Chapter 21: The Story of the Old Driver
Li Chenan didn't know that the first meeting with Liu Chu was deliberately done by Hua Manting.
He still cares about his tavern.
Now that the decoration of the tavern and the preparation of the utensils are complete, the next step is to make the wine.
Sitting under the gazebo in the small courtyard, I carefully recalled the process of brewing, and put it on the paper, and looked at it carefully, the most time-consuming thing was fermentation.
Fermentation takes ten to twenty days.
Although fermentation can be done in four days, since this work should be done more perfectly, then I will finish the previous steps first, and there is no hurry to wait for one or twenty days before the sake brewing opens.
There are more than eighty taels of silver left in his pocket, enough to live on his own for a while.
Thinking so, he stuffed the paper into his bosom, went to the bedroom of the east wing, and took the two words he had obtained from the old man Hua Manting last night, and he walked out of the tavern.
You have to find a pastry shop, frame the poem that will go into the wine, and make a plaque with the name of the tavern.
Leaving his job in Xishi to a pulp framing shop, he walked to Li Ji Grain Shop.
It's not that I'm worried that Li Xiaohua will run away after receiving a deposit of ten taels of silver, but it's mainly that there is nothing to do.
But when he just walked to that alley, he found that Li Xiaohua's shop was full of people outside.
A terrible voice came from the crowd: "Oh God, my son is doing business, how did he end up like this!"
It was a woman's voice, and it was full of sorrow.
Li Chen'an frowned and hurriedly walked over, squeezed into the crowd, and saw a woman sitting on the ground beating her chest and crying.
"What's wrong?"
He crouched down in front of the woman.
"My son, my son was arrested by the government!"
"Li Xiaohua?"
"Exactly ......"
The woman raised her head and grabbed Li Chen'an's hand, like grasping a life-saving straw, "Childe knows my son, Childe, can you save my son? The slave family is willing to make you a cow and a horse in this life!"
Li Chenan didn't withdraw his hand, "Don't worry, tell me what happened?"
"Childe, there was a guest in the shop yesterday, and my Xiaohua sold some grain to him...... He needed a lot of food, and he promised to let my little flower go to his house to be a nurse...... My son was very happy, so he sent the grain, and when he came back, he told the slave family that the boy was willing to pay for all the grain in my family, and that our mother and daughter could move to the son's house today. β
"The slave family thought that God had opened his eyes, but he didn't expect that just now, several villains rushed to my shop. β
"They said we shouldn't sell grain to that son, and that my son had broken their lord's rules. β
"My son reasoned with them, but they added sticks to me. β
"My son couldn't bear to fight back, my son was strong, where could I control it at that time, so I ...... My son wounded them. β
"They reported to the official, and the official sent me to arrest my son just now!"
"Childe, the slave family begs you to save my son, the slave family kowtows to you!"
Li Chenan helped her up, the look on his face was a little gloomy and scary, no need to ask, this matter must have been done by Shen Qianshan of the Shen family!
"Auntie, I'm the boy who bought your food!"
"Ah, benefactor, benefactor, save my son!"
"Don't worry, I will definitely save Xiaohua back, you are sick, go to the house and stay, I will go to the yamen!"
"Good, good, thank you benefactor!"
Li Chenan got up and squeezed out of the crowd, thought about it in his mind, and walked towards the Yamen of Guangling City located on Zhonglou Street with a gloomy face.
The group of people in the West Market still did not disperse, and at this moment someone asked: "Hey, wasn't that young man Li Chen'an just now?"
"Which Li Chen'an?"
"It's Li Chen'an from the Li Mansion in Guangling City who was kicked out of the house by his father!"
"It's really him, he used to run a steamed pastry shop and buy flour at my house. β
"What is that fool buying so much food for?"
"Who knows? I heard that the Shen family has retrieved the marriage certificate...... Do you think this is a retaliatory measure taken by the Shen family for the grievances of these days?"
"Then the Shen family is not right, you want to take revenge on that fool, why do you bully Xiaohua!"
"Hey, hey, just now Li Chenan said that he would definitely save Xiaohua back...... Do you think it's possible?"
If he asked his father to go to the yamen to spend some money and have some connections, it would depend on whether the Shen family would interfere in the yamen. He was kicked out of the house by his father, where did he get such a great ability to fish people out of the yamen?"
When Li Xiaohua and her mother heard this, they were immediately full of despair, only then did they know that the noble person that her son thought he had found was actually Li Chenan's fool!
"My son...... You're blind!"
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Zhongli Mansion.
Zhongli Ruoshui was biting the pen and looking at her second brother Zhongli Qiuyang.
"Why?
Zhongli Qiuyang sat opposite Zhongli Ruoshui, "I'm your second brother!
"There are countless talents in the world, I said that you have always been shrewd, why did you make a stubborn mistake this time?"
Zhongli Qiuyang leaned over and tapped his fingers on the table, "Everything about Li Chenan, my brother has checked everything for you, and he has also told you clearly." β
"Brother also believes that people will change, but do you believe that a person who can't even memorize the three-character scripture can make such good words?"
"You're sixteen, don't be so naΓ―ve, okay?"
"Yes, he's a little different these days, but it's a little different. But from the original steamed cake shop to the current tavern, if you want me to say, his steamed cake shop will be open for at least three years, but his tavern will be closed in three months at most!"
"Sister, my own sister!"
"Brother beg, okay, wake up, if you marry him, we can't afford to lose that face!"
Zhongli Ruoshui bit the pen and rattled, and the expression on her face did not change in the slightest when she listened to Zhongli Qiuyang's words.
"Finished?"
She let go of the brush shaft and placed the pen on the pen holder.
"I'm not done yet!"
"Then go on!"
"Brother just asked you, why can't Cheng Zhe? Even if you don't like Cheng Zhe dancing with knives and guns, Qi Zhixue should always be okay, right?"
"The grandson of the Duke of Qi, the future Duke of Qi, is only a high school and a rich man, it should be your dish, right?"
"Don't say that second brother, I don't understand what you think, and my father and mother can't accept it!"
"Regardless of identity, your husband, he must at least be a showman, right? This is not a high requirement, right? But he Li Chenan is a white ......."
"Second brother!"
Zhongli Ruoshui interrupted Zhongli Qiuyang's words.
"Don't forget who you are grandma!"
Zhongli Qiuyang was stunned, "Grandma is at least a master of the rivers and lakes!"
"Li Chenan is also a literary master!"
β...... How did he become everyone?"
Zhongli Ruoshui stood up, his delicate eyebrows raised, "What the old man said, don't you believe it, you go and ask him!"
"Where are you going?"
"Hee-hee, I'll go talk to Mr. Hua about poetry articles. β
"Cheng Guogong is about to arrive. β
"What if I get there? I don't have time for him. β