The place where my heart goes to farming

The good news that Gu Fangyou brought back was the finalization of the title of Imperial Merchant.

Gao Ming has already confirmed Cen Le as the imperial merchant's choice. If there is no accident, future royal orders will go to "Zhumengge".

Naturally, some of the credit should go to Gu Fangyou.

Otherwise, it stands to reason that Gao Ming needs to get the perfume and essential oils he ordered just now and try them out for a few days before making this decision.

But this part of the reason, Gu Fangyou did not tell Cen Le.

However, Cen Le is not a fool, such a simple matter, of course he can understand it, after closing the shop, he thanked him earnestly.

Gu Fangyou waved his hands and smiled, "Why are you thanking me? It's not because of me. It's because your rouge is of good quality, the price is reasonable, and your perfume and essential oils have a good reputation, which attracted high-ranking students." Come Ming, even without me, you will be selected in the end."

Cen Le smiled, "But because of you, this decision can be made so quickly, so I should thank you."

Gu Fangyou looked at Cen Le for a long time, he couldn't help but agree with his politeness, and finally agreed, "Forget it."

Changing the subject, Gu Fangyou said again: "By the way, did you give Gao Ming a gift? Since Gao Ming came to the store, he also chose you as the imperial merchant, and you have to prepare a copy for both public and private purposes." Give him a gift."

Cen Le nodded and said, "I know."

After thinking for a while, Gu Fangyou reminded, "Don't send gold, silver, treasures, rare antiques and other items. When you come to Suzhou this time, His Majesty specially told Gao Ming not to be obsessed with money. He dare not accept it, if you give it away, it will make him unhappy."

"I won't give priceless things." Cen Le teased himself, "Even if I wanted to, I don't have the financial resources."

After a while, he asked again: "By the way, do you know what hobbies that adult has?"

Although he can't speak, and in modern times, he seldom communicates with others, but he still understands that gifts should be delivered to the point and according to the recipient's preference.

"I remember that apart from gold and silver, Gao Ming also likes to collect calligraphy and paintings..." Gu Fangyou thought for a while, and said, "Well, you go and ask the four talented scholars headed by Su Qing for a calligraphy and painting. Everyone can make a painting at the same time, and then give it to Gao Ming."

The family backgrounds of these four talented scholars are not bad, and the calligraphy and paintings written by them are rarely sold, usually only given to friends, and although they are close friends, they also occupy the title of "talented scholars", but in fact, the four of them have never Collaborated to complete a calligraphy and painting.

If they complete a painting at the same time, it will be unprecedented.

It can be described as hard to find.

Hearing this, Cen Le nodded slightly.

But it is not easy to see four people at the same time.

Although Su Qing helped promote the perfume, it was because of Su Pan. In fact, Cen Le was not familiar with him, let alone the other three talents.

Cen Le tried to go to the door several times, but he was only a small businessman, and without exception, he was stopped by the porter.

Cen Le was extremely frustrated.

Suddenly remembering the friendship between Su Pan and Su Qing, Cen Le's eyes lit up, and with a few glazed wares, he approached Su Pan and asked her to introduce him.

With Su Pan as the middleman, the four finally agreed to meet each other.

So on this day, with Cen Le as the host, he booked a box at a restaurant on North Street.

Just after half past noon, the four of them appeared together.

Soon, Su Pan also arrived.

When everyone was present, the six of them took their seats.

Su Pan was lively by nature, and she was familiar with everyone present, so after a few words, the atmosphere became lively.

She introduced Cen Le to the four people first, and then introduced the other four people to Cen Le.

Among the four, apart from Su Qing and Zhou Bin, Cen Le met once after the Lotus Appreciation Banquet, the other two were really strangers.

Not long ago, he had just learned the names of the other two.

However, before going to the banquet, Cen Le had already done enough homework, and he knew the preferences of the four of them very clearly, so after Su Pan finished his introduction, he took out the gifts he had prepared in advance and gave them to them respectively. four people.

