Volume 1: The Rise of the Western Regions, Chapter 44: Pastor Ximen?
Hearing this name, Yuan Kexin's body was shaking like chaff... But after a while, she couldn't hold back her laughter anymore, so she had to turn around and open her mouth wide in order to make her laughter smaller.
After all, it’s really rude to laugh at other people’s names in person!
Yuan Kexin has an extraordinary status, so she has long known that there is such a young master in the Ximen family, but his real name has never been spread among the public. Almost everyone calls him "Young Master Ximen", "Young Master Ximen", etc.
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It's already a big deal for someone to be born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but this young man, Ximen, was born with a house of gold!
If you are born in the eighth year of earth, of course you have to be willful if you have money!
Although Ximen Dazhuang has never traveled far, and has never even left the city where his family is located, his reputation as a prodigal is still known far and wide. Everyone in the north and south of Dawei knows it!
Ye Sanniang also heard about the eldest young master's deeds, but she didn't expect that Zhao Rang and him were childhood friends, and the relationship between the two was so good!
However, she was also smiling at this moment, but after all, she was well-informed and had high martial arts skills, so Ye Sanniang smiled very reservedly.
After looking at Ximen Dazhuang's face that was so painful, he spoke to comfort him:
"This is a great name! Big makes you taller, strong makes you stronger! Who among the men in the world doesn't want to be tall and strong?"
Ximen Dazhuang thought for a while after hearing this, then nodded sharply and said:
"Yes! My grandma said that too! But I always thought she was lying to me... But when you said it, sister-in-law, I understood!"
Then he scanned the crowd around him, raised his chin, stretched out his right thumb, pointed at himself and said:
"Listen up, from now on you have to call me Ximen Dazhuang! Because I am tall and strong!"
There were originally a few powerful people among the spectators, but they had already dispersed after being beaten up by Zhao Rang.
The remaining people from the Western Regions couldn't understand what Ximen Dazhuang was saying. They just felt that his voice was loud and very heroic! Regardless of whether they understood or not, they all clapped one after another!
Seeing this, Ximen Dazhuang was even more happy! He patted his belly with a smile, kept turning around, and enjoyed the applause from all directions.
After a while, the passers-by dispersed, and Ximen Dazhuang suddenly remembered something and said to Zhao Rang:
"By the way, Brother Rang, why did you come to the Western Region too?"
Zhao Rang didn't know what to say to him.
It’s not that I can’t trust my little boy, it’s that he has grown up in a golden jar since he was a child. He has to put his hands out for clothes and food to open his mouth. He is surrounded by everyone when he goes out. He only needs to move his mouth to do anything, and does not need to move at all.
The mind, if things go on like this, becomes very simple. At first glance, many people think that the eldest son of the Ximen family is a bit silly.
As for the incident involving Zhao Rang, it was too complicated for Ximen Dazhuang's mind... so for a while, he didn't know how to speak.
"What's wrong, Brother Rang, you can't even trust me?"
Ximen Dazhuang said with some dissatisfaction.
"Brother, you misunderstood, I was thinking about how to tell you!"
Zhao Rang paced in place, racking his brains, trying to find some simple words to express.
But Ximen Dazhuang didn’t think so.
He felt that Zhao Rang didn't say it happily because there was something unspeakable.
For a man, the most unspeakable thing is about women.
Looking back at Zhao Rang who has been out for more than half a year, he actually found two sisters-in-law! Isn’t this obvious?
Ximen Dazhuang thought he had thought everything through, so he walked over and patted Zhao Rang on the shoulder, and said confidently:
"Brother Rang, you don't have to be embarrassed. If you don't want to say it, just don't say it. Anyway, I already know it!"
Zhao Rang frowned and looked at his "honest" face and asked:
"You know? What do you know?"
Ximen Dazhuang chuckled, bent down to Zhao Rang's ear, and said in a voice that he thought was very small:
"It must be that these two sisters-in-law don't know how to size them up, right?"
"In addition, the Qingqing girl at home, three women and one drama! Brother Rang must be worried about this! So I just walked away, maybe there is some reason, and this will be solved!"
Zhao Rang couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this... Where is this going?
Do you deserve to come all the way to the Western Regions because of something like this?
After thinking about it, Zhao Rang felt that it was still necessary to explain it clearly to him. He was not required to understand it, just memorize it by rote and just remember it!
"I'll tell you once, just once! Don't ask if you don't understand, just remember it!"
Ximen Dazhuang scratched his head and said with a troubled face:
"Brother Rang, it's not like you don't know me. My eyelids have hurt when I read the words since I was a child... Just say it once, how can I remember it?"
Zhao Rang said angrily:
"How come you can never forget the names of those girls?"
When Ximen Dazhuang heard this, he immediately became interested and said:
"Oh brother, if you say that, I won't understand! Then I'll just remember it like a girl's name!"
Zhao Rang sighed, stretched out a finger and said:
"First of all, they are not your sisters-in-law, they are my friends. Just friends!"
