To The Land of Nevernight

In the garden, by the pond, a round of bright moon is reflected in the water, and the breeze blows by, making ripples.

Tang Shen put the snack box on the table, Wang Qin stretched out his hand to signal him, and said, "Sit."

Tang Shen sat on the stone bench.

Since ancient times, gentlemen love elegance, and beauties are good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.This is not to say that a gentleman cannot be good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. There are many talented people in this world, and the most famous among them is sitting in front of Tang Shen.If it is playing chess, writing, or painting, Tang Shen can also draw a ladle according to the gourd, a little bit of the same, arty.But Tang Shen really didn't know anything about playing the piano.

He traveled through five years and spent almost all of his time on studying and taking the imperial examinations, so he didn't have the time to learn the piano.

Tang Shen obediently sat aside, watching Wang Qin adjust the sound of the piano.After the trial, Wang Qin asked, "What do you want to hear, little brother?"

Tang Shen blurted out: "High Mountains and Flowing Water."

This can't be blamed on Tang Shen's vulgarity. It's because "High Mountain and Flowing Water" is so well-known in later generations that it has become an idiom.Tang Shen has never heard any guqin music, but he can only name one "High Mountain and Flowing Water".

Wang Qin suddenly laughed, and he sighed, "High Mountain and Flowing Water are two pieces, divided into "High Mountain" and "Flowing Water."

Tang Shen: "Ah, so? Are the two senior brothers able to play?"

"The Guqin score of Gaoshan Liushui was lost during the Taizu period because of the war. What remains now are only fragments."

After that, Wang Qin didn't ask Tang Shen any more, he played "Guangling San" by himself.

Tang Shen rubbed his nose, knowing that his senior brother saw that he didn't have this culture, so he didn't bother to ask himself again, lest he would embarrass himself.He listened to this song "Guangling San", but he didn't actually recognize the song, he just thought the melody was quite moving.As a modern person, Tang Shen usually listens to popular songs, but has never heard these elegant guqin pieces.He couldn't appreciate it at all.

However, seeing Wang Qin playing the piano under the moonlight, Tang Shen gradually understood.

"Perhaps playing the qin is not just the music, but the person playing the qin." Tang Shen sighed in his heart.

Senior brother is really elegant and detached to a new level!

If there is a gust of wind at this time, maybe he, Wang Zifeng, will be able to go with the wind and become a fairy.

After playing a piece of "Guangling San", Wang Qin asked Shutong to take the guqin away.The two senior brothers were drinking tea under the moonlight to appreciate the moon, Wang Qin said: "How did the younger brother remember today that you have come to my Minister's Mansion?"

Tang Shen said in his heart, you clearly know my reason for coming, besides, I told you when I came, I received your gift, I know that you gave the glass essential oil to the emperor, and promised me a seat in the imperial business.Wang Zifeng really beats around the bush, he doesn't say things that can be explained clearly in one sentence, he insists on letting you explain everything clearly by yourself like pouring beans.

Tang Shen could only complain in his heart, and on the surface he looked at Wang Qin with admiration: "Today, the Holy Majesty asked me to go to the Chuigong Hall and show me the glass bottle."

Wang Qin sighed and said: "It's also a coincidence, the Holy Majesty saw it that day. The Holy Majesty liked it very much, so I can only give it away. Junior brother, you don't blame me, do you?"

Tang Shen: "..."

Big-tailed wolf, still pretending!

Tang Shen immediately said: "Of course not, it's too late for me to be grateful to senior brother. The Holy Majesty ordered me to use this translucent colored glaze to replace all the windows of the Chuigong Hall. Since then, the colored glaze business has fallen to my Tang family." .”

Wang Qin poured tea for himself with a smile, he raised his head and asked Tang Shen, Tang Shen pushed his own cup over.

Tang Shen: "It's just that I still don't understand...how did senior brother do it?"

