Mrs. Tai is really rich

Xie Ruqing and Gu Ruosu's carriage walked slowly in the crowded streets. They stopped and stopped along the way, watched many interesting performances, and bought many exquisite small objects and delicious snacks. Xie Ruqing's time management It was just right, he and Gu Ruosu's carriage successfully arrived at Yuanlou half an hour before the start of the Mechanism Competition.

Yuanlou is a full twelve-storey pavilion built with a special mortise and tenon structure. The materials used in Yuanlou are all high-quality mahogany, bright red and free of money. The hanging colorful lanterns made Yuanlou so eye-catching within a radius of ten miles.

The sixth floor of Yuan Building is the venue for tonight's mechanism art competition. At this moment, many mechanism operators in cloaks and masks have gathered on the sixth floor one after another.

At this moment, Xie Ruqing was already holding Gu Ruosu's hand, and walked to their private room for tonight step by step under the leadership of the servant.

"Gu Gu, you and your wife are finally here."

"Aqi! The clothes you are wearing tonight are so special!" Gu Ruosu had just walked into their private room led by Xie Ruqing, when she saw Gao Qi who had come here waiting for them at some time.

Gao Qi's greeting attracted Gu Ruosu's attention, and at this moment, Gu Ruosu couldn't help but praise Gao Qi's special clothes.

Gao Qi listened to Gu Ruosu's words, stood up with a smile, walked in front of Gu Ruosu, and fiddled with his clothes with a flamboyant smile.

"That's natural. This is the clothes that I drew and selected by myself, bought pearls and gold thread at a high price, and this priceless brocade, which more than 20 embroiderers rushed to embroider in the early morning of this morning. .”

Gao Qi's clothes today are indeed very special, as thin as cicada's wings, gorgeous as rosy clouds, a floating brocade that looks very sparkling under the light, and a whole body of precious red pearls and gold threads as decorations. A whole body of summer clothes with exotic styles, and the patterns on the clothes are also very unique, one after another is lifelike Manjusawa, dark red and coquettish, almost makes people unable to leave their eyes.

"If Gu Gu likes you, I'll have someone make a suit according to Gu Gu's size."

After saying that, Gao Qi didn't care about Xie Ruqing who was still present, directly took Gu Ruosu's hand and sat down and said.

Gu Ruosu touched Gao Qi's clothes very curiously, and when he heard this sentence, he shook his head and said:

"No, no, this dress is too gorgeous. If I wear it outside, I'm afraid I will attract criticism from a group of people. Although I don't care about them, I really don't like their probing eyes."

"Okay then, I'll send some new floating brocades to your home later on. The colors of those floating brocades are not too bright, and they won't make people feel ostentatious when they are made into clothes. I have taken care of your wishes." After being rejected by Gu Ruosu, Gao Qi was not depressed, but continued with a smile.

Gu Ruosu didn't refuse any more at this moment, and accepted Gao Qi's kindness with a nod, and then asked:

"Aqi, what are the competitions in the mechanism art competition? How do you judge the level of mechanism art? If you win, will there be any rewards? Also, why do all those people wear hats and masks? "

At this moment, Xie Ruqing naturally sat beside Gu Ruosu, picked up the jug beside Gu Ruosu, and filled a glass of fine wine for Gu Ruosu. Then, without waiting for Gao Qi to speak, she took the initiative to say:
"This is a non-government mechanism art competition, and we have cooperated with the government. The competition is divided into two games, the people's livelihood field and the siege field. The people's livelihood field compares the effects of the organs and objects made by the contestants on the people's livelihood in terms of people's livelihood. The benign impact, while the siege competition is about the effect of the mechanism invented by the contestants on the battlefield, information transmission, and city protection.

"For example, the leader of the people's livelihood field last year, the machine tiger he invented can help the people peel the rice, speed up the progress of the autumn harvest, and greatly reduce the burden on the people, and the cost is not expensive. The government will subsidize part of the money. Sixty percent of the farmers within the scope of Kyoto can buy this machine tiger in installments."

"Hearing what you said, Minsheng Field seems to be very interesting, but what about last year's Siege Field~"

"The siege field has never produced a leader in these years, perhaps it is the reason why Dayong has gathered a large number of high-quality machine divisions in the court, or it may be because there is very little information about this aspect in the market. , Most of them have to rely on their own groping, the mechanism of the contestants in their siege field over the years is mostly unsatisfactory."

"Of course, although there is no leader, according to the regulations, as long as you get the top three in the people's livelihood field or the siege field, you can work in the institutions that specialize in the research and development of machinery in our dynasty, and enjoy the imperial salary and official positions in the imperial court."

"As for why those people wear hats and masks, it's mainly..."

Before Xie Ruqing finished speaking, someone outside the door interrupted Xie Ruqing's words

"It's mainly for the future of Dayong."

