Chapter Eighty-Three: Staying Away
I am very grateful to the Cui family for looking up to themselves so much, and I am also grateful for the Cui family's style of acting so simple and rude, either they will rob it, or if they can't grab it, they will even buy it with everyone, and for their sake, Li Su should consider giving them a 20% discount.
It's a pity that Li Su is very timid, and he doesn't even want to enter the court as an official, so naturally he doesn't dare to be involved with the family gate.
Cui Houan was already a little impatient, and he really looked up to him at a peasant boy with a price of 3,000 yuan, but this peasant boy didn't seem to be as happy as he expected, but hesitated and stopped talking......
This reaction undoubtedly deeply hurt Cui Hou'an's arrogant and fragile glass heart.
"Li Gongzi is unwilling? Or do you have doubts? Cui Houan's smile was a little stiff, far less kind than just now.
"Yes. I have two concerns. Li Su nodded.
Cui Houan's smile was kind again: "Childe, it's okay to say." ”
Li Su pointed to the two carriages full of copper coins and said, "The humble house is too small, I am afraid that this money will be stolen wherever I hide, and it will be difficult to sleep and eat." ”
Cui Houan's smile was stiff, and after a closer look, he found that Li Su didn't look like sarcasm, and his expression was very serious...... After a while, Cui Houan came to the conclusion that this kid really thought that his house was too small, so Cui Houan thought about it and said, "How about the Cui family build a big house for the son with another hundred yuan?" If you are worried about being stolen, the Cui family can also arrange ten nursing homes for Gongzi to take care of the treasury for Gongzi day and night. ”
Li Su hurriedly bowed and bowed: "Thank you, Mr. Cui, for your generous gift." ”
Cui Houan said with a smile: "Childe might as well talk about the second doubt." ”
Li Su rubbed his nose slowly and said, "The second one...... This morning, the boy has dedicated movable type printing to His Majesty the Emperor......"
After speaking, Li Su looked at Cui Houan with innocent eyes, and his eyes showed a cute and pure light.
Cui Houan's face changed greatly, and even his voice trembled: "Gongzi Li, you don't want to blame me, you have dedicated this law to the imperial court?" ”
"Yes, this morning, the kid asked to see Princess Dongyang, and he has dedicated this method."
Cui Houan stared at Li Su suspiciously, trying to see the truth from his expression.
Li Su looked at him with a sincere face.
Outside the courtyard of the Li family, the sound of horses' hooves broke the silence between the two.
"Where is Li Su in Taiping Village? Hurry up—"
A eunuch in a purple robe held a rolled-up piece of white paper, stood outside the courtyard and looked at the sky and shouted proudly.
In the courtyard, Li Su and all the craftsmen in the construction site knelt down facing the eunuch.
Cui Houan's face became more and more pale.
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The holy decree came in time, Dongyang was really a good princess worthy of trust, and Li Su was sincerely relieved.
The content of the decree was also as Li Su expected, Li Shimin lived up to his expectations and gave Li Su the expected reward, when the eunuch held the ink treasure of the "Li Ji Printing Bookstore" inscribed by the imperial pen to Li Su's hand, Li Su smiled like a peach blossom that had just bloomed in the spring breeze.
The eunuch left, leaving with his neck high and a haughty posture like a white swan, looking at the sky with his eyes and not afraid of falling.
Cui Hou'an's expression was unpredictable, looking at the imperial pen and ink treasure in Li Su's hand, and then looking at Li Su's embarrassed expression, he was silent for a long time, Cui Houan suddenly smiled, and his smile was ugly.
"Sure enough, it's a hero out of a teenager, and Cui is abrupt."
Li Su showed a frightened look, and hurriedly said: "I really didn't know that the Cui family had intentions, so the kid presented the secret recipe of the printing technique to the court. ”
Cui Hou'an couldn't get angry.
Who is to blame? Blame Li Su? People don't know who is behind the scenes, blame the Cheng family? The Cui family used the Cheng family first, what qualifications do they have to blame others? Blame the emperor for cutting off his beard? This one...... I don't dare.
After pondering for a moment, Cui Houan endured his anger and changed his words: "This time it was a pure misunderstanding, the Cui family will no longer touch the printing technique, and Li Gongzi can rest assured." ”
Before the arrival of the holy decree, the Cui family was determined to obtain movable type printing, and its effect was too great, but after Li Su dedicated the secret recipe to His Majesty the Emperor, movable type printing had completely lost its meaning to the Cui family.
For the family gate valve, inviting people to buy people's hearts can only be done silently, and no trace is superior, and now it has been known by the emperor, what value does it have to the Cui family? In an instant, the Cui family's position completely changed, from ambition to avoidance, this is the way to survive, and a little bit of exposure is tantamount to self-destruction.
After Cui Houan finished speaking, he turned around and sat on the wheel of the carriage, the coachman flicked a whip, and the carriage slowly set off.
Li Su unwillingly chased after the car and said loudly: "Mr. Cui, the matter of building me a new house ......"
Cui Houan didn't seem to hear it, but the speed of the carriage became faster and faster.
Li Su stood in the middle of the road, looked at the back of the Cui family's carriage, and sighed in amazement: "Are you afraid of loving me?" ”
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"You're cheap!"
In Li Su's house, Dongyang looked at the five big characters inscribed by his father's imperial pen, and rolled his delicate little white eyes at Li Su angrily.
After Cui Houan left, Dongyang came to Li Su's house again in the afternoon, of course, it was still the green willow watching the wind on the edge of the field, and Dongyang crept into the house like a thief after Li Daozheng went to the ground.
"Inscription for the shop, something that has never happened since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, my father made an exception for you."
Li Su touched his chin with a smile and kept nodding, he guessed correctly, Li Shimin was really polite, and really gave him an inscription, the fly in the ointment is that the content of the inscription is a little unsatisfactory, if he can inscribe a sentence "Li Su is a good comrade", he can probably walk sideways in Chang'an City, if he wants to, he can also walk on his stomach, walk backwards, and walk in various positions that no one can imagine......
"The Cui family is ......"
Dongyang Zhengse said: "You don't have to worry about the Cui family, they won't embarrass you, if the court doesn't know it, it's okay, now that movable type printing has been presented to the court, if the Cui family dares to do anything to you, the father will be furious, the Cui family is a thousand-year-old gatekeeper, and they know better what is at stake." ”
Li Su looked at Li Shimin's words carefully, a good stroke of flying white body, it is said that Li Shimin is Wang Xizhi's brainless fan, and now it seems that it is true, the five big characters are full and round, and they have more charm than Li Su's words.
"Good word!" Li Su blurted out praise, and then bowed his hand in the direction of Taiji Palace, which was regarded as expressing his gratitude to the emperor, and then turned his head, staring at Dongyang with burning eyes, Dongyang suddenly became helpless under his gaze, and his pretty face was dyed with a deep blush.
"You...... What are you looking at! Dongyang's voice was a little strange.
"Your memory is so bad...... Li Su sighed.
"Huh?"
Li Su looked at her, his eyes full of accusations: "Didn't you say it last time?" It's not polite to come to the door empty-handed, and this time you came to my house empty-handed......"
Dongyang: "............"
Li Su looked up at the beam of the house and said faintly: "...... If it's not convenient to have hand, it's good to write an IOU. ”
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