Xuanpingfang, Li Wuchang's secret base.

Li Wuchang took out the dark iron and the four ginsengs, and said, "My father is supporting me for the time being, and it should be fine now, but I guess my eldest lady will not give up so easily, and I will find a way to deal with it." ”

After a pause, he continued: "Brother Xun find a time, hire a good forger with a lot of money, make the sword, Minglun will accompany me to the Qi Palace, although I know that you don't have a good impression of the Lu family, but this time you can get these things, the King of Qi has the merit of recommending them after all, and the superficial thanks are still necessary, don't let people find faults." ”

Jiang Minglun nodded and said, "I just don't like Lu Yuanfeng, and I have no grudges with King Qi, don't worry." ”

Zhao Xun also said: "Then I'll go and build a weapon...... Stunned, my master knows a lot about the art of watching people, and I have also learned a few axes, I observed the eldest lady of your family a little today, not my villain's heart, I think she is the kind of character who is kind on the surface, but extremely vicious in her bones, you must be careful. ”

Li Wuchang nodded and said, "I know this in my heart...... You also have to be prepared, when I inquired about the news from my uncle today, I found that the Praetorian Guard had already intervened in the robbery of grain and grass in the Hejian area, and there would be a big move in the imperial court next, and a group of officers might be recruited to rush to Jizhou, and the eyes would be on the noble sons and daughters of the martial arts. ”

Zhao Xun and Jiang Minglun frowned.

Does the noble children have anything to do with them?

Li Wuchang continued: "I will also recruit a group of young people with strong martial arts to suppress bandits in various places, you politely refused the court's solicitation last time, and you pushed it off in my name, now the situation in the court is critical, you have the ability, the court may give me an appointment, let me go to suppress bandits, and you will follow at that time." ”

The imperial court's recruitment of young talents is generally not refusal.

The reason why Zhao Xun and Jiang Minglun were able to push it off last time was because they were both under the name of Li Wuchang as an entourage, so the court did not force it.

Zhao Xun and Jiang Minglun suddenly realized.

Jiang Minglun said with a smile: "I heard that bandits have been rampant in Yongzhou recently, robbing homes and houses, killing people and setting fires, and doing all kinds of evil. ”

Li Wuchang sighed: "How can it be so easy to suppress bandits, you have also heard of the tragic situation of Xue Shanglin in Yongzhou in the past few months, there is no shortage of martial arts in the bandit suppression team, and there are countless casualties." ”

After a pause, he continued: "Today's bandits are no longer the ordinary people who couldn't eat last winter, now there are gangsters, Khitan and Goryeo spies, and some illegal forces are mixed in, vainly trying to fish in troubled waters, and the bandit suppression action can be said to be not much easier than the Jizhou battlefield." ”

Zhao Xun and Jiang Minglun were silent.

Indeed, in the past few months, Xue Shanglin, the assassin of Yongzhou, has been overwhelmed by bandits, and thousands of soldiers have died, and the bandits are not less than less, and they are becoming more and more rampant.

Zhao Xun smiled freely and said: "Minglun is right, you don't have to mind at all, what should come will always come, the eldest husband is in the world, if he can do some vigorous things, it will be in vain." ”

Li Wuchang smiled: "It's best if you can think like this...... Okay, I'll go back first, and I'll talk back to my father later, and I'll take these things with me. ”

After that, he picked up the box of Xuantie and ginseng, looked at it, and said, "Keep one just in case, and the other three, one for King Qi, one for my uncle to celebrate his birthday, and the other for my father." ”

Jiang Minglun said with a smile: "Stunned, if you give it away, you will give those three good ones, and the gifts will be treated equally, just leave that one to ourselves, the three of us are all young people, and this thing is probably not needed." ”

The loot has four old ginseng, three of which are tribute-level and the other is slightly worse.

Li Wuchang nodded and put down the slightly worse old ginseng.

......

In the unitary period, the study room of the East Courtyard of the Li Mansion.

Li Wuchang handed over the three boxes and explained to Li Lingwu: "Father, here are two old ginseng and 10,000 taels of silver tickets, one of which is an old ginseng for you, and the other old ginseng and 10,000 taels of silver tickets are for Uncle Ji's birthday. ”

Li Ji attaches great importance to the difference between his concubines and concubines, and most of the concubines of the Li family are ignored, and even Li Qing can't get into his eyes, just because Li Qing is a maid, let alone Li Wuchang.

Li Lingwu opened the box, observed the old ginseng, and said with a smile: "This is a tribute-level old ginseng, from the Martial Arts Pavilion?"

Li Wuchang nodded: "I teamed up with my friend Jiang Minglun to break into the material room. ”

Li Hu on the side also looked at the old ginseng, amazed, and asked curiously: "Your eldest brother got a good sword and a good sword book, tell me, what did you get? I heard your eldest brother say, you helped that Jiang Minglun get a good knife?"

Li Wuchang said: "Yes, it was Sun Chihu's saber back then, I took a look, it was indeed not bad, it was made of ancient Xuantie, and I heard that the master of guarding the pavilion said that it could rank in the top fifteen of the divine soldier spectrum." ”

As soon as these words came out, Li Lingwu and Li Hu were moved at the same time.

Sun Chihu was a peerless bandit in the Dongting Lake area more than 80 years ago, and later abandoned the darkness and surrendered to the light, and also dedicated the treasure knife to the imperial court, for so many years, no one has ever been able to get it, and he didn't expect it to fall into the hands of Jiang Minglun.

This knife is not trivial, and it is more than enough to rank in the top fifteen of the divine soldier spectrum.

