Chapter 174: Sweet Potato, I'm a Potato
It turned out to be a big man surnamed Xiao.
Wang Chen was quite surprised, he blinked, since they knew each other, things would be much easier to handle next.
"It's really you, Engong!" Xiao surnamed Dahan was overjoyed, and then, he looked at the tiger corpse, hesitated, gritted his teeth and said: "Since Engong wants the big worm, Xiao doesn't want money, give it to you." ”
Wang Chen waved his hand and said: "No merit, I will still give you money, how much did you just say? Fifty runs? Okay, I want it!" Well, Dahan just said five runs, and he deliberately doubled it tenfold, just to leave a good impression on Dahan.
"No, no, I'm talking about Wuguan. The big man surnamed Xiao waved his hand again and again, his eyes were full of reluctance to look at the tiger corpse, and he insisted in his mouth: "You are not useless, after my brother took the medicine you gave, he was lucky to pick up a life, the grace of saving his life, it is unforgettable." ”
Huh.
I also found a way to play the emotional card.
Wang Chen pretended to be concerned and said, "Has your brother recovered?"
"Alright, totally well. The big man surnamed Xiao was grateful and said, "Thanks to Engong, you came to the rescue." ”
Wang Chen smiled and said: "I didn't expect to meet you in Chuzhou, let's be regarded as an old reunion, it's cold outside, why don't you go to my carriage?"
The big man surnamed Xiao was very refreshing, "Okay." ”
Wang Chen turned around and instructed Xu Jiang, "Give fifty yuan to Xiao Zhuangshi, and by the way, give me the big worm to decompose, the big worm skin, whip, eyes, bones, tendons, kidneys, gall bladder, stomach and boiled out oil are all given to me, as for the meat, the brothers will divide it tonight." ”
The South China Tiger weighs about 300 catties, the bones weigh about 30 catties, and the remaining meat weighs about 200 catties after removing the fur, internal organs and lost blood, and Wang Chen's party of more than 800 people, probably each of them can get less than half a catty, which is definitely enough to eat.
As for things such as tiger skins, tiger whips and tiger bones, they are all priceless things, of course, the state prohibits the hunting of tigers, but Wang Chen's tigers were hunted in the Northern Song Dynasty, and they have nothing to do with modern society, in addition, the state also prohibits the sale of tiger organs, but if it is the previous inventory, it can still be sold after certain complicated procedures.
Like tiger bones, the black market is sold on grams, which is very expensive.
As for the tiger whip, it is a treasure sought after by countless people.
However, Wang Chen was not prepared to defy the law, if this thing was sold and had to be sued, it was better to put it in a mysterious space to "keep it fresh", of course, if it was not illegal to buy and sell in a certain country, he would consider selling it.
In fact, things like tiger bones and tiger whips are all big supplements, if the economic strength allows, Wang Chen really wants to keep them for himself.
……
In the carriage.
Wang Chen let Wang Wenxiu and Liu Qihong go to another carriage, and he chatted with the big man surnamed Xiao, "Xiao Zhuangshi, your name?"
"Excuse me, the surname is Xiao, you know, a single name is a peak character. The big man surnamed Xiao replied.
Wang Chen: "......"
Your name is Xiao Feng?
Dude, I really want to ask if you will descend the dragon eighteen palms.
However, this kind of name is really common, just like "Zhang Wei, Zhang Lei" and the like in modern society, he just suddenly thought of "Tianlong Babu", since he wants to accept the other party as a junior brother, he must know some information, and then slowly draw it, Wang Chen tentatively said: "Why did you appear here?"
Xiao Feng smiled bitterly, "My brother owes more than 30 yuan in foreign debts for treatment, I can only return to my old business of hunting, I originally wanted to go through Chuzhou to Dabie Mountain, but I never wanted to hear that there are big insects here, I pondered it, and wanted to make some money along the way, so I carried the double halberd and chased it all the way, but I didn't expect to meet you just like you." ”
Oh!
Lack of money!
