"Master! Madam! Eldest Young Master! Second Young Master! My benefactor and Priest Nuwa have left!!"
Jia Zhengjin casually left a few words "Pindao wandered away" and sent them to the territory of Qi State together with Nuwa.
Qimu Town, Chengzhou County.
"Boom!"
It’s rainy in Chengzhou and it’s the thunder season.
Thunder roared and rain poured down.
Qimu Town is a little-known town in Chengzhou County, with a population of about 2,000.
There is an abandoned earth temple in the east of the town, and rainwater keeps dripping into the house through the cracks in the broken tiles.
In the only small dry area behind the broken earth god statue, two ragged teenagers sat by the fire, swallowing their saliva while looking at the only sweet potato stuck on a stick, their stomachs growling.
"Hey~ This thunderstorm looks like it won't stop for a while." The older man looked at the pouring rain outside and sighed, "This is the only sweet potato we have tonight."
"If it doesn't rain, you can try your luck at the back door of Zhang Shan's house. Maybe you can have a sip of hot porridge." The younger one also sighed, "Brother Shao, it will probably be sunny tomorrow, let's bear with it!"
"Yeah! Let's share the sweet potatoes equally and put some food on our stomachs first. Go to bed early. If the rain stops tomorrow, we'll find a way to get more food."
"Brother Shao," the younger one seemed to remember something, "I heard someone say that Danyang is recruiting county soldiers this morning in the west of the city. I'm afraid there will be a war. Shall we go and give it a try?"
"Jun'er, people will die in war!" The older man shook his head hurriedly, "If you are lucky, you will be wrapped in horse leather, if you are unlucky, you will just throw your body into the wilderness..."
"But you can get ahead by doing battle! The idiot from the next town went to Jinsha County to join the army the year before the year before last. Didn't he come back last month? He also became a thief catcher (yuan), with a dozen people in charge, but
So majestic!”
"Jun'er, I was serving as a soldier in Jinsha County to deal with the petty thieves in the surrounding areas. This time Danyang is recruiting troops, and it is said that they will launch troops against Gao Guo Yuanzhou! When the two countries fight, it is completely different from dealing with the petty thieves. Every battle
The battle ended with heavy casualties..."
"That's true."
"Let's just stay at home and think of other options!
"Brother Shao, why don't we go to the government and see if we can find any work?"
"Government? There is no way to get in."
...
The two teenagers chatted seriously by the fire. When the sweet potatoes were roasted, you took a bite and I shared it equally. By the time they took the last bite, they gave in to each other, and their relationship was indeed very good.
"Did you see it?" In the cloud, Yue Lang pointed to the picture in the bronze mirror, "The older one is Huang Shao, who is eighteen years old this year. The younger one is Diao Jun, who is seventeen years old. The two of them are six or seven years old.
We lost our family when we were young and have been living together for more than ten years. Then we will use our own methods to start a bet around the friendship between these two brothers with different surnames. The time is still one month. If the friendship between Huang Shao and Diao Jun can withstand the test in the end, then
That is my victory; if their friendship is destroyed and they eventually turn against each other, it is your victory!"
"It seems like you have the advantage, but young people are unstable, especially those aged 17 or 18, who are most likely to be instigated." Jia Zhengjin said, "When will the gambling start?"
"You can do it now." Yue Lang said.
"As a judge, we promise to be impartial!" Liu Jing turned around and said, "We will not interfere in the gambling situation."
"What are you going to do?" Since they were all in the open and no longer hiding their identities from each other, Jia Zhengjin looked directly at Yue Lang.
Yue Lang laughed: "What I want to do is very simple, which is to prevent you from ruining the relationship between these two brothers with different surnames. You may be more troublesome and need to do it under my interference."
"In that case, should I take the first step?"
"Please!"
"Nuwa, teleport!"
"Command accepted!"
With a "swish" sound, Jia Zhengjin and Nuwa disappeared at the same time.
"Look where he is now!" Min Wenwen urged.
Liu Jing stretched out his hand to wipe the bronze mirror, and the screen immediately turned.
After a while, a young man dressed as a Taoist priest appeared in the heavy rain. It was Jia Zhengjin.
He held a special animal skin umbrella in his hand and walked slowly on the street.
"It seems that this guy is going directly to the Earth Temple!" Lord Yue turned back to look at Yue Lang, "Why don't you go there with us?"
"Let's see what he wants to do first, don't worry!" Yue Lang said with a smile, "Winning or losing is not important, everything is in my calculation."
Now that the person involved said this, the three monkeys as bystanders continued to watch the scene.
In the Tutu Temple, Huang Shao and Diao Jun finished eating sweet potatoes and huddled on the straw behind the statue to rest.
It’s actually very difficult to sleep peacefully during thunderstorms like this. If the wind and rain get serious, and a few more tiles above your head are damaged, there may not even be the last dry area left.
So the two of them stood back to back, looking up at the roof.
Thunder roared in my ears, as if the earth was shaking with it.
"Papa papa~" I don't know how long it took, but suddenly there was a sound of raindrops hitting the leather outside, which was in sharp contrast to the sound when it landed on the ground.
Huang Shao and Diao Jun immediately stood up warily and looked at the gate of Tutu Temple.
It was Jia Zhengjin who appeared outside the door.
"Creak~" The dilapidated wooden door was pushed open, and he entered the Earth Temple holding an umbrella, and his eyes met Huang Shao and Diao Jun.
"Monk?" Huang Shao and Diao Jun seemed relieved when they discovered that Jia Zhengjin was wearing the clothes of a Taoist monk and that he seemed not much older than himself.
"Heavenly Lord of Infinite Blessings and Longevity!" Pretending to be a little surprised, Jia Zhengjin made a Taoist greeting gesture, "I thought that there was no one in this earth temple, but unexpectedly there were two good people, disturbing me!"
"Hey! That monk, this is my home." Huang Shao stood up and stared straight ahead.
Diao Jun also stood up and stood beside Huang Shao and nodded.
Jia Zhengjin pretended to look around, then smiled and said: "Two good people were joking. This is the Earth Temple, not private property."
"Who in Qimu Town doesn't know that our brothers came here more than ten years ago and have been living in the Tutu Temple." Huang Shao said loudly, "Although the Tutu Temple is not private property, everyone knows that it is the home of my two brothers.
"
"Is this happening?" Jia Zhengjin pretended to be surprised, "That's because Pindao disturbed me! The thunderstorm outside is getting worse and worse, and Pindao has nowhere to go. I wonder if two kind people can take him in for a night?"
"There is an inn a hundred meters east. The monks might as well stay there." Huang Shao said, "My brothers don't like living with outsiders."
"I travel all over the world and never stay in an inn!" Jia Zhengjin said with a smile, "Everywhere I go, I always stay in a nunnery. I hope you two good people will do this for you!"
"No, no, no!" Huang Shao shook his head, "This is the home of my two brothers, and there is no room for a third person. You have also seen, monk, that there is water leakage in the temple, and there is only a small dry place under our brothers' feet."
"How can two good people make Pindao stay?"
"There is really no place to stay." Huang Shao pointed to the ground in the house that was mostly soaked by rain, "Can't the monk not see it?"
