Chapter 16: Buying wine and meeting the emperor
Thanks to the fact that you didn't ride into the city in the first place, how could you be willing to sell this horse? It's me, and I'm so lucky that it explodes!
Secretly narcissistic, Ling Xian waved his hand and said.
"Impossible! Master, my horse skills, not that I blow it, if I get up seriously, I can pick up this good horse in Chang'an, and no one can buy one. ”
When Old Marquis Luo heard this, he also laughed.
"Boy, you're overblowing."
The people who sold horses on the side also looked unconvinced.
Ling Xian waved his hand and urged.
"Oh, you guys don't care, shopkeeper, just say, how much."
"This ........."
After hesitating for a moment, the shopkeeper gritted his teeth and said.
"Since you like it, Childe, then I won't say more, no one has bought this horse here for so long, I was going to give it up, after all, the daily horse food also costs money, and today you buy it, it is equivalent to solving a problem for me, I don't want more, just keep it consistent."
Ling Xian's heart blossomed.
Consistent? Hahaha! Earn over! I sold the sweaty BMW, and it is estimated that someone wants it!
How much money can I make from this? I calculated, removing the cost of one silver, I can ...... You can earn more than 900 gold!
"Hey...... Hey hey ......"
Thinking about it, he actually smirked to himself, and when Old Marquis Luo saw this, he pulled Ling Xian, and Ling Xian suddenly came back to his senses.
He took out his purse from his waist, took out two pieces of silver, and said to the shopkeeper.
"No, I'm in a good mood today, master, I'll reward you with a tael of silver."
Seeing the silver in Ling Xian's hand, the shopkeeper's eyes widened.
Silver!
He's lived so long in his life and he'd never seen silver!
Now, he's the one who took the money, too!
Datang is short of silver, so not many people will trade with silver, and everyone generally trades with copper coins, so it is very inconvenient to go out and hold the consistent money.
Seeing Ling Xian casually throw out two taels of silver, he hurriedly caught it with his hand.
With these two grains of silver, he can blow for ten years!
Which of you has ever received money in business? I've received it!
Mei Zizi took the silver into her arms, quickly turned around and untied the rope that was originally tied to the horse, and handed it to Ling Xian.
Ling Xian nodded, led the horse and waved his hand at Old Marquis Luo, and then left first.
Old Marquis Luo hurriedly followed, and said to Ling Xian as he walked.
"Boy, why are you doing such unusual things? This horse looks like it has no strength, how can it be ridden? ”
Ling Xian showed an unfathomable smile.
"You don't understand that, do you? This is a bloody BMW! At the beginning, even Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che, was greedy for the existence of an expedition to the Western Regions! Don't look at its thin legs, this is the characteristic of this kind of horse, thin legs can run fast! ”
Old Marquis Luo was stunned when he heard it.
Who hasn't heard of the name of a bloody BMW?
Legend has it that sweat and blood BMW can travel thousands of miles a day, effortlessly, the whole body is blood-red, and the sweat is as red as blood.
"Is this a bloody BMW? Don't try to lie to me, boy, although I haven't seen with my own eyes what a sweaty BMW looks like, I also know that it is definitely not so golden, and when I sweat, the sweat is red. ”
Ling Xian patiently explained.
"There is not only one color of this sweat and blood BMW, the kind you are talking about is jujube red, in fact, there are light gold, jujube red, silver white and black and other colors, but you have not seen it, and the sweat is not red, it is just the aggravation of the local color after the exercise, only reddish-brown horses will have this situation."
"I see!"
Old Marquis Luo suddenly realized, and then said with a smile.
"You know a lot about your grandson!"
"That's it! And don't look at whose grandson it is. ”
As soon as he heard this, Old Marquis Luo smiled even more happily.
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After a while, the two came to the place where they bought the carriage, threw a gold in their hands, and put it on the sweaty BMW in the shocked eyes of the shopkeeper.
Then he rushed to the winery.
In a few moments, we arrived at the brewery.
Striding into the store, a strong aroma of wine entered the nostrils.
With the sound of fast and slow footsteps, an old man with a wine gourd in his hand and a hat with a veil on his head walked out while drinking, and said lazily.
"Boy, you're here to buy wine?"
When Old Marquis Luo saw this attitude, he suddenly became angry, and then he was about to question loudly.
Ling Xian hurriedly grabbed Old Marquis Luo with his right hand and pulled him behind him.
Just kidding, a person like this is an old man, and he doesn't treat his customers with any respect, maybe he is a big man in a hidden market in a novel!
Before you are sure whether you can afford to provoke it, you still have to observe carefully, after all, life is the most important!
Thinking about it, a smile rose at the corner of Ling Xian's mouth, and he bowed to the drunken old man.
"Old gentleman, we have ten dozen wine sellers, a total of ten jars."
Seeing Ling Xian's respectful attitude, the drunken old man raised his eyebrows, but said.
"Ten altars? Not sold. ”
Ling Xian frowned, and said with a smile after a long time.
"I wonder how the old gentleman can sell it to us?"
Hearing this, the old man thought for a while and said for a long time.
"I heard that your kid is very good, write a poem for the old man, and the words are fine."
smiled slightly, secretly shocked in his heart, and at the same time felt a hint of happiness.
It is a loss that he did not provoke him, and his outstanding literary affairs have not yet been revealed among the people, and now his performance on the battlefield should not have spread, and this person can know that his status and status are at least not lower than any official who can go to the early dynasty.
At this time, the early dynasty had just ended, but he was drinking here, saying that he did not go to the early dynasty.
Coupled with his age, then, his identity is about to come out, that is-the current emperor, Li Yuan.
