Chapter 411 He Qiu, the Master of the Hall of Fools
"That's probably what happened."
In the "splendid" room of the hall master, Gou Sheng explained everything about that person in detail, without missing a single detail.
The hall master picked up the cup and took a sip of the spring tea that the brothers had brought back a few days ago. It had not been processed in any way, and it was natural but extremely bitter.
"There doesn't seem to be anything wrong," the hall master said.
"What's not wrong is the most wrong. I always feel that this person's origins are not simple. Can you believe it if he is being hunted? Even if it is true, if he wants to escape, we people will not be implicated?" said the former deputy director.
Master Shitou crossed his hands on his chest, one hand still groping for his still aching arm.
"But our situation is not very good either. The King of East China Sea is cleaning up the hidden dangers in his fiefdom. We are too close to them." The hall leader said with some confidence.
"Well, Master, can I go back and lie down first? I didn't sleep all night last night." Gou Sheng felt sleepy after hearing what they discussed.
"Um."
After agreeing, Gou Sheng left.
"No matter how close this place is, it's not his fiefdom." After Gou Sheng left, Shitou said.
"I always feel that this King of Donghai is not as peaceful as that King of Anle." The hall master had a bad premonition, but he couldn't express it.
"Then we have to move out of here?" Shitou said.
"Where can I go? The territory here is almost completely divided, but I can't go to the seaside."
"Then grab it."
"This is exactly what I want to say. You have seen that person's ability before. If I don't use all my strength, I can't defeat him." The hall master rubbed his chin and said. "I also tested him just now.
, and he also understood what I meant."
"How about the fighting power of the three of us together?" Shitou asked.
"It's definitely not comparable to those two mountains, but the other ones are not bad."
"Just do it." Shitou said resolutely.
"Don't be impatient for now. I'll go meet you later. You can't even know your name."
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The house dedicated to the deputy hall master fell into a deathly silence not long after the initial "ding and clanging", which made people endlessly reverie. When night fell, the candles in the room were lit, and the door of the room was also blocked.
Open it, but no one comes out.
The first person to walk into this room was naturally the hall master.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I thought I was in the wrong place." The hall master was surprised as he carried the impossibly tidy room. This was the first time he discovered that women can be used for other purposes besides warming the bed.
The window of the room facing the river was open. Chen Mo was sitting cross-legged on the wide window sill, with the Qingyu decorated by him on his knees. There was no decoration. When he opened the place, he took the time to bring a piece of cloth to it.
The scabbard and handle are wrapped so that no one can tell whether the knife is good or bad.
Zhao Di stood quietly next to Chen Mo after changing her clothes. The clothes were original in the room and should have belonged to the person named Shitou. Zhao Di was obviously too big when she put them on, so she could only wear them with pricks.
The clothes fit more closely, and except for the shoes, nothing is my own.
Zhao Di watched the hall master come in, grabbing the corner of her clothes with her hands that had no place to rest, and unconsciously moved closer to Chen Mo, but she didn't dare to get too close.
The hall master walked to Chen Mo's side and looked out the window with him. It was a dark night without stars and moon, and they could not see anything. They could only hear the flow of the river.
"I am He Qiu, the leader of the Hall of Fools, and I would like to ask you for your name." He Qiu introduced himself.
"The surname is Chen." Chen Mo did not say his name.
"I don't know, Brother Chen..."
Just as He Qiu was about to ask, Chen Mo interrupted him and said, "There's no need to ask about your origins. I'm just here to avoid the limelight, but I'm not the kind of person who can endure loneliness. Let's get down to business.
"
"Brother Chen, you need to get to know him better and gain trust." He Qiu said, smiling inwardly: A newbie?
"For people like us to talk about trust, don't you think it's ridiculous, Hall Master He?" Chen Mo said coldly, with no hint of ridicule. "We are just getting what we need, and there will be no conflict between our interests.
That's enough, I can tell you clearly that I am not interested in your position as the leader of the hall, and I will leave when the matter comes to an end."
"You are not satisfied with just a small Yuzhongtang. I can help you. Anyway, I also want to improve my strength from fighting. You see, this is what businessmen call mutual benefit."
Chen Mo's words were true and false, and coupled with his expression that had remained unchanged for thousands of years, even he believed it himself.
"Since Brother Chen is so honest, it seems hypocritical for me to be coy." He Qiu also thinks it makes sense, but it is not credible. But whether it is credible or not is not important anymore, as he said, as long as there is no conflict of interest."
To be honest, Brother Chen is looking for a stable place, and this is really not suitable for me. Next door is the fiefdom of King Donghai. After the beginning of spring, King Donghai began to rectify the chaos in the fiefdom. Although this is not his fiefdom, but...
