The owner of the shop was an old man with gray hair, Liu Qi pretended to ask about the price of rice, and then chatted with the old man: "May I ask the old man, the prosperity of this Chichuan is similar to that of Linjiang, according to what I have seen below, there are officials who frequently come and go, but the people in this foreign country are confused, is this county seat Chichuan or Linjiang?" ”

This old man rarely chatted with him on weekdays to relieve his boredom, and he didn't care that the guest didn't mean to buy rice, so he replied with a smile: "Naturally, it's Linjiang, the guest officer has never entered Linjiang City, right?" Although Chichuan is lively, it is still not as good as Linjiang. ”

Liu Qi then asked, "Oh? Wandering around, the county magistrates all pay attention to the place where the government is located, and the city around the government is nothing more than the use of the garrison, which is extremely simple, and I have never seen such a place as close to the county and so prosperous, why is this so? ”

The old man said: "This is a long story, the guest officer is not too long-winded, so I will talk about it in detail to the guest officer." ”

"It just so happens that I have nothing to do, but I'm afraid that I will delay my father-in-law's business."

"It's okay." The old man simply moved a low stool and sat down and told with great interest: "This Chichuan is all from the Li family, my Li ancestors lived in Guanzhong, and then moved into Ba County to avoid disasters, and only after several tosses and turns to gain a foothold here, when the little old man came with the clansmen, he was only seventeen years old at this time, and now more than 50 years have passed, and his wife and children have gone before me......"

As he spoke, the old man suddenly realized that he was off topic, and smiled apologetically to Liu Qi: "When I first came, this place was still a barren mountain and wilderness, and there were many barbarians around, and more than 500 people from my Li clan went through hardships to lay the foundation of today's Chichuan, and the guest officer looked like a nobleman, and he had never experienced cold and hardship, you don't know how much blood and sweat my people shed in order to gain a foothold here......

Said here the old man is full of pride: "Speaking of my Li family, this Linjiang radius of a hundred miles is known to everyone, Chichuan has today's prosperity, all because of the ability of our people, at the beginning of this place is barren, the surrounding Yi people and my Han people are not harmonious, outsiders are more gloating, some people have said that within ten years our clan will die, and at that time the patriarch Deyang Gongshan Yijing Feng Shui learning, asserted that this place is a treasure of feng shui, and settled here, and then it was fulfilled, digging out iron ore, and water transportation gradually flourished, and the benefits of businessmen were realized. ”

The old man got up and poured a bowl of water for himself and Liu Qi, moistened his throat and continued to speak: "Twelve years ago, the Yi people were envious of the wealth of Chichuan, and they came to attack in a big way, and the Linjiang County Order had already coveted this place, not only did not send troops to help, but secretly colluded with the Yi people to carve up our clan, fortunately, the patriarch Xuan Ming Gong had the foresight, and he had already secretly laid eyeliner everywhere, and got the warning as soon as possible, stored grain and trained the troops, strengthened the Tucheng, and more than 1,000 strong men in the clan were all put on the battlefield and fought fiercely with the Yi people for nearly a month. slaughtered all the people in its lair, and fought for more than ten years. Since then, the prestige of our clan has spread far and wide, and there are countless people from all over the surrounding areas who have come to seek to marry, and the people have become more prosperous, so it is the grand scene today! ”

Xuanming is Li Lang's expression, yes, it's him. Liu Qi was overjoyed in his heart, and hurriedly followed the old man's words and asked: "There are also people in the next family who are going back and forth to Yizhou to do business, and they have suffered from the harm of Yiren for many years. Please tell the old man, I would appreciate it. ”

The old man shook his head: "The guest official is late, Xuanming Gong has died of illness four years ago, and now the patriarch is Li Mao Li Bosheng, the son of Xuanming Gong." ”

What? Li Lang is dead?!

Liu Qiqiang endured the shock in his heart, tried his best to control himself from showing a trace of discoloration, and chatted with the old man without saying a word, got up and left.

Find a secluded place, go back and forth and think hard about what to do: Is God still testing himself? Nothing has passed smoothly since the crossing. It is useless to complain about the heavens and people, and once again slandered Yu Ji a few words, Liu Qi sat on a big stone and took out the letter to Li Lang, opened the bag and opened the silk book and read it laboriously.

Liu Qi didn't know if he was the only traverser, if not, in terms of his ability to learn and adapt to words, then the other traversers, especially the seniors who were still mixed before Li Sichuang Xiaozhen in the Qin period, really made him admire the five-body throw.

If modern people are familiar with traditional characters, it is not too difficult to read and write in the Wei and Jin dynasties of the popular regular script, and the glyphs of the Qin and Han dynasties are very different from the glyphs of modern Chinese characters.

As for the writings of all countries before Qin Shi Huang unified China, they all belonged to the category of ancient characters, which were highly pictorial, uncertain in shape, and difficult to identify, and even few people who were professional in ancient characters dared to say that they could read and write the characters of any period before the Qin Dynasty fluently.

Those predecessors were in business, governance, invention, diplomacy, wars, pickling girls and a lot of other things from the national economy and people's livelihood to the wind and snow, and they were able to solve the problem of reading and writing Chinese characters that can be said to be very different from later generations, and most of them had to communicate with the writers of the same era to exchange poetry, calligraphy and painting, and they could only use the word genius to describe those predecessors!