The matter of money is easy to do, Wang Chen immediately tempted: "It's too wasteful to hunt and make money with your skills, if you want, it is not a problem to earn ten times a month, if you meet a good owner, more is possible." ”
"Alas. Xiao Feng sighed, "If you join the army in Xia, it will not be a problem to mix with the forbidden army, but there will be ten yuan per month, but my brother is weak and sick for a long time, we will depend on each other, I am afraid that I will not have an emergency in him, and then heaven and man will never ...... goodbye."
I can't bear my brother, it's another one.
Wang Chen's eyes rolled, pondering how to attack Xiao Feng, he pretended to ask: "I heard you say that your brother studied and used to be a bookkeeper?"
Xiao Feng nodded and said, "Yes." ”
Wang Chen had an idea, "There is still a shortage of a bookkeeper in my house, why don't I go back with a letter and let your brother go to my house to be a bookkeeper?" ”
The Wang family's mansion really has no account room, and it all depends on Wang Yuncang to preside over it alone.
Some people may think that the ten yuan is too high, and think that Wang Chen is bribing Xiao Feng, but in fact, he is opening a normal salary.
In ancient times, the yamen had two important jobs, that is, money and food and criminal names, and usually those county magistrates and prefects did not know much about legal provisions and bookkeeping, so the general local officials would hire two staff members after taking office, one was responsible for the legal affairs of the surname, and the other was responsible for the calculation of the account room.
The price of the bookkeeper of ordinary families is slightly lower, and he can earn about 100 taels a year, so Wang Chen's monthly salary of ten yuan is a normal range.
Because it was normal, Xiao Feng did not doubt that he was there, he was stunned for a moment, and then said gratefully: "Thank you, Engong." ”
Wang Chen smiled and said: "No thanks, besides, did you see the woman in red just now? She is a former imperial physician and is proficient in medical science, if your brother is a bookkeeper in my house, I can let her give your brother a conditioning body." ”
Xiao Feng said helplessly: "I hope to recuperate, my brother was injured when he was practicing martial arts with me when he was a child, and Chen's disease has not been cured for a long time, so it is not easy to recuperate." ”
Wang Chen frowned, and promised: "When I return to Tongzhou, let Miss Liu show your brother what the internal injury is, and I will think of a way to get some good medicine, maybe I can cure your brother." ”
Perhaps thinking that the medicine Wang Chen gave last time saved his brother, Xiao Feng's eyes lit up, and then he was grateful: "How can I, Xiao, be so virtuous, let the official be so loved." He thought that Wang Chen was an official, after all, seven or eight hundred soldiers protected along the way.
Wang Chen didn't correct him, but just looked at him very seriously, and said: "It's not that you have any virtue or ability, but that I am a person who cherishes talents, you are so good, it would be too wasteful if you were in the market." After a pause, he continued in an accentuated tone, boiling a period of chicken soup for the soul, "The eldest husband is alive, he should be famous, the upper is to the king, and the lower is the people, if it is beneficial to the country, although he will die, he will not spin, do you understand what I mean?"
Xiao Feng was stunned for a moment, and then said thoughtfully: "I understand, sir, you solve my worries, do you want me to join the army to serve the court?" Okay, as long as my brother is fine, even if I die on the battlefield!"
Wang Chen almost fell to the ground, I specially boiled chicken soup for you because I wanted to accept you as a junior brother, not for you to serve the court!
Well, the chicken soup just now didn't boil very well, so change it.
"Good birds choose trees to perch, and good ministers choose their masters. Wang Chen said unhurriedly: "Zhuge Kongming can only shine if he follows Liu Bei, if he follows Cao Cao, do you think he can become the prime minister of a country......? Well, Xun Yu and other great talents, how easy is it for Zhuge Kongming to get out of the way? Naturally, there are countless talents in our Great Song Dynasty, Pan Mei, Cao Bin, Shi Shouxin, etc., not to mention other people who have no ambitions, do you think you can survive if you serve the imperial court?"
