Chapter 24: Singing and Selling III (Asking for Recommendations, Asking for Collections)
Seeing Chen Youwen and Chen Bao walking towards him, Wu Haogu felt a rapid heartbeat.
It's scared!
However, this fear did not come from the soul, but from the natural reaction of Wu Haogu's body.
Obviously, it turned out that Wu Haogu was not a bold person, otherwise he would not have been scared in the prison of Kaifeng Mansion. Now I don't know if it's because the soul hasn't been changed or something else, anyway, Wu Dalang can't help but like it when he looks at Pan Qiaolian, and he is still a little scared when he sees these two surnamed Chen.
"This big official," Chen Youwen had already stood still at this time, and arched his hand at Wu Haoguyi, who was sitting still, "Down is Chen Youwen, who is waiting for the edict of the Hanlin Academy, and I hope it will be convenient to accompany the two nobles today!" ”
How convenient is it? Could it be that no one else asked for the price, so they asked Liu Youfang's eggless pickled goods to get grandpa's "Drunken Arhat" at a low price?
Wu Haogu's face turned a little blue when he heard this, and he didn't feel angry when he looked at Chen Youwen's elegant and chic scholarly face.
Their own troubles, their surname Chen also has a share!
Now they even have to make it convenient for themselves when they sing and sell later...... Is it so convenient for them to force their father and son to death sooner?
How unreasonable!
"Humph!"
Wu Haogu's answer was only a cold snort.
He snorted, but he suppressed Chen Youwen and Chen Dazhi.
Chen Youwen has already reported his family, and he also mentioned the "two nobles", although he did not report the names of Liu Youfang and Liu Ai. But as long as he often walks around in Kaifeng Mansion for calligraphy and painting, who doesn't know that he Chen Youwen is the person of the two husbands of Liu?
It's just a matter of not giving the Hanlin Painting Academy a straight face, and even the face of the two big minks is not given......
"Don't be embarrassed by your face, you bird......"
Chen Youwen was still pondering, but his son Chen Bao was angry first.
Chen Bao is only sixteen this year, and his appearance is as elegant and chic as his father, but he has no beard, and he looks a lot more tender, according to the standards of later generations, it is a small piece of fresh meat. But this little fresh meat has a lot of temper, and he also has kung fu in his hands, and he is a student of the Hanlin Painting Academy at a young age, and it is only a matter of time before he becomes an edict. The people who were doing things on Panlou Street didn't have a headache when they saw him, and it turned out that Wu Haogu was not less bullied by him.
But now Wu Haogu has been reborn, I'm really not afraid of him, and I can't show cowardice now, otherwise how will I raise the price later?
Besides, Liu Youfang and Liu Ai are both famous people in the history of calligraphy and painting, and Wu Haogu knows that they have no great future.
Moreover, in the Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo in the first year of the current Yuan Fu, there are too many officials who can scare Liu Youfang and Liu's husband. All the good men who have sung outside the Donghua Gate are not afraid of him.
"Phew!" Wu Hao Gu slapped the table and opened his mouth to scold, "Where did the pickled goods come from?" Dare to be so presumptuous? ”
Chen Bao was blindsided at that time, where did he make people so scared?
"You...... Do you know that we are accompanying the deputy governor of the province to do business? ”
Enter the deputy of the province of nei!
For the people who work on Panlou Street, this is simply the king of heaven.
"Errands?" Wu Haogu snorted coldly again, and said in an official tone, "Are you doing things for the official family or doing your own business in the name of the official family?" ”
"You ......"
Chen Bao wanted to argue with Wu Haogu, but he didn't know what to say for a while.
Wu Haogu's words didn't sound like they were spoken by the people on Panlou Street, but like the old man in the official office was talking.
"This big official, the child is young and ignorant, if you are offended, please bear with me."
Chen Youwen was frightened by Wu Haogu's bluff, and hurriedly stopped his son from continuing to argue with him.
Kaifeng Mansion is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and there are too many stunned young civil officials who have their tails cocked to the sky after the roll call of Donghua Gate. These people are not afraid of going crazy to the official family, not to mention that he Chen Youwen has not yet taken office, even if he has won the official, he is just a "trick officer", and he can't raise his head when he sees the civil official who was born as a jinshi.
Now this lord with a hat covering his face is so horizontal, don't be a civil official who is not afraid of the sky and the earth. If they are found by this kind of person, Liu Youfang and Liu Ai's two husbands will not be able to keep the Chen family......
"Children are ignorant, and they have offended, please forgive me." Chen Youwen couldn't figure out the details of the other party, so he had to arch his hand and pull his son Chen Bao to find a table on the other side and sit down. But the eyes of the two fathers and sons were still staring at Wu Haogu.
