Shudi pickles: pickled radish, pickled ginger, pickled cucumbers, pickled cowpeas, and the slightly larger dish next to it is placed with cut bacon.

Just after Gu Huaiyi and Ji Kefeng drank the porridge in front of them, Zheng Guoyuan put down his crutches and got up again, walked into the kitchen and brought out the steaming pot of two-rice porridge, and served a bowl to each of them, then turned around and went into the kitchen, burned the firewood in the pot, waited for the pot to be spicy and oiled, and at the same time cut the green onions, ginger and garlic, and waited for the oil to cook and start stir-frying.

Not long after, a plate of stir-fried pork with bamboo shoots was brought out and placed in the middle of the table.

Faced with these foods, Tang Shuxing could only watch dryly, lying that he had no appetite.

Zheng Guoyuan sat down again, picked up a piece of meat and put it into Gu Huaiyi's bowl and said: "This is the small tenderloin on the pig, the most tender meat, much more delicious than the ordinary tenderloin, the bamboo shoots are the new bamboo shoots this year, your favorite when you were a child." ”

"Stir-fried pork with bamboo shoots, I did eat it a lot when I was a child, and I was still young at that time, right?" Gu Huaiyi smiled and looked at Tang Shuxing, "Do you know what it means to stir-fry meat with bamboo shoots?" The old immortal is not confused, he is reminding me that I should be beaten! ”

Stir-fried meat with bamboo shoots also means spanking, Tang Shuxing and Ji Kefeng both know it, but they really don't understand what Zheng Guoyuan means by doing this now? What is he reminding Gu Huaiyi? Or is it a knock on the side for both of them?

"Do you believe the last words?" Zheng Guoyuan suddenly put down his chopsticks and asked, his eyes falling on Tang Shuxing's body.

Tang Shuxing just shook his head, he wasn't sure if he should believe it.

Zheng Guoyuan nodded slightly, and asked again: "Do you think I should die?" ”

Tang Shuxing was stunned for a moment, looked at Gu Huaiyi, and didn't know how to answer.

"A lot of people say, if I'm dead, the whole of Southeast Asia will be clean, the global drug market will be hit hard, and the flow of drugs will be reduced by 60 percent." Zheng Guoyuan began to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, "Actually, in the past two years, my business has suffered a major blow, the circulation of ordinary drugs has been greatly reduced, and new drugs have begun to occupy the market, all under the banner of giving people a short-term stimulus, but not addictive, the empire I built with my own hands is collapsing, but this is exactly what I wanted." ”

Is the collapse of the drug empire what Zheng Guoyuan wants to see? Tang Shuxing didn't look at Zheng Guoyuan with straight eyes, worried that this old man would read his thoughts from his own eyes.

"Do you know what these people are doing here?" Zheng Guoyuan pointed out of the passage and glanced at the other three young people at the table, "They are idiots who have come to beg me to lead them to open up new markets and take advantage of the unstable situation in Southeast Asia to lead their own army to conquer the world." ”

Tang Shuxing and Ji Kefeng were silent, while Gu Huaiyi continued to drink porridge and eat vegetables, eating very deliciously.

"They were naïve enough to think that by taking all of Southeast Asia by taking over the army, they could build it into an ideal drug kingdom. It's ridiculously naïve, so naïve that I don't want to scold them, because I can't teach this group of people too smartly, otherwise my position will be lost. Zheng Guoyuan smiled contemptuously, "They think that by laying down a piece of the world and becoming the leader of the country, they can legalize drugs, which is something that literacy and reading teenagers know is impossible." Let everyone make drugs? Don't farm? Do not develop agriculture, industry? What do people eat and what do they use? Importing on the money from selling drugs? It's ridiculous......"

Zheng Guoyuan got up and walked to the door: "So, when the last theory spread, they forced me to do it, first to control Chiang Rai, then to control the whole of Thailand, and then all of Southeast Asia, relying on Shangdu's support to do whatever he wanted, but this is looking for death, sooner or later it will be a dead end, and the rabbit will have to bite people if it is urgent, not to mention other countries that are deeply affected by drugs." They still don't understand, Shangdu just uses us as a shield, make the best use of everything, and completely destroy it when it is used up. ”

"Many of my men have secretly become followers of Shandu." Zheng Guoyuan closed the door and closed his eyes, "I know, most of them don't really believe it, they just find a way back for themselves, which makes me not know if they are really stupid or fake, they know to find a way back, but they believe that they can build their own country, and dream of legalizing drugs to seek the greatest benefits." ”

"General, take the liberty of asking, do you know the dangers of drugs?" Ji Kefeng took a deep breath and asked boldly.

