Chapter 5 Qingyu Hall said the coming year

In the tea store casually whole some water to drink, brother and sister two people are a little distracted to re-enter the road, not long after walking, they saw Wang Qinian a cadre of carriages to pick up their own. The identity of the other party here, and look at the expression is a bit strange, the mood is not very high, Wang Qinian naturally do not dare to nag what.

“Why did His Holiness appear here?” Fan Ruo Ruo leaned on the carriage, holding a handkerchief and fanning her slightly sweaty face, her appearance looking extremely agreeable.

Fan Xian replied with a bitter smile, “This His Majesty of ours has always lived in deep simplicity, I have long expected, how can a man stay in a palace full of palace grudges and the smell of fat and powder all year round, he will definitely come out often to take a break, and it’s only natural that he would walk to the banks of the Flowing Crystal River. It’s just that earlier there was some fun, I always thought that that Lord Gong Dian, would call him Master Huang.”

Fan Ruoruo puffed a laugh and said, “Where can everything be like the stories that my brother said, if that’s the case, you should have long ago gone to open a book-telling store.”

Speaking of a book-telling store, Fan Xian immediately thought of a tofu store and asked with a frown, “Ruoruo, what are you going to do in the future?”

Fan Ruoruo looked gloomy, nowadays in these years, after a woman gets married, she is married to her husband and embroiders flowers and manages the backyard, with Ruoruo’s knowledge and ability, if she spends her life like this, I’m afraid she will be a bit reluctant to do so. Just can’t do more planning at the moment, so we have to do this for the time being.

After entering the capital, the carriage went straight to the 28-mile slope. This twenty-eight miles slope is not a big hill, just a famous place name in the south of Beijing. That is to say that hundreds of years ago, Kyoto is far from today’s broad time, twenty-eight miles of slopes is the last section of the slopes before entering the capital, from the south-west direction of the official highway on the last stage is twenty-eight miles, whenever the car and horse to this time, line the last twenty-eight miles of the road, the horse lack of tired people tired, extraordinarily fatigue, will be the last section of a small hill than the beach side of the big East Mountain and taller. This is where the name of the 28-mile slope comes from.

Nowadays, the 28 Mile Slope has long since been incorporated into the city walls and turned into a street, only the name remains, and Qingyu Hall is located here. The carriage stopped far away, and Fan Xian and his sister stepped down and walked down the street. Along the way, he saw a row of small, neatly organized storefronts, all of which were made of cheap wood from Lingnan, painted with varnish and clearly marked with wood spots, so that if he glanced at them, he felt as if countless one-eyed monsters were looking at him intently.

Fan Xian bluffed and asked curiously, “Why are they all using this?” This kind of practice was commonly used in the small restaurants in his previous life, with a clear and clean feeling of logs, cheap and refreshing.

Wang Qinian shook his head, he is not business material. Fan Ruo Ruo explained: “This is Qing Yu Tang, each doorway is the apprenticeship of a big shopkeeper. With seventeen shopkeepers, there are seventeen rooms.”

Fan Xian counted and realized that there were a total of two dozen of these small houses along the street and asked his sister why this was so, and Fan Ruo Ruo said in a nonchalant manner, “These many years have passed, and there are always some shopkeepers who have gotten older and started to retire, or who have died of illness.”

The group of people talked and talked and walked to the very front, it was a very somewhat beautiful mansion, the courtyard was very large, looking at the eaves that crossed the courtyard wall, it should have been divided into many courtyards inside. Fan Xian’s heart stirred, feeling somewhat familiar, and only after thinking about it did he remember that this was more or less the same style as the Taiping Village that he had seen on the banks of the Liujing River earlier.

The place where these shopkeepers lived was a bit strange, and there were no three words “Qing Yu Tang” written on the front door. At this time there are Fan House guards went up to pass the name tag, the doorkeeper saw the name on the name tag, immediately knew that the visitor is recently in the capital of the great publicity Fan Da Duke, hurriedly and respectfully invited to enter, because the seven leaves of the seven leaf shopkeeper is currently Fan family to help take care of the Tanyu bookstore, so even the notification of this degree are exempted.

Just about to enter the house, the court is responsible for the supervision of the Qingyu Hall of people, but hit the cross over, is ready to ask questions to examine the identity of the guests. Wang Qinian is coldly looked at each other two eyes, even their own do not bother to appear, let the group of a junior to cope with, along with Fan Xian will go to the hall.

The one who supervises Qingyu Hall is also a member of the Supervisory Yuan, so he immediately knew that he had done something redundant.

He entered the hall, took his seat, and was served tea.

Sitting at the head of the table was a man of about forty years of age, with a soft brow and eyes that seemed to have become cautious under the weight of all these years. However, Fan Xian knew that the other party was the chief shopkeeper of Qing Yu Tang, known as Ye Da, when the main Ye family’s most important business, it was not as boring and useless as what he saw in front of him, he couldn’t help but say with a slight smile, “I have always thought that the shopkeeper is very old and virtuous, but today when I saw it, I realized that the shopkeeper was originally so young.”

Ye big shopkeeper completely do not know this Fan Gongzi today to Qingyu Hall in the end for what, although more than ten years have passed, the Ye family has long been not what taboo, but is tantamount to being disguised as a house arrest in the capital for more than ten years, his temperament has long been unlike when that kind of jumping and bold, his body has been rickety, the heart of the gas is also light a lot of bitter smile responded: “has long been an old man, Fan! Fan Xian laughed and said, “I’ve been an old man for a long time, but I’m sorry to hear that.”

