Chapter 60: The Night of the Full Moon
Xiaoyaozi smiled: "It seems that subtle changes are taking place in Jiudao Villa, and the trend of this change is to slowly decline, Xiong Wa'er, maybe your chance to take revenge has arrived." [Latest chapter reading.]"
Xiong Chen's eyes flashed, and he didn't speak.
Zhang Qingtian's hands trembled slightly, revenge? Could these two masters be thinking about going to Jiudao Mountain Villa to find trouble?
Xiong Chen suddenly sighed and buried his head in the food.
Zhang Qingtian was frightened by Xiong Chen just once, and he had already learned a lot, so he hurriedly picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, turning his head to look at the growing twilight outside.
The mosquitoes in the mountains were really big and fierce, and they sensed the popularity in the tea house, and they all flew over this way.
The sound of crackling mosquitoes sounded, Xiaoyaozi spread out his palms and looked at the mosquito corpses above, and couldn't help frowning: "There are so many mosquitoes buzzing around, how can I sleep tonight?"
Zhang Qingtian smiled and said: "Yes, yes, the mountain mosquitoes here are very poisonous, and when you bite it, it is a red bump, itchy and painful, which is why my wife and I would rather walk on the mountain road for two hours to go home and sleep than sleep in this tea house after closing." β
Xiaoyaozi screamed, picked up the teacup and poured water to wash his hands: "This can't work, I don't live here anymore, Xiong Wa'er, anyway, it just rained, the weather is refreshing, and I will accompany you on a trip as a teacher." β
Xiong Chen shook his head and refused: "No need, master, you still stay here! I will let Boss Zhang order some mosquito repellent herbs, the terrain of the back mountain is dangerous, I have worked there for several years, I am more familiar with the terrain, it is more convenient for one person to enter and exit, and there are many wild wolves and wild dogs in the back mountain, and the noses of those beasts are very smart, and there are more people to let them smell and bark, which is not appropriate." β
Xiaoyaozi opened his mouth and was about to speak, Zhang Qingtian had already spoken: "Is this little brother going to go up the back mountain? In the past, there were many wild wolves and wild dogs on the back mountain, and when my wife and I came home after finishing our work, we heard the barking of wild wolves in the mountains, but in the past two years, I don't seem to have heard it." β
Xiong Chen raised his head and looked at Zhang Qingtian, and said in a deep voice: "In the past two years, have the abnormal changes in Jiudao Mountain Villa happened in these two years?"
Zhang Qingtian was a little afraid of Xiong Chen's cold eyes, so he hurriedly lowered his head and looked at the ground, and stammered: "Exactly...... It's strange to say, after the night of the past two years, I saw a thin haze of smoke swirling around the mountain villa, colorful, very beautiful! My old woman also said that maybe the gods in the sky took a fancy to the good feng shui of Jiudao Mountain Villa and came to the mountain villa...... Ahem. β
Xiong Chen and Xiaoyaozi glanced at each other, and their faces showed surprise.
"Then do you know what news is there about the gold mine in the back mountain?"
Zhang Qingtian waved his hand again and again: "The gold mine in the back mountain is the treasure of Jiudao Mountain Villa, I have nothing to do with the mountain villa, how can I know? This gold mine was already excavated when my father was young, and it has been mined for dozens of years now...... As for whether you have dug up gold, you can only ask the owner of Zhao Zhuang...... Since he has been a slave for the past two years, perhaps he has already dug it up...... Two masters, aren't they also going to this gold mine?"
Xiaoyaozi snorted and exclaimed with an exaggerated expression: "Gold? Hehe, who doesn't love gold? But if I want gold, naturally someone will hold it in both hands and send it up, so why should I pick up a hoe and dig it?"
Zhang Qingtian hurriedly slapped his mouth, and won a row to make amends: "Yes...... Yes, the two masters are heroic, and the gold will naturally climb into the hands of the masters on its own long feet!"
Xiong Chen slapped the wooden table and smiled coldly: "Gold mine? Who said that there is a gold mine hidden in the back mountain? The entire back mountain has almost been hollowed out by Zhao Yuxiang, a fat pig, and what has been dug out is either stone or soil, for the sake of a trumped-up legend, how many sins this surnamed Zhao has done! Do you know how many bones of innocent slaves have been buried under the canyon outside the back mountain?"
Zhang Qingtian's whole body trembled, turned his head to look at the dark sky, the sky after the rain was exceptionally clear, a full moon was slowly rising from the sky, he woke up suddenly, today is the night of the fifteenth full moon.
"Old woman, today is the fifteenth, can you offer incense to the Bodhisattva?"
Zhang Qingtian's wife glared at him and said, "I have been worshipping incense this morning, on the fifteenth day of the new year, I will enter the incense and worship the Buddha, how can I forget this rule?"
Xiaoyaozi didn't bother to listen to the parents of his husband and wife, just patted Xiong Chen's shoulder, and said gently: "Xiong Wa'er, calm down, in fact, this is not called a legend, half-truth, don't hide it from you, I have also heard the rumors of this gold mine, Zhao Yuxiang can buy slaves from all over the country with great fanfare for excavation, but no one in the court dares to prohibit it, there is a cat hidden in it, have you ever thought about it?"
