After Gu Xinsheng's cronies met with Yi Tianxing, they didn't say more than greetings, and after a few words of explanation, they dispersed.

Yi Tianxing waited until there was no trace of everyone, and then slowly asked: "It's all here, why didn't you have a meal together?" Even if it is a nodding acquaintance, the first time they meet, and they say goodbye in a hurry, it is also against common sense, not to mention that Gu Xinsheng specially summoned his henchmen to know him, naturally he wanted to enhance the friendship between the two parties, and he should not leave without even eating a meal, the only explanation is that these people have other important things to do and have to go.

Gu Xinsheng said with a smile: "It's a long time coming, there is something to do tonight, and everyone is not available." ”

Yi Tianxing frowned: "Is there anything I can help with?" Brother, don't treat me as an outsider." ”

Gu Xinsheng walked leisurely to the window, pressed the edge of the window with both hands, looked at the magnificent palace in the distance, and said in a low voice: "You are a guest from afar, I, as a cousin, can't put on a big banquet to catch you up, it's already a shameful thing, are you embarrassed to ask you to run errands for me?"

Yi Tianxing said: "It's so simple to run errands?"

Gu Xinsheng took a deep breath, and then let out a long breath: "Naturally, it won't be so simple. After that, he turned around, stretched out his arms, leaned against the window and said with a wry smile: "This capital is very interesting, the entire black and white are held in the hands of dignitaries, whether you are a chivalrous samurai or a lawless gangster, there is no support from the powerful behind you, and there is no place to die at any time." In other words, none of the people who can live in the capital are the masters of the rivers and lakes alone, and each of them, or us, represents a certain adult or even a certain faction in the court. If these officials move their mouths, we must move the knife, and we can't do it without moving. Hey, isn't your seventh cousin very unproductive? Thinking of this, I feel sorry for the ancestors of the ancient family! For thousands of years, when has our ancient family ever been a dog's leg? !"

Yi Tianxing picked up the teacup and took a sip, Shi Shiran stood up, walked to Gu Xinsheng's side, looked at the imperial city, and said lightly: "No shame." If you want to take it, you must first go with it, seventh cousin, since you have great ambitions, why bother to stick to this small section. ”

Gu Xinsheng was stunned for a moment, Huo Di turned around, and said in a deep voice: "You don't think I want to go in and live, do you? ”

A smile appeared on Yi Tianxing's face: "It doesn't matter if you want to or not, that position is not easy to sit, and it is not very comfortable to sit, so it is okay not to sit." ”

Gu Xinsheng cut off: "I see that Lu Gan sits very comfortably, and he doesn't do anything serious, except for enjoying curiosities, touring the mountains and rivers, building a lot of construction, and recruiting ** all day long, just listening to the bureaucrats below, I don't know how comfortable I am." ”

Yi Tianxing sneered: "So he didn't sit for long." If it weren't for his shit luck, his ancestors accumulated virtue for three generations, and saved him a huge family foundation, where would he be able to withstand such a toss! But it's also fast, this country is full of holes, stormy and stormy, and the country is only in the mist, it depends on who lights the first fire. ”

Gu Xinsheng said: "That's right, Lu Gan, this guy is doing nonsense, if it weren't for Dayu's century-old savings and abundant treasury, it is estimated that he would not have been able to hold it for a long time." ”

Yi Tianxing snorted: "This kid has made the country's economy bleak, and the surplus of the treasury of the past dynasties is used to fill all kinds of holes, and sooner or later he will sit on the empty mountain and make the people miserable, but I don't know how long it will last?"

Gu Xinsheng said: "It's almost over, Lu Gan is extravagant, and the treasury is increasingly consumed, even if the domestic wind and rain are smooth, the frontier swords and soldiers can't afford it, and there is no additional use at home and abroad, it will be spent in two years." At that time, not to mention handling political affairs, it is necessary to meet the needs of Lu Gan alone, and it is also necessary to increase taxes to ensure it. Under the heavy taxes, the people will inevitably be unbearable, and in addition, the officials at all levels will take advantage of the opportunity to make profits, and those with ulterior motives will add fuel to the fire, and the people will soon be cornered. After saying that, he glanced at Yi Tianxing and did not continue to say thoroughly.

Yi Tianxing didn't ask Gu Xinsheng where the news came from, since he said this kind of thing categorically, the news should be conclusive, and he didn't express surprise that Lu Gan could embezzle the treasury to supply his own squandering, although this is an act that Yi Tianxing has always hated, but with Lu Gan's perverse behavior, Yi Tianxing does not expect him to have any bottom line as a monarch.

After pondering for a long time, Yi Tianxing spoke: "Two years are fleeting, what are your plans?"

Gu Xinsheng laughed and said, "If you don't open your mouth, I will ask you to help me." But our brothers have just met, so let's not talk about these uninteresting topics, okay?"

Yi Tianxing closed his mouth, just opened a pair of bright eyes, and looked at Gu Xinsheng with a straight gaze.

