The days passed quickly, and more than 40 days had passed in the blink of an eye.

Liu Lao's illness slowly healed under the careful care of his son Liu Yu, but because he had been tired for many years, his body was very worn, and he was quite old, and he was faintly in his last years.

Dali Temple's boxing business has been booming recently, and when the next volume of boxing books went on sale, the surging crowds crowded the entire street.

As a result, Liu Yu made a lot of money, the treasury was full, and the expenses in the yamen were no longer a problem for him.

In addition to practicing during this period, he often contacted Tang Biao to understand the movements of King Kui and the situation inside and outside the city, and accordingly considered future countermeasures.

More than 20 days have passed.

Apprentices who had completed the method of learning the method of rapid boxing crowded outside the Dali Temple, demanding to teach the "most essential six styles" recorded in the book.

Liu Yu then opened up a field in the Yamen courtyard of Dali Temple, and the seven instructors he trained came forward to instruct these apprentices on the martial arts.

In order to prevent his father, Liu Laoxue, from thinking about his mother in Meizhen, Jiangnan, all day long, he asked his father to go into battle and personally teach these martial arts disciples the principles of the Zishu Sutra Collection when they were resting.

Liu Lao has been immersed in Confucianism all his life, and his research is very deep, and he actually explains the truth in the book in a simple way, even a rough person can listen to it in his heart. Those martial arts disciples not only don't get bored, but they even like to listen to them, and often applaud and shout when they hear the highlights.

Old scholar Liu was greatly excited by this, and the pessimism caused by the separation of husband and wife in the past calmed down a little, and the whole person was in a lot of spirits.

Liu Yu often listened to his father's lectures in his spare time, and as time went by, his father's image in his mind became taller and taller, and he was no longer the stern and annoying head of the family when he was a child.

He sometimes thinks in his heart, "Although my father is a scholar, he is strict and upright, and has a unique spirit." Those who compete for fame and fortune in the martial arts are very different from their fathers, no wonder my mother would marry my father desperately despite the opposition of her family. ”

During this period, Yu Xiaoliang came to Dali Temple to find Liu Yu several times and asked him to expel the cold poison in his body for himself. Liu Yu kept his previous promise, removed the cold poison in this person's body, and then instructed: "Yu Gongzi still needs to recuperate in the future, otherwise the cold poison may recur." ”

Yu Xiaoliang was shocked when he heard this, "Ah, wouldn't it be good to disperse?"

Liu Yu smiled slightly, "Illness comes like a mountain, and illness goes like a thread, you should understand this truth." ”

Yu Xiaoliang nodded ignorantly, "Then Brother Liu Xian has a good way?"

Liu Yu patted this person on the shoulder, "It's okay, come to me when the time comes." ”

Yu Xiaoliang felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, but he couldn't, he said goodbye and left, accidentally found the wrong exit, and under the guidance of a group of giggling officials, he successfully walked out of Dali Temple.

In September, the autumn wind kills, and the grass and trees in the city are gradually withering. In the distance, on the top of the city, the shouts of soldiers and the sound of golden drums could be faintly heard.

The armies of Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi have recently begun to attack Chang'an City, but most of them are tentative, so the defenders on the city wall can still support it.

According to the location agreed with his senior brother Zhu Wen, Liu Yu led people to wait at a tunnel under the city wall at night. The senior brother really did not break his promise, and successively brought in more than 60,000 loads of wheat.

After this incident, his impression of his senior brother was much better, and he thought: "Everyone has their own ambitions, and my senior brother likes to kill people, so why don't I kill people." It is not easy for him to be compassionate to the people in this troubled world. ”

Liu Yu used the food sent by his senior brother to open several large-scale houses on the street of the dead, distributing cooking cakes to the poor in the past every day.

In just a few days, the poor people of the entire Chang'an City flocked to the Dead Street, just to be able to queue up to get a bite to eat.

The Street of the Dead is now the Street of the Living.

There are fewer and fewer believers surrounding Cao Song's temple, and many of them have completely dispersed, except for some iron-clad believers.

From this point of view, the smell of the cooking cake is much better than the smoke of the copper stove.

While taking care of these extras, Liu Yu has not forgotten his own errand.

Recently, people in the imperial court have been panicking, and hundreds of officials are trying to flee at home. The gate of Jingzhao Yin Yamen and the Criminal Department is always closed, and Dali Temple has almost become the only normally open trial yamen in Chang'an City, and many people regard this place as a place to redress grievances.

