CHAPTER XXXIV

34 Zhou Dao rented a boat and went to Zhuxi Town with Feng Yi's family, the boat was cramped, and from time to time a bad smell came into Zhou Dao's nostrils, and Zhou Dao knew that it was the Feng family's wandering for many years.

He turned his head and asked, "Brother Feng, I don't understand something, how can someone like you not get a better job, why is it so embarrassing?" Feng Yi smiled bitterly and shook his head, "As soon as others hear our family speak, they will know that it is Jinren, who wants to use me?" If you don't make a good one, you will touch the taboo, and you will suffer disaster. The world is so big, how can there ever be a place for my family, hey! He sighed and asked, "Gongzi Zhou, aren't you afraid that our family will cause you bad luck?" Feng Yi's answer was similar to what Zhou Dao expected, "I am not the same person as others, I am also a stranger, I don't mind these very much, and it turns out that many people in Jin and Xia fled to the Great Song Dynasty, and the government is also recognized as a Guiyi person, I only treat things not people, as long as you have the ability, I dare to use it, you can rest assured." "

He thought for a moment and asked, "The Kingdom of Jin has been destroyed for more than ten years, why don't you stay in the north?" "When the Mongols attacked the city, I and my daughter-in-law escaped, and the whole family was gone, and the Tartars of the dog day slaughtered the city, and it was all gone!" Zhou Dao noticed that he began to speak the dialect of his hometown, although it had been many years, he became excited as he spoke, "I waited for more than ten days for the Mongols to leave, and then ran back, it was so miserable that it was all corpses, it was so smelly, even the dog couldn't stand it, my parents, brothers, sisters, and my son who didn't run away all died." "There was nowhere to bury them, and there were rebels who entered the city, so I carried them into the house one by one, and set the house on fire..."

When the boat arrived in Zhuxi Town, Zhou Dao vacated a dormitory in the mill house to accommodate their family. Then she asked her to go to the tent to collect two pieces, and go to the pawn shop in the town to collect some old clothes, and change the clothes of their whole family, which were soaked in water, and there were too many lice. After arranging these and having dinner with their whole family, they were ready to go back, and the Feng family followed out with great gratitude.

As he was talking, two men came over, both carrying knives, one of whom was tall and burly. Zhou Dao took a look and knew the tall man who went to the mill with Bai Shoucheng for the first time, and later learned that his name was Ma Biao, and his nickname was immediately crazy, and he was seven of the eighteen arhats. "Bai Ye is in the town and Shunhe, I asked you to go over and drink." "Oh, Bai Ye is in town? Okay, here we go. "It's also refreshing. Immediately, he leaned close to Zhou Dao and whispered, "Bring more money, settle the wine account, and take another twenty strokes with you." The county lieutenant is here. "

He Shunhe is the best liquor shop in town, and Zhou Dao brought three mill men. When he and Ma Biao arrived, they saw that the hall was very lively, there were five or six tables of people, one of which was the loudest, eating wine and fists, it was the brothers of the white boss, they were sitting or standing in pairs opposite each other, shouting loudly and gesturing with their hands, all of them were red and red-eared.

Zhou Dao stepped forward and said a few words, but most of them didn't pay much attention to him at all, and two or three people hugged his fists at him. Zhou Dao looked at the table next to him, which was relatively quiet, but there were also two people playing fists, mostly eating and drinking, chatting shoulder to shoulder. Two of them knew Zhou Dao, one was the old man Li Zhengqu, and the other was Wu Lushi in the town, Zhou Dao also said hello, laughed a few words and went to the backyard with Ma Biao, and the people who came with him stayed in the lobby.

Zhou Dao felt that he had no face, and everyone ignored him, "But it's okay, it's better than being stopped to toast one by one, these two tables will come down in a circle, and they will have to be planted on the table." He exonerated himself.

When he entered the backyard, he was immediately much cleaner, and through the door of the wing room on the left, he saw Bai Ye eating and drinking with a young, tall and slightly chubby man, who was sitting on the main seat with a baby face. "Lord Fang, Master Bai." Zhou Dao stood at the door and clasped his fists at the two in the room. "Zhou Gongzi is here. It seems that you already know that this is the county lieutenant Lord Fang, Lord Fang loves talents, and specially asked me to recruit you to introduce him to him. Bai Ye said with a smile, Zhou Dao hurriedly saluted Lord Fang again, that Fang Xu didn't have any arrogance, and arched his hand at Zhou Dao with a smile and said, "Master Zhou doesn't have to be formal, sit." Bai Ye Chong stood next to Zhou Dao, and Ma Biao said, "Old Seven, have you brought everything?" "It's all brought." "Well, you go and hand over to Brother Fang, and ask Xiao Er to put the dishes and chopsticks up, and I want to have a good bowl with Brother Zhou." The dishes and chopsticks were quickly served, and Zhou Daoxian gave each of them a bowl. "Brother Zhou, you should respect Lord Fang for three more bowls, do you know that this matter of requisitioning grain has been properly handled by Lord Fang. "

"Oh... If there is such a good thing, then you must thank Lord Fang, and come to respect Lord Fang again! As he spoke, Zhou Dao poured three bowls of wine in a row. Well, Brother Zhou has a good amount of alcohol. Fang Xu didn't shirk either, he picked up the wine and drank a bowl. I heard that Bai Ye often praised Brother Zhou for being good at managing money and being able to do things, but today he has to see that the results are true, and he is still a happy man. Come, brother, I will also salute you three bowls. Zhou Dao's head was a little big, and he did three more bowls of it. It's white water, and I can't stand it with such a way of drinking, and my stomach is turning over and over. "Okay, Brother Zhou will eat the vegetables first, and it's not too late to rest and drink." Zhou Dao thought to himself, "This Fang Xu has a baby face, but he is sleek and sophisticated, and he is very old-fashioned."

"I also said the matter of requisitioning grain, you are a stranger, you have not yet been naturalized, and you have just been seriously damaged by arson, which is also obvious to all. The case has not yet been concluded, where is the surplus money? Therefore, it will be reduced, and it will be said that it is reasonable to say it in all directions. "Vomit" Zhou Dao retched for a while, and said in his heart, "Oh, it can be regarded as saving twenty times, and this wine is worth drinking." But he said, "Lord Fang is right, this matter is so appropriate, it really depends on your lord." I'll be respectful again, vomit! Before he finished speaking, he rushed to the courtyard and hugged a tree and poured out, "Gross! Wow! "