Chapter 24 The first trip into the city
Li Xiaoqi pulled Li Zonggui into the tea shop, and the doctor of tea and wine hurriedly greeted the two at the door, and asked politely, "What's the matter with the two little brothers?" β
Li Zonggui pulled Li Xiaoqi to pause, Li Xiaoqi bent his eyes and asked with a smile: "This big brother, I want to ask, do you sell mansions in your shop?" β
Dr. Cha Fan Liang showed a smile on his face, and his words were a lot more kind and polite: "Yes, little brother wants to buy it?" Ten big bucks a piece, just arrived last night. β
"Was there anything before that? My brother and I were so busy on the road that we hadn't seen the house for two or three months. Li Xiaoqi asked with a smile.
"Little brother, wait a minute, let me find it!" Dr. Cha Fan and Liquor took a few steps into the cabinet, bent over and flipped through for a while, took a few copies and copied them out, flipped them over, and said with a smile: "There are five copies here, just one after last month, the little brother looks at it first, and I will look for it when I go back, if there is, the little brother will come back next time to get it." β
"Well, thank you!" Li Xiaoqi smiled and thanked him, took his purse, counted the big money one by one, and said with a smile: "It's just ten big money, those copies are all from earlier, and if you put them, you can still put them, copy the old mansion in the past, how can anyone still want it?" The little brother just took it and saw it. β
Li Xiaoqi smiled so much that his eyes were crooked into crescent moons, thanked him repeatedly, counted ten money, and handed it to Dr. Cha Fan and Wine.
Li Xiaoqi rolled up the mansion copy, stuffed it into Li Zonggui's arms, and was about to leave, when there was a sound of footsteps upstairs, and a young man about twenty years old, dressed in a miserable green silk robe, swollen with rotten peach eyes, had a full face of wine and food, and was about to go out with a folding fan, when the shopkeeper rushed out of the private room in the back, rushed forward and bowed slightly to stop him, and said politely: "Uncle Chen, first meet the account and then leave, a total of two taels or three dollars of silver." β
"Put it on the books!" Uncle Chen impatiently waved the folding fan and ordered, the shopkeeper stood still, blocking the road, hehe laughed dryly: "Uncle Chen, the small shop has a small profit, but you can't afford to pay the account, Uncle Chen still rewarded the silver." β
Uncle Chen glared at the rotten peach angrily, and pointed at the shopkeeper with a fan and scolded: "Good you Hou Qi!" Usually the master doesn't come for a few days, and you still beg the master to come! Today, my brother-in-law has just been dismissed, and you turn your face and deny people? What the are you! It's not worth lifting shoes for the master! β
The shopkeeper straightened up, raised one eyebrow, and said with a smile: "Is it worthy, I'm a shopkeeper of a wine shop, and I can't afford to give you Chen Da's shoes, your brother-in-law?" When will this aunt's brother be able to call her brother-in-law? Chen Da, the neighbors in our street, I also advise you, it's time to accept it. β
Uncle Chen's fingers trembled and kept pointing at the shopkeeper, but he couldn't speak, gritted his teeth, his face was purple, he felt out of his purse in pain, and threw a piece of silver out, the shopkeeper took it and checked it, pulled the corners of his mouth and sneered: "It's just two taels, forget it, for the sake of the neighborhood for many years, forget the three coins of silver, next time I come, I think Uncle Chen still pressed the silver to the counter first, and then eat wine and ask for food." β
Uncle Chen exhaled and rushed out with a snort.
Li Xiaoqi and Li Zonggui hid in the corner and watched the excitement, watching the shopkeeper go in with the silver, Li Xiaoqi shook off Li Zonggui's hand, came out of the corner, stepped forward and pulled the tea and rice and wine doctor, and asked with a smile: "Who is that person?" It's interesting. β
"That!" Dr. Cha Fan pouted, and said with disdain on his face: "It turned out to be a scoundrel on this street, and I don't know whose way it went, so I gave my sister to Qian Jizi as a concubine, and since then I have trembled, this time it's okay, Qian Jizi was evacuated by the imperial court, hehe, this is the current world newspaper!" β
"Money cuddle? Who is the money cue? Li Xiaoqi asked curiously.
"Zhizhou Qian Wenxuan, the best at holding money, since he arrived in our Zhengcheng, he has done the one thing of holding money! Zheng Cheng's land made him scrape three feet lower! Bah! That's the difference! It's too cheap for him! According to me, you should be killed! That's on this copy! Dr. Cha Fan and Liquor indignantly lit the copy in Li Zonggui's hand, Li Zonggui stepped forward and pulled Li Xiaoqi, who was going to continue to inquire, and dragged her out of the tea shop.
"Xiaoyi, don't inquire about these idle things, it's easy to get into trouble if you ask too much." Li Zonggui persuaded in a low voice, Li Xiaoqi was thinking about it, nodded as if he was listening, suddenly turned his head, looked at Li Zonggui and said: "Brother Guizi, let's inquire again and see where this Qian Zizi's family is, since he has withdrawn, he will definitely leave Zhengcheng, do you say he will go to Taiping Mansion or will he go back to his hometown?" β
Li Zonggui raised his hand and stroked his forehead: "Xiaoqi, I asked you not to inquire about this kind of idle matter!" It's easy to get into trouble! β
Li Xiaoqi copied the mansion into Li Zonggui's arms and stuffed it, took Li Zonggui's arm, and said with a grin: "Brother Guizi, just ask, maybe, it's a good opportunity!" Let's go, let's go to the pharmacy over there, buy a few catties of honeysuckle, elderberry, houttuynia cordata and Tian Sanqi or something, those croppers practice, if they hurt their muscles and bones, break their skin or something, they can get better faster with some medicine. β
Li Zonggui helplessly followed Li Xiaoqi into the empty pharmacy, while buying medicine, he wrung his brows and listened to her and the pharmacy guys talking happily and happily.
