Chapter 101: Uncle Sha
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, it would be hard for Yu Xiaoyao to imagine that there was such a magnificent mansion in such a remote town.
This mansion is the core of Huangshamen, the Shafu where Uncle Sha, the owner of Huangshamen, lives.
Although it is called Shafu, there is not a single grain of sand in this mansion.
Led by the servants of Shafu, Yu Xiaoyao walked through the front courtyard, where two poplar trees were planted, and the ground was neatly covered with bluestone slabs, and two servants with shackles on their feet, holding brooms and dustpans in their hands, kept sweeping the courtyard, but whenever a little sand blew in, they would immediately run over to clean it. Therefore, this courtyard is even cleaner than the square in front of the Taihe Palace.
When I walked into the reception hall, I saw a different scene. On the floor of the hall is a small pool of bluestone and white sand, in which a few koi fish swim, a few water lilies float on the water, and aquatic plants and shrubs are planted at the water's edge.
If it weren't for the traces of wind and sand on his clothes, Yu Xiaoyao would almost have thought that he had come to the courtyard of a family in Jiangnan.
If this scene is placed in the south of the Yangtze River, of course, it is not abrupt, but if it is in the desert where water is as expensive as gold, such a pool of water is almost equivalent to a pool of flowing gold.
"If the pool is left outside, the fish will not survive, so I thought I might as well move it inside. Just as Jade looked at the small pool, a voice sounded behind him.
Yu Xiaoyao turned around and saw a middle-aged man who was a little fat walking over.
The middle-aged man was not dressed flamboyantly, but he was very neat and tidy, his eyes were bright and sharp, and he had two very beautifully trimmed mustaches above his lips, and his steps were slow, but very calm.
"Uncle Sha?" Yu said freely.
Uncle Sha walked over unhurriedly, looked him up and down a few times, and asked rhetorically, "Yu Xiaoyao?"
The two of them looked at each other and laughed.
Uncle Sha said, "I'm still wondering when you'll come to visit me." ”
"Oh?" Yu Xiaoyao smiled, "How do you know that I will definitely come to visit you?"
Uncle Sha said, "Recently, Yu Xiaoyao, who is the most troublesome in the rivers and lakes, has come all the way to our poor country, presumably not for sightseeing, right? I dare not say anything else, in Huangsha Town, if you want to do something and cause some trouble, then you will definitely come to me." ”
Yu Xiaoyao said, "It's a pity, you noticed me as soon as I entered the town, but I didn't know about the existence of your character until not long ago, otherwise, I would have found it a long time ago." ”
Uncle Sha laughed, he said, "I love to hear this sentence, how many people who have stood here have said something to me about Jiu Yang, in fact, they may not know who I am until a day." Only what you say is so straightforward. You're right, I didn't know you and you didn't know me before that, so let's skip all that. You come here, what you want, what you want to do, you might as well say it. ”
Yu Xiaoyao said, "I came for the camels. ”
Uncle Sha smiled, "I know." I also know that you were deceived by Wu Datou and stole the treasure hidden by the camel in a daze, so you owe the camel a favor, so you came to me for him. ”
Yu Xiaoyao said strangely: "You even know this?"
Uncle Sha said, "Of course I know, because after Wu Datou stole the money, he turned around and exchanged the money for a camel with me." ”
Yu Xiaoyao said, "The contents of that box should be worth a lot of money, right?"
Uncle Sha said, "Roughly speaking, it is worth about seventy or eighty thousand taels of silver." ”
Yu Xiaoyao asked, "Seventy or eighty thousand taels of silver to buy a camel?"
Uncle Sha said, "Of course, it's a camel that can go to the town of no return, and of course it's worth the price." ”
Yu Xiaoyao sighed and said, "Now I finally know why you are so rich." If I had a few camels, I would have made a fortune. ”
Uncle Sha smiled and said, "After talking so much, I haven't talked about you yet." ”
Yu Xiaoyao asked, "Me, what do I have to say?"
Uncle Sha said, "The camel asked you to come, did you let you come and kill me?"
Yu Xiaoyao said, "You know this, too?"
Uncle Sha smiled, "I don't know about this, I guessed it." The camel sent someone to make peace with me. ”
"You know I'm here to kill you, but you don't seem to be scared at all. ”
Uncle Sha said, "You dare to walk into this place alone, and you are not afraid." ”
Not being afraid, of course, is not because you are not afraid of death, but because of self-confidence.
If you're sure that others can't help you, then you won't be afraid.
Yu Xiaoyao looked at Uncle Sha with a smile, and Uncle Sha also smiled at Yu Xiaoyao.
Although the two did not move or speak, an invisible confrontation had begun between the two.
The comparison between the two is neither rhetoric nor martial arts, but momentum!
The momentum is invisible, but if you lose in momentum, you will already lose half of it before you make a move.
The two of them looked at each other like this, the same calm and fearless, the same calm and relaxed, and no one could help anyone.
After a long time, Uncle Sha smiled and said, "What a jade escape, it really deserves its reputation." ”
Since neither of the two of them can help anyone in terms of momentum, there is only one way to decide the winner.
But Yu Xiaoyao didn't make a move, he just said a word.
"It's true that the camel asked me to kill you, but I didn't agree. ”
"You didn't agree?" Uncle Sha looked a little stunned.
"Not bad. Yu Xiaoyao said, "Although my little life is precious, I can't exchange other people's lives." So I turned him down. ”
Uncle Sha was even more surprised, "Then what are you doing here?"
"Although I don't want to kill you, I still owe the camel a life, so I came to you to make a deal." ”
"What deal?" said Uncle Sha.
Yu Xiaoyao said, "If you return the camel you stole from the camel, then I owe you a favor." ”
"A favor?" Uncle Sha smiled, "What do I want your favor for?"
Yu Xiaoyao smiled, "You can use this favor to let me help you do something, or solve a certain trouble, as long as you don't kill people and don't break the law, you can do anything." ”
Uncle Sha muttered, "This is indeed a very interesting proposal, but I can't think of anything I need you to do now, so why don't you stay in my house for one night, and I'll give you an answer tomorrow, how about it?"
"Yes. Jade said.
"Very good," Uncle Sha said with a smile, "Regardless of whether this deal is successful or not, you are my honored guest in Shafu, and I will hold a banquet in the mansion tonight to catch you and wash the dust." ”