When Ye Fu returned to the courtyard, Fu Di came out of the house to greet him, and pulled Ye Fu to look left and right, for fear that there was a piece of meat missing.

"Why did you come back first?"

"It's Ji Junshou who asked me to come back and get you clothes, saying that I want to use them at the dinner, Xiangye, are you okay?"

"It's fine." Ye Fu waved his hand and entered the house with a smile.

After entering, I saw a chaos, tables, chairs and benches were horizontally and vertically, and a row of sharp knives were clearly inserted into the wall.

Ye Fu twisted his eyebrows: "What's the matter?" ”

Fu Di lowered his head, a little afraid of such a serious Ye Fu, and snorted: "As soon as the little one came back, I saw a group of people coming in with things and knocking and knocking, and they were scolding Xiangye ...... in their mouths."

"Do you know who it is?"

"I don't know." Fu Di hurriedly walked in front of Ye Fu, neatly tidied up the tables, chairs and benches, and said, "The little one didn't let them go into the Xiangye room to make trouble." ”

Ye Fu's brows furrowed deeper, turned around and approached Fudi, pulled his head, and looked carefully under the lantern: "You fought with them?" ”

There was a slight bruise on Fudi's face, as well as the redness and swelling of the broken skin, and he grinned in pain when he was touched by Ye Fu, covering the injury and saying: "The little one is fine." ”

Ye Fu snorted, turned around and went to his room to take the medicine out and wiped it for Fudi: "What do you care about outside your body?" Don't stop those people in the future. ”

"But how can the little ones let them bully Xiang Ye, the stunned guard said that Xiang Ye doesn't like others to touch your things the most."

When Ye Fu heard this, he paused: "You, you're really stupid, you haven't eaten yet, I asked Ji Cheng to prepare dinner, and someone brought it over after a while." ”

"Well, thank you Xiangye for hanging the little one."

Ye Fu glanced at the destroyed house and said lightly: "Wait for two days." I figured out the twists and turns of this Yancheng, so I went to find the field back. ”

"Do you want to find a bunch of people, little one?"

"What are you looking for?"

"Be a thug and smash their field!"

"......" Ye Fu grinned.

Soon, the person sent by Ji Cheng to deliver the meal arrived, and it was unfolded in the courtyard, it was three dishes and one soup, with meat and fish, which was not cold. Under the light of the lights, a master and a servant slowly settled the dinner.

Ji Cheng's people stayed behind to clean up the destroyed courtyard and stayed outside to protect it.

In the middle of the night, Ye Fu took out the letter from Ji Cheng in the study and brought it over in the lunch box.

Ye Fu smiled, this is also too ...... Weird and cautious. It's a dignified prime minister and the head of a county, and the correspondence is still afraid of being known?

Well, now she is not the prime minister, acting as an envoy with no power and no taste, and in terms of the posture of tonight's dinner, I don't think Ji Cheng's head of a county is so good.

So?

Ye Fu slowly unfolded the letter paper and looked at the content carefully.

Leave the oil lamp on the table and light the letter paper and watch it turn to smoke.

The corners of Ye Fu's mouth hooked a light smile, sure enough, the bigger the place, the more moths.

There was a knock outside the door, and Ye Fu raised his head and agreed.

"What?"

"My lord, let's rest early at this late hour."

"Well, I'm almost asleep."

Hearing the voice, Fu Di gently pushed the door open, and took out the bed cover on the side to make the bed for Ye Fu.

Then I hit the floor next door.

"What are you doing on the floor?"

"For the safety of Xiangye, Fudi must be able to protect you at any time! If I sleep here, I can see the wind and grass stirring! As he spoke, Fudi patted his chest to show his strength.

Ye Fu smiled faintly: "Don't be so careful." ”

Fudi lowered his head and didn't speak, but still hit the floor.

"Put a mat underneath, the further south you go, the heavier the humidity." Ye Fu also started to wash, put away the account book he got today, walked to the side of the bed and took the hair crown: "Send the account book to Ji Junshou tomorrow." ”

Fu Di jumped over, wrapped the account book in a whole cloth and wrapped it in cloth, and when he heard the words, he was puzzled again, and raised his head and asked, "Doesn't Xiangye check it?" ”

"No, you don't."

"Huh?"

"I just learned something. The second princess Junyue is also in Yancheng. ”

"Hmm."

"When the second princess got married, the emperor had a grace to her, allowing her to live in the city without paying taxes for ten years, and the grain tax and commercial taxes were all paid."

"No wonder the ledger is so thick." Fu Di flipped through it, and also knew a few words, knowing that it was the accounts of recent years, "Eh, it's only four years." ”

"This is Ji Cheng's account."

"What about before?"

Ye Fu smiled.

