The king turned the teacup, narrowed his eyes and said: "Such a good place, such a big mansion, Uncle Qin took half a year to build, think that back then, he was greedy for a lot of ink in the position of auxiliary minister." ”

Qin Buxian was really stunned for a while, and finally turned his head away from me, sighed to himself, and said in resignation: "I should have expected you to say this, and I told the donkey all those words." As he spoke, he took out a piece of broken silver from his sleeve pocket and put it on the table, "Count it as this bowl of tea, and as for the dishes, you can eat it yourself." ”

With that, he threw off his sleeves, got up and left. She described the king as a donkey and the king was not angry, but she had a big temper.

I grabbed her wrist and pulled her back: "Where are you going?" ”

"I forgive you for not being able to communicate with Your Highness."

"I didn't let you talk to me, I told you to sit down and eat with me."

"I can't eat when I look at your face."

"What's wrong with this king's face," I raised my eyebrows to look at her, "Although this king is not handsome and dusty, but he is also born well, there are countless girls in Huai'an City who want to marry your father, and there are not a few school-age women in the current imperial capital who want to marry this king." Take you as an example, although this king coerced you to marry me, but don't forget, in the end, it was you who pulled me on the horse, carried the big red wedding robe I bought, and drove me around the city to show off. ”

Qin Buxian's brows furrowed into a Sichuan character: "What are you talking about?" ”

I salivated twice, got up and pressed her back into the chair opposite, leaned into her ear, and oppressed: "It's nothing, since you married this king, you have to be responsible for this king." Besides, on the night of marriage, you and I were in the bathtub, and we had ......"

This king deliberately did not finish the last words, and leisurely returned to his chair and sat down, seeing Qin Buxian on the opposite side with an expression of disbelief. I thought she would scold me out of control, but she couldn't scold me a few words, and finally her eyes widened, and she gritted her teeth and spit out three words: "No, yes, face." ”

She is 108,000 miles away from the king in terms of scolding people.

After lunch, the two of us came to the largest gambling house in Yuzhou City-Ruyi Gambling House.

"What do your old friends do, and why did you choose to meet here?" Qin Buxian asked.

"You'll know when you've seen it."

Private room on the second floor of the gambling house.

The king's old friends have already arrived - salt merchant Wu Suojiao, medicine merchant Song Junqian, tea merchant Yun Jiyue, wine merchant Liang Qiugu.

The grades and experiences of these four are quite similar. After the southern kingdom was annexed by the Jin State, it became the Nanguo Mansion, and the father did not have the intention of governing the Nanguo Mansion well so that the people could live and work in peace and contentment, and in order to loot money in a short period of time, he sold some commodity management rights that should have been strictly controlled by officials to the private merchants.

The second brother and I both felt that this method was inappropriate, especially the second brother, he had the intention of seizing the throne at the beginning, and thought that the Nanguo Mansion would also be an indispensable part of his own country in the future, so he secretly arranged for his cronies to buy the right to operate the salt, medicine, tea and wine of the Nanguo Mansion from the previous regulatory officials, so that the people of the Nanguo Mansion would not be disturbed by profiteers and live and work in peace and contentment.

At that time, it took a lot of money to buy the right to operate, and the second brother couldn't take out the silver alone, so the king helped him make it together. Although the two of us are not the most favored princes, they are also real princes, and the rewards since childhood are not far apart. It's just that the rewards I got for the two of us were mostly calligraphy, paintings, jade, swords, etc., and the pawnshops in Nanguo Mansion couldn't take out so much silver for us to exchange for silver taels, and finally the two of us arrived at today's Ruyi Gambling House. The shopkeeper of the gambling house was quite atmospheric, and without saying a word, he took out all the silver in the treasury and changed it for us.

The second emperor brother didn't have anything to worry about before he died, only this one, he wrote a secret letter and sent a personal guard to give it to me, and the guard killed himself after delivering the letter. When I opened the letter, I saw that he had instructed me that if I wanted to raise the army and seize the throne in the future, the large treasury arranged by the Nanguo Mansion would make sure I remembered to use it.

Yes, this king is not Qin Buxian's mouth, and he can't even afford to pay for a meal in a high-rise building, I have a vault in Nanguo Mansion, but this vault has not yet reached the time to be opened.

Moreover, the operation of the four of them in the past ten years has not been smooth sailing.

At the beginning, Gao Ji was the governor of Nanguo Mansion, and when he arrived at the boundary of Yuzhou, after a little inquiry, he knew who was rich in Nanguo Mansion. So on the first day of taking office, he chartered the largest painting boat in Lanyue Lake, and set up a banquet for Wu, Song, Yun, and Liang to eat and enjoy singing and dancing. Although the banquet was polite and flattering, the intention was clear and greedy. After eating, the four of them understood what Gao Ji meant, and the summary was that these four merchants had to pay him one-third of the silver taels they earned that year every year, otherwise, he would have a way to make them unable to work in Nanguo Mansion.

The four of them were kind and angry, and said that please give them some time to go back and think about it, and they will definitely give Governor Gao an answer in three days.

