A few days before the New Year, it may be free, Liu Yi feels that time flies very quickly, and he can't be busy with anything.

Last night, he didn't buy much New Year's goods, and promised the boss to buy him couplets to stick on the pillars on both sides of the inn door, he would do what he said, the proprietress lived a careful life, and ran back and forth several times on the day of leaving, Liu Yi felt that the proprietress was empty, and the unedible ones were also emptied, Liu Yi looked at all the dishes that were still there, and thought that the proprietress was also very righteous, and Li Baiyao's eyes were okay.

Firecrackers to buy, meat vegetables to buy a fish, to more than four pounds, the New Year is enough to eat, the boss said that the New Year to eat fish that is called more than every year, in the end has read a few years of books, what to say is a big truth, and Dad, buy a few strings of sugar gourds, I heard that these days those hawkers in order to do good business, those who sell sugar gourds will paste more sugar on the sour pastries, Brother Lang said and eat hawthorn sugar gourd is actually the same, if you want to compare, hawthorn sugar gourd also spit out seeds, and then buy some steamed buns, to deal with the remaining bundles of vegetables in the inn, this is his year, after dawn Liu Yi opened the door of the inn to buy New Year's goods, there are already people waiting outside the door。

Liu Yi asked: "Old Master Meng hasn't been here for a few days, this Chinese New Year's Eve, your family is not old?"

Meng Yanchen smiled and said softly: "Come on, I was busy settling accounts a few days ago, and the money that should be in and out of the year's customs should be in and out, I also have to understand whether it is not, I want to eat a bowl of noodles today and have a good end to this year." ”

Liu Yi said with a smile: "Master Meng came to the wrong day, the boss and they went back, and I won't pull the face." ”

Meng Yanchen said: "I will do it." "The face is colored.

Liu Yi thought for a moment and asked, "Master Meng still makes noodles?"

Meng Yanchen said: "Yanchen impulsively sold his sword when he was young, and he has made a lot of deals, which is a family business based on noodles. ”

After listening to Meng Yanchen's words, Liu Yi thought that there was also a big business in the noodles, and said with a smile: "Next year, I will also have to ask Boss Meng for advice on how to pull noodles." ”

Meng Yanchen muttered: "Whether the noodles are pulled well or not, they may taste different, but the noodles, that's just like that, the key is that Yanchen is a clever one, and he dares to make a desperate bet." ”

Liu Yi's busy days in the inn were very boring, no knife to play, no brothers to chat and fart, after listening to Meng Yanchen's words, he became interested, "Master Meng should teach me a future like Liu Yi, don't worry, I have learned, and I won't rob your business." ”

Meng Yanchen was silent for a while, and said with a smile: "I got six hundred taels for selling swords, one hundred taels opened a noodle restaurant, and the remaining five hundred taels were replaced with copper coins, so that two or three hundred people in the city talked about my family's noodles. ”

"You people......" Liu Yi sighed, the people under the mountain are really smarter than the other, why didn't the boss learn it, and he still guarded the broken inn.

Meng Yanchen seemed to see through Liu Yi's thoughts, and said: "Businessman, there are many people who dare to think, and there are very few people who dare to do. ”

"That's the reason, but I don't have time to watch you pull noodles today, I have a lot of things to do, not to mention that you don't bring this flour yourself. Liu Yi cut off the conversation.

Meng Yanchen laughed heartily and said, "If you do business, it's not bad." ”

Liu Yi asked softly, "How is it better than you?"

"People are more angry than people, and horses can't be carried by mules. When Meng Yanchen said this, he was also helpless.

Liu Yi said: "It's a little worse than you, it's quite annoying." ”

Meng Yanchen said: "I'm a little worse than a young man, and I also feel annoying, in fact, your kid is no worse than anyone else, whether I'm Meng Yanchen, the boss or his wife, Li Baiyao and Du Heli, I admire you a lot." ”

Liu Yi clasped his hands to his chest and changed his usual mentality just now, "Speaking of this, it's really time to get to the point, let's talk about it." ”

Meng Yanchen was stunned for a moment and said, "I wanted to delay it for a while, but I didn't expect to say the wrong thing." ”

Liu Yi said coldly: "You can't say the wrong thing. ”

Meng Yanchen was stunned again, this time he was really frightened, so he simply took off his disguise and said: "I bought the four words of Qingfeng Inn, which can be regarded as getting on the official ship, but Yanchen still wants to take the ship of the Immortal Sect." ”

Liu Yi asked unceremoniously, "Be a lackey for them?"