Xiong Chen said in a deep voice: "What does the master mean---- Zhao Yuxiang did this to get the approval of the current saint?"
Xiaoyaozi smiled faintly and nodded: "Is this the case, I have to ask the current Emperor Han, but since it is a rich gold mine, who doesn't want to keep it for himself? Not to mention the Son of Heaven?"
Zhang Qingtian sandwiched two pieces of meat and put them in the bowl, picked up the rice bowl, and quietly walked to the tea house and squatted on the edge of the threshold to eat, the content of the conversation between the two uncles became more and more unscrupulous, he was just an honest and responsible small businessman, I am afraid that if I hear too much, I am afraid that he will get into trouble, so it is better to stay away.
Xiaoyaozi and Xiong Chen stopped talking, just buried their heads in eating, and when Zhang Qingtian walked into the tea house with a kerosene lamp, he found that the little brother with a cold face had disappeared, and the beautiful uncle who was as beautiful as a woman had fallen asleep on the "bed" made of three tables.
Zhao Yuxiang, who was on crutches, stepped on the wet mist to the lake, there was a heavy rain today, the lake rose a lot, and the sound of bubbling water echoed in the silent midnight, Zhao Yuxiang looked left and right with some timidity.
He has been doing this kind of errand for more than two years, and every time he chooses to come to the lake quietly at midnight when the night is quieter, he quietly comes to the lake on crutches, and incinerates the note that records Xiong Chen's daily whereabouts.
In the past two years, he followed the instructions of the Xiaolan fairy, scattered thousands of slaves on the village, and led his family to dig up the mountain, others were shocked, since the owner of the village took the lead, then the subordinates were naturally not willing to lag behind, and they all picked up tools to follow the owner of the village to dig up the mountain, some unknown family members inevitably whispered in private to discuss the great changes of the owner, he fooled the past with the words of sincerity and spirit, and after a few months, some diners on the village slowly became suspicious, but after a period of secret investigation, and could not find a reason to come out, because on the night of the dismissal of slaves, Xiaolan Fairy has washed away the memories of all the people involved in the dismissal of slavesγ
Although after the fact, the Zhuang Shangren and others found that the courtyard of the West Chamber was quiet, and the thousands of slaves who originally lived there all did not know where to go, everyone was suspicious for a long time, and the owner of Zhao Zhuang came to see it in person, and after going around in the West Chamber, he just said lightly: "It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, since I can't keep it, let them go, so that the villa is quieter, and you can save some rice and grain!"
The owner's pretense of calmness, the disappearance of thousands of slaves, and the hundreds of miles near the mountain villa, as quiet as usual, ----then everything seemed to happen naturally, and people were too lazy to discuss and study something, as if there had never been these thousands of slaves in the Jiudao Villa.
What's even more amazing is that the owner of Zhao Zhuang washed away the anger of the past, took off his brocade robe, changed into coarse cloth clothes, led five wives and thirteen children, carried an iron hoe, and went to the back mountain to dig gold himself.
After a long time, some diners became suspicious and invited themselves to go, but Zhao Yuxiang did not stop him, rewarded each invited diner with 5,000 taels of silver, and prepared a carriage to send him down the mountain after some encouragement.
Jiudao Villa has been much cleaner since then, and the little Lan fairy has not appeared later, but Zhao Yuxiang did not dare to take it lightly, and sent a hundred dead soldiers with outstanding martial arts skills to search for the slave named Xiong Chen all over the country, and recorded his daily actions in detail.
Every full moon night, Zhao Yuxiang took this record, came to the lake and incinerated it, and after watching the paper ash slowly melt into the lake, Fang staggered back to the house, as for how the little Lan fairy reacted after receiving the paper ash, it was her own business.
Tonight, as usual, after his family was asleep, he came to the lake on crutches and incinerated the notes he received today about Xiong Chen's whereabouts at the lake.
The paper ash that melted into the water flowed forward with the flowing water, condensed into a black line, and floated across the lake.
In the silence, the cool night breeze drifted by, and a woman in Tsing Yi slowly appeared in the mist, her cloud-like black hair was scattered on her shoulders and back, her cheeks without fat powder were as white and soft as clotted fat, and a pair of apricot eyes under her curved eyebrows were radiant, she slowly approached the lake, looked at the black line floating on the shore, and sighed softly.
Hao's wrist was raised, and a soft suction force was born in her palm, lifting the black line from the water, and the black line diverged into paper ash in the palm wind, and then condensed again into a note full of words and fell on her palm.
On the fourth day of this month, Xiong Chen and his division Xiaoyaozi went out of the valley and traveled fifty miles to Lijiadun, at the same time, Xiong Chen sneaked into Li's house, sniped Li Tianwei, and a successful blow was rewarded with 300 gold. He went to the tea house next to the Chunnan plank road to rest in the summer, and met the princess Chaoyang who left the palace without permission and the secret guard in the Han Palace. The next day, Xiong Chen and Xiaoyaozi stayed in the bath, and were broken into by Princess Chaoyang, Princess Chaoyang jumped into Xiong Chen's bathtub, Xiong Chen was angry, and killed six secret guards......"
Fairy Xiaolan pursed her small mouth and gently shook the note in her hand.