warm garden

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Kang Wang tentatively asked: "Brother Ming, don't you really feel that Shuangshuang is very good?"

Ming Xiaoyang said: "You are endless, do you think everyone is like you? I don't like that kind of girl!"

Kang Wangdao: "What do you like, Brother Ming?"

Ming Xiaoyang really thought about it: "Hmm... I haven't thought about it carefully."

Kang Wang refused to let go: "No, I don't worry if you don't tell me!"

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Tsk, you really are... Well, what kind of one do I like... Very beautiful, smart and kind, who likes me, has a good figure, loves me, is obedient to me, only loves me." I am alone, the kind who is very gentle to me, the kind who is as tender as water, smiles very charmingly, smells delicious... Oh, it's almost like this, anyway, it won't be a dominatrix like Shen Lingshuang, don't worry?"

Kang Wang said: "Well, that's about the same."

Duke Wu's Mansion.

Ming Xiaoyang was about to leave, and Bai Heyun gave him a piece of written paper and put it in an envelope and said, "This is your itinerary, and how to contact the various managers. Take it, and each of Bai's managers will If you have strengths, you must humbly ask them for advice when you go this time, remember?"

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Yes, I understand, mother." He got on the horse and took Huotong and Mingle on the road.As soon as he arrived at the gate of the city, he saw King Kang waiting there with a team of followers.

King Kang said: "Brother Ming, Shuang, uh, where is Miss Shen?"

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Wait, it's troublesome for a woman to leave the house."

Ming Le said: "What did you say?" He took the white snake bone whip and poked Ming Xiaoyang.

Ming Xiaoyang said: "You are still a child, when you grow up, you can't imitate your elder sister Shen, and you won't be able to get married by then!"

Kang Wang stood aside: "Ahem, um..."

Shen Lingshuang rode a horse and led a few people towards the city gate, and said with a bright smile, "Let's go." Everyone rode on the road.

Ming Le walked beside Shen Lingshuang and said, "Sister Shen is so beautiful today!"

Shen Lingshuang said: "Le'er looks good too."

Ming Ming said with a smile: "Oh, I understand, this is called the appearance of a woman who pleases herself, right?"

Kang Wang walked obediently beside Ming Xiaoyang: "..." He looked back at Shen Lingshuang, and then at Ming Xiaoyang sideways.

Shen Lingshuang said: "Le'er, isn't it our two families? Why is King Kang traveling together?"

Ming Xiaoyang said: "I invited His Royal Highness Kang Wang to visit Yangzhou together."

Shen Lingshuang said: "Oh."

Ming Xiaoyang kept looking back along the way, Shen Lingshuang said: "What are you looking at?" and also looked back.

Ming Xiaoyang asked: "Zhao Che, when you came out, did you go to Tianqing Temple to see your sixth younger brother?"

Kang Wang said: "Of course, I went to the city gate to wait for you after I came out of Tianqing Temple."

Ming Xiaoyang said: "He knows we're leaving today, right?"

Kang Wang said: "I know, the sixth brother also told me to follow you closely, and told me to be careful on the road."

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Then why didn't he come to see you off?"

Kang Wang asked strangely: "Did you know my sixth younger brother on the first day? It's not easy for him to say a few more words. I still expect him to see him off?"

Shen Lingshuang said: "Ming Xiaoyang, your sword is so beautiful, show me it?"

Ming Xiaoyang carefully untied the sword and handed it to Shen Lingshuang.Kang Wangdao: "If Miss Shen likes swords, I will definitely find better ones for Miss Shen in the future."

Shen Lingshuang said coldly: "No need, what good sword this girl wants, I can find it myself, don't bother the prince."

Shen Lingshuang looked at Ming Xiaoyang's sword carefully, and sighed in his heart: "What a beautiful sword!" After pulling it out slowly, he even praised: "This sword is really top-quality, a rare sword in the world!"

Ming Xiaoyang proudly said: "How? You might find such a sword?"

Shen Lingshuang said: "This sword is a priceless treasure, which is hard to come by. How did you get it?"

Ming Le said: "This is a birthday present from Brother Ning Wang to my brother."

Shen Lingshuang said: "King Ning is really generous, to give such an expensive birthday gift?!"

Ming Le said: "Not only that, my brother's sweat-blooded horse, even this Tianyou was also given by Brother Ning."

