There are rumors recently that there is a small shop in Dunliang City that is collecting a large amount of stones.That kind of rock with a pitted surface and a yellowish color costs a pound of copper, and you need as much as you have.

As long as people who have lived in Dunliang Mansion for a long time, nine out of ten have seen this stone.When collecting herbs on the mountain, and when fishing in the water, there are such stones.It looks like a stone on the outside, but it is very light in the hand and very recognizable.

One copper per catty, the price is very cheap, but it can't stop those who want to make a little money.In addition, the stone was easy to find, within a few days Shen Hexi collected several carriages, including all kinds of amber, big and small.

These ambers have quite different colors inside. There are white honey, yellow honey, blood amber, and transparent amber with insects in the middle. He is dazzled by all kinds of strange ambers.

With rough stones, you need a master who can carve well. Good objects are three parts material and seven parts work. If the work is not good, any material is useless.

There is no master who carves amber in Dunliang City, but it is easy to find a master who carves other materials.In order to catch up with work, Shen Hexi also worked hard. In addition to finding a few masters who carve jade pieces and wood, those masters who make furniture and ceramics, anyway, they have a little bit of handiwork. He invited more than a dozen people. come over.

If you are average, you can grind beads, and if you are good, you can carve. Now there is still more than a month before New Year's Eve, so let them count as much as they can make.

In order to make amber pieces, Shen Hexi bought another large yard in the city, which was specially used as a factory.He spends almost all day in this yard.Looking at the various ambers every day, he is no longer afraid of the cold, and he is busy walking around in the yard and the processing workshop.

When he came across good materials, he was reluctant to sell them, so he kept them all by himself and put them in a small brocade box. When he was free, he would open the box and take them out for some silly fun.He had never seen so many high-quality ambers since he was a child.

When I was on a boat, once I got off the boat to play locally, I accidentally saw a string of white honey beads, I liked it very much, but when I asked the price, he stared in shock.That string of white honey beads almost caught up with his monthly salary.

Later, when he returned to China, he saw Baimi's beads again in China. Looking at the price, he wanted to run back and buy the string of beads that he missed.The difference between domestic and foreign prices is not one or two times.

As a poor migrant worker, he thought he had no destiny with Bai Mizhu.Unexpectedly, there was no fate in the previous life, but there is fate in this life. His amber processing factory started to work for less than three days, and a string of white honey beads was ground out.This string of beads came from a large piece of material, and because there was a crack in the large material, it could only be divided into grinding beads.

Shen Hexi stroked the smooth beads, the more they looked more like the string he saw abroad.

After collecting amber for less than half a month, the number of amber rough stones coming to the shop is getting smaller and smaller.It turned out that several shops opened in Dunliang City to buy rough amber.Some people began to follow suit, and the price of rough stones also changed from one copper per catty to two coppers per catty.

There are sacks of rough stones everywhere in the courtyard. Shen Hexi feels that even if these workers work 12 hours a day, they may not be able to finish it.He simply waved his hand, he is not collecting rough stones anymore, let them collect the two coppers. If the workmanship of this amber is not good, it is not known whether it can be sold for two coppers.Those profiteers followed the trend and raised the price, they were doing their best.

One copper can buy two steamed buns, and if a commoner has a little money, he might buy a nice amber to play with, anyway, it’s only a few steamed stuffed buns.But such cheap amber will definitely not have any good jobs, and the master's salary for those jobs is not low, at least two taels of silver.

There are only a few taels of silver in January, and the pieces that can be made are limited, and they are all made of good materials, and the pieces that come out are all a few taels, or dozens of taels, or hundreds of taels of silver.Common people would not buy such a piece.Such expensive pieces are all sold to rich people.

Here comes the problem again, rich people love jade, and they are willing to spend a lot of money to buy a piece of jade, but if you ask them to spend money to buy a piece of amber, few people will be tempted.

The shops that are currently open in Dunliang City to buy rough stones all make ordinary pieces, and a piece of amber only costs a few coppers.Shen Hexi reckoned that these shops couldn't last a month, and the few coppers they earned weren't enough to pay the shop rent.

He was earning his little money in Dunliang City, and his big brothers Shen and Xia were not so lucky. Just like what Liu Qinglei said back then, without King An Jin in Yongle City, his subordinates would become Li Jiayou's confidantes.

It is easy to kill a person, but it is difficult to kill all his subordinates.

King An Jin died in less than a month, and Li Jiayou was assassinated six times, not to mention Shen Hexia in Yongle City. If it weren't for the fact that his younger brother Shen Hesong had many people under his leadership, most of King An Jin's private soldiers had been arrested. I couldn't sleep well all day.

"Another year is going to pass." Shen Hexia sighed after taking a sip of the warm wine.Even in winter in the humid south, it is very cold. The Shen brothers are authentic northerners, and living here these days is miserable.In order to drive away the cold, they have to eat spicy hot pot every now and then.After eating this food, my whole body will be warmed up. If I add a jug of wine, my life will be much easier.

