Xiao Fan was also in a heavy mood when he walked out of Chen's mansion.

Is it wrong to refuse marriage? No! That's right! There may be many things in life that need to be compromised and compromised by yourself, but not including feelings. It is the weakest and most holy corner of a person's heart. Any concession and compromise is a blasphemy to it.

After more than two months in the Ming Dynasty, Xiao Fan felt that he had completely integrated himself into this strange environment. So, is it time to leave the Chen family?

To be honest, Xiao Fan is still grateful to the Chen family. After all, Chen Siliu has raised him for four years. For Xiao Fan, the Chen family is the host of his own and the Yue family with the title of in-laws. Unfortunately, the Chen family is not their real home.

But what should I do after leaving the Chen family? It may not be difficult to ask Zhu Yunwen or the King of Yan to be an official, but now is not a good time to become an official.

Xiao Fan was confused and planned everything before he could do it. After leaving the Chen family, he had to find a living. Xiao Fan had a headache thinking. Forget it, he didn't think about it anymore. He thought about it secretly. In the past two months, he had saved a lot of money, including the ten taels of savings he had saved for many years, knocking Huang Yanei over the more than forty taels of silver that he had robbed from him, and the more than twenty taels of silver that the shopkeeper had embezzled openly and secretly after the opening of the Zuixianlou. Including his total assets now are about seventy taels of silver.

It looks like seventy taels, but in this era, it is equivalent to the property of a middle-class family. If you have money in your hands, you will not panic in your heart and will not starve to death no matter what you do.

After the calculation, Xiao Fan smiled with satisfaction. He still understood the truth that wealth was not revealed. He decided that before leaving the Chen family, he should hide the more than 70 taels of silver and point it to live in it in the future. It is best to hide it in his residence in the Chen family. When he left the Chen family one day, he took the silver and left, which is both convenient and free.

The magnificent Ming Dynasty was waving to him. Xiao Fan was not an object in the pond. How could the nest of the sparrow keep the swans?

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When Xiao Fan returned to Zuixian Tower, it was almost dusk.

The atmosphere of Zuixian Tower is a bit strange. The lobby, which was supposed to be full of guests, was empty. Some of the yamen runners from the county yamen stood outside in groups of three or three, holding iron rulers in their hands, and would knock anyone who dared to approach.

Two warriors in casual clothes, wearing long swords, stood solemnly at the gate, looking around with a cold expression, and looked as alert as two loyal hounds. When they saw Xiao Fan enter the door, they relaxed their vigilance and bowed to him slightly.

Lao Cai and Gouzi and other shop clerks stood at the stairs with a panic on their faces, with a respectful and awe-inspiring expression.

Xiao Fan frowned and stepped forward to ask Lao Cai, "Has the guest been driven out again?"

Old Cai shrank for a moment and whispered: "These two fierce gods are standing at the door, who dares to enter..."

"These two are not that scary either. Why do I think you are like hostages held by bandits..."

Old Cai pointed to the upstairs mysteriously and whispered: "That...Your Highness, you are here again today, and you are waiting for you in the Accord upstairs..."

At the table at the entrance of the lobby stairs, Huang Magistrate Huang and Cao County Magistrate respectfully stood still without moving. When Xiao Fan entered the door, Huang Magistrate Huang hummed with a low face, his nose and nose, his eyes were so resentful that he could kill people.

Cao Yi glanced at Xiao Fan with a smile. The meaning in his eyes was very vague, and it was hard to tell whether it was joy or resentment.

Xiao Fan sighed. Since Zhu Yunwen came to Jiangpu for a ceremonial demonstration, he has been there three or four times in the past few days. He traveled in a very private place to find him. One came from a noble royal family and the other came from a civilian businessman. The two really had no common topics. Xiao Fan himself was also a mean person and told him a story about Journey to the West in boredom. Now, Zhu Yunwen was so flirtatious that he was addicted to drugs. He had to go out of Beijing every day and rode a fast horse for more than half an hour. Under the escort of Jinyi's personal army, he rushed into Zuixianlou and listened to him updates. He had two chapters a day, but he was not happy to be missing. He could still listen to the story, but he did not vote for recommendation...

