Jinyi Night Walk

"father……"

After Shen Yiyi finished feeding her husband the medicine, she turned her head and saw her father-in-law walking in, and quickly saluted him.This is a beautiful woman, with the appearance of Xiaojiabiyu, she is the wife of Li Wei, the young master of the Li family, and she has been in the family for three years.

"Hmm" Is Will feeling better? ", Li Siyi nodded and asked his daughter-in-law.

Shen Yiyi sighed softly, with a look of sadness on her brows: "It's still the same, it's hot in summer" You feel stuffy, maybe the husband will feel better in a few days. "

Li Siyi hummed, seeing that his son was sick and didn't even have the strength to talk to himself, he couldn't help but sighed deeply, and said to his daughter-in-law, "It's getting late, you should rest earlier."

After leaving his son's room, Li Siyi began to inspect.His family courtyard is very large, and Li's papermaking workshop is located in his home, so the place can't be too small, so the location of the family courtyard is relatively remote in Jinan City, and it is built near the water in Beicheng.

Li Siyi has only one son, but he has been weak and sick since he was a child. Li Yuanwai is so old that he can't rely on his son's strength, so he can only run the family business by himself. Although he brought both nephews to help him, he is not his own son after all. Seeing that he is getting old, his son can't support the family, and there is no grandson to inherit the family business, Li Yuanwai is also worried.

The Li family opened a paper workshop. In the early Ming Dynasty, there were government-run paper mills and private handicraft workshops. For domestic sales, those who set up paper-making workshops are called "caohu", and the paper made by Li's family supplies several large booksellers in Jinan." The family is very wealthy.

Li's papermaking mainly uses young bamboo and wood as raw materials. Bamboo needs to be transported from the south, and the cost is higher. "However, bamboo paper is white and tough." It can be used to make high-quality paper. Most of the paper is made of trees, including printed books, New Year pictures, couplets, wallpapers, and even grass paper, paper for Mingqian, etc.” Li’s workshop has everything.

The "finishing" room, the fermentation tank, the shed where bamboo and wood are stacked...

Mr. Li held a lantern and checked them one by one to see if they were stacked and cleaned up. Check if there was any remaining fire. It was late, and the hired workers had already left. In the compound, except for the young and old Li family, two nephews and two long-term workers, only There was no one else, and it seemed a little deserted. These things should have been done by letting the nephew go through it once, but Mr. Li has been working in the field all his life, and he is used to checking by himself.

"Boss, Dasheng Bookstore has sent a clerk over to order a batch of paper urgently." A long-term worker led a store clerk to meet him. Li Yuanwai stopped beside the bamboo pile, held up a lantern to take a picture, and said with a smile: " Oh, "It's Yao Haoxuan." What's the matter? "He's in his early twenties" is the clerk of Dasheng Bookstore, named Yao Haoxuan, and Li Yuanwai is very familiar with him.Yao Haoxuan hiccupped slightly, and hurriedly covered up his alcohol." He saluted with a smile, "Mr. Li, you came so late" to bother you. That's what happened, the imperial court issued an order to "separate the north and south rankings" after the branding. .

Many scholars in our Jinan Prefecture who originally only wanted to pass the examination as a scholar and wanted to stop there have all come to their senses, wanting to go one step further, to win an exam or something.As a result, the supply of the classics and history subsets and stereotyped articles that need to be purchased and read is in short supply.Our shopkeeper He intends to rush to print a batch of sellers and scholars ahead of other shop numbers. You need to see how much paper is needed. "Yao Haoxuan handed over a piece of paper, and Li Siyi unfolded it to see that it was filled with papers of various specifications and quality requirements. 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. He smiled from ear to ear and agreed: "Okay, okay, there is no problem." You tell shopkeeper He that we will be able to deliver the goods in time. We are old friends, so the deposit will be unnecessary." It will be fine to settle the accounts together at that time. "

This room said, "Several figures have quietly touched into Li Jiaer, and a piece of meat was thrown out along the ground." The old yellow dog raised by Li's family only barked, and then sniffed the scent and pounced on it. , grabbed the mantle head in one bite. "Pfft! "A figure leaped out." With a swipe of the knife in his hand, the yellow dog whimpered "and threw it to the ground.

Several figures quickly sneaked into the courtyard of the Li family, led by Niu Buye, who was very familiar with the Li family, and several people quickly rushed to the long workshop, where a long-term worker was sitting in front of the stove, cooking a meal, the red flames reflected looking at his face.When he heard footsteps behind him, he didn't pay attention to it. He thought it was another partner who came back, and he stuffed a few more sticks of dry wood into the stove before he straightened up and said casually, "Brother Li, go get the altar of pickled vegetables." "By the way, record a few green onions. "

"puff!"

