In the end, Li Xiuyuan did not reveal any secret to the master, and the master did not ask any more questions.
The two seemed to have a tacit understanding and did not pierce the layer of paper.
The Master has read thousands of books, so he naturally understands the way of a king. Although he likes his disciple very much, he also understands that he must conform to the way of heaven and earth.
Li Xiuyuan said with emotion: "Xiao Hei and I met Zhang Liang on a snowy day, and he was disliked by the lady in the Prime Minister's Mansion..."
The master was stunned, stroking his beard and sighing: "Who can predict the unpredictable changes in the world? I am not a god."
Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said with a smile: "Master has the compassion of a saint and understands the principles of obeying the laws of heaven. You should go to the top of the snow-capped mountains to see the heaven and the earth, rather than see the imperial city in the middle of the mountain."
When the Master heard this, he felt like he was struck by lightning. He was holding a cup of tea and was speechless for a long time.
In his opinion, the top of the snow-capped mountains is a restricted area of life. Except for those with extremely high cultivation level, who would dare to climb it?
But Li Xiuyuan's words clearly made him feel a different artistic conception. Perhaps, he had lived on the mountainside for a long time, and he could only really see the imperial city not far away.
Li Xiuyuan reached out and poured out the tea residue in the pot, washed it again with warm water, and finally gently dropped two pieces of Han Mei Ling tea.
As a faint cold fragrance filled the air, Li Xiuyuan said softly: "Watching Master in the middle of the mountain, he saw the people in the imperial city, King Qin and Young Master Su in the palace."
While adding some cold plum tea to his cup, he continued: "When you climb to the top of the snow mountain, you may be able to see the entire world of Great Qin."
The master nodded thoughtfully, sniffed the faint cold fragrance without saying anything, blew gently, and took a shallow sip of the spiritual tea in the cup.
Li Xiuyuan murmured: "What if one day, Master, escapes from the shackles of this world and goes under another starry sky?"
There was no need for Li Xiuyuan to say anything. He held the spiritual tea in his hand and drank it up in one gulp until Li Xiuyuan gave him another cup.
Master Ren Shi is very knowledgeable, but he has not been able to escape from this world to see the world.
Li Xiuyuan drank a pot of cold plum tea and made some seemingly unintentional words, but they deeply touched his heart towards the Tao, thinking about the longness of heaven and earth, and the eternity of the Tao.
Looking at the master who was gradually falling into an epiphany, Li Xiuyuan knew that he might have to make another trip today in vain.
So he stooped down and added a few pieces of charcoal to the brazier, waved his sleeves, closed the door of the living room, followed Master Su's example, and walked down the mountain.
Hearing the Tao in the morning, it turns out that it is also a joyful thing to witness others hearing the Tao.
Standing under the plum tree, Li Xiuyuan's heart flew to the sky.
In the winter of that year, he carried a bamboo basket on the Meishan Mountain in the Xuanwu Continent and walked alone in the snow to look for plums, just to make the unique Hanmei Lingcha that was unique in the world.
The saint comes into my dream and makes me remember him forever.
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"Bang bang bang!" The door of Xianlai Restaurant rang, which made Li Xiuyuan, who was enjoying the snow under the eaves in the backyard, very unhappy.
Is there still no day left in my heart? The little ghost who is urging you to die is coming?
He opened the store door with his clothes on, but it was Gongsun Qingming from the Imperial City Yamen who stood outside the store with a group of men with a gloomy face.
In the wind and snow, there were Imperial Guards wearing raincoats and bamboo hats riding tall horses.
Li Xiuyuan asked quietly: "Sir, are you here to check the liquor license this early in the morning? I am a first-class citizen."
Gongsun Qingming shook his head, walked towards the store, and said to the officer behind him: "Go in and search carefully, and take away all the banned books!"
Li Xiuyuan sighed, dragged a chair and handed it to him, and asked calmly: "What do you want to search for, sir? Is it possible that the common people are hiding the criminals?"
Gongsun Qingming sat down on the chair, shook his head and said: "Pour me a bowl of wine. I am annoyed. Your Majesty wants to search for banned books. An announcement has been made. Didn't you see it?"
Li Xiuyuan sighed, turned around and went into the counter to pour him a bowl of wine.
After watching Gongsun Qingming drink half of it, he said: "I've been staying in the store these days and haven't even left the door. Where have I seen any announcements?"
