Chapter 477
Jing Lie held back his laughter and acted with his lover, thinking that his lover looked so adorable. He invited her with great grace, "Sir, please take a seat."
Yuan Jing seemed to have no idea what politeness was. He sat down in the seat closest to Jing Lie and looked at him with a smile. In the eyes of others, he was just a lecher. When he asked the waiter to serve tea, his eyes never left Jing Lie. Then he asked, "I have been in the capital for all these years and I have never seen you. Are you from outside the capital? By the way, you don't have to call me Master. My last name is Zeng. You can just call me Yuan Jing. Don't be so formal with me."
"Puff, cough cough..."
There were sounds of spitting tea and coughing in the teahouse. Everyone looked at Zeng Yuanjing, who was still quite big, with incredible eyes, and then looked at the man who was targeted by this lustful, perverted and devilish man with sympathy.
Unexpectedly, the man's reaction was beyond their expectations. Not only did he not think Zeng Yuanjing's attitude was problematic, he also responded with a very good temper: "Well, I'll call you Yuanjing. I'm also from Beijing, but I rarely go to teahouses like this. It's fate that I met you today, brother Yuanjing."
"Yes, it is fate, a great fate. By the way, what is your name, big brother?" Yuan Jing looked like he was about to drool in the eyes of others. Song Shi and Song Shan slipped to the table next to them and sat down, wishing they could poke out their own eyes.
Oh my god, I don’t even know my name, but I’m calling you brother first.
Jing Lie raised his lips and said, "My last name is Jing, and my given name is Lie."
"Ah, it's Brother Jing. I feel like I've known Brother Jing for a long time. Where does Brother Jing work? Yuan Jing, where can I find Brother Jing in the future?"
Jing Lie smiled and said, "I'm just looking for something to do to help support my family."
Yuan Jing slapped the table and said, "That's great. I was worried that I couldn't find anyone to help me. Why don't you come and help me first? I know I've wronged you. As soon as I saw you, I felt that you are extraordinary and will achieve great things sooner or later."
"Haha, Yuan Jing really has good taste. I'd like to thank you, brother Yuan Jing, in advance."
"No, no, big brother, you are helping me, your younger brother." Yuan Jing waved his hand.
The tea drinkers around, including the shopkeeper and the waiters, who were listening attentively, all rested their chins on their hands as they listened to the conversation between the two. Song Shi and Song Shan coughed several times in an attempt to interrupt the young master. They discovered that this man named Jing Lie was even more shameless than Xie Boli. As soon as the young master said something, he took advantage of the situation. Young master, this man is clearly a liar. They stretched out their hands in an attempt to pull the young master back.
He’s just a man, just a good-looking man, what’s so great about that?
When the two of them left the teahouse arm in arm, the atmosphere inside the teahouse was boiling like boiling water. The fourth young master of the Yongyi Marquis's Mansion was a celebrity in the capital, and there were not many people in the teahouse who didn't know him. Even if they didn't know him, they would have spat out a mouthful of tea after hearing others spread the word about him.
She was chasing after another man before, but after being rejected by that man, she turned around and set her sights on another man. The fourth young master of the Yongyi Marquis's Mansion is really a complete homosexual.
"Master Xie is a scholar. He just sympathized with Young Master Zeng and said a few words for him before, but he got entangled with him. He is nothing like this guy named Jing Lie today. Although he looks decent, he is obviously a gigolo. I think Young Master Zeng will be cheated of all his money this time."
"It's what he deserves. He brought it upon himself."
"Don't even mention that Master Xie is a scholar. Can a scholar do such a thing as meeting with another woman alone in a teahouse?"
"That's right. I didn't expect that it was all Mr. Xie's wishful thinking. The girl was going to marry into the Fifth Prince's mansion. Now it seems that the Fourth Young Master Zeng has really abandoned Mr. Xie. I wonder how Mr. Xie feels when he knows that he has been let down on both ends, haha."
Some people upstairs also heard the situation downstairs, and when Zeng Yuanjing, this funny guy, left the teahouse, the people upstairs couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"So this is the fourth young master of the Yongyi Marquis's mansion. Haha, I didn't expect it to be so interesting. Do you think he would have been attracted by my beauty at first sight if I had been downstairs just now?" The man in gorgeous clothes laughed and looked out the window at the backs of the two people leaving.
The man sitting opposite him said speechlessly: "How bored are you? Are you satisfied with being noticed by others?"
"Tsk, I think you're the boring one. Isn't the Fourth Young Master Zeng quite interesting, just a little silly. Do you think that man named Jing Lie would really fall for the silly Fourth Young Master Zeng?"
The man in black opposite also glanced at the backs of the two people going away outside: "I don't know. I have never met Jing Lie. I don't know his background. How can I judge?"
But it was absolutely impossible for him to have any feelings for the man named Jing Lie. That Fourth Young Master Zeng was indeed stupid.
Yuan Jing had no idea what others thought of him. Now he was "foolishly" dragging his newly recognized eldest brother to look at the shop. Yes, he wanted to open a shop, and then let his eldest brother manage the shop. He had an attitude that he would hand over the shop completely to his eldest brother and let him do whatever business he wanted, even if it meant losing money. Song Shi and Song Shan were scratching their heads the whole time, trying to pull the young master back, but the young master only had eyes for the guy named Jing Lie, and completely ignored them.
