Qi Yun knew only one person who could be called the third Childe, that is, the one at the top of the dragon chair.

This surprised Qi Yun, and Ye Jiao didn't quite understand. She grabbed Qi Yun's arm and asked, "Why is he here?" Queen Meng had a very good relationship with the Qi family, and she did not come to his house specially. On the contrary, Chu Cheng agreed to come to the door, always feeling that something was wrong.

Qi Yun patted Ye Jiao on the back of her hand and said in a slow voice, "you might as well do something. He always came out to have tea with Saburo before. The world is his, and you can do whatever you want."

Ye Jiao thought it was reasonable, so she stopped asking questions and loosened Qi Yun.

After Qi Yun left with Tiezi, Xiao Su quickly came over, fanned Ye Jiao with a round fan and said, "second Lady, can you get it back?"

Ye Jiao stood up, stretched out her hand and pulled the slight wrinkles on her sleeves and said with a smile, "there's nothing going on around. Let's go and have a look at the medicinal flowers. We should have a lot of blooms in the day, just to find two pots that open well and send them to Huiniang."

Xiao Su answered, handed the fan to the woman on the side, then picked up the paper umbrella to hold it up, helped Ye Jiao block the sun, and then walked towards the medicinal flower bed.

Although Qi Yun has just pacified Ye Jiao, he is also a little uncertain.

Chu Chengyun often went out of the palace, but his place was always Qi Ming's small courtyard, or a tea shop and restaurant, but he had never been to Qi Fu.

This person will never go around his house for no reason. Qi Yun pondered the purpose of Chu Chengyun all the way to the vestibule. It was easy to deal with Chu Chengyun only if he guessed it early. He made several turns in his heart, and when he saw Chu Chengyun, there was not much expression on Qi Yun's face.

Maybe if you think too much, it will make your mind clearer, but Qi Yun is stable at the moment.

Before entering the door, he beckoned Tiezi to come over and whispered, "make a pot of Longjing before the Ming Dynasty. Remember to skim off the first bubble and send it up carefully."

Tiezi was stupefied, and then lowered his voice: "second young master, I heard Qin in charge said that we had Longjing very early before the Ming Dynasty, and we could not easily take it out so as not to cause disaster."

This is not because Qin is in charge of random suspicion, but because there are many powerful people in the capital who think too much.

Even if it is only a small amount of tea, but you have a merchant's home, but they do not have it, it will be resentful.

It is a bit ridiculous to hold a grudge against others for this reason, but this is the case, and there is no way. It is not easy in the capital, not only because the land price here is expensive and it is difficult to make a living, but also because there are many dignitaries who have to plan carefully everywhere in the future.

Even if you don't take the initiative to offend people, you will be resented on details.

However, Qi Yun stretched out his hand and bent his index finger, tapped it on the forehead of Tiezi and said faintly, "what is that character inside? what do you think he really doesn't know about what we usually do?"

Tiezi covered his forehead and was stupefied at the smell of the speech.

Then he listened to Qi Yun and said, "it is due to entertain him with good tea. If I entertain him with rough tea and drink it well by myself, that would be deceiving the king."

Qi Yun knew that Chu Chengyun might not be able to know what was going on in the world, but he would know everything in the capital.

If the location of the palace is not yet under control, then the emperor has nothing to do with it.

Tiezi later realized that he had said the wrong thing, sweated his forehead, covered his head and nodded again and again.

Qi Yun did not punish him anything, but said, "remember from now on, businessmen are always honest that it is stupid, but to treat such celestial decorations and nobles, deliberately and deceiving them are asking for bad luck." The voice paused slightly. "as for how to make a profit in it, it depends on your own discretion."

Tiezi nodded again, thinking that it would be good for him to do the first half first.

As for the second half. He is still a long way from his young master's ability to hold the emperor empty-handed. Take your time.

Tiezi trotted to make tea, Qi Yun straightened up his clothes, and then stepped into the vestibule.

