Most of the guests in the teahouse are chatting, and after a while, some people get up and leave, and new guests come in, and some go up and down the wooden building next to them.

Since it is the people chatting, it should be mainly the parents, but the people who can drink tea in this teahouse seem to be different from ordinary people. Li Ji listened to it, what is the weather in recent days, this year's harvest prediction, whose children are naughty, and other things that are most mentioned by the guests in the market and the countryside, but there are also a lot of anecdotes in the city, major events in the court, trivial affairs in the palace, village elders entering Beijing, and the movements of the surrounding princes.

Although it is difficult to distinguish the authenticity of many contents for a while, it also makes him feel that the trip is worthwhile. Some secret matters are even difficult to find out in detail, if they can be verified and reported to Cao Gong, even if this assassination fails, it should be considered meritorious.

Therefore, Li Ji patiently blended in with the crowd, savoring the taste of tea, occasionally interjecting a few words, skillfully guiding the topic to his interest.

These guests in the lobby of the teahouse are not the typical silent old peasant character, and many of them are pretentious. In the conversation, astronomy, geography and military can almost say something, and each has a reason, and the argument is even more red-faced and spittle.

Occasionally, a robe and crown belt obviously came in more prominent than the people in the hall, and went up the stairs, no matter who it was, most of the people in the hall recognized it, some people got up to greet them, and some of them ignored the difference in status, and asked for answers to the topics they had talked about before.

In the face of inquiries, those in wide robes and high crowns may not answer, and some people will tell them casually. But no matter who it is, as long as someone in the hall says hello, at least they must stop and nod in return, and there is no self-sustaining identity that is superior to others, regardless of withdrawing and leaving.

Listening to the tea guests in the hall talking about the identities of these upstairs, several of them were even upstarts of the Yuan Kingdom who had direct access to the emperor.

Li Ji looked at the stairs, the floor of this teahouse is not the boundary between the common people and the nouveau riche, the price is.

In other words, as long as he can afford the tea money on the second floor, he Li Ji can also go upstairs.

Sneaking into Luoyang these days, he took the most harvest today, Li Ji's heart was full of joy, but unconsciously, the teahouse guy had come to change the tea twice, it turned out that it was gradually in the middle of the day, and he drank a stomach of tea, and he didn't care about half a full, but he was more hungry, and he was afraid that Xiahou Jin, Gong Chengjiu and others would think that something was wrong, so he went out to find an accomplice on the grounds of foraging.

It was agreed that Xiahou Jin and Gong Chengcheng had been wandering outside the teahouse to sell goods, waiting for news. Li Ji stayed in it for too long, thinking that the two of them would be suspicious, but when they found the two, Gong Cheng was constantly smiling at a woman under the shade of a tree on the bank of Luoshui, and Xiahou Jin sat on the ground teasing the woman's child, without any anxiety.

Li Ji waited in the distance for a while, and when the woman and the child left, Fang stepped forward and asked Gong Cheng: "A certain person has achieved great things for the main family, and has abandoned his family and sacrificed his life to this point. ”

Among the group, Gong Cheng is the most handsome, and he is not very old, he used to hook up with women when he was doing fine work, and he can also get a lot of information from the woman he hooked up, so no one blames him.

Li Ji asked. Gong Cheng rolled his eyes and ignored him, but Xiahou Jin explained: "Today, for some reason, there are many shoppers, and the goods I and I brought were sold out in half an hour. ”

Li Ji also knew that the previous scene was not a hookup between men and women, but among the twelve dead soldiers, he was only familiar with Gong Cheng before, and the relationship between the two was the best, and the previous question was half ridicule and half opening remarks.

After Xiahou Jin explained, he asked about the teahouse again, and Li Ji said it one by one.

At the beginning of the task, Xiahou Jin knew that the assassination of the Yuan Emperor was extremely difficult, so his patience was much more than that of Lu Kuang, who was bent on fighting for the new family, but no matter how patient he was, he was also sad that he couldn't find the slightest eyebrow in front of him. The three of us can go together, inquire in many ways, and make friends with the dignitaries of the Yuan Kingdom when we have the opportunity! ”

Xiahou Jin is the leader, and his words are orders. Li Ji hurriedly took two wheat cakes from Gong Cheng's bag and chewed them, padd his stomach, turned around and walked back to the teahouse, entered the door and smiled at a few old tea customers who were familiar with each other before: "Princes and drink slowly, so I will try it on the second floor." ”

An old man who had chatted happily with him before nodded and replied: "If you want to sell tea, you just know its good and bad, so you don't want to sit idle with us, go quickly!" ”

After Li Ji confessed his sins to everyone, he went up the stairs.

After a while, Xiahou Jin and Gong Cheng also walked into the teahouse one after another, finding a place to sit down and drink tea and talk with others.

Different from the crudeness on the first floor, there are more than 20 independent desks and straw mats in the hall on the second floor of the teahouse.

Pretending to be a tea seller, Li Ji first lit all the tea at different prices in the teahouse before looking at the other guests.

Compared with downstairs, although there are more than a dozen people sitting in this hall, it seems a little deserted. These tea guests are wearing robes, and they can't see everyone's waist cards clearly, but if you think about it, you also know that most of them are the people of the Yuan Kingdom, and a few of them are probably officials, these people are of higher status, and they talk to each other softly, and there are two people playing in front of the window, and the fall is just a soft sound, and no one goes to watch them, which is far less lively than the first floor below.

The guy brought a few hot teas, all in a much more delicate white porcelain cup, this time the teacup finally has the existence of tea, Li Ji simply distinguished, it seems that the low-priced tea is made of old stems and large leaves, and the high price contains more young buds.

