Chapter 26 Unexpected Request

Chapter 26 Unexpected Request

Chapter 26 Unexpected Request

The last time they passed by Yangtou Mountain, Li Hu and others could only provide simple meals and even no alcohol.

This time when Zhu Shenzhui returned, he specially brought some food and drinks with him, and of course he wanted to have a few drinks.

Drinking wine and eating food, several people started chatting enthusiastically.

Zhu Shencui's kindness to Li Hu and others made them extremely grateful, and Li Hu and others also admired Zhu Shencui's magnanimity and loyalty. After three rounds of drinking, the two sides became even more intimate after the cups were connected.

While drinking, Zhu Shenzui once again instructed Li Hu and others on what they needed to do next in Yangtou Mountain, including the things that needed to be paid attention to when using Yangtou Mountain as a base for future salt transportation.

Li Hu and others had never done this before. After listening to Zhu Shenzui's detailed explanation, including some details and things to pay attention to, they could be said to have suddenly understood and nodded repeatedly.

Not only that, Zhu Shenzhui also put forward many insights on some other arrangements, especially on how to open up the situation in the future. What Zhu Shenzhui said was easy to understand and well-reasoned. Even Li Hu and others who had not read much could understand it and admired Zhu Shenzhui very much.

Zhu Shenzhu also described a bright future for them. As long as they develop slowly according to his ideas, it might not be long before Yangtou Mountain will not only be self-sufficient, but also become better. By then, everyone's life will not be like now, with one meal a day and one meal a day. In the future, everyone in Yangtou Mountain will have food to eat, clothes to wear, and they can cut some meat from time to time to eat something, marry a wife and have a few children. Good days are still to come.

Ordinary people are very simple and honest. Their life is nothing more than a warm bed with a wife and children, enough food to eat and warm clothes to wear. Listening to Zhu Shenzhu's description of a bright future, Li Hu and his companions' eyes lit up and they couldn't help but feel happy.

Zhu Shenzhui's alcohol tolerance is very good, which is the same as before he came to this era. When he was working before, Zhu Shenzhui could drink two kilograms of Maotai tea with his boss without getting drunk. No one in the unit could match this ability.

Distilled liquor already existed in the Ming Dynasty. Shanxi, as the birthplace of Fenjiu, was naturally one of the earliest places to produce liquor. However, the alcohol content of liquor at that time was not high, and few people would drink this kind of strong liquor. They usually drank homemade liquor.

The so-called home-brewed wine is generally yellow wine and rice wine. The former is much more expensive, while rice wine is much cheaper. Most ordinary people drink the latter.

This time when he returned to Yangtou Mountain, Zhu Shenzhui specially brought a few jars of wine for Li Hu and his friends, and opened one jar today. This jar weighed about ten kilograms, and several people had already finished half of it, which meant that they had drunk an average of one kilogram.

This amount is nothing to Zhu Shenzhui, let alone a pound. If he drinks this jar slowly, finishing it all in one night will only mean he can sleep a little longer.

However, Li Hu and the others could not drink as much as him, and although rice wine did not have a high alcohol content, it was quite strong. Li Hu was slightly better, but Lu Yisheng and Hu Lin were already drunk and their words were incoherent. They kept toasting Zhu Shenzhui to express their admiration.

Zhu Shenzhui accepted all the drinks and drank till the last drop. After another round of drinking, the two could no longer hold on. They shook their heads and were about to get more drinks when Lu Yisheng suddenly fell on the table and passed out drunk. As for Hu Lin, he was even worse. He slipped under the table and fell asleep in the blink of an eye.

"Sixth...Sixth Master...The one I admire the most in my life is you...people like you who are capable...I am a rough...rough person...I don't...I don't know how to say anything, but my meaning...my meaning is all in the wine...I...I toast to you again, Sixth Master..."

Li Hu, with his tongue sticking out and his face flushed, picked up the bowl in front of him and forced himself to stand up. He was already shaky, and his hand holding the wine was shaking, so a lot of the wine in the bowl spilled out.

"Tiger, I appreciate your kindness. Drink slowly..."

"No... I can't drink slowly... I... I want to toast you... I'll... drink it!" Li Hu said, and tilted his head back to drink the wine in his hand. After finishing it, he showed the bottom of the bowl to Zhu Shenzhui, grinned, and when he was about to say something, he suddenly fell backwards.

