The man said loudly: "I didn't think that after many years, your chess skills can actually tie with me, but which gentleman did you learn from?" ”

"I learned it from my master." Lei Biao replied, "Master, his old man only has the hobby of playing chess." ”

The two of them picked up the black and white chess on the chessboard, and prepared to fight another game, when the man said, "I wonder if you can introduce this old man to me?" ”

"I'm really sorry, master, he has been immortal for many years." As he spoke, Lei Biao's eyes dimmed slightly, and he had always been worried about this life-saving benefactor.

The man was quite sorry, and then said: "Presumably you left after the death of this old gentleman, why don't you go back to the capital and only return now?" ”

Lei Biao raised his cold eyes and looked at him, his thin lips coldly spit out a few words, "What happened in the capital has become a thing of the past, why bother to pursue it, what are you talking about?" Emperor. ”

Dawu Emperor Wu Jing smiled faintly, "But if you take your wife and son back to the capital to live for a long time, aren't you afraid of causing murder?" ”

"I have no dissenting intentions, how can I be killed." Lei Biao said unhurriedly, "Presumably the emperor knows best." ”

Wu Jing said calmly, "Let's understand seven or eight points." ”

Lei Biao did not say anything, and continued to fight with him on the chessboard, and after a long time, it was another draw.

Wu Jing smiled lightly and said, "It's really enjoyable to play chess with Boss Lei." ”

"Concession."

"It's empty, but I can meet Mrs. Lei and a pair of twins and the newborn dragon and phoenix fetuses." Wu Jing said with a smile.

"The inner man and the child have never learned the etiquette of the palace, so I am afraid that they will collide with the holy car."

Wu Jing waved his hand casually, "It's okay, after all, you and I are brothers after all, and we have to see each other." ”

Lei Biao's eyes were slightly dark, and he clasped his fists and saluted: "Thank you for the emperor's love." ”

After speaking, Wu Jing left the Twin Restaurants and returned to the palace, while Lei Biao looked at the back of the departing and pondered for a long time.

Back in the Lei Mansion, Lei Biao mentioned to Lin Xia about meeting with Emperor Dawu today, which made Lin Xia a little strange, Emperor Dawu sent a congratulatory gift before, and now he made an appointment to meet Lei Biao, saying that he would let their family enter the palace to meet him, what was his idea?

It's a pity that he wanted to break his head, but Lin Xia didn't think about it.

Seeing her entangled, Lei Biao possessed and bit her lip, the tender lip flap seemed to be able to bite out the juice, and his voice was low and soft: "Xia'er, don't think about it, it's better for us to ......"

Lei Biao pressed his forehead against hers, and the two of them were so close that Lin Xia could hear the sound of his rough breathing between his noses and the changes in his body.

"It's been four months and three days."

Lin Xia's face turned red, looked at his eyes, felt the heat he exhaled, and said shyly: "How can it be so long, didn't you help your husband solve it during this period......

Lei Biao raised his waist and pushed it, causing the beauty in front of him to call out shyly, "That's not counted, I want to go in." ”

"Then you tap ......" Lin Xia bit her lip and whispered with a red face.

It was night, the bed creaked and creaked because of the violent noise, and the white veil gently swayed from side to side in an extremely bewitching dance posture, confusing people's eyes and shaking people's hearts. The rapid and intermittent woman's gasping voice accompanied by the man's low and muffled roar came from the closed door, but fortunately there was no maid guarding the house, otherwise they would have been red-faced.

The gasps and growls gradually ceased, and the moon, hidden in the clouds, gradually revealed itself, and the bright moonlight spread throughout the garden.

In the house, Lin Xia looked at Lei Biao with a smile on the corner of his mouth, like a beast that was full of food and drink, and he was still there.

"Bad guys." Lin Xia slapped Lei Biao's chest and said coquettishly.

Lei Biao didn't stop her slapping palms, but still had a little enjoyment, raised his hand to stroke her hair, and said slowly: "Don't you just like me badly?" ”

Lin Xia snorted, lazily lay in Lei Biao's arms, closed his eyes, and sank into a dream.

In the past few days, there has been a lot of uproar in the capital, but there is nothing more than news from the household department, saying that it is a matter of electing the imperial merchants, and many businessmen in the capital have got the news, and they are ready to move on this.

The first to bear the brunt is the He family, this year the He family has produced a lot of fresh vegetables, plus the previous national cooking competition when the He family provided ingredients with one of the organizers, the chefs saw that the ingredients from the He family were fresh, not to mention, there were many out-of-season vegetables, and they all talked about some cooperation with the He family.

He Mu is also a businessman, and he got the vegetable supply of most of the merchants in the capital for a while, and became the largest vegetable supplier in the capital.

What surprised Lin Xia even more was that Master He's brother was the head of the household, at first the He family was just a restaurant, and there was no fixed business to negotiate with the palace, but now the He family has a large supply of vegetables, so the quota of this imperial merchant must be a share of the He family.

