Martial arts talent system

Chapter 155

After returning to the house, Li Jianxin flipped through [Huainanzi] and looked at the Huang-Lao Zhixue inside, but he was overwhelmed by it. He only knew a little about some Taoist concepts in it, and the rest was all. It is viewed as a mysterious story.Although it had Cao Zhengxiu's annotations, Li Jianxin still had a hard time reading it, so he simply put in the effort to study hard, memorized all the books, and then kept reciting silently, but reluctantly read it to [Huainanzi] Some insight.

One day, Liu Yiyi saw that Li Jianxin was hugging [Huainanzi], and then said in amazement: "Brother Jianxin, how come you have the time to read this Taoist classics?"

"Isn't this the advice your adoptive father gave me? He said that I need to read some Taoist classics as a reference to supplement my own understanding of martial arts, so he gave me this [Huainanzi] as my I'm having a hard time reading the enlightenment book." Li Jianxin shrugged helplessly while holding the [Huainanzi] in his hand.

Liu Yiyi covered her mouth and snickered, and said: "It's rare to see you working hard on reading here, it's really hard for you, and the adoptive father is also really, but forcing you, a monk who has not become a monk, to look at [Huainanzi] .”

"Who says it's not? Yiyi, you came at the right time. I know you have a lot of knowledge in your stomach for a long time, but you are helping me with my advice. For example, this sentence can be explained in this way?" Li Jianxin said, pointing at [Huainanzi] soldier The above sentence in the short article said to Liu Yiyi.

Liu Yiyi looked at the sentence that Li Jianxin was referring to, curled his fingers and said with a smile: "It's simple, it's about repairing the government inside, but it can make the monarch and his ministers work together, so that the princes will not dare to conflict with the kingdom." .And the next sentence has the same meaning." Liu Yiyi pointed to a sentence in Li Jianxin's book, and then pointed to another paragraph, his fingers like white onions lightly slid across the book.Li Jianxin listened to Liu Yiyi's plain language explanation, and then looked at Cao Zhengxiu's comments, and felt that he was enlightened.

The two talked like this for more than half an hour, and then Li Jianxin closed the book and teased Liu Yiyi: "I really didn't know there was a female doctor in my family."

"That's right, even some great scholars in the cabinet praised my views on Taoist classics." Liu Yiyi pouted her mouth and showed a proud look.Li Jianxin looked at Liu Yiyi like this, and naturally sent a bunch of flattering words, but the two chatted happily.

A few days later, the New Year is approaching, Li Jianxin and Liu Yiyi, Jun Mobai and the others are preparing New Year's goods on the street.Li Jianxin walked to a dry goods store, picked up a dried shiitake mushroom and asked the owner, "Shopkeeper, how do you sell these shiitake mushrooms?"

"My lord, you know what you are looking for. I am made from the best dried shiitake mushrooms on Changbai Mountain. It is soaked in water and then served with pork ribs. It is delicious and ruthless, and the price is not expensive. Twenty yuan a catty. Sir, how many catties do you want to weigh?" Seeing that Li Jianxin seemed to be quite interested, the shopkeeper smiled and vigorously promoted their own shiitake mushrooms.

Jun Mobai also picked up a shiitake mushroom, squeezed it in the palm of his hand, took it to his nose and sniffed it, and then said to Li Jianxin: "Although this shiitake mushroom is not from Changbai Mountain, it is not bad, but it is not worth the price." If you are willing, shopkeeper, we will buy it for fifteen cents a catty." Jun Mobai said and looked at the shopkeeper.

Hearing Jun Mobai's words, the shopkeeper couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, but there were more smiles on his face, and he apologized: "I didn't expect that this fairy-like girl is also a person who knows the goods, that's all, it's only fifteen cents a catty. How much does the three cost?"

"Let's take five catties." Li Jianxin said, and then said: "Weigh it for me, so don't be short of catty or two."

But the storekeeper smiled and said: "Master, you are joking. My store has been open in the capital for more than ten years. I won't lie. We are still counting on the Lord to do business next time." As he spoke, he reached out and grabbed the scale, scooped up the shiitake mushrooms on the weighing pan, gestured at the weight, picked up a few more shiitake mushrooms and put them on the weighing pan, and said to Li Jianxin, "My lord, it's just right. Five catties, no more, no less."

