The fake Wan Lao Bustard smiled bitterly and said: "Who did you hear to say that all of us in the world are rich? Let me tell you, as long as the upright sects in the world are extremely poor, we will not rob our homes or homes, and we will not block the roads. May I ask for the money? Where did it come from?”
Chen Xiao shook his head like a rattle, expressing his disbelief. He said, "Gui Sect, the name of your sect doesn't sound like an upright sect! You say you don't want to rob homes, but you are not trying every possible means to find what Zhang Yong has hidden." Silver?"
"Fart!" Hearing Chen Xiaomu casually slandering his Taihang Ghost Sect, the fake Wan Lao Madam couldn't help but said angrily: "Although our Taihang Ghost Sect has an unpleasant name, since Master established the Ghost Sect more than ten years ago, you Go to the rivers and lakes to inquire, have we, the Taihang Ghost Sect, ever done anything outrageous? Besides, the money hidden by Zhang Yong, if Ren Sanguai hadn’t tipped off my master, we would never have known that there was such a large sum of stolen money from corrupt officials. The silver is hidden in the new capital."
"Hey, that's strange. You ghost sect even has a branch in a small country like Zheng Guo. You must have a lot of people. If you are really as upright as you say, you wouldn't have been living by drinking the northwest wind for so many years. Right? Besides, the northwest wind only comes in winter!" Chen Xiaomu thought that the fake Wan Lao Madam was telling lies, and couldn't help but ridicule her.
"We can hunt, or go to the mountains to pick up some medicinal herbs and sell them! Before the Qi army launched a siege against us, my master was still treating some mountain people and prescribing prescriptions! For those of us who are stationed in other countries, my master will also Give the helmsman some capital and let us start a small business, all of which will be enough for us to live and clothe ourselves."
"Then you are still trying hard to find Zhang Yong's money?" Chen Xiaomu asked.
"Haha!" The fake Wan Lao Bustard smiled bitterly and said, "Have you ever seen anyone who thinks he has too much money? Besides, since the Qi army began to encircle and suppress us, Master can no longer see the disease, nor can the herbs picked from the mountains or the prey obtained by hunting. Take action. In the past, the master could only eat two meals a day, but now he can't even guarantee one meal a day. Ren Sanguai tipped off the master and negotiated on the condition that he help us find Zhang Yong's money and ask my master for it. Make me his wife!"
"Then your master promised him?" Chen Xiaomu couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart when he thought of Ren Sanguai's face.
The fake Wan Lao Bustard nodded gently without saying a word.
"What kind of bullshit master are you? You simply recognize money but not people!" Chen Xiaomu jumped up from the ground angrily when he heard this, "Let someone like the three monsters let you marry, what's the difference between this and selling your son or daughter? "
"Don't talk about my master like that! There is nothing she can do. There are hundreds of people in the master's sect. Sometimes they can't even eat a full meal for many days. They are all skin and bones. If the Qi army comes to encircle and suppress them again, they may not even run away. I can't even run away!" The fake Wan Lao Bustard lowered her head and softly defended her master.
"Alas...!" Chen Xiaomu couldn't help sighing up to the sky, and encouraged: "Since you can hunt, you see that there must be prey in such a big mountain. Can you think of going to the mountain to catch a pheasant or a hare to fill the gap? Belly? I really can’t eat these dark things you brought.”
The two were talking when they suddenly heard a "crash" behind them. Chen Xiaomu turned around and saw a small khaki animal figure dozens of feet away from him, heading towards the mountain like an arrow. Scurrying away, a striking tiger with a white forehead and yellow and black stripes followed closely behind it, its tail erect. Chen Xiaomu was instantly frightened out of his wits. Before he could recover, a gust of breeze blew from his face. However, the fake Wan Lao Bustard flew past him like a big bird. He saw her soles on the treetops, her figure rising and falling, and she had chased behind the tiger in the blink of an eye. This scene made Chen Xiaomu stunned, but the people around him were stunned. The subordinates of the fake Wan Lao Bustard who were on guard were all as motionless as if they hadn't seen it. They seemed to be used to this kind of thing.
The tiger seemed to have sensed the movement behind it. It turned quickly and rushed towards the fake bustard who was behind it. The fake bustard fell to the ground and rolled sharply. At the moment when the tiger jumped over her head, she raised her hand and raised her hand. Picking up the short knife in his hand, the tiger screamed, "Ouch!" and there was no movement after landing. Only the tail behind him was still shaking slightly.
Chen Xiaomu was very glad that he had just made a very correct decision. From now on, having this woman protecting him in the dark would be much better than He Quan's stupid young man. It was like carrying an amulet to protect him from death.
