Chapter 2 The friendship that squatted down together
Zhao Qiankun also had a rough understanding of this history of the Five Kings attacking merchants, but this was all the popular science that Xue Lian gave him... At this moment, when he heard the storyteller talk, it had a different flavor.
The storyteller is full of praise, and it is said to be a golden sword and iron horse, and it is very lively. Zhao Qiankun is drinking and eating dishes, and he also listens with relish.
Although this place is the territory of King Zhenxi, today is the Jiang family after all. The protagonist of the story finally won the world, and naturally the Emperor Taizu of the Jiang family. Therefore, many plots are described around the Jiang family. The Ji family of King Zhenxi often only exists in the background.
But if you continue to listen to this, Zhao Qiankun felt something was wrong. According to the meaning of this story, the Ji family was the most powerful. When fighting against the Shang Dynasty's Demon Army, the other families usually sent 200,000 to 300,000 troops, but the Ji family often sent 1 million troops, often fighting against the most fierce elites of the Demon Army, which can be said to be the mainstay of the war. However, in the book, these great achievements are often mentioned in one stroke, focusing on describing the legend of the Jiang family.
This gave Zhao Qiankun a feeling of listening to the Three Kingdoms. Whether it is talent or strength, Cao Cao is the most powerful, but Lao Luo prefers Emperor Liu. At least the description of Cao Cao is also very wonderful. The story of the Five Kings destroying Shang, the ancestor of the Zhenxi King of Zhenxi has almost become the background, and his presence is not as good as the Yelu family, who came from ethnic minorities.
"I said, do our ancestors of the King of Zhenxi have no great achievements?" Zhao Qiankun had no worries and directly asked out his doubts.
Zhao Qiankun's voice was loud enough. This sound made the guests around him look back at him. The storyteller was interrupted. He just smiled a little embarrassedly and continued to talk.
After all, no one paid attention to him, Zhao Qiankun made a fuss.
"You are not from the West Pole Coast, are you?" A scholar-like man from the table next to him laughed at him: "When Zi's surname is Jiang today, no matter how much credit the Ji family has made, how dare you overshadow the emperor?"
Zhao Qiankun raised his eyebrows: "But isn't this the territory of the Ji family?"
"It's what the prince means!" The scholar whispered: "The books circulating on the West Pole Coast back then were also the protagonist of the Ji family. However, over the years, the prince ordered that those books were not allowed to be talked about, but instead introduced the version of the Central Plains, and tried his best to downplay the presence of the Ji family in the book!"
"What kind of smell is this?" Zhao Qiankun narrowed his eyes.
"It's not a secret!" The scholar smiled and said, "For eight hundred years, the Jiang family and three vassal kings of different surnames have been living peacefully, but the previous emperors were great-spirited kings. They implemented the new policy and wanted to withdraw the vassal. Although they died of illness halfway through the exercise, the current emperor is still ambitious!"
"Oh..." Zhao Qiankun understood. The King of Zhenxi was showing weakness. He smiled and asked the scholar: "Why don't anyone dare to mention it, but you dare to tell me?"
The scholar smiled slightly: "Because I am like you, not a local!" After saying that, he made a row of copper coins on the table, greeted the waiter: "Set the accounts!" and left.
Zhao Qiankun saw that the scholar was in agile steps, unlike ordinary people, but he didn't care much about it. After continuing to listen to the book, he felt bored, so he also asked the waiter to settle the score.
"Hello, the hospitality officer, there are a total of 208 big money! Our shopkeeper said that it depends on your relationship, and you will count it for 200!"
"So good at talking!" Zhao Qiankun praised, reached out to touch, but suddenly frowned...
He then realized... When he was locked up by King Zhenxi, all his things were searched, and his luggage was even left with Helen. Now he is penniless...
These days, he has no money to spend in Haina Cave Heaven, so he has not paid attention to this. Now he has eaten and drunk enough. Facing the waiter's smile on his face, Zhao Qiankun suddenly felt embarrassed...
"Sorry, I didn't seem to bring my money..."
The waiter looked at the table and the cup plate, and smiled and said, "Don't joke with the villain..."
"I'm not kidding..." Zhao Qiankun took out his pocket: "I've put all my money in Zhenxi Wangfu. If you don't have a hurry, I can get it for you!"
Seeing that he really had no money, the waiter immediately changed his face: "You want to eat..." Before he could say the three words "Battle Food", Zhao Qiankun covered his mouth: "What are you calling out? Do you want everyone to take me as an example? Go and take me to meet your shopkeeper, and I'll talk to him!"
