Vol 2 Chapter 86 (1/2)

Chapter 86: Shopkeeper Ye of Qingyu Hall

Arriving at the chosen bookstore on Dongchuan Road, Fan Xian’s group took a good look and discovered the location was indeed excellent—convenient for transportation and not too far frodom’s scholars who came to the capital to prepare for the Imperial examinations had to pass by here almost every day Most importantly, the place wasn’t too rohich meant that the ladies from various manors and official households could send their maidservants here to purchase books in peace

Fan Xian nodded and walked inside with Fan Sizhe Upon seeing the few freeloaders inside, he said, ”Mister Cui, sorry to bother you”

Mister Cui replied, with a s masters; this bookstore doesn’t earn that y really isn’t worth it”

Fan Xian knew they were all forovernment officials who naturally wouldn’t take such er brother is really fond of the place, so just let him do as he pleases” He didn’t want to hide this from Count Sinan forever, so he asked some freeloaders in the manor for their help Since his allowed Mister Cui to help thereed to let his two sons do as they please outside the manor

Fan Sizhe riting so on the handle of his brush while the others were chatting in the back room For Fan Sizhe, once he set his eyes on a checkbook, he would block out everything else While the chatting in the back continued, the shopkeeper they invited froyu Hall also arrived This shopkeeper wore a loyal expression on his face; his eyes lacked shi+ne, but had a clarity to them As they say, the eyes are theto the soul Fan Sizhe was satisfied and gave the responsibility of running the bookstore to that shopkeeper

Fan Ruoruo had already gave over sixty chapters of Dream of the Red Chamber to Fan Sizhe, and Mister Cui had sent people over to Wansong Hall to make copies There shouldn’t be any issues Fan Sizhe frequently pressured Fan Xian for the later chapters, ready tohit in the capital However, recently, Fan Xian wasn’t in theit back

Once the tihth Bureau of the Overwatch Council was guaranteed, they discovered they had ran out of things to do, so they imported so Hall and decided on Dreah all that was left was forin As for the staff and the rest of it, all of those were handled by the shopkeeper froyu Hall; the Fan side didn’t have to worry about one thing

Fan Xian thought it was strange the way everyone trusted this Qingyu Hall sothe opportunity to talk to the shopkeeper one on one, he kindly asked, ”Shopkeeper, may I ask your family name?”

The shopkeeper smiled, ”Family name Ye”

Fan Xian was a little bit shaken He repeated the name, ”Your family name is Ye?”

Seeing his surprise, the shopkeeper was soht, there are seventeen shopkeepers in total at Qingyu Hall, all with the fa Master Fan?”

”All?” Fan Xan frowned ”What is your connection with the Ye household froo?”

The shopkeeper was very surprised and looked at Fan Xian for a while before showing soht the young ones nowadays had long forgotten about the Ye House Indeed, ere all once shopkeepers of that Ye household When it later got in trouble, the entire business was taken over by the palace We were supposed to find otherelsewhere, but for some reason, ere forbidden to start our own

business under I scene today We could only take care of business owned by others, but not start our own That is also how Qingyu Hall came to be”

Knowing this shopkeeper was his ht sense of closeness He asked curiously, ”After the incident with the Ye house, did the government…” He didn’t finish his sentence, but the shopkeeper understood very hat heup its roots; since the govern these old geezers around The shopkeeper suddenly felt close to this young ht it strange We’ve been living in constant fear these past years—we are not allowed to leave the capital, so we are scared that so will happen to us”

”One of these days, please bringsuddenly found a place in the capital with direct connection to his rabbed the shopkeeper by the shoulders, ”I have uys”

After going back to the manor, he went to his father in the book chayu Hall really made up of former staff of the Ye household?”

”Of course” Fan Jian stroked his short beard, as if re the past He slowly continued, ”Each one of the been dispatched to various prefectures to head the different branches Unfortunately, youthe powerful nobles You kne glorious and influential the Ye household was back in the day If it falls, then the entire kingdom would most likely descend into chaos for at least a few decades For a while, even the Imperial court didn’t knohat to do It ended up with a compromise: let the royal family take over the Ye household, which at least e of its fall, and then…”

Fan Xian cut hi, ”The ones who killedto find out for a long time