Upon hearing this, Ma Xianglan also stopped at the door, wanting to see how Zhao Hao answered her.

Zhao Hao was not as hindered as Ma Xianglan when dealing with Qiaoqiao. He stood up with a funny look on his face and spread his hands to Qiaoqiao, "What are you kidding? The other group of juren came to Beijing, and they only brought a book boy servant. Whoever brought a female family? Besides, I was accompanying the exam, so I couldn't bring it."

Qiao Qiao's face turned redder when she heard this, and she gave Zhao Hao a weak look and said, "Who is your female family member? I am at most a cook. You have to take the chef, right?"

But Zhao Hao smiled faintly and said, "I didn't treat you as a cook."

After hearing this sentence, Qiaoqiao felt her cheeks boiling, and she felt like she was soaked in boiling water. She lowered her head and didn't dare to look at Zhao Hao. How could she have the intention to argue with him?

Seeing her like this, Zhao Hao knew that he had said something he shouldn't say. He couldn't help but complain secretly, why did I always act like a man with a pretentious man? When I met a woman, I always let it go?

Without caring about the mistakes, he took advantage of Qiao Qiao's shamelessness to speak, and turned her over and pushed her out of the door: "Anyway, if it doesn't work, it won't work. I won't take any of you even if it's a big deal."

Ma Xianglan was stunned when she heard this and pointed at herself. Seeing Zhao Hao pointing out the key points, she couldn't help but laugh and cry, thinking that she would have known that she wouldn't have watched the fun.

This is a good thing, it has been affected by the fish in the pond.

But she was not as easy to fool with Qiaoqiao, so she wanted to lightly open her red lips and make a curve to save the country.

But Zhao Hao said first: "Because there is something, you need to help me stare in Nanjing."

"Please give me instructions."

This trick "entrusted with important tasks" was indeed very effective, and Ma Xianglan immediately stopped mentioning the incident in Beijing.

"That's right. I wrote a few books a few months ago, and the proofreading was completed in almost the next few days. I planned to print and publish it with a bookstore, but I felt very upset when I heard what Xue Lang said during the day, so I decided to open a bookstore by myself!"

"This..." Ma Xianglan was a little scared when she heard this, "Young Master wants me to help you open a bookstore? This is something Xianglan has never done."

"Who asked you to take care of the bookstore?" Zhao Hao shook his head and smiled: "I will say hello to Tang Youde and ask him to help him directly acquire a bookstore."

"What does the young master want me to do?" Ma Xianglan asked in confusion.

"There are so many things you have to do." Zhao Hao smiled and said, "First of all, you need to copy my manuscript according to the needs of the plate making. Then, you have to stare at them every step, from stereotype to printing to binding into a book. You can't let them be careless about me, let alone misprinting. Especially when it is stereotyped, you must have pictures and words, and it is not bad at all. If there is any error, you must destroy and re-engrave it."

Seeing that Zhao Hao was not a joke, Ma Xianglan immediately looked serious and nodded silently to write down.

At this time, Qiaoqiao came to her senses and asked blankly: "What about me?"

"Your father is going to run two times this winter, and the delicious taste is enough for you." Zhao Hao said seriously: "If you have time, please help Sister Ma. How can she be with a girl in every family without a companion?"

"Oh." Qiaoqiao nodded indeed and stopped entangling.

Zhao Hao secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Compared with the kind-hearted Ma Xianglan, the innocent and innocent girl Qiaoqiao is still easy to deal with.

~~

The three of them stayed outside the city for one night and returned the next day.

After returning home, Zhao Shouzheng told Zhao Hao that he had already sailed with Wu Ji and was scheduled to head north on October 20th. To count it, it would take only five or six days.

"It seems that my father has to calm down and be ready to go to Beijing for the exam at home." Zhao Hao started nagging habitually when he heard this.

Zhao Shouzheng spread his hands and looked like he was beating, "There is nothing to be prepared. There is everything in Beijing. Just take the Wanyuan number and get the ticket."

"Uh, okay..." Zhao Hao rolled his eyes when he heard this, and could not refute.

