Chapter 20
"Xu Mansion? Which Xu Mansion? In this huge Hangzhou city, no one named Xu dares to take care of me!"
When Niu Ercheng saw that Lu Xin was a child, there were only three people behind him, so he was not afraid. He Meng and his men looked arrogant and domineering, their faces were also ugly, and they put down the teacup in their hands.
"Which Xu Mansion? In this Yuezhou, there are still people who don't know the name of our Xu Sanjin and Mr. Xu? Haha, they are really stupid bulls who don't know the truth!"
Although He Meng is just a servant of the Xu family, he has been to Shifeng Mountain many times and still has friendship with Tian Gui's family. Especially Tian Yuer, everyone who climbed the mountain will feel in love with him. Now that he is bullied by Niu Ercheng, he is naturally full of anger.
When Lu Xin saw that He Meng and the other two stood up and talked, he breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, he was afraid that he would not be able to instruct others. Otherwise, if the other party was tough, he would not be an opponent based on the sword technique he had just started practicing.
"Xu Sanjin? Humph, I haven't heard of it. Boy, how dare you call me a stupid guy? It seems that you don't want your tongue anymore."
After hearing Xu Sanjin's name, Niu Ercheng was indifferent at all, and his expression became even more fierce. Lu Xin's face suddenly changed, and he was ready to take action. However, afterwards, a servant behind Niu Ercheng suddenly ran forward and pulled him back a few steps.
"Young Master, Xu Sanjin is the richest man in Jiangnan Road. Half of our Niu family's business is worth his hands. We really can't mess with the Xu family, so we leave first."
"So it's him! Humph, Tian Gui is really lucky."
Niu Ercheng snorted coldly, then stared at Lu Xin and others, as if fire was about to spit out of his eyes.
"I think I am a person. It turns out that I am a group of slaves in the Xu family. Well, for Mr. Xu's sake, I won't bother with you today. Xiaoyuer, I'll see you next time, hehehe..."
Niu Ercheng turned around and left, Lu Xin stepped forward to help Tian Gui up. But the old man was obviously worried about his granddaughter, and he didn't care about the pain on his body, and kept sighing. Although Niu Ercheng was forced to leave this time, the people in the Xu family could not stay on the mountain forever, after all, the distance water cannot quench the near thirst.
During the subsequent conversation, Lu Xin roughly knew the whole story. During the Qixi Festival Lantern Festival last year, Tian Gui took Tian Yuer down the mountain to watch the fun. However, he was caught by Niu Ercheng who was drunk at the time. He immediately said that he wanted to take Tian Yuer as his 14th concubine and chased Shifeng Mountain. From then on, Niu Ercheng would have brought people to the door to cause trouble every now and then. If Tian Yuer had not been forced to die, he would have succeeded.
"Our family is only fourteen years old, and Niu Ercheng is thirty-nine. Niu Mansion has many wives and concubines. How can I bear to see her suffer? Her parents left early. If my grandfather cannot even keep her only granddaughter, what kind of face can I go down to see them?"
"Woo... Grandpa, stop talking, it's all my fault, it's all my fault, it's all my fault, it's all my fault, it's all my fault, it's all my fault..."
The grandfather and grandson cried very sadly. Lu Xin saw it and felt panicked. He thought of Tu Xing and Xiaoxi Town. He was not so helpless. In this world, rich people have three wives and four concubines, colluded with officials, and they can kill people. The poor people have their lives thinner than paper, and they are as lowly as ants.
"I originally thought it was all plots played in TV series, but in fact this is the life of the ancients. I really want to go back to the modern times and tell everyone how good it would be to live in the 21st century and in China!"
"Shopkeeper Lu, what did you say?"
"Oh, it's okay. Grandpa Tian, just call me Xiao Xin. Don't worry, we will definitely help you with Niu Ercheng's affairs."
"No, no, you are the shopkeeper sent by Mr. Xu. How dare you break the rules? Just now, thank you for your help. I am really grateful."
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Because of Niu Ercheng, Lu Xin and Tian Gui's relationship has been closer. Tian Yuer also likes this new little brother very much and always asks things. Everyone had lunch at Tian Gui's house, and then Lu Xin talked about stir-frying tea. However, Tian Gui said that stir-frying tea was just a whim and couldn't remember the steps at that time. He just wanted to stir-fry the tea leaves to smell and sweetness.
Tea processing was an unprecedented event in the Tang Dynasty. Everything was difficult at the beginning, and Lu Xin never thought it could be done overnight. In the evening of that day, he collected dozens of taels of silver and went down the mountain. Before leaving, he asked Tian Gui to figure out the methods and steps of stir-frying tea and wrote it down.
Since taking over the tea business, Lu Xin has been traveling between Hangzhou City and Shanyin County. Autumn goes and spring comes, and time passes quickly, and a whole year goes by. During this period, Lu Xin insists on practicing swords every day and taking bone-building pills continuously. In more than a year, not only has the sword skills slightly improved, but also has grown a lot taller. Now at the age of ten, he has reached 1.65 meters tall. Such changes are extremely amazing, not only in the Tang Dynasty, but also in modern times.
Wu Mu said that the bone-building pill is a secret holy medicine made by their family. It is used to assist the tribesmen in practicing qigong and can quickly develop the body in a short period of time. This is also an important reason why he became famous all over the world when he was young.
