Chapter 73: Preparing for the New Year

Yi Fan saw the two shopkeepers away with complicated eyes, and couldn't help but think: "The shopkeeper Zhou, who is in the cloth business, is worthy of being an expert. He just saw the cotton that he knew that this thing could be spun into cloth.

I thought I had cheated him. Now I just need to get enough cotton and spin it into cloth, and earn 50,000 kilograms of grain in minutes."

With Yi Fan's batch of grain added, and the government prepared before, it should be enough for these refugees to last until the beginning of spring after the New Year.

While Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and others were still worried about resettling the food for the victims.

Ang Lee came to report and told several people that Yi Fan used two recipes to exchange for 60,000 kilograms of grain, and the grain is now in the hands of the King of Wu.

Li Shimin immediately laughed and said, "Fuji, Xuanling, I didn't expect this guy to solve our most troublesome problem. It seems that I can live a peaceful life this year."

Fang Xuanling also twisted his beard and smiled, "It's strange that this Yi Fan is completely different from the people in the Hundred Family as we have known before. In the past, those people in the Hundred Family had any good things that were hidden and refused to show them to others easily.

Yi Fan was so good that he sold his secret recipe at any time. I really wanted to know how much he had in his hands, which we didn’t know."

Li Shimin said happily: "Don't worry, Xuanling, since this kid appears in Chang'an, he will not be able to escape from my palms, and sooner or later he will emptie all his abilities.

It's not in vain that I have protected him for so long. First, I had privately hiding crossbows, but now I have set up an escort agency and customized a large number of weapons."

Fang Xuanling smiled and said, "If Wei Zheng knew about this, the emperor would probably be advised by him."

Li Shimin smiled a little embarrassedly. An emperor of the ages was actually a little afraid of a minister under his command. After thousands of years of China, I am afraid that only Li Shimin would be the only one.

Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling laughed and talked for a while. Seeing Changsun Wuji sitting alone with a gloomy face and never spoke, it seemed that he had something to do.

"Why don't the auxiliary machine say it? If there is any difficult thing, I will tell you."

Changsun Wuji forced a smile and said, "There is nothing difficult for me. I just think that Yi Fan is acting like this. I am afraid that his goal is very small. He is now very prestigious among the people of Chang'an. If this person is determined to cause trouble, the consequences will be unimaginable. Please ask the emperor to make a decision early."

Fang Xuanling looked at Changsun Wuji meaningfully and said to Li Shimin: "Master, Zhao Duke's words are reasonable, and Yi Fan must be careful. However, this person helped the court solve the disaster-stricken affairs twice, and Zhao Duke said earlier that this person has prestige among the people of Chang'an.

Therefore, I think we must be both guarding against him and rewarding him, so that the people of Chang'an and those who want to make meritorious contributions to my Tang Dynasty will be an example."

Fang Xuanling's words were extremely accurate. He seemed to agree with Changsun Wuji's point of view, and from the perspective of the country, he measured the pros and cons, but secretly helped Yi Fan.

Fang Xuanling sighed in his heart: "Yi Fan, Yi Fan, for the sake of sake, I can only help you here. Who made you mingle with the King of Wu? Don't you know that the current crown prince's uncle is Changsun Wuji?"

Yi Fan naturally didn't know that he was almost humiliated by Changsun Wuji just now.

Yi Fan was commanding Lao Ba, and Lao Jiu hung new red lanterns on heaven and earth, preparing to welcome the New Year.

Today is the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, and the whole world seems to be full of joy.

As soon as Yi Fan finished commanding Lao Ba and Lao Jiu hanged the lanterns, Wu Meiniang came over with two small wooden boards and asked Yi Fan to hang it next to the door.

Yi Fan took the wooden board and saw that there were words on it, one with "Shen Tu" written on it and the other with "Yulei".

Yi Fan shook the wooden board in his hand and asked in confusion: "What is this?"

Wu Meiniang looked at Yi Fan in surprise and said, "This is a peach talisman! Doesn't the little man know?"

Yi Fan shook his head.

Wu Meiniang didn't know for a moment, whether Yi Fan really didn't know or did he pretend to be a false one. Sometimes Wu Meiniang felt that Yi Fan seemed to know everything in the world, and sometimes he knew nothing about things that everyone in the world knew.

After Wu Meiniang explained, Yi Fan vaguely remembered that he seemed to have heard of it before, and this peach talisman seemed to be the predecessor of Spring Festival couplets.

Yi Fan returned the peach talisman to Wu Meiniang and said, "We don't need this this year, let's see if I write a pair of Spring Festival couplets for you."

Yi Fan asked someone to get a pen, ink, and red paper and said to Wu Meiniang: "Mei Niang, come and help me grind ink. The first couplet in the world is about to be born. In the future, you, the person who grinds ink, can also be recorded in history books."

Wu Meiniang also wanted to see what Yi Fan was doing, so she went up to help him grind ink.

Yi Fan picked up the brush, looked up and brewed it, and dripped it ink. The pen moved, and the dragon and snake, and the dragon and the phoenix danced, and wrote on the red paper.

After a while, a few words appeared on the two red papers. Wu Meiniang leaned over and carefully identified them for a long time before she recognized what the pile of crooked words were.

I saw one of the red papers that read: "New Year is full of joy."

Another one reads: "Jiajie number Changchun."

Yi Fan proudly asked Lao Ba and Lao Jiu to paste this pair of Spring Festival couplets on the door frame of heaven and earth.

Wu Meiniang estimated that after the Spring Festival, when Tian Shang and Earth opened, Yi Fan's twisted words would scare away many customers.

Wu Meiniang finally forced Lao Ba and Lao Jiu to hang her peach talisman on the door.

Because of this, Boss Yi Fan was unwilling to do so. He clearly looked down on his Spring Festival couplets!

Wu Meiniang's explanation is: "What kind of Spring Festival couplets do you have? Although it has some charm and auspicious meaning, it does not ward off evil spirits. This peach talisman can pray for blessings and ward off evil spirits. There are two names of gods on it, which can ensure the safety of the family."

Yi Fan only muttered: "So this Tao Fu is also a part-time door god!"

Just as Yi Fan and his team were about to welcome the New Year, the Weiyuan Escort Agency also welcomed weapons from major blacksmith shops.

I saw a strong man with a naked upper body and muscles like toads bowed to Yi Ruri and said, "Mr. Yi, I finally lived up to his responsibilities. Finally, I drove out these weapons for you before the New Year."

Yi Ruri bowed his hand and said proudly: "Thank you for your hard work, come and sit in it."

Yi Zhongtian immediately returned to heaven and earth to report this to Yi Fan.

At the same time, Cui Bao, in Chang'an County, also received the news.

Cui Bao sneered: "Yi Fan, Yi Fan, it seems that you can't live this year. Aren't you known as a little god? You can still be reborn. I want to see if you can survive when I cut off your head."

Cui Bao laughed "haha" after saying that.

After laughing, Cui Bao said to the yamen runner who reported the news: "Go and tell Captain Zhan to ask him to have some good staff and be on standby at any time. He said that the county has received news that someone in the city plans to rebel premeditatedly. If this matter is done, it is natural that it will be no problem to be promoted to the position."
Chapter completed!