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"Squeak..." The white fine sand in the hourglass kept falling downwards, a very thin line of sand fell very slowly, but it never stopped. Sometimes the time was the sand in the hourglass, sometimes the drums on the city tower, and sometimes the almanac printed on paper.

Zhu Gaoxu lay on the table, stretched out his two fingers to pinch the sand thread in the glass bottle, as if he wanted to control the time. He thought to himself that he could not control the time, but he could try to grasp the rush of things to develop.

He let out a breath, lifted the pen and licked it on the account in front of him. After a while, he stood up from the round stool, reached out to pick up a bundle of colorful silk, clamped it under his armpit, picked up a small wooden box on the table, walked out of the warehouse, turned around and locked the door.

"Where is Miss Du?" Zhu Gaoxu met Aunt Wang and asked.

Aunt Wang bent down quickly: "I just saw her entering the back hall and said I would go to collect the prince's dirty clothes."

Zhu Gaoxu walked into the middle gate tower and came to the upper room. Sure enough, he saw Du Qianrui's figure and called out: "Miss Du, stop what you have done first and come and say a few words to me."

Du Qianrui turned around, put down the clothes in her hand, walked out of the screen, and bowed her knees.

Zhu Gaoxu put the things in his hand on the mahogany coffee table and said, "Miss Du, I didn't use you as a maid. I promised you last time, and I went to the warehouse to find some things today, I hope you can use them."

"I don't receive any reward without merit, why do I have the nerve to do it..." Du Qianrui's face was red.

Although she was urging her, her shiny eyes betrayed her. Almost no women don’t like beautiful clothes and jewelry, and no women don’t want to pamper... Men give things is the most brutal and effective way to show pampering.

"Look." Zhu Gaoxu pretended to be indifferent and raised his chin. In fact, he still cared very much. The Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes were paper. He had no feeling at all, but the jewelry was very subtle... If there were such things in his hand in his previous life, why bother to get a small loan?

Du Qianrui lowered her eyes and carefully reached out to open the wooden box. She did not take the gold, silver and pearls inside, but first picked up a green bracelet.

"It's a pity that it's from Hetian jade. If the jade bracelet can be full of jade, it will be worth a lot." Zhu Gaoxu said.

"Emerald?" Du Qianrui said in surprise.

Zhu Gaoxu was stunned for a moment, guessing that there was probably no such thing as jade at this time. He didn't explain and said, "Even if Hetian jade is full of jade, it is not valuable."

Du Qianrui picked it up with her fingers and glanced at the window, "If you buy it with treasure money, it will cost 200 to 300 guan, which is also very expensive."

After hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu thought to himself: He is worthy of being from the Jiaofangsi. He has seen the world and can see the value at a glance.

At this moment, a girl with dark skin and big hands and feet walked to the door and said in a hoarse voice: "Prince, Eunuch Wang ordered me to tell you, Professor Hou asked for your meeting."

Hou Hai returned from Nanjing? When Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he couldn't help but glance at Du Qianrui, and felt a little guilty.

But he pretended to be very casual and said, "I'm missing my companion, I'll go out."

Du Qianrui said: "The prince's business matters, I say goodbye. I am really ashamed of these things..."

Zhu Gaoxu interrupted her without saying anything, determined to give her a gift, so as to make up for the feeling in his heart, and said, "Don't refuse repeatedly, I'm annoyed!"

"Yes, it's better to obey orders than to be respectful." Du Qianrui lowered her head shyly.

Zhu Gaoxu walked out, passed through the middle gate tower, corridor, hall, and came to the courtyard behind the screen wall. Sure enough, he saw Hou Hai standing there in a dusty manner. Hou Hai looked over and bowed.

Zhu Gaoxu waved to him and then walked into a living room opposite the wall.

"Close the door." Zhu Gaoxu said when he saw Hou Hai coming in, and pointed to the Grand Master's chair at the head. "Professor Hou was exhausted and sat down and said slowly."

"Thank you, Prince." Hou Hai bowed again, although his face was dusty, his eyes were full of energy, and it seemed that it was very pleasant to do such an errand.

Hou Hai sat down, pondered for a moment, and said, "This trip to Beizhi is really interesting! Where can I start? Just say that when I got the prince's order that day, Beizhi thought about where the capital was? I was afraid that I would just run into someone at random. I was probably a third or fifth rank. Who could Beizhi look for when he was a ninth rank official?"

Zhu Gaoxu didn't say anything, but just nodded from time to time, then looked at him, indicating that he was listening.

