The days when I pretended to be a cat in the Forbidden City[Comprehensive]

Meng Ao thought about it for a while and still couldn't let go of the wine that Lu Buwei hid. He climbed into the carriage and hurriedly sent people to rush towards Lu's house. Before Lu Buwei arrived home, he planned to cheat as much as he could.

Lu An is young and thin-skinned, so he must be embarrassed to reject him, an old man who has just offered help.

The calculating Meng Ao never expected that when he arrived at Lu's house, it was empty, but Wei's house next door was quite lively.

What's going on with the Lu family?Just after Lu An came home, the whole family ran to the next door to celebrate?Is the relationship between the two of them so good?

Meng Ao hesitated for a while, but finally couldn't restrain his inner curiosity and walked to the door of Wei's house.The little old man of Wei's family is also his friend, so as a friend, it is natural to share the blessings.

After Meng Ao was brought in, he immediately saw Wei Liao riding a horse and fighting with several Wei family sons, and his hands...

Ok? !

Meng Ao narrowed his eyes, what is he holding in his hand?

As if aware of someone outside, Wei Liao held the rein with one hand and turned his head to look at him. The horse under his crotch cooperated tacitly. At this time, he also turned around slightly, and the weapon in Wei Liao's hand fell into Meng Ao's eyes.

This is a long soldier, but the sharp muzzle does not look like a halberd, but a much elongated spear muzzle.

Now that the halberd has become a standard weapon, the spear has now been abandoned.Because the halberd itself has the functions of a spear and a dagger, the soldiers carry one weapon for two, but the weapons in Wei Liao's hands are different, and different edges can be clearly seen on the sharp parts of him. At first glance, it seems that there are four sides... maybe more than that.

This must not be a spear, this is a new type of weapon, or a new type of weapon made with a special casting method!

"The difficulty is acceptable, but it takes some effort to beat it, and the yield is very high, but the difficulty is that it is difficult to find a supporting stick."

"Purpose? The purpose is probably to break armor, and the other lethality should not be much different." Anyway, it's just a child.

"How much can it break... We were just trying..."

"No, no, how dare the junior dare to perfunctory Meng Gong."

Lu An felt aggrieved. In other people's reception banquets, the protagonists were served with delicious food and drinks, and they also cared about them, but his reception banquets were always being interrogated.

There are delicious and delicious drinks, but they are all in other people's bowls.As a junior, he could only sit at the bottom with an obedient face.

Lu An silently glanced at Meng Ao, and then removed his name from the little book of favorability in his heart several times.Meng Ao didn't notice this at all, he gently and carefully stroked the blade with his fingertips, while testing the sharpness of each part, he asked about the difficulty of making it.

That's right, Meng Ao carried Wei Liao's horse lance to the banquet of Wei's family.Fortunately, there is still a meal-sharing system now. If it was a round table system after the Song Dynasty, no one would be able to sit down with him holding a two-meter-long horse.But even now, the people around him feel a little nervous. Fortunately, this is in Wei's house. If it's in Lu's house, the servants who serve the food will feel weak in their legs.

Ma Chan's advantage lies not in cutting, but in stabbing, so when casting, I tried to increase its hardness by increasing the facets of the sword body. In terms of weight and cost, the effect achieved can only be said to be so-so.

However, this six-edged horse lance looks cool and handsome enough to be given to a boyfriend.Originally, Wei Liao was just showing off the gift from his lover, and everyone was playing together, but Meng Ao discovered it.

After eating the meal, Meng Ao looked at Lu An's expression after personally trying out his fighting power, and immediately became a little more hesitant to speak.The corner of Lu An's mouth twitched, and the expression he saw was full of hesitation.

The two looked at each other for a while, and in the end Lu An couldn't stand a big man looking at him like this and sent him a spear.

He brought quite a few of these weapons, just to prove the superiority of the iron mines in Shu County, and he would give away one if he gave it away...

Unexpectedly, as soon as Lu An turned his head, he met the ardent gazes of several sons of Wei's family.

No, little brother, what's the matter with you.

Lu An was speechless. Weapons like lances are not for ordinary people to use, especially horse lances. This two-meter-long and top-heavy weapon requires extremely strong physical strength to wield. It also requires the cooperation of horses and people. It is strong enough to endure frequent large movements by people on it.

Even with the level of cooperation between Wei Liao and Duoduo, there is no way to go directly to the battlefield now. Although he is indeed handsome, he is really just a show, at least for now.

But all the gentlemen of the Wei family shook their heads and expressed that they would not listen or not. Being handsome is enough. Brother, look at us, we can also be experimental products!

What can be done!

Wei Liao walked past them and pushed down the heads of the brothers one by one.

