019. Business

When Hu Qing returned to the capital, it was already May. This time I left the capital for nearly half a year.

When Hu Qing first came to the capital, he was already the center of contention for all forces, and his every move attracted the attention of the nobles in Beijing, and this time he was assassinated and wounded, and then rescued Xue Yun with injuries. Hu Fu received more invitations than Hu Qing received when he first came to the capital, and Hu Qing still declined with all polite words. In the end, he was annoyed, so he announced that he went out of Beijing to inspect business, and as for the date of returning to Beijing, there were only two words: uncertain. The Hu family's business is all over the Qing Dynasty, and the word 'uncertain' is still reasonable.

In fact, Hu Qing's mind is on decorating the small building, which is opposite the Huipeng residence, with a total of three floors. Hu Qing designed this place beautifully: the first floor is an open hall, the second floor is eight private rooms, and the third floor is four rooms. The decoration of the whole building Hu Qing strives for comfort and warmth, and naturally puts some effort into it.

On this day, Hu Qing had just walked out of the small building and was about to get into the car, when he heard the wind say on his side: "Young master, ten elder brothers!" ”

"Just say I'm not here, go back quickly!" After a few days of hard work, I caught up with a hot day with plenty of sun, dizzy, and just wanted to lie comfortably in bed.

"Young master, the tenth elder brother is looking at you!" The wind whispered at his side. Hu Qing had no choice but to retract his feet and turn his head, and saw Brother Ten riding on a tall horse and stopping in front of the car, with a happy smile on his face. Knowing that he didn't recognize the wrong person, Yin'o jumped off the horse and walked over, saying as he walked: "Qing'er, it's really you, when did you come back?" ”

Remembering the excuse of going to inspect the business and leaving the capital, Hu Qingsun smiled: "Just returned, just returned, haven't you returned to the house yet, if the tenth elder brother is fine, Qing'er will leave first." After saying that, he turned his head to leave, and at this time the dizziness became more and more severe.

"Don't go! Qing'er, you wait for me, don't go! I'll be right back! Yin'o turned and threw himself in front of the horse, turned over and got on the horse, and then knocked the horse's belly with both legs, and the horse ran away with him as fast as he could. This group of movements was done in one go, without half a pause, it was really smooth, Hu Qing was envious, although it was not as good as the riding skills of the thirteenth elder brother, but it was much stronger than himself.

"Let's go, I'll explain to him another day." Hu Qing retracted his gaze, raised his feet and got into the car to go home.

When I woke up, I felt much better. Before entering the hall, I heard laughter, grandpa, ninth elder brother, tenth elder brother, thirteenth elder brother, fourteenth elder brother and Rong Yu were laughing. Hu Qingmai stepped into the hall and said to everyone with a smile: "I've seen all the elder brothers!" Then he turned around and called sweetly "brother"! It's time to settle the score!

Rong Yu smiled and pointed at Hu Qing: "Didn't you say that you went out?" Even brother, you dare to lie. It's getting worse and worse, it's really time to fight! ”

Hu Qing bent down and pressed his face to it: "Come on, let's fight." It made a room full of people shake their heads and smile at him.

Rong Yu smiled at Hu Qing, his face was not angry, but his tone was doting: "Hmph, I know that my brother is reluctant to beat you!" "Also, Qing'er doesn't say that she goes out, and she is pestered to meet Qing'er every day, which is also troublesome.

Yinxiang looked at Qing'er's face and said, "It seems that you are thin, are you sick?" Is the sword wound healed? ”

Hu Qing glanced at Yinxiang, and then said with a smile: "I'm not sick, I'm just a little busy and tired, and the sword wound has been healed early." As he spoke, he walked over to his grandfather and stood down.

Grandpa stretched out his arms around Hu Qing and said to Rong Yu and the brothers: "Qing'er has been really busy lately, so it is better to go out to inspect the business and worry!" ”

Yinyu looked at Hu Qing and said, "What are you busy with?" Speak up and see if we can help. ”

Hu Qing smiled and said to the brothers: "There's nothing to be busy anymore, when the 'girlfriends' opened, the brothers came to cheer and cheer, just to help Hu Qing." ”

Yin Yu stared at a pair of phoenix eyes and asked in surprise: "'Girlfriend'?" Is the boss you? "Why does this kid always play cards out of common sense? Designing clothes for women, and now getting a 'girlfriend'? He frowned slightly.

