"Master, three more people have resigned today, they are Qu Sanniang, Li San and Tulu." Zhang Tian stood in front of Shi Cheng, rubbing his brows while reporting to Shi Cheng about the situation in the mansion today.

Shi Cheng sighed and said, "Yes." Ah Tian, don't forget to settle your salary. ”

On the second day after the end of the Guanwu Conference, the main newspapers in the royal city sent out the process of the conference, especially the "Ximo Jianghu Daily" described it in the most detail, and even printed Shi Cheng's origin and portrait.

The content of each article is very different, the perspective is different, but the general context is exactly the same, Shi Cheng deliberately provoked the Western Desert Martial Arts and used the means of the next act to shamelessly sneak attack the loose cultivation martial artists who came to power, and his arrogance finally annoyed Chen Zhu, the elder of Jiyu Village. In the end, Chen Zhu defeated Shi Cheng in a short period of time and defended the dignity of the Western Desert.

"This kind of writing and level can be equivalent to a hundred main writers of "Yujing Daily". Shi Cheng sighed and put down the "Ximo Jianghu Daily" in his hand.

Shi Cheng knew that he couldn't refute it, and no matter if he only had one mouth, some of the things and words that were hyped up in the article were indeed what he had said on stage, and the chief writers of these newspapers only needed to deliberately pick out these things and take them out of context.

Soon, even the employees of Shichengfu knew about their employer's feat at the martial arts meeting, either out of fear of burning themselves or out of anger in their hearts, and the servants in Shichengfu submitted their resignations one after another. Shi Cheng even found the poison at dinner yesterday, thanks to Shi Cheng's timely discovery, otherwise Wu Neng might have been lying half-dead on the bed at this time.

After investigating for a few hours, Shi Cheng did not have much effort to find out the cause and effect of this incident, and after determining that the newly hired cook was not poisoned by some forces, Shi Cheng ordered Li Doujin and others to hand over the cook to the government to be punished.

Wu Neng looked at Shi Cheng, who was depressed, and proposed: "Old Shi, otherwise, let's go out for a walk, just take a break." Well...... By the way, I settled lunch, too. ”

Shi Cheng looked at the courtyard that had become more and more deserted in the past few days, and nodded, "It's okay." ”

The driver has resigned, and there is not much to deal with at home, so it has become Li Doujin and Zhang Tian who drive for Shi Cheng and the others.

At present, the only few hired workers in Shi Cheng's family who are willing to stay are Li Doujin and those fellow villagers who are close to Li Doujin, although they have not been with Shi Cheng for a long time, but in their opinion, they are more inclined to think that Shi Cheng's character is never as written in the newspaper, so most of them are those big people who have misunderstood Shi Cheng.

After some private discussions, Lee Doo-jin and his fellow villagers unanimously decided to stay in Shi Cheng's mansion until the day he left, and then everyone went their separate ways.

"Brother Li, where did Sun San's kid go today, I saw that he had been happy the night before yesterday, and he originally said that he would go to Dawei with us, but now he has changed his mind." Zhang Tian cautiously drove through the crowd as he asked Li Doojin, who was sitting next to him.

"Do you still need to ask, it must have met a good thing, what else can be a good thing that can make that kid suddenly become a sunflower from a wilt, it's not hard to think at all." Li Doujin said a little proudly: "Do you remember where Sun San went with the master the day before yesterday, it was the big family where Yue'er worked." ”

"Excuse me?" Zhang Tian's eyes widened.

"That's right, he told me when he chatted with the coachman Lao Jin at dinner yesterday, but it's a pity that he left this morning, otherwise I must let him tell you in person what Sun San's kid looked like when he met Yue'er. That kid is really blessed, there is a girl who loves him so much, if he is so inferior, then even I am afraid I will not be able to stand it. ”

"Then did he run away to Yue'er's house today?"

"I can't see it, it's hard to find work in the city now, so even if that kid is still willing to work at the master's place, he will have to find the next owner now."

"Yes." Zhang Tian nodded, and then said worriedly: "But the one who competes with him is the eldest son of a family outside the family, if Yue'er's parents are hard-hearted, what can Sun San do?" ”

Li Doujin sighed and said, "Yue'er's girl has a very hard temperament. ”

Everyone stopped at the door of a restaurant in the west of the city, and after parking the car, Shi Cheng asked the guys in the restaurant to arrange two tables, Shi Cheng Wu Neng Tiemian one table, Zhang Tian Li Doujin and the other two accompanying family members sat at the other table.

