Chapter 86 Asking Xu Shisan

 Gu Xingzhao's eyes were very passionate, and it was obvious that it was the first time she met such a generous person, and she was beginning to like Xu Shisan a little.

We're not doing it for money. It's mainly because she's young, good-looking, and most importantly, she's sweet-mouthed. Who wouldn't like that?

But Xu Shisan didn't have that confidence anymore. "Tell me, how much do you want?"

Gu Xingzhao coughed lightly. Although he thought so in his heart, he still had to save his face. He couldn't lose his integrity for a little bit.

She cleared her throat and made an offer: "Thirty."

As she spoke, she picked up the freshly brewed tea on the table and thought to herself: Xu Shisan suddenly became so generous that I felt embarrassed to ask for too high a price.

Xu Shisan frowned. Gu Xingzhao wanted so little, maybe it wouldn't be enough to spend?

"Thirty is too little. I'll give you fifty."

Hearing this, Gu Xingzhao almost spit out the tea in his mouth.

The clerk on the side: "." Whose business is in a hurry to give money to customers?

It's over. He thinks that sooner or later, the Xu family's business will be ruined by the small boss.

Gu Xingzhao waved his hands repeatedly, "No, no, I just want thirty."

Xu Shisan said, "Your stuff this time is pretty good, I'll give you fifty."

Gu Xingzhao exposed it mercilessly, "You didn't even look at it."

From the time she entered the door to the time she sat down, she never saw Xu Shisan even look at the jade porcelain bottle on the table. It was really perfunctory.

The clerk kept agreeing in his heart: That's right! The young boss is such a spendthrift. He should at least take a look at the item. Maybe it's not worth the price at all. We can't do business at a loss!

However, after listening to Gu Xingzhao's words, Xu Shisan did glance at the jade porcelain bottle on the table and confirmed that it was a good thing without blushing or beating his heart.

"I'll give you sixty."

Gu Xingzhao: "." The boy who gives away money?

If I really collected sixty today, I probably wouldn't be able to sleep at night because I would feel guilty.

After thinking for a while, she said in a deep voice, "Forty, I want forty. I won't take more than that, and I won't come to your place anymore."

After hearing this, Xu Shisan immediately said honestly, "Okay, I'll give you 40. We are both old customers, so you have to come to me again in the future."

As he spoke, he stared straight at the red rope around Gu Xingzhao's neck, his mind full of the jade pendant.

After receiving the money, Gu Xingzhao began to inquire about other matters.

"Boss Xu, has your family always been in the antiques, calligraphy and painting business?"

Hearing Gu Xingzhao asking about his family affairs, he was a little surprised. After all, Gu Xingzhao didn't look like someone who would be curious about other people's family affairs, let alone someone who was interested in him.

But since it was asked, Xu Shisan was happy to talk about it.

"My family has been doing business since our ancestors. At the beginning, we were engaged in some ordinary treasure business, but we also had things like restaurants. But later on, we were left with only antiques, calligraphy and paintings."

The more Gu Xingzhao listened, the more he felt it resembled the Xu family he knew. "Then do you know when it started?"

Xu Shisan touched his chin and said, "My family tree has records of doing business since the Southern Jin Dynasty."

Thinking of the dozens of thick family tree volumes in the ancestral hall at home that were so thick that they were impossible to finish reading, he laughed, "What a coincidence, the things you sent me, I see, are all in the style that was popular in Southern Jin at that time, and they are all preserved so well."

Although Gu Xingzhao never said where these things came from, Xu Shisan guessed that they were probably just like his own family, passed down from ancestors.

Gu Xingzhao's heart was pounding. She only knew modern history. The Southern Jin Dynasty that Xu Shisan mentioned should have been a dynasty at least one or two thousand years ago, or perhaps it was really the time of Lu Qing.

"I have something else to do so I'll leave first. I'll come back next time."

Xu Shisan, who was in a very good mood, watched her leave with a smile.

After leaving the Antique Street, Gu Xingzhao directly searched for "Southern Jin" on the Internet. Many results came out. It was indeed a dynasty from more than a thousand years ago, and the royal family at that time was surnamed Xiao.

Xiao. She suddenly remembered that Shunyu's surname was Xiao, Xiao Jingli!

Gu Xingzhao immediately added another entry, "Lu Qing", but found nothing.

She immediately drove to the largest library in the city, found history books related to the Southern Jin Dynasty by year, borrowed several books, and went home to read them slowly.

She was actually not interested in history, but now she suddenly realized that the people she met after being bound to the system might all be people who really existed in history. She was inexplicably excited and wanted to confirm her guess.

That afternoon, Gu Xingzhao sat on the floor of the living room, flipping through the borrowed books, including official history and unofficial history.

There were three emperors in the Southern Jin Dynasty. During the reign of the last emperor, civil strife broke out and the rebellious ministers established the Northern Jin Dynasty. After the fall of the Southern Jin Dynasty, the emperor of the Northern Jin Dynasty was tyrannical and plundered the people's wealth. The New Dynasty was unstable and encountered foreign enemies, so it soon fell.

Gu Xingzhao looked through it for a long time but still didn't see anything related to the Lu family. Logically, Lu Qing was a minister of two dynasties and had a great reputation. How could there be no trace at all?

Could it be that someone was afraid of Lu Qing and so deliberately erased all traces of him

? This kind of action seems more like something that the dog emperor would do.

Since there was nothing to be found in the official history, Gu Xingzhao took the unofficial history and read it. No one knew who wrote this unofficial history, but it recorded all the dirty things that happened in the court, and described all kinds of weird things to make the emperor angry. It was satisfying to read it.

She simply hugged the book and curled up on the sofa to read until a familiar name appeared - Liu Chengye.

Isn't this the Censor Liu who was beaten to death in the court? !

Gu Xingzhao was excited and read on. According to unofficial history records, Liu Chengye was a rare honest official. In the court, he angered the emperor because of his repeated remonstrances and was beaten to death.

His only son Liu Xiangbai wandered to the north to seek justice for his father. He sought refuge with Xiao Lan, who proclaimed himself King of Northern Jin, and became his adviser. He helped Xiao Lan to achieve his goals and repeatedly advised Xiao Lan to love his people like his own children. In the end, like his father Liu Chengye, he was beaten to death in the court.

Gu Xingzhao's fingers trembled slightly. Liu Xiangbai would actually go to Prince Su in the end? !

In the end, he died the same way as his father Liu Chengye?

She swallowed nervously and turned the pages with stiff fingers. Soon, she saw the one related to Lu Qing.

Emperor Xiao Yun of the Southern Jin Dynasty had left an assistant minister for his son Xiao Zhan. His surname was Lu, his name was Qing, and his courtesy name was Zide. He served as a cabinet minister.

Lu Qing is an upright person who cares about the people of the world and tries his best to assist the king. He is one of the few loyal ministers who dares to point out the king's mistakes to his face.

Gu Xingzhao was almost certain that this was the old man he knew. If he had not been too upright, he would not have been exiled by the entire family of the Dog Emperor!

She continued to read on. Unofficial history records that Emperor Xiao Zhan of Jin was greedy for beauty and pleasure, filled his harem with concubines, built palaces on a large scale, and raised taxes. He was very unhappy because Lu Qing had been hindered many times, so he dismissed him from his post and exiled his entire clan.

Gu Xingzhao held the book tightly. Because she was holding it too hard, the veins on her hands were bulging. She stared at the last line of words!

Lu Qing died on the way to exile, and his clansmen were robbed and killed by bandits many times, leaving only a few.