Hu Qing raised his eyebrows: "What?" No way? ”

Yin Yu shook his head, with a wry smile on the corner of his mouth, looked at Hu Qing and said: "The capital has been a sensation in the past few days, and the proprietress of the club will recruit maids, and the remuneration of one or two silver per month is your idea?" Men all over the capital want to be women. According to your method, our restaurants and restaurants won't be able to do any more! ”

Hu Qing sat upright and said unhurriedly: "'Girlfriend' is a place for women to eat, drink and have fun. Different from restaurants and restaurants. ”

Before Yinyu could speak, Yinyu had already asked in surprise: "Where do women play?" looked at Hu Qing's face and added: "Then what's the matter without us?" Hehehe! After speaking, he looked at Yinyu again, but Yinyu didn't pay attention to him, only stared at Hu Qing.

"'Girlfriends' is a place for women to have fun, and you can go with your daughters." Hu Qing swept his eyes at Yinyu, and then looked at Yinyu. Although several elder brothers did not have Fujin, they all had side Fujin first.

"Don't we have to play when we go? Then I won't go. Yinzhen leaned back in his chair.

"'Girlfriends' specially prepare a room for men with darts, arrows, crossbows, stone locks and other training equipment." Hu Qing stared at Yinzhen and said with a smile, knowing that he liked this.

"Really! Then I'm going! "Yinzhen is really happy, among the princes, except for the thirteenth elder brother, he loves martial arts.

"I'm afraid that if you don't go when the time comes, the woman of your family will grind you and take her there. Qing'er is the most appetizing, and the women in our family now only wear the clothes of the 'Feather Pavilion'. The clothes of the Feather Pavilion are already sky-high, and the more expensive they are, the more people buy them, and they have to book in advance and can't get the goods on the spot. Why do you know women so well! Yin's voice opened and smiled at a few people.

Yinyu glanced at Hu Qing proudly, Hu Qing also glanced back at him, when they met for the first time, the two were unhappy because of this sentence 'understanding women', but Yinyu didn't know that Hu Qing deliberately embarrassed him that day.

"I'm afraid that everyone will go, isn't it?" Yinxiang thinks more than others, if this place is built for women, it can't be that anyone can come and go, although the Manchus don't have many etiquette constraints on women like the Han people, in the end they should still care about it.

"'Girlfriends' apply for a silver card, five hundred taels of silver a year, and the excess will be refunded and the deficiency will be compensated." Five hundred taels of silver a year is no longer something ordinary people can afford. In other words, the 'girlfriend' is specially set up for the family members of Jinggui.

"Oh, the opening auspicious date has been set?" Yinxiang said.

"On June 6, please come to the appointment on time, and I will send the invitation later." Hu Qing said.

"It's not going to be gold again!" Yin Yu laughed and said that a gimmick is uncreative if it appears twice.

"No, this time there is no card for five hundred taels of silver, and it is only a silver card."

"Okay, our brothers are waiting for you to open!" Yinyu smiled and stood up.

Several elder brothers were standing next to the horses, and Rong Yu was saying goodbye to them. Hu Qingxiao said to Yinxiang: "Thirteenth elder brother, you wait a while, I have something to say to you." Yinyu glanced back at Hu Qing, didn't say anything, and rode away with Yinyu and Yinzhen first.

Yinxiang looked at Hu Qing inexplicably, Hu Qing was also improvised, and he didn't know what to say for a while, so he also looked at him in a daze, Rong Yu saw the situation of the two, smiled and went into the garden.

"Please come in!" Hu Qing walked into the garden first, Yinxiang followed, and followed Hu Qing to the pavilion in the depths of the garden. Hu Qing stood up and turned to Yinxiang and said, "'Girlfriend' is my own, not the Hu family's property." I want to find a few friends to partner with, I don't know if the thirteenth elder brother is interested. Count me as a loss. Finally, he added.

"Qing'er, thank you! I understand your intentions and accept your affection. I'll send you the money another day, and you can count it. Yinxiang knew that Hu Qing was helping him, and with Hu Qing's strength, he didn't need to find someone to cooperate with.

"Three thousand taels. The silver is not in a hurry, you can talk about it when it is convenient. "A brother earns about 1,300 taels of silver a year, Yinxiang is kind and charitable, and whenever he sees others in trouble, he always can't help but help. He is not as good as a few big brothers, Zhuangzi Garden, and he has more income, and he is not as good as the ** ten elder brothers, who have another income in business, and Hu Qing is interested in helping him.