Although accepting these civil cases is suspected of being out of line for Dali Temple, Liu Yu ordered the officials to take over all the cases in order to ensure the stability of people's hearts.

Coming and going, there are many people beating drums outside the gate of Dali Temple, and there are many people. Liu Yu ordered all the divisions under the jurisdiction of Dali Temple to go out to accept the people who were wronged.

Because of his adequate salary, these officials and officials all worked energetically and with a spring breeze on their faces. In addition, with the "Emperor Taishang" Liu Lao Scholar supervising the formation, where do these people dare to slack off, and they are meticulous in the trial of each case, which can be called honest and strict.

Over time, Dali Temple has become famous, and its prestige among the people is very high, and it can be called the second court in Chang'an City.

The temple man who assisted Liu Yu in running the boxing business was very shrewd and capable, and he was also a good hand when solving cases. In order to fulfill his previous promise, Liu Yu found an opportunity to promote the temple named Dong Neng to his deputy in front of everyone, ranking as the deputy secretary of Dali Temple.

Although there is no precedent for the imperial court to set up a vice secretary in Dali Temple, the officials and officials of Dali Temple know that everything here is decided by Lord Zhengqing, and since Lord Zhengqing said that there is a vice secretary, there is a vice secretary.

"Please note that Dong Neng will be my right-hand man from now on. In case of something important, Dong Nengke reported it directly to me. Obey his commands, and if you disobey, the law will deal with you!"

Dong Neng was very excited after hearing this, knelt down, and prostrate on the ground, "Thank you, my lord, I will not disgrace my life!"

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Since being promoted from Si Cheng to vice secretary, Dong Neng's enthusiasm for work has become more and more high, and he has taken care of the internal and external affairs of Dali Temple vividly, which has saved Liu Yu a lot of thoughts.

On this day, Dong Neng prepared a thick stack of account books and came to report his errand to Lord Zhengqing.

Liu Yu listened quietly to what this person said for a long time, and suddenly asked: "Why are the few charity shops we set up on the street of the dead, why are they consuming so little less food than in the past few days?"

He opened one of the account books, "You see, each shop usually uses at least 300 quintals of wheat a day, but this shop only used 240 quintals yesterday. Could it be that there are fewer hungry people in the city, which is unlikely?"

This is really a strange thing, and he can't help but care.

Dong Neng smiled slightly, "My lord doesn't know, someone recently opened another charity shop next to us, their steamed cakes are big and delicious, and many hungry people go to their side to line up, so there are relatively fewer people queuing up at our charity shop." ”

Liu Yu thought in his heart, "Could it be that this righteous shop has become a restaurant, and it is a bit interesting that only people will come to eat it because of the taste." ”

"Oh, there are such good people. Do you know what that man's name is?" he made friends with the benefactor of the new shop.

"I don't know, sir. The benefactor of the newly opened shop only appeared once, and never showed up again. I heard that on the day the benefactor appeared, several streets around the Dead Man's Street were crowded with people. People who have seen it say that the benefactor is actually a woman, and her appearance can be called the beauty of the country, and there is almost no one in the world who can compare with her, but no one who is a man can not be moved. ”

Dong Neng shook his head helplessly, he obviously wanted to see the legendary strange woman, but unfortunately the sky was not as good as people wanted!

Liu Yu was slightly surprised, he really couldn't imagine that there was anyone in the world besides that person, who else was worthy of the word Tianzi and national color.

"Let's go, take me to Dead Man's Street. ”

"Yes, sir!"

On the street of the dead, the two stood in front of a newly opened charity shop.

There are two large steamers stacked in front of the door, and the water vapor is gurgling, revealing the fragrance of steamed cakes.

Liu Yu looked at a busy guy and asked kindly, "Little brother, excuse me, may I ask if your master is there?"

The man was busy handing out steamed cakes to the hungry people, and without looking back, he said, "My master has only been here once, so don't bother, Your Excellency!"

Judging by the man's impatient look, there should have been quite a few people looking for his master these days. After all, who can not fall in love with such a big beauty?

Liu Yu smiled slightly, "Then what name did your master leave behind?"

The guy still didn't look up, "No, only this sign is left, you can see it yourself!"

Liu Yu looked up and saw that there was a newly carved wooden sign hanging on the door of the shop, with beautiful handwriting, "When the smoke rises at dusk, every household has cooked rice; ”