"This is a small gift from me, not a respect."

The gifts Cen Le gave were not expensive, but they were full of intentions. Su Qing was given high-quality cinnabar, Zhou Bin was given two excellent duan inkstones, Kong Wu, who loves drinking the most, got a pair of glass wine glasses , and Mo Xiao, who is the best at chess, is a book that records all kinds of chess games.

When the four of them first saw the gift, they thought it was something expensive and they were unwilling to accept it, but when they opened it, they found that it was all they liked, and the price was not too high, so they happily accepted it.

Since they accepted the gift and were short-handed, the four of them finally fell in love with Cen Le's invitation.

Kong Wu touched the glass wine glass fondly, took another glass of wine on the table and drank it, and asked, "What do you need to see us for?"

Cen Le smiled slightly, "I would like to invite the four of you to cooperate to make a calligraphy and painting."

"Oh?" Su Qing continued to ask, "Can you tell us the reason?"

"Send someone."

Su Qing smiled, "Do you know that we have never cooperated before?"

Cen Le nodded.

Su Qing asked again: "Then do you know the reason why the four of us have never worked together despite being friends?"

Cen Le pondered for a moment, then bowed his head and wrote: "I don't have much research on calligraphy and painting, but I heard that it's because the styles of the four of you are too outstanding. The sense of harmony that calligraphy and painting should have.”

Su Qing shook the folding fan, half-closed her eyes and said, "This statement is right and wrong, and it's not right either."

Annoyed to death by Su Qing always acting mysterious, Su Pan poked him hard, rolled his eyes again, and said directly: "It's not that the four of you are good at calligraphy and painting, and you feel that the same work is the same. Painting is too troublesome, why do you make it so advanced."

Su Qing sighed, her tone was a bit sad, "Why did Miss Su expose me so quickly."

Su Pan glanced at him and was not polite at all, "Because you are too annoying."

Seeing the two people getting along very familiarly, Cen Le showed a little surprise on his face, but seeing that Xing'er's face didn't change, but she was happy to see the result, he had a guess, and then carefully looked at everyone's reactions, I roughly understand that my guess is correct.

Su Qing and Su Pan probably like each other.

After being beaten lightly by Su Pan several times, Su Qing finally stopped joking. He looked at Cen Le and said with a smile: "It's just a set of calligraphy and painting, we will give it to you as a gift, just treat it as you specially chose a gift for us Return the gift, and when it is finished, I will send someone to deliver the calligraphy and painting to the residence."

Cen Le stood up, bowed to the four of them, and after sitting down, he wrote: "Thank you."

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Cen Le's gift was delivered to Gao Ming on the fifth day, along with the perfume and essential oils he ordered before.

Gao Ming first opened the calligraphy and painting, looked at the beautiful landscape painting, showing a satisfied expression, and when he saw four different inscriptions and seals, his eyes flashed with surprise, and then he laughed again, He nodded and said, "Cen Le really has a heart."

A young lady waiting at the bottom listened to Gao Ming's words, raised her head, and asked very puzzled: "Eunuch, this gift from Cen Le is roughly the same as the gifts from other merchants, and even worse than them. What the Zhang family and the Li family sent were the authentic works of Liu Gong and Wang Gong, the only ones in the world, and they are priceless, those two paintings, do you not take a look at them...Why do you only think that Cen Le has a heart?"

Since the day of the wind reception banquet, everyone saw that Gao Ming only accepted gifts from Song Yunxiu and Qin Xiu, and they also imitated each other afterwards, and they all gave calligraphy and paintings.

Gao Ming raised his eyelids, glanced lightly at the eunuch who was talking, and told him, "Although this Cen Le is not a calligraphy and painting sent by a famous master, and it is not priceless, it is a calligraphy and painting made by four talented scholars in Suzhou, which is the only one in the world. One, tell me, does he have a heart?"