"Yeah, it's another year. Xi'er has been in Dunliang City for almost four years, and he will be seven years old after the new year. I almost can't remember what he looks like." Shen Hesong is usually taciturn. When he was a bastard, he didn't look down on him because of this matter, but he and Shen Hexi were not very friendly, and they probably only saw each other a few times on New Year's Eve throughout the year.

"I have his portrait." Shen Hexia, whose cheeks were flushed after drinking, took out a thin square book from his arms, which was not big and only looked like a few sheets of paper.

Shen and Xia wiped their hands, opened the book, pointed to one of them and said, "This is the portrait that Xi'er sent with his blue eagle in summer."

Shen Hesong glanced at the portrait, and saw a little boy standing under a towering tree. He had red lips and white teeth, and a bright smile on his face. He was holding a little blue boy with a tuft of white hair in his arms. eagle.The blue eagle is very well-behaved, and the edge of the eagle still has a touch of yellowish, it looks like it should have just been born.

"I really can't recognize her. Xi'er used to look very much like Aunt Liu when she was young, but now she looks more and more like her father." Shen Hesong sighed.He is still used to calling Liu Qinghe Aunt Liu outside now, and they are not much different in age, so he really can't call him Liu Qinghe's mother.

"Father said the same thing after seeing this portrait." Shen Hexi carefully folded the portrait and put it in his arms. They have many brothers, and he really cared about Shen Hexi the most. For no reason, he always wanted to take good care of him, but it seemed that he He doesn't need the care of his elder brother.

"Father hurts Xi'er as much as the eyeball. He has been in Beicheng for the past few years, and he has sent many good things to Dunliang City." Shen Hesong said sourly.Although he was liked by Shen Yunping since he was a child, Shen Yunping has always been strict with him, the relationship between the two is not like father and son, and the way they get along is more like a master and apprentice.But Shen Yunping treated Shen Hexi differently. At that time, he really loved him. When Princess Huiyang was still there, he didn't dare to blatantly feel sorry for him. Instead, he was always sneaked by the field to give him things and help him clean the nails around him.

These bastards saw it, and few of them were not jealous, and their father had never treated them like this.

Thinking of Princess Huiyang, Shen Hesong took a thoughtful look at Shen Hexia. It's not easy for him as a big brother.If he guessed correctly, there might be a portrait of Princess Huiyang among the stack of portraits.

It is not easy to be a son-in-law in any dynasty or generation. Princess Huiyang is a good mother, but she can't be a good wife. There are many aunts around Shen Yunping. She can't tolerate them, and she can't stop him from continuing to play. On those aunts.

Every year, several people die in Shen Yunping's courtyard for no reason, or a pregnant aunt dies of miscarriage.Shen Yunping watched his own woman and child die just like that, but he couldn't stop Princess Huiyang. According to the law, Princess Huiyang is the king, and his son-in-law is a minister.

The two of them knew each other, but they didn't make it clear. Such a vicious circle, how many women were buried in their hands.

"He Song, tell me why the fourth prince is going to Dunliang City." Shen Hexia drank the wine in the glass and said flatly.From the very beginning, he was not very optimistic about Shen Hexi and Li Bohan getting too close. He knew very well what Li Bohan wanted. As long as he wanted to sit in that position, he thought it would inevitably lead to bloody storms.If Shen Hexi gets too close to him, he will also be in danger.

"Replenish your energy, and one day he will return to Yong'an City." Ever since Song Biling was buried with the ceremony of a queen, they all understood that Li Baihan, the unfavored fourth prince, might have time to turn around.Old General Shen even told them juniors not to get too close to the princes in Yong'an City, they only need to remember one thing, the Shen family is only loyal to the emperor.As for who will be the emperor, they don't participate.

"I'm afraid that Xi'er will become his stepping stone." Shen Hexia has seen the development of Dunliang City over the years. Although they are all in the name of Shen Hexi on the surface, his younger brother is not yet ten years old. What do you know? What Li Baihan did.

Poor Shen Hexi's work in Dunliang City, because he was young, most people thought it was done by Li Baihan, and Li Baihan was also shot while lying down. He didn't do anything, so people thought it was trample Pay attention to Shen Hexi, the big villain who is about to stand up and grab the throne.

"Brother, even if you and I know, what can you do? What can you do to help? I don't know when we will be able to deal with all the things in Yongle City. Let's hurry up. The two of us will have to pass this year's New Year's Eve." "Shen Hesong didn't know that Li Baihan had been using Shen Hexi all the time, but Dunliang City was thousands of miles away, and they couldn't stretch their hands as brothers.

"It would be great if Xi'er could go back to Yong'an City, at least in Yong'an City, with our Shen family here, he won't suffer." Shen and Xia said sullenly.

"Why don't you ask the Queen Mother after the matter in Yongle City is over, the Queen Mother loves you the most, and she will definitely let Xi'er come back." Shen Hesong suggested.

"Okay, I'll tell the queen mother about this." Shen Hexia knew that it was the emperor and the queen mother who made Shen Hexi King of Dunliang back then.No matter how good the relationship between the two of them was before, the king is the king, and he always taboos his subjects from becoming bigger.Their Shen family has already produced a great general of the country. If his father is crowned king, their Shen family will not be far away from copying the house.

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