Liu Guanzhang slowly returned to Hanzhong with his descendants, repaired and celebrated, and discussed the matter of letting Li Su enter Beijing to perform.

Liu Yan built fortifications in Jianmen Pass and Diaoyu City to cut off the road to Xichuan, and now it is still carried out secretly, at least more than half a month later, the new fortifications are a bit large, Zhao Yun and Zhou Tai can detect it, and when Liu Bei gets the report, it will be at least June or July.

Therefore, when Li Su entered Beijing, of course, it was impossible to know all this, and he could not make adjustments to this matter, so he could only see the tricks after he came back.

On the night of May 22, the Hanzhong Taishou Mansion in Nanzheng.

Hundreds of huge candles were inserted in the lobby, illuminating the upper and lower halls, and the atmosphere of the celebration banquet was extremely warm.

Liu Bei was drunk and hot, coupled with the summer heat at the end of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the wind and ruffian spirit of Gaozu also came up, and he sat down with his official robe open, drinking with his chest hair exposed, and there were maidservants next to him fanning hard.

"Drink! Brothers, eat and drink well today! If you don't get drunk, you can't go home! Let Boya you be calm and healthy! If you don't pour him down tonight, you won't let him go! When our brothers were feeding mosquitoes and smelling miasma in Bashan, you stayed in Nanzheng every day to take a bath, drink sweet soup and drink ice wine. ”

As Liu Bei drank the sweet soup of chilled wolf sauce like this, while smiling and scolding proudly, Guan Zhang was also unceremoniously grabbed Li Su and poured wine.

Li Su danced and defended: "Don't don't, I'm not idle in Nanzheng, I sold the education lottery ticket, brother doesn't believe it, you can look at the accounts - sold tens of millions of dollars, issued more than 9 million bonuses, net profit of 2 million, don't think the money is less, this is just a pilot."

Moreover, I also spread the word to Xicheng County in the east, so that the local tyrant Shen Kai gave up his belief in Zhang Lu and obeyed the jurisdiction of the imperial court. I can't drink it anymore...... Gollum ......"

Li Su also worked hard in order to drink less, usually he doesn't like to report work very much, and now he uses all the trivial credits to show his credit.

"Okay, okay, if you can't drink it, don't force him, let's drink it ourselves! You just drink the wolf sauce soup and accompany us to be lively! Liu Bei saw that he didn't seem to be a fake, and he also knew how much he drank, so he motioned for Zhang Fei to let go, and then a group of them laughed at themselves.

While drinking, he sighed: Li Su really understands life and will live! Liu Guanzhang fought to the death in Brazil for more than a month, and when he came back, he saw that Li Su had come up with a lot of things to improve the quality of life.

On the eve of the banquet, Liu Bei went to Li Su's Hou Mansion and saw some craftsmen building copper pipes to divert water.

Later, I asked, only to know that taking a bath was also required, because it was hot Li Su wanted to "shower", although Liu Bei didn't understand what the shower was for a while, but his intuition told him that when Li Su made it, he must also let the craftsman get a set, which was refreshing when it was hot in summer.

However, Li Su engaged in these copper pipes, not only for showers, but also for greater ambition, to create a kind of thing that can be "warm in winter and cool in summer" - find a place where deep water can be drilled, insert this copper pipe system, and then build a waterwheel to draw water to pump up the ice water from the deep well, and turn around the inner wall of the house through the curved copper pipes a few times to take away the heat, and then pour it back into the well.

This thing is clearly a soil method water-cooled air conditioner, Liu Bei doesn't recognize it, but he believes that what Li Su has figured out must be something that can be enjoyed.

After this kid really entered Sichuan, it would be good if half of his brain could be put on the world's major events! What are you thinking about all day? And look at which thin copper pipes, I am afraid it is not easy to cast, to use a room, the cost of copper is equivalent to hundreds of thousands of dollars of copper! What a luxury!

Copper tube showers and water air conditioners are just the tip of the iceberg, and they have to be trial-produced slowly, and it is estimated that they may not be used this summer. But Li Su had a lot of snacks and snacks for May Day to cool off, which opened Liu Bei's eyes after he came back.

Iced drinks were not uncommon in the late Han Dynasty, and rich people would ice them, but in terms of variety, everyone was used to chilling low-alcohol rice wine, or fresh juice.

