Chapter 43: The Auction (1)
Yunlu Academy's class schedule is still very heavy, except for the dean's strategy course arranged by the mountain chief himself, the other teaching courses are all time-regular: the first half of the doubt, the middle of the history of doubt, the second half of the career, every ten every month there are three class exams, the questions are written by the bishop of each course, the essay has to be examined, and the riding and archery is naturally also examined.
Fortunately, these are not difficult for Nanling Mo, but it is more difficult to hide in front of others. is because in Nanlingmo's literature class, the grades have been hovering between three and five. The first place is Zhou Tao, who almost won the title of "Zhengyuan Gongzi", the second is Nan Lingxuan, the third is Han Ji, the youngest son of the Weinan Wang family, the fourth is Nan Lingmo, and the fifth is Su Qingyan. Speaking of doubts, Lin Chaoying has fallen behind after all, she is not as good as she is in cavalry archery and art of war, and her results will be in the middle of the stream, but she doesn't care about it, it doesn't matter.
At the end of class on this day, Lin Chaoying stopped Nanling Mo and said, "Ren'an, I heard that Princess Rongzhen will come to Yunlu Academy next month!" Do you think she will be with us or in the blue class? Nanling Mo smiled and shook her head to indicate that she didn't know, Lin Chaoying saw that she didn't speak, and continued: "I also heard that Sister Jingsa has been named the sixth rank of the captain, and she is going back to the border city with An Guogong." said that the emperor originally wanted to marry Sister Jingsa, but she said that she said in the court that she planned to follow the example of Empress Shengtong and contribute to the defense of the frontier, but she didn't know what she said, and the emperor was very happy and allowed it. ”
She knows about Jing Sa, Jing Sa and her are handkerchiefs, as soon as she gets the news, she will fly the book to the academy, and she will tell the story in detail, Nanling Mo can also see from the book that she is really happy, even if it is just a six-rank captain, she is excited. It's just that the prince of Anguo has reached the age of marriage, because of the family motto of the Duke of Anguo for generations not to marry the royal family, Emperor Xiping originally wanted to point out his sister Princess Jinghui to the prince of Anguo, but in the end he had to point out to him Fang Yu, the eldest daughter of the Marquis of Weinan, who is now twenty years old, and married on May 20, two months later. After the marriage of the prince, Jing Sa immediately set off to the border city to take office.
After Nanling Mo received the letter, he took the opportunity to go to Huaqi Tower on the third day of the last month of each month to inquire about the affairs of the Weinan Hou Mansion.
The Weinan Hou family has long been in decline after several generations, and the old Weinan Hou does not even have the qualifications to go to the court. However, when it came to the source of the equation, this generation barely came out of an official in the court to the source of the equation, and it was only a reluctant head of the Ministry of Rites from the three products, Fang Wei, the prince of the Hou of Weinan, was a good one, but unfortunately he didn't like to read, he liked to practice martial arts, and he was currently practicing in the Gyeonggi camp. This Fang Yu Nanlingmo has seen the portrait, and her appearance is still beautiful, and I heard that she is the only daughter of the original partner after Weinan. The character is gentle, but it's too timid. Before, Mrs. Weinan Hou engaged to get married, but the man's character was not good, not to mention, he lingered in the land of fireworks for a long time. The old lady of Weinan Hou knew that she was going to withdraw from the marriage, but the man's family did not agree, and somehow, a month before passing the door, the prospective aunt actually died of a stroke, and the marriage was over. But the man's family hated the eldest daughter of the Hou family in Weinan because of this, and all kinds of rumors flew all over the sky, causing Fang Yu's marriage to be delayed in the end. If it weren't for the emperor to be the master this time, the eldest daughter of the Weinan Hou family would probably not be able to marry until now.
So she sent a letter to Jing Sa about what she knew, and also reassured Duchess Anguo. As for whether Duchess An Guo is finally satisfied with this daughter-in-law, it is not something she can control.
Soon it was the end of March, the day of rest on the third day of the month. Nanling Mo got a message from Hua Yulou early in the morning, knowing that there was a quarterly auction on March 29, Nanling Mo thought that the ceramic shop she and her brother ran together had quietly opened the market among several first-class powerful families in the capital, but after all, she had only done a few simple things. Although the style is simple, the color is as delicate as white jade, which makes people unable to take their eyes off it. Nanling Mo only explained to Uncle Zhong and Uncle Li, and they fired according to the drawings, all of which were simple plum bottles and small incense burners, and there were no too brilliant patterns. But she knew that once a few new products fired this month came out, it would attract the attention of the above. Not to mention anything else, His Royal Highness the King of Alcohol has noticed this matter, and has privately sent someone to find out who is the owner behind the porcelain shop, but there is no news yet.
Speaking of which, Nanling Xiao still has some ability, he openly rents two shops to a person who seems to be a businessman from other places, does not charge shop rent, and in a cooperative way, Nanling Xiao only collects half of the monthly turnover as rent, and does not care about anything else. As soon as the porcelain shop opened, everyone knew that this shop was a way of cooperation, and no one knew who the other owner of the real porcelain shop was. His Royal Highness is the King of Alcohol who has nothing to do with this porcelain shop in the twilight of the day.