Kang Wangdao: "Oh! I mean, why does this horse look familiar? So it is God's blessing?"

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Do you know Tianyou?"

Kang Wangdao: "Brother Ming, you really make me feel so uncomfortable. No matter how open-minded I am, it will inevitably be unpleasant, not only Shen...uh, my sixth brother never gave me anything, but he treats you like this good!"

Ming Xiaoyang said: "He has so many good horses, why give me one?"

King Kang said: "He has many good horses, but this Tianyou is his best horse, better than all his horses put together, not to mention Tianyou didn't come easily."

Shen Lingshuang said: "Why is it not easy?"

Kang Wangdao: "When my sixth brother was 16 years old, I heard from the Tubo envoy that there was a sweat-blood horse king in a tribe in Tubo. It was a rare sweat-blood horse, and it matched the tribe leader's sweat-blood horse , the leader’s Bao Ju has just been pregnant with a pony, so it will be a peerless horse. My sixth brother went to ask my father for a pony, and my father was also very embarrassed. After all, he was not in the Song Dynasty. I made a request to let my sixth brother go to the imperial study every day to handle government affairs for two years. My sixth brother really worked as a coolie for two years from morning to night, and my father finally brought Tianyou here from afar. When I was the sixth younger brother, I got God Bless, and God Bless just turned one year old, who would have thought that I would give it to you right after I left the palace! Sigh... I'm going to be jealous even if I'm an older brother!"

Ming Le said: "Tsk tsk tsk, brother Ning's two years of hard work is actually cheaper than silly brother, alas, flowers are always planted on cow dung, what a pity!"

Ming Xiaoyang reached out and touched Tianyou's head, but said nothing.

Kang Wangdao: "This is both a sword and a treasure ju. You have to treat my sixth brother better. He has always had a temperament that is not stagnant, and he is not so kind to himself."

Shen Lingshuang sighed: "I want to know Ming Xiaoyang how you returned the gift?" Returning the sword to Ming Xiaoyang.

Ming Xiaoyang said: "I gave him a pack of erotic pictures..."

Kang Wang whispered: "The ones you took from me?"

Ming Xiaoyang nodded.

Everyone: "..."

Ming Le said: "You can either promise with your body, or apologize with death, bro, choose one!"

Kang Wang smiled: "Le'er, you are so humorous."

During the break on the way, the attendants lit a fire to cook, Ming Xiaoyang sat down to drink water, Shen Lingshuang sat next to Ming Xiaoyang, Kang Wang made a look at Ming Le, and wanted Ming Le to sit next to his brother, so that Kang Wang I can sit next to Shen Lingshuang now.

Ming Le ignored her and sat down next to Shen Lingshuang.Ming Xiaoyang was relatively silent along the way, looking thoughtful, he didn't notice Kang Wang's various hints at all, Kang Wang didn't know what to do, he simply pushed Ming Xiaoyang aside, and he was sandwiched between Ming Xiaoyang and Shen Lingshuang, Sitting still like a mountain.

Ming Xiaoyang still glanced left and right at the way he came here, and glanced right and left.Ming Le said: "Okay, I can't see Brother Ning even if I see a hole in the road."

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Who said that I was looking at him, the scenery on the way here is not bad."

Shen Lingshuang said: "I see that you are closer than your brothers. You have been out for more than two hours. What are you looking at?"

Ming Xiaoyang said: "That's not necessarily true. The last time I patrolled the border and left the city with the army, I walked for nearly three hours, and Zhao Yi still caught up."

Ming Le said: "Didn't you say that you are not waiting for Brother Ning?"

Ming Xiaoyang took out a bag of sugar-fried chestnuts and stuffed them to Ming Le: "Eat yours, shut up!"

Ming Le said with a smile: "Yes! Brother is right, the scenery is really good when we come here!"

Shen Lingshuang said: "When we arrive in Yangzhou, come to my house and sit down, my father will definitely want to see you very much."

Ming Le said: "Well, Uncle Shen is a very interesting person."

Kang Wang thought: "What? Is this going to bring brother Ming to meet his parents?" He glanced at Ming Xiaoyang, and said anxiously: "This king has also prepared a generous gift, and plans to go to Yangzhou to meet his father-in-law."

Ming Le: "?"

