The son-in-law Gong Yonggu is indeed a very sociable person. Although Chen Laitou is just a craftsman, the two have gotten along better these days.

Gong Yonggu even came to Chen Laitou to ask questions many times, and sometimes invited him to his residence to host a banquet, and even shouted Chen Hanlin one by one, without any airs of being a royal relative.

Chen Laitou also respected the prince-consort more and more. Although he liked to talk big, in Chen Laitou's opinion, if the prince-consort had not married the royal daughter, he would have been the top scorer.

The reason is naturally that this son-in-law Gong Yonggu really knew a lot. This guy knew everything clearly about the customs and customs in the world and the various relationships between inside and outside the court. He even knew about the Tartars outside the pass, the Japanese pirates in the East, the Western pirates in the South, and the Kunlun slaves from Lilaiya. Naturally, the Four Books, Five Classics, Tang poetry and Song lyrics were no problem.

Therefore, Chen Lai Tou sincerely admires this son-in-law, the key is that he is not taking advantage of the situation.

Therefore, Chen Laitou finally did not refuse Gong Yonggu's arrangements, and prepared to take the "Traveling in the Streams and Mountains" by Fan Kuan of Song Dynasty and other gifts and a diamond-colored silver mirror to attend the wedding of Mr. Wei's concubine.

However, before attending the wedding of Mr. Wei Ge, Chen Laitou couldn't help expressing his doubts to his friend Gong Yonggu, the son-in-law of the Prince-in-law.

"I said, "My husband, I have a question, I would like to ask you. Since you are a master of ancient times, you can probably help me. Your Majesty told me that he would give you the next great wealth, but I still don't understand where the great wealth is. When Old Man Li improved the Apocalypse Style, he actually got thousands of taels of silver and a mansion, but I had nothing, so I only had a fifth-grade black hat."

Chen Lai Tou pointed helplessly on his black veil, while the prince-in-law Gong Yonggu laughed directly and shook his head at Chen Lai Tou and said, "You are a fool. Didn't your Majesty say that you would only have half the share less than me that day? Don't underestimate this share less than half. That's one twenty. Once this business grows bigger and wait for millions of dollars a year, you Chen Dahanlin will sit at home every year and can collect hundreds of thousands of taels. This is not just a wealthy person, but you are simply rich and rich! I saw you depressed widow at that time, and you didn't thank you for your gratitude, but you didn't know what you were doing."

Seeing that the prince-consored Duwei Gong Yonggu was so exaggerated, Chen Laitou knew that he had started talking crazy again, so he was full of disbelief: "It depends on whether you can use the remaining 5,000 taels to make millions of deals."

"Just wait and see, keep in mind that you can make money that you will never make in your life from tonight," Gong Yonggu said, and then he entered the sedan chair first, "I'm going first. Master Wei Ge specially invited this prince consort to be the emcee."

"Hey, Mr. Concubine, you won't really let me give gifts to Mr. Wei alone, right? I, a little fifth-rank official, can't get on the table!"

Chen Lai Tou shouted, and seeing that Gong Yonggu did not respond, he had to bite the bullet and enter his carriage: "Go to the old mansion of Wei Ge!"

...

The late Ming Dynasty was flamboyant and extravagant, and this was especially true for scholars and officials. As the saying goes, the rich have frozen bones on the road of wine and meat. This phenomenon is not new in the end of the dynasty.

Moreover, among the scholars and officials, the phenomenon of the elderly and old scholars as concubines is particularly common.

Wei Guangwei, the prince and grand tutor of Jianji Palace, is now nearly sixty years old, and it is not a strange thing to marry a 28-year-old girl. However, since he is the chief minister, he has suffered a lot of criticism, so it is inevitable that a censor will use this matter to impeach.

However, because of this, Wei Guangwei, the chief minister of the cabinet, did not dare to do this with great fanfare. After all, taking a concubine is not considered a reunion, and it is not a big deal.

But at this time, His Majesty passed away with a decree. If he wanted to make a special arrangement, he had to show off his position as the chief minister. His Majesty Zhu Youxiao had to come here in person.

Wei Guangwei didn't know why His Majesty Zhu Youxiao issued such an order, and it was hard to guess why His Majesty came to congratulate him in person because of a trivial matter like taking a concubine.

But Wei Guangwei had to follow the will. He posted all the officials of the seventh rank in Beijing, as well as all kinds of leading figures and wealthy merchants, and even personally invited the chefs of major restaurants in the capital to the mansion to serve countless officials and nobles at any time.

Wei Guangwei even felt that this was an opportunity to take advantage of this matter to bring closer relationship with His Majesty. Since Wei Zhongxian went to the south, his chance to show his face in front of His Majesty was not as high as Qian Qianyi. Moreover, Wei Guangwei also felt the threat Qian Qianyi brought to him more and more, so in order to maintain his official position, he had to seize this opportunity.

Wei Guangwei is the chief minister of the cabinet and the head of civil officials. Even if he does not send a post, there will naturally be a steady stream of people coming to celebrate.

So, just as the night fell, countless high-ranking officials and nobles of all kinds in the capital have arrived.

...

Although Zhu Youxiao wanted to go to Wei Guangwei's place to check it out, he had no intention of going to Wei Guangwei's mansion to have supper.

After accompanying Queen Zhang Yan and Yao Xuanshi to have some snacks and teach Xiao Liu Rushu some articles, he left Kunning Palace.

Wang Chengen hurriedly came over with an umbrella and held it on Zhu Youxiao's head. The day before yesterday, but it started to drizzle again today. Now the weather in the Ming Dynasty can only be described as strange.

Xu Fo, who had been waiting outside the house, also followed. The three of them were led by Zhu Youxiao, and Wang Chengen and Xu Fo accompanied him out of the inner court.

"Come up too." When it was time to get on the carriage, Zhu Youxiao gave Xu Fo instructions and stretched out his hand like a gentleman.

Xu Fo responded "Yes", then grabbed Zhu Youxiao's hand and got on the carriage. Wang Chengen was about to follow, but Zhu Youxiao smiled and said, "You go down, an old eunuch slave, come up and join in the fun!"

"Your Majesty!" Wang Chengen couldn't help but reply casually, and had to follow the carriage obediently, while Xu Fo couldn't help but laugh.

This is a dignified seal of the ritual supervisor, but in front of His Majesty, he is just a eunuch serving others. He is not the same as himself. In front of the Lord of Nine Five, he is just an ant.

"Why are you standing there? Tea!"

Zhu Youxiao's speech pulled Xu Fo's thoughts back. She responded quickly and immediately went to get the tea leaves.

"Grind ink!"

Here, Xu Fo had just brewed tea, and Zhu Youxiao had to take a pen and write, so Xu Fo had to hurry to pick up the ancient ink she brought in advance.

"Half-beating!"

Xu Fo glanced at Zhu Youxiao, and without saying anything, he squatted down and started to beat Zhu Youxiao.

Seeing that she was obedient, Zhu Youxiao was embarrassed to tease her intentionally, so he deliberately said, "Okay, sit there, it's not good to beat her legs, and it's so soft that I don't have the strength to do it."

Xu Fo had no choice but to stand aside.

"I asked you to sit down. Do you want to resist the order?" Zhu Youxiao shouted again when she saw that she did not sit down.

"Yes!" Xu Fo sat aside. The fire in the brazier was burning vigorously at this time, which immediately made her feel a warm feeling penetrated into her somewhat cold body.
Chapter completed!