After leaving Qingzhou, Li Kui rode a horse along the way, and arrived at Dengzhou, the most state on Jingdong East Road, in less than two days.

After arriving in Dengzhou, Li Kui did not rush to his brother Li Da's house, but went to the shipyard.

When passing by a tidal flat, Li Kui was delighted to see the beach at low tide, and immediately excitedly took people to catch the sea. Then the shoes got wet, and they pulled a conch out of the sand, and there was not even a serious thing. Li Kui couldn't help but suspect that the environment of this Great Song Dynasty was not very good. I didn't even see the crab the size of the basin, and I was disappointed. There are a lot of dead fish, but who knows if this thing is good or bad, but they don't dare to eat it. The only seafood that can be eaten is the kelp scattered everywhere on the beach, but Li Kui doesn't like to eat this thing.

Li Kui pondered that the snail in his hand could be eaten, but he didn't dare to eat it.

Then he looked at Ruan Xiaowu, who shook his head violently and said, "Young Master, this thing doesn't eat dogs." ”

"Forget it, go to the shipyard."

When he came to the Dengzhou shipyard, Li Kui just looked outside and found that the shipyard was very large. A trestle stretches into the sea, and from a distance, it looks like a black dragon lying on the seashore to rest. The only thing that made him wonder was that there was not a single ship around the shipyard.

The shipyard apparently did not open.

It's been a few years, and you still look like a bird?

Li Kui asked Ruan Xiaowu to find the locals to ask, first an old man, opened his big mouth, revealing the gums with missing front teeth, squeezed his eyebrows and said: "You mean Li Dashan person, he is a good person." ”

Li Dashanren?

Li Kui is afraid that he will never be able to think of his brother Li Da, Li Dalang, and the name of a great benevolent person in his life. But the other party was very respectful and said: "Since the great good people came to Dengzhou, they found that a large amount of wood had been piled up in the shipyard of the city's shipyard, but no one cared about it. All the timber was bought immediately. ”

"The shipyard in Dengzhou is simply raised by the queen, and the maritime merchants of the Great Song Dynasty all buy ships in Hangzhou, Fuzhou, and Quanzhou. And my shipyard in Dengju can only compete with the shipyard in Jeju for the sand boat business in the inland river, and it can't compete with others. also saw that the craftsmen had no work to do, and they couldn't live anymore, but Li Dashan came with money. Then he hired my unfinished boatmen to repair docks, dig docks, and build ships. ”

"This piece, and that piece, were all craftsmen and people who worked at the beginning. Everyone is grateful to Li Dashan for supporting my Dengzhou shipwright, so they call him Li Dashan. It's just that Li Dashan wants to build a kind of big ship, a big ship that can withstand the wind and waves, but it is a ship that we have never seen before, although everyone is worried, but they still build it according to Li Dashan's ideas. ”

Li Kui listened to the old man's thinking a little confused, and then asked, "Is the big ship built?" ”

"Eh——, this official, the little old man remembered that there was something at home, so he said goodbye, farewell!"

"Husband."

asked a few people with a face, and they all said in this tone. This made Li Kui very puzzled, and finally used a silver ingot as bait, which made a middle-aged man speak: "Official, I really don't have the face to say." The ship was built, but it sank. ”

"You can't sink it all, can you?"

"All sank, and there were three great ships, all of which sank. We are also people who rely on craftsmanship to eat, which did not give Li Dashan two years of work, but lost his reputation. I really didn't have the face to work for the shipyard, so I had to quit my job in the shipyard. But even so, Li Dashan still gave me a monthly salary, and I waited for this money to hold it, and I felt uneasy! ”

Li Kui was surprised: "Will he be so good?" ”

The man was not happy, and said angrily: "Li Dashan has a bodhisattva living in his heart, how can a snob like you figure it out?" ”

Li Da's character Li Kui knows that a penny can be broken to spend half and save half of the master. How could it be so kind?

With this suspicion, Li Kui entered the city.

