At this time, Ellie's crying on the side gradually stopped, and Zhang Juntai pulled Ellie to stand up, leaned over to wipe the tears from her face. Li Wenyuan asked Ellie why she hated these two people so much in Latin, and then he knew the reason for the incident:

Ellie was not the child of a Gallic governor, but the child of a Gallic merchant, because his father traveled back and forth between Byzantium and the Great Sui all the year round, and she also learned some martial arts to defend herself, and later his father rescued a Xianbei man, who taught her to use the swordsmanship of the Central Plains, and also ran back and forth with her father.

Later, when passing through Gaochangguo, the two gathered dozens of people to rob her father's caravan, killing all of them, and the Xianbei man who taught her swordsmanship was killed in battle, and she was knocked unconscious and tied up. When I woke up again, I was already in this special cage, watching the seven surviving people outside arguing about something. Later, they directly drew knives and slashed each other, and in the end, only these two people survived.

The two people pretended to be businessmen, used her father's convoy, and continued to rush towards the Great Sui until they came here, and were photographed by Li Wenyuan. Now he is homeless, and if he wants to live in a foreign land, he will be a slave well.

Her mood was not very stable, and she stumbled and told Li Wenyuan what happened, and Li Wenyuan relayed it to Zhang Juntai on her behalf. Then Li Wenyuan said to Ellie: "Come with me, don't be a slave, have a job to do." Then he pointed at Zhang Juntai and said: "Follow him, learn, Chinese." ”

Ellie nodded. When Li Wenyuan saw that everything was done, he beckoned a few people to stay at the auction house that day and return to Wuwei County the next day.

There was no word all night, and in the blink of an eye, it was the next morning. Li Wenyuan was woken up by the sound of clanging metal in the courtyard outside the window, rubbed his eyes, walked to the window, pushed open the window and looked out, but it was Ellie and Zhang Juntai who were discussing. Li Wenyuan didn't speak, just leaned against the window and basked in the sun, squinting his eyes and looking at the two people in the courtyard lazily.

After a while, the two were decided, and Zhang Juntai put the sword around Ellie's neck back into the scabbard. Ellie also got up from the ground and said in very jerky Chinese, "Teach me." ”

Before Zhang Juntai could speak, Li Wenyuan opened his mouth to interrupt the conversation between the two: "Go back and teach again, Juntai, let's go back to Wuwei County today." Zhang Juntai nodded in agreement, and the group set off from the auction house, took their horses, and returned to Wuwei County.

After returning to Wuwei County, Li Wenyuan arranged for Ellie to go to Qiu Niang, and he found the golden shopkeeper and asked: "The golden shopkeeper, I remember that on the list of craftsmen you gave me, there was a jade carving master from the previous dynasty, did he come with you?" ”

The golden shopkeeper nodded and said, "Back to the manager, that person is here, and now he is assisting in the repair of the city in Guantun City." ”

"Well, Shopkeeper Gold. Tell me more about this master jade carver. Li Wenyuan said curiously.

"That person's original name was Zhao Shisheng, just because he carved a good jade, he knew jade theory and jade very well, so he got a nickname called Zhao Shisheng. The Emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty had ordered someone to reproduce the jade seal of the first emperor, this person only relied on a few records in the history books, and reproduced the jade seal on that side, even the tiger on the jade seal was also vivid, the Emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was very happy, and he wanted to make him an official at the moment and manage all the things about craftsmen in the court. But it's a pity, since ancient times, the status of craftsmen is low, there are few who can read words, although this person can carve the eight big seal characters ordered by the day both longevity and Yongchang, but it is written by the great Confucianism in the court, he does not know those words according to the picture engraving, and finally had to give up, rewarded him with a sum of silver. Later, Emperor Zhou Jing was located in the former Emperor Wendi, he was already old, and he did not want to be a jade carving master in the palace anymore, and wanted to go home to retire. But what emperor could allow the person who carved the seal to escape his control and hide it among the people? At this time, he found me, and I used my connections in the palace to make up the matter of his fake death to show the emperor, and secretly took him out of the palace and lived incognito in Jincheng. ”

The two talked all the way, and then came to the construction site of Guantun City. The golden shopkeeper asked Li Wenyuan to wait here for a while, and he went into the construction site to find Zhao Shisheng. After a while, the golden shopkeeper led an old man with white hair to Li Wenyuan and said, "Brother Shisheng, this is Li Wenyuan, the head of the Western Regions, whom I told you. ”

When Zhao Shisheng heard the words of the golden shopkeeper, he bowed his head and bowed: "Zhao Shisheng, the grass people, see the general manager." ”

Li Wenyuan hurriedly pulled him up and said, "Old man, don't do it." Then he took Zhao Shisheng's hands and looked at them carefully, they were full of dust and mud, and said sadly: "The phoenix is not a sycamore, it is not a sweet spring, it is really a sin for us to let you craftsmen do the rough work of building bricks and bricks." But at this time, the situation is stronger than people, and after Guantun City is repaired, I, Li Wenyuan, will definitely give you a bright future. ”

Speaking of this, Li Wenyuan changed his words, took out the wooden box containing the runyu, and said: "But now I have something to ask for, I wonder if the old man can carve this piece of jade?" ”

Hearing that there was jade, Zhao Shisheng hurriedly rubbed his hands on his clothes a few times, carefully opened the wooden box, opened the cloth wrapped with jade inside, and carefully played with the jade through the cloth, he blocked the sun, checked it in the shadow, and raised the jade to observe the inside through the sunlight, and after looking at it for a long time, he wrapped the jade again with the cloth, put it back in the box, handed it to Li Wenyuan with both hands, and said tremblingly:

"Chief, this is the white jade of Qu Sadana, it is nephrite jade, look at the texture of this jade, even if it is comparable to the tribute jade of the royal family in the Northern Zhou Dynasty."

"I bought it by chance from a Sogdian merchant, and I wanted to bother the old gentleman to carve something on it for me, and of course I would not let the old gentleman waste his efforts, as long as I could carve what I wanted, the price would be negotiable. I wonder if the old gentleman is willing to make a move? ”

"Although this white jade is very expensive and rare, I have carved it before, and it is not very difficult to process, but it really takes some time. I wonder what the manager wants to carve on it? Zhao Shisheng said.

Li Wenyuan looked around at no one, and his guards separated the construction workers from him at a distance, then handed a note in his hand to Zhao Shisheng and said, "Old man, look at these words, can you engrave them on them?" ”

Zhao Shisheng spread out the note, and saw that it was written with the twelve words written in the big seal of Qin Shi: Tianting Sheng, Che Jiuliang, dominating the Western Regions, and wanting to be the king.