"No, you can't. Xiao Feng shook his head, and he smiled: "But even if I am a pawn, I can serve the court as the official said, and I don't care if he survives or not." ”
Wang Chen looked at him very seriously and said a famous sentence through the ages, "A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier, if you want to get ahead, follow me, glory and wealth are at your fingertips!"
This time, Xiao Feng was completely shocked!
His eyes when he looked at Wang Chen were full of disbelief!
A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier? Glory and wealth are at your fingertips?
What does this mean?
Could it be that the official in front of him wants to rebel?
Combined with the chicken soup for the soul of the above sentence "the big husband is alive", Xiao Feng really thought that Wang Chen was going to rebel, he was full of excitement, and stammered: "Official...... Official, make ...... Those who rebel will be killed. ”
I'm special!
Who wants to rebel?
Why do you always want to be crooked?
Wang Chen's face darkened, and he said speechlessly: "Who said I was going to rebel?"
Xiao Feng breathed a sigh of relief and wondered, "Then why did you tell me so much just now?"
Wang Chen really couldn't do anything about Xiao Feng's brain circuit, so he wasn't going to go around in circles, so he said bluntly: "I want to ask you to be my personal guard to protect my safety, ten yuan a month, why not?"
Xiao Feng snorted, "That's it?"
Wang Chen said, "Yes." ”
I am fortunate to have gained, but I have lost my life.
If the other party still refuses, then there is no way.
was thinking wildly, who knew that Xiao Feng smiled and said: "You said earlier, such a good thing can't be found with a lantern, how can Xiao not agree." ”
Wang Chen: "......"
Wozh!
I knew it was so simple, what kind of chicken soup for the soul buddy was boiling just now, how good it was to be straightforward.
In fact, Wang Chen didn't know that Xiao Feng was not greedy for ten yuan and salary, but he was grateful to Wang Chen in his heart, when his brother was sick and needed money urgently, musk was bought by Wang Chen at a great price, and later, his brother was in danger, and Wang Chen came to help, how could Xiao Feng not be grateful to Dade, as long as he was a normal person, he would be full of gratitude, not to mention that he was a man who valued love and righteousness, so he naturally agreed immediately when he heard Wang Chen's request.
As the saying goes, there is no filial son in front of the bed for a long time, Lao Tzu has been sick and even his son may not be filial, and Xiao Feng's brother has been sick, he can never give up, you can imagine how much this person is emotional.
Although he was a little speechless, Wang Chen was generally happy, and the peerless fierce man in front of him who killed the South China Tiger alone.
The other party promised to be his own guard.
But it's hard to say whether you're willing to work hard for yourself.
Wang Chen originally wanted to go around in circles, but thinking back to the scene just now, he decided to be direct, "I won't tell you, I'm being chased and killed by a peerless master now, and I happened to see you bravely slashing the white-fronted tiger, so I want to ask you to be a personal guard." ”
"Peerless master?" Xiao Feng didn't ask why Wang Chen was hunted down, but said, "How to be high-handed?"
Wang Chen described in detail the actions of the woman in white last night.
After listening, Xiao Feng frowned, "Hearing you say this, her swordsmanship is a bit like Pei's swordsmanship." ”
"Pei's swordsmanship?" Wang Chen said puzzled.
"Yes, Pei Min, the first swordsman of the Tang Dynasty. Xiao Feng was afraid that he wouldn't know, so he explained, "Do you know the poem "Gift to General Pei" written by Wang Wei?"
Of course, Wang Chen remembers, and even he can memorize this poem: the sword on his waist is seven-star text, and the bow is carved on his arm.
And he knows who Pei Min is, according to historical records, Pei Min is a figure in the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, who once guarded Beiping County, and successively participated in the war against the Xi people, Khitan and Tubo.
This is not the most critical, the most critical is that Pei Min's swordsmanship has reached the realm of transformation, and he is a recognized sword saint in history.
