I want to do research even if I have no money

Situ Meng fell asleep and fell asleep until the evening. There was only one dim lamp lit in the wing room, and the veil was vaguely visible. Jing Shen was sitting at the table reading a book by the light.He got up as silently as possible, sat on the bed and looked at Jing Shen's handsome profile.Time seemed to have passed for a long time, and it seemed to be just a moment. They parted and met again. The child with dark skin and clear eyes and the boy with the most perfect facial features crossed time and space and intertwined together.

The next day, Jing Shen really fulfilled his promise. After going down to court, he had lunch with Situ Meng at Prince Xian's Mansion, and the two walked to the West Market as if they were taking a walk after dinner.

"These are the properties of my brother's family." Jing Shen pointed to several shops on the street. These shops not only make clothes, but also sell cloth and rice, and even a medical center. It was so wide that even Situ Meng couldn't help but click his tongue.

Jing Shen was still putting pressure on Situ Meng, "My mother and concubine said, let me invest money in your new store, and I will have a share in all your stores in the capital in the future."

It doesn't matter, Situ Meng thought, when Jing Shen paid a lot of money for the irrigation system in the manor, even though Situ Meng paid him back later, Situ Meng still felt that he owed Jing Shen in his heart.If a store in the capital is opened in the future, the profit can be distributed to Jingshen, so Situ Meng's feeling of indebtedness will be slightly reduced.

Vendors in the Beijing market sell more types than the Yangzhou market. You can also see a lot of things transported from the south here. Situ Meng picked up a light switch lamp with a revolving lantern on it. Similar to landscape paintings, if the switch of the light is turned on, the surrounding paintings will change accordingly, projected on the wall, and combined with the light to form a wonderful picture.

"I haven't seen this kind of fire switch light in the capital before, did it only come into being in recent years?" Situ Meng was alone with Jing Shen, without saying honorifics, the two got along as before.

Depth of field: "It should have been created in the past two years. If I remember correctly, it seems that a caravan came back from overseas and brought in things from outside. At first, the paintings on it were all Western paintings. Later, the fire here The mechanism engineer replaced the painting with our own style."

Situ Meng nodded. Being able to learn to imitate is already a lot better than before. It is only a matter of more than ten years since Dazhou's fire mechanism technique became popular again. There is still a lot of room for future development. As long as people are willing, they will always will get better.

The two of them came along the way and saw a lot of fire mechanism gadgets. The types of parts and materials sold here are also more abundant than those in Yangzhou.

After a hundred days of injury, Situ Meng's left finger bones were completely shattered. Although he was young and rescued in time, he was able to return to his original appearance, but he still couldn't use his left hand until he fully recovered.It's been a long time since I made a fire mechanism, and Situ Meng was a little itch. Looking at these materials and parts, I wanted to move them back, and then make many, many fire mechanisms...

Jing Shen saw Situ Meng staring at a stall selling fire mechanism parts until his eyes were straight, knowing that he wanted to buy it back, but because of his injury, even if he bought it back, he could only watch it as unusable.

"I'm sorry," Jing Shen lightly touched Situ Meng's injured hand, not daring to use too much force, "If I found out earlier and came earlier, you shouldn't have suffered these things."

Situ Meng flicked Jingshen's forehead with his uninjured right hand, "If it weren't for those assassins, I might not be able to see you again. There will always be gains and losses, which is normal."

But the depth of field could not be as relieved as Situ Meng. Thinking of the recent discussions in court, he was a little annoyed, "Originally, all the assassins who were assassinated should be found out first, but after the only assassin who was captured was killed, all the clues were gone. It's over, the imperial court doesn't care about the case of retrieving the assassin, and only thinks about how to take advantage of the vassal state all day long..."

"Belonging to the country? What do you mean?" After asking, Situ Meng realized that this is not what a grassroots person like himself should know, so he quickly waved his hands, "Sorry, I... just pretend I didn't ask!"

"It's not an important matter. Besides, this matter has spread throughout the entire capital. Even if I don't tell you, you will know sooner or later..." Jing Shen put his arms around Situ Meng's shoulders and gave way to a carriage, " Beiyuan country, have you heard of it? It is a vassal state of Da Zhou, and it is also the main source of oil used by Da Zhou."

