The shopkeeper followed Xia Zhi to the room. He first saluted the five people present one by one, and then after listening to Li Hong's words, he was stunned for a moment. At noon tomorrow, the people of the entire Chang'an City will come here to receive food. It’s not that we have to start working tonight.
Naturally, the shopkeeper did not dare to refuse Li Hong's proposal, but Li Hong would not make it difficult for him. After a few words of warning, he asked Xia Zhi to go with him and asked Xia Zhi to tell Helan Minzhi that this meal must be his treat. .
The shopkeeper followed Xia Zhi anxiously to the door of Helan Minzhi's room. This was the first time he had done such a thing of forced buying and selling, and it was no different from a robber. He wanted Helan Minzhi to take five flowers at once. Thousand taels of silver, this... He really couldn't imagine what the situation would be like if these five thousand taels of silver were put together.
Xia Zhi knocked on the door, and as a generous response came from inside, the shopkeeper opened the door for Xia Zhi, and then followed Xia Zhi and walked in slowly.
"Summer Solstice?" After He Lan Minzhi saw that it was Summer Solstice, his first reaction was to stand up from his chair, and then immediately glanced at the other side of the wall.
Of course he knew that the room on the other side of the wall was said to be a room that only Prince Li Hong could use. Even if the restaurant was full, that room had to be empty.
Did the prince also come here to dine today? Could it be that he heard what we just said, so he specially sent Xia Zhi here to question us
Helan Minzhi was thinking about various possibilities, with a gloomy expression on his face, and his eyes revealed a sense of fear from the depths of his soul.
Quan Xiancheng looked at He Lan Minzhi who stood up and faced a girl at the door. Why did he suddenly become a little frightened! Moreover, the originally red faces of the several people present turned into earthy gray at this moment, and they all looked frightened.
It's as if the pretty and colorful lady at the door is a femme fatale or a monster.
"Xia... Miss Xia... I don't know... what are your orders?" He Lan Minzhi's throat was tight and dry, and he cupped his hands and asked.
"Oh, it's nothing. I just asked my servant to tell me that you will pay for today's meal..." Xia Zhi said lightly.
"Easy to say, I'll pay the bill at the restaurant today and double the money." He Lan Minzhi interrupted Xia Zhi's words and hurriedly agreed.
"No, Duke Zhou, I'm treating you to dinner today, how can I ask you to pay the bill? No, I still ask you..." Quan Xiancheng said hurriedly.
This is not possible. His father's life is in danger, and he still expects Zhou Guogong to save his father. How can he let him treat him to dinner.
Helan Minzhi interrupted him impatiently and said: "I said I would like to ask. It is not your turn to speak here."
After finishing speaking, He Lan Minzhi looked at Xia Zhi again, his handsome face full of solemnity, and said solemnly: "Miss Xia, if you can, please come and tell me personally."
The shopkeeper looked at Xia Zhi with a calm face, but he looked uneasy. He didn't know how Xia Zhi would be embarrassed to tell him about the five thousand taels of silver.
"Don't dare, I'm just following orders. I have already told the shopkeeper that the total cost of your meal today is five thousand taels of silver, and I personally set the price." Xia Zhi's tone has not changed, calmly. After finishing speaking.
There was a sudden chill in the whole room. Helan Minzhi stood there, his throat moved involuntarily a few times, and he looked at Xia Zhi with blank eyes. He couldn't believe the numbers that had just come out of Xia Zhi's mouth.
He wanted to confirm it again, but he didn't dare. He was afraid that when he confirmed it again, the number would go up. This was Li Hong's usual style!
Ever since Li Hong was imprisoned in a cell in Taiyi City because of the Cuiwei Palace incident, Li Hong had become a nightmare for He Lan Minzhi. Sometimes he would even run into Li Hong once during the day, and he would definitely have nightmares at night. He dreamed that Li Hong put him in a cell again and once again made him suffer all kinds of physical and physical pain.
After watching Xia Zhi turn around and leave, it took Helan Minzhi a while before he gradually woke up from his sluggishness, and then slowly sat on the chair.
Quan Xiancheng thought about Xia Zhi's words just now. He found that Xia Zhi had always called himself a slave. Looking at Helan Minzhi who turned pale, Quan Xiancheng hit Helan Minzhi's nerves again and asked: "She Who is he? It looks like he is just a slave."
Wu Jing's face was even uglier than that of He Lan Minzhi at the moment. Xia Zhi's appearance here meant that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince must be here, otherwise Xia Zhi would never have appeared here, let alone allow Duke Zhou to take out five thousand taels of silver.
Moreover, Duke Zhou had to pay for this money himself. If he dared to find someone else to advance the money, I am afraid that something even more deadly would be waiting for him.
Li Zhongchang and Li Sizhen also looked unhappy, and their hearts were filled with regret.
"His Royal Highness is forcing me to hand over the glass workshop that his mother just handed over to me this year." He Lan Minzhi thought for a long time and finally understood Li Hong's intention.
