"Daddy......"

After Shen Yiyi finished feeding her husband the medicine, she turned her head and saw her father-in-law walking in, and hurriedly greeted him. This is a delicate-looking woman, with the appearance of a small jasper, she is the wife of Li Wei, the young master of the Li family, and she has been in the door for three years.

"Hmm" Is Weier feeling better? Li Siyi nodded and asked his daughter-in-law.

Shen Yiyi sighed softly, and a touch of sorrow swept between her eyebrows: "It's still the same, it's hot in summer" You Jue is depressed, and it may be better to be a husband in a few days. ”

Li Siyi snorted, seeing that his son was sick and didn't even have the strength to talk to himself, he couldn't help but sigh deeply and said to his daughter-in-law, "It's late, you guys should rest earlier." ”

Leaving his son's room, Li Siyi began to make his rounds. His courtyard is very large, and the Li family's paper workshop is located in his own home, and the place is naturally not too small, so the location of the courtyard is also relatively remote in Jinan City, and it is built near the water in the north city.

Li Siyi only has such a son, "but he has been frail and sick since he was a child, Li Yuanwai is very old, and he can't borrow his son's strength, so he can still only run the family business by himself, although he can get his two nephews to help" But after all, he is not his own son, seeing that he is gradually getting old, his son can't support this family, and there is no grandchild to inherit the family business, Li Yuanwai is also worried.

The Li family is to open a paper workshop, in the early Ming Dynasty, there are government-run paper mills, there are also private handicraft workshops, "the paper industry is a more important handicraft industry in the Ming Dynasty, a lot of paper in the government-run workshops have to be sold abroad" private ones are mainly for domestic sales, the papermaking workshops are called trough households, the paper made by the Li family supplies several big booksellers in Jinan, "the family is very wealthy."

Li's papermaking is mainly made of tender bamboo and wood as raw materials, bamboo needs to be discharged from the south and discharged, the cost is higher, "but the bamboo paper is white and tough" can be used to make high-quality paper, or very marketable, ordinary paper is made of trees, including printed books, New Year's paintings, couplets, wallpaper, and even straw paper, money paper, etc.

"Finishing" rooms, fermentation ponds, sheds for stacking bamboo and wood......

Li Yuanwai carried the lanterns and checked them one by one to see the stacking and cleaning situation, "Check whether there are any embers that have not been extinguished." It was late, the hired workers had already left, and there was no one else in the compound except for the old and young of the Li family, two nephews and two long-term workers, and it seemed a little deserted. Originally, these things were done by letting my nephew go through them, "but Li Yuan's field work has been fast for a lifetime", and he is used to checking by himself.

"The owner, Dasheng Bookstore sent a guy over and urgently ordered a batch of papers." , A long-term worker led a shopkeeper to meet him, Li Yuanwai stood next to the bamboo pile, held up the lantern to shine and smiled: "Oh" is Yao Haoxuan, "What's the matter?" ", the person in his early twenties" is a shop guy from Dasheng Bookstore, named Yao Haoxuan, and Li Yuanwai is very familiar with him. Yao Haoxuan burped slightly, and hurriedly hid the smell of wine, and said with a smile: "Li Yuanwai, come so late" to disturb you. This is the case, and the imperial court issued an order to "divide the north and south after the branding" to take their own talents.

Many of the scholars in our Jinan Mansion who originally only wanted to stop after only passing the examination have come to the spirit and want to go further and get a move or something. As a result, the subset of scriptures and histories and eight-strand articles that need to be purchased and read are in short supply. Our shopkeeper plans to rush to print a batch of books and sell them to the scholars in front of other stores, and we need to use a lot of paper, you see. Yao Haoxuan handed over a piece of paper, Li Siyi unfolded it, it was a paper with various specifications and quality requirements, Li Yuanwai estimated the output of his workshop, if he hired a few more helpers, he should be able to deliver in time, so he smiled and agreed: "Okay, good, no problem" You tell the shopkeeper He, we will be able to deliver in time. Everyone is an old friend, and this deposit is not needed. ”

This said, "A few figures have quietly touched the second of the Li family, and a piece of meat was thrown out along the ground," the old yellow dog raised by the Li family only barked, and then sniffed the fragrance and pounced on it, and grabbed the head in one mouthful. "Poof!" A figure sprang out, "the knife in his hand was wiped with the trend, and the yellow dog whimpered" and fell to the ground.

Several figures quickly sneaked into the courtyard of the Li family, and the leader was Niu Buye, who was very familiar with the Li family, and several people quickly rushed to the long workshop, where a long worker was sitting in front of the stove, cooking rice, and the red fire reflected his face. Hearing the sound of footsteps behind him, he didn't care, just thought that another partner was back, he stuffed a few more dry firewood into the stove, then straightened his waist and said casually: "Brother Li, go get the pickles" by the way, record a few green onions. ”

"Poof!"

