Chapter 145: The Fat Sheep Comes to the Door
Li Wujian is a Khitan, although there are only two surnames Yelu and Xiao in today's Liao State, but if you trace it back, the Khitan in the tribal period once surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and many upper-class figures were given the surname Li, and Li Wujian's ancestors were one of them. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Their tribe lived in Yingzhou for generations, and later the Khitan was founded, and Li Wujian's ancestors did not catch up, and then after that, the Great Song Dynasty mastered Yingzhou, and the Li family became the people of the Great Song Dynasty.
Li Wujian has known since he was a child that they are different from others, and whenever they sacrifice, unlike the three, five, or seven sacrifices used by the Han people, they use green oxen and white horses.
And the small village almost does not marry outsiders, all the children, ploughing the fields and hunting, learning martial arts, archery and horse riding, no one has ever thought of studying and taking the imperial examination, it is all the stuff of the Han people, they can't play at all.
Despite these differences, they still live peacefully, without quarrel with the world, and are safe and happy.
Until a sudden flood destroyed the village and Li Wujian's life.
He was forced to carry his old lady on his back, and like everyone else, he left his hometown and begged for a living everywhere, and the imperial court initially gave rations, but then it was broken.
Li Wujian tried to find a job to make money, but even the Han people could not find a livelihood, who would leave the opportunity to them. Gradually, Li Wujian and some young people in the village gathered together, and they lived by robbery.
It is said to be a robbery, but in fact, it is to put gold on the face, and it is nothing more than the big guy hunting a dog today and stealing a pig tomorrow, which is difficult to maintain.
It's just that God didn't want to let them go, and Shanghukou burst the embankment again, and the water became even more violent, destroying their temporary shelter and taking away dozens of lives.
The aunt's family was among them, and the old lady cried bitterly for her dead sister, and her eyes were blind.
Faced with the surging river, Li Wujian could only carry his old mother again and fled all the way to Cangzhou. When he got here, he heard that there were people who had gone out to sea to hunt whales, and that there were huge whales, and they were covered with fat, enough to feed thousands of people.
Li Wujian didn't believe it, but when he saw the whale for the first time, he was completely stunned, crazy, and red-eyed.
The ghost sent the gods, Li Wujian took his brothers and rushed to the dock, that is, this time, he almost lost his life.
Looking back, I felt chills all over my body and shivered.
So you are so close to death?
Li Wujian was afraid, afraid of death, afraid of leaving his mother, afraid of too many things, he just wanted to say that it was good to survive.
"Not only to live, but also to live a good life, am I right?"
Wang Ningan stood in front of Li Wujian with his hands behind his back, and said with a smile: "You are still guilty now, you must obey my orders, and perform this play well, if something goes wrong, I can send you to the dock at any time to cut down!" ”
Wang Ningan was very polite, Li Wujian grinned widely, almost crying, he had lived so big, he was not afraid of anything, but he didn't know how to act.
"My lord, you can change someone, I can't do it!"
"Phew, it's a big man, how can you say it!" Wang Ningan said angrily: "From now on, you must obey my orders, if you dare to disobey, I have a hundred ways to make you unable to survive or die!" ”
Wang Ningan may have felt that his words were too harsh, and he tried to squeeze out a smile, "Don't worry, what I let you do is very comfortable, even if it is for your two mothers, you can't always be a coolie, right?" ”
Under Wang Ning'an's persuasion, Li Wujian finally nodded.
However, he soon realized the taste of "life is better than death", what Wang Ningan needs is for Li Wujian to play a businessman, a wealthy businessman who controls the winery!
Relying on his Khitan identity, he can gain the trust of the other party.
But the problem is that Li Wujian is five big and three thick, and he is full of tendon meat, which is not like it at all, so it must be processed.
Wang Ningan said that businessmen want to be fat, Li Wujian has to eat five meals a day, fragrant lard soaked rice, a thick layer of pork belly, the first day Li Wujian was moved to cry, he felt that he could eat for a lifetime, but on the fifth day, he couldn't stand it, and he got goosebumps all over his body when he saw the oily rice, and he shuddered. He swore that every bite of food was pressed hard, and even the esophagus was filled.
Li Wujian lay on the chair weakly, he begged Wang Ning'an, hoping to go out and run, but he ran like crazy, running until he had no strength and collapsed on the ground, which was cool.
Wang Ningan shook his head resolutely, what are you kidding, your belly has not yet bulged, and your face has not yet been oiled, you say that you are a rich businessman, and you can believe it!
"I can tell you, it's not easy to accumulate some fat, if you dare to toss it, be careful that I will punish you severely."
Scare me again! Li Wujian glared at the strange eyes and said angrily: "Are you torturing me like this because I robbed the whale meat?" Then you're going to kill me! ”
"Kill you, what should your mother do?"
pinched Li Wujian's weakness all of a sudden, and he hugged his head, "In a few days, how will I take care of my mother with such a ghostly appearance?" ”
"Don't worry, it won't be long, because some people can't sit still, as far as I know, the merchants of the Liao Kingdom are desperately looking for spirits, and someone will come over soon."
