"Daddy" After Shen Yiyi finished feeding her husband the medicine, she turned her head and saw her father-in-law walking in, and hurriedly greeted him.
This is a delicate-looking woman, with the appearance of a small jasper, she is the wife of Li Wei, the young master of the Li family, and she has been in the door for three years.
"Well, is Wei'er better?"
Li Siyi nodded and asked his daughter-in-law.
Shen Yiyi sighed softly, and a touch of sorrow swept between her eyebrows: "It's still the same, it's hot in summer, and you feel depressed, maybe it will be better after a while." ” Li Siyi snorted, seeing that his son was sick and didn't even have the strength to talk to himself, he couldn't help but sigh deeply and said to his daughter-in-law: "It's late, you guys should rest earlier." ” Leaving his son's room, Li Siyi began to make his rounds.
His courtyard is very large, and the Li family's paper workshop is located in his own home, and the place is naturally not too small, so the location of the courtyard is also relatively remote in Jinan City, and it is built near the water in the north city.
Li Siyi only has such a son, but he has been weak and sick since he was a child, Li Yuanwai is very old, he can't borrow his son's strength, and he can still only take care of the family business by himself, although he got two nephews to help, but after all, he is not his own biological son, seeing that he is getting old, his son can't support this family, and there is no grandchild to inherit the family business, Li Yuanwai is also worried.
The Li family is to open a papermaking workshop, in the early Ming Dynasty, there are government-run paper mills, there are also private handicraft workshops, the paper industry is a more important handicraft industry in the Ming Dynasty, a lot of paper in the government-run workshops have to be sold abroad, the private ones are mainly for domestic sales, the papermaking workshops are called trough households, the paper made by the Li family supplies several big booksellers in Jinan, and the family is very wealthy.
Li's papermaking is mainly made of tender bamboo and wood as raw materials, bamboo needs to be discharged from the south, the cost is higher, but the bamboo paper is white and tough, can be used to make high-quality paper, or very marketable, ordinary paper is made of trees, including printed books, New Year paintings, couplets, wallpaper, and even straw paper, money paper, etc., the Li family workshop is readily available.
In the "finishing" room, the fermentation pond, and the shed where bamboo and wood are stacked, Li Yuan carried lanterns outside and checked them one by one to see how they were stacked and cleaned up, and whether there were any remaining fires that had not been extinguished.
It was late, the hired workers had already left, and there was no one else in the compound except for the old and young of the Li family, two nephews and two long-term workers, and it seemed a little deserted.
These things were originally done by letting the nephew go through them once, but Li Yuan has been working hard all his life and is used to checking by himself.
"The owner, Dasheng Bookstore sent a guy over and urgently ordered a batch of papers."
A long-term worker led a shopkeeper to meet him, and Li Yuanwai stood next to the bamboo pile, held up a lantern to shine, and said with a smile: "Oh, it's Yao Haoxuan, what's the matter?"
The person who came was in his early twenties, and he was a shopkeeper from Dasheng Bookstore, named Yao Haoxuan, and Li Yuanwai was very familiar with him.
Yao Haoxuan burped slightly, hurriedly hid the smell of wine, and said with a smile: "Li Yuanwai, I'm bothering you so late."
That's the case, the imperial court issued an order, and in the future, the north and south will be divided into lists, and each will take its own talents.
Many of the scholars in our Jinan Mansion who originally only wanted to stop after only passing the examination have come to the spirit and want to go further and get a move or something.
As a result, the subset of scriptures and histories and eight-strand articles that need to be purchased and read are in short supply.
Our shopkeeper plans to rush to print a batch of books and sell them to the scholars in front of other stores, and we need to use a lot of paper, you see. ” Yao Haoxuan handed over a piece of paper, Li Siyi unfolded it and looked at it, the paper with various specifications and quality requirements was recorded on it, Li Yuanwai estimated the output of his workshop, if he hired a few more helpers, he should be able to deliver the goods in time, so he smiled and agreed: "Okay, good, no problem, you tell the shopkeeper He, we will be able to deliver the goods in time."
Everyone is an old friend, so you don't need this deposit, just settle the account together. ” As he spoke, several figures had quietly entered the Li family.
A steamed bun with meat was thrown out along the ground, and the old yellow dog raised by the Li family only barked, then sniffed the fragrance and pounced on it, and grabbed the steamed bun in one gulp.
"Poof" a figure rushed out, the knife in his hand swiped the situation, and the yellow dog whimpered, and fell to the ground.
Several figures quickly sneaked into the courtyard of the Li family, and the leader was Niu Buye, who was very familiar with the Li family, and several people quickly rushed to the long workshop, where a long worker was sitting in front of the stove, cooking rice, and the red fire reflected his face.
Hearing footsteps behind him, he didn't care, just thought that another partner was back, he stuffed a few more dry firewood into the stove, then straightened up and said casually: "Brother Li, go get the pickles, and peel a few green onions by the way." ” "Poof" A thick doorway struck him on the head, and his head immediately looked like a broken egg, blood and brains flowed out, because the skull collapsed, both of his eyeballs were squeezed out of their sockets, and his body was still sitting in front of the stove, stiffened for a moment, and then he fell forward, and half his face lay on the edge of the iron pot, and it was scorching.