And Li Su asked people to buy expensive peppermint oil from Hu Shang and mix it into sour plum soup and chilled it, which instantly made Liu Bei doubt his life, and felt that the cool and cold drinks he had drunk in the first half of his life were spicy chicken.

And the most compelling of these cold drinks is the iced wolf-sauce dessert, and Liu Bei's eyes were straight when he first took the iced wolf-mister soup.

The wolf sauce thing, the officials of later generations may not know what it is, Li Su himself is actually quite curious - he heard about "wolf sauce" in his last life, or because of his successful career, he is often invited to the wine table to socialize. Then once a customer invited him to drink Moutai, the customer also knew wine culture, and he had to boast that "the ancient ancestor of Moutai is wolfberry sauce", and the evidence came from "Historical Records: The Biography of Southwest Yilie".

But Li Su later studied the literature and felt that this was completely a historical origin for Moutai, and the real wolf sauce should be just a kind of jam. So after coming to the Han Dynasty in person, he was very interested in verifying it in person.

The word "wolf sauce" is famous in the historical records because it is tied to a well-known idiom "Yelang arrogant" - "Historical Records: The Biography of Southwest Yilie" records that "the king of Dian asked the Han envoy, 'Han is the same as me', and Yelang is the same", and then the next sentence is a turn of the pen, recording that there is a rare specialty called "wolf sauce" in Yelang country, which is "the treasure of Shu, the city is from Yelang", and the Han envoy eats unforgettable.

The only evidence is that "Moutai is produced in Guizhou Province, which belonged to Yelang in the Han Dynasty, and Moutai is the only sauce wine, which has a sauce word with wolf sauce."

Li Su is such a person who loves life, since he has entered Shu, he also asked the businessman who came back from Nanzhong to buy the special wolf-paste of Qiqi County, and also processed and tasted it in the way of making iced desserts.

It turned out that it was indeed an extremely delicious jam, but because of the jam processing and storage process, it was slightly fermented with alcohol, which was about the same as the alcohol content of eating wine chocolate.

After all, if Yelang/Muqi is hot and has not fermented alcohol at all, it is impossible to count on the sweetness of fructose to preserve and store it, and it would have been rancid long ago.

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Liu Bei then played music and danced to enjoy the treasures invented by Li Suxin in the middle of the night.

I rubbed and admired the front printed "addiction to the lottery is harmful to the family", and the reverse side was printed with "moderate lottery puzzle, addicted to lottery hurts the body." Arrange your savings reasonably and enjoy a healthy life" (made of bamboo), and played for a while. I sighed in my heart that Li Su also had a conscience, and he invented gambling to make money and reminded everyone to converge.

Then he flicked the lottery ticket with the strength of the wine, and finally had some heart to talk to Li Su about business-it seemed that he was still reminded by the iced wolf-miso soup he had just eaten.

"Boya, hiccup, isn't this Zhang Lu all over, when you return to Beijing this time, bring more wolf sauce to pay tribute, and deal with the relationship between the DPRK and China, so be prepared.

I'm not afraid to tell you, in the past, when we were promoted, 'exempt from repairing palace money', it was all His Majesty personally asked, and it was the way that Bo'an Gong found, and I guess even Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong didn't know about it.

When we left Beijing, His Majesty was so weak that he couldn't get out of bed, and when we went back this time, there might not be anyone to connect with the old way. It's better to bring some wolfberry sauce than to send money to do things. ”

Liu Bei also knew the allusion of "Meng Tuo won Liangzhou" back then, and it was better to pay tribute to the imperial court than to send money in private.

Meng Tuo has Loulan wine, we have Yelang jam, and the symbolism is no worse than others.

"I know, I will bring a few more stones of wolfberry sauce, and prepare some Shushan wild tea and brown sugar, which is a sign that the Han government decree has arrived at the border again, killed the thieves who blocked the Han envoys, and paid tribute in a dignified manner." Li Su agreed, he knew what to do better than Liu Bei, because he knew that if there was no accident in history, Emperor Han Ling would have burped at this time.

"Okay, then pack up and set off in a few days, the sooner the better."