But this Grand Prince is very good at choosing the time. Every time he comes, it is dusk, and the peak period for tourists on Zuixian Tower. When the Grand Prince comes, Zuixian Tower is in trouble. The Jinyi's personal soldiers clear the scene without hesitation and drove the guests clean. The two big bosses of the county government must follow the attendant. The periphery of the county government is responsible for the perpetrators, and the Jinyi's personal soldiers take over the inside. This level of warning can be said to be that the needle cannot be inserted and the water cannot be poured in.

As for those guests who were having meals, of course it was even more impossible to enter.

Xiao Fan really wanted to slap himself hard, he was so mean! He was so full that he told him any story. He told him the story. It would be better to choose a short story, but he chose a book called Journey to the West...

If this continues, before Tang Seng and his disciples arrive at Leiyin Temple, Zuixianlou will probably go bankrupt first...

The business of dozens of taels of silver in an hour cannot be delayed by the Grand Prince, who is not in the world. He doesn't care whether Chen Siliu makes money or not. What he is worried about is that the Zuixianlou has lost its investment, so how can he embezzle him?

Xiao Fan nodded and smiled at Cao Yi, turned a blind eye to Huang Magistrate's glare, lifted up the hem of his clothes and waited upstairs to pay homage to His Royal Highness the Grand Prince.

As soon as I climbed a step, someone came down from the building.

Zhu Yunwen was wearing a light green silk gown, playing with a jade pendant hanging around his waist in his hand, and slowly walked downstairs with a calm smile, looking like a handsome young man in the turbid world.

Xiao Fan quickly took two steps back, lifted up his hem, knelt down and shouted: "Grassman Xiao Fan, pay homage to His Royal Highness the Grand Prince."

Zhu Yunwen still smiled warmly and kindly, waved his hand very casually, and said, "Get up, you have known each other for so long, don't be too polite."

While speaking, Zhu Yunwen had already walked downstairs, then helped Xiao Fan up, hurriedly pulled Xiao Fan to a table, and urged: "Last time you talked about the monkey making a big fuss about the Queen Mother's Peach Banquet, and later stole the immortal pill of the Grandmaster Laojun. Hehe, that monkey was so brave. What happened later? Let's continue..."

Xiao Fan looked at him with a smile. As he met more times, Xiao Fan gradually faded his fear of him. In fact, people in the royal family are like ordinary people, including joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, birth, old age, sickness, death, some are tough, and some are weak.

Except for the time when Zhu Yunwen used ceremonial wars to scare Xiao Fan, Xiao Fan really couldn't be afraid of Zhu Yunwen. Zhu Yunwen should really examine himself in this matter. He had no airs in front of Xiao Fan, acted like a very simple and innocent child, and was very curious about everything, and was even more interested in some topics in the folk. No wonder Xiao Fan couldn't be afraid of him, - His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince, who was beaten up by Xiao Fan, could you expect Xiao Fan to be more afraid of him?

Facing Zhu Yunwen's longing eyes, Xiao Fan said slowly: "That monkey..."

"What happened to that monkey later?" Zhu Yunwen acted even more anxious than the monkey.

"Well, that monkey died later..." Xiao Fan acted as painful as losing a relative.

"Ah? Dead... Dead?" Zhu Yunwen's eyes were straight and his face was full of regret: "How could it die?"

Xiao Fan said expressionlessly: "It committed suicide."

"Self-death?"

"After it stole the elixir, it went down to the earth to open a restaurant..."

Zhu Yunwen was so confused that he grabbed his hair: "Monkey... open a restaurant?"

Xiao Fan nodded seriously: "Yes! Open a restaurant! Later, no business came to the door, and the restaurant went bankrupt and liquidated. Monkey owed employees a lot of wages. In desperation, he jumped off the building and committed suicide..."

