Chapter 65: Best Friends
When will Shen Hui come back?
Xia Mingzhong lay there and thought about it for a long time, but he only felt funny. A reader like Jiang Xian likes to twist and turn when he speaks. \./Hand\./Machine\./Edition\./None\./Error\./First\./Hair~~
Scholars seem to be born with a subtle and euphemistic way of expression, as if they want to wait for someone, if they are in a hurry, they will not say, they will only chant: "If you don't come for the night and a half, you will knock on the chess pieces and drop the lanterns." For another example, if they like a person, they won't say it explicitly, but they want to make a look of affection and affection, and say: "The mountains have trees and trees have branches, and the heart is happy and you don't know." ”
Xia Mingzhong would have a headache when he heard these words, and the flowery words would not make him feel the beauty of the language, but would only make him feel: Well, it's really troublesome.
Xia Mingzhong knew that Jiang Xian had a little meaning to Shen Hui, but once Jiang Xian talked to Shen Hui, it was nothing more than things like piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and the two of them were more like competing with each other, trying their best to compare their respective strengths.
It's boring, it's really boring.
Seeing that Jiang Xian was still practicing the piano seriously, Xia Mingzhong couldn't help but sigh and said, "I said, are you still a man, if you really have a little bit of meaning to her, you just let go and say it boldly, and you won't lose a few catties or taels of meat." ”
"Shut up." Jiang Xian didn't raise his head, and said, "I know how many catties and taels I have." ”
In fact, when it comes to temperament, Jiang Xian and Xia Mingzhong are not the same kind of people at all, they can become confidants and friends, and it is more because Xia Mingzhong trusts Jiang Xian from the bottom of his heart.
It's strange that the dignified North Dao would actually be friends with a student of the academy?
Xia Mingzhong couldn't tell himself, in short, getting along with Jiang Xian made him feel very down-to-earth and natural. Although Jiang Xian looked like a soft and weak white-faced scholar in his eyes, and he didn't have a bit of manhood, he just trusted Jiang Xian inexplicably. qs
Maybe it's because Jiang Xian is the only one who can guide him on the right path.
Regarding Xia Mingzhong's previous career, Jiang Xian didn't ask.
Xia Mingzhong can be regarded as frank, and he did not hide it at all: "Bounty swordsman, take people's money, and eliminate disasters for others." ”
Jiang Xian said: "You just collect money to kill people, and never ask whether the person who hired you is good or bad?" ”
Xia Mingzhong didn't think about it, and replied: "As long as the price is high, as soon as the nullah comes out, the gods will retreat." God blocks and kills God, and Buddha blocks and kills Buddha. ”
Jiang Xian's eyes widened as big as copper bells, and said, "Beast, you, just take the money, don't ask clearly, just kill people randomly?" ”
Xia Mingzhong thought for a while and said, "I think you have eaten too much in a luxurious mansion, right?!" The swordsman is also a human being, and he has to eat and live. He held a dog's tail grass in his mouth, crossed Erlang's legs, and said, "Even if I don't eat, I have to take care of my old mother at home, right?" I can eat and sleep in the open, but I don't allow my mother to be old and live a life where she can't even eat, if that's the case, what's the use of her giving birth to me? What's the use of having this son of mine? ”
Jiang Xian was speechless, on the one hand, he felt that what Xia Mingzhong said was reasonable, anyone in that situation, just for the sake of life is already very difficult, who would be stupid enough not to take the money? But on the other hand, Jiang Xian always faintly felt that with Xia Mingzhong's way of making money, there would always be problems after a long time.
Jiang Xian licked his lips and said, "Then why don't you want to take the exam for a martial champion?" With your efforts, you will ......"
Before he finished speaking, Xia Mingzhong sneered and said, "Wu Zhuangyuan...... You'd really like to! It is your ideal ambition to be the champion of literature, but I am not uncommon to be a scholar, and it is not rare to be an official in the court. ”
Xia Mingzhong gently spit out the dog tail grass in his mouth, and said: "I still want to live a carefree life, at least freedom is to have, if there is no freedom and you are always bound, then what is the point of living?" ”
Jiang Xian made a mistake: "Alas, don't you want you to live in peace, you always do this kind of business that deals with human life, aren't you afraid of being counterattacked?" Xia Mingzhong, there are people outside the world, there is a sky outside the sky, you are not afraid of one day, you meet someone more powerful than you, don't steal chickens and don't lose rice! When the time comes, it will be a small matter if you can't make money, and if you lose your life, it's a big matter~"
Xia Mingzhong closed his eyes and was silent.
