Chapter Seventy-Seven: Hongjiabao and the Crescent Cult (3)
The middle-aged beggar left the dock with Lingyu and Hao Yan, and walked around for a while into a high-ranking compound. There are also many houses in the compound, which are very magnificent, and there are people who come and go wearing clean clothes and dirty clothes. The middle-aged beggar took Lingyu and Hao Yan through the courtyard to the living room, the living room was already lit up, Nie Changfeng and Nie Helm were sitting at the table drinking tea, the middle-aged beggar stepped forward and said, "My subordinates have seen the helmsman, and I have brought Zhang Gongzi here." Master Nie Helm hurriedly got up and looked Lingyu up and down, "You go down." The middle-aged beggar answered and left.
Nie Duozhu looked at it a few times and said with a smile: "Sure enough, it is worthy of its reputation, and being famous is like meeting, Zhang Shaoxia is really a talent." Lingyu hugged his fists and said, "Your Excellency has spoken, is Your Excellency the Lord Nie Helm?" As he spoke, he sat Lingyu and Hao Yan down, and ordered someone to bring tea.
Zhang Lingyu said after doing this: "I don't know what is the important matter for Lord Nie Helm to find here." Nie Duo said: "It's a letter from Miss Lan flying in Linzi, telling Nie to stop you on the canal." As he spoke, Nie Changfeng took out a small note and handed it to Lingyu, saying, "Zhang Shaoxia, you will understand after reading this." Lingyu took the note and looked at it, and her expression became serious. Seeing this, Hao Yan said, "Big brother, what's wrong, what's wrong." Lingyu said: "I didn't say anything clearly, just said that Hongjiabao was in trouble and told me to go quickly, I think maybe something hasn't happened yet, and suddenly it's about to happen, so I was told to go and solve the dilemma." Hao Yan said: "Then what should I do." Lingyu said: "I want to rush over overnight, but I don't know the path." Hao Yan said: "I know the way, but let's walk." Lingyu said: "Of course you have to buy a horse to ride." So he asked Nie Changfeng and said, "Master Nie Helm." Is it possible to buy horses now? ’
Nie Duo said, "Horses can be bought. Haode may not be easy to buy. Lingyu said: "No matter how good it is, you can run." Nie Duo said, 'That's good.' I'm going to buy it for you right now. As he spoke, he was about to get up and leave, and Lingyu said: "Then it's hard Nie Helm Master, Nie Helm Master, I heard that you beggars and disciples have been busy all day looking for me, and it is very hard, I want to invite them to have a meal, you can arrange which restaurant I will pay the bill." Nie Duo said: "Then what should I do for you to catch the wind, how can I make the young man break the bank." Lingyu said, "Master Nie, don't shirk it." I've decided. Nie Duo said, "Then it is better to be respectful than to obey orders." After speaking, he shouted to the outside world: "Three dogs, you go and inform the brothers to go to the Wuhu Hotel, and say that Zhang Shaoxia invited them." The three dogs left in response, and the Nie Helm asked someone to take Lingyu to the hotel and buy a horse by himself.