He walked to Lu An's side, and the two held their arms tightly together, "Don't pay attention to them."

Wei Liao glanced at his unsatisfied younger brothers, and reached out his hand to lightly touch Lu An's shoulder, "You are also tired today, go and wash up first, and we will talk about other things when Lu Gong comes back."

Yes, Lu An took a deep breath, feeling a pain in the head while being pushed towards his house.Indeed, when his father came back, there would probably be a tough battle, and he would have to burn his brain.

It feels like the conversation with Meng Ao just now has used up all the energy he had reserved for the night, and he didn't eat well, and he just arrived in Xianyang today and traveled a long distance, so he really feels a little tired.

Wei Liao sent Lu An back to his own courtyard very familiarly, stuffed him into the soup pool, and then went out to fetch clothes for him.

As soon as he went out, he saw Madam Lu standing in Lu An's room looking at him, Wei Liao quietly cupped his hands, "Madam Lu."

"Are you back?" Mrs. Lu glanced at him and said politely, "Thank you Wei Xiaolang."

"It's okay." Wei Liao replied, "Madam is also tired today, you might as well go to rest first, Jing Xiliao will take care of you here."

"Jingxi?" Mrs. Lu was taken aback for a moment, her eyes widened slightly, and she said in surprise, "You call An'er Jingxi?"

"Jingxi is the word that the king bestowed on An'er today." Wei Liao explained. As soon as he finished speaking, Madam Lu's expression faded. She glanced at herself with various meanings in her eyes. Become speechless.After Madam Lu nodded, she said, "Then Lu An will ask Wei Liao to take care of her", and then left.

This strange attitude made Wei Liao frown slightly, but there was too little information, and it seemed that the focus was on Lu An's words. Is there anything special about this word?

"Senior brother! I'm done washing!" Lu Xiaoan, who had taken a battle bath, called while slapping the water inside. Wei Liao responded, opened Lu An's cage, picked out a set of comfortable clothes for him, and turned back. went in.

The house of the Lu family was originally the hot spring residence of King Zhaoxiang. The design and planning of the whole house are very grand, so after receiving the reward, the Lu family did not overhaul it, but divided several houses and changed them to be more in line with the etiquette system. The courtyard of the Lu family - the old man of the Lu family is a scholar who pays more attention to this, and refuses to live in it until it is repaired.

The courtyard of the two elders is at the northernmost end. According to the rules of the Qin State, Lu Buwei’s brothers have separated and bought another house, so there is no room left for them. Then there is the house of Mrs. Lu and Lu Buwei. The courtyard belonging to the only son Lu An is closest to the main entrance. , located in the southeast direction, and the passenger compartment in the southwest direction.Different from other houses, the Lu family also set aside a special area for growing hot spring melons and fruits.

After Lu An took the post, he opened a door to his courtyard for the convenience of his communication with his colleagues, and the warm soup in his courtyard was also integrated into one, directly bringing in fresh water.The temperature of the new water was a bit high, and Wei Liao saw Lu An was soaked red as soon as he entered, so he rushed forward to pick him up.

His physical exertion was okay, but his energy was exhausted quite a lot. Lu An felt a little sleepy after taking a dip in the hot spring. He stood there and let Wei Liao wipe him clean, put on his clothes and stuff him under the bed, "Senior brother?"

"Sleep for a while." Wei Liao patted him, "This matter can't be discussed so quickly, I'm afraid Jing Xi has no use waiting for the investigators from Shu County to come back."

Mrs. Lu took out Lu An's quilt to dry before he arrived in Xianyang. It was fragrant and loose, and it was very comfortable to cover his body like a cloud.Lu An was already a little drowsy, but after hearing Wei Liao's reassurance, he felt that it made sense. Before he rationally convinced himself, his body had already followed Wei Liao's arrangement and entered a sleep state.

Just before he fell asleep, Lu An suddenly blinked his eyes and was a little puzzled. He was given a letter during the court meeting today, and was picked up by Wei Liao as soon as he came out. Wei Liao should not get the news so quickly, why did he just call Did he write?Could it be that I showed off with my brother and I don't remember?

But he changed his mind, Wei Liao was an official in Xianyang, and he was also a close minister of the emperor, maybe someone overheard him while discussing his characters?

Lu An yawned, felt a soothing pat on the back, and fell into a deep sleep.

As Wei Liao expected, the affairs of Shu County were temporarily put on hold by another person, and Lu An's assessment was also temporarily put on hold, neither letting him go back nor making further arrangements.Lu Xiaoan wandered around Xianyang City for two days to get acquainted with the city he had left for nearly three years, and finally couldn't stand it anymore and went to work on the product festival for the merchants in Shu County.

