After a while, Yan Liqiang woke up. When he opened his eyes, he saw himself lying in a pile of firewood, with thick dry straw under his body. There was a spider web facing the corner of the wall in front of him. The wind was exposed on the walls on all sides. This seemed to be a woodshed with firewood.

There was still a little drowsy in my head. Last night, it was the first time Yan Liqiang got drunk and lost his composure. Yan Liqiang remembered that he seemed to be going to Luyuan last night, but because he was drunk, he fell asleep in a pavilion next to the official road. Unexpectedly, he was here after waking up.

It seems that it is a kind-hearted person who brought him here from the pavilion next to the official road!

Yan Liqiang checked his whole body and found that he was intact and his things were still there, and he had never been passive. Thinking that since he was drunk last night, Yan Liqiang was secretly scared. Fortunately, he had not met any enemies or evil people. If he encountered this, like last night, wouldn’t any gangster be able to take his life?

"This is the first and the last time. I will never get drunk again!" I murmured to myself, and made up my mind. Yan Liqiang lifted the straw that had been killed on his body, stood up, moved his hands and feet slightly, and stood in this woodshed. After taking a deep breath, he got the "Three Talents to Open the Breath" of Yijin and Marrow Cleansing Meridian...

The powerful energy of heaven and earth and spiritual energy gathered from all directions like water from the drainage gate, and then poured into Yan Liqiang's head. Under the purging of the powerful energy of heaven and earth and spiritual energy, the remaining alcoholic spirit on Yan Liqiang's body was instantly washed away and disappeared without a trace, and the agility and power returned to Yan Liqiang's body again.

"Three Talents to Open the Qi Momentum" just finished practicing, and when he heard footsteps outside the door, Yan Liqiang also took the opportunity to accomplish his work.

"Squeak..." The door of the woodshed was pushed open, and an old man wearing a blue dress with gray hair and a little hunched back walked in, holding a bowl of hot porridge in his hand. Seeing that Yan Liqiang had woken up, the old man laughed, "Young man, are you awake?"

"Did you bring me here last night, my father-in-law?"

"Yes, my son and I went home late last night. I happened to see you sleeping in the pavilion by the side of the road, so I brought you back!" The old man said this, shook his head and sighed, "You young people just don't know how to care for their bodies. I don't know if you can't get drunk when drinking on snowy days. It was so heavy last night, and it was so cold outside. You can't feel cold when you drink too much, but as long as you sleep outside, your body will slowly become completely stiff and you can't wake up again. Every year, this imperial capital city will snow heavily, and you will have to freeze a few drunk people who can't go home if you get drunk..."

With Yan Liqiang's cultivation, even if he sleeps naked in the snow for a night, he will never be frozen to death. However, he also knew that the old man was telling the truth and kind-hearted. Ordinary people, or people with low cultivation, would really not get up again after sleeping outside in a snowy day after getting drunk.

"Thank you for your help!" Yan Liqiang bowed to the old man, "I don't know where this is?"

"This is Xiaoqizhuang..." The old man said, with a smile on his face, and handed over the bowl in his hand, "Come on, drink this bowl of porridge to warm your stomach and be energetic..."

Yan Liqiang thanked him, took the bowl of porridge, and just took a sip, and felt that the porridge was a little sweet. He stirred it with a spoon and found that under the porridge, there was a layer of brown sugar sprinkles underneath. Looking at the old man's clothes, it was just an ordinary person, but brown sugar and other things were more expensive than oil and salt for these ordinary people...

"Well, I've drunk too much wine, and eating some sweet things is good. It just so happens that I still have a little brown sugar at home. The brown sugar has been kept at home for a long time, and the taste has changed a little, but the sweetness is still there. Young people, don't dislike it..." The old man also saw that Yan Liqiang found the brown sugar in the porridge bowl, so he spoke.

"Brother-in-law, what are you talking about? I'm too late to thank you, how could I dislike you!" Yan Liqiang smiled and drank the porridge in big mouthfuls.

"Haha..." The old man laughed, looked at Yan Liqiang who was eating porridge kindly, and chatted with Yan Liqiang, "I think you, a young man, don't seem to have suffered a hard life. His family background should be good, I'm afraid you won't get used to it..."

"How did you see that, father-in-law?"

"Look, you don't even have a calluse on your hands. They are tender and tender. They obviously don't work. Last night you got drunk. The jar of wine thrown beside you is the most famous and expensive Qianjialou, the strong wine aged in the imperial capital. So a jar of wine costs at least ten taels of silver. Where can ordinary people afford it? They are willing to drink it like you, and treat wine as water. I tell you, there is no hurdle in this world that I cannot overcome. I am not afraid of an old man. You young people must not give up on yourself..."

Yan Liqiang had calluses on his hands before. A thick layer was left behind by practicing bow and gun techniques. However, after he sucked the essence of the ten thousand-year-old spiritual leech, the calluses on his hands fell off, and his whole body became thin and tender, and there were no calluses on his hands anymore, so he looked like a young man who never worked. As for the jar of wine, Yan Liqiang really bought it for eighteen taels of silver.

