Chapter 209 Old Friend

"Your Highness, it's me Qin Rui."

Qin Rui's face was full of joy, and he gently shook the paper fan and walked towards Xiao Ming, as if an old friend was reunited.

When Xiao Ming was in Chang'an City, there were still a few playboys who were very friendly. This Qin Rui was one of them. After five years of absence, Qin Rui's appearance has not changed at all, and he is still drunk. It looks like the body is hollowed out, but the dark circles under the eyes are heavier than before.

It seems that this kid has not changed his mind for five years.

When Qin Rui came over, Xiao Ming looked him up and down and said, "What a coincidence, I didn't expect to meet you here."

"It's not just a coincidence, Your Highness, we have fate." Qin Rui said with a smile, and then he said with emotion: "It's just that now His Highness is the King of Qi, and the Great Victory in Cangzhou has made His Highness famous all over the world. In front of Your Highness is even more dwarfed."

"This is not right. I said back then that no matter where I am, I will always remember your benefits. Why should I talk about the great victory of Cangzhou at this time? You and I don't need to be so estranged." Xiao Ming said. .

This made Qin Rui feel relieved. He said, "Having His Highness's words, it is not in vain that we and His Highness were born and died in the past. We went up to the mountain of swords and fell to the sea of ​​​​fire. Now that His Highness returns, we still take His Highness's head."

This Qin Rui can be articulate, the so-called birth to death in those days, going up the knife mountain and down the sea of ​​fire was just following Xiao Ming's sensuality and bullying men and women.

However, he naturally couldn't mention the nasty things of the year. He said this, which would not only make Xiao Ming remember the friendship between the two, but would not make Xiao Ming angry.

The two talked for a while, reciting old things, Qin Rui suddenly felt that he was back in the past, and gradually became as close to Xiao Ming as he was in the past.

He said: "His Royal Highness, we used to accompany His Highness to play this autumn festival at this time of year every year. I didn't expect His Highness to return to Chang'an this time. You and I have a good relationship with each other. Happy to go back."

This time, when Xiao Ming returned to Chang'an, one of the things in the plan was to win over people who used to have good friendships in Chang'an City.

Although these people are dandies among dandies, like street gangsters, it has to be said that when they were thirteen or fourteen years old, this kind of friendship was even deeper.

As the saying goes, we have carried guns together and visited prostitutes together. The former is gone, but the latter used to be a lot.

The most important thing is that all of these scoundrels have extraordinary backgrounds, otherwise they would not have the courage to mess around in Chang'an City.

Therefore, for Xiao Ming, restoring the relationship in Chang'an City is a relatively safe step, which is much better than visiting his old foxes.

Besides, these playful children are now working in Chang'an City to some extent. For example, this Qin Rui is under his father Qin Chengming.

And this Qin Chengming, as the supervisor of the Shaofu, governs the handicraft industries of the Great Yu Kingdom, such as small-scale weaving, spinning, papermaking and so on.

For Xiao Ming, the handicraft industry is his next step to revitalize Qingzhou's economy. In the future, he must not deal with this young mansion supervisor. After all, Qin Chengming has a lot of handicraft information in his hands.

These documents record almost all the handicraft workshops, types and geographical locations in Dayu Kingdom, but this information is very important to him.

Because he can easily grasp the current situation of the handicraft industry in the Great Yu Kingdom through this information, which is very important to the development of Qingzhou handicraft industry.

"Of course, the most lively place in Qujiang Pond is this poetry meeting. Now it's almost time, let's go in." Xiao Ming said.

Qin Rui said, "Wait, Your Highness, I'll go back when I go, and Zhu Yushu and Du Boyuan are with me. Your Highness won't forget them, right?"

"The two of them are here too?"

Xiao Ming was pleasantly surprised that all the four demon kings in Chang'an City had arrived.

"Of course, since His Royal Highness went to Qingzhou, the three of us are still together..." Qin Rui said, suddenly a wicked smile, Xiao Ming suddenly understood, and laughed.

"That's really great, why don't we let the two of them come too." Xiao Ming said.

Qin Rui nodded and trotted all the way.

At this time, Xiao Ming recalled Zhu Yushu and Du Boyuan carefully.

Among them, Zhu Yushu's father was a censor, who was in charge of supervising hundreds of officials, accepting reports from hundreds of officials on behalf of Xiao Wenxuan, managing important albums and classics, and drafting edicts on behalf of the imperial court.

Du Boyuan's father was a general in Yulin, who was in charge of security inside and outside the palace, and was highly valued by Xiao Wenxuan.

One of the two had a big mouth, and after all, they belonged to the leader of the public officials. They were basically equivalent to the modern Disciplinary Inspection Commission. The officials were not big, but they were very scary.

The other is responsible for the safety of the palace, which is also very important. It is said that now the princes have been vying to win over Du Boyuan's father.

Mastering the security of the palace is equivalent to mastering the lives of everyone in the palace.

However, because they were too sensitive, all the princes were also careful to click until now, because up to now, Du Boyuan's father, Du Heng, remained relatively neutral.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ming had to sigh that this might be the most correct thing that his predecessor Xiao Ming did, even if he was unintentional.

It's just that Xiao Ming also knows that he only has a relatively good relationship with Du Boyuan and Zhu Yushu, and he can't affect these two senior officers.

But he is already close to the water tower.

Qin Rui walked for a while, and soon brought two people over, one tall and the other short, the tall one was thin, the short one was fat, the tall one was Zhu Yushu, and the short one was Du Boyuan.

"His Royal Highness, we really miss you." The two were overjoyed when they saw Xiao Ming.

If they can play together, they must have similar personalities. Like Qin Rui, the two are also bohemian and exaggerated.

"Pingshan, Hongzhi."

Xiao Ming bowed his hands, basically every scholar in the Great Yu Kingdom has a character, and Xiao Ming called them the character.

"His Royal Highness." The two approached Xiao Ming, bowed and saluted, then got up, the four of them looked at each other and laughed at the same time, as if they had returned to the past.

Like Qin Rui, Zhu Yushu held a paper fan and pretended to be romantic, "I was talking to Hong Zhi just now that I was going to visit His Royal Highness, and I never thought I would meet him here. Now that we are reunited with the Four Great Demon Kings of Chang'an, we can't say that we will be here again. There has been a gust of wind and rain in Chang'an City."

"Pingshan's remarks are justified. During this poetry meeting, we will meet again with His Highness. It can be seen that it is fate. Your Highness, you are no longer in these few years. We have been humiliated many times by these sour literati. All over Chang'an, this time I have to beat these scholars in the face to avenge us."

Xiao Ming put his hands behind his back and said with a smile, "It's not easy, this king will take you to this poetry festival."