Brother Xu for advice." Zhao Jingli was polite, and at the invitation of Xu Chongwen, he went to his house with Zhao Jing'an.

However, Zhao Jing'an was very interested in writing a script, and after entering the house, he asked Xu Chongwen many questions in this regard.

Zhao Jingli asked him about the situation of ethnology.

After leaving from Xu's house and separating from Zhao Ruxi and Zhao Jingtai at the intersection, after the brothers returned to the second room, Zhao Jingli said to Zhao Jing'an: "Second brother, after the New Year, let's go to school together." ”

Zhao Jing'an nodded: "Okay." ”

When Xu Chongwen asked him, he had this thought.

In the past, he didn't look down on clan studies, after all, the two masters of clan studies were still not as good as the gentleman Zhao Yuanxun paid a lot of money to invite them.

But when they separated, he and Zhao Jingli were very excited, and categorically refused to be retained by their eldest uncle, and no longer went to school with Zhao Jingtai in the big house. He and Zhao Jingli have had a muddy life.

Although the eldest uncle still mentioned the matter of letting them go back to the big house to study, his own resentment against the big house has disappeared. But he is still reluctant to go to the big house to rub the third brother's husband.

Now that the family is separated, they are no longer the children of the nobles, and the family is not financially well-off, so they should go back to their own lives.

After communicating with Xu Chongwen today, Zhao Jingan found the gap between himself and him. If he wants to take the imperial examination, he must be taught by his master. Instead of inviting people who don't know the depths, it is better to go to school in the family school, which is not expensive, and can promote each other with your classmates.

Zhao Jingli's thoughts coincided with him.

Zhao Jingli thinks that he can't study, and the situation at home does not allow him to spend more than ten or twenty years to take the imperial examination. He plans to support this family by himself and let Zhao Jingan study with peace of mind. And he himself, after learning arithmetic well and reaching the age of sixteen, went to find an errand in the yamen.

But he was still a year and a half away from turning sixteen. He has roughly sorted out the household chores, and he doesn't need to do everything himself, most of the things just need to be told to the housekeeper and the housekeeper to do it. Zhao Ruxi is so busy, and the time that can teach him arithmetic every day is less than half an hour, so he naturally can't waste this year and a half, and he has to continue to study to enrich himself.

He knew very well that running errands in the yamen was not only achieved by having arithmetic ability, but also by having the ability in other aspects. Studying more and learning how to behave in the world through interactions with classmates will be of great benefit to him in the future.

The brothers discussed properly, and when Zhao Jingli came to ask Zhao Ruxi for arithmetic on the second day, he told Zhao Yuanxun about this decision. Zhao Yuanxun was sad and happy.

The sad thing is that Jingli's child has finally had a relationship with him, and even the gentleman invited by the big house is unwilling to use it anymore; Happily, the child knows very clearly what he wants and what path he wants to take.

This boy is really much stronger than his father, and he has been taught for many years.

Zhao Ruxi didn't have time to pay attention to these. Soon after returning from Xu's house, she joined Kang Shilin and others and went to participate in the new auction.

After the last auction, many people went to the house of the noble man who bought the bell to see the Western scenery, the clock is very European shape and it is "dangdangdang" every half an hour to ring the accurate time broadcast, so that the wealthy nobles of the Great Jin Dynasty are very fond of it. Many people would like to have one of these timers.

Therefore, the three clocks on the auction this time are very popular with everyone and have sold extremely high prices.

The highlight of this auction was the set of red jade jewelry, which appeared in the finale, and was finally auctioned by the second prince at a high price of 36,000 taels and sent to the palace to honor Concubine Cen Guifei.

Two days apart is the day when the palace holds a banquet to give back to the ministers for their hard work for a year. The edicts carefully dressed up and entered the palace for the banquet, and saw Cen Guifei wearing the red jade jewelry in front of everyone.

Cen Guifei's temperament is already graceful and luxurious, and the jade is different from the connotation of white jade, it is more wanton, which makes Cen Guifei dazzling and becomes the focus of the banquet.

Hongfei is not only beautiful, but also a clear proof of the filial piety of the second prince. Every time he saw Cen Guifei, he had to praise the filial piety of the second prince, so that Cen Guifei and the second prince were in the limelight in this New Year's banquet.

The concubine is favored; But Cen Guifei's position is above Concubine Jin, she is also in charge of the Middle Palace, and there are two adult princes, the two have always been evenly matched, and they have been at the palace middle-aged banquet.

But this time, because of a set of red jade, Cen Guifei forcibly pressed Concubine Jin, which made Concubine Jin aggrieved.

At the end of the banquet in the front hall that night, the third prince learned of the situation in the harem and directly dropped his favorite teacup.

"Where is this jadeite produced? Go and find it. It is necessary to buy a more beautiful and luxurious set, preferably purple, which I will offer to my mother. He said.

"Yes."

Jade was not popular in Dajin before, and now I want to inquire for a while, but it is also a little embarrassing.

In the end, the three princes' subordinates still started from the auction house, and bought one of the five princes' subordinates in the auction house at a high price, and finally found out that Cen Guifei's red jade was bought from a merchant in the south. When he bought it, the fifth prince paid a high price of 35,000 taels.

The reason why he didn't directly dedicate it to Cen Guifei after he bought it back, but went to the auction house for auction once, was to build momentum for Cen Guifei and let the second prince gain a reputation for filial piety.

When the third prince heard this, he almost didn't bite off his silver teeth.

"Go to the south, find the merchant, and buy back the best jewelry he has in his hand." He commanded.

After receiving the master's orders, the subordinates of the third prince didn't care that it was the end of the year at this time, and the weather was freezing, so they drove their horses out of Beijing directly and went to the south to find the merchant.

After searching for a long time, he finally found the merchant two months later and bought a set of violet jade jewelry at a high price of 42,000 taels of silver.

Concubine Jin wore this set of jewelry at the spring flower viewing banquet, and finally was on par with Concubine Cen and accepted a wave of praise from the edicts.

At this point, Jade's reputation was completely broken.

The merchant in the south probably got a revelation from it, and a few days after the three princes' subordinates returned to Beijing, he also took jade jewelry to the capital, bought a shop in the most lively area of the capital, and opened a jewelry shop specializing in jade jewelry.

When the third prince came back to his senses, felt that this jade was very profitable, and wanted to take the merchant under his command and let him serve him, he found that the merchant had already belonged to the second prince.

Once again, he threw down his newly-bought teacup.

Of course, that's all for later.