A thick doorway slammed his head, and his head immediately looked like a broken egg"Blood and brains flowed out, because the skull collapsed"Both of his eyeballs were squeezed out of their sockets"His body was still sitting in front of the stove, stiffened for a moment, and then he fell forward, half of his face lying on the edge of the iron pot, and it was scorching. The heat of cooked rice in the pot baked his face. The man behind him turned and left, and the fire in the stove gradually spread outward, first burning his front placket, and then the whole person fell into the fire, becoming a fire man......

Li Zhong is Li Siyi's eldest nephew, drank two taels of yellow soup at night, slightly drunk, not long after returning to the room to lie down, there was some urgency, he threw down the pu fan, took his shoes and hummed a small tune to rush to the thatched house, untied his pants and just began to release water, a pair of strong and powerful hands reached from behind, strangled his throat and pulled it back.

"Click!"

There was a crisp sound, Li Zhong didn't say a word, and the humming stopped abruptly. As soon as the man let go, Li Zhong fell down, "Half of his body fell into the latrine, stuck there, and he didn't know what happened until he died."

Li Gui is Li Zhong's elder brother, he is married and lives in a separate room. The lady is already pregnant" The two of them were lying on the bed, whispering happily. The weather is hot, the two of them are not wearing much, the lady is dressed in a small dress, her arms and thighs are exposed, Li Gui simply lay there naked, only put a fan on his belly, "The oil light is dim, and I can't see anything clearly."

There was a soft sound, and the door was actually opened, and the bolt was probably filled with oil, and there was no sound, if it wasn't for the squeak when the door was opened, Li Gui wouldn't have noticed it at all.

"Friends?"

Ji Gui jumped up naked and shouted angrily, "The person who came has already grabbed the side of the kang and knocked him over with one punch" reached out and pulled the sheets, covered them upward, and dragged the couple to the ground together.

"Bang! Porphyry porphyry ......", and the fists and feet hit the meat sandbag like a storm" It was extremely heavy, and the husband and wife only screamed a few times before they were silent, and the three big men snorted coldly and flashed out of the room, and under the sheet, dark blood gushed out......

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Li Yuanwai was knocked unconscious, he was talking to Yao Haoxuan, the guy from the Dasheng bookstore, the long worker next to him suddenly screamed, his body stood forward, and his chest showed a half-foot-long steel knife, Li Yuanwai was frightened, and the lantern in his hand fell to the ground all of a sudden, "The order form also withdrew and flew down, and then Yao Haoxuan, the bookstore guy who was about to bow down to give a salute, also screamed miserably, and fell to the ground holding his stomach tightly.

A big man pulled a bloody steel knife from his back and smirked at Li Yuanwai. The lantern on the ground burned, Li Yuanwai took a look at the firelight, and recognized this person as Ling Potian, a close disciple of the sect leader Niu Buye, he pointed at Ling Potian and was about to exclaim loudly, the back of his head was slapped hard, and his eyes were dark, "Fainted."

When he awoke from his coma, he found that he had been dragged back to the drawing-room, his hands and feet tied behind his back, "firmly tied to a post, with a hemp rope in his mouth, like a horse's bit, and he could not shout at all if he tightened it."

Niu Buye sent someone to keep watch at night, but he didn't know that someone had already secretly watched their every move, and before he sent someone to control the wind outside the hall, the man had already hidden in the shadow behind the pillars of the front hall.

The lights and candles in the living room are bright, and there are a few men with knives standing around, and a person sitting at the top of the big horse golden knife, Li Yuanwai can't help but feel cold when he looks at it: "The cow is not wild!" Niu Buye, who was wanted by the government all over the city, not only did not escape, but also sat in front of him!

"Xianggong! Messire! Dad, he can't do it. ”

Suddenly, he heard the screams, Li Yuanwai turned his head to look, only to see that the old wife was tied to another hall, with a ball of rags stuffed in her mouth, and her son was lying on the ground, with purple and black blood stains in front of him.

His son was not beaten, but he was so weak that he was dragged into the hall, and when he threw him on the floor, he vomited out a mouthful of blood and fainted.

"Cows are not wild! You tricked me into joining the club and gave me money, what are you going to do now? ”

Li Yuanwai didn't know whether his son was alive or dead, so he turned to Niu Buye and asked with tears in his eyes.

Niu Buye sat on the Taishi chair, pedaled on a footstool in front of him with one foot, and said in a deep voice: "Li Siyi, you betrayed the sect and betrayed your brother" You should know what will happen to you. ”

"I've betrayed the Sect? If it weren't for you lying to me and saying that if you join the religion and worship the Buddha and devote yourself to cultivation, you can become an immortal and attain immortality, if you didn't say that "as long as you join the religion, you can avoid all swords, diseases, and disasters", I have a good life, but what kind of teaching? But what did I get after I entered the sect? My son stopped taking medicine, but his illness became worse and worse, and he did not get better at all: I was worried all day long, and I had to be blackmailed by you all the time, and the belongings I had worked so hard to save were "blown by the wind"

"Shut him up!"

Niu Buye was annoyed and ashamed, and the rope in Li Yuanwai's mouth was immediately tightened violently, and he couldn't speak anymore.

Niu Buye said coldly: "Put incense on the table, sacrifice the white lotus, rip out his heart, and pay tribute to the souls of the brothers in the sky!" ”！ ~！