Zheng Guoyuan tilted his head slightly and said, "You should ask, 'General, do you know the profits of drugs'?" ”

Ji Kefeng glanced at Tang Shuxing and stopped talking.

"Interests are the focus, and I don't see other harms in front of interests. The market is like this, on the surface, there is demand to create, but to open up a new market, you must create something that others do not have, just as the British liked tea back then, as if they could not survive without tea, and China is the tea producing area, the Victorian era of Britain constantly imported tea from China, but did not find a real tea planting method, and China does not buy other things from them, and even very depressed, why do Chinese use chopsticks, not their knives and forks? Zheng Guoyuan sat back down, "Later, they found a thing called opium, this kind of thing can make people addictive, can make China like Britain can not live without tea, so the British began to smuggle opium, tens of thousands of boxes a year to China, the money earned from opium, so that they no longer have to use their own reserves to buy tea." ”

Gu Huaiyi was full, deliberately burped loudly, and then rummaged around, claiming that he was looking for dessert, and then found some fruit, put it on the table and began to eat.

"The British don't know that opium is harmful? They knew, they knew better than anyone else, that they banned opium in the country, just as I forbade my men to use drugs, and I would shoot anyone if I found them taking drugs. Zheng Guoyuan looked at the stacked dishes and chopsticks, "But when we came to the Golden Triangle, we didn't think about doing this kind of business, we claimed to be the army of justice, we claimed to be a counterattack, but Taiwan sold us, we fled in all directions, in order to have a place to live for the surrounding countries, acting as mercenaries, in the end we still face being exterminated." ”

Zheng Guoyuan said, turning to look at the countless spiritual positions behind him: "We began to die one by one, everyone knows that sooner or later we will die like this, and there are no roots left, why are we who are dying?" We just obey orders, and the price of obeying orders is to become cannon fodder? We had to be self-reliant, so we started growing opium poppies and selling opium. Strangely, when we had the money, the enemy began to squeeze, and those who had been clamoring to kill us in the neighboring countries began to extend an olive branch to us......"

Speaking of this, Zheng Guoyuan bowed to those spiritual positions: "God has eyes!" God is still on our side, allowing us to survive, and we are getting stronger and stronger! ”

"But in the end, you were still used by Shang Du and turned into puppets!" Gu Huaiyi didn't raise his eyelids, and he was sarcastic.

"Yes, we were taken advantage of. In order to adapt to the new global drug market, we want to develop new drugs and open up a larger market, we began to cooperate with Yaojin, and after getting richer and richer, we were still not satisfied, so we decided to establish a new channel, so we united with other drug lords from all over the world to establish a Gu hunting ground. But we couldn't let people know that the Gu Hunting Ground was ours, so we decided to let the Gu Hunting Ground read the power and have its own power and army, like tenants under the landlord. But more and more secrets in the Gu Hunting Ground have been unearthed, and we know that we can no longer control the Gu Hunting Ground, let alone Shangdu, we can only watch them play with us, and there is nothing we can do. Zheng Guoyuan clenched his fists.

Gu Huaiyi hummed a song, and Tang Shuxing and Ji Kefeng remained silent.

Zheng Guoyuan continued while offering incense to the spiritual seat: "Many years ago, I also had the same idea as Sha Kun, so I simply surrendered and washed my hands and left a leisurely place. But if I don't do it, my subordinates won't agree, they will think that I have made enough money and just leave them alone, and the surrounding drug lords are also peeking at my territory, and when I don't do it, I will immediately cut down the grass and eradicate my family, of course, Bafang and Yaojin will not let me go, because if I don't wash my hands, it is tantamount to showing weakness, and if you show weakness, you will be eaten by others. ”

Tang Shuxing's mind suddenly flashed a lot of things, and he only now understood why for a long time, such a huge force of Zheng Guoyuan had no way to lead the direction of important things, maybe this was the reason - Zheng Guoyuan didn't want to get involved in the rest of the matter, so the forces dominated by Shangdu didn't plan to take him with him.

Therefore, there is still a need for a new puppet, a puppet with a legal identity and free movement around the world, and that is the arms dealer Sharman Power.

"Sharman Power replaced you?" Tang Shuxing couldn't help but say it.