Ming Xiaoyang said in his heart: "Zhao Che has been aggrieved for so long, and finally he can speak the frank and hard truth."

Shen Lingshuang said: "Who is your father-in-law? Nonsense."

Kang Wang whispered: "Shuangshuang, brother Ming is still young, why don't you take a good look at this king, what do I dissatisfy you with, tell me, can I change it?"

Shen Lingshuang said: "I like Ming Xiaoyang, if you become him, I will like you, how about it?"

Ming Xiaoyang said: "How can there be such a thing? I don't like you, don't provoke our brotherhood, what are your intentions?"

King Kang said: "It's okay, the future will last forever. Lu Yao knows that Ma Li will see people's hearts for a long time, and Shuangshuang's eyes are like torches. He will definitely find out that I am good in the future."

Shen Lingshuang said: "We have a cloud of beauties in Yangzhou, King Kang must be more knowledgeable, if one day you meet someone you like on the street, don't bother me."

King Kang said: "How come, this king is a dedicated and good man who only takes a scoop of three thousand weak waters to drink. Shuangshuang can rest assured."

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Well, this is possible. Zhao Che has guarded himself like a jade so far. You are his first love. It would be great to be a princess. I think Zhao Che is good. If I were a woman, I would want to marry him!"

Kang Wang secretly gave Ming Xiaoyang a thumbs up under his sleeve, and Ming Xiaoyang slightly raised his eyebrows in response.

Ming Le said: "Brother, I wrote down what I said, and I will tell Brother Ning Wang when I go back."

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Huh? Why?"

Ming Le said: "I will report your situation to Brother Ning, and Brother Ning will give me gifts and delicious food."

Ming Xiaoyang said: "I am your brother, Le'er is a traitor, and you sold your own brother just for something to eat and play?"

Ming Le said: "Brother, it's already pretty good to have something to eat and play, and I don't expect you to exchange for something better."

Shen Lingshuang said: "Ming Xiaoyang, do you hate me that much?"

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Of course not, I don't hate you, I just don't like you."

Shen Lingshuang smiled and said: "Kang Wang has a good saying, we have a long time to come, just wait and see."

Kang Wangdao: "There are countless girls chasing Brother Ming, the competition is too fierce, Shuangshuang should take a look at me, I have no one to chase, I am easy to chase, and I can catch up if I chase, think about it."

Shen Lingshuang said: "You are too annoying, shut up."

Kang Wang said: "Oh."

☆, full of gold and jade

After walking for many days, he finally arrived in Yangzhou. Kang Wang asked his followers to live in the post house first, and he felt an inexhaustible sense of security following Ming Xiaoyang.

Shen Lingshuang said: "Go, go to my house first!"

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Okay, since you are a family friend, there is no reason to pass by but not to pay a visit. Naturally, you must go."

Kang Wang said: "Okay!"

Shen Lingshuang stopped him and said, "My lord, our Shen family has a small family, and there is no place for you as a great lord, so don't go!"

Kang Wangdao: "My sixth brother said, let me follow Brother Ming, I will go wherever Brother Ming goes."

Ming Xiaoyang hugged King Kang and said: "Zhao Che is very low-key, your family can just treat him as an ordinary person, right Zhao Che?"

Kang Wangdao: "Yes, yes, I am very ordinary, um, very ordinary!"

Ming Xiaoyang said: "I heard that Uncle Shen and the official family are old friends, so Zhao Che is also the son of an old friend, so he should go together, right Zhao Che?"

Kang Wangdao: "Yes, you must worship your father-in-law and mother-in-law."

Shen Lingshuang's almond eyes widened: "What?"

Kang Wang said: "Ah, uncle and aunt, it's uncle and aunt, hehe."

Yangzhou, Shen Mansion.

Although Shen's mansion is magnificent, it is very elegant. Once entering the gate, the courtyard is patchwork and elegant, without the luxury and vulgarity of a merchant's house.

The housekeeper said: "Missy is back."

Shen Lingshuang said: "Well, where is my father?"

The housekeeper said: "Master has gone out on business, and it will take about three or four days before he can return home."

Shen Lingshuang said, "Where's my mother?"

The steward said: "Madam will go back to her natal family to visit relatives, and she will return in a few days."

Shen Lingshuang said: "Oh, well, I see, let's arrange it, let's go."

