Chapter 93 Chang'an Drunk
Yue, under the supervision of Lu Ziqing, Li Ang adapted to the identity of a scholar. His destiny was to practice calligraphy and painting. During the twelve hours a day, he stood at the desk for six hours, hanging stones on his wrist, practicing calligraphy with his pen hanging, and learning landscape painting.
After breathing a sigh of relief, Li Ang put down his wolf's hair and looked at the thousand-character text, he felt a little relieved. After coming to Daqin, although he had written characters with a brush for three years, the words he had written in those three years were not as good as those in these days, and he had written more in half a day.
"No, strong, quaint and heavy, you can take it out to meet people!" After reading the Thousand Characters, Lu Ziqing nodded, picked up the Qiuyu Mountain House on the desk, and sighed, "But even though the brushwork is above Lord Li's painting, the artistic conception is still a little weaker."
Li Ang smiled bitterly in his heart. If he had not learned to draw military maps before and knew some knowledge of drawing pictures, he really wouldn't know how to deal with this somewhat crazy Mr. Lu.
"Come on, Lord Li, let's have another game." Lu Ziqing didn't care that Li Ang had been standing for several hours, walked straight to the chessboard, raised his fingers and slapped it on the chessboard. Li Ang had no choice but to pick up the white piece and play against him.
"Mr. Li's gestures to play chess are all the words "free and easy", it's okay to watch Li Ang play chess calmly and elegantly from beginning to end. Lu Ziqing smiled, "As for the love, Lord Li is the national player, so there is no need to try again."
"Mr. Li doesn't need to worry about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but this sword technique needs to be more carved, remove the bloodthirsty killing aura, and be more calm and elegant." Lu Ziqing looked at Li Ang, who was standing slowly like a forest, and said satisfiedly, "Mr. Li goes out at this time and says he is the son of the Xun family and the Sima family, and no one will doubt it!"
"Mr. Lu. Is this the end?" Li Ang asked when he heard what Lu Ziqing said. He spent most of the past half month in the study and had not gone out yet.
"It's over, someone will come tomorrow. Teach Lord Li's swordsmanship." Lu Ziqing nodded and pushed open the door of the study, "Lord Li has been bored for so long, should you go out for some breath?"
Walking out with Lu Ziqing, Li Ang only saw the two Kunlun slaves called Hei Mo and Hei Luo waiting outside, looking respectful. "Mr. Lu, these two?"
"Shanyang is the territory of Qingzhou, and Qingzhou has developed sea transportation. Many wealthy families also have Kunlun slaves. Lord Li pretended to be the family of Mr. Li Liuru, and there were two Kunlun slaves." Lu Ziqing replied. Then he looked at the two Kunlun slaves beside him and said, "Although they are Kunlun slaves, they have my Daqin household registration and are good at Fang Zhan recruiting from the Jinling Protectorate. They are good at using heavy swords. With them by Lord Li, they can be considered as two more good players."
"I've seen Lord Li." Listening to the correct Chinese words of Heimo and Hei Luo, Li An nodded and looked at the two of them carefully. They saw that they were both strong and honest, with a submissive look.
"Master Lu. I wonder how many Kunlun slaves are in my Great Qin?" Li Ang took his eyes back from Heimo and Hei Luo, and looked at Lu Ziqing beside him and asked.
"I heard that twenty years ago, the number of newspapers in various parts of the south was about 600,000." Lu Ziqing replied, "However, in the past few years, there have been more and more people who volunteered on our merchant ships. I heard that the number of Kunlun slaves in Jiaozhou, Nanyang and other places has been nearly one million."
"In Heizhou, many Kunlun slaves are not full of food. The tribes often fight and live a very miserable life." Lu Ziqing looked at Heimo and Hei Luo and said to Li Ang, "They fled to Daqin with their fathers when they were young."
When he walked to the gate of the yard, Lu Ziqing Li Ang bowed and said, "Mr. Li doesn't need to send it away, so I'll say goodbye."
Looking at Lu Ziqing's figure as he went away, Li Ang thought that there was such a person in the East Factory, and he couldn't help but look forward to the swordsman coming tomorrow. He wondered what that person could teach him?
Walking back to the courtyard and looking at the people who were used to dressing up by scholars, Li Ang suddenly found that Feng Siniang and Lin Fengshuang were not there. He couldn't help but frown and said, "Where is Siniang and Fengshuang?"
"Young master, the two ladies went to see the store entrance and said they wanted to sell the tavern next to our mansion and do some business so that they could not do anything all day!" Drizzt replied, looking at Li Ang secretly, afraid that he would be unhappy about Feng Siniang and Lin Fengshuang's affairs.