On the tenth day of the eighth month of the year of Zhenguan, Lu Xin practiced swords at Shifeng Mountain. Under the bright moonlight, he saw him holding a long sword in his hand, jumping and rushing among the tea trees like a lively ape. Tian Yuer watched from a distance, but found that his eyes could not keep up with Lu Xin's speed. Moreover, every time the boy waved his sword, the dead branches and leaves on the ground would be swept up by the wind and spiraled into the air.
"The sword is like a dragon, lift the pen and get the finishing touch!"
Lu Xin shouted loudly, tapped the ground with his toes, and quickly soared into the woods on Tea Mountain. Then he stabbed the sword into the roots of a big tree, and in an instant, the entire ground cracked. The huge tree body shook twice, falling dead leaves all over the ground.
"Uncle Wu said that if you practice the magical sword technique to a small level, you can use your sword to shake the tree. Once the dragon appears, you will definitely hit the key points. But I can't perfectly connect the transformation and connection between the moves. And after using the dragon move, the energy will dissipate and the power will not keep up. Oh, what's the problem? Is it because I haven't cultivated my internal strength?"
After practicing his last sword technique, Lu Xin began to breathe heavily, and his hands and even his whole body would lose strength. His current martial arts are only one step away from the small success of his sword technique. But this step seems to be more difficult than climbing to the sky.
After more than a year of day and night practice, coupled with the effect of the bone strengthening pill, Lu Xin's physical fitness has been very good. Whether it is arm strength or overall explosive power, the three or five adult strong men are not as good as him. However, he has never been able to use the last two moves of the first move of the Miaobi Sword Technique and the finishing touch of the Yulong. Every time he uses the last move of the sword technique, he will completely lose his strength. At that time, he will have to be slaughtered.
When Tian Yuer saw Lu Xin walking out of the woods with a dejected head, she hurriedly ran forward and hugged his neck. Her eyes were warm and her smile was as sweet as her own brother. However, at this time, Lu Xin was almost as tall as Tian Yuer and looked very handsome. He smelled the body fragrance of the person beside him, Lu Xin blushed instantly. If this scene was seen by people who didn't know, he would definitely think that this was a loving little lover.
"Oh, I'm used to you all this year, so I don't think anything is there. I didn't expect that my brother Xiao Xin suddenly grew so tall. He is really a handsome young man."
Tian Yuer tiptoed and touched Lu Xin's head with a doting heart, her smile was particularly charming. Lu Xin's cheeks turned a little red again, and she didn't dare to look at her.
"Sister Yu'er, I'll go back to Shanyin County tomorrow morning. A few days will be Mid-Autumn Festival. I didn't go back to see Uncle Wu last year. I can't spend this year on the mountain."
"You, are you going back? Um... That's right, it's Mid-Autumn Festival, it's time to go home to accompany your relatives. Okay, you'll say it to grandpa when you go back. By the way, grandpa said that the new tea fried today is not only strong in taste, but also has a good flavor, and you should like it after drinking it. But we can't read, so you have to go and see grandpa stir-fry tea in person and then write it on paper."
"Really? That's great. I've been waiting for this day for more than a year."
Lu Xin was surprised and happy. Tian Yuer's words were the hope he had been waiting for day and night. Since Tian Gui started to study tea stir-frying, he often lived on Shifeng Mountain and tried it with the old man. But every time he failed, the tea fried was either too bitter or too crisp, and it broke as soon as it soaked in water. And the tea business over the past year has only earned dozens of taels of silver. Although the store business is better than before Lu Xin took over, he wanted to earn 200 taels of taels of money at this speed, and I don't know when it will take place.
When he returned to the bamboo house, Tian Gui had already brewed tea and was waiting. Lu Xin only took a sip, then closed his eyes and savored for most of the day. The fragrance of the tea was so strong that it filled his mouth and nose, which made people feel energetic. The taste of this tea was neither sweet nor bitter, and it was a unique grassy smell. But after savoring it carefully, it sometimes felt sweet and sometimes bitter, as if it could change with the intention of the tea-tasker. Lu Xin only took a sip and knew that this tea was exactly what he wanted.
"If Manager Lu is satisfied, how about giving this tea a name?"
"Name? Just call it, West Lake Longjing Tea."
On August 15th, Lu Xin returned to Xu Mansion with two boxes of tea. He first made a pot for Xu Sanjin. The color, fragrance and taste of the tea shocked the official who was used to eating delicacies and seas. Xu Sanjin ordered that the tea brought back by Lu Xin be sold as a treasure in the store. At the same time, he ordered all tea shops to start learning to stir-fry tea. Lu Xin roughly estimated that as long as it goes smoothly, as long as three months or as many as half a year, he would definitely earn 200 taels. At that time, he would be able to leave his slavery and go to Chang'an.
"Uncle Wu, I have mastered the first move of the Miaobi Sword Technique. However, without internal force support, only the sword force, and lack of some strength, and cannot break through to the small-achieving realm. But you also said that if the sword technique is not small-achieved, it will not be able to cultivate internal force. How should I improve?"
On the Mid-Autumn Festival night, Lu Xin asked the mute Wu for advice on swordsmanship. But strangely, the mute Wu was a little restless all night and often stared at the night sky, not knowing what he was looking at.
"Uncle Wu?"
"Don't make a sound!"
Suddenly, the mute Wu suddenly covered Lu Xin's mouth and nose, signaling him not to speak. At the same time, a five-colored glow appeared above the Xu mansion.
Chapter completed!