Qingcheng Mountain is located in the southwest ten kilometers of Dujiangyan of Fuze Qianqiu, the whole mountain is verdant and verdant, evergreen in all seasons, the peaks are ringed, the shape is like the city outline, so the mountain name is called - Qingcheng. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Daoling, a real person, preached here, founded the Zhengyi faction, and made Qingcheng Mountain the first of the famous Taoist mountains in the world.

Qingcheng County is located at the foot of the mountain and belongs to the Yongkang Army. There is a temple outside the county seat, which was built in the Tang Dynasty. Because in recent years, there have been disasters in Shuzhong, and the local Taoism is respected, it is the incense that gradually disperses, the monks leave, the temple collapses, and gradually becomes the gathering place of the nearby homeless beggars.

Looking inside, in front of the dilapidated Buddha statue in the temple, there are several beggars in ragged clothes sitting around at this time, blowing the conch. One said that he was wandering around the county yesterday and met Zhang Daguan, and saw that although he was dressed in shabby clothes, his appearance was not vulgar and not like a mortal, so he had to invite him to eat and drink at home, and he couldn't shirk it, so he went away.

Then one of them said, "Then why don't you go to eat and drink today, and wait here with me to starve?" The man hurriedly said: "The Sprinkle family ate badly yesterday, and I want to eat today." And the chef of the big official's family is very poor, not as good as Chef Lu of Qibaolou, we are not rare. ”

Another person debunked him and said: "Ding Liu, you don't talk nonsense here, yesterday I saw you begging for food from Zhang Daguan, and he kicked him away." ”

Ding Liu was silent.

Another person spoke: "The day before yesterday, I went to the river to wash, and met the daughter of the richest man in the county, Mr. Hu, who was washing clothes by the river. ”

The rest of the people, of course, did not believe and began to make a noise. Li Ermeng patted and said: "Wang Qi was also there that day, which can prove it for me." Wang Qi, yes or no? ”

There was a young beggar lying by the threshold of the temple entrance, raising his face and smirking a few times, it should be claimed that it was.

"The king is a fool, and when you ask him, you will say yes." The rest of the people didn't believe it, and they still ridiculed Li Er with every word you said.

Although several people were hungry, they still carried out all their strength, pulling their necks and arguing.

A person suddenly walked out from behind the Buddha statue, kicked Li Er over, and shouted: "What's the noise, roll away." ”

Li Er looked up and saw that it was Song Datou, and he didn't dare to say anything. The others also scattered, sleepy and hungry. Song Datou walked to the door, kicked the shrunken Wang Qiyi, and went out.

The young Wang Qi is none other than Wang Ran.

After stabbing Xu Yongyan that day, Wang Ran hid in the mountains to recuperate, and when the wounds gradually healed, he prepared to go out of the mountain to find out the news of the county order. Worried that the government would be wanted, Wang Ran only quietly returned to the mountain after finding out that the county order was named Qi Yuanzhen, and he only took up his post in Yongkang County last year. Thinking about it back to the mountain, there is no good way, I can't stand eating river fish and roasted pheasants in the mountains every day, so I sneaked to Qingcheng County under the nearby Qingcheng Mountain, and the reason why I didn't go back to Hengqu Town was only because he often wandered in front of the government office, which had aroused the suspicion of the officials.

When he arrived in Qingcheng County, Wang Ran saw that although the temple was broken, it could shelter from the wind and rain, and it was not very eye-catching, and the beggars in the temple went to the street every day to beg for food, and they were well-informed, so they might be able to detect the movement of Yongkang County, so they hid in and pretended to be demented. The original beggar in the temple asked him the origin of his name, and he only said that his surname was Wang, and he followed his parents to flee the famine and came here. The beggar in the temple arranged the preface and called him the seventh king. The boss is the Song Datou, who is silent and fierce, and the other beggars dare not provoke him.

Wang Ran stood up with a few smirks, patted the footprints on his body, and didn't care, he walked out of the temple and into the mountains. Wang Ran thought that it would not be a way to go on for a long time, and he had to think of other ways out, but if he had no money, he had no way, so how could he be helpless.

Wang Ran walked around the mountains for a while, and suddenly remembered that when he crossed the mountains and mountains to come here that day, he found a wild tea tree on the inaccessible slope of the west of the mountain behind Qingcheng, with fat buds and leaves, emerald green color, and it looked like the quality was good. It took a while to find the tea tree, and sure enough, no one picked it, so Wang Ran took off his torn brown clothes and picked it up.

Returning to the vicinity of the temple and hiding his bulging clothes under a tree to cover up a little, Wang Ran ran into the temple and saw that most of the rest of the beggars had gone out to beg for food, only Ding Liu was lying on the ground humming and chirping. Wang Ran walked to the Buddha statue and said to the Bodhisattva in his heart: "Amitabha, the Bodhisattva is not strange. Pretending to be playful, he picked up the incense burner in front of him, and walked out with a smirk. Ding Liu on the ground rolled his eyes and said, "Foolish, I'm not afraid of bad luck." ”

Wang Ran took the incense burner to the river to clean it, and then hid in the mountains to find a clearing to drill wood and light a fire, and worked hard for a while. Wang Ran saw that the incense burner was almost burning, so he poured some tea leaves into the furnace. Master Wang Zhichuan is a tea addict, and has a very special roasting skills, Wang Ran also mastered this special roasting method, I saw him concentrating and holding his breath, actually put his hands into the incense burner full of fresh tea, twisting slowly between his hands and flying left and right, the tea leaves gradually withered between his fingers, and the fragrance of tea slowly overflowed.

