"Zou Wang, I heard this person when I was in the big car shop in Ruyin Mansion, listening to the shopkeeper gossiping with people."

Li Sangrou filled himself with wine, and then filled the rice blind man, and then said Zou Wang.

"Zou Wang lost his father at the age of four or five, there was only one old lady in the family, since he was five or six years old, Zou Wang helped people run errands in the restaurant teahouse, earning a few pennies and rewarding money, and later when he grew up, he began to run a single gang and sell some things that were good to sell in season.

He is strong, has a good heart, is capable and willing to endure hardships, and has been able to make more money than others since he was a child.

After running the single gang, he made more money, and after saving money, he went to buy land.

By the time he was in his twenties, Zou Wang had already purchased forty acres of land and agreed to have a daughter-in-law.

The year before last, before the Dragon Boat Festival, he went to Bozhou to sell incense, on the way back, not far from home, when crossing the Ying River, catch up with the flood, cross the bridge halfway, the bridge collapsed.

He didn't know how to wash water, Wang Laoyan, who was selling incense and medicine together, grabbed him, and just pushed him ashore, a wave came and washed the exhausted Wang Laoyan away.

Zou Wang searched for dozens of miles along the river, found Wang Laoyan's body, and carried Wang Laoyan home.

Wang Laoyan is four or five years older than Zou Wang, and already has a son, a daughter and two children, when Wang Laoyan died, his daughter-in-law was pregnant and had been four or five months.

Zou Wangtuo asked Wang Laoyan's daughter-in-law, got a good word, went back and gave his forty acres of land to the girl who was engaged to him as a dowry, dissolved the marriage contract, and came back to marry Wang Laoyan's daughter-in-law.

Wang Laoyan's daughter-in-law later gave birth to a son, and both sons and a daughter were surnamed Wang. ”

"This man is righteous, kind-hearted, and a particular person." The blind man sighed.

"Well, he was still running the single gang at that time, I waited for him to come back, asked him if he would like to do it with me, he asked me carefully for half an hour, and nodded and said yes after asking.

He is extremely intelligent and scheming, and has known to be literate since childhood.

When he helped people run errands in the restaurant, he often took one word or two words for people to teach him, and when he met a literate person, whether it was a fortune teller or a matchmaker, he asked someone to teach him a word or two, a sentence or two sentences.

By the time I saw him, he could read the paperwork posted on the wall. Li Sangrou smiled.

"Both of these can be of great use." The blind man took a big sip of wine.

"Well, when the first month is out, hand over the business affairs of these four states to Nie Pozi, and let Zou Wang follow Lu Hepeng to have a long experience." Li Sangrou squinted and smiled, very satisfied.

"You're keeping up with the boss, lately, have you heard any letters?" After a moment of silence, the blind man looked at Li Sangrou and asked.

"What kind of letter are you talking about, what kind of letter are you?" Li Sangrou asked rhetorically.

"When I arrived at Wuwei Mansion, along the river, there were many people crying and worshipping.

It is said that the ship to Jiangbei was caught by the Southern Liang army and beheaded. The blind man looked gloomy.

"Wool and silk?" Li Sangrou furrowed her eyebrows.

"There are a lot of legitimate cargo ships. They were grabbed and chopped over there, and they were also caught and chopped here, all of which pulled boats and people to the middle of the river, cut people and burned boats, and I saw them twice, saying that they were smuggling silk and satin.

In the past ten years, the smuggling of wool and silk is just to rob the goods, and if you encounter a ruthless hand, it is just a boat to rob together, as long as people jump into the river, it doesn't matter, life and death are fate.

It has been decades since I grabbed them all like this and burned them in the middle of the river against the beheading.

Have you heard any letters? The blind man looked at Li Sangrou and asked again.

"Nope." Li Sangrou's words paused, and after a moment, his voice fell, "I saw Shizi once on the tenth day of the first month, and from that day to now, I haven't seen him again, and he hasn't been to the early dynasty." ”

"It's the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month today. Alas, it has been peaceful for decades, and it should not be peaceful, alas. The blind man sighed one after another, raised his head and drank half a bowl of wine.

Li Sangrou looked at him silently, and after a moment, he stood up, brought a jar of wine, poured it into the copper kettle, and put the copper kettle on the hot charcoal.

