Hearing Zhongli talking to himself, Hong Chen asked: "What is it?"
"Whatever it is, it has nothing to do with you." Zhonglifu looked out the window aimlessly again and slumped, "The hunchback's life is in your hands. I have said whatever I want to say, and the rest is up to you."
Ji Cha made a sound: "Sure enough, I know how to talk about useless things. I'll chop off your head and send you to the official, and earn a lot of silver reward."
Zhongli muttered: "Kill, kill, hunchback's head is really valuable, hunchback will be happy."
Hong Chen remembered that Zhong Tuozi's curved sword was extremely sharp and had even cut himself. It must be a peerless sword, so he asked: "Where is your sword?"
Zhongli replied: "It's lost."
Hong Chen then asked: "Where was it thrown?"
"Just throw it away at General Tianwei's Mansion." Zhongli said, "Why, you two want that sword too? Dai Wanshan will most likely dedicate it to Luo Qinghan, so he must have hidden it extremely tightly."
Ji Cha became interested all of a sudden: "In that case, in addition to 'Yin Xue', General Tianwei's Mansion also has another high-quality magic weapon." Then he said to Hong Chen: "I'll eat the mahua later.
We've had enough rest today, let's sneak into the general's mansion again tomorrow and steal both Hunchback's sword and Dai Wanshan's knife."
Hong Chen said: "It is not difficult to sneak into General Tianwei's mansion, but we don't know where he hid his swords and knives. It will be very difficult to continue searching like a headless fly."
"What's so difficult?" Ji Cha said, "When the time comes, we can catch a few of his guards and servants, and once we interrogate him, we'll know everything!"
"hehe."
Zhongli chuckled twice at this time.
Ji Cha stared at him: "Why are you laughing? You are laughing at your grandma's legs!"
Zhongli shook his head: "I laugh at you for thinking things too simply."
"Then how complicated are you?" Ji Cha was very disdainful, "I don't believe it. With my skill as a tea picker, I can't recruit a few servants to protect the courtyard."
Zhongli said: "Although the 'Yin Xue' is famous, it has not been seen for many years. Even his daughter has never seen it a few times since she was a child, and she doesn't know where to put it. If he wants to hide something, he will
It’s so hidden that no one in the family knows where it is.”
Ji Cha squeezed the iron claw of his left hand: "Then we won't arrest his guard servants, but arrest him directly." Hong Chen said on the side: "Then it's not called stealing, it's called robbery." Ji Cha immediately said: "What kind of robbery?
, let’s leave him two pieces of silver and treat it as a purchase!” Hong Chen thought for a while and said, “What you said sounded reasonable at first, but the more I think about it, the more it feels wrong.”
Ji Cha waved his hand and said, "Don't think about it. We can just wait until night to visit the general's house. I don't believe there were a bunch of nosy guys in his house at that time." Then he asked Zhongli: "Hunchback, what are you doing?
Where did you get that sword?"
Zhongli answered with two words: "I picked it up."
"Hey, you are so good at picking up gold? Why don't you just pick up ten thousand taels of gold?" Ji Cha didn't believe it at all, "I guess you stole it from somewhere! Look at the shape, it comes from the country of Yue in the south."
Zhongli nodded: "I did pick it up in Yue Kingdom."
Ji Cha sarcastically said: "Then you are really lucky. Please tell me the name of the place where you picked up the sword. I don't have to run all over the world stealing and robbing. I can only walk a few steps a day to the place where you picked up the sword."
, go around twice and you can pick up a bunch of magic weapons."
Zhongli smiled: "I'll tell you the place, I'm afraid you won't be able to pick it up."
"Smelly hunchback, who do you look down on? His grandma, the more I think about it, the angrier I get. How many times have you ruined my good deeds!"
Ji Cha raised his hand and wanted to slap Zhongli on the ear, but Hong Chen grabbed his arm and said, "Forget it, he can't move now, so don't hit him." Ji Cha put down his hand and said bitterly: "You hunchback."
What you say is really hateful, and it’s a miracle that you can live this long without being beaten to death." Hong Chen thought to himself: You are talking about others now, but isn’t it the same for you?
As night fell, Ji Cha tied Zhongli with a rope and told Hong Chen, "I'm going to sleep in the back room. You must keep an eye on the hunchback in the outer room at night and don't let him break free." Zhongli said: "
What about the hunchback I want to pee and poop?" Ji Cha glared at him and said, "Then just poop in your pants."