Li Da hummed and hid in the hall, lying on the couch, gasping weakly, Zhang Yulian frowned and sent a bowl of medicinal soup to the edge of the bed, leaned over and said to Li Da: "Da Lang, it's time to take medicine!" ”

"No, the tone is wrong, I didn't hear you care about me."

"Da Lang...... It's time to take your pills! ”

"There is no feeling of sorrow."

Zhang Yulian is a widow, she has experience in crying and mourning, she can't just come if someone doesn't die, right? It's so unlucky.

"Do you even eat or not?"

Li Da looked at it in fear, and then he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I'll taste it." ”

After saying that, I tasted it. Tut-tut...... The bar smacked for a while, and tasted back: "This medicinal soup is not what I have eaten medicinal soup, it is not bitter." Go get two coptis, and cook the soup into it. My brother is so clever that he might try it. We can't really prescribe a cure, but the taste, the taste should be like the real thing. so that there will be no flaws, and my brother will see the clues. ”

Li Da added a few words, then lay down and hummed again.

Zhang Yulian angrily put the medicine bowl on the bed, raised her eyebrows, pointed at Li Dalang and said angrily: "You don't do business day by day, but you want to pretend to be sick and fool your brother, can you still do something serious?" ”

Li Dalang was not annoyed, but worried: "How did I know that my brother was coming?" I am still in a hurry at this juncture, I have sent someone to Fujian to hire the old shipwright, if the shipwright comes, start work immediately, this can at least fool my brother. Now none of the craftsmen in Dengzhou dare to come to my shipyard to start work, even if I pay for it, I can't help it! But as soon as he came, all his calculations were thrown into chaos. If my brother had known that I had sunk three boats for him, he would have tore me apart. ”

"Besides, there are boatmen now, but old shipwrights who have no experience in building big ships. My brother knew that if he saw the big ship of his mind, he might have to go to sea. As an elder brother, I can't pit my own brother on this, right? He will be a dog, and he may be able to survive in the river, but if he falls into the sea, wouldn't he let my mother send a white-haired person to a black-haired person? ”

"The previous ships sank because they couldn't withstand the wind and waves. I don't believe it, I Li Dalang can't build a big ship? But now that this difficulty cannot be overcome, how can I achieve my vision? ”

Li Dalang thought he had a plan and said: "Do you think I'm cowardly and afraid? ”

He arrogantly raised his index finger, raised his eyebrows and said, "Wrong." I'm enduring humiliation and stealing my life! ”

"If you don't have this craft, don't take this job!" Zhang Yulian hates that iron can't become steel, and her patience with Li Dalang is about to run out. Li Dalang pretended to be sick and didn't say anything, but he wanted everything to look like it was true.

Take this medicinal soup as an example, and it should also taste the same as the real medicinal soup.

But when you smell it, the taste will be different.

"Why don't you go and borrow a temporary boat to pretend and fool your brother. Wouldn't it be the same when craftsmen from the south were invited to build new big ships? "Zhang Yulian is a woman after all, and all she thinks of is to steal beams and change pillars without entering the stream.

Li Dalang said with a straight face: "I, Li Da, am I such a deceitful person?" ”

Flutter.

Zhang Yulian was amused by Li Dalang's timid and fearful appearance, but he was stubborn. Perhaps, Li Dalang's advantage can attract her at the beginning.

"Master, madam, there is a little brother outside the door who said that the second master went to visit Zhizhou, and Shaoqing came to live at home."

When Li Dalang heard this, he immediately wailed with a bitter face: "It's over, it's over." If only his brother had known, my brother had come...... I have to tear down all my bones. ”

"Madame......"

"Alas!"

Zhang Yulian was helpless, she wanted to find a man who was afraid of his wife, and live a better life. I never thought that men were too sloppy, and life was even worse. As a last resort, according to Li Dalang's instructions, cooperate with Li Dalang to continue to pretend to be sick. She is also afraid of Li Kui. Li Kui was on the streets of Yishui County back then, but he was a first-class bully.

She was a widow and feared that such people would come to ruin her reputation.

Fortunately, Li Kui didn't understand anything at that time......