A thick door bar hit his head hard, and his head immediately looked like a cracked egg "Blood and brains flowed out because the skull collapsed "Both of his eyeballs were squeezed out of their sockets" His body was still sitting in front of the stove, stiff for a moment, then fell forward, with half of his face lying on the edge of the iron pot, sizzling. The heat from the cooked rice in the pot scorched his face. The one behind him The man turned and left, the fire in the stove gradually spread outwards, first it burned his front, and then his whole body fell into the fire, becoming a burning man...

Li Zhong is Li Siyi's eldest nephew, he drank two taels of yellow soup at night, he was a little bit drunk, not long after he went back to his room and lay down, he was a little anxious to urinate, so he threw down his cattail fan, took off his shoes and hurried to the latrine, unbuttoned his pants As soon as he started to release the water, a pair of strong and powerful hands stretched out from behind, strangled his throat and pulled him back hard.

"Crack!"

With 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 "half of his body into the toilet, stuck there, and died without knowing what happened.

Li Gui is Li Zhong's elder brother. He is married and lives alone in a room.The lady is pregnant with Liujia." The couple were lying on the bed, talking happily in whispers. The weather was hot, and the two of them didn't wear much. The lady was wearing a small dress, with her arms and thighs exposed, and Li Gui simply lay naked. There, I only put a cattail fan on my belly." The oil lamp was dimly lit, and I couldn't see anything clearly.

With a soft "cha", the door was pushed open. The door bolt was probably filled with oil, and there was no sound. If it hadn't been for the creak when the door was opened, Li Gui wouldn't have noticed it at all.

"What friend?"

Ji Gui jumped up naked and yelled angrily, "The visitor has already grabbed the kang, and knocked him over with a punch." He stretched out his hand and pulled the bed sheet, and with a cover up, he dragged the couple to the ground together.

"Bang! Puppuppuppup...", fists and feet hit the meat sandbag like a storm." It was so heavy that the husband and wife screamed a few times before they fell silent. The three big men snorted coldly and flashed out of the room. Down, dark blood gurgled out...

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Li Yuanwai was knocked unconscious. He was talking to Yao Haoxuan, a clerk at the Dasheng Bookstore, when the long-time worker next to him suddenly screamed and leaned forward, revealing a half-foot-long steel knife on his chest. The lantern fell to the ground at once." The order form also withdrew his hand and flew down, and then the bookstore clerk Yao Haoxuan who was about to bow to salute also let out a miserable cry, and fell to the ground clutching his stomach tightly.

A big man pulled out a bloody steel knife from his back, and grinned grimly at Mr. Li.The lantern on the ground was burning, and Li Yuanwai took a look through the flames and recognized this person as Ling Potian, a close disciple next to the head teacher Niu Buye. It was black in front of my eyes" and passed out.

When he woke up from the coma, he found that he had been dragged back to the living room, his hands and feet were "tied behind his back" and firmly tied to the post, with a hemp rope in his mouth, like a horse bit, as long as he tightened it Just couldn't make a sound at all.

Niu Buye sent someone to watch by the evening, "but he didn't know that someone was secretly watching their every move, and before he sent someone to look outside the hall, that person was already in the shadow behind the pillar in the front hall hid.

The living room was brightly lit, and there were several men with knives standing around, and the one sitting above him was wearing a golden knife. Li Yuanwai couldn't help but feel chills when he saw it: "The cow is not wild!" Not only did Buye not run away," but he sat right in front of him!

"Mister! Mr.! Father, Mr. Xiang is dying."

Hearing a miserable cry suddenly, Li Yuanwai turned his head to look, and saw his old wife was tied to another living room with a rag stuffed in her mouth, and her son was lying on the ground, with purple and black blood splattered in front of him, "Daughter-in-law Lying on his son, he was calling for help urgently.

His son was not beaten, but his body was too weak. When he was dragged into the hall and thrown to the ground, he spit out a mouthful of dirty blood and passed out.

"Niubuye! You lied to me to join the club and stole my money, what's going on now?"

Li Yuanwai didn't know whether his son was dead or alive, so he turned to Niu Buye suddenly, and asked with his eyes tearing apart.

Niu Buye sat on the teacher's chair, with one foot on the footstool in front of him, and said solemnly: "Li Siyi, you betrayed the sect and betrayed your brother." You should know what will happen to you. "

"I betrayed the sect? If you hadn't lied to me and said that if you join the sect and pay homage to the Buddha and practice hard, you can become immortal and live forever. If you hadn't said that "as long as you join the sect, you will be free from all swords, weapons, illnesses, and disasters." I have a good life. What kind of education do I get? But what good did I get after I entered the religion? My son stopped taking the medicine, but his illness became more and more serious, and he didn’t see any improvement: I was worried all day long, and I was blackmailed by you from time to time. "Could it be that the wind blows your belongings?"

"Tell him to shut up!"

Niu Buye became furious, the rope in Li Yuanwai's mouth was tightened immediately, and he couldn't speak anymore.

Niu Buye said coldly: "Set up the incense table, sacrifice to Bailian, cut out his heart, and pay homage to the spirits of the brothers in heaven!"! ~!