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Chapter 42: Adapting to the New Rules

Bart was about to say something again, suddenly a voice came from beside him: "Yeah, how did you salute Liu Zhanjun? Did he introduce a suitable young girl to his elder brother?"

"What are you saying?" Bart immediately turned around and taught a lesson. "You are only eight years old!"

Dania stuck out her tongue, without answering, but just looked at Liu Qi, her eyes full of questioning; she was really curious why Ye Ye gave a big gift to Liu Qi, the guest.

"You said I saved your relatives." Liu Qi said roughly.

"Then we should indeed give a great gift to Liu Chanjun." Dania smiled and said, "How can we not eat a few more glasses of wine for such a happy event?"

"Are you leading a business for your restaurant?" Liu Qi smiled and said, "But you, yeah, have promised me to waive money from coming to your restaurant in the future. The more I eat, the more you lose."

"Yeah!" Hearing this, Dania immediately turned her head and looked at herself angrily. Bart patted her on the back of her head and said, "You look like your mother, how can you be so stingy in dealing with people?"

Seeing that Yeye was indeed angry, Dania didn't dare to speak anymore, but looked at Liu Qi pitifully again. Liu Qi couldn't help laughing and said, "Don't worry, I won't take much advantage of your family. Just this one, I will definitely pay later."

"Thank you, Liu, for joining the army." Dania turned angry and said sweetly.

"I shouldn't call Liu Zongjun anymore. I'm promoted to Guoyi in the lower house, I should call Liu Guoyi." Liu Qi deliberately teased her and said again.

"Thank you, Liu Guoyi." After saying this, she seemed to suddenly realize it and said, "Then aren't you promoted again? Wow, Liu Guoyi is really amazing. How long has it been promoted?" She said to Yeye again, "Our family should congratulate you on Liu Guoyi's promotion."

Bart patted her head again and said with a smile: "I don't know this yet. Go and call your elder brother." He said to Liu Qi again: "Congratulations." Liu Qi smiled and replied.

At this time, Dania had already called her elder brother. Dimarsh obviously didn't know why his sister pulled him over (actually Dania didn't know), and stood aside at a loss. Bart turned around and said to his son, "Come on, you play a song for Liu Guoyi." He said to Liu Qi, "My family has nothing but wine, I can only let my son play a song for you."

"No, isn't this breaking your rules?" Liu Qi said hesitantly.

"There are no rules." Bart smiled again: "Noon playing is just a habit, and it is not a rule; it was played at other times before."

"When did you play it at other times? Why don't I remember?" Dania saw that Yeye and Liu Qi were probably chatting, and couldn't help but ask.

"How old are you?" Another regular guest beside him smiled and said, "You don't know, you are also very good at being angry. You played in front of your own restaurant like your brother, which sounds very nice! Otherwise, who would you teach your eldest brother?"

"Ah!" Dania looked at herself in surprise, unable to believe it at all: this man who looked like an uncle was like an elder brother when he was young!

Bart didn't say anything, probably because he felt that there was nothing to explain to his daughter. Dania looked at her elder brother again, and saw that he was not surprised, so she believed it was true. She looked at Yeah again in disbelief.

"Bart, why don't you play a song today," Liu Qi smiled and said, "Let's show us those of us who have never seen you play. Let's show Danniang."

"Yes, Bart, you play a song, I haven't heard it for years." The other guests also said.

Hearing this, Bart looked at his children again and finally agreed, "Then I will play one."

Dimarsh immediately handed the fire in his hand to Yeye, pulled Dania and sat down to wait for Yeye to play. Bart took the fire in his hand, debugged it a few times, and started playing.

Liu Qi closed his eyes again and admired it. The music played by Bart is different from Dimarsh. The music played by Dimarsh is like someone running on the grassland, while Bart makes people feel like a shepherd boy, with more than a dozen hunting dogs grazing thousands of cattle and sheep. The shepherd boy felt a little bored. He got off the horse and saw what was fun around him. He sometimes dug the otter hole and drifted the water. When he saw passing geese, he hurriedly raised the small bow in his hand and aimed it at it, but the arrow fell down halfway, and the geese flew past without any sense.

"Okay, okay." Liu Qi said a few words softly, and then said to another regular customer: "Dimash's Huobusi is taught by Barth, is Renault's opposite him a yeyeretae?"

"How could Lei Tai blow the drum?" The regular customer sneered and said, "In the past, there was a restaurant next to Lei Tai's restaurant. The business of the restaurant was not good, so he hired a drum blowing drum to play every night. Renault was thirteen or fourteen years old at that time. He went to listen to it with his help. It took a while to go."