When he saw the fake Wan Lao Bustard pulling the tiger's tail back from a distance, he quickly rolled over and crawled towards it. A smile spread across his face as he walked far away. He stretched out his hand and said, "Oh, Miss Wan's." The kung fu is so powerful, such a big tiger can be killed with one strike, and the light kung fu, no matter how hard you practice it, I'm afraid even I can't catch it! Come on, come on, rest first and leave the tiger to me. "Seeing how effortlessly the fake Wan Lao Bustard was dragging it, he thought he could drag it too.
The fake Wan Lao Bustard thrust the tiger's tail into his hand without saying a word. Chen Xiaomu stumbled and fell on the tiger, but the tiger didn't even move. He quickly climbed up from the tiger in embarrassment. Fortunately, he She was thick-skinned. When she saw the fake Madam Wan looking at her with half a smile, she hurriedly said haha and found herself on the steps, "Haha, Miss Wan, this tiger must weigh four to five hundred pounds, right?"
Fake Madam Wan pursed her lips and smiled, turned around and ignored him. This time she was embarrassed. She originally ran over to help drag the tiger, but now she couldn't drag him even with all her strength. Miss Wan didn't take over again. After thinking for a moment, Chen Xiaomu had an idea and waved to Miss Wan's subordinates who were standing not far away and shouted: "Your helmsman asked a few of you to come over and carry this tiger back.
Miss Wan's subordinates looked at each other when they heard the sound, and four of them came over hesitantly. The fake Madam Wan looked at Chen Xiaomu in surprise. This guy lied to her face, and no one else is so thick-skinned. It seems that if you follow him in the future, you must be more careful about him.
Several people carried the tiger to where they were standing. The fake Wanlao Bustard held a short knife and skillfully peeled off the tiger's skin. The tiger's body was full of lean meat. Chen Xiaomu directed several subordinates to pick up some dead branches and cut the branches with a knife. Sharpen one end, cut the tiger meat into fist-sized dices, and thread it on the branches, just like the later generations of kebabs. Pick two thicker branches to build a shelf, and arrange the tiger meat skewers in a row on it. Next, use a fire stick to light the branches and flip them back and forth from time to time. After a while, the meat will be fragrant.
This is the first time Wan Lao Bustard has seen such a novel way of eating. In the past, most of the prey they hunted was cut into large pieces and cooked in a pot, and then cut into small pieces with a knife and eaten with salt. Of course, they also grilled them. Yes, it's just a big piece of meat hung up one by one, and the bottom is grilled with firewood. Sometimes the outside is burnt, but the inside of the meat is still raw. It's not as troublesome as Chen Xiaomu's.
Watching Chen Xiaomu running back and forth flipping the meat skewers on the firewood, and from time to time using his wide sleeves as a fan to swing the firewood under the Wanghu meat skewers, causing black ash all over his face and hands, the fake Wanlao Bustard gradually fell into She pondered, she had long heard rumors that this man was very good at leading the army in battles, but she didn't expect that he seemed to be very good at cooking, which was a specialty of this woman's family. What kind of person was he?
"Miss Wan, don't tell me that you don't even eat salt!" Seeing that the meat was almost cooked, Chen Xiaomu raised his head and said to the fake Madam Wan who was looking at him blankly. He wanted to find some salt to sprinkle on the tiger meat. Serve on skewers to add some texture.
"Oh, oh, yes, there is still some salt." The fake Wan Lao Bustard reacted suddenly and asked one of his subordinates to bring a small bag of salt to Chen Xiaomu.
Chen Xiaomu took the salt bag and was about to sprinkle salt on the meat skewers, but the salt grains he grabbed out of the bag made him frown again. What kind of salt is this? People's salt grains are all white, but the salt grains he grabbed in his hand These salt grains are black.
Shaking the salt bag in his hand, Chen Xiaomu asked the fake Madam Wan with some doubts, "Miss Wan, are you sure this bag is filled with salt?"
The fake Wan Lao Bustard said casually: "Sixth Prince, you haven't even seen salt in the palace, have you? This is salt! This is the kind of salt we usually eat."
Chen Xiaomu reached out and grabbed a handful of black salt from the bag and put it under his nose and smelled it. It seemed to be a bit salty. He was a little hesitant. He didn't know what was added to the salt to make it so black. The ancients didn't understand either. Chemical elements and the like, if it is poisoned, it will be over.
Seeing Chen Xiaomu's hesitation, the fake Wan Lao Bustard couldn't help but said angrily: "Sixth Prince, do you think we are planning to poison you?"
Chen Xiaomu forced a smile, "That's possible! I just don't understand that all the salt I've seen is white. How can your salt be black?"
