Zhuang Rou stared at Chu Xia and pondered for a while, anyway, the grapes were not harvested by themselves, and Mo Zuo would look for Chu Xia if he wanted to find them in the future.

But would anyone really pay gold to buy such sour grapes?

"My lord, what price can grapes sell for, it is better to take out some of your jewelry, and someone must pay a lot of money to buy a coral tree or something. Perhaps, there are also merchants from other places. Zhuang Rou hit Chu Xia with the idea, she had such thoughts more than once.

Chu Xia was startled, clasped his hands and opened his eyes wide and said, "You monster with a very bad heart, you actually want to sell my things." ”

"How do you know I have a coral tree?" He did have a coral tree taller than a man, and there were only two in the palace in total, one of which was given to him by the emperor.

And the excuse for the reward was just that at the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet, he found a very interesting juggling team, which made the Empress Dowager happy.

Zhuang Rou said disapprovingly: "Ma Dezheng mentioned it when he was an adult, and he also said that everyone in the capital knew about it. Anyway, the tree can't bear fruit, and you can't see it outside every day, so you might as well sell it. ”

"It should be able to sell for 100,000 taels of silver, after all, I can only put it there to see, and I'm afraid that it will break."

Chu Xia burst out laughing, "Only poor people think like this, that coral tree is a priceless thing, and millions can't afford it." Even if I can take it, no one dares to buy it, except for the emperor's gift, who dares to use the same thing as the emperor. ”

"Don't think about selling the king's belongings, you will regret it after you are careful, and regret that you didn't sell your belongings in the first place." He patted Zhuang Rou on the shoulder, "I'm going to deal with these grapes, you must not smash them." ”

Zhuang Rou tilted his head and watched him go out happily, and couldn't help but look at the sky and think: The belongings of the county king's mansion ...... How much gold, silver, and jewelry!

She didn't want to get involved in this matter, after all, the source of the grapes was a little bad, and she didn't want to have anything to do with Mo Zuo.

That night, Zhuang Rou knew that Chu Xia didn't know what to say, and coaxed King An's two grandsons to be willing to preside over the Zhenguo banquet, or in the name of King An's mansion.

Grapes don't wait for anyone, and they will rot after a long time, so tomorrow we will hold a banquet in the Fudi Building by the Peach Blossom Bridge, and invite people of insight and famous families in the city to come over and taste wine and enjoy the fruit.

If you directly say that rich people can come, it is not worth much, they know this very well. Except for Song Yi, there are no celebrities in Hongzhou, as long as they send the officials to sell invitations, they can make another fortune with the officials.

The next night, the feast of precious fruits was held as scheduled, and all those in the city who could afford to buy invitations for two hundred taels of silver came. The whole Fudi Building was overcrowded, and the shopkeeper went to other places to borrow a lot of benches, otherwise many people would not even have a place to sit.

Before the feast began, everyone began to discuss, "What is this precious fruit feast to eat?" Such a big stance. ”

"Eat? What do you want to eat? can be looked at by nobles, even if it is eating fairy fruits, it can't be compared, and how can there be fairy fruits in this world. ”

"Mainly in the past few months, Hongzhou has not been peaceful at all, and the little money earned last year has been fined." One person said dejectedly.

Just as others were comforting him, someone said proudly: "That's also your family's lawsuit, and people like us who abide by the rules naturally don't have such troubles as you." My family donated a few days of disaster food, and I never felt that there was anything unpeaceful. ”

"Phew!"

If it weren't for the adults coming over for a while, for fear of colliding with the nobles, the two would have wanted to make a move.

At this time, there was a sudden commotion downstairs, "My lord is here!" ”

Everyone got up one after another, squeezed to the window to look down, three soft sedan chairs stopped at the door, and three people walked out of the sedan chair.

The eye-catching thing like a pearl is the Lord Zhizhou they are familiar with, and the two sons of King An's Mansion, although they are also extravagant, but compared with Lord Zhizhou, they are suddenly overshadowed, and there is a vague feeling of ugliness.

The people who witnessed this scene couldn't help but praise in their hearts, how could there be such a good-looking man, fortunately he was not a woman, otherwise he would not know how to bring disaster to the country and the people.

