Chapter 72: Coward's Nemesis

The next day, Zhang Jie got up to wash.

"Morning, Brother Chen."

Zhang Jie greeted Chen Wenyun, who also came to wash.

"Morning."

Chen Wenyun, wearing a pair of panda eyes, replied weakly.

"Tsk tsk. 'At thirty like a wolf, at forty like a tiger'—truly, the saying does not deceive me."

Seeing Chen Wenyun's appearance of having been squeezed by a demon, Zhang Jie clicked his tongue in wonder.

Look, Chen Wenyun didn't even have the energy to avoid him regarding yesterday's matter.

One can only say that a woman in her prime is terrifying~

"If Jinlian becomes like this in the future, wouldn't Brother Wenyun's today be my tomorrow?"

Zhang Jie could not help but shrink his neck as he looked at Chen Wenyun's miserable state.

Only children say they want everything; adults know they can't handle it~

At this moment, Zhang Jie suddenly remembered his golden finger, and he shrugged:

"So I'm a cheater! That's fine then."

Last night, he had "executed" Pan Jinlian again.

Zhang Jie felt as if he were possessed by Zhao Zilong, who was full of courage:

"Thinking of last night in Chen's side room, I treated the battle-eager Pan Jinlian like grass!

What is there to fear in the future?"

"Come over to eat breakfast."

After washing up, Lady Wang, who had prepared breakfast, called out.

"Brother Chen, let's go." Zhang Jie greeted Chen Wenyun.

"Renjie, let's go."

Chen Wenyun barely squeezed a smile on his face, and after speaking, he walked toward the living room first.

Zhang Jie, walking behind him, didn't know if it was an illusion,

but he felt that Chen Wenyun's legs seemed to be trembling...

"Young Master."

"My husband."

As soon as Zhang Jie and Chen Wenyun sat down, Pan Jinlian, who was glowing as if she had just been watered,

and Lady Wang brought the steaming porridge in front of them.

Zhang Jie and Chen Wenyun picked up the porridge and looked at each other, both seeing the meaning in each other's eyes:

"It's hard to be a person! It's even harder to be a man!"

"Brother Chen, Sister-in-law, we will meet again."

After finishing breakfast, Zhang Jie said goodbye to Chen Wenyun and Lady Wang.

He had already wandered around Yuncheng County for a few days, and he had already met the Song Yasi he was interested in,

and had sent a small gift, so there was no point in staying any longer.

"Uncle, take care."

"Goodbye, Uncle Zhang."

Lady Wang and the two children also said goodbye to Zhang Jie.

"Renjie..."

Only Chen Wenyun's eyes were complex.

Well, after the replenishment of food, he had recovered some vitality.

Now he remembered Zhang Jie's rebellious words again.

"Young Master, get in the carriage."

Wu Song drove the carriage to the gate of the Chen house.

"Brother Chen, Sister-in-law, take care."

Zhang Jie said goodbye again.

"Next time, Uncle will buy you sugar figurines."

Zhang Jie rubbed the little heads of Chen Li and Chen Yun.

"Oh, you messed up my hair; I spent so much effort combing it."

Chen Yun, who already knew beauty and ugliness and started to love beauty, pouted her mouth, enough to hang a soy sauce bottle.

Chen Li, who was still young, didn't care about these things; his eyes were full of desire for snacks:

"Uncle Zhang, I want to eat a sugar figurine of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, Sun Wukong!"

"Okay."

Zhang Jie agreed immediately.

Having time these past two days, he had already shared a part of "Journey to the West" with the two little ones.

And in the folk of the Song Dynasty, the real historical event of the Tang Dynasty monk Xuanzang traveling west to fetch scriptures had already begun to be sung.

The two little ones were unsurprisingly attracted by the monkey who was omnipotent and could go to heaven and earth.

"I want one too, I want one too!"

Mentioning Sun Wukong, Chen Yun immediately stopped worrying about her hair.

"Everyone will have one, everyone will have one."

Zhang Jie, whose hands were itchy, rubbed the hair of the two little ones again.

"Brother, take care."

At the moment of Zhang Jie's departure, Chen Wenyun still solemnly bid him farewell.

"Goodbye."

After saying goodbye again, Zhang Jie took Pan Jinlian and Yan Poxi into the carriage.

Clatter, clatter, clatter.

With the clattering of horse hooves and the creaking of carriage wheels,

Zhang Jie, who had left Yanggu County for nearly two months, officially set foot on the road home.

Looking at the departing carriage, Chen Wenyun could not let go for a long time.

