Li Shimin gave Huaiyu and the enshrining officers a meal together in the corridor. The emperor publicly praised Huaiyu for his outstanding martial arts and the extremely orderly Zuo Baiqi camp he led. He gave Huaiyu a roast chicken as a special reward. The other enshrining officers looked envious.
After the meal, Li Shimin took Huaiyu, Xu Luoren and others to inspect the Baiqi recruits. He did not forget to remind Huaiyu, "Practice your archery well when you have time. Don't be like Hou Junji, who can't shoot a bow as soon as you get on the horse. We were in the martial arts field together."
We learned to ride and shoot together when we were older, but he still hasn’t learned how to shoot right away.”
Speaking of Hou Junji, his childhood friend, Li Shimin couldn't help but shake his head. Although Hou Junji is now General Youwuhou, a third-rank general, he is still not good at riding and shooting. He has had a headache since he was a primary school student.
, but Hou Junji’s mother, Dou, was Li Shimin’s aunt.
Hou Junji was loyal to him and very brave. Although he couldn't ride and shoot, he was very capable of charging with a spear.
"You are still young. You have been studying Taoism in the mountains for nine years, and you have missed the opportunity to ride and shoot. Now that you practice hard and practice more, you can still make up for it."
"By the way, Abbot Qihui of Louguantai said that his uncle, Abbot Su, once said that he had an uncle who lived in seclusion in Taiyi Mountain.
It should be your master Xiaoyaozi. Qihui took the Louguan Taoist disciples to Taiyi Peak a few days ago, but he did not see the Wangxiantai, nor the tomb and monument you erected for Xiaoyaozi."
When Huaiyu heard this, he thought he would be damned if he could find it.
But this is a problem. How to cover up this lie? After all, when he first came down from the mountain, he said that he came down from Taiyi Mountain and so on. At that time, he did not expect to be related to Li Shimin in the end. It was just a rhetoric about Huai Yi.
, so that you can explain your origins.
Li Shimin sighed and patted Huaiyu on the shoulder, "Some time ago, the dragon in Taiyi Mountain turned over, and the Wangxiantai of Taiyi Peak collapsed. The entire mountain collapsed, and the debris from the mountain peak flowed into the valley, filling the valley under the original peak.
There is a lake with more than a hundred acres of water, which is like a Tianchi, but the water depth is only more than three feet deep.
Senior Xiaoyaozi is probably already at the bottom of this pool."
Huaiyu was stunned.
Isn't that Taiyi Pool, also called Longqiu Pool? When he and Lao Tao lived in seclusion in Taiyi Mountain, there was indeed such a lake of tens of thousands of square meters at the foot of the mountain. The water was green and clear, and it looked even more beautiful from Wangxiantai.
.
After he passed through the fog, the lake had disappeared.
Now it actually appears again, or is it a lake created by the earthquake that collapsed Taiyi Peak?
"Don't be too sad. Qihui took his Louguan disciples and rebuilt a tomb on the broken peak beside the pool. He also erected a monument for Xiaoyaozi and built a simple Longmen Temple...
"
What a coincidence.
Now no one can find out the origin of Wu Huaiyu.
Unless there is another Wu Huaiyu, but this is impossible, because Wu Huaiyi and his son have been looking for many years before, and found the Taoist temple in Zhongnan Mountain that was looted and burned by bandits. They also found some bones, but they did not
I believe Takejiro is dead.
"Qi Hui will probably come to Chang'an soon to pay homage to your uncle."
Qi Hui said that Xiaoyaozi was the uncle of his master Su Daobiao, so Huaiyu would naturally become his uncle. He didn't know if his master had ever mentioned such an uncle, or if Qi Hui recognized the wrong person, anyway, now Lou Guan
Xiaoyaozi is already known to the outside world as their Louguan senior.
No one knew Xiaoyaozi before, but now he is well-known in Chang'an.
At this time, Lou Guandao paid homage to Xiaoyaozi and came to see Huaiyu. He probably wanted to take advantage of the name and also wanted to inherit the old Taoist's Taoist and elixir methods from Huaiyu.
