Chapter 019: The Loser

An hour before the city gate closed, Li Wenxuan, who was sitting on a mule cart, returned to the city with the coachman. The first fork in the city was stopped by Li Wenxuan. After jumping off the mule cart, he settled the cost of the trip with the other party. He then carried the burden full of wild ginseng, carried the cloth in his arms, and parted ways with the coachman.

Li Wenxuan, who walked directly towards home, saw that the door was closed, so he knocked on the copper ring on the door panel. After a little while, listening to the sound of the door, Zhao Tian'er, who was wearing an apron, ran out of the kitchen and opened the door with flour on her hands. As soon as I saw him come back, I couldn't help but jump up and pounce on him. Li Wenxuan threw away the cloth in his hand and hurriedly opened his hands to hug her. I was afraid that I didn't hold Zhao Tian'er a moment too late, causing her to throw herself into the air and be injured.

She was very happy to have a feeling in her heart that she had not seen her for a day as if she had been in three autumns: "The magpie in the early morning will call directly. I expected you to come back today, so I started making you dumplings stuffed with cabbage. ”

It wasn't completely dark, and the streets were still full of people. Li Wenxuan, who noticed this, was not as excited as her, noticed that her hands were stained with flour, and said shyly: "Let's go in and talk slowly." I don't want to be treated like dumplings by you in public. ”

Zhao Tian'er, who nodded, landed on her feet. With a happy face, she only found that Li Wenxuan's face and clothes had been glued with the remaining flour in her hands, so she couldn't help but laugh out loud. Li Wenxuan, who bent down to pick up a piece of cloth under his feet, followed her and walked in. The door was closed, the latch was inserted, and the two walked side by side again.

Li Wenxuan believed that the little girl's dirty hands had been wiped clean by himself, and said: "I don't know what to buy when I go far away, so I bought a piece of cloth to make new clothes for you." ”

Zhao Tianer, who took the hand, received the gift, smiled brightly, and jumped with joy. Holding the cloth with one hand, she kept stroking with the other, and touched and felt it with her smooth face.

Li Wenxuan, who was standing on the side, saw her uncontrollable happy appearance and thought to herself, this little girl is really easy to be satisfied. I just gave her a very ordinary homespun cloth. Thinking of this, he recalled that when he gave Jin Hai to Zhao Tian'er, he didn't see her so happy.

In fact, he didn't understand his daughter's heart. Zhao Tianer doesn't care about whether the gift is expensive at all, but cares very much about the person who gives the gift. For people like her, who have never left Guixi County, Li Wenxuan's trip to this trip is to go to a far place. I already have a love for him, which makes me miss him day and night. He also brought a gift to himself this time, which is enough to show that he has a place for her in his heart, and it is precisely this that is the most important.

Although Zhao Tian'er had a lot of things to say to Li Wenxuan, before she could say it, she saw him go to the alchemy room. She was a little disappointed, and told herself, "If the two love for a long time, it will be in the morning and twilight", so she held the cloth in her arms, and went back to her house to put it away, and then went back to the kitchen to continue to make dumplings.

Li Wenxuan, who stepped into the alchemy room, took off the burden on his back and opened it. I took out all the wild ginseng from it and put it in a small drawer on the corresponding medicine shelf. Feeling that everything was basically ready, he decided that he could start refining the pill he needed tomorrow. He knew better than anyone else that the little pill he was going to refine was anything extraordinary, after all, it was made by him according to the ancestral secret recipe. As for its efficacy, it is a good thing that has been tested for hundreds of years, and it is accurate and hard to find. Its cost of making it is indeed high, after all, the consumption of wild ginseng will be very large.

Li Wenxuan, who was suddenly sitting on the futon, was naturally extremely confident in the pills he was about to produce. However, he knows the aroma of wine and is afraid of deep alleys. I have to come up with a good way to promote it vigorously and start the brand. For the free trial method, it is absolutely not possible, after all, that thing is expensive to make.

Until Zhao Tianer called for dinner, Li Wenxuan still didn't come up with the best feasible plan. She had already served two plates of steaming dumplings in the main hall. Picking up the chopsticks, he casually picked up a dumpling from the plate and put it in his mouth, and when he bit it, it was juicy and delicious.

Seeing Zhao Tian'er who had entered his mouth, she said expectantly: "How is it?" Is it tasty? ”

Li Wenxuan, who ate two dumplings in a row, smiled and said, "It's delicious." Unexpectedly, Tian'er is not only cute, but also has good cooking skills, and she really gets out of the hall and into the kitchen. ”

Zhao Tian'er, who began to put dumplings in his rice bowl, was overjoyed when she heard it, and said coquettishly: "Flamboyant tongue." If you do this again, people will be really angry and ignore you. ”

Li Wenxuan, who knew it well, could see that this was the hypocrisy of the little girl, and 10,000% would not be really angry. At this time, I believed that her heart was too beautiful. He began to look smug, and sighed that he was not a friend of the majority of women.