After being glanced at by Gao Ming, the little eunuch's fingers trembled and his lips turned white. He quickly lowered his head and nodded in agreement, "Elder-in-law, you are right."

After carefully putting away the calligraphy and painting, and putting them away properly, Gao Ming lowered his eyes and asked softly, "Little Xizi, how many years have you been with me?"

The little eunuch who was replaced by Xiao Xizi twitched his feet and replied tremblingly, "...five, five years."

"It's a pity... It's been five years, how come you still can't learn the rules." With a long sigh, Gao Ming's eyes turned cold, and he said to the two guards waiting beside him, "Take him down and interrogate him carefully. Fan, ask him what news he has passed on."

Ignoring the cry of the little eunuch, Gao Ming waved his hand, signaling the guards to take him down quickly.

When he could no longer hear the sound, Gao Ming picked up the perfume and essential oils on the table, opened them, smelled them, and tried them again.

After a while, he summoned two more cooks and gave them some perfume, and found that the original smell of oily smoke was no longer there.

After some trials, Gao Ming was very satisfied.

He got up and walked to the desk and sat down, took out a brush, dipped it in ink, and lowered his head to write the confirmed imperial merchants on the blank memorial.

A few days later, Gao Ming officially placed an order for Cen Le.

And those merchants who failed the selection were really jealous when they saw this royal order, and they were sour behind their backs.

They didn't take Cen Le seriously at the beginning. After all, the business of "Zhumeng Pavilion" is good, but they are young, and they have only opened for half a year, while their business has already been in operation for more than ten years. In terms of capital, in terms of Brands can win the "Building Dream Pavilion".

Unexpectedly, Gao Ming chose the youngest "Zhumeng Pavilion" and slapped them in the face.

Jealousy, anger, envy.

Putting aside the conflicts of interest in the past, several merchants gathered together, intending to teach Cen Le a lesson, and then grab the opportunity back.

The head of the Zhang family said: "The official government order has not yet come down, we still have a chance."

The eldest son of the Li family hesitated: "But Eunuch Gao seems to like Cen Le very much. If we make trouble, will he be angered?"

The Zhao family comforted him, "How could it be? If something happened to 'Zhumeng Pavilion', he, the recommender, would also suffer. There is no time to be angry."

Thinking about it this way, the eldest son of the Li family also felt that it was reasonable, so he relaxed, "Then what should we do?"

The head of the Li family and the head of the Zhao family looked at each other, lowered their voices, and talked to the eldest son of the Li family one by one.

They said maliciously: "In this way, not only will the reputation of 'Zhumeng' be discredited, but Cen Le himself will also be punished and go to jail."

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On the other side, Xuzhou.

After two months of investigation, Mu Chen finally found out the whereabouts of those medicinal materials.

He also found a ledger detailing whereabouts.

On this day, Mu Chen sent the gatekeeper away and took the opportunity to enter the warehouse.

After successfully finding the ledger, he hid the ledger in his arms and planned to leave.

But just a few steps out of the warehouse, he heard footsteps, and then saw more than a dozen people rushing over and surrounded him.

Standing at the front were the shopkeepers of the two pharmacies.

They looked at Mu Chen coldly, and threatened: "Leave the account book, and I will let you go, otherwise you will never be able to leave!"

Mu Chen remained expressionless and did not answer.

He glanced at the people surrounding him, without any fear in his eyes, and drew the soft sword that Yan Zhixing gave him from his waist, and confronted him.

"Don't eat a toast and eat a fine drink."

The two shopkeepers were impatient. They snorted coldly and ordered, "Catch him, no matter whether he is killed or injured."

The author has something to say: an update is coming.

Well, it's almost over, let's send red envelopes a few more times~

Still ten, the old rules, okay~

ps: Thank you "Fu Yiling" for the mines, so heart-to-heart, chirp chirp~-3-

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