"Yes, substitution is a more accurate statement." After Zheng Guoyuan finished arranging the spiritual positions one by one, he turned around and said, "From the moment someone brought a representative of this company to me, I knew that I was about to be replaced, but I didn't have a weapon or bullet on hand from Sharman Power Company, and I wouldn't send money to them in exchange for sharp teeth as a watchdog." ”

"I believe it!" Tang Shuxing nodded, he understood that Zheng Guoyuan called them not to catch up with Gu Huaiyi and find family affection, but to seek some kind of support from them. This big drug lord has to save himself, he has to escape from this vortex, because the situation is completely out of control.

"Soon, we will be forced to take control of Thailand, and if I don't do it, they will find someone to replace me and lead my army to do it. And, more than a year ago, they used our channels to sell that corpse-moverned drug to the rest of the world. After Zheng Guoyuan said this, Tang Shuxing and Ji Kefeng were greatly surprised.

Started selling a year ago? But why didn't anything happen?

"There is no theoretical addiction to this necropsy drug, but the scary thing is that the addict will be controlled, and in addition to the person who has the control perfume on hand, the rest are the people who have been given the ability to control. That is, the five yang and five yin persons in charge of the eight directions and the medicine gold, there are ten in total. Zheng Guoyuan grabbed the table with his fingernails, "I sent people to assassinate them, but they all failed, and no one could get close to those in charge." ”

Gu Huaiyi looked at Tang Shuxing with a strange smile this time, which seemed to mean: If the old immortal knew that you were the red man in charge of the five yangs of the eight directions, would he kill you immediately?

"There are only four people left in the Bafang now, and one of them, Qingtian, was killed by us in Astaya." Ji Kefeng said this sentence after seeking Tang Shuxing's consent with his eyes.

Tang Shuxing added: "To be exact, it is on the premise that someone helps us. ”

"Old immortal, you say, why are you looking for us? What do you want to do? Gu Huaiyi asked bluntly, knowing that Zheng Guoyuan had laid a long opening sentence in front of him - he began to use a touch of family affection, followed by self-detonation of weaknesses, then a shallow talk about history to seek sympathy from compatriots, and finally a message that he planned to reform himself, hoping that everyone would give him a chance.

Zheng Guoyuan smiled and slowly turned his head to look at Gu Huaiyi: "I'm going to make a deal with you, my-grandson!" As he spoke, Zheng Guoyuan picked up an apple and handed it to Gu Huaiyi, adding, "My grandson!" Blood is thicker than water! ”

"You mean that the fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders, and you are ready to let us do this lucrative deal?" Gu Huaiyi took a bite of the apple, deliberately threw it on the ground, staring at the apple rolling on the ground, "Will you eat the apple that has been bitten and dropped on the ground?" I won't. ”

"I will, I will eat when I am dying of hunger." Zheng Guoyuan picked it up, wiped it with his sleeve, and bit it down again.

At this time, in the eyes of Tang Shuxing and Ji Kefeng, this was not a conversation between his grandfather and his grandson at all, but two strangers playing for the sake of interests.

"But I'm not hungry." Gu Huaiyi looked at Zheng Guoyuan with a smile on his face.

"It's okay, it doesn't matter if you don't do it, so do you do it?" Zheng Guoyuan looked at Tang Shuxing and Ji Kefeng, didn't wait for the two to speak, and said, "I know what you want, I know you want to find your father." ”

"General, the matter has come to this, in fact, it doesn't matter if we find our father or not." Tang Shuxing smiled, "So, the price you gave is not high. ”

"Tang Shuxing, I have thoroughly investigated your background and know that you are not a simple person, because there are many people around me who were born as gangsters, and I know very well that the guys who come out of the poor streets and alleys are not simple people!" Zheng Guoyuan looked at Tang Shuxing, wrote their father's name on the table with his hand, and then said, "When you find your father and know that big secret from their mouths, if you are in time, you can save a lot of things and prevent more people from sacrificing in vain, but ...... But...... But be quick! Otherwise, that secret would not be a secret. ”

An ominous premonition suddenly enveloped Tang Shuxing, and he realized that maybe everything that was happening right now had something to do with the secret they had learned, what was it? Is it really related to that Shandu's secret weapon? They inadvertently mastered the method? Or is there something else......

"General, I need to know what you need us to do, right?" Tang Shuxing put his hands on the table, "People who don't do business, use cloth to block their goods, so that people can guess the truth?" (To be continued.) )