Unlike the previous conversation, this time Pei Xuanji came alone, and he didn't bring any money.

Li Tai sat at the edge of the village, with a stove beside him, and the pot on the stove was boiling tea eggs, and he was peeling one in his hand.

Pei Xuanji looked at Li Tai's expression and said, "His Royal Highness King Wei, the old man has been standing in front of you for a long time. ”

Li Tai took a bite of the tea egg and nodded, "This king has seen it." ”

The two of them looked at each other speechlessly, and after a moment of silence, Pei Xuanji said again: "His Royal Highness King Wei doesn't seem to welcome the old man. ”

"You didn't come today with any money."

Hearing this, Pei Xuanji wanted to speak and stopped, like a fish in his throat, and said in his heart that when he brought money the first two times, His Royal Highness King Wei was polite.

It's amazing how quickly this attitude has become.

Simply, Pei Xuanji also sat aside and didn't speak, as long as His Royal Highness King Wei didn't care about himself, he would stop talking.

King Wei is just an adult with a crown, but he is already middle-aged, so there is no need to worry about a child.

Thinking about this, he became more and more determined in his thoughts, since His Royal Highness King Wei is like this, the old man does not need to cater like this.

The world is declining, and people's hearts are not ancient.

Not long after, the guards brought a pickled duck, Li Tai ate the tea egg in his hand, and began to roast the duck.

After the duck was killed, it was marinated for half a day.

After the roasting, the oil and water flow out, and when the oil and water drip on the burning wood, you can hear the sound of sizzling.

The fragrance came, making Pei Xuanji swallow his saliva, and he remembered that it was already noon.

When I looked sideways, I saw that King Wei had crushed the pepper, mixed it with salt, and sprinkled it on the surface of the roast duck.

It is a very beautiful thing for Datang to have pepper and salt, although pepper is very expensive, but with pepper and salt, you can make the ingredients have one more seasoning, eating well and eating healthy has always been a great thing.

Pei Xuanji felt that his stomach was empty, and then he saw that Li Tai had begun to share the duck with his guards.

Seeing the embarrassed appearance of the other party, Li Tai tore off a duck wing and asked the guards to hand it to Pei Xuanji.

"Haha! Thank you, His Royal Highness King Wei. He took the duck's wings and nibbled on them.

This bite is getting more and more incredible, this roast duck tastes really delicious, I have never eaten such delicious duck meat in my life.

For the literati, the grilled food is not a good thing, and Pei Xuanji prefers stewed meat that is soft and rotten.

I'm used to eating stewed meat, and the kind of meat that is stewed with some salt is sprinkled like this, and it tastes like that.

But this duck wing is the most delicious food Pei Xuanji has eaten in nearly 40 years of life.

He smacked the duck bones vigorously, and then stepped forward to see His Royal Highness King Wei holding the roast duck with a mouth full of fat.

Li Tai then gave a duck leg to his guards, "What are you looking at this king?" ”

Pei Xuanji bowed his head and said: "The old man hates people who waste food the most in his life, if His Royal Highness the King of Wei can't finish eating, the old man can also share it." ”

A few guards beside Li Tai were gnawing on duck meat, and their days had been too hard recently, and it was rare to have a meat meal.

A duck was eaten clean, and even the meat on the duck rack was eaten.

Seeing that Pei Xuanji's heart was sour, he was even more hungry at this time.

After a while, a few more guards brought a bowl of vegetable leaves, and Li Tai took the bowl and began to eat vegetable leaves again.

This vegetable leaf is what Li Tai eats every day.

Today's vegetable leaves have been boiled and stirred with some minced meat, and these vegetable leaves are shiny.

Eating vegetable leaves, Li Tai said again: "Don't you go out without dry food?" ”

Pei Xuanji looked sad, "The old man thought that Lishan would understand hospitality and give him at least a bite of food to eat, but he didn't expect this Lishan to ignore it, the old man had been reading for half his life, and he had read all the classics of sages, but he was so bullied by this rural place." ”

In his eyes, he already regarded himself as a guest of Lishan.

Li Tai chewed the vegetable leaves in his mouth, "Brother Pei, why don't you bring money today?" ”

Pei Xuanji said with emotion: "The old man is here to see how the mountain breeze is in Lishan? I also heard that the Hou of Lishan County wanted to set up his own mountain gate, and the old man came to visit, but he didn't expect this Lishan to be so slow, and when the old man went back, he had to write an article to denounce Lishan's behavior. ”

Li Tai stood up, turned around and was about to return to the village.

Pei Xuanji took another step forward, "Can you ask His Royal Highness King Wei to bring the old man into the village and talk to the Marquis of Lishan County about hospitality." ”

Li Tai wiped the grease from his mouth, "You can bring silver money next time, the previous deposit was not enough, why haven't I seen you bring more?" ”

"It will take some days for the money to be prepared, and the old man is also waiting for their news."