"Secondly, the old man asked me to come to the Western Regions to practice. It's different from you sneaking out!"
"Third, what we are going to do is very dangerous, so when you have had enough fun, go home as soon as possible, do you hear me?"
Zhao Rang said it very clearly, but Ximen Dazhuang raised his finger and muttered it again.
"Brother Rang, I understand the first point. They are friends after all! Hahaha, boyfriend or girlfriend, Brother Rang, you better know how to play!"
"I also understand the second point. You were sent here by your family, and I ran away secretly."
"But the third one...what are you going to do? Is there any danger? What danger? How dangerous is it?"
When Ximen Dazhuangcai said the word "danger", his eyes were shining!
Having lived for more than twenty years, he has never experienced the feeling of danger, so when he hears this word, he can't help but get excited!
The reason why Ximen Dazhuang fought with the horse bandits in the restaurant just now was ultimately because those two people were too impatient, or they didn't believe that there could be such people in this world!
Ximen Da Zhuang clearly told the two horse bandits that after he finished his meal, he would give each of them five hundred taels of silver. But the two men refused to wait and overturned his table.
Seeing so many delicious things thrown to the ground in a daze, mixed together, not even as good as pig food, this was the scene where I finally took action!
"Did I say you are not allowed to ask? Okay, you understand, just do what I said in the third point!"
After Zhao Rang finished speaking, he punched Ximen Dazhuang a few more times in the belly.
This is a unique way of greeting between them.
If you do this when you meet, it is a question mark. If you do this before parting, it is a farewell.
"Walk!"
Zhao Rang called on Yuan Kexin and Ye Sanniang to get on their horses and set off.
Yuan Kexin looked back and saw that Ximen Dazhuang's figure in the smoke was very lonely, like an abandoned child. Suddenly he couldn't bear it and asked:
"Just left him there by himself?"
Zhao Rang replied:
"Don't you still want to take him with you... Let me tell you, that kid is a trouble-maker! Even if he walks on the road in a good manner, he can cause trouble for you!"
"If we bring him with us for what we have to do, we won't even have to think about it!"
Yuan Kexin seemed a little unwilling, and continued:
"But is it dangerous for him to wander here by himself? I think he... I think he is a bit clumsy, he is still a child!"
Zhao Rang burst out laughing and said:
"Where in the world is there a child weighing 500 pounds? Besides... with the money in his pocket and the brute strength of his body, it's hard to imagine he would be in danger!"
Seeing Zhao Rang's persistence, Yuan Kexin couldn't say anything more. After all, he was Zhao Rang's good brother, and no one knew him better than him, so he simply hurried on, his riding whip dancing in the air, leaving an afterimage.
After running for more than fifty miles in one breath, although the man was fine, the horse was a little tired.
The sun is scorching in the Gobi Desert. If a horse runs for too long, its body temperature will be too high, and it is easy to die of heatstroke.
There are no shops or villages here, and there is no shortage of places to eat, but it is not that easy to buy a horse!
"It's time for the horse to rest!"
Ye Sanniang stroked her mane after getting off the horse, and it was covered with sticky sweat.
"Well, it just so happens that we have something to eat too!"
Not far from the front of the three of them, there was a restaurant with a tea tent.
But when he got closer, Zhao Rang suddenly stopped moving!
Because he saw an extremely burly fat man sitting in the middle of the tea shed!
"You...why are you here!"
Ximen Dazhuang held a coarse porcelain sea bowl, drank most of the bowl of brick tea in one breath, then looked at Zhao Rang and said:
"Haha, Brother Rang! What a coincidence, we meet again!"
Zhao Rang rushed to the tea shed, stood on the table, pointed at his nose and said:
"Didn't you promise me? Why didn't you listen to the third point?"
Ximen Dazhuang spread his hands and said:
"You told me to go back when I've had enough fun, but I haven't had enough fun yet!"
Zhao Rang took a breath...
Call this fat man stupid, he is indeed not smart!
But every time like this, he can catch the loopholes in your words and let you shoot yourself in the foot!
"Then you go and play, play whatever you want, don't follow me!"
Ximen Dazhuang said:
"I am playing. Look how happy I am. After playing here, I will continue to play!"
Zhao Rang was already gritting his teeth.
But he still didn't understand why the fat man could arrive here ahead of him even though he was not riding a horse.
Shaking his head, Zhao Rang felt that he was so angry with this fat man... Now is not the time to consider this issue at all, what is important is how to send him away completely!
"Brother Rang, don't you still want to keep moving forward?"
Ximen Dazhuang suddenly asked.
Zhao Rang didn't know what was going on, so he nodded and said:
"Yes, what's wrong?"
Ximen Dazhuang smiled evilly and waved to the side, and several people from the Western Regions came over immediately.
"Tell me, brother, where is the place ahead!"
One of the leaders from the Western Regions came out, saluted Zhao Rang, and then said in lame and powerful words:
"Two hundred miles from here to Qianlang? It's all the territory of our four common herdsmen—Herdsman Ximen! If you want to go there, you need the nod of our herdsmen!"