Li Wenxuan, who picked up a dumpling again, dipped the vinegar in the plate, and said lightly: "I haven't been here for the past two days, are there any interesting stories and rumors in this city?" ”

Zhao Tian'er, who pursed her lips, was fluctuated, her face showed anger, she didn't even think about it, and said: "It's okay if you don't ask, but this mention makes people angry." The news of the sale of the land has spread throughout the city, saying that you are a complete loser. There is also the matter of withdrawing from the marriage, which seems to have become our Li family's initiative to ask for the dissolution, and also took a large amount of silver from the Lin family as compensation. The most infuriating thing is that these rumors have also made many people believe that they are true. The day before, I was so unlucky that I met those two traitors in our family, and they even sneered at me. ”

Li Wenxuan, who didn't take it too seriously, ate another dumpling. I feel that the power of public opinion is strong, and the common people are too easily deceived. He can't rule out that the driving force behind all this is Lin Zhengbei, after all, the best way for the other party to completely eliminate the negative impact of divorce is to push himself to the stage of bad character.

picked up a dumpling and put it in Zhao Tianer's rice bowl, Li Wenxuan, and comforted: "If you are angry, it is me who is angry." If you are bullied, then I am bullied. Bear with it for a while, and then everything will be fine. ”

"Today, I met a little beggar. Seeing that his face was yellow and thin, he gave him two copper plates to buy steamed buns to eat. In comparison, I am many times stronger than him who is so happy that I don't know how to do it. Zhao Tianer, who felt that she shouldn't tell these things, diverted the topic and said: "I lost my family and spent money once." ”

"I'm the big loser, and you're the little loser." Li Wenxuan couldn't help laughing and said, "You are kind-hearted, and I am a loser who sold his ancestral property." ”

After laughing, a thought suddenly flashed through him, and he became a little excited. He put down the chopsticks in his hand, and his mind was spinning rapidly. He can get the beggar to do propaganda for him. In addition, you can even let children join in to promote themselves. In this way, the advertising cost will be low and the effect will be quite obvious.

Li Wenxuan, who had an idea, said very happily: "Tomorrow, you will go to the little beggar you gave alms again." Find not only him, but also his companions. Morning, noon, and evening, you give each of them two steamed buns as a reward. And there is only one requirement, which is to let them go to the streets to publicize that I have become a closed disciple of a certain immortal, and I am alchemy medicine. Soon, my first batch of elixirs will be baked. ”

Zhao Tian'er, who was crooked her neck, blinked her eyes several times, and said incomprehensibly at all: "Why do you want to do that?" ”

Li Wenxuan, who did not elaborate on the inside story, pretended to have a look of helping the world and saving people: "I once told you that there is a Taoist who has become an immortal who accepted me as an apprentice. He occasionally appeared in my dreams and taught me the art of alchemy. Now that I have become a Taoist priest, I have the responsibility to purify the common people. ”

Zhao Tian'er, who was full of admiration, had no doubts about this, and believed it: "Okay, I will definitely do what you explain." As for the steamed buns, it's up to me to make them myself. In this way, you can also use the saved money to make a few more. I just don't know how many days it will last? How many beggars are needed? ”

Li Wenxuan, who knew that she was especially good at living, took out all the silver from his sleeve pocket. He left two hundred taels of silver as money for the purchase of other missing equipment and medicinal materials, and then handed over a little more than sixty taels of cash to Zhao Tian'er. I am still very relieved that she will do this.

According to one steamed bun and two copper plates, then one tael of silver is one thousand wen, and five hundred steamed buns. A beggar has six steamed buns a day, even if a hundred beggars come, that is, six hundred steamed buns, more than one or two pieces of silver. If Zhao Tianer did it herself, the cost would be lower, and it would be more than enough to support the advertising expenses for the last two months.

"The duration is tentatively set at two months. As for the number of beggars, it will be within a hundred. Thinking that advertising needs to be vigorously promoted as the first place, Li Wenxuan didn't need to rush to buy others for the time being, and explained seriously: "If the money in your hand is not enough, then just ask me." No, it should be taken. We are a family, so we shouldn't see each other. ”

Zhao Tian'er, who felt that she had received a huge amount of money, looked at the silver on the table, and did not feel that it was not enough, but said with a look of embarrassment: "The silver should be enough." However, a hundred beggars are really not easy to get together. ”