Hou Hai continued: "Before leaving, Bei Zhi met Wang Gui first and asked him what the prince had to do in the capital. If he had a strong relationship, he would also find someone to help. When Wang Gui asked Bei Zhi to have no choice, he could find Wang Zhenliang, the son of Princess Huaiqing."

Zhu Gaoxu coughed and said, "You'd better not talk about these people around."

"Don't worry, you are so sensible!" Hou Hai clasped his fists and said, "When I arrived in the capital, I was not familiar with the door, so I had to inquire about Wang Zhenliang's mansion first and go to find him first.

When Wang Zhenliang heard that Bei Zhi was a servant in the Prince's Mansion, he really received it. Bei Zhi told him about his affairs. Unexpectedly, Wang Zhenliang refused and said that he was a servant in the Governor's Mansion and could not control the affairs of the Jiaofangsi!"

Zhu Gaoxu nodded again.

Hou Hai said: "I finally saw him, but I left like that. Fortunately, I was eager to learn the interesting things below!

That day in the palace, the prince asked about the major affairs of the world. The prince talked about several newly appointed officials in Peking. The prince seemed very interested... When he saw Wang Zhenliang, he asked about the details of the three or four people. It doesn't matter if he asked about it! Wang Zhenliang told a secret."

"What's the secret?" Zhu Gaoxu also became interested when he heard that he was a senior official in Peking.

Hou Hai was furious and obviously had a greater interest in some "hidden information" than Zhu Gaoxu. He owed his body and stretched his neck and said, "Zhang Xin, the commander-in-chief of Peking, turned out to have a marriage with Qi Tai, the Minister of War...

Although Qi Tai is now in a high position and is the Minister of War, he is poor when he studied! In the 18th year of Hongwu, Qi Tai went to Beijing to take the exam and lived in an inn in a ruined market. That kind of inn not only has food and accommodation, but also the kiln sister.

Qi Tai naturally had no money to find the sister of the kiln, but the sister of the kiln was looking for him... Qi Tai was handsome and tall when he was young, and he was fair in the inn. He studied on the inn every day. When the sister of the kiln listened to him studying every day, she felt admiration and took the initiative to throw her pillow. She didn't charge the money and even paid for it!

Sister Kiln gave all the money she saved to Qi Tai to support him in the scientific examination. Qi Tai was so poor that she was so poor that she treated him wholeheartedly. He cursed and vowed that he would come back to repay his kindness when he passed the imperial examination."

Zhu Gaoxu nodded expressionlessly and listened patiently to how he had something to do with Zhang Xin.

Hou Hai finally said to Zhang Xin: "Soon Zhang Xin also found the inn and came to find the sister of the kiln... This is why his father was a high-level military officer back then. It is unclear why Zhang Xin had to go to such a dilapidated place to find the sister of the kiln. If it weren't for the long time, he would have found out."

Zhu Gaoxu thought to himself: It seems that Zhang Xin’s hobby is not a day or night. Now in Peking, he doesn’t go to the “poor city” to look for a kiln sister?

Hou Hai continued: "Zhang Xin and the sister of the kiln were so fond of spring night that they couldn't let go of the sister of the kiln and insisted on buying the sister of the kiln from the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper collected the money, so he naturally did not care whether the sister of the kiln was willing or not, let alone whether Qi Tai was willing or not. Zhang Xin was born as a martial artist and beat Qi Tai, who was causing trouble, and forced the sister of the kiln to buy it away.

Later I heard that when the kiln sister arrived at Zhang Xin's house, Zhang Xin quickly got tired of it. Once she fell out of favor, she was bullied by the official house every few days, beaten by Zhang Xin, and died soon..."

"Oh!" Zhu Gaoxu's eyes lit up, "Isn't this a rumor?"

Hou Hai said: "It shouldn't be the two people involved, one is the Minister and the other is the commander. Who dares to arrange them? Wang Zhenliang won't know much!"

Zhu Gaoxu calmed down and pondered for a moment: "In this way, isn't Qi Tai regretting for life? This thing that I didn't get is the most regrettable."

Hou Hai said: "That's inevitable! I guess there is something for Zhang Xin..."

"What?"

"Hate!" Hou Haidao.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't speak for a while and couldn't help asking, "Will you come back?"

Hou Hai glared and said, "How can I do it? Isn't Bei Zhi trying to check Du Qianrui's background? It's definitely not like this!"
Chapter completed!