Lingyu followed the beggars to the largest hotel in Jeju, the Wuhu Hotel, and the beggars came one after another, and after a while, the tables upstairs and downstairs of the hotel were full. At this time, some rich sons came to the hotel, and when they saw that the house was full of beggars, one of them cried out, 'Shopkeeper.' The shopkeeper hurriedly ran over: "Master Hu, what's the matter?" Hu Gongzi said, "What can I do here?" Do you want to do business or not, how do you make these beggars sit here and do something? The shopkeeper smiled and said, "I'm sorry Mr. Hu." Today the hotel is fully covered. Hu Gongzi said: "It's all inclusive, aren't these called Huazi, they can't even eat enough and have the money to go to a high-end restaurant, what do they want to do, do they want to make trouble?" The shopkeeper smiled and said, "No, the family is a guest invited by Zhang Gongzi," Hu Gongzi said: "Where did Zhang Gongzi come from to invite the beggar to a banquet, it is obviously a trick." ’
Zhang Lingyu heard someone making noise downstairs upstairs, so he went downstairs and saw that it was a few rich sons, so he stepped forward and said, "Who is making trouble here?" Hu Gongzi said: "I said that these beggars are making trouble," Lingyu said: "It's obvious that you are making trouble and saying that it is someone else, people are not all honestly waiting for dinner, you see who is making trouble." Hu Gongzi said: "Could it be that Gongzi invited them, do you have too much money and nowhere to spend it, or do you have some ulterior motives." Lingyu said: "Yes, this son just can't spend all the money, and he didn't tell you the purpose of inviting them to dinner, why do you have an opinion." Hu Gongzi said: "Of course I have no problem with spending your money, but if you want to gather a crowd to make trouble, it's hard to say, who are you." The three dogs ran over and said, "I'm afraid you can't care about anyone, he is Zhang Lingyu, the wonder man who caught the flower thief in Longyang Mansion, do you want to take him to see the official." When Hu Gongzi heard this, he hurriedly took two steps back and said with a smile: "It turned out that Zhang Daxia was having a treat, Hu Mou didn't bother, I still had to leave beforehand." After saying that, he slipped away with a few people.
The shopkeeper came over and said, "Mr. Zhang, how much does the banquet cost per table?" Lingyu said: "It's done according to the middle and upper grades." The shopkeeper said, "Okay, I'll give you a 20% discount." Lingyu said: "Then thank you to the shopkeeper, you arrange to fry a few dishes for us to eat first, we have something to do." The shopkeeper said to the little two beside him: "You go to the kitchen and tell me to fry a few exquisite dishes for Zhang Gongzi and them to eat first." Zhang Lingyu also asked the shopkeeper to calculate how much silver he would need, and the shopkeeper paid it first after calculating, and asked the shopkeeper to prepare some dry food.
As soon as Zhang Lingyu and Hao Yan finished eating, they heard a horse roar in front of the restaurant, and he guessed that the Nie Helm Master must have bought the horse, so he walked outside the door and saw the Nie Helm Master followed by two people leading two horses to the door. Lingyu stepped forward and said, "Lord Nie Helm has worked hard, thank you so much for Lord Nie Helm's righteous help, in the future, if you have a place to say that I can be useful, Zhang will definitely help." Nie Duo said: "If you are a good friend of Miss Lan, then you are not an outsider, so you don't have to be polite." Lingyu bought him horse silver again, but Nie Helm pushed him to resist it, and Lingyu repeatedly insisted that he accept it. Lingyu and Hao Yan said goodbye to Master Nie Helm, took dry food and some water and went on the road.
Master Nie Helm walked into the hotel, the disciples all greeted him, he greeted him and went upstairs, the place on it had already been reserved for him, Lord Nie Helm sat down and ordered the banquet to begin. The little two began to serve the food, and everyone ate happily, saying that Zhang Shaoxia was generous and did things differently.
Zhang Lingyu and Hao Yan rode away from Jeju City and ran towards Linzi, and the two of them rode fast and non-stop, running for dozens of miles in one go. The horse gradually died, sweating and panting in his mouth, and the two hurriedly slowed down and ran for a while before stopping to rest. After resting for a while, running and resting, running and resting, running until midnight did not run two hundred miles, the two horses were too tired to run, Lingyu and Hao Yan had to stop and rest. Lingyu sat on the ground and drank a few sips of water: "Sister Yan, I don't think I can run to Hongjiabao at dawn if I continue like this." Hao Yan said: "That's no way, it's not a thousand miles a day, and eight hundred at night." Lingyu said: "I think I can only abandon the horse and run." Hao Yan was surprised: "I can't ride a horse anymore and still have to run on foot, although I can run faster than a horse with light power, it can only be a short time, not to mention that my internal strength has only recovered to fifty or sixty percent, and I can't improve the top speed at all." (To be continued......)