Liu Yongming continued: "It just so happened that I had something to ask him for, which was to get some test papers. He took this opportunity to ask me to arrange a free dinner for him."

Ye Changqing smiled and said: "It's appropriate, it's very appropriate. You don't lack this small amount of money. I heard that Li Shilang once worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and I have some old acquaintances in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. During the banquet, you can reward me with this gift.

I used this piece of jade as a display. There must be someone in the Ministry of Internal Affairs who wants to prove the quality of this thing, so I asked someone who is familiar with Li Shilang to introduce it to me. I will wear this piece of jade on my body again. If Li Shilang is interested in it,

If he’s not interested in the jade pendant, I’ll take it out and ask him. If he sees it and asks about it, then I’ll just go down the slope and get off the donkey!”

"Don't be too serious!"

"Don't worry, Mr. Liu's purpose will not be suspected by others!"

"Haha, you are an upright person. You are not as cunning as me. You are not very good at lying! But I trust you in this matter, so just do it!"

At this moment, there was a knock on the door outside.

Then came the voice of a nurse: "Mr. Ye, there is a monk outside who wants to see Master Six. He is tied with a rope and carries a thorn stick on his back."

Liu Yongming, Ye Changqing, and Yang Guanglu looked at each other.

Ye Changqing smiled and said: "Sixth Master, who is this blind person who offended you and came here to apologize?"

Yang Guanglu also smiled and said: "It can't be a monk from Daci'en Temple, right? I heard that Mr. Liu dug up the underground palace of Daci Temple? If that's true, will they go back to the thorn bush to plead guilty?"

Liu Yongming smiled and said: "It's Bu Qingyun. Don't mess with him. Even though he is a monk, he is a killer who kills without blinking an eye. Invite him in. I have many things to talk to him about."

Seeing that Liu Yongming had something to do, Yang Guanglu quickly said: "Then I will arrange the gold for Mr. Liu!"

Ye Changqing also said: "Sixth Master has taken over the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and many business matters have to be prepared, and the niche has to be busy."

Liu Yongming said quickly: "When Mr. Ye arranged it, the table at the Ministry of Internal Affairs should have big fish and meat, and more vegetables, oil and water! As for the table at Lu Yu, we will serve Jianghuai cuisine! Don't serve any dishes from Guanzhong!"

"Huh?" Ye Changqing hesitated for a moment, but immediately figured it out.

He said: "Li Shilang comes from a noble family, and Guanzhong cuisine cannot be put on the table. Moreover, Lu Libu is from Jiangnan, and he is used to cooking Jianghuai cuisine. He can also introduce the dishes to others to increase the topic, so his business is limited.

Better done!"

"Clever! Go ahead."

After Ye Changqing responded, he and Yang Guanglu left the private room together.

After a while, a thick bald man came in from outside.

Just as the nurse described it, the man was shirtless, with a rope tied around his body, and a large bundle of thorns on his back. The barbs on the thorns scraped out small strips of blood on his back.

That man was none other than Bu Qingyun. As soon as Bu Qingyun saw Liu Yongming, he knelt down with a thud.

Liu Yongming smiled and said: "Get up, I don't like others kneeling, let alone people with weak legs. If you are that kind of person, get out of here as soon as possible, so as not to make me unhappy."

When Bu Qingyun heard this, he quickly stood up from the ground and said happily: "Master Liu, accept me?"

Liu Yongming smiled and said: "First untie the rope and take off the things on the back. I feel uncomfortable watching it."

Bu Qingyun laughed loudly, and when he stretched out his hands, he broke the not-thin rope, and the thorns tied to his body fell to the ground.

Bu Qingyun's shoulder is still injured. Being able to exert such force shows that Bu Qingyun's kung fu is outstanding.

Liu Yongming smiled and said: "You are so strong! Your name is Bu Qingyun?"

"Yes, the old man in the family gave me the name, and he said it can lead him to the top. From now on, I will work with Mr. Liu! I will do whatever Mr. Liu asks me to do!"

"Have you read any books?"

"I studied elementary school with a teacher in the village and I know a few words."

"Where are you from."

"We are all from Shangluo County. A few years ago, a plague swept through Shangluo, killing countless people. Fortunately, Liu Ye sent shopkeeper Luo Renguiluo to help, otherwise we..."

"Okay. When I did this, I never thought about asking others to repay me. There had been an outbreak twenty years ago, and another plague came that year. I was just curious about why this plague only came to Shangluo.

County, send someone to see what's going on, do business in medicinal materials, and treat you on the way, that's all. You are from Shangluo, how did you come to Chang'an City?"

The merits you express yourself are not merits, and the merits you expect others to reveal are not merits either.

But whether it is unintentional or intentional, as long as it is done sincerely to do good deeds, it is a meritorious deed.

