Chapter 120: The True Origin of the Dowry Vein
Jiang Ruofu moved with the sound, and stabbed the assassin who was still far away from her.
The assassin flew forward and hit the tip of her knife, stabbing the assassin in both eyes and rolling on the ground in pain.
Wen Guqi was close to her back, there was no gap between the two, and the assassins coming towards them could be seen in all directions.
Wen Guqi held the daffodil in his hand, held the flower pole upside down, and pierced the assassin's nostrils, Jiang Ruofu kicked it over, and the assassin fell backwards, rolling all the way down from the embankment, and rolled down into the river with a thud.
The dark guards surrounded them, the cold light of the sword danced with the light of the water, and the people on the painting boat immediately chose to turn around and return the same way when they saw the situation, away from the battlefield.
Wen Guqi hugged Jiang Ruofu's waist, and the heat brushed his ears,
"Take me aboard."
Jiang Ruofu's body stiffened, and he didn't have time to react, so he immediately jumped off the embankment directly under the protection of the secret guard, and landed on the top of the painting boat.
The Dark Guard was immediately divided into two well-trained, half of them following Jiang Ruofuwen into the boat, and the other half fighting the Assassins on the shore to stop the Assassins.
After Jiang Ruofu reacted, she was already standing on the top of the painting boat, and she was about to fall down as soon as her feet slipped, Wen Guqi grabbed her clothes belt, but she was unstable because her body was too light, and she fell in the direction of Jiang Ruofu and crashed into Jiang Ruofu's arms.
Unguarded, a warm fragrant nephrite fluttered into his arms, and Jiang Ruofu's eyes widened.
Let Wen Guqi throw herself into her arms, while her body stiffened, and the person froze in place.
She could feel the soft touch on herself.
I don't even know if she should blush or if Wen Guqi should blush.
Wen Guqi was buried in Jiang Ruofu's chest, and when he stood firm, his face was a little indescribable.
The cool breeze is embarrassing for a long time.
Wen Guqi's eyes drooped, looked down, coughed pretending to be nothing, and said in a low voice,
"Take me down."
Jiang Ruofu glanced at the vast river, the waves were endless, and she reminded in surprise,
"Are you sure? Weichuan is not shallow. β
Wen Guqi's face darkened,
"I mean take me to the board."
Jiang Ruofu reacted and said stiffly,
"Oh, good."
She took advantage of the situation to hug Wen Guqi's waist tightly, and jumped directly with Wen Guqi in her arms.
landed firmly on the board.
Wen Guqi pretended to be light and pushed Jiang Ruofu away, and walked towards the middle door with his hands behind his back.
"Come in."
Jiang Ruofu obediently followed behind Wen Guqi.
The people on the painting boat were all shocked when they saw someone suddenly jumping off the top of the boat, but they saw Wen Guqi's flower god costume.
"Flower goddess?"
Wen Guqi snorted with a straight face.
Jiang Ruofu shamefully apologized to the people around him,
"Under the Rites."
Wen Guqi's clothes were indeed as dark as those of a courtesy, and they couldn't be distinguished at first glance.
And they went with them.
Wen Guqi and Jiang Ruofu walked into the gallery in the painting boat, and the woman in red leaned against the door, holding a cigarette stick in her hand.
"Coming back?"
Wen Guqi glanced at Jiang Ruofu, and Jiang Ruofu hurriedly hinted at him and nodded.
Wen Guqi said lightly,
"Hmm."
The woman in red straightened up, but she didn't look at Wen Guqi carefully, and said lazily,
"I said to let you come back, but you came back, but you lost everything from my ceremonial official Xian'e, and brought a wild man back, isn't this your boss who came to ask for the five thousand taels?"
Jiang Ruofu hurriedly waved his hand,
"Nope."
"Todayβ"
Wen Guqi took over her words directly,
"There was a dispute on the shore today, this person is my dearest, so I brought it on the boat, and there is the owner of Lao Zhongfang."
Zhong Yan raised her eyes and glanced at Wen Guqi, suddenly smiled, reached out and knocked on the cigarette pole on the railing,
"It turns out that you are also a lady from a noble family, and I think you look down on my five thousand taels."
"Prince Chen is the girl's closest relative, and the girl really doesn't need the five thousand taels."
Zhong Yan walked up to Jiang Ruofu, knelt down and saluted, bowing her head to the ground,
"The grass people have seen the prince of King Chen, and the son of King Chen Yu'an."
Jiang Ruofu didn't know why Zhong Yan suddenly made this big gift, but he held the bearing of King Chen's son,
"Get up."
Zhong Yan smiled, slowly stood up, and glanced at Jiang Ruofu,
"The son of the world is blessed."
Wen Guqi immediately took it,
"The owner of the Zhong Fang has never seen Chen Wang Shizi tonight, and there is no Chen Wang Shizi on this painting boat, you just need to treat this person as a relative I sent to God."
