Chapter 172: The Teasing Ah Qiang
Because he was worried that the horse thieves would attack again, even if it was Uncle Jiu's birthday today, Uncle Jiu's brows still did not stretch out, and Ye Xuan also had some bad premonitions in his heart, after all, the current plot had derailed from the plot of the movie, and he didn't know what kind of tricks those horse thieves would play.
In this way, on this day, Ye Xuan did not go out for a stroll, but followed Uncle Jiu to help him prepare some strange things for the next possible big battle.
The day was about to pass, and when it was evening, Ah Qiang came to the house and told Uncle SΓΉ that some respected people in the village had booked a birthday banquet for him in the restaurant to help him celebrate his birthday, and it was all ready.
"Okay, little brother Ye, we can't get ready, it's not too early, let's go to the restaurant and have a glass of water together now!" Uncle Nine put down the cinnabar pen in his hand, put away the drawn talisman, and said to Ye Xuan, who was busy playing with the copper coin sword.
"Okay, Uncle Nine, then let's go quickly, today is your birthday, let's not be late!" Ye Xuan put away the copper coin sword that was going to be used to deal with ghosts, stood up and said.
"It's okay, don't worry, it's still too late, let's go." Uncle Nine smiled slightly, nodded at Ye Xuan, and the two of them headed towards the banquet inn of the birthday banquet under the leadership of Ah Qiang.
Perhaps because of Uncle Nine's birthday, the entire inn was wrapped up by the people who invited Uncle Nine, and people came and went, and the voices were full of people, and it was very lively. As soon as Uncle Nine walked in, everyone congratulated Uncle Jiu.
After Uncle Nine finished greeting these villagers one by one, he said to Ye Xuan: "Little Brother Ye, let's go upstairs, there are some people in our village upstairs, I will introduce you later." β
"Then thank you Uncle Nine!" Ye Xuan smiled slightly, in fact, he was not interested in these so-called characters with heads and faces, but Ye Xuan would not brush off Uncle Jiu's kindness.
The three of them walked upstairs to the staircase of the turnaround. But I met Mao Shanming, who had just come down to eat.
Seeing Mao Shanming here, Ye Xuan was a little surprised, after all, Ye Xuan had already told him that Fugui Village would be ransacked by horse thieves, and when he asked him if he was coming, looking at his appearance, he obviously wanted to hide far away, but he didn't expect to come in the end, which has to admire the correction skills of the plot.
The staircase of the change of lane is not wide, and it can probably only allow two people to pass sideways. Mao Shanming is going to come down to eat, and the three of the nine uncles are going up. Naturally, it's not good. Originally, the two didn't want to make trouble, they were both humble to each other, but that's it, as a result, the two of them couldn't get up, and finally Ah Qiang got impatient, pushed Mao Shanming to the side, and smiled at the ninth uncle behind him: "Master, please!" β
Uncle Nine frowned and glanced at Ah Qiang, but today was his birthday. And Ah Qiang was obviously a little filial, so he didn't want to say anything, just nodded to Maoshan Ming next to him, and took the lead and walked up.
"Daochang Wu. I didn't expect you to be here! Ye Xuan followed behind Uncle Nine and said hello to Mao Shanming.
"Oh, little brother, I didn't think you were here. We met so soon. Mao Shanming was also a little surprised, and said with a smile on his face.
Mao Shanming originally heard that this village had been attacked by horse thieves, and he didn't want to come. But within a radius of 200 miles, in addition to the Fenglin Village where he stayed before, there is only this Fugui Village, Fenglin Village because Tan Million knows his ability, so he can't stay, he can only go to this Fugui Village to see if he can make a little fish, and find a place to rest by the way. However, before he entered the village, he still inquired and found that this village had repelled the horse thieves last night, so he dared to come in with confidence, and he heard that someone in the village had a birthday today, and someone had chartered the entire inn to set up a banquet, and he also wanted to come over and get rid of it.
"Little Brother Ye, do you know each other?" Uncle Nine turned around, looked at Ye Xuan, who was greeting Mao Shanming, and asked.
"Oh, Uncle Nine, let me introduce to you, this is Wu Ming Wu Daochang." Ye Xuan first introduced to the ninth uncle, and then introduced to Mao Shanming: "Daochang Wu, this is the ninth uncle of Fugui Village. β
"Hehe, it turned out to be Wu Daoyou, in Xia Lin Jiu." Uncle Nine smiled and arched his hand.
"It turns out that Daoyou is also a fellow Daoist, Wu Ming has seen Lin Daoyou!" Wu Ming naturally did not lose his courtesy, and hugged his fists.