Both tables ordered exactly the same wine and food, and the four of Li Doujin were a little flattered, but at Shi Cheng's insistence, they finally sat down.

After Shi Cheng sat down, he silently pulled his windproof scarf up again, he had already eaten a lesson yesterday, he originally wanted to go to Huibao Pavilion alone to visit Xu Jincheng He was recognized at the gate of Huibao Pavilion, because of Shi Cheng's notoriety in the royal city, several local guys blasted him out together without saying a word, and even took Xu Jincheng to get off the stage, so he was forced to pass a word to Shi Cheng, and asked him to write what he wanted to say in a letter and send it.

"Tomorrow is the auction." Shi Cheng said to the two companions, "I forgot to tell you in the morning, Xu Jincheng's reply has been delivered last night, and he will book the ferry tickets for us, and they will be delivered to us at the auction tomorrow." ”

"Can we still enter the gate of the Treasure Pavilion?" Wu Neng said worriedly.

"Last time, when the incident happened suddenly, we and Xu Jincheng were not prepared, but this time it is different. Xu Jincheng said in the letter that he had a way for us to get in, and that we would wait for him in the jujube grove two hundred steps west of the gate of Huibao Pavilion. Shi Cheng replied.

"Is there any news from Zhao Ping's side?" Iron Mask asked.

Shi Cheng's face was a lot more ugly, he shook his head, and said, "Although Xu Jincheng said it vaguely, I can see that Zhao Ping doesn't seem to want to contact us now. ”

"How so?" Wu Neng was taken aback, "Is it because of what happened at the Martial Arts Conference that made him, an official in the family, have to cut ties with you?" ”

"Who knows." Shi Cheng sighed: "That's it, it's enough to receive letters from him from time to time, and in the future, after we go to Lingnan County, we will need to learn about the situation in the Western Desert Country through him." ”

"I'm not optimistic about that." Tie Mian said: "There are more tails following us, and in this case, Zhao Ping may not be able to send you a letter." ”

Wu Neng was still a little puzzled, but Shi Cheng knew very well in his heart, the eyes that were secretly staring at them in the past few days were two or three times more than before, but he didn't know how many pairs were the eyes of the Western Desert internal guards, and how many pairs were the eyes of the spies of the Lu Clan.

Shi Cheng stopped talking, just silently eating the mutton and stew on his plate.

The corner where the three of them were quiet fell silent, and the chatter of the other drinkers in the tavern took over the space again.

What Shi Cheng and the three of them heard most clearly was the chatter of a drinker dressed as a merchant at the nearest table.

"The eastern part of the city has been in chaos recently, and there seems to be sporadic disturbances in other urban areas, and the disciples of Yunzhu Academy are recruiting believers everywhere." A young man dressed as a small businessman said: "Those of us who do chicken, duck and cow business dare not go there, a few days ago, there was a businessman from other places who did not understand the market went to the east of the city and was caught by the Yunzhu believers. Yes, now my wife is about to lose out. ”

"In the past, Wang Cheng was under the rule of the Blazing Sage and the Cangsong Sage, when did it take the turn of those pseudo-believers who pretended to be the name of the Yunzhu Sage to speak?"

"Times have changed a long time ago, and you don't want to think about what happened to the Cold Moon countries in the Eastern Continent before the chaos? After the chaos, everyone was busy wiping their tears, but it stopped for a while, but in the past few years, the limelight on the eastern continent has risen again, and we in the West Desert may not be able to escape this time. You have all seen it, which one of the newspapers in the big and small mansions has not emphasized the right to speak out freely and equally. Speaking of this, a blue-hat merchant sitting next to the young businessman lowered his voice, "Isn't this just pulling the shelf?" ”

"And I heard that not only the figures in the imperial court, but also many wealthy businessmen are also donating to Yunzhu Academy, what do they call it, it seems to be promoting...... Promoting Diversity! Yes, that's the word. ”

"It doesn't necessarily make any sense." A fat merchant snorted and muttered, "I live in the east of the city, and during this time, my family has to go all the way to the west of the city if they want to buy a piece of meat." ”