The housekeeper said: "Yes, miss."

Shen Lingshuang said: "I have something to deal with, please go ahead, then I will go first."

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Okay! It's getting late, I'll go to rest first, and then go to work tomorrow, let's go, Le'er!"

Ming Le bounced and followed her brother away.Seeing Shen Lingshuang leaving the mansion, Kang Wang withdrew his reluctant eyes and followed to the room.

In the evening, Ming Xiaoyang ate and drank enough and went back to his room to go to bed.Ming Le couldn't sleep and played in the yard. Ming Le had lived here for a month before and knew her very well.

Kang Wang felt that the bright moon was in the sky and the night breeze was refreshing, so he came out to enjoy the cool air for a while, sat on the stone chair in the courtyard and sighed: "So this is the place where Shuangshuang grew up. good."

Ming Le said: "Brother Kang Wang, you and Ning Wang brother are not like brothers at all, their temperaments are very different."

Kang Wang said with a smile: "My sixth younger brother's temperament is unique in the world, and he really can't resemble it."

Ming Le also came over and sat down and said, "You are warmer than Brother Ning Wang, and Brother Ning Wang is more reliable than you."

Kang Wangdao: "...Haha, Le'er really has a clear mind."

Ming Le said: "Brother Kang Wang has a cheerful personality, he is a bit like my brother, and he won't worry about finding a good wife. Why do you like Sister Shen?"

Kang Wang said happily: "Really? Does Le'er really think I look a bit like Brother Ming? Does it mean that I'm still very hopeful?"

Ming Le glanced at him and said, "You are so surprisingly open-minded!"

Kang Wang said: "Le'er and Shuangshuang are good friends, tell me what she likes!"

Ming Le said: "Sister Shen likes my brother."

Kang Wang said: "...except this?"

Ming Le said: "It's gone."

Kang Wang: "... Marrying me is not so bad, is it? The rich and the rich will not let Shuangshuang work so hard, go out and go to work, and still haven't come back."

Mingle said: "Sister Shen is not a canary that can be kept in a cage. When it comes to prosperity and wealth, I think Sister Shen's family may be richer than your prince. Brother Kang Wang should find confidence in other directions. Bar."

King Kang said: "Oh, it's too difficult for me... If Shuangshuang is willing to be my princess, I will treat her well for the rest of my life, and I will give her my best."

Ming Le said: "Well, you are very similar to Brother Ning Wang in this regard."

Kang Wang: "?"

Ming Xiaoyang lay on the bed and did not fall asleep, listening silently, blinking thoughtfully.After a while, I remembered that Zhao Anchen would also have his favorite princess, and I couldn't tell what it was like, and I didn't know why... I thought to myself: "I hope Brother Chen is happy, but I just can't be happy. When did Ming Xiaoyang become such a bad person? Brother Feichen treats me in vain. I can't be so narrow-minded in the future. As a man, I have to sincerely wave the flag for my brother's happiness." After thinking for a while, he said awkwardly Fell asleep.

In the early morning of the next day, Ming Xiaoyang took Ming Le and Huo Tong, followed Bai Heyun's instructions, and found a bank with "Jinyuan Bank" written on the plaque, and followed the staff into the back hall of the bank.

Standing in the hall is a 26-year-old man, wearing a golden auspicious cloud brocade robe and a white jade curly cloud crown, with a dignified appearance and a very handsome appearance.Gentle and elegant, with clear and deep eyes.

Seeing Ming Xiaoyang coming, the man smiled slightly, bowed his head and said: "The palm of gold is Bai Jinyu, Bai Mantang, I am waiting here for the young master, the eldest lady."

The Bai family is very low-key, and they don't show their surnames to others. Outsiders think they are Jinmu, Shuihuotu, so Bai Jinyu, Bai Mantang, outsiders only know that they are Jinyu, and the name is Mantang. Over time, they become the boss of Jinmantang. .

Ming Xiaoyang asked in surprise: "You recognize me?"

Jin Mantang said: "The head of the family sent a letter to inform his subordinates that the young master and the eldest lady are coming. The young master's birth is so similar to the head of the family, so the subordinates will recognize it naturally."

Ming Xiaoyang smiled and said: "Haha, before coming here, my mother told me that the Bai family's managers are all the best wizards, and she wondered if Jin's manager might be a senior who is over half a hundred years old. I didn't expect to be so young, too Surprised, hehe."