As soon as Nanling Mo returned to the palace, Nanling Xiao came to find her. The brother and sister talked in Jianling Xuan for a long time, and Nanling Mo said: "Big brother, I heard that the quarterly auction of Huaqi Building will be held tomorrow, and I want to put these new sets of tea cups in Huaqi Building for auction." ”
Nanling Xiao said unexpectedly: "How do you know about Huayu Tower?" You're in the academy all day long, so is it possible that you still sneak out to play? ”
"Where the words! Big brother, I heard it in the academy, and I haven't been there, so I'm just curious! It's not that all kinds of things in Huaqi Lou can be auctioned, big brother, now our reputation in the upper class of the capital already has some of them, but it's still not wide enough, who would think that there is little silver! ”
"You little money fan, can't our palace be short of your silver? Or do you not have enough money? Nanling Xiao said helplessly, "If this is opened and the supply exceeds demand, then this line will not be able to hide it." ”
"Then it has to be in short supply, otherwise what is the difference between it and the porcelain bowls and bowls on the street." Nanling Mo pouted.
Nanling Xiao looked at her appearance, a little funny, and said, "Tell my brother what you think, otherwise you won't be allowed to go out to the auction." ”
"Big brother~~" Nanling Mo said coquettishly, "You just let me go, who would be afraid of less silver!" Nanling Mo rolled her eyes, "Of course, it is best to open our signboard in Huaqi Tower, there are the most people there, and what we sell is not porcelain all over the street, it is fine white porcelain!" Naturally, it is sold higher, and it is difficult to find a bottle! The more Nanling Mo thought about it, the more excited she became, and even felt that she had a talent for business......
"Hahahaha," Nanling Xiao shook his head with a smile and said, "I see that you have never been to Huaqi Tower, you want to join in the fun, right?!" Okay, okay, agreed! However, there are three religions and nine streams at the auction, you can change your clothes and go out! Take two more people to follow you......" Before the words fell, there was another cough.
"Big brother, although it's the end of March now, the night is still cold, big brother, you still have to pay attention to your body." Nanling Mo said worriedly, "Before, you always said that Ren Gongzi and you are close friends, and I haven't seen him for so long, is it fake!" ”
"Who said that this son and the son are just general friends?" When the two heard a voice, they turned their heads one after another, only to see a jade-faced boy dressed in light blue dark stripes and holding a jade bone fan standing in front of them with a smile.
"Jingzhi, are you back?" Nanling Xiao immediately stood up and introduced the two of them: "Jingzhi, this is my sister, Nanling Mo; Mo'er, this is the young valley master of the Medicine King Valley, known as Ren Qifeng Ren Gongzi, who is known as the Yin Yang Ghost Doctor. ”
"Jingzhi has seen the Lord of Ren'an." Ren Qifeng's eyes lit up, and he bowed and said, "Zixi, this is your sister who guards filial piety for her mother in the nunnery?" ”
"Ren Gongzi," Nanling Mo also bowed, "I just offended." Now that Ren Gongzi is back, then I have something I want to ask Ren Gongzi, what is the matter with my brother's illness, which has not been cured after so many years? ”
"Mo'er, don't be rude." Nanling Xiao scolded.
"Zixi's body is fine now, it's just a symptom left after a serious illness back then...... Ren Qifeng paused, "Zixi's body can only recover after careful recuperation, but it still takes time to recuperate, and you can't work hard." Do you think that those rich wolves, tigers and leopards in your palace can make your eldest brother take good care of his body? What Ren Qifeng said was a bit excessive, but what he said was indeed the truth.
Nanling Mo quickly obtained key information from it, she tried hard to recall Nan Ling Mo's memory, it seems that when she was five years old, eight-year-old Nanling Xiao seemed to have eaten something, and suddenly became seriously ill and died. The mother concubine didn't know what method she used to save the eldest brother, but the eldest brother's body has always been not as good as before. And from then on, the mother's health became worse and worse, and finally lingered on the sickbed for a few years and finally died.
Seeing that she was silent, Ren Qifeng sighed and said, "Don't worry, he will be fine with me by your eldest brother's side." It's just that a good doctor also needs to meet a patient who is willing to obey. Then he turned and left, and went to the wing.
"Big brother......" Nanling Mo's heart was sour, and tears almost fell, "You ......"
"Mo'er, big brother is fine," Nanling Xiao touched her hair and said, "Aren't you going to put those sets of porcelain in Huayu Tower for auction, you should hurry up and prepare!" ”
Nanling Mo saw that Nanling Xiao was not a big deal, not to mention that tomorrow was Huaqi Lou's first quarterly auction this year, and she had to pay attention to it.
Nanling Mo returned to his courtyard and said to the air: "Mu Yi, go and send a message to the prince and ask him if he has time to come tonight?" ”
When Nanling Mo thought of doing a white porcelain business, she had already considered that once her fame opened, it would be difficult to escape the eyeliner of the alcohol king.
King Alcohol is the second prince of the first emperor, he is different from other princes, what he likes most is to do business, the Yun Dynasty is to establish the country by force, in order to expand the territory, Tianwu Emperor Yun Mufei reigned for 20 years and kept fighting in all directions. Emperor Kaiwen succeeded to the throne in the first ten years was also a non-stop conquest led to the emptiness of the treasury, the second prince alcohol king Yun Tianxun was not interested in the throne at all, he was born to like business, the first emperor also strongly supported, even the concubine of the alcohol king is also the daughter of the imperial merchant Wuyang Marquis.
Nanling Mo thought of this, so he pulled Yun Tianhong in, and provided a protective umbrella for the Zhennan Wangfu as another partner, also to prevent the Zhennan Wangfu from being implicated in case the imperial court had to find out to the end.