Chapter 5 Zhang Dadan
Chapter 5 Zhang Dadan
As Tan Wenjie expected, when Boss Tan knew that he was going to go on a blind date, he directly sent his favorite coachman Zhang Dabing over.
Sitting in the rocking carriage, Tan Wenjie and Zhang Dabing were chatting.
"Bold, are you married?"
Tan Wenjie's style is to get straight to the point, which has something to do with the preparations he made yesterday.
Speaking of his wife, Zhang Dabing smiled happily: "Mr. Tan, we just got married, and my wife is a great beauty in the surrounding villages."
"Really? Then I've been a bad guy." Tan Wenjie shook his head.
"How can I be a bad guy? This time I followed you to the provincial capital, and the round trip took three to five days, and Boss Tan gave me enough reward money." Zhang Dabing was very satisfied with his work. Other bosses were stingy with rewards, but Boss Tan was different. He directly gave me double the money.
The Tan family tradition, add money!
"You just got married and you should be at home hugging your beautiful wife, but I'm asking you to come out with me, leaving your wife alone. If I'm not a villain, what am I?"
"Hey! Master Tan, what you said is wrong. Boss Tan gave me a good job that pays well and is not tiring. Now I can help you, and it is my... honor! Yes, an honor!" Zhang Dabing quibbled with his words.
Tan Wenjie had known Zhang Dabing before. He was a very proud man and loved to brag, but he was not a bad person and was quite upright.
"That's good of you to think so. I'll treat you to a meal when we get to the provincial capital." Tan Wenjie said with a smile.
"Master Tan, that's so embarrassing, hahahaha."
"By the way, Daring, did you just move here?"
"Yes, isn't it like this these days? If you don't have enough food to eat, you'll go wherever you can feed yourself. My hometown, Majia Town, is about a few dozen miles away from here."
In this era where people travel by legs and communicate by mouth, a few dozen miles is already considered a long way.
Tan Wenjie also sent people to investigate, but no news could be found about people like Jiu Shu, Simu, Qianhe, etc. in a short period of time. Their fame only spread within a radius of thirty or forty miles, which is a distance that can be reached within one or two days by walking or riding a bicycle.
Moreover, in this era, there are countless people in the village who can use Minmao magic. There are one or two such people in every village. They will just go to other people's territory to steal business and be hated by others.
Besides, corpse-drivers are a group of wanderers who do the dirtiest, most tiring and most despised job. They have no fixed place to live and live with corpses. Everyone respectfully calls them "Master", "Master" or "Mage", but in fact no one wants to have any contact with them for fear of bad luck.
It takes time to find them.
The carriage was bumpy as the two chatted about all sorts of things. Zhang Dabing's favorite topic was how brave he was and how he was not afraid of ghosts.
"You are really amazing." Tan Wenjie exclaimed sincerely.
Ever since he knew he was living in a world with ghosts, he couldn't sleep well at night and felt goosebumps all over his body just thinking about it.
That's why he wanted to learn magic, and also because he wanted to be able to sleep peacefully.
The saying that a person with a clear conscience has nothing to fear, and that a person who is upright has nothing to fear from his own shadow, or that a person who is upright has nothing to fear from ghosts knocking on the door at night, is pure nonsense. If a ghost really comes close to you, would you be afraid?
The easiest way to not be afraid is to beat them.
If ghosts are afraid of me, then I don't have to be afraid of them.
With Tan Wenjie's nod of praise, Zhang Dabing's smile became even more proud, and he was even more excited when talking about his previous experience of testing his courage.
"Have you ever encountered a ghost?" Tan Wenjie glanced at the sky. It was noon and the sun was high in the sky, so this topic should be worth talking about.
"Uh, not yet." Zhang Dabing shook his head, and then said very confidently, "It's okay even if I encounter a ghost."
I don’t know if Zhang Dadan is very brave, but he must be very tough.
After driving for a while, we saw a teahouse on the roadside ahead. "Don't be afraid, stop and have some tea and rest for a while."
"I understand, Master Tan." Zhang Dabing nodded.
After parking the carriage, Zhang Dabing tied the horse first, then walked to the roadside teahouse, wiped the long bench with his sleeve, asked Tan Wenjie to sit down, and then sat down opposite him.
The tea doctor brought two large tea bowls and poured herbal tea.
Hua Laojiu, who was sitting at the next table, started his work worth three oceans after seeing Tan Wenjie and Zhang Dabing coming over.
"Do you know?" The two people opposite him were good friends who came out together. He just asked them to come over for tea, but he didn't know why.
"Know what?" The two answered subconsciously.
"Do you know which job's wife is most likely to cheat on you?" Hua Laojiu chuckled.
"Tell me quickly!" The two men immediately became interested.
Even Zhang Dabing pricked up his ears after taking a sip of tea.
When I go out, my favorite thing to do is eat melons.
"Ahem, of course it's the coachman. Just think about it, a coachman drives the carriage around every day, goes out during the day and comes home at night, and sometimes doesn't even come home at night. What do you think his wife does when she's idle at home?"
"Is there such a saying?" The other two did not believe it, because there are many jobs that require going out during the day and returning home at night.
"Not only that, there is a carriage driver in our Tanjia Town. He just married a wife to be a coachman. He goes out during the day and his wife cheats on him at home. All the neighbors know about it, but this fool doesn't know."
As he was speaking, Zhang Dabing laughed and interrupted, "This idiot is too stupid, do you recognize him?"
Hua Laojiu laughed awkwardly: "How dare you! I can't tell you even if I know the answer, right? But if you ask me, ignorance is bliss."
Zhang Dabing was still smiling, but the look in Hua Laojiu's eyes made him feel a little uncomfortable, especially since he had just married a wife who worked as a rickshaw driver. The more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. Besides himself, was there another newly married rickshaw driver in Tanjia Town?
He felt that Hua Laojiu had a hidden meaning.
But when he thought about the fact that he still had to send Tan Wenjie to the provincial capital, Zhang Dabing began to murmur in his heart. People have a sense of luck, and those who are stubborn have an even stronger sense of luck.
But when Zhang Dabing saw Hua Laojiu secretly pointing at him and whispering with the two people next to him, the suspicion in his heart grew like a bud.
"Bold, are you okay?" Tan Wenjie asked.
"It's okay." Zhang Dabing lowered his head and drank tea.
"I'm glad you're okay." Tan Wenjie nodded without saying anything.
He was waiting. If Zhang Dabing took the initiative to speak, he would be more calm. If Zhang Dabing did not take the initiative to speak, he would have to act like a good nephew who sold out his uncle.
Hua Laojiu is quite good at dealing with human nature. Although he didn't say much, his little expressions and movements, and the way he whispered, would make Tan Wenjie think that the cuckold whose wife had an affair was Zhang Dadan, even if he didn't know about it.
His acting ability is amazing, he is truly a talent. No wonder he was able to trick Zhang Dabing into his death twice.
"Master Tan, I suddenly remembered that there is something going on at home." Zhang Dabing said suddenly.
Okay, you finally spoke.
"It's okay, you go back first," Tan Wenjie said indifferently, "I can find someone else to take me to the provincial capital."
"Thank you, Master Tan!" Zhang Dabing was overjoyed. He bowed to Tan Wenjie, then stood up and ran back. They had only walked a dozen miles out of the door and could run back quickly on foot.
Looking at the other person's leaving figure, Tan Wenjie said in his heart: Don't let me down, Zhang Dadan.
(End of this chapter)