Li Hu smiled and said, "It's not easy for you, let's talk about how you got through." ”

Li Wuchang shrugged his shoulders and said, "Father and Uncle Hu have probably heard that the test in the arsenal of the Martial Arts Pavilion this time is to pass the mechanism first, and then hold a hundred moves in front of the master of the Pavilion. ”

Li Lingwu and Li Hu nodded.

Li Wuchang said: "I found out the way to crack the mechanism, so it didn't take much effort to see the master of the pavilion, I asked him if he had a way to pass the level, he gave me two so-called rare arithmetic problems, he and Jiang Minglun tricks, let me calculate before Jiang Minglun fell, but he didn't expect that I was a businessman, and I got the arithmetic problem in three or two clicks, and they only passed less than twenty moves at that time." ”

After a pause, he continued: "After that, he asked us to pick weapons, in the entire arsenal, there are more than a thousand knives, Jiang Minglun and I don't know much about knives, I gave the master of the Shouge a thousand taels, let him give some hints, and he really gave me hints, so we picked the best thing in that arsenal." ”

Li Wuchang finished speaking in one breath, and Li Lingwu and Li Hu couldn't laugh or cry when they heard it.

That's it?

This got Sun Chihu's knife?

It's too simple, isn't it?

Li Wuchang saw their doubts and explained: "We are a group of thirty people, except for me, all of them are strong in martial arts, although I don't have any martial arts, but I learn arithmetic well, and I have a silver ticket, this is my advantage, the combination of me and Jiang Minglun is both civil and military, plus a certain amount of luck, it is not unusual to get this knife." ”

After saying that, I thought to myself, what is all this fuss about.

Li Lingwu coughed lightly and said, "Did you get any good things?"

Li Wuchang said: "In addition to Jiang Minglun's knife, I got a piece of thousand-year-old dark iron in the material room, which is considered a good thing, and I gave it to Zhao Xun, he is practicing the cold system exercises, and it should be good to hold and forge a sword." ”

"What are you talking about?," Li Hu said loudly, looking excited.

Li Lingwu also looked at Li Wuchang, his eyes puzzled.

"Uncle Hu, you scared me, it's a thousand-year-old cold iron, why are you so excited?" Li Wuchang is a little strange, although the thousand-year-old cold iron is a very rare material, but Li Hu is also used to seeing people in the world, so he is really good at shouting like this.

"No, you just gave it away?" Li Hu said incoherently.

No wonder he shouted, because there are indeed very few thousand-year-old cold irons, the Lin family's Blue Lotus Sword and the Liu family's Blue Frost Sword are both made of thousand-year-old cold iron, and the power is infinite, so this material is worth a thousand gold.

Unexpectedly, Li Wuchang sent it out silently.

"Oh, that's the case, Zhao Xun asked me to go to the Martial Arts Pavilion to help him pay attention to it, to see if there is such a material, Jiang Minglun and I went to the material room to break through the mechanism, and when we passed the fourth level, the prize we got was cold iron, and we took it back and gave it to Zhao Xun, which can be regarded as being entrusted by others." Li Wuchang explained.

Li Lingwu was shocked in his heart, not only feeling Li Wuchang's luck, but also feeling Li Wuchang's generosity.

This kid is really good to his friends.

After Li Wuchang finished talking about business, he coughed lightly and said: "Father, I also brought the things, and after the words are finished, I won't eat the meal, I want to go back to my yard to see the nurse, she was pushed by that Zhang Tong yesterday, and she hurt her head, and now she is very uncomfortable." ”

Then he muttered: "That Zhang Tong, it's better not to let me see him again, otherwise I won't hammer him to death." ”

After finishing speaking, he quickly glanced at Li Lingwu's expression.

If you want to turn your face with Zhang, you must look at Li Lingwu's attitude.

Li Lingwu saw Li Wuchang's expression, and smiled secretly in his heart, his son is very good at observing words and feelings, and he is the best at looking at his own face, and often uses all kinds of small means to test his attitude.

Thinking so, he said lightly: "That Zhang Tong, I will ask your aunt to send him to Zhuangzi, you will save your energy and don't have to embarrass him." ”

Li Wuchang sighed secretly in his heart, and said with a smile: "That's it, that's the best, I'm a Sven person, I won't do it if I can't do it, if it gets to the point where I can solve it by doing it, I will definitely not be ambiguous, today is that guy's luck, the second brother came over and saved his dog's life." ”

When Li Lingwu heard this, he said seriously: "I have already said hello to my family, no one will trouble you in the future, and I will not attack your restaurant and clothing shop, so you can live in peace...... In addition, don't be so angry, you will fight and kill at every turn. ”

Li Wuchang shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't want to, father, it's a pity that something always comes to the door." ”

Then he changed the topic and asked: "Father, I had a few gossips with Uncle Zhongyue today, and I heard that the imperial court will send the sons and daughters of the nobles to Jizhou or Yongzhou to suppress bandits, isn't that the case?"

Li Lingwu said: "Don't ask around, it's okay, these have nothing to do with you...... Step aside. ”

Li Wuchang sighed and bowed down.

Looking at Li Wuchang's back, Li Hu smiled and said: "This kid will still care about the affairs of the imperial court, I think he is afraid that the imperial court will forcibly recruit his two helpers into the army, this kid, now he can be so tough, his two helpers are indispensable, then again, his two helpers are really first-class talents." ”

Li Lingwu didn't answer, but sighed and said, "The scourge of bandits must be cut through the mess quickly, otherwise it will definitely affect the foundation of Dayan." ”

Li Hu frowned and said, "Is it so serious?"

Li Lingwu didn't speak, remembering the ups and downs of the past dynasties, which were often caused by some seemingly small things.

The disaster of the Dayan bandits began last winter, when Dayan was encountering external troubles, and the banditry seemed to be a trivial matter, but later it became more and more intense, and it was also used by various forces.

Bandits are so rampant that they have to be dealt with heavily.