"The second princess's father-in-law is the Yan family, that is, the former county guard, who died of illness four years ago, and there is a play in the court. The second princess was married seven years ago, and there are still three years left before the tax recovery period. ”

Fudi touched his head, a little incomprehensible.

Ye Fu smiled: "Okay, turn off the lights and go to sleep, you cover it yourself." ”

This autumn is coming.

The next day, Grand Hyatt came to visit, bringing a bunch of servants with him to support the royal scene.

Ye Fu looked at the swaying pearl hairpin in front of him, bright and gorgeous woman, face like spring flowers, picturesque eyebrows, slightly round face depicting exquisite makeup, although married to a woman, but still not lose charm.

What role did this woman play in the city?

"Prime Minister Yu still remembers, he also came to Yancheng four years ago?"

"Oh?"

Ye Fu smiled, didn't know the details here, overshadowed it, and talked about other topics: "I don't know what happened to Her Royal Highness the princess's visit?" ”

"Ji Junshou asked the palace to take you around this Yan City."

The meaning of Ji Cheng. Ye Fu thought about it, and had a plan in his heart.

While walking into the study and instructing Fu Di to deliver the account book, he dressed neatly and followed Junyue out.

Yancheng is a prosperous place, located on the bank of the Luozi River, rich in products and rich in fish and rice.

"The south of this Yancheng is Ru County, and the west is Mochizuki County, one silk weaving and one tea picking, and there are dealings with the business in Yancheng."

"Hmm." Ye Fu listened to the reports of others, nodded, looked left and right, and patrolled the streets.

In the morning, I looked at the two large granaries in Yancheng and got acquainted with several bosses of rice grains, and Ye Fu wrote down the names one by one.

Noon is a hearty meal.

Ye Fu was taken by Junyue and walked into a big restaurant, and what came out was the "big white goose" that was angry with Ye Fu yesterday.

The man's surname is Xie and he is a veteran businessman in Yancheng.

The two looked at each other, Xie Zhiwen treated Ye Fu politely as if nothing had happened, and the delicious food and drink in the store were served on the table.

Ye Fu remained silent, smiling lightly, looking at the man. Xie Zhiwen lost the obscenity and arrogance he saw last night, and became a full businessman, with shrewd calculations and sleek sophistication in his eyes.

And Junyue is even more clever, in the afternoon with Ye Fu in several famous places in Yancheng, met a lot of rich people.

During the period, Ye Fu rarely spoke, and it was all introduced by Junyue in the middle, and it seemed that they were all old acquaintances.

Some of them had a dinner last night, and today they were very polite.

Jun Yue smiled skillfully: "It's hard work, I've been with the palace for so long." ”

"It's me who tired Her Royal Highness the Princess. It is an honor to meet these people who hold up Yancheng in one day. ”

In the evening, after dinner, Ye Fu was taken to a brightly lit street by Junyue.

Large and small gambling houses gathered, noisy, and the two stopped at the largest gambling house - Jinzunju.

After entering, the noisy environment is full of all kinds of people, scolding, excited, instigating, and stealing joy.

Winning or losing is wrapped up in life, and there is pain and sorrow in the play.

"In the final analysis, in Yancheng, the most profitable ones are the gambling houses and Qinglou. The former is a man-to-man transaction, and the latter is a woman who makes a man trade willingly. ”

Ye Fu bowed slightly, a little unhappy with the noisy environment.

It wasn't until he entered the inner room that he loosened his pursed lips and said lightly: "Why did Her Royal Highness the Princess bring me to these places?" ”

"To the Prime Minister, what are these places?"

"Pin the gold cave, a place for people to stretch."

When Jun Yue heard this, he smiled lightly, approached Ye Fu with a curling posture, and whispered enchantingly: "Does the prime minister like these places?" ”

"I don't like it."

"Haha."

Jun Yue chuckled, stretched out his jade foot to hook the bench, sat down next to Ye Fu, twisted a strand of hair so enchanting that he wrapped his fingers in a knot, and said quietly: "If the palace says that the gambling houses in Yancheng are all opened by me, will the prime minister be surprised?" ”

Ye Fu finally raised his eyes to look at Junyue, but still replied lightly: "No." ”

"Why?"

"Her Royal Highness the princess is smart and exquisite, and she has a talent for business."

"Really?"

Ye Fu nodded.

As the old saying goes: long sleeves are good at dancing, and more money is good. Grand Hyatt apparently did.

"Her Royal Highness the Princess brought me here, didn't you simply want to talk?"

"Hmm." Jun Yue raised his eyebrows and chuckled, his eyes were charming, and he looked at Ye Fu and said, "This palace wants to make a bet with the prime minister." ”

"Oh? I'm not afraid of the princess's jokes when I say it, I didn't bring much money when I went out, and the entanglement was made up for me by a few ministers. ”

"The gambling of this palace, no money."

"I want to hear about it."

