Chronicle of Emperor Jing

"Your Majesty, you can take 1 taels! This is the most real price. Our shop is selling at a loss today. If you miss it, you will regret it later." The shopkeeper gritted his teeth, showing a very painful expression. The expression on his face gave him a "true price" in his heart.

"Since it's not easy for you to open the door to do business, add 200 taels, 200, [-] taels. If you want to sell it, you can make a deal. If you don't sell it, I'll leave." Wei Minwen didn't buy this thing because he saw it. If he likes it, he wants to buy it back for fun, but prepare it for his father as a gift for the New Year, so he is quite dispensable in this matter.

"Shopkeeper, the jade this time is about two thousand two hundred taels."

"The shopkeeper, that is, our son looked at this building with some interest, so he offered this price. Others don't like it."

"The shopkeeper's..."

The people around Wei Minwen soon persuaded the shopkeeper with one word after another, and the price is almost ready to sell.

No matter how eloquent the shopkeeper is, it can't stop the buyer from being very assertive. He is not the kind of person who must buy Lie Xinxi. 600 taels of silver were sold.

Afterwards, Wei Minwen looked at some calligraphy and painting decorations, and spent a few thousand taels of silver before consummating the purchase of this New Year's Eve ceremony.

In a famous mansion like Yongning Hou Mansion, when buying valuables, you don't need to pay on the spot after negotiating the price. After all, no one would wander around with so much money.The shopkeeper will send these things directly to the mansion later, and then exchange the money for the shopkeeper.

Wei Minwen left two people behind to deal with the next matters, and took them to live in random.

The direction of the wind in the middle is also intermittent, and if there is any movement in the direction, they will talk about it here.

Today, the hottest topic is, of course, the matter of changing the Yuan.

There are a lot of details about the year number, those who understand it will naturally understand it, and those who don't understand don't need to ask, just applaud.

Wei Minwen entered the door of Random House, looked up and saw a group of people talking loudly in the lobby, and the people around were listening with gusto, clapping their hands and applauding when they heard something important.

This scene is similar to storytelling in other teahouses, except that the people here are only talking about government affairs.

"Young master, please come upstairs to the private room!" There were two welcoming guests standing at the door of the store. When they saw a group of them come in, the young master at the head was dressed luxuriously and brought several family members with him. One of them came over immediately. , to welcome them upstairs.

"Is Layman Qi here? My name is Wei. I need to see Layman Qi." Wei Minwen asked him without moving.

"Is the young master from Yongninghou's mansion?" The welcome guest knew that Qi Daju and his family lived in Yongninghou's mansion, so he asked this question.

"Exactly." Wei Minwen nodded.

"Young master, please." The welcoming guests did not take them upstairs, but led them through the lobby and into the garden.

The quiet room where Qi Yuanheng lived temporarily was in a secluded part of the garden, and there was a courtyard gate, which separated this place from the casual residence, and it was difficult to find it without anyone leading the way.

Wei Minwen followed the welcome guest, turned around in the garden several times, and finally came to a gate guarded by people.

"My lord, why are you here?" One of the gatekeepers was Qi Yuanheng's family, who recognized Wei Minwen, saw them approaching, and greeted them from a distance.

"Uncle Qi hasn't been back for a long time, I'll come and visit, and see if there's anything I can do to help." Father is too busy to take care of these things, Wei Minwen really let him take care of things, he has many complaints in his heart , but he didn't let him take care of the matter, he thought of not doing it, and felt uncomfortable. Seeing that Qi Yuanheng hadn't come back for several days, he made up his mind today to come here to see the situation.

"Your Majesty is too polite, this way please." The family member thanked the welcome guests and quickly let Wei Minwen and others into the courtyard.

This courtyard is very small, with only three rooms, one is a living room for receiving guests, one is a study room, and the other is used for living.

The family member didn't go in to report, but directly brought Wei Minwen into the study.

"Uncle Qi!" Wei Minwen entered the door and saluted first.

"It's Minwen, don't be too polite, come, sit here." Qi Yuanheng moved a few books from the chair and motioned Wei Minwen to take a seat.

At this time, Wei Minwen had time to look around.

This study room is now filled with all kinds of books, and the desk is even more filled with papers of various colors.

Wei Minwen carefully walked through the piles of books that were piled up in all kinds of strange things but did not fall down, and sat down on the empty chair.

"Uncle Qi, I heard that you are revising that memoir collection recently. I don't know how the revision is going now. Have you arranged the subsequent publishing location?" Wei Minwen expressed his intention.

"Sun Zhuangyuan and I have worked hard for several days, and finally finalized the draft. As for the place where the book is printed..." Qi Yuanheng pondered for a while, remembering that it is almost Chinese New Year now, and many bookstores may be closed soon. It’s okay to say that after the new year, it’s really hard to find if you want to rush to work before the Chinese New Year. “Does Minwen have any recommendations?”

"Uncle Qi, I heard that there is a Hao's bookstore in the west of the city, and there is now a vacancy. Uncle Qi might as well try it there."

