Jiang Yan followed the man dressed as a fisherman and left the restaurant. The two bossy second-hand men from the restaurant just nodded and bowed and sent them out.
"Why do you want to help me?" Jiang Yan asked.
"I want to be a scribe, but I don't have the talent, so I saw you carrying a bookcase and wanted to help you."
"Thank you, why don't I treat you to dinner?"
After all, if someone helps you, if you don't express it, you will appear to be ignorant of etiquette.
"That's so embarrassing"
Seeing the fisherman's tactful refusal, Jiang Yan didn't persuade him again and again. In many cases, you can't force it, as long as it's what you mean, like now!
"Since you're embarrassed, then you can invite me. I'm a thick-skinned person, so I'm sorry."
"hold head high?"
The fisherman looked at Jiang Gan for a long time before he realized what he was doing.
"Since you are thick-skinned, then follow me."
The fisherman carried the fish and left Wufeng City all the way, and came to a rushing river. There was a thatched cottage not far from the river.
After asking Jiang Yan to sit down in the yard, he returned to the house, and then heard the sound of chopping boards coming from inside.
I looked around and saw that there was a ferry next to the river, with several boats tied to the left and right and fishing nets hanging out to dry. It should be a way for people nearby to make a living.
Soon, the fisherman brought out a bowl of fish soup from the hut.
"Come and try it, the taste of this water shield fish soup is unparalleled in the world"
The slightly golden fish, the milky white soup, and the green water shield all whetted your appetite just by looking at it. After tasting it, the umami taste was unparalleled in the world. Jiang Yan had never eaten such delicious fish before.
The speed of taking down chopsticks is getting faster and faster.
"How does it taste?" the fisherman asked slightly proudly.
“Delicious and extremely fresh”
"Then you should eat more. Usually you can't catch even one fish like this in a year or two." The fisherman pushed the fish soup in front of Jiang Yan and asked, "You haven't asked for your last name yet?"
"Jiang Greed"
"My surname is Jiang? What a good surname."
Jiang Yan thought about it for a while, could it be that he was praised by others for his good surname because he really had no place to praise him?
“What’s good about it”
"The greatest hero in the world is none other than Jiang Cao, haven't you heard of it?"
Jiang Yan shook his head, "What's your last name?"
"My surname is also Jiang, and my name is Jiang Lin."
Jiang Yan had a strange expression. It turned out that the fisherman was not praising him, but himself!
"Then we are quite destined," Jiang Yan said casually while concentrating on eating fish.
Jiang Lin looked slightly excited, then suddenly changed the subject and said
"Yes, yes, your surname is Jiang, and my surname is Jiang. This is fate. Why don't you call me dad?"
Jiang Yan didn't know how to answer. This way of chatting was quite unique. He probably didn't have any friends.
"You came to my rescue in the restaurant. I admit that you are a good person, but not much."
"There are no good people in Discord City. When the Bodhisattva comes, he will be blamed."
"Is it that exaggerated?"
"Let's not talk about those nonsense, are you from Wen Mansion?" Jiang Lin asked.
"yes"
“My biggest wish when I was a child was to be a scribe, but unfortunately I didn’t have the talent.
Later, I wanted to go to Qingdu, but I committed a crime and was exiled. Now I can't leave Wufeng City. Can you tell me about the Wen Mansion?" Jiang Lin looked forward to it.
"It's okay, but there is one condition. Just now you wanted to be my father, now call me big brother, you won't suffer any loss."
Seeing that Jiang Lin was much older than him, it was originally just a joke, but Jiang Lin was so single that he called him "big brother", which actually made Jiang Qian a little embarrassed.
"Ask what you want to know"
"Well... I want to know about all aspects. Why don't you tell me about your life in Qingdu?"
"My experience in Qingdu is so rich."
Jiang Lun concealed some key information and recounted all the interesting things he had seen in the Qing capital. Jiang Lin listened with great interest.
"Why haven't I heard you mention your friends? Don't you have any friends?"
"How can a person as good as me have no friends? I don't have many friends, but they are all life-long friendships.
A stonemason is enlightened, a musician is enlightened, a medicine man and poison master is enlightened, and another, a silkworm farmer, is soon enlightened."
"There are so many special enlightenments, they are amazing, they are really amazing, then brother, your enlightenment must not be simple, right?" Jiang Lin asked again.
"Of course, I am an enlightened painter on the surface, but actually I am also enlightened as a fusheng, and I am good at poetry. Moreover, I also have an extremely rare profession of enlightenment that you have never heard of."
Jiang Lin looked at each other one by one, making Jiang Yan look a little satisfied.
"Later, I accidentally formed a black society, but I didn't expect that it would eventually become bigger and bigger. Now, any person from the black society can go to the Ehu Society to compete for the top spot in the Eight Prefectures."
"You want to go to Ehu? I heard it's not safe anywhere."
"Actually, I don't want to go. When I want to paint, I will paint a couple of paintings. When I don't want to paint, I will go to the Wen Mansion to listen to the lectures of those gentlemen.
When I have no money, I paint two erotic paintings. When I have nothing, I go to a hotel to buy wine, to a pig roasting house to eat meat, and to visit the fairyland. But when I’m really bored, I go to the countryside to watch those scribes fighting in the wilderness.
If I could describe my life in Qingdu in four words, it would be a mess. God, I love this place so much. There is no place in the world that is more comfortable than Qingdu."
Jiang Yan sighed as he spoke, if it weren't for this damn curse, how happy he would be to be free.
"If you don't want to go to Xihe, then don't go. There is a person in Wufeng City. It is said that he became famous in a battle at the Ehu Meeting hundreds of years ago.
Look at it now, don't you get drunk every day, sleep in the pen with the pigs, listen to my brother's advice, let's not go," Jiang Lin advised earnestly.
"It's impossible not to go. Seeing that the two of us are chatting quite happily, I'll tell you a secret. It's not that I want to go, but that I can't help it.
I am now under a strange curse and will not live to be thirty. If I can win first place in the Ehu Club, there may be a solution."
As soon as Jiang Yan finished speaking, there was the sound of bottles breaking in the hut.
"Is there anyone inside?"
"My wife, who do you think made the water shield and fish soup?"
The two chatted happily, and Jiang Yan even took out his own wine to share it with Jiang Lin.
Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Jiang Yan was also ready to say goodbye and leave, but despite Advent's repeated attempts to stay, he returned to Wufeng City.
As soon as Jiang Yan left, a woman walked out of the thatched hut. Although she was dressed simply and plainly, her appearance showed that this woman must have had the fortune to conquer the country when she was young. There were still traces of tears on her face.
"Husband, has he suffered a lot?"
"Don't worry, Jiang Yan's temperament is very similar to that of his father. He is born to be hard-pressed. As you just heard, without anyone to take care of him, his life has been better than anyone imagined in these years." Jiang Lin also expressed relief.
smile.
"I'm afraid he will be in trouble when I attend the Ehu Meeting. Husband, I have to find a way to protect him."
"His identity seems to be a secret. Lu Daoxuan and Wei Changli have protected him very well. This is a great favor that they will repay in the future.
As for the Ehu Meeting, let’s not interfere. Jiang Yan has his own way to go.”