Liu Bei had just finished giving the order and drank a few more glasses, when he suddenly heard a henchman at the door come in and report: "Yufu Jun!" There is a messenger from Chen Cang, who was escorted by General Zuo, and he just passed Yangping Pass tonight. Xu Sima, who was guarding the pass, tried to inquire and learned that General Zuo had sent someone to inform the prince that His Majesty had died a month ago. The envoy saw that it was getting late, and even if he arrived at Nanzheng Mansion, he stayed, so he rested overnight in Chuyang under the persuasion of Xu Sima, and then came to Nanzheng tomorrow morning. ”

Liu Bei couldn't help but be a little flustered.

The emperor died? It's no joke.

There's no way, who makes Shu Dao difficult, this kind of news will be transmitted to Shuzhong in a few months, and it is normal. If it weren't for Huangfu Song's fear that Liu Bei would deliberately "cover his ears and not be able to hear", so he "kindly" sent someone to inform Liu Bei of the armed force, Liu Bei could have reacted more slowly, if Liu Bei wanted to.

I just heard about the national funeral, and then I continued to play music and dance, isn't it good? Although we have just won a big victory, we should celebrate our achievements.

Liu Bei thought about it, but immediately burst into tears, crying and falling to the ground: "Your Majesty—"

Then he immediately ordered all the dancers and maids who served the banquet to retreat, and even some of the staff who were not very confidant to let them retreat first.

However, chilled wine and goji sauce, as well as a variety of barbecue delicacies, continue to be on the table.

There are only four people left in the house, Liu Guanzhang and Li Su, this is the most confidant, there is no need to act, there is nothing disrespectful to continue to eat and drink with true temperament, Liu Bei also knows that the other three will not betray his faux pas.

"Boya, I have written this recital, it is for Your Majesty, do you say that now, do you pretend not to know, or wait a few days and write another copy to the new monarch?" Liu Bei pulled a roast chicken leg and asked with a serious expression.

Li Su thought for a while: "I thought it would be better for me to leave early tomorrow morning." After the messenger came, my brother said that the messenger you sent had already set out, and the road was difficult, and he did not know where to go, so the messenger did not know that His Majesty had already arrived. ”

Liu Bei was puzzled: "Why is this so?" ”

Li Su: "The alternation of the old and the new, it is inevitable that the center is unstable. And a few days ago, I heard that before His Majesty died, Dong Zhuo was appointed as the pastor of the state, but he stayed in Hedong and refused to go north to take office. Although my brother has indeed just pacified Zhang Lu, but outsiders don't know, seeing that I am reporting success at this time, it is inevitable to suspect that my brother 'raised his own self-respect, and deliberately waited until His Majesty died before he did his full success and return his life'. ”

Liu Bei raised his hand to interrupt: "But the people who informed me are here, Boya has to pretend not to know, how to explain that he didn't bump into them halfway?" And how to explain that I didn't hear of His Majesty's death along the way? If you heard about it, shouldn't you go back and rewrite the schedule? ”

Li Su: "Then I can follow the envoy and not take the same road - a few days ago, I didn't just decide on Xicheng for my brother, I can continue to go down the Han River by water, and go all the way to Beijing from Yong-Nanyang." Shangyong is a surplus in Hanzhong, and there are also some Zhang Lu believers, and it is easy to go down the river in the upper reaches of the Han River, but it is not navigable to go upstream.

Walking this way, until Nanyang, I have a reason to 'not know that His Majesty has died'. When I really arrived in Nanyang, it was close to Luoyang, and I also had every reason to think that it was inconvenient to return to Hanzhong to change the performance, and I was in a hurry. This method also has a little advantage, that is, I can move the camera, control the time of arrival in Luoyang, and observe the situation first, so as not to hand the seal to those who are about to lose power, and miss the big thing of my brother, and I will definitely be able to win the best reward for us. ”

Liu Bei breathed a sigh of relief: "Then it will be arranged like this, Boya acts, the foolish brother has always been relieved, then you will leave tomorrow morning for your hard work, alas, you shouldn't be poured wine tonight, drink more soup and wake up." When the time comes, send thousands of soldiers and horses to escort you to Shangyong, and recover Shangyong County by the way.

Yun Chang, you will set off tomorrow to guard Jiameng Pass for Zilong Town, let Zilong hurry up to Shangyong, and be sure to catch up with Boya halfway, so as to protect Boya back to Beijing. All kinds of treasures and tributes in Shu should also be prepared overnight tonight. ”