Chapter 35: Enlightenment and Wealth

Yuan Anjing has already started painting.

Xu Jiao saw his slender knuckles holding the brush and falling steadily, and a few strokes outlined the outline of Han Yan'er's face, and then the technique became faster and faster......

Before long, a portrait of Han Yan'er standing on the covered bridge in green clothes jumped on the paper.

Xu Jiao took a closer look and stretched out her finger to the position of the portrait's chin: "The sun in this painting looks like it should be in the evening, and it would be better to put some shadows here." ”

Yuan Anjing pondered slightly, nodded, and added a shadow to the chin of the portrait.

Xu Jiao looked at it again, and then stretched out her finger and pointed at the corner of the beauty's forehead: "You can't play shadows here, you can add a few strands of hair." ”

Yuan Anjing closed his eyes and said, "There is indeed one." Then he didn't hesitate to add a few strands of hair.

Before Xu Jiao could speak, Yuan Anjing handed her the paintbrush in his hand: "What else needs to be improved?" ”

Xu Jiao took the brush and sketched a few strokes in the position of the beauty's skirt, so the beauty's clothes became more elegant and flexible.

Putting down the brush, Xu Jiao turned the portrait in the direction of Han Yan'er.

Han Yan'er looked at the portrait and asked Yuan Anjing: "So you still remember?" ”

"Let's go into the palace, what you did...... In this world, maybe only the emperor can protect you. Yuan Anjing replied to the question, and looked at her seriously.

Han Yan'er gently rolled up the portrait and said softly: "Compared to the palace, Yan'er thinks that the Nine Kings Mansion is more suitable for me. ”

"It's not a good way, Yuan will present the emperor for the girl, presumably the ninth princess will not refuse." Yuan Anjing stood with his hands in his hands and said to Old Man Mo, "Send the girl back." ”

Old Man Mo stepped forward and lifted the curtain to lead people inside. Only then did Xu Jiao know that she could leave through the back door.

After Han Yan'er left, Xu Jiao held her chin and asked, "Who are you?" ”

"Me?" Yuan Anjing pointed to the tip of his nose.

Xu Jiao rolled her eyes: "Love to say it or not." ”

Yuan Anjing said with a smile: "I am the imperial guard, I grew up with the emperor since I was a child, I have a good relationship with the emperor, so I will naturally help share some of the emperor's troubles." ”

Xu Jiao rolled her eyes again: "Don't put gold on your face, didn't the emperor let you do this?" ”

Yuan Anjing stared at her inquiringly: "I'm surprised that the girl's calmness is worthy of being the girl of the Nine Princes' Mansion, by the way, it just so happens that you go back to bring a message to your princess, which means that the emperor will come to meet her little imperial aunt and let her be prepared." ”

Xu Jiao tilted her head to the side arrogantly: "No." ”

Yuan Anjing smiled and said: "Even if you are a girl in the Nine Princes' Mansion, you have to bow your head in front of me, the imperial guard, why are you so bold, not afraid that I will punish you?" ”

Xu Jiao said: "You are the one who treats, anyway, I have a lifelong friendship with my mother." "The implication is that if you attack me, my mother will not spare you! It's hard to be a princess, and I'm afraid that you're a royal guard!

Yuan Anjing reopened the rice paper and said, "That's it, I'll go back to the palace and find someone to deliver the message." As he spoke, he looked up at the door and asked, "The second ten taels, who is coming?" ”

As soon as the words fell, two voices came to mind at the door at the same time: "I'll come at thirty taels." ”

"I'll come for forty taels."

Xu Jiao raised her eyes and looked over, and there were two "daughters" wrapped in gold and jade, so she jokingly asked Yuan Anjing: "Who are these two?" ”

"The one who shouted thirty taels was Li Yan, the granddaughter of the Ministry of Rites, and the one who shouted forty taels was Yang Wan'er, the youngest daughter of the Ministry of Works."

Xu Jiao was asking here, and the two "daughters" over there had already started bidding by themselves.

"This Ministry of Rites may be a little oily because of the emperor's harem, so what is the young lady of the Ministry of Industry doing to make a fuss, could it be that her father also has a way to corrupt and take bribes?" Xu Jiao asked.

