Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Sugar Man
The Li family's industry in Lijiazhuang is too much, almost all the shops are more or less related to the Li family, and there are some shops that are simply opened by the Li family themselves, such as this Li family bookstore, as soon as Li Tao came in, he didn't bother to play any face-slapping routines, so he directly showed his waist card and asked the shopkeeper of the bookstore to bring him a copy of the latest anecdotes and biography of chivalrous guests.
After all, the shopkeeper of the bookstore had participated in the family party and had seen Li Tao from afar, and after a short period of stunned, he realized that the person in front of him wearing slave clothes was actually the young head of the Li family, not to mention how respectful his attitude was, and personally went to the new books to find out the books that met Li Tao's requirements.
So there was such a scene in the bookstore, Li Tao was wearing a miscellaneous servant's clothes, sitting on the exclusive chair of the shopkeeper in the bookstore, cross-legged Erlang, holding a book in his hand, shaking his head while reading, while the shopkeeper of the bookstore stood aside, with a flattering smile on his face, this strange scene attracted the attention of the people around.
Li Tao closed the biography of the chivalrous man in his hand, and glanced at a task schedule specially made by the system in order to count the level of understanding of the chivalrous deeds that Li Tao currently knows.
Sure enough, in addition to the addition of a new chivalrous name, the progress table is still the same, and in the completeness of chivalrous events, except for Li Shuwen, who is the highest, the others have only just reached about 30%.
"Whoa!"
Li Tao casually threw aside the books he had read, and was about to tell the shopkeeper of the bookstore to stop, no longer handing over the books, but before he could withdraw his outstretched hand, the shopkeeper of the bookstore next to him hurriedly picked up another book with both hands, with a smile on his face.
Looking at the newly handed over book from the bookstore shopkeeper, Li Tao was stunned, and then shook his head in disappointment, signaling that it was enough, and there was no need to hand it over.
Seeing this, the shopkeeper of the bookstore didn't dare to say anything, took back the book in his hand, quietly threw it on the ground from behind him, and stood respectfully.
When Li Tao saw his movements, he immediately felt that this bookstore owner was really interesting, seeing that he threw these books casually, he also followed and learned, he was a wonderful person. glanced at the books that were thrown everywhere by himself, and said to the bookstore shopkeeper with a little apology: "I'm really sorry, these books are really too disappointing for Young Master Ben, and he lost them in a state of emotion, and I have to trouble you to clean them up for me." ”
"No trouble, no trouble. The shopkeeper of the bookstore bowed his hand again and again, gave a thumbs up, and said to Li Tao with a smile, "Where is the young master, my subordinates I just took a closer look and found that the young master seems to be thrown away every time, but the patterns arranged at the end of these books are faintly arranged with the stars in the sky, which is mysterious and impermanent, so it can be seen that the young master is a real person of great luck!"
"Poof, hahahaha!" Li Tao heard the words of the bookstore shopkeeper, and was directly happy, after all, no one doesn't like to hear others pat themselves on the back, "You, you, you, you really know how to pat yourself." ”
"How can this be said to be a sycophant? The subordinates are just telling the truth. When the shopkeeper of the bookstore saw Li Tao's expression, he knew that this move was right, and he couldn't help but be secretly happy in his heart.
"Alright, alright. Li Tao beckoned, signaling the bookstore shopkeeper to lean over, and after the bookstore shopkeeper came over, Li Tao said in a low voice, "Don't say this kind of thing in the future, except for today's saints, where are there any people with great luck, what you just said will be listened to by people with intentions, and you must not spread rumors everywhere, saying that my Li family is going to rebel." ”
"Yes, yes, my subordinates were negligent. When the shopkeeper of the bookstore heard Li Tao's words, he was also shocked into a cold sweat, wiped his forehead with his sleeve, and bowed his head and said.
"Okay, pay more attention in the future, what you represent is the face of the Li family outside. Li Tao didn't want to say much, after all, he had overdone it when he slapped himself on the back just now.