When he was made Duke of Zhou, Li Hong firmly opposed it, but the queen still made herself Duke of Zhou and gave herself a glass workshop as a reward. She originally thought that would be the case, but she didn't expect that His Highness the Crown Prince would still remember her. This matter must be taken back.
Helan Minzhi, who had pale cheeks, had no intention of continuing to eat at this moment, let alone going to see Hu Ji later.
After waving to Wu Jing, they walked out of the restaurant in despair. Standing at the door of the restaurant, He Lan Minzhi couldn't help but look up at the room where the lights were still on.
After staring blankly for a while, Helan Minzhi seemed to have made up his mind, gritted his teeth and whispered: "Okay, since you don't give me a way to live, I won't make it easy for you! Let's see!"
There was a hint of venom in his sinister eyes, and then he hurriedly got on the carriage and returned home. He must raise 5,000 taels of silver and send it here tomorrow. This is irreversible.
Li Xian and the other four people listened to Xia Zhi's description of He Lan Minzhi's expression, and they all laughed so hard that they spun in their chairs. They had never been so happy in front of He Lan Minzhi.
Although I couldn't see it with my own eyes today, Lao Wu's five thousand taels of silver were real. Unless his father and mother showed up now, Helan Minzhi would have to deliver the money before noon tomorrow.
At that time, the door of Yang'an Building was probably full of people waiting to receive food. When He Lan Minzhi saw that he had five thousand taels of silver to treat so many people to dinner, he didn't know what the expression would be on his face.
Li Xian and others can't wait to secretly see He Lan Minzhi's expression tomorrow.
Li Hong said lazily: "Don't think about good things. Helan Minzhi will definitely not deliver it in person tomorrow. By the way, Xia Zhi, put the person who said I am ignorant and incompetent into the restricted area of Taiyi City. , ask carefully.”
Naturally, this matter was unanimously approved by the other four people. He Lan Minzhi's bullying of them was the most aggrieved thing for these princes.
The four of them watched Li Hong, Xia Zhi and Xiaoxue get on the carriage and leave, then slowly got into their own carriage and returned to their respective mansions.
"Go and have a look at Shangguan Yi's house. The last time I went to his house was before he was appointed." Li Hong said to Hua Meng outside in the carriage.
If Shangguan Yi had followed the original course of history, he should have died last year, and now there would probably be only a pile of bones left.
But because of the appearance of Li Hong, who was born in nine reincarnations and tenth life, he was exempted from helping Li Zhi draft the post-abolition edict, which also eliminated Wu Mei's hatred towards him. Naturally, in history, Li Zhi's intention to draft an edict to abolish Wu Mei did not happen in the ninth and tenth life of Li Hong.
Shangguan Yi is now the provincial minister, the prince's grand master, and the doctor of Jiayin Qingguanglu. He is already considered to be a high-ranking official.
The porter didn't expect that someone would come knocking on the door so late. He ran out angrily and opened the small door next to the door. He stuck his head out and asked, "What's the matter? Who are you?"
Li Hong ignored the concierge and allowed Hua Meng and the others to deal with it. He looked at the house given to Shangguan Yi by the imperial court and murmured: "Okay, sir, this house looks good? It's raining so much this time." It’s not flooded. Is the terrain here considered high?”
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the door to Shangguan Yi's house being hurriedly opened by the concierge, and then bursts of rapid footsteps came from inside.
Li Hong followed Xia Zhi and Xiaoxue from side to side and watched 58-year-old Shangguan Yi, dressed in casual clothes, hurried to the door with her family.
"I, Shangguan Yi, have met His Highness the Crown Prince."
"I, the governor of Qizhou, Guan Tingzhi, have met His Highness the Crown Prince."
"Get up, I'm sorry to disturb you so late." Someone said he was sorry, but after Shangguan Yi and his son stood sideways on both sides, he stepped in.
The porter's legs felt weak when he looked at everything in front of him. Your Highness, fortunately, he was just a little impatient just now, and his words were not disrespectful. Otherwise, he would have caused a big disaster.
The house of an official family is nothing more than three courtyards, the front yard, the middle yard and the backyard. The female family members usually live in the backyard. Therefore, when Shangguan Tingzhi is not at home, his wife lives in the backyard and comes to the middle yard every day to visit her father-in-law. Just say hello. But after Shangguan Tingzhi comes back, she can move to the middle courtyard.
Accompanied by Shangguan Yi and Shangguan Tingzhi, Li Hong walked around the house all night, and kept mumbling: "Not bad, not bad, the courtyard is well designed and very elegant."
"Yes, yes, thank you for the compliment, His Royal Highness." Shangguan Yi said with a wry smile as he followed.
Shangguan Yi also didn't know if His Highness the Crown Prince had suddenly been possessed by evil spirits two years ago. Ever since his granddaughter was born, His Highness the Crown Prince had asked him casually, how was his granddaughter
On the day of the full moon, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince unexpectedly gave him many things, which made the whole mansion extremely happy, thinking that he had received royal favor. But only Shangguan Yi always felt that the prince favored his granddaughter so much, as if there was some ulterior secret!
(End of chapter)