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On the north street of Qingcheng County, Wang Ran walked around while holding the tea in his arms, the people of the Great Song Dynasty have good tea, and Shuzhong is also a tea-producing place, so the people of Shu are even more addicted to tea, and the tavern restaurant consumes a lot of tea every day, and Wang Ran plans to go and sell it.

"Shopkeeper, do you collect tea?"

The restaurant ran to see that the person who spoke was in tattered clothes, covered with mud, and it was clearly a beggar, worried that he would disturb the diners, so he drove him out directly, and Wang Ran had to go to the next one. Wang Ran inquired about it for a long time, and ran to almost all the hotels and restaurants in Qingcheng County, but he didn't get anything, and he took a few kicks.

Wang Ran, who was helpless, looked at Qibaolou, the largest restaurant in Qingcheng County, in front of him, settled down, and walked into the door.

"Shopkeeper, do you collect tea?"

received the same treatment, and the runner ran over and opened his mouth and scolded: "Pickled goods, are you here too?" I still want to sell tea, our Qibaolou is the premier restaurant in Qingcheng County, and the tea used is the finest, how can I look down on your broken tea, get out of the way. ”

"My tea is so good, even the white buds of Emei can be compared." Wang Ran still didn't give up.

The runner picked up the broom and tried to beat him out. Suddenly, I heard a call from the store: "Wait, bring him over." ”

It turned out to be the man who was talking to the shopkeeper in front of the counter in the store, turned around and stopped running, and the man beckoned. The runner was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly replied: "Okay, Li Erdong." Then he led Wang Ran over. Wang Ran walked in and saw that the man seemed to be in his thirties, with a burly posture, deep eyes, and a good appearance, the man also looked at Wang Ran carefully, and then ordered to run the hall and said, "Li Xiaoer, please get some hot water." ”

"If you can't be invited, the little one will go." The runner went to the back kitchen to get water.

"Little brother, please." The man raised his hand and invited Wang Ran to sit down at a table next to him.

"Little brother, can you show me your good tea that is "comparable to Emei white buds". The man laughed.

"Whoa." Wang Ran took out the short brown wrapped in his arms, opened it, and handed it to the man.

The man didn't dislike it, took the short brown and looked at it carefully, his face was surprised, he glanced at Wang Ran suspiciously, and then pinched a few wisps of tea and sniffed it through his nose, before affirming: "It's not bad." Wang Ran's heart was a little relieved, the Emei white bud was what he heard from others, and he knew that it was the best tea, but it was not clear what it would be.

Li Xiaoer brought Chozi with hot water and put it on the table, put down the tea bowl and the small pottery thread, and waited beside it. The man pinched some tea and put it in the reins, lightly lifted the cho with his arms, and poured hot water into the pottery. After waiting for a while, the man lifted the lid, picked up the pottery with one hand and leaned slightly, only to see a silver thread pouring out, poured into the celadon tea bowl, the water flow was quite rapid, but not a drop splashed out of the bowl, it turned out to be a small water whirlpool rolled up in the bowl. is really handsome and chic, Wang Ran praised in his heart.

The water was about to be full, and the man raised his hand lightly and put the pottery down. After waiting for a while, I picked up the tea bowl and looked at it, only to see a few wisps of green tea leaves floating in the bowl and slightly bending, green and clear, green and clear, I looked down and smelled only the aroma was high and fresh, and sent it to the mouth to taste it carefully, the taste was strong and mellow, and the teeth and cheeks were sweet, and I couldn't help but praise: "It's really good tea." ”

Put down the bowl and said to Wang Ran: "Little brother, how much does this tea sell?" ”

"The big officials think it's worth as much as they want." Wang Ran shrunk his neck and replied.

The man looked down at the tea wrapped in the short brown, took another sip of the tea bowl, and thought for a moment: "This tea is about five taels, how about I give you five hundred yuan." It's a pity that your tea is loose tea and has not been made into a piece of tea, otherwise I will give you the price of Emei snow buds. ”

Wang Ran was overjoyed in his heart, originally thought that this Li Daguan would be willing to give him a few dozen dollars when he saw that he was young, but he didn't expect this person to be so cool, this price was really beyond his expectations.

Wang Ran showed a look of ecstasy on his face, and stammered: "Okay, good, just five hundred yuan." ”

The man took out a piece of silver and some iron coins from his arms and handed them to Wang Ran, and said: "The silver is about four coins, and it will be more than 500 wen in exchange for iron coins. He turned his head to Ran Tang and said, "Little Er, give this little brother a bowl of mutton soup cakes and put it on my account." ”

"Whoa." Li Xiaoer turned around and went to the kitchen to make arrangements.

"My name is Li Shun, and my family has been selling tea for generations. Little brother has a high name? Li Shun looked at Wang Ran and smiled.

"Back to the big officials, the small one's name is Wang Qi." Wang Ran said.

"Little brother, if you still have this tea, you can send it to the Xue Tea House in front of Yingming Lane in the south of the city in the future, and I will buy it at this price." Li Shun asked.

"Whoa."

The hot mutton soup cake was served, and Wang Ran feasted on it. Li Shun smiled while sipping tea and watched him run out, and then personally sent him out of the door.

Li Xiaoer stood outside the door and watched the two of them walk away, and muttered: "This good luck can be appreciated by Li Erdong's family, not to mention inviting him to dinner after earning money, Li Erdong's family is really kind-hearted." ”

There was a person sitting at the bottom of the stairs in front of the building, catching lice, and his eyes lit up when he heard this.