After Zhang Xiaozu made it clear that he would not leave Yancheng in the short term, a group of sect members left one after another. Someone enthusiastically invited Zhang Xiaozu to visit their sect, but Zhang Xiaozu refused without hesitation.
No one acted cruelly, threatened or forced Zhang Xiaozu to do anything, because the jade pendant hanging on the door panel of the courtyard door clearly told them that there were people in the courtyard that they could not afford to offend.
"Are you guys planning to stay for lunch? If so, I'll ask the kitchen to prepare more food." Zhang Xiaozhu asked half-jokingly when he saw that Ruan Xinyuan and the others didn't seem to have any intention of leaving.
Ruan Xinyuan laughed when he heard this and said: "Brother Zhang, you are chasing guests away. When a friend comes to visit, you don't even bother to have lunch. You are too stingy and unfriendly."
"Isn't it because the kitchen has prepared your meals, but you don't stay to eat, which is a waste of food." Zhang Xiaozu said with a smile.
"You have an appetite that even a pig would be ashamed of. Will your cook worry about the leftovers? I'm afraid he will only worry about not having enough." Baili Jingsheng said scornfully. He especially remembered the first time he had a drink at Juxian Restaurant, when he asked Zhang Xiaozu to compete, and Zhang Xiaozu actually slapped the table to see who could eat more with him. Baili Jingsheng had never recognized him in front of outsiders until he was so old. Sorry, that was my first time, so I was always worried about Zhang Xiaozhu’s pig-like appetite.
"——" Zhang Xiaozu was speechless.
Ruan Xinyuan said: "Brother Zhang, you were not present at the last reunion at Juxian Tower. Let's make up for it at noon today and have a good meal."
"No, no, no, no, I don't have time to drink and have fun with you." Zhang Xiaozu waved his hands repeatedly.
"Brother Zhang, do you have anything else to do this afternoon?" Ruan Xinyuan asked smoothly.
"The house at home has collapsed and is in ruins. How can we just leave it like this?" Zhang Xiaozhu responded, "I have agreed in advance that lunch cannot be free. After dinner, I will be put into rough work clothes and help. Clean up the broken bricks and tiles from the first row of courtyard walls, dig out the damaged foundations and rebuild them again, and try to build the first row of courtyard walls tomorrow."
"——" Ruan Xinyuan and others were dumbfounded when they heard this, and they couldn't laugh or cry: "Are you crazy? Just pay some money for these menial and cheap jobs, and send your servants to hire some day laborers to do them. There are specialties in the industry, and day laborers are both I can work faster and better than you, why not? There is time to dig holes in the ground, wouldn’t it be fun for us to have a drink and chat?”
Zhang Xiaozhu suddenly calmed down his expression, looked at the people seriously and asked, "Have you ever lived in the house you built? Don't you feel regretful that you have never lived in the house you built?"
"No, not at all!" Several people shook their heads in unison without thinking, and couldn't help but cursed in their hearts: "What kind of bullshit is this? There are so many things that people don't like to do or can't do in their lives. Is it possible that they have to endure this?" Do you regret it all over again? If so, it would be better to just die."
Baili Jingsheng curled his lips and said, "Fortunately, you are not the emperor. Otherwise, wouldn't you have to build a palace by yourself?"
Ruan Xinyuan waved his hand and said: "As the saying goes: The handler's hand is short, and the eater's mouth is short. I'm afraid I won't be able to enjoy this lunch, otherwise I might be caught by someone after eating the food and wine, so I walked away. "
Baili Jingsheng and others imagined in their minds the scene of being commanded by Zhang Xiaopou to dig holes, and couldn't help but feel a chill. They quickly got up and left, as if running away.
Zhang Xiaopou sent the people out of the door with a face full of disappointment. He shook his head as he looked at the people leaving and said dissatisfiedly: "These sect disciples are so realistic. It's useless for me to say so passionately. They actually don't care about it at all." If I had known earlier, I would have talked about it after dinner. What a pity!"
Ruan Xinyuan and the others who had not yet gone far couldn't help but get angry when they heard Zhang Xiaopou's complaints. They said to themselves that this black guy turned out to be uneasy and well-intentioned. Fortunately, he could slip away quickly with oil on his soles.
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Niu Dawa held a large black porcelain bowl in her hand. A bowl of white rice was flattened in the bowl, and then poured with fragrant gravy. Two large spoons of meat and vegetables were placed on the rice. She came out of the kitchen and looked for a bowl. In the shade under the wall, I squatted down with my back against the wall, buried my face in the black porcelain bowl, and started eating deliciously.
Jin Zhihui stared blankly from a short distance away, wondering what kind of stinky habit this was. Instead of sitting at the table, she squatted against the wall, like a beggar.
But before she had time to be surprised, she saw Zhang Xiaozu coming out of the kitchen with a bowl in his hand, no, a porcelain basin. The porcelain basin contained a pointed bowl of food, facing where Niu Dawa was. He walked quietly and yelled: "You bitch, I've picked out all the fat for you, hurry up and give me two pieces."
"Don't even think about it." Niu Dawa refused.