Jiang Xian said again: "That's not the right way after all, you have this body of kung fu, why is it bad?" If you want me to say, it's better to open a dart game to try, think about it, I think it's the best dart game. (More exciting on the next page!) )
For you! ”
Xia Mingzhong's eyes moved, and he said, "You need people to do a dart game, I'm alone, where can I do it?" ”
The guqin on Jiang Xian's cool legs was put aside, and he said excitedly: "Me! I'll open a dart game with you, and take the route from the capital to Nanqin, and we will hire a few people to play darts together, and you will run darts outside the main house, and I will do the accounts in the main house, isn't this done? ”
Xia Mingzhong retorted: "You don't read anymore?" ”
Jiang Xian said: "My studies will be completed soon, and I can serve together when the time comes, and I still have to earn this money if I want to get fame." When the time comes, I will benefit the people for the officials, and I will be the boss behind the dart bureau in the back, and I will earn money in a hurry! ”
The more Jiang Xian spoke, the more excited he became, so he simply leaned over to Xia Mingzhong and said, "Actually, you can really do it!" I've thought of the name of the dart game, so it's better to call it: Zhongxiantang! ”
Bell String Hall.
Xia Mingzhong seemed to be moved a little by the words, opened his eyes, and said, "It doesn't sound bad." ”
"What do you mean by that doesn't sound bad?" Jiang Xian said: "I have already drawn the ideal blueprint for you, it depends on whether you can walk this road or not!" How about dude, do you want to think about it? ”
Xia Mingzhong sat up, grabbed his slightly disheveled hair, and said, "Okay, Boss Jiang, then when you finish your studies, our dart game can be started." He thought for a moment and said, "However, before that, I still have to do my current job first, and I promise that from the day we do the dart game, I will never be contaminated with the bounty in the slightest, and I will do a good job in the dart game wholeheartedly." ”
Jiang Xian smiled knowingly and said briskly: "Okay, a word is a deal, Boss Xia!" ”
For the dart game Zhong Xiantang, which the two are about to cooperate, Jiang Xian said that he can first pad out all the expenses that need to be invested in the early stage, and then list a few dart games that Nanqin already has, and analyze their characteristics, while Xia Mingzhong knows all the roads in Xuli well, and he knows all the underworld and white ways, and he has not gone through it all these years.
Xia Mingzhong suddenly felt relaxed, and there was a faint energy in his whole body, which drove him to finally stride into the future, and also made him full of expectations for the future.
That is the right way, the right way in the world as Jiang Xian said.
It's been so long since I've been out, it's time to go back and visit my old mother at home.
Xia Mingzhong deliberately took Jiang Xian home, although that remote village was dilapidated, it was rare to have a sense of returning to the basics.
This was the first time Xia Mingzhong brought his friends home, and his mother was very happy, so she was busy killing the chickens in the backyard to entertain Jiang Xian.
Jiang Xianzai carefully looked at Xia Mingzhong's home, and he suddenly felt a strong sense of self-blame in his heart. He only cared about asking Xia Mingzhong not to be a bounty swordsman and not let him make this dangerous money, he just said this and that, told Xia Mingzhong what was right and what was wrong, and completely had a face of "why not eat minced meat". No \./Wrong \./More\./New '.w'.a'.p'.'.'.c'.o'.m
Who doesn't want to make some easy money? Who doesn't want to live in peace? Who wants to walk on the cusp of the knife every day?