After hearing this, Hong Chen covered his nose repeatedly and said, "If you really peed in your pants, how smelly would it be?"
"It's you who stinks, not me." Ji Cha went over to lift the curtain of the inner room, walked in and turned around, "If he wants to urinate or poop, untie him and take him to the corner of the courtyard to deal with it. It must be done.
Watch out, don't let him escape. That head is worth thousands of taels of silver!" Seeing Hong Chen nodding in agreement, he entered the back room completely and lowered the door curtain.
The night was getting darker and darker, and the room was getting so dark that I couldn't see my fingers. Hong Chen was about to fall asleep when he heard Zhongli whisper: "Bamboo cutter, I want to ask you something."
Hong Chen shook his head twice to temporarily drive away his sleepiness: "Just ask."
Zhongli asked: "What is your relationship with the tea-picking girl? Is she your sister?"
Hong Chen said with a smile: "She is not a girl, she is a boy!" Zhong Liqi said: "What? Is she really a boy?" Hong Chen said: "Yeah. Didn't you meet me once? This is my first time.
She dressed up as a woman and didn't recognize her at all.
It can be said that this ability to change one's appearance is really amazing. When I have the opportunity, I will also learn it. When the time comes, I will pretend to be an eighty-year-old grandfather and say "old man" wherever I go. It will be better than calling me "big brother" all day long.
It’s much more comfortable to call that uncle.”
Zhongli said: "It sounds like you two have just met each other."
"Yeah, counting, it's only...a few days." Hong Chen counted, but found that he couldn't count how many days he had known Ji Cha. It seemed that it was only the past two days, and it seemed that several more had passed.
It’s the same every year, “It was still summer when I first met him, but now it’s autumn, and it’s very cold at night.”
Zhongli said: "Actually, according to Yunzhou's climate, it is still summer now. Tianwei City is further north, so autumn comes earlier."
Hong Chen said: "Maybe so. I heard that in places further north than Tianjing, it is very cool even in summer, and in winter there will be knee-deep snow on the ground. The snow I have seen since I was a child is the thickest
It’s just up to my ankles.”
"Speaking of snow, I haven't seen snow in a long time. It never snows in Yue country. I almost forgot what it would feel like to step on the snow."
"Yue country? That seems to be the country in the south."
"Yes, directly south of Yunzhou is Qingzhou of Yue State, and to the southwest is Huangzhou."
"Were you in Qingzhou or Huangzhou?"
"No one is here. I'm in Manzhou, the southernmost part of the Yue Kingdom. The water, land, customs, and food style there are very different from places in the Central Plains like Yunzhou."
"Oh? Is there anything delicious to eat?"
"It's like spring there all year round, and the fruits grow extremely well. The purple-black grapes and fiery red citrus are much more delicious than those in the north. Especially some specialties that are not available in the north have a unique flavor. My favorite food is the local food.
A kind of fruit called pineapple has a sweet and sour taste. If you crush it and squeeze out the juice, you will be filled with saliva after just one bite."
Hong Chen secretly imagined what kind of pear pineapple was, and then asked: "Is Manzhou far away from here?"
"It's thousands of miles away," Zhongli said. "Although Manzhou belongs to the Yue Kingdom, it is not very civilized. Unlike Qingzhou, it is no different from Yunzhou in the Central Plains. There are many people there, and they are still barefooted. Some of them are still barefoot.
Tribal, they don’t even wear clothes.”
"I've heard of this before."
Hong Chen thought of what Ji Cha said, that people in the southernmost region have the custom of "wearing their hair, tattoos, and being naked", which was exactly in line with what Zhong Tuozi said. He couldn't help but be more fascinated, and he became entangled in his heart: When winter comes,
Should I go north to Tianjing to see the heavy snow, or go to the southern barbarian states to eat fruits?
Zhongli talked several times and found that the bamboo cutter had little experience and was not familiar with the tea picker. He could hear the sleeping breathing of the tea picker next door, so he took this opportunity to say: "
Bamboo cutter, it's not me who instigated it. You are so powerful in martial arts, you can't go anywhere in the world? Why do you have to saddle up the tea picker?"
Hong Chen said: "The two of us can do many things that one person cannot do by working together."
"Hey, he just fooled you, but he actually tricked you." Zhongli continued, "Look, you followed him, and now you are wanted by Dayu Guiyi Division, and your identity is suspected to be the leader of the Demon Cult.
What has the hunchback never experienced or seen? If you follow the hunchback, you will definitely make greater achievements than following that guy who is neither a man nor a woman."