Hernian bookstore is located in a remote small hutong, covers an area of only thirty square metres or so, from the outside look unobtrusive, if it is not the door hanging on the “Hernian bookstore” plaque, Zhu Pingan and Chen Yiqin are almost all to miss it.
Inside the bookstore there are two shop assistants, sitting behind the counter drinking tea and getting high on melon seeds, with a look of eyes on top of their heads, very high and mighty, as if to look at you one more time is a great honour for you.
“Excuse me, I came to buy a fan.”
After stepping into the Crane Year Bookstore, Zhu Pingan took the initiative to come to the counter and arched his hand to the two men, smiling.
“On the counter, see for yourself.”
The shop chap glanced at Zhu Pingan lovingly and casually pointed to the fan laid out on the counter.
Chen Yiqin frowned, for a shop fellow to be so arrogant, the power and influence of Yan House was evident.
“Thanks for the reminder.”
Zhu Pingan was unperturbed by this, and even smiled slightly, arching a thank you to the shop fellow before looking at the fan in front of the counter with an air of interest.
“Moist and delicate, like white jade, the workmanship of this fan bone is truly skilful and astonishing ……Walking to the end of the water, sitting down to watch the clouds rise, the landscape picture on the face of this fan couldn’t be the authentic work of the patriarchal master Wu Gong right ……”
Zhu Pingan casually picked up a fan from the counter, unfolded it and exclaimed as if he was amazed.
“I’ll take this fan.”Zhu Pingan grabbed the fan with both hands as if he had picked up a treasure and would not let go.
Pretend
Continue to pretend ……
The shopkeeper swept a glance at Zhu Pingan as if he were an idiot, taking off his trousers and farting is interesting ah, what is the effort to do, you come to buy a fan figure what, really think that we don’t know ah, simply and easily shell out the money is not on the line.
“Cough cough ……”
Zhu Pingan can not help but old face a red, he thought he just showed a bit of operation out of God, consciousness into the melting, position flexible king, did not think that in the eyes of others, he is the fracture of the bronze ……
A pass operation is as fierce as a tiger, a look at the effect of two hundred and fifty-five.
That’s what I’m talking about.
Zhu Pingan’s old face was red, reached out and put his hand on his lips, and coughed two times in a row, strength to cover up the embarrassment.
“Well, then this fan.”
Chen Yiqin beside him also couldn’t help but reach out and place his hand on his lips, coughing to hide his laughter.
Laugh if you want to.
Zhu Pingan looked at Chen Yiqin breathlessly, then pulled out 1500 taels of silver from his sleeve and placed them on the counter, and with a smooth stroke of his hand, fifteen silver bills of one hundred taels denomination overlapped and were placed on the counter.
Seeing the 1,500 silver bills, the shopkeeper with his eyes high above the ground finally looked at them positively, and was enthusiastic, taking the initiative to go out of the counter to pour two cups of hot tea for Zhu Pingan and Chen Yiqin, and took out a seal to stamp a very conspicuous seal on the fan, and then asked Zhu Pingan and Chen Yiqin to present their name tags, and the shopkeeper noted “1,000 taels of grain silver” on the name tags, and one of the shopkeepers said “1,000 taels of grain silver” on the name tags.”One of the shop boys took the name card with the price and left through the back door of the shop, and sent it to the Yan Mansion in advance through a shortcut. When the time came, Zhu Pingan and Chen Yiqin could directly visit the door with their fans.
Normally, the gift-givers would be a few hundred taels of silver, and these fifteen hundred taels were considered valued guests.
That was why the shopkeeper was so enthusiastic.
With the fan in hand and all the formalities in place, Zhu Pingan and Chen Yiqin excused themselves from the Hennian Bookstore. On their way out, they happened to run into a middle-aged man with a big belly who came to buy a fan.
“Business is pretty hot… ……”
Chen Yiqin walked out the door, turned back and swept a glance at the inconspicuous bookstore, pulling the corner of his mouth and said sarcastically.
Irony to irony, when they arrived in front of the Yan Mansion, Chen Yiqin and Zhu Pingan were both in a respectful and honourable manner.
The cars in front of Yan Mansion were like water and horses were like dragons, the queue was quite long, and both Zhu Pingan and Chen Yiqin were lined up twenty away from the queue.
“One, two, three, four ……Twenty, why are there so many people?”
Chen Yiqin was at the end of the queue with an anxious look on his face, probing forward to count, according to this order, I’m afraid that they won’t even be able to make it to the queue today.
“Don’t be anxious, Lord Chen, let me try.”
Zhu Pingan’s dark as ink eyes turned for a moment, reached out and lifted the fan to the top of his head, unfolded it with a wow, and shook the stamped side left and right towards the concierge.
Because Zhu Pingan raised the fan to the top of his head, the action itself was very conspicuous, and the seal that the Hernian Hall Bookstore had put on the fan was particularly large, particularly red, and particularly eye-catching, so the gatekeeper of the Yan Mansion noticed it at once.
As soon as the Yan Mansion concierge saw the seal, he knew that Zhu Pingan and Chen Yiqin were valued guests who had sent a heavy amount of money, and secretly nodded his head, letting the people go directly to the queue and leading Zhu Pingan and Chen Yiqin into the Yan Mansion through the side door.
After entering the Yan Mansion, the gatekeeper led Zhu Pingan and Chen Yiqin to a guest room, serving them hot tea and asking them to wait patiently.
“Thank you.”
Zhu Pingan and Chen Yiqin arched their hands and thanked him, then sat in the guest room and waited patiently.
A cup of tea
A cup of tea
Another cup of tea
Slowly, Zhu Pingan and Chen Yiqin both drank half a pot of tea, looking at the time is going to be noon, still do not see Yan Shifan sent to invite, the two people as if they were forgotten by the people of the House of Yan. ……
Chen Yiqin looked out the window gradually to the middle of the sun, gradually some can’t sit still, feel today’s fifteen hundred silver is likely to be a meat bag hit the dog no return, white send, in fact, fifteen hundred silver white send is the second, the problem is not to get back to the King’s yearly gift, that can be a problem, we must know that the King’s House now can not be exposed to pots and pans.
Compared to Chen Yiqin, Zhu Pingan is very calm.
In history, Yan Shifan gladly accepted the bribe from Yu Wangfu, and got great satisfaction in his heart, and boasted to everyone, “The son of the son of heaven even gave me silver, who dares not send me silver?”.This time, there must be no one else who can give me silver.
This time, of course, can also be no exception.
It is probably Yan Shi Fan’s intention to hang us out to dry before meeting us, adding some psychological pressure to us.
It was because of this that Zhu Pingan was able to manage to calmly drink tea and wait.
Hehe.
At his own age, he is not as calm as Zi Hou.
Seeing that Zhu Pingan was so calm, Chen Yiqin was slowly infected and smiled to himself, his anxious mood gradually calmed down.
In this way, another tea time passed.
Zhu Pingan and Chen Yiqin then heard a sound of footsteps coming from outside, followed by a loud laughter.
Yan Shi Fan had come!
Zhu Pingan and Chen Yiqin glanced at each other, both of them were a little excited and got up and left their seats.
“Hahaha, Lord Chen, Zi Hou, what a rare guest, what wind blew you to my Yan residence.”
A one-eyed fat man with a five-short stature, fluttering his sleeves, striding in eights, shyly holding his stomach, smiling like a flower walked in.
It was none other than Yan Shi Fan.