Because Qi Erlang knew Chu Chengyun early on, he had seen this man no matter what he looked like, and now he could not do the fear of ordinary people when they saw the emperor, so he just bowed and said, "the grass people do not know your Majesty is coming, but also hope …". "

"well, Jiro and I don't have to be so polite." Chu Chengyun smiled and raised his hand and motioned to Qi Yun to sit down.

In Chu Chengyun's heart, Qi Jiaerang has always been cold-tempered. Although he looked indifferent, he always put his family and country in his heart, but as a merchant, he never did anything that was rich and unbenevolent, whether it was the business of the caravan or disaster relief. Qi Yun was like a hermit in the world of mortals in Chu Chengyun's heart, and he was the most benevolent.

And once this first impression is set up, it is difficult to change, and Chu Chengyun looks at him more and more pleasing to the eye.

Unlike him, Qi Yun sat opposite Chu Chengyun.

Chu Chengyun did not beat around the bush and said directly, "I am here today for family affairs."

Qi Yun looked up at him and said, "your Majesty is talking about Saburo's marriage?"

Chu Chengyun smiled and nodded: "exactly, now the Meng family is particularly satisfied with Saburo. Before, he also made a special trip to the palace to find the queen. Speaking of this marriage, I came to ask when it would be settled."

Qi Yun's face remained the same, but he had some feelings in his heart. He only felt that his family Saburo was so proud that he actually wanted the Labor Emperor to go there in person.

However, I am afraid that there is also the meaning of Empress Meng. Chu Chengyun has always respected Empress Meng. Now Empress Meng marries a younger sister, and it can be counted as a family matter when he comes to see it.

So Qi Yun did not have many worries before, but said slowly, "I told my parents before that the two elders particularly liked the talent and character of Meng Wu, and attached great importance to this marriage. I was overjoyed to hear that it was the matchmaker protected by his Majesty. He prepared the betrothal gift early, thinking that when his Majesty's will came down, he would go to Beijing and prepare for marriage in accordance with the custom."

With that, Qi Yun asked people to bring tea, but his eyes glanced at Chu Chengyun at random, and sure enough, he saw that the man was smiling.

As a matter of fact, since there is a tacit understanding between Qi Ming and Meng Wu, there is nothing we can do even if the two elders of the Qi family are not willing to do so. the emperor wants to listen to it even if he does not listen to it, not to mention that this is the height of the Qi family, how could the two elders not be willing to do so?

But Chu Chengyun just wants to hear this thank you.

No matter how he grasped the situation in the court on the dragon chair, how many tricks he had in mind, but his nature had not changed, and he was still a kind person with a good heart.

He can tell right from wrong, so he judges both court affairs and human feelings.

Qi Yun is the good man he thinks, and his mind is not so heavy. Now, listening to Qi Yun's gratitude, Chu Chengyun is naturally happy.

That is, knowing Chu Chengyun's temper, Qi Yun just said such a thing.

Qi Jia Erlang smiled lightly and wondered in his heart how to write to the Qi family elders later to invite them to come to Beijing.

At this time, someone came in with tea. Chu Chengyun picked up the tea and sipped it, and he knew it was the best Longjing tea picked before the Ming Dynasty, that is, the tea picked before Ching Ming Festival. At this time, the Longjing tea was the most delicate, the tea soup was crisp, and the entrance was sweet. As soon as he tasted it, he knew it was a treasure in the tea.

Although it is no better than the tribute in the palace, it is also an excellent entrance.

Chu Chengyun drank a lot of good tea, but the tea was fresh. Longjing was really delicious before the Ming Dynasty, even though it was not rare to Chu Chengyun, but the entrance was clear enough to make him sigh: "it's good tea, it's really fresh."

Qi Jie said quietly: "if your Majesty likes it, I'll ask someone to pack some for you to take away later."

This made Chu Chengyun curious: "you should not have bought this tea."

