Mantra

Chapter 43 Zombie Ship

After the old man with white beard Lei Ren stood up suddenly, we were shocked to find that this guy didn't have any leg problems!

Not only was he not crippled, but he walked happily with his hands behind his back.

After the old man Lei walked around the wheelchair for a few times, he smiled at me and said, "Don't misunderstand that the reason why I am sitting in a wheelchair...is that I am too lazy to move...I am so happy to see the disciples of the Zhao family here today." !"

Hehe, do you just make a wheelchair if you are too lazy to move?I don't think it's that simple.But he didn't bother to move, and I didn't bother to ask, I wanted to see what he was singing.

After exercising his muscles and bones, old man Lei sat down again while talking, smiling to himself, but it made us look at each other.

To be honest, I think he looks weird, what kind of wheelchair is he not sick?Do you think you are Zhuge Liang?And he never left my body while his eyes wandered, which made me feel very uncomfortable.

I suddenly felt that he seemed to be planning something on me...

Faced with this special situation, I didn't know how to deal with it, so I could only smile and say something to him.

I told him that my master's surname is indeed Zhao, but not Zhao Qingshan. As for the Dou Cai... Niu Hun, I have never heard of it, and I don't know the deeds he said about winning glory for the country and so on.

After saying this, old man Lei had a look of disappointment on his face.

His face darkened again.Comrade Wangcai next to him was even more excited, and rushed to ask on behalf of his master: "You are talking nonsense, will the descendants of the Zhao family not know Zhao Qingshan?"

This question made me completely dumbfounded.

My master’s name is Zhao Haipeng, not Zhao Qingshan, and the old squad leader only told me in the army that he has an older brother named Zhao Haikun. It seems that the old squad leader once said that his father’s name is... Zhao Deguang.

It's the first time I've heard of this Confucius Temple senior named Zhao Qingshan.

"Could it be that he recognized the wrong door?" I muttered in my heart.

But even though I think so, I can't let the scene continue to be cold, otherwise this old fox-like thing will get upset and think I framed him, and then pull out the dozen or so disciples and grandchildren to sing for me, Not suitable either.

So, I bit the bullet and continued to respond: "...However, my master is also very good. His ancestors were imperial cooks, and there are also kitchen knives given by the emperor..."

Before I finished speaking, the old man Lei suddenly turned from suspicion to laughter.

"That's right! It's him!" He slapped the table with his hands and shouted suddenly, as excited as if he caught a long worm from my words.

... Who is it?I don't seem to have said anything to anyone!

I don't know why, anyway, the old man Lei Renlei didn't have any doubts about my identity anymore, he still shook his body, and said to me:

"It's normal if you don't know! It must be, it's the 'grievance and resentment' of the previous generation in our Wu Zang Temple. Young people like you naturally don't understand the swords, lights, swords and shadows of those years, and the love between children!"

In Lei Ren's words, it was obvious that he was criticizing me for being "short-sighted", but when things got to this point, I could only listen with a smile on my face when he said it.

Who makes people live older than me, and they are likely to die earlier than me in the future...

Seeing my "submissive" attitude, Lei Ren immediately turned to be an old man. He called me one by one, and asked me to fill him with wine and food after the dishes were served. He didn't treat me as an outsider at all. ah!

But even so, I can bear it, whoever let us eat is the "free food" given by others.What I drank was a "toast" that didn't cost money.

Moreover, although Lei Ren said that he would order a few dishes casually, but the people who greeted us were all real guys who paid for it.

Based on this, I also endured.

Regarding the two dishes he served "casually", I was also quite convinced, because I only took a cursory glance, and my eyeballs almost fell out of shock.

why?Because I was served two "first dishes" in Cantonese cuisine, "eel (substitute snake) dragon and tiger fight" and "unicorn chicken feet perch"!
Just these two dishes, I don’t need to go into details about the ingredients used in them. I just talk about the moral selection of the ingredients, and I’ve thrown away those "private school" cooks for several blocks.

Although there are only two dishes, there are all kinds of birds and beasts, dragons, tigers and phoenixes. It looks like a golden light, full of tiger spirit, and everyone's ostentation, which makes people salivate.

To be honest, I feel that seeing such two big dishes in this small service station restaurant is a bit extravagant.

In my opinion, they should be praised in special class hotels, so that they really match the taste!

I also sincerely sigh in my heart, the craftsmanship of this Wuling Temple is really extraordinary!

With such two dishes, although we can only stick to our chopsticks because of the "free food Gu", we are still satisfied!Naturally, I can only sell face to Lei Ren.And if I make him happy, I have nothing to lose.

In this way, when Lei Ren sang and I drank, the two of them stretched out one piece, respectful and respectful, and they cooperated quite tacitly. After drinking for three rounds, the old man's chatterbox opened up, and he talked with a smile on his face. He told the origin of his father's generation and the Zhao family.

Lei Ren said that his own father was Lei A Niu, a Cantonese, and his main life trajectory was in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.

