Chapter 198: The Big Boss Returns
"Lord Liu, it's time to eat."
Ao Bai looked at Zhao Lao Wu, who was calling himself in the yard, and after answering "I know", he woke up the three Dongshan dogs sleeping on his lap.
The 3 dogs were all hiding during the fight, they were not trained, and they could not fight ordinary people, let alone enemies armed with weapons and firearms, so they were kept in the house all the time.
1 person with 3 dogs, or to some extent 4 dogs, stand guard at the intersection every day, waiting for their owner to return.
"Aobai, it's time to eat."
The second time he came to call him, it was Li Hongji, Ao Bai sighed, and returned to the yard with only 3 dogs.
"Lao Li, why hasn't the master come back yet?"
"It's a good thing that I didn't come back." Li Hongji said: "If I didn't come back, it means that the Maritime Safety Bureau wants to use a big boss." β
Song Xiance also moved the bowl with a bowl: "Xiao Liu, our amnesty orders have come down, don't worry about the Maritime Safety Bureau being unfavorable to the big boss." β
All the people in this courtyard, who used to be people's husbands, have recovered their freedom, and the early team that participated in the smuggling with Liu Yifeng has also been cleared of charges, and even Song Xiance, a former bandit, has also cleared himself. Now they are all free people from Dongshan Prefecture and the people of the Ming Dynasty.
This is the sincerity expressed by Song Yingxing, but Liu Yifeng's identity is still very subtle, in the state of SchrΓΆdinger's sinner. Now it seems that he is free, but as long as he doesn't cooperate with Song Yingxing, then he may become a heinous person at any time.
Ao Bai nodded, he also knew that what Li Hongji and Song Xiance said made sense, but he couldn't help but worry about Liu Yifeng. Everything about him is bound to Liu Yifeng, even if he has now regained his free body and has become a common man of the Ming Dynasty who thought about it when Ni Kantu was still alive, he was still very confused after leaving Liu Yifeng, and he didn't know how to use his skills.
He let go of the three dogs, and they rushed to their bowls without looking back. The person who almost knocked over and walked over, this person was Li Yunrui who came to eat.
Li Yunrui and the others were not under house arrest, but he made up his mind to get close to Liu Yifeng and them in the short term.
The reason is very simple, he was already suspicious of Liu Yifeng's background, but after the Maritime Safety Bureau came, he found that Liu Yifeng really knew the top of the Navy! Even if you just look at it from a distance, you can't see that Zhang Jun and Liu Yifeng not only know each other, but also have a good relationship.
Later, when he returned to Jinshan City, Li Yunrui deliberately left the Zhan men to guard the small courtyard, and as a result, he learned that Zhang Jun borrowed Liu Yifeng for a banquet.
He immediately arranged for someone to guard outside Zhang Jun's restaurant, and then saw a scene that shocked him: after Liu Yifeng took someone he didn't know to visit Zhang Jun, the manager of the Dongshan Prefecture Maritime Safety Bureau, the nominal and substantive emperor of Dongshan Prefecture: Song Yingxing actually came to the banquet!
Of course, this is just his perspective. However, these misunderstandings confirmed his speculation, especially now, Liu Yifeng was taken to Mishan City by Song Yingxing, and it was said that he wanted to do something for the Maritime Safety Bureau, so he directly moved his team to the next door to their residence, and then ate every day.
It's not that he can't afford to eat, it's not that he worships them, and some people have learned Liu Yifeng's cooking skills and the food he cooks is delicious, and he even spends his own money to bring cooked food to eat, with only one purpose: to have a good relationship with Liu Yifeng's people.
"However, if Shopkeeper Liu doesn't come back, he won't be able to catch up with the New Year's Day."
Zhengdan Festival is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and most people in the Ming Dynasty will worship their ancestors on this day. On the Dongshan side of the prefecture, everyone spontaneously burns incense in an area as a memorial. This is the habit brought out by the Protectorate of Annam, and the people of the Ming Dynasty in Nanyang are always unable to return to their hometowns for various reasons, so the areas where the Han people are concentrated spontaneously gather together to burn incense and pay tribute.
Li Yunrui and the others have already agreed with Li Hongji that this year everyone will go to burn incense together, and by the way, they will also burn a stick of incense for the brothers who sacrificed. But if Liu Yifeng doesn't come back, this incense will burn a little saltless and tasteless.
Hearing this, Ao Bai had no appetite again, and he couldn't eat the white rice while holding the bowl.
"How many days are left until Zhengdan?" Li Hongji asked.
Song Xiance counted the days and said, "5 days." β
After Song Xiance answered, Liu Yifeng's expressions were a little gloomy, and they felt that if nothing else, Liu Yifeng would not be able to come back, after all, there was still so much distance between Jishan City and Jinshan City.