Ling Xian thought in his heart, but his mouth was not slow, and he opened his mouth to say.
"Spring is not old, and the wind is thin and the willows are slanting. Try to look at the transcendent platform, half a trench spring water and a city of flowers. Smoke and rain are dark. After the cold food, the wine wakes up but sighs. Hugh thinks about the old dynasty and tries the new tea with new fire. Poetry and wine take advantage of the youth. ”
A poem by Su Shi's "Wangjiangnan: Transcendent Taizuo" blurted out, because the object was Li Yuan, so Ling Xian changed Hugh's thinking about the old country to Hugh's thinking about the old dynasty, which just corresponded to the recent changes in Xuanwumen.
“!!!”
Hearing Ling Xian's words, Li Yuan's eyes instantly dilated.
Then he sighed, invited Ling Xian and the others to take a seat, and said while pouring wine.
"Boy, tell me, how do you see it."
Ling Xian immediately said the analysis just now.
"Good! All right! is worthy of a rare talent in the mouths of ministers, but I didn't expect his thinking to be so agile. ”
"You're overrated."
Ling Xian saluted Li Yuan with a glass of wine, and then drank it in one gulp.
Seeing this, Li Yuan laughed and drank the wine in his hand.
He put the wine glass heavily on the table, refilled it for Ling Xian and himself, and spoke.
"I don't have a reputation, because you kid not only guessed my identity, but also guessed my heart!"
Ling Xian smiled slightly and continued.
"Do you still have a grudge against Your Majesty?"
Li Yuan sighed heavily when he heard this.
"It's all because I, the father, didn't do a good job, so why talk about resentment? But the second he... He's done a great job! ”
Ling Xian said.
"The kid thinks that there is nothing wrong with what Your Majesty has done."
"Oh? How so? ”
"If His Majesty had failed or had not launched the Xuanwu Sect Rebellion at all, then what would Prince Yin do to him? Your Majesty's righteousness, it is not an exaggeration to call it the Yin Monarch of the Ages, if the Prince Yin ascends the throne as the emperor, he will definitely dispose of His Majesty as soon as possible, and His Majesty can still use his old department after the death of the Prince Yin, which is already benevolent and righteous, so the kid thinks that His Majesty is just maintaining his own safety. ”
Li Yuan was stunned when he heard this.
As a person who has been an emperor, he knows how great the temptation of the throne is, and this temptation is enough to make siblings kill each other and relatives turn against each other.
Li Er has made many meritorious achievements, but just because Li Jiancheng is the eldest son, he cares little about Li Er, which really shouldn't be.
The guilt in his heart became more and more serious, and with a sigh, Li Yuan said.
"It's because I care too little about the second child!"
After speaking, he thanked Ling Xian.
"Old man, because of this matter, I borrowed wine all day to kill my sorrows, I didn't expect to talk to your kid, this knot was actually untied, I will go into the palace to find the second child, ten jars of wine I have ready, that is, put the ten jars at the door of the bet between you and Hou Junji that kid I can hear clearly, originally a little unbelieving, now it doesn't seem to be unreasonable, when the wine is brewed, the old man must go to your house to have a drunken addiction!"
"Haha! Good! The kid is waiting for the arrival of the Emperor at any time! By the way, those ten jars of wine ......"
"Give yours, don't want money!"
Without waiting for Ling Xian to finish speaking, Li Yuan said with a smile.
Then he nodded and walked out, and at the same time, two people dressed in black appeared next to him out of nowhere, thinking that they were Li Yuan's guards.
At this time, the old Marquis Luo was in a state of confusion.
What's the situation?
Can you buy a wine and meet the emperor?
This kid has a lot of tricks to like in the palace!
One by one, they pasted themselves on Ling Xian's body!
At this time, Ling Xian, who had already loaded ten jars of wine into the carriage, walked in.
patted Old Marquis Luo's shoulder, Ling Xian said.
"I've packed all the wine, old man, let's go home."
Old Marquis Luo came back to his senses at this time, but after listening to Ling Xian's words, he was not moved, but grabbed Ling Xian's arm with a serious face, and opened his mouth to say.
"Sun Tzu, you are so noticed by the royal family, it is a good thing, but also a bad thing, the royal family is not a monopoly today, and there are five surnames and seven wang these famous families who restrict them, you are now the quasi-concubine of Princess Changle, the younger generation that Your Majesty values the most, will definitely be resisted and suppressed by those people, I just ask you not to fall too deep, so as not to be unable to come out in the future."
"I think back then, my son's martial arts were strong, although he couldn't compare to you, but he was also heroic, following His Majesty's southern and northern wars, and finally died at the hands of His Majesty's mortal enemies, Prince Yin and Li Yuanji, (see the Sui and Tang Dynasty Heroes here) The end is not miserable, I also saw this, so I was willing to take my son's body away from the court, and moved to Youzhou, a war-torn place with barren land."
"It's a good thing that a man is eager to make a career, but you must not be like Cheng'er, I used to only think about serving the country, but now, I want to live for myself, do you know my thoughts?"
As he spoke, tears welled up in his eyes.
When Ling Xian heard this, he was moved, even in his previous life, no one had ever cared about him like Old Marquis Luo, let alone the Tang Dynasty, who was unfamiliar with this life.
Grabbing Old Marquis Luo's hand in his hand, Ling Xian said seriously.
"Old man, don't worry, I have my own measure, I won't put my life into it, and I won't forget that there are still you waiting for me to do my filial piety at home! Now let's go home, and I'm going to make wine for you." ”
Nodding heavily, Old Marquis Luo followed Ling Xian into the carriage and prepared to go home.
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