The ground was dark red, and the smell of blood was strong. There were a large number of dog skins hanging on the beams. Under the dog skins was a wooden pillar, with a giant bone-cutting knife one meter long and one foot wide, dripping with oil.
"Lu Wan! Fan Kuai! Come out and greet Mr. Nai!"
The door was open, and Liu Ji started shouting when he was only ten meters away from the door. The smell of blood that hit his face didn't make him feel any discomfort at all. He had long been used to it.
As soon as he finished his words, and before anyone responded, others rushed into the house and slammed the door.
After a while, three people sat at the long table covered with grease.
One of them was a big man with a strong build, full of murderous aura, rough face, messy hair, and his clothes were covered with dried black blood and bright red blood that had not dried up. He looked very scary.
He held a clean, bright and sharp boning knife, and while picking the bones out of the dog meat Liu Bang brought, he said:
"Fan Kuai is a dog-slaughterer. If my brother wants to eat dog meat, just tell me. There is no need to trick him into eating or drinking. Those people talk nonsense all the time. In Pei County, my brother's reputation is bad."
"Why are you eating meat and wine for free? If you eat all your dogs, what meat will you sell and what will you do for a living?"
Liu Ji poured himself a drink, smashed his mouth, shook his head, and said proudly:
"Is Naigong powerful? I don't know that person, but with just this mouth, he was able to treat Ji to twenty kilograms of dog meat. Manpei County people can't find another person like Naigong! Hahaha!"
"Twenty pounds! Do you no longer want your butt, or are you not going home today? Send it back quickly!"
Lu Wan, who had been sitting calmly waiting to eat the dog meat, suddenly stood up, took the dog meat and was about to leave.
Liu Ji reached out and grabbed Lu Wan's arm and said with a smile:
"What's the point of spitting out the meat when it reaches Nai Gong's mouth? If you get beaten, Nai Gong will be beaten too. Liu Ang won't beat you, so you can just eat it with peace of mind."
Lu Wan looked anxious. She inserted her chopsticks into the bottom of the meat and lifted it up. When she saw that the bottom was really meat and not some rice padding, she was even more panicked.
Tiaojiao:
"Liu Ji! You have caused a big trouble! Normally, you only cheat three to five kilograms of meat, and the old lady just scolds you. But today you cheated of twenty kilograms of meat, and the old lady will definitely beat you with a stick. You can't get off the ground! The person you deceived is also extremely stupid! Twenty kilograms of meat, ordinary people can't eat it in a year, how could such an expensive thing be bought to you so easily!"
"You're so panicked!"
Fan Kuai's eyes widened as he tore off a piece of meat and stuffed it into his mouth.
"Twenty pounds of dog meat, Kuai can afford it! Eat it!"
Liu Ji raised his thumbs.
"Brother Fan Kuai is still happy.
"Lu Wan, you are afraid of the east and the west. You are not a good man and you are not worthy of being friends with the two of us. If you can eat, then eat. If you can't, then get out."
Lu Wan was furious.
He was thinking about Liu Ji, and it didn't matter that Liu Ji didn't appreciate it, but he still ridiculed him so openly.
"Just eat! I'm so scared! It's not Wan who will lose everything!"
He picked up the wine jar and drank a few sips of wine. After wiping the wine stains on his mouth, he picked up a piece of Fan Kuai's unboned dog meat and started to chew it.
"That's right, hahaha! Do it!"
Liu Ji laughed.
Twenty pounds of dog meat and five pounds of fine wine were enough for an adult man to spend for a year, but he ignored them and brought them to eat with his brothers.
"The people who invited me to drink and eat meat are not stupid. I have been keeping an eye on these two people for several days."
Fan Kuai and Lu Wan raised their heads and listened carefully. They were very interested in the person who could buy twenty kilograms of dog meat and five kilograms of fine wine in one go.
"You two eat, and Nai Gong talks while you eat."
