Xiaoyao Xiaojunhou

Chapter 186 Xue Baochang

Everyone in the inn lobby was squeezed out, surrounding the two young eunuchs.

When the young eunuch saw Zhu Xiuyuan, the arrogant look on his face immediately disappeared. He bowed and said with a smile: "Oh, Mr. Zhu, advice is out of the question. The two of us are just running errands for His Royal Highness, haha."

"You two father-in-laws are too polite. I wonder if your Royal Highness..."

"Master Zhu, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asked our family to give this thing to Master Zhu."

The little eunuch took out a brand new book, tied it with silk cloth, held it in both hands and handed it to Zhu Xiuyuan.

Zhu Xiuyuan was puzzled and took it blankly.

His Royal Highness actually sent a book?

What kind of book is this? Is there anything special about it?

Zhu Xiuyuan took a cursory glance and saw that the book was in a tube and tied with silk. Only the blue cover could be seen, but no words written on the cover could be seen.

"Since it is a gift from His Highness the Crown Prince, I dare not refuse. Please ask the two father-in-laws to thank His Highness the Crown Prince on your behalf!"

"It's easy to talk, I wish you're welcome, sir..."

"If you two father-in-laws are not in a hurry to go back, why don't you stay and have a cup of tea?"

"No, no, Sir Zhu, His Royal Highness is still waiting for our family to return home! Sir Zhu, take your leave!"

"Two father-in-laws go slowly..."

After seeing off the two East Palace eunuchs, Zhu Xiuyuan glanced at the book again.

There are many people here and it is not the place to see the wonders of this book.

So he returned to his room, where the Dong sisters were waiting safely.

"Husband, what does the eunuch of the East Palace want from you?" Dong Shuzhen asked.

"It's no big deal, I just sent a book."

"What book is it?" Dong Shuyu asked.

"I'm just wondering..."

In front of the Dong sisters, Zhu Xiuyuan directly opened the silk cloth binding the book, unfolded it, and saw a line of words on the cover: "To Zhu Xiuyuan."

The signature is "Liu Shen".

Liu Shen is the prince's name.

The three gathered together, looking at each other.

This book has no title, but the words "Blessing Xiuyuan" are written on the cover.

This shows what?
This shows that this book is most likely handwritten by His Highness the Crown Prince, or it may be printed and bound by the East Palace itself, which is not sold outside.

Zhu Xiuyuan suppressed the doubts in his heart and turned the page...

"This... what is this? It's a mess and I can't understand it!" Dong Shuzhen complained.

Zhu Xiuyuan was also puzzled, because he couldn't understand what... symbols were written on it?
Call it a character, but it doesn't look like it. Call it a ghost talisman, and it seems to have some kind of pattern...

"This is..." Dong Shuyu picked up the book and looked at it carefully, and finally said in a determined tone: "Xiuyuan, Zhen'er, this is a piano score!"

"Piano score!?"

Dong Shuzhen was surprised, while Zhu Xiuyuan was shocked.

sheet music?

His Royal Highness actually gave him a copy of piano music?
What does this mean? He can't play the piano at all.

He had never even come into contact with later generations of musical notation, let alone such messy musical notation.

His Royal Highness... is really... really weird!
……

The next day.

Zhu Xiuyuan and his party set off again and headed straight for Yixing County, Changzhou.

Although the capital city is prosperous, it is not a place to stay for a long time after all!
To get to Yixing County, you can choose either land or water route.Considering Dong Shuzhen's seasickness, everyone chose to take the land route and took a carriage along the official road straight to Yixing County.

The group stayed in Yixing County for a day, and Zhu Xiuyuan personally entered the mine to confirm the purple sand mine...

The next day, they set off again to Jiangzhou.

Because Dong Shuzhen was afraid of seasickness, they took the land route all the way.

After several days of turbulence, we finally returned to Jiangzhou.

After Zhu Xiuyuan and the others returned to Dong Mansion, they found out that Emperor Chen's reward had been delivered two days ago.

There are many categories including gold and silver jewelry, silk and satin cloth, grain, salt and oil, etc.

The Dong Mansion's warehouse was almost full!
However, the biggest gain this time is not the large number of rewards. These are just the icing on the cake at best.

The real highlight is the position of Jiangzhou governor and Jiangzhou Sima.

Of course, there is also the death-free gold medal Zhu Xiuyuan won.

……

……

Three days later.

In Jiangzhou City, Xue Mansion.

"hateful!"

In the back hall of Xue Mansion, an extremely angry shout suddenly burst out.

Whoa!
Then there was a sound of breaking porcelain.

The person who was so angry that he drank and threw the cup was Xue Baochang, the head of the Xue family.

His eyes were wide with anger, his face was stern, his two fists were clenched under his long sleeves, his veins were bulging, and his heavy breathing made his beard twitch under his chin.

He was really angry and could not control his anger.

"Grandpa, please calm down!"

Beside Xue Baochang, a junior in his early teens bent down and held his hand.

Unlike Xue Baochang, this junior's face was extremely calm.

Even though Xue Baochang was furious, he shouted angrily and broke a tea cup, making a huge noise, frightening the servants waiting in the hall out of their wits, and they all fell to their knees on the ground.

However, this junior was not affected at all. His face remained calm, making him appear to be in a very deep city.

Xue Baochang was still furious. He glanced sideways at the younger generation and said angrily: "I can't stop being angry! That old thief Dong Cheng, it's fine if he doesn't marry my Xue family. His Dong family sells his fried tea." , I, the Xue family, are our tea merchants, and the water in the well does not interfere with the water in the river, but it has nothing to do with each other."

"But that old thief Dong Cheng went too far. He openly broke the centuries-old rules and created a 'Dong Gong Scale'. He also sent Yamen Prefecture soldiers to guard the tea garden intersection in Fuliang County..."

Xue Baochang got angry and seemed to feel better.

He then looked at the younger generation and said, "Yuan'er, you have always been a mature person. How can you think of a way to deal with this situation? If this continues, I am afraid that our Defu Tea Shop will close down."

That junior was named "Xue Yuan", and he was the eldest grandson of Xue Baochang, the head of the Xue family.

Xue Yuan is young and mature, and full of wisdom. It is precisely because of Xue Yuan's advice and suggestions that his Xue family can rise rapidly and become one of the largest tea merchants in Jiangzhou.

Although Xue Baochang is a grandfather and an elder, he often asks Xue Yuan for advice.

Xue Yuan looked calm and relaxed, and said with cupped hands: "Grandpa, after the plague half a month ago, the Dong family not only took over the thrones of Jiangzhou Governor, Changshi, and Sima, but also won the titles of King Poyang and Yang Tingyu. , and even favored by the one in the palace!"

Xue Baochang glanced at the calm Xue Yuan. Although he didn't want to believe it, the facts were indeed what his eldest grandson said.

He couldn't help but sigh.

I remember that at the beginning, the Xue family followed Fang Tang, Hua Chaoshi, Wan Qian and others to hide in the back house of the Yamen.Their plan was so perfect, they could have eliminated Dong Cheng and the palace steward in one fell swoop.

But that damn son-in-law of the Dong family came up with some method to prevent and control the plague and turned the situation around.

And "invited" the envoy to come to Jiangnan West Road to investigate and deal with it, and ruined Fangtang, Hua Chaoshi, Wan Qian in one fell swoop...

(End of this chapter)