"Old man Nanming, ask to see your lord and the lacquer carving. "Bixia Palace Martial Arts Master Nan Ming flew down.

He was followed by two men and one woman. When I saw the pot, the ancestor Nanming arrived, and hurriedly greeted him. Looking behind the ancestor again, Master Gu Fang, Bixia Palace Female Crown Chu Yaoniang, and An Mu actually came, and hurriedly greeted them one by one.

Of course, Li Shushan also recognized these few, and introduced Chang Nanxiang, You Tong, and An Zhi to each other.

A pot asked, "Master, master, what are you looking for the marshal of lacquer carving?"

Nan Ming laughed: "I'll go to the lacquer carving and ask your master and apprentice for the money to compensate Li Shiru." ”

Everyone laughed all the way and came to the walled gate.

Outside the gate, Li Ziniang and Wen Lie couldn't help crying when they saw their eighth brother Ran Gon dying. After a long period of persuasion, Wen Lie announced the destruction of the Iwakuni and the victory of the battle against the bandits. Ordered the generals to form a team, beat the victory drum, and came to the Chinese army tent ten miles away.

Ning Wushan and lacquer carving caught the generals again, smiling happily.

Qi Diao looked at his nephew Chang Nanxiang and cut off his left arm, and then looked at the general's class, missing the eldest brother Wu Ju, the second brother An Hu, the fifth brother Zhang Ya, and the eighth brother Ran Gon, and asked Wen Lie loudly: "Sixth brother, what's going on?"

Wen Lie explained the battle situation in detail, and the lacquer carving let out a sad voice, urgently looking for the bodies of the four, crying and shouting one by one, where can he still return to his soul.

Zhenzhou Bajun, who was killed in the battle of Liyang County Office before, is now only Li Ziniang, Wen Lie, and Qi Diao. Ning Wushan and the generals were also in tears and grief.

The generals looked at the old road of Nanming, who was born with a crane hair and a childish face, and a black mole on the tip of his nose, which was very conspicuous. Eight feet long, holding a whisk in his hand, a sharp sword hanging from his waist, wrapped in purple Tianxian cave clothes, and wearing a crown of five mountains, it seems that he has received the three altars of the Great Ring, and his status in Taoism is extremely high.

Ning Wushan wanted to let him take a seat, but Nan Ming didn't dare, so he stood at the head of the class. He was not polite, and bluntly explained that Li Shiru robbed Gu Fang and Youju master and apprentice 6,000 pieces of wood, to see if the thieves had been pacified, and the court could make up for this loss.

Ning Wushan laughed heartily: "What the Taoist chief asks, the true appearance should be played tomorrow." Besides, General Youhu has made such a great contribution, even if the imperial court does not give it, Wei Bojun will settle the account. ”

The lacquer carving took another step forward and gave a deep salute to Nanming: "The last will worship the Taoist chief immortal, and the end will have an unknown matter. ”

Nan Ming said with a smile: "Could it be that you are asking Mrs. Boping County about the mystery? As long as Lao Dao knows something, he must have no reservations." ”

This old way is really clever, as soon as we open our mouths, people will know what you think. Look at him speak, clearly and clearly, without any whitewashing. The lacquer carving was secretly impressed.

Marching Sima Gaobiao saw the victory of the army, announced that he would rise up from the village and go to the Liyang County Office to celebrate his achievements. The generals each led their men and horses, played triumphant songs, and marched out happily.

When I arrived at the Liyang County Office, the general was named, but found that there was one person missing. Which is your Tao?

The two-gun commander Li Jing disappeared, and everyone was shocked. What happened to him, or where did he go?

He secretly told Qidiao again, and he didn't go anywhere, but went home and continued to sell dates. Ning Wushan sighed with emotion, and wanted to present his merits to the Son of Heaven, give him a commander, and also come to a businessman.

Li Jing, the word Siyuan, is thirty-eight years old. He is not from Liyang, but from Jintan County, Changzhou. He has two brothers, and he is the eldest brother. The second brother, Li Quan and his wife, disappeared eight years ago due to the conspiracy of the county order, and they are still being searched. Therefore, he not only sneered at his career as an official, but also hated it.