When He Muxing rushed to Lei Mansion to talk to Lin Xia about the imperial businessman, he was a little proud, "My matter of being an imperial merchant has been decided." ”

Lin Xia congratulated with a smile, "Congratulations to Gongzi He." ”

"However, our He family can become an imperial merchant because you Yalinju provides a recipe for out-of-season vegetables, and it is also thanks to you. Therefore, there are still a few places for this imperial businessman, and I would like to invite you Yalinju to come and take a look. ”

Lin Xiaxiu frowned slightly, "But we don't have anything that we can supply in Yalinju, all we sell is some food, and the only thing we sell may be solitaire, but now the entire Wu Dynasty almost has a pair." ”

He Mu said with some pity, "That's right, although Yalinju is now quite famous, it is mainly a restaurant teahouse, and it is a little difficult to choose an imperial businessman, just like the original He family." He shook his head slightly.

Suddenly, a small figure ran into the hall, saw him holding the crumpled drawing paper in his hand, and cried with red eyes: "Mother, my brother has ruined my painting and used it to wipe his saliva!" ”

Xiao Chen'er plunged directly into Lin Xia's arms, and all the snot and tears were wiped on Lin Xia's dress, Lin Xia felt sorry for the new dress that had just been sent, but even more sorry for Xiao Chen'er's painting, so he had to touch his little head and comfort, "Okay, okay, don't cry, Xiao Chen'er is not a little man, how can she cry like this when she encounters something, how ugly." ”

"But my paintings ......" Xiao Chen'er howled and cried, he hated that brother more and more, Xiao Yun'er didn't know how many paintings he tore up, and he was distressed to death.

"Poof." He Mu felt that Xiao Chen'er was cute and tight, and couldn't help laughing.

Xiao Chen'er showed a pair of round eyes from Lin Xia's arms, looked at He Mu, as if he was a man he had seen before, and said, "What are you laughing at?" ”

He Mu picked up a ball of paper that was thrown on the ground, and was a little surprised after stretching it out, only to see that the painting was a woman leaning on the trunk of a tree with a smile, and the woman's appearance was seven or eight points similar to Lin Xia, lifelike, as if the woman in the painting fell in front of her, not inferior to the first-class painter in the capital.

"You drew this?" He Mu was surprised.

Xiao Chen'er wiped away her tears and said aggrievedly: "Hmph, it's my mother who painted it, how about it!" ”

"Have you ever learned from your master?"

"I drew it myself!" Xiao Chen'er didn't want to deal with him anymore, so she turned her head to look at her mother and said, "Mother, my drawing paper is almost finished, buy me some more." ”

"Isn't it, you've finished painting all the ones you bought before?" Lin Xia was a little surprised, this Xiao Chen'er has been painting faster than a star and a half as time has passed, and he has to draw more than 300 pieces of paper in almost a week, and sometimes he paints in his exclusive studio all day long, which can be said to be addicted.

And to Lin Xia's surprise, Xiao Chen'er will also use charcoal to paint in addition to the commonly used danqing and pen and ink in ancient times, probably seeing Lin Xia use charcoal to draw the design of the store, so he also learned from Lin Xia's appearance to paint with charcoal, but the painting style is still biased towards the ancient style, not like the style of modern sketch painting, but this still makes Lin Xia quite surprised Xiao Chen'er's painting talent.

Therefore, the aerial view of the Twin Restaurants on the back of the membership card of the Twin Restaurants is from Xiao Chen'er's hand, and even some of the current leaflets were drawn by Lin Xia for Xiao Chen'er.

"yes, it's all over in one go." Xiao Chen'er pouted and said.

He Mu was amazed and said with emotion, "Fortunately, your Yalinju business is good and there are many restaurants, otherwise you may not be able to support the cost of paying for the drawing paper." ”

This is really true to He Mu, every month in the home account book, the paper in the study is the most expensive, especially the painting paper used by Xiao Chen'er, but Xiao Chen'er likes to paint, Lin Xia thinks that this is his talent and should be cultivated well, so he wants to buy as much painting paper as he wants, Lin Xia will buy him as much as he wants, and he doesn't care about the huge expenditure at all.

Of course, the consumption of paper in Yalinju is also very large, it is estimated that it is comparable to the consumption of the palace, because the children trained have to learn to read and practice, and the account office has to issue a detailed monthly report every month, as well as an annual report, and also draw a trend chart to analyze the flow of people in the store, etc., and the paper is also quite large.

But Lin Xia asked for a detailed number of account books, and she could accept this expense.

However, the paper of the Wu Dynasty is really a problem, the Wu Dynasty was originally fought by force, so it has always been to promote martial arts, and literature was abandoned, until Emperor Wu promoted literature, and the status of literature slowly began to rise, but it is a pity that the paper used by the literati is how expensive and how expensive, the main reason is that there are too few papermaking workshops in the Wu Dynasty.

The papermaking workshop of the Wu Dynasty was only established by the family, not to mention that each process is different, the quality of the paper made is not the same, and the finished products are not the same, but there are several things in common, that is, the output is very small, because the process is complex and time-consuming and labor-intensive, and there is not such a large scale of production, their workshops are only provided for their own family consumption, and the extra little is taken out for sale.

So this is also the reason why the price of paper remains high.

Lin Xia pondered carefully, she seemed to vaguely remember that making paper was not very difficult, and the main raw material was just wood.

Suddenly, seeing Lin Xia with a meaningful smile, he already had an idea in his heart.