"The master said that the brothers went to the place where the Maritime Safety Bureau stored the ashes to worship the brothers who had left." Ao Bai lowered his head and muttered: "The master also said that he cooks in the second year of junior high school, and everyone has a good meal." Prepare for the third day of junior high school, and participate in the three-day temple fair on the fourth day of junior high school. β
On the one hand, Ao Bai really misses Liu Yifeng, this is the best person he has been born to now. On the other hand, it was Liu Yifeng's promise that made him yearn for the New Year.
In the past, on New Year's Day, he would either grab steamed buns from the rich with other Jurchen orphans, and then everyone would huddle in the ruined temple to keep out the cold. Either they are secretly abducted at the temple fair with the knowledge of some gangsters, and then pray not to be caught, and the gangsters will share themselves a little more after they succeed.
This year is the first time he has celebrated the New Year as a Ming citizen, and the meaning is different.
I have the same feeling as Aobai, and there are actually not many people in this courtyard.
Nine of the 30 people who are still alive are basically the same as Aobai, and nearly half of the people who joined Liu Yifeng later have never had a good New Year.
Ma Chen took the meal that Chen Jun handed him, listened to Li Hongji's conversation with them, and asked Chen Jun: "Do you think the shopkeeper can come back before the New Year?" β
Chen Jun was the first person to hide gold privately, was frightened by Song Xiance's "providence", and then was bought by Liu Yifeng, and was extremely loyal to Liu Yifeng. He felt from the bottom of his heart that his immortality was providence, so when Xia Jie captured the Aobai camp, he was seriously injured in a desperate battle, and later when he attacked the main camp, he fought with injuries, and he was seriously wounded on top of injured.
Although Ma Chen was not seriously injured, he was also injured a lot when he followed Liu Yifeng's assault, and the two injured became friends during the time they were recuperating.
"The shopkeeper is a person who does great things, and it doesn't matter if he comes back for the festival or not."
Since that "providence" incident, Chen Jun has had a sense of fate. After following Liu Yifeng from an absolute disadvantage to victory and winning against Xia Jie, this sense of fate was transferred to Liu Yifeng. He is a little crazy that Liu Yifeng said that he wants to build a city and will lead everyone to live a good life. So for Liu Yifeng to help the Maritime Safety Bureau, his interpretation is that that is the right thing, and he can spend the holidays next year.
Ma Chen rubbed his nose, knowing that his friend was here again.
He looked at Zhao Lao Wu who was sitting on the other side: "Lao Zhao, what do you think?" β
"My fifth child knows something." Zhao Lao Wu swallowed the rice in his mouth, put a large clip of pickles into the bowl, poured the hot water that Chen Jun gave him, and said: "But I still hope that the big boss can come back, don't look at my fifth child is older than you, I haven't actually been to the temple fair." β
"I haven't been there either."
Chen Jun was silent for two seconds, and then shook his head.
Before they came to Dongshan Prefecture, they were all hard-working people.
"Old Ma, how did you spend the New Year before?"
"A hunter in the Changbai Mountains can go to the town below the mountain once or twice a year. My adoptive father said that it costs money to live under the mountain, several skins, and it is too expensive, so we all live with ginseng pickers. β
"Lao Chen, what about you?"
"I... I..."
Chen Jun's face turned red instantly, he was a pickpocket before, but he didn't dare to go to a place like a temple fair if he was not skilled, that was only a master could go. His New Year's Eve is usually to go to the empty door with his peers, and when he is caught, he is caught breaking through the empty door.
It was a humiliating experience, and he didn't want to talk about it.
Ma Chen and Zhao Lao Wu did not pursue it, and few people in Dongshan Prefecture were clean in the past.
"Well, actually, I also hope that the shopkeeper will come back. Although the previous days with Dongshan Qianzhuang were hard, they were still quite fulfilling. β
Chen Jun and Zhao Lao Wu glanced at each other, and they were secretly complaining that Ma Chen was a battle maniac.
Of course, Ma Chen is not a battle maniac, but is used to the days when his heart beats fast and adrenaline secretes madly when hunting, this kind of dull day is a little uncomfortable for him, and he thinks that following Liu Yifeng will definitely not be dull in the future.
"Okay, let's eat, the whereabouts of the big boss are not for us to decide."
After Ma Chen finished summarizing, the three of them began to bow their heads and quickly solved their dinner with the warm broth of this pickle.
Just as they were standing in rows to wash the dishes according to the camp's custom, suddenly many people dropped their bowls and ran towards the courtyard gate.
"What's the situation? Enemy attack!? β
Zhao Lao Wu instantly returned to the night attack a month ago, but he was held down by Ma Chen: "The enemy is attacking a fart, this is Jinshan City!" β
Chen Jun didn't know what was going on, but he reacted when he saw Daha, Sanha and Siha rushing towards the courtyard gate while screaming, and said to the two with a happy face: "It's the big boss who is back!" β