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Chapter 7 Gold Leaf

The next day, after breakfast, Liu Yu and his wife, Liu He, Ao Lie and Shuang'er, came to the small courtyard where Ao Lie usually practiced martial arts.

Liu Yu looked at the hundreds of small cigarettes that Shuang'er took out, and was even more surprised and asked Ao Lie: "Lie'er, can this thing really have the effect of incense?"

Ao Lie nodded without doubt and replied: "Yes, but there is still the last process that has not been completed." Liu Yu nodded and said: "Then let's start."

Ao Lie waved to Shuang'er, and Shuang'er came forward with a brazier. Ao Lie took the brazier and placed it on the ground, then picked up an iron plate, covered it on the brazier, and then placed the spices on the iron plate. After a while, the iron plate was hot by the brazier, and the spices placed on the iron plate began to melt, and a fragrance appeared. Ao Lie took a cigarette roll, placed it on the melted spices, smoked and roasted it repeatedly, and whipped it back and forth for more than ten times before it was completed.

According to the above method, Ao Lie smoked hundreds of cigarette rolls one by one, then wiped the sweat beads on his forehead, and then Zhan Yan smiled and said, "Okay, the job is done. This is the flue-cured tobacco type. Well, the golden silk leaves, its name is golden silk leaves." Liu Yu was very interested, and reached out to pick up a golden silk leaves, flipped it in his hand a few times, and asked, "How to use this golden silk leaves?"

Ao Lie stepped forward and picked up the flint and lit one of the golden silk leaves, then handed it to Liu Yu, and said, "Put the unlit one into your mouth and suck it." Liu Yu put the golden silk leaves into his mouth as he said, "It's wonderful, wonderful! At first, the taste was slightly bitter, but later it was sweet and sweet, which made people feel refreshed." Liu He heard his father's praise, couldn't help but walk up, picked up a golden silk leaves, lit them according to Liu Yu's appearance and sucked them. A moment later, Liu He also praised: "It's really wonderful!"

Ao Lie was very happy to receive praise from his father and elder brother. Although the materials during this period were limited and the technology was not developed, it was impossible to make tobacco similar to those in later generations, but the benefits were not lacking. In this way, the tobacco produced by Ao Lie is purely natural, without any industrial raw materials, and it does not harm the human body.

After looking at Shuang'er, Ao Lie said, "Father, my child usually has to practice swordsmanship and shoots, and he doesn't have much time to make tobacco, so the child plans to hand over this matter to Sister Shuang'er. In this way, he can make tobacco for money and not spread the tobacco production method."

Liu Yu turned to look at Shuang'er and said with a smile: "Very good." Shuang'er hurriedly bowed and thanked, "Thank you, Master." Liu Yu waved his hand and said, "Speaking of this, Shuang'er has been a maid in my Liu family since Lie'er was born. In the blink of an eye, it has been eight years since the past year, and my wife and I have not regarded you as an outsider. I feel at ease with this matter to you."

Ao Lie packed the remaining golden silk leaves, thought about it, took out more than 30 pieces from them, divided them into three pieces, and handed them to Liu Yu, Liu He and Mrs. Ao, saying, "The child will go to the market with Sister Shuang'er to sell these golden silk leaves. These three pieces are left for his father, elder brother and grandfather."

At Jiuyuan Market, Ao Lie and Shuang'er stood side by side, with a bag of golden silk leaves in front of them. Shuang'er shouted crisply: "You sell golden silk leaves, you have good incense, it's not good to be fragrant, don't miss it when you pass by." Then he turned around and asked Ao Lie a little nervously: "I'm right?" Ao Lie nodded with a smile, and said with encouragement: "That's right, just shout!" In fact, Ao Lie has never seen a vendor selling things in this life, but he taught Shuang'er such a way to sell according to his memories of his previous life.

After a while, a gorgeously dressed merchant came over and heard Shuang'er's hawking, and couldn't help but stop. He glanced at the golden silk leaves on the ground, and asked, "How to sell this thing?" Shuang'er was about to answer, but Ao Lie said first: "This guest official, this is the first time that we siblings have been selling things at the market. Give you a bargain. Each golden silk leaves only cost 100 yuan."

"One hundred dollars? Why don't you rob it?" the merchant scolded angrily. His anger immediately attracted a lot of people to watch.

Ao Lie calmly picked up a golden silk leaf and handed it to the merchant, saying, "Why don't you try it first? It's not good to have money." The merchant took the golden silk leaf handed over by Ao Lie half-believingly, put it in his mouth and sucked it, and immediately showed a look of enjoyment. After sucking the whole golden silk leaf, he said, "Mire, wonderful, wonderful. One hundred coins are indeed worth the money, give me ten."

Shuang'er was shocked by Ao Lie's behavior of asking for a price all the time. What shocked her even more was that the gorgeously dressed merchant actually wanted to buy ten without hesitation. She was dazed, but Ao Lie didn't look dazed. She quickly picked up ten golden silk leaves, then wrapped them into a small ball of cloth, and handed them to the merchant, while saying, "These are ten, you can hold them, and there are a total of one thousand yuan. The one you tasted just now is not your money."

