Chapter 2 Soil dumplings
There was a captain's document at the gate of the city. The portraits painted on it were very abstract. Li Luotang felt that it would be strange if he could catch people with such a portrait. But it had nothing to do with him. After seeing it, Li Luotang went into the city.
After entering the city, Li Luotang still looked for an inn to stay, led the horse and walked slowly along the long street. He could not withstand the temptation on the road, so he bought a pack of fish-skin peanuts, a pack of thousand-layer crisps, a pack of lotus root candy, and a pack of egg yolk.
Li Luotang was chewing peanuts while walking, and suddenly a child ran past her; Li Luotang reached out and grabbed the little squid on the child's head, "Give me back the purse, otherwise you will break your hand."
"What purse? I don't know." The dirty little boy denied it.
"A bad boy who is lying, the ghost messenger will come to cut his tongue at night." Li Luotang scared him.
The little boy's face turned pale and he stammered: "You are lying to others."
"I never lie." Li Luotang said with a smile.
The little boy's eyes rolled and handed the purse he grabbed in his left hand to Li Luotang, "Give it back to you, don't let the ghost messenger cut my tongue."
Li Luotang raised his eyebrows in surprise, but he didn't expect to get the purse back so easily. Li Luotang just thought he was young and was scared. Without thinking, he let go of his hand. The little boy ran away in a flash. Such a thief was arrested in the yamen and would not care about it, so she would not have much trouble.
He continued to move forward with his horse and turned around and saw Fuyuan Inn. Li Luotang walked in. A small head poked out at the corner. It was the little boy who ran away. After he watched Li Luotang enter the inn, he shrank his head and ran away again.
In the inn, Li Luotang said to the shopkeeper: "I want a room to feed the best weeds."
"How many days are you planning to live?" the shopkeeper asked with a smile on his face.
"Live for three days first." Li Luotang would stay for a few days when he went to a larger town, visit the surrounding area, and taste the local delicacies.
Li Luotang stayed in Fuyuan Inn, and the thief told his leader about this, "It's definitely a fat sheep."
The leader knocked hard on his head, "Fat Sheep must be a fat Sheep, but Fuyuan Inn is not a place where we can cause trouble. You find a few young people to stare at him at the door of the store. As long as he leaves the inn and leaves the order, we will do it."
"I understand." The thief went to do his business happily.
That night, Li Luotang, who had been traveling all day, did not leave the inn. After eating the dinner provided by the inn, he asked his friend to send two large buckets of hot water to take a comfortable bath. The water vapor was filled with a faint fragrance of flowers. In this era, men also liked to wear flowers and incense. Even if she made herself fragrant, no one would suspect that she was dressed as a man.
A refreshing breeze and a bright moon, a good night's sleep.
The next day, as soon as Li Luotang left the inn, the thief who was following outside the store asked someone to pass the news to the thief's leader, and then followed him all the way.
At first, Li Luotang didn't notice a little tail behind him. He found a stall selling dirt dumplings on the roadside, so he went to buy a bowl of dirt dumplings. The stall took the initiative and quickly delivered a bowl of dirt dumplings.
The earthen dumplings are big and full, with a small piece of thin tail left at the end, looking like tadpoles. The unique earthen dumplings taste salty and fragrant. The outer skin of the dumplings is fragrant and smooth, soft and delicate. The fillings inside include winter bamboo shoots, dried aromas, essence and chopped green onions, exuding an attractive aroma; the soup is mixed with minced meat, dried radish, and soy sauce, steaming, with a strong aroma, and good shape and color.
After eating two, Li Luotang nodded slightly. It was worthy of being the delicacy recorded in the travel notes, and it was indeed delicious. There were only ten rice dumplings in a bowl. After eating, Li Luotang called the stall owner to come over to pay the bill. The female stall owner came over with a rag, "Young master, nine cents."
The snacks at the street stalls are affordable. Li Luotang smiled and took out the copper coin to pay the bill. She got up and wanted to leave, but saw the female stall owner wanting to speak but stopped, and his eyes looked behind her.
Li Luotang left the stall quietly and continued to walk along the long street. He heard the footsteps behind him and followed him with a slightly curled lips. I don’t know which one is not very eye-catching, so he dared to follow her? Li Luotang was very skilled and brave. He did not throw away the people who followed him, but deliberately walked towards remote places. There were many people on the street, which was not convenient for bad people to do it.
When he was stopped by a few men who obviously didn't look like good people, Li Luotang was not surprised but happy, and said, "When he was in the world, he had no experience, so he had to exercise."
In order to avoid scaring these people who came to the door away, Li Luotang pretended to be scared and asked, "What are you? What are you doing? Don't come here, I'll call someone."
After shouting, Li Luotang felt uncomfortable and flirted with his hair. He was not a professional and his acting skills were a bit exaggerated, but it should be enough to deceive these gangsters.
The men let out a few wild grinning smiles, and a thin man with a vulgar appearance said arrogantly: "Scream, shout loudly, even if you shout out loud, no one will come to save you. No one in this city dares to care about our brothers' affairs."
