Chapter 1 Straw bales
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If you stand on the highest Shenwu Pagoda in the city and look up, you will see that the Lingshui River divides Lingshui City into two like a silver and white satin, and you will find that this Lingshui City is so big. Looking at it from afar, you can't even see the end of Lingshui City.
The huge Lingshui City, with the 10,000-year-old nourishment of the Lingshui River, is obviously a good place to settle down. Right now, Lingshui City in early spring can be called a world of flowers.
In the liquor store, some people buy drunk late at night.
In the gambling house, some people spend a lot of money.
In the green building, some people listened to Suqin and enjoyed the Spring Festival.
All in all, the city is full of shops, and the streets are full of people, and it is a prosperous scene.
As the saying goes: good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles.
Since Li Chen became famous at the age of three, every "scenery" he has done will be praised again and again by the people in the city. His notoriety is not only resounding in Lingshui City. In the entire fifteen cities in the southeast of the Crescent Moon Dynasty, many people knew that Li Chen was a natural straw bale. And the young master of the city lord's family also likes to take a few retinues who can only nod and bow when he is a child, and go to the street to embarrass people, and the troubles are naturally endless. These troubles have become a long-standing hot topic among the people of Lingshui City. If it weren't for the fear of offending the lord of the castle, I'm afraid that some good people would have compiled these stories into books and sold them.
But it was said that at this moment, early spring, at noon.
In a restaurant in Lingshui City, there are more than a dozen tables of customers. The guests were all enjoying the sunshine and tasting the wine and meat, which was comfortable and comfortable.
"Smack!"
It turned out to be an old storyteller who knocked on the waking wood.
Then he shook out a folding fan again, and his mouth was full of words: "Last time, I said that Li Chen's son continued to wet the bed when he was eight years old, and he continued to wet the bed for several months. This time, my old Li Tou will tell everyone about a few stupid things that Young Master Li Chen did when he was nine years old. ā
When the lazy guests at the bottom of the dozen or so tables heard this, they immediately cheered up and applauded like chicken blood. The expression on his face was as excited as looking at an oiran in a green building.
The storyteller looked at the excited-looking guests, and touched his gray beard with great interest. Just as he was about to continue speaking, he saw four "strange" teenagers walking in at the door.
One is tall, one is short, one is fat and one is thin.
The four of them were all about fifteen years old, with very different body types, but their faces were full of arrogance, which attracted the attention of a group of guests.
Four strange body types like this appear at the same time, and it is difficult for everyone not to pay attention to it.
Everyone also saw the same robe worn by the four people, and many people had a little more envy in their eyes.
It was a very ordinary cyan robe, made of ordinary materials, and there were no superfluous patterns, only the word "Shenwu" was embroidered with white thread on the chest.
"Yo, it turned out to be a few students from the Shenwu Academy, hurry up and take a seat!" Xiao Er hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, "A few little distinguished guests will sit down first, and the good wine and food will arrive later." ā
The students of the Shenwu Academy are all cultivators, and they all have a great future in the future, and they must not be neglected. It's just that these four people have obviously spent most of their time practicing in the academy for many years, and they don't have much fame in the city, and they don't know anyone here.
The dwarf at the head was dignified, just nodded slightly, and quickly sat down, and the other three also sat down one by one.
"When you enter the Shenwu Academy, you are a god!" the shopkeeper couldn't help but glance at the four teenagers at the counter, and muttered.
The old storyteller saw that the four of them had already sat down, so he tightened his folding fan and raised his throat: "If you want to talk about the name of this Li Chen Gongzi, no one in Lingshui City knows, no one knows! God is pitiful, how many sins did the city lord do in his last life to be able to pour such blood mold and give birth to such a straw bale son!"
The audience below, with smiles on their faces, kept nodding their heads in agreement.
In Lingshui City, who doesn't understand that Li Chen is the overlord in the straw bag!
When the four young students of the Shenwu Academy heard this, they also showed a look of disdain at the same time.
"It turned out that he was talking about Li Chen's straw bag. The fat one said disdainfully.
"It's a shame that the four of us used to study with such idiots!" the skinny one echoed.
"If it weren't for his father being the city lord, with a straw bag like him, he wouldn't be able to enter the Shenwu Academy in the next life. The tall one also spoke.
Only the dwarf who was the leader didn't say a word at this time, his face was blue and purple for a while, and he didn't seem to be willing to mention Li Chen's name.