The merchant took the cloth bag and smiled and said, "You kid are so good at doing business." After that, he took out a big hanging of money from his sleeve and handed it to Ao Lie.

When the onlookers saw the merchants paying for gold silk leaves happily, they were curious and came up to ask Ao Lie: "Boy, we want to buy it, but we don't know what the gold silk leaves tastes. Can you taste it first?" Ao Lie grabbed a handful of gold silk leaves without hesitation, and handed it to the people in front of him, saying, "It depends on parents at home and friends at home. The small business of our siblings depends on all the nobles. How can we not follow it?"

Seeing Ao Lie being cheerful and generous, everyone took the golden silk leaves one after another, ignited them and sucked them. Those who sucked first suddenly applauded and rushed to buy them. Those who had not yet sucked them wanted to go forward and compete, but they were inconvenient to move with the ignited golden silk leaves. They wanted to throw away the remaining golden silk leaves, but they were reluctant to leave them. They were in a dilemma for a while.

Without much effort, the golden silk leaves brought by Ao Lie sold for 70% to 80% and only less than ten were left. Shuang'er happily counted the big money in her hand, and while counting, she said happily to Ao Lie: "Second Duke... Er Lie'er, we made more than 4,000 yuan today, and it's a lot of big money. I've never seen so much money before."

Ao Lie also raised his head happily and was about to talk to Shuang'er, but suddenly his face changed and he looked at the corner of the street with a serious expression.

At the corner of the street, a figure slowly walked towards him. Shuang'er saw the change of expression on Ao Lie's face, and looked at Ao Lie's gaze and saw a young man in his twenties walking slowly. The young man was tall and burly and handsome. Although he was only wearing ordinary clothes, he gave people an extraordinary feeling.

Of course, this was just Shuang'er's feeling. At this moment, Ao Lie's heart was filled with storms. He felt that since the young man appeared, there seemed to be an invisible aura that was centered on him and kept emitting all around him. It seemed that between heaven and earth, he was the core, the master. What surprised Ao Lie even more was that this young man was carrying a weapon behind him, a weapon that made Ao Lie feel more stressed - the long halberd!

The young man walked up to Ao Lie and the others, looked down at the golden silk leaves, and asked in a deep voice: "What? What?" The language was short and concise, pointing directly to what he thought. When Shuang'er was asked by the young man, she suddenly felt as if there was an invisible sword pointing at him, and she couldn't speak for a while.

Ao Lie used the Wudang master Wuji Nine Yang Gong in his previous life, resisting the momentum of this young man, and then answered: "This thing is called golden silk leaves, one hundred coins per piece." The young man looked at Ao Lie in a little surprised and said in a deep voice again: "You are not bad. Five."

Ao Lie picked up five golden silk leaves and handed them to the young man. The young man reached out to take it, looked at Ao Lie seriously, and said, "I will go to Zhengyang Valley in the suburbs tomorrow to get the money." After that, he did not stop and turned around and left.

Until the young man disappeared from his sight, Shuang'er gasped and said, "This man is so domineering. Why didn't he pay for something?" Ao Lie did not respond to Shuang'er's words, but stared at the direction of the young man's distant figure thinking about it, muttering to himself: "The master of using halberds, in his twenties, is it him?" Shuang'er asked in confusion: "Who is it?" Ao Lie shook his head and said, "Maybe, maybe not, I can't get it right. Anyway, I will know tomorrow, so there is no need to guess it yourself. By the way, Sister Shuang'er, we sold almost the golden silk leaves today, so why don't we go back."

Speaking of the golden silk leaves, Shuang'er's interest was raised again and she said with a smile: "Okay, I'll be very happy to see that we sold four dumplings in half a day."

The two of them cleaned up and returned to the county magistrate's mansion with satisfaction with the harvest of the day.

In the lobby of the county magistrate's mansion, Liu Yu and Mrs. Ao sat upright in the middle hall. Looking at Ao Lie and Shuang'er who came back in half a day, Liu Yu said, "I'll be back so soon? Are those golden silk leaves not easy to sell? It doesn't matter. The family is not short of food and clothing, so if you can't sell them, you can't sell them. To be honest, I still want to enjoy the taste of golden silk leaves every day, so why not leave them for me."

Ao Lie was stunned for a moment, looked back at Shuang'er, and couldn't help but smile with Shuang'er. It turned out that his father thought they were coming back from a wall. Shuang'er chuckled and said, "Master, Madam, today I have sold out all the golden silk leaves, and sold them for a total of four large sums of money."

Liu Yu responded casually: "Well, no matter how much you sell, you just have this experience, don't care...what? Four-drunk big money?" He looked back at Mrs. Ao, and saw that Mrs. Ao was also surprised to cover her mouth, looking like she couldn't believe it. Liu Yu asked again: "Shuang'er, how much did you say you sold?" Shuang'er simply put the package in her arms on the ground, then opened the package, revealing the four-drunk big money inside.
Chapter completed!
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