Lei A Niu has no culture, but he is very capable of making troubles. He has been wandering around since he was 13 years old. He has been to Nanyang and Taiwan, but he failed to make a name for himself. Once when he crossed the Strait, he met There was a typhoon, and the whole boat was shattered. One person was holding on to the driftwood and drifting with the current.

In this way, he drifted away for three days and three nights before being salvaged from Zhoushan. He was swollen from the bubbles at that time, but he managed to save his life.

Lei A Niu narrowly escaped death. After landing in Zhejiang, he was penniless and unable to return to Guangzhou, so he wandered between Hangzhou, Jiande, and Fuyang. Suddenly, he saw a notice of "requesting a husband" on the riverside.

This Lei A Niu can't read, but he has been around a lot, and he has seen a lot of "employment certificates" for labor, so he knows the meaning and content of the word "recruiting a husband", and knows that this is an opportunity to make money by labor.

So, relying on other people's advice, he came to Zhenghu's employer.

After Lei Aniu found the unit, he discovered that it was a terminal company that handles domestic water transport.

A Niu and the wharf found out after inquiring that the wharf had just received a new batch of rice deliveries from the inland tanks, and they were going to send five shipments of aged glutinous rice to Beiping along the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. " notice.

At that time, Lei A Niu really couldn't get along anymore, so he accepted the contract without even thinking about it. After ordering a dime and the contract from the company, he hurriedly ate a full meal and set off with the boat.

However, when Lei A Niu actually boarded this tank boat, he gradually regretted accepting this "husband conquest".

This is not his fault, because as time went by, Cowboy felt more and more that these tank boats were very weird.

They don't seem to be transporting rice, but more like... transporting some kind of ulterior "dirty stuff".

The reason why Lei A Niu had such an idea was gradually discovered.

First of all, Ah Niu discovered that the containers for storing glutinous rice are very special. The containers for storing glutinous rice are not cloth bags or rice bins, but sea tanks with sealing mud to seal the rice.

That's weird.

When Ah Niu traveled across the Taiwan Strait before, he also followed a ship that used rice ballast.

In his memory, it seems that all the rice is packed in sacks. Sometimes foreign foreign rice is packaged more delicately, but most of them are sealed with wax-dyed kraft paper bags...

This is the first time he has seen this method of transporting rice in sea tanks.

This is not a big deal, but when the water transport followed on the second day, Lei A Niu also accidentally discovered that the hands of the pair of water gang boats, from the top of the stick to the bottom of the bow, were all wearing "mandarin duck horns" on their chests. The cinnabar yellow talisman.

On this point, Leia Niu couldn't figure it out even more.

He knew that boat runners were superstitious, and it had been like this since ancient times. Whether they were canal runners or sea runners, when they were monks, they would inevitably find some amulets and enshrine Mazu statues, but there was no one with a yellow talisman.

Because the yellow talisman melts in water, it would be a waste of money to ask for it to be worn on the "wave-wearing man" who lives with water every day.

This is basic common sense. Ah Niu doesn't understand, what's the matter with those who are in charge, but each of them has a yellow talisman...

With these questions, Lei Niu became more and more uneasy, and when he crossed the Yangtze River, his uneasy mood reached the extreme.

Because Lei A Niu accidentally discovered that there are several backbone characters with "box cannons" and copper coin swords stuck in their waists.

This discovery completely frightened Leia Niu.

He can actually understand the box cannon. Water transport must be different from sea transport. There are no international conventions and foreign warships. Water transport is less safe. There are often pirates and thieves.But this copper coin sword is...

In Lei Aniu's mind, only Taoist priests would carry this kind of guy style.

Therefore, Lei A Niu naturally thought that the true identities of these people who transported heavy rice should be Taoist priests, and the worst ones are people who know heresy...

Such a conclusion immediately made Ah Niu feel anxious and restless.

A Niu must have come out to play since he was a child, and he will naturally understand more as time goes by.He had heard some friends who knew the way very early on. Glutinous rice, sea jars, yellow talismans and copper coin swords are all things that suppress zombies, ghosts and other evil things.

In other words, the things stored in those sea tanks are probably not sunken rice, but "packaged" "zongzi"!
When Lei A Niu thought of this, his mind exploded, and only one thought came to him in a trance-sneak!
He would rather not make money than transport these things, and he would die in a hurry.

But helplessly, when Ah Niu really wanted to escape, he found that he was under the surveillance of the big brother of the Cao Gang, the pressure boat, and he couldn't escape at all.

At the right time, Lei A Niu found out that people from the Cao Gang took turns to stand guard, seeming to be supervising their every move of these conscripts all the time, as if they had already thought that some of them would slip away!

Certainly, the box cannons in the waists of the "stick head" and "bow" of the boat are not just for fun. Whoever runs away has to weigh them when they are pressed by them.

In this way, A Niu was doing the work of recruiting husbands in fear, like a bird of fright along the way.

The only thing he is looking forward to is the blessing of the Queen of Heaven, so that he can escape successfully, or let him get through this difficulty safely.

But people are often afraid of what will happen. When the boat sailed to the border of Jining, Shandong, something happened to the boat.

(End of this chapter)