When the adults are busy with big things, Wei Minwen has already sent someone to inquire about these small things, and has negotiated to ensure that Qi Yuanheng's manuscript will be handed over, and the printing will go smoothly, so what he said, Purely a euphemism.

Of course Qi Yuanheng understood what he meant.

"I see, Lao Minwen is worried about this matter."

"A few trivial things are not worth mentioning. They really can't compare with Uncle Qi's dedication these days." Qi Yuanheng helped his father in this way, and Wei Minwen must appreciate it.

"You child, the friendship between me and your father for so many years does not need to be so clearly distinguished." Qi Yuanheng laughed. He saw that the child's heart turned to Wei Yan, and Wei Yan came out of nowhere. Son, I finally have a little more affection.

Although the identity of the child's mother is unknown, there may still be many unknown inside stories about what happened back then, but Min Wen seems to be a good child.

"Now, what book are you studying?" Qi Yuanheng had a good impression of Wei Minwen, so he started to care about his studies.

Firstly, Wei Yan was not free, and secondly, he had to be lazy when he was studying, so Qi Yuanheng was a little worried about asking him to take care of Minwen's studies.

Wei Minwen talked about the books he is studying now.He talked about books that a child his age should read.

Qi Yuanheng looked at him and smiled for a while, until Wei Minwen's expression stiffened, and he stopped laughing. He didn't talk about some things, but said: "From now on, if you don't understand anything in your studies, you can come and ask me , although you don't need to take the imperial examination to become an official, you still need to understand the principles you should understand."

"Thank you Uncle Qi, there must be times when you bother Uncle Qi." Wei Minwen stood up and bowed to him solemnly.

How many people want to be the disciple of Layman Xiaoshan, but Qi Yuanheng is willing to guide him in his studies because of his father's face.

The two talked for a while before Wei Minwen took his leave.

On this day, the dinner was served in Zhongyihou's residence, and in the evening, Wei Yan sent his son back to the residence and entered the palace again.

Now he wished he could divide it into two people, one in the mansion and the other in the palace. It would be best to take care of both of them.

Unfortunately, there is no such spell in this world.He can only go back and forth like this, wanting to take care of both ends.However, even if he entered the palace so frequently, the emperor still had a lot of opinions about him entering the palace so late every day.

"Wei Yan, how long has it been since you had dinner with me?" No, the emperor saw that he only entered the palace when he was wearing stars and moons again, and began to question him.

"Your Majesty, I really have something to do today. There is a happy event in my elder brother's house. I must be there to congratulate you!" Wei Yan found the emperor's bad tone and explained to him very patiently.

"Hmph, how often do you have no excuses? Today this family is going to marry a wife, tomorrow another family is going to have a baby, and the next day someone is going to marry a daughter. Every time it sounds like a legitimate reason. However, these things are not related to me. What's the matter?" Jing Li asked angrily.

He really got angrier the more he thought about it.

He didn't ask Wei Yan to accompany him all the time, but he just hoped that Wei Yan would come back to the palace every evening to have dinner with him. Is this too much to ask?

As a result, Wei Yan could have breakfast with him only when he didn't go to court in the morning. At other times, he couldn't even have breakfast together, let alone lunch. Dinner could have been eaten together. But Wei Yan came back so late every day, and he didn't feel sorry for it at all, but he wanted to talk back to him for a very good reason.

It was a mistake not to let Wei Yan know today, and he might go too far in the future.

"Your Majesty!" Wei Yan saw that he was stern and angry, so he hurried forward to coax him, "Starting tomorrow, I will try my best to come back as soon as possible!"

"Okay, this is what you said yourself, you'd better keep it in mind, otherwise don't blame me for cleaning you up!" Jing Li used the word "clean up" with an accent, and the tone was very ambiguous, but he Believe me, Wei Yan understood what he meant.

Hearing what he said, Wei Yan felt his scalp go numb.

When the emperor is easy to talk, he is easy to talk, and he will respond to a little pleading, but once the emperor starts to behave mischievously, it is very difficult to talk.

"I try my best!" He could only promise so again.

In fact, there is some room for maneuver in his words. He believes that the emperor knows this, but when the emperor becomes unreasonable and pretends not to know, there is nothing he can do.

Wei Yan was a little worried, because in the days to come, he would be busy with business, the manor had to be taken care of, and the emperor had to be coaxed. One person might have to be divided into three parts so that he could take care of both sides.Once he fails to take care of everything, the emperor may find a reason to deal with him.

He washed up anxiously, lay down on the couch, and secretly glanced at the emperor's face.

The emperor lay beside him expressionlessly, obviously still angry.

Wei Yan snuggled up a little from the pillow, and told the emperor that Commander Shen Da gave him full responsibility for the ancestor worship and defense.

The emperor gave a soft "hmm", but still didn't speak.

From the expression on the emperor's face, Wei Yan couldn't figure out what the emperor was thinking at this time, so he quickly gave up this very difficult task.

He put his head on the emperor's shoulder, wrapped his hands around the emperor's arm, and closed his eyes.

After squinting for a while, he suddenly thought of something wrong, opened his eyes, raised his head, looked at the emperor, and asked:

"Your Majesty's body is fully recovered?"