Jin Mantang smiled and said, "Young Master, just call me Jinyu or Mantang."

Ming Xiaoyang smiled and nodded: "Yes! Is this the headquarters of the Bai family's Jin family?"

Jin Mantang said: "This is not here, please come with me, young master."

Jin Mantang took Ming Xiaoyang and the others out of Jinyuan Bank. They rode on for more than half an hour, and came to a remote villa. The manor looked like nothing but a big and spectacular It is special, but inexplicably gives people a feeling of "bronze and iron walls, no trespassing".The name on the lintel is very low-key: Caomuzhuang.

Jin Mantang said: "It's here, it's here."

Ming Xiaoyang followed Jin Mantang into the Caomuzhuang, and saw many people inside were doing their own things in different rooms, all wearing white Ruiyun brocade robes, and there were many elites in the village with dark red wristbands and different weapons. guard.

Everyone in the village was very happy when they saw the manager brought the young master, they came out and stood up, saluted and said: "Hello, young master! Hello, eldest lady! Good job, manager!"

Ming Xiaoyang waved his hands happily and said, "Hello everyone, hehe."

Jin Mantang waved his hands and told everyone to do their own thing, and everyone dispersed.Leading Ming Xiaoyang to the center of Zhuangzi, he stopped at a large second-floor building and said, "Young master, this is the pivot building, which is the place where the master wants the young master to come to be familiar with. There are two places on the ground of the pivot building. floor, eighteen floors underground."

Ming Xiaoyang sighed: "The ground is already spectacular, but there are eighteen floors of hell below? Why is there no door to this building?"

Jin Mantang smiled and said: "The young master is really interesting. For others, the tower is a place to put papers. For me, it used to be hell. For the young master and the eldest lady, it will soon be hell. The underground part is It is a solid wall of copper and iron, which cannot be dug or blasted, and there are many traps inside, only the head of the house and the head of the family can enter, and naturally the young master and the eldest lady can enter. No one else can enter."

Ming Le said: "Brother, I have a bad premonition. There is no door, the eighteenth floor underground... There is a way to heaven if you don't go, and there is no way to hell."

Ming Xiaoyang said: "I feel the same way."

Jin Mantang smiled slightly: "Let's go in."

Ming Xiaoyang said: "This place is very good, it must be a place that can only be seen from a distance and not played with, I... I won't go in."

Jin Mantang said: "Well, that's fine, but the young master will be beaten to death by the Patriarch."

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Oh, then I'd better go in and have a look, it's okay to have a look. Let's go, Le'er."

Jin Mantang rhythmically tapped several different positions on one wall of the hub.Ming Xiaoyang said: "What are you doing?"

Jin Mantang said: "Unlock the mechanism, open the door." After knocking dozens of times, the wall in front of him sank down, and a mechanism door appeared in front of him.

Ming Xiaoyang sighed, "So that's it, let's go in." As he said that, he was about to open the door.

Jin Mantang stopped Ming Xiaoyang and said, "Young master, don't worry, don't touch it. There are poison needles on the edge of the wall. You can't reach out to open the door before unlocking the mechanism on the door. You will die!"

Ming Xiaoyang withdrew his hand instantly, sweating coldly.

Jin Mantang said: "Young master just follow me."

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Oh."

Jin Mantang fiddled with the small wooden blocks on the door that could slide, and reached out to open the door when he was done.As soon as the three of them stepped in, the door and wall behind them closed again and returned to their original state.Entering the door is not inside the building, but a closed space with a width of three meters and a length of four meters. The surroundings are flat, smooth and empty.

Jin Mantang said: "Young master and eldest lady, don't move, later." After speaking, he took a strange step with light work, and a square collapse appeared at the place where he landed. After flying a few times, the innermost part of this confined space The wall was opened, and Jin Mantang said: "Okay, you can come here."

Ming Xiaoyang followed Jin Mantang very politely and asked, "If you didn't crack it just now...what will happen if you step on the ground?"

Jin Mantang said: "It will trigger the organ, first release the poisonous gas, and then the left and right walls merge in the middle, squeezing people into the thickness of a sheet of paper."

Ming Xiaoyang: "..."