"Why... why is there no business coming?"

Xiao Fan sighed seriously: "Because Jinyi's personal army always sealed the door and cleared the venue, the guests dared not come to the door..."

"Bang!" Zhu Yunwen slapped the table so angry that he slapped the monkey and said angrily: "Who did the monkey provoke whom? This Jinyi's personal army is so hateful!"

Xiao Fan nodded vigorously and agreed: "That's it! Your Highness summed it up very well! Who did the monkey open a restaurant to provoke whom?"

Zhu Yunwen was not a fool. After stuttering his lips a few times, he immediately came back to his senses and glared at Xiao Fan in dissatisfaction: "You are scolding me by the way, right?"

"The grass-roots...is scared!"

Zhu Yunwen showed a child-like stubborn expression and snorted: "I don't care. I want to listen to the monkey story. You are not allowed to fool me anymore. It's exciting. The plot will be ups and downs. I will just remove the Jinyi Personal Army. We only occupy an Accord above the building. Is this okay?"

Xiao Fan smiled and bowed: "Your Highness is wise."

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Zuixian Tower released the access control, Xiao Fan led Zhu Yunwen to the third floor, Huang Magistrate and Cao Yi continued to wait in the lobby, while Jinyi's personal soldiers blocked the third floor, and the defense was still tight.

The decoration of the Accord is very high-end. Each pavilion is carefully arranged by Xiao Fan. It is landscape, bonsai, and ink paintings, which are simple but elegant. In order to strive for the word "elegant", Xiao Fan even placed two ancient guqins on the platform beside the wall on the east side of the pavilion. The guqin is as beautiful as the surface of the silhouette, and the whole body is dark purple paint. Through the bloody sunset shining outside the window frame, the guqin emits a brilliant oily light, as if telling a heavy and vicissitudes of history.

As soon as Zhu Yunwen entered the door, he became interested in these two guqins. He looked at them with great interest for a while, turned his head to Xiao Fan and said, "Is this the real guqin? Or the Song Dynasty or the Tang Dynasty?"

Xiao Fan coughed uneasyly: "This dynasty..."

Zhu Yunwen couldn't believe it: "Our dynasty? How is it possible? These two pianos have a history of at least two hundred years..."

Xiao Fan sighed in his heart, he is such a simple young man. My Zuixianlou is a place to eat, not a cultural relics. It is just a few items that are elegant. How could he spend a lot of money to buy genuine products? Just Zhu Yunwen's eyesight is in his previous life, and he has to take a walk around Panjiayuan, Beijing, and he must lose his pants.

"Are these two guitars really from this dynasty?" Zhu Yunwen still didn't want to believe that these two guitars were fakes.

Xiao Fan smiled and said, "This is the deal made by the shopkeeper Zhou of Molin Xuan in this county. The retail price is 2 taels of silver and the wholesale price is 1 taels of 5 cents. If Your Highness is interested, the Caomin is willing to give it to you, and he will also make two boxes for pianos in vain..."

Zhu Yunwen: “…………”

Zhu Yunwen was immediately depressed and found a chair to sit down. He waved his hand and drove out the Jinyi personal army who was accompanying him. The only ones who were empty in the Accord were left.

Everyone went out, and Zhu Yunwen's handsome face suddenly collapsed.

He looked weak and seemed to be filled with deep sorrow in his eyebrows. When he looked at Xiao Fan, Zhu Yunwen said with a lonely expression: "Xiao Fan, let's not tell stories today. I am really bored and can't get interested."

Of course, Xiao Fan was happy and relaxed, so he quickly said respectfully: "Yes."

Zhu Yunwen sighed and said, "Today, Mr. Huang told me something. This incident made me very unhappy, but I don't know what to do. I can't tell my grandfather about this. I'm afraid he will get angry. I don't have friends to talk to in the East Palace..."