Qi Yun waited for these words, with a motionless expression and a quiet expression. He looked at Chu Chengyun and said, "I packed a tea garden in the south, and this is the tea produced there." It is naturally faster to go by water, and the load is also large. Before, the stone wood I used to build bridges for my hometown was transported by water. "

Chu Chengyun knew that Qi Yun had built bridges and paved roads for his hometown. When he mentioned it, his smile deepened, and he felt that this man was really kind and kind.

However, Chu Chengyun is more concerned about waterways: "in this way, this water transport can not only early warning of floods, carrying passengers to send people, it seems to have more use."

Qi Yun nodded: "exactly, if more ports can be built, I think the Water Games will be more developed, and no one knows what the river is like on the other side of the sea."

Chu Chengyun thought it out in his mind when he heard the words, and he felt that these words were reasonable.

Although there are water transport Yamen in the imperial court, and there are many ships, most of them are transported by personnel and many by water, but because the construction of ships is time-consuming and laborious, there is relatively more land transport.

Nowadays, if the boats used by folk channels can be used so quickly, as Qi Yun said, it is naturally a good thing for the construction of water transport to benefit the country and the people.

In the past, the imperial court did not interfere in order to work for the welfare of the people, not to be monopolized by the government.

Now it is a very good thing for both the court and the people to increase the construction of water transport.

And the other side of the sea.

When Chu Chengyun thought about it, his eyes became brighter and brighter. When he looked at Qi Yun, he seemed to see a golden pimple: "Erlang, Jiro, how nice it would be for you to be an official in the DPRK."

Qi Yun said with a smile, "the grass people can't bear it, but they can only live longer in the city. I hope your Majesty will have mercy."

Chu Chengyun just sighed and did not force it, so he did not mention it any more, but talked excitedly about water transport with Qi Yun.

However, the iron son on one side stared at his second young master for several times, and his eyes were first confused and then clear.

Originally Tiezi did not quite understand why Qi Yun specifically told him to make tea, but now it is clear that from the very beginning, Qi Yun made up his mind to talk to Chu Chengyun about the transportation of goods by water.

Sure enough, every time see this third Childe, have to get something. The second young master of own family is called a thief who does not leave the room. No, it was well planned.

Chu Chengyun picked up the tea again, took a sip and put it aside, and then said, "when your two elders come to Beijing, you should tell the Meng family that the parents of the two sides must always meet."

Qi Yun responded, put the tea aside and replied, "it's easy to say that now that the river is open, it's naturally faster to take the waterway, but after taking my parents to Beijing, they still have to live in my house first. Saburo's yard is OK to live on his own, and then living in others seems crowded."

Chu Chengyun smiled and said, "isn't that your yard?"

On hearing this, Qi Yun knew that Chu Chengyun knew when he bought the yard and rented it to Qi Ming, but this was because he cared for his brother, and there was nothing shameful, so he calmly replied, "Let your Majesty laugh, the yard is indeed a little smaller, later …". "

At this point, Qi Yun spoke in a voice and thought of another thing.

Since it is to marry Qi Ming and marry other people's girls to come over, then the house still has to be bought.

Not to mention whose courtyard Qi Ming lives now, there is no way to get married just to talk about that size. Usually he makes do by himself. Now he wants to marry a Meng girl, this is a girl from a high family. I'm afraid that Qi Ming's courtyard is not as big as other people's house. Since they are married, don't do anything to remember and think about it. It's not appropriate for people to suffer and suffer.

But Qi Ming's salary now obviously can not afford to buy a mansion.

Qi Yun thought, otherwise, he would buy a bigger one for his third brother.

But there is not an inch of land in this capital, and even a tree has its own owner, so it is not easy to find a ready-made house.

Chu Chengyun seemed to see Qi Yun's mind and said, "you don't have to worry about the house. Saburo and Xiao Yuanbai gave me a good idea together. I will give him a house the other day, and then the deeds of your ten shops will be handed over to you."

On hearing this, Qi Yun got up to salute Thanksgiving, but his heart sank.

Chu Cheng promised to treat Qi Ming well or not, but he is not a temper who will reward things for no reason.