There are two floors on the ground inside the building, the windows on the ground floor are very high, but the upper floor is covered with windows all week, Ming Xiaoyang said: "If I knew it was so troublesome, it would be better to fly in with light work, how easy it is."

Jin Mantang said: "Young master, please don't do this, you will definitely die without a whole body."

Ming Xiaoyang: "..."

The three of them came to the top floor with excellent light. The interior is antique and very elegant. There are many cabinets and bookshelves. There are many neat rows of books and thick books. They walked in. After dozens of rows, I saw a room, opened the door and went in. It was a study room, spacious and bright, with several tables and chairs, pens, inks, papers and inkstones.

Jin Mantang said: "Young Master, Miss, please sit down." The three sat down around a prescription table.

Ming Xiaoyang said: "What are there so many outside? Account books? There are so many."

Jin Mantang smiled slightly: "It's not an account book, it's a catalog of shop title deeds."

Ming Xiaoyang: "!!!!!!"

Jin Mantang said: "The head of the family ordered his subordinates to strictly teach the young master how to manage the affairs of the Bai family's Jin clan. The subordinates will do their best. With the young master's intelligence, he will be able to learn it soon."

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Jinyu, you overestimate me, hehe, I am the bottom one in Enke for two consecutive years. There are so many catalogs..."

Jin Mantang said: "Well, if you can't learn it, the Patriarch will beat you to death."

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Well, I understand, if you can't do it, you have to do it!"

Jin Mantang said: "This subordinate will introduce the pivot building to the young master and the eldest lady. This floor is the directory layer. I will revise these directories every year at the end of the year. The annual change record and the reason for the change will be placed on the far left of the door. The cabinet on the side, and the five cabinets on the right are full of books on business knowledge and experience cases. The downstairs floor is the agency room and the transition floor. If someone breaks in, he will definitely die on that floor. Although no one can break in, the function of this floor is still there, and it is the only passage leading to the underground. There are 17 floors underground, which are full of organs. The first to fifth floors are accounts, and the sixth to fifteenth floors are the accounts. The first floor is the land deed, and the sixteenth floor is Bai's mechanism and various mechanism techniques. Only the head of the family can enter the No.[-] and eighteenth floors, and the subordinates don't know what it is."

Ming Xiaoyang breathed a sigh of relief: "Oh, it's not so mysterious, it's okay."

Jin Mantang said: "The young master and the eldest lady must learn all the tricks in the pivot building, and must be proficient in Bai's tricks. They must also memorize all the books outside, the title deed catalog, etc., and know them by heart. Only then can we leave Caomu Zhuang."

Ming Xiaoyang was so frightened that he immediately jumped up: "What? Impossible, even if my mother beats me to death, I can't!"

Ming Le said dejectedly: "What kind of crime is this..."

Jin Mantang said: "Young master, don't be nervous. This subordinate is also someone who has experienced it. I suggest you learn mechanism techniques first. If you don't know Bai's mechanism techniques, you can memorize the catalog outside. If you are proficient in Bai's mechanism techniques, you You will find that Bai's business is regular from layout to name, from business content to business methods, and you will be familiar with it in about two or three months. Finally, you can learn business classics. If the young master is more diligent, Half a year is enough!"

Ming Xiaoyang's back felt cold, and he sneered, "Hehehe, half a year..."

Jin Mantang said: "My subordinates will teach the young master and the eldest lady the tricks. It will take about two months. During this period, I will take the young master and the eldest lady to and from the pivot building every day."

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Can't you just tell us the secret order of how to get in and out?"

Jin Mantang said: "It's not that simple. The secret order is different every time you come in. There are different secret orders for the year, month, day and hour. After you are proficient in Bai's organ technique, you can naturally enter and exit freely, otherwise you will not be able to crack the organ."

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Last time I heard from Jin Fu that there are many people in the Bai clan who are proficient in organ skills, can they all come in?"

Jin Mantang said: "No, their mechanical skills are far from reaching the level of entering the hub."

Ming Xiaoyang felt that there was nothing to love in life, so he replied sadly: "Well, I know..."

Ming Le said: "He is the young master, why should I suffer?"

Jin Mantang said: "This subordinate is not clear, the Patriarch explained so."

Ming Le said: "Mother is a devil, brother, I don't want to live anymore."

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Me too, but the two of us together can't beat your mother."

