Although Li Qiao was wrapped up thickly when he went to work every day, the carriage was not tightly sealed and air leaked everywhere, so he used a skill that he had not used for a long time:
Supernatural body protection.
Thanks to Dasheng's lack of major events for a long time, and the fact that his speed in approving papers was much faster than at the beginning, from the beginning of summer to now, for more than half a year, he often left the palace and returned to the household department at noon.
In the household department, he has a separate office.
Through this private space, he can quietly practice his powers.
With unremitting practice, his superpower has reached level four.
In fact, when the superpower reaches the third level, it can mobilize the energy in the body and control the energy to move around the body.
Energy circulates in the body, which can eliminate fatigue and resist the temperature of the outside world.
But when the power is at level three, there is less energy that can be mobilized and the duration is also short.
Now that his power has reached level four, he can mobilize a lot of energy and it is durable. When he is alone, he can basically keep his body at a constant temperature, so it is not hot in summer and not cold in winter.
However, he only dared to use this method when he was alone. If he was discovered by others, he would be in big trouble.
Man, it’s not good to be too famous.
Especially since he is still living in Shengjing. Not only is his house close to the palace, but he is also surrounded by many personal guards who have benefited from, are not afraid of learning, and are not tired of these Shenghong rewards.
Although Sheng Hong had made it clear when he rewarded people, these personal guards would only be loyal to him from now on. Sheng Hong himself would not keep in contact with these people, just like the personal guards of several princes.
But he was worried.
The time that these personal guards were with him was too short, and he was not a prince. It would be okay if he was not abnormal. If he really showed something illogical and weird, would these personal guards pretend they didn't see it?
It was out of this concern that he only dared to send guards like Li Dao and Li Mao to keep an eye on Gao Zhiyuan.
Now that Tao Zhu no longer works as a recruitment manager in the plaster workshop, he has no legitimate reason to send away the full recruitment, loss of Qian, benefit and others.
He carries these people with him to and from get off work, so he can't just disappear for a while to catch them.
He originally wanted to kill Gao Zhiyuan, but as soon as the incident involving the barbarian criminals came out, he changed his mind. He wanted to interrogate Gao Zhiyuan even more so that he could force Gao Zhiyuan to tell him what happened in his previous life.
However, he is no longer anxious.
Because according to what Li Dao said, Gao Zhiyuan has made big moves recently.
Gao Zhiyuan recently entered the city and didn't want to find any way to get close to the Sixth Prince. Instead, he went to the bookstore.
Gao Zhiyuan went to the bookstore not to study hard to take the imperial examination, nor to take on some book copying work to support his family. He was reading some Taoist books.
Once he even went to a Taoist priest to tell his fortune.
Gao Zhiyuan probably didn't act like this because he was a Taoist priest. Gao Zhiyuan probably did it because he was pretending to be a magic stick.
He couldn't get close to the Sixth Prince, and even if he did get close, he certainly couldn't tell the Sixth Prince what happened in his previous life outright.
The best way is to pretend to be a magic stick.
If you really become a Taoist priest who is "able to pinch and calculate", then no matter what kind of lies you say, it can be explained.
Gao Zhiyuan's move was indeed beyond Li Qiao's expectations.
Life is difficult for Gao Zhiyuan and his son. This winter is too cold. They need a lot of dry firewood and charcoal to keep warm. There are too many buyers, so the prices of both have gone up.
Ordinary people are reluctant to spend money, and the number of people suffering from frostbite or even freezing to death in Shengjing City is much higher than last year.
Life is so difficult for the people at the bottom of Shengjing, let alone outside Shengjing.
Gao Zhiyuan often travels to Shengjing City and is not very interested in the main business of Niutou Village. If he is not interested in the main business, he will make less money.
In order to make ends meet, his mother, Chen Yinhan, had no choice but to work. Chen Yinhan did everything from collecting firewood, going to the city to mend clothes for others, doing laundry, etc.
With the temperature this winter, washing clothes is a difficult task. I heard from Li Dao that Chen Yinhan had frostbite on his hands and face, which looked scary.
But Gao Zhiyuan seemed unable to see his mother's hard work. He only wanted to be a magician and had no intention of shouldering the burden of supporting the family.
And Chen Yinhan also spoiled Gao Zhiyuan, his almost thirty-year-old son, and fed himself on the cakes painted by Gao Zhiyuan every day.
To be honest, Li Qiao was worried that the mother and son would do something bad before Gao Zhiyuan could become a magic stick.
Now he really wants to see Gao Zhiyuan live a healthy life. He is almost thirty years old but has turned to be a Taoist priest. He doesn't know what surprise Gao Zhiyuan can give him.
He asked Li Dao and others to keep an even closer eye on Gao Zhiyuan.
After entering the twelfth lunar month, officials who are far away from their hometowns can ask for leave in advance and return to their hometowns. In previous years, officials have asked for leave, but this year it is cold and it is not suitable to travel far. No one in the civil and military officials of the court asked for leave.
After Laba, the New Year atmosphere picks up.
The Li family began to prepare New Year's goods.
At the same time, preparations have also begun for Zhuang Fengsheng, Zheng Butcher, Meng's father and Meng's mother to return to their hometown next year.
The reason why preparations were made so early was because it involved a greenhouse and cement.
This winter, Zheng Qianqian said it countless times. Fortunately, she lived in a greenhouse this year. Otherwise, it would have been difficult for the two babies, Li Erbao and Brother Ju.
Shen Hua didn't have a greenhouse to live in. Shen Hua was extremely envious of the Li family's greenhouse, but he couldn't live in the Li family and could only repeat it every day that he would build a greenhouse next year.
All he can do this year is keep the kang burning twelve hours a day and put a charcoal pot in the house to keep the indoor temperature from getting too low.