"It's okay to find something to do, and it's not a good thing to stay in the mansion all day long." Li Ang said to himself, then he went straight to the study, and he asked him to do something.
After telling Drizzt about the West City and West City, Li Ang said, "You find that family and ask them to inquire about the various gangs on the Wharf for me. Remember not to let others know."
"Don't worry, young master, I will do this." Drizzt replied, but after thinking about it, he finally advised Li Ang, "Young master, when I was a clerk, Jingzhao Yin did not want to take care of the Xishi Wharf, but did not dare to take care of it. Several Jingzhao Yins had collected evidence before and wanted to thoroughly investigate the gangs that controlled the coolies in the Xishi Wharf, but in the end they were all over. One of them was even found and removed from the head of the official position. It's hard to control this matter!"
"I know what you are worried about, but I don't expect the civil officials of the court to take care of this matter." Looking at Drizzt with a worried look on his face, Li Ang smiled, "You go, I have my own idea for this matter."
"Since the young man has a strategy, I'm relieved." Seeing Li Ang say this, Drizzt nodded, turned around and walked out of the study, heading straight for the old street in Xicheng.
In front of the dilapidated tiled house, Drizzt raised his hat on his head and knocked on the door, "But is the Jing family?"
There was a thin woman at the door. Seeing Drizzt taking off her hat, she couldn't help but be stunned, with a look of alert, "Who are you? What are you doing in my house?"
"Prince Li came with me and gave me some money." Looking at the woman's old face, Drizzt felt heavy when he thought that there were many such families in the West City.
"It was Li Duwei who asked you to come, hurry in and quickly." Hearing that it was sent by Li Duwei who saved his family that day, the woman quickly welcomed Drizzt into the door, poured herbal tea for him, and walked into the inner room, "I'll go and ask my man to get up."
"No, if his leg injury has not healed, I'd better go see him. Li Duwei happened to have something to ask him for help." Drizzt stood up with the woman and entered the inner room together.
Seeing the blonde and blue-eyed Drizzt, Jing Leng and Jing Han were surrounded by their father, they couldn't help but be curious. They had never seen a Fanbian since they were young. They were lying on the bed, Jing Li had heard what his wife outside, and knew that this was a savior sent by the local man, so they struggled to stand up and greeted Drizzt.
After letting his wife and two sons go out, Jing Li looked at Drizzt and said, "I don't know what my benefactor has to give me. Even if I ask Jing Li to fight for his life, it's okay." After most of the time,
Yang, this once dying man has a rosy complexion and is very angry
"Master Li hopes that you will pay attention to the affairs of the various gangs on the dock for him, and you can inquire as much as you can." Drizzt looked at the simple man in front of him and told him what Li Ang meant. While saying that, he took out a bag of gold baht from his arms and said, "These money was used by Master Li to inquire about the news."
"How can this be done? It's just inquiring about the news. It won't be so much?" Jing Li looked at the heavy bag of gold baht and said hurriedly. He was pure and honest. Li Ang saved his life. For him, it was a kindness that he couldn't repay, but he refused to accept the money.
"Why are you so confused?" Seeing that Jing Li refused to accept it, Drizzt couldn't help but be anxious, "If you don't spend money on those people, how can you find useful information?"
Seeing that Drizzt was serious and Jingli was not a lump of wood, he took the bag of gold baht, but before Drizzt left, he swore to the sky, saying that he would never use the gold baht to enjoy it himself. This made Drizzt sigh that he had met a decisive and honest man, and he couldn't help but worry if he could find out how much useful information he could find.
Walking out of the house, Drizzt put on a hat and took out more than a dozen gold baht to hand it to Jing Shi who was sent out, saying, "Emperor Li has important military affairs recently, so he can't come here. You can use this money."
Jing was holding the dozen gold baht in a daze, and it was not until Drizzt walked away that she came to her senses. She didn't expect that the young officer who looked cold-hearted was such a careful and kind person, thinking about their family so much.
Walking on the streets of Xichengdi, Drizzt suddenly lowered his hat and walked faster and faster, and he chose to walk in the alleys with few people.
Seeing that the man in blue wearing a hat in front of him suddenly lost his figure, Sanxia couldn't help but feel anxious, not caring whether he would be discovered, and ran forward, but he didn't expect that as soon as he entered a small alley, he felt a coldness on his neck. He was so scared that his face was pale and he didn't dare to move another step. He just looked at the tip of the half-inch knife in front of his neck and said tremblingly, "Goodbye!"
"Who are you? Why are you following me?" Drizzt asked in a low voice, and the short man had been following him for a long time, but he was tracking it down very poorly. He just found out after leaving the dirt street where the Jing family was located.
