Chapter 514 - Late Co (1/2)

Chapter 514: Late Co

It was the 11th day of the second lunar n in the Great Han E was here The te warm but it was still pretty chilly A few days after the snow had , blanketing Pingxi Prefecture white

Riding in a four-wheeled carriage, Yan Liqiang was inspired when he saw the snow fluttering past the green buds of thetrees and couldn’t help but recite a poerow First in the second lunar rass shoots The white snow is vexed by the late coh the pavilion and trees it flies like a blosso when he recited the poee iave hie with Yan Liqiang was none other than Yan Dechang The blacksmith, who usually had his chest exposed and a ha his apprentices by the furnace in the blacksmith workshop, looked almost like an entirely different person He wore a dark purple cap, and had also carefully trimmed his bushysilk robes he earing, no one would have guessed he was a blacksmith as he looked like the head of an influential clan

The people outside the carriage looked sharp too Zhou Yong and sixteen soldiers fro bureau were fully dressed in ar swords and boith thee which Yan Liqiang and his father were in Behind their carriage were eight ordinary four-wheeled carriages used to transport goods

Two of theine by the es were transporting gifts that Yan Liqiang had carefully picked out for the Lu Clan There were two living deer in one of the carriages, and a few kilograes were filled by scented teas, candied fruit, fine wine, all sorts of beautiful iteold jewelry…

The flying snow outside didn’t da in the carriage, the people outside were all joyful and in high spirits

“Liqiang, you were reciting… a poe asked softly fro turned his head to hi was a blacksmith, but he wasn’t illiterate However, he had only heard of sos created by scholars as a pastime were always a niche in this world Therefore, even if Yan Dechang heard it, he couldn’t be entirely sure it was a poe

“Er a poe explained

“Did youquickly asked

“Yes, I did” Yan Liqiang could only force hi to Han Yu and his fa spoke while he fished out a book fro

Yan Liqiang looked at it to find that it was ‘Journey to the West’, which looked almost entirely different than before At the bottom of the new book cover, was a row of text that read —’Author: Yan Liqiang of Gan Province’!

Yan Liqiang looked at the book, then at Yan Dechang’s serious gaze He felt slightly embarrassed and was at a loss for words All he could do was give his father a silly grin while rubbing his nose

“This book was brought here by a foreign merchant who came to Liuhe Tohen you were away for a duel at the Heavenly Lake The merchant said that the content was a serial publication on so called ‘The Great Han Times’ Anyways, I didn’t really knohat a serial publication was, but he mentioned that when it was completed last year, it was compiled into a book The moment it caradually spread and nearly all the storytellers in the teahouses and restaurants in the I this story The merchant said that this book ritten by you when you were in the Imperial Capital Is that true?”

“I indeed wrote this when I had free ti could only continue forcing hi martial arts under my supervision every day You have not been to a teahouse even once and have never heard any fantasy story fro tale? Also, about the poeh your father isn’t a scholarlyEven when you were in the martial arts academy back then, they didn’t teach poetry there I heard only scholars who had studied poetry for over a few decades could ’s eyes “You greithout touching any of this stuff So, how did you e to write a book and make up a poem like that?”