Chapter 18 Ask the giant for a favor
After returning to the village, Li Qin couldn't help but tell his parents and fellow villagers what he encountered today. He rushed back twenty sheep, which was even more shocking in the hearts of the villagers than the first time. The last time he got twenty sheep, which was considered a great skill for the Li family boy, but the second time he rushed back a group of sheep was not a great skill, but a great skill!
When Li Tian and He heard this, they were both surprised and happy. They asked who the giant man was, but Li Qin only said that he had met him when he was fighting the leopard that night, and he met him again today, but he really didn't know who the giant man was.
After listening to his son's narration, He said, "Son, I'll see the giant man again next time, you have to ask the other person's name. You said you met someone twice, the first time you got a leopard, and after changing a lot of things, the second time you rushed back a flock of sheep. This shows that the giant man is your noble man, and as long as you meet him, there will be good things!"
Li Tian said, "How could the giant man be a noble man? It is right to say that Liu Sheng, the leader Liu is a noble man. These things are all given by Chief Liu!"
He ordered it, and thought about it, so he discussed with Li Tian whether to go see Liu Sheng. He is also a good friend of his son.
As for the villagers, Li Qin didn't have much to say anything, and Xu Xiaoni said it all. Xu Xiaoni was extremely excited and said it all, adding three to today's work, and adding fuel to the fire. He even said that it was because of Li Qin's arrival that scared the giant man away, otherwise the giant man would have to beat Liu Sheng and about twenty servants to death together!
The villagers were amazed when they heard this and admired Li Qin even more.
Li Qin asked the villagers to drive the sheep into the pen first. The sheep pen was newly built by the villagers, right next to Li Qin's house. Zhao Bajin volunteered to say that he would put the sheep in the future and just give him a piece of sheepskin at the end of the year.
Li Qin gathered the villagers together and shouted: "I'm happy today. I'll invite everyone to eat meat. Not only will we eat, but we go to other villages. If anyone has escaped, let them eat meat and drink soup. Let's prepare now. Those who should pack up the sheep and those who should cook the fire. Mom, take another stone of rice, and there is meat and rice. Everyone is so happy today!"
He agreed and laughed: "There are really the New Year these days, and there are delicious food every day!"
The villagers shouted, "Aunt Li said, it's really like the New Year, it's happier than the New Year!" Everyone started to work together and became busy.
Li Qin called Xu Xiaoni and said, "Thank you for a hard time, ride my horse to the nearby village and let the villagers come to our village for dinner. If they ask, you say that Li Lang can read the saint's book. If you want to be poor, you will be safe. If you are prosperous, you will be helpful to the world. If they ask who Li Lang is, don't answer. When you leave on a horse, just shout that Li Lang is the most righteous!"
Xu Xiaoni asked, "Brother Qin, but there are too many people coming, what should I do if there is not enough mutton? The number of people in several nearby villages may be seven or eight hundred!"
Li Qin said: "It won't come all, and there may not be many people who believe this kind of thing, so there will not be too many people today. They will only come all the next time after seeing others get benefits. Even if they come all this time, it doesn't matter, sheep are enough."
Xu Xiaoni agreed, then became excited again, and said, "Brother Qin, I don't know how to ride a horse. I have only rode a few times. I wonder if your dark horse is obedient or not. I'm afraid I can't ride it well!"
Li Qin said: "The horse has a good temper, but you should be careful and not ride too fast. In the future, you will naturally become familiar with it."
Xu Xiaoni was overjoyed and shouted, "Can you ride in the future? OK, I'll go to the villages now!" He took out the dark horse, rode on it, and proudly walked around the village first, before leaving the village to do business.
The villagers were envious. Xu Laoni smiled like a flower when she was smiling, and thought to herself: "Look, I'd better have a vision. It's definitely right to let my son follow Li's nephew. No benefits will be left behind. Before he can do anything, I'll ride the horse first!"
When Li Qin returned to the house, he naturally knew how to treat bone injuries. However, the Han Dynasty did not have many medicinal materials, some medicines were missing, and there were differences in medicinal properties, so he did not dare to prescribe the prescription directly, but found the prescription for treating bone injuries on it, and then he began to prepare the medicine.
The medicines used on the silk book are mainly military medicines, which are easy to carry and cannot be used immediately. Among them, the main medicines for treating bone injuries are plasters, with unique formulas. The oil used for the preparation of medicine is not vegetable oil or lard, nor is it the dog skin plaster that became popular all over the world hundreds of years later, but the mutton oil used.
Li Qin took the medicine according to the formula and decocted it. As for sheep oil, it happened to eat sheep today and you could boil some clean sheep oil to make plaster at night.
Before the sky turned dark, Xu Xiaoni returned on a horse. He was careful when he went, but when he came back, he rode his horse and whipped. When he arrived at the Li family's door, Xu Xiaoni was reluctant to get off the horse and shouted outside the yard: "Brother Qin, I'm back. I'll inform all the five villages around me, as you told me."
