Late Tang

As night falls, thousands of houses are lit up.

It was raining lightly outside the house, although it has already entered April, but with the rain, the temperature dropped a lot again, and even felt a bit cold in spring.

Li Jing was wearing a bearskin robe, sitting on a cushion, reading a book next to a kerosene lamp.This is a thread bound book.It uses the thread-bound book technology that only existed in the Song Dynasty, which breaks through the current ordinary calligraphy of scrolls and album pages.On the cover of taupe kraft paper are three cursive scripts, Collection of Flowers.This is not the collection of flowers in the Five Dynasties, but only includes many poems by Wen Tingyun, a great talent in the late Tang Dynasty.

"Hua Jian Ji" gets its name from the fact that the works in the collection mostly describe the daily life and decorative appearance of the upper-class ladies and beauties.These lyrics are all written for the needs of the life of singing, dancing and entertainment.The prince of Qiyan and the beautiful woman in embroidered clothes express affection with their eyebrows and eyes, and they sing at the banquet, and their rhetoric is as soft and charming as possible.

This book is the latest batch of books that can be printed by the Shamen Town Bookstore. Since the establishment of the bookstore, only Buddhist scriptures have been printed at the beginning.The sales volume of Buddhist scriptures is very good, but it is too single. Now the bookstore has gained many workers and expanded again.The printed content has also been expanded a lot.The new batch of books is also printed in large quantities using movable type. In addition to the subsets of the classics and history such as the Book of Songs and Lunyu, the selected books also choose the poems of many poets in the Tang Dynasty, such as Li Bai, Li Shangyin, Du Fu and Du Mu, and others such as Li Du. Wang Wei, Bai Juyi, Wen Tingyun and other famous poets' collection of poems.

There are as many as one hundred books in this batch, which can be described as a major project. With the new papermaking technology, the paper in the workshop is now better and the cost is lower.With the new printing method of engraved movable type, the more books printed, the lower the cost.Given the current situation in which books in the late Tang Dynasty are priced on a page-by-page basis, printing books can be said to be a very profitable business, and it can also win great praise.

For example, a collection of Wen Tingyun's poems is printed by engraving, and the market price is directly calculated by the page. A book has only fifty pages, but the price is as high as usual, and each page is a full twenty cents. Even the high price of rice can buy a liter of rice.

This batch of new books has accepted Li Jing's many suggestions in many aspects, such as thread binding into a book and using Song typeface.Of course, this kind of Song typeface was only available in the Song Dynasty. Li Jing took it out now and called it Li typeface according to his surname, which is the same as Yan Zhenqing's Yan typeface.The side cover is also according to Li Jing's intention. Danqing painters are specially invited to add a beautiful cover to each book, and the title of the book is also signed by calligraphy masters.Such a book, just by looking at it, is already very different and beautiful.

The bookstore sent several sets of all the books to Li Jing, and every night when he was free, Li Jing would also look through various classics and history collections.A collection of hundreds of volumes is an enviable thing in the eyes of scholars all over the world.The books of literati are the same as the armor of military generals. They are all things that can be passed down to the family.

After a busy day every day, with little activity at night, Li Jing just flipped through the books to wash away his tired body and mind.The rhetoric written by Wen Tingyun's Huajian collection is extremely soft, charming and colorful. From the poems, one can almost see the flashy and noisy buildings that are about to collapse.Li Jing liked his words a little, but he didn't like the flashy attitude of scholars in the late Tang Dynasty.From the late Tang Dynasty until the Huangchao Uprising, it was not only an era when warriors ruled the country, but it was also an era when literati were quite free and indulgent.The center of the Tang Dynasty was like the Zhou royal family in the Spring and Autumn Period, while the feudal towns below were a bit like a feudal state, and the literati were like scholars in the Spring and Autumn Period, traveling around the country to find princes worthy of assistance.Or live in seclusion in the mountains in the busy city, write poems and books, quite comfortable.The mountains and rivers of the Anshi Rebellion have been broken for a hundred years, and the world has long forgotten those things, and the rest is just content with pleasure.

Throwing aside the book with the fragrance of ink in his hand, Li Jing was a little bored.In later generations, he liked these poems very much, but when he read them now, he couldn't see much of them.Those eloquent rhetoric full of descriptions of the upper-class ladies dancing on the Getai really made him sigh.The 300-year-old empire of the Tang Dynasty is about to perish, but the men and women in the world are still chasing after love and holding such poems and books.No wonder the Tang Dynasty will die, and there will be one of the most famous troubled times in Chinese history.

Looking at the non-stop rain outside, Li Jing didn't bother to get up and go home again, so he just lay down on the couch with all his clothes on, planning to rest in the town general's mansion tonight.Recently, Li Jing is a little reluctant to go home. Recently, Li's mother hopes to hug her grandson as soon as possible. Every time she sees Li Jing, she has to mention these things.This made Li Jing a little helpless, as long as he returned home, he must grow some kind of folk food that nourishes yin and strengthens yang, and then drove him back to his room early to make a man with his wife and concubine.

