The dilapidated vermilion wooden door is open, and it can be vaguely seen that there are two shiny bronze lion bite knockers hanging on the wooden door, and on the top of the vermilion wooden door is a new plaque, and the two big characters "Zhu Fu" are written in gold gilt. Two snow-covered, mighty stone lions, sitting or standing, dutifully guarding the mansion.

Zhufu is located in Qingshi Street, although it is located in a prosperous area, but in addition to the plaque is new, the façade is dilapidated, decades of ancient houses, no one can believe that this is the residence of Emperor Huizong's most trusted person who presided over Huashigang.

Lao Zhang and Xiao Meng put their hands into their sleeves, trembled, stomped their feet, and yawned against the painted door frame. Suddenly, Lao Zhang's eyes lit up suddenly, as if a mouse smelled the fragrance of oil, and quickly jumped up.

"You're here, Childe, please come in."

"It's a strange cold weather, why did Childe come over?"

Lao Zhang hunched his waist and kept asking the young and immature Gongzi in front of him to warm up, and turned his head to Xiao Meng, who was stunned and puzzled, and shouted, "Why don't you hurry up and go in and inform the steward, just say that Xiao Gongzi is here." ”

Lao Zhang turned his face, instantly became smiling, and smiled like a chrysanthemum, "Childe, he's new here, don't be surprised, come into the house quickly, warm up, the cold wind outside is really blowing." ”

The yelled porter glanced at Brother Gongzi, and quickly ran towards the mansion, thinking that this was the residence of the Zhu Mansion, the most trusted official by the official family, and the most powerful official in the southeast of the Great Song Dynasty.

kept muttering in my heart, as the saying goes, the prime minister is a third-grade official in front of the door. Lao Zhang is blind, and he dares to claim that he never makes eyes, and he would even be so attentive to a young man with a young face, estimated to be only fifteen or sixteen years old, and I am afraid that he has not yet reached the crown.

"Okay, have eyesight, look at the reward", Brother Gongzi shook the white silk fan, full of enjoyment to accept the flattery of the porter, the entourage who followed behind took out the money bag from his arms, the bag was clearly written with the word "reward", took out a dime of broken silver and handed it to the porter, and the porter accepted it with a smile.

"Smack~"

Brother Gongzi put away the fan, shook his head, and pointed at the money bag with the fan, "Give, it's not enough, give it again, Xiao Wu hurry up." ”

"Childe," Xiao Wu grimaced and grabbed his money bag.

Although Lao Zhang looked at the entourage named Xiao Wu and the money bag in his hand, he persuaded Xiao Gongzi, "Enough son, enough reward, I'm tired of Brother Wu." ”

Xiao Gongzi ignored Lao Zhang, looked at Xiao Wu, and said in an accentuated tone, "Huh? ”

Xiao Wu was reluctant, but he still took out the silver taels from the money bag and handed them to Lao Zhang.

After only a few words, he got nearly three taels of silver, which was equivalent to his four months' salary, and Lao Zhang smiled so much that he was grinning and thanked him again and again.

"Gongzi Xie rewards, Brother Xie Wu."

"Huh~"

Brother Gongzi looked at the bitter gourd-faced entourage Xiaowu, shook his fan, and persuaded Xiaowu proudly, "What are you doing, this son, there is money, you must first learn to spend money, you will make money, look at the point, the more you spend, the more you will earn later." ”

"Yes...... Be...... What Childe said is that Childe is always right. ”

Several entourages glanced at each other, helplessly forced to accept their son's crooked reasoning, and secretly said in their hearts, "Even if it's not, it should be wrong." ’

"Clever."

Xiao Gongzi nodded with satisfaction, turned his head to look at the thin man beside him, his appearance was different from ordinary people, and a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes from time to time.

"Really don't go in with Ben Gongzi?"

"No, the provincial ones are scaring people, and they will delay your work, I'll wait for you outside."

The man pretended not to care, took out a flute, put it to his mouth, and blew it gently, his fingers jumping on the flute like a fairy, and a cheerful tune was born.

"Forget it, whatever you want, let's go."

"Childe, please be careful of the stairs." Lao Zhang hunched his waist and led the way with a smirk, and the son shook his fan comfortably, and followed Lao Zhang into the living room with his entourage.

