Datang New Giants

Chapter 1 Seven Years of Wude
There is heaven, there are Suzhou and Hangzhou.

Suzhou and Hangzhou have received such high praise. It stands out from the many beautiful rivers and mountains in China, which is enough to prove its excellence. Suzhou is a blessed place, with Taihu Lake in the west and Yangtze River in the north. It has convenient transportation, and there are many flat lands and lakes in the territory.

However, the impression Suzhou gave Lu Ting was not so friendly.

Lying on the couch, Lu Ting looked at the leaky roof, the rammed earth walls with a lot of dust and the empty room, and said to himself depressedly: "If you are not lucky, you will choke on cold water. It’s hard to come to Tang Dynasty, and I don’t choose a good family.”

As if in a dream, Lu Ting turned out to be a small book seller selling used books. There was no customer at noon, so he picked up a Sui and Tang Dynasty secret history to pass the time. There are many more memories in my mind that do not belong to me. I pinched my thighs several times to confirm that I was not dreaming, and my mood suddenly became complicated.

It may be fate, the predecessor was also called Lu Ting, he was originally a son of a rich family in Suzhou, and he had no worries about food and clothing, but he did not expect that last year, in the sixth year of Wude, the assisted Gong Er rebelled in Danyang, and the military disaster spread to Danyang [-] In Suzhou, Yuli, Lu's family was burned, killed and looted by rebels. Only Lu Ting, who was visiting relatives outside, escaped the catastrophe.

The Lu family was ruined overnight. Those creditors knew that something happened to the Lu family, and they asked Lu Ting for debts with their IOUs. In the end, the mansions and fields that were not taken away were sold to pay off the debts. Lu Ting also moved from the mansion back to the dilapidated ancestral house. The son of a rich family has become a brother of a poor family. Fortunately, there is a Fuzhi who acts as an attendant by his side.

Fu Zhi is a family slave of the Lu family. The so-called family slave means that both parents are slaves of the Lu family, and the children they give birth to are also the property of the Lu family. He was taught to be loyal to the master's family from an early age, and to be loyal to the master.

Lu Ting is the only son in the family. He is idle about under the pampering of his parents. He has done nothing bad, but he doesn't have a good reputation. Withered, no backer and no way to make money, the master and the servant take whatever they have, pawning for a living, can't afford restaurants, brothels can't hold seats, and occasionally have a tea party to pass the time.

Yesterday, he rummaged through the box and found a silver bean. Lu Ting went to Xiaoxianger's Xiangying Pavilion in Baihualou with great interest to play tea. Xiaoxianger is Lu Ting's favorite brothel girl. Little money, I was drinking tea and chatting, when a distinguished guest came suddenly, the bustard asked the maid to take away all the tea from the guests around the tea. This is called Yizhan in the industry, which means the same as serving tea to see off guests. Yizhan is not in the brothel. It's rare, many people recognize it with their noses pinching their noses, and it's definitely not a small thing for the brothel to drive away customers. He quarreled with the old bustard, was laughed at when he went out, and threw himself into the river in a fit of anger. Luckily, Fuzhi desperately rescued him. He was rescued dying, and he came to Datang when his predecessor was dying.

Calculating the time, Li Shimin has not yet taken the position. This is a super thigh. You must know that Li Er is not only the famous Tian Khan, but also can gain both fame and fortune by following him. The most important thing is that Li Er is very generous to his courtiers, not like being poor and crazy Zhu Chongba, when he was not firmly seated on the throne, spent his heart and lungs with his subordinates. Once he was firmly seated, he stopped digging out his heart and lungs. Instead, he used knives and killed the brothers who followed him. If you mix a little bit with the power of the dragon, you will definitely not be able to escape in this life.

For a moment, Lu Ting had the urge to go to Chang'an to be loyal to Li Erbiao. He just thought about it for a while, and forced himself to press down on this idea. He had no money, power or background, so he rashly went to Chang'an to seek refuge. Most likely, he hadn't seen him yet. When Li Er arrived, he was beaten out of the house by the officers and soldiers of King Qin's mansion. If he was unlucky, he would be thrown into the prison as a spy or thrown into the Tower of the Madman because he had brain problems. Do not know at all.

If you want to embrace the golden thigh, you have to vote for a certificate, which is a meeting gift that Li Er can't refuse.

It’s just that this meeting gift is hard to find. It will not only help Li Er, but also convince him that it’s true. Now it’s September of the seventh year of Wude, and there are still nearly two years before the Xuanwumen Incident, and I still have one year left. There are many opportunities to hold thighs.

"Lang Jun, you woke up, you are really blessed by the gods, but you scared the little one to death." Just when Lu Ting was thinking about it, a voice full of surprises suddenly sounded in his ear, and when he turned his head, he saw a young man The boy about fourteen or fifteen years old, wearing a fur head and a gray-white robe, looked at him in surprise, with tears in the corners of his eyes.

"Why are you shouting so loudly, you can't die, Fuzhi, what time is it?" Lu Ting asked casually, remembering that the young man in front of him was his entourage, Fuzhi.

"If you come back to Mr. Lang, it's three o'clock in the unitary hour." Fuzhi replied respectfully.