This time, he helped Feng Cha, the commander of Liyang County, secretly visited Han Ying's background, and then became involved in the war against bandits. But in the end, he hated being an official, and when the war was over, he left with his hands, and went to the rivers and lakes to continue selling dates.

Feng Cha is from Lingchi, Yizhou, how did they get acquainted?

That was nine years ago. At the end of July of the eighth year of Yuanhe, when Feng Cha went to Chang'an to take the exam, on the way to Chang'an, after crossing the Luogu Pass, he encountered robbers in the mountains north of Luogu. The companion boy was killed, the money was looted, and he fought until he was weak and rolled down the cliff.

At the foot of the cliff, it happened that Li Jing drove the carriage and went to Chang'an to sell dates here. He was picked up, put in a wagon, loaded into a nearby village, found a doctor for the wounded, dressed him with medicine, and bandaged him.

I knew that he had lost his baggage, his horses, his weapons, his books, and his penniless. I accompanied him for two days, settled the account for him, and went to Chang'an together. Yu Lu talked about what happened to the two, fell in love, and became brothers. At that time, Feng Cha was thirty-three years old and was the eldest brother. Li Jing is twenty-nine years old and the second brother.

When he arrived in Chang'an, Li Jing retailed the twelve stone red dates in batches, and it took more than ten days to sell them out just before the Mid-Autumn Festival. The selling price of jujubes per catty ranges from 20 to 25 yuan, and the average income per catty is 6 yuan, and 12 stones are more, totaling 1,500 catties, earning nine yuan.

In addition, with five pieces of money for emergency use, there are a total of fourteen pieces of money. directly gave Feng Cha ten times, told him to rush to the exam for pocket money, bring four times of money himself, and continue to sell dates. In the late winter of that year, for more than 90 days, he sold it four more times, earning a little more than 40 yuan.

He hired four more wagons, collected fifty stones, and went to the Golaba Society. By the twenty-fourth of the year, all of them were sold out, and they made three hundred yuan. went back to Chang'an to meet Feng Cha, and directly gave Feng Cha fifty yuan of money and told him to take the test well. With the rest of the money, he went back to his hometown in Jintan County, Changzhou for the New Year.

When he arrived at Lijiabang in Jintan County, it was already the ninth day of the first lunar month. The year is almost over.

Li Jing's parents died of illness 19 years ago, when Li Jing was 19 years old and had already married a wife and had children. The second brother Li Quan is only fourteen years old and has not yet married. Li Jing took on the responsibility of being the eldest brother and raised him well.

Since that year, he took his younger brother to the north, and the brothers both worshiped under the door of the jujube dealer, and after three years of wandering, he took his younger brother Li Quan and began to work alone.

After working for a year, Li Quan was eighteen years old, married Li Quan's daughter-in-law, lent him money to build a house, and lived alone.

Li Quan also began to sell dates, and the two did not go all the way. It's just that they meet together during the New Year's holidays and learn from each other.

At noon on the 10th day of the first lunar month of this year, Li Jing returned to Li Jiabang from Chang'an, only to find that his brother Li Quan and his wife were not at home, and his two daughters and a son who had just learned to walk were eating and sleeping at his house.

Immediately felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly asked the old woman Luoyun: "What about Siben and Wenqing? Why don't you see anyone?"

The second brother Li Quan, the word Siben, is twenty-four. The younger brother-in-law is warm, the same age as the younger brother, and the family of the nearby village. The couple has been married for six years.

When Li Jing asked, Luo Yun suddenly couldn't cry, and told him a lot of angry cases.

That was what happened after the 23rd day of the lunar month.

Early in the morning on the day of the sacrificial stove, the children were sent to the sister-in-law, and the two daughters-in-law who were the same age as the village went to Jintan County to catch up with the New Year's fair and buy things for the New Year.

Luo Yun also gave her 200 yuan and told her to give her twenty or thirty catties of kelp to her family. Wenqing led a donkey, talked and laughed with the two daughters-in-law, and went straight to Jintan County.