"Okay. Get me a sack and pack it." Li Jianxin said and handed over a piece of silver.The shopkeeper took the silver, but turned around and took a sack, shook it away, and a cloud of dust was raised, and the three of Li Jianxin waved their sleeves to avoid the dust.But the shopkeeper packed these mushrooms and was about to pass them to Li Jianxin.

When Li Jianxin was about to reach out to take the bag of mushrooms, Jun Mobai stopped him. "Hold on."

Jun Mobai stretched out his hand to stop Li Jianxin, took a step forward, and said to the store owner: "Shop owner, we are all sensible people, so there is no need to play these little tricks. Although your 'Five Ghost Transport' trick is clever, it cannot be hidden." my eyes."

"Girl, what are you talking about?" The shopkeeper pretended to be puzzled, and looked at Jun Mobai with a swearing look.Jun Mobai just pointed at the shopkeeper's stomach and said: "Shopkeeper, your trick of 'carrying the five ghosts' is enough to fool ordinary people. If you don't want to be unable to come down today, you can replace us with some high-quality shiitake mushrooms." That's it. Otherwise, your business will be ruined by then." Jun Mobai showed a hint of warning as he spoke.

The storekeeper looked at Jun Mobai's words, his face collapsed, and he just said: "Forget it, I will return the money to you, and I will not do this business." The storekeeper took out a piece of silver from his pocket and handed it over. come over.

"Shopkeeper, do you really not know good from bad?" Jun Mobai looked at the storekeeper and asked.

The shopkeeper just smiled wryly: "Girl, I really don't understand what you are talking about."

But Jun Mobai snatched the broken silver, threw it to Li Jianxin and said: "Jianxin, peel this silver and see if there is any copper and tin wrapped in it." Li Jianxin held the silver with both hands Pulling like this, I saw a yellow-white hard object falling down, then bent down to pick up the hard object, and said to Jun Mobai: "There is really some copper and tin wrapped in it."

The storekeeper saw Li Jianxin showing his hand, and hurriedly begged for mercy with a drooping face: "It's the little lard that has deceived my heart, but I hope the heroes will let it go, and I still have family members to support at my next home, so I can't be defeated." stall."

"You just need to weigh me five or two catties of shiitake mushrooms, and we won't care too much about it." Li Jianxin said and threw the two pieces of broken silver in his hand to the shopkeeper.Seeing Li Jianxin's reluctance to care about it, the shopkeeper immediately let out a sigh of relief, but honestly weighed five catties of shiitake mushrooms, and put them in sacks, but he didn't dare to do any more tricks.Jun Mobai took the sack and turned it upside down, saying, "That's right, you didn't use any tricks this time, you're pretty honest."

The shopkeeper just put on a smile that was uglier than crying, and smiled at Jun Mobai with an apologetic smile: "Young lady is an expert, I just want to know how you can see the flaws in my method."

"I've learned all these tricks of yours from my uncle before. Your method of 'transporting the five ghosts' is still too crude. You can fool ordinary people, but you can't fool us people in the Jianghu."

"No one would have thought that heroes like you would come out to buy shiitake mushrooms." The store just said angrily.

"Why, you still think today's lesson is not enough?" Li Jianxin turned around and said something hard. Seeing Li Jianxin's image of a tuberculosis ghost, the shopkeeper quickly shrank his neck and said, "Enough is enough, you guys I'd better go slowly." After saying that, he waved his hand like he was shooing away flies, secretly saying that it was bad luck.

Li Jianxin was walking on the road, carrying the bag of mushrooms, and asked Jun Mobai curiously: "Mo Bai, how did you see the tricks played by this store?"

But Jun Mobai let out a long sigh, and said: "In this world, there are not many people who can do business seriously for more than ten years, and most businessmen can only rely on shoddy goods, living in short supply. Even My Jun's family used to make a fortune like this, but now that the family is better off, we don't need any methods, but we will pass these methods on to future generations, so we don't need to let future generations be deceived by these tricks .

This 'Five Ghost Transport' is originally a kind of sleight of hand. It mainly involves using some techniques or misdirected movements to steal and change things in an instant. You see, the mushrooms on the store's scale left our sight when they were being bagged. He It was at that moment that the situation was changed.So, when doing business, we must not let this product out of our eyes, or we will be fooled.

