Although the group looked unusual, the soldiers guarding the gate still had to check the Lu Gui.

Zhao Xiancheng quickly took out the tooth sign of the Imperial College and handed it to the soldiers. The donated student was worthless in front of real scholars and despised, but in front of several big-headed soldiers, it was a symbol of scholars after all.

When the soldiers at the door saw the tooth sign, they immediately saluted respectfully, "It turns out that he is Mr. Zhao from the Imperial College! But Mr. Zhao took so many servants riding good horses when he went out?"

After all, a small prison student can bring more than fifty people out, and everyone rides a top-notch horse, which is more presumptuous.

Li Guodong took out his waist sign and handed it on it. When the soldiers saw it, they were stunned. After all, they were generals. Moreover, the incident of Li Guodong killing slaves in Tongzhou had spread throughout the army. The soldiers admired and feared him, and they didn't even dare to charge the city gate fee.

"Take it, brothers, thank you for your hard work!" Li Guodong forced a few broken silver into the hands of the soldiers. After all, these door-guarding soldiers are also military households. Even the military households in Nanzhili are glamorous on the surface and their lives are not easy. The city gate fee is actually a disguised commercial tax. As long as you bring goods into the city and leave the city, you have to pay silver. Even hawkers and farmers who carry vegetables to the city to sell, they have to pay one or two copper coins. Of course, if a convoy of well-known officials enters the city, no one dares to charge the city gate fee even if there are too many goods.

Several soldiers thanked each other and let Li Guodong and his group enter the city.

"Let's find an inn to live first. Brothers have worked hard all the way, find a better one." Li Guodong had silver on him, and Zheng Zhilong gave him 50,000 taels of silver for the technology transfer fee for casting cannons. Li Guodong left 10,000 taels on his body as a means of confusion, and gave the rest to Zheng Zhilong to exchange copper ingots.

In that era, when there were 10,000 taels of silver on his body, he was already a rich man. Of course, 10,000 taels of silver cost more than 600 kilograms, Li Guodong could not have put it on his body alone, but his brothers dressed together. However, with 10,000 taels of silver, it was no problem to stay in a better hotel in Suzhou.

However, Li Guodong had just lived in Suzhou, and trouble came: Zhang Pu from Fushe ordered his family to visit him and sent Li Guodong an invitation. The address of the banquet was Guijiayuan in Shengze Town, Lakeside in southern Suzhou.

"Shengze returns home to the courtyard?" Li Guodong didn't know the address, so he asked the waiter.

"From the city from Shemen, take a boat south and travels 30 miles south, you can reach Shengze, Wujiang. The boat stops at Chuihong Pavilion and arrives." The waiter was surprised that Li Guodong didn't know that Shengze was returning to his yard.

Since it was invited by Zhang Pu, Li Guodong decided to go there. Although the Donglin Party was beaten to death by Wen Tiren at this time, Li Guodong also knew that he still couldn't afford to offend the Donglin Party at this time.

"I'll ask you two about the loom. I'll take Dashan and Lao Liu to go there." Li Guodong handed over the checking of the Suzhou factory to He Xing and Zhao Xiancheng, and took Han Dashan and Wu Lao Liu to Shengze for a banquet.

At noon the next day, Li Guodong left Suzhou City and took a boat to Chuihong Pavilion.

The big ship arrived at the Chuihong Pavilion in Wujiang and asked someone else's address. Someone immediately rowed a small boat: "Customer, please come with the villain, this small boat can deliver you."

After changing into the boat, Li Guodong arrived at Shengze. The boatman said, "Three officials, when they arrived, the courtyard was next to the river."

Li Guodong handed the boatman a small piece of broken silver: "No need to look for it."

After the boatman took it, he held Yin Zi's gratitude and thanked him: "The official is such a good person!"

This small piece of silver costs about five cents. Generally, the shipping fee is only about ten cents of copper coins from Chuihong Pavilion to Guijiayuan. The number of people who can give twenty cents of copper coins is considered too much. Li Guodong gave five cents of silver, which is equivalent to five hundred cents of copper coins!

Li Guodong got off the boat and saw a wooden sign with the words "Return to Home" written on the door. He was standing at the door in a daze. A woman about thirty years old walked out. Li Guodong observed the woman and saw that she was dressed up just right, looking charming, but almost no dusty atmosphere.

"Young man, come in quickly!" The woman smiled charmingly, and Li Guodong felt a gust of fragrant wind blowing towards him.

"This sister is dressed well and has a good temperament." Li Guodong bowed his hand and avoided the woman's hand that was trying to hold her arm.

The woman's face turned red and Yingying blessed: "Young master, I am old, where is my sister? You want my sister and I can arrange it for you."

Li Guodong handed over the invitation: "It was Mr. Zhang Ximing and Mr. Zhang who invited someone to come."

"Ah! It turns out that he is Mr. Zhang's distinguished guest! I'm so rude!" The woman quickly and enthusiastically invited Li Guodong to an elegant yard behind the Guijiayuan.

"Sister's name, haven't asked for advice yet?"

"My surname is Xu, and her name is Buddha."

Li Guodong was a little shocked and murmured to himself: "It turns out to be Xu Fo! But he is a big shot!"

"Young Master is too awarded, so what is the big shot in me? You, Mr. Li, you, you, fight the enemy and recite poems. Since Mr. Wazi met the young master last time, all the scholars in Fushe want to see the young master." Xu Fo smiled charmingly. Although she was already thirty years old, she was full of charm, her skin was well maintained, and she was still so delicate that it could drip out of water.

Xu Fo arranged for Li Guodong to sit down in the backyard and then went to serve tea and water in person.

Li Guodong observed and found that there was a unique world in the backyard. There were many scholars sitting in the front yard that had just passed by. The backyard was very quiet, with pavilions, towers, small bridges and flowing water, which contained the atmosphere of Jiangnan.

"Mama Xu, Mr. Zhang is here!" Just as Xu Fo was entertaining Li Guodong, a maid came to report.

"Please wait, please go and invite Mr. Zhang."

After a while, Xu Fo walked in with a scholar about thirty years old, with a white face and a pretty face. When the man saw Li Guodong, he bowed and said, "Is the young master Li Guodong of Xuanfu?"

"It's me, sir, but Mr. Zhang Qiandu?" Li Guodong stood up and greeted him back and forth.

"It's Taicang Zhang Pu! There are few convincing people in Wazi, but when it comes to Mr. Li, he always praises him! Even the Zhang family in Tongcheng Fang family looked at the young master with admiration." Zhang Pu bowed deeply.

"I have heard Mr. Wozi mention Mr. Ximing's name for a long time. Unexpectedly, as soon as Li came to Suzhou, Mr. Ximing invited Mr. Li, a vulgar martial artist."

Xu Fo laughed and said, "If Mr. Li is a vulgar martial artist, then those scholars outside are not as good as vulgar martial artists."

Zhang Pu also said: "Wozi is arrogant by nature and looks down on most people, but she admires Mr. Li very much. In addition, Mr. Xu is also Zhang's mentor. With this, Zhang is willing to date Mr. Li."

The two talked a lot again, but Li Guodong could not agree with Zhang Pu's Fushe. Fushe was actually the Donglin Party. At this time, another maid came outside to report: "Young Master Gong and Mr. Wu are here."

The people who came were Gong Dingzi and Wu Weiye.
Chapter completed!