"Qing'er, thank you." Yinxiang smiled at Hu Qing, then turned around and walked into the pavilion by the pool. Hu Qing's 'goodness' to him, he knew in his heart that it was not just because of Rong Yu's relationship.

"You're welcome! The thirteenth elder brother has long been my friend. Hu Qing smiled. Turn around and sit on the pavilion.

"Have you ever done anything in my house?" The thirteenth elder brother stood beside Hu Qing and said with a casual smile. Pick up a handful of bait and throw it into the lake, and the fish in the water will swarm and compete for food.

"I won't do anything to kill people, I just want them to retreat from the difficulties, but the thirteenth elder brother is blaming me for many things?" Hu Qing picked up the bait and threw it into the lake, clapped his hands again, and stroked the remaining bait foam from his fingertips. He has never been an eventful person, except for self-preservation, which is only special to thirteen.

"How can I blame you for being so troublesome! I know you're doing it for my good, thank you too late! Thirteen took out a handkerchief from his arms and handed it to Hu Qing, then sighed and said helplessly: "If the nail is pulled, it will come again, will it be pulled again?" Forget it, this is a tacit matter, as long as you are at peace, you will be fine. "Every elder brother's mansion has other elder brothers' nails, if it is not too excessive, it can be tolerated, Hu Qing made a move because the nails of the ninth elder brother were too much.

"yes, I see!"

"Recently, you have been busy with your girlfriend's affairs, pay attention to your body, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, don't work too hard, let others do what they can do, the Hu family has so many businesses, you can't do everything yourself."

"Well, I know. It's just that girlfriends are different from other businesses, so it's good to be busy for a while. Qing'er said lightly, and lowered her head to look at the goldfish on the railing.

Yinxiang turned his head to look at Qing'er, and saw that his slender eyelashes were holding a pair of phoenix eyes, a sharp nose bone, and two curved pink lips, his jade face was moist, and he was suddenly in a trance, is this Hu Qing? Why doesn't it look like the Qing'er who rode a horse with him in Xiyuan? Or did you never pay attention to what he looked like?

"Thirteenth elder brother, give you a music score." Hu Qing thought about it, took out a piece of paper from his arms, and handed it to Yinxiang.

Yinxiang took it and opened it, it was a flute score, "You did it?" Yinxiang didn't raise his head, and while watching, he took out the flute on his waist and played it to the tune.

"No, it's an old man." Hu Qing said lightly, his eyes kept staring at Yinxiang.

"Well, it looks like a piano and flute ensemble." Yinxiang put down the flute and said casually, looking sideways at Hu Qing. Hu Qing nodded and replied, "Yes!" The sheet music is with me. ”

""Sorry for Parting", the name is a little sad, I think the person who created this piece must be a person who values love and righteousness. Is it your friend? ”

"Hmm." Hu Qing looked at the pool water, lowered his eyes, and felt sad in his heart.

"You must be very proficient in playing, when I am proficient in playing, we will play together!" Yinxiang folded the paper, raised it to Hu Qing, and then put it in his arms.

"Good!" Hu Qing nodded in agreement.

When sending away the thirteenth elder brother Hu Qing into the hall, Rong Yu was laughing with his grandfather, and when he saw Hu Qing, Rong Yu personally poured a cup of tea and handed it to him, "Qing'er, don't say that my brother doesn't love you, if you need my brother's help in anything, just speak, don't bear it alone, although my brother doesn't like business, he will still help you." ”

"Thank you, brother, then give me three thousand taels of silver." Hu Qing said and spread his right hand to his brother.

"The little God of Wealth also reached out to ask others for money? Is there anyone richer than you right now? Rong Yu pouted and smiled.

"Haven't you heard that the richer you are, the more stingy?" Hu Qing pulled his face seriously, his brother is richer than the thirteenth elder brother.

"Okay, whoever called you my sister, give it to you!" Rong Yu said and took out a silver ticket from his pocket and handed it to Hu Qing, who also generously accepted it and put it into the belt mezzanine: "It's good to be rich, and you have a lot of money." "I couldn't help but be happy.

"Qing'er, how did you think of building such a place as 'girlfriend'?" Rong Yu asked lightly.

"The object of the 'girlfriend' service is a woman, my brother can rest assured, the 'girlfriend' from the shopkeeper to the kitchen lady who runs the hall are all women! There will be no problem! ”

"Well, don't do anything, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, you can't afford to make an accident!"

"Don't worry, brother. I know what to do! Looking at his brother's worried look, Hu Qing thought about it and still didn't say anything about the 'deal' with Kangxi.