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Chapter 466 The Wonderful Journey to Kaifeng City ([-])

With the passage of time, Du Baojun and his Du family's fleet should theoretically be able to reach Kaifeng City in a short time.

During such a waiting process, Du Baojun continued to wander around the city, so the contents of his diary kept increasing.

However, as time went on, this guy became lazy. The time between each entry in his diary was getting longer and longer, but the length of the diary was getting shorter and shorter...

On April [-], the first year of Maode, it rained.

Actually, I planned to go out today, but when I was eating pancakes, I ran into that very familiar newspaper boy.

After asking, I found out that Mao didn't go to school. It was because every Monday and Saturday in their primary school were rest days.

By the way, the child secretly asked me again, saying that it was the Master of the Magic Sage, and a new work was released today.

The new work is titled "Crazy Woman", the content is still extremely fragrant, and the illustrations are exquisite. For the first time, Master Huansheng also describes the affairs of Fengyue from the perspective of a woman. It is simply another masterpiece.

In fact, as a decent person, I don't really care about the romantic or not.

What I care about is Master Huansheng, who has a unique description of the various aspects of life, and immediately digs out ten pens, buys a copy, and goes back to study it carefully.

After finishing the study, it was already getting late.

If you have something in your heart, it is really not very pleasant to go to the Washe to listen to the music alone, and after confirming some of the sayings in the book.

In my heart, I especially hope that Master Huansheng will continue to write in the future, and write some new works faster and more.

Regarding this point, Du Baojun was not so disappointed.

Because Huang Yizhi, the owner of the so-called Xichang factory, was anxious and did not expect that the "Da Song Times", which relied on "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as a means of attracting people, is currently spreading very quickly.

According to reports from Jin Yiwei's spies in the south of the Yangtze River, in many places, no matter men, women or children, many people have recently become fans of "Three Kingdoms".

Often the latest issue of the "Da Song Times" was delivered to the Jiangnan area with the Clippers, and Mr. Said took the newspaper and read it.

Whenever this time, there are always full seats and business is extremely good.

However, such a degree of enthusiasm is still not as good as "Jin Ping Mei" and other two novels; although the old SPs are not good at reading it openly, they have a lot of readers in private.

Even if there are already Jiangnan booksellers, privately start pirated printing.

However, in terms of ink, clarity and many other aspects, how can these pirated inferior goods compare with the Xichang printing factory with better craftsmen and some modern technology blessings.

After changing hands of any one of the above books, it can be sold at a high price of at least [-] copies in various places in the south of the Yangtze River.

So calculated in this way, it was actually a part of the operation expenses of the West Factory, relying on Fatty Huang's flamboyant essays, it was able to cover all of it, and there was still a considerable part of the surplus.

So Fatty Huang, even after being tired like a dog every day, he didn't forget to insist on writing some new works after returning home.

There are many related classics, in addition to collecting all the relevant classics in one go, but also creating some independently.

I even thought about the title, it's called "Young Hu Biao"...

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April [-]th, the first year of Maode, was a cloudy day. Calculate the time needed to go back and forth. If there are five or six more days for the family's fleet, it should be almost here.

I don't know who came with the fleet this time.

In the fleet, there are food, cloth, etc. worth a lot.

Last night, I received an invitation post from the Commerce Department, saying that some new products will be released today, and there will be an auction of regional franchise rights.

Although I am so cash-strapped now that I can't even pay the [-]% deposit.

But go and see what's new, it's an excellent thing to think about.

After eating two more deluxe pancakes, I walked towards the business department with ease; after so many days of wandering around, I am very familiar with Kaifeng City.

It was also a coincidence that I ran into the imperial concubine and husband-in-law on the way.

Just like Hu Yitong's privy envoy, all his henchmen, including the imperial concubine, seemed to like such a simple approach, without any guards around them.

Therefore, in the busy city, the noble concubine and the husband-in-law also rode a thin donkey alone, safely crossing the streets and alleys.

But then again, the woman was lazily wearing a beautiful umbrella, her skirt swayed slightly with the walking of the skinny donkey, revealing a pair of embroidered shoes and some white and tender calves.

For a moment, people couldn't help but think of the little lady in the book, Jinlian, which really stirred people's hearts.

Just when I mustered up my courage and wanted to go up to say hello.

Suddenly, seeing upstairs on the left, after a window was suddenly pushed open, the three men actually drew a bow in each hand, and shot at the noble concubine and husband.

At the same time, there was a man carrying incense powder and rouge by the side of the road. After throwing away his burden, he drew out a sharp steel knife and killed him.

Presumably these people must be spies of the Jin people, and they actually resorted to such low-level assassination methods.

Not to mention the peddler who was killed later, just three bows were fired at a distance of at most twenty steps, how could the noble concubine and the husband avoid it?

For such a wonderful little woman, today is probably the day when she will die.

However, everything that happened later, I am afraid I will remember it for the rest of my life:
Facing the three arrows, the imperial concubine just shielded the umbrella in front of her in a crisis; she didn't know what kind of material the umbrella was made of, but after being hit by the arrows, there was a sound of defeat. All the arrows were blocked.

In the blink of an eye, there were three more screams.

Because several men appeared in the crowd, each holding a well-stringed hand crossbow; after pulling it, the three golden men upstairs were shot to death immediately.

It's just that at this moment, the golden spy with a long knife has already killed the imperial concubine.

A knife stabbed the imperial concubine's lower abdomen, but there was no splash of blood. This woman must have been on guard for a long time, and had already put on a fine armor in advance.

On the contrary, she didn't see how the imperial concubine moved, she pulled out a slender sharp sword from the umbrella handle, pierced the left eye of the golden man carefully, and the sharp blade pierced out from the back of the head.

Immediately, a gust of hot blood splashed all over the noble concubine's face and body.

It's just that this made a man's legs weak, and the imperial concubine didn't panic at all.

He even stuck out his flexible tongue and licked the blood at the corner of his mouth; this also let me know that this woman is definitely not something ordinary men like me can control.

After this point, when I saw the noble concubine and the daughter-in-law again, I didn't have any distracting thoughts in my heart...

April [-], the first year of Maode, was another sunny day.

Ever since I went to the street that day and met the noble concubine and the husband-in-law, and was assassinated by a golden man in the street, I have never left the inn for a few days.

Yes, I admit that I was frightened, the kind that became more and more frightened when I came back.

Fortunately, today, I suddenly heard a big news from the wharf. My Du family's fleet has finally arrived.

After rushing there, I found out that it was my father who brought the two older brothers to Kaifeng City in person at the age of sixty-two.

In the fleet, there are 40 pieces of high-quality linen alone, and there are also a lot of other grains, white tea, pen and ink, chestnuts and other dried fruits, and there are also a lot of Huzhou specialties.

After meeting my father and elder brother, I detailed what I saw and heard in Kaifeng these days.

Afterwards, after pondering for a while, his father and elder brother immediately decided to take advantage of the current opportunity to devote themselves to the new court of Empress Maude and make a quick move.

Immediately, the three of us, father and son, prepared a heavy gift and went to the Commerce Department to ask for an audience with the only noble concubine and daughter-in-law known in the new imperial court.

Unexpectedly, after thinking about the place, I found that there were already some familiar wealthy businessmen who were already waiting.

Judging from their twinkling eyes and ambiguous words, the purpose of these people is actually the same as my father and son; it seems that no one is more stupid than the other...

(End of this chapter)