Chapter 33: The Eight Kings
The strong man looked at Bai Ze in a daze, looking like a stupid old hat, his eyes rolled, and he hugged Bai Ze's shoulders and said cordially:
"The eldest nephew of the Zheng family, Uncle Wang advises you, fishing is not a good job, you have to starve to death if you continue like this! Not to mention that you still owe your mother's funeral money. Well, if you believe your Uncle Wang, you will sell me your broken fishing boat and fishing nets. I'll give you ten taels of silver, and if you pay back the money, you can become a monk with peace of mind. ”
Although Bai Ze didn't know the value of fishing nets and fishing boats in ancient times, he obviously didn't look like a good person looking at the face of a strong man. I can't afford to be this early, if I listen to him, I guess I will definitely lose a lot.
But Bai Ze doesn't know anything about the plot, and even now, he doesn't even know where his plot identity home is.
If Bai Ze wants to know more about the situation, he must still rely on this "Uncle Wang" who wants to profit from himself.
Thinking of this, Bai Ze hesitated for a long time with a move on his face, and finally sighed and said very reluctantly:
"Uncle, I still don't want to sell this fishing boat and fishing net, after all, they are things handed down by the elders. ”
The middle-aged man was stunned at first, Zheng Dagou, a scoundrel, had never called himself "uncle" on weekdays, but he saw that Bai Ze was not resolute in refusing, so he couldn't care about these details, and pulled Bai Ze to the fishing village, and said as he walked:
"Big dog, don't be in a hurry to refuse, let's talk about it again! Come on, come on, let's go to my house today to drink some wine, and we can talk after eating. ”
Bai Ze breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, sighed that he finally had a foothold, and half-pushed and half-followed the middle-aged man into the fishing village.
Because of Bai Ze's arrival, this family lit an oil lamp for the first time in a long time and turned out a jar of old wine. Under the light of the candles, the fish soup in the crockpot on the table is filled with the enticing heat, and the smell of fish soup wafts through the room.
Unfortunately, this meal was not drunk for nothing. Uncle Wang drank a few small bowls of wine, his face flushed slightly, his mouth trembled, and he began to persuade Bai Ze to sell him the fishing boat and fishing nets in an all-round and multi-layered manner, and played the emotional card and price card all over again.
Bai Ze was playing haha, and kept persuading him to drink and change the topic. In this dim situation, Bai Ze, who has wine worms in his hands, is invincible when he drinks alcohol. Even if there was an elephant on the other side, Bai Ze was sure to give it three points to lie down.
Soon the strong man drank a little too much, and Bai Ze began to induce him to tell him some information about this world and Zheng Dagou.
It was already completely dark, and Uncle Wang had not been able to achieve his goal, and he had already fallen crooked on the table.
Bai Ze also pretended to be drunk and swayed left and right at the door, but he just refused to go out. Seeing this, Uncle Wang's wife sent her own boy back in disgust.
Sending away the kid from the strong man's house, Bai Ze immediately regained his clarity, and by the moonlight outside the window, he looked at the dilapidated houses and rummaged for useful clues.
After a busy time, Bai Ze returned empty-handed, there was nothing in this house with the slightest written record, it seems that the owner of the house should be illiterate. Bai Ze secretly kept this information in his heart, sat on the bed and thought about what the strong man had said, and extracted useful information from it.
This is the Great Sage Dynasty, which has only been established for 120 years. The Great Sage Dynasty ruled the entire world except for the open sea, and the Ganges River, which originated in the Western Mountains, ran through the Great Sage Dynasty. Linzhao County, where Bai Ze is now located, is at the mouth of the sea, and more than a dozen small villages are close to the river, making a living by fishing and catching turtles.
Wangjia Village is one of them, where most of the people in the village make a living from farming and fishing, and a good fishing net is often a tool for the family's survival.
Bai Ze's identity here is Zheng Dagou, an outsider from Wangjia Village, the Zheng family was originally a giant businessman in Linzhao County, but it was passed to his grandfather's generation that it was a political change, and the family property shrank one after another, and finally he couldn't get along in Linzhao County, so he moved to this village to make a living by fishing.
Zheng Dagou's father has always wanted to restore the glory of his ancestors, a few years ago he heard that there was a treasure of the previous dynasty in Xishan, and like a large number of people who wanted to make a fortune from it, he went to explore in Xishan, and there was no news since.
Zheng Dagou has not been doing his job since he was a child, he is a lazy man, and he only knows how to sleep all day long. Since his father's death, his mother could only take on the responsibility of supporting the family, and she became ill from working day and night, and died of illness a few days ago.
Zheng Dagou had no choice but to sell all the things that could be sold at home, but he still couldn't save the cost of the coffin. In the end, Zheng Dagou found the Feng family in Linzhao County, whose ancestors were close friends with each other, and begged for the door.
The Feng family was also lonely, but Feng Sheng looked pitiful when he saw that Zheng Dagou's parents were dead, and lent him five taels of silver. Zheng Dagou bought a coffin and buried his mother.
Seeing that his family was so poor that even eating was a problem, Zheng Dagou was forced to work. However, the people in the village disliked him for never fishing, and were unwilling to take him with them, and there were many mockery in his words.
Zheng Dagou, who was humiliated, picked up the fishing net and boasted unashamedly that he wanted to catch a few hundred-year-old turtles alone and sell them for a large price to make all those who looked down on him slap in the face.
But what is the consequence, that is, Bai Ze came to this world, and Zheng Dagou didn't know whether he starved to death by the river, or rushed to the shore after drowning.
According to the names of the turtle and Feng Sheng, there is also the place name of Linzhao County. Bai Ze has already made a preliminary guess about this world, and this story should most likely be the eight kings of the sixth volume of Liaozhai.
Bai Ze and Yi were lying on the bed, with hidden worries in their hearts, and following the development of the original plot, a turtle catcher who owed Feng Sheng money caught the Eight Kings who had drunk too much and gave it to Feng Sheng to pay off the debt.
But Bai Ze doesn't know how to fish at all, not to mention whether he can catch the Eight Kings and become the turtle catcher. Even if Bai Ze catches the Eight Kings, will he follow the original plot? If Bai Ze lets go of the Eight Kings, will the Eight Kings who repay his kindness also give him turtle treasures?
The night is getting deeper and deeper, after life and death during the day, and intrigue at night, Bai Ze's eyes flashed with a hint of determination, if you want to transcend the ordinary, you must fight with the sky and people!
Bai Ze let go of his worries and fell into a deep sleep, and the small fishing village slowly became quiet and peaceful.
The moonlight is like water, shining on the waves of the Ganges, and the sparkling waves are particularly beautiful and serene.
A hundred miles away, although it is called the open sea, it was actually just a large lake.
Above the dark and dilapidated crystal palace deep at the bottom of the lake, a behemoth with a pair of lantern-sized eyes floated slowly, and the pitch-black electric light finally completely disappeared around it, no longer restricting its movements.
As the restraints disappeared, the giant raised its head to look up at the bright moon in the sky, and the moonlight that had been evenly spread on the surface of the water condensed into a bundle and shot into the bottom of the lake and was sucked into his mouth.
Under the scattered moonlight, this giant creature finally revealed its body, and it turned out to be a giant turtle more than ten feet long.