When I woke up, I was fine

Cao Li was unmoved, and still stepped on the ladder to the small bridge, where he smiled slightly at Li Jiancheng who was under the bridge.

"Come up quickly, you can only see our house when you come up."

The old housekeeper made a gesture of invitation to Li Jiancheng, "You can just go up with confidence. The wood of this ladder will not rot for a thousand years. The reason why it is so dilapidated is that it will be stolen by others."

Li Jiancheng picked up his clothes, stepped on the ladder a few steps, and found that it was very strong.

But I thought in my heart that if I use these things to make those siege ladders, they should be very strong.

When I got to the small bridge, I found that the bridge deck was very narrow. Standing side by side with Cao Li, I looked down and found a huge courtyard hidden in the valley.

The combination of these courtyards looks like a huge palace group, and a kind of grandeur can be seen here.

Wei Zheng finally got on the bridge, and couldn't help but say it out loud, "Overstepped! Overstepped!"

It turns out that the scale of this palace group far exceeds the palaces in Luoyang and Chang'an.

Looking at the exterior of the palace, it seems to be in the style of the Qin and Han Dynasties.

And outside the palace complex, there are many villages scattered.

Seeing the house, if you want to go in and rest, you still have to walk a certain distance, and a group of people walked in the same direction under the leadership of the old housekeeper.

It was not too early at this time, and I could see the setting sun outside, but looking up from the inside of the mountain, I only felt that the whole sky was overcast, and the surrounding light was getting darker, and someone beside me started to light torches and Oil lamp.

A group of people came to the front of the manor in the darkening night.

But when I stood in front of the manor and looked inward, I always felt that this was a cottage. There were many people guarding the front, and some people stood on a high place and patrolled around.Ever since they came here, they could feel the atmosphere of Xiao Sha around them.

Even Wei Zheng, who usually likes to chatter the most, stopped talking.Here, only Cao Li and the old butler seemed particularly natural.

The old housekeeper bowed his waist and led the way, and shouted to the people above, "Open the door to welcome the relatives."

One could hear voices passing inside one after another, and then the gate opened in front of this group of people, and then along the central axis of the palace, fires were lit up one after another, and where the fire was lit, the gates were pushed open.

Standing here, one can see the gates being slowly pushed open. This scene is both shocking and awe-inspiring.

The old housekeeper bent down and said to Cao Li, "It's too late. I thought the big guys would come back early and let those old guys come to greet you, but it's too late now. I've been tired thinking about you all day. Today Let's rest first, and let everyone come to visit tomorrow."

Cao Yang nodded and looked at Li Jiancheng beside him. Li Jiancheng did not raise any objections. As for the officials and guards from the East Palace, they were all taken down and resettled.

Cao Qian took Li Jiancheng's hand, and the two stepped into the gate.

After passing through the first gate, Cao Li pointed to the surroundings and said to Li Jiancheng, "This is the Wengcheng."

The urn city is tall and solid, and it can be seen that although the owner does not live here, the people around have kept all the buildings here very well.

Li Jiancheng stood in Wengcheng and looked around. After seeing the wall, he couldn't help but said to Cao Qiang, "If one day in the future, we compete with the people of the world and unfortunately lose, it is also possible to live in seclusion here."

Cao Qian smiled slightly, "Since you have a way out, are you still willing to fight him to the death?"

The consequences of failure in things like this end in death, Li Jiancheng looked around in the night.

"If it's my fault, I don't want to argue with him. But since ancient times, the throne has been passed on to the eldest son. If it's really based on merit, I'm no less credit than him, so why should I let it go?" What about him?"

Having said that, he turned around and looked at Cao Li, "Why do we keep retreating again and again?"

Li Jiancheng had already figured it out. When he returned to Chang'an, Li Shimin should be able to kill Wang Shichong. At that time, both of them would be free to fight.

Thinking of this, he suddenly let out the breath in his heart, and asked Cao Li happily.

"It's my first time here. Is there anything good here? Take me to see it."

Cao Li looked up and saw that the sky was already full of stars, "It's fine during the day, but if you want to visit at night, I can only show you one scene."

Speaking of this, he said to Lao Zhuang who was next to him, "Tell everyone that all corners should be lit, so that our prince can see our house that has been handed down for hundreds of years."

"A place with edges and corners?"

"For example, the ridge of the roof, the eaves and the walls of the courtyard. In this sentence, even the lower part of the porch must be lit with lights."

"We all have candles, oil lamps and torches, but there are too many lights, and we are afraid of water leakage..."

At this time, Cao Li waved his hands very proudly, "Don't be afraid, it's okay to burn all the houses, as long as it makes our prince laugh, it's fine to fill this valley."

The old butler had an expression of looking at a prodigal son, but Cao Li was the owner of this place, so naturally he took people down to arrange it without saying a word.

Only the husband and wife are left here. Cao Li stretched out his hand and put his finger on Li Jiancheng's chin, "In ancient times, there were feudal lords who performed beacon fire, but now there is this palace..."