The man made an understatement and came up with an idea, but I'm afraid it's not easy.

However, when it comes to imperial politics, Qi Yun did not ask any more questions, and after saying a few words with Chu Chengyun, Chu Chengyun left Qi Fu with people.

After seeing him off, Qi Yun came back and sat in the vestibule for a long time until the tea was cold and didn't get up.

Tiezi stood by, and seeing that Qi Yun had no intention of leaving, he couldn't help but worry.

At this time, I heard Qi Yun say, "do you have something to ask me?"

Tiezi first shook his head, then nodded and said, "second young master, I don't quite understand why I want to talk to the emperor about water transport."

Today, the biggest one who can do waterway business is the Qi family.

It's easy to say, but if you want to do this business well, you should not only run a good ship business, but also buy a lot of shipbuilding shops. don't know how much money has been spilled out.

Now it is not easy to see some benefits, but Qi Yun lightly stabbed Chu Chengyun, but also took the initiative to tell Chu Chengyun a lot of truth.

Isn't this the money you got to give to the Heavenly Family?

Qi Yun stood up and walked out to the promenade and said, "it's not bad that you can think of this. I didn't read the accounts in vain before, and I know how much money the various shops in my family have made now."

Tiezi won a compliment but did not raise his tail. He has been with Qi Yun for a long time and knows Qi Yun's temper.

This praise is often followed by knocking.

Sure enough, Qi Huan turned around and said, "but you just wrote down this account, but you didn't pay attention to it."

Tiezi has always been studious. Generally speaking, he is a boy beside Qi Yun, but Qi Yun has always trained him in the same way as his apprentice. Now Tiezi looked straight and bowed his head and said, "I still want the second young master to solve the doubt."

Qi Yun's voice was gentle: "if you look carefully, you can compare it. Although there is a lot of profit from this waterway, it is 30% less this month than at this time last year."

Tiezi couldn't help remembering, nodded, and then frowned.

Why is it less?

This business has always been getting bigger and bigger, and unless the money is cut off, there is no reason to go back more and more.

As a result, when we arrived at the water transport, it was even smaller than before, and it was good not to mention it. Now that Qi Yun mentioned it, Tiezi could also detect the unusual inside.

Instead of making random guesses, Qi Yun said directly, "there is naturally a reason why the accounts are abnormal. I wrote to the shopkeeper Wei, who is in charge of water transportation, and he said that it was because of the recent rise of water thieves and the emergence of bandits hijacking merchant ships from time to time. This interferes with the original operation."

Tiezi was stupefied, then reacted quickly and said, "what the second young master means is that he will find him this time." That, in fact, is to find shelter for our voice? "

Qi Yun nodded in a flat voice: "in the past, because the court did not attach importance to it, this gave ordinary merchants a chance to make money, but now it is impossible not to give way to the protection of the court."

Because the imperial court encouraged merchants, there were mostly merchant ships on this waterway, and the imperial court only levied taxes and set up water transport Yamen to provide protection, but others did not intervene, which gave the Qi family the opportunity to take away ships and shops relatively easily.

But because of this, the water thieves targeted the Qi family, and Qi Yun did not want to investigate deeply as to why the Yamen did not care about their own losses.

It is common sense that the people do not fight with the officials.

But whether the function can fight the Heavenly Family or not depends on how much courage they have.

Even if Qi Yun finds someone to rely on the mountain and the biggest one, it is better to get there in one step than to suffer losses everywhere.

Tiezi suddenly enlightened, and there was a smile on his face. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was cost-effective.

But Qi Yun did not look very happy. He was thinking about things in his heart, and his face was much calmer.

When he returned to his room, as soon as he opened the door, Qi Yun heard Xu Bao's voice: "Niang, what do you want to hear? Xu Bao told you."

As soon as these words came out, Qi Yun paused.

Qi Erlang has nothing to be afraid of in this family, but he is a little afraid of his own son.

It's not that Xubao is so scary, but that Xubao, a little bookworm, not only likes to read, but also likes to read with others.

