Zhang Shixun had just stuffed a piece of luncheon meat into his mouth when he heard that this guy wanted to take the imperial examination. He almost choked and asked hurriedly, "What? You want to take the imperial examination?"
"In this era, only by rolling out your name outside Jinhua Gate can you become a high-ranking official and ride a good horse."
"A person who possesses a time machine must be a superior person no matter where you come from. You give up your good life and travel through thousands of years to ancient times just to become a high-ranking official and ride a good horse. Did you get kicked in the head by a donkey?" Zhang Shixun was both angry and amused. He really couldn't understand this guy's train of thought.
"How can a sparrow understand the ambition of a swan? Being a high official and riding a fine horse are just incidental things. I have many ambitions... Forget it, let's not talk about this for now. You won't understand even if I tell you. Let's eat! Eat!"
Zhang Shixun was unwilling to waste time talking to this guy who called himself "Honghu" and just lowered his head to eat.
Ansheng hadn't eaten for many days. During training, even when he was eating, Hei Wuchang would never leave his side, standing by and staring at him, unable to be driven away.
After they finished their meal, Wang Dong wiped his mouth with a tissue and reached out to pat his shoulder, but pulled his hand back halfway. "Let me be honest with you. We have a total of six robots. So far, you've seen three of them: Black, White Impermanence, and Flesh and Bones."
"Six, so many?" Zhang Shixun was a little surprised.
"Not much. To be honest, I even wanted to bring a whole robot army with me, but unfortunately, I couldn't." Wang Dong sighed regretfully, "These intelligent robots are too expensive."
Zhang Shixun asked, "How much does a robot like Hei Wuchang cost?"
"Need..." Wang Dong was about to say the price when he suddenly realized something. He looked at Zhang Shixun warily and sneered, "Zhang Shixun, don't try to trick me."
Zhang Shixun was surprised and said, "I was just asking for a price. What am I trying to trick you into doing?"
"Hmph! Don't treat me like a fool. You're trying to infer my background based on the price of the robot."
Zhang Shixun shrugged, "You're too sensitive. I didn't mean that."
Wang Dong stood up and said, "Let's go out. Gao Yanei has been asking you when you'll be back every day these days. It's really annoying me... Oh, I told you that you went to Hebei to look for your relatives. Don't say anything wrong when you see him."
"Haha! This guy must be very anxious to get the baby."
After the two got out of the shuttle, Zhang Shixun went straight back to his room and fell asleep. He had not had a good night's sleep in these days.
The next morning, after waking up, Zhang Shixun lay in bed for a while before slowly getting up. Without even washing his face, he went to the backyard to exercise.
Although Wang Dong's words and deeds are not very reliable, he is right. In this era, you cannot survive without a strong physique.
He first kicked his legs and bent his waist to stretch his muscles and bones, and then began to practice the martial arts routines taught by Hei Wuchang.
Although routines are just fancy moves that look good but are not practical, they are good for exercising the body.
After a few rounds of boxing, I was already sweating.
Just as he was about to continue practicing, he heard someone calling him from outside the flower wall.
Zhang Shixun walked over and looked out through the stained glass window. There was no one there. Just as he was wondering, Gao Yanei's face suddenly appeared on the stained glass wall, then disappeared, reappeared, and disappeared again...
"Gao Yanei, what are you doing?"
"Haha! Brother, you are finally back. I have been waiting for you for so long." Gao Yanei stood outside the wall and spoke in a low voice, as if he was afraid of disturbing Wang Dong.
"You're jumping around outside, where's the jumping monkey?" Zhang Shixun asked across the flower wall.
"I can't see inside unless I jump up. I'm almost dying of exhaustion." Gao Yanei panted, "I knocked on the door for a long time but no one answered, so I went around in circles and came to the back, haha!"
"What do you want to talk to me about?"
"It's okay, just came to see you."
Zhang Shixun laughed to himself and asked, "Are you just here to see me? Nothing else?"
"Hehe! To be honest, it was my dad who asked me to come find you."
"Oh! So it was General Gao who asked you to come to me. What advice do you have?"
It seems that this guy has told Gao Qiu about the Star in the Sky, and the old man can't wait any longer.
"We are on the other side of the wall, so it's not the right place for us to talk. Open the back door and let me in."
Zhang Shixun opened the small door of the back garden. As soon as the door was half open, Gao Yanei squeezed in impatiently, holding a large package in his hand.
"What is this?" Zhang Shixun pointed at the package.
"It's all food."
"Food?"
"I can't always eat for free here."
"You mean, you want to have dinner at my house?" Zhang Shixun's face suddenly fell.
"Yes." Gao Yanei stuffed the package into Zhang Shixun's hands. "Beef, mutton, spices, sesame oil, everything."
Zhang Shixun stopped him and said, "Wait, I don't think I invited you to dinner?"
"Why? Brother, you don't want me to eat at your place?" Gao Yanei asked back, "We are brothers, aren't we?"
Zhang Shixun quickly laughed. They became brothers now?
"Whether we're brothers or not is another matter, but even if we are, you can't just come to my place and eat and drink for free without even saying hello, right?"
Gao Yanei was shameless and argued: "Brothers, let alone eating, even if I moved my bedding roll over to stay for a few days, you shouldn't turn me away, right?"
"Okay, you win." Zhang Shixun shrugged. There was no way to reason with such a shameless person.
Gao Yanei patted Zhang Shixun on the shoulder and said, "Brother, the pancakes you make are great. I've been thinking about them since I ate them once."
Zhang Shixun ignored him and turned to walk towards the front yard.
Gao Yanei followed Zhang Shixun and said, "I came to see you because I really didn't treat you as an outsider. If it were someone else, I might not even go even if they invited me in a sedan chair carried by eight people."
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