"Uncle, what does this mean? If it's a robbery, there will be three copper coins on the little one." Sanxia said with a sad face, not knowing that he thought he was telling the truth.
"It seems that you are not giving up if you don't see the coffin." Drizzt snorted coldly, and the blade tightened. He pulled a thin mouth around his neck, and immediately scared the little gangster named Sanxia to beg for mercy.
"Uncle. Don't, don't. The young one said, "Sanxiao was so scared that she trembled with her legs. "Small, the young one was called Sanxiao. It was Boss Yan who asked me to look at the Jing family and said that someone went to his house. I asked me to follow someone to inquire about the details."
"What does Boss Yan do?" Drizzt let out a little blade, making the little gangster named Sanxiaodi calm.
"Big, uncle. Boss Yan is the boss of the Tianmen Gambling House in Xicheng."
Withdrawing the blade, and without waiting for the little gangster to turn his head, Drizzt knocked him unconscious with the handle of the knife, dragged him into the shadow of the alley, pulled his hat and left as if nothing had happened.
At night, when he returned to the mansion, Drizzt told Li Ang all about the daytime incident, "Young Master, I asked about it. The Tianmen Gambling House is a big underworld force in Xicheng, with no less than 300 gangs under his command, but I haven't heard of any relationship with any aristocratic family or court officials."
"Don't worry about them, as long as they don't know my identity, this matter is not urgent, so I'll do it first." Li Ang thought for a moment and said, "By the way, please let Lao Cen pay more attention to the forces in the black and white rivers of Chang'an in the future."
Walking out of the study, Li Ang went straight to the front hall. Feng Siniang and Lin Fengshuang bought the wine shop not far from their home. I don’t know how they discussed it.
"We mainly sell wine. I don't believe it, so I can't sell the natural residence of Baqiaochun." From a distance, Li Ang heard Feng Siniang's voice and couldn't help laughing. His boss's wife finally came back.
"What wine is so expensive, it actually costs 300 gold jar per jar?" Li Ang stepped into the front hall and looked at Feng Siniang and Lin Fengshuang and asked with a smile. To be honest, although he had heard of the name of Tianranju, he had never heard of that wine.
"It is the secret place of Tianranju's Baqiao Spring." Seeing Li Ang's eyes confused, Lin Fengshuang replied, "It is said that Tianranju uses the sake brewed in winter Baqiao snow water. After drinking it, it has endless aftertaste. Only a hundred jars are sold every day, but is it still in short supply?"
"Oh, then when do you have to make a jar to taste the taste and see what a way to reminisce." After hearing this, Li Ang smiled, "It's just three hundred gold baht, it's really expensive."
"Hmph, what's the aftertaste? It's not as good as my ice. It's just a frightening thing." Feng Siniang said angrily, with a bit of unfairness.
"Fengshuang, have you drunk that wine?" Li Ang looked at Lin Fengshuang, and the sound of Fengshuang in his mouth was extremely natural.
"Sister Feng and I saw you being forced to write again in the morning, so we went out to watch the fun together." Lin Fengshuang glanced at Li Ang, but her heart was beating for the sound of Fengshuang. She said with joy in her eyes, "I didn't expect to meet Mr. Xun. He insisted on asking Sister Feng to go to Tianranju with me. After drinking that Baqiaochun, Sister Feng..."
"How much did you spend that meal?" When Xun Rizhao came again, Li Ang couldn't help but frowned and secretly looked at Feng Siniang. That nerd was no match for her!
"Not much, just five thousand gold coins!" Feng Siniang looked at Li Ang and said proudly, "My sister Lin and I drank a total of ten pots of Baqiaochun. You didn't see his face. It's so interesting."
"Ten Jars." Li Ang was stunned for a moment, but he soon felt relieved. Who were Lin Fengshuang and Feng Siniang? One was the leader of tens of thousands of iron cavalry, and the other was the owner of a black shop. Just ten jars of sake were nothing.
"By the way, tell me, I'm selling it in Chang'an with my ice. What's the name?" Feng Siniang suddenly looked at Li Ang, "You have been with the one named Lu for so long, so you should know how to get Feng Ya's name."
"The ice you brewed in Si Niang is a perfect and strong liquor. If you sell it in Chang'an, it will be drunk in Chang'an." Li Ang smiled.
"Chang'an Zui, Zui Chang'an. It's a good name. Sister Feng, let's use this name?" Lin Fengshuang's eyes lit up after hearing this.
"Well, Chang'an is drunk, Chang'an is quite delicious, just use this!" Feng Siniang recited it and decided to make a name for the spirits that would make a fortune for Li Ang in the future.
Chapter completed!