The carriage slowed down as it pulled out of the street, and Juppé's anger subsided slightly.

"You have to tell me, why is someone spying on you?"

This question has been haunting Zhu Pei's heart, thinking about it day and night, it is almost a heart disease, and it is easy to see Fanning, so she can't wait to ask Fanning.

Fanning didn't want to tell Juppey the truth, lest she worry too much, but after thinking about it, Fanning still felt that it should be the truth.

"Someone is spying on me, not actually against me, but at my cousin Fan Zhongyan, and now it is rumored that the Son of Heaven intends to call him back to the court, so the opponents of the court are desperately obstructing, maybe they suspect that I am the messenger of my cousin's grandfather, so they spy on me to find out who I am in contact with?"

Only then did Juppé understand what was going on, and she asked worriedly, "Will that be dangerous?" ”

Fan Ning shook his head, "They shouldn't be so stupid, I'm a tribute priest from Pingjiang Mansion, if something happens to me, it's a big deal, and it will implicate a lot of people, and besides, I don't have a threat to them, I guess it's just surveillance, and they won't do anything else." ”

"You still don't have to be careless, the capital is not like Pingjiang Mansion, the water here is too deep, all kinds of interests are involved, and all kinds of things happen in the imperial examination every year, I think you better be careful."

Fan Ning nodded, at this time, he thought of something, and said with a smile: "Do you know about Tian Huangshi?" ”

"Of course I do!"

Zhu Pei pursed his lips and smiled: "Your second uncle has already written to tell me that I am the second proprietor of the Strange Stone Pavilion!" ”

Three black lines appeared on Fanning's forehead, and the second uncle never wrote to tell him about the operation of the Strange Stone Pavilion, but he was willing to write to tell Zhu Pei?

"Since you know, I won't say more, Akihito and Mingli have already left for Fuzhou......."

Without waiting for Fan Ning to finish speaking, Zhu Pei said triumphantly: "It seems that your news is not as good as mine, those two guys have already purchased more than 3,000 pieces of Tianhuangshi, and the land has been bought 1,500 acres, and they are hiring people to build houses, and the first batch of Tianhuangshi they purchased has already set off for the north, and it is estimated that it has now arrived in Pingjiang Mansion." ”

Fanning was speechless, who was the proprietor of the Strange Stone Pavilion? It was his own decision to buy Tian Huangshi, but everyone knew about it, but he didn't know anything.

Zhu Pei saw that Fan Ning's expression was shocked and annoyed, and couldn't help but laugh in his heart, so he comforted him: "Don't blame Second Uncle Fan, doesn't he know your address?" ”

"Forget it, anyway, you're too idle, I'll leave this matter to you to toss."

"What do you mean by handing it over to me?"

Fan Ning's words made Zhu Pei very dissatisfied, "I have been managing whether the Qishi Pavilion is good or not for the past two years, and Second Uncle Fan will write a letter every two months to report to me on the business situation.

Also, I found the store in the Strange Stone Pavilion in Beijing, and the store will be officially handed over to us after the New Year next year, and then Second Uncle Fan came to take care of it in early February, ready to open the store, who do you think is doing these things? ”

Only then did Fan Ning know that the second uncle was making paste for himself, and he clearly told himself that it was his friend who was helping him find a store, and it turned out that it was Ju Pei who was looking for a store, and Fan Ning suddenly realized that Zhu Pei's involvement in the Strange Stone Pavilion was probably much deeper than he imagined.

In contrast, the big proprietor is the shopkeeper, and he doesn't care about anything and doesn't want to ask.

But then again, with the Zhu family assisting in the capital, his 'Tian Huangshi Plan' may be easier to open up the situation.

Thinking of this, Fan Ning also felt a trace of mustard in his heart, and he asked with a smile: "Then how well do you know Tian Huangshi?" ”

"What else do I want to ask you? What does Tian Huangshi look like, and you actually bet heavily on them? Juppé asked curiously.

Fan Ning smiled and said: "Two days ago, Su Liang bought a few Tianhuang stones in Daxiangguo Temple, I took one and planned to give it to you today, when I met your mother just now, I gave it to your brother Zhu Zhe, thank him for the statue for me." ”

At this time, Juppé's carriage had arrived at the mouth of the alley where Fanning lived and slowly stopped.

"A-Ning, I'm going to class this afternoon, I don't have time, I'll take you to see the store in two days, you concentrate on reviewing these days, don't run around anymore."

Fanning smiled in agreement, jumped out of the carriage, waved at Juppé, and the carriage sped west, and soon drove away.