"You're polite, you're polite, since Daoyou and Little Brother Ye know each other and are fellow Taoists, today is Lin's birthday, why don't Daoyou come up and have a drink together?" Uncle Nine invited.
"Hehe, no, no, I, I'm not used to eating with too many people, I'll just eat below, the kindness of Taoist friends, I understand it." Mao Shanming smiled and refused, but Ye Xuan looked at him before refusing, a golden light flashed in Ye Xuan's eyes, and he saw the two little ghosts following him, obviously if it wasn't for these two little ghosts, maybe he would still agree.
"In that case, then Dao friends, please!" Hearing Mao Shanming's refusal, Uncle Nine didn't insist, after all, he was not familiar with Mao Shanming, and the reason why he invited him upstairs was nothing more than for the sake of him and his own cultivation and knowing Ye Xuan.
"Little Brother Ye, let's go up!" Uncle Nine nodded at Ye Xuan, and Ye Xuan said hello to Mao Shanming, and then followed Uncle Nine upstairs.
When I got upstairs, the upstairs was also full of people, Uncle Nine followed the people outside to say hello, and then walked to a box hall, this box is not much more advanced outside, there is only one table inside, and there are people sitting next to it playing music, there are seven or eight people sitting on the table, all wearing silk and satin, full of red faces, I think they are all squires in the village.
"Uncle Nine, congratulations, congratulations!" As soon as Uncle Nine came in, these people immediately smiled and congratulated.
"Thank you, thank you, keep you waiting!" Uncle Nine smiled and walked to the main seat in front of the table in the aisle, and said to Ye Xuan, who was following him: "Little Brother Ye, you can sit next to me!" β
"Thank you, Uncle Nine!" Ye Xuan was not polite, and Shi Shiran sat down.
"Ladies and gentlemen, while the birthday banquet has not yet started, I would like to introduce you to a little brother." Uncle Nine also sat down, and then pointed to Ye Xuan and said: "This little brother's name is Ye Xuan, he is a young talent who has just returned from a foreign country, and he is currently traveling, and when he heard that there were horse thieves who were going to attack the village, he was very chivalrous and wanted to inform the village, if he hadn't been there last night, the villagers in the village would have been killed and injured more, and he killed several horse thieves alone." Even the best horse thief in the end was killed by him. β
"We heard this morning that a young man with strong martial arts came to this village, it turned out to be a little brother, long admiration, long admiration!" One of the squires in a black costume was surprised, which immediately caused the other squires to respond, and they all thanked him, saying that he had saved the village.
"You're welcome, I've seen you all in Xia Ye Xuan!" Ye Xuan got up and hugged his fists and saluted.
The squires also returned the salute one by one, and then they began to chat. After a while, Cuong also walked back, still holding a rather large red box with streamers tied to it.
Seeing this red box, Ye Xuan couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly, if he remembered correctly, this box contained an automatic fist spring glove, which was a gift from Ah Qiang who robbed others, but the villager who bought it deliberately waited until it was out of trouble.
However, when I saw Cuong's gift. Ye Xuan was also slightly stunned, as if he had forgotten to prepare a gift, and searched around the storage space, but fortunately found a jade pendant in the money bag that he had held in his hand before. This made him breathe a sigh of relief. Otherwise, if you come to drink someone's birthday wine and haven't prepared a gift yet, this is a sign of disrespect to people.
"Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedules to celebrate my birthday. Come, come, and gather together today. Let's have a drink together! After chatting for a while, Uncle Nine raised his glass and laughed.
"Okay, okay, okay, everyone have a drink!" The birthday boy spoke, and everyone raised the wine glasses in them, touched them, and dried them in one gulp.
After drinking, a squire sitting next to Ye Xuan whispered to another squire: "Alas, why hasn't comprador Hong arrived yet?" β
"Alas, say Cao Cao, Cao Cao will arrive!" Another squire looked at the door, and a middle-aged man in a Western suit walked in with a cake.
"Uncle Nine, Happybirthday!" As soon as the middle-aged man came in, he smiled and said loudly to Uncle Jiu in English, and as he held a simple cake with a candle in the middle of the table, he said with a smile: "It's a little meaning, it's not a tribute!" β
"Ah, what is this?" Ah Qiang looked at the cake put down by the middle-aged man and said novelly.
"This is a Western mooncake!" The middle-aged man proudly pointed to the cake in the middle, and then said to Uncle Nine: "Uncle Nine, come, blow it out!" β
"Alas, there are so many candles, do you want my master to do it?" Cuong continued to play his cheap personality and pointed to the candle on the cake.
