Although Yunyang is not very powerful yet, He Yue has always tried to satisfy Li De's reasonable demands.
Before Li De came to Xiqin this time, he raised the issue of funds with He Yue, and He Yue also prepared a lot of cash for him. Coupled with the money earned from the sale of steel, Lide is now very well off. He went to the tea shop and bought a box of top-quality tea, and gave it to the woman as Gao Qiu said, and received her invitation shortly after.
The woman's name is Wanqing, she is about thirty years old, and she has a mature charm. She was dressed in a dress similar to a cheongsam, her legs were crossed, and her eyes kept looking at Li De. She asked someone to open the gift just now, and the value inside was very high, not at all like the price a foreign businessman could offer, more like the money prepared by a local who was planning to buy an official.
In the subsequent calligraphy session, Li De only wrote a short sentence:
"I want to see Celius."
Wanqing naturally knows the weight of Celius, but in her opinion, this is not a very difficult task to complete. Because Lide only proposed to meet Celius, he didn't say how to meet him specifically, and he didn't say anything after the meeting. These are all operable. For example, asking Li De to dress up as Qi Zheng's attendant and accompany Qi Zheng to report to Celius also meets this requirement. The money can be said to be easily available.
But when she handed over the "calligraphy" left by Li De to Qi Zheng, this old tax official who had experienced countless storms showed a pensive expression.
He kept tapping on the table with his hands, recalling Lied's speech and behavior at the dinner table over and over again in his mind.
Not for anything else, just because the timing is too strange.
It is well known that Ying Bai, the eldest son of the West Qin Dynasty, was imprisoned. The power struggle that was originally without any suspense has suddenly changed, and the official circles of the West Qin Dynasty are also panicked. The other sons of the lord of West Qin suddenly came from behind the scenes to the front of the stage, and began to win over the ministers in an immature way, and many radical ministers wanted to fight for the merits of the dragon, and they had already started to join a certain son's subordinates to make suggestions.
As the leader of the West Qin officialdom, Celius has never expressed his position.
He is respectful and friendly to all the young masters, but when those young masters show the intention of attracting him, he chooses to play dumb without exception. No one knows what he wants, even Qi Zheng can't understand it, and at this time, a strange businessman suddenly came to Yuanyang City, and sent a lot of money just to see Celius. What's the connection
Qizheng looked at the gift list in his hand, the value on it was at least two to three thousand gold coins. Now he no longer believes that Lide is an ordinary steel merchant. The other party obviously came prepared and went around to entrust him with this matter. And if this matter is not handled properly, even Qi Zheng himself may get burned.
Qi was contemplating, when suddenly a ten-year-old boy ran in from outside the house. The little boy's head was a full circle larger than that of ordinary people, his eyes were bulging, and the corners of his mouth were still dripping with saliva. He was holding a stone and said loudly:
"Hoo hoo, hit the spider!"
Qi was looking at the boy who was throwing stones around, and the boy had some new scars on his body, and he didn't know where he got them.
Qi Zheng stopped him and said:
"Hey Archie, there are no spiders here."
The little boy—Qi Zheng's son, Archie, raised his head and looked at his father.
After a while he laughed, and said naively:
"Yes. Look, here, there, everywhere... so many red eyes... hehe..."
Archie touched Qizheng's head with his fingers, and said:
"Abba has it on his head too. The big spider lying there is drooling a lot."
Even though he has seen it many times, Qi Zheng still feels that the child's smile makes people feel creepy. Thinking about the exorbitantly expensive medicines prescribed by the doctor, it is simply a bottomless black hole. Looking at the gift slip in his hand, he was reluctant to return it. After thinking for a long time, he folded the gift slip in half several times and put it in the drawer.
Not long after, Wanqing contacted Lide again and invited Lide to drink tea with her.
There was clear tea in the gold-plated cup. While drinking, Li De said softly:
"My lord has agreed. We won't ask you what you want to talk to Lord Celius, but we won't introduce you directly either."
Wanqing's attitude is very well-balanced, neither finishing in one breath, nor excessive procrastination, but unhurriedly conveying Qi Zheng's statement:
"However, tomorrow my lord will come to drink tea with Sir Yoselius at home, and will mention your matter during the period. Of course, my lord will not say that he was entrusted by others, but only that recently a foreigner came to the door every day You wanted to ask us for an introduction, but we didn't agree. Then, when the banquet was about to end, you waited at the door, pretending that it was a chance encounter. If there is no accident, Lord Celius should listen to what you want to say , and whether you can make him interested in you within a few minutes is up to you."
Lid nodded, tapped the rim of the teacup with his fingers, and said with a smile:
"That's enough."
Wanqing also nodded, and helped Li De refill a cup of tea. It happened that there was a thunder outside, and Wanqing seemed a little frightened, and spilled some tea on the table.
"It's going to rain... It seems that this year's spring rains seem to come more frequently than in previous years."
She glanced out the window, and while wiping the water stains on the table with a handkerchief, she concealed her embarrassment with words:
"I wonder if the two of you have umbrellas?"
…
It rained cats and dogs.
On the outskirts of West Qin, a young man wearing a hat was walking with his head down, and accidentally bumped into a farmer who was returning from the field with a hoe.
"Look at the way!"
The farmer reprimanded angrily, but the young man raised his head slightly, and the eyes under the bamboo hat just glanced at the farmer, which made the farmer tremble all over, and he felt a bad feeling from the soles of his feet to the top of the sky, and he almost lost his footing.
The next moment, the young man with fierce eyes and dark skin took the initiative to show a friendly smile and responded:
"Feel sorry."
The farmer nodded dully, and stared blankly at the young man who turned away.
The young man was wearing a pair of straw sandals, the soles of which were torn. I don't know how many miles he walked in these shoes. The farmer suddenly remembered a story handed down by the elders, saying that the biggest characteristic of many bandits in the past was wearing a pair of tattered shoes. Because they have no status, they dare not enter the city or take a carriage, so they can only walk step by step in the wilderness. These people kill like hemp, and no one who knows their identities can survive.
The farmer only felt chills all over his body, and he didn't even know when the young man disappeared.
The rain hit the bamboo hat, making a sound like frying beans, which made people feel confused.
The young man touched the long-handled weapon wrapped in white cloth on his back, looked up at the cloudy sky, narrowed his eyes and said:
"Xiaobai. Wait a second, brother is here to save you."