In the blink of an eye, Yan Liqiang drank the porridge in his hand without leaving any left. He put down the bowl and wiped his mouth. Instead, he smiled and hugged his father-in-law, "Brother-in-law, you are so keen. Thank you for bringing me back last night. I will definitely repay you..."

"Oh, what can I report or not? I am so old and good and bad people can still see it. There is a sense of righteousness between your eyebrows. You definitely won't be a bad person. I'm just a simple task. Don't take it to heart. By the way, I listen to your accent, I should be from another place..."

"Well, my hometown is in Ganzhou..."

"Ganzhou, that's so far, why is it so far? It's in the middle of winter, I'll come to the Imperial Capital!" the old man asked curiously.

"If you have something to do at home, you have to come!"

"Oh, so that's it!" The old man nodded, and then persuaded earnestly, "Young man, leave the Imperial Capital quickly after finishing your business. You should have heard of the heavenly tribulation of the Imperial Capital. Now this Imperial Capital is not a place to stay for a long time. Almost all those who can leave have left..."

"Oh, I have heard that news, thank you for reminding me, by the way, why haven't you left yet..."

"It's not that easy to leave!" The old man sighed with a frown, "Our family has lived in this village for generations. It's not that easy for families like us to leave with their families. When the first time I heard that when the stone turtle was dug out from the Ling'an River, my family was half-believing and half-doubted. When the news became more and more serious, the family was also preparing to sell the old house and the little land in the house, and gather some money before leaving, but at this time, how could it be sold again? After such delays, I can't leave now. The people in the government are all day long.

They were all roaming the gong in the village, saying that the stone turtle said was fabricated by a bad person, and they were deceived by the evil words, so that everyone should not believe it, and not panic. If you want to leave, you have to go to the government to lead the way. The chief A of the village has been walking around the village for a day, for fear that you will run away. Like the Liu Laosi family in our village, they were originally planning to run away, but were discovered by the chief A, and the family was arrested, and then taken back to the village for public display. The land and houses at home were confiscated by the government, which was tragic. I heard that they are still locked in a cell now, who dares to leave casually? How can this person with his family be left behind?

"I have heard that I came to the Imperial Capital this time. I want to open a road when I go out. The newspaper said that the stone turtle said was fake..."

"I also wonder, since Shi Gui's words are fake, why don't the wealthy families and high-ranking officials and nobles stay in the imperial capital? They ran away with their own houses and money, leaving clean, but told us that these ordinary people will not have any natural disasters and man-made disasters in the imperial capital next year. Everything will be good and everything will be good, so that we ordinary people can stay with peace of mind. Those wealthy families and nobles say something behind their backs, how can people believe that if something really won't happen in this imperial capital, they believe what they said, why don't they stay, but run away instead..." The old man said angrily.

"You guys, you can see clearly!"

"Why don't I understand, my family originally delivered pear blossom charcoal to the rich families in the city. Last year, my son and I had to send dozens of big families a day at this time, so we just made some money by working hard for a winter. This year, all the rich families left, and no one left. The ten pear blossom charcoal families could not deliver one, so they all drove a car to lower the price along the street and sold it at a discount. Last night, my son and I sold the car in the Imperial Capital City for a day and had half of the car left. If I hadn't come back too late, I wouldn't have met you..."

"By the way, I don't know how many people are there in your family, your surname is your father?"

"Haha, I don't have the surname Hu, and I have only four people in my family, I, my son, my daughter-in-law and a grandson..."

...

After chatting with the old man for a while, and getting the information he wanted, Yan Liqiang left. Mr. Hu's family lived in the east of Xiaoqizhuang. There were three mud houses, one pigpen and one woodshed. Last night, they brought Yan Liqiang. There was really no place to live in the family, so they could only place Yan Liqiang in the woodshed. Early this morning, Mr. Hu's son took his wife to drive a car to the city to sell charcoal. In this family, Mr. Hu and his grandson who had just turned eight remained.

When Yan Liqiang left, Mr. Hu took his grandson to send Yan Liqiang out of Xiaoqizhuang and pointed out the way for Yan Liqiang. Yan Liqiang quietly stuffed a silver note of 500 taels of silver into his grandson's pocket, and then said goodbye to Mr. Hu and left.

...

There was a night of snow, and the snow had not stopped yet. The snow on the road was more than half a foot thick. Yan Liqiang, who left Xiaoqizhuang, walked on the official road. In less than an hour, he arrived at the door of Luyuan, the western suburbs.

Several soldiers wearing cotton coats were standing guard at the door of Luyuan. Because it was cold, the soldiers stomped their feet and started to slap their hands, and were very cold. When they saw Yan Liqiang walking straight towards the door of Luyuan, the soldiers turned their heads and looked here with some vigilance. When Yan Liqiang approached, one of the officers suddenly saw Yan Liqiang's face clearly. The expression on his face changed instantly, and then they screamed with joy.
Chapter completed!