"There's a park here, where we can park our sedan chairs and set up tents!"
A group of people walked towards where Wang Xiaohai and Lin Cun were. There were many dark shadows, and the sides of their shoes made a slight friction sound against the dogtail grass.
Under the moonlight, two men lifted the curtain and walked down from the wooden sedan.
The servants who carried and followed the sedan chair took out wooden strips and iron nails and hammered around in the park. Soon, a simple shed was built. The bed board was half a meter above the ground and was covered with a layer of bamboo mats by the servants. Two meters above it was another layer of bed board, but there was no bamboo mat. Instead, a layer of oilcloth was covered to prevent night rain.
"I seem to know these two men." Wang Xiaohai was lying on a flat white stone on the rockery, glancing down.
"Are they fellow travelers?" Lincun called all the gods who entered the Zhou Kingdom to participate in the marriage recruitment fellow travelers.
"No, it was when we were having dinner at the last pub, and the two of them were sitting nearby." Wang Xiaohai's voice was very low, but Lin Cun still heard it clearly.
"Your memory is still so good after becoming a mortal. Can you remember the appearance of every person you come into contact with?" Lin Cun was a little surprised. He wanted to recall everyone he had met, but he would feel sleepy if he thought too long. It was as if there were mosquitoes buzzing around his head.
"I think they both have a unique temperament," Wang Xiaohai said, "so I remembered their appearance right away."
Two tents had been set up below, and two men of extraordinary temperament lay down to rest. They lit several plates of mugwort beside their wooden beds to repel mosquitoes.
"Look at their demeanor and attire. They're definitely not ordinary people. Perhaps they're high-ranking officials," said Lincun Zhenshen. "Let's go over and ask them. Perhaps we can get an introduction from them. We can even kill them and disguise ourselves as them."
"I don't think it's advisable to kill too many people. After all, the Divine Emperor is recruiting a son-in-law. No one knows what kind of scoring criteria he has set for his string computer. Perhaps killing people all the time will lower his score, because he doesn't want a son-in-law who is cruel and vicious." Wang Xiaohai stopped Lin Cun from killing two people instead. "Let's go ask them first. If they really don't agree, we can lock them up in the basement and hire someone to take care of their three meals a day. We're only here for fifteen days anyway."
"You're right. Although my method may be less troublesome, it is very likely to result in points being deducted." Lincun said as he jumped off the rockery and walked towards the two men.
There was no choice but Wang Xiaohai jumped behind him. He was afraid that Lin Cun and the two men would have a disagreement and start fighting and kill them.
The two people lying on the bamboo mat heard the noise, sat up halfway, and stared at the two people vigilantly.
"Hello, we have something to discuss." Wang Xiaohai saw two servants blocking his way and shouted to the two elegant men behind him.
"Let two people come over." A tall man with his upper body naked said to the servants. His body was muscular and as hard as steel. He was not worried at all that Wang Xiaohai and Lin Cun would make trouble.
"Did you hear me? Make way!" Lincun shouted to the person blocking the way.
"Li Wu, do you think the person walking towards us looks familiar?" said another thin man sitting on a bamboo mat. He looked like a scholar.
"Zeng Bowen, did you see it wrong?" The tall man Li Wu said as he jumped down from the bamboo bed and stood firmly on the ground. The night wind blew, but he remained motionless, with the demeanor of a master - "Ah!" His nose caught a cold, and the master's artistic conception disappeared in an instant!
"I remember that this young man was the one who smashed the table in the pub!" Zeng Bowen remembered.
"It's him!" Li Wu remembered after hearing Zeng Bowen's words, "This guy has good kung fu. I wanted to find him to spar with him at that time, but unfortunately he disappeared!"
Zeng Bowen and Li Wu walked towards Wang Xiaohai and Lin Cun at the same time and stopped one meter in front of them.
"What's the matter?" Li Wuxian asked.
"We're looking for a job in the palace, anything," Lincun said. "I think you two are from the palace."
"You have good taste. Do you know who we are?" Li Wu said, "I am this year's top scorer in martial arts, and Zeng Bowen is the top scorer in literature."
"So you're the two top scholars! My apologies!" Wang Xiaohai said, "Would you like to sit down and talk? Give me a few jugs of fine wine." He tossed a few taels of silver to the servants behind him and said, "Go buy four jugs of fine wine. The rest of the money is yours."
The servant who received the silver did not leave immediately as Wang Xiaohai said, but looked at his master nervously. Only after seeing Li Wu nod did he leave happily.
The four of them sat down beside Li Wu's bamboo bed.
"The capital has been in turmoil lately," Zeng Bowen said. He believed it was extremely difficult to recommend someone of unknown origin to the palace. "Li Wu and I both had our residences burned down, forcing us to stay in the park."
Wang Xiaohai and Lin Cun felt depressed. Did they have to use the second option? They had to knock the two men unconscious and lock them in the basement, then disguise themselves as them and sneak into the palace. But this was a bad idea!
"We two can't do it, but Zhou Shuyi might be able to do it." Li Wu suddenly said, "But I will only take you to see her if you two do one thing."
"Brother Wu..." Zeng Bowen hesitated to speak. He felt that it was not a good idea to bring people with him so easily, but it was not easy to bring it up in front of Wang Xiaohai and the others, as this would be tantamount to not giving face to Wang Xiaohai and Lin Cun.
"What do you want to do?" Wang Xiaohai asked, "We can't do anything that is too troublesome and difficult. What do you think?" If he were asked to help find someone or send items abroad, he would not be able to do it because it would probably take more than fifteen days. No, now it was only thirteen and a half days.
"It may be a little difficult." The martial arts champion Li Wu said, "That is, we have to use bare hands. One of you just needs to last ten moves from me!" Although he mentioned two people, he kept looking at Wang Xiaohai. He was a martial arts fanatic, and after seeing Wang Xiaohai throw the table, he always wanted to compete with Wang Xiaohai.
Wang Xiaohai and Lin Cun both looked at each other in surprise.
"You two don't need to be surprised or scared. I will show mercy and won't really take your lives." Li Wu thought that Wang Xiaohai and Lin Cun were scared, so he comforted them.
"No, we were thinking, if we knock you down, would you still take us to find Zhou Shuyi?" Lin Cun explained.
"What!" Li Wu jumped up from the bamboo bed and roared, "If either of you can knock me down, I'll take you there tonight and I won't sleep at all!" He couldn't believe that he, the Zhou Kingdom's top martial arts scholar, would let two strangers knock him down so easily? One of them looked only twenty years old at most!
"You said it!" Wang Xiaohai patted Lincun's shoulder, "Lincun, you go ahead. If you lose, I'll go ahead."
"You know I won't lose!" Lin Cun stood face to face with Li Wu with a wry smile.
Li Wu screamed strangely, grabbed Lincun, and then -
He fell to the ground, smelling the fragrance of soil and grass, and didn't get up for a long time.
"What kind of magic did you use!" Zeng Bowen on the side was shocked. He didn't even see Lin Cun's movements clearly!
"Magic? It would be nice if you have magic. I just kicked your martial arts champion." Lin Cun reached out and helped Li Wu up from the grass, and helped him brush off the dirt on his body.
"If you admit defeat, I'll take you two there!"
Li Wu just uttered this sentence and walked out of the park, not even paying attention to the servant who was running towards him with a wine jug in the distance.
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