Ming Le said: "Oh~~~~~~~~~~~~"

Jin Mantang said: "In order to make it easier for the young master and the eldest lady to learn mechanism skills, I have already uploaded some elementary books, so let's start!"

Ming Xiaoyang said with ashes on his face, "Okay, I'll be free when I finish my studies early."

Ming Le said: "Well, early death and early rebirth."

Jin Mantang smiled and said, "That's right."

☆、Auction

In the evening, Jin Mantang took Ming Xiaoyang and Ming Le out of the pivot building and arranged for them to stay in Caomuzhuang, and Huotong also lived in Caomuzhuang to accompany Ming Xiaoyang.

Jin Mantang brought a few people to Shen's residence, saw Shen Lingshuang and said: "Miss Shen, my young master has been taken care of by your residence, I'm here to pick up my young master's luggage."

Shen Lingshuang said in surprise: "Golden shopkeeper? Ming Xiaoyang is your young master???"

Jin Mantang said: "Exactly."

Shen Lingshuang said in his heart: "Jin Mantang is also a famous and powerful figure in Yangzhou City, and even among merchants in the whole Song Dynasty. I didn't expect that he was actually a member of the Bai family."

Shen Lingshuang said: "Oh, good."

Jin Mantang said: "By the way, the young master also ordered me to convey to Miss Shen that His Royal Highness Kang Wang will be placed in your residence first, because the young master is now in a secret place of the family, and it is inconvenient to look after His Highness Kang Wang. It will take about half a year." When my young master comes out, he will come to take His Royal Highness Kang Wang away, and Miss Lao Chen will be there during this time."

Shen Lingshuang said dumbly: "Okay, I see."

A few attendants took Ming Xiaoyang's luggage, Jin Mantang saluted and said: "Then don't bother me any more, I will take my leave first."

Shen Lingshuang saluted and said, "Treasurer Jin, go slowly."

Kang Wang watched silently, very happy in his heart, and said in his heart: "For half a year, Shuangshuang couldn't see brother Ming, but I was placed here, and I can see Shuangshuang every day. It's really great! Brother Ming is righteous!"

The housekeeper said: "This Mr. Ming is not ordinary, he actually entrusted the prince."

Shen Lingshuang looked back at Kang Wang, who was beaming with joy, and said, "You have been deposited like an object by others, why are you happy?"

Kang Wang smiled and said: "I don't mind, I am very happy, hehehe."

Two days later, Jin Mantang came to Shulou Road: "Tomorrow, there will be an annual auction of the highest level in the vertical building of Yangzhou City. For three consecutive days, it will gather all kinds of rare treasures from all over the world. Our Bai family will participate every year. , are the young master and eldest lady going?"

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Of course I will go to such a good thing! I will go!"

Ming Le said with a dead voice: "I'm not interested, I won't go, I'll endorse... die early and be reborn..."

Jin Mantang said: "Okay, I will go with the young master tomorrow."

longitudinal building.

Entering the vertical building, the central hall is very wide. It is a large circular treasure viewing platform, about ten meters in diameter, and nearly one meter high from the ground. In the middle of the treasure viewing platform, there is a three-foot high, one-meter-square The hollowed-out jade platform should be the booth for the exhibits. The entire treasure viewing platform is surrounded by nine thigh-thick stone pillars in the center of the hall. The brass chain looks quite solemn.

There are more than ten rows from the center to the periphery, and there is a wide passage behind the more than ten rows.There are three floors of treasure viewing seats for bidding in this building.The circle on the second floor is all single rooms, which are elegant and impressive.The single room on the third floor looks particularly spacious and dignified.

Jin Mantang led Ming Xiaoyang to the most central Guanbao elegant room on the second floor.Ming Xiaoyang stood by the fence in the room and looked down, saying: "It's really clear here, Jinyu, what is the third floor for, why is there no one there?"

Jin Mantang said: "The third floor is dedicated to the royal family. There are nine rooms a week. Generally, no one comes. The second floor where we are located is the bidding room for the wealthy and nobles. There are seats for nobles with more than ten million taels of gold. There are eighteen rooms in total every week." The division between the chief and the last is also the division of family strength. The young master is in the chief elegant room. There are 10 seats downstairs, and the bidders in the last row are those who have at least [-] taels of gold in their accounts. , the people who can enter the vertical building during these three days every year are rich."