“No one has taught me specifically?”

“No one has taught it specifically.”

"This is a natural talent." Liu Qi couldn't help but sigh.

"Who said no?" The regular guest smiled and said, "Everyone said that if he was in the capital, he might be attracted by the current emperor and summoned to the palace sect."

"Haha." Liu Qi also laughed.

While he was enjoying the music, chatting with others and drinking. He was feeling comfortable, he suddenly heard a voice coming from beside him, saying, "Liu Guoyi, I came to Ruiye Town, so I didn't look for me, but I just ate here alone?"

"Shiqilang, and Secretary Gao, why did you meet together?" Liu Qi looked at the two people who appeared beside him in surprise and joy.

"Secretary Gao is such a talented man who comes to Suye Town, so my family naturally needs to entertain him. After lunch, Secretary Gao wants to go out for a walk and see what our Suye Town looks like. I am the best person in our Li family to read and write poetry, so I accompany Secretary Gao to walk in the town." Li Quandao.

What Li Quan said was not a lie, but it was also very exaggerated. The truth of the matter was that the Li family didn't care about Gao Shi, the small secretary. Even if he was going to do a mission to Da Shi, he didn't care. He just invited him to have a meal with the intention of not offending passers-by officials. Since he didn't care, the direct descendants of the clan would certainly not accompany Gao Shi to wander around. Li Quan volunteered to get this job easily.

"Secretary Gao and great talent, if you can circulate in Suye Town for a few days, you will definitely make Suye Pengcai shine." Liu Qi also quickly praised.

Hearing his praise, Gao Shi waved his hand to express his humility. Li Quan glanced at him in surprise, but didn't say anything.

"Shiqilang, Secretary Gao is here, you don't take him to a high-end restaurant, why are you bringing him here?" Liu Qi said again.

"Liu Guoyi, I..."

"Call it is really good to call me Liu Lang, or Liu Da." Liu Qi interrupted.

"Liu Lang, what you said is wrong. Could it be that you can't bring people to this restaurant for wine?" Li Quan looked at Liu Qi a few more times, and was sure that he really didn't care about calling him like that, and said with a smile.

"No, but this restaurant is a bit lower after all."

"Secretary Gao is not as vulgar as you. Although this restaurant is smaller, it is very distinctive. Secretary Gao will come over and take a look as soon as he hears it." Li Quan said again.

"It's indeed what I am willing to come here myself." Gao Shi smiled and said, "The style of Suiye Town is different from that of Kucha, and there are more Hu people. I heard that this restaurant has a ensemble of Huo Busi and Wu, and I found it novel. After all, no one in the capital has used these two instruments to play, so I came to listen.

As he said that, he looked at Bart, who was playing the fire, looked at the audience inside and outside the restaurant, smiling and clapping hands, and said, "Now it sounds that Huo Busi is playing well, but why isn't anyone playing with him with the gang?"

"There is only a gang at noon every day, but there is no one right now." Liu Qi explained, and then said to Li Quan: "Why don't you explain the matter clearly to Secretary Gao and bring people?"

"I have clearly explained to Secretary Gao just now." Li Quan said hurriedly.

"Li Zuoshi has indeed explained that I was eager to come and didn't listen carefully." Gao Shi also said.

"So that's the case, I misunderstood. I'll give you a glass!" As he said that, Liu Qi picked up the wine glass and drank it.

"Cheers!" Gao Shi and Li Quan also hurriedly raised their wine glasses.

They started chatting while eating. Gao Shi ate a lot of wine at noon, and then drank several more drinks, and was a little drunk. He talked about his experience in the Central Plains. When he said that Liu Qi learned that Gao Shi had been in the officialdom since the 19th year of Kaiyuan, he had been in the officialdom since the age of 28 and had also taken the imperial examination several times. However, it was not until the eighth year of Tianbao and the age of 46, and he was not a Jinshi, and he was only a county magistrate.

This year, Gao Shi resigned from his post as a county magistrate and came to Chang'an again. He was finally summoned to the curtain by Geshuhan, the governor of Longyou. It happened that the court was going to send someone to Dashi, so Geshuhan recommended him, so he came to Anxi as an envoy.

When he told his life, Gao Shi sometimes burst into tears and was sad for wasting most of his life. Liu Qi hurriedly advised: "Li Taibai has a poem saying: 'I was born with my talents and I will be useful, and I will come back after all my money is gone.' Secretary Gao is very talented, and I will have a day to use it in the future." Li Quan also advised him.