Meng Yanchen corrected: "Do business." ”

Liu Yi was timid in his heart, but his face did not change, and he asked in an indifferent tone, "What benefits do I get?"

Meng Yanchen replied without hesitation: "It's done, the Meng family's property will be half of yours." ”

There was a look of approval in Liu Yi's eyes, these businessmen are really crazy, and then asked, "Bet so much?"

Meng Yanchen smiled and replied, "Yanchen is confident that his luck will not be bad. ”

Liu Yi joked: "I don't like your little family background, but I still decided to have fun, the days are boring enough, the rules are here first, and if you don't give money after that, I will kill your whole family." ”

Meng Yanchen became more and more respectful: "I believe that Gongzi's background can do it." ”

"After seeing this back?" Liu Yi turned around, revealing his emaciated back

"I believe it, but I don't dare to disbelieve it. Meng Yanchen replied without hesitation.

Liu Yi stretched out the thumb of his right hand and said with appreciation: "You Meng Yanchen is not lucky, but calculating." ”

Then Liu Yi was worried about showing timidity, and he didn't dare to speak more, so he said easily: "I went to buy New Year's goods." ”

Meng Yanchen bowed and said softly: "Give me an order, send it to the son." ”

Liu Yi locked the door and said: "A poor person should look like a poor person, whether it is pretended or real, it is the same." ”

"Yes. Meng Yanchen left satisfied, thinking back to the compact conversation just now, his body trembled involuntarily, he might die if he said the wrong word, that kind of death would be ten times more painful than Ling Chi's execution, he had been in the business for decades, and the people of this world seemed to be only able to be divided into three kinds, one was the rough people in the market and the countryside, also known as all sentient beings, one was the immortal of the immortal sect like Du Heli Li Baiyao, and the other was the child of the top family in the world without written records.

Meng Yanchen can be sure that Liu Yi is not a person in the market, people in the market look up to the sky and laugh when they are happy, hang their heads when they are worried, and cry when they are sad, Liu Yi is not that kind of person, after all, it is impossible for such a person to be called a confidant with an immortal. Liu Yi is not a fairy on the mountain, when Du Heli and Li Baiyao teased each other, Liu Yi didn't talk much, and inadvertently became a head shorter. The first two are not, Liu Yi can only be a hidden family of children, the family dedicated to learning and the mansion exist in the big city of those door valves are different, the door valve children tutor more self-denial and revenge, there are so many deviants, and will only carry the resentment and dissatisfaction of the world in the poetry and articles, standing like a loose sitting like a bell, the end of the same until death, after looking at Liu Yi's back, Meng Yanchen confirmed that Liu Yi is those who have existed for thousands of years, but do not see the children of the family in the scriptures, only those people will not blindly pursue self-denial and revenge, but do not restrict their thoughts and behaviors to do learning, and set some small rules for the world。

The rules of the world come from the hearts of the people, and the so-called words of the Confucian sages contain the constitution of heaven, but after classifying the rules of the world into five characters, the five-character rules form a strangely shaped cage. At this time, the cage has only five strips of different lengths, which are still empty, and many people flew out of the hole between these five strips, some of them became Taoist ancestors, some became Buddhas, and some became sword fairies and sword gods, the common point is that they are all outside the cage, and some travel between the yin and yang, you can return to the cage, or you can get out of the cage, they are called the Yin and Yang family to find the dragon and hope for the qi.

Generations of scholars followed, who devoted themselves to refining the cages made by Confucian sages, using the cages composed of five-character rules as strips, interspersed with tiny silks, and finally forming a cage in the true sense. These scholars do not inherit their father's business, but they can pass on the culture from generation to generation, and these families are the families that fill in the gaps in the rules of the world, and the world calls them Confucian sages. Those who are outside the rules are called the saints of the two religions and the qi practitioners.

Fifty years ago, there was a person named Wang Shizhi, who gave the reader an ideal, and by the way, he folded the backbone of the reader.

After Liu Yi, who pretended to be calm and went to buy New Year's goods, he couldn't stop trembling his body, Liu Yi was not willing to spend the fifty taels of gold, thinking about when he had saved enough money, he would buy a good sword.

When Liu Yi arrived in the downtown area, he walked to a couplet stall that looked very well written, and the stall owner did not have any indication that he wanted to receive guests, so Liu Yi asked: "Boss, how many couplets are there?"

