The rise of the prince

Chapter 189 Sun Wenyan's Fear
Li Ye asked Qiu'er to pour him a cup of tea. The teapot and teacup were the fine porcelain from Ru Kiln that Degong gave him. It was really unusual. He fell in love with it from the very beginning. This set of tea sets has been used since Mr. De gave it to him, and sometimes he will take it with him even when he goes out.

He just came to see if everyone could use these things correctly. Qiu'er was instructing the blacksmith to make a pulley block, so he only brought Yue'er here.

Yan Shen reported to him that there were indeed some problems at the beginning. The few people who evaporated the filtrate at the beginning were not familiar with the heat, and did not know how to remove the coke in time when the water was evaporated. Work is not a difficult thing to do.

Li Ye feels much more at ease. This is also one of the biggest benefits of working on the assembly line. Each has his own job, so he doesn't have to focus on two tasks. It is easy to learn and not easy to make mistakes.

After staying in the back mountain for an afternoon, Li Ye felt relieved. The whole small nitrate factory was now in operation, and he felt relieved that Yan Shen was in charge.

Yan Shen is younger than Ji Chunsheng, and he doesn't have Ji Chunsheng's ability, but if it is said that Li Ye believes in him, he has been doing many things in the palace.

The red alley building in the west of the city has old walls, most of the red paint on the eaves has fallen off, and the red lanterns with blessing characters written on the four corners are still swaying with the spring breeze. A few days ago, they were idle for a few days, and they began to be busy again after the year.

The red alley is very deep, and you can't see the end of the alley. From time to time, there are a few dogs barking, and there are also the sounds of children playing.

There are no high-ranking families in the whole alley, but it is extremely crowded and noisy. There are all kinds of people from various religions and schools, such as pig slaughterers, candied haws sellers on the street, carpenters, long-term workers from the surrounding rich families, or nearby yamen servants. gangster
When the alley is deep, it is easy to mix fish and dragons, so the red alley building at the entrance of the alley is even more so.

The lobby on the first floor is bustling almost all year round, a place where there are mixed religions and traffickers, especially at this time, because Sun Wenyan, the most famous book teacher nearby, comes to book again.

Sun Wenyan is a well-known person in the west of the city, and he often takes turns telling stories in various Goulan restaurants, and most people in the west of the city know about it.

So when he came, it was lively, and the owners of various restaurants would invite him to drink tea and wine for free, and would also offer some snacks such as peanuts and broad beans. The Red Lane Building even set up a special table under the corner of the stairs for him to tell stories. So he came to Hongxianglou more.

When he came, everyone made a fuss, and everyone knew it up and down the stairs. The people on the second floor also rushed down to the first floor, only sitting on the stool, not daring to move the two tables. Second, give Sun Wenyan a pot of tea, a pile of peanuts, and a plate of fennel beans.

After a while, the owner of the empty table also came, it was the half palm of the grandson from the west of the city, with his left hand in his bosom, he stepped over the stool and sat down: "One catty of mutton, five catties of wine."

Xiao Er responded, hurriedly went down to prepare, and delivered it in a short while, more diligent than ever.

No one in the west of the city would dare to neglect Sun Banzhang.

On the stage, Sun Wenyan was ready and started to talk about the story, and someone complained: "What is the story of Li Xingzhou and Lu Ming again, I have heard it no less than a hundred times."

"Yes, yes, can't you say something else?"

"That's right, there are so many stories in this world, which one is interesting to tell over and over again?"

"Old man Sun, you won't take Lu Ming's money just to tell this story."

"I think it is, otherwise why do you keep talking about it, your ears are callused."

Sun Wenyan said dissatisfiedly: "Don't talk nonsense, how can I collect money, he is a student of the Imperial College, a student of the Emperor, I can know him? Do you want to listen or not, and if you don't listen to me, go talk about it elsewhere." The big cloth bag is about to go.

"Hey, don't, don't, you say you!" Everyone panicked, they were all very idle people, and it was better to have something to listen to than nothing.

"That's right, we can't even listen to what you say."

"I believe it, I believe it, I was just talking nonsense before, you didn't take the money, so you just keep talking, keep going"

After everyone agreed, Sun Wenyan sat down in compromise and continued talking.

He was just putting on airs and posturing, if he really left, there would be no free tea and wine today.

But he was still horrified when he saw everyone's reaction. It wasn't everyone who was afraid, but Li Xingzhou, the son of Prince Xiao!

He believed most of the rumors in Beijing before, he had a feeling in his heart, and other things were fine, such as the beating of the Hanlin University scholar of the dynasty and the sentence of Chen Yu, the Imperial Academy of Tokyo, are not nonsense. Nine is true.

So that time when he was caught in the palace, he thought that he was almost certain to die.

The result was unexpected. Instead of killing him, Li Xingzhou gave him money to continue telling the story.

Sun Wenyan was puzzled at first. Could it be that the son of Prince Xiao is stupid? This story was spread specifically to scold him. He also heard that Fumenglou hired a storyteller to talk about it every day. It was obvious that he wanted to ruin his reputation, but in the end he just didn't stop him, and he actually paid for someone to scold him?
There are such people in the world!Could it be that a fool can't do it.
He dubiously took the money, and then left the palace as if fleeing for his life. After returning home and closing the door, he was sure that the palace really didn't want to harm him, but he still couldn't understand Li Xingzhou's order in his heart.

But he took the money, and he was afraid of revenge from the palace, so he had no choice but to follow suit, and used all the money he brought out from the palace to win over his accomplices, and continued to tell the story.

At first he just thought that Li Xingzhou was really stupid, but as time passed, he became more and more horrified, because he found that things were not as he thought.

At first, he said that everyone applauded and rewarded this story, but many storytellers all over the capital were talking about it, everyone applauded, and everyone scolded Li Xingzhou.

The next day, when he told the story again, it was even more exaggerated. Everyone still applauded and gave a reward.

After a few days of talking, people began to ask him to change the story, and the rewards were much less, but many storytellers didn't care about the rewards at all, and they took the money from the palace.

So, I went on to say, more exaggeratedly
Finally, someone became impatient and directly expressed that he did not want to hear the story.

But the storytellers still say, because they took money from the palace.
Now no one rewarded, and some people started to complain.

Years later,

The storytellers began to say again
Finally, someone couldn't help but stand up and criticize, scolding them if they only knew this one story.

Then, some people began to question, asking if they were paid by those Guozijian students to tell the story, why do they keep saying this?
However, the storytellers are still talking about it, because they received money from the palace again.
As time went by, Sun Wenyan finally felt a chill down his spine
Now, every time the storyteller tells this story, the people below who question them about taking money from Guozijian students have gradually changed from one or two to several, until now.
Now, most listeners are skeptical.
He told stories every day, and seeing people questioning, he really wanted to tell these people: We are collecting money, but what we are collecting is money from the palace!Not the students of the Imperial College.
But he didn't dare, but he felt more and more the horror of the Prince Xiao, so terrifying that he felt ashamed of himself, and felt that the little cleverness and tricks he had accumulated over decades were not worth mentioning in front of him, because
Li Xingzhou had predicted this outcome dozens of days ago!
(End of this chapter)