Gongsun Qingming raised his head and drank a bowl of wine, and then continued: "Don't let me search for banned books in your house, otherwise I will punish you by making you cry for your father and mother, and sell three months of wine in vain."
Li Xiuyuan was amused, and he knocked on the counter and said with a smile: "If you don't find it, sir, do you have to reward me with five hundred Wen?"
"Bah! You think so beautifully!"
Gongsun Qingming laughed even more when he heard this: "You are a shopkeeper who does not obey the law, and you want to attack me as an upright official. Can you bear it?"
Li Xiuyuan was too lazy to pay attention to him, thinking that apart from wine, you might not even be able to find a single bamboo slip here.
The imperial guards outside the door obviously have enough patience, because from today on, the entire imperial city is being searched house by house, and the king will not allow them to let one family go.
Then all the forbidden troops, even if they turn the imperial city upside down, will still find all the forbidden books that the king wants.
Before Li Xiuyuan could pour Gongsun Qingming a second bowl of wine, the government servant who rushed into the backyard shook his head and walked out.
He spread his hands and said, "Sir, this place is very clean, there is nothing."
Li Xiuyuan smiled lightly and said: "Sir, everyone says that this is a place where I sell liquor and I don't have time to read any banned books."
Gongsun Qingming was stunned. He obviously did not expect such a result. In his opinion, it was normal for anyone to leave a few poems and books at home, and at most they would be confiscated.
Unexpectedly, this small wine shop was so clean that not even a bamboo slip was left.
He looked up and saw that the sky was wrong. He had just knocked on the door, and this guy had no place to move these non-incriminating letters.
Thinking of this, I could only say sternly: "It's okay if you don't have it. Remember in the future you are not allowed to hide it secretly. Otherwise, it will be a serious crime if you are caught again."
After that, he said to a group of government officials: "What are you looking at? Let's go to Zhang Liang's house and have a look."
A group of government officials, together with the imperial guards, coaxed away into the wind and snow without even glancing at Li Xiuyuan.
Li Xiuyuan and Gongsun Qingming, who got on the horse, laughed and said, "Your Excellency, you should go and see that guy Lu Yuan. Maybe he has a lot of banned books hidden in his house."
Gongsun Qingming turned around and shouted: "Come on, follow me to find him."
Li Xiuyuan was speechless and had no choice but to walk into the store angrily.
…
Maybe it’s early to open the store today, or maybe it’s because the store hasn’t been opened for a long time.
Today's business was much better than usual. Before noon, Li Xiuyuan had already sold more than a dozen jars of wine. In his opinion, this was the best business day for Xianlai Liquor's opening.
What puzzled Li Xiuyuan was that this vigorous book burning had no impact on ordinary people at all.
There was no look of death on people's faces.
Even in the eyes of some people, the king should have punished those scholars who only eat and do not work, and stand and talk without back pain.
Li Xiuyuan, who was in a daze, guarding a pot of snow water in the store, waited for Zhang Liang, who had disappeared for several days.
Looking at Li Xiuyuan in a daze, Zhang Liang couldn't help but ask: "You don't have banned books in your store, do you? The imperial army will search door to door... Don't let them cause trouble."
Li Xiuyuan smiled bitterly and said: "I knocked on the door very early in the morning. I guess Xiao Hei had just left not long ago."
Zhang Liang nodded. He smiled bitterly and said: "Many Imperial Guards have also left the academy. From now on, the knowledge of the previous dynasty such as "Poetry" and "Books" will no longer be allowed to be taught."
Li Xiuyuan nodded and said: "The academy is a government school after all. If it were to be a private school, all the collections would have to be confiscated!"
Zhang Liang thought for a while and replied: "No matter how much the academy says there is a teacher, King Qin will not embarrass the teacher. At most, the poems and articles of the previous dynasty can only be read secretly at home."
Li Xiuyuan sighed and said, "This storm is just the beginning. Don't get involved."
"That's impossible." Zhang Liang said with a smile: "The teacher said that the road has been uneasy recently, so he asked Xiaohei and Shuzi to practice swordsmanship and piano in the mountains, and they won't go home for the time being."
Li Xiuyuan sighed and said: "Gongsun Qingming went to your house after checking my wine shop. By the way, you don't hide banned books at home, right?"
Thinking of this, Li Xiuyuan was shocked. If this guy was found out, there was no way Gongsun Qingming would take the opportunity to blackmail Zhang Liang for a sum of money.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Liang laughed and said, "Teacher has reminded me a long time ago, how can I keep forbidden books privately?"
