"Fourth brother, why do you have time to come to us today? I heard that you are not in charge of the imperial examination matters after the new year? Today is not the time to take a bath. How can you have such leisurely leisure time?" Yu Zhang, who sat down again, asked curiously road.
"Batong, I don't think Fourth Brother came to us because he wanted to ask us for something." Baling smiled and played a card.
"That's right, fourth brother, you don't usually burn incense and come here to hold the Buddha's feet." Pu'an curled his lips and followed.
"What are you talking about? I am also your fourth brother after all." Li Tai was a little depressed, why did he feel that these sisters were not cute anymore.
"Well, hello, Fourth Brother, have you finished your work? I'll go find Third Brother later." Dongyang asked with a smile.
"No, no, no, no, hey, you guys are not cute at all. Since you have guessed it, fourth brother will tell the truth. Fourth brother does have something that needs your help." Li Tai said quickly.
"What's the business? Fourth brother, you can tell me." Yuzhang said with a smile.
"It's like this. Third brother has just arranged a brand new job for me. Although it is an extension of my previous position, I think it would be better if someone helps me, because this job is closely related to you women, so I think if It would be more convenient if you could help me."
"Of course, although this job is available, there are actually many benefits. Haven't you already wanted to stay in the palace? This job will give you the opportunity to travel to various places in the Tang Dynasty and let you go out more. Let's go shopping." Li Tai said seriously.
"Oh?" After hearing this, Yuzhang and the others put down the mahjong in their hands, raised their heads and looked at Li Tai and asked: "Fourth brother, just tell me, what's the matter?"
"It's like this. The third brother decided to introduce legislation at the National Officials Conference after the year. It is aimed at the non-registered households. In addition, it is now necessary to solve a number of problems related to the lives of the women in this brothel, including some older ones. of."
"We need to contact these women, change their urban life, let them join the Art Temple under the Ministry of Culture, which is the department I am responsible for, and let them be responsible for the review of singing and dancing in various places. They all have certain artistic skills. , I am definitely competent in this regard.”
"But contact these women. Sometimes the fourth brother is definitely too busy alone, so why don't you help me?" Li Tai said quickly.
Yuzhang and the others looked at each other, then Baling shook his head and said, "I have something to do. I can't help your fourth brother."
"It seems that I can't do this either." Pu'an also shook his head.
"Linchuan and I are only seventeen this year. We will go to college later, so we probably won't have so much time." Dongyang said quickly.
"Fourth brother, you should do this yourself. It would be better to recruit more people. I guess I am not very good at this matter." Yuzhang glanced at the other sisters, and then coughed dryly.
Li Tai: "..."
Others are dumbfounded. Aren't you guys clamoring to leave the palace every day? This job can be done outside the palace.
"No, this job can really be done outside the palace. You see, it's not just Chang'an that has brothels, there are also brothels in Luoyang, Yangzhou, Taiyuan, etc. You can go to all these places by then." Li Tai said quickly .
"Fourth brother, you are right, but it's not that we don't want to go, it's just that we don't have time." Baling said with an innocent look.
Li Tai: "..."
What went wrong? Didn’t they want to go out and play before?
"You go out to do business for ten days, and you can stay for twenty days, understand." Li Tai said in a low voice.
"Fourth brother, your skills are not good." Pu'an hesitated for a moment, and then said helplessly.
"What do you mean?" Li Tai was stunned for a moment.
"Aren't you drawing cakes for us?" Baling asked.
"Ah...I didn't. I told the truth."
"You only talk about the benefits, but never talk about the difficulties encountered in handling this matter, and you don't come up with anything substantive. This is just painting a cake."
"You don't say anything about the operability, cost, process, and the amount of work we need to do, etc. This is not a pie-in-the-sky thing. You probably just feel that you are too tired and want to find someone to help you share the burden, etc. After we agree, you don't care about the follow-up matters." Dongyang curled his lips and told the truth directly.
Li Tai: "..."
This... wasn't it that they were all stupid before? Why did they suddenly become so smart?
"Well, otherwise, fourth brother, you can just take out one hundred thousand gu now and give us the funds to travel around the country, and we will treat you as helpers." Linchuan said with a smile.
Li Tai: "..."
"Don't you have some illusion? Do you think everyone is the same as the third brother? Are you talking about a bank of money? How can I have so many? I will give you a thousand guan!" Li Tai gritted his teeth and said.
Yuzhang and the others looked at each other, and then Yuzhang opened the small drawer of the mahjong table in front of him and took out three banknotes. Seeing Yuzhang's action, the remaining people instantly The man with a strange look pulled out three cards and handed them to Yu Zhang.
"Fourth brother, this is 1,500 yuan. Fourth brother, if you hire a few more people, it shouldn't be so tiring." Yuzhang suppressed a smile and handed the money in his hand to Li Tai.
Li Tai was dumbfounded. Are you looking down on me? Wait, where did you get so much money?
Looking down at the money in his hand, Li Tai was completely speechless. He stood up and said angrily: "You have all grown up and are no longer cute. I'm leaving first."
After saying that, Li Tai turned around and left, but he didn't put down the money in his hand. Why! Why should I let go of something that I want based on my strength?
After Li Tai left, Yuzhang and the others burst into laughter. "It seems that the fourth brother spent a lot of money." Yuzhang said with a smile.
"(ˉ▽￣~) Tsk, I thought Fourth Brother would be like the protagonist in the novel I read, just double the amount and then throw it over to us." Dongyang curled his lips and said.
"Haha, you're thinking too much. The fourth brother went out for a year this year. I don't know how much he spent. He definitely didn't have much money. When I went to see the third sister-in-law last time, the fourth sister-in-law happened to be there, and the third brother said Let the fourth sister-in-law make the decision and let her manage all the family's money. If the fourth brother disagrees, let him come to the third brother. I guess the fourth sister-in-law must have done this." Linchuan laughed twice.
The room was immediately filled with cheerful air.
Li Tai, who left Daming Palace angrily, was a little sad and angry. His sisters have grown up and are no longer cute! He spent a lot when he went out this year. After he came back, he was punished by Li Ke. Now he is indeed poor!
Humph, I don’t know why the third brother gave them so much dowry. They are all young rich women, and they have nothing to spend money on.
Looking at the money in his hand, Li Tai wanted to do it again, but after thinking about it, he seemed a little unable to afford to lose that person.