The scholar raised his eyes and glanced at Liu Yi, and said coldly: "Don't sell it." ”

After asking several stalls in a row, after getting the same answer, Liu Yi tilted his head and couldn't figure it out, whether there was anything to sell in this open business, it was really not as good as Meng Yanchen, the shopkeeper said before, the couplets and door gods in these stalls were much cheaper than those in the bookstore, Liu Yi didn't want to buy them in the store in order to save money, so he had to squeeze into those places where he shouted couplets for forty and forty-five pairs, and after buying the couplet, Liu Yi bought firecrackers and sugar gourds, and the fish he was carrying was alive, and finally returned with a large bag of steamed buns。

On the way back, Liu Yi figured it out, it turned out that those who opened and sold couplets were poor and poor, but they wanted to save face, they were embarrassed to shout, and they were embarrassed to do business, just like taking home a mud Bodhisattva who couldn't say to buy it, they had to say please come in, so those who bought couplets couldn't say that they cut love?

At night, Liu Yi cooked a meal, and started to eat after setting off firecrackers, before he finished eating, there was a burst of fireworks outside, he simply put down his rice bowl, opened the door, leaned against the inn door with his back hand, looking at the fireworks, he was homesick, if it was in that bandit's den, he would definitely drink a lot of wine tonight.

Compared with last year, he is a year older, on his birthday, he did not boil an egg, in the past, on his birthday, Dad often boiled a few eggs, he ate alone, and he had to ride on the threshold of the lobby to eat, Dad said that it was auspicious.

When the father-in-law came, he saw him riding on the threshold to eat eggs, and laughed at him for a long time, after his father died, on his birthday, the father-in-law would still give him boiled eggs, and still asked him to ride on the threshold to eat, he did not do what his father-in-law said, thinking that his father-in-law would still laugh at him if he was obedient.

There are no firecrackers on the cottage for the New Year, it is really not lively at all, everyone sits around eating and drinking, bragging all over the world, some people talk about what they have experienced, some talk about what they have heard, and some talk about letting him make it up for them, when others doubt, he and those uncles have to have the same tone to pass the test, and those who drink too much will talk over and over again, and they can't tell clearly. If you drink too much, you will listen to it over and over again, and you won't understand.

A person looked at the fireworks that were set off all over the city, as well as those joyful shouts, in the east wind outside the door, Liu Yi looked back at the dining table, under the flickering lamp, four plates, a bowl, chopsticks and a stool, he closed his eyes, tears dripped from his eyes, he squatted down, his hands were blindfolded and cried.

Whether the New Year is hot or not, it depends on whether you are a family or a person, if you are a family, the elderly have food, the adults have wine, and the children have new clothes.

After Liu Yi was tired of crying, he got up and went back to the house, closed the inn door, he didn't want to eat anymore, and he didn't want to wash the dishes, this night, the people in their cottage would stay up in the lobby of Zhongyi for half the night, and then go back to their respective wooden sheds to compare whose daughter-in-law screamed louder, Liu Yi has not been less to witness in the past few years, this is a chore, thinking about this, Liu Yi sniffed, thinking about Brother Lang's explanation.

Brother Lang said to him before leaving, "There are more than 2,600 counties in the nine counties of Daqin, 20,000 people, and the way of keeping the year is also different, located in Kaiyang County in the south of Daqin, there are people who keep the fire of the year on Chinese New Year's Eve to set up a big fire, put a wooden lump on the fire that can withstand the fire, and put a layer of firewood on the wooden lump, and after the family comes at the beginning, they can easily pick up the layer of ash on the fire, and you can see a charcoal head shining brightly inside, looking forward to next year like a fire to get ahead, and easily earn a charcoal big gold ingot." ”

"There are New Year's lanterns, and the whole house is lit up with yellow paper lanterns, just like a mountain of gold, and only those with rich families can afford it, and only those with rich families can earn so much in a year. ”

Before Brother Lang left, he told him not to be ambitious, and that tone was the same as Li Baiyao's, and he ordered aggressively in the name of persuasion. also asked him to guard the New Year's fire, Liu Yi now has no intention of keeping the New Year, and re-picked up the sword move one sword three styles that he had put down for a long time, cut off the broom head, took the old kitchen knife, and he made a wooden sword rough according to Du Heli's high-roller sword, the old kitchen knife that chopped bones was too blunt after all, and the wooden sword was nondescript.

The wooden sword in his hand is much better than the wooden branch, Liu Yi practiced one sword and three styles all night, and he was a little discouraged, but I heard Du Heli say that he created this sword last year, and he may not be able to exert the power of this sword now, Liu Yi's heart is balanced.