It was inconvenient to hurry with a pot of sweet potatoes, so Jiang Yan bought a small bamboo basket for a few pennies, put everything in and packed it, and went down to check out the bamboo basket early the next morning. She has to go to Lingnan today, and now is the time when lychees are on the market, and she deliberately went out this month just so that she could go there for a happy meal.

After the lychee leaves the branch, "the color changes in one day, the fragrance changes in two days, the taste changes in three days, and the color and fragrance are all gone outside in four or five days", because the fresh-keeping period is short and far away, it is also a rare good product in the capital, and it is impossible to taste it without a certain amount of manpower and material resources. In Jiafu over the years, Jiang Yan has eaten lychees once in total, or last year, when her position was promoted, Baoyu people had a chance to be generous, and she could only look at her greed before. In fact, Jia Mu and their masters are the number of one or twenty plates, and they have to divide them and yours, and it is impossible to enjoy them. I heard that the emperor rewarded the ministers with only one or two baskets, but there is no one in Jiafu who can handle it, and he has not received that honor so far, so Jiang Yan doesn't know if it's true.

Jiang Yan not only enjoyed eating it, but also bought a lot of it to take home. Yesterday she didn't buy a souvenir, and today she was in a hurry to go back, and she didn't have time to pick anything else, so she brought two baskets of fresh lychees, which were dozens of catties, which can be said to be very sincere, and she couldn't bring any more.

It was already four or five o'clock in the afternoon when he returned to the capital, and after the time of Shen Zheng, Xie Jingxing should have returned home, but they didn't know how many people lined up every day to wait for the invitation, Jiang Yan didn't want to make a fuss and went to Shihu Hutong.

The previous steward Zhao in the courtyard of Shihu Hutong has been promoted to the outer courtyard of the Hou Mansion, and the current steward's surname is Ji, Jiang Yan is not very familiar with it, but the steward Ji is extremely enthusiastic about Jiang Yan. He was a deputy steward before, what is not clear? Didn't Steward Zhao just help this one run an errand and pass on a letter, so that the master Qingyan had a good job. has the deeds of his predecessors in front of him, and the chronicler is not a stupid person, so he naturally has to hold this one.

Rao is Ji steward made up his mind to flatter Jiang Yan, and he was also taken aback when he saw the two large baskets of lychees. Although he didn't have the honor to taste fresh lychees, he had seen it, and this was a tribute! Even if there are a few outside, there are only a few, Jiang Gongzi doesn't make the outside round, right? What kind of financial resources is this! Thinking of this, the smile on his face became even more enthusiastic.

Jiang Yan just came to send some lychees, and she didn't plan to stay longer after explaining a few words, but as soon as she arrived at the door, someone ran to report it, and the Ji steward welcomed her into the house for tea and snacks, and said a lot of "bold, there is a way" to say good things, and promised that she would personally send it to the third master, and she also asked Jiang Yan to enjoy her face and drink, which scared Jiang Yan again and again, and excused herself to go home to meet her family before she escaped.

After she left, the Ji steward didn't dare to delay, the sooner this lychee was delivered, the better, this fresh appearance looked like it had just been picked, and I don't know how Jiang Gongzi did it. He used to think that Jiang Gongzi was an ordinary person with good luck, and he didn't know how to vote for the third master, but he didn't expect him to be so capable, and the chronicler thought that he was also a little knowledgeable, and he really hadn't seen any lychee in a big basket. He really has eyes and doesn't know gold and jade, and he still has to practice this knowledge.

Not to mention what the Ji steward thought in his heart, Xie Jingxing had just dismounted when he returned home from the banquet, and the Ji steward who was waiting at the concierge heard the sound of horses' hooves and immediately greeted him, and stepped forward to say hello.

Xie Jingxing handed the horse to Buguang, who was following behind, and asked casually as he walked inside, "Why did the Ji steward come over?" ”

He was busy with the affairs of the camp these days, and he hadn't been to Shihu Hutong for a long time, it was just for entertaining guests, and he didn't think there would be anything important.

The Ji steward followed him inside, and reported in a low voice, "Jiang Gongzi Shen sent two baskets of lychees over at the right time, and the slave didn't dare to delay, so he sent them to the master while it was not dark." ”

Xie Jingxing knew that Jiang Yan didn't want to have anything to do with the Hou Mansion, and he didn't wonder that she would go to the other courtyard, "What did Jiang Gongzi say?" ”

"Jiang Gongzi said that he went on a long trip, and he only brought some tuyi in a hurry, and asked the master not to dislike it."

The two little servants who were ordered by the steward to watch the lychee on the gatehouse saw Xie Jingxing enter the door, and immediately took the lychee out and waited for the master to check it.

"So much?"

As a first-class noble of the Dayu Dynasty, the Qing'an Hou Mansion can be given lychees every year, and this year it has been tasted, but the number is only two baskets, forty or fifty. Seeing the two big baskets at once, Xie Jingxing was also a little surprised, there must be hundreds of them, right?

Lingnan has to offer hundreds of small lychee trees in the capital every year, and there are one or two hundred ripe fruits every day, which sounds like a lot, but the emperor not only eats it himself, but also rewards it to the concubines in the palace and the ministers in the court.

Xie Jingxing knew that Jiang Yan's ability was not too strange, so he instructed his subordinates to re-select these lychees, divide them into several portions and send them everywhere.

Yongan personally led people to choose, and thought happily in his heart, maybe he could get a few lychees this time.

Qing'an Hou received a large plate full of lychees sent by Xie Jingxing, and his brows furrowed, "It's everywhere?" Where did Jing Xing get so many lychees? ”

He has never been heavy on appetite, and he has been transported from Lingnan to the capital to work hard and lose money, and it is enough to taste it in the mansion rewarded by the emperor every year, and he has never bought it outside, but he also knows the price of lychees outside, and they are all sold by the piece. If you buy it, the loser is not so defeated! If someone else gave it, he would have accepted such a heavy gift so lightly, and his son would not have a brain!

Yong'an didn't look happy when he saw that Hou Ye didn't look like he's happy, so he hurriedly said that it was sent by a friend of the third prince, and someone else also sent it.

Qing'anhou's voice was cold, "Go and call the third prince!" ”

Xie Jingxing was receiving her compliments from his grandmother, saying that he had the ability, except in the palace, there were not so many such fresh lychees in the capital. His mother's sister-in-law also chimed in. Xie Jingxing thought that although he didn't make much effort, Jiang Yan only sent Lychee over because of his face, and it was his ability to make such a friend.

The house was full of joy, and a maid came in to report that the Hou Ye was waiting for the third prince to pass in the small study.

Thinking of facing his father's cold face, Xie Jingxing was a little reluctant, but his father didn't dare to disobey, thinking that he had just sent someone to send a large plate of lychees, how could he have a good face, so he relieved himself and went to the small study.