More than a dozen catties of medicine were bought for more than half an hour, Li Xiaoqi inquired back and forth, and then wrapped the various pills given by the pharmacy guy to try them in the baggage found by the pharmacy guys, wrapped a big bag, hugged the medicine bag, bit the big hawthorn pills sent by the guy as a snack and ate it, and Li Zonggui, who couldn't cry or laugh, went out of the pharmacy.
Li Zonggui was carrying more than a dozen catties of herbs on his back, and Li Xiaoqi walked in front with the big bag of pills, and jumped to the big car shop to wait for Li Zongliang and them.
Li Zongliang and his entourage almost arrived at the big car shop at about the same time as them, Wei Shuisheng carried a blanket on his back, and Li Zongliang followed behind empty-handed, Zhang Tiemu and Zhang Dazhuang and Sun Yushan pushed two wheelbarrows full of more than a dozen bags with a red face, and when they arrived at the door of the big car shop, Zhang Xingwang greeted him excitedly, several people neatly rearranged the grain bags on the car, moved the stone ridge to the car and tied it flat, Li Zonggui piled up the herbs on another wheelbarrow and tied them up, Wei Shuisheng picked up Li Xiaoqi and put it on the car, Zhang Tiemu four people, Pushing a wheelbarrow, he hurried out of the city with joy.
On the way, Li Xiaoqi sat high on the wheelbarrow, comfortably leaned on the bundle of herbs, carefully looked at the Di copy, and read all kinds of things to Li Zongliang and Wei Shuishengβ’β’β’β’β’β’
Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng listened intently, and Zhang Tiemu listened with a blank face, this girl fifth master, what kind of magical power is this?
After two days of eating a full meal, the mountain was full of vitality, Li Erhuai took Zhang Jiwang and Sun Qidi, who knew how to do carpenter work, into the city, bought axes, saws, chisels and other carpenter tools back, took people up the mountain to cut down a few trees, and was busy for two or three days, and first made a bed for Li Xiaoqi to come out.
Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng made a charter, arranged shifts for more than a dozen people, and took turns to be on duty at the bottom of the mountain, and the rest of the people, in addition to working, were led by Li Erhuai and others in turn, and sometimes, they also took people to the mountains to hunt some wild things back, Sister Zhang is a capable person, such a big winter, and from time to time to find some edible wild vegetables to come back, but they didn't dare to go far, Li Xiaoqi looked at the same things as those leaves and grass roots for a long time, and he didn't know the same.
The people on the mountain, even the stone ridge with a broken leg, although the leg can't move, the hand has not been idle, the straw shoes of everyone on the mountain, the basket for food items, are all made up by him, the straw shoes he played are more comfortable than Erhuai's, Li Xiaoqi does not wear straw shoes, this is Li Erhuai himself.
Idler, just Li Xiaomi, Li Xiaomian asked Erhuai to make a rocking chair for her, the biggest hobby every day is to drag the rocking chair to the sun, rocking the rocking chair, basking in the sun and watching Zhang Tiemu and the mountain bandits practice muscles and bones, Zama step. Tie up the horse step, Li Erhuai began to teach moves, Li Erhuai is serious and majestic, no matter who it is, as long as there is a trace of it not in place, it is not an elbow kick, or a kick, just one moment, the person will be kicked to the ground, and then a loud roar, the one who fell, has to quickly get up and re-swing the move.
Li Zongliang, Wei Shuisheng and Li Zonggui also got up early in the morning every day to practice first, and the guns and knives danced impenetrablely, provoking a group of mountain bandits, especially Zhang Tiemu, who was simply salivating, and when they were busy, Li Zongliang sometimes stood on the edge of Li Xiaoyi's rocking chair, holding his hands on his chest, and leisurely watched Li Erhuai lead people to practice.
Zhang Tiemu and the others practiced their moves for a while, Li Erhuai gave an order, everyone stopped, gathered in one place to gasp and rest, Li Xiaoqi squinted his eyes for a while, jumped up from the rocking chair, held Li Zongliang's arm, and said with a smile: "Big brother also point out to them, just let me see how much my eldest brother's kung fu has grown!" β
"What can you discern? How do you know about kung fu? Li Erhuai laughed, Li Xiaoqi glanced at him, and only shook Li Zongliang's arm: "Big brother beat them thirteen by himself!" One against thirteen! β
Wei Shuisheng smiled and rubbed Li Xiaoyi's head, turned his head to look at Li Zongliang, raised his eyebrows, and agitated: "Try your hand?" β
"Good!" Li Zongliang had already had some itching, and happily agreed, and more than a dozen people over there listened attentively to the movement here from Li Xiaoqi shouting and pointing, and seeing Li Zongliang agree, Zhang Tiemu jumped up excitedly and hurriedly waved his hand to greet everyone.