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Shunfeng Express shop all year round, the busiest during the New Year's Festival, can not rest, usually take turns off, this is to recruit people into the door, explained in advance.

This year's Spring Festival is particularly busy.

Fortunately, Li Dabao is a generous person, and he has long said that from the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve to the sixteenth day of the first month, one day counts as three days' wages.

Add the remaining half a month, a month in the first month, and you can get a little more than two months of wages.

The wages of the Shunfeng Express shop are already high!

In addition, in the wax moon, the thick bonus delivered by the shopkeeper Li Da made the Shunfeng Express shop busy from top to bottom, and the whole family was also dispatched to do a good job of logistics.

The Chinese New Year's Eve meal in Fried Rice Lane was in a hurry.

Seeing that it was getting dark, from Dachang to grasshoppers, they hurried to the shop, and the riders were almost there, and they had to check the things they were going to take to everywhere one last time, as well as the places where their boss had already picked up a few places to set up their stalls, and now they could put out the tent's signature tables and chairs, as well as their New Year's tricks.

When it was dark, there were only two people left in the courtyard, Li Sangrou and Mi Blind, facing a table of Chinese New Year's Eve dishes, eating slowly and leisurely.

Eat and drink well, Li Sangrou wore her dog skin jacket that was by no means good-looking and absolutely affordable, came out with the blind man, and walked to the alley of Zhang Mao and them first.

"When was the last time you were in Jianle City?" Out of the alley, Li Sangrou asked idly.

"Twenty years ago." The blind man looked around.

At this time, the Jianle City is lively in each door, and the streets and alleys outside the door are empty, but they are filled with the festive atmosphere of the New Year.

The strong smell of gunsmoke, the aroma of oil, meat, and wine wafting from every house, and the sound of firecrackers from far and near mixed into a heavy New Year's atmosphere, wrapping the two of them.

"Has anything changed?" Li Sangrou put her hands behind her back and smelled the festive atmosphere around her.

"It's much cleaner, and the jade wine is a little better than it was then." The blind man waved his blind cane and knocked on the door of the shop on the side of the street.

"Twenty years ago, the prince of Prince Rui's mansion was just born." Li Sangrou said idly.

"By tomorrow, he will be twenty-two, too, twenty years ago, even if he was just born, you really care about him." The blind man glanced at Li Sangrou.

"I have my back to him, and I don't care about him, but do I care about you?" Li Sangrou unceremoniously slammed back.

And so it is. The day before he was born, I found a place to go stargazing, and I watched it for two whole nights on Mount Yishan. The blind man pouted.

"What do you see?" Li Sangrou looked at him and asked.

"As soon as I climbed up, it rained, and it rained all night, and it was full of chestnut trees, and I ate roasted chestnuts all night. The second night it didn't rain, I ate too many roasted chestnuts, and I had diarrhea for a day and night. ”

Li Sangrou was extremely speechless, leaning at the blind man, and asked unceremoniously: "Do you know how to watch the stars?" ”

"At that time, it would, and now, after more than 20 years, I can't watch it." Mi Blind replied simply and simply, "On the day I left, the new princess of Prince Rui's Mansion entered the door, and the gongs and drums were noisy. ”

"I'm in a hurry." The corners of Li Sangrou's mouth tugged down.

"They are heavenly immortals, different from us mortals." The blind man poked a finger upward.

Li Sangrou hummed plausibly and raised her chin, "The front is." ”

In an alley in front, there lived Gu's sister-in-law.

Guarding the entrance of the alley is a large courtyard with two courtyard doors ajar.

The two of them stood in the shadows next to the courtyard gate, looking up at the big red lantern with a circle of green notes.

Mi Blind's mouth skimmed down into eight characters, "This note is paste, nondescript, this designation is Zhang Mao Na Nizi's idea, when her man died, she was so mushy." ”

"She stuck two or three thin and small strips of white paper at that time, which was much more sincere to the lantern paste." Li Sangrou also glanced at the pair of lanterns a few more times.

A burst of laughter came out from the yard, mixed with the excited screams of a small child, "Mother! Mother! ”

"It's very fun, let's go." The blind man swung his blind cane and spun around.

