Chapter 79: The Dog Dies Without a Burial Place
"The black dragon climbs up the wall, covered with thousands of golden stars."
"This is a steelyard."
"The bright moon rests halfway on the clouds, and two withered flowers fall before the horse's hooves."
“This is the character for bear.”
"Two rows of distant trees stand on the side of the mountain, and a small boat floats on the water."
“This is the word ‘wisdom’.”
…
The lantern riddle guessing game continued, and Zhao Huan never imagined that Zhu Lian was actually an expert at it.
"Sir, sir," the boss said, pressing a small piece of silver into Zhao Huan's hand with a fawning look on his face. "Please take care of your wife. I'm running a small business, and if I keep going like this, I'll be bankrupt. The night has just begun, and if I pack up and go home like this, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep for days. Please, please."
Zhao Huan calmly put the change into his sleeve, thinking it was the income from his own labor.
"Lian'er, Lian'er, that's enough. I can't take any more."
Zhu Lian turned around and saw the boss with a fawning smile on his face. He rolled his eyes, snorted coldly, then pulled Zhao Huan's arm and left.
"Lian'er, you really are a killer! How did this boss offend you?"
Zhu Lian playfully stuck out her tongue before saying, "That boss is a bully. Just now, a seven or eight-year-old child guessed the lantern riddle correctly, but the boss cheated and refused to give him a lantern."
"I see, Lian'er still has a strong sense of justice. I'll give you a kiss as a reward."
"You're so unruly!" Zhu Lian pushed away Zhao Huan's head.
"Let's go to the river and release lanterns. It would be cool to release so many lanterns at once."
"Well, evildoers will be punished by evildoers."
Zhu Lian looked at Zhao Huan and said, "Oh, oh, oh, you actually called me a bad person. I don't want to play with you anymore. I want to go back to Bianjing Palace."
Even though he knew that Zhu Lian was just joking, Zhao Huan still pulled Zhu Lian to look behind him, otherwise it would be difficult to explain what was going on.
Next to the stall where those who guessed the riddles were given lanterns, a tall and strong man was pressing the owner to the ground and rubbing him violently.
"Damn it, you don't want to live anymore! You dare to bully my son? Why don't you ask around and see who is not giving face to me, Butcher Zheng, in this area?"
“Ah—ah—”
"Please spare my life, my dear. Please stop hitting me. I was wrong. Here are the lanterns for you. Take whichever one you want."
"Let's go, son."
The butcher took the little boy away happily, and a large number of lanterns were missing from the stall.
I guess this boss won’t be able to get into bed at home for the next few days.
“Hahahaha! You deserve it!”
"Lian'er, let me ask you a question."
“Yeah!”
"Just now you all said that the boss bullies the weak and fears the strong. I want to ask, do you prefer the soft side or the hard side?"
Seeing the playful look on Zhao Huan's face, Zhu Lian stomped his feet and ran forward.
Zhao Huan took a few quick steps to catch up with Zhu Lian and soon found another interesting place.
Brothels and theaters.
I have nothing to do today, so I go to the brothel to listen to music.
During the Lantern Festival, the brothels and theaters were also very lively, especially on a large stage where there was a storyteller, who aroused unanimous applause from the people around him.
The two of them squeezed in quickly, only to hear that the storyteller was not taking the usual route, but was actually driving.
A brain-teaser kind of car.
Moreover, he has grasped the essence of the clickbait and has the ability of a keyboard warrior.
An old man over fifty years old,
A fruitful vineyard,
The erratic cry for help in the middle of the night,
The vague ghost in the water,
Why did the vineyard become wasteland overnight?
Who made the old man collapse instantly?
What do the two water ghosts want to do?
All the answers can be found in today’s Lao Wang Story Collection.
Not to mention the people of the Song Dynasty, even Zhao Huan's curiosity was aroused and he couldn't help but listen. It was just like an old sow screaming in the middle of the night.
This is a story that happened in Luoyang City. It is said that during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, there was an old man on the banks of the Wei River who planted a vineyard by the river. Due to his good skills, he massaged the grapes every day and irrigated them carefully. The grapes grew very well, and each one turned from pink to black and was surprisingly large.
If a storyteller doesn't talk about obscene things, he will eventually lose interest. This old storyteller understood the essence of this very well and spoke vaguely on purpose, causing the audience to laugh knowingly.
The old man's grapes ripened day by day, so he built a shed in the vineyard. These were all his treasures, and he would sell them for money, so he had to take good care of them.
One day, the old man was enjoying the cool under the grape trellis by the river at night when he encountered an evil thing: someone was actually talking in the river.
Peeping and the like were no big deal to the old man. He just heard two water ghosts in the river whispering to each other, wanting to drag a scholar who passed by here every day into the water and drown him to serve the pleasure of the goddess in the water.
Although the old man was yellow, he was still very kind-hearted. When the young scholar passed by the river the next day, he fell into the water for some reason. The bridge was obviously three meters wide, but the scholar rolled all the way into the water as if he was possessed by an evil spirit.
The old man was even more convinced that what he heard last night was true. While the young scholar was still struggling, he pulled the young man up with all his strength...
There is a price to pay for all the troubles. The young man survived, but the old man was haunted by a water ghost because he saved the young man.
The old guy is useless, and the Empress doesn't like him either. But she won't be happy if she doesn't take revenge, so she harasses the old man every day. The old man can't sleep at night, and soon he has dark circles under his eyes.
A few days later, a kind-hearted Taoist priest passed by the Wei River. Moved by the old man's kindness, he offered to help the old man trap the two water ghosts and warned the old man.
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