Young.

The medicine was decoctioned, and it was brought over again.

Li Dalang tasted it, frowned, and said, "Why is it so bitter?" ”

"The two coptis you said boiled into a bowl of water, at this time you dislike the bitterness?" Zhang Yulian looked impatient, and reluctantly cooperated with Li Dalang's acting. But my heart is restless. Li Kui was the most intelligent lord when he was young, and he was also bad, how could such a person be deceived? It's already good that Li Kui doesn't deceive people. Otherwise, Li Kui would not have been able to make a fortune by relying on bandits, and he was admitted to the Jinshi, and in a blink of an eye he became the most expensive civil servant in the Great Song Dynasty. As far as Li Dalang is concerned, he still wants to deceive his brother, but he thinks it's impossible. couldn't help but say to her husband: "Otherwise, you can tell your brother directly, the big ship, let alone Dengzhou, even Quanzhou may not be able to build it!" ”

"It's not going to work." Li Dalang's face was straight, and he was rarely serious: "My brother has always looked down on me, if I don't succeed again, won't I be looked down upon in this life." Now I am also an official person, and I should always live a personal life. ”

What does the person look like?

The person in the Great Song Dynasty looks like Di Qing, and you are also worthy?

Zhang Yulian was embarrassed to attack Li Dalang and did not continue to bury him.

Unexpectedly, Li Dalang, who was unreliable, hesitated for a moment, and secretly said to Zhang Yulian: "Otherwise, if you fry the medicine given by Dr. Anshen, we may be able to use it at night!" ”

Zhang Yulian was blushed by Li Dalang's shameless appearance.

The divine doctor An Daoquan is not a famous doctor that ordinary people can invite, they also went to the capital to ask for medicine. Now he is looking for medical treatment, all of whom are dignitaries and nobles in the capital, and there are also nobles in the palace, the emperor.

Although An Daoquan is said to be a miracle doctor, he can treat internal and external injuries, as long as he makes a move, he can almost get rid of the disease. But An Daoquan's best thing is gynecology, especially infertility, which is his ancestral skill at the bottom of the box. Li Dalang squinted, staring at his wife shyly, and couldn't help but move his evil thoughts.

"Uncle, the second master is back."

Li Dalang just came up with a little crooked thought, but he was excited by the basin of ice water that Li Kui arrived, and his whole body shivered, and his lips trembled.

"Brother!"

"Li Kui, I've seen my sister-in-law!"

"Uncle Wan'an!"

A woman is a woman after all, and there is no need for rehearsal when acting, and the sorrow between her eyebrows suddenly makes her feel an unspeakable grievance. Li Kui's eyes immediately fell on the bed, Li Dalang hummed and chirped, lying motionless on his back to the sky, seeing that he didn't even know anyone. Li Kui was suspicious in his heart, this state ...... It is commonly known as the time of dying, and it will be a day or two to die. Half a month ago, I watched you be good, able to eat and sleep, and raised the bar with my mother. Is it time to die?

Pretending to be sick also pretending to be a little like a little, Li Kui was disdainful in his heart.

What about fools?

Li Kui was the first to believe it. In addition, he found out the situation of the shipyard before he came, and he suddenly had a plan. Li Kui sat on the edge of the bed with concern, Li Dalang struggled to open his eyelids, and said weakly: "Brother, I've dragged you down for my brother." ”

"Don't get in the way, brother, and recuperate with peace of mind. Don't worry about the shipyard. If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter. Li Kui said this, listening to Li Dalang's tone, although intermittent, but full of energy. secretly touched Li Dalang's wrist and checked his pulse. Li Kui is a person who practices martial arts, and he is also a person who has practiced to the extreme. Just by listening to the breathing, he could conclude that Li Dalang was not sick. After checking the pulse, I determined what I was thinking.

His eyes fell on the medicine bowl at the head of the bed, the black soup was steaming weakly, obviously it was about to cool down, Li Kui picked up the medicine bowl and said to Li Da: "Da Lang, take the medicine!" ”