Gu Xinsheng stood up helplessly and straightened his waist: "Follow me." After speaking, he walked out of Chaotian Pavilion with Yi Tianxing, went down the stairs, walked to the sixth floor of the Kyushu Building, and entered a wing room called "Golden Valley Garden".

The layout of "Golden Valley Garden" and "Chaotian Pavilion" is very different.

"Chaotian Pavilion" is graceful and elegant, the utensils used have no smoke and fire, at first glance it is no different from the objects of ordinary people, but carefully identify, you will know that the teacup on the table is the treasure of the Ming kiln that has been extinct thousands of years ago, the splendid picture hanging is the true handiwork of the painting of Master Shengwu, the materials used for the table and chair are not very precious, but they are all things in the palace of the former dynasty, and there are even inscriptions and seals of Jin Yuanzong behind the chair of the main seat......

On the other hand, the "Golden Valley Garden" does not implicitly reveal the taste of luxury and luxury, and the things used are only noble and luxurious, with thirty-six South China Sea fire corals, surrounding the room, each of which is as high as seven feet. The branches are luxuriant, and what is more rare is that the height is consistent, it looks like a thirty-six canopy of flames, illuminating the red in the room; in the middle of the house is a rotating round table that is enough for twenty people to eat, the whole body is carved from light cloud wood, this kind of Jingzhou specialty tree has the characteristics, not only the surface naturally generates moire, which is of great ornamental value, and the wood is light, Solid as a whole, to the Jingzhou those nobles who have no power to tie the chicken's power, as a dining table, just to figure it light and convenient to turn, but the light cloud wood grows slowly, the hundred-year-old wood, but also more than a square circle, and the older the tree, the slower the growth of the tree diameter, so it is mostly used to make walking sticks, if it is to make furniture, it is mostly used to spell, like this round table The whole table diameter is about four meters, I am afraid that it has to be more than 5,000 years old to be possible, and the whole Jingzhou is estimated to be unable to find a second such light cloud wood; The cups, plates and dishes on the table are all made of mutton fat and jade, the cups and bowls are all the same color, and there is no impurity to find the slightest impurity, the plates and dishes are bordered by gold wire, such as vines, jade as leaves, jade as flowers, dotted on them, just like the naturally generated green leaves and red flowers.

As soon as Yi Tianxingfu entered the door, he exclaimed in surprise: "This room is too cheesy, for entertaining nouveau riche?"

Gu Xinsheng said: "When you open the door to do business, it is naturally impossible to greet only one type. Although you can enter the Kyushu building to consume, either rich or expensive, but the rich and noble people are not all of the same taste, I have a different style on each floor here, let them choose, of course, the top floor is a special case, can go there to eat, are a member of the court, even if it is a pig, he has to pretend to be an elegant pig, they don't have to choose, don't know how to appreciate and have to endure. Overall, the more the Kyushu Building goes to the lower floors, the more vulgar the decoration becomes. There's no way, pretending to be forced is also a science, you can't expect rich people to have taste. Said a low voice: "I'm not afraid to tell you, in fact, I don't have either, the decoration above the ninth floor is all the idea of a few so-called celebrities in the city to help me, and I have put forward a lot of ideas on the lower floors, speaking of which, I particularly like the style of this Jingu Garden." ”

Yi Tianxing was stunned for a moment, and nodded in understanding: "It's okay, you're right, you have to do business with a taste like mine, and you can't sell anything." ”

Gu Xinsheng clapped his hands with the same feelings: "That's right, I once talked about business with those celebrities, grandma, these guys are either pretentious and avoid talking about blockages, or they are rambling, one is more unreliable than the other." The things they have come up with, apart from the fact that their small circle of people praise and praise each other, and that the officials of the DPRK and China will occasionally praise and touch the light of celebrities, there is basically no other source of customers. ”

Yi Tianxing's forehead jumped when he heard this: "I'm not a celebrity." ”

Gu Xinsheng said with a big grin: "It's almost, it's all bad reading...... suddenly found that Yi Tianxing's eyes were about to burst into flames, so he laughed dryly: "There is still a difference, there is still a difference......

Yi Tianxing snorted and diverted the topic: "The unitary time has passed, let's arrange for the food to be served." ”

Gu Xinsheng said: "Okay! Open the meal! By the way, let you see my cousin's methods." ”

Yi Tianxing's heart moved: "What do you mean?"

Gu Xinsheng smiled mysteriously: "You'll know later." As he spoke, he shouted, "It's served!"

With a response from the bottom, there was a slight sound of broken steps on the stairs, and then as soon as the door opened, eight beautiful maids rushed in, put on the cold saucer, and shouted "Childe, please eat", and then exited the door in a neat and orderly manner.

Yi Tianxing glanced at the desktop: "Just our brothers, do you need to make such a ...... Didn't I say you, this plate is too small, right?"

Gu Xinsheng beckoned Yi Tianxing to sit down: "What is small, what is small? Come here to eat, is it a meal? What you eat here is a scene, and the auxiliary dishes want to be delicate and exquisite, you want a large plate, and the main dish will be big." ”

Yi Tianxing glanced at it, and then exclaimed in surprise: "Heh! What kind of rare things are these? I have never seen them? How do you know that I like to taste fresh?"