Lou Guan can be practiced in both talisman and inner alchemy.
Huaiyu doesn't care. After all, Lou Guan is now a royal dojo. The abbot Qihui and the third-level doctor Jin Ziguanglu are also considered to be national master-level figures. It's not entirely a bad thing to come into contact with him. He is not afraid of it when the time comes.
Revealing stuff or something.
After all, I learned some things in five years at Zhongnan Mountain.
"After this period of work is over, I will give you a holiday. You can go to Mount Zhongnan to pay homage to your master."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Li Shimin specially issued an edict, posthumously naming Xiaoyaozi as the Golden Ziguanglu Doctor and the Master of the Zongsheng Temple.
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Next time, Huaiyu rides back to Yongxingfang.
As soon as he arrived at the door of his house, he saw Fan Xuanfu leading a convoy at the door, directing people to move things to Wu's house.
"What is this for?"
Fan Xuanfu saw him coming back on horseback and came forward with a smile, "I heard that you have been selling horses and slaves recently. Why, you are embarrassed to tell me that you are short of money and you are selling horses.
Are you a slave? Do you still want to sell your land and house?"
"What are you doing?" Huaiyu was a bit dumbfounded. He sold a few idle horses and the Turkic slaves he didn't like, and planned to replace them with other slaves. However, Fan Xuanfu thought that he was too poor to take the blame.
"Copper coins, silk, miscellaneous colors, and some gold and silver. Those carts are pulling grain. I will pull a few more in a while..."
Huaiyu went over and took a look, good guy, sure enough the carts were filled with money, silk, food, etc., and even porcelain, etc., "Did you send the dowry in advance?"
"What are you talking about? How can a dowry be given in advance? Why don't you give it as a wedding gift? This is for the family first." Fan Xuanfu said.
"How much does it cost to move here?"
"Not much."
"How much is not much?"
"A thousand copper coins, some silk cloth, grain, some gold and silver, porcelain, etc. Oh, don't be embarrassed. Why do we still know how to separate them so clearly? Now our family has a large population and a lot of expenses. Just rely on
That little salary is not enough..."
Copper coins are usually six pounds and four taels. This one thousand coins is more than six thousand pounds. A carriage has to pull two carts. It is estimated that the silk cloth and other things are not too small, and the grain takes up a lot of space. No wonder it has to pull so many carts, and it is said later.
Keep pulling.
"Stop, stop, stop."
Huaiyu quickly grabbed Fan Xuanfu and said, "You misunderstood. When I am not too poor to raise the pot, Qianjintang's income is quite good. Even if there is no dividend now, the account can be withdrawn at any time. And even though my official rank is not high,
Taicang has not yet opened a warehouse to store Lumi, but His Majesty has given many rewards, including a large sum of money and silk."
"Are you embarrassed to follow me?" Fan Xuanfu said.
"My stomach is fine."
"What does it have to do with whether your stomach is good or not?"
"If you have a good stomach, you don't need to eat soft rice."
Fan Xuanfu laughed and said that Huaiyu had a lot of expenses now, especially since he generously lent out so much money and food before.
"Keep moving in."
This commotion shocked Wu Liu and Run Niang at home. They looked at boxes and bags of things being moved in, and they didn't know why.
Lao Wu also happened to come back from Qujiang Shenji Workshop. He was stunned when he saw this scene. He asked a simple question, and his face was a little confused at the moment. Here, the daughter-in-law has not even met her, and the marriage has not been booked yet, so she is driving home by the carload.
, word spread that the old Wu family would be embarrassed.
"Nonsense."
Huaiyu pulled Fan Xuanfu into the courtyard and called Runniang, who was his housekeeper.
"Run Niang, how much food do we still have in hand? It's just the share in my hand, not counting the family's."
"I'm going to get the ledger."
Chen Runniang gave the housekeeper Huaiyu a very detailed record of the double-entry accounting method. She also took out a bag of calculation chips and played with the small sticks in front of the two of them while reporting, which was intuitive and clear.