Li Sangrou snorted, and together with the blind man, he walked out of the alley and walked towards the downwind express shop.

The two walked from the brightly lit Shunfeng Express Shop, and then to the gate of the Tribute Courtyard, from the gate of the Tribute Courtyard to the Xijingling Palace, and then to the Jinliang Bridge.

When I arrived at Jinliang Bridge, at the head of Jinliang Bridge, several guys were busy, and they were erecting a big signboard for the wind express shop, and the shop manager Lao Zuo stood on the railing of Jinliang Bridge, and the grasshopper was holding Lao Zuo's leg below, so as not to let him fall.

Lao Zuo pulled his throat and commanded to move over there, and move again.

The two of them stood far away, and the blind man sighed, "You have chosen this place well, I will say, just doing night incense, I am too wronged by you." ”

The students of Jianle City, on the first day of the Lunar New Year every year, have an unwritten prayer route: just after dawn, first go to the Gongyuan Pilgrimage, and then go to the Xijing Ling Palace to ask for blessings, and then take this Jinliang Bridge.

Next year is the year of Dabi, and the dragon gate will be opened on the ninth day of February.

Tomorrow's prayer, the exam-taking people must go, whether it works or not, it will definitely not work if you don't go.

As for other talented scholars who are not qualified to take the exam, but just come to see and learn for a long time, they will also walk along this line, not all for auspiciousness, but more for a lively look.

After all, this prayer route is the most legendary, the most lively, and a great scenery that everyone can participate in during the long scientific expedition.

"It's a good place in front of Xuande, but it's a pity that I can't find an open space." Li Sangrou sighed regretfully.

The blind man leaned at her, and for a moment, he snorted, "It's a good place in front of the Jinluan Palace!" ”

"Alas, the next best thing to do is Donghuamen." Li Sangrou ignored the blind man's Jinluan Palace, and only continued his own words.

"You're in charge, Fuxiang." The blind man pointed at Lao Zuo with a blind cane.

"Where are you going tomorrow?" Li Sangrou also ignored the blessing of the blind man.

"What's the matter?"

"Look at me personally, Wang Yishu, the nephew of Mrs. Sun Zhou, the secretary of the ministry, this year...... Is it time to pass? Li Sangrou motioned to the blind man to go back.

"Not yet, it's still this year, it's okay if you're wrong, I understand."

"Wang Yishu just passed the autumn exam this fall, and he went to the capital in the month of Layue, looking like that, next year's spring will probably not end. You take a look at this person for me, don't rush, take your time. Li Sangrou continued.

"What's wrong with this man?"

"This person is not much, I want to see the Wuwei Wang family." Li Sangrou put her hands behind her back.

"By the way, take a look at Sun Zhou?" The blind man glanced at Li Sangrou.

Li Sangrou snorted.

The blind man stopped talking.

The two walked silently for half a street, and the blind man suddenly waved his blind cane, raised it and turned around a few times, "Big deal!" ”

Li Sangrou didn't even look at him, and just walked with his hands behind his back.

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On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the sky was just dawning.

The scholars who flocked to the Gongyuan pilgrimage, as well as the idlers who watched the scholars' pilgrimage, saw the first thing they saw was the big and surprisingly tailwind two words, and a row of more than a dozen huge signboards next to it.

The signboard is beautiful and gorgeous.

In the upper right corner of each signboard, there is a big red surname that occupies half of the horizontal width.

Get a little closer, you can see the name, character and number next to the surname, and the introduction below that can praise the famous people on the signboard to blush, all of them are what are the first people in the world, what are the first people, what is unprecedented, what is waiting for the future, what heaven and earth, only this one......

There was a long list of sycophants, and even the dark horse was a little blushing at that time.

Next to the signboard, several long tables are lined up in a long line, and the long tables are covered with brand-new snow-white felt mats.

At one end of the long case, twelve stacks of exquisite and festive worship stickers are neatly arranged.

In addition to the paste, every other person's space, there is a set of pen holder inkstone pen wash, pen holder on a row of high-quality lake pens, inkstone is very passable end inkstone, ink is high-grade good ink, pen wash is generous and simple, behind the case, two clean and neat, a festive little guy, standing with his hands down, in charge of grinding ink.

The whole case looks clean and tidy, and it is extremely eye-catching.

