Brother Donggong

Well, you can live... to hell with your life!

His blue shirt seems to be made of coarse cloth, but it is actually made of long-staple cotton from Xijiang mixed with silk, and fine yarn cashmere from the Xiongnu is added inside, which is more expensive than serious silk.

He gave me plain water today, and a pot of tea next to him, I smelled it was the best Shifeng Longjing this year, only a little is produced in the whole of Hangzhou, and even a tael of gold can't be exchanged for a tael of tea.

If it really comes to the day when you eat bran swallowed vegetables, you might not be like a grandpa or grandma?

I looked up at the roof and it was fine, the tiles were added here and the beams looked really strong.

I don't talk, he doesn't talk, the two of us are so exhausted.

He drank three cups of plain water, but he couldn't drink any more before he said, "Is the prince okay here?"

"It really makes you say it's bad. I really have something to do." I stretched out my hand, "First, return the 20 taels of silver I gave you a while ago."

He glanced at me, "What are you doing?"

I said, "You also know that I have difficulties. It turns out that when the father is here, he can relax a bit, but now that the crown prince is in charge of the country, he has sealed off all the internal treasuries, and his people are in charge of the household department. I have to go through the sieve. I recently moved the 20 taels from the household department. They have the bottom account and the deed that I kept there. To tell you the truth, the prince blocked my door this morning to ask for the account. If I don’t With this amount of money, he can take back my palace and let me sleep on the street!"

Cui Bicheng looked at me dubiously, "Prince blocking your door? No way."

"It's true! Now he's still squatting in my house! If you don't believe me, go and see for yourself!"

"Where should I go? It will take at least 2 hours from here to Yongjing. When I arrive at the gate of your palace, it will probably be midnight. Tell me to squat at the gate of your palace and drink the northwest wind!"

I waved my hand, "Stop talking nonsense, pay back the money first."

Cui Bicheng took the white water cup slowly, shook it, then put it down again, he couldn't drink any more.If you talk about him, just to be mean to me, he won't give me his Shifeng Longjing, so he will accompany me to drink plain water. It is estimated that he would feel nauseous today because of the plain water he drank for me.

"My lord, I want to say that your family has a small population. Otherwise, don't live in the palace, and give the palace to the crown prince. How about you live in my house in Yongjing?"

"Do you have a mansion in Yongjing? I haven't heard of it. I only heard that my grandfather has a small courtyard house on the other side of Slanting Eye Hutong."

"Yes, there is a courtyard over there in Slanting Eye Alley."

"What? You made my entire Yuxi Palace crowded into a courtyard?"

"My lord, don't worry. Just think about it. Half of the people who serve you in Yuxi Palace are maids. After leaving the palace, you can find a home for them and let them get married. You don't need to take care of them. This There won't be many people."

"Well, maids of honor can marry, but what about those eunuchs? You can't let them marry wives and have children to open up wasteland and farm land."

"...To be."

Cui Bicheng suddenly looked at me with ill intentions, and suddenly leaned over and said, "My lord, I still have another idea."

"what?"

"Your new palace cannot be sold, but the contents inside can be sold! It's that... Thirty-Twenty Mandala..."

I was speechless, "It's the 32 Mandala Flower Pavilion!"

"Yes! Yes! Yes! It's the 32 Mandala Garden! Isn't there a painting of Wang Xizhi there!"

"Hey." I smiled, "I knew you were thinking about it, let me tell you, no way! I don't sell any antique calligraphy and paintings in my palace!"

"Why? Those are good things."

"Nonsense, can I not know that it is a good thing? I guess those of you Liulichang have even found out which dynasty the pickle jar in my palace belongs to. As long as I sell my things, no one will know that it is mine. Yes? They must know that I am waiting for the money to be used, and they still have to lower the price? I can’t even get back half of the market price! I just don’t sell it, I keep it, what can you do to me!”

Cui Bicheng rolled his eyes, "Besides scolding you secretly from the bottom of my heart, I really can't do anything to you."

He thought about it again, and then said, "My lord..., I'm just going to tell you about this."

As soon as he stretched out his hand, he took out a bamboo box from the altar table at the back, opened it, and there were several bank notes in it, 2000 taels of silver each, five in total, 1 taels.I looked at him, he took out two bills, put the bamboo box back behind him, and put the two silver bills in front of me.

I asked him, "What is this?"

"My lord, I'm also short of money recently. This is your interest for this month."

"4000 taels? I asked you for 20 taels, and you gave me 4000 taels?"

"That's not the case, my lord, what do you think, your 20 yuan now allows me to buy land in the south of the Yangtze River. Now it's all rice fields, so it's cheap. After the Dragon Boat Festival, I should plant mulberry trees. These mulberry fields, the silkworms raised by mulberry trees, The spun silk and the re-woven silk are all worthless money! The 20 yuan of land is the income of tens of thousands of silks in the next year. Are you willing to take the money now? Also, Even if you put these money in the tea shop, the profit of 5% a day is worth tens of thousands of money in a year. As a prince, your annual salary is only more than 4, and the money you get every month is 4000 taels, do the math, asking me to give you the 20 taels of silver right now, isn’t it too uneconomical!”

He talked and talked, and talked and talked, in fact, there was only one sentence - no money!

but……

I touched my chin, and what he said was right, he circled me around, and I was really drawn into it.

After my father's accident, I was thinking that I should change my plan for myself in the future.When my father was around, it was only natural for me to deduct money from his palm. Who made me his biological son?But if Wen Zhan ascended the throne, then this reason would be completely irrational.Although I am his own brother, we were not born by the same mother, so where else can we kiss?

I'm talking, even if we were born by the same father, but my elder brother is raised by my younger brother, it always feels wrong.

I have a palace to maintain, and those old and small in Yuxi Palace to take care of.

The overhead is not small.

I said, "Then what do you think I should do? The prince will block my door, I can't go back empty-handed, and then say, Hey, you go, I have no money!"

In fact, I really want to say that, but I don't have the guts.