In the next few days, Zhou Zekai changed into various outfits, and exchanged all the banknotes for gold and silver, some of which were directly recharged to the Taobao account, and some were stored in the storage grid. In short, the money is rich, and the New Year is happy .
Later, after the new year, Zhou Zekai heard from Wang Li that Miss Zhuang had become a big hit in the county, and that set of diamond jewelry had been talked about for a long time, especially on Mr. Zhuang's birthday, it was very lively. , His watch also gave him a big face.
All this was heard from Wang Li, because it had been three months since Zhou Zekai met the Zhuang family.
During the past three months, Zhou Zekai's life was very comfortable. With money and a place to live, Zhou Zekai lived a good life. In addition, he kept drinking goat milk to keep his skin white and tender, and his body Also a lot healthier.
Nowadays, if someone sees Zhou Zekai like this, he will definitely be very surprised, because Zhou Zekai, who is fifteen years old after the Chinese New Year, has a face that people like, or should be said, is extremely handsome and handsome.
The Wang family and his wife treated Zhou Zekai even better. They had already confirmed that Zhou Zekai was definitely the young master of a rich family. After going to the capital, the two felt that it was indeed the case.
"Ah Kai, the capital city is far away, you must take good care of yourself alone. When you go out, don't expose your wealth. If something unexpected happens, even if you give up your belongings, you must also keep yourself safe..."
Wang Li was nagging, and prepared a lot of things for Zhou Zekai. In fact, Zhou Zekai didn't need them very much, but Zhou Zekai was still very grateful to the couple for taking him in during his most difficult time.
When leaving, Zhou Zekai rented a carriage. Although it was expensive, it was very convenient. In addition, he secretly left one hundred taels of silver to Wang Li's family, and dared not keep any more. Finally, he bid farewell to the couple. , embarked on the route to the capital.
As for why he wanted to go to the capital, Zhou Zekai felt that if he wanted to inquire about the jade pendant in his hand, he must have contacts. The capital has the most rich and noble families, and it is relatively easy to hear, especially when Zhou Zekai heard that the capital is now I already have a newspaper, and if it doesn't work then, I can spend some money to publish in the newspaper, and I will be able to find my family after all.
Zhou Zekai felt that such an era was very strange. In the alternation of the old and the new, the old things are still maintained, and the new things can't wait to come. For this reason, Zhou Zekai buys some things from Taobao and sells them to the richest people here. People, it took almost a year for him to come to the capital.
Sixteen-year-old Zhou Zekai secretly fed himself various nutritional supplements through such a long period of nutritional supplements. With the effect of longevity formula, he was already 1.8 meters tall at the age of sixteen. In this era, Zhou Zekai's height is truly amazing. It is considered very high, and when looking at people, you need to lower your head to look at others.
After giving the coachman eighty taels of silver, the coachman went back satisfied, while Zhou Zekai stayed in the capital alone. It happened that the old and the new were changing in the capital too. The emperor fell, and the clans under him would not survive. If you go down, you can still collect taxes or wait for the people below to be filial to them, but now the emperor is gone, and the people want to be free. Many clans had no choice but to sell their ancestral houses in order to take their children to make a living.
Seeing the same situation in the capital, Zhou Zekai felt helpless, and bought an ancestral house that used to be the palace of the prince of the city.
Although the status of the government has been useless these days, many servants who have been driven out of their homes by their masters have no choice but to live. They still hope to find a master. After all, if they find a master, they can still live well in this troubled world. If you don't find the master's family, you will really have to starve to death with the whole family.
What Zhou Zekai bought was a middle-aged man who was a housekeeper for the old prince before. He is not only literate, but also has a good understanding of the capital. If it weren't for his sick daughter, wife and mother, he would have been bought by someone long ago. gone.
To buy this family, Zhou Zekai spent one hundred taels of silver, which may not seem like much, but in such a world, in the environment of the capital, an ordinary family can live well with twenty taels of silver a year...
This is probably the poorer the poorer, the richer the richer.
After buying this family, Zhou Zekai also bought some servants to clean the house. Many of them were prostitutes. After Zhou Zekai bought people, although he didn't sign the contract of sale, he still set the rules for the family. Do whatever you want, but if anyone who sells himself still has contact with his family, he will be kicked out if he is found out.
This regulation sounds inhumane, but no one dared to refute it. After all, these people sold them because their families couldn't live on. Now that the owner says so, they dare not do such a thing.
