Li Chenan didn't know that the first meeting with Liu Zhuo was done on purpose by Hua Manting.
What he cared about was still his own tavern.
The decoration of the tavern and the preparations for those utensils have now been completed, and the next step is to make wine.
Sitting under the gazebo in the small courtyard, I carefully recalled the whole process of wine making, and put it on the paper. I looked again carefully, and found that the most time-consuming thing was fermentation.
Fermentation takes ten to twenty days.
Although four days of fermentation can still make wine, since this job is done, it should be done more perfectly, so let's finish the previous steps today, and there is no rush to wait 10 to 20 days before brewing and opening.
There are more than 80 taels of silver left in his pocket, which is enough to live by himself for a while.
Thinking so, he stuffed this piece of paper into his bosom, went to the bedroom in the east wing to get the two pieces of calligraphy he got from Mrs. Hua Manting last night, and walked out of the tavern.
I have to find a frame shop to frame the poem about drinking, and make a plaque with the name of the tavern.
Leaving the job to a paste and mounting shop in West Market, he walked towards Li Ji's grain shop.
It's not that I'm worried that Li Xiaohua ran away after taking the deposit of ten taels of silver, the main thing is that nothing happened.
But when he just walked to that street, he found that Li Xiaohua's shop was full of people.
A tragic voice came from the crowd: "Damn it! My son is just doing business, how did he end up like this!"
It was a woman's voice, full of grief.
Li Chenan frowned and hurried over, squeezed into the crowd, and saw a woman sitting on the ground beating her chest and crying.
"What's wrong?"
He squatted in front of this woman.
"My son, my son was arrested by the government!"
"Li Xiaohua?"
"Exactly..."
The woman raised her head, and grabbed Li Chenan's hand, as if grabbing a life-saving straw, "Young master knows my son? Young master, can you save my son? I will be your cow for the rest of my life." Willing to be a horse!"
Li Chenan didn't withdraw his hand, "Don't worry, tell me what happened carefully?"
"Master, a customer came to the store yesterday, and my little flower sold him some food... That customer is a good man! He needs a lot of food, and he promised to let my little flower go to his house to be a nursing home... My son is very happy I was happy, so I sent the food, and when I came back, I told my slave family that the young master would buy all the food for my family, and said that today we, my mother and I, can move to the young master's house."
"My family thought it was God who opened their eyes, but I didn't expect that just now, a few villains rushed into my shop."
"They said we shouldn't sell grain to that young master, and that my son broke their master's rules."
"My son reasoned with them, but they beat me with sticks."
"My son couldn't bear it and fought back. My son was so strong, how could he control it at that time, so... my son injured them."
"They reported it to the officials, and the officials arrested my son just now!"
"Young master, I beg you to save my son, I kowtow to you!"
Li Chen'an lifted her up, his face was so gloomy that it was scary, no need to ask, this matter must have been done by Shen Qianshan from the Shen family!
"Ma'am, I'm the son who bought your food!"
"Ah, benefactor, please save my son!"
"Don't worry, I will definitely rescue Xiao Hua. You are unwell, so go to the house and stay there. I'll go to the yamen right away!"
"Okay, okay, thank you benefactor!"
Li Chen'an got up and squeezed out the crowd. After thinking about it for a while, he walked towards the Guangling City Yamen on Bell Tower Street with a gloomy expression.
The group of people in the West Market still did not disperse. At this moment, someone raised a question: "Hey, wasn't that young man just now Li Chen'an?"
"Which one is Li Chenan?"
"It's Li Chen'an from the Li Mansion in Guangling City who was kicked out by his father!"
"It's really him. He opened a steamed pastry shop and bought flour from my house before."
"What is that idiot buying so much food for?"
"Who knows? I heard that the Shen family has taken back the marriage certificate... Do you think this is a revenge method used by the Shen family for the grievances these days?"
"Then the Shen family is not right either. If you want to seek revenge on that idiot, why are you bullying Xiaohua!"
"Hey, hey, just now Li Chen'an said that he would definitely save Xiao Hua... Do you think it's possible?"
"Cut! Why is he? If he asks his father to go to the Yamen to spend some money to make some connections, it depends on whether the Shen family will interfere in the Yamen. He was kicked out of the house by his father. Where did he come from?" Such a great ability to get people from the yamen?"
When Li Xiaohua's mother heard this, she was filled with despair. Only then did she realize that the noble person her son thought he had found was actually that idiot Li Chenan!
"My son... you are blind!"
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Zhongli Mansion.
Zhongli Ruoshui was biting her pen while looking at her second brother Zhongli Qiuyang.
"What? Don't believe me?"
Zhongli Qiuyang sat across from Zhongli Ruoshui, "I'm your second brother! Is it possible that such an important matter will be done and I will harm you?!"
"There are countless talented people in the world. I said you have always been shrewd. Why did you become stubborn this time?"
Zhongli Qiuyang leaned over and tapped his fingers on the table, "Brother has checked everything about Li Chen'an for you, and told you clearly."
"Brother also believes that people will change, but do you believe that a person who can't even memorize the Three Character Classic can make such good words?"
"You are sixteen years old, don't be so childish, okay?"
"That's right, these days he is indeed a little different from before, but that's just a little bit different. But it's changed from the original steamed cake shop to the current tavern. If you want me to say, his steamed cake shop is still open at least Three years, but his tavern will be closed in three months at most!"
"Sister, my own sister!"
"Brother Suan, I beg you, okay? Wake up, if you marry him, Zhongli Mansion really can't afford to lose that face!"
Zhongli Ruoshui bit the pen and rattled, and the expression on her face didn't change at all when she heard Zhongli Qiuyang's words.
"Finished?"
She loosened the handle of the brush and put the pen on the pen stand.
"It's not over yet!"
"Then keep talking!"
"Brother, let me ask you, what's wrong with Cheng Zhe? Even if you don't like Cheng Zhe's wielding of knives and guns, Qi Zhixue should be fine, right?"
"The grandson of the Duke of Qi's mansion, the future Duke of Qi, is talented, educated and rich, should it be your thing?"
"Don't say second brother, I don't understand what you're thinking. Father and mother can't accept it either!"
"Leaving aside his status, your husband-in-law must at least be a scholar, right? Isn't that a high requirement? But he, Li Chen'an, is just a white man..."
"Second brother!"
Zhongli Ruoshui interrupted Zhongli Qiuyang's words.
"Don't forget your grandma's identity!"
Zhongli Qiuyang was taken aback, "Grandma is at least an expert!"
"Li Chen'an is also a master of literature!"
"...How did he become a master?"
Zhongli Ruoshui stood up, raised his delicate eyebrows, "Master Huamanting said, don't you believe it? Go ask him!"
"Where are you going?"
"Hee hee, I'm going to talk to Master Hua about poetry and articles."
"Cheng Guogong will be here soon."
"So what? I don't have time to accompany him."