Gu Xinsheng smiled: "What rare objects?" pointed to three of the cold dishes: "Don't talk about the rest, these are all Shuzhou specialties, you must know." ”

Yi Tianxing sighed: "Won't it?" looked at it carefully, pointed to one of the cold dishes and said, "This dish looks like a white hemp vine tip dipped in sesame sauce?"

Gu Xinsheng said: "The answer is correct." ”

Yi Tianxing's face changed, and he pointed to another plate of cold dishes: "Then this must be a cold pork salad?"

Gu Xinsheng nodded: "Go on." ”

Yi Tianxing picked up a piece of food shaped like a stick from the third dish of Shuzhou specialties, put it in his mouth and chewed, and suddenly a taste was like chewing wax, but the feeling of astringency permeated the entire mouth.

"Phew!" Yi Tianxing spat on the ground, and said angrily: "Gu Xinsheng, what do you mean by this?!" While he understood what he was tasting, his heart was full of anger and could not be contained, and he couldn't care about the feelings of his relatives: "The tip of the white hemp vine is just a thing that the poor people come to endure the years during the famine, and you also serve me the weed that feeds pigs like Pig Erhuan? And this thing, the heart of the tree is extracted from the chestnut branch branch, right? This thing is not eaten by pigs, right?"

Gu Xinsheng seemed to have expected Yi Tianxing's reaction, and waved his hand with a smile: "Little cousin, don't be impatient, these are my best-selling dishes here, bring them to you to see, if you don't like me, I will replace them immediately." ”

Yi Tianxing rolled his eyes: "Are all the powerful people in Zhongzhou freaks with an unbalanced sense of taste and a mind like a pig? These wild vegetables are not only of inferior grade, but also unpalatable to death, they actually like them?"

Gu Xinsheng said leisurely: "Correct your point of view, only the poor love deliciousness, and the powerful eat healthy and high-grade." After a pause: "You are right, white hemp vine tips, chestnut branch trees, pig erhuan these things are wild vegetables and coarse grains, and even farmers are not easy to eat, but even you have to ponder for a long time and are not sure, in this Shenzhou capital, who knows?"

Yi Tianxing was so choked that he had nothing to say, and he breathed a sigh of relief before saying, "But these things are hard to eat!"

Gu Xinsheng sneered disdainfully: "Soil, right? Let me tell you, in the circle of the top people in Zhongzhou, you have to pick and choose the unpalatable ones to eat." ”

Yi Tianxing muttered, "The collective head is in the water?"

Gu Xinsheng shook his head and smiled: "Because it's unpalatable, that is, no one usually eats it, and what no one eats must have a variety of little-known special effects, even if it can't aphrodisiac and replenish the brain, it will definitely be able to prolong life." ”

Yi Tianxing was stunned: "What kind of logic is this?"

"The logic of the health home. Gu Xinsheng said happily: "Speaking of this health family, it has also been popular in Zhongzhou for decades, a large group of barefoot doctors, with all kinds of non-marginal medical theories, specifically boasting that medicine is not as good as food therapy, and the food that has been ignored or even eliminated by ordinary people is turned out as a panacea to sell, in this Zhongzhou is more popular than Xinglin Guoshou." ”

Yi Tianxing said suddenly: "It turned out to be them? As soon as you say that I have really heard of this kind of person, in fact, some of their statements are still a little reasonable, but they are all nonsense, as long as they are not toxic and can be eaten, they will have some benefits to the human body. I thought they were just a sideline to the lower ninth, and I didn't expect it to be like this. ”

Gu Xinsheng said with a smile: "Don't underestimate them, the richer they are, the more afraid they are of death, although their remarks cannot be investigated, but they cater to the psychology of the powerful, so they are very influential in the choice of diet for the powerful." Your cousin and I have made full use of their influence to make these wild vegetables, which are unheard of in the city, the most extravagant dishes in the world. Saying that, he pointed to the cold salad pig Erhuan: "Do you know how much this dish costs?"

Yi Tianxing pursed his lips: "Is it possible to sell it for fifty taels of silver?"

Gu Xinsheng held back a smile and said seriously: "One hundred taels, gold." ”

"What?" Yi Tianxing was so surprised that he almost jumped up: "They think this is fairy grass?"

Gu Xinsheng said lightly: "Almost, I told them that this is a spiritual grass from the depths of Shu Mountain, which grows on the cliffs that apes cannot climb, and only the local Wu natives who are familiar with geography can pick it." Considering that it is not easy to pick, and the Wu clan is fierce and barbaric and difficult to deal with, and the annual output is very small, my caravan faces many risks when it goes deep into Wu County, Shuzhou, and often loses a lot of manpower and materials, so it is really not expensive to collect a hundred taels of gold. ”

Yi Tianxing looked at Gu Xinsheng in a daze, gritted his teeth and spit out: "Profiteer!"