jdhmnovel Chapter 139: Wong Tai Sin: Double Kill (18)
Chapter 139: Wong Tai Sin: Double Kill (18)
It was not until the moon was at its zenith that Hu Dali and his companions cleared away all the food and wine on the table. Everyone was full and full.
[Squeak——]
including me.
Although the portion sizes were just right, I couldn't help but secretly drink a jar of osmanthus wine when they weren't paying attention.
No wonder the old man who doesn't have many days left to live is so concerned about it. Zhou Banxian's wine-making skills are truly masterful.
If I had enough space, I would have moved all the wine jars in his cellar without leaving any behind.
e=(′o｀*)))Oh, this is really bad, eating and taking things at the same time, and having no sense of etiquette. This is not good, not good!
The three of them put down their chopsticks. Zhou Xiaoliang was already a little drunk. As he was the junior, it was natural for him to stand up and clean up the mess.
It's not difficult. For decades, there have been only the two of them, master and apprentice, in the family, and he was the one who did this kind of work in the past.
[Brother Hu, I already know why you came here, but you can't ask him what you want to ask.]
Hu Dali shook his head to indicate that he didn't understand.
[You can see that, right? I am a dying man. Those taboos are no longer important to me. You can ask me anything you want, but I also have something to ask of you.]
Hu Dali's eyes lit up. There's hope. This guy is very clear-headed.
It turns out that the master and disciple were both pretending to be stupid, thinking they could deceive each other.
[After I leave, Xiaoliang will be the only one left in the Zhou family. He is a simple-minded person who only studies the things I taught him wholeheartedly. It is not the first time that he has been beaten. I want to ask you to take care of him in the future. You don’t have to keep a close eye on him. From time to time, you can invite him to have some drinks and food together like today. He can also get some popularity. I am afraid that he will follow my old path...]
As Hu Dali listened to Zhou Xing talking, he seemed to see his master who was imprisoned in the straw hut with him. When he was dying, the old man's eyes were full of worry, and he earnestly told him to live well.
[Direct descendant of the Zhou family?! Brother, do you have any explanation? ]
[The year I was born, the clan leader decided to adopt me to my eldest uncle who had retired from the battlefield and would have no children. Xiaoliang is the youngest son of my eldest brother. He should have called me his second uncle, but unfortunately... his father also went to the battlefield and had bad luck, so he didn't come back.]
Zhou Xing's eyelids drooped, hiding the gloomy look in his eyes.
[My father was a great man for the country and the people, but he had psychological trauma after the war. He could not control his temper and would beat me half to death. After he came to his senses, he tried every means to make it up to me. You see, my autistic personality today was formed from that time. He was a hero and he also raised me. I don't blame him.]
Zhou Xing sighed and fumbled for cigarettes in his pockets. He searched all four pockets, then he remembered that the cigarette box had been confiscated by that bad boy Xiao Liang and thrown into the stove.
That prodigal son o(￣ヘ￣o＃)
Hu Dali listened silently to his gossip about the past without interrupting. He was a non-smoker, but he could see that Brother Zhou was craving for a cigarette, and the two fingers on his right hand opened and closed unconsciously.
【Later, it was also because of my father that I lived a more stable life than my other brothers and sisters from my uncles’ families for those ten years. The Zhou family’s ancestors were minor officials in the Qing court who specialized in sacrifices and divination. When it came to my grandfather’s generation, he suffered because his sons were unwilling to be contaminated by the old feudal learning. Without a successor, my grandfather was a well-known local landlord. Even if two of his sons joined the army, they could not escape punishment. During those years, he was tortured to the point of being miserable. He was afraid that one of them would die and it would be difficult to explain to the ancestors below, so he had to catch me nearby and teach me all the family skills without caring whether I could digest and absorb them, cough cough cough...】
Zhou Xing seemed to be suddenly choked by saliva and started coughing with a red face.
[Ahem, luckily I'm not stupid, I learned 50% of it, which is enough. ]
Hu Dali was shocked. If 50% was such a high accuracy rate, wouldn't it be heavenly if he could learn 100%? !
[Squeak——]
A Qing Dynasty priest?! I seem to have heard of an apprentice named Zhou who always follows Taizhu?!
Thinking about it carefully, he does seem to be somewhat similar to this guy named Zhou Xing. No wonder I felt he looked familiar when I first met him!
Eh?! How long have I lived? How come I know the greatest priest in the Qing Dynasty?!
[Brother Hu, I really envy you! ]
[Huh?! Me?! What do I have to be envious of? Aren’t you making fun of me?!]
[Your family is going to have a baby after the New Year, isn't that a happy event? Unlike that brat Xiaoliang, if there is no special opportunity, he will have to be single for the rest of his life like me...]
Hu Dali opened his mouth in surprise and quickly turned around to look for the immortal.
[Squeak——]
What did I say, old man, you really have a great-grandson, but the time is so short that even I can only vaguely feel it and dare not speak out.
Hu Dali was really getting restless. This world was too fantastical. Even a fox spirit could give birth to a baby (⊙o⊙)…
[Ahem, Brother Hu, I haven't finished yet. You don't need to worry too much. Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. My father was too eager to arrange a marriage for me, so he got into trouble with others...]
Zhou Xiaoliang wiped his hands clean, and as soon as he walked out, he heard his master actually chatting about the past with Grandpa Hu, which was a rare occasion. He was quite surprised.
Even his master had very little to say to him. It seemed that he had drunk too much today.
He did not make any noise to disturb them, but sat quietly on the bench below the two of them, supporting his chin with one hand, acting as a competent spectator.
[My grandfather calculated before his death that I would have a fatal disaster around the age of 20. If I didn't survive it, the inheritance of our Zhou family would be completely destroyed. My father was present at the time. I don't know who gave him the idea to find me a wife to bring good luck. It was also a preparation for both situations. Either I could survive the fatal disaster by luck and live a peaceful life in the future, or I couldn't survive it and at least leave a descendant for the Zhou family...]
Zhou Xiaoliang: w(?Д?)w
Master has actually... also been urged to get married. It seems that the methods used to urge him to get married in recent years were quite gentle.
[Well, Brother Zhou, my mother also arranged my marriage. The older generation is always unreasonable. They force people to do something even if they don’t want to eat grass…]
Hu Dali suppressed his anxiety and listened to Zhou Xing patiently. When it came to marriage, he also had a lot of grievances but nowhere to vent.
[Ahem, if she was really a daughter from a good family, I would definitely treat her well after I marry her, but that family is full of evil things - digging graves, speculating in property...]
[Someone in their family heard that year that my Zhou family had some skills in Feng Shui, and they just wanted to use me to find the tomb and break the trap. As for their daughter who was going to marry me, she was just a temporary person who was brought in to act.]
[Master, didn’t you see that?! I don’t believe it.]
Zhou Xiaoliang couldn't help it.