"
"But I'm afraid that he will be too ambitious to swallow up this place." Chen Mo continued.
"It's refreshing to talk to people who understand." He Qiu said with a smile: "It's exactly what Brother Chen thought, but this is not what I'm most worried about. What I'm most worried about is the other nearby hills. The recent recession has made us small hills
, there is no money to be made, and there are villages nearby that are too poor to open up the pot. There is nothing to rob, and the good places have been occupied by those big mountains."
"When the time comes, let alone anyone coming from the King of East China Sea, I'm afraid we ourselves will be finished first."
"I'm afraid of this and that, but you still built a small hill." Chen Mo said.
"Just like my brothers, I did something wrong, so I took a few brothers to settle here." He Qiu sighed and said.
"Why don't you go to those mountains?"
"In no mood."
Without thinking about Chen Mo, one would have known that this person had some backbone, and that he was just a bit backbone and had no ability, so he behaved like this.
"Actually, I have a bold plan, which I came up with recently. Unfortunately, I lack the ability to implement it. But when my brother came, I saw a little bit of hope." He Qiu showed a sincere look.
"Tell me and listen."
He Qiu thought for a while and said, "I will seek refuge with the King of East China Sea."
Chen Mo glanced at him and thought to himself: This guy doesn't think I'm the person sent by the King of East China Sea to find out, does he?
"Then go." Chen Mo said calmly.
He Qiu shook his head and said: "Now that I have surrendered, others may not appreciate it. Even if they appreciate me, I won't be reused. I don't want to be just a pawn. I want something better, so I have to be confident."
, and confidence is..."
"It's a more powerful force. Only in that way will the King of East China Sea pay attention to it, and then I can get better things." Chen Mo knew what he was thinking.
"Look, Brother Chen still understands me." He Qiu seemed to have changed a little bit of his attitude towards Chen Mo, as if he had found a confidant.
Chen Mo's view of him has also changed a little bit. It turns out that this person is still a bit of a man. Based on his understanding of King Donghai from Wu Ling'er, He Qiu's idea is indeed a good one.
Is this how times create heroes? Maybe he is not a hero, and don’t heroes always emerge from those who dare to think and do?
"I'm not interested."
Chen Mo's words were as cold as the river water in front of him and poured onto his head, which immediately made He Qiu's enthusiasm subside.
"However, what I said before is still valid. If you want a bigger force, I can contribute. As for the outcome, it's up to God."
"That's great, it's settled. Even if Brother Chen doesn't come with me in the end, I, He, will remember your love in the future when I become more prosperous." He Qiu said excitedly.
Chen Mo didn't care about his verbal promise.
"This is far away, let's talk about the forces in this area." Chen Mo asked him to be more practical.
"Okay, wait." With that, He Qiu ran out of Chen Mo's room.
"Follow him and you will have a better chance." Chen Mo said while looking at the darkness outside.
"He is not a good person." After a moment, Zhao Di said, this was her first sentence when she came here.
"What makes a good person?"
After walking for a while, Zhao Di said: "You, at least, are not a bad person."
Zhaodi didn't say he was a good person, but she didn't define him as a good person either.
"Ta-ta-ta." He Qiu came back and brought a jar of wine and two bowls. He came to the window, one each with Chen Mo, and then filled the glasses with wine.
The wine is not good wine, there are some impurities.
"This is the best wine here. When we are done, we will change to better wine." He Qiu touched him and drank first.
Chen Mo took a sip. It was indeed not a good wine, it was still mixed with water. You can imagine how poor this place must be.
"Brother Chen, you don't know much about this place. Although Sendai County seems vast, a large part of it is within the sphere of influence of Thousand Reef Islands. Did you know that Thousand Reef Islands are pirates?"
"The range of activities in our mountain tops is much smaller, and there are seven or eight forces in our area. One of them is the big mountain top. That one can't be messed with. The government also turns a blind eye to them, which makes their resources
Extremely rich.”
"There are others, I've done some research. They either have a lot of people or there are powerful people in charge. But there are few people like me, and there are not many powerful people. We are in a marginal place, so we survived."
"But now that Brother Chen has joined us, we have greater confidence. There is a hilltop that is particularly suitable for us to attack. I have thought about it. As long as we capture that hilltop, we will occupy the magpie's nest, but we don't have to face the East China Sea so quickly.
The King’s Threat.”
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He didn't know how long he talked, but He Qiu walked out of Chen Mo's house slightly drunk and returned to his own house, where the stone was still waiting for him.
"How about it?"
He Qiu did not answer immediately, but sat down, took a sip of the bitter and refreshing new tea, and said, "Tell the brothers to put away their laziness."