So the urgent letter of 800 miles was sent to the king's mansion, and the king was so angry that he almost scolded his mother. But he still replied - Mo confronted him head-on, and promised him for the time being.

It is for this reason that Gao Ji has extorted and embezzled how many silver taels in Nanguo Mansion over the years, and this king's heart is clearer than Mingjing. Gao Ji's mind is not simple, he never transported these extorted silver taels back to the imperial capital, but secretly hid them in a very secret place, except for him and his father, no one knows where they are.

I seldom talked to the four princes in person to avoid suspicion, and rarely wrote letters until they were in a hurry, and the four of them did not know that the king of the imperial capital had become relatives, and I did not write to inform them, so they were all dumbfounded when they saw me bring a girl today.

Wu Sochou was the first to stand up and stammered and asked me, "Prince Wang...... Who is this? "According to the original agreement, they avoided my status as a prince and called me a prince.

Before I came, I specially instructed Qin Buxian to speak less, and I left some questions to answer. So at this moment, she took Wu's worried question, threw the question to me very skillfully, and deliberately raised her eyebrows to watch from the wall: "Wang Gongzi has rules here, I can't say who I am, I have to answer it." ”

I shook the folding fan and said to Wu Suo: "Her name is Wei Xinyue, the Wei of 'Wei Du picks up Yan Zhao, and the beauty praises Hibiscus'." ”

Qin Buxian smiled at the room: "Yes, my name is Wei Xinyue, the Wei of 'the desolate Shu prostitute, come to dance in front of the Wei Palace'." ”

Song Junqian heard the disagreement between the two of us, so he was also puzzled, and cautiously reminded me: "Wang Gongzi, I think that the matter we are going to discuss today is somewhat important, and if Miss Wei is present, I am afraid it is not very appropriate." ”

Qin Buxian smiled softly, and looked at me with a look of watching a play.

This king looked at her and stepped forward to hold Qin Buxian's hand: "You don't have to worry, Wei Xinyue is not an outsider. Even if something goes wrong in the future, this king has a way to deal with her. ”

Someone finally stood up and made a round: "Miss Wei Xinyue was born so beautiful but not coquettish, her body is free and easy to be like a fairy, beauty is easy to get, and immortals are rare to meet, I think she is a good girl to give birth to such a fairy." You don't have to mind too much, I am sure that Miss Wei Xinyue will not have those roundabout and tactful thoughts. Yun Jiyue said politely.

The other three pondered it for a while and realized it one after another.

The content of this meeting is really important, I brought Qin Buxian over, and I do have my thoughts.

The shopkeeper of the gambling house is my acquaintance with my second brother, and the private room on the second floor has arranged a lot of eyeliner to guard in secret, Liang Qiugu went outside to check it, came back and carefully covered the doors and windows, sat down and asked me: "I heard that Gao Ji has been dismissed, so do we want to find the silver he hid in Nanguo Mansion and then take it back?" ”

The other three nodded in unison, and it seemed that the same way.

My eyes deliberately swept over Qin Buxian, touched the teacup and took a sip, and smiled regretfully: "I'm afraid that your news is not timely enough, just before I came to Yuzhou, Zhao Mengqing, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, took advantage of his birthday to set up a banquet, personally asked Gao Shu, and asked his son Gao Ji to return to the court and be his waiter in the Ministry of Rites." ”

"This, how can it be so coincidental?" Song Junqian wondered, "Could it be ......?"

"Probably." I confirmed, "Some officials are born to look like people, and they look handsome and square, and I don't know what he looks like behind my back." Now he has the ability to get Gao Shu back to the court as a waiter, and one day, Gao Ji will be able to return to the Nanguo Mansion and be the governor. ”

This sentence was originally said to Qin Buxian, and as expected by this king, her eyes were like knives when she heard this, and she slashed me up and down.

Yun Jiyue, as usual, was the gentlest and calmest one, poured tea for us, and persuaded: "These are just speculations for the time being. Besides, now we don't know where Gao Ji hid the silver that he had embezzled before. Everything is just a plan, but it can't be implemented now, so don't worry. ”

"Brother Yun is right, in short, we have been here for so many years, and we are not in a hurry for this moment, we should wait and see what happens in Dijing for the time being." Wu said worriedly.

But the other two didn't think so, Song Junqian sighed, and said in a slight hurry: "Your Highness doesn't know, in the past, the entire Nanguo Mansion knew that we handed over one-third of the silver taels we earned every year to Gao Ji, and they all knew that Gao Ji had saved a huge fortune; Now, the entire Nanguo Mansion knows that Gao Ji has been dismissed, so everyone is coveting this part of the treasure. I'm afraid that if we don't do it sooner, the money that has been snatched from us will not be recovered, and will end up in someone else's pocket. ”

Liang Qiugu echoed: "Yes, son, this silver tael is not a small amount, what you will do in the future is to spend a lot of money, we should not be so passive, otherwise we may lose again and again." ”

Everyone was waiting for the king to give an answer.

However, this king pulled Qin Buxian over and said with a smile: "I don't know what Miss Wei thinks? ”