Diplomatic exchanges between the two countries, the itinerary of the mission in Beijing in the Northern Qi Dynasty has long been determined, logically speaking, a person like Fan Xian in Beijing, there will be corresponding escorts around him, Fan Xian himself is very afraid of this arrangement, although there have already been resident officials to negotiate, he still came to the Ministry of Rites after the permission of the Northern Qi royal family.

In the secret agreement, Yan Bingyun was exchanged for Sean and Si Li, and Qingguo suffered a big loss, so Fan Xian was anxious to find the executor who was hiding in the shadows. But I didn't expect that the nominal Ministry of Rites Shu Yilang, the real deputy envoy of the Northern Qi Jinyi Guard, actually hid from him!

It seems that the other party wants to delay for a few more days, Fan Xian was furious, waved his sleeves and walked out of the gate of the Ministry of Rites, ignoring those officials of Qi State. At the entrance of the ceremonial department, Lin Jing had also rushed over from Honglu Temple and quietly shook his head at Fan Xian.

The four of them got back into the carriage, and Lin Jing said: "Wei Hua Shaoqing, he has disappeared since he left the palace, and I don't know where he went." ”

Fan Xian sighed and said, "It is estimated that it is the same elsewhere, and the people of Qi want to delay it for a few more days." ”

"What's the benefit of delaying for a few more days?" Wang Qinian frowned and said, "Anyway, they always have to hand over people, and I don't believe they can drag it on forever." ”

Fan Xian shook his head: "We have to do our best to get Yan Bingyun out." ”

"How?"

"Go to Wei Hua's house. ”

"The Marquis of Changning?" Lin Jing said in embarrassment: "That's the queen mother's own brother, we foreign envoys rushed to go, it is a big taboo, it is not in line with the system, I am afraid that there will be a lot of trouble." ”

Fan Xian smiled and said: "It's best to let the Northern Qi Emperor's gang of imperial historians, Ming'er and Ninghou, the chief of staff of the upper dynasty, have a foreign country, which is even better." ”

After the plan was made, the carriage left the yamen of the Ministry of Rites, and the Imperial Forest Army around him naturally followed, and there were some secret agents who seemed to be passers-by in the distance who followed all the way. Wang Qinian was sitting in the carriage, but he could smell the smell of those people from afar, and said softly to Fan Xian: "Lord Tisi, it should be Jinyiwei's people who follow us." ”

"Anyway, with the Royal Forest Army with you, are you still afraid that we will get lost?" Fan Xian said softly: "Don't pay attention to them." The most important thing is not to rush to contact the people in the courtyard in Northern Qi these days, it will not be good to bring unnecessary risks to those spies. ”

According to the order of the imperial court, the Northern Qi spies who stared at the delegation were also a little strange, why would these envoys from the south be interested in going shopping after leaving the Ministry of Rites, and they were visiting the most luxurious and extravagant Silk Street in Shangjing, and the street sold luxury items such as glass products, which were not at all consumed by ordinary people.

An agent frowned and said, "Why do these southern barbarians want to visit Silk Street?"

The subordinate next to him replied: "It's rare to go abroad, of course you have to buy some good things to go back." These southern barbarians are rich and ruthless now, if they don't buy some glasses back, how can they explain to the people at home?"

"Idiot!" the spy in front of him scolded: "All the glass in this world is from Nanqing, where do they need to come to Beijing to buy it?"

There are not many people ―――――――――――――――――――――――― Silk Street, but the Qi people walking in it are all pot-bellied, bead-haired women, and they know at a glance that there is not much silver in their pockets, but the silver tickets must be much thicker than the books at home. The shops are made along the street, and there is a slight distance between them, not far from each other, just right.

Those signboards are even more conspicuous, vertically resting outside the storefront, painted with black lacquer, depicting gold characters, but some of the gold characters have gradually faded, those rich owners do not seem to want to change, take a closer look at the payment, only to know that the original signboard is very old, the inscription people are often a hundred years, or even hundreds of years ago a generation of celebrities, the reason why the gold words gradually faded, I think that these businessmen want to deliberately create a kind of ancient servant down-to-earth style, show off the atmosphere of a century-old store.

Only the seven shops in the middle of Silk Street are different, the signboards are horizontal, although they are not brand new, but compared with the surroundings, it will seem that the years are much shallower, some of these shops are selling glass products, some are selling soap and other things, some are selling perfumes, some are selling cotton cloth, some are wine, and the most unusual thing is that there is one, which is actually specialized in selling toys.

