5. The world of mortals, never met.

I don't know if it was because Pei Nianyu's words aroused Pei Nianzhen's thoughts. After a long silence, he nodded slightly, which was regarded as acquiescence.

Pei Nianyu thought to himself, based on the limited information, he casually guessed what kind of causal bond there might be between his former eldest brother and Old He. He didn't expect that people who couldn't be persuaded before would be really moved by this reason..

Someone who can make him give up a little bit of his will to die...

Pei Nianyu was thinking about their past, but Pei Nianzhen who was opposite seemed to think of something:

"Do you know what's going on with him? Is he... is he okay now? Can I... no, will I see him?"

Pei Nianyu raised his eyebrows, so impatient?

He snorted softly and said:

"It's easy for you to think about it. You are going to work for me to pay off the debt. You have not finished the job for a day, so you came to ask me?"

Pei Nianzhen looked embarrassed for a moment, and finally remembered that his identity was very different from the younger brother in front of him, and he could no longer treat him like a brother.

"...What you need me to do, you can tell me everything - as long as I can do it. I have thought about it for the past two years, and I only feel that I can't do anything, but in fact I am a waste."

It's not surprising that Pei Nianyu would think so, after all, in such an environment of winners and losers, it's hard for a loser in a political struggle to find any meaning of existence.

"My two stores are newly opened, and there are countless things for you to do, and you can learn from scratch if you don't know it."

He turned his head and looked outside, it was getting late.Then asked:

"Then I won't bother you today. Just rest. Remember to come to the snack shop in the palace tomorrow morning and let your steward guide you."

Pei Nianzhen frowned:

"...I am still under house arrest here, so you let me out so casually?"

"Why, don't you believe it? Xiaosheng should have come to invite you a year or two ago, and you obviously declined it yourself. Since you are unwilling to do something serious for the court, it's not that Xiaosheng doesn't want to guard against youCome out to do something that disturbs the stability, so I have to continue to be locked in this small courtyard by you."

"At the end of the day, it was your father who ordered you to be placed under house arrest, and it has nothing to do with Xiaosheng. If you go to my dim sum shop and sell yourself to pay off your debts, then you have a serious business to do. Looking at you under my nose, Xiaosheng can't help it.I'll take care of you."

Pei Nianzhen was a little annoyed at his younger brother's repeated "your father", presumably it was because the late emperor treated them badly when they were teenagers.But he heard the meaning behind Pei Nianyu's words:

"Then from today... I can come and go freely?"

"That's what I mean."

Pei Nianzhen turned his head and looked out the window. The twilight was getting darker, and the outlines of the lush branches and leaves outside the courtyard wall were gradually blurred.However, he suddenly felt relieved, and couldn't help but look forward to what the morning sun outside the courtyard wall he saw tomorrow would look like.

He turned his head:

"I have one more request... No, it's a request. I know there must be capable people in the shadow guards around you, can you help me do a little... long-term disguise? It doesn't need to be completely changed, just a little change,It’s good that people who are familiar with it can’t recognize it.”

Pei Nianyu chuckled lightly:

"Why, do you want to see "that person", but don't want him to see you?"

Pei Nianzhen's eyes lowered, avoiding his sight, noncommittal:

"...I don't think you want any old prince Yu Dang to recognize me in your store, so there will be some trouble again, right?"

"Any reason you want, I promise you. Old building!"

"—The subordinate is here."

The shadow guard hidden in the darkness suddenly appeared.

"Is it easy for him to do this request?"

"If I come in person, I will be safer. I will change my face in a specious way. The changes are minimal but absolutely unrecognizable."

"Then I will trouble you to come here again tonight, I will go into the palace and report to Xiaosheng..."

"no problem."

Pei Nianzhen couldn't help but look up at the two people, feeling a little surprised in his heart, what do you mean by "please run again"?As his younger brother, he was gentler to the shadow guard's subordinates than he was to him.

