Chapter 376 Chen Sheng was born in Yangcheng
The ground was dark red and there was a strong smell of blood. A large number of dog skins were hung on the beams. Under the dog skins was a wooden block with a giant bone-cutting knife that was one meter long and one foot wide and was dripping with oil.
"Lu Wan! Fan Kuai! Come out and welcome the Duke!"
The door was open, and Liu Ji started shouting when he was still ten meters away from the door. The smell of blood did not make him feel uncomfortable at all, as he had long been used to it.
Before anyone responded, he rushed into the house and slammed the door shut.
After a while, three people sat down at the long, greasy table.
Among them was a big man with a sturdy build, murderous aura, rough face, messy hair, and his clothes were covered with dried black blood and undried bright red blood. He looked very scary.
He took the clean, bright and sharp boning knife and removed the bones from the dog meat Liu Bang brought, saying:
"Fan Kuai is a dog butcher. If you want to eat dog meat, just tell me. There is no need to cheat for food and drink. Those people are always gossiping. Your reputation has been ruined in Pei County."
"There are free wine and meat, why should I eat yours? I've eaten all your dogs, how can you sell meat and how can you live!"
Liu Ji poured himself a drink, smacked his lips, shook his head, and said proudly:
"Is Naigong powerful? I don't even know that guy, but he was able to treat Ji to 20 kilograms of dog meat just by talking. You won't find another person like Naigong in Pei County! Hahaha!"
"Twenty pounds! Do you not want your butt anymore, or are you not going home today? Send it back quickly!"
Lu Wan, who had been sitting quietly waiting to eat dog meat, suddenly stood up, took the dog meat and was about to leave.
Liu Ji reached out and grabbed Lu Wan's arm, smiling and saying:
"There is no reason to spit out the meat that has already entered Naigong's mouth. It is Naigong who should be beaten, and Liu Ang will not beat you, so just eat it with peace of mind."
Lu Wan had an anxious look on his face. He inserted his chopsticks into the bottom of the meat and lifted it up. He saw that there was indeed meat at the bottom and not some millet pad. He immediately became even more panicked.
Jumping and saying:
"Liu Ji! You've caused a big disaster! Normally, if you cheated someone for three or five catties of meat, the old man would just scold you. But today, you cheated someone for twenty catties of meat. The old man will definitely beat you with his stick until you can't get off the ground! The person you cheated was also extremely stupid! Twenty catties of meat is something that an ordinary person can't eat in a year. How could he buy such an expensive item for you so easily!"
"What the hell are you panicking about!"
Fan Kuai's eyes widened and he tore off a piece of meat and stuffed it into his mouth.
"Twenty pounds of dog meat. Kuai can afford it! Eat!"
Liu Ji gave a thumbs up.
"Brother Fan Kuai is still straightforward.
"Lu Wan, you are a coward, not a hero, and not worthy of being friends with the two of us. Eat if you can, and get out if you can't."
Lu Wan was extremely angry.
He was thinking about Liu Ji, and Liu Ji did not appreciate it, and he even openly ridiculed him.
"Eat it if you want! What am I afraid of? It's not me who will lose everything!"
He picked up the wine jar and gulped down a few mouthfuls of wine. After wiping the wine stains from the corner of his mouth, he grabbed a piece of dog meat that Fan Kuai had not yet deboned and started to chew on it.
"That's right, hahaha! Let's do it!"
Liu Ji laughed.
Twenty pounds of dog meat and five pounds of fine wine, the money for the wine and meat is enough for an adult man to spend in a year, but he did not take it seriously and brought it to eat with his brothers.
"The people who invited me to drink and eat meat are not stupid. I have been keeping an eye on these two people for several days."
Fan Kuai and Lu Wan stepped forward, looked up and listened carefully. They were very interested in the person who could buy 20 kilograms of dog meat and 5 kilograms of fine wine in one go.
"You two eat, and talk while you eat."
