Sui and Tang Dynasties: Awakening the Supreme Skills at the Beginning

Chapter 8 Opportunity Comes

It was just dawn when Li Zhen finished his meditation and stood up from his couch.

After a night of diligent practice, Li Zhen felt full of energy, and his realm seemed to have reached the peak of Qi Refining.

Unlike the middle stage of Qi training, the life sensing and empathy abilities at the peak of Qi training will be greatly enhanced.

"Uncle, these are some wild vegetables that Jianing has dug up. Eat some first!"

Li Mantun took the wild vegetables with a helpless look on his face.

"Yeah, but eating wild vegetables all the time is not a solution."

"Uncle, Jianing will start embroidering now. I will take it back to exchange for some rice later!"

"Alas, the autumn harvest has just passed. After paying the population tax and land tax, the bandits have robbed us. We only have more than a hundred acres of land, but our family can't even afford to eat. How about I sell some of the land? Let's get through this difficult time first!"

"Uncle, you can't do that!"

Li Zhen shouted and came to the yard.

With a "clang", the wild vegetable basin in Li Mantun's hand fell to the ground.

Li Jianing and Li Mantun were shocked.

"Uncle, this land is very useful to my nephew, so we can't sell it!"

"Isn't it just that there is no food? I will go to the city to try my skills and bring back food in the evening. Uncle and sister, don't worry!"

Li Zhen said lightly.

Indeed, apart from anything else, just relying on the knowledge in one's brain that is far ahead of this era, it is easy to make a little money.

Now we are in the end of the Sui Dynasty, and many things in the world have not yet appeared, such as salt-making, sugar-making, perfume, and strong liquor, any one of them would be a groundbreaking product.

Seeing Li Zhen's relaxed look, Li Mantun and Li Jianing were skeptical.

Ok?

Go out and make money?

How can you make money if you don’t have any skills and no knowledge?

Li Jianing was not optimistic about Li Zhen, but a little hope could not help but appear in her beautiful and desperate eyes.

"Dad, I'm hungry!"

At this time, little girl Li Li appeared out of nowhere, grabbed the corner of Li Mantun's clothes, sucked her fingers and looked at him eagerly.

"Dad will cook right away. Lily won't be hungry after eating!"

Li Mantun looked at his little daughter and said guiltily.

"Oh! Oh! There's food!"

The little kid happily circled around Li Mantun.

"Sister, Second Uncle, you guys should rest well at home. I'm going out to make some money. I'll be back before dark and bring you some delicious food!"

After he finished speaking, he turned around and walked out without waiting for the two to reply.

Walking on the road, I looked up and saw that the wheat seedlings in the field were sparse. When I got closer, I saw that almost half of the seedlings had been eaten by locusts. It seemed that next year would be another disaster year! Life was difficult for ordinary people!

Although he had knowledge far beyond his time, doing business required capital, and he was penniless, so what could he do?

Along the way, Li Zhen fell into deep thought.

As he walked, Li Zhen noticed that the flow of people around him had changed.

Previously, the streets were populated by all kinds of people, young and old, male and female, but now this street is mostly populated by men, and most of them are elegant noblemen and dignitaries dressed in silk and satin.

"Brother, are you also going to Baoyue Tower to attend the poetry gathering?"

While he was thinking about it, suddenly an arm stretched out and grabbed Li Zhen's shoulders.

"Baoyue Tower?"

"Poetry party?"

Li Zhen was stunned for a moment, then he bowed and said, "That's right."

"May I know your name, brother?"

"My name is Wang Ke, what's your name, brother?"

The man bowed to Li Zhen.

"Li Zhen."

"Brother Li, we happen to be going the same way."

The two of them each had their own plans, and like close friends who had not seen each other for many years, they walked towards Baoyue Tower hand in hand.

Baoyue Tower is located opposite Tongyuan Pavilion. It has carved beams and painted buildings, and looks grand and elegant.

The two of them walked to the door of Baoyue Tower and were about to go in.

"Wait!"

Just as I approached the entrance of Baoyue Tower, a voice was heard.

"This guest looks unfamiliar. Not just anyone can enter our Baoyue Tower!"

Li Zhen looked up and saw two burly men standing at the door, looking at them with contempt with their hands folded.

At this time, Li Zhen was wearing a coarse cloth gown with two patches on it, and cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles...

Judging from his attire alone, he certainly cannot be compared with the elegant and graceful nobleman.

"Hey! You blind dog slave, this is my companion Brother Li, why don't you get out of the way!"

Wang Ke, who was traveling with him, glared and was about to get angry.

The big man bowed to Wang Ke.

"Master Wang, it's not that I don't want to give you face, but the rules of this poetry gathering are that only people with high academic attainments can enter. Please don't embarrass me!"

"You, man, I see you can't write any poetry, so don't embarrass yourself by pretending to be someone else!"

The big man guarding the door squinted his eyes, glanced at Li Zhen and said disapprovingly.

"Why don't you take a piss and look at yourself? Do you think a place like Baoyue Tower is something a peasant like you can enter?"

"It is! It is!"

Soon, the entrance of Baoyue Tower was surrounded by a group of idle people and no one could get in or out.

"Then tell me, how can we enter the Baoyue Tower?"

Li Zhen was not annoyed. He gently patted Wang Ke, who was about to get angry, and said calmly.

"Open your dog eyes and take a look. You can write couplets and poems here. As long as our shopkeeper agrees, you can enter freely. But if you can't do it... humph!"

"How are you doing?"

Wang Ke snorted coldly.

"Of course, get out of here, as far as you can!"

"You are so presumptuous!"

Wang Ke was about to get angry.

Li Zhen stepped forward and patted his shoulder gently, "No hurry!"

"Please give me the first line."

Li Zhen said slowly.

"Oh, I didn't realize that this guy actually dared to challenge our Baoyue Tower!"

"Can you match our couplet with your virtue?"

"Don't embarrass yourself, get out of here right away, and don't ruin the fun of the masters!"

"Not everyone can match the couplets in Baoyue Tower. Last time, a scholar from Dongshan spent a long time trying to match a sentence but couldn't get it right. In the end, he was thrown out. How embarrassing!"

"Yes, yes!"

Everyone was talking about it.

"Brother Li, the couplets in Baoyue Tower are quite difficult to write, and I am powerless to do it. How about we go somewhere else?"

Wang Ke, who was standing next to him, felt guilty and pulled Li Zhen over and whispered to him.

It seems that the reason why Wang Ke wanted to partner with me was probably because he couldn't match the couplets and couldn't enter Baoyue Tower.

Li Zhen said in his heart.

"It doesn't matter!"

Li Zhen waved his hand.

As a former top student, things like composing couplets and poems were not difficult for him, not to mention that he had the essence of thousands of years of Chinese culture in his mind, so he could always copy if he couldn't make a couplet.

"Please give me a question!"

At this time, an old man walked out of Baoyue Tower. The big man stepped forward and bowed to the old man.

"Boss, this kid wants to write a couplet!"

Wu Yuquan stepped forward and looked at Li Zhen. "Young sir, please come in!"

"Please!" Li Zhen bowed.

"The first line is..."

Wu Yuquan cleared his throat and read it out slowly.

"The moon is full in the sky, half full on earth, and full every month."

"Ha! What a difficult pair. Let's see how that kid handles it!"

"That's right! It's going to be a good show!"

The onlookers were eagerly waiting for Li Zhen to make a fool of himself.

Li Zhen pondered for a moment and then spoke out.