Chapter 6: Beauty Farewell
Finally, they bought some daily necessities in Liangzhou. Liu Zheng asked Liu Dahao to prepare more green cloth. Although he didn't understand why, Liu Dahao did so.
The sun sets.
There are many red clouds in Liangzhou.
one person.
Two donkeys and some luggage.
Slowly leave the city.
This incident spread throughout Liangzhou in the first place. Liu Dahao, the richest man in Liangzhou, was deceived by his own prodigal son and was about to go to Yinzhou, an incurable place.
Along the way, many people followed and watched.
Upon hearing that the young master of the Liu family was leaving Liangzhou, the numerous courtesans in Liangzhou's brothels saw him off with tears in their eyes.
This walk...
Their income would be much less! These sad words of "dead ghost" and "Mr. Liu" spread throughout the streets and alleys.
There are people who take pleasure in other people's misfortune.
Sympathy and compassion have.
Some people are humiliated and slapped in the face.
There was even a group of children running behind the donkey, singing a nursery rhyme that someone had just made up.
"Liu Jiaweng, riding the donkey upside down."
"Leaving Liangzhou would disrupt the will of heaven."
"Feng Sanniang, don't stop."
"Yinzhou Beach, look east and west!"
Feng Sanniang is Liu Zheng's mother. This is another remarkable person. As a woman, Feng Sanniang is a bodyguard! When this incident happened, she happened to be escorting to Jinghua, but Liu Dahao had already sent a letter. Even if she rushed back from Jinghua, it would take at least a month.
The father and son of the Liu family had already prepared themselves mentally to be "whipped" by Feng Sanniang.
“It kind of rhymes!”
Liu Zheng laughed out loud when he heard these nursery rhymes, but didn't take them seriously.
"Liu County Marquis, this journey is long, please pay attention to safety!"
"Liu Weng, we'll wait for you to return to Liangzhou!"
On the way, many of Liu Dahao's old friends came to see him off, and many of Liu Dahao's former servants and maids were in tears, bidding him farewell. Liu Dahao was a generous person, and he left a good reputation.
"Everyone, please stop, please stop!"
Liu Dahao's eyes also turned red.
"Hahahaha, County Marquis Liu is going to take up a high-ranking official position, why is he lamenting so much?"
At this moment, a fat man in brocade clothes came in a carriage pulled by eight horses. He was surrounded by twenty or thirty servants and thugs, and was extremely arrogant.
When this man arrived, many people on the street dispersed, fearing that they would be trampled by the horses.
"Mr. Qian, I knew you would be indispensable today. Once I leave, you will be the richest man in Liangzhou. You can't be so stingy, right?" Liu Dahao snorted coldly.
Qian Buqun laughed and said, "Brother Liu, you are wrong. All the assets you have built up throughout your life have now been acquired by me. How could I come to mock you? I am here to give you a gift!"
"Gift?"
Liu Dahao sneered.
This Qian Buqun was the wealthy businessman promoted by Chen Ping this time. Liu Dahao fell into poverty and Qian Buqun took over. Chen Ping finally got rid of the biggest worry in his heart. Naturally, he wanted to humiliate Qian Buqun, a villain who had succeeded.
"That's it, bring it up to Brother Liu!"
A gleam of mockery flashed across Qian Buqun's eyes and he laughed out loud.
Everyone agreed and actually brought up two willow coffins.
"you……"
Liu Dahao was furious.
The whole audience burst into laughter, saying that Qian Buqun was going too far. Giving someone a coffin was like cursing their death, wasn't it?
Qian Buqun said earnestly, "Brother Liu, you need to understand my feelings! Yinzhou is an unruly place. If we encounter bandits along the way, we can't leave our bodies exposed in the wilderness, right?"
The servants burst into laughter.
"Mr. Qian, you..."
Liu Dahao was so angry that he was shaking all over.
Liu Zheng stopped his father and laughed, "The willow coffin is very expensive. Uncle Qian is kind, but two donkeys can't pull it. Why don't you give us a discount?"
Qian Buqun was stunned for a moment, then reacted with a strange look on his face: "Discount?"
"It means you give him some silver so he can enjoy it one last time!"
Someone said.
Qian Buqun laughed loudly, "Great, great, great! I didn't expect that Brother Liu, a hero in his lifetime, would produce such a thing. Okay, cash it out. Two coffins for two hundred silver coins!"
Liu Zheng laughed and reached out to catch it under people's mocking looks.
"enough!"
At this time, a horse galloped over. A delicate rebuke sounded, and a horse whip landed on Liu Zheng's wrist. The latter suddenly felt pain and was about to curse, but it turned out to be Chen Ruoshi in red, so he had to swallow back the curse.
Chen Ruoshi glared at Liu Zheng angrily and shouted, "Liu Zheng, do you really want to be that greedy boy? Do you know, do you know... you!"
No harsh words were spoken.
Liu Zheng looked unhappy: "How do you know? What does my liking for money have to do with you?"
He is very unhappy.
This is two hundred taels of silver!
Yinzhou is poor, two hundred taels of silver are enough to feed ten families for a year!
"You, you, you make me so angry! If you want the money, I will give it to you! But I have one request."