Ming Xiaoyang nodded and said: "Jinyu, do you know how much money the Bai family has? My mother never told me that Zhao Yi said that the rich and the enemy are three great Songs, right?"

Jin Mantang said: "I know how much gold, silver and shops the Bai family has, but I don't know about the others. As far as gold and silver are concerned, it is almost as the young master said."

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Is there anything else?"

Jin Mantang said: "Of course there are, such as fields, land, manors, mountains..."

Ming Xiaoyang felt dizzy when he heard this, and asked, "I don't think I will have to memorize these 'other' catalogs in the future, right?"

Jin Mantang laughed and said: "You don't need to memorize it in Caomuzhuang, but you won't know it when you leave Caomuzhuang."

Ming Xiaoyang said in his heart: "I guess I can't run away."

After a stick of incense, there were no empty seats in the vertical building, but there was a room not far to the left that was still empty.A bronze bell rang and the auction began.

The owner of the vertical building is a beautiful woman who is as beautiful as a country and a city. She walked up to the treasure viewing platform and said, "Everyone, welcome to this auction." The stage disappeared.

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Is there a mechanism?"

Jin Mantang said: "This is also the reason why all the treasures in the world are auctioned in the vertical building. This building is full of organs, and the treasures are safe here."

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Oh."

The jade-carved square platform gradually rose from the ground, and began to rotate slowly after returning to the ground, showing it to everyone around.The vertical landlord said: "The first collection: blood coral, 10 inches wide, [-] inches high, starting price [-] taels of gold!"

Ming Xiaoyang said in shock: "10 taels of gold? So expensive?"

Jin Mantang said: "Such a big blood coral is priceless, 10 taels of gold is not expensive."

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Oh, it's useless to just watch, do we want it?"

Jin Mantang said: "The young master can photograph whatever he likes."

Ming Xiaoyang said: "I don't like this, will you take a picture?"

Jin Mantang said: "If the Bai family encounters a heavy treasure, they will naturally not let it go, and they will not let go of a rare treasure, but I don't plan to take pictures of this blood coral."

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Why?"

Jin Mantang said: "The number one is not precious enough."

Ming Xiaoyang: "..."

Jin Mantang said: "Second, it's too small. The smallest blood coral in the dry building in Caomuzhuang is bigger than this one."

Ming Xiaoyang: "....What is the dry building for?"

Jin Mantang said: "Just behind the pivot building is the Bai family's treasure building, with three floors above ground and twenty floors underground."

Ming Xiaoyang said in his heart: "My lord usually lives in a thatched hut... I always fight with Le'er for a bag of sugar-fried chestnuts..." Asked: "How much do we spend at the auction every year?" ?”

Jin Mantang said: "Not necessarily, last year and the year before last, I didn't spend a penny."

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Is it so picky?"

Jin Mantang laughed and said, "It's because there are no good treasures."

Ming Xiaoyang murmured: "10 taels of gold is not precious enough..."

Jin Mantang said: "The sword on the young master's waist is probably many times more valuable than this blood coral. This blood coral cannot enter the gate of Bai's dry building."

The blood coral on the treasure viewing platform was scrambled for a long time, and finally sold at a price of 35 taels of gold.

The vertical master said: "The following is the second collection, the thousand-year-old ginseng, and the starting price is 2000 taels of silver." The jade-carved square platform fell and rose again, and a bracket was placed on it, and a "hanging ginseng" was hung.

Ming Xiaoyang wondered: "How many 10 taels of gold and 2000 taels of silver? Isn't the gap too big?"

Jin Mantang said: "Zonglou's selection of treasures is not only based on value, but also based on many factors such as few, strange, and beautiful. This thousand-year-old ginseng is very good, and authentic products that are full of years are extremely rare in the market. "

Ming Xiaoyang said: "Do we want it?"

Jin Mantang said: "The young master has the final say, but in the Baishimu clan, there should be many such things."

Ming Xiaoyang: "...Okay, no more, I now understand why you didn't spend a single coin last year and the year before last."

What Jin Mantang said was right, this thousand-year-old ginseng was indeed a good thing, and the fight for it took longer than that blood coral, and finally it was taken by a young man in Tsing Yi sitting in the first row below.

Ming Xiaoyang looked down, his heart suddenly jumped