At first Li Jing still felt very warm, but later on, he felt that this matter was a bit forced.He has to be busy dealing with the affairs of Shamen Town every day, and thinks a lot.When I got home, I had to face two wives and concubines who were anxious to conceive a child, and a mother who was waiting to have a grandson.Even if he is a man of iron, if he is demanded every day, he will feel a little too much.People say that one wife and one concubine enjoy the blessings of being equal to everyone, but now Li Jing is like a tired old scalper. In front of him are two endless fields, which can't be plowed.

Guiniang and Wan'er don't know if they have been instilled with many ideas by Li's mother. They used to take turns to come here, but now it is good that the two daughters serve one husband together.As long as Li Jing came home, the two women would definitely go to battle together, Wan'er simply hugged the bedroll and got on the big bed in the main room.It is really difficult to escape without paying two or three rounds of public rations at home.

But it was so strange, so hard-working, but the stomachs of the two women didn't move at all.Up to now, Li Jing, a young man who was originally full of vigor, is not very interested in the original boudoir happiness.Anyone who used to be a happy thing turned into a difficult task, and had to do it every day, but the two women had to put on a lot of weird sideways poses that they didn't know where to hear, making them rigid, and finally How can there be any sexual interest.

No need to go home to do tasks, Li Jing slept soundly alone this time, and he didn't know how long he slept until he was awakened by a loud cry.

"Li Jing, are you still a man!" A woman's voice shouted in his ear with a bit of anger.

Li Jing was still a little confused, and immediately felt that he might not be able to go home to do the task last night, and was chased by his pregnant wife who was eager to kill him, so he turned over quickly.

The windows were still closed, and it was pitch black outside. The kerosene lamp in the house was not wicked in time, and it was extinguished at some point.It was pitch black in the floor, and when I got up, my eyes couldn't adapt to seeing things for a while, but I saw a vague figure of a young woman, who looked like Gui Niang.

Li Jing felt a little apologetic, but Guiniang and Wan'er were under even greater pressure because she couldn't conceive a child.Guiniang is still the main wife, so she is more anxious than Wan'er, the concubine.She knew that Li Jing's status was constantly improving, and even Qingzhou's Jie Shuai and Zhao Wang were trying to win over Li Jing.She even heard rumors several times that there were many big merchants, officials and generals in Shamen Town and Dengzhou, who wanted to send their daughters or clan girls to Li Jing as children.

This put a lot of pressure on her. Wan'er was Li Jing's concubine, because she used to be a maidservant of the Li family, so the family members don't have to worry about her competing for favor.But if it's an outsider, that's not necessarily the case.The queen mother basically stays in the Buddhist hall at home all day now, but she can only sigh and tell her about her daughter's grievances several times, although Li Jing is a good son-in-law.But if they have been unable to add a child to the Li family, judging from the fact that Li Jing is now Li Jing's only child, even if Li Jing will not take the initiative to accept the younger one, Li's mother, who is waiting to hold a grandson to help the Li family continue the incense, will not. It's easy to say.Therefore, the best countermeasure is to find a way to have a son as soon as possible. Even if it is a daughter, at least it means that it can be born, and the situation will be better.

Li Jing is naturally aware of these situations.So when he heard the phrase, Li Jing, are you still a man, he took it for granted that this was what Gui Niang said because he was angry at him for not coming home again last night.

Immediately, Li Jing hurriedly stepped forward and hugged her in his arms, and sat her on his lap.

Embracing her in her arms, she felt instantly warm and fragrant.A refreshing smell rushed into her nostrils. Li Jing wrapped her hands around her slender waist and said with a light smile, "Oh, why am I not a man anymore? Did I accidentally fall asleep at night? Since you rushed Come, I think we might as well have a good time here tonight."

The body in his arms stiffened for a moment, and then began to struggle violently.

The more she struggled, Li Jing suddenly felt something unusual.In the past, Gui Niang and the others learned weird postures from nowhere, which really made him less sexually interested, and the task-style process was even more boring.

Now that he just woke up from sleep, the man's body naturally reacted as hard as iron after he woke up. At this time, she was struggling and writhing in her arms in the dark.The tight buttocks kept rubbing against his little partner, which aroused his sexiness instead.

While struggling, she was panting violently.The heavy panting sound, in this dark and silent room, caused even more throbbing and heart-pounding.Li Jing climbed up a firm but soft mountain with one hand, and sealed her lips with the other hand.

"Hmm..." She squeaked and wanted to speak, but she was completely blocked by Li Jing. His tongue was inserted into her lips like a snake, prying open the jade teeth, and instantly entangled her That lilac uvula.

(To be continued)