In the carriage, Jian Meizi, who had been silent, suddenly asked, "Ah Pei, why didn't you ask him about Miss Ouyang?" ”

"Sister Jian, there are some things that can't be asked, I know it in my heart, he wants to tell me, so he will naturally say, if he doesn't want to say it, it makes no sense for me to ask."

Jian Meizi snorted coldly, "Eating in the bowl and looking at the pot, a man doesn't have a good thing, if he dares to bear you, I will kill him with a sword." ”

Zhu Pei's face was flushed with shame, and he pulled Jian Meizi's arm and shook it, "Sister Jian, where do you want to go, me and him are just ..... It's just to open a store together to do business, and there is nothing else to do with it. ”

Jian Meizi gave her a blank look.

.........

The news that Zhu Pei left in the carriage without permission was told by the housekeeper to her mother Wang in time, and Wang was immediately furious, and she said with a blushing face: "When the dead girl comes back, bring her to see me immediately!" ”

Wang is going back and forth in the inner hall with her hands behind her back, the stupidity of an eldest son has tossed her tired, and now her daughter does not let herself worry, how long will her children toss themselves?

She also complained a little bit about Zhu Pei's grandfather in her heart, who had been obedient to her since she was a child and spoiled her, how could there be a little lady who dressed as a man and a woman all day long and went to the school to study? Grandfather actually agreed to such a ridiculous thing.

At this time, a maid came to report that the little lady had returned, and she was there in the Great Ya.

Wang breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, it is estimated that Fan Ning is more sensible and did not take Zhu Pei around to play.

In fact, Wang's impression of Fan Ning is also better, she just doesn't want the two to be together all day long, which will cause some gossip and be detrimental to her daughter's reputation.

Wang calmed her emotions down, and she decided to discuss the matter with her husband first and then with her daughter.

In Zhu Zhe's room in the back house, the fat Zhu Zhe was curiously fiddling with Tian Huangshi sent by the maid, but the maid didn't tell him what this thing could do, he still thought it was an egg, and beat it on the table.

'Bang! Bang! Bang! ’

Zhu Zhe knocked the yellow egg hard, and the table was about to be broken.

"Big dumb! What are you doing? ”

Juppé walked in quickly, took his hand, pointed to the sawdust on the table, and said, "You knocked the table out!" ”

Zhu Zhe was stunned holding the stone egg, what is this?

"Show me first?"

Zhu Pei stretched out his little hand in front of him, and Zhu Zhe glanced at his sister blankly, and put the stone egg in her hand.

Zhu Pei took a closer look at this piece of Tianhuang Stone, and was immediately fascinated, she couldn't help but exclaim: "There is such a delicate and delicate stone, no wonder that guy is bent on making it bigger, and he really has eyesight." ”

She saw her brother tilting his head and staring at the stone with curiosity, so Zhu Pei pointed to the small stone statue next to him, picked up his carving knife and made two strokes on the stone, and said with a smile: "Carving dolls, do you know?" ”

Zhu Zhe's eyes slowly lit up, and he finally understood what his sister meant.

He took the stone and began to look at the Tianhuang stone with the eyes of a master carver.

In fact, Zhu Zhe used Shoushan stone to carve a stone statue, and Tian Huangshi itself is a branch of Shoushan stone, but this Tian Huangshi is too much like a goose egg, which made him misunderstand for a while.

At this time, Zhu Pei suddenly thought of a painting, immediately ran back to her yard, found the Xishan travel map, and ran back, she put the Xishan travel map in front of her brother, pointed to Tian Huangshi, and pointed to the painting.

"Engrave the painting on the stone egg!"

Zhu Zhe listened to his sister very much, he put down the stone and began to think carefully about the painting, Zhu Pei did not disturb him, and quietly left, she knew that it would take her brother at least a day to figure out a painting, just like an old monk sitting down, except for eating and sleeping, his whole spirit was devoted to the painting.

.........

Zhu Xiaoyun returned home at dusk, and he served as a judge of the Inquisition's Yuan, which was mainly responsible for judging the middle and lower-level civil official examinations.

And Zhu Xiaoyun is in charge of the review, holding the last pass of the official examination and dispatch, although his official rank is not high, he is the sixth grade, but he has great power in his hands, and many high-ranking officials have to curry favor with him.

Zhu Xiaoyun is Zhu Yuanfu's second son, he is very delicate, fair-skinned, and between his eyebrows and eyes, Zhu Pei looks a bit like his father.

Zhu Xiaoyun went back to the room and took off his coat, and said with a smile to his wife: "Recently, the dispatch hospital has approved more than 100 people, and I have to review every dispatch, I am really tired enough, but fortunately, the approval is finally completed today, and I can have a good rest in the next two days." ”

Wang hesitated and said, "Since the officials are not too busy anymore, there is something I want to discuss with the officials." ”