Several carriages stopped at the corner of the street, escorted by soldiers of the Imperial Guards, and the same rank as even a first-class prince. But all the merchants on Silk Street still maintained their self-restraint, and no one came out to greet customers, just waiting for the four people to come down from the carriage one by one.

The four of them walked all the way to Silk Street, and finally stopped at the door of the cotton cloth seller, and the young man, who was extremely handsome, touched his head, as if he did not understand why cotton cloth could be regarded as a luxury.

After entering the store, the owner explained to these distinguished customers: "When it comes to planting cotton and cotton cloth, legend has it that a genius surnamed Wang did it hundreds of years ago, but then the method gradually disappeared, and no one used it anymore. It wasn't until 20 years ago that our old club was able to regain this method. Ladies and gentlemen, this cotton cloth is warmer than silk, and the price is cheaper, and it is of the best quality, even compared to Nankei Kyoto, it is not much worse. ”

The handsome young man seemed very interested, and said, "Give me a foot to try." ”

The shopkeeper's face darkened, and he heard that the other party was a Nanqing accent, and said with a grin: "It turned out to be a fellow countryman, I said this official master, how can we Nanqing people come to Beiqi to buy cotton cloth, not to mention that others are bought in bundles, you are good, come and try it?"

The young man smiled, apologized, exited the store, looked up at the words on the horizontal signboard, and frowned: "This word is really ugly." ”

The shopkeeper was furious and scolded: "This is written by the old owner of our store, you guy who doesn't know the goods, retreat quickly!"

The young man smiled and led the three subordinates to a nearby shop. This young man was naturally Fan Xian, and the ugly words he said were naturally the ink left by his mother many years ago, and the handwriting on the letter in the box was not much different - exactly the same ugly!

After shopping for a while, Fan Xian knew that these shops were all the industries opened by the Nanqing Emperor Merchants in Beiqi, of course, more years ago, this should be the Ye family's industry, just looking at the things sold, I knew that my mother must have earned a lot of money from the hands of nobles in the world.

Walking on Silk Street, walking in the signboard with his mother's inscription, Fan Xian was a little dazed, and he seemed unwilling to go again.

"My lord, let's not go to the Changning Marquis Mansion, what are we doing here?" Lin Jing asked worriedly on the side.

Fan Xian was slightly stunned, woke up and said with a smile: "Of course I came to buy gifts, where is the reason to come to the door empty-handed." ”

With that, he lifted the corner of his shirt and stepped into the widest glass shop. I saw that there were all kinds of glass products on display in the store, looking gorgeous and abnormal, there were flat-shaped large wine bottles, amphorae, jade pots, mainly wine utensils, and all kinds of small utensils, including worm boxes made of glass, all kinds of chess sets, and even a small crystal clear oil lamp.

The whole store was crystal and eye-catching, and Fan Xian felt a faint pride in his heart, although he always seemed to be messing around in this world, and he hadn't done anything earth-shattering, but looking at these things left by his mother, he couldn't help but think, someone has finished it, what else can he do?

The shopkeeper had heard these people talking before, and knew that they were fellow villagers in the south, so he smiled and said, "Everyone, it's not that the old man doesn't want to do your business, it's just that if you buy glass in Shangjing, it's really a loss." ”

Fan Xian smiled and asked: "I know, it must be much more expensive in Shangjing than in our Qingguo, but I see that the Northern Qi Palace uses a lot of glass, isn't it too expensive." ”

The shopkeeper smiled and said: "Who is the stupidest customer in the world? Of course, it is the emperor, the business of the Northern Qi Imperial Palace, I heard that it was the biggest transaction made by our old boss back then, and that amount scared all the rest of the rich merchants in the world stupid." ”

Fan Xian smiled proudly and said: "You are bold in what you say, you are in Northern Qi, aren't you afraid that those officials will arrest you?"

"Don't be afraid, as long as our Daqing Dynasty is still the strongest country in the world, we businessmen will not be bullied wherever we go. Having said that, the shopkeeper lowered his voice and continued: "The stupidest customer in the world...... It's not that I can say it, I heard the master say it, and it was also what the old boss said back then. ”

Fan Xian smiled, and suddenly asked, "Is your master Da Ye or Ji Ye?"

The shopkeeper was stunned, raised his head and looked at Fan Xian, it seemed that it was hard to believe that this beautiful young man would know so many things, and he forgot to answer for a while.

Lin Jing smiled beside him and said, "This is Lord Fan Xian, the envoy of the mission this time, although you are far away in the north, you also know the origin of Lord Fan." ”

The owner of the glass shop was shocked, quickly lifted his placket, and bowed down to Fan Xian.