Bu Qingyun responded: "After the epidemic, many people died in the village. Many old people did not make it through. There were not even a few young people left. Some women and children guarded the few acres of thin fields, plus

The weather was unfavorable, and we would starve to death sooner or later. So we, a few young men, gathered together to make some money. We wanted to go to Chang'an City and join Shopkeeper Luo to earn some money to take back to the folks. Who knew that Shopkeeper Luo had gone to the Western Regions to deliver escorts, leaving only

A few stewards, those stewards were unwilling to take us in when they heard that we were coming from the original epidemic-stricken area. We wanted to wait for Shopkeeper Luo to come back. As long as we could see Shopkeeper Luo and talk to him, it should be okay."

Liu Yongming asked: "What did you tell him later?"

Bu Qingyun said with a bitter face: "Where can I see other people! We only stayed in Chang'an City for a few days and spent all our money! Who knew things in Chang'an City would be so expensive!"

Bu Qingyun glanced at Liu Yongming in embarrassment, lowered his head and said: "There is no other way, we...we just robbed other people's things, and in order not to injure the fellow villagers, we did not go back south and ran straight north. Later we found out that Fu

The officials didn’t find out where we were from at all.”

"Running north? To Yulin Mansion?"

"No, it's not that far. We just went to Yan'an Prefecture. At that time, we calculated that it was like this anyway, so we simply started a business without capital. When we got the money, we asked someone to take it back. We also knew that one day the government would eventually

We will be traced. So... I never dared to go back, let alone tell the villagers what we were doing."

Liu Yongming asked again: "Did you mention Shopkeeper Luo to Zen Master Kumu?"

"I don't know about this. It was my elder brother who communicated with Zen Master Kumu. I think... he probably said something, otherwise Zen Master Kumu would not be trapped."

Liu Yongming shook his head and said: "No, I am talking about Zen Master Kumu before he was coerced! He should have known your identities early on."

Bu Qingyun thought for a while and said: "When you say this, I feel strange. The credentials we used to enter Daci'en Temple were all fake. The monks in the temple seemed to have seen something. But Zen Master Kumu told us

Stayed."

Liu Yongming nodded, smiled softly, and said: "Oh! So that's it! Haha, then I have figured it out, Zen Master Kumu is not a simple person! He should want to take you as his subordinates! He

We need people like you very much. But I didn’t expect that you would suppress me in the end. By the way, do you know what happened to Shopkeeper Luo?”

"I know! He was originally a bandit from Chu State, but later crossed the border and came to Han State."

Liu Yongming asked curiously: "How did you know?"

"Li Qie from the Li family in Longxi was the largest salt merchant in the Han Dynasty. A batch of salt he brought from Yulin was robbed by bandits when it passed through Yan'an Prefecture."

"Ah? Who is so blind and dares to steal Li Qie's things?"

Bu Qingyun responded: "They are shopkeeper Luo's former accomplices. They just came to Han not long ago and didn't know how powerful the Li family in Longxi was. After robbing things, they wanted to find a middleman and let the middleman go to the original owner and let the original owner spend money to buy another one.

He wanted to redeem him. Li Qie was not a good person. He turned around and went to find a member of the Li family who was a high-ranking official in the imperial court, named Li Yu. He wanted to use his connections to get Zhengbei Camp to send some soldiers to kill that group of people.

It’s gone. I don’t know why Li Yu ignored him.”

Liu Yongming said with a smile: "That's because a new magistrate named Yu Xi came to Longxi at that time, and he submitted a memorial about the local lawlessness of the Li family in Longxi. If Li Yu used his connections between the DPRK and China to settle this matter,

This incident has confirmed the sin of the Li family's overwhelming power. Li Yu would rather cause the Li family to suffer some losses, and does not want the Li family to become a thorn in the emperor's side."

Bu Qingyun said: "The villain doesn't understand this. He only knows that the suppression of the bandits failed. The news of Li Qie's goods being robbed spread quickly. When shopkeeper Luo, who had been traveling in the caravan, heard about it, he took the initiative to help

Li Qie mediated with the bandits and acted as a middleman. While he advised Li Qie not to use the imperial relationship to complicate matters, so as not to cause too much grudges, he also asked the bandits to lower the price, not to ask for excessive prices, and promised not to rob the Li family again in the future.

goods.”

"Shopkeeper Luo never mentioned this matter to me at all. Also, I never ask about these trivial matters. What happened next?"

"Li Qie spent less than two thousand taels of silver to redeem the salt. The bandits also bought Shopkeeper Luo's face and stopped robbing the Li family's goods. Li Qie thought Shopkeeper Luo was because of the reputation of the Li family and the

That’s why fellow merchants who were also smuggling goods helped, but people on the road knew that unless they were related to the bandits, they would not act as middlemen. After all, the court would eventually suppress the bandits, and the middlemen would inevitably be arrested in the future.

If you ask questions, even if you are not implicated, some dirty officials will still take away a lot of money!"

Liu Yongming laughed and said: "Less than two thousand taels? Although the current price of salt is not cheap, the market price of a pound of salt is nearly one hundred taels, and a load is more than 10 taels. But how much salt can a land transport team transport at a time?

Goods? Two hundred dans? Haha, there can't be that much! One of his salt goods is not worth two thousand taels! So, there must be private salt included in it! This is the bandit trying to blackmail Li Qi! Li Qi is afraid of being caught.

The government knew about it, so they gave me money!"
Chapter completed!