"When the palace was in the palace, I often heard the eldest brother nagging about what a powerful and magical opponent he met in Taixue, but his daughter's family could only study from Taifu, and he never had the opportunity to compete with Cheng. Four years ago, ......" Junyue suddenly paused, the corners of his mouth hooked into a faint smile, and said, "Now that the prime minister has come to my Yancheng to inspect at the behest of his father, this palace can't let go of this opportunity." I heard that the prime minister opened up a street for officials in the capital to run a business and made a lot of money. Bengong has no other preferences, just love money, and is interested in doing business, learning a little bit of fur, and I don't want to compare with Cheng to try to do business. ”

"The princess is serious."

"What, the prime minister doesn't want to?"

"I will stay in Yancheng for a few months, it seems that I have the opportunity to ask the princess for advice. How does the princess want to block? ”

"It's almost autumn harvest, and the big guys are more or less rich, and someone has to be rich to do business. If the buyer has it, it depends on the seller's ability. What kind of business is Cheng interested in, let's bet on which one, and we'll see in the end. ”

"How can you tell?"

"Tell the eye, let's take Yancheng and take a look. I lost, and Yancheng was disposed of with the prime minister. If the prime minister loses......"

Jun Yue smiled lightly, gently took out the dagger from his sleeve, and slowly pulled it out, the sharp cold light reflected Ye Fu's face, only to hear the woman say ruthlessly: "If the prime minister loses, let the palace draw a knife, how about it?" ”

"In that case, it's a big bet."

"The stakes are not big, how can you attract gamblers? What's more, there are a lot of gamblers in Yancheng. ”

"What if I don't say yes?" Ye Fu said lazily.

Jun Yue got up with a light smile, stretched out his hand and gestured at Ye Fu's neck, and said: "Then the palace is admitting defeat as the prime minister, and this knife is directly slashed?" ”

"Bang!" With a bang, Junyue's dagger and hand were bounced off by the flying stones!

The two of them looked out of the door together, Ji Cheng smiled like a little old man, walked in with shaking steps, looked at his subordinates angrily, and said with a little apology: "I also said who dared to use a knife against the prime minister, but I didn't see that it was Her Royal Highness the Princess." ”

Jun Yue glanced at it, threw the dagger to the ground, and rubbed Hongzi's hand: "Ji Junshou is just in time. ”

"See Prime Minister, Her Royal Highness the Princess." Ji Cheng pretended to be a salute, and then returned to his staggering appearance, and circled around Ye Fu, "Why is the prime minister sad?" ”

"Is there one?"

"Absolutely." Ji Cheng naturally answered.

Ye Fu smiled lightly and said to Junyue: "I took the princess's bet." ”

Immediately, he looked at Ji Cheng: "Since Ji Junshou saw my sadness, do you want to invite me to have a supper to dispel and dissolve?" ”

Ji Cheng arched his hand and smiled: "It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate." ”

With that, the two of them left the noisy Golden Bottle House one after the other, and found a tavern to sit down.

"Xiao Er, it's dark in the store, palm lamp!"

Ji Cheng shouted and took Ye Fu into the seat.

A shopkeeper immediately ran over and lit a lantern on the side, the size of a palm, which could illuminate the small table in front of him.

"What do you two guest officers want?"

Ji Cheng hooked the corners of his mouth, and said with a ruffian: "I want your shopkeeper to accompany the wine!" ”

The shopkeeper was stunned and at a loss.

Ye Fu was also a little stunned, but when he saw a middle-aged uncle walking over to the side, he was about the same age as Ji Cheng, so he understood.

It was the same two people who went out of the wine table with her last night.

"Introduce to the Prime Minister, this big boss of Gu who can only make wine and buy wine, Gu Hui."

"Poof......" Ye Fu smiled, hurriedly covered up his gaffe, and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." ”

"Haha, Boss Gu doesn't mind, right?" Ji Cheng patted Gu Hui on the shoulder, and Xiao'er had already brought peanuts and a stack of cold vegetables, plus two pots of wine.

"My brother is afraid of life, and he is silent when he doesn't drink."

So, what about after drinking?

Ye Fu waited secretly, and chatted with Ji Cheng without a word.

Gradually, Gu Hui also joined the topic, first asking about his origin and preferences, remarrying, and then mentoring, etc.

"Eh, I found a problem." Ji Cheng said rather melancholy and poured a glass of wine.

"What?" Ye Fu didn't drink alcohol, just tea.

"I'm a little familiar with the prime minister, and when the prime minister leaves, I'll definitely miss it a little."

Gu Hui on the side glanced at Ji Cheng, didn't speak, and drank silently.

"I said Boss Gu, take advantage of the prime minister's performance here, mention your wine-making business, and make some money to spend."

"I've never been here with Boss Gu today."

"Alas, a little common man like us, doing small profits, where can he get into the eyes of Her Royal Highness the Princess?"