Li Siye decided to set up his base camp in the West Market first. He couldn't stay in Xuanyangfang for the time being. He rolled up the straw mats, blankets and other bedding at home, carried them on his back and walked to the West Market.
As soon as he came to the alley outside his shop, he saw a large group of people crowded in the alley, which was even more lively than going to the market. He quickly ducked aside, wondering if it was the gang of villains from yesterday who came to his door.
Bar?
He stuck his head out and took a peek. These people were surrounding his stall, with doubtful expressions on their faces. They were chatting among themselves and waiting. The leader was the Sogdian owner of the stall opposite him, who was giving
Franchisees build confidence: "Try the cake I brought to you. Tell the truth, how is this cake?"
“Of course! The taste is unique!”
"If we learn the art of making this cake, can we make a lot of money!"
"able!"
These people were small traders from the West Market of Chang'an and various districts brought by the Sogdians. Under the organization of the Sogdians, they spontaneously came to learn the skills of Li Siye's green onion pancakes.
Li Siye felt relieved, moved out from the corner, and walked towards his stall in a swagger. The Sogdian looked back anxiously, saw Li Siye who had arrived late, and shouted in surprise: "Li Langjun is here!"
All the vendors were surprised. Li Siye had a straight face and a tall body, with the build of a standard military commander. How could such a person have such low-level cooking skills? It was really unimaginable.
The Sogdian people welcomed him warmly and answered their questions. He was indeed a good cake maker.
Li Siye clasped his fists at the shop owners with a smile on his face: "Everyone, someone's family has something to do, so I'm late. Please forgive me."
"It doesn't matter, Li...Mr. Li is a master of skills. I'm here to teach you. I hope Mr. Li can teach you everything he has."
Li Siye looked around and saw that the people who came were mixed, both Han and Hu, and their education level was relatively low. They also wanted to imitate what others said in official terms, so they did not hesitate to teach them wrong sentences.
He stood at the door of his shop, raised his hands and said to everyone: "Before teaching everyone the skill of the Thousand-Layer Scallion Cake, Li Siye has something to say. To be honest, this Thousand-Layer Scallion Cake was made by my late father who spent decades on it.
After working hard and experiencing countless failures, I created the perfect cake-making recipe."
"As soon as this craft came out, it was coveted by many people. As the saying goes, no one is innocent, but he is guilty of having a jade. Now I came to Chang'an alone with this recipe, and someone has already planned to kill me and seize the recipe skill. Just yesterday afternoon,
On his way back to Xuanyangfang, he was chased and intercepted by more than a dozen villains. Fortunately, he had learned self-defense skills before and was not poisoned by them."
Facing Li Siye's shocking speech, everyone was stunned, and a foreigner murmured: "Isn't this a liar?"
Another person also said: "Yes, this is too mysterious. Isn't it just a new style of cake?"
"I was walking on the street yesterday with thirty guan of money in my pocket, and no thieves came to me."
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A group of people came to the street of Xishi Restaurant Alley. They were wearing blue and black robes with no crotch, but opened their right lapels, revealing a line of small words tattooed on their chests: Do not be afraid of Jingzhao Mansion in life, and do not be afraid of King Yama in death.
The scar-faced man is still the leader. They suffered the disadvantage of having a small number of people yesterday, so today they brought more than thirty people with them. They also brought a crossbow and a few knives. They are determined to win this time, and this Li Siye is a three-headed and six-armed man.
Can the tigers withstand so many hungry wolves?
But when they walked to the alley, they realized that things seemed to have become more complicated. Li Siye had summoned so many people from nowhere, seventy or eighty of them. Are these helpers he paid for? Or is this guy?
Already a huge force, the leader of the gang, Feng Dalun, didn’t understand the situation at all?
The horse-faced man hid sideways behind the meat stall. In surprise, he asked Scarface: "What should we do? The number of people is more than twice ours, and most of them are fierce Sogdians and Turks. Can we do it?"
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Scarface has always been fearless. He grabbed the slices of meat that the mutton stall owner had just cut, stuffed a large handful into his mouth, and said in a loud voice: "Afraid of birds! What do we people do! We are born with this.
Even those who are fighting and making trouble can be intimidated by a bunch of vendors? Brothers, follow me! If one person can't take down two people, he's not a man!"
The owner of the mutton stall dared not speak out in anger, and could only watch helplessly as the other party ate the meat he cut out as snacks.
"Not bad, shopkeeper, cut a few more pieces for me to try."