Then Yuan Taiping also walked out of the kitchen with a big porcelain bowl, but when he was about to squat down next to Zhang Xiaozhu and Niu Dawa, he was scolded by the two of them and had to walk away in dejection with his rice bowl.
Jin Zhihui frowned again and again. Firstly, she felt that Niu Dawa and Zhang Xiaozu squatting on the wall to eat were really demeaning and couldn't bear to look at them. Secondly, she felt that the two were too overbearing and actually teamed up to bully and exclude the disabled Yuan Taiping. He even let the other person squat on the wall beside him to eat.
She even suspected that these two guys deliberately left the dining table unused, and then ran to seize the place where Yuan Taiping usually ate, playing tricks on a disabled person in a malicious way. It was not very humane.
However, under her sympathetic gaze, Yuan Taiping walked into the bamboo hut where he was dining with a sad face and a big porcelain bowl in his hand. He straightened his back and sat down at the dining table.
"——" Jin Zhihui was stunned, feeling inexplicable.
No one is allowed to squat at the base of the wall, but one is allowed to sit at the dining table?
What is this operation?
"Fairy, please come in and have a meal." The maid Qiu Ju came over and invited her to have a meal, interrupting Jin Zhihui's messy thoughts.
Following Qiu Ju, Jin Zhihui entered the bamboo house where she was dining, and found that everyone had already sat down at the table, leaving only one empty seat. It seemed that they were waiting for her to start eating alone. Her cheeks turned slightly red, and she hurriedly stepped forward to look up to the sky. The martial artist and Butcher Zhang apologized and saluted.
In addition to Taoist Tianwu and Butcher Zhang, there were also Zhou Jianlai and Yuan Taiping at the table, as well as the handsome monk Huixin who had not left like her.
The dishes are sumptuous, both meat and vegetable.
Everyone started to eat with their chopsticks following Butcher Zhang and Taoist Tianwu.
Listening to Zhou Jianlai constantly teaching Yuan Taiping the posture of eating and various rules at the dinner table, Jin Zhihui realized that she had misunderstood Niu Dawa and Zhang Xiaozu. They were not bullying and ostracizing Yuan Taiping, but forcing Yuan Taiping to go to the dinner table and let Yuan Taiping go to the dinner table. He followed Zhou Jian to learn the etiquette and rules of the upper class.
It's just that she doesn't understand why Zhang Xiaozu and Niu Dawa are not captured and taught. These two guys squatting on the wall are also in urgent need of training.
She couldn't help but wanted to ask, but out of the corner of her eye, she suddenly saw Monk Huixin sitting on her right hand quickly picking up a piece of fat meat and putting it into his mouth, then chewing and swallowing it quickly with the rice, his handsome and white face There was a happy expression on his face, and a smug smile on his slightly raised lips, as if he was content that no one noticed his little move.
Jin Zhihui threw the question out of her mind, tilted her head and stared at Monk Huixin in surprise.
Monk Huixin seemed to feel Jin Zhihui's gaze and hurriedly buried his head in his rice bowl, pretending to eat seriously.
"Monk, have you eaten meat?" Jin Zhihui finally couldn't help but break the silence and asked.
"Amitabha, the female donor must not lie." Monk Huixin suddenly raised his head and looked at Jin Zhihui seriously.
"Uh-" Jin Zhihui was frightened by Monk Huixin's serious expression and wondered if she had seen it wrong, but she found that the roots of Monk Huixin's ears were red. She rolled her eyes and shouted suddenly: "Monk, Is there still gravy in the corner of your mouth?"
Huixin was so excited by her drink that she hurriedly raised her sleeves to wipe the corners of her mouth, but she heard Jin Zhihui giggle and say, "Monk, I'm trying to fool you, but your actions have betrayed you. You - really eat meat!"
"Amitabha, it's your fault. Don't play tricks on the young monk. Donors, please be patient. The young monk will go find his senior brother to discuss the Dharma." The young monk stood up and saluted everyone at the table, then picked up his rice bowl and ran towards the door as if running away. run.
"——" Jin Zhihui's eyes twitched, she looked at everyone at the table, and defended herself: "He really ate meat, I saw it with my own eyes."
Butcher Zhang chuckled and said, "When you are growing, you have to eat a few pieces of meat to replenish your body."
"The bald donkey is the most hypocritical." Taoist Tianwu sneered.
Jin Zhihui's eyes fell on Zhou Jianlai, wanting to hear his opinion on Monk Huixin eating meat, but she heard Zhou Jianlai laugh and ask: "Don't you want to know who the senior brother of Monk Huixin is?"
"Who is it?" Jin Zhihui asked smoothly.
"His senior brother's lay name is Niu Guangmao, his courtesy name is Lotte, and his Buddhist name is Huise." Zhou Jianlai said with a smile.
"Cough - cough cough -" Jin Zhihui suddenly choked on her own saliva when she heard this. She coughed and laughed sweetly, but her expression gradually stiffened as she smiled, and she stood up suddenly and said in surprise: "Niu Da The baby has become a monk—a monk?!"
