Seeing that her husband wanted to talk, Mrs. Xie quickly stopped him: "Okay, the three young masters are here to discuss knowledge with Chongwen. Don't keep praising your children until they are embarrassed."

As she said this, she said to Zhao Jingli and Zhao Jingan: "Young Master, would you like the Second Young Master to sit in Chongwen's room? We, Chongwen, can also ask for advice from the two Young Masters."

"You shouldn't ask for advice. We should ask Brother Xu for advice." Zhao Jingli was polite, and at Xu Chongwen's invitation, he and Zhao Jing'an went to his house.

However, Zhao Jingan was very interested in writing storybooks. After entering the room, he asked Xu Chongwen many questions in this regard.

Zhao Jingli asked him about the situation of clan studies.

After leaving the Xu family, they separated from Zhao Ruxi and Zhao Jingtai at the intersection. After the two brothers returned to the second room, Zhao Jingli said to Zhao Jing'an: "Second brother, after the Chinese New Year, let's go to the clan school together."

Zhao Jingan nodded: "Okay."

When Xu Chongwen asked him, he had this idea.

He used to look down on clan studies. After all, the two masters from clan studies were still not as good as the gentleman Zhao Yuanxun paid a lot of money for them.

But when they separated, he and Zhao Jingli were very emotional and flatly refused his uncle's solicitation to stay and no longer went to school with Zhao Jingtai in the big room. Both he and Zhao Jingli lived in confusion for a while.

Although today the eldest uncle still mentioned that they should go back to the eldest house to study, and his own resentment towards the eldest brother had disappeared. But he was still not willing to go to the eldest house to flirt with his third brother's husband.

Now that the family is separated, they are no longer noble children, and the family is not financially well-off, so they should live their own lives.

After communicating with Xu Chongwen today, Zhao Jingan discovered the gap between himself and him. If he wanted to take the imperial examination, he would have to be taught by a master. Instead of hiring people who don't know the basics, it would be better to go to a clan school, which is not expensive.

, and you can also promote each other with your classmates.

Zhao Jingli's ideas coincided with his.

Zhao Jingli believed that he was not good at studying, and his family's situation did not allow him to spend more than ten or twenty years taking the imperial examination. He planned to support the family by himself and let Zhao Jing study peacefully. As for himself, he was learning arithmetic well.

After reaching the age of sixteen, he went to the Yamen to find a job.

But there is still one and a half years left before he turns sixteen. He has roughly sorted out the household chores, and does not need to do everything himself. Most of the things he just needs to do are to ask the housekeeper and the housekeeper to do them. Zhao Ruxi is so busy,

There was only less than half an hour to teach him arithmetic every day. Naturally, he couldn't waste this year and a half and had to continue studying to enrich himself.

He knows very well that to work in the yamen, it is not only necessary to have arithmetic skills, but also to have other abilities. Read more books and learn how to behave in the world through interactions with classmates, which will be of great help to him in the future.

There are benefits.

The two brothers discussed it well, and when Zhao Jingli came to ask Zhao Ruxi for arithmetic advice the next day, he told Zhao Yuanxun the decision. Zhao Yuanxun was both sad and happy.

What's sad is that the kid Jing Li has finally become acquainted with him, and he doesn't even want to use the husband he hired. What's happy is that the kid knows exactly what he wants and what path he wants to take.

This child is much better than his father, and his years of teaching are not in vain.

Zhao Ruxi had no time to pay attention to this. Soon after returning from Xu's house, she joined Kang Shilin and others to participate in the new auction.

After the last auction, many people went to the house where the clock was photographed to see the Western Jing'er. The clock's very European appearance and its precise time broadcast of "dang dang dang" every half hour made people shudder.

The wealthy nobles of the Jin Dynasty liked it very much. Many people wanted to own such a timepiece.

Therefore, the three clocks put up for auction this time were all highly sought after and fetched extremely high prices.

The highlight of this auction was the set of red jade jewelry, which was the finale. It was finally bought by the second prince at a high price of thirty-six thousand taels and sent to the palace to honor Concubine Cen.

Two days later was the day when the palace held a banquet to reward the ministers for their hard work for a year. The imperial ministers dressed up carefully and entered the palace for the banquet. They saw Concubine Cen appearing in front of everyone wearing the set of red jade jewelry.

Concubine Cen's temperament is graceful and luxurious, and jadeite is different from white jade in its connotation. It is more public and flamboyant, making Concubine Cen dazzling and becoming the focus of the banquet.

The red jadeite is not only beautiful, but also a clear proof of the filial piety of the second prince. Every imperial concubine who meets Concubine Cen will praise the filial piety of the second prince, which makes Concubine Cen and the second prince steal the show at this annual banquet.

Concubine Jin was favored; however, Concubine Cen's position was higher than that of Concubine Jin. She was also in charge of the middle palace and had two adult princes. The two had always been evenly matched, and they had always been showing off at the palace's annual banquet.

But this time, because of a set of red emeralds, Concubine Cen forced Concubine Jin over her head, making Concubine Jin feel extremely aggrieved.

That night, when the banquet in the main hall ended, the third prince learned about the situation in the harem and immediately threw down his favorite tea cup.

"Where does this kind of jadeite come from? Find it. You must buy a more beautiful and luxurious set, preferably purple. I want to dedicate it to my mother and concubine." He said.

"yes."

Jade was not popular in Dajin before, but now I want to inquire about it for a while, but it is a bit embarrassing.

In the end, the Third Prince's men started from the auction house and bought one of the Fifth Prince's men from the auction house at a high price. Finally, they found out that Concubine Cen's set of red jade was bought from a businessman in the south. The Fifth Prince spent a lot of money when buying it.

A high price of thirty-five thousand taels was paid.

The reason why he did not directly donate it to Concubine Cen after buying it, but put it up for auction in an auction house, was to build momentum for Concubine Cen and help the second prince gain a reputation as a filial piety.

When the third prince heard this, he almost bit off his silver teeth.

"Go to the south, find the merchant, and buy back the best jewelry he has." He ordered.

Following their master's instructions, the third prince's men did not care that it was the end of the year and the weather was freezing, so they directly drove their horses out of the capital and went south to look for the businessman.

After searching for a long time, he finally found the merchant two months later and bought a set of violet jade jewelry at a high price of forty-two thousand taels of silver.

Concubine Jin wore this set of jewelry at the flower-viewing banquet in the spring. Finally, she was evenly matched with Concubine Cen and accepted a wave of compliments from her imperial concubines.

At this point, Jade's reputation was completely destroyed.

The businessman in the south probably got inspiration from this. A few days after the third prince's men returned to the capital, he also brought jade jewelry to the capital. He bought a shop in the busiest area of ​​the capital and opened a jewelry shop specializing in jade jewelry.

.

When the third prince came to his senses and thought that the jadeite was very valuable, and wanted to take the businessman under his command and let him serve him, he suddenly found that the businessman had belonged to the second prince.

He once again dropped his newly purchased tea cup.
Chapter completed!