Zhou Shi walked to Xu Xianghai with a frown and said kindly, "You've drunk enough today. Let's keep it down and come back next time."
Xu Xianghai waved his arms, exhaled the smell of alcohol, and said inarticulately: "No, leave me alone - get the wine!"
As soon as the restaurant opened today, Xu Xianghai walked into Fengde Building in despair, patting the table and asking for wine.
As the shopkeeper, Zhou Shi knew very well the drinking capacity of his regular customers. The pound he had already drank was far beyond his drinking capacity, but he still refused to stop.
"Come again, another two taels... no, another pound!"
Seeing that he was about to hand over his life here, Zhou Shi didn't dare to follow the instructions, so he could only quietly ask the people at the table: "What's wrong?"
One of Xu Xianghai's drinking buddies stretched his head over and whispered: "I was beaten by my wife, and I feel angry."
"Oh? This is fresh."
"Hey, that woman is really bad-tempered and has a strong body. It would be uncomfortable to be beaten by her."
These words aroused Xu Xianghai's grievance, and he shouted: "She, why did she hit me? I just lost a pocket of money. I didn't drink much that day, and who knew I fell down at the West City Gate...
She has the ability to fill that ditch!"
"That's right, what's the point of taking it out on you!" The drinking buddy on the side was filled with indignation.
"Just because of this bag of copper coins, I have not been able to live well this year... She started scolding me from the day I married her back, saying that I couldn't afford a wedding dress, and that the carpenter hired to make furniture was not good at craftsmanship.
What kind of ability is pulling a cart... Bah! I have no ability, she will find someone who has the ability! Let’s see which young man can like this slant-mouthed woman!"
"Yes, we can't spoil her!" the drinking buddy said as he drank a whole jug of wine and slammed the jug on the table.
"I'm not used to it! I scold her no matter how much she scolds me; when she calls me a wimp, I tell her she's a loser! But guess what?"
Xu Xianghai pulled open his collar, revealing several wounds on his shoulders.
"The woman was so anxious that she picked up the scissors and pricked my neck. The blood spurted all over the wall... Hey, she didn't regret it until she finished pricking her. She cried and begged me not to die. Hmm, she was probably afraid of taking human life.
A lawsuit, or maybe she is worried about how she will live in the future."
"Tsk, tsk, it's really miserable." The drinking friend shook his head and sighed, "Shopkeeper, please give me another pound of wine."
"Don't seduce him." Zhou Shi shook his head and took out a bowl of hangover soup from somewhere, "I'm treating you to it. Drink this and let go of your sad things."
Suddenly, a strong wind blew through, blowing out several lights in the store, and the light dimmed instantly.
"Tsk, why is it windy at noon? Agui, agui?"
Zhou Shi even shouted a few times but didn't see Agui come out, thinking that he probably hadn't woken up yet. So he closed the door himself.
At this moment, Xu Xianghai was lying on the table and crying: "Oh - my life is so miserable..."
The drinking buddy patted him on the shoulder and said sympathetically: "Okay, okay, let's find a good one in our next life, who won't quarrel with you, and will give you a big fat boy in one year."
"Ugh - only one?"
The drinking buddy laughed: "You don't think that's too young? Okay, then you can give birth to seven, eight, or ten of them in one go, both boys and girls, okay?"
"I, I'm not talking about the boy, I'm talking about the wife, ugh..."
The drinking buddy and Zhou Shi exchanged helpless looks, then leaned over to comfort him: "Then how many wives are you going to marry?"
"Let me think about it...three, no, if three are going to fight, let's have four, two fighting and two breaking up the fight."
"You are so thoughtful." Zhou Shi curled his lips and said.
But the drinking buddy didn't mind at all, and continued to coax him: "Okay, okay. A fourth-bedroom wife, four boys in a year..."
"And my daughter."
"Girl, two boys and two girls, twenty years will be... Shopkeeper, how much will twenty years be?"
Zhou Shi, who was watching the show with his arms crossed next to him, replied: "Forty boys and forty girls."
The drinking buddy raised his head and was slightly surprised: "There are so many? You'd better use an abacus to do the math. I believe in the abacus."
Zhou Shi made a sound, wondering if I could still get the math wrong on a primary school student's question? But he still turned around, took the abacus, and typed out the results...
Wait, elementary school? What is elementary school?
This unfamiliar word that came out of his heart made him a little confused.
What I want to say is a private school, the kind that schoolchildren go to... Hey, have I ever gone to a private school? After my father died, my mother sent me to Jiangdu, and my old employer in Fengde Building took me in... p>
A hint of cunning flashed in the drinking buddy's eyes, and he asked softly: "How much is it?"
"Forty, all forty..."
It doesn’t seem right. I, I was kicked out of Fengde Building by two young masters, and I returned to Zhou’s shop to visit my parents’ graves... and then what?
"Hey, shopkeeper, your clothes are very handsome."