Fan Xian smiled and said, “Let’s get right to the point, today I came, the first pile of things is that Tanyu Bookstore’s business is extremely good, I want to come and thank Shopkeeper Seven Leaves, and I also want to see what Qingyu Hall looks like.”

Grand Shopkeeper Ye smiled and responded, “Mr. Fan paid for the people in our hall to do things, naturally, I want to let Mr. Fan earn his money, and if he still loses money doing business, this Qing Yu Hall would have collapsed in the capital long ago.” Speaking of earning money, Grand Manager Ye’s eyes naturally showed a sense of confidence, and his body radiated with a glow.

Fan Xian secretly praised in the bottom of his heart, thinking that this is what his own mother should look like when she taught him, and said politely with an arch of his hand, “In fact, today, there are piles of things to be specially troublesome to the big shopkeeper.”

Ye big shopkeeper heart a flinch, if only for business, the other identity of noble, not to personally come, is the other side in the thought of what? Ye big shopkeeper has to think for the life safety of so many shopkeepers and fellows and relatives in Qingyu Hall in the capital, he didn’t dare to listen to what the other party thought, and refused with difficulty, “There are clear rules in the imperial court, people in Qingyu Hall aren’t allowed to leave the capital, and if Mr. Fan is too ambitious, Qingyu Hall can’t really help much.”

Fan Xian laughed and said, “I naturally know this, today I came, I just want to ask Ye Dazhou to be a person’s teacher, as far as I know, over the years, the court has been some of the officials of the Ministry of the household and the inner treasury manpower, is worshiped in the Qing Yu Tang’s door, specializing in the way of business, I’m comfortable with the cooperation of the Seven Leaves Shopkeepers, and so I also want to introduce a student.”

Shopkeeper Ye was curious, “I wonder what kind of person.”

Fan Xian smiled faintly and did not say anything. Grand Shopkeeper Ye understood and said softly, “Your guest has come from afar, why don’t you let my wife take Miss Fan for a stroll in the back garden?” He looked at Fan Ruoruo with a smile and said, “Although this courtyard of ours is not surprising, back then it was also designed by the family head himself, and it is quite impressive.”

Fan Ruoruo understood, smiled faintly and went to the back garden with the shopkeeper’s wife. And Wang Qinian and the others were driven out by Fan Xian with a wave of his hand. Seeing him being so cautious, Shopkeeper Ye couldn’t help but be scared, wondering just who was going to learn the ways of business.

“Fan Si Zhe, my second brother.” Fan Xian took a sip of tea and said softly, “You should have heard of it.”

Boss Ye’s heart was shocked, thinking that although Fan’s second son had no gap at the moment, there was after all Sinanbo’s family fortune sitting there. Powerful noble children, how could they be willing to come to learn the end of the road of business, could it be that this Fan Da Duke in front of him wants to borrow this matter, so that Fan Si Zhe can not inherit the title …… but this kind of clumsy ploy is not too ridiculous and not feasible.

Fan Xian didn’t think that Grand Shopkeeper Ye would think so much, and said in a soft voice: “My second brother is a good businessman by nature, but at the moment he is only relying on the genes and hobbies in his bones to hold on, and in the future if he wants to really do something about it, his abilities are still a bit insufficient, so I hope that he will have the honor to be under the door of the Grand Shopkeeper.”

Mr. Ye shook his head hurriedly, being as cautious as he was, he definitely didn’t dare to get involved in these matters, and shrugged it off, saying, “Servant Fan is in charge of the world’s money and food, and his business is bigger than anyone else’s, so this is just a small area of Qing Yu Tang, how can I dare to teach Mr. Fan.”

Fan Xian was a little disappointed, but he wasn’t in a hurry, thinking that according to his own plan, you’re a teacher who can’t get away. He quietly sat on the chair, slowly mobilized the true qi at the snowy mountain, all four chakras, closed his eyes and pondered for a little while, confirming that his keen ears did not hear who was eavesdropping, only then did he lower his voice and said, “There is one more thing, I don’t know if the big shopkeeper dares to listen to it, and if you dare to listen to it, I dare to tell it.”

Seeing him so mysterious, Grand Shopkeeper Ye smiled helplessly, knowing that even if he didn’t listen, the other party was bound to speak. As expected, Fan Xian smiled and said, “I am now the Tai Palm Temple Conciliator.”

Seeing him say this sentence without a head or tail, Ye Da Boss was a bit puzzled, but still respectfully said hi, knowing that the gentleman in front of him was about to shanghai which nobleman in the palace. Unexpectedly, Fan Xian followed up with, “My fiancée is the Lin family’s young lady.” He knew that the titular Grand Boss Ye, although he had sat in Kyoto for fifteen years withered away, must have had many channels to know certain secret stories many years ago.

As expected, Grand Shopkeeper Ye’s face changed drastically, staring deathly into Fan Xian’s eyes as he said coldly, “What exactly is Mr. Fan trying to say?”

Fan Xian faintly responded, “Within two years at the latest, it will be possible for me to take control of the management of the inner treasury …… But I know that I am not capable enough, and that my father’s side of the Ministry of Revenue is ultimately the wealth of the state, while I have to take care of the wealth of the palace, and so I can’t be of too much help, and I… … “He looked back at the eyes of Ye Da Boss without much emotion, and said word by word: “Need help, need …… your help.”