Seeing the two men continue to drink and eat, Liu Bang smiled with satisfaction and said:
"Six days ago, these two men came to Pei County and walked back and forth on the street. They walked from the widow Cao's house in the east of the county to the cloth shop in the west of the county. They also walked from the blacksmith shop in the south of the county to the county government office in the north of the county.
The two of them went around Pei County. They were generous, never asked the price of food, and never bargained for anything they bought.
Fan Kuai swallowed the meat in his mouth and frowned:
"These two people are so rich, why haven't I heard Wang Mazi say anything? How could Wang Mazi watch these two outsiders parade around the city and not go to Shunjin?"
Wang Mazi was a thief in Pei County. He was well-known in the local area and often interacted with Fan Kuai.
Liu Ji slapped his thigh and became energetic.
"Good question! That's the point!"
He leaned over the long table and lowered his voice.
"That's why he's so smart! These two people never show off their wealth. They use copper coins to buy everything and never take out gold! Not to mention Wang Mazi who only has gold in his eyes. If I hadn't been following them and hadn't seen them once or twice, I wouldn't have known they were rich."
Lu Wan looked solemn.
"How could these two people be fooled by you when they are so smart?"
Liu Ji coughed lightly.
"These two were eating at Zhang's house near the South City Gate. The carriage was parked on the side of the road. I guessed they were leaving. Seeing that they were about to leave Pei County, I went up to them and announced my name. They insisted on treating me to wine and meat. It was hard to refuse their kindness!
"Looking closely, I discovered that one of the old men had four moles on his forehead. This is the sign of the Gui Su. You won't understand how strange this sign is even if I tell you. I'll tell you one thing: the saint Guiguzi had these four moles!"
Lu Wan looked shocked.
Liu Ji was very satisfied.
Fan Kuai remained indifferent and focused on eating meat.
He had never heard of the name Guiguzi, and there was no Guiguzi in Pei County.
Liu Ji was very dissatisfied, and went to great lengths to explain to Fan Kuai the greatness of Guiguzi.
"Guiguzi had a disciple named Su Qin who formed an alliance to trap the Hangu Pass, so that Qin dared not move eastward. He also had a disciple named Zhang Yi who formed an alliance with Qi to make Qin kill people everywhere..."
Liu Ji did not get tired of talking until Fan Kuai showed a look of shock. He then stopped talking, took a sip of wine to moisten his throat, and said calmly:
"This old man, who was born with the same ghost sign as Guiguzi, insisted on taking me in as his disciple. I said I had two brothers, one named Lu Wan and the other named Fan Kuai. If you want to take me in, take the three of us.
"He didn't want to, and only wanted to take me in. I got angry and refused on the spot. How could I abandon my two brothers? I can't do that!"
Nightfall.
The bright moonlight shone on Liu Ji's buttocks, silver-white reflecting snow-white.
"I let you live with Lu Wan and Fan Kuai! I let you cheat people for wine and meat! I let you do nothing but idle away your time!"
In the courtyard, Liu Ji's father Liu Ang was over fifty years old, but he was strong and healthy, and his words were clear and powerful.
He shouted and the stick hit Liu Ji on the buttocks, each one harder than the last, until blood flowed from Liu Ji's buttocks.
Liu Ji lay on the stone mill with his butt sticking out, crying out in pain. His voice was so miserable that anyone who heard it would feel sad and anyone who saw it would cry.
Guiguzi, who saw the man and heard the voice, chuckled.
[With such a bad temper, he has the appearance of an emperor. Fortune and misfortune come from no door, but only from people themselves. This is the first time that Zen is found by others, uninvited. Interesting, Chidi, you surprise Zen. Zen suddenly wants to know, if there is no Junshang, how did you defeat Chongtongzi. ]
"Liu Ang, if you beat me to death, you will lose a son! You have so much money, I will help you use it to make friends. I am not much better than Liu Xi!"
The winter in Pei County is also very cold.