"I've heard that Beiyuan is actually not a country, but the general name of all the tribes living in Beiyuan. However, among their tribes, they will choose the best one to become the king of all tribes, that is, the king of Beiyuan." Situ Meng His father taught him popular science when he was young, so he still remembers it.

"Well," Jing Shen said, "a large fire engine oil mine collapsed in Beiyuan some time ago, and many Beiyuan people died. The families of those Beiyuan people who died wanted us to give some compensation. These compensations were originally not available. How much, with our national strength in Dazhou, we can definitely afford it. However, there were frequent natural disasters in Dazhou in the past few years. As you know, the state has reduced farmers' taxes, and the treasury is empty. The food promised to Beiyuan has shrunk. "

"In the beginning, it was indeed because we were too busy to take care of ourselves that we reduced the food to Beiyuan, but Beiyuan didn't show any refusal, as before, he just accepted it... You know, people are greedy, since we can use less food in exchange for More lighter engine oil, then who would be so stupid to restore the original share?"

Situ Meng: "But if this is the case, wouldn't the Beiyuan people be miserable?"

"This is the reason why the imperial court is divided into two factions," Jing Shen explained, "Some people think that if you can reduce it, you can reduce it, and who will not take advantage of it? Others think that if things go on like this, there will always be someone in Beiyuan who will stand up and resist, even if it is Rabbits will bite when cornered. My brother and I belong to the latter, but the former obviously has more supporters than us.”

"Forget it, let's not talk about it. It was supposed to accompany you to relax, but it turned out that I was complaining again."

Situ Meng shook his head when he heard the words, "I can't share these things with you, but it's good to be a tree hole for you."

"Tree hole?" Jing Shen said with a smile: "You always have so many weird words, I really don't know what is in your head."

The two walked around the West Market, and Situ Meng saw a few shops. The locations of these shops were all good. He wrote down a few shops and planned to inquire about them next time he came out.

"Let's find a teahouse to rest?" Situ Meng suggested, Jing Shen would get up early in the morning to go to court, and after lunch, he would go out with him to look at the shop, there was no time to rest, although Depth of Field He didn't say anything, but Situ Meng still keenly felt his sleepiness.

The news that the real protagonist of "The Si Family Mansion" lives in the palace quickly spread. Over the years, the series of "Si Family Mansion" scripts have become more and more popular. This book must have heard its name.

All of a sudden, the number of invitations from the Xianwang Mansion kept increasing, and everyone wanted to see the protagonist's true face with their own eyes.

Situ Meng, who was in the center of the vortex, didn't know about it. Those invitations were all intercepted by Princess Xian, and he still went out every day to look for the best address of the directly-operated store.The previously optimistic ones were either because the rent was too high, or the owner suddenly didn’t want to change hands, and there were even regulations that could not be redecorated.Situ Meng had no choice but to choose another place.

For the past few days, Jing Shen would have lunch with Situ Meng at Xian Wang Mansion every day after the court, and then accompany him to find a suitable place for a shop in the capital.

After much difficulty, Situ Meng finally found a shop with a good location, lively and not too expensive rent, but Depth of Field told him not to pay the deposit first, and wait for two days.

After hearing what he said, Situ Meng waited obediently, and when he went there two days later, the owner of the shop actually gave him a discount, but he demanded that the lease period should not be less than one year.Situ Meng liked this place very much, not to mention a mere one year, even if he was asked to pay a one-time deposit of three to five years, he could accept it.

The two parties signed a lease contract, and a few days later, Situ Meng discussed the specific decoration style with the decorator, and the store began to be renovated.

This time, the directly-operated store in the capital should sell everything like the directly-operated stores in other places. However, Situ Meng kept a little selfish and planned to focus on selling fire mechanism tools in the directly-operated store in the capital. The products of Chengning Villa are decorated in the new directly-operated store as a foil.

When he was running around for the new store, besides Jing Shen, there was another person who frequently harassed him with excuses, and that was the fifth prince who almost became his immediate boss.

Not seen for many years, Situ Meng still vividly remembers the scene of meeting the fifth prince in the palace at that time, and the two had met in the royal hunting ground, but compared to the depth of the field, the appearance of the fifth prince has changed a lot, and he looks sick Sick, the temperament of the whole person has also changed a lot, Situ Meng really failed to recognize him, even though Depth of Field had already introduced him.