Liu Bang saw the two of them continuing to take a sip of wine and a sip of meat, and said with a satisfied smile:
"Six days ago, these two people came to Peixian County and walked back and forth on the street. From Widow Cao's house in the east of the county to the cloth shop in the west of the county. From the blacksmith shop in the south of the county, to the cloth shop in the north of the county. County government.
The two of them visited Pei County all over. He spends generously, never asks the price when eating, and never bargains for anything he buys. "
Fan Kuai swallowed the meat in his mouth and frowned:
"These two people are so rich. Why didn't Wang Mazi say that Wang Mazi could just watch these two outsiders swaggering through the market and not go to Shunjin?"
Wang Mazi is a thief in Peixian County. He is very famous in the local area and has frequent contacts with Fan Kuai.
Liu Ji slapped his thigh fiercely, feeling energetic.
"Good question! That's the point!"
He leaned toward the long table and lowered his voice.
"How about he is smart! These two people don't show off their wealth. They buy everything with copper coins and never take out gold! Not to mention Wang Mazi, who only has gold in his eyes. If I hadn't been following him, I would have seen this one by chance. Both times, I couldn’t tell it was a rich person.”
Lu Wan looked solemn.
"These two are so smart, how could they be deceived by you?"
Liu Ji coughed lightly.
"These two people were eating at Zhang's house next to the South City Gate. The carriage was parked on the side of the road. I guessed they were walking. Seeing that they were about to leave Peixian County, I went up to tell them their names, and they were very excited. It’s hard to refuse such hospitality if you want to invite someone to drink wine and eat meat!
"Looking closely, I discovered that one of the old men had four fleshy moles on his forehead. This is the sign of ghosts. You will not understand the strangeness of this phenomenon. Let me tell you something, the saint Guiguzi has These four moles!"
Lu Wan looked shocked.
Liu Ji was very satisfied.
Fan Kuai was indifferent and concentrated on eating meat.
He had never heard of Guiguzi, and there were no Guiguzi in Pei County.
Liu Ji was very dissatisfied and tried his best to teach Fan Kuai about the greatness of Guiguzi.
"Guiguzi has an apprentice named Su Qinhe who traps Hangu and prevents the Qin State from taking a step east. There is also an apprentice named Zhang Yi who joins forces with the Qi State to make the Qin State massacre all directions..."
Liu Ji took the trouble until Fan Kuai showed a look of shock before he stopped talking. He took a sip of wine to moisten his throat and pretended to be calm:
"This old man who has the same ghost-like appearance as Gui Guzi insists on accepting me as his disciple. I said that I have two brothers, one named Lu Wan and one named Fan Kuai. If you want to accept me, you can accept the three of us.
"He didn't want to and just wanted to take me as his own. I immediately became angry and refused on the spot. How could I abandon my two brothers? This is impossible!"
At night.
The bright moonlight shone on Liu Ji's butt, making it look silvery and white.
"I'll let you hang out with Lu Wan and Fan Kuai! I'll let you deceive people into drinking and eating! I'll let you idle around instead of doing your job!"
In the courtyard, Liu Ji's father, Liu Ang, was over fifty, but he was strong and spoke clearly and powerfully.
He yelled and hit Liu Ji with a cane, and the cane hit Liu Ji's buttocks. The blows made Liu Ji's buttocks bleed.
Liu Ji lay on the stone roller with his butt stuck out, crying loudly in pain, his voice was so miserable that it made those who heard it sad and those who saw it shed tears.
Guiguzi, who saw this person and heard his voice, chuckled.
[He has such a bad temperament, but he has the appearance of an emperor. There is no way for blessings and misfortunes, they can only be brought by oneself. This is the first time that Zen has been found by others, coming uninvited. Interesting, Chidi, you surprised Zen. Zen suddenly wanted to know, how did you defeat Chongtongzi without Junshang. ]
"Liu Ang, you beat me to death! You lost a son! You have so much money, I will help you make friends with it, I am not much better than Liu Xi!"
Winter in Peixian County is also very cold.