The heat of cooked rice in the pot baked his face.
The person behind him turned around and left, the fire in the stove gradually spread outward, first burning his placket, and then the whole person fell into the fire, becoming a fire man Li Zhong is Li Siyi's eldest nephew, drank two taels of yellow soup at night, slightly drunk, not long after returning to the room to lie down, some urgency, he threw down the fan, put on his shoes and hummed a small tune to rush to the thatched house, untied his pants and just began to release water, a pair of strong and powerful hands reached from behind, strangled his throat and pulled it back.
"Click" There was a crisp sound, Li Zhong didn't say a word, and the humming stopped abruptly.
As soon as the man let go, Li Zhong fell down, half of his body fell into the latrine, and he was stuck there, and he didn't know what happened until he died.
Li Gui is Li Zhong's elder brother, he is married and lives in a separate room.
The lady was already pregnant, and the two of them were lying on the bed, whispering happily.
The weather was hot, the two of them didn't wear much, the lady was dressed in a small dress, her arms and thighs were exposed, Li Gui simply lay there naked, only put a puff fan on his belly, the oil light was dim, and he couldn't see anything clearly.
There was a soft sound, and the door was actually opened, and the bolt was probably filled with oil, and there was no sound, if it wasn't for the squeak when the door was opened, Li Gui wouldn't have noticed it at all.
"What people" Li Gui jumped up and shouted angrily, the person who came had already grabbed the edge of the kang, knocked him over with a punch, stretched out his hand and pulled the sheets, covered them upward, and dragged the couple to the ground together.
"Bang Porphyry" The fists and feet hit the meat sandbag like a storm, extremely heavy, the husband and wife only screamed a few times and then disappeared, the three big men snorted coldly, flashed out of the room, under the sheet, dark blood gushed out Li Yuanwai was knocked unconscious, he was talking to Yao Haoxuan, the guy from the Dasheng bookstore, the long worker next to him suddenly screamed, his body pushed forward, and his chest exposed a half-foot-long steel knife, Li Yuanwai was frightened, the lantern in his hand fell to the ground all of a sudden, and the order form also flew down, Immediately afterwards, Yao Haoxuan, the bookstore guy who was about to bow down to give a salute, also screamed miserably, and fell to the ground holding his stomach tightly.
A big man pulled a bloody steel knife from his back and smirked at Li Yuanwai.
The lantern on the ground burned, Li Yuanwai took a look at the firelight, and recognized this person as Ling Potian, a close disciple of the sect leader Niu Buye, he pointed at Ling Potian and was about to exclaim loudly, the back of his head was slammed into a heavy palm, his eyes were dark, and he fainted.
When he awoke from his coma, he found that he had been dragged back to the drawing-room, his hands and feet tied behind his back, firmly tied to a post, and a hemp rope tied around his mouth, like a horse's bit, and he could not cry out if he tightened it.
Niu Buye sent someone to stand guard outside, but he didn't know that someone had already secretly watched their every move, and before he sent someone to control the wind outside the hall, that person was already hiding in the shadow behind the pillars of the front hall.
The living room was brightly lit, and there were a few men with knives standing in the four corners, and one person sitting at the top of the big horse golden knife, Li Yuanwai couldn't help but chill when he saw it: "Niu Buye" Niu Buye, who was wanted by the government all over the city, not only did not escape, but also sat in front of him "Xianggong Xianggong, Xianggong, he can't do it."
Suddenly, he heard a miserable scream, Li Yuanwai turned his head to look, only to see that his wife was tied to another hall, with a ball of rags stuffed in his mouth, and his son was lying on the ground, with purple and black blood stains in front of him, and his daughter-in-law was lying on top of his son and was urgently calling for help.
His son was not beaten, but he was so weak that he was dragged into the hall, and when he threw him on the floor, he vomited out a mouthful of blood and fainted.
"Niu Buye, you deceived me into joining the club and deceived me for money, what else do you want now?"
Li Yuanwai didn't know whether his son was alive or dead, so he turned to Niu Buye and asked with tears in his eyes.
Niu Buye sat on the Taishi chair, pedaled on a footstool in front of him with one foot, and said in a deep voice: "Li Siyi, you betrayed the sect and betrayed your brother, you should know what will happen to you." ” "If I betrayed the sect, if you didn't lie to me, join the religion and worship the Buddha, concentrate on cultivation, you can become an immortal and attain immortality, if you don't say it, as long as you join the sect, you can avoid all swords, diseases, suffering, and calamities, I am good and dignified, but what kind of religion I got after entering the sect, what good I got after entering the sect, my son stopped medicine, but the illness became more and more serious, and it did not get better at all; I've been worried all the time, and I'm going to be blackmailed by you all the time, and the belongings I've worked so hard to save are blown by the wind."
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"Shut him up" Niu Buye was annoyed and ashamed, and the rope in Li Yuanwai's mouth was immediately tightened violently, and he couldn't speak anymore.
Niu Buye said coldly: "Put incense on the table, sacrifice the white lotus, take out his heart, and pay tribute to the souls of the brothers in the sky" To be continued: