Volume 2 Forge Ahead Chapter 45 Charm and Misfortune
Even the pretense of the wine inn looked listless in the sun, and everyone had not lived in the mundane world, but this small town was really strange.
Zhou Hao and the four of them had doubts, but they didn't care, looking for the market to walk, the shops along the street were very light, separated by an open door.
It can be seen that the guy is lazily taking care of the hygiene, greeting the guests, and the shopkeeper is not urging, drinking a little wine and pulling the abacus.
Zhou Hao and the four of them had doubts, but they didn't care, looking for the market to walk, the shops along the street business is very light, through the open door, you can see that the guys are lazily taking care of the hygiene, greeting guests, and the shopkeeper is not urging, drinking a little wine by himself, pulling the abacus.
The time is not big, a more expensive restaurant stands on the side of the street, the eaves of golden glaze, the vermilion columns, the carved arches of more than ten zhang wide, and the crisp and pleasant copper bells jingle with the wind.
Stepping up the bluestone paved steps, a few neat young men were immediately greeted by someone.
The snow-white hand towel is neatly placed on the shoulder, the azure short placket, the jet-black fast boots, and the thin bottom of the cowhide are capable and shrewd.
Hello guests, please come in. Lead the way sideways, with the palm of the right hand upward, white and red, delicate and delicate, without a trace of dirt.
Zhou Hao's eyes narrowed slightly, and he stepped into the hall. A faint aroma of wine permeated the hall, and the tempting meat soup seemed to be deliberately tempting people's gluttony.
sat down by the window, ordered a few delicious dishes, a jar of wine, but the four of them were divided into two tables, Zhao Cheng and Tian Kun liked it
Eating meat in large pieces, holding the jar and drinking, he was also afraid of being restrained with Zhou Haozuo, so he ordered a table of wine and food next to him.
Zhou Hao carefully took out the sleeping Bai Li from his arms, but there was no sign of waking up at all, perhaps leaving the warm embrace, the original lazy and loose sleeping posture, curled up together.
"Young master, why hasn't Xiaobai woken up yet, I haven't eaten for a long time, it's okay!" Lingzhi looked at Bai Li, who was asleep, a little worried about Bai Li, who likes to eat and drink.
It doesn't matter, she's evolving, and the longer she sleeps, the stronger she wakes up.
The restaurant is magnificent, but also calm and introverted, the waiters walk and pass the food are light, the speech and demeanor are polite and courteous, neither humble nor arrogant, there are not many diners in the building, it seems more and more clean, while the waiting guy quietly looked at Zhou Hao and the two, but it is not obvious, the time is not big, there was a noise outside the building, and then a group of more than ten young people, fresh clothes and angry horses with whips in their hands, strode into the restaurant.
The first few are quite handsome descendants, wearing beaded flowers, wearing gold silk dragon robes, jade belts around their waists, thin-soled fast boots on their feet, and a group of swords and knives behind them, but they are slaves.
The waiters in front of the hall were immediately greeted by a few people, leading to a few gorgeous tables with black jade shops in the middle, which seemed to be frequent customers here, presumably from the heirs of wealthy families in the city.
Brother Yang, Brother Gou, Brother He quickly sat down, the man at the head greeted a few people, and the waiter did not ask, so he began to serve dishes and wine, and other domestic slaves and the like waited on the side.
With Zhou Hao's cultivation, if you want to know how many talents are practicing qi, what the juniors are talking about, naturally you don't need to work hard.
It turns out that these people have been coming to this small city of Dingtao for a while, this city belongs to the border town under the rule of the Yanwu Kingdom, originally there were two major families in the city, all of them are famous families, and their ancestors have been monks, this is the first young man surnamed Chen, only sixteen years old, and he is the only person who has spiritual roots in the two families in the past hundred years to cultivate, and the Huo family in the same city has not appeared in the junior with spiritual roots for more than 150 years.
In addition, his ancestors were in the early stage of building the foundation, nearly 200 years, I am afraid that they have already been ancient, and the two families are in the same city, natural grievances and grievances, and today, the Huo family is extremely weak, and the Chen family has a mind to plan the two families to share the iron vein.
It just so happened that the third son of the contemporary Yanwu King, Yang Chang wanted to recruit and deploy for himself, gather cultivation resources, and take the guards to depose the Huo family as the city lord in the name of inspecting the officials, and was collecting evidence in order to completely control Dingtao.
This restaurant, the abnormality in the city, is due to this matter, although the Huo family has no ancestors in Mengyin, but it is fair, and it also governs the small city in an orderly manner, and does not leave it behind at night, and the Chen family is a businessman who runs the family and naturally has a stronger market flavor, Yang Chang came to depose the Huo family city lord, resulting in chaos in the government, coupled with his looting of people's wealth, chaos in the city gradually arises, but the people dare to be angry and dare not speak, restaurants and other places are almost all taken over by Yang Chang's subordinates, which is also a matter of how many of them dare to discuss and plan blatantly, without fear of being heard.
This kind of thing didn't have the slightest impact on Zhou Hao, and the calculations of a few frogs at the bottom of the well, as long as it didn't go too far, he was not in the mood to care.