Of course, there are also some powerful people, let’s say my uncle, he has been in business for decades, a few years ago when he was doing business, he ordered the goods to be packed, but was robbed by bandits on the way Dao, it was only then that he realized that all the goods had become defective products. At that time, it was useless for him to find someone to reason with. "

"This world is really chaotic." Li Jianxin couldn't help sighing, he suddenly had some doubts about what Uncle Jun Mobai had experienced. The family reported false accounts, and Mrs. Jun's personality is not willing to care about these trivial matters, she just reprimands a few words and leaves evidence to settle accounts later in the autumn.Thinking of this, Li Jianxin shook his head, and then let out the bad thoughts in his mind. During this period of time, he looked at [Huainanzi] and felt that the world was not so good.

Looking at Jun Mobai and Liu Yiyi who were happily chatting aside, Li Jianxin realized how absurd his thoughts just now were.

The three of them bought some food and wanted to go back.It just so happened that on the way home, he bumped into a seller of candied haws. Li Jianxin became playful for a moment, and immediately bought all the candied haws, but distributed one to Liu Yiyi and Jun Mobai.

Liu Yi chewed the sugar-coated hawthorn in his mouth, narrowed his eyes to show a satisfied expression, and didn't care about the sugar residue stuck in the corner of his mouth.Jun Mobai is quite polite, he just ate two and then he didn't eat. He just passed the candied haws in his hand to Li Jianxin and said, "Eating candied haws is too much effort, you should eat it." Li Jianxin Not disgusted, he took the candied haws and opened his mouth, biting it with his teeth, bit off all the hawthorns wrapped in syrup, and chewed them in his mouth.

Jun Mobai took out his handkerchief, wiped off the sugar residue on Liu Yiyi's face, and said with a smile: "Yiyi, why did you become a little cat after eating?" Liu Yiyi said with a smile: "I'm about to marry myself off, how can I have time to care about these things? I can eat whatever I want to be happy." Jun Mobai smiled, gave Li Jianxin an angry look, and said: "Jianxin, look Let's see how you spoil Yiyi."

Li Jianxin just scratched the back of his head and smiled, "It doesn't matter, I will pamper you both." Liu Yiyi smiled even more happily after hearing that.Although Jun Mobai was happy in his heart, he laughed and cursed and said, "Wipe your face too." Then he threw his handkerchief out.

The three of them walked like this, and when they were about to leave the gate of the market, a child bumped into Li Jianxin's side.Li Jianxin supported the child slightly and said, "Little friend, be careful."

"Uncle." The child looked at Li Jianxin and shouted timidly, then asked: "Uncle, are you selling candied haws? I want to buy a bunch but I only have half a penny." The child took out one and a half copper plate.

Li Jianxin squatted down, touched the top of the child's head with a smile, and then said with a smile: "I'm not selling candied haws, but if you want to eat, you can't."

"Then how can I eat it?" the child asked timidly with big eyes.

Li Jianxin pointed at Liu Yiyi and Jun Mobai who were walking in front and said with a smile: "Did you see those two sisters? You go over and praise each of them, and I'll give you a bunch of candied haws."

"Really?" The child's eyes widened as he spoke, his face full of disbelief.Li Jianxin rubbed the child's hair, and said with a smile, "Can't I still lie to you as an adult?"

"Okay then, you have to keep your word." The child whispered, but his eyes were on Li Jianxin's bunches of candied haws.

"Go, go, I'm a puppy to lie to you." Li Jianxin smiled.

"Okay." The child responded, and then trotted up to Jun Mobai and the two of them and said cheerfully: "Sister, hello. That weird uncle selling candied haws, actually asked me to come over and praise you, saying it's okay. Give me a bunch of candied haws." After saying that, he searched out the few adjectives he had and just praised Jun Mobai and Liu Yiyi for being beautiful, which actually made Jun Mobai laugh.

After complimenting others, the child trotted over, stretched out his hand to Li Jianxin and said, "Uncle, my candied haws." Li Jianxin took out two bunches of candied haws from the skewers, handed them to the child and said, "Take it and eat it. "

The child just bit off a hawthorn wrapped in syrup and chewed it in his mouth, but he refused to eat it. He just held it in his hand and said to Li Jianxin, "Thank you uncle."

"Why don't you eat it? Is it too sour?" Li Jianxin asked curiously.

The child just shook his head, but looked at the ground and said softly: "It's not that it's not delicious, but I want to share these candied haws with my younger brothers and sisters. I'll just eat one." Li Jianxin stretched out his hand and rubbed the child's chin. The head said: "What a good boy."

"Uncle, if I'm a good boy, why would my parents not want me?" The corner of the child's eyes began to get wet as he spoke, and a tear rolled down his dirty face.

(End of this chapter)