Chen Ruoshi stared at Liu Zheng, her body trembling, her eyes filled with complicated expressions.
"explain!"
Liu Zheng was delighted. Someone else was giving him money?
"Write another poem like yesterday! If I am satisfied, I will give you all of them!"
Chen Ruoshi took out a purse, with a gleam in her eyes.
Again?
Liu Zheng was stunned and chuckled.
I never thought that the Tang and Song poems that I was forced to memorize by my teacher in my previous life would be so valuable.
"Ten years of life and death, I can never forget you without even thinking about you."
"A thousand miles away from my lonely grave, I have no one to talk to about my sadness. Even if we meet, I will not recognize you, with my face covered with dust and my hair like frost."
"I suddenly returned to my hometown in a dream last night. I was sitting in the window, dressing myself. We looked at each other without saying a word, but with tears streaming down our faces. I guess the place where my heart breaks every year is the short pine hill on a moonlit night."
"you you……"
Chen Ruoshi's eyes turned red, as if she was sad about the separation, and she felt heartbroken.
"It's you!"
As she spoke, she threw a purse with the scent of a woman's body temperature towards her.
Liu Zheng smiled brightly, weighed the money and it felt like it was several hundred taels, he took it in his hand and sniffed it hard, looking very excited, and said thank you casually.
"lecher!"
Chen Ruoshi's cheeks flushed as she said angrily.
I clearly had a lot of things to say to him on the way, but I happened to see Liu Zheng's disappointing look. He was humiliated, but still had to accept the money with a flattering face. I gave him all my private money, and yet he looked like this!
But when he looked at the poems he had composed at the poetry gathering yesterday, the eternal masterpiece just now...
She simply couldn't utter a single word.
"Ms. Chen..."
Qian Buqun wanted to say hello.
"roll!"
Chen Ruoshi shouted.
Qian Buqun stepped aside in disgrace. Chen Ruoshi glared at Liu Zheng again, "Yinzhou is an unruly place, and the journey is dangerous. Take care of yourself! If you can't stay here any longer, come back to Liangzhou. It's better to make money by writing poems than to die there!"
After saying this, she no longer looked at Liu Zheng, pulled the reins, and galloped away.
Liu Zheng and Liu Dahao looked at each other.
Could it be that this girl really likes me?
ha!
Of the three states, Yinzhou is actually the closest to Liangzhou. It's just too barren, so its presence has never been strong. But even though it's the closest, the two still need to ride a donkey for seven days and six nights.
For three days in a row.
The road became more and more desolate. In the first two days, we could still see some restaurants on the road where we could stay overnight. But on the third day, there had been no one there for several hours.
The desert Gobi is unbearable for a pampered person like Liu Dahao, who complained bitterly.
But to his surprise, his son remained in high spirits throughout the journey.
"Zheng'er, what are you so excited about this time?"
Seeing Liu Zheng holding a stone and chasing away a few crows in the sky with a look of joy on his face, Liu Dahao gulped down a big gulp of water and asked.
The weather was hot and he never ran out of water along the way. Fortunately, the two men had anticipated this situation and prepared a lot of fresh water on the donkey's back.
"Dad, do you feel a weird feeling?"
Liu Zheng asked with a smile.
Both of them were on donkeys, and although their faces were quite dry, there was not much dust on their bodies.
Liu Dahao asked: "Strange?"
Liu Zheng nodded: "Why is it that when the donkey is walking downhill, it slows down and looks very tired? But when it walking uphill, it walks very fast. This obviously doesn't make sense!"
Liu Dahao thought about it and saw that it was getting dark. He was shocked and asked, "Zheng'er, you mean, we have reached a ghost town?"
"puff……"
Liu Zheng spat out a mouthful of water, choking himself. He glared at Liu Dahao helplessly and shook his head, saying, "The magnetic field here is wrong!"
"What is a magnetic field?"
Liu Zheng didn't know how to explain it.
But he knew that there was only one possible reason for the disorder of the magnetic field. There was a large-scale mine here! Although it was not known whether it was iron ore, gold mine, silver mine, or bauxite, etc., it was possible for such a situation to occur! Moreover, it must be a mine with amazing reserves for this to happen!
“It’s really a treasure land!”
Liu Zheng laughed out loud, feeling very excited.
The sheepskin map showed that this was the "Wangshanpo" in the jurisdiction of Yangzhou, which was the closest to Yinzhou. Perhaps due to the influence of the magnetic field, people who came here would have deviations in direction and power, so it was named "Wangshan will kill the horse if you run to the mountain". Yangzhou was also poor, but slightly better than Yinzhou.
I will definitely get it in the future!
A gleam of light flashed in Liu Zheng's eyes.
Since he was determined, at Liu Zheng's request, he went to Yangzhou and stayed overnight before dark.
Liu Dahao was already exhausted, so naturally he had no objection.
Before the sun set, the two finally arrived in Yangzhou.
Who knew that I had just entered the city and was planning to find a place to eat.
There was a sound of weapons clashing.
The two men, who were carrying huge sums of money, were terrified and dodged in a hurry.
That group of people were already running towards this side.