Especially when it comes to Qi Yun, Xubao always holds Qi Yun's legs and refuses to let him go. Only when he asks Qi Yun to study for him will he give up.

Ordinary Xubao would not bother his mother and relatives with the matter of reading, but today, the dragon and Phoenix fetus had not yet woken up, Feng Xiucai had a rest today and it was difficult to disturb him. Shi went to the academy again, and Xu Bao found Ye Jiao.

Although Little Ginseng can read and memorize books such as the Medical Classic Pharmacopoeia, Ye Jiao only looks at what she needs when she studies.

It has something to do with medicine for the future happiness of her and Qi Yun.

Those with pictures and pictures. It's also for happiness.

However, Ye Jiao never read the four Books and five Classics, and she didn't need to rely on fame, so she had no interest in these. Now, when she heard Xubao say, Ye Jiao was not willing to refuse her own treasure, but she didn't know what to let him memorize.

After thinking about it and remembering the peony she went to see with Huanning and Shi, Ye Jiao put Xu Bao in her lap and said softly, "well, Xu Bao memorized a poem related to peony for her mother and mother, all right?"

"good!"

The other children were very afraid of being pulled out by their parents to recite poems and essays, but when Xu Bao arrived at this time, he straightened out his small chest and was happy all over his face.

Without thinking much about it, he blurted out: "the flowers are born on the glazed ground, and the light and wind dazzle to Ziyunying." Ever since I saw her on the plate, my eyes have become more discerning now. "

Ye Jiao blinked and couldn't help asking, "where is the peony here?"

Xubao leaned against Ye Jiao's arms and said, "Ziyunying is talking about peonies."

"what do the last two sentences mean?"

"it is said that peonies are more beautiful than fairies in the sky."

Ye Jiao couldn't help laughing and pinched Xubao's face. "have you ever seen a fairy?"

Xubao raised her face with a smile, kneaded by Ye Jiao, and said, "I haven't seen it before, but Xubao knows that no fairy is as good-looking as her mother."

Ye Jiao couldn't stop smiling when she was coaxed by him. Holding the chubby Xu Bao, she kissed him hard on his forehead, making Xu Bao laugh, as if she was embarrassed. She buried her face in Ye Jiao's arms and couldn't get up.

This made Qi Yun, who was standing inside and out of the room, looking at it for a moment of helplessness.

He knew that Xubao read a lot, and he also knew that Xubao liked to stick to Ye Jiao, but Qi Yun did not expect that his eldest son was so sweet.

Who does this follow? Ming Qi Jilang felt that he could not say such a thing.

When he entered the door, Ye Jiao smiled and shouted, "Xianggong." As a result, before Qi Yun responded, Xubao raised his face first.

Without the help of Ye Jiao, he climbed down from Ye Jiao's legs, stood firmly on the ground, ran to Qi Yun with his short legs snapping, hugged Qi Yun's calves, held his face high and said, "Dad, reading books!"

Qi Yun:.

Qi Yun, who had been caught, did not want to agree, but seeing Ye Jiao staring at herself, Qi Yun changed his mind.

He stooped to pick up Xu Bao and sat him on the soft couch. Qi Yun looked at Ye Jiao, who was holding his face with one hand, and then looked at him with big eyes. Qi Erlang lamented that Xu Bao's eyes were very much like Ye Jiao, and his heart softened, and he said, "what does Xu Bao want to hear?"

"the Song of the five Sons!"

Qi Yun was a little surprised when he heard this. This is an article in Shangshu. Even when Qi Yun was a child, he was about eight years old when he read it. He did not expect that his son had already read it here when he was only six years old.

This made Qi Erlang interested, hugged Xu Bao more tightly, and said, "then let me say a word, Xu Bao remember one sentence, all right?"

Xubao nodded immediately, smiling and looking particularly happy.

Then Qi Yun read to him, and Ye Jiao listened, because when Qi Yun was studying, he could not only say articles, but also tell many stories related to the articles, which did not sound obscure and difficult to understand, but very funny and humorous. Ye Jiao also likes to hear.