Xiao Luzi, who was wearing brand-new downwind overalls, and two other shop guys, holding a handful of twelve greetings the size of a human face, held them high, and shouted incredibly:

"Famous calligraphy and painting, Hanlin handwriting, exquisite and valuable, decent and auspicious, the first choice for New Year's greetings! Free shipping! Walk by and don't miss out! ”

Four or five feet away from the long case, there is a table of eight immortals, also covered with brand new felt cushions, but it is red, and there are three men sitting on three sides of the table of eight immortals, and each person has a collection and delivery account book in front of him.

The worship sticker of this famous calligraphy and painting, buy and write, and receive and send it on the spot.

Next to the Dragon Gate of the Tribute Courtyard, Pan Dingbang and Tian Shiyi stepped on the dismounted stone at the entrance of the Tribute Courtyard, and each of them steadied themselves according to the top of their own small heads, stretching their necks to look at the Shunfeng family who was surrounded by the scholars in the middle.

"Look at it, how lively! I'll just say, this worship is posted, and it is sought after by thousands of people! What do you think? I'm not wrong! Pan Dingbang's smug voice was out of tune.

The little guy squeezed back from the crowd, held up a stack of twelve stickers in his hand to Pan Dingbang, and finally freed his hand, straightened his head, and wiped the hot sweat again.

Pan Dingbang took a stack of stickers, looked at them one by one, and after reading one piece, handed it to Tian Shiyi, and talked excitedly while reading.

"Look at it, look at this one! And this one, this one! It's so pretty! How magnificent! How tasteful! Look! This carved plate! This color! It's not easy!

I see, this print looks much better than when I first drew it!

Look at this paper, it's the best paper! Look at this gold thread, look at this dark pattern! Look! It's all superb!

Spare no expense!

Look at Yao Hanlin's picture of a rich peony, make this worship sticker, you see, it's much stronger than his painting!

Eleven, you definitely don't know, I came up with this idea! I! ”

Pan Dingbang couldn't help it, and laughed proudly.

"Let me tell you, not only did I come up with this idea, but these twelve names, twelve Hanlin, were also selected by me for the treasurer of Sangda.

Anything else is amazing, she doesn't understand this!

It's all the people I picked!

Also, look at Yao Hanlin's one, meticulous and superior!

My third brother said that Yao Hanlin's peony is very attentive!

Let me tell you, originally, Yao Hanlin painted two peonies, good is good, not festive enough, I felt bad at first glance, I found his house at that time, watched him draw several pictures, and then picked this one.

What do you think? This one is festive, right?

The New Year is to celebrate! ”

Pan Dingbang said, laughing again.

"I'll tell you, I'm afraid of my vision, don't be careful, don't be optimistic for a while, take it out, if you let people say, this painting and this word, no heart, then it's not good, you're right.

I'll go to my third brother, my third brother's vision, you know, wait one!

After looking for seven or eight times, I finally asked my third brother to move and look through it. Don't say it, there are really three or four, and my third brother said that it was a little perfunctory.

I'll take it back and watch them redraw and rewrite! Until my third brother nodded!

I'm telling you, these are all boutiques! ”

Pan Dingbang laughed triumphantly again.

"And ...... Forget it. ”

Pan Dingbang trembled his eyebrows, said nothing, still didn't hold back, and leaned into Tian Shiyi's ear.

"Let me tell you, this idea came out, Li Da said, we have to come quietly, and wait for all the printing society paper shops to close for the New Year, and then suddenly take it out on the first day of the New Year! Let that all over the world, just can't catch up!

I was ......"

Pan Dingbang sighed a few times in satisfaction.

"I'm telling you, I really didn't say anything to anyone, not even you...... You were still locked up in the ancestral hall at that time. Pan Dingbang patted Tian Shiyi with satisfaction.

Fortunately, Eleven was locked in the ancestral hall, and Pan Dingbang felt that he was really lucky, otherwise, he was really afraid that he didn't keep his mouth shut, and told Eleven, Eleven is a big mouth!

"Next time there's such a lively thing, you call me!" Tian Shiyi finally interjected, "This worship post is really good, I have to buy a few more sets, and I will use this as a worship post this year, which is much stronger than what I wrote." ”