321.The Journey to the East (The Mystery of the Dragon Maiden of Gao Laozhuang)
dragged the family into the ancestral hall compound of Gao Laozhuang, and watched a group of family elders invariably whisper with a little worry and fear after seeing him, and then show a flattering smile, Sun Wen's suspicion in his heart became more and more intense.
When he entered the dock fort before, he found that this Zhuangzi was different from the other Zhuangzi who passed by, everyone seemed to be very familiar with the shipwreck called the Dragon Girl, and at the same time, they all showed worried expressions after seeing that their big family was obviously different from ordinary people.
If Saratoga hadn't come up with the sun and said that he wanted to eat souvenirs, and that neither Bismarck nor Richelieu felt the slightest hostility, he would have left this strange place long ago.
When Sun Wen pulled Saratoga, who was looking around, and Yang Yan, who was looking up and muttering "I am really the protagonist", was thinking about Gao Laozhuang like a dream, the long-bearded old man sitting under a row of portraits and dense rows also seemed to have listened to the report of the middle-aged man who invited Sun Wen and his party to come in before, and got up and walked towards Sun Wen with the support of the little servant.
"The presence of the priest is really brilliant, I have asked the family to prepare a banquet, can you please move?"
Seeing that the old man, who was estimated to be three times his age, looked like a bowed head in front of him, Sun Wen put away his thoughts, sighed secretly, and raised his hand, right, the old man made a gesture of please. It's not that he doesn't respect the old and love the young, it's just that he has seen several such patriarchs along the way, and if Sun Wen is polite or respectful to him at this time, he will kneel down as soon as possible.
In this land, it has become a sacrifice that is superior to others, just like a person outside the party, perhaps in the eyes of ordinary people, it is a more terrible existence than the local official uniform, coupled with the superior strength of the ship's mother in the continent of the detached status, so the more rich and powerful the landlord's family is formed, the more afraid of angering the sacrifice and suffering from unjustified disasters.
Seeing the old man personally lead the way and cross the knee-high threshold with a cane with the support of others, Sun Wenzheng wanted to follow, but he didn't find Saratoga but pulled his arm and reminded him softly: "Brother-in-law, be careful, there is something wrong with this group of people!"
"Questions?" Sun Wen thought silently, subconsciously looking at Bismarck and Richelieu.
Unexpectedly, Richelieu, who had always been a little overprotective of Sun Wen, still shook his head, but Bismarck, who had his head upright and raised his ears, nodded and agreed: "There is no hostility, but there is indeed a problem." Bismarck shook his head as he spoke, and the pair of ears swayed clockwise and counterclockwise, and then continued, "They all whispered about the ancestors and the like. It should be afraid that we will see things that we should not see. ”
"Ancestor?" Sun Wen glanced at the long-bearded old man who was bent down and waiting for him, shook his head indifferently and said, "It's okay if there's no hostility, we'll just have a meal here, there's no need to care about those things." Then he shook his head and led Yang Yan and Saratoga out of the threshold, muttering a little funny, "Are there still monsters?"
"Monster, brother-in-law, are you stupid? I guess it's the ownerless ship girl who is here for the time being!"
"Maybe it's an old woman like a monster!"
"Even an old woman like Queen Elizabeth is not interested in fishing for you?" Saratoga said and rolled her eyes, and then raised her hand and poked Sun Wen's temple twice with her index finger in front of the public, before she complained to him angrily, "Look at how bad your profession of admiral is!
"Blame me?" Sun Wen smiled and shrugged, "I think maybe it's an old woman with a wide forehead like Langley! I don't know how to fish for that kind of boat!" he said as he happened to catch a glimpse of Yotsuki, who was holding Bismarck and looking at the roof vigilantly, and continued, "If you want to catch a destroyer like the old woman and Yotsuki!"
"You lolicon!" Hearing this, Saratoga glanced back at Xiaoyue, who shrank shyly behind Bismarck after being inexplicably named, and then kicked Sun Wen's calf hard, "And what do you mean by that? Look down on a wide forehead, right? Don't marry my sister if you have the ability! She also has a wide forehead!"
"I know!" Sun Wen put his face around Saratoga's shoulders under the gaze of the onlookers, "Aren't you also a wide forehead, don't I also grit my teeth and marry you?" After he finished speaking, he immediately let go, and Saratoga, who had not yet come to his senses, ran to the old man's side.
Sun Wen herself and her ship girls didn't notice at all that Yang Yan, who had always been restless, didn't run around like before after leaving Sun Wen's guardianship, but secretly squeezed to the sister who stayed by Xianghe's side and whispered secretly, from the irrepressible excited expression on her flushed face, it was easy to guess that Yang Yan, who claimed to be the protagonist, once again found the "plot" he was looking forward to.
On the other side, Sun Wen and Saratoga followed the people of Gao Laozhuang to the place where the banquet was held, and Sun Wen, who sat down, looked at the various delicacies on the big round table that were so rich that they could say a piece of "Newspaper Dish Name", as well as the special resources specially placed around each ship girl, and he was even more sure that there must be a ship girl hidden in this place.
You must know that the legend on this continent is that "the dragon girl swallows gold". Moreover, the families who had been guests before were also real, taking dazzling gold and melting it into the shape of various desserts and placing it in front of the shipwives in Saratoga.
But only when he arrived at Gao Laozhuang's house, it became a real resource, which shows that the group of people in front of him who spoke and dodged were probably hiding a ship girl in Zhuangzi, and according to Saratoga, it was likely that she was still an ownerless ship girl.
In normal times, Sun Wen may not care much, but the more the group of people in Gao Laozhuang are so secretive, it arouses Sun Wen's curiosity even more.
After politely cutting chopsticks for each dish, Sun Wen, who was a little unable to sit up straight, put down his chopsticks, turned his head and asked the patriarch Gao who was accompanying him: "Is there any suitable place to play near the old man?" he said and pointed to Saratoga, who had already guessed what he wanted to do and was rolling his eyes helplessly, and continued, "My dragon girls seem to be visiting the scenic spots along the way. ”
"There is a leaf-watching pavilion on Qixia Mountain, not far north of here, but now there is something wrong with this day......
"It doesn't matter. Sun Wen directly interrupted the old man's words, and then said his purpose, "All they want is to play, if there is a scenic spot, they will lose their temper with me." ”
Before Sun Wen finished speaking, he was pinched hard by Saratoga on the waist, and he just gasped and continued, "Look! Hehehe, hey, can you trouble me to stay overnight?"
"This ......" The old man obviously hesitated, and after looking up at the round table that was almost full of Sun Wen's ship mother, he finally nodded and agreed, "Distinguished guests, please sit down for a while, and the old man will arrange for the next people to clean up a courtyard for you to rest." As he spoke, he left the middle-aged man who had brought Sun Wen in before, and Sun Wen himself left the banquet hall in a hurry with a few old men.
"Brother-in-law, are you tempted by the old woman with a wide forehead?"
"Be quiet!" Sun Wen glanced at the middle-aged man sitting respectfully over there, then turned sideways and continued in a low voice, "Tell me honestly, don't you want to know what kind of ship lady she is?"
"Hey, hey, hey...... I don't want to!" Saratoga said and turned his face and glared at Sun Wen, then turned back to Xianghe who was carefully dismantling the fish bones of a few small destroyers with a smile and said, "Xianghe, brother-in-law just asked me to tell you that we will sleep in the Chase bunk at night, you sleep on his left and I sleep on his right." ”
"Ahh