The two looked at each other in despair. What should they do now? It seemed that they were not as good as Xie Boli. At least Xie Boli did not let the young master spend such a large sum of money right away.
Unable to stop the young master, the two men glared at Jing Lie fiercely, trying to make him have some self-awareness. His young master had the support of the Yongyi Marquis Mansion and was not someone who could be deceived by just any liar.
After renting the shop to Jing Lie, Yuan Jing said goodbye to Jing Lie reluctantly and said he would come to see him tomorrow.
On the way back, Yuan Jing also looked very happy. Song Shi and Song Shan didn't know how to pull the young master back. Thinking about the more than two thousand taels of silver they had just recovered, they thought they would have to throw it into the water again, and they didn't know if it would make any splash.
When it was late at night and there was no one around, Jing Lie climbed over the wall again to meet Yuan Jing. Yuan Jing almost laughed to death when he thought of the scene in the day when the two of them performed and everyone was stunned.
Opening a shop was an idea that the two of them had discussed before. They had to have a source of income; they couldn't just conjure money out of thin air.
Zeng Yuanjing is a dandy, foolish and empty-headed young man. Asking him to take the imperial examination and win the title would go against his original personality. Moreover, Yuanjing thinks it is quite interesting to continue being a dandy young man. He has no reputation in the outside world anyway, and no matter how outrageous things he does, his reputation outside will not be too bad.
Jing Lie was also a person who was not good at studying and had accomplished nothing. It was also against his character to succeed through imperial examinations. Perhaps he could go into the military, but with his background, it would be difficult for him to succeed in the capital. The quickest way was to leave the capital and go to the border, but that meant the two would be separated for a long time. Not to mention that Yuan Jing was not willing to do so, Jing Lie himself was not happy about it and did not have that kind of ambition.
So I decided to open a shop and do some small business. It would be interesting to be an ordinary person and watch the drama of the male and female protagonists.
Yuan Jing took out some prepared paints and samples of dyed cloth and asked, "How do these colors look?"
Yes, the two discussed for a long time about what business to start, and finally chose to dye the cloth and open a cloth shop by themselves, which would be the least likely to arouse the suspicion of time travelers. It is not known how many time travelers there are now.
As for the issue of dyes, the two had been through so many worlds and had mastered countless skills. It was just a piece of cake for them to mix a few colors and color the fabric. Moreover, the dyed fabric would not fade or lose its color.
"That's great. Take your time first and do some simple things, and then add some good things later." Jing Lie felt that his Yuan Jing was really virtuous.
After the pigment problem was solved, Jing Lie no longer wandered around idly all day long, but got busy for the new shop, looking for cloth sources, recruiting workers, making dyes, and dyeing cloth. It was half a month later when Jinlie Cloth Shop was ready to officially open, and this was because Jing Lie was fast enough. Zeng Yuanjing once again became a hot gossip figure on the streets of Beijing.
Because Zeng Yuanjing had become a strange sight on the streets. Whenever he could leave the mansion, he would run behind Jing Lie and follow him around. His fawning face was visible too clearly. The shop was opened with the money he paid from beginning to end. Even Jing Lie's outfit had changed a lot compared to before. When he walked out, people would mistake him for some young master.
Jing Lie's family background is no longer a secret. Gossipers have long known the situation of the Jing family and how many people there are. They are really a poor family, and they have to rely on tightening their belts to support their brother's studies. Now, he has hooked up with Zeng Yuanjing, the fourth young master of the Yongyi Marquis's Mansion. Jing Lie quickly turned his life around and became the owner of a cloth shop. Without Zeng Yuanjing, could he have lived such a good life?
Some people look down on Jing Lie for selling men and sex for money, while others look down on Zeng Yuanjing, who is not only gay, but also treats any good man with all his heart once he falls in love with a good-looking man. Who knows, once Jing Lie has made enough money from him, he will turn around and abandon him.
Songshi and Songshan were completely desperate. The young master could not be pulled back at all. Fortunately, the young master was still nice to them and didn't need their money to spend. They thought, fortunately the shop was still there, and with the Yongyi Marquis's Mansion, it was impossible for Jing Lie to really regard the shop as his own, and the young master would not be cheated out of everything.
In half a month, Yuan Jing lost a lot of weight. He didn't look obese anymore, just chubby, much cuter than before. He returned to the mansion from outside with two servants humming a tuneless little tune. As soon as he entered the mansion, he was notified by the servants to go to the old lady.
Yuan Jing raised his eyebrows: "Let's go and pay our respects to the old lady."
Calculating the time, Yuan Jing knew that Zeng Yuanxin was about to set off for the border, and his story was about to begin.
Yuan Jing felt that some people were blind. How could someone like Zeng Yuanxin be called a young talent? He went to the border to fight, but he disappeared in the battle. He was missing for a year before he came back, and the court did not investigate his dereliction of duty? It was really unlucky for his soldiers to encounter such a general.
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