"Alas, no, that's a good sign!" The middle-aged man smiled and waved his hand, and said, "Uncle Jiu, blow it out, as soon as the candle is extinguished, there is a son and a daughter-in-law!" β
"My master doesn't have a son!" Ah Qiang said with a cheap smile, and the smiling faces of everyone on the table suddenly froze.
Looking at Ah Qiang's appearance when he spoke, the corners of Ye Xuan's eyes twitched, and a group of words suddenly came to mind: nozuonodie!
Seeing his master looking at him with a sneer with his eyebrows upside down, Ah Qiang finally realized the severity of the matter, and hurriedly said with a smile on his face: "My master treats me like a son!" β
Uncle Nine had long been accustomed to the stinky mouth of his apprentice, and after glaring at him, he didn't care, but got up with a smile and blew out the candles on the cake in one go.
"Good, good!" Seeing Uncle Nine blowing out the candles, everyone applauded, and then picked up the chopsticks on the table, and sang the birthday song while knocking rhythmically: "I wish you a happy life and a happy birthday, every year has today, every year has a ......."
"It's not this, it's not this ......" Suddenly, Ah Qiang stretched out his hand and waved his hand and shook it at everyone, in the incomprehensible gaze of everyone, Ah Qiang suddenly paused, brewed his expression, stretched out his hand to hug his master, and sang with a tender face: "There is only a master in the world, and the apprentice of the master is like a treasure, thrown into the arms of the master, and the happy baby ......"
Looking at the tenderness, as if a child was singing Ah Qiang's own adaptation of "Only the Master is Good in the World", everyone couldn't help but be dumbfounded, if this was a two-dimensional background, Ye Xuan believed that now all the people present would have a huge bead of sweat painted on their heads, and Ah Qiang's head was painted with a crow, plus the words "stupid, stupid......".
"Bang bang, yes, yes, come on, cheers everyone! Cheers! After singing by himself, Cuong clapped his palms, then picked up his wine glass and smiled at the stunned everyone, as if he had done something great.
The crowd came to their senses. It's not good to save Uncle Jiu's face, so he put on his smiling face again one by one, raised his wine glass and drank it with a smile.
After drinking, the middle-aged comprador Hong looked at Ye Xuan, who was sitting next to Uncle Nine and hadn't spoken much, and suddenly said, "Uncle Nine, who is this little brother?" β
"Oh, you didn't come just now, I forgot to introduce it, this little brother's name is Ye Xuan, and he is a young talent who has just returned to China. This time, our village was able to repel the horse thieves so smoothly, thanks to the help of this little brother! Uncle Nine reintroduced with a smile.
"Oh, I also heard in the morning that a young man with strong martial arts came to our village, and last night he was very powerful and killed the leader of the horse thieves, it turned out to be you, little brother, disrespectful! Disrespectful! Come, I'll toast you! When comprador Hong heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up. Raised the full wine glass in his hand and said happily.
"Don't dare, don't dare, please!" Ye Xuan also hurriedly raised his glass. He touched the comprador Hong Xu, and drank the wine in the cup in one gulp.
"Okay, the little brother is really bold!" Seeing Ye Xuan drink dry, comprador Hong snorted. With his head up, he finished his wine.
After all, this is Uncle Nine's birthday banquet, after the two of them have finished drinking. One of the squires saw Ah Qiang's expression just now, looked at Ah Qiang and smiled: "Ah Qiang, seeing that you sang so affectionately just now, what do you give him for your master's birthday?" β
"Aha!" Hearing what the man said, Ah Qiang snorted, took out a small red bag from his pocket with a smile, and said, "Master, it's a little meaning!" β
Hearing Ah Qiang's words, the corners of Ye Xuan's mouth raised slightly, it was indeed a small meaning, and there was a copper coin in the bag.
"I'll see what it is!" Uncle Nine took it and was about to open it to see what was inside, Ah Qiang held his hand with a smile and said, "Master, go back and dismantle it again, go back and dismantle it again!" β
"Well, guess what's inside?" A squire sitting next to comprador Hong next to him looked at the small bag in Uncle Jiu's hand and said.
"Such a small package, it is estimated to be a piece of jade!" Comprador Hong said thoughtfully.
Uncle Nine slapped Ah Qiang's hand away, opened it and took a look, only to see a copper and iron in the small bag lying quietly inside.
"Is it jade, is it jade!" The squire looked at Uncle Nine and asked with a smile.