In addition, seeing that Pei Nianyu's tone was quite friendly and casual towards him, he was unpredictable for a while.

After coming out of this small courtyard, Pei Nianyu rushed into the palace in time for dinner.

When Pei Niancheng saw his brother coming, he thought he had brought some delicious new dishes to comfort him who was buried by the memorial... but it didn't.

Pei Nianyu only brought gossip into the palace.

Pei Niancheng talked about gossip while eating:

"You said that Old He in your house is not his white-moonlight/muse..."

"You're thinking crookedly enough. I'm inclined to think that he has something to do with Old He."

"The possibility is not high. But in the final analysis, our strength was too weak back then, and my intelligence network was not established at that time. The He family was just a pawn. It is hard to say that it was involved.The whole story of the matter."

"Old He was young back then, and he and his sister didn't know much about it."

"It's not a big problem. Just wait until you fool Pei Nianzhen into being one of your own and let him tell you by himself. It's up to you, brother."

Pei Nianyu: "...?"

……………

Early the next morning, He Yanjun went to the dim sum shop as usual, and was about to take out the semi-finished materials to make today's goods, but he heard someone knocking on the door.

She was told earlier by Pei Nianyu that a helper would come today, and she said, "This person is quite capable of reading and writing. He is a man of background and knowledge, but he is living in poverty and owes me a lot of money. You let him do it."The shopkeeper, or help you manage the accounts and miscellaneous matters, just call me."

Although Pei Nianyu asked her to do whatever he wanted, He Yanjun still respected the scholars, so he changed into his hospitality clothes and went to open the door himself.

"Please come in, sir."

I saw the person coming in a simple long gown, dressed like an ordinary scholar.About thirty years old, seems to be young, but his complexion is a little pale and dejected.

"Don't dare, may I ask that this girl is the owner of the dim sum shop here? As promised by your master, I came here to find an errand in order to pay off the debt."

Pei Nianzhen kept his etiquette carefully, lowered his head slightly, and did not look straight at He Yanjun.

"Exactly."

"That being the case, let's come in first, and I will explain it to you in detail."

He Yanjun led him to the small hall of the main room behind the shop, and at the same time, Pei Nianzhen secretly looked at the dim sum shop.He saw that the shop's decoration tones, layout, hanging of flowers and trees, clean and simple, and every detail is also extraordinary, faintly revealing the owner's ambition.

He knew it must be his younger brother's handwriting, and he couldn't help feeling a little dazed.Obviously, Pei Nianyu didn't just randomly set up this shop for the purpose of entering the palace, and it could be seen that he really took pleasure in it.

He is a dignified prince, and his younger brother with the same father and mother is the Ninth Five-Year Supreme, and he is not suspicious of the emperor, so he doesn't need to deliberately withdraw to protect himself.But he didn't ask the court at all, and only regarded the work of cooking as his main business... What's the point?

But this shop is worthy of He Yanjun's style.

He had met this little girl of the He family before, and although he didn't have a deep impression, he still remembered how cute Yuxue was back then, but now it seemed that she had changed a lot.I don't know what happened... It's all my own fault.

"I don't know what to call Mr.?"

He Yanjun's call brought back Pei Nianzhen's messy thoughts.

"My surname is... Yang, and the single name is Zhen."

Yang is her mother, the surname of the former empress, who was once a well-known family of officials in the south of the Yangtze River.Now that he has made up his mind to hide his name, he certainly won't say that his surname is Pei.

The surname Yang is actually a common surname, and was implicated in the struggle for the first son, the former queen was "died of illness" for many years.The power of his mother's family, the Yang family, has collapsed like a building, and has no place to stand in this Capital City. Only some side branches have returned to their hometown in Jiangnan. No one would have thought of the connection.

"It turned out to be Mr. Yang."

He Yanjun has learned a lot from He Qi recently, and he does things neatly and doesn't like nonsense, so he just pushes the account book over.