But why would the damn God and the damn Zhang Jiao choose to come to this damn place as a characterless mortal! After more than a month of intense study, I was able to barely understand this letter, which included many repetitive words such as many names, and many words were still analyzed by the context.

It took half an hour, and Liu Qi, who was in tears, finally finished reading the letter, and the content of the letter made him not care about the history of the evolution of words, because it can be seen from the letter that Yu Ji and the Li family have an extremely close relationship, and it is certain that Yu Ji often wrote letters to Li Lang in the past, and a few words in it that were almost in a commanding tone rekindled Liu Qi's hope.

The scale and influence of the Li clan is worth taking a risk, but I hope that Yu Ji's letter can still play some role, and after thinking about it for a long time, Liu Qi made up his mind to find Li Mao.

According to the direction said by the old man of the rice shop, he quickly found the Li Mansion that covers a very wide area, and when he entered the door, Liu Qi borrowed the name of the senior brother who had never met, Zhao Zhen, and the Li family heard that it was the messenger of Taishou, and respectfully welcomed him into a gorgeous big house, and also served a table full of fruit snacks.

Liu Qi, who has been gnawing dry wheat cakes for three days in a row, looked at the dazzling array of delicacies in front of him, and suddenly his index finger moved his eyes and glowed green, but would it be rude to pick it up and eat it? Liu Qi was still thinking about whether to eat or not to eat when there was a rush of footsteps outside the house.

Quickly swallowed the saliva, Liu Qi stood up, three brocade-clothed men walked in quickly, the leader was about forty years old, gorgeously dressed and elegant, with shrewdness in his eyes, seeing Liu Qishi, he didn't expect to be so young, he was slightly stunned, bowed down and said: "Mao doesn't know that Liu Envoy Jun (the Han Dynasty usually called the assassin Shi as the envoy, and can also be used as an honorific title for the envoy or messenger of Shangguan) came to the cold house, and there was a disappointment, please forgive the envoy." ”

After Gao Teng returned with a full load, the five of them agreed to leave tomorrow, and went to rest early after they were full of wine and food.

In his sleep, he was suddenly awakened by the cry of a flying knife, and after a while, a high voice came from outside the door: "Mr. Qiqi, a guest has come to visit and call Mr. an old friend, please show me if I don't see it." ”

Liu Qi was already in a bad mood today, but now he was awakened from his deep sleep, he thought that there was some emergency and was hurriedly dressing, but when he heard Gao Teng's words, he suddenly became angry, and almost blurted out: I don't know anyone in this ghost place, where did my old friend visit! suddenly remembered that this was his "hometown", and hurriedly changed his words and said: "I have invited someone to sit and wait for a while, and I will come." ”

Liu Qi was surprised to see the visitor, it turned out to be Li Mao!

Liu Qi's first thought was that Li Mao was going to be unfavorable to him, and he couldn't help but regret in his heart, his vigilance was too poor, and he should have left here as soon as possible.

But if Li Mao wants to start, why did he only bring an old servant here in person? What the hell is he going to do? Whatever, adapt to the situation, it's a big deal to capture Li Mao as a hostage.

Is it incompatible with him? Why do you think of kidnapping him every time you see him? Liu Qibai was puzzled.

Everything is not going well, and he is full of hostility towards Li Mao, Liu Qi naturally will not have a good face, and his gloomy face is silent and waiting for Li Mao to express his intentions.

Li Mao was very respectful and gave a deep salute, seeing that Liu Qi had no intention of returning the salute, he was also a little embarrassed, and hurriedly turned around and instructed the old servant to take a lacquer box to Liu Qi and open it, under the dim candlelight, the pieces of gold and silver neatly placed in the box emitted an attractive brilliance, Liu Qi's eyes lit up, of course he didn't care about the gold and silver in front of him, because he had no concept of the monetary system of this era at this time, and he had never seen a higher grade of currency than copper coins since he came to the Han Dynasty. But now, for him, it was like a check for a million, far less attractive than a thick pile of renminbi of the same amount.

It seems that Li Mao is not here to find trouble, Liu Qi is a lot more relaxed, glanced at the lacquer box with an understated face, and motioned to Gao Teng to accept it, he was very curious about Li Mao's intentions, and waited eagerly for Li Mao to say the following, but asked nonchalantly: "What does Bo Sheng Gong mean?" ”

When they heard the name of the person who came, Gao Teng and the others were shocked, they were already surprised that someone had given Liu Qi so much gold and silver so much at night, but the famous patriarch of the Linjiang Li clan personally sent it over, which completely made them unable to believe their eyes, and judging from the attitude between the two, Liu Qi's status seemed to be much higher than that of the Li clan patriarch, oh my God! This young man has such a big background, no wonder Gao Hong and Liu Hong value him so much.

Of course, Liu Qi didn't know that his performance had impressed several people behind him, he just took revenge for Li Mao's harshness on him in the Li Mansion in every way, anyway, he didn't expect to get anything from Li Mao, so he would get that breath back first.