Li Qin left the yard and asked, "How about it, can any fellow villagers come?"
Xu Xiaoni's expression was not very happy. He said, "Someone should come, but not all of them will come. In the five villages I went to, people said that I was lying and lying, and said that I had never heard of who Li Lang was! I was so angry that I almost started fighting with them."
Li Qin thought to himself: "It's not as expected. This is not uncommon. Even in modern times, if there are suddenly great benefits coming out of thin air, most people still have to wait and see first, and only a very small number of people will seize the opportunity."
He said, "Don't be angry. If someone came to our village some time ago and asked someone to eat sheep and rice, we wouldn't believe it. We would also say that others fool us, and that there would be no such good things in the world. So no matter who comes tonight, we should treat you well, not only to let them eat enough, but also to get them back."
Xu Xiaoni said: "Then next time, many people will come. Brother Qin, when will he treat you next time?"
Li Qin smiled and said, "Let them wait and go, and he muttered every day that he had known that Li Lang was so righteous, he would have come last time. Let them regret it, and guess all day long when Li Lang would treat him again." He waved his hand and asked Xu Xiaoni to tie the horse and prepare for dinner.
Fuping County is vast and sparsely populated. Even if the nearest village is away from Fujiao Village, it will take half an hour to walk alone, and even one hour to get farther away. Many people don’t believe this. Since they don’t believe it and don’t want to walk at night, they will naturally not come.
However, there were still people coming, and they were all poor adult men, about thirty. These people arrived after dark, and Li Qin treated them very much, not only to make them eat a whole stomach, but also took away a piece of mutton before leaving.
Li Qin personally delivered the mutton to his hands, and asked them for their names, remembering them one by one.
The poor men who come to Fujiao Village are all smart people. They are people who are willing to give up as long as they have some chances, whether true or false, and run to Fujiao Village at the risk of walking at night.
When they saw that the matter was real, Li Lang, named Li Qin, actually invited the villagers to eat meat, they were all very happy and thanked him. He shouted that Li Lang was the most righteous, and had enough food and drink. After taking the mutton, he left. Before leaving, he kept asking whether he would invite him in the future.
Of course, Li Qin would not answer this question. He just wanted to cheer up others' appetites and let everyone talk about it, and spread the saying that Li Lang is the most righteous. If you tell me when you will invite me next time, then everyone can just wait. No need to guess, and naturally they won't talk about it every day.
He was busy until the moon was on the branches, and Li Qin saw the last poor man away. The villagers packed up their things and thanked Li Qin, and then went back to their respective homes. Li Tian and He knew that their son was going to make plaster, so they told him to go home early, so they left.
Li Qin stayed on the threshing ground, cleaned a pot, and started to boil clean lamb oil with the remaining firewood. He had never cooked meat oil before, and the first pot was blurred and could not be used to blend the plaster. He looked at the dark half pot of oil and sighed. It seemed that he had to boil another pot, and he had to brush the pot. If he had known it was so troublesome, he might as well let his mother cook it.
Just as he was about to pour out the oil and then brush the pot, he suddenly heard heavy footsteps coming from afar. He looked up and saw a tower-like giant man walking slowly in the moonlight on the other side of the threshing ground, the one he saw during the day!
Li Qin whispered and said, "It's you?"
The giant man walked closer and said, "It's me!" The giant man actually showed a few shyness. This expression appeared on his fierce face, and it was in the darkness again, and it was a bit weird.
The giant man paused and said, "Today I saw a horse riding man shouting around, saying that there was a Li Lang here to treat him, and anyone could come to eat, so I... I... well, the moonlight is good tonight!" He looked up at the sky.
Li Qin smiled, looked at the giant man and said, "Are you a foreigner? You are troubled, so you don't leave quickly. You want to come to me to eat meat, but you are quite brave. You are a man! Since you are a hero, I have something to ask for, and I hope you can agree!"
The giant man lowered his head and stopped observing the moon. He said, "Do you have something to ask me? Don't you ask who I am first?"
Li Qin thought to himself: "If I ask you, you will most likely not say it. If I don't ask you, you will not be able to hold it in, but instead will say it!" He shook his head and said: "The righteous man is making friends with each other, why do you need to ask for his name?"
The giant man opened his mouth wide, quieted for a while, and said, "It's the first time I heard this. OK, if you have any questions, please ask me, just speak. But have you an enemy? If you name and live, I'll kill his whole family for you!"
Li Qin yelled and shook his head and said, "What kidding! What I want to ask for you is..." He pointed to a few large pieces of mutton beside the pot and said, "I can't finish this meat. Can you please help me eat the meat?" He knew that the giant man was embarrassed to ask for food, so he said this.
The giant man yelled loudly and stared at Li Qin with wide eyes. It was the first time in his life that he heard such a request and stuttered: "You are just kidding, these meats, you...I...oh!" He didn't know how to answer.
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Chapter completed!