"Who am I, junior brother, have you forgotten?"

Tang Shen was taken aback: "Brother?"

Wang Qin took a sip of tea and said calmly, "I am the Minister of the Household Department of the current dynasty, junior brother."

Tang Shen suddenly realized.

For others, it was not easy to arrange for an imperial merchant to allow the Tang family to enter the emperor's sight in a grand manner.But for Wang Qin, he was in charge of this matter, and it was only right and proper for him to do this matter.However, Wang Qin said it lightly. With Zhao Fu's suspicious character, he must have used methods that Tang Shen could not imagine to be able to do this.

The two-month strategy and planning is just a sentence of "Shangshu of the Ministry of Households", which must not be covered up.

However, Tang Shen wanted to ask again, but Wang Qin stopped talking.

Tang Shen thought for a moment and understood what Wang Qin meant.He gave Wang Qin a bottle of glass essential oil in exchange for such a big gift from Wang Qin.He was already grateful, but when he met Wang Qin with such an attitude, he would definitely be even more grateful.The emperor pays attention to both kindness and power, and of course the powerful ministers do the same.Wang Zifeng is a man with the most incisive and incisive means in the officialdom. He really deserves to be the person Liang Song said he has seen in his life, the best and most able to be an official.

However, even if Tang Shen figured it out, he was very grateful to Wang Qin.

Perhaps winning his heart was just one of Wang Qin's goals.On the other hand, Tang Shen saw Wang Qin's kindness to him.It was not necessary for Wang Qin to do this just to win over the heart of a fourth-rank official.He racked his brains and made plans for himself, especially because he really regarded himself as a junior.

Tang Shen said: "The bottle of golden wisp is already in His Majesty's hands, I'm afraid I won't be able to get it back again. I'll make another one for Senior Brother, okay?"

There was a smile in Wang Qin's eyes, what he was waiting for was Tang Shen's words: "Okay."

The two talked for a while, it was getting late, and they had to go to court the next day.The servant entered the pavilion and cleaned up the snacks and tea on the table.

Wang Qin: "Although it's two months late, do you still like this New Year's gift I gave you?"

Huh?Don't pretend now?

Tang Shen couldn't figure out Wang Qin's routine, he thought about it, and decided to speak from his heart: "I like it!"

Wang Qin smiled: "As long as you like it."

To Wang Qin's surprise, Tang Shen didn't just leave.He came to Wang Qin's study room and said: "Senior brother's calligraphy is powerful, and the place where the pen is written is like a dragon startling a phoenix dance. Although I have learned my senior's calligraphy, I am far from being able to match it. I want to ask my senior brother for three big letters."

Wang Qin raised an eyebrow: "Which three words?"

"Hundred Treasure Pavilion."

Wang Qin gave Tang Shen a meaningful look, and then he dipped a wolf hair brush in ink, swiped the brush, and wrote the three big characters "Bai Treasure Pavilion".

Tang Shen saw that it was indeed well written, and when the ink dried, he quickly accepted it.

Before leaving, Tang Shen took out a small and delicate brocade box from his sleeve and stuffed it into Wang Qin's hand.Wang Qin looked at him in surprise, Tang Shen said, "Some small gifts for senior brother."

Wang Qin smiled and said, "Junior brother always gives me gifts, and he says it's not a bribe, so I have to return the gift. It seems that I'm going to toss and turn again tonight, thinking about what gift I want to give back to junior brother."

"Didn't Senior Brother already give me the gift?"

"Oh?"

Tang Shen waved the writing in his hand and said, "I'll see you tomorrow morning, senior brother don't want to give it away."

Watching Tang Shen go away, Wang Qin turned around and returned to Shangshu Mansion when Tang Shen was gone.He changed his clothes, washed up, sat behind the desk, and opened the brocade box that Tang Shen had stuffed into his hand.After opening the brocade box, Wang Qin was stunned on the spot. After a long time, he sighed and said, "I thought it was some kind of jade pendant sachet, but it turned out to be a contract."