Lu An's second uncle is a scholar himself, but after arriving in Qin State, his skills in real estate speculation were inexplicably lit up.After the family was separated according to the rules of the Qin State, Second Uncle Lu was even more turbulent without his father's suppression, and soon bought a lot of land.One of them is located along the Weihe River, which is a standard saline-alkali soil caused by the high groundwater level of the river and the limelight.

His original intention was to tamp down those lands and build houses. This kind of land has been stamped by his eldest nephew, and he will definitely lose money growing crops, so he plans to use this land to build a house for rent, or sell it to someone who has just entered Chang'an City and has no title. People from the six countries who are not qualified to live in big houses.

After checking the market, Uncle Lv felt that this road was very promising, but the occupation of cultivated land for building a house required approval, and it had to be determined that the land could not be used as a commercial house before it could grow food.

Now these vacant spaces were just rented by Lu An, and he specially built a double-sided booth, and the part near the river was also put on the merchandise.

The effect of attracting customers is extremely significant.

As the main road of Xianyang City, the Weihe River has many crenels to facilitate the communication between Xianyang Yuan and Xianyang City. However, after two bridges are built on the Qin State River, the number of people ferrying across the river has decreased. To satisfy the need to visit the majestic bridge piers up close.

In response to social needs, Chuanbashi developed a tourist route around Xianyang Yuan, connecting the Weihe route close to the city and the Jinghe route on the back of Xianyang Yuan to visit windmills and watermills. Many people from the six countries who have just arrived in Xianyang City will choose This way of rafting on the river roughly understands Xianyang City.

Those who can go boating on the river are basically rich and leisurely. The unique booth of Shu County quickly attracted their attention once it was set up.It's a pity that the booth is located at the place where the Weihe River flows out of Xianyangyuan, and the current is too fast to stop. They can only take a glimpse, glance at the various specialties of Shu County in a hurry, and hear a few shouts, before they have time to ask the boat. turned the corner.Instigated by curiosity, these tourists came to the booth of Shu County as soon as they landed.

The arrival of these tourists is even more than the number of people who were attracted by advertisements in Xianyang City.

Does it really matter to the audience?Lu An touched his chin and thought so.

He is standing by the booth at the moment, watching the trained officials of Shu County enthusiastically introduce various products of Shu County to the citizens of Xianyang and visitors from the six countries.For the exquisite and novel goods of Shu County, the people of Xianyang have gained a certain understanding these days, and they are all very face-saving. Whether it is Shu rice, Shu cloth, or bacon, bacon, dried bamboo shoots and other specialties, there is only one word - buy !

But visitors from the Six Kingdoms are different. In their impression, Shu County is completely a place of barbarians. Buying things from barbarians is a bit demeaning...

These people shifted their steps and planned to leave. When they turned their eyes, they saw a booth with few people. There was a pile of black stones on the booth over there. The little official in charge of that booth looked quite handsome.As soon as they met their eyes, the little official greeted immediately: "Your Majesty, do you want to see the ink sticks from Shu County?"

Ink stick?A guest who was about to leave paused and moved over involuntarily.Seeing him coming, the little official immediately took out an oval-shaped black ink stick and handed it to the guest enthusiastically, "Mr. Lang, I can see that you are a scholar with a special eye. Look at the ink in our Shu County. The color is black and the ink is black." It is thick and fragrant, and the grinding is silent, and it will definitely not disturb the train of thought. Oh, don’t believe me, this is not a common practice, there are hundreds of procedures!”

It's just making ink... Where is it so mysterious?

The scholar's name is Huang Sheng, he is from the state of Qi, he has just graduated from the palace, and he passed through the state of Qin when he was traveling.

The land of Qilu has always been proud of its prosperous literary style among the Seven Kingdoms. The famous Jixia Academy is located in Qi State. Even the current head of Qin Academy was the teacher of Jixia Academy back then. According to Huang Sheng , Qin State Academy is just a branch of Jixia Academy.

His original plan was to return to Qi State to seek an official post after visiting the Seven Kingdoms. Qin State was the westernmost stop, and it was also a stop he planned to pass by.After all, in his impression, Qin State is regarded as a place of tyranny, and there will never be less victories and ruthlessness.Before learning that he was coming to Qin, his family wanted to hire warriors to protect him, but the warriors waved their hands and refused after hearing that he was going to Qin, saying that they were unwilling to come.

He thought it was because Qin State was so dangerous that even warriors dared not enter it. After arriving in Qin State, he realized that the reason why they didn't want to come was that Qin State was too safe. .

In the State of Qin, no matter the streets or alleys, the city-state or the countryside, they were all very peaceful, and there was no danger at all as imagined. Even when a quarrel was about to develop into a fight, the villagers would come and separate them immediately.