Li Liang and Wang Guihua, who are used to hard times, also feel that today's winter is a bit too cold.
Although the two of them live in a greenhouse, their hearts are concerned about Sanliu Village.
Li Liang talked a lot, and Li Qiao also worried about Sanliu Village.
When spring starts next year and the weather warms up, Zhuang Fengshou, Meng's father, Meng's mother, Zheng Butcher and others will all go back to Sanliu Village.
Li Qiao planned to arrange for several craftsmen to go back with them and arrange greenhouses for Li Gu, the Zheng family, the Shen family, Baiyou, Li Dazhong and others.
Although the greenhouse uses a lot of dry firewood, Li Gu is old, Li Chuntao also has children, Zheng Qi Shiju and his wife, Zheng Guang and Zhao Ting have children, and these people all need a greenhouse.
When Li Liang and his party set out for the capital, Bai You became pregnant.
The white pomelo will definitely need a greenhouse next year.
After the Shen family returns home, they will definitely want to live in a greenhouse.
In this case, let's just bring the craftsmen who can build greenhouses back to Pingcheng. But these craftsmen are all from Shengjing. If they go to Pingcheng to repair the greenhouse, they naturally have to give them time to think and prepare.
In addition to the greenhouse, there is cement.
Li Qiao had reported it to Sheng Hong, and Sheng Hong praised him for spending his own money to build roads in Pingcheng, and allowed him to hand over the cement production method to Zhuang Fengshou to facilitate the construction of cement roads in Pingcheng.
Recently, Zhuang Fengshou has been coming to Li's house every day to learn how to make plant ash cement.
Previously, Sheng Hong was worried that fighting the Hu people would cost a lot of money, so he decided to sell cement to ordinary people.
Sheng Hong's method of selling cement is very simple. He sells the cement slurry directly. People buy the cement slurry and mix it with sand to build road barriers. Of course, it doesn’t matter if you don’t want to mix sand or soil, it all depends on personal discretion.
Cement slurry costs 20 cents per pound, which is actually more expensive than adobe bricks.
But in the past six months, the spacious and flat cement road outside the city, as well as the cement roads Li Qiao built for his village, have long since convinced the people of Shengjing.
It's more expensive, it has more advantages.
What's more, it's actually not very expensive. It only costs a few taels of silver to buy it and mix it with sand in a one-to-one ratio to cover your small yard.
Many people in Shengjing are willing to spend this money.
Cement sales were booming, so road construction was put on hold.
The craftsmen have to be busy making cement.
It just so happens that this winter has been very cold, the ground is frozen, and there is no way to build roads, so Shenghong is really right to sell cement.
But Sheng Hong's mood has been so-so recently. The medical clinic's business has been booming this winter, and nearly a hundred beggars and poor people have frozen to death.
On the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, officials officially have a holiday.
Li Qiao didn't have a holiday. Last year, Li Qiao completed the approval within half a month, which took Sheng Hong a month to process. Sheng Hong felt the benefits and asked Li Qiao to work harder.
He recommended all the work summaries of various yamen, New Year's greetings from officials from various places, and performance evaluation forms of officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs to Li Qiao.
So Li Qiao worked hard until the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month before taking a holiday.
However, this New Year was more festive than ever before, and the house was more lively than ever before. On the first day of the new year, the Zhuang family, Xu Yingchen, the Shen family, and the Meng family all came over to play, and the laughter in the house never stopped.
Tao Zhu always had a smile on his face. This was the Chinese New Year. He had a small family and the previous Chinese New Years had been too deserted.
After the Lantern Festival, the New Year is finally over.
It is already spring. At this time in previous years, the sun has been hanging in the sky. Although it does not have much power, some diligent farmers will go to the fields to irrigate to prevent the crops in the fields from drying out.
But after the Lantern Festival this year, the temperature has not been high. When Zhuang Fengshou, Zheng Butcher, Meng's father and Meng's mother and others left in mid-February, the weather was still quite cold.
Li Qiaoyuan thought about letting them stay for a while longer and wait until the weather got really warm before leaving. However, these people had been away for more than half a year and had long been worried about things at home.
Li Qiao could not persuade them, so he could only ask people from Royal Logistics to escort them back to their hometown.
It wasn't until March of the lunar calendar that the weather really warmed up.
At this time, Gao Zhiyuan, who had been studying Taoist books for half a year, finally achieved something, and he began to tell people's fortunes in Niutou Village.
He also went to villages near Niutou Village, including the town, to set up fortune-telling stalls.
He did not enter the city of Shengjing and only stayed in the countryside.
But it was this kind of behavior that finally made Li Dao discover a strange thing. Gao Zhiyuan's previous hard study was not in vain. He seemed to have really mastered the skill of fortune telling, and he gained several loyal followers in just six months.
Li Dao accidentally discovered that Gao Zhiyuan actually sent each of these believers a letter that could only be opened if he had an accident.
Chapter 193 Gao Zhiyuan’s back-up plan Gao Zhiyuan’s letter and pamphlet
In the ninth month of golden autumn, the fragrance of osmanthus blooms.
It happened that Li Qiao was taking a nap, and Li Erbao and Brother Ju were a little older, so Li Qiao took his whole family to the chrysanthemum garden to enjoy the flowers.
The eldest prince's chrysanthemum garden is still very beautiful. There are many tourists. The vast swaths of flowers all over the mountains and fields and the blue sky are so beautiful that it makes people feel relaxed and happy.
After admiring flowers in the chrysanthemum garden, having a flower feast and drinking chrysanthemum wine, the group rode a carriage back to the city at sunset.
After the cement road was repaired, the way back to the city was much faster, and it was still dark when we entered the city.
After everyone played for a day, the four other children, except Li Xiaorui, who was already five and a half years old, fell asleep from exhaustion.
