There was a wonton shop in front of him, Zhong Wenrui felt that he was a little hungry, so he decided to go and eat a bowl of wontons, so he walked towards the wonton shop. In order not to disturb Yaxing, who was ordered by Zhong County, the guards behind stood far away at the corner of the street, vigilantly looking around Zhong Wenrui.

The owner of the shop is an old man, about 60 years old, with a strong body and very agile movements. In addition, there is a little girl, about fifteen or sixteen years old, who should be the granddaughter of this old man!

At this time, there were no guests in the shop, and someone approached, which immediately attracted the attention of the old man and the little girl.

"This lord, do you eat ravioli?" The old man saw Zhong Wenrui approaching the shop and hurriedly greeted him warmly.

"Yes, old man, I'm just hungry, let's have a bowl of wontons!" Zhong Wenrui walked into the shop, found a place to sit down, and said to the old man.

"Okay, okay, please sit down for a while, the wontons will be there soon." The old man hurriedly agreed, and then came to the stove and began to get busy. The little girl also hurriedly walked over, wiped the table where Zhong Wenrui was sitting, and poured him a bowl of boiling water.

"Old man, listening to the accent, you are not a local, you are from Chu State, right?" Zhong Wenrui said with a smile to the old man who was busy.

"Yes! I came from Chu with His Royal Highness King Wu, if it weren't for His Royal Highness King Wu who was willing to take us in, our family would have starved to death. The old man replied loudly while looking at the wontons boiling in the pot.

"Then your family, apart from your grandfather, is there anyone else here?" Zhong Wenrui asked with a smile again.

"And my father and my mother, they both came to this Shidong County, my father found a job to do in the mine in the mountains, and my mother worked in a small soap shop nearby." The old man hadn't answered yet, and the lively little girl couldn't help but say.

"So your family is here, and life is still passable, right?" Zhong Wenrui asked again.

"Life is much better than before, when we were in Chu State, the whole family was busy planting those few plots of land all day long. But the annual food, can only barely keep the whole family from starving, some time ago when the famine came, our family was the first to run out of food, and my grandmother starved to death at that time. When the little girl said this, her tone was a little low.

"Alas! Let the past pass, now that you have come to this Shidong County, how are your days compared to before? Zhong Wentao said in a deep voice.

"It's much better now than before, my father's and mother's wages are paid every half month, and their wages alone can feed our whole family, and I can also learn something in the school arranged by the county government, which is something I never thought of before." When the little girl said this, the smile reappeared on his face.

"Little girl, what did you learn in the academy?" Seeing that the wontons hadn't come up yet, Zhong Wentao asked the little girl again.

"I'm learning embroidery with a guy now, Da Fu's embroidery is particularly famous, I've wanted to learn it for a long time, and now I finally have the opportunity. And we don't have to pay to learn embroidery here, and if the embroidery we finish when we practice is sold, we will also be given a share of labor fees. "When the little girl talks about embroidery, she is obviously in spirit.

At this time, the old man came to Zhong Wenrui's table and put a bowl of steaming wontons on his table.

Zhong Wenrui picked up the chopsticks on the table, picked up a wonton and put it in his mouth, this wonton has thin skin and fresh meat, and the taste is very delicious. This made Zhong Wenrui completely interested, and he ate several fragrant dumplings in a row.

"It's delicious, it's delicious, old man, your skills are worthy of those chefs in Xijing City!" Zhong Wenrui said with a smile.

"Hehe, the guest officer said that he was laughing, messing around, let's make a little money!" Hearing Zhong Wenrui's praise, the old man laughed, making the wrinkles on his face much smoother.

"Old man, you are so old, you still come out to work, can your body still eat?" Zhong Wentao asked the old man on the side while eating.

"I have no health problems, now this place is better, only a very low tax, while I am still doing it, I can earn a little more money, and also relieve some pressure on my son and daughter-in-law." The old man said with a smile.

"I heard that the disaster has ended, and you can plant food again in the spring, do you plan to go back to Chu?" Zhong Wenrui asked.

"What are you going to do when we are about to starve to death, those big people in Chu don't care about us at all, but fortunately, His Royal Highness King Wu brought us here, so we won't starve to death. Now that our stomachs are full, we will pat our butts and leave, we can't do this ruthless and unrighteous thing? The old man was obviously a little excited when he said this, and his voice became louder.

"And yes! Our days here are much better now than when we were in Chu, why should we go back? The little girl next to her also continued.

"But after all, you are from the Chu country! Are you really willing to leave your homeland? Zhong Wenrui asked again.

"This guest officer, at first glance, you are a person who has not lived a hard life? For us poor people, we really don't care about what is not a country, and we don't care who is managing us, we only care about whether we can dress and warm our stomachs and whether we can eat enough? Life here is much better now than before, why should we go back to the hard times we used to have? ”

Seeing that Zhong Wenrui had finished eating, the old man said to Zhong Wenrui while cleaning up the table.

