The news of Longzhou's victory reached the imperial court with the joint performance of Yu Qingze and Li Yuande. Yang Jian sent an edict, and the governor of Longzhou made Wang Ren's family beheaded, and all his property was confiscated from the government. Wang Ren, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, was fined and confiscated for one year, and Yu Qing was crowned as the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and he immediately returned to Beijing as a director when the purpose arrived; Li Yuan is also the chief envoy; Li Jiancheng was awarded the title of Cloud Cavalry Captain, ranked seventh, and removed from military service; Cheng Guoxuan will not be punished for his meritorious deeds, and the rest of the meritorious soldiers will be rewarded and rewarded. The decree was read. The officials and soldiers of the whole city of Longzhou shouted the Holy Saint.

After Li Jiancheng was dismissed from his military position, he had nothing to do, and in order to kill time, he took his new follower Li Ping out shopping. Li An was officially appointed as an officer because of the victory in Longzhou, and entered the barracks, so he couldn't follow Li Jiancheng as before. This Li Ping is also an orphan, who fainted in front of the Tang Mansion during a wandering, and was rescued by Mrs. Dou. Since then, he has become a member of the Li family. This time Li An was transferred, and Mrs. Dou sent him over. Maybe it was stimulated since he was a child, Li Ping didn't like to talk and kept bored. After walking for a while, Li Jiancheng saw a stall in front of him surrounded by many people. When I got closer, it was a stall selling bamboo couches. Longzhou is located in the northwest, the weather is hot, bamboo is produced in the south, the bamboo couch made of bamboo is cool, but the price is expensive, most of the onlookers are a poor person, not much money, so many people just watch the excitement, no one buys. Li Jiancheng stroked these bamboo couches. I'm going to buy one for my father and myself. Suddenly, a light flashed in his mind, and he said to the peddler with a smile:

"Do you have bamboo in addition to the bamboo couch here?"

"This son, the bamboo pole is gone now. But in a few days, the villain's buddies will ship another batch from the south, why do you want this? The vendor asked.

Li Jiancheng handed over the usual copper coin, "This is the fixed money for the bamboo couch and bamboo pole, you just need to send the goods to the Thorn Mansion, if someone interrogates them, they will say that the eldest prince wants it." Don't ask anything else. After saying that, he didn't care about the hawker, and left with Li Pingtou without looking back.

Early the next morning, Li Jiancheng was practicing in the garden of the Assassin's Mansion, and Li Ping came to report: "Son, the goods you ordered have been delivered." After saying that, the family brought two bamboo couches and a bundle of bamboo. Li Jiancheng asked people to send the bamboo couch to his and Li Yuande's bedrooms respectively. In addition, he asked people to bring the bamboo, but these bamboos were of different lengths and thicknesses, and after selection and processing, he finally picked out the bamboo poles that he was satisfied with. He also ordered someone to bring dozens of jars of Longzhou's self-produced liquor and find two large vats. Then he ordered the garden to be cordoned off, and no one was allowed to enter, and he filled a large vat with the strong wine, and dug a hole in the lid of the vat the size of a bamboo pole, and connected the two vats. Li Jiancheng observed another vat, and slowly heard the sound of water droplets inside, one drop, two drops, and as a result, due to lack of experience, the vat of wine was burned. He waited until the dripping wine vat cooled down, opened the lid, and a smell of wine came to his nose, allowing Li Ping to taste a bowl, the wine was sweet and mellow without impurities, and the aftertaste was endless.

The wine was improved, and Li Jiancheng was overjoyed, as if he saw a mountain of gold in front of him. Then he immediately ordered Li Ping to invite Chai Jie. Chai Jie is a son of the Chai clan in Longxi, and the son of Chai Shen, the prince of Sui, who is the right leader of Julu County. Young in the army. Li Jiancheng had a relationship with him when he was in the army, and he had a strong affection. Later, I learned that because his mother was a servant girl, her father was born of drunken sex. Therefore, the status of the family is low, and the small is not taken seriously, and is bullied. Especially his brother Chai Shao, who was instigated by his mother since he was a child, thought that his mother was inferior, and repeatedly humiliated Chai Jie's mother and son. As a last resort, I had to come to the barracks at a young age, hoping to make some military achievements with my hands and improve my mother's status at home. Li Jiancheng was even more sympathetic when he found out, and when Chai Jie arrived, he asked him a question first:

"Brother Chai, do you want to raise your eyebrows in the family?"

"Brother Jian, the younger brother thinks day and night, it is to let the father look at the bottom, so that the mother is not bullied by the big house, because of this, the little brother I joined the army, I hope to rely on military merits to straighten the waist, but who knows that although there is a small skill, it is difficult to make a difference! Ay! After speaking, he sighed heavily.

"Brother Chai, as the old saying goes, 'The only way to solve worries is good wine'. Please fill your drink. After saying that, he poured a bowl for Shibasuke. Before he even entered the mouth, Shibasuke felt that it was different from ordinary spirits, and after entering it, he was full of energy. The mellow aroma of the wine lingers in the mouth for a long time. And Li Jiancheng seemed to have one more in his eyes.

"Good wine, good wine!" Shibasuke praised.

"Brother Chai, this wine is more listed than the old one, if this wine is sold to the Western Regions of the grassland and traded with the Hu people, wouldn't it be a mountain of gold and silver, and Brother Chai's status in the family is not skyrocketing." After speaking, Li Jiancheng's eyes looked directly at Chai Jie。。。。。。