Zhong Yan smiled, lowered her eyebrows and said,
"Since the girl said so, that's it."
Wen Guqi turned around and pulled Jiang Ruofu's sleeve, pulled her forward, and no longer paid attention to Zhong Yan.
Jiang Ruofu was puzzled,
"The prince knows this owner?"
Wen Guqi said lightly,
"This person is not an enemy, but he is not a good person."
"It's better to have less contact."
Wen Guqi closed the door,
"I'm sorry to put you in danger."
Jiang Ruofu chuckled,
"It's okay."
"If you can help the son, Jhofer is willing."
Wen Guqi turned around and opened the window of the painting boat, and the river breeze slowly blew in.
Jiang Ruofu looked at the flowers on both sides of the window outside the window, and the lights were bright.
"I always thought that this kind of thing was directly handled by the imperial court, but I didn't know until I saw this owner that it was actually handled by the people."
Wen Guqi walked to the table and poured a cup of tea,
"Originally, it was indeed run by the imperial court."
"It's just that the court has no money left over in the past few years, so the bid is put out, and the rich people of the people are allowed to bid, and finally the person who runs the flower god street can get a plaque and a thousand taels of silver from the court."
Jiang Ruofu was surprised,
"A thousand taels?"
The clothes on her body alone are probably more than a thousand taels.
I'm afraid that the imperial court gave these thousand taels is far from enough to run the so-called flower god parade street.
Especially this year's Flower God Parade Street is still so grand, and new archways have been added to each street, and poems written by literary masters have been engraved.
I'm afraid that this alone will cost 10,000 taels of gold.
One thousand taels is a drop in the bucket.
Wen Guqi handed her the cup of tea,
"It's because I don't have any money that I give a thousand taels." 69 school bags
This means that the money for the ceremony has to be paid by the bidder. And the court's gift of this thousand taels is just a cover-up, and there is just a project. β
"The kind of kind you see today, all of them are operated by this Zhong Fang owner out of his own pocket, and the court didn't spend a penny, if it wasn't for the court to spend, it would be to give five thousand taels of silver to each of the twelve flower gods, after all, this item is indispensable, and if it is missing, it will provoke the wrath of the flower gods in the sky."
"And these twelve five thousand taels will not pass through the hands of this Zhong Fang master, and there will be a silver allocation in the history of Zhisu Nei, and someone will be sent to each woman who plays the god of flowers."
Jiang Ruofu suddenly realized,
"No wonder this owner asked me to come to the painting boat and leave my name and surname, it turns out that the five thousand taels are to be sent by the imperial court to every woman who really plays the god of flowers."
Wen Guqi nodded,
"You have to take these five thousand taels, not to mention for the future, even if you don't offend the god of flowers, you have to get these five thousand taels earnestly."
He poured himself a cup of tea and sat down with his clothes on the hem.
Jiang Ruofu sighed,
"This owner is really generous, and this ceremony has cost a lot of money, not to mention, but also energy, but there is no return."
Wen Guqi suddenly laughed,
"Businessmen are the most profitable, how can they give money to the court for nothing, and do these self-serving things."
Jiang Ruofu was surprised,
"But the imperial court only gave 1,000 taels of silver and a plaque, and there was no actual reward."
"But even so. Or will someone go to grab the bid, could it be that there is another exchange of chips? β
Wen Guqi raised his eyebrows and said,
"You can teach."
"You look at it, thinking that this Zhong Fang owner has contributed money and effort, and the gains outweigh the losses. But in fact, since this year, she is the youngest head of the imperial merchant family. β
Jiang Ruofu was surprised,
"So the bargaining chip given by the imperial court is to make her an imperial merchant?"
Wen Guqi's fingertips tapped on the wall of the cup,
"More than that."
"Zhong Yan's family has more than one heir, but only Zhong Yan is the one who tries his best to support the Zhong family's competition to hold the Flower God Parade, so he did not hesitate to sell the Dansha ore vein that he just discovered, and sold it to the imperial court at a very low price, which is to show favor to the imperial court."
Jiang Ruofu heard the Dansha vein, a string tightened in his mind, and he said tentatively,
"Is it the vein in the Wen family's dowry?"
The Dansha vein discovered by the Wen family is the first Dansha vein in Chang'an.
In addition, she really didn't know that there were other Dansha veins in Chang'an.
Wen Guqi nodded,
"That's the one."
"Originally, relying on this vein, the imperial court would not be as nervous as it is now, but unfortunately, because of the marriage between the former Zhisu Neishi and the Wen family, he secretly sold this vein to the Wen family, and it was at the price of an ordinary mountain range, this matter was discovered by his grandmother, and the former Zhisu Neishi was killed, and his daughter who was involved in the marriage with the Wen family immediately killed herself."
Jiang Ruofu suddenly remembered what Wen Guqi had said when she persuaded her not to marry Wen Qingcen before, and covered her mouth in surprise, stopping the exclamation she was about to blurt out.