"Childe, you wait for a while, the steward will come soon, drink hot tea first, warm up your body, and the villain will retire first."

"Hmm."

Xiao Gongzi held the teacup, blowing the tea leaves floating on the tea water, thinking about what chips to use to make the greedy dead pig's head accept, as soon as he remembered that last time in order to ask for two insignificant lower county heads, the dead pig's head slaughtered his store's profits for nearly a month, nearly 100 taels of gold, the dead pig's head is when he is wronged to squeeze to death, if it is not to ensure the development of the family, his own plan, and the future of the two heads, he can only pinch his nose and agree, but every time he thinks about it, he hates itchy.

"Childe," a strange but breathing voice came from far and near.

Step ~ Step ~ The strange tone woke Xiao Gongzi from his thoughts, Xiao Gongzi raised his head blankly, and Xiao Wu hurriedly whispered in Xiao Gongzi's ear.

The voice was a sturdy foreigner, with a pair of light blue eyes under the smooth blonde hair, a high nose bridge and towering cheekbones that made the face more three-dimensional, a thick beard that even hid the mouth, a tall and muscular body wearing a narrow sleeve regular dress with a placket collar, and was walking briskly towards the living room, followed by Xiao Meng, the porter who went to communicate.

Xiao Gongzi was like a rabbit with an arrow, he didn't care about playing handsome and posing, threw the fan back, and hurriedly greeted it, and Xiao Wu, who was following behind him, accurately caught the fan that fell from the air, and followed without delay.

"Uncle Qiao, I haven't seen you for a long time, my little nephew misses me very much," Xiao Gongzi took Fanren's hand, his eyes were full of joy.

Fanren Song's name is Qiao An, a merchant from Persia, who admired the Great Song Dynasty and heard that the Great Song Dynasty was full of gold, with the dream of making a fortune, he traveled thousands of miles from Persia to the Great Song Dynasty by boat, but he didn't want to encounter a storm at sea, was shipwrecked, and was saved by the captain of the Xiao family, Lao Qiao, and then he has been following his savior to run the ship, and he does not want to return to China.

In order to stay in the Great Song Dynasty, Qiao An also begged Lao Qiao to name him, Lao Qiao also knew a little bit of literature and ink, and ran a boat all his life, the biggest hope was to return to old age safely and return to his roots, so he gave him an An, and let him take his surname and name Qiao An.

"Uncle Qiao, Song Yu has grown a lot, and he is becoming more and more fluent," Xiao Gongzi patted Uncle Qiao's solid arm, although he didn't run again, but the white muslin couldn't hide his strong arms after the sun and rain.

Although Uncle Qiao is a Persian, he is quite grateful, the last time he asked for help from the dead pig's head, he sent a few treasures from Persia, and asked Qiao An to tell the origin, I don't want the pig head to value Qiao An, saying that it is the lack of an outer door to be in charge, find a foreigner to be in charge, and have a lot of face, ask him for Qiao An, although he is reluctant, when he is in a dilemma, Qiao An stepped forward to make a decision, entered the Zhu Mansion, with the life-saving grace of the whole old Qiao, and the friendship of Xiao Mansion.

"Yes, there are often people visiting in the Zhu Mansion, and they are fluent in talking, Son, Uncle Qiao is okay," Qiao An didn't seem to want to say more about his situation in the Zhu Mansion, so he skipped a word, and instead asked about his life-saving benefactor, Old Qiao.

"Don't worry, Uncle Qiao doesn't run the boat now, his body is no worse than us young people, he often carries a pipe to the dock, looks at the sea, and chats with fishermen," Xiao Gongzi was a little relieved, Lao Qiao saved people right, and it was a pity, and he couldn't help but feel a little more resentful of the dead pig's head.

"That's good, that's good," Qiao An nodded reassuringly, and then asked, "Childe, what is the so-called thing about coming this time?" ”

Qiao Anxin knew that this Xiao Gongzi was the most annoyed by this entertainment, and last time he followed the old housekeeper out to see the world, and visited Master Zhu by the way.

"Childe, I'm going to ask Uncle Zhu for help this time."

"Okay, it just so happens that the old man is free at home, let's talk as we walk," Qiao An led Xiao Gongzi and the others to the inner mansion.