"Ahem"
Yang Chang coughed to stop them from showing off loudly, and asked in a low voice, "Chen Shan, are you sure that there are treasures in the mine, don't speculate." ”
Chen Shan hurriedly replied: "Don't worry, the third prince, you can't make a mistake, you think! If there is no treasure, there will be such a high yield of dark iron, besides 1." As he spoke, he looked around before continuing: "If there is no treasure, how can so many mortals die, think about it, even if half of the people were tired in the past, it would be enough, but since the strange ore was mined, people began to die in large numbers, if not, how could those Diao people in the prison be consumed!"
Yang Chang was pale when he heard this, and said, "Chen Shao, according to the current progress, how long will it take to dig things out?"
"This! I guess it will take half a month!" Chen Shan replied. "It's a pity that those death row inmates are almost exhausted, and if the number of people is enough, they can still be advanced by three or five days. ”
Then hurry up and recruit people, and in any case, dig up the stuff before the news is revealed.
"But?" Chen Shan hesitated.
"It's nothing, if your family wants to eradicate the Huo family and monopolize Dingtao, don't hesitate. ”
Yang Chang was unhappy in his heart.
"But the third prince, this person is really not easy to find! A few days ago, seven or eight out of ten of the young and strong people in this city were driven into the mines, and now they are ......," Chen Shan explained.
"Chen Shao, don't be so much, I see that it is about to be completed, when the time comes, you go to the Kingdom Academy and cultivate advanced methods, this Dingtao is not a thing in your hand?" A teenager next to him egged.
"Brother Gou, I know it too, but the question is, where to find someone?" Chen Shan said with a bitter face.
"Haha, I said Chen Shao, are you a fool? Now that your father is the lord of the city, although this pottery is not big, there are fewer mountain people and hunters who can come and go, and a notice is issued at the city gate, and all non-residents of the city who enter the city to trade need to go to labor or pay taxes, which is not a double win. The young man surnamed Gou came up with an idea
Snap, Chen Shan slapped his thigh, "Yes, why didn't I think of it? Still Gou has few ideas, no wonder he can accompany the prince for a long time, admire and admire, Brother Gou, please drink all this wine, and ask Brother Gou to take care of it in the future." ”
Zhou Hao and the others had no intention of taking care of mundane things, but it backfired, and when Zhou Hao and the others were checking out and leaving to rest, the evil slaves under Chen Shan blocked the way.
Tell me about it! Who is the person, can there be customs clearance documents? The burly man who looks serious has blocked the way of a few people in an official tone, but it is a pity that the pair of cruel triangular eyes have destroyed a righteous qi, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a ruffian is picking quarrels and provoking trouble, and the yin owl and color and soul under the eyes make people want to kick their feet hard.
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Then Zhao Chengtian Kun and the two of them who got up were about to get angry, but they were stopped by Zhou Hao's voice, pulling the almost angry Lingzhi with one hand, Zhou Hao smiled indifferently, calmly looked at a few slaves with fierce eyes, and asked, "How is it?"
Chen Shan also stood up at this moment, glared at the servant dissatisfied, and then looked at Zhou Hao, and Earle's eyes instantly nailed to Lingzhi's graceful figure.
After a while, he swallowed his saliva, concealed his embarrassment and asked, "Who are you waiting for, who are the people, who actually did not cooperate with the official inspection, do you know how much of a crime you have committed?"
"Ho!" The hat is not small!
Zhou Hao pretended not to know and asked: "Then dare to ask the military master, I don't have the papers, how to deal with it?"
"Haha! Not really. Chen Shan was overjoyed, so he shouted: "And if you can't explain the reason for your identity, my son has reason to believe that there must be a problem with your identity, then press it down first, wait for your identity to be ascertained, and then return your freedom. ”
The words are bright and clear, and they are loud and clear.
Seeing that the other party actually wanted to suppress himself, he immediately understood what Chen Shan's idea was, so he said: "Since the little military master wants to investigate our identity, it is also reasonable, but I don't know where to wait?"
Chen Shan was secretly happy in his heart, he didn't expect these people on the other side to be so easy to fool, and immediately instructed the house slaves: "Where do you send these suspects to, so that they can be greeted, understand?"
A bunch of evil slaves naturally know what it means.
Chen Shan looked at Lingzhi and said, "For your sake, this little girl will stay, and there is no need to accompany you to any dirty places." "A gift.
How do you know that Lingzhi didn't appreciate it, and glared angrily: "I won't stay, where the young master goes, I'll go, hum!" glared at Chen Shan fiercely.
I originally planned to keep you and give you a glory and wealth, but I didn't expect you to be so uninteresting, so I sent you to grind your temperament first, and you will feel good when you come back. Chen Shan's heart was full of malice.
A group of evil slaves were the city government army of Dingtao, and after the Chen family took over the city lord, they were used by the public and private, and some of them were ordinary warriors who took refuge in the Chen family, and even a few Jiangyang thieves or thieves were born to do good things that oppressed the good, which can be said to be familiar.
When pushing Zhao Cheng Tian Kun, let Tian Kun teach him a lesson, and almost broke the leader's arm, so he no longer dared to act recklessly, but followed all the way to the City Lord's Mansion.
There was nothing to say all night, early the next morning, the sound of chains clanging bells, woke up the four people who were meditating cross-legged, and only two house slaves who were sent away yesterday came, and they cursed and scolded secretly, they were really unlucky, and we had to send people to a ghost place.
The other sighed and said, "Alas, who let us follow that Young Master Chen, who was raised by his stepmother, how can it be your turn to do good things!"