The Wang family obviously doesn't remember who Qi Niang is. She looked the little girl up and down and asked Li Bai: "Erlang, who is this?" ”

Li Bai said vaguely: "The children of acquaintances." ”

Wang couldn't guess, so he had to smile: "It's just a child's play, you don't have to take it seriously." Erlang is tired of traveling and driving, so let's go back to the house to rest first. ”

Although she hated it in her heart, she was still from a wealthy family in Yizhou, and in front of these many people, she naturally didn't want to be laughed at, so she simply beckoned Li Bai to enter the door.

If there is anything to say, let's talk slowly behind closed doors.

Li Bai nodded the tip of Qi Niang's nose, confiscated the sword, and then stepped into the house.

Ahead, Wang took his son to the main hall, and the slave pulled her sleeve and choked, and wiped her face with her sleeve from time to time, looking really sad.

Qi Niang grimaced behind them, and when Li Bai turned his head to look at him, he hurriedly changed to a serious face.

Li Bai shook his head and smiled.

Before entering Shu, everything he planned was good. Who knew that before entering the house, it was all messed up.

Thinking of getting a family certificate from the Mianzhou Prefecture and County Government, he had a headache, so he broke this tranquility and asked: "Wang Niangzi, did my father say when he will return home?" ”

The Wang family knew about Li Ke's return date, but it was only in the past few days, but she didn't want to tell Li Bai, so she shook her head: "Your Aye's whereabouts are erratic, and you don't know that you may have traded with the Sogdians to the Western Regions." ”

She wished that the two brothers had made a big mistake so that their father would catch them.

In the hall, there were already maidservants serving tea in advance, and the fragrance of tea with nectar on the top of the roof instantly filled the room.

Wang sat down and asked Li Bai about his food, clothing, housing and transportation outside in a decent manner, and only after humanistic care did he sigh: "You said that you were going to go out to travel, but you Aya didn't blink, and drew 300,000 yuan from your private account, I really love you." I only pity Da Lang, from the time he asked for money, he ran outside......"

Li Bai raised his eyebrows: "Eldest brother is going to do business again?" ”

When Li Ke's original wife died in Broken Leaf Town, Li Bai was still very young, and for a long time afterward, he chased after his eldest brother's ass and was brought up by him.

No matter how Li Ning doesn't have the mind to be a businessman, as long as he likes it, Li Bai will always support it.

When Qi Niang heard this, she felt a pain in her flesh-

It seems that the master is going to help his brother again.

Li Dalang doesn't gamble money, he is not a woman, and he is not very interested in eating, drinking and having fun, but just like to make money, it is already very expensive.

Qi Niang has never seen such a businessman with such a pasty head.

Sure enough, Wang said leisurely: "Last month, Da Lang didn't know which one got to Wulang of the Zhang family in Mianzhou and made an appointment to do business together. After that, Zhang Jiawulang said that he wanted to buy land to make a manor, and there was a way to buy fertile land at a low price from the Mianzhou government. When the eldest man returned, he consulted with me and wanted to pay some money from his family's account. ”

Li Bai said "oh": "Given?" ”

"You Aya is not at home, where do I dare to be the master." Wang said, his expression became a little complicated, "But Da Lang has an idea, he went to sign the deed and pressed his fingerprints, and took out a loan in the name of the Li family." ”

Li Bai finally frowned: "When will the land be bought and sold on credit?" ”

Wang sighed: "Who said it wasn't, but Zhang Jiawulang rushed to catch up, and signed it at the end of last month." Recently, the weather has become dry and there is no rain, Da Lang personally went to the field to take a look, only to find that it was all dry land that others did not want, and some were even saline-alkali land. ”

And with such a land, Li Ning actually got more than one hectare (1,000 Tang acres) from Zhang Wulang.

Li Bai also had a brain ache this time.

A thousand acres of land is not a small amount of money, after the official road, it is calculated according to the price of high-grade fertile land, no matter how cheap it is, where can it be cheaper!

Holding on to the last glimmer of hope, he asked, "Has that Zhang Wulang ever recognized the land?" ”

There was a hint of schadenfreude in Wang's tone: "No." Zhang Jiawulang has not come out for a minute, and now he has closed his door, pretending not to know Dalang. ”

In the past few days, Da Lang has been so scared that he has gone outside. If this is known by you, Aya, it is not another family law lesson. Last time, for the land in Dujiangyan, Da Lang was almost stripped of a layer of skin......"

