Chapter Eighty-Three: An Unusual Family Feast
Ma Chao entered the Houde Building and did not come out, and he was also surprised by the layout inside. Ma Chao and Wang Bo talked about Wang Cheng's plan for the prince to pit King Xu, and the old man Wang Bo hummed and replied, this is a family banquet.
After Ma Chao and Wang Bo entered, they immediately entered a sedan chair. King Xu guessed that the person in the sedan chair was the prince, and the sedan chair was not the prince, and the people inside made Ma Chao a little surprised.
The person in the sedan chair walked out, holding an iron fracture fan in his hand, it was Mr. Stinky that Ma Chao had a relationship with, Mr. Stinky bowed deeply to Mr. Wang Bo, and said that Dad had prepared a homely meal. Then he bowed to Ma Chao and said, Brother Ma has met again.
After saying hello, Mr. Stinky led Ma Chao and Wang Bo into an underground passage, walked along the passage, passed a jack, and entered a magnificent underground world, where the mountains and rivers are gold, the flowing water is silver, the trees are jade, and the sun, moon and stars are inlaid with priceless gems on the dome.
There was a person living here, pale, thin and skinny, if he hadn't sat up slowly, Ma Chao would have thought he was a dry corpse.
Wang Bo sighed and said I haven't seen you for many years, Lao Qiao, you are still alive in death. It is indeed like a tomb, except that the owner of the tomb is still alive. Lao Qiao's voice was hoarse, and it seemed that he hadn't spoken for a long time, and Ma Chao vaguely heard Lao Qiao say that he died twenty-two years ago.
Wang Bo pointed to Lao Qiao and said that twenty-two years ago, it was the Wulinda clan who died. Wang Bo also said that Lao Qiao was not even qualified to accompany the funeral. Hearing Lao Qiao say this, Ma Chao was also curious, who is this Lao Qiao?
When Mr. Stinky heard Wang Bo say this, he coughed excitedly, Mr. Stinky couldn't help but change his face, stared at Wang Bo, Wang Bo sneered, and said Old Qiao, your subordinates are becoming more and more unruly.
Old Joe raised his hand, and Mr. Stinky bowed his head respectfully. Lao Qiao said that the things of the year were not theorized with Wang Bo, and then stared at Ma Chao, with a loving expression on his face, Mr. Stinky raised his eyes and couldn't help but be surprised.
Lao Qiao and Ma Chao said that they are good friends with Ma Chao's mother? Then he walked up to Ma Chao tremblingly, took Ma Chao's hand, looked up and down, and muttered in his mouth, like, really like. Ma Chao couldn't help but ask, who is my mother? Old Joe laughed and said that this child had been crazy for a long time, and he didn't even know his mother.
Ma Chao didn't ask, knowing that there was no result if he continued to ask, this old Qiao added a sense of mystery. Old Joe seemed to be in a good mood, saying that he hadn't eaten for a long time, and asked Mr. Stinky to prepare.
Mr. Stinky personally brought a stone table made of strange stones, and then carefully placed three bowls of porridge, delicate pickles, and three cups of boiling water on it.
Wang Bo snorted coldly and said that Dajin was rich and the people of the Southern Song Dynasty were rich, but compared to these wealth, they were not as good as Lao Qiao. The richest man in the world invites someone to eat, but it is a bowl of gruel and a plate of pickles.
Lao Qiao glanced at Wang Bo, smiled, and said that money is not everything, and there are things that money can't buy, such as horses on the grassland. Wang Bo's face changed when he heard this, and he glared and asked Lao Qiao if he was investigating himself. Old Joe said that if it is investigated, it will not be as simple as a few horses.
These two old guys are-for-tat, but Ma Chao has a strange feeling, these two people are like fierce beasts, and the emotions between beasts are also expressed by biting each other.
Ma Chao happily asked Lao Qiao, what should he call him, Lao Qiao said that it was okay to call Uncle Qiao, Ma Chao said Uncle Qiao respectfully, and made Lao Qiao cough with joy. Mr. Stinky helped Lao Qiao pat his back, Lao Qiao gasped, and said sadly, he didn't expect the third brother to leave so down.
Wang Bo was a little unhappy and said to Lao Qiao, your eyeliner is all over the world, you should have known where Ma San lived a long time ago, if you helped, how could Ma San leave so down. Lao Qiao didn't talk back to Wang Bo this time, so he said that the third brother said that he couldn't find it. Wang Bo couldn't help but say, Ma San can't find it, isn't Xiao Wu's whereabouts also there?
Lao Qiao shook his head and said that Xiao Wu has no fixed place, and his occasional appearance is also chivalrous and righteous, Lao Qiao asked Wang Bo, back then, Xiao Wu handed over the mental method to you, and asked you to find a child with good bones to teach, but you actually found a stupid person, and almost killed Ma Chao with a mere Yan Guangyang.
Ma Chao is very smart, and he guessed that this Xiao Wu must be a master of inner family, and the successor Wang Bo found for him must be Wang Wu.
Wang Bo said that children always have to go through some experience before they can grow up, and the canary in the cage will never become an eagle soaring in the sky. Old Joe disagreed, and said that he was like your son, aiming to kill you.
Ma Chao was shocked when he heard this, the person who aimed to kill Wang Bo really had one by his side, and that was Wang Cheng. Wang Cheng turned out to be Wang Bo's biological son, which was a surprise to Ma Chao.
Ma Chao now understands one thing, that is, the word family banquet, Wang Bo said, this is a family banquet. Wang Bo called his father, whom he had never met, called Ma San. Lao Qiao is called the third brother, and there is a little five. Judging from the current ranking, Wang Bo is either the eldest or the second, Ma Yutang is third, Lao Qiao is fourth, and Xiao is fifth. Who is the other person of these five brothers?
So far, Ma Chao doesn't know about the fire above, and is drinking porridge and pondering. Lao Qiao said to Ma Chao gently, Chao'er, now there is a sea of fire above us, Lao Qiao also said that Manager Bai was the child he adopted back then, and being the head of King Xu was just one of his identities, so after Manager Bai knew Wang Cheng's plan, he pushed the boat down the river and prepared this family banquet.
Ma Chao was a little puzzled, and Lao Qiao went on to say that Wang Bo secretly discussed with him and made hands and feet on the dome of Houde Building, which was empty, and the dome was filled with heavenly fire oil.
Ma Chao stared, faintly admiring in his heart, Lao Qiao looked at it and smiled, saying that he asked Ma Chao to help him cover it up, and said that this arrangement was Ma Chao's plan.
Ma Chao asked me why I said this, and Lao Qiao said that he didn't want him to know that he was still alive, who was he? Old Joe also said that if he knew that he was still alive, even if he turned Kyoto over, he would find himself.
Lao Qiao also said that when you see Xiao Wu in the future, please tell her that this old immortal owes her this life, and she will definitely pay it back in the next life.
It turns out that Xiao Wu is a woman...... Not five brothers, five brothers and sisters. This reminded Ma Chao that he had entered a misunderstanding, Lao Qiao once said that he was a good friend of his mother, if Wang Bo was the boss, his mother was second, Ma Yutang was third, Lao Qiao was fourth, and there was a female hero Xiaowu, so to speak, through the information obtained by Ma Chao, his mother should be Wulinda's.