Li Tao stood up and kicked aside the pile of books in front of him with his foot, to say that the shopkeeper of this bookstore is not a loss to be outside all the year round, and he is extremely shrewd, before Li Tao could speak, he spoke first: "Young master, since these books make you dissatisfied, then hand them over to your subordinates, and your subordinates will arrange for people to light them all at once." ”
When Li Tao heard this, he was stunned, he was just going to ask him to put it away first, and then sell it as waste paper, but he didn't expect that he proposed to burn it himself, and he was really a person who could do things.
Li Tao stretched out his hand and patted the bookstore shopkeeper on the shoulder, nodded with satisfaction, and asked him what his name was.
The shopkeeper of the bookstore was overjoyed and hurriedly replied that his name was Li Wenqing.
Li Tao, who heard this name, was stunned for a moment, and asked carefully what the words were.
Li Wenqing clasped his head, repeated it again, and explained the meaning of each word in detail.
After Li Tao heard his words, he wanted to slap the table and laugh wildly, his name is Wenqing, but he is a sycophant, which is also too interesting, but in order to maintain his demeanor as the young head of the Li family, he still tried to hold back, reached out and patted Li Wenqing's arm, and said to him: "Well, Li Wenqing, I remember you, young master, work hard, I won't treat you badly in the future." ”
"Thank you, young master, thank you, young master. Li Wenqing seemed to have been given some particularly precious treasure, and kept bowing and thanking.
"Alright, alright, dear host, is 13 enough, it's time to get out and get down to business. Just when Li Tao looked at Li Wenqing's grateful appearance, and sighed in his heart that this rich man's life was really boring and boring, the system prompted him.
When Li Tao heard the words prompted him by the system, he remembered that he went out to find the person who robbed him of his silver last night.
After saying goodbye to the bookstore owner, he walked to the door of the store, and Li Wenqing followed him and sent him out.
The location of Mei Youqian's stall is diagonally opposite the Li Family Bookstore.
At this time, Mei Youqian was touching the pockets on his body while looking around for something on the ground with his eyes.
It turned out that Mei Youqian just now moved out the case in the corner, and when he was about to set up the stall, he found that there was one less wooden block in the corner of the table, at first he just thought that he might have put it elsewhere on his body, or he forgot to take it when he closed the stall yesterday, but the more he looked for it, the more frightened he became, and a thought appeared in his heart: It won't be when he grabbed something last night, and it fell nearby!
When this thought first appeared, it really scared Mei Youqian, but when he thought about it, the moon was dark and the wind was high last night, even if it fell nearby, it didn't matter, after all, this was an inconspicuous small wooden block, it shouldn't be picked up by that person, just look for it yourself later.
Thinking of this, Mei Youqian let out a sigh of relief, feeling that he was too nervous, and was about to find two stone chips to deal with first, and then as soon as he looked up, he saw a young man in miscellaneous clothes standing in front of him, and couldn't help but feel a little strange, because although he sold his own calligraphy and paintings, this was also an elegant thing after all, and he shouldn't be interested in what he was wearing, so he looked at the young man twice.
I don't know if I don't see this, Mei Youqian took a closer look, and really saw that something was wrong, although this young man was wearing the uniform of the Li Mansion, but his skin and his whole temperament were not at all what an ordinary miscellaneous servant should have, just like a pampered young master all the year round, without some doubts.
When Mei Youqian was looking at Li Tao, Li Tao was also looking at him.
Li Tao saw that Mei Youqian's thin body was hung with a scholar's uniform, which was very shabby, and the patches were one by one, judging from the appearance, he looked like a beggar, but his kind of bookish spirit was still very strong, which showed that he was a scholar.
Li Tao focused on Mei Youqian's temples and limbs, and found that not only were his temples flat, but Mei Youqian's limbs were the same as hemp rods, and he couldn't run at the same speed as last night.
Li Tao confirmed it again with the system in his heart, but the system seemed to be too lazy to take care of him, and asked him to take out the small wooden block, and he would know.
Although Li Tao was suspicious in his heart, his hand still reached into his arms and pinched the small wooden block.