"Yes, with so much money, it will cost a lot of manpower, material and financial resources just to transport it." Li Tai's expression was difficult, "Yesterday's Mid-Autumn Festival, my father came to Lishan for the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, and also talked about papermaking, now it's not your family who wants to buy it, and I hope Brother Pei will tell those people." ”

Pei Xuanji stood in place, his expression became more and more entangled, and he wanted to take another step, but was stopped by the guards.

This Lishan is a forbidden place, and it is difficult for ordinary people to enter it.

"His Royal Highness the King of Wei, dare to ask His Majesty what the price is?"

Li Tai stopped and looked back at him, "Naturally, I am taller than you." ”

Pei Xuanji looked very calm, he didn't care, "Dare to ask if the DPRK can really come up with so much money?" ”

Li Tai bowed his head and said: "Brother Pei, buying papermaking is not just a matter of silver, how much can my father give it for a price?" Land? Feudal marquis? Even if it is the status of the DPRK and China, what is not to do? ”

"But at the moment, my brother-in-law has not agreed to this matter, everyone in the world knows that the marquis of Lishan County is a man of great profit, but he doesn't care about his reputation, and his father and brother-in-law are furious after returning to the palace, and my father and brother-in-law have a bad conversation."

"If you can come up with more money, my brother-in-law may be shaken, and I ask you to send news to those people when you go back."

Li Tai smiled and bowed.

Pei Xuanji asked again, "What kind of benefits can His Royal Highness King Wei get for helping the Marquis of Lishan County." ”

Li Tai turned around and stopped answering him.

Do local gate lords dare to compete with the emperor for profit?

The answer was yes, they dared, and even did not hesitate to turn against the emperor for the sake of papermaking.

An emperor who has mastered the art of papermaking is too much of a threat to them.

Since the Luoyang incident, Li Shimin has taken his firmest position, and even began to hold those children of the family who were imprisoned hostage and forcibly seize them.

Li Shimin has already made this act, and if he obtains the papermaking technique, it will only become more and more rampant.

Pei Xuanji didn't stay any longer, he left in a hurry.

On the second night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Xu Xiaode only came to Lishan today, thinking that he would come on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, but he was delayed because of the affairs of the court.

Zhang Yang knew that this was a reasonable thing, especially a very ambitious courtier like Xu Xiaode.

Xu Hui knew that her father and mother had come to Lishan, and she was very happy and helped her father and mother clean up the residence.

The DPRK gave the Mid-Autumn Festival a rest, and their family could also reunite for a few days.

Xu Hui has changed a lot in the past two years, often doing things by Princess Runan's side, her conversation and temperament are better, she is generous, and she has courtesy, but after these two years of training, Xu Hui's level of mathematics and ability to understand things are no longer comparable to ordinary people.

That's it, she has another cold, unapproachable temperament.

Xu Hui's mother tidied up her hair bun, "In two years, the ceremony will be held, does Her Royal Highness the princess have any plans?" ”

"The teacher hasn't planned yet, but both men and women in Lishan can only marry at the age of twenty, so my mother doesn't need to worry."

If it is a country family, there are many women who marry at fifteen or sixteen.

Xu Xiaode's family was originally a prominent family in the East China Sea, and even if the family is now in the middle of the road, they still have the living habits that the Wang family should have.

Xu Hui's mother said: "It's okay to get married at the age of twenty. ”

Seeing that Xu Xiaode was still writing the chapter, she said angrily: "You are an old man who doesn't cultivate, so you won't think much about your daughter?" ”

Xu Xiaode stopped his pen and stroked his beard and said: "Hui'er is a disciple of Her Royal Highness the Princess, and it doesn't hurt Her Royal Highness the Princess to be in charge." ”

Xu Hui looked at her mother angry, and was very anxious about her father's attitude of not asking, and she was about to make a ceremony as an adult, and her father and mother often quarreled.

"Mother, my daughter is not in a hurry."

looked at her daughter with pity, and was very distressed to be a mother.

Xu Xiaode's expression is worried, but the current Xu Hui is too good, and her talent and skills among women are comparable to many ordinary women.

That's what worries him.

However, Hui'er is still young, and it is too early to think about this, and it is not too late to think about it in another three or five years.

Xu Hui looked at her father next to her mother, "The teacher and the master said that they would come to visit tomorrow morning." ”

"Hmm." Xu Xiaode nodded.

Coming to Lishan as a guest is more of a helpless choice, Xu Xiaode wants to keep a distance from his relatives and doesn't want to be disturbed too much by them.

The family reunion is very warm, although the Xu family husband and wife often choke a few words, and scold and make noise, it does not hinder the warmth of such scenes.

Fifteen moons, sixteen rounds, this law has rarely changed, since ancient times.