The waiter was also helpless and could only lead Zhao Qiankun to the counter and whispered to the shopkeeper to explain the whole story.
"This guest official, we are also a small business manager. If you don't have money, you can also use any valuable things as collateral..." Seeing this situation, the shopkeeper also guessed that Zhao Qiankun had some ideas, so he didn't say anything.
"I don't have anything, I've asked to search it..." Zhao Qiankun admitted frankly: "But I can do you a favor!" As he said that, Zhao Qiankun raised his hand, and a flame ignited in his palm, making the shopkeeper's eyes lit up.
"Are you a mage?"
"That's right!" Zhao Qiankun smiled and said, "If you have any problems that need magic to solve, I can help you!"
"I'm short of money, can I help me get some money?" The shopkeeper was an honest person...
"If I know, I still have to eat the King's meal?" Zhao Qiankun curled his lips: "What do you think of the mage as?"
"I think mages are all masters and don't eat for nothing..." The shopkeeper curled his lips, and suddenly saw outside, his eyes lit up: "By the way, have you seen that person?"
Zhao Qiankun looked in the direction he pointed, and saw a chubby man standing across the street, leaning against the wall, with suspicious whereabouts. After glanced at this side, he hid in the shadows in the corner of the wall.
"That's a weird guy!" The shopkeeper whispered: "I suddenly appeared in our town not long ago, and my appearance is suspicious. The street opposite is my house. He always wanders around my house and always finds opportunities to talk to my wife. It's very annoying! I've been looking for someone to deal with him before, but I didn't expect this guy to have a few tricks. Most people are not his opponent! Master Master, if you can teach him a lesson and keep him away from my house, today's meals will be written off, and I'll ask you to go to a big restaurant, how about it?"
When Zhao Qiankun heard this, he had done this business and it was a slight effort! He said, "Look!" and walked towards the fat man's hidden alley.
Zhao Qiankun entered the alley and saw that as the shopkeeper said, the fat man was suspicious, leaning against the wall, looking around sneakily.
Zhao Qiankun walked forward and patted the fat man on the shoulder: "Brother, what are you looking at?"
The fat man was startled. When he turned around, Zhao Qiankun looked closer and suddenly felt that his face looked familiar...
"You are..." Zhao Qiankun was still hesitant, but the fat man had already recognized him: "You are Zhao Qiankun? That boy who was locked on the ninth floor!"
Zhao Qiankun was stunned. Knowing that there were few people locked up on the ninth floor, the fat man's facial features immediately evoked his memories: "Are you Cheng Laosan?"
"Is it me?" The fat man smiled and said, "You went to chase the wedding party that day. I thought you were beaten to death, but I didn't expect you to see someone alive!"
"Shut up your crow's mouth!" Zhao Qiankun complained with a smile.
Yes, this fat man is Zhao Qiankun's original inmate, Cheng Laosan, who had been imprisoned on the ninth floor of the Jiuyou Dungeon for more than 20 years! When Zhao Qiankun threw him outside the suburbs of Xidu, he went to chase Xuelian alone. Unexpectedly, he met here. After all, it was hundreds of kilometers to reach Xidu...
Zhao Qiankun looked at Cheng Laosan and shook his head and said, "You have lost weight!"
It’s not a big mistake for Zhao Qiankun not to recognize him. Although the two only met one time, Lao Zhao’s memory is still good. The problem is that Cheng Lao San has changed a lot.
Cheng Laosan, who had just escaped from prison, was as fat as a ball. He was over 1.7 meters tall, probably at least 300 kilograms! Now he looks very fat, but at most 200 kilograms, and he is so thin that he looks like he is...
Cheng Laosan smiled and said, "No! When I first came out, I was penniless and it was not easy to live until today. I must have lost a lot of weight! By the way, don't you recognize me? Then why are you doing filming me?"
Zhao Qiankun then remembered the serious business and told Cheng Laosan what he had just made a deal with the shopkeeper: "Anyway, I am accepting the entrustment to beat you up now. Of course, if you help me settle the money for the meal, there will be no more trouble!"
“How many in total?”
"Two hundred big money!"
"Why did you eat so much?" Cheng Laosan curled his lips and raised his hand to touch his waist.
Zhao Qiankun thought this guy was going to take out his wallet handsomely, but unexpectedly, he just choked his clothes into his pants. After packing up, he held his head and squatted on the ground: "You'd better beat me..."