After the man finished speaking, he pushed the door open and closed the door behind his back, walking towards Xie Ruqing and the others, and said again:
"Dayong is famous all over the world for its mechanism skills. Other countries are very afraid of Dayong's mechanism skills, but also yearn for them very much. Therefore, every year, the number of spies sent by other countries to Dayong to explore the secrets of mechanism skills is countless."

"In order to prevent the secrets of mechanism techniques from being leaked, Dayong, except for some basic related books that can be found, the real mystery books are basically included in the government and the public. Therefore, if spies from other countries want to know the secrets of mechanism techniques, only Get rid of these mechanics."

"However, there are official organists, special residences and special people to guard them for twelve hours. It can only be said that it is even more difficult for spies to get in touch with them."

"So, in the final analysis, the only ones who can get the spies to succeed are these private organists who are not fully protected by the imperial court. In order to protect the lives and safety of these organists, the government allows these persons who know how to act They kept silent and covered their faces when participating in the competition, and after the competition, the government sent people to send them back to their homes, so that these spies would have no way to catch them."

"Although this method of prevention seems simple and simple, it is very effective. At least, I have been in Nanban for so many years, and I have sent countless subordinates over. countable."

The man was wearing an inconspicuous light-colored cloak, with a slender figure. When he walked in front of them, he slowly took off the cloak on his body, revealing the scarlet clothes inside and his very beautiful and young face.

"Brother, hello, Mr. Gao."

"Hello, sister-in-law. This is my senior brother Xie Ruqing's junior brother. Now Nanman's national teacher, Chuci, met for the first time. I was a little hasty. I didn't have time to prepare some gifts. I hope my sister-in-law will not be offended."

"Hello, Chu Ci, I'm Xie Ruqing's wife, my name is Gu Ruosu, it's okay, I just found out that I will see you here today, and I haven't had time to prepare any gifts, so don't mind." Gu Ruosu looked at her eyes and smiled Chu Ci, who is very kind and almost looks harmless to humans and animals, it is difficult to connect this person in front of him with the rumored murderous Nanman Guoshi, but Gu Ruosu still remembers Xie Ruqing's explanation, and did not just because of this He relaxed his vigilance towards Chu Ci, but got up very politely, and returned a salute to Chu Ci and said.

"Okay, you guys have officially met. Today, we are all from our own family. Let's all sit down." Xie Ruqing said.

After hearing the words, Gu Ruosu and Chu Ci sat down in their seats. For a while, the four of them looked at each other speechlessly.

At this moment, Chu Ci suddenly turned his head to look at Gu Ruosu and said:
"Thank you sister-in-law."

"what?"

Gu Ruosu shook his head in doubt, and was about to ask why Chu Ci suddenly wanted to thank her.

But at this moment, bursts of fireworks sounded outside the window, causing Gu Ruosu to look sideways.

"Gu Gu, these fireworks are not bad. This is a new type of firework that I specially hired a craftsman this year to make. It is big and bright. It can even be made into patterns of 24 stars through special means."

"24 Constellations? How did you come up with this, Aqi."

"Originally, it was planned for twelve months of flowers. However, some time ago, I met a female disciple of a Taoist temple. She was sketching patterns on the stone wall. I thought it was very good, so, on her suggestion, I made it. This 24 Constellations, I specially invited her here today, I heard that she is still Yunxiaoguan, a female disciple of Master Xianyun." After Gao Qi finished speaking, he set his eyes on Chu Ci, and Xie Ruqing's gaze also Quietly transferred to Gao Qi and Chu Ci.

Chu Ci's face was still full of smile, but the hand holding the wine glass in his hand unknowingly tightened his grip.

"Mr. Gao seems to be a very elegant person. He is actually interested in traveling around. However, Mr. Gao has such a lot of business. If he keeps coming out to play, I don't know if it will delay the business. If... the business suddenly It wouldn't be a big deal if there were some accidents..."

Gao Qi understood the threatening meaning of Chu Ci's words, stared deeply at Chu Ci for a moment, then thought about what Chu Ci and Xie Ruqing promised him before, and said:
"Master Chu is right. Making money is the most important thing. As a businessman, how can I like elegant things? The only things I like are yellow and white things."

After finishing speaking, Gao Qi took the initiative to raise his wine glass, toasted Chu Ci from a distance, and immediately drank it all in one gulp. Then, regardless of the reactions of Chu Ci and others, he stood up, took Gu Ruosu's hand, and brought Gu Ruosu's hand with him. When Gu Ruosu reached the railing, he slightly raised his hand as a signal, and the drummers around him beat the big drums.

Immediately, more people speeded up and gathered in the Yuan Building. After the stick of incense burned out, a group of majestic eagles flew down from the top of the building, swept over every floor, and then sent out There were bursts of hawks screaming, which means that the mechanism art competition is about to start...