"Ah, I finally don't have to be a pig!" Li Wujian danced excitedly, but in the next few days, he felt that it was actually not bad to be a pig...... Wang Ningan felt that he was too dark, so he threw him into a wooden barrel, filled it with hot water, added many strange things, and then brushed it with a bristle brush, every time Li Wujian felt that he was a fat pig to be slaughtered, and the skin on his body was scraped off layer by layer, the taste was indescribable.
Compared to this, the beauty of the face is even more speechless.
The big black face was smeared with a thick layer of powder, and there was an old woman who was missing a tooth, and hung the thread on the tooth, and spread her two hands, and kept scraping and scraping on Li Wuji's face, scraping and singing at the same time.
"The left bullet gives birth to a noble son, the right bullet gives birth to a delicate man, and the third line plays steadily, and the young lady gives birth to a unicorn...... The eyebrows are pulled like a crescent, and the champion looks at the flowers. We congratulate you today, congratulations on your bride, ah, bride ......"
Damn, it's actually a face-opening song!
The old man has become a new daughter-in-law, and the new daughter-in-law of the family opens her face once in her life, he is good, once a day, once a day!
People are grooms every day, he is a bride every day, who has Lao Tzu offended?
Li Wujian felt that the sky was dark.
Even after a few decades, when it comes to this experience, it is unbearable to look back, whenever he hears others praise Wang Ning'an, Li Wujian scoffs, that is a means that you have not seen him, and I am sure to let you toss back and forth from thirty-three days to eighteen layers of hell, tossing for a while to be a fairy, a moment of ghosts, the heart and liver are devastated, the spirit is poisoned in every way, and the three views are shattered......
However, Li Wujian also has to admit that these days Wang Ningan has told him too many ways to figure out people's hearts and observe words and feelings, a simple good boy has disappeared, and under the honest surface, a cunning fox is waking up.
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Xu Jie has been very angry recently, originally he was the first Liao merchant to get the Yaochi elixir, at that time, a jar of Yaochi elixir could be exchanged for ten of the best war horses, and his wealth was like blowing up a balloon, expanding rapidly, becoming one of the top wealthy merchants in Youzhou.
In order to get the wine, the nobles of the Liao Kingdom also invited him as a guest, which was really full of gold and silver, and they were all powerful people in and out, and every day was like the New Year.
Even if more and more spirits were smuggled later, the Yaochi elixir that Xu Jie got was the best, but the situation has changed abruptly since the second half of the year.
The supply is getting less and less, and the wine is getting more and more impurities, he got angry several times, and even threatened the other party to stop paying, who knows that before he stopped paying, the other party preemptively stopped the supply, and told him that the court was strict, and there would be no Yaochi elixir in the future.
Having lost the wine, those nobles lost interest in him, and more business rivals began to covet Xu Jie's wealth and wanted to take it for themselves.
The Liao State is different from the Great Song Dynasty, it is still the law of the jungle here, no one is covered, and holding countless wealth is equivalent to suicide.
Xu Jie couldn't sleep at night again and again, and he decided to go to the Great Song Dynasty to see what was going on.
As soon as he arrived in Xiongzhou, Xu Jie got the unfortunate news that the famous Fan Zhong had drowned in Hebei, and his first request to the emperor was to ask His Majesty to stop paying tribute to Yaochi Agar Jelly and to relieve the victims with the saved grain.
Zhao Zhen immediately agreed, and Fan Zhongyan personally swung the hammer and smashed the cauldron of winemaking.
Xu Jie couldn't understand, isn't it just some ordinary people, what the Great Song Dynasty has, an emperor actually gave up enjoyment for the sake of some ants, it is impossible in Daliao! Whether it is the subjects or the people, it is the wealth of the emperor, and it can be harvested at any time, as you like, and do whatever you want, that is the Ninety-Five Supreme!
The emperor of the Great Song Dynasty is too cowardly!
Xu Jie couldn't accept it, but he felt the power of Prohibition.
After smashing the Yaochi elixir, the old Xianggong Han Yi took the lead in responding, and all the wineries under the name of the Han family stopped brewing, and sold the saved grain at a flat price, in response to Fan Xianggong's feat.
Since then, the entire Hebei winery has been shut down, even if the restaurant has no wine, only some remote villages, and some villages make fruit wine, which occasionally flows into the city, and the drunkards can only secretly drink a few sips in a place where no one is around, once they are found drinking, after suing the government, the person who raised the case can immediately get a stone of food, and the person who drinks will have to pay a fine of two stones!
This kind of thing that offends all drunkards is what Fan Zhongyan dares to do, and he does it as a matter of course!
Xu Jie's scalp was numb, completely dumbfounded, looking at this, it was a dream to continue to get Yaochi elixir. But without wine, his own business, and the Xu family, wouldn't it be over!
He was so depressed that he had to bring the bookkeeper and the housekeeper over to discuss a solution.
The bookkeeper had a flexible brain, thought about it and said: "Owner, there is nothing that money can't solve these days, as long as you are willing to spend money, you can get wine, I don't believe it, who still can't get along with money." ”
Xu Jie thought about it for a long time, gritted his teeth and said, "That's it, I'll go to Cangzhou!" ”