The two of them were guarding a pot of hot tea that had just been brewed, but they were thinking about the big event that they would face after the beginning of spring.
They blurted out in unison: "I don't know where that guy Jing Ke is hiding now?"
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The wind and snow are still there, and the new year has not yet arrived.
Li Xiuyuan did not wait for Jing Ke and Qin Wuyang who were assassinating Qin, but instead waited for the young master Su who was about to be exiled by the King of Qin.
In the afternoon of this day, Young Master Su, who was dressed in white, brought a young man in black robe to the Xianlai Wine Shop at No. 47 for the first time.
The young man in black robe stood outside the store and softly recited the couplets carved by Li Xiuyuan on the door frame.
"The drunkard is often worried about the lack of customers, and the moonlight is blocked by clouds... The shopkeeper is really a wonderful person!" Young Master Su entered the shop, clasped hands with Li Xiuyuan and said with a smile.
The young man standing behind him asked in confusion: "Sir, what does it mean that the moon is obscured by clouds?"
Young Master Su was stunned, looked at Li Xiuyuan and laughed.
Li Xiuyuan shook his head, looked at the two of them and replied, "It's hard to say!"
Young Master Su took the tough-headed young man to sit down, looked at Li Xiuyuan and said with a smile: "I was in a hurry at the academy, so I came here to have a bowl of wine with the shopkeeper today!"
Li Xiuyuan smiled, looked at Young Master Su and asked, "Tea or wine?"
Young Master Fusu put the pastry in his hand on the table and said with a smile: "It's rare to see the shopkeeper, so of course it's up to the guest to do as he pleases!"
Li Xiuyuan thought for a moment, then went to the counter to grab a jar of wine, took two more bowls and placed them on the table, slowly pouring the black bean wine into them.
"There is a ban on books in this city. Why do you have time to come to my wine shop?"
Putting down the wine jar, Li Xiuyuan said softly: "Try this wine brewed last spring and see how it tastes?"
Young Master Su picked up the bowl and put it in front of his lips and smelled it, then took a sip and smiled at the young man: "This is the real wine."
The young man took a sip and shouted: "Good wine!"
Young Master Su Cai looked at Li Xiuyuan and sighed: "Starting from today, the city has begun to burn the forbidden books of the previous dynasty. I am afraid it will take some days!"
The young man drank half the bowl of wine in one gulp, and then laughed with Li Xiuyuan: "This wine is strong enough!"
Li Xiuyuan looked at this boy who was not much younger than him and couldn't help but laugh: "I like it. If you like it, drink a few more drinks. Although I am poor, I have no shortage of wine."
Young Master Su thought about what he had discussed with his wife in the academy that day, and couldn't help but say: "Qing'er and I will be getting married in five days. Please make sure Shopkeeper Li goes there..."
Li Xiuyuan shook his head: "I don't like socializing. I have prepared the wine you want. Just ask the housekeeper to come to me tomorrow!"
Li Xiuyuan didn't want to provoke either King Qin or Li Si.
Young Master Su was startled when he heard this and murmured: "With such beautiful scenery at such a beautiful time, it is really a pity that Shopkeeper Li is missing."
The young man looked at Young Master Fusu and said with a smile: "Young Master, don't be afraid. I'm here. Who dares to bully you at the wine table? I won't let him go!"
Li Xiuyuan looked at the tough-looking young man in front of him and thought for a long time before saying: "What a young man who doesn't know what it's like to be sad. I'll give you two jars of wine later, go back and drink slowly!"
After thinking about it, Li Xiuyuan looked at Young Master Su and said, "In other words, Zhang Liang can attend your wedding for me, but you just don't let him get drunk..."
Young Master Su was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "That's impossible."
On this day, the three of them ate up the soy beef that Li Xiuyuan originally bought for Xiao Hei and drank a bottle of wine.
Before leaving, Li Xiuyuan moved a few jars of wine and placed them on the carriage on the roadside.
Looking at Young Master Su, he said, "If you have any trouble, go to Master. We will meet again some time."
Young Master Su clasped his hands and said goodbye, turned around and got into the carriage in the snow.
The young man in black robes, at the moment the carriage was about to start, opened the curtain and shouted to Li Xiuyuan on the roadside.
"I forgot to tell you, my name is Xiang Yu."
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