Xu Xianghai raised his head and drank the sobering soup in one gulp, wiping his mouth.
"Oh?" Zhou Shi looked down and saw that he was wearing his favorite dress, which was black with red stripes and embroidered with a lifelike phoenix, "Ah, this is what I saw in the Dahuan Underground Palace.
, if you find it interesting, just..."
Dahuan Underground Palace? What am I talking about...
"Dahuan Underground Palace." The drinking friend held his chin and murmured, "It was built by Emperor Dahuan of the previous dynasty in order to ascend to immortality. Over the past two hundred years, countless experts from the outer sect have tried to search for it, but there has been no clue.
Have you actually been there? Where is it?"
"There are three entrances to the Dahuan Underground Palace. The easier one to find is the Dibu Sheng Gate located underground in the old Shangjing City. The method to open it is..."
An Rudao read out a string of words mechanically.
"When one qi returns to Yang, you will see the dim light; when the three Yangs return to evil, you will see Taixu..."
In an instant, everything around him seemed to be given life. The tables, benches, every brick under his feet, and every board above his head seemed to cast malicious glances at the same moment. Even the darkness in the room was invisibly rolling.
, to devour the one who chants the curse!
"Tsk, hell!"
The drinking buddy pushed himself away from the table, put his hands together, and eight-sided barriers suddenly appeared in eight directions, up, down, left, front and back, temporarily blocking the inexplicable existence lurking in the darkness.
And "An Rudao"'s eyes suddenly regained their clarity. He looked at the simple short shirt on his body in surprise, and then saw the drinking buddy sitting in front of him.
"Hey, who are you? Why do you appear at my home?"
The drinking buddy raised his eyebrows slightly, seemingly surprised by his change.
"Well, yes, for my son... no, for the future of Jianghuai's son, I can only take risks... Haha, to put it grandly, isn't it just for your son who is rushing to take the exam this year? Don't worry, I will take care of you.
As soon as Mr. Bao was admitted... Amitabha, donor, it’s time for you to look back."
The drinking buddy's body was shaken, and he looked around, only to see that the barrier he had created had long since disappeared. At this moment, he was on a river bank, with a row of expressionless people stumbling next to him.
"Amitabha, there is no end to the sea of suffering, but when you turn around, you will find the shore..."
Countless consciousnesses and countless memories were biting each other in his mind. One moment he was An Rudao wearing a phoenix suit, another moment he was Wei Yanxing who bribed on behalf of the Jianghuai Chamber of Commerce, he was Wu Zhaokun, he was Budu...
In the end, only one memory and one consciousness prevailed.
Just when I was turning the dial, a strange word, a word that didn't belong to this world, came to my mind.
Elementary school.
"I, I am Zhou Shi, but I am not the shopkeeper Zhou of Fengde Building... I am Zhou Shi, a time traveler from another world!"
Suddenly, the fast-moving images in front of me were frozen on the river beach under the dim sky.
Isn’t this the uncrossed Abi Hell? How could I be here?
He blended in with the strolling crowd and saw a blurry figure looking around outside the queue. It was Xu Xianghai's drinking buddy.
No, after the demons attacked Jiangdu on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Fengde Building, which was transformed into a stage, stopped operating. How could Xu Xianghai still come to drink with his drinking friends?
When I think about it carefully, what I have just experienced is very abnormal... Agui, who has always been diligent, actually wakes up late? It is dark at noon, and he still needs to light a lamp? How could the young master Xu Xianghai quarrel with his wife over a packet of copper coins?
He's not even married...
So, who is Xu Xianghai’s drinking buddy? Is that person the cause of my abnormality just now?
When he thought of this, he had already reached his "drinking buddy".
The queue separated to the left and right, standing silently on both sides, allowing Zhou Shi and his "drinking buddies" to confront each other directly.
"Who are you?" Zhou Shi asked.
The "drinking buddy" shook his head and sighed: "It was a miscalculation. I didn't expect that your mind contains the memories of so many people. I didn't expect that the old immortal would actually regard the Three Yang Guixi as a 'lock'..."
Seeing that he didn't answer, Zhou Shi put his hand behind his back.
This move was noticed by the other party, and he slowly took out an iron abacus.
"Are you looking for this?"
He gently moved the abacus and said slowly: "There is a familiar feeling. The treasure left by the old immortal seems to be hidden inside... Oh, why didn't you just pass it on to me in the first place? It can also prevent our master and apprentice from turning against each other.
..."
The old man never dies...you mean An Rudao? Wait, he and An Rudao are masters and disciples? He is An Rudao's disciple?
Zhou Shi's body trembled, he knew who this person was.
"Tsk, I don't like the immortal treasure, so I'll give it back to you."
The corpse-carrying man raised his hand and threw the iron abacus to Zhou Shi.
"It's really difficult to handle. It seems that you don't intend to follow me honestly... How about this, I will make you into a shady soldier, and I will interrogate you when you get back."