Wang Steward is a smart middle-aged man, and his name is also very good, called Wang Fu. In less than one morning, he established rules for all the servants and arranged work. Zhou Zekai, in order to test him, directly He put two hundred taels of silver in his hand, which was regarded as the next family expenses.
Now everyone does not have a contract of sale, if they want to escape, the government will not pursue it, but Steward Wang is a smart man, after taking the money, he arranged Zhou Zekai's life very properly, he is worthy of being the man who was the housekeeper for the prince back then Well, the two hundred taels of silver is not in his eyes, because Zhou Zekai bought their family, but he is very grateful to Zhou Zekai.
Life in the capital was settled immediately. Under the arrangement of Steward Wang, there are almost a dozen servants in the family, and they are all those who can't live outside and sell themselves. Most of them have no father or mother. , as long as they are given food, they will be very happy. Zhou Zhai has three meals a day, and the food is very good, which makes everyone want to follow Zhou Zekai even more.
In the past year, Zhou Zekai came from all over the world and earned almost one million in assets. There are also more than two million yuan on Taobao that can be bought and bought at will. Now that he has settled in the capital, he naturally has to start looking for his relatives up.
I went to the study with Steward Wang and drew my own jade pendants, all dragon and phoenix jade pendants. The exquisite carving alone is not something ordinary people can have.
After finishing the painting, Zhou Zekai showed it to Steward Wang.
"Wang Fu, what do you think of this jade pendant?"
Wang Fu leaned over, glanced at his young master's painting, and was taken aback for a moment, a little unbelievable.
"Master, where did you see this dragon and phoenix jade pendant?"
Zhou Zekai noticed something wrong with Wang Fu's expression, and asked with a smile.
"Oh? What is the origin of this dragon and phoenix jade pendant?"
As someone who just arrived in the capital, Zhou Zekai naturally didn't know what happened in the capital, but looking at Wang Fu now, he seems to know some things...
"This this… "
Wang Fu didn't know where to start for a moment, looked at his new master in some embarrassment, sighed in his heart, and said.
"Don't dare to lie to the young master, this dragon and phoenix jade pendant has a lot to do with our current mansion. The young master probably spent a lot of money to buy this city palace? All of this is related to the young master of this city palace. "
Zhou Zekai listened, feeling that all this was really easy, looked at Wang Fu curiously, and heard Wang Fu continue.
"The City King's Mansion was also a figure among the princes and nobles in the early years, but later, when the court was in turmoil, the City King's Mansion gradually lost its name, and now the old lady who moved out of the City King's Mansion is still the princess. Well, it's a pity, this old lady has a poor life, she only has such a son in her life, but after marrying her son, her knees are miserable, leaving only one daughter, but this daughter's life is hard, she didn't grow up, her parents are both medicine jars , before she became an adult, she left and left the old lady with her granddaughter. After a few years, the girl eloped with someone. The old lady searched for several years before she was found. After asking, Only then did I know that my granddaughter was plundered, not eloped. Later, when I heard that my granddaughter had a child, I wanted to find her to inherit the family business. That is the young master of the Chengwang Mansion... I heard that when he was found, He was almost thirteen years old. When he was found, there was only one dragon and phoenix jade pendant left on his body, and the dragon had been lost somewhere... "
Think carefully about Wang Fu's words, and it's easy to get everything right. That is to say, living in this house may be related to your own background. The old lady was a princess in the early years, and her husband Her son died early, and after her daughter-in-law left, she brought up her granddaughter alone, but she never thought that her granddaughter was kidnapped and taken away. When she found her, she gave birth to a child who disappeared. Relying on the dragon and phoenix jade pendant, he found his grandson.
"Then what's next?"
Zhou Zekai didn't think the matter was so simple. If he found his grandson, it should be a good thing, but in the past few years, why did he need to sell the property
Something must have happened to this.
Wang Fu also sighed at this moment, feeling that the Princess is really pitiful.
"Master, this is what everyone in the capital knows. After the old lady found her granddaughter's child, she planned to raise it to support the lintel, but that Zhao Kun was useless. Since she was found , just hang out with those gangsters in the capital all day long, and don't learn well, just fool around like this for the past few years, just a few days ago, he killed someone riding a horse, was caught in prison, the old lady sold the house, It was to save him. Although the emperor is gone, the court is still there. The name of the old matriarch and princess is not enough, so he can only take money. I heard that in order to save Zhao Kun, the old matriarch took out money. One hundred thousand taels of silver..."