"Let's talk about the rewards first. Erlang received 1,600 pieces of silk, plus 300 pieces of miscellaneous colors, fifteen slaves, four horses, two pairs of silver vases, one gold vase, and more than a hundred gold and silver coins.
There are still 420 acres of land rewarded, 120 acres in Sanyuan, 100 acres in Wugong, and 200 acres in Longyou, Qin and Wei states.
Officials and honorary officials have a total of twenty hectares of permanent land, which are awarded to Qin, Cheng, Wu, Wei, and Long states respectively..."
"Qianjintang and Baoyutang also have income, and the Qiuli, Qiuli paste, chickens and chickens raised in Xinchangfang Liyuan also all have income..."
Chen Runniang told the two of them that although the family's expenses are not small, now they are all paid by kilometers, that is, by the Wu Liu family. They mainly use the land rent from the third father's job and Lao Wu's salary.
, and the rent collected by the family.
"There are still more than a thousand pieces of silk at home... I am still thinking about whether to lend them out and collect interest. There is no profit from keeping them at home, and I won't use them for a while."
Fan Xuanfu took the account book and looked through it for a while. He felt a little headache from reading it. Then he looked at Run Niang's calculations and said, "Really?"
Huaiyu laughed and said, "Run Niang also missed a sum. Didn't she take some money before and lend it together with the money she caught from the Sanyuan family? The cash I have on hand has been added several times. That money should be
There are more than three hundred strings, right?"
"Yes, as soon as Erlang said it, I remembered that the money was the bonus from Qianjintang before, and there were also some gifts from Erlang for the diagnosis fee,"
Runniang actually didn't say anything about this money on purpose. She originally wanted to leave some private money for Huaiyu, but unexpectedly he took the initiative to give it to Fan Xuanfu.
However, Huaiyu still showed off to Fan Xuanfu. I still have some gold and silver coins on hand, as well as some gold collars, which are probably worth about three hundred coins.
Although I can't say that my family is rich now, it is more than a thousand dollars. I still have several houses and more than 2,000 acres of land, so I am really not short of money."
Fan Xuanfu had a misunderstanding, but he just closed the account book and handed it back to Runniang, "You have to be more careful with your accounts from now on. You can forget two sums of six hundred dollars."
"Erlang, don't be happy either. These thousand and eight hundred guan are nothing. Compared with those rich and powerful families in Chang'an, they are not as good as a hair plucked out by others. Previously, Yu Chigong and Changsun Wuji had made meritorious service in June, and each of them was directly rewarded.
As a gift of ten thousand pieces of silk, Yu Chigong also received all the property of Prince Qi's palace."
"And your foster father Yi Guogong, for his several meritorious services, he was rewarded with thousands of horses and hundreds of kilograms of gold. Calculated, it is not less than the rewards Yuchi and the others received...
Those nobles received even more land rewards, and Sikong Pei Ji was rewarded with 40,000 bolts of silk and 100,000 acres of land in one go."
It's really not unusual for Fan Xuanfu to have such a small amount of money as Huaiyu. The Duke of Rongguo's family is not only rich in wealth.
"I've brought everything here, and there's no reason to take it back, so just keep it."
"This is inappropriate."
"Is there anything inappropriate?"
Huaiyu thought for a while, "I sold six horses before. I didn't need them for a while because I had more horses at home. I kept them idle. I planned to sell them and then open a quality warehouse. Recently, people have been coming to borrow money and grain. I
I thought I might as well use the spare money I had on hand, and just like those temples and wealthy families in Chang'an, they would also open a quality shop and take out mortgage loans. By using this money, we could not only save others from emergencies, but we could also collect some interest.
Why don't you invest these thousand coins and three thousand bolts of silk in the quality shop as capital? I will accept the grain, porcelain and other things without mercy, but don't take them over again. There is really no shortage at home.
"
Fan Xuanfu was very free and easy, "I can't take these away again. As for how to arrange them, it's up to you, Erlang."
One thousand guans and three thousand pieces of silk can buy the more than two million house in Xuanyangfang, Mazhou. However, this is just a small amount of Fan Xuanfu's private money, and Fan Xing's property has not been used at all. Huaiyu couldn't help but be surprised.
