Li Ye asked Qiu'er to pour him a cup of tea. The teapot and tea cup were the Ru kiln fine porcelains that De Gong gave him. It was indeed extraordinary. The best feel and texture, as well as the pleasing color, he fell in love with this set of tea sets from the beginning, so De Gong gave him it and sometimes he would bring it with him even when he went out.

He just came to see if everyone could use these things correctly. Qiu'er was guiding the blacksmith to make pulley sets, so he only brought Yue'er over.

Yan Shen reported to him that there were indeed some problems at first. At the beginning, the few people who evaporated the filtrate were not familiar with the heat, and they didn't know how to remove the coke in time. They almost caused trouble. But after that, it was fine. Each person only had to be responsible for his own work, which was not a difficult thing.

Li Ye is much more at ease, which is also one of the biggest benefits of assembly line work. Each person specializes in his or her job and does not need to be both focused and use it. It is easy to learn and not easy to make mistakes.

Li Ye was relieved to stay in the back mountain for an afternoon, and the entire small factory for making nitrogen was operating, so he was relieved to be responsible for Yan Shen.

Yan Shen is younger than Ji Chunsheng and does not have the same ability as Ji Chunsheng, but if Li Ye believes in him when doing things, he has always been doing many things in the royal palace.

.........

The walls of the Hongxiang Building in the west of the city are old, with most of the red paint falling from the eaves. The red lanterns with the word "Fu" written on the four corners are still swaying with the spring breeze. They were idle for a few days before the New Year, and they started to be busy as usual after the New Year.

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

There are no high-level families in the whole alley, but they are particularly complicated and chaotic. There are all kinds of families, including pig slaughtering, candied haws on the street, carpenters, long-term workers from wealthy families around them, or yamen runners nearby, idle gangsters...

The alley is deep and it is easy to get mixed up, so it is even more so for the Hongxiang Building at the entrance of the alley.

The lobby on the first floor is very lively all year round, with a place where all walks of life and gangsters and peddlers are mixed. At this time, it was even more because Sun Wenyan, the most famous nearby scholar, said about it.

Sun Wenyan is also a little famous in the west of the city. He often takes turns to talk about books in the fences and restaurants everywhere. Most people in the west of the city know about it.

Therefore, it was lively as soon as he came. The owners of various restaurants would treat him to tea and wine for free, and also serve him some snacks such as peanuts and broad beans. Hongxiang Building even set up a special platform at the corner of the stairs for him to tell stories, so he came to Hongxiang Building more.

As soon as he came, everyone started to make a fuss, and they knew that the people on the second floor were pushing and shoving each other and hurried down the first floor, sitting on a stool, not daring to move the two tables. The shopkeeper also brought a stool to sit down, and then asked the waiter to give Sun Wenyan a pot of tea, a stack of peanuts, and a plate of fennel beans.

After a while, the owner of the empty table also came. It was Yiba Sun, a bachelor in the west of the city. He put his left hand in his arms and stepped on the stool to sit down: "One pound of mutton, five pounds of wine."

The waiter responded and went down to prepare quickly. He delivered it in a short while, and was more diligent than ever.

No one dares to neglect Sun Ban Palm in the west of the city.

On the stage, Sun Wenyan was ready to tell the story, and as soon as he spoke, someone complained: "What is the story of Li Xingzhou and Lu Ming? I have heard it less than a hundred times."

"Yes, yes, can't you change it?"

"That's right, there are so many stories in this world, and I'm talking about what's the point of talking about that one... "

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

"I think so, otherwise I would always say why I'm doing this, my ears are callused..."

Sun Wenyan said seriously dissatisfiedly: "Don't talk nonsense, how could I charge money? He is a student of the Imperial College and a disciple of the emperor. Can I know him? Do you like to listen? If you don't listen, I will go elsewhere." He said that he picked up his big cloth bag and made a gesture to leave.

"Hey hey hey, no no, don't, you tell me!" Everyone was also panicked. They were all very boring people, and it would be better to listen to them than not.

"Yes, we can't listen to anything you say."

"I believe it, but I've been talking nonsense before. If you confiscate the money, you will continue to say, keep going..."

Everyone agreed, and Sun Wenyan compromised and sat down, and then began to speak.

He was just pretending and showing off his posture. If he really left, there would be no free tea and wine today.

But when he saw everyone's reaction, he was still shocked. It was not everyone who was afraid, but Prince Xiao Li Xingzhou!

He believed most of the rumors in Beijing before, and he felt very good about it. Other things were good, such as beating the Hanlin Grand Secretary of the dynasty and sanctioning the Imperial College of Tokyo, Chen Yu, is not a random statement. It is probably true that he can tell it.

So when he was caught in the royal palace that time, he thought he was almost dead.

The result was unexpected. Not only did Li Xingzhou not kill him, he also gave him money to let him continue to tell the story.

Sun Wenyan was puzzled at first. Could it be that Prince Xiao was stupid? This story was rumored to scold him. He also heard that Fu Menglou had specially hired a storyteller to tell him. Obviously, he wanted to ruin his reputation, but he wouldn't stop him, but he even paid for someone to scold him?

There is such a person in the world! Could it be a fool?

He took the money with suspicion, then left the palace like a fleeing life. When he returned home and closed the door, he confirmed that the palace did not intend to harm him, but he was still puzzled by Li Xingzhou's orders.

However, after collecting the money, he was afraid of revenge by the royal family, so he had to do so, using nothing left of the money he brought from the royal family to win over his accomplices, and then told the story.

At first he just thought that Li Xingzhou was really stupid, but the more time he went, the more shocked he felt, because he found that things were not what he thought.

.....

At first, he said that everyone was cheering for rewards for this story, while many storytellers in the capital were talking about it, and everyone was scolding Li Xingzhou.

The next day, he told the story again, which was even more exaggerated. Everyone still applauded and gave rewards.

After a few days of talking, someone started 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 royal palace.

So, I continued to say, to exaggerate...

Finally, someone was impatient and said directly that he didn't want to listen to this story.

But the storytellers still say that because they took the royal family money...

Now no one gives rewards, and some people start to complain.

After the New Year,

Storytellers start to say...

Finally, someone couldn't help but stand up and blame them for knowing this story.

Then, someone began to question whether they had collected money from the Imperial College students and told the story. Why did they always say this?

However, the storytellers are still saying that they have collected money from the royal palace again...

As time goes by, Sun Wenyan finally felt a chill on his back......

Now, whenever the storyteller tells this story, the people below questioning their money for Imperial College students have gradually changed from one or two to several, and now...

Now, most listeners are suspicious...

He told stories every day, and saw everyone questioning, he wanted to tell these people: We are collecting money, but we are collecting money from the royal family! We are not students of the Imperial College...

But he didn't dare, but he felt the terror of Prince Xiao, so terrifying that he was ashamed of himself. He felt that the little cleverness and tricks he had accumulated over the past few decades were not worth mentioning in front of him, because...

Li Xingzhou had expected this to be the result dozens of days ago!
Chapter completed!