Li Bai was silent.

Qi Niang came up and whispered, "Ah Lang, your brother is really not suitable for business. ”

Li Bai also whispered: "Go, I don't know." ”

The top priority is to fill in the basket that his brother poked first, otherwise, it would be strange if Mianzhou Prefecture and County could agree to give him a writ.

Li Bai folded his fingers and calculated.

The year before last, Aya gave him 300,000 yuan of silver, and he also had a private understanding at that time, and after taking this money, there was no longer his share of the family property.

Li Bai is used to being wanton and chic.

After traveling along the way, most of the "family property" has been spent, and only 70,000 yuan remains. After filling in this big leak, he and Qi Niang are afraid that they will have to knock on the bowl all the way to Chang'an.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but turn his head and glance at Qi Niang. The little girl was grinning at the slave, and the frightened child shrank behind Wang's back.

Li Bai tugged at the corners of his lips, and he had time to bully people, which was good.

It seemed that he had no worries, he didn't delay any longer, and drank the new tea in the cup in one go: "Thank you Wang Niang for telling me." I will resolve this matter with my brother, and I will not have to be a ward bystander. ”

Li Bai saluted and walked out with Qi Niang.

Behind him, Wang's face had changed, rubbing the slave's stomach in distress and anxiety, and asking him in a low voice, "Does it hurt?"

The slave looked blankly at the direction where Li Bai and Qi Niang left, and shook his head for a while: "Ah Niang, I should go back to Wen Shu." ”

*

There is a liquor shop in Qinglian Town.

The wine is fragrant for miles, and the locals know that it is particularly delicious. In the past, when Li Bai was at home, he often ran out with his brother and shared a scoop.

Now, Li Ning, the eldest man of the Li family, is hiding behind the wine-making vat, squatting unkempt and sifting the mulberries to be used to make fruit wine.

Li Bai took Qi Niang to find him, and when he saw his brother like this, he said helplessly: "Brother, I know that you are here." ”

Li Ning raised her head and suddenly saw her younger brother, and old tears almost flowed down.

He got up sharply and pounced on Li Bai: "Second brother, you're finally back!" ”

Qi Niang seamlessly connected: "Yes, if you don't come back, Dalang, you should be beaten to the point that your ass blooms again." ”

Li Ning shouted "Who are you" with teary eyes, and when she looked closer, she was surprised: "Qi Niang!" Grown so big? ”

Qi Niang's proud face: "I can still grow!" ”

Li Bai finally had a smile, this is the only person in the Li family who can still remember Qi Niang.

He was busy solving the problem, shook his brother, and asked, "Where are the more than 1,000 acres of land?" ”

Li Ning's face froze, and when he saw that Li Bai knew everything, he had to answer honestly: "It's at the junction of our county and Linxian county." Not far away, you can ride a horse for half an hour. ”

Li Bai didn't delay any longer: "Let's go, let's take a look." ”

No matter where you are, seeing is believing, and you can only make a conclusion after seeing it.

Lu, made by horse, galloped on the long tree-lined road.

As soon as Li Baifu landed, he saw that under the cliff bank at the end of the field, it was one of the main tributaries of the Fujiang River in Mianzhou - Huoxi River.

The water is fast, but it is a good source of irrigation.

It's a pity that the cliff is too deep for the waterwheel to transport up. And if you use manpower, you have to go around a lot from the side of the cliff bank, so many fields, Li Ning can't finish watering even if he is tired of carrying water.

The situation was worse than he thought.

Li Bai's brows furrowed, racking his brains, but he found that he had no idea at all. Alas, why didn't you learn some field affairs before?

The brothers were sad, but Qi Niang was running back and forth on the ridge, and Xiaoxi was flying in circles around her head, chattering so lively.

Li Ning sniffed: "I really envy Qi Niang." ”

Li Bai: "...... Sometimes, I envy her, too. ”

Qi Niang's ears were sharp, and she heard the two of them envy her from a distance, so she hurriedly rushed over along the cliff shore and shouted: "Master, you envy my cleverness, do you want to learn!" ”

Li Bai tugged at her lips and teased her: "Yes, you are so smart, help us think about how to bring up the river at the bottom of the cliff with the least effort." ”

Qi Niang has been learning miscellaneous things from Li Bai and Zhao Rui since she was a child.