Liu Ji's butt was exposed, but it felt hot, and he couldn't feel any coolness at all. The blood hadn't solidified yet, and the next stick was connected.
Liu angrily swung the log stick and gritted his teeth again.
"Shuzi! You have no respect for your elders! If you are half as strong as my second son, you will not be thirty years old and still have no business, and you still need me to support you!"
With his hands and feet not tied, Liu Ji kept shouting in pain on the stone roller but never ran away, raising his head and shouting.
"The wind is blowing and the clouds are flying!
"Liu Ang, if you humiliate me like this today, don't regret it when I take off!"
…………
Han Di, Yangcheng.
The county magistrate here is Da Dao Cui Guang. Cui Guang, who pursues rule by doing nothing, issued a very relaxed decree in Yangcheng, so relaxed that even the people of Yangcheng dare not think of it.
For example, in previous years, most of the grain produced during a year's work had to be handed over, and the remaining grain could only barely satisfy the hunger, but this year, taxes are exempted.
Most people are happy, but some people are not.
Chen Sheng is one of those unhappy people.
The Chen family was originally a noble from Yangcheng and a small aristocratic family.
As a descendant of the Chen family, although Chen Sheng is not a direct descendant but a collateral descendant, he has never worried about life since he was a child. He thought that he would live such a carefree life. He had never thought about returning to Korea and it had nothing to do with him.
With or without Korea, his life has not changed much. Even the direct descendants of the Chen family have never thought about returning to Korea. How could he, a collateral descendant, have such great ambitions.
However, all this was shattered after the Lu Chamber of Commerce frantically closed the door on iron and grain prices rose wildly.
In the process of the collapse of this aristocratic family, Chen Sheng actually resisted.
The Zhang family's instructions to stabilize grain prices indicate that once grain prices collapse, everyone will be ruined.
Chen Sheng immediately realized that what the Zhang family said was right.
As a descendant of the collateral line, he could not get so much money, so he was able to step out of the circle, unlike the direct lineage of the Chen family who was carried away by huge benefits.
He saw the crisis after this incident, and went to argue with the head of the Chen family, trying to get the Chen family to follow the Zhang family's instructions - and then he was kicked back.
The countless money and cheap labor made the Chen family red-eyed and all the aristocratic families red-eyed.
When Chen Sheng saw that the momentum was not right, he immediately prepared to escape, but what he didn't expect was that the snow mountain collapsed too fast.
In less than a month, an unprecedented peasant uprising swept the entire territory of Korea. At this time, Chen Sheng has not left yet and is still in Yangcheng.
The Chen family was destroyed, destroyed by countless farmers with hoes, and the main family was wiped out.
Fortunately, Chen Sheng, a collateral member, did not die, but as a member of the Chen family, he was arrested and imprisoned.
At first, life in prison was worse than death for him, a nobleman.
But people's endurance is amazing. Within a month, he, who was once a nobleman, got used to prison life and no longer thought about hitting his head against the wall and dying.
He even considered how to atone for his sins. He couldn't spend the rest of his life here, right?
Blessings lie where misfortunes lie, misfortunes lie where blessings rely.
After two months of suffering, Chen Sheng was lucky again.
Da Dao Cui Guang became the magistrate of Yangcheng County, killed a group of evil people, and then granted amnesty.
Chen Sheng, who was determined to escape when the food supply was growing rapidly and did not do any evil deeds, was naturally not considered a great evil, and he was also released.
Cui Guang not only released them, but also provided them with food and accommodation. When spring comes and flowers bloom next year, they need to work for the government and repay the money they spent during the winter.
There are no crops in the fields, and the harsh winter has killed all life.
Chen Sheng wrapped his clothes tightly and stood on the land he was going to farm in March, his breath turning into white mist.
"Princes, generals and prime ministers would rather have the seed.
"The first person to say this should really die!"
He shuddered and cursed.
When he was a nobleman, he wore leather jackets instead of linen clothes in winter. He had never been cold at that time.
He missed the aristocratic life.
(End of chapter)