Zhao Qiankun rolled his eyes, grabbed the guy's collar, dragged him out of the alley, and pulled him to the street, so that the shopkeeper opposite could see clearly, then slapped a pair of slaps, and banged left and right for a while!
Zhao Qiankun did not act ruthlessly, but Cheng Laosan was still beaten and swayed left and right, rolling around in the street and begging for mercy loudly. There were many people watching around, and the shopkeeper opposite him nodded repeatedly after seeing it, secretly waking up.
After the fight, Zhao Qiankun kicked Cheng Laosan back into the alley and returned to the restaurant and the shopkeeper's request for credit: "He will not harass you anymore!"
The shopkeeper expressed his gratitude and immediately gave up Zhao Qiankun's meal before the meal. He asked him to have another meal, but Zhao Qiankun politely declined.
Lao Zhao returned to the alley and found Cheng Lao San squatting in the corner: "It's done, let's go, find a place and I'll treat you to two drinks!"
"Do you invite me?" Cheng Laosan touched his fat head: "You forgot what did you eat for the overlord meal?"
"It's okay, at worst I'll beat you up!"
"Take it down!" Cheng Laosan's head was shaking like a rattle, and he took out dozens of copper plates: "Find a tavern, I'll treat you..."
The two walked through the streets and alleys, found a tavern, ordered two cold dishes and a pot of shochu, and started chatting.
"Where have you been going during this period?" After all, the two of them were considered inmates who had been squatting together. Cheng Laosan was quite concerned about Zhao Qiankun: "You are going to chase the bride-welcoming team. Later I heard that the bride-welcoming team was a guard of the bride-ghost god. I thought you were killed by the bride-ghost god..."
"You can't take good care of me? Why do you have to let the Martial God kill you? Can't I fight back and kill the Martial God?"
"If you can kill the God of Martial Arts, then you will be able to get caught in the dungeon?" Cheng Laosan threw a pickled bean into his mouth.
"Then I'm out!" Zhao Qiankun was dissatisfied: "You try to let the God of Martial Arts escape with a mouth!"
"The Martial God is really locked up, so there must be a way to come out! But your move really shocked me!" Cheng Lao San whispered: "What kind of spell is that breath? I have lived for most of my life and have never seen such a powerful person!"
"What's the most life..." Zhao Qiankun sarcastically said: "Didn't you spend most of your life in the dungeon?"
Cheng Laosan was defeated, Zhao Qiankun drank a sip of wine and smiled: "My experience is a long story. Tell me, aren't you going to find your young fiancée? What's the result? Have you found it?"
When Cheng Laosan mentioned this, he said angrily: "You are so embarrassed to ask? Are you not allowed to disturb me?"
"Me?" Zhao Qiankun was stunned and then reacted: "Can you say that your old lover is actually the wife of the shopkeeper?"
Cheng Laosan nodded: "So I have been wandering around her house these days, and I want to see my lover back then. Also, the shopkeeper has three children, and the eldest son is exactly 19 years old this year. Just do it, if A Lian hadn't aborted that child back then, maybe..."
"Maybe that's actually your flesh and blood?" Zhao Qiankun smiled and said, "This is simple, just go to her and ask her!"
"Not that easy!" Cheng Laosan sighed: "She is married now, so why can I disturb her life again? Besides, I was a handsome and handsome guy back then, but now I have become a fat uncle of more than 200 pounds. She probably won't recognize him..."
"You don't dare to admit it, and you don't dare to ask. If you want to be a stalker like this for life?" Zhao Qiankun curled his lips: "You met me today, otherwise, you will be next to you sooner or later!"
Cheng Laosan sighed, poured a glass of wine and drank it all: "What can I do?"
Zhao Qiankun's eyes rolled: "Anyway, I still have time, so why not help you meet your dream lover!"
"You have a way?" Cheng Laosan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and Zhao Qiankun shrugged: "Not yet. Haven't you been following you for a few days? What do she usually do!"
Cheng Laosan frowned: "It's nothing special. She is just an ordinary housewife. She usually goes out and buys vegetables and cooks home..."
"Then go to the vegetable market to block her!" Zhao Qiankun smiled and said, "There will always be time to stay alone, and you will be in front of you and say everything you have hidden in your heart for years!"
"So what can I do if I say it..." Cheng Laosan sighed: "She can still give up her current life and can't leave me..."
"Then I guess it's impossible..." Zhao Qiankun shook his head: "You don't have this hope. This is just an explanation for yourself and a few words, but it can give you a destination for your concern for so many years. Why not ask?"
Chapter completed!