The contract of [-]% shares of Baibao Pavilion was put on the table by Wang Zifeng, and before going to bed, he put it in the secret box in the bedroom.

On the other hand, Tang Shen returned home, but couldn't sleep.

He lay on the bed, tossing and turning.

Today he gave Wang Qin a big gift: [-]% of the shares of Baibao Pavilion!

Maybe other people still don't understand what this [-]% share represents, maybe even Wang Qin doesn't know how much wealth it is, but Tang Shen gave it away so easily.He didn't care about his own money. First, he gave Wang Qin the shares of Baibao Pavilion as a thank you to Wang Qin.He saw how well Wang Zifeng treated him, and he couldn't repay him, so he could only give [-]% of the shares.Second, Wang Qin can be said to be the local snake in Shengjing, and he is also the Minister of the Household Department who is in charge of merchants.With him as a backer, Baibao Pavilion is even more fearless and invincible.

What made Tang Shen lose sleep was the way he saw Wang Zifeng playing the piano today.

The bright moon is bright, and the green clothes and jade crowns.

If everyone said that Wang Zifeng was good-looking, with outstanding appearance and extraordinary temperament, then Tang Shen absolutely agreed: his brothers are all immortals who are about to become immortals, how can other ordinary people compare with it.But tonight's Wang Zifeng has reached a new level.

"Playing the piano is really a great weapon for being handsome. Do I want to learn to play the piano in the future?"

Tang Shen thought about it, and quickly gave up this unreliable idea.

Wang Zifeng said that playing the piano is like fairy music, and it is his turn to play cotton like a ghost, so it is better not to mess around.

Tang Shen finally fell asleep after thinking wildly for half an hour.

At the beginning of March, on Zhengyangmen Street, three shops connected together were sold by mysterious buyers at the same time, and the shops were closed for renovation.

Shengjing was the political, cultural, and economic center of the Song Dynasty. The prosperity of Zhengyangmen Street was naturally unimaginable for ordinary people.But even in Shengjing's Zhengyangmen Street, it is rare to see someone who will buy three shops at once and open a store.

"What is the purpose of such a big store?"

The clerk in a restaurant diagonally opposite thought: "Maybe it's a dyeing workshop, dyeing fabrics?"

The shopkeeper was speechless: "Who's dyeing workshop will open in Zhengyangmen Street? This is a treasure land where every inch of land is expensive. No one who has been kicked by a donkey will open a workshop here!"

The clerk smiled: "The shopkeeper, what do you think this is for? The three stores have all been ordered. What is the purpose?"

The shopkeeper said: "What we do has nothing to do with us. There are so many restaurants on Zhengyangmen Street, even the Qianlilou, they dare not make such a big deal and set up such a big store. This is definitely not a restaurant, so let him do it." went."

People in Shengjing who pass by on Zhengyangmen Street can see the scene of these three shops being renovated together.Restaurant shopkeepers and guys can generate curiosity, and these passers-by can naturally too.However, after waiting for half a month, there was no movement from these three shops.

On the second day of April, shopkeeper Lu from Xixia Building was seen walking into the shop.

"Hey, isn't this shopkeeper Lu from Xixialou? Could it be that he is going to open another restaurant for dialing Xiagong on Zhengyangmen Street?"

"That's definitely not possible. Since Xixialou, Shengjing has also opened several restaurants that only serve xiaxia offerings. Although the taste is not as good as Xixialou, and Xiaoer's attitude is far worse than Xixialou, but Shengjing is not bad as a restaurant for Paxiagong, how could shopkeeper Lu open such a big one again!"

"Then what is he going to do?"

What exactly does Xixialou want to do?

In other words, what exactly did Tang Shen want to do?

Wang Qin held [-]% of the shares of Baibao Pavilion, and he was very interested, and he became curious.