"Grandpa, this guest officer is so familiar." Looking at Zhong Wentao's figure, what did the little girl suddenly remember? Said to his grandfather.

"I also feel like I've seen it somewhere? But I can't remember who this guest officer really is? After listening to the little girl's words, the old man also raised his head and looked at Zhong Wentao's back.

"Oh! I remember, isn't this our county master of Shidong County? When the grain was brought that day, I saw him at the gate of the county seat. The little girl suddenly spoke aloud.

"That's right! It's the county master, I also remembered. The old man patted his head: "Look at my old eyes are dizzy, the county master came to my shop to eat wontons, and I actually collected other people's copper coins?" ”

"Grandpa, in fact, I can't blame you, who would have thought that a county master would come alone to eat wontons in a small shop, and take the initiative to give money after eating. Look at the officials we have seen before, which one of them is not hugging each other when they go out, but also driving all the people on the street away. The little girl looked at the direction in which Zhong Wentao disappeared and said to her grandfather.

After eating his stomach, Zhong Wenrui left the wonton shop and continued to walk along this not too long street. Along the way, he looked at the streets, the various shops, the people coming and going, and the shouting and shouting everywhere. He seemed to have the illusion that this was not a small county in the middle of nowhere, but a small town in a prosperous area of Dafu.

Seeing that this originally very poor small county has now undergone tremendous changes, Zhong Wenrui is sincerely happy. And these changes have a lot to do with himself, and his heart is full of pride.

The street is not long, and it doesn't take long for Wen Tao to finish it. Seeing that it was already completely dark, he immediately changed direction and walked towards the place where he lived, while several of his attendants followed him from a distance as usual.

Zhong Wenrui's place of residence is not far from this street, and after only walking about a pillar of incense, the small courtyard where he lives has already appeared in sight.

Zhong Wenrui walked and was about to walk towards the small courtyard where he lived, when he suddenly saw several figures walking out of the corner in front of him. There were three people who walked out, they were holding each other, they were all upside down when they walked, and they could smell the strong smell of alcohol from a long distance, obviously three drunk people.

This street is not too wide, but the two sides will not be crowded when they walk together, but these three people obviously drank too much, and they couldn't even distinguish the direction clearly, so they staggered in the direction where Zhong Wenrui was.

Looking at the three people who were all unsteady on this road, Zhong Wenrui couldn't help but smile in his heart. If it weren't for His Highness helping him, he might still be like the three of them, relying on wine to anesthetize himself all day long!

Seeing that these three people were getting closer and closer to him, Zhong Wenrui turned his body to the side and took a step back, preparing to let these three people pass first.

At the moment when the two sides were about to stagger, by the moonlight of the night, Zhong Wenrui saw the face of one of them. Although this person walked backwards before, his eyes were very clear.

For a while, Zhong Wenrui suddenly thought of something? Immediately move your body and want to move to one side.

Zhong Wenrui was also relatively responsive, but it was too late at this time. The three of them, who had already staggered while walking, suddenly became agile, and they suddenly had a short knife in their hands at some point, and quickly divided into three directions, completely blocking Zhong Wenrui's way.

Before Zhong Wenrui could react otherwise, the three of them had already divided into three directions, and each of them swung their knives and attacked Zhong Wenrui.

Zhong Wenrui has been in Yang Yun's fiefdom for many years, and he has always been polite and polite in front of everyone, giving people the illusion that he doesn't know martial arts. In fact, as the eldest son of the original Zhong Lao Duwei and the earliest confirmed heir of Zhong Lao Duwei, how could he not know kung fu.

I saw that Zhong Wenrui's body was short, and he let go of the short knife that came to his head, and then the short knife on his left side struck like lightning. This time, Zhong Wenrui did not choose to dodge, but faced the direction of the short knife, flew up and kicked directly into the attacker's arm, causing the short knife to directly slash off.

Between the lightning and flint, Zhong Wenrui, who was bare-handed, defused the attacks of the two people. At this time, Zhong Wenrui's back was towards the third attacker, feeling the attack from behind, Zhong Wenrui secretly said that it was not good, there was no time to react at this time, he only had time to make a quick half-turn.

The attack that was originally planned to be aimed at Zhong Wenrui's vest only hit his left arm, and blood flowed out at once, staining his sleeves red.

The three assassins who attacked Zhong Wenrui did not expect that this joint blow, which had taken away many lives over the years, would be resolved by such a literati-like person.

After missing the blow, the three of them quickly glanced at each other, and hurriedly waved the short knife in their hands, preparing to organize a second round of attacks.