Fortunately, Zhu Shenzhui and Zhang Xijun, who was not drunk, quickly grabbed Li Hu and prevented him from falling to the ground. But even so, Li Hu was drunk like his two brothers and snored. He quickly called Li You to help Li Hu and the other two lie down in the back. After settling them down, Zhu Shenzhui finally breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at the three people sleeping soundly, he really didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Three of them lay down before they finished drinking the wine. How could Zhu Shenzhui and Zhang Xijun drink the wine? Forget it, let's stop here today. Standing up, Zhu Shenzhui asked Li You to take care of the three of them first, and then he left the main hall after saying that he would go out to change his clothes.

When he got outside and found a deserted place, Zhu Shenzhui untied his belt and watered the flowers and plants with fertilizer. Although the wine was nothing to him, drinking too much would put a heavy burden on his body. After solving this problem, he suddenly felt much more relaxed, and the mountain breeze at night blew away the slight drunkenness he had just felt.

After fastening his trousers, Zhu Shenzhui returned to the main hall, but before he reached the main hall, a voice came from the darkness in the corner outside.

"Sixth Master!"

Turning his head, he saw Zhang Xijun standing by the wall outside the hall. It was dark outside and there were no stars tonight. Although he was not drunk, his reaction was not as alert as when he was not drunk. If Zhang Xijun had not called him, Zhu Shenzhui would not have noticed.

"Master Zhang, why did you come out?"

"It's stuffy in there, come out to get rid of the smell of alcohol." Zhang Xijun replied, pointing to the main hall.

Zhu Shenzhui nodded at him and said that it was windy outside and it was better not to be exposed to the wind after drinking. Just as he was about to continue walking into the hall, Zhang Xijun suddenly called out to him, "Sixth Master, can you please talk to me for a moment?"

Zhu Shenzhui was slightly stunned, and turned his head to look at Zhang Xijun again. He could not see the expression on Zhang Xijun's face in the darkness, but he could hear the earnestness in Zhang Xijun's words just now.

Zhu Shencui thought for a moment, stopped and walked towards Zhang Xijun. Zhang Xijun thanked him and then took Zhu Shencui around the outside of the hall. After a while, they arrived at a place behind the hall.

Although this was the second time they met Zhang Xijun, compared with Li Hu and the others, Zhu Shenzhui and Zhang Xijun didn't even say a few words to each other.

Except for the first time Li Hu introduced Zhang Xijun, Zhang Xijun seemed like a transparent person in Li Hu's team and never spoke actively. Even when they were drinking together earlier, Zhang Xijun was silent. Apart from accompanying Zhu Shenzhui to drink a few bowls of wine, he was just a guest.

Zhu Shenzhu was also somewhat curious about Zhang Xijun. After all, Zhang Xijun was a scholar. How could a scholar hang out with Li Hu and his gang, and even go to Yangtou Mountain? What was even more surprising was that Zhang Xijun's status in Li Hu's gang was also very special. Although he was not Li Hu's sworn brother, he was considered the top figure in Yangtou Mountain. To use the words of the underworld, his status was higher than Lu Yisheng and Hu Lin, and he could barely be considered the second in command.

Then they went to the back and Zhang Xijun found two flat stones for Zhu Shenzhui to sit on. Zhu Shenzhui didn't care and sat down directly.

Zhu Shenzhui was not only curious about Zhang Xijun, but also curious about what he wanted to talk to him about. As for the rest, Zhu Shenzhui didn't think much about it. In his eyes, Zhang Xijun was just a scholar who couldn't even fight a chicken. He didn't know any martial arts. When he robbed the road, even though Zhang Xijun was holding a knife, Zhu Shenzhui could tell at a glance that he was just a show-off. With the knife in his hand, he couldn't even kill a chicken, let alone chop people.

Zhu Shenzhui was very capable and could easily deal with two or three people like Zhang Xijun, so he was not worried at all that Zhang Xijun would do anything to harm him.

After sitting down steadily, Zhu Shenzhui asked Zhang Xijun what he wanted to talk to him about.

Who would have thought that Zhang Xijun's first words surprised Zhu Shenzhui, because Zhang Xijun didn't beat around the bush at all and told Zhu Shenzhui directly that he didn't want to stay in Yangtou Mountain and planned to follow Zhu Shenzhui.

(End of this chapter)