Liu Ji's butt was exposed, but he felt a burning sensation, not even a hint of coolness. Before the blood had coagulated, the next stick was delivered.
Liu Ang swung the wooden stick and hit again with gritted teeth.
"You brat! You have no respect for your elders! If you were half as strong as the second brother, you wouldn't be thirty years old and still have no business to run, and you still need me to support you!"
Liu Ji, whose hands and feet were not tied and who kept crying out in pain on the millstone but did not run away, raised his head and shouted.
"The wind rises and the clouds fly!
"Liu Ang, you humiliated me today, don't regret it when I take off in the future!"
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Han land, Yangcheng.
The county magistrate here is Cui Guang, who believes in governing by inaction. The decrees he issues in Yangcheng are particularly easy, so easy that the people of Yangcheng dare not even imagine it.
For example, in previous years, most of the grain produced in a year's labor had to be handed over to the government , and the remaining grain was barely enough to fill people's stomachs. But this year, taxes are exempted.
Most people are happy, but some are not.
Chen Sheng was one of those unhappy people.
The Chen family was originally a noble family in Yangcheng, a small aristocratic family.
As a member of the Chen family, although Chen Sheng was not a direct descendant but a collateral one, he had never worried about life since he was a child. He thought that he would live a carefree life, and he had never thought about restoring Han, which had nothing to do with him.
Whether there is South Korea or not, his life has not changed much. Even the direct descendants of the Chen family have never thought about restoring South Korea. How could he, a descendant of the side branch, have such big ambitions?
However, all this was shattered after the Lu's Chamber of Commerce frantically purchased iron and grain prices soared wildly.
During the process of the destruction of this aristocratic family, Chen Sheng actually resisted.
The Zhang family instructed to stabilize grain prices, indicating that if grain prices collapsed, everyone would be finished.
Chen Sheng immediately realized that what the Zhang family said was right.
As a descendant of the side branch, he could not get so much money, so he was able to jump out of the circle, unlike the direct descendants of the Chen family who were blinded by huge profits.
He saw the crisis behind this incident, and went to argue with the head of the Chen family, wanting the Chen family to follow the instructions of the Zhang family - and then he was driven back.
Countless money and cheap labor made the Chen family and all the aristocratic families greedy.
When Chen Sheng saw that the situation was not right, he immediately prepared to escape, but what he didn't expect was that the snow avalanche was happening too fast.
In less than a month, an unprecedented peasant uprising broke out in Han, sweeping across the country. At this time, Chen Sheng had not left yet and was still in Yangcheng.
The Chen family was destroyed, destroyed by countless peasants holding hoes, and all the main family members were killed.
Chen Sheng, a member of the Chen family, was lucky enough not to die, but as a member of the Chen family, he was arrested and imprisoned.
At first, prison life was a life worse than death for a noble like him.
But human endurance is amazing. Within a month, this former nobleman got used to prison life and no longer thought about dying by banging his head against the wall.
He even considered how to atone for his sins. He couldn't just spend the rest of his life here, right?
Good fortune lies within the shadow of misfortune, and misfortune lies within the shadow of good fortune.
After two months of suffering, Chen Sheng was lucky again.
The great master Cui Guang became the magistrate of Yangcheng County. He executed a number of extremely evil people and then issued a general amnesty.
Chen Sheng, who was trying to escape when the grain was growing rapidly and had not done anything bad, was naturally not considered a serious villain and was released.
Cui Guang not only released them, but also provided them with food and accommodation. When the spring came, they would work for the government and pay back the money they spent on the winter.
There are no crops between the fields anymore, the harsh winter has killed all life.
Chen Sheng wrapped his clothes tightly and stood on the land that he was going to cultivate in March, his breath turning into white mist.
"Are kings, princes, generals, and ministers of different species?
"The first person who said this deserves to die!"
He shivered and cursed.
When he was still a noble, he did not wear linen clothes in winter, but a leather cotton jacket. He never suffered from the cold at that time.
He missed the life of an aristocrat.