At three o'clock in the unitary hour, which is equivalent to five forty-five in the afternoon in later generations, it turned out to be evening. At this time, there was a rumbling sound in his stomach. Before Lu Ting could open his mouth, Fuzhi on the side said wittily, "Your Majesty, you haven't done it all day and night. It's time to eat, please wait a moment, the little one will go to prepare."

Lang Jun's body and bones are still not good, so we can't starve him to death.

Just when Fuzhi was about to go out, Lu Ting suddenly said, "Wait a minute."

When Fu Zhi heard this, he immediately stopped and bowed to salute: "What else do you want, sir?"

"In the future, don't call me a gentleman, but a son." Lu Ting said a little depressed.

Different dynasties have different habits. In the early Tang Dynasty, the servants called their masters the lord. Lu Ting was originally the young lord of the family. Now he is the only master in the family. The little lord is promoted to the lord. Yes, I couldn't help asking him to change his words.

"Understood, sir. No, son." Fuzhi's greatest strength is obedience, and he quickly changed his words.

Two quarters of an hour later, Fuzhi came in with a tray, put it on the dilapidated desk by the window, and said flatteringly, "Master, you haven't eaten all day, so you must be hungry. The little one specially prepared a small sheep to make up for you." Please enjoy the bones of your body, my lord."

After putting it down, Fu Zhi quickly left the room. His son didn't like standing next to him during meals, saying that it affected his appetite.

Lu Ting sat up and walked to the desk with some anticipation to prepare for dinner. When he saw the meal that Fu Zhi had prepared for him, he couldn't help but hesitated. It was half a bowl of bean rice mixed with beans, and then a small dish, which contained two yuan Refers to wide tofu, this kind of meal is also called tonic?When I heard about sheep just now, I thought there was a feast of mutton.

By the way, the ancients believed that tofu was tender and nutritious, comparable to a lamb, so they gave it the nickname of "Xiaozaiyang".

After tasting it, Lu Ting frowned quickly. The bean rice made of beans and bran was similar to pig food. Not good, there is a lack of salt and oil, and there is a rancid smell. This is not something that people eat. Just as I was about to get angry, there was a sound of wolfing down outside, and Fu Zhi seemed to be eating something.

Lu Ting's face turned bad on the spot, did Fuzhi bully no one in the Lu family, or did he feel that his master was easy to bully, so he gave the master something that even dogs wouldn't eat, and secretly ate and drank?

The legendary servant bullying the master?

The more Lu Ting thought about it, the more he felt uncomfortable. He stood up and gently opened the door, ready to see what this evil slave, Fu Zhi, was eating.

Outside the wing room is a small hall, and out of the small hall is a simple kitchen. Lu Ting walked lightly to the kitchen, just in time to see Fuzhi put down the bowl after eating, and just when he was about to reprimand him, he saw Fuzhi pick up a wooden spoon and put it in the kitchen. He scraped vigorously in the clay pot, scraped it for a while, poured some hot water into it and stirred it, and finally poured the contents of the clay pot into his big bowl, and began to eat and drink with relish.

It turned out to be soaked in water with rice burnt to drink.

"How do you eat these things?" Lu Ting asked with a complicated expression.

"Mr. Gongzi" Fu Zhi looked back and saw Lu Ting. He was startled, recovered his senses, and quickly said with some shame: "It's not good to be small. I didn't care about getting angry for a while. The food was a little burnt. The small ones want to If you don’t want to spoil it, just soak it in water and drink it.”

Fuzhi thought that the son scolded him for not cooking well, so he immediately admitted his mistake.

The reason for soaking once before, there is nothing in the second soaking, only a little mushy, it looks no different from washing pot water, no, it is not even comparable to shabu-shabu water, at least shabu-shabu water is still a little oily, good luck The bowl in his hand was actually some dirty hot water.

Lu Ting didn't say anything, and picked up the wooden lid on the rice jar. There was no rice in it, only a thin layer of beans. He looked at the kitchen with only two or three clay pots for cooking utensils and nothing, wrinkled. He frowned and asked, "Is there no money at home?"

Knowing that life is difficult, I didn't expect the reality to be more difficult than I imagined. Fuzhi even drank pot water like delicious food, it's too miserable.

Fu Zhi quickly glanced at his young master, and quickly lowered his head and whispered, "If you go back to your son, life will be difficult after the Lu family's disaster. You have to spend on weekdays, and the price of goods in the city has also been rising. Doumi has risen to three Ten qian, I spent a lot yesterday to hire a doctor for the young master, so..."

The Lu family was in trouble, the family had no income, and the money could only be withdrawn. Not long after the rebellion was overthrown, the war caused great damage to production and life, and the price of goods soared. Those gold-burning cave drills that eat people without spitting out their bones are not bad if they don't starve to death.

Thirty dollars for a bucket of rice, Lu Ting secretly gasped when he heard it, remembering that during the reign of Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty was rich and the people were strong, and the price of a bucket of rice was three yuan. Now the price of rice in Suzhou is as high as thirty yuan per bucket. It also shows that the economy has not recovered in the early Tang Dynasty.

As if remembering something, Fuzhi slapped his thigh suddenly, and said excitedly: "I almost forgot that the Mingri Clan gave out school rice. If you receive school rice, you will be able to eat good food."

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