Bird Dude Nie Bufan

Chapter 9

"August autumn winds howl angrily, blowing away my three-fold thatch roof......The cloth quilts have turned cold as iron over many years, and beloved son has torn it from kicking in his sleep. The entire house lack any dry place, the raindrops are concentrated like hemp strings......"

The first thing Li Yi heard when he got up early in the morning was Nie Bufan reciting poems loudly outside the house. He had been slightly frightened last night and didn't sleep well all night. This guy was in good spirits though.

"Since the chaos of Anshi Rebellion sleeplessness accompany me, how can we endure this wet and long night! How can we get a wide and spacious house, to shelter the world's poor scholars so that they may all be joyful, as unmoving as a mountain in the wind and rain!"

En? Unexpectedly, this person had some literary talent, this poem was quite meaningful. 　　 　　

"Ai!" Nie Bufan stood at the door of his house and said with emotion, "When will such a house be seen, it is enough for just my hut to be broken and myself frozen to death!"

Li Yi followed his gaze and saw that half the roof of the house where Nie Bufan lived had been blown away. No wonder he ran over to sleep with him last night.

"Ai, old brother Du Fu's "The Thatched House is Broken by the Autumn Wind" is too realistic, not possible to disagree even if you wanted to." Nie Bufan rubbed his nose and shouted, "Chicken Servant, Chicken Servant."

"Coming, what's the matter?" Tu Beng ran over.

"Go to the city and find a few artisans. The houses in our village will need to be repaired and add a few fireplaces as well. It would be the best to get it all ready before winter comes."

Although Tu Beng don't know what a fireplace was, but he was very happy to be able to repair the houses and immediately made preparations and headed out.

Nie Bufan walked into the room, took out his piggy bank, and counted the copper coins one by one.

Li Yi also followed in. Seeing that his two jars of coins were no more than ten taels at most, he couldn't help but say, "You only have this much savings?"

Nie Bufan didn't even look at him, and said lightly: "We are poor people, do you know what poor people are?"

"Then will there be enough money to repair the house later?"

"Wealthy people like you don't understand how cheap the labor costs of poor people are."

Li Yi twitched the corners of his mouth and said, "I have some money with me." He reached into his clothes and took out some banknotes.

Nie Bufan did not bother acting modestly with him, stretching out his hand to take it. Taking a look, he smiled and said, "100 taels per banknote, not bad."

Li Yi was about to give him a contemptuous look when he heard: "It's just that, these blood-stains, who dare to exchange silver taels for me?"

Displaying the banknotes in front of Li Yi's eyes, all three banknotes were baptized with blood, looking very much glaring to the eyes.

Nie Bufan said in a huff: "Taking this thing out, others might think that I had robbed and killed someone. You should keep it yourself."

Li Yi didn't move, his expression dark.

"Honestly, if you knew that you have a banknotes on your person, you should have vomit less blood."

Who was to blame? Li Yi shouted loudly in his heart.

"By the way," Nie Bufan said again, "Where did you hide the banknotes? I clearly checked you over when I bandaged you."

"......"