Chapter 119: The Price

Seeing Gu Zuo's humility so far, Wu Shanjing suddenly felt in a trance, as if he saw himself when he was young, and he was also holding a broken bowl, humbly begging for a bite to eat and a bowl of water to drink in front of other people's houses.

After a long time, Fang Dao said: "You think clearly, if I promise you today, in the face of my senior brother, I will pay it back, and you will not come to my door again in the future." If you go back like this, everything will be easy to say. The choice is yours!"

Gu Zuo sighed, he wants to choose again......

After a moment of fierce struggle in his heart, he still decided to seize the front of him, opened the bow and did not turn back, Wu Shanjing couldn't think about the problem from his point of view, the words were all said, how to take it back?

Furthermore, is it important to have a meal? whether it is important to others or not, at least for him at the moment. He wants to repay Zhong's favor to join the army, which is an urgent priority, and if he does not return this favor, he will not be able to feel at ease, and it will be even more difficult to gain a foothold in Montenegro in the future.

As for whether the two big treasurers can negotiate the matter, it has nothing to do with him. The appointment came out, and I did my best!

It's just that the price of this meal is a little bigger......

In fact, if I turn my head and think about it, if I don't grab this meal today, will I have a chance to come to the door in the future? I'm afraid I won't have this opportunity either.

"Please Wu Dao Chang is complete!" Gu Zuo bowed deeply again.

Wu Shanjing stared at Gu Zuo until Gu Zuo's scalp was numb, and he doubted his life, so he said slowly: "Tonight in Cuiyun Cliff, I'm a vegetarian." They are not allowed to pay for this meal, I will settle the account!"

Gu Zuo felt a sense of detachment for a moment, and when he walked out of the gate of Longquan Dao Academy, a gust of wind hit, and then he realized that he was soaked with sweat all over his body.

I first inquired about the location of Cuiyun Cliff, and rushed to book a banquet for the evening, and the deposit paid was three times! Wu Shanjing said that the two shopkeepers were not allowed to pay for it, and also said that he would pay for it himself, Gu Zuo's understanding of this was that he had to do it, but he was just a little flexible.

He didn't care about whether the food was expensive anymore, and hurried back to the Black Mountain Edict Inn.

As soon as I entered, there was a knock on the door.

Mr. Zhong Da probed in: "Pavilion Master Gu is out?"

Gu Zuo knew what he wanted to ask, so he said, "Yes, I went to Longquan Daoist Academy." ”

Mr. Zhong Er's head also poked in: "What's the matter?

Gu Zuo hurriedly greeted: "Why are you two standing at the door talking? Come in, come in, sit down...... Sit...... I made tea for the two of you, and when I came back, neither of them drank two sips, and I died of thirst......"

Seeing Gu Zuo's slow search for tea, Mr. Zhong Er simply snatched the job, and quickly found the tea leaves and stuffed them into the pot, and then when he wanted to go out to ask for hot water, Mr. Zhong Da had already entered the house with a pot of steaming boiling water, and he didn't know why he was so fast.

After three cups of tea were brewed, Gu Zuo blew the tea in his hand, took a few sips, and let out a refreshing sound of satisfaction: "Good tea, it's still better than the tea in our Black Mountain Zhaoyi Pavilion, which is much better than Longquan Daoyuan." ”

Mr. Zhong Da said happily: "Didn't you see it?"

Gu Zuoqi said: "If you can't see it, then what are you going to do?"

Don't look at Wu Shanjing is just a deacon of the Daoist Academy of the Shangqing Palace in Jiannan Road, but he is not a simple deacon in the account room, he holds great power, and the amount of spirit stones handed over by the six edicts every year, which ones can be reduced or reduced as appropriate, which ones need to be made up in full, and which ones need to be punished for malicious evasion, are all within his ruling power and responsibility.

Therefore, Wu Daochang almost never had private contact with the people of the Six Edicts, and it was more difficult to have dinner with him than with the Longquan Yuan Prison and Sandu.

Hearing that Gu Zuo had asked Wu Daochang out, the two big shopkeepers looked at each other and smiled, and Mr. Zhong Er immediately said: "Then I will immediately start arranging, well, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to come to the post house, I'll go to Yaqing Xiaozhu immediately, and the spirit fruit there comes from Tianlong Mountain in southern Xinjiang......"

Gu Zuo interrupted him: "Cuiyun Cliff, this is what Daochang Wu meant......"

As soon as he heard that it was the place where Daochang Wu named him, Mr. Zhong Er immediately changed his words: "Then Cuiyun Cliff, I'll go to the ...... in person."

Invite someone to dinner, people agree, this is a realm, if the other party indicates the location, it means that the relationship between the two parties has risen to the second realm, absolutely sublimated.

Mr. Zhong Da was also very excited: "I will also go to Cuiyun Cliff to see, try to be as thoughtful as possible......"

Gu Zuo continued to interrupt: "No need, Daochang Wu said that he is the east, please let us eat." ”

The two big shopkeepers were stunned, and Mr. Zhong Da couldn't believe it: "What ......"

Gu Zuo spread his hands: "Isn't it very clear?"

Cuiyun Cliff is in the Cuiyun Mountain in the northeast of Luofu County, there is a natural boulder on the top of the mountain, protruding one-third outward, Luofu faction established Cuiyun Villa here, put the place to eat in the protrusion of the boulder volley, quite a kind of "dangerous building is 100 feet high, and the hand can pick the stars" artistic conception.

Wu Shanjing was already waiting here, Gu Zuo stepped forward to introduce him to the two big shopkeepers, Wu Shanjing nodded and said that he had seen it in the Black Mountain Edict, so the two big shopkeepers walked into a bamboo pavilion on the cliff and sat down at the big table.

There are not many opportunities to sit at the wine table with Wu Shanjing and talk about things, and the two big shopkeepers don't have the heart to enjoy the scenery outside the pavilion, and they will tell the request and plate of the Black Mountain Edict.

Six years ago, the beast tide in southern Xinjiang, the first to bear the brunt of the two edicts of Montenegro and Yongchang, Yongchang did not mention, just the edict of Montenegro, it was almost the whole territory of the beast tide, nearly 100 sects were destroyed, and thousands of monks were killed and injured!

It was precisely because of such a heavy loss that the Chongxuan Administration agreed to exempt half of the tribute from the Black Mountain Edict, from 200,000 spirit stones to 100,000, and it would be reduced by five years if it was reduced. Five years later, the Longquan Taoist Institute redetermined the tribute, and Chen Shanjing had been arguing in Black Mountain County for nearly a month, and finally made up his mind to restore 200,000 spirit stones.

At the wine table, the two big shopkeepers mentioned this matter many times, and Wu Shanjing responded one by one with an expressionless face, and finally he concluded: "I watched it in Montenegro County for a month last year, but in fact, it is not only, I have been to your Montenegrin edict the year before last, in addition to the county town, I have also been to many places, I know that your Montenegrin edict has not been restored to its original appearance, about eighty percent before the beast tide, but just now Mr. Big said that you can pay 150,000 or even 180,000, I can only tell you with a hard heart, no! It's not reasonable, but Chongxuan needs these spirit stones. There are some things that can only go so far, and I have to tell you not to take out my words and talk nonsense, out of this pavilion, I don't recognize these words. ”

The two shopkeepers glanced at each other and had no choice but to give up.

Gu Zuo didn't say anything, he was able to invite Wu Shanjing out, he had exhausted the affection of Yu Yuanzhi of Sanyuan Palace, and it was useless to think of it.

Before the banquet dispersed, Gu Zuo quietly went to the account, and ate him six times for a tasteless meal!