However, I usually read too little, and I really don't know what to say to reconcile the accounts neatly at this time.

"Don't laugh, let me think about what to say first."

Cao Qian's fingers were still picking at Li Jiancheng's chin, but Li Jiancheng couldn't help it at this moment. He laughed so hard that his stomach hurt from laughing.

"When we two have children, we must let him study more. Otherwise, like you, even if we meet a girl on the road, we don't know what to say to flirt with her."

In the future, even if you have a son to be a dandy, you have to be a learned dandy, and when you see a beautiful woman on the road, you have to speak well when you flirt.

People around had started to place torches everywhere. The two stood inside the urn city and saw that the surrounding walls were covered with torches. Li Jiancheng hugged Cao Qian, "How is it? The princess has spent such a large sum of money, how do you feel now?"

"It's no wonder so many people are willing to be rich and rich. It really feels very good. Whether it's a feudal lord or a big spender, this feeling is something that many people have never experienced."

Speaking of this, he looked at Li Jiancheng who was standing aside, "Are you happy? If you are happy, we will still light the torch tomorrow night."

Li Jiancheng waved his hand, "No, it can be seen that this is a fortress, not a place for you and me to play. Tell me what is the most valuable thing here?"

"Food, the most valuable thing here is food."

Cao Li pointed to the city wall and said to Li Jiancheng, "Did you see it? Are those city wall bricks? That's not a city wall. Inside the bricks, all the glutinous rice was boiled and dried to make bricks and put inside, and the outside was covered with city wall bricks." , this thing can be stored for 20 years, and it’s all grain.”

This palace complex is a granary.

I don't know where Guan Lengyan learned this method. After using it for so many years, it has become a unique secret. If anyone dares to disclose the method of making grain bricks, everyone will be chased and killed.

Li Jiancheng said that this palace is maintained by people, and it looks relatively new. The reason is that the glutinous rice hidden in it will be taken out every once in a while, and transported outside the mountains to places where there is no food to eat, and distributed to others. .

Then with the grain, it is remade into bricks, wrapped in oil paper and placed here.Repeatedly, this method has been used for hundreds of years.

The reason for choosing this place is that the temperature in this place is very low, and both air and moisture are good for food preservation.

This news shocked Li Jiancheng. He never thought that the bricks used for construction actually contained food inside.

Cao Li took his hand, and the two of them entered the palace from Wengcheng. Along the way, they saw many places with hanging calligraphy and paintings of celebrities and expensive wooden furniture.In some places the vases are fine china, which, if transported abroad, would shock the world or fetch a fortune.

Li Jiancheng still wants to confirm at this time, "Are all the calligraphy, painting and porcelain here not as valuable as food?"

Of course Li Jiancheng doesn't understand how panic it is when there is no food to eat. Both Cao Li and Guan Lengyan know that food is the most important thing, and people and food are fundamental.

Cao Li didn't speak, and Li Jiancheng didn't ask further at this time.

Because he felt that it was useless for him to ask. After all, most of the people who followed him to fight against the Turks did not value credit so much. What they valued most was dried meat. These people may not want credit, but they cannot do without cattle and sheep. The living cows tried their best to send them back to their hometowns to work in the fields, and the dead cows were made into dried meat and sent back to their parents, wives and children.

After the assassins on the way were caught, the old farmers didn't think about getting rid of them, but let these assassins keep plowing the fields...

No matter where these people go, they can plant food everywhere they see. If they have been stationed in a certain place for a long time, they will definitely be able to turn the place where they are stationed into a vegetable garden.

Li Jiancheng really couldn't tell what kind of feeling he was feeling at this time.

At this time, Lao Zhuang came over and reported to Cao Li: "Master, the arrangements have been made according to your instructions."

Li Jiancheng caught Lao Zhuang and asked, "Do you like farming?"

"Those who don't like farming are all gangsters and prodigal sons. Whoever has such a son is really bad luck for eight lifetimes. He should be beaten like this and let him starve for half a year. I heard that Chang'an City The nobles there don't farm..." The old man still remembered that it was the prince in front of him, so he shut up in time without expressing his high opinion.

"Why does your old man like farming so much?"

"What do you eat if you don't farm?"

At this time, Lao Zhuang looked at Li Jiancheng with less respect than before. The old man looked at Li Jiancheng and then at Cao Qiang, feeling very anxious, wondering how his wife could find such a family for the young master, who didn’t even know how to farm. People... Isn't this just a prodigal?

However, things have come to this point, and the loyal old butler doesn't have much insight, he just thinks that the next generation can be saved.

When it was time to eat at night, the old housekeeper squatted quietly beside Cao Li, "You can't let our family learn their way. We still have to come back to farm. If we don't farm, what will we eat? What will we drink?" ah?"

Although the voice was relatively quiet, Li Jiancheng still heard it. For the first time, he felt that he was not looked at differently by others because of his status, but after not being looked at differently by others, he was disgusted by others.

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