"How can you say that it doesn't make sense?" The blue-hatted merchant said in a somewhat mean tone, "The year is so bad, the herdsmen will have nothing to feed their livestock, don't those hypocrites like to be vegetarian, and when everyone starts to eat vegetarian, there is no need to worry about the lack of livestock." ”

"I agree with this, didn't the military department say that it would spend money to expand the dragoon army of ten regiments to fight against the Western Barbarians and their lackeys, and also purchased thousands of firecrackers from the Great Wei, and when we all start to eat vegetarians, won't the livestock urgently needed by the imperial court be saved? You don't care if the bosses still have the strength to move the spear when the time comes, the hula a bunch of cows, horses, and sheep rush over, and the arch can arch the bile of the Western barbarians, but I don't know if those pseudo-believers are reluctant to let their fathers and mothers be ridden to the battlefield by the bosses? ”

A burst of unbridled laughter ensued.

"Alas, but in the final analysis, the reality is that in the east of the city, especially in the southeast of the city, restaurants are becoming more and more difficult to open. Some clever shopkeepers directly changed the vegetarian banquet, and some of the people who were troubled simply opened the shop to the west side of the city. “

"With the current increase in food prices, how can restaurants be so easy to open, I think many people are going to be tossed and bankrupt again."

"Don't say it, some people really dare to take risks, they actually opened the restaurant to the place in Fishing Boat Lane, and sold the cheap goods made of that cheap ingredients to the fishermen to eat, although I don't know how much money they make, but the façade is really prosperous."

"It's that Fushun Building, right, the younger brother has also heard of it, their back kitchen is really a car coming and going, pulling things out every day to transport things in."

"Is that an exaggeration?"

"You'll find out if you go and see it."

Just when a few businessmen were admiring the prosperity of the business of the owner of Fushun Building, a drunken shout sounded at a table in the distance, "That is, Grandpa, I am not present, otherwise why would Elder Chen make a move, and the Sprinkle family will personally skin the Western barbarian!" The Chita monkey didn't take the Taiwan beast to weigh his own catties, and he dared to run to the martial arts conference to be arrogant! ”

Shi Cheng's hand holding the cutlery stopped in mid-air.

The three of them quietly glanced at the place where the voice came from, and it turned out to be a strong man who had drunk too much wine and was bragging to his drinking friends at the same table with a pat on his chest.

"That's right, the junior brother thinks so too, dealing with that kind of unreasonable barbarian, why should a character like Elder Chen make a move, it's really a bit of a fuss."

"I just don't know how the king plans to clean up that barbarian."

"Needless to say, you can't be soft on this kind of pagan and alien mongrel."

Listening to the laughter and scolding of the guests in the restaurant, Shi Cheng silently pulled down the windproof fur hat he was wearing on his head.

A martial artist dressed as a sect disciple sitting not far from those Jianghu guests was silent, and a young martial artist next to him smiled and said to the sect disciple: "Brother Jiang personally went to the martial arts conference a few days ago, why didn't he tell the junior brother about the grand occasion and Elder Chen's majesty at that time after he came back?" Ruoyun girl can't wait for the past few days, but every day she is clamoring for me to take her to you and listen to you tell the story of what happened at the conference. ”

The sect disciple surnamed Jiang smiled a little reluctantly, and excused himself: "Foolish brother is clumsy, and he really can't tell stories. ”

Just as the drinkers were chatting freely, a rapid sound of horses' hooves came from the street outside the restaurant.

A few good drinkers stretched out their heads to look out, Shi Cheng and Wu Neng couldn't help but look at the situation outside, only to see a herald with a command flag behind him riding a military horse with a thick white mist between his mouth and nose coming from the west and galloping through the street.

"Urgent military situation, quickly avoid!"

There was an uproar in the restaurant, and for many young drinkers who were born and raised in Wangcheng, it was the first time they had seen the heralds running so wildly on the streets.

Shi Cheng's heart was suddenly enveloped by a thick sense of ominousness, because he did not see the blue dew cloth representing good news on the rider's body[Note 1].

"[Note 1]: The color of the Baojie Lubu used by the countries of the Inner Cold Moon is mostly blue."