This was said for more than an hour, and when the stone came home from school, Xu Bao had not finished listening to it.

Ordinary stones go to the place of the swing to find Xu Bao. Xu Bao likes it very much. He puts down his books and comes out to play every evening, saying that he can fly high on the swing, and it looks better to watch Yunxia in the evening.

But this time the stone did not find Xu Bao on the swing rack.

He turned his head and looked at the oil paper bag in Qingfeng's hand, which was the snack he had brought to Xu Bao. after a moment of hesitation, the stone said, "come on, you come with me to talk to my second aunt."

The breeze answered and followed the stone.

After walking through the long corridor, we came to the outside of the courtyard door. after the stone entered, the iron guard at the door did not stop him, just let him in.

Stone stepped into the door, and as soon as he was about to shout, he heard Qi Yun's voice coming out of the inner room: "there are rules, there are rules, and there are rules for future generations." Guan Shi and Jun. "

This made the stone scalp numb and stopped.

When Xiao Su saw him, she came over and smiled and said, "Master Stone, but are you here to see Master Xu?"

Stone nodded, motionless, just reached in and pointed: "second uncle and Xubao inside?"

"here it is."

"what about reading?"

"that's right."

When heard the stone, felt a little distressed on face.

In order to give an account to Qi Zhao, Qi Yun always grasped the lessons of grabbing stones very strictly, and showed no mercy in the exams.

Stone did not expect that the second uncle was so strict with Xubao. He didn't even learn this part.

My heart was full of sympathy for Xu Bao, but the stone dared not go in. He just stuffed the oil paper bag to Xiao Su and dropped the sentence: "remember to give it to Xu Bao's brother." Then he left with the breeze.

In a trance, Xiao Su felt that this scene had appeared before, but could not remember when, so he just shook his head, put the oil-paper bag on the table, and closed the door lightly without disturbing the family of three inside.

In the room, Qi Yun said the whole paragraph and went to pick up the tea to moisten his throat. Xubao had already begun to recite the article silently with his eyes closed, but Ye Jiao lit up her eyes and smiled softly as she looked at Qi Yun.

Qi Yun could not help asking, "what is Niao Niang looking at?"

Ye Jiao leaned over to Qi Yun, put her hand around Qi Yun's arm, and said with a smile, "look at the husband, the husband is good-looking."

Qi Yun did not know why Ye Jiao said such a sentence, so he looked down at her and asked, "how can I look good?"

Ye Jiao doesn't know too many poems and songs, and can't recite poems casually like her own son. She just says directly in a soft and waxy voice, "my husband is good-looking, and I can't get tired of reading it for the rest of my life."

At this moment, Qi Yun knew who his Xu Bao's sweet mouth was inherited from.

He couldn't help leaning over and kissing him at the corner of Ye Jiao's mouth. Ye Jiao opened her eyes wide and gave him a push. Seeing that Xubao didn't notice, she patted Qi Yun on the shoulder and said, "what are you doing?"

Qi Yun put his chin on the woman's neck with a smile and whispered, "I'll have a taste of whether Niang Niang's mouth is sweet or not."

Ye Jiao was puzzled: "I didn't eat anything, how can it be sweet?"

Qi Yun smiled low and said, "I think Jiao Niang is sweeter than honey."

The author has something to say: Xubao: it's not easy to be a mature baby [cover your eyes]

When I write it, I always cycle that song in my head

On the other side of the mountain, on the other side of the sea, there are a group of Smurfs ~ they are lively and smart, they are naughty and sensitive ~

Ahem

Here are the unimportant happy little popular science that can be skipped

1. The flowers grow on the glazed ground, and the light and wind dazzles and turns to Ziyunying. have seen her since saw her on the plate, and now eyes have become more discerning. Tang Yuanzhen's Ximing Temple Peony

2. The Song of the five sons comes from Xia Shu in Shangshu.