But Zhao Shouzheng was actually just a joke. He has been busy these days and has to go to Yingtian Mansion to collect the road traffic first and the travel fee of ten taels of silver.

I also have to go to the Southern War to receive the "fire card".

With this "fire card", the candidates who take the exam can exchange a carriage at any post station, and there will be a yellow flag of the "Ministry of Rites Examination" on the carriage, which is the so-called bus entering Beijing.

Zhao Shouzheng and others were rich and powerful. Although they didn't need to provide carriages at the post station, the yellow flag of the "Ministry of Rites" must be obtained. At that time, more than a dozen small yellow flags were inserted on the boat, let alone bandits, even the government and tax cards would not dare to block their way.

You also need to buy a valuable gift, so that when you enter Beijing, you can make more friends with some imperial officials under the recommendation of your nephew. Juren is already qualified to be an official, and no matter whether you can pass the Jinshi next step, this step is indispensable.

As for the food and drink cost on the road, he didn't have to worry about a product in Beijing, so his elder brother Zhao Shouye did it properly.

As for Zhao Hao, he has not dared to go out recently.

Since the publication of the "First Meeting Collection", countless invitations to the Qinhuai female history were sent to the mansion every day...

This is still polite. There are still many people blocking their doorstep, waiting for Mr. Xiao Zhao to come out to meet, sign an autograph, and savor their poems.

Zhao Hao did not expect that he was silent four hundred years later, but he ran to the Ming Dynasty but became a little star. But what are the benefits of the stars in the Ming Dynasty being able to make money? At least there is nothing that touched him at the moment.

I had to stay at home every day, hoping that the popularity would pass quickly and restore the normal life.

~~

On the 17th, Wang Wuyang and Hua Shuyang returned to Jinling.

The master and apprentice had not seen each other for a while, so they were naturally very happy to meet.

Zhao Hao and Eryang were talking cordially in the corridor. Suddenly, their servants carried boxes of gifts into the yard. They couldn't help but ask strangely: "What is this?"

"The family prepared a gift from the teacher. My father and father-in-law also heard that his master moved to his new home, so he prepared another gift." Hua Shuyang looked at Zhao Hao with some anxiety and said, "I was afraid that my master would not like A Duwu. I prepared it from both families, both of which were carefully selected ancient books, calligraphy, paintings, cultural ornaments, etc.."

"My uncle is the most stingy. He has clearly hidden so many famous calligraphy and paintings. I just picked two boxes and he was anxious when he was about to see me." Wang Wuyang took out the gift list with anger and gave it to his master for his inspection.

Zhao Hao knew that Wang Shizhen was one of the top three collectors of the Ming Dynasty, and the things that came out of him were definitely not ordinary people.

All the products cannot reach Wang Yanzhou's eyes at all.

He took the list with great anticipation and saw that there were thirty or forty famous calligraphy and paintings on it. Among them, there were three of the four Yuan families, and each of the four sons of Wuzhong had more than two. Wen Zhengming's paintings were still complete sets, as well as works by Wei Su, Qiu Ying, and Shen Zhou...

The most precious ones are two original works by Zhao Mengfu, one of which is "The Thousand Rivers Entering the City" and the other is "The Autumn Scenery of the Quehua"!

Which one of the items here will be priced at an eight-digit price for auction in later generations, and there are also many works that can be speculated to nine-digit numbers.

Even at this time, the so-called collection of prosperous times and the collection of Jiangnan is prosperous, these famous calligraphy and paintings that have been appreciated by Wang Shizhen are of great value.

As for the richest man in Wuxi, he is naturally much richer than Wang Zongzhu. In addition to more famous calligraphy and paintings, there are five boxes of rare books, four treasures in the study, two boxes of jade ornaments, official kiln porcelain, Boshan incense burner, and one box of coral ornaments...

Looking at the gift list that was longer than me, Zhao Hao couldn't help but be shocked, thinking that I felt that I was just a rich man with 30,000 or 50,000 taels. It turned out that compared to the real rich man, I was still a poor man...
Chapter completed!