This teahouse has three floors, there are stairs above the second floor, occasionally there are people up and down, Li Ji drank all the tea, and asked the guys: "A certain or next year will sell this tea to sell, want to know all the tea, etc., is there still good tea upstairs?" ”

The guy shook his head and said with a smile: "The distinguished guest does not know, the third floor is a place for the owner to gather friends, and there is nothing for sale. ”

Li Ji only needs to listen to the behavior of Emperor Yuan, not interested in the new teahouse itself in the Yuan Kingdom, after listening to the words of the man, he nodded and calmed his heart to investigate upwards, who knew that there was a lame young man on the stairs who came down step by step with a cane, heard the conversation, laughed loudly and interjected: "If you really sell tea, you can sell it to my house!" ”

The second floor was quiet, and the young man's voice naturally alarmed everyone, and even the two players frowned and looked back.

The Yuan Kingdom acted very differently from the Han family, and most of the local disabled people were monitored, and they should stay away from each other. Seeing the young man's lameness, Li Ji's heart tightened at first, but when he looked closely, he had a purple card hanging on his waist, whether it was an official, a master or a craftsman, it was easier to deal with than the supervision of the red card.

Li Ji got up to give a salute, and the young man had already walked down the stairs, returned the salute, and said with a smile: "A certain person is disabled, the etiquette is incomplete, don't be guilty!" ”

There were also tea-drinking guests next to him, who were familiar with the young man, and greeted: "Ziquan, didn't go to work today?" ”

The young man turned his head and replied with a smile: "It's the turn of Mu Xiu, so I have time!" ”

After dealing with acquaintances, the lame young man introduced himself to Li Ji again: "My surname is Liu Mingxuan, because of the crippled body, the elder gave me all the words." This year, he is eighteen years old, and he only has a good people's household registration as a craftsman, and he did not dare to speak about commercial affairs, but fortunately his father has military merits, and he is a first-class meritorious citizen, so he can do business on behalf of his father, and he dares to discuss matters with customers. ”

"Li in Beihai, but a businessman, knows the noble household in Luoyang, and is fortunate in his life! Please take a seat! ”

Li Ji just greeted him politely, but the young man was not polite, put the crutches next to the desk, and sat down on his knees, looking ready to have a long talk with him.

Li Ji had no choice but to sit at the table, he was going to make friends to spy on Emperor Yuan's behavior, but the young man came uninvited, which made him a little vigilant.

Facing Li Ji, Liu Xuan first predicted the future sales of tea in the Yuan Kingdom, and strongly invited Li Ji to participate in this matter.

Although he is disabled, this young man is cheerful, smiling nine times out of ten, and occasionally losing etiquette is also very measured, and will not make people feel disgusted.

The guests who went in and out knew him a lot, and from time to time someone came to greet him, mentioning more craftsmen, it should indeed be a craftsman in Henan, relying on his father's meritorious businessmen to earn money, and it didn't take long for Li Ji to be suspicious.

deliberately guided the direction of the topic, and after half a day, Li Ji was pleasantly surprised to find that this young man Liu Xuan knew a lot about the affairs of the Yuan Kingdom, and listened to his words, and was also familiar with the Deng Zhong brothers and Xie Yun, and could enter and leave the palace at any time.

It's just that the people of Luoyang claim to be familiar with Emperor Yuan, and I don't know if the young man in front of him is bragging.

On the other hand, listening to Li Jishan's boasting for a long time, Liu Xuan was so envious that he couldn't be free, holding his stump leg and sighing that he couldn't be free, and it was difficult to travel all over the world and see the world.

At least on the surface, the two were very happy and got along with each other this time, and before parting, Liu Xuan also left his own address, and also asked Li Ji about the guest house where Li Ji lived, and invited Li Ji to sell tea to come to Yuan Kingdom to make a profit.

This teahouse is different from other businesses, it still does not close until the end of the day, and there are still customers coming and going, but the three dead assassins are afraid that they will be too eye-catching, and they will not stay too long, so they will leave one by one after dark.

In the end, the day was still in vain, but finally had a clue and direction, and Xiahou Jin, Li Ji, and Gong Chengdu were very excited.

Xiahou Jin first went to another guest house to inform Lu Kuang of the matter, and finally stabilized the hearts of the dead soldiers, and when he returned to his own guest house, he and Li Ji and others lived in the guest house where a few new rangers lived, and the accent should be from the land of Bingzhou.

On the second day, Li Ji and Gong Cheng went to the teahouse again, and they got a lot of secrets.

In the evening, Lu Kuang came over, and when the five of them were discussing in Xiahou Jin's room, someone suddenly knocked on the door.

Long instruments are not easy to carry, today Lu Kuang only came with a short blade in his arms, heard a knock on the door, was taken aback, and hurriedly took the short blade out, and secretly buckled his elbow.

Xiahou Jin held it down, glared and whispered: "Don't worry! ”

The Lu family newly voted for Cao Cao, and Lu Kuang was a vote for his life, and his family had to evaluate the eight-grade family, and he was eager to receive a reward for his meritorious service, but he didn't dare to disobey the leader of the Xiahou clan from the first grade.

By the time Lu Kuang withdrew the short blade, Cao Cheng had already retracted his head from the window and showed Xiahou Jin that nothing had happened.

Xiahou Jinfang raised his voice and asked, "Who is outside the door?" ”

The owner's voice sounded: "Someone has come to visit Li Keshang, can Li Keshang be in the foot room?" ”

Xiahou Jin nodded and asked Li Ji to open the latch, and the person who was laughing beside the owner of the shop outside the door was the young Liu Xuan whom Li Ji met in the teahouse yesterday.

(To be continued.) )