Wen Guqi took a sip of tea,
The Wen family later made the relationship between themselves and the former Zhisu Neishi clear, because the mountain was also a normal transaction, and Zhong Yan had not mined it when he dedicated the land, and there was no record that the mountain was a mine before. Therefore, the transaction between the Wen family and the imperial court can not be faulted at all, if there is a mistake, the fault can only be on the former Zhisu Neishi. β
Jiang Ruofu moved with the sound, and stabbed the assassin who was still far away from her.
The assassin flew forward and hit the tip of her knife, stabbing the assassin in both eyes and rolling on the ground in pain.
Wen Guqi was close to her back, there was no gap between the two, and the assassins coming towards them could be seen in all directions.
Wen Guqi held the daffodil in his hand, held the flower pole upside down, and pierced the assassin's nostrils, Jiang Ruofu kicked it over, and the assassin fell backwards, rolling all the way down from the embankment, and rolled down into the river with a thud.
The dark guards surrounded them, the cold light of the sword danced with the light of the water, and the people on the painting boat immediately chose to turn around and return the same way when they saw the situation, away from the battlefield.
Wen Guqi hugged Jiang Ruofu's waist, and the heat brushed his ears,
"Take me aboard."
Jiang Ruofu's body stiffened, and he didn't have time to react, so he immediately jumped off the embankment directly under the protection of the secret guard, and landed on the top of the painting boat.
The Dark Guard was immediately divided into two well-trained, half of them following Jiang Ruofuwen into the boat, and the other half fighting the Assassins on the shore to stop the Assassins.
After Jiang Ruofu reacted, she was already standing on the top of the painting boat, and she was about to fall down as soon as her feet slipped, Wen Guqi grabbed her clothes belt, but she was unstable because her body was too light, and she fell in the direction of Jiang Ruofu and crashed into Jiang Ruofu's arms.
Unguarded, a warm fragrant nephrite fluttered into his arms, and Jiang Ruofu's eyes widened.
Let Wen Guqi throw herself into her arms, while her body stiffened, and the person froze in place.
She could feel the soft touch on herself.
I don't even know if she should blush or if Wen Guqi should blush.
Wen Guqi was buried in Jiang Ruofu's chest, and when he stood firm, his face was a little indescribable.
The cool breeze is embarrassing for a long time.
Wen Guqi's eyes drooped, looked down, coughed pretending to be nothing, and said in a low voice,
"Take me down."
Jiang Ruofu glanced at the vast river, the waves were endless, and she reminded in surprise,
"Are you sure? Weichuan is not shallow. β
Wen Guqi's face darkened,
"I mean take me to the board."
Jiang Ruofu reacted and said stiffly,
"Oh, good."
She took advantage of the situation to hug Wen Guqi's waist tightly, and jumped directly with Wen Guqi in her arms.
landed firmly on the board.
Wen Guqi pretended to be light and pushed Jiang Ruofu away, and walked towards the middle door with his hands behind his back.
"Come in."
Jiang Ruofu obediently followed behind Wen Guqi.
The people on the painting boat were all shocked when they saw someone suddenly jumping off the top of the boat, but they saw Wen Guqi's flower god costume.
"Flower goddess?"
Wen Guqi snorted with a straight face.
Jiang Ruofu shamefully apologized to the people around him,
"Under the Rites."
Wen Guqi's clothes were indeed as dark as those of a courtesy, and they couldn't be distinguished at first glance.
And they went with them.
Wen Guqi and Jiang Ruofu walked into the gallery in the painting boat, and the woman in red leaned against the door, holding a cigarette stick in her hand.
"Coming back?"
Wen Guqi glanced at Jiang Ruofu, and Jiang Ruofu hurriedly hinted at him and nodded.
Wen Guqi said lightly,
"Hmm."
The woman in red straightened up, but she didn't look at Wen Guqi carefully, and said lazily,
"I said to let you come back, but you came back, but you lost everything from my ceremonial official Xian'e, and brought a wild man back, isn't this your boss who came to ask for the five thousand taels?"
Jiang Ruofu hurriedly waved his hand,
"Nope."
"Todayβ"
Wen Guqi took over her words directly,
"There was a dispute on the shore today, this person is my dearest, so I brought it on the boat, and there is the owner of Lao Zhongfang."
Zhong Yan raised her eyes and glanced at Wen Guqi, suddenly smiled, reached out and knocked on the cigarette pole on the railing,
"It turns out that you are also a lady from a noble family, and I think you look down on my five thousand taels."
"Prince Chen is the girl's closest relative, and the girl really doesn't need the five thousand taels."
Zhong Yan walked up to Jiang Ruofu, knelt down and saluted, bowing her head to the ground,
"The grass people have seen the prince of King Chen, and the son of King Chen Yu'an."
Jiang Ruofu didn't know why Zhong Yan suddenly made this big gift, but he held the bearing of King Chen's son,