According to "Du Wei Zhi", Pei Min "threw the sword into the clouds, dozens of zhang high, if the electric light shoots down, Min leads his hand to hold the sheath to inherit it, the sword enters through the air, and the audience is thousands of people, all of whom are cold and frightened." According to the "Records of Famous Paintings of the Past Dynasties", the painter Wu Daozi saw Pei Min's sword dance, "the haunted gods and monsters are finished, but they are swaying to advance".
It is conceivable how superb Pei Min's swordsmanship is.
Just thinking about it, Xiao Feng said again: "The meridian nail you said seems to have been handed down from the Shaolin Temple in Songshan, and her kung fu is very strange." ”
Wang Chen said with a blank eye: "Can you handle her?"
Xiao Feng said very seriously: "If it is a normal fight, she does not have a hidden weapon, I am confident that she will hold fifty moves, after fifty moves, she will run out of strength, I can capture her, but if she still has strength after fifty moves, I am likely to be stabbed to death with a sword!"
Yes?
How powerful is this woman in white?
Can you single-handedly take on the South China Tiger, and you don't have the confidence to beat the woman in white?
Wang Chen thought back to what Zhang Qing said, what kind of woman in white has the explosive power to have a cup of tea, which is almost equivalent to ten minutes, and ten minutes should be more than fifty moves, it seems that Xiao Feng is not an opponent.
Wang Chen smiled helplessly, "You are not her opponent if you are so powerful, is she still human?"
"It's not that I'm not his opponent, it's that I practice different kung fu. Xiao Fengzai said carefully: "I practice strength kung fu, one move and one style is powerful, she practices light kung fu, although the strength is not bad, but if the head-to-head confrontation does not dodge, I dare to guarantee, ten rounds she has to fall, my kung fu is extremely laborious, fifty strokes is the limit, if she can take fifty moves, basically the whole body is out of strength, then I can rely on the height of the horse to grab, if the first fifty moves she try her best to dodge, I run out of strength, of course, let her slaughter." ”
These words reminded Wang Chen of Tyson and Holyfield, Holyfield was all kinds of consumption of Tyson's physical strength in the early stage, and finally won in the eleventh round, he said to himself: "Can you last fifty rounds?"
Xiao Feng nodded and said, "Yes, whether you can win or not depends on the first fifty moves." ”
Wang Chen asked rhetorically: "Then can you guarantee that you will definitely hit her? If you can, I think I have a way to let you win." ”
Xiao Feng shook his head and said: "There is no guarantee that she will be hit, but one thing I am sure of is that after fifty moves, even if she still has the strength to spare, it will definitely not be much, as long as she ambushes three or five more soldiers can capture it." ”
Such?
Eh, there's a way!
Wang Chen thought of a trick to lure the snake out of the hole, and he said to Xiao Feng: "I'll have an idea, you can see if it's okay." ”
You say. ”
"Before, I took seven or eight family members out of the house, and she dared to come to the door alone, obviously thinking that seven or eight ordinary family members couldn't help her, but now we are different, your strength is on par with her, I deliberately sold a flaw to lure her forward, and then you fight with her, I will bring a few brave soldiers to press the formation, once you are about to lose the battle, shout the code, I will let the soldiers attack her collectively, do you think this is feasible?"
"Okay, then let's set a code?"
"Cheng, you shout...... Shout, there you have, sweet potato sweet potato, I'm a potato. ”
"Okay, but I don't have a clue. ”
Say. ”
"What is a sweet potato, and what is a potato?"
I almost forgot.
Sweet potatoes and potatoes haven't flowed into China yet!
Looking at Xiao Feng, who was burning with curiosity, Wang Chen smiled and did not explain.
Hey, in the future, you will know what sweet potatoes are and what potatoes are, in other words, these two things seem to be able to feed many people? If it weren't for today, Wang Chen wouldn't have remembered that there are these two artifacts, not only sweet potatoes and potatoes, but also corn, carrots, pumpkins, large peanuts and even tobacco, etc., it seems that you can get them.
Hey, what do you want to do with this, you still want to solve the woman in white.