The sun is shining outside the window, and the business in the store is getting better and better, in addition to the uninterrupted individual customers, from time to time there will be some restaurant guys who come to pick up the reserved braised meat, these restaurants are in high demand, Li Zhang's production of braised meat is limited, and now it is in short supply, so Li Zhang is also planning to rent another place, recruit a few guys to work, and expand the output.

Li Zhang is in charge of the accounts, he is used to using Arabic numerals and tables, and it is too simple to record the bill flow of such a small shop, so he has nothing to do now, so he secretly took out something in his arms and looked at it carefully.

This is a small plate, to be exact, a white porcelain plate, almost no different from the saucer that served the spices when eating hot pot in later generations, but on the back of this plate, there is a red seal, Li Zhang can barely recognize the four seal characters in the seal, but the seal is very special, not a big seal or a small seal, but a kind of crooked seal, each stroke is like a long worm, Li Zhang looked at it for a long time and couldn't see what these four words were?

Seals were very rare in Li Zhang's time, except for groups like companies and government agencies, which were often used from time to time, ordinary individuals rarely used seals, Li Zhang's previous life in addition to the company's official seal, he had almost never touched the seal, not to mention that the seal font on the porcelain plate was so rare, it was normal for him not to recognize it.

"What the hell is this?" Li Zhang frowned and looked at the porcelain plate in his hand and said to himself, this porcelain plate was taken from the table when he had dinner with Mrs. Liu last night, because he wanted to find out Mrs. Liu's identity, but the other party's tone was extremely strict, and the two chatted for a long time Li Zhang failed to ask any useful information.

Lu Wu and Li Yonghe must know, but the two of them are mysterious but refuse to tell Li Zhang, fortunately, Li Zhang found that the dishes he used were very elegant, by no means ordinary porcelain, as far as Li Zhang knew, some princes and nobles would order some special porcelain from the porcelain kiln, with special marks in their own houses, one to prevent theft, and the other to show their identity, the utensils used are different from ordinary people.

It is precisely because he knows this, so Li Zhang quietly inspected it during the meal and found that several porcelain pieces had this special seal under them, so after eating, he secretly took a small plate and hid it in his arms, in order to find out Mrs. Liu's identity from the seal behind the plate.

Of course, stealing things is definitely wrong, but in order to find out the identity of Mrs. Liu, Li Zhang can't care about these subsections, but although the plate is back, he doesn't know the words on the seal, which makes him scratch his ears and cheeks, and finally after thinking about it, he decided to find someone to help him see what was written on the seal?

However, Li Zhang had an extra heart, and did not dare to take out the plate directly for people to see, but took out a pen and paper to trace the words on the seal, and then opened it to find a few more people, and each person only looked at one word, so that the news would not be leaked.

Li Zhang is a person with strong executive ability, and when he thinks of it, he immediately does it, but when he writes, he finds that these words are simply too difficult to determine, even if he follows the description, he has written it wrong many times, and finally finally wrote each word again, and then cut the paper and folded it and put it in his arms.

"Beans, I'll go out!" Li Zhang immediately said hello to Douzi and asked him to take care of the store, and then went out of the store.

Li Zhang's shop is located in Wuqi Street, there is a Wuqi Temple in the westernmost part of this street, Wu Qi is a famous military strategist, politician and reformer in the early Warring States period, and is also a representative of the military family, the author of "Wu Zi's Art of War" forty-eight articles, so in the Tang Dynasty, Wu Qi was one of the ten philosophers of the Wu Temple, and later opened martial arts when Song Shenzong, "Wu Zi's Art of War" and "Sun Tzu's Art of War", "Liutao" and so on were compiled as seven books of martial arts, becoming a textbook in martial arts, and it is also a military book that later generations of military generals must read.

Wu Qi is a native of Heze, Shandong, Heze and Kaifeng were originally next to each other, the jurisdiction of Kaifeng in the Song Dynasty was very large, and Wu Qi's hometown was also considered to be the scope of Kaifeng, so Wu Qi Temple was not uncommon, and the Wu Qi Temple in Kaifeng City was the largest one.

Li Zhang stepped to the front of the Wuqi Temple, this Wuqi Temple is full of incense, it is said that it can keep people safe, the peace charm in the temple is very popular, there are often many good men and women who ask for a peace charm for their families who go out, for example, Li Zhang has a charm that the raccoon dog asked for him a few days ago, it is said that it cost ten big money, although Li Zhang does not believe in this thing, but still wears it around his neck.

However, Li Zhang did not come here to seek peace, in front of the gate of Wuqi Temple is a small square, gathered many kinds of small traders, such as selling cloth, selling medicine, selling all kinds of needles and threads, etc., as a result, the whole square shouted one after another, coupled with the pedestrians coming and going, making the whole square seem lively.