When the fake Wan Lao Bustard heard this, he couldn't help but whisper: "White salt is too expensive. It costs 500 cents per pound, and the next best price is 350 cents per pound. Our black salt comes from selling private salt." It only costs one hundred and fifty cents per catty to buy it from a dealer, and sometimes it can be cheaper if you buy more."
Chen Xiaomu didn't expect that this group of people were so poor that they could hardly afford salt. At this time, the tiger meat skewers on the wooden rack had a burnt smell. He quickly grabbed the black salt from the salt bag and sprinkled it one by one, and then The more than ten tiger meat skewers, each weighing a kilogram, were distributed to the fake Wan Lao Bustard and her subordinates. At the end of the distribution, she took three sticks. She picked up one and tried to take a bite. It was really delicious, better than later generations. The beef and mutton are much more delicious.
Looking back at the fake Wan Lao Bustard and her subordinates, they were all devouring their food, as if they had never eaten meat in their lives. Some of them ate quickly and threw away the branches in their hands after eating. , and stared eagerly at the two remaining meat skewers still placed on the wooden rack, looking salivating.
Chen Xiaomu felt a sense of pity and pity in his heart. He smiled at them, reached out and picked up the only two meat skewers left on the wooden stand and handed them to them, letting them eat among themselves. These subordinates looked at Chen Xiaomu didn't dare to reach out to take the meat skewers he handed over. Instead, he gave the fake Wan Lao Bustard a guilty look. Upon seeing this, the fake Wan Lao Bustard waved his hand, "You guys can take it and eat it. I'm full." The subordinate quickly took the meat skewers from Chen Xiaomu's hand and hid aside to share the food.
Chen Xiaomu watched the fake Wan Lao Bustard eat the tiger meat skewers and throw away the tree branch in his hand. Suddenly, he had a complete idea in his heart. He smiled and said: "Miss Wan, your master was re-elected because of one million taels of silver. If I want you to marry him, if I give your master one million taels of silver, can you also marry me?"
"What? One million taels?" The fake Wan Lao Bustard was stunned, "Didn't Ren Sanguai say there were only one hundred thousand taels?"
"Ah!" Chen Xiaomu was also surprised when he heard this, thinking that no wonder Ren Sanguai held on to the one hundred thousand taels of silver last night. It turned out to be to prepare for marrying the masked beauty in front of him.
"Sixth Prince, is it one hundred thousand taels or one million taels?" Seeing that Chen Xiaomu remained silent, the fake Wan Lao Bustard asked.
Chen Xiaomu thought for a while and decided to keep it a secret and sell this fake Madam Wei a favor. He said: "Actually, what Ren Sanguai said is right. Zhang Yong's hidden silver is only about one hundred thousand taels. Do you want him to be killed?" Daiwei has only been the prefect of Xinjing City for more than two months. How could he possibly collect one million taels of silver? You also know that I killed Zhang Yong when I took over Xinjing City. I also killed another person that day. You know have no idea?"
The fake Wan Lao Bustard nodded, "When you held that public sentencing meeting, I asked my subordinates to go and have a look. Yesterday, my subordinates recognized you after you entered Zhang Yong's mansion. You seemed to have killed a Chu at that time. The general of the country.”
"The Chu general I killed was named Wu Yan. When he was dying, in order to allow his family to escape unharmed, he gave me all the nearly one million taels of silver he had collected since he invaded Zheng territory. I handed over his silver to Zhang Yong and hid the money somewhere."
"In that case, you already know where Zhang Yong's money is hidden?" asked the fake Wan Lao Bustard.
"I hid it. How could I not know it?" Chen Xiaomu said with a smile.
"From what you said just now, do you want to hand over the one million taels of silver in your hand to our Taihang Ghost Sect?" Fake Wan Lao Bustard asked cautiously.
"Yes, that's what I mean!" Chen Xiaomu said: "You also know that my true identity is the prince of Chen State. I have never been short of money, so I have no interest in this money. But if I give this money to You, you must agree to two conditions."
The fake Madam Wan couldn't help but have a flash of panic in her eyes, remembering that Chen Xiaomu had just said that he wanted her to marry him, but thinking of Ren Sanguai's ghostly appearance, she felt a little happy about marrying Chen Xiaomu! What's more, the silver in hand has increased from one hundred thousand taels to one million taels now, a full tenfold increase.
Looking at the fake Wan Lao Bustard standing in front of him with his head lowered, Chen Xiaomu said: "After giving these money to your master, let her recruit more people to resist the Qi army's encirclement and suppression of your Taihang Ghost Sect."
The fake Wan Lao Bustard nodded, "Of course."
"And take off this mask from your face. I won't allow you to wear this mask again. It will make me lose my appetite to get close to you!"