Tonight, the moonlight is shining on Lishan, and the village shrouded in the quiet moonlight is beautiful.

Zhang Yang sat on the mountain, looking at the village below, and his mood was much calmer.

But at the other end of Lishan Mountain, there was a different scene by the Weishui River, a group of people were about to swim along the Weishui River to the other side, and when they swam to the middle of the river, they found that there were already torches in front of them, and a group of people were waiting for them.

The men did not go into the water to catch them, and the scene was embarrassing for a while, and when they were about to swim back, a large net made of hemp rope was thrown, and they were like fish in a river tossed by this big net.

Arresting these people ashore, Li Tai bowed his head and said: "This king knew that these people would not come to buy papermaking in such a regular way, but I didn't expect to use these despicable means, but fortunately, Lishan has already taken precautions." ”

"What are we going to do with these people?"

"Send it to the official and let the government deal with it."

"Whoa!"

It's annoying that they want to buy papermaking and steal it at the same time.

Niu Chuang came with someone, and Li Tai yawned and said, "The rest will be handed over to Brother Niu." ”

"Whoa!"

Niu Chuang led the villagers to change their guards, and all the main crossings leading to Lishan Village were guarded, and even traps were set up for hunting.

It takes time for those people to prepare the money, and it also takes time for Chu Mo and Xu Jingzong to inquire about the news, and Li Tai believes in the ability of the gang.

As long as you find out where the money comes from, you can know who is behind the scenes.

Half a month after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the rest of the court also ended, and Zhang Yang said goodbye to Xu Xiaode's family.

Xu Hui followed her to bid farewell to her father and mother, and then went to Lishan with Xiao Wu with a smile.

The trade in papermaking was put to rest for the time being, because the other party had to prepare money, and he had to prepare many, many pieces of silver.

Li Tai walked over and scolded the thieves who wanted to sneak into the village, "You can't catch it all by catching it!" ”

Zhang Yang patted him on the shoulder, "Have you eaten?" ”

Li Tai shook his head, "I'm preparing to eat." ”

"The Foreign Affairs Yuan sent a letter saying that Songtsen Gampo was coming to see me today, and he wanted to tell me one thing, that he was going to meet guests, and King Wei and I went to meet guests outside the village."

"It's fine."

"Have your guards prepare the meat."

"Didn't you just eat together?"

"I didn't prepare it beforehand." Zhang Yang was calm.

By the way, eating means that you can sit down and eat, but my brother-in-law didn't prepare it in advance, and in order to pressure the cooker, Li Tai temporarily agreed and asked his guards to prepare wine and meat.

The two walked to the entrance of the village together, and Songtsen Gampo was standing here, holding a scroll in one hand and reading Zhou Yi.

Zhang Yang glanced at it, "Zhou Yi is obscure, can Zampu understand?" ”

Songtsen Gampo put away the scroll, "I can't understand it right now." ”

Li Tai asked people to clean up the table in the grass shed, and then sat down and waited for his guards to bring wine and meat.

After Songtsen Gampo sat down, he handed over a volume of letters, "This is the letter sent by Zhuoga from Tubo, and it is about the monk Xuanzang." ”

Hearing this, Li Tai was also interested, and he was very curious about this monk who had gone away from Tianzhu.

Zhang Yang opened the parchment scroll and looked at the contents of the scroll, but he was surprised that it was written in Chinese.

Speaking of this Zhuoga, Zhang Yang still has the impression that it was the first time he fought with the Tubo people as a Tang person, it was in Qujiangchi, and the second time he was in the Taiji Palace, and then he went back.

Now it is not surprising to see a Tubo man writing a letter in Guan Chinese.

The content of the letter is a conversation between this Zhuo Ga and Tang Xuanzang:

The snow-capped mountains do not melt all year round, and here is a valley in the middle of a snow-capped mountain, and under the holy mountain, there is a man sitting by the lake.

This person is dressed in rags, and the clothes on his body are woven from various shabby fabrics, and the big lake in front of the old man is the Heavenly Lake of Tibet, and some people regard this place as a holy lake.

In autumn and winter, it's snowy and icy.

Every time a gust of wind blew, the tent crumbled.

The old man dug out some tsamba from the bowl, put it in his mouth and drank another sip of tea, what he drank was the tea he brought from Dongfang Guanzhong, this tea was not very prepared, and he only had such a small bag.

He will only take it out if a distinguished guest is going to visit.

In the distance, there was a man in a monk's robe, walking towards here, and the old man stood up and bowed down with one hand on his chest in the manner of a Tibetan person, "Friend, you are back." ”

Xuanzang walked closer, palms together, bowed down and recited a Buddha name, "Long time no see, friend." ”

This old man of Tubo was the one who came up with the question in the Taiji Hall to fight His Royal Highness King Jin, and Zhuo Ga came to his generation, leaving only one descendant.