After Li Zhang came to the square, he quickly found a target, only to see a table under a big mulberry tree in the square, behind the table sat an old scholar with gray hair, and on the table in front of him were placed pen, ink, paper, inkstone and other items.

There are often such scenes in TV dramas in later generations, in order to support his family, an aspiring reader has to find a corner and pick up a "letter writer" banner to earn some pen fees, but Li Zhang always feels that the banner is a bit redundant, because those who know words will definitely not invite people to write letters, let alone those who don't know words.

At that moment, Li Zhang walked to the booth where he wrote letters and sat down, and the old man in the back saw that the business was coming, and he was also very happy to ask: "What kind of letter does the little brother want to write?" ”

"I don't write letters, but I don't know a word and want to ask!" Li Zhang smiled and spoke, taking out a piece of paper with a word written on it from his arms and putting it in front of the other party, and also put three copper coins.

The old man was a little unhappy when he heard that Li Zhang didn't write a letter, but when he saw the three copper coins, he immediately showed a bright smile, and immediately picked up the paper with the words written on it and looked at it carefully, and then smiled and stroked his beard and said: "Little brother, you really asked the right person, this kind of word is really not known to ordinary people." ”

"Sir, I recognize this as a seal, but I really can't see what it is." Li Zhang was also shocked when he heard the other party's words, and said again.

"That's right, this is indeed a kind of seal, it seems that the little brother is also a person who has read books!" Hearing that Li Zhang could recognize this as a kind of seal, the old man also looked at him with some surprise and said, he thought that the other party was an illiterate person, but now it seems that he has underestimated Li Zhang.

"So what the hell is this word?" Li Zhang saw that the other party had been selling Guanzi, and he couldn't help but ask again at the moment.

"This is a Shang word, and this seal is called nine stacks of seals, is a very special seal, at the beginning of the main use of official seals, of course, now there are a lot of private seals also use this kind of seal, how much each word folds, depending on the complexity of the strokes, there are five stacks, six stacks, seven stacks, eight stacks, nine stacks, ten stacks......"

This old gentleman is obviously an old pedant, and he finally caught a person who could discuss knowledge with him, but his mouth was chattering, Li Zhang didn't plan to learn these things, and he already knew that this was the word "Shang", so he didn't wait for the other party to finish speaking, he stood up and interrupted: "Thank you for the old gentleman's advice, I will say goodbye!" ”

"Alas~, don't be in a hurry to leave, or I'll return the money to you, you listen to me!" The old gentleman was talking energetically, and when he saw that Li Zhang was about to leave, he stood up and shouted, but Li Zhang didn't have time to listen to his lecture, but walked faster, but in the end, the old gentleman also sighed, probably sighing that the Taoist people in this world have no heart to learn.

Then Li Zhang took a turn in the square, although only the old scholar wrote the letter, but there were still many fortune tellers and word testers, after all, there was a Taoist temple next to it, most of these people were liars, but there were also a few who were really talented and learned, so Li Zhang quickly recognized the four words.

"Shang, Yu, Food, Bureau." Li Zhang silently recited the four words he got in his heart, but the order was wrong, and it should be read in the order of the seals, it should be "Shang Shi Bureau Yu".

"Shang Shi Bureau? What is this place? As for the imperial ......" When he thought of the word "royal", Li Zhang was shocked in his heart, even if he didn't know much about ancient times, but he also knew that the word imperial was almost exclusively used by the emperor, what imperial system, imperial doctor, imperial street, etc., and this imperial system is likely to mean the imperial system.

"Shang Shi Bureau? Shang Shi Bureau? Li Zhang chanted the name as he walked, he always felt that the name was a little familiar, and finally when he returned to the store, he suddenly remembered, isn't this Shangshi Bureau in the palace who is responsible for food in the palace?

"If I'm not mistaken, the current queen seems to be the most legendary queen of the Great Song Dynasty, Liu E, and Mrs. Liu is also surnamed Liu, which is too coincidental, right?" After the final shock, Li Zhang quickly calmed down and analyzed again, although he was not completely sure, the Mrs. Liu he saw yesterday was probably Liu E, which explained why Jin Shan was so afraid of Lu Wu.

"If Mrs. Liu is the queen of the dynasty, Liu E, then why does Uncle Wu have such a close relationship with her, why did he go to the small county government to be the head of the team, and what does our family have to do with Liu E?" Immediately afterwards, a series of questions popped up in Li Zhang's heart, which made him have a headache again, thinking that a mystery had been solved, but he didn't expect more mysteries to emerge.