The stall owner clenched his fists and did not follow Scarface's instructions to cut the meat.
Scarface held the barrier knife horizontally in his hand, and after saying just one word, do it, he was ready to lead his brothers to fight.
The mutton stall owner's hands trembled with fear, and he cut two more pieces of mutton from the hook. Scarface snatched them away and stuffed them into his mouth.
"Don't worry, hey!" The horse-faced man quickly held him down and said, "Didn't you listen to Gang Leader Feng? Don't make things too big. There are more than a hundred people fighting in the street. Do you want to alarm the Jinwu Guard?"
Scarface put the knife back into the scabbard and asked Malian: "Then what do you think we should do?"
The horse face chuckled: "Have you forgotten, don't we have military crossbows? Why go head-to-head with them? Find someone who can use crossbows and have good accuracy. Lie down on a high place and give him an arrow. If you can get it,
Just take his life."
Scarface twirled his few beards, thought for a moment, smiled cruelly and said: "You are right, then find someone who can use a crossbow!"
Among the villains of the Xionghuo Gang, there is indeed a good crossbow user. They are the scum of the army who returned to Chang'an from the frontier fortress. Ma Lian called this person to him, put the crossbow into his hand, and pointed to Li Siye's position.
, let him find a way to assassinate him.
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Li Siye still announced loudly to the crowd: "I, Li Siye, am not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death! I am only afraid that this cake-making skill will fall into the hands of thieves and become a tool for them to monopolize profits! They want to take my life, just for
Get the recipe for the cake! Now you can think about how precious this recipe and this craft are! They are willing to kill people to get it."
The Sogdian man in the cake shop also felt that Li Siye was talking too much, so he quickly stepped forward and grabbed his sleeve and said: "Li Langjun, I know your cakes are delicious, but there is no need to brag like this. They also said that someone was because of a piece of cake.
The recipe is going to take your life, isn’t he crazy?”
Li Siye shook his head in pain and disappointment: "Don't you believe what I say? I am in danger all the time now, but you are not aware of it."
The Sogdian said helplessly: "It's not that I don't believe it, it's just that no one can believe it when you say it."
Li Siye pondered the expression on his face for a moment, then raised his head with a sad look: "Don't you believe it too? The recipe for my cake is a peerless treasure, and there are already people who are trying to murder me to steal the recipe."
It has to be said that the people of Tang Dynasty have a very high ability to prevent cheating. Several honest vendors said: "We have tasted your cake. It is indeed different from other cakes, but it is not guilty of killing someone for it. It is indeed a boast."
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Several people laughed teasingly: "Li Langjun, didn't you say that someone wanted to kill you to get the formula? You can teach the formula to all of us here and let them come to us."
Scarface and Horseface looked at Li Siye who was talking nonsense from a distance, snorted and muttered: "What is he bragging about?"
Horse Face: "I don't know, let him go to the underworld to blow it later."
The crossbow-wielding villain ran left and right looking for a shooting angle to ensure a one-shot kill. However, Li Siye stood in the center of the crowd and was blocked by the bodies of many people. If he wanted to kill him, he could only find a commanding height.
The most suitable location is diagonally opposite Li Siye Cake Shop, which is a small shop selling soup cakes. The roof is on the top of a hard mountain, with broken tiles and covered with moss.
The villain went around to the back of the house with a crossbow, and three of his accomplices took him up to the roof on a ladder. He stepped on the broken tiles, making a clattering sound, and walked around to the front eaves. He squatted down and pulled the string of the crossbow.
He raised his arrow and aimed at Li Siye, who was bragging in the distance.
In the Tang Dynasty, ordinary people's roofs were mostly made of gray tiles, which were very fragile after being exposed to wind, sun, and rain. Jumping on someone's roof would be like harming someone else. The owner of the soup cake shop dared not speak out, but the owner's wife weighed more than 200 pounds.
The shrewish woman, regardless of her husband's dissuasion, pulled a bamboo pole out of the house and stabbed the guy who went up to the house to remove tiles with the bamboo pole.
The villain had just aimed at Li Siye, and gently pressed the string with his index finger. As long as he gently pulled it down, the sharp arrow would penetrate Li Siye's throat.
The angle of the fat lady's bamboo pole was also very tricky. She aimed it at the villain's crouching legs and stabbed him like lightning. He screamed and the crossbow arrow in his hand shot out. Regardless of whether it hit or not, he threw away the crossbow and covered it with his hand.