Yuan Anjing glanced at her with some surprise, and then said: "The little girl still knows a lot, this Li Wan'er's grandfather is the head of the household." ”

Xu Jiao nodded clearly: "It turns out that someone in the family has attained the Tao~"

Yuan Anjing was amused by her words: "Yes, so her chickens and dogs have ascended to heaven with them." ”

The two of them were joking here, and the bidding over there had already shouted three hundred taels!

Xu Jiao was dumbfounded: "It turns out ...... Originally...... Dayan's ...... 'art' is so ...... Valuable! ”

Yuan Anjing said: "This Li Yan will not add it if he shouts five hundred taels at most." ”

"What about Yang Wan'er?" Xu Jiao asked.

"If she is bound to win, it is not surprising that she shouts a thousand taels." Yuan Anjing said lightly.

Sure enough, Li Yan stopped when she shouted five hundred taels, and Yang Wan'er was proud, but she suddenly heard a woman behind her say crisply: "I'll give a thousand taels!" ”

Xu Jiao was taken aback: "Where is there a troublemaker?" ”

Yuan Anjing smiled: "It's okay, Yang Wan'er will take it." ”

Sure enough, as soon as Yuan Anjing's words fell, Yang Wan'er's domineering voice sounded: "I'll give 1,500 taels!" ”

Xu Jiao's heart was about to jump out of her throat.

There was silence all around, and no one spoke to him.

Yuan Anjing motioned for Yang Wan'er to come in.

Yang Wan'er happily ran in and sat down at the table: "Yuan Gongzi, hurry up, help me paint another picture today." ”

Yuan Anjing's thin lips were pursed, and the pen began to wander on the paper, and the outline of a portrait jumped on the paper between the flow of his fingertips......

Without the obstacle of the noble concubine of the Prime Minister's Mansion, the portraits in the back are more and more expensive, and even the third portrait of Yuan Anjing is sold for six hundred taels, and after half a day, Xu Jiao is extremely envious and jealous to see that this Yuan Gongzi has made a lot of money, although it may be to help the imperial court, but let Xu Jiao find another way to make money!

Xu Jiao, who had no intention of contaminating the court, did not have a deep friendship with Yuan Anjing, and left with Dong'er after leaving the painting shop.

For three days, Xu Jiao stayed at home, which was the way to stay in the room and study wealth.

The map of Shangjing Market given by Old Man Mo has been turned over and seen by her countless times, and the effect is too far from what she imagined, and even the traditional Chinese characters written on the plaques of many shops have to be guessed to understand!

Time flies, more than a month has passed in the blink of an eye, the weather is already too hot, combined with the map of Shangjing Market, Xu Jiao has already walked around the streets and alleys of Shangjing under the leadership of Huang Rong.

This month is a good time for a bumper harvest again, Xu Jiao went to the silver number to ask, Suo Chun did not secretly swallow her share of the silver, because the silver taels in her name are already three thousand six!

After the "honeymoon", Rue Xiang has returned to the Nine Kings' Mansion. Xu Jiao stared at her ruddy little face for half a minute, and finally said: "Women's flowers really still have to be moisturized to bloom more enchantingly." ”

Huang Rong, who was drinking tea next to her, suddenly choked and coughed violently, and it took a long time to recover her strength, pointing at her and saying, "So, you should also quickly find a pile of cow dung to nourish it, otherwise you will always have to live as a flower bone!" ”

Xu Jiao leisurely drank a cup of tea and said: "I think cow dung is too smelly, and I'd rather be a flower bone for the rest of my life." ”

Huang Rong was speechless.

Xu Jiao suddenly remembered something again: "You just don't go back to Huangfu like this, why haven't you seen anyone looking for you?" ”

Huang Rong patted her chest, took another sip of tea and said, "That person knows that I am avoiding him, and with his status, he should disdain to look for me." ”

"That person doesn't look for you, can it be that the people of your Huang family don't look for you either?"

"Hehe" Huang Rong sneered: "How do you know that the Huang family didn't send someone to find me?" I entered the Nine Kings Mansion all day long, and when I went out, I mixed with the girls in the Nine Kings Mansion, who in the Huang family would have thought of it? ”

Xu Jiao thought about it, too. The status of the Nine Kings is noble, but his temperament is quite cold in the eyes of the world, which really cannot arouse suspicion.