"Situ!" The fifth prince walked across the atrium to Situ Meng, and patted him on the shoulder happily, "I wanted to talk to you in the hunting camp before, but your cousin said that you were seriously injured and needed to rest. I don't want to disturb, so I just said hello to you."

Situ Meng looked quietly at Situ Lan who was behind the fifth prince. Several years had passed, but he never expected that this cousin was still so calculating. Even the fifth prince wanted to see him, but he had to use other reasons to stop him.

He was even more bored with this cousin in his heart, but in front of the prince, he couldn't show the slightest bit, and when he was about to speak, Situ Lan preempted him.

"Your Highness is right. When I was in the camp earlier, my subordinates saw that my elder brother was seriously injured and needed help to walk around. I knew that you must be very uncomfortable, so I asked His Highness not to disturb you. Originally I heard about your injury, but now I should You should stay in bed and rest more, but His Highness misses you very much and wants to visit you earlier, so he made this decision, after all, I heard that you closed the door to thank you, brother, you probably don't want to see him."

Let Situ Lan tell the good and the bad, and Situ Meng sneered in his heart. He knew that Princess Xian blocked those visiting invitations for him, and he was the one who asked Princess Xian to do so.

But the fifth prince wants to visit him is another matter. He doesn't want to meet strangers, just because he is too lazy to deal with those who are curious about his identity, but the fifth prince is his old acquaintance, and it is not because of his health at all. However, Situ Lan crowned him as a "seriously injured patient" because he wanted him to end his meeting with the fifth prince earlier. To prevent him from being so guarded, do you really think he is a scourge? !

"Thank you brother for your concern, but where did you get the news? Is it too late? My health has improved a lot, and I can get out of bed and walk around early. I haven't seen any guests before, just because I'm new here and I'm not familiar with the place. I am afraid that I will say the wrong thing and do the wrong thing in front of strangers, but what kind of friendship does the Fifth Highness have with me? We often played together when we were young! This kind of childhood friendship, my brother should not understand it."

Who doesn't know how to be yin and yang?Since you want to play Gong Dou with me, I will accompany you to the end!Situ Meng and Situ Lan looked at each other with sparks flying, but the fifth prince didn't pay attention to the grievances between them, and just talked about old times with Situ Meng.

"It's been a long time since I saw you. Let's sit down and talk slowly?" The fifth prince pulled Situ Meng into the side hall, "I've been worried since I heard the news of your departure from Beijing. Running so far alone to keep filial piety for parents, although filial piety is the first, but you were only fourteen or fifteen years old at that time, about the same age as me, I thought, if I left my mother and concubine by myself, I would run so far How hard it is to live!"

Compared with Situ Meng himself, the fifth prince seemed to be more regretful for not being able to be the companion of the fifth prince.Since his father was Chen Xiang's favorite student, Situ Meng was often taken by his father to the Xiangguo Mansion when he was a child, and played with him as the fifth prince's playmate.If we only talk about the time of acquaintance, the fifth prince is even longer than the depth of field.

The fifth prince is still enthusiastic about Situ Meng, but maybe because of his poor health, he always feels a little gloomy.

Accompanying the fifth prince is Situ Meng's cousin, Situ Lan.Situ Lan still has a lot of hostility towards him. Even because of the popularity of "The Si Family Mansion" in the capital, Situ Lan, as a villain, was once despised and reviled by everyone. , and repeatedly proposed to abolish his companion reading.

Fortunately, Situ Lan retained the fifth prince as the master by indulging in wine and sex. No matter what others said, the fifth prince did not really abolish him.

Situ Lan watched the fifth prince interacting with Situ Meng, and kept thinking about how to kick Situ Meng away from the stone blocking the way. Seeing the opening of the directly-operated store in the capital, Situ Lan finally thought of a way——

Isn't the eldest prince Jing Wang interested in Situ Meng?He went along with the flow and offered advice to the eldest prince, asking him to send people to make trouble in the directly-operated store. Situ Meng will definitely step forward for the reputation of the directly-operated store, and at this time, the eldest prince can come forward and make an appointment with him at a secret place Discuss the location in detail, trap him at that time, and put some medicine in his drink, and he will belong to the eldest prince.

The eldest prince nodded, "This suggestion is good, but in the hunting ground before, didn't you say that Situ Meng had a habit of Longyang and admired me very much? Why are you trying to lure him out now?"

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I went home late today, late update