After a while, the sound of carriages and horses sounded again outside the door. Su Dalang Fei also greeted him, and then Wu Haogu heard Gao Yu's voice.
"Is there a seat?"
"Yes, yes."
"A seat, plus a table."
"Okay, okay, please inside, please ...... inside"
Following Su Dalang into the door were several men in gorgeous brocade robes and hats, and one of them saw Chen Youwen sitting without a hat.
"Hey, Chen Zhizhao is a gentleman today."
The one who came up to make fun of Chen Youwen is definitely not an ordinary person.
Chen Youwen didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly got up to give a salute, "This big official is laughing, and he is here to accompany the two nobles today." ”
"Nobleman?"
"It's Deputy Duzhi Liu and Liu Xian." "They're in the upstairs seat. ”
"It's them, I'm going to meet them." One of the several people in a brocade robe took off his hat as he spoke.
Wu Haogu saw through the veil that the man was a little older, with long hair, and he had a certain bearing.
"Xiao Di meets Wang Tingshi." Chen Youwen recognized that the person was Wang Xu, and immediately bowed and saluted.
"Excuse me, excuse me." Wang Shu waved his hand, and said to the person who made fun of Chen Youwen just now, "Brother Yin, don't cover it, go with me to see Lao Liu and Xiao Liu." ”
"Okay."
The man who was called "Brother Yin" also took off the hat, this person Wu Haogu recognized, that is, the "Eighty-seven Immortals" in the Wanshou Palace is the son of Mi Fu Mi Xiangyang of Linben, known as Mi Youren of Xiaomi. Brother Yin is his nickname, and only the elders close to him are called.
Wang Shu and Mi Fu are the descendants of the founding ministers of the Northern Song Dynasty, and they both belong to the generations of Kaifeng. The ancestor of the Mi family is Mi Xin, the envoy of the Zhangwu Army, and is Zhao Kuangyin's confidant. The ancestor of the Wang family is Wang Quanbin, the envoy of the Wuning Army, and he is the one who led the troops to destroy Houshu.
Therefore, Wang Mi and Mi are world friends, and Wang Shu and Mi Fu are particularly close because they have the same hobbies.
Wang Shu and Mi Youren took off their hats together, went up to the second floor under the leadership of Su Dalang, and first entered the box of the two husbands Liu, and then Mi Youren came out alone and entered the box where Pan Qiaolian was.
Obviously, Mi Youren of the Mi family and Pan Qiaolian of the Pan family are also familiar with each other...... Although the Sujia Tea Shop has two floors, it is a "building in a building" layout from the inside, and you can see the elegant seat on the second floor from the hall on the ground floor.
Wu Haogu took back his hostile gaze, but saw Gao Yu and a few people who were about the servants of the Wang and Mi families all took off the hoods that covered their heads and faces, and occupied a table next to the Chen family's father and son.
The guests were still coming one after another, and when they came in, they were wearing hats according to the rules, and a few saw Chen Youwen who was not wearing a hat, so they took the initiative to go up to greet them, chatted a few words, and took off their hats and went upstairs to talk to the two husbands of Liu, just like Wang Shu and Mi Youren.
Wu Haogu recognized three of them, namely Wu Yuanyu, the governor of Duanwangfu, Zhao Lingsu, the defense envoy of Gwangju, and Zhao Lingsong, the training envoy of his younger brother Xizhou.
Wu Yuanyu is an old man, and the two surnamed Zhao are middle-aged, dignified men, with big beards, wearing a red Luo waist robe, looking like a martial artist.
However, Wu Haogu knows the details of the two, the two of them are the fifth grandsons of Zhao Kuangyin, and they are also the descendants of Zhao Defang, the famous "Eight Idle Kings" on the world stage. Although both of them are now senior military attaches of the Great Song Dynasty, they actually do the same thing as Wu Haogu, they are both painters, and they are still great painters who can put their paintings in the Palace Museum...... Now the generals of Kaifeng in Tokyo in the Northern Song Dynasty are really valuable!
And now, these great painters, who are famous in later generations, have all gathered in the Sujia Tea House in the Qing Dynasty for Wu Haogu's "Drunken Arhat Picture".
This alone is enough to make Wu Haogu proud.
But at this moment, his face, which was covered by the hood, was as blue as black!
Because of the big shots who came, they were all invited upstairs by Chen Youwen, the edict of the Hanlin Academy, to meet Liu Youfang and Liu Ai.
It seems that when the sales start later, not many people will open their mouths to shout......