"Borrowing the auspicious words of two of you, if you can make a breakthrough in the future, you will definitely repay you." Gao Shi stood up again tremblingly and wanted to salute them, but he almost fell before the ceremony was finished. Liu Qi hurriedly supported him.

Gao Shi yelled and drank a few more drinks, and was completely drunk, and fell asleep on the table. Liu Qi looked around and said to Li Quan: "Let's go here today. I'll find you to have a drink tomorrow. I'll take Secretary Gao back."

"Don't you have dinner here?" Li Quan said with a smile.

"I can't control myself by eating here and want to eat wine. I have eaten a lot today and can't eat wine anymore." Liu Qi said.

"That's right, you can't eat too much. It's not good to be drunk." Li Quan said, then glanced at Gao Shi again, and confirmed that he was drunk. Suddenly, he said to Liu Qi seriously: "Liu Lang, I have something to persuade you."

"How do you use the word "persuasion"?" Liu Qi said with a smile.

"I'm not kidding you." Li Quan said: "This matter is very important to you, don't take it seriously."

"What's the matter?" Seeing that he was solemn, Liu Qi sat upright.

"You seem to be too respectful to Secretary Gao." Li Quan said: "I know that Secretary Gao is Secretary Cen's friend and is very famous in the Central Plains. It is normal for you to be respectful; but you are too respectful."

Secretary Gao is now the chief secretary of the Longyou Jiedushi, which is approximately the same as the fifth and sixth rank; he is the chief minister of Xiping County, and he is also from the fifth rank. You were promoted to Guoyi of Xiafu, and he was from the sixth rank. Although he was slightly older than you, he was also a middle-rank official, and he was not a senior official in his yamen. What kind of respect do you do? You are already a sixth rank official, and you are still thinking about getting a letter of recommendation to travel to the Central Plains?

Let’s talk about the future. Send a secretary to serve as a grand food service, which clearly shows that the court does not care about the great cannibals, and it is not very good to return to the capital, so it is mostly still the secretary. And you have the recommendation of the governor Wang Jie before and then the favor of the deputy envoy. Although it is impossible to be promoted again for a while, the future will be smooth and you will be older than Secretary Gao in three or five years. You don’t have to be so respectful.

Besides, doing this is not only a joke, but also makes people think that you are a person who is not up and down and does not understand the rules of the officialdom. You will also think twice after being promoted after being promoted. In short, Liu Lang, it is better for you to treat Secretary Gao normally."

"Thank you, Shiqilang." Liu Qi suddenly stood up and bowed to Li Quan.

"What is this?"

"Shiqilang's words made me suddenly realize. If your persuasion may lead to a big mistake without knowing it, of course I have to salute you." Liu Qi said.

After hearing Li Quan's words, he suddenly realized clearly: "I am no longer the small military and even soldiers who are not cared about. He is already a middle-ranking official of the Tang Dynasty!"

Although he had known that he was a middle-ranked official, he was suddenly promoted and never communicated with officials of the same level since he became a fake, which made him subconsciously continue to act like he was in the military.

It's okay to face people with low official ranks. At most, people say he is approachable, but he happens to spend a long time with Gao Shi. Although he said he doesn't care about famous people anymore, he still unconsciously lowered his head when he saw a famous poet like Gao Shi, and was much more respectful than the original Shangguan. This made people feel very different.

As Li Quan said, it would be fine to be laughed at, but it would also be a hindrance to him in the officialdom. If Li Quan had not reminded him, he might have been able to realize this problem for a long time, and by then he might have delayed one or two opportunities to earn merit in Feng Changqing's heart.

Thinking of this, Liu Qi bowed to Li Quan again. Li Quan hurriedly helped him up and said with a smile: "Since you treat me as a friend, isn't this what friends should do?"

"You are right, I'm a divorce." Liu Qi immediately understood and smiled and said, "It will be this restaurant at noon tomorrow, so I'll treat you to wine."

"Don't, I'm the host tomorrow. The next day, you'll invite me to a bar." Li Quan said again.

"A word is determined!" Liu Qi clapped and laughed.

"What are you laughing?" At this time, Bart had already stopped playing. Dania happened to deliver a table of food to the guests. When she heard them laugh, she asked with the help of her because they were friendly to her.

"It's nothing, it just means that you have to make a reservation at your wine shop at noon or the next day." Liu Qi said.

"This is great." Dania smiled mischievously: "I must be waiting for the two officials to be the best!"

Liu Qi and Li Quan laughed again.
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