"The Western world is also plagued by constant war. Nations fight one another one day, and religious wars are even more terrifying. They have lasted for hundreds of years and are still ongoing. The people there live in hopeless darkness. My family struggled to survive in this crack, and we were bullied and robbed many times. However, we killed anyone who did these things to us, haha!"
Gao Yanei said "good" with a look of respect.
"Although we were wandering far away, we never forgot our ancestors' teachings. We spoke Chinese, wrote Chinese characters, and never gave up our belief in returning to the Middle-earth. To raise enough money to return home, we engaged in business and farming, slowly accumulating some wealth. However, just as we had saved enough money and were preparing to return to our homeland, disaster struck. A barbaric army descended upon our area, burning, killing, looting, and committing all sorts of atrocities. Our family had no way to escape this disaster and suffered greatly. Only a dozen of us, our clansmen, escaped..."
"So, besides your brother and your cousin, where are the others?" Gao Yanei asked.
“All gone.”
Gao Yanei wanted to comfort him, but didn't know how.
"Don't you want to know how we got the Sky Star? Let me continue." Zhang Shixun looked up at the rooftop and said slowly, "We robbed bad guys along the way, and we stole the Sky Star from the pirates in Athens."
"And then?"
"We snatched the Sky Star and fled, with the pirates chasing us all the way. After enduring many hardships, a dozen of us finally reached the seaside and boarded a ship bound for the Song Dynasty. When we returned to the Song Dynasty, there were only two of us left..."
After saying this, Zhang Shixun felt very tired and finally completed the story of his life.
It is necessary to fabricate an identity, otherwise it will be very troublesome in the future. Who would use a person with an unknown history?
As for whether to believe it or not, that’s up to them.
Fortunately, Gao Yanei is still a fledgling. If it were Gao Qiu, that old fox, he might be able to see through the lie if he lied to him.
Gao Wu and Gao Liu came back, followed by two servants carrying food boxes and wine jars.
Gao Wu attentively placed the wine and meat on the bedside table, took out a piece of silver and said to Zhang Shixun, "This is the remaining silver, my lord..."
Zhang Shixun waved his hand and said, "Keep it. It's your hard-earned money."
"Thank you, sir!" The two of them hurriedly bowed.
"You guys go back and don't worry about me." Gao Yanei said.
The two men bowed and went out with the servant.
"Brother, now that things have passed, don't think about it anymore. Let's drink! Drink!" Gao Yanei picked up the wine pot and poured a bowl for Zhang Shixun.
Zhang Shixun didn't say anything. He picked up the chopsticks and started eating, and picked up the wine bowl and started drinking.
Seeing that Zhang Shixun didn't say anything, Gao Yanei thought that he was unhappy, so he tactfully stopped talking and just focused on eating and drinking.
Zhang Shixun ate very quickly. After finishing, he wiped his mouth and started to put on his clothes.
Gao Yanei saw this and quickly swallowed the food in his mouth and asked, "Brother, are you leaving now?"
"Well! It's getting late, it's time to go home." Zhang Shixun rolled up the bulletproof vest and held it in his hand.
Gao Yanei jumped up and got dressed together.
The two walked out of the bathroom together, and as soon as they went out, Gao Wu and Gao Liu came to meet them.
"Why haven't you two left yet?" Gao Yanei asked in surprise.
"He left and came back again." Gao Wu said in a muffled voice.
"Why are you limping? Did you get into a fight?"
"Return to the yanei. The palace commander saw that we didn't bring the yanei back, so he carried out military law. Each of us was given ten military sticks... Ouch! It hurts so much!"
"This..." Gao Yanei hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Did my father say anything else?"
"I heard it, the Palace Marshal said... the Palace Marshal said..." Gao Wu looked at Gao Yanei hesitantly, not daring to continue.
"Just tell me what you want to say. I can't hit you with a military stick anyway. At most I can kick you. What's there to be afraid of?"
"The commander said that since this bastard doesn't want to go home, he shouldn't come back. If he comes back, he will be beaten with twenty military sticks without mercy." Gao Wu said.
Hearing him say this, Gao Yanei unconsciously shrank his neck and stood there hesitant.
Zhang Shixun saw this and asked, "What's wrong? Is Yanei scared?"
Gao Yanei's face was filled with sorrow. He said, "My father's words are as good as his words. If he says twenty military sticks, it means twenty military sticks. I will definitely not be able to escape this beating."
"No way, you're still enforcing martial law at home?"
"Yes, military law is also enforced at home." Gao Yanei frowned.
Zhang Shixun asked curiously, "What does your military stick look like? Is it thick?"
Gao Yanei hesitated for a moment and said, "My family's military stick is a little different from the ones in the army."
"What's the difference?"
Gao Yanei glanced at Gao Wu and Gao Liu and said vaguely, "It's slightly thinner than the military sticks."
"How detailed?" Zhang Shixun became more curious when he saw that he was vague.
Gao Yanei stretched out his little finger to gesture, but did not say anything.
"What is that?"
"Yes...Brother, can I not tell you?"
Zhang Shixun shook his head and said, "You keep saying we are brothers, but you won't even tell me such a small matter. What kind of brothers are you?"
Upon hearing this, Gao Yanei had no choice but to answer honestly: "My family's military stick is actually... a feather duster."
"Ah!" Zhang Shixun was stunned at first, then he burst into laughter.
Gao Wu and Gao Liu looked at each other, turned their heads away, shrugged their shoulders, and tried hard not to laugh out loud.
Zhang Shixun glanced at Gao Wu and Gao Liu, and the two of them quickly clarified: "Sir, the military sticks we were hit with are different. They are real military sticks, the thickness of an egg."
"It's also very painful to hit the buttocks with a feather duster, no less than a real military stick." Gao Yanei said embarrassedly.
Zhang Shixun laughed for a while, patted Gao Yanei on the shoulder and said, "Brother, I really admire you."
Gao Yanei said, "I won't go back tonight. I'll go hide with my brother at your place for a few days and wait until my father calms down before going back."
Gao Liu panicked when he heard this, "Yanei, the Palace Marshal said that if we don't send Yanei home tonight, our crime will be even more serious."
Gao Yanei glared at them and said, "Whether you two are guilty or not is none of my business."
"Yanei, please." The two officials bowed and begged.
Zhang Shixun also advised: "Yanei, you can hide for a while, but you can't hide forever. You will have to go home eventually. It's just twenty 'military sticks'. You can get through it if you grit your teeth. Why make it difficult for these two brothers?"
Gao Wu and the other man nodded in unison.
Gao Yanei hesitated for a long time before nodding reluctantly: "Okay, I'll listen to you. I'll go home."
Zhang Shixun returned home and told Wang Dong everything that had happened. He then said, "If Gao Yanei comes again, I won't keep him in suspense anymore. I'll just trade those earrings for a position in the Tianwu Army. What do you think?"
"No problem." Wang Dong stood in front of the window, busy fiddling with his solar charger.
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