Among them, Huang Sheng felt quite uncomfortable, because he felt that Qin State was no less than Qi State in terms of law and order alone.

In addition, there is clothing... Qi State thrives on commerce and trade. As far as the people are concerned, the people of Qi State can be said to be the richest and most fashionable when they go out. As a result, their popular printed cloth is so common in Qin State. Ordinary fabric?Well, this has an origin advantage after all.

However, the fact that sea salt, the pillar industry of Qi State, is not popular in Qin State makes Huang Sheng very unhappy.

Compared with sea salt, Qin people prefer to eat their Shu salt, it is said that they dislike the bitter taste of sea salt.

How is this bitter?Can the bitterness of salt be bitter?This is the flavor!

Huang Sheng was not angry about this. He felt that the people of Qin had no taste and did not understand the culture of Qi.

A gentleman should respect other people's hobbies and forgive others' deficiencies... Calm down, calm down.

So, when Huang Sheng was wandering in the street, he met a small official from Shu County who was handing out leaflets, and came to watch the excitement on a whim. He was not interested in all kinds of dry goods and ingredients in Shu County, but on Shu cloth... Hmph, I'm not interested either, but after seeing the so-called "good ink" produced by Shu County, the situation is different.

In terms of writing and ink, as a cultural person and a native of Qi, he has absolute confidence.The ink in their country of Qi is famous all over the world, and the scholars regard it as an elegant thing to do ink. Of course, Huang Sheng has done it, and it is precisely because he has done it that he sneered at this little official's words.

He raised his hand to take the ink stick in the little official's hand, with contempt on his brow.He dipped a small spoon in water and poured it on the inkstone, and after rubbing it a few times, he would sarcastically satirize this arty person.

However, as soon as the ink stick touched the inkstone, Huang Sheng's expression changed, and after rubbing it a few times, his face was full of disbelief.

How can it be? !

The ink stick felt smooth after being wetted with water, and he turned it around dozens of times without any hesitation.As the ink melted into water, his nose still caught the quiet fragrance, elegant and charming, and the color of the ink was dark. He stopped and observed for a moment, but the black color did not settle.

This, this is how to do it? !

Huang Sheng has made ink himself, so he knows very well that ink sticks are made by crushing graphite into powder and then mixing it with bovine glue. However, no matter how hard they grind, the graphite will have a grainy feel, and graphite itself is insoluble in water, so the ink is kept for a long time will be layered.

Almost impatiently, he took the pen handed over by the clerk and wrote a string of words on the bamboo slice, then he couldn't help but gasped.

Black in color, thick in ink, fragrant in fragrance, this little official didn't even brag a word!

Then, does this ink really need a hundred processes?

Huang Sheng raised his face slowly, and looked at the simple official, "How much is this ink worth?"

"It's not expensive—" the clerk showed a smile, and said sincerely, "Appreciation level, one or two inks are five thousand yuan, appreciation level three thousand, practical level one thousand. Mr. Lang is the first one to buy ink, you and I It must be destined, if you buy a piece of appreciation grade, the boy is the master, and I will give you a piece of appreciation grade and a piece of practical grade at a loss, so that you bought the appreciation grade for only [-] yuan, we will treat it as a friend, you If you use it well, introduce it to your friends, what do you think?"

Sure enough, there are talents everywhere in the world.

Lu An stood aside and looked at the little official, and with a few words, he tricked the scholar into changing his mind, changing from wanting to buy the cheapest ink to buying the most expensive ink, making a note for this man in his heart.

Zhao Zheng, who was standing beside him, also watched the scholar leaving in a daze. He silently put labels on this person such as "very easy to deceive", "very easy to coax", "must be very poor in counting ability" and so on. He looked back at brother, "Why do you want to call this weird name?"

Lu An smacked his lips, "Tell you to use defective products or regular products, which one do you think is more comfortable?"

Zhao Zheng frowned and criticized, "Exaggeration."

"It's not exaggeration, everyone has self-esteem." Lu An poked his younger brother's eyebrows, "If you do something that hurts people's self-esteem, even a good deed will turn into a bad deed."

Zhao Zheng didn't dodge, let his elder brother's fingertips land on his forehead, and snorted, "If you can't see the hypocrisy of other people, just ignore it."

"There are few wise people in the world, but there are many ordinary people." Lu An patted the little prince on the shoulder, "Zheng'er, come and taste the food of Shu County."

"Food?" Zhao Zheng didn't follow him, but pointed to his feet, "Brother, you mean this?"

One paw hugged Zhao Zheng's calf, and the black and white fluffy dumpling, half of his body lying on his body, saw that he was finally noticed by others, so he yelled "嘤咕~" unwilling to be lonely