Although Zhao Rui is good at vertical and horizontal arts, Yu Mingjing, Ming Suan and Jinshi are also considered to be bypassing, and they will teach Qi Niang a few words in their spare time. Therefore, hearing Li Bai's joke, Qi Niang's first reaction was to come to the shore of the cliff and run up and down to measure.

Soon, Qi Niang was tired and sweaty.

Li Bai was a little annoyed and shouted to her: "Don't run, don't get heat stroke on a hot day." ”

Qi Niang squeezed between the two of them with a "snort, and said, "Master, I have a way." ”

Li Bai didn't believe this, after all, so many people decided that the loss-making business, how could Qi Niang be a child.

Qi Niang was so anxious that she couldn't do it.

After she unlocked the [Farmland] type of knowledge from Alpha, there are many new things in it.

She measured the height to check whether it was suitable to borrow a high drum car to use the force of the turbulent water to transport water from a low place to a high place.

The little girl straightened her face and told Li Bai about this seriously, and at the end, she picked up a branch and roughly drew a model diagram of the high drum car on the sand.

Li Ning couldn't understand or understand, she could only burst into tears.

Li Bai's eyes lit up and said, "Clever! But you're really ugly. ”

Qi Niang fried hair: "I want you to take care of it!" ”

Although the high drum car appeared in the late Tang Dynasty, the drum car has been widely used at this time. Therefore, Qi Niang insisted that she thought of it according to the "cylinder car", but it did not arouse Li Bai's suspicions.

With a solution to the dry land, both brothers' expressions relaxed.

Li Bai stretched his waist: "The dry land is the big head, and the saline-alkali land over there will be counted first." By the way, do you know when Aya will come back? ”

Li Ning said: "You don't know? Aya is checking the accounts in the Yizhou cabinet shop. Come back at any time in the next few days, otherwise, how will I hide! ”

Mianzhou and Yizhou are not far apart, although not as prosperous as Yizhou, but the people are more generous.

Among these wealthy families, the Li family is even more of a leader.

Regardless of the side for the time being, most of the fields and shops in Mianzhou have traces of the Li family, and even the most profitable "cabinet shop" industry in the Tang Dynasty, the Li family has also intervened in Yizhou and other places.

The cabinet shop in Li Ning's mouth, also known as the attachment shop, is a place used by the Tang people to store valuables and meet the needs of cross-state and county deposits and withdrawals. There is a fee to pay for depositing and withdrawing money in the cabinet, and this kind of currency operation method of withdrawing money in other places is called "flying money" by the Tang people. ①

In the early years of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the cabinet shop became popular in Chang'an as soon as it came out, and then swept the entire territory of the Tang Dynasty. Li Ke judged that this business was very promising, so he took the lead in starting a "flying money" business in Jiannan Road.

Li Bai's 300,000 yuan of money was stored in the cabinet where he was a shareholder, and he came out of Shu lightly with a paper deposit certificate.

Hearing that his father was checking the accounts in Yizhou Cabinet Fang, Li Bai thought of what Wang said before, and frowned slightly.

Qi Niang raised her little head keenly: "Master? ”

Li Bai shook his head: "It's nothing." Go back, draw your high drum car, and ask someone to do the construction. ”

Qi Niang should be excited.

*

Inside Lee's house.

Lang Jun Li Ke just entered the house for only an hour, and before he could drink a sip of hot tea, he was crackled and cried by Wang, and told him about Lang Erlang's not.

"Lang Jun is not at home, we orphans and widows are really soft-spoken."

"Da Lang had to hide from me that he signed the more than one hectare of dry land, I thought that Erlang would always be able to help him when he came back, but who would have thought that he would bring back a five or six-year-old girl and beat the slave. You say, did he already have an ...... outside?"

Before the word outer room was finished, Li Ke slapped the table heavily: "Enough, I know." Go back, and I'll deal with them!" ”

Wang's goal was achieved, and he twisted his waist and left.

There was a solemn silence in the hall.

Li Bai pushed the door in, and saw Aya sitting upright on the top, and the smile on the corner of his mouth suddenly froze.

Li Ke opened his eyes, and the first thing that caught his eye was the little Qi Niang, who was still holding a heavy sword in his arms, but the two unfortunate obstacles were empty-handed, and they even had a smile!

Old Man Li got up and roared angrily: "Rebel! Unfilial son! Come on, bring me the family law! ”

When the words fell, Xiaoxi fluttered her wings and flew out, stopping on Li Ke's head and pulling a bubble of.

"Chirp!"