Just when Li Tao and Mei Youqian were looking at each other, Wang Zhenlong also arrived with someone.
After all, Wang Zhenlong is a member of the security team responsible for protecting Li Tao's safety all year round, and at a glance he saw that the person standing in front of Mei Youqian, who was seriously suspected in last night's robbery, was Li Tao, and immediately raised his right hand, clenched his five fingers, and drew a circle in the air with his arms, signaling the team to stop advancing urgently, and disperse separately to find cover.
Wang Zhenlong's subordinates are all veterans on the battlefield, and the order is forbidden, and when they receive Wang Zhenlong's sign language prompts, they do not hesitate, and quickly spread around, walking to each stall or in the store, pretending to pick up goods, but their eyes are still fixed on Wang Zhenlong, waiting for the next instructions.
Wang Zhenlong saw that his subordinates had found cover, and he also found a candy seller's stall to stand, the small vendor called someone to come, and hurriedly opened his mouth to introduce which candy people were sold here, but Wang Zhenlong did not answer, used his index finger and middle finger to insert it, pointed to his eyes respectively, and then clenched his fist with one hand, pointed to Li Tao's position with his index finger, and then stood upright with his palm, and his fingers were close to his ears.
This feels very complicated, in fact, Wang Zhenlong only took a very short time to finish these three gestures, and the subordinates who received the signal also stretched out their hands, and their index fingers and thumbs were in a circle, indicating that they had received them, and then they began to act, covering each other and walking in the direction of Li Tao.
The candy seller didn't speak before he met, he made a blind gesture in the air with his hand, and he didn't know what he wanted to express, and his eyes were still slanting, and he suddenly felt that the person in front of him was really pitiful, not only was he dumb, but his eyes were not good.
After being like this, he still wants to come out to sell candy to his children, he is really a good father, which is really touching.
This vendor of the candy seller is a kind-hearted eye, usually he has nothing to do to send two little sugar people to the kind of children from poor families, and he himself is still an orphan, he has never seen his father and mother since he was a child, he grew up eating hundreds of meals, and now he sees the great fatherly love that he longs for in Wang Zhenlong, and he has it, he is over thirty years old, with tears in his eyes, he directly reached out and took the largest sugar man in the stall, and stuffed it into Wang Zhenlong's hand.
How did Wang Zhenlong know what this little vendor was thinking, he was squinting his eyes, carefully observing Li Tao and Mei Youqian, and suddenly felt that someone had stuffed something in his hand, and suddenly the hairs on his back stood up in fright!
Wang Zhenlong hurriedly retracted his gaze, looked down, and was surprised to find that a candy man was stuffed in his hand, and he was a little puzzled, and then looked up at the vendor in front of him, but found that he had tears in his eyes, and his snot was flowing out.
Wang Zhenlong looked at the candy man, looked at the vendor with his eyes, and asked, "What do you mean?"
As soon as he said this, the little vendors were startled, the little vendors wiped their tears, and then looked at it, the black-faced man in front of him had clear white eyes, and his eyes were staring directly at himself, so he couldn't understand, the person in front of him was neither a dumb nor a blind man, just now he was so moved, and he suddenly felt very annoyed.
Who would have thought that he was about to open his mouth to ask for the sugar man back, but the situation suddenly changed, and Mei Youqian, who was not far away, didn't know what stimulation he was aroused, and suddenly ran wildly, and even his pocket full of calligraphy and painting scrolls was dropped.
And Li Taona, as if he hadn't reacted yet, stood in place, looking at Mei Youqian's back in a daze.
Wang Zhenlong's subordinates saw Mei Youqian running away, so they had to do it, and rushed out with a shout of "Cave Turn"!
And Wang Zhenlong, as the captain of the team, faced with this sudden situation, naturally he would not stand stupidly, regardless of the fact that he was still holding a candy man in his hand, his waist and eyes were twisted, and his right foot kicked the ground violently, and the whole person shot out, leaving only the small vendor who bought the candy man messy in the wind.