Jiang Xian said to Xia Mu, who was busy: "There are no outsiders, so don't be busy." ”
Xia Mu hurriedly served hot tea with her hands and feet, and said enthusiastically: "It's rare for Ming Zhong to bring a friend to the house, you must be his best friend." ”
Jiang Xian took the teacup and said, "Just take a sip of tea, don't kill the chicken, you can still collect eggs if you keep it!" ”
Xia Mu smiled lovingly and said, "I will stew chicken soup for you at noon, and the eggs are not on this chicken, there are many in the backyard." ”
Xia Mingzhong also said to Jiang Xian: "Try my mother's stewed chicken soup, I dare to guarantee that you have never drunk such a delicious meal in Jiangfu!" He said confidently: "In the mansion of a rich family like you, there must be chickens bought by the back kitchen in the market, how can there be our own home-fed local chickens?" ”
As he spoke, Xia Mingzhong was not idle when he got home, his mother wanted to cook, so he helped to carry firewood to make a fire, Jiang Xian was embarrassed to sit, so he had to follow Xia Mingzhong to do what he could.
Jiang Xian is so big, he has always been pampered and lived in the mansion, where has he done these rough jobs, seeing that he is clumsy and can't light firewood, Xia Mingzhong frowned, and sighed: "Boss Jiang, let me come!" ”
"Okay, Boss Xia!"
The two of them accompanied Xia Muyi. (More exciting on the next page!) )
Squeezed into a small stove room, there is the fragrance of chicken in the small space, the smell of firewood burning, and the laughter from time to time.
Soon Xia Mu made a few dishes, Xia Mingzhong did not have a dining room at home, I saw him put down a small table leaning against the door of the stove room, wiped the table, and Xia Mu brought the dishes to the table.
The chicken broth should be simmered slowly in a jar so that the chicken can be stewed even worse.
The table is full of ordinary farm dishes, fried eggs, sour and hot shredded potatoes, and wild vegetable cakes chopped and mixed into the batter. ”
Jiang Xian is really fragrant when he eats, the taste in Nanqin is mainly light, and the chili peppers in the sour and hot potato shreds are so spicy that Jiang Xian's tears flow, but this sour and spicy taste is very appetizing, making Jiang Xian call "so spicy" over and over again, and he can't stop taking one bite after another.
"Jiang Gongzi is not used to eating?" Xia Mu was amused by his embarrassed and pitiful appearance. \./hand\./machine\./version\./first\./hair\./more\./new~~
Jiang Xian shook his head and said, "No, no, it's because I didn't eat such heavy seasonings before, and I couldn't adapt to it for a while." He rolled another chopsticks of shredded potatoes with wild vegetable cakes, sucked them and feasted on them, and said, "How can there be any Jiang Gongzi, you can just call me Ah Xian, everyone in the family calls me that." ”
After eating for a while, the chicken soup was almost stewed, Xia Mu brought the soup jar to the table, and as soon as she lifted the lid, the aroma of the local chicken soup instantly came to her nose.
Jiang Xian couldn't help but admire: "It's too fragrant!" ”
Xia Mu first gave Jiang Xian a bowl, sprinkled green onions in the soup and handed it to him, saying, "Taste it." ”
Jiang Xian picked up the bowl and blew it, tasted it carefully, and said, "Well, it's really much better than what I drank in the house." ”
Xia Mu continued to serve the soup and said, "I haven't stewed soup for a long time, and if Ming Zhong doesn't come back, I'm home alone, and I won't make this." ”
Hearing this, Jiang Xian bumped Xia Mingzhong with his elbow and teased: "Did you hear it, who told you not to go home?" Do you want to go home more, you know? ”
Soon Jiang Xian drank all the soup in the bowl, and Xia Mu was still asking him if he wanted another bowl, Jiang Xian unceremoniously handed over the bowl and said, "Then another bowl!" ”
For his support, Xia Mu was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth, scooped a bowl full of chicken soup and handed it to Jiang Xian, and asked, "Ah Xian is studying outside, but she often thinks about the food your mother cooks by herself?" ”
This question made Jiang Xian's action of scooping soup and drinking in his hand pause, he was stunned, and said, "I don't have a mother, my mother is no longer there." ”
Xia Mu knew that she had said the wrong thing, and she was embarrassed for a while.
Xia Mingzhong, who had been concentrating on eating, silently gave the chicken leg in the bowl to Jiang Xian and said, "Eat it, this chicken is very tender." ”。