"Anything goes!" Uncle Nine forced a smile on his face and put away the small bag, but his eyes turned to the big red box placed under Ah Qiang.
"Oh!" Ah Qiang immediately understood, smiled and picked up the big red box on the ground, handed it over, and said with a smile: "The small one is just a snack, and the big one is the main dish, come, master!" β
Uncle Nine saw the big red box handed over by Ah Qiang, and the anger that he saw just now that there was only one copper coin also disappeared slightly, nodded, and said with some satisfaction: "Well, you are a little filial!" β
"Well, what do you say this box is?" Seeing that Uncle Nine was unpacking the big red box, the other squire also raised his eyebrows curiously and asked the person next to him.
"Oh, that bag was jade just now, this box is so big, it's amazing!" The other squire nodded.
"Yes, yes, unbelievable!" The other squires responded.
Listening to the words of the squire next to him, Uncle Nine also picked up the lid of the big red box with hope, but saw a plastic standing fist inside.
Uncle Nine was stunned, and before he could see what it was, suddenly the standing fist bounced up with a "bang", and a punch hit the face of Nine Fists.
Everyone was immediately stunned by Ah Qiang's gift, and they were dumbfounded and stared at it one by one.
"Unbelievable, unbelievable!"
"Unbelievable, unbelievably ......"
Uncle Nine pouted and looked at Ah Qiang, who turned around and shrunk his head, the look on his face became colder and colder, and suddenly, Uncle Nine suddenly laughed gloomily, laughing so that everyone at the table was terrified.
"Hey, Uncle Nine rarely laughs like this!"
"yes, yes!"
"Last year he laughed like this and died several! It's true, I kid you not! β
"There is a knife in the smile!" Ah Qiang listened to Uncle Jiu's terrible laughter, goosebumps rose, he shrank his head and turned back, took the automatic fist spring gloves that were still on Uncle Jiu's lap and took them, and said with a bitter smile: "Master, this thing is not fun, I'll buy you another fun one." β
"Okay, but you don't have to come back here, I'll wait for me to play with you when I'm done!" Uncle Nine looked at Ah Qiang with a cold face.
"Oh!" Ah Qiang answered, stood up with a bitter face and walked out.
"I'm sorry, the scoundrel is stubborn, let you see the joke!" Uncle Nine watched Ah Qiang walk out, and then he hugged his fists and smiled.
"It's okay, it's okay!" Everyone said that they didn't dare, and they didn't dare to touch Uncle Jiu's brow at this time.
"Uncle Nine, today is your birthday, and I don't have any preparations, this piece of jade is given to Uncle Nine, I hope you will be as blessed as the East China Sea, and your longevity will be better than Nanshan!" Seeing that the atmosphere was a little depressing, Ye Xuancai, who had been sitting next to him and watching the play for a long time, took out a piece of jade pendant from his arms and handed it to Uncle Jiu.
"Oh, what a beautiful piece of mutton fat white jade!"
"What a beautiful carver!"
Uncle Nine was stunned when he saw the jade handed over by Ye Xuan, and then quickly shook his head and pushed the jade pendant back and said, "No, no, this gift is too valuable, I can't accept it, little brother Ye should put it away!" β
"How can you take back the things you sent out, Uncle Nine, you better accept it!" Ye Xuan sent the jade pendant over again.
"No, no!" Uncle Nine insisted on not accepting it.
"Today is Uncle Nine's birthday, how can there be any reason not to accept gifts, this must be accepted." Ye Xuan didn't plan to take it back.
The two pushed back and forth, and in the end, Uncle Jiu, who couldn't refuse, still put away the jade pendant, planning to return it to Ye Xuan after the birthday banquet was over.
"Come, come, come, drink, drink!"
The dishes soon came up, and everyone chatted while eating and drinking.
Bang Bang Bang! οΌοΌοΌ
Suddenly, there was a thunderous applause from downstairs, which suddenly surprised the upstairs.
"Why is it so noisy downstairs!" Uncle Nine listened to the applause from downstairs and frowned.
"So happy, it must be a flowing water feast, come, eat, eat!" A squire said while eating.
Only Ye Xuan picked up the corners of his mouth slightly while picking up vegetables, he knew that Ah Qiang must have been rectified by the two ghosts raised by Maoshan Ming, but he had a bad sense of Ah Qiang, and he was willing to see him be taught a lesson.
Everyone also drank a glass of wine, and suddenly, Ah Qiang's voice came: "Master, help, help!" β
"Not good!" Hearing that it was his apprentice's voice, Uncle Nine immediately got up from his chair and rushed out. (To be continued......)