"Oh, so awesome! Then I have to see it." Li Luotang smiled slightly on his lips, his apricot eyes narrowed slightly. Anyone who is familiar with her knows that the little devil is going to make trouble! But those men didn't know that, and they thought that the boy had fine skin and tender flesh, red lips and white teeth. He stole his property and sold him to a small house, and he could make another profit.
This was not the first time those men did this. They had no need to communicate with each other, so they surrounded them. Li Luotang looked at the approaching people, raised his right hand and spread the dust from the paper bag to the people, while she herself retreated quickly.
Several men thought it was easy to catch Li Luotang, but they didn't expect Li Luotang would sprinkle medicine powder on them. Although they immediately held their breath, the medicine powder used by Li Luotang was not enough to not breathe. It would make people itch if they were exposed to the skin outside.
Yes, Li Luotang is not poison powder, itchy powder, which she made to tease people. Now she uses it. In fact, with Li Luotang's martial arts, it is easy to solve these people, but there are simpler and faster ways to make them more uncomfortable. Why not?
It was itchy, itchy, so many men kept scratching, but the more they scratched, the more itchy it became, the more itchy it became, and the more they scratched, I wish I could have eight hands to scratch it. Li Luotang asked with a smile: "It's very itchy? Do you want me to help you relieve itch?"
"Anti-drug, hand over the antidote quickly." Someone shouted.
Li Luotang took out a soft whip, "There is no antidote. There is only one way to stop itching, that is, use the whip to whip."
After saying that, Li Luotang took action, "papapapapapapa" whip after whip, whipping a few of them with their heads in their arms. They wanted to escape, but the whip was like eyes, and they were whipping them accurately, and they couldn't escape at all.
Several people cried and howled, causing a lot of noise, attracting passers-by, "It's Master Chengdong."
"Who is that person? How dare you use a whip to whip and the others?"
"Who is a bold person."
"Ho hoho, probably because Master Li wanted to pinch the soft seeds, but he didn't want to fall into it."
"The strong dragon does not suppress the local snake. That person is just a proud man and will suffer a great loss later."
"It's not that the Raptors are not the Jiang. Since he dares to take action, he must rely on something."
Amid their conversation, the Master Li and his men had knelt down and begged for mercy, "Ancestor, we were wrong. We didn't know Mount Tai. Ancestor, you have a lot of mercy. You can spare us. Just think we are a big deal and let us go. Ancestor..."
"Shut up, I don't want to be your ancestors. If there are unfilial descendants like you, I will be in trouble for eight lifetimes." Li Luotang interrupted them and said angrily.
Mr. Li and others dared not say anything more, and kowtowed blindly, asking Li Luotang to let them go. Li Luotang knew that such a hooligan would be released even if he was escorted to the yamen and closed for a few days. She was too lazy to be so troublesome, "Okay, don't kowtow, it's not impossible to spare you. I'll let you go."
"Give me a small wish, a small wish." Mr. Li felt like he was escaping from death, "How much ransom do you want?"
"How much do you think your life is worth?" Li Luotang asked him to set the price himself.
Master Li's expression was out of control. He felt that his life was worth a thousand gold, but he couldn't bear to give it up.
"If you have money but don't have life, what's the use of money?" Li Luotang knocked his head with the handle of the whip.
"Yes, yes, you are right." Master Li was crying without tears. This is really a matter of being a slaughter and a fish.
Li Luotang smiled and ordered someone casually to buy the ransom, "Give you half an hour. If you don't come, I will kill them and go find you again and kill you."
The man was so scared that he rolled and crawled away the crowd and ran towards their nest. Half an hour later, the man came with a lacquer wooden box in his head, "Zu, my uncle, I'll give you a ransom, 300,000 taels."
Li Luotang took the box and opened it. He looked around casually. He found that it was from Shengchang Yinzhuang. "Okay, I will pay less for the first time in a business. I won't be able to do next time. I will stay here for a few days. You are welcome to continue finding someone to do business with me."
"I dare not, I dare not." Even if Master Li wanted to take revenge afterwards, he would not dare to show it in person now. What's more, this master is tricky, so he should be honest and just pretend to lose money and eliminate disasters.
Li Luotang chuckled and walked out in the box. The onlookers made way, and the eyes of her were filled with awe.
"Master, our antidote." Master Li shouted weakly.
Li Luotang said without looking back: "When you go back and wipe it with salt water, it won't be itchy."
Master Li was like a loss of his parents. He was covered in wounds. Rub with salt water. It would not hurt to die! Oh, heaven, this is not a fat sheep. This is clearly a demon god. He was born with his eyes and no beads to seek death.
Li Luotang got 300,000 taels of silver notes for nothing, but she did not intend to take it for herself. She would be a chivalrous person who would rob the rich and help the poor.
Li Luotang looked around while walking. She was looking for the Li family's logo. In a jade shop, she saw the familiar mark, smiled slightly, walked in, took out the jade seal that was unique to the Li family, "I want to meet the shopkeeper."
Seeing this, the middle-aged man walked out of the counter and saluted: "Hello, my master, I am the shopkeeper of our store, the little surname is Sun."
"Hello, Manager Sun, I have something to tell you to do." Li Luotang said with a smile.
Chapter completed!