Looking up at Xiao Fan, Zhu Yunwen had a little desire in his eyes.

"Xiao Fan, you are a civilian and have nothing to do with the government. I will tell you about this unhappy thing. After hearing it, you forgot it. It feels comfortable to say it out. How about it?"

Xiao Fan bowed and said, "The grass people listen carefully..."

Zhu Yunwen's handsome face suddenly showed a happy look, and even his eyes became much more vivid. I don't know if it was because he could express his thoughts or because he had a friend who could listen to him.

"Actually... Mr. Huang said this was a kind intention. He was the minister of the humeral left to me by the emperor's grandfather. I can still trust his loyalty."

"I wonder who is this Mr. Huang?"

"Mr. Huang, you don't know? Oh, you are a commoner, and it's reasonable to not know. Mr. Huang's name is Huang Zicheng, who was a Tanhua from the palace examination in the 18th year of Hongwu. He was a Hanlin editor, a lecturer in the Chunfang, and was a companion to study in the East Palace. He taught me all my studies, and he was my teacher, so he called Mr. "

Xiao Fan nodded, Huang Zicheng, this is a very famous figure. After Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne, this person became the vanguard of the strategy of reducing the vassal states. His knowledge was extremely profound, but unfortunately his IQ was inversely proportional to his knowledge. Zhu Yunwen was defeated by the King of Yan, and the King of Yan attacked Nanjing, Zhu Yunwen lost his country, and Jianwen's defeat was largely related to Huang Zicheng.

"Your Highness, what did Mr. Huang tell you?"

Zhu Yunwen sighed, hesitated for a moment before saying, "Let me make a simple analogy... For example, there is a very big family. The patriarch is my grandfather. He loves me very much. Because of his love, he even handed over the entire family business to me, but his grandfather didn't know that this action made my elders and uncles very unhappy, because the inheritance of the family business has been passed down by fathers and sons, and there are few ancestors who passed on to grandsons. Grandfather directly crossed my uncles and passed on the family business to me. The uncles didn't say it openly, but they still felt grudges in their hearts..."

Xiao Fan's heart skipped a beat. What should happen will happen eventually. It seems that Zhu Yunwen and Huang Zicheng have realized the necessity of reducing the vassal states. This topic is indeed very deadly and cannot be told to anyone, including Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yunwen continued: "...Now my grandfather is still alive. Even if my uncles complain, I dare not say it. Mr. Huang told me that I am afraid that once my grandfather goes, my uncles will not be able to hold back and seek to seize the family business that should belong to me. At that time, my young age, whether it is fame or seniority, was not the opponent of my uncles. The ministers are strong but the king is weak, which is a sign of the destruction of the country..."

Speaking of this, Zhu Yunwen sighed heavily and his eyebrows squeezed into the word "Sichuan".

Xiao Fan was silent. He could not say anything in his identity or position. This is politics, bloody politics. What can he say? If he is not careful, he might lose his life. Now he has not yet surrendered to Zhu Yunwen, and he has no position to give advice for him.

The two were speechless. After a long time, Zhu Yunwen raised his head, stared at Xiao Fan, and said, "What do you mean?"

"Ah? This... Your Highness's story is much more vivid than Caomin's Journey to the West. Caomin seemed to see the magnificent court storm..."

"Don't talk nonsense! I'll ask you what you say. There are only two of us here. If the Dharma is not passed down to Liu Er, what are you afraid of!"

Xiao Fan thought for a long time before hesitating and said, "Your Highness's uncles are trying to seize property, this kind of behavior is very despicable..."

"Tell the point!"

Xiao Fan looked at Zhu Yunwen in embarrassment and said tentatively: "How about... I think of a way to trick Your Highness's uncles into the capital and ask them to line up, and then Your Highness will strangle them one by one..."

Zhu Yunwen raised his head and thought for a moment, then nodded seriously: "No, it's a good way... Do you help me strangle them to death?"
Chapter completed!