The three of them entered the building and went directly to the third floor, and there were only five or six people sitting on this floor, and Song Yi was among them.

Ten baskets of grapes were carried into the first floor, and after a while, everyone knew that Prince An cared about the people and specially brought the crystal glass pearl grapes in winter for everyone to taste. After that, there will be an auction, and the proceeds will be used for disaster relief.

A bunch of grapes is 100 gold, and if you buy a bunch, you can go up to the third floor and drink with the son of the An Wang family. Those who buy ten strings can talk to each other tonight, if they buy a basket, in addition to tonight's wine and talk, they can also bring a junior to the state government tomorrow to chat.

can meet with the royal relatives alone, whether the juniors are male or female, as long as they are praised, they can be used to increase their value, and the benefits are not comparable to money.

It's a good thing, but these royal relatives are too ugly, and no one believes that all this money will be given to the victims, and if they can take out a percent, the victims will have to thank God.

There are bunches of grapes on the glass plate on the table, which are green and purple and deliberately sprinkled with water droplets, which looks particularly beautiful.

But no one bought it first, after all, the price was indeed a bit much, and even the rich people present felt pain in the exchange of gold for silver taels. Everyone is weighing whether this grape is worth buying, and it seems that it is useless to sit on the third floor and only drink a glass of wine.

At this moment, someone suddenly said arrogantly: "I'll buy a basket!" ”

Everyone looked towards the place where the sound came from, and saw a thin middle-aged man sitting in the corner, who was Liu Haitian, the owner of the Siping pawnshop.

I didn't expect him to be so generous, according to the price of a bunch of grapes, he had to pay half of his belongings.

After a while, someone suddenly reacted, I heard that the second son of the Liu family is very talented, but because his family is a merchant and still runs a cannibal pawnshop, he has not been accepted by the literati in Hongzhou.

Today he wants to buy his son a nobleman who can see him, so that people will no longer dare to despise his son's name!

With him taking the lead, there are outstanding juniors in the family, and they all hurry up to grab the grapes. Even if you can't afford to buy a basket, you can't go upstairs after buying a bunch and let the juniors go up.

The grapes, which no one cared about, were suddenly grabbed like crazy, and I was afraid that I would be slow to start and miss this opportunity.

Just when the Fudi Building was in full swing, Zhuang Rou was already sitting in the kitchen of Chef Liu's house, there was still some faint fire in the stove, and the multigrain cakes to be sold tomorrow were still steaming in the cauldron.

Chef Liu turned her head to look outside, and after making sure that her daughter and son-in-law would not come out, she turned her head back and whispered: "My lord, when I was selling bread yesterday, I often helped a woman, and when I talked casually, I said that she would not be able to go into the city to live for a long time." ”

The villain asked her if she had found a relative, and she said that her two sons had found a job to do, and they would be able to start work in a few days. She didn't know what kind of work she was doing, but she was generous and spent five cents to buy five multigrain cakes. ”

Zhuang Rou pondered for a moment, don't look at it for only five cents, but for those victims outside who can sell their sons and daughters for a few tens of cents, this is a lot of expenses.

She asked carefully, "Have you asked carefully, did you leave that day?" ”

"I asked, but she couldn't tell herself, she just said that it was just a few days." Chef Liu said in embarrassment, it was not that the other party was alert, but that the person didn't know at all.

It's a bit of a hassle, there are so many people in the shack, and it's not fenced off, so you can leave if you want to go out and find a random place.

Zhuang Rou thought for a while and said, "In the past few days, when you go out of the stall, if you meet that woman and come to buy cakes again, you will knock on the steaming drawer three times." ”

Chef Liu asked curiously, "My lord, are you going to guard it yourself?" ”

"You don't care about this, anyway, when you see someone, you will knock it three times, anyway, sometimes the cake is stained, you don't have to knock it too." Zhuang Rou didn't want to tell Chef Liu too much, knowing too much would easily expose her feet, and it would put her in danger.

Chef Liu nodded, "Don't worry, the little ones know." ”

After Zhuang Rou told a few more words, then quietly left, passing by the Peach Blossom Bridge, she only glanced at the excitement of Fudi Tower, and then went back.