"The shopkeeper recruited the day before yesterday was fired because he couldn't understand the accounts. Mr. Yang, your job is to take charge of all the income and expenditure in this shop. There are desks and counters in the store. Sir, you can just stay behind the counter on weekdays. When guests come, you have your own small2. Responsible for packaging and weighing. You don’t need to worry about buying, selling and introducing. You only need to calculate the total price for the customer, collect the money and record it in the account. In addition, there are other items in the store, such as payment for goods, decoration and other expenses.To remember."

"If there is no business, it's okay for Mr. to read and write by himself, or do other things in this shop."

"These are the daily tasks. Meals are provided every day. The Wangfu restaurant next door is the same as our shop. Meals will be delivered to you, and you don't need to spend anything. In addition, every five days of work in the shop,Two days off."

Pei Nianzhen couldn't help raising his eyebrows. He had never seen such a time at work, and the job was rare and easy.During the two days of rest and mu, you can also go shopping.

"Let's arrange it like this for now, but after a while, the business scope of our store may be adjusted. If you are a reliable person, there may be new tasks arranged for you at that time. But please rest assured, they are all on the jobIt will not be extended within the time period."

Pei Nianzhen thought that his younger brother was really a kind person, he was the defeated opponent after all, but Pei Nianyu didn't take any special "care" for him, so he quickly agreed.

"There is one more thing I want to ask, I don't know if Yueyin..."

After saying this, Pei Nianzhen felt rather embarrassed, thinking how he knew the price of the firewood, rice, oil and salt when he was so powerful.However, during the years of house arrest, all private property has been lost and the supply is not abundant, so he has naturally experienced the hardships of poverty.

"Five taels of silver per month."

Pei Nianzhen nodded and said nothing.In his eyes back then, 50,000 taels of silver was nothing more than mediocre, but now he already knows that 5 taels of silver is enough to buy a lot of things.

He thinks that eating the king's salary and loyalty to the king, why not start now.Anyway, he didn't have anything else to do, it was better than counting fallen leaves from morning to night in that small courtyard every day.

So Pei Nianzhen opened the ledger.

——Then saw a bunch of ghost symbols he didn't recognize.

"Boss, this is... what?"

Unexpectedly, He Yanjun was more surprised than him:

"This is the "new type of number" newly promoted by the Holy Spirit. It is simple, clear and fast. The frontier may not be used to it, but Capital City and the boundaries of more than a dozen states in the Central Plains have been used for two or three years. Why doesn't Mr. Know?"

"I……"

Pei Nianzhen just felt embarrassed, wishing he could find a seam in the floor and stuff it in.

"Mr. Xu Shi only reads the books of sages and sages with all his heart, but you also need to know the government decree. It's okay, I'll teach you a few days and you will be able to master it."

So He Yanjun wrote down these "new numbers" for him and asked him to recite them.The rest of the basic arithmetic is the same as the previous Prince's course, just need to change the wording.

Then He Yanjun began to teach him to recite the "nine-nine multiplication table", and let him recite it by himself, while He Yanjun went back to make her pastries and then shipped them.

—— On Pei Nianzhen's first morning at work, he spent his dizzy math problems.

At noon, He Yanjun was about to close the shop and said he wanted to eat and rest.But there were two people coming in from the door, it was Pei Nianyu and another person in dark gray warrior clothes.

As soon as the man entered the store, he asked in a gentle voice:

"How busy is my sister in the store today? How is the new shopkeeper?"

When Pei Nianzhen heard that familiar yet unfamiliar voice, the tip of his pen flicked, and the ink blurred on the paper.

He quietly raised his head and looked at the thin young man with capable movements from behind the counter.

He Qi was seen joking with his sister while answering some questions from Pei Nianyu.

He didn't know how long he stayed there, until the young man finished talking and laughing, his eagle-like eyes suddenly turned around and looked at him:

"Why did you stare at me for so long?"