The storyteller cleared his throat and continued to say with emotion: "At the beginning of this scene, I will first tell you a story about Young Master Li buying baked cakes. In our Lingshui City, three copper coins can buy two large baked cakes, which has always been a child's undeceiving. But young master of the Li family, guess what? People don't buy like this! He, first, carefully inquired about the price, calculated the time for half a column of incense, and then began to bargain with the owner of the baked cake stall in the same way as an adult, and asked, "Can the boss be cheaper, and I will buy you a baked cake for two copper coins?" After that, a lot of people started to ignore him as a straw bag!"
"What's that called?" asked a strong man at the bottom.
"Of course it's Li Yaobi," said the old storyteller.
The audience burst into laughter, as if it had spoken to the depths of their souls and resonated with them.
"Li Baked Cake turned out to be like this, I said how can it be called Li Baked Cake! Laughing to death, ahhahahaha!"
"It's a straw bale, hahaha!
"Old man, talk about one more!"
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The audience listened to the crowd with enthusiasm, which made the old storyteller's heart snicker: "I still understand the market! In Lingshui City, there are no more powerful people and strange people and secrets than talking about this Li baked cake." It seems that the business will definitely be hot in the future! Old Zhangtou, old Zhangtou, you really have great wisdom!"
The old storyteller is looking forward to the future in his heart. Just as he was about to continue speaking, there was another glimmer of hope in the corner of his eye, and several figures walked in.
At this glance, his eyes almost fell to the ground.
It turned out to be a delicate and pink teenager, surrounded by several entourage, and slowly walked into the door.
This young man has clear eyebrows and eyes, a white face, and can be said to be handsome and extraordinary.
But he was wearing an old-fashioned yellow dress, with a few unpopular entourages, and a standard image of a gentleman.
"Why are you so unlucky today, just started to say, the main lord is coming!" The storyteller patted his head, feeling a little depressed.
Of course, he recognized that this boy who looked delicate and agile enough on the outside was Li Chen, the son of the city lord of Lingshui City and a mythical figure known to everyone in Lingshui City.
It is said that people should not be good-looking, and those who have seen Li Chen feel that this sentence is too incisive.
Because of his straw bale, he is really unworthy of this Lingxiu appearance.
The scene of laughter in the restaurant suddenly disappeared without a trace with the appearance of Li Chen, and was replaced by an eerie silence. Everyone was trying to hold back their laughter.
The people of Lingshui City were endlessly teasing and ridiculing Li Chen, and the City Lord's Mansion naturally knew it clearly. But fortunately, the city lord is generous and never condemns, and Li Chen is so stupid that he doesn't seem to know, so people can talk about it unscrupulously in private. But this does not mean that no one dares to laugh at him in front of Li Chen. In Lingshui City, except for the four powerful families, no one dared to directly oppose the City Lord's Mansion. Therefore, even if the people ridicule Li Chen like a flood behind their backs, if Li Chen is in front of him, he is usually respectful.
The atmosphere in the restaurant instantly became very embarrassing, and the shopkeeper with a fat head and big ears and a shrewd look froze his smile at this time, and he couldn't hold back a word.
Li Chen stared at those clear and transparent eyes, looked around strangely, and muttered: "Strange, why don't these guys speak?
It was one of Li Chen's entourage who took the lead in breaking the silence and shouted: "The shopkeeper is not there? Our son-in-law is thirsty, come and ask you for the best wine!"
The shopkeeper shook the fat on his body, quickly rushed to Li Chen and his party, and said a little breathlessly: "Childe, the wine in the small shop, don't go anywhere else, the villain I and I, I dare not say, but there is no wine in this Lingshui City, can you drink better than our family! Childe, what kind of wine do you want to drink?"
"I heard that you have recently bought a new kind of good wine, what is it called 'Gyokuro Divine Brew', come and come, and make ten jars for our son-in-law!" said a monkey-cheeked attendant.
The shopkeeper of the restaurant hurriedly agreed, and was about to tell the man to go to drink, but he clearly heard a sneer coming from the restaurant.
Everyone turned their heads to look and found that it was the four people from the Shenwu Academy.
"Little straw bale, you still drink like that, let's drink milk quickly!" the fat student sneered calmly.
"Yes, yes, little straw bale, do you know what wine is, and dare to ask for ten jars? I guess I'll fall into the hut and drown after a sip of it!"
"Be careful of wetting the bed!" said the skinny student.
Only the short student headed by him ate his meal silently, not daring to face Li Chen, and his expression was a little flustered.
These people dared to be so disrespectful to Li Chen in person, causing a group of people in the restaurant to swallow and spit at the same time: "These little guys who don't know the height of the sky and the height of the earth are really daring to eat the courage of the ambitious leopard, and the sons of the city lord dare to mock them to their faces!
Clear-eyed people were aware of these people's disdain and hostility towards Li Chen.
Li Chen's eyes narrowed slightly.