But in the evening, Wen Qing didn't go home, which frightened Luo Yun, and hurriedly asked the two daughters-in-law Tang Ting and Su Jiao. Tang Ting had just entered the door and was about to go to Luo Yun. Seeing Luo Yun come to ask, he immediately burst into tears, saying that there was a catastrophe.

The three of them passed for more than an hour early in the morning and arrived at Jintan County, first wandering around the city and asking the price indiscriminately. At noon, I went to a wine shop in Xiguan and asked for three dishes and a pound of Jintan soju. While talking and talking, I plan to finish eating and drinking, don't eat, go to the street to buy some things, and go home directly.

This liquor shop is called Jintan Shochu. It has been more than 100 years since the invention of soju in the era of Wu Zetian. It was the imperial physician and former noodle head Shen Nanchang who was ordered by Emperor Wu to invent a good wine for the noodle heads to drink. This wine is a bowl of belly, and suddenly the whole body is hot, the male is furious, his speech is like a thunderstorm, he is reckless in doing things, and the bed is shaking the ground.

The noodles drank soju, and when they slept for Wu Zetian one by one, it was like a god descending to earth, Wu Zetian was a bone crisp and his soul was scattered, and he was refreshed every night.

Gradually, Wu Zetian couldn't bear the waitings of the noodle heads, and he also liked to drink soju. Often drank half a catty of soju, Wu Zetian was so powerful that he sent his face to sleep every night trembling.

Since then, soju has become popular all over the world, and all over the country have rushed to Luoyang, the eastern capital, to learn how to make soju, and liquor shops in various places are also named after so-and-so so-and-so so-and-so. Jintan Shochu is naturally a local soju, only the name of the wine shop, not out of Jintan County there are four, more than ten townships also have.

Wen Qing drank a pound of soju with Tang Ting and Su Jiao, and felt that she was not happy, so she simply asked for another two catties, and the three of them shared it equally. While drinking, I pulled some parents to short.

The man in Tang Ting's family is the helper of the soju shop, and he made a joke of her: "Tang Ting, your Li Kao, after drinking soju, it shouldn't be worse than Emperor Wu's face, right?"

At this time, Tang Ting was so hot that her face was red and her ears were hot because of the heat of the soju, her eyes were flirting, and she stared at the warmth, and when she saw him ask, she couldn't help laughing: "Warmth, do you understand? Li Kao Li Kao is full of treasures. Li Kao Li Kao, the smoke is misty. ”

Su Jiao said kindly: "When will the sisters be asked to press down Li Kao, in the end to see where he has treasure?"

Warmth couldn't help but laugh "poof" and laughed: "You should compose poems like this: hand dance Li Kao, Tang Ting's footwork, the first change of practice, until the point." ”

The three young women laughed. After laughing for a while, Wen Qing felt that Tang Ting was so happy, so what about Su Jiao? I couldn't help asking: "Su Jiao, your Li Tong is a date, I should feed you a lot of nectar, right?"

Their laughter, intriguing one of the handsome figures, told his attendant to bring the food and drink to the table near the three young women. I hope to find something I need from their boudoir words.

None of the three female guests here paid attention to this, and they joked and joked to themselves.

Su Jiao heard her ask about her husband, thinking about her suffering, and became angry in a blink of an eye: "Li Tong, this bastard, the old lady told him to pass every five days, but he didn't dare to agree." The old lady also had a song to scold him: Li Tong Li Tong, come and go in a hurry. Li Tong Li Tong, strong and hollow. Li Tong Li Tong is looser than a fart. ”

When Tang Ting heard her say this, she couldn't help but "poof", and her mouth full of vegetables sprayed all over the ground. Wen Qing couldn't help laughing and beat Su Jiao hard.

Su Jiao saw them laugh and said, "Warmth, someone made up a ballad for your husband, can you listen to it?"

Hearing her say this, Wen Qing's waist trembled, and she couldn't help but swallow it with honey, and hurriedly asked, "Say it quickly, what do you say about my Li Quan?"