"My husband, Uncle Zhang has a letter for you."

Lady Wang took a letter from her bosom and handed it to Chen Wenyun.

"A letter? Renjie left a letter?"

Chen Wenyun was startled.

"Why take it out here?"

Chen Wenyun snatched the envelope and walked toward the study without looking back.

"It's just a letter, what's wrong?"

Lady Wang was confused.

She felt that Chen Wenyun had become very strange since yesterday.

"What exactly did Renjie talk about with my husband?"

Lady Wang found the key point: Zhang Jie.

However, she did not intend to get to the bottom of it;

even if Chen Wenyun and Zhang Jie intended to do something big, she could only follow her husband.

"Renjie, how could you be so careless?"

Chen Wenyun, holding the envelope, trotted into the study and slammed the door shut.

Thinking that there was something shocking in the letter, he was anxious and spinning around.

"Huhu."

Chen Wenyun took out a fire starter and lit a candle, intending to burn it after reading.

"Everything is ready..."

Chen Wenyun, having finished the preparations, tremblingly opened the envelope.

"Just like a fierce tiger lying on a barren hill, hiding its claws and teeth to endure!"

Opening the first page of the letter, two rows of flying dragon and dancing phoenix characters, with powerful strokes, appeared in Chen Wenyun's eyes.

"Renjie, he really has great ambitions!"

Chen Wenyun's hands trembled even more violently.

He suddenly felt his throat a bit dry;

is such a big matter something that a mere scholar like him can plan?

He hurriedly turned to the second page of the letter; unexpectedly, this was actually a prescription!

"Epimedium one qian, Eucommia one qian five fen, Gecko, Goji berries three qian each, others..."

Chen Wenyun read out the names of the medicines in the prescription one by one.

"This, isn't this a prescription for tonifying the kidneys?"

Chen Wenyun, understanding Zhang Jie's meaning, had a red face.

Epimedium, Eucommia, Gecko, Goji berries, etc., are all medicinal materials for tonifying the kidneys and replenishing Qi.

Zhang Jie knew that his bedroom affairs were quite difficult!

"How can I hold my head up in front of Renjie in the future?"

Chen Wenyun was quite embarrassed.

"However, listening to what Brother Wu said, Brother Renjie is vigorous and powerful; could it be caused by this prescription?"

Chen Wenyun, thinking of Zhang Jie's weak and sickly childhood, pondered.

"This thing is insulting to the scholar; it cannot be allowed to spread and harm people. I'd better seal it!"

Chen Wenyun righteously folded the prescription,

and then carefully put it into the inner pocket of his inner shirt.

"Hmm, this thing cannot be kept."

The cautious Chen Wenyun put the first page of the letter on the candle and lit it.

"I wonder if Brother Chen has seen my letter?"

In the carriage that had already left Yuncheng County, Zhang Jie thought faintly.

He wanted to laugh at the thought of Chen Wenyun's appearance when he got the prescription.

However, he knew that Chen Wenyun would definitely keep it after being embarrassed by getting the prescription.

Never underestimate a man's persistence in tonifying the kidneys!

A type of food ingredient, no matter how bad it tastes, as long as it is said to be able to tonify the kidneys, men will be brave enough to try it.

Take snake wine, which can almost be considered corpse water;

the most important marketing rhetoric inside is nourishing Yin and tonifying Yang...

This matter can be proven by research in a certain peninsula country in the 21st century:

Data shows that the concentration of sildenafil (the main component of Viagra) in the Han River in Seoul

is 3 to 4 times that of Brussels, a European city, and 2 to 5 times that of Copenhagen.

The media joked one after another that what swims in the Han River is not fish, but hormones.

"I hope the aphrodisiac in this martial arts world is not too strong."

Zhang Jie was inexplicably worried.

This prescription of his came from the "Medical Classic" written by the Butterfly Valley Medical Immortal Hu Qingniu in the Heaven-Dependent World.

On one hand, Zhang Jie could only sigh that Hu Qingniu was indeed widely read, even having this type of thing.

On the other hand, Zhang Jie could only sigh that no matter what world,

what type of crowd, cowards are always everywhere.

In the Heaven-Dependent World, some cowards cannot even be saved by extraordinary powers like internal energy!

They are in urgent need of a coward's nemesis, such as some kind of A-San divine oil...

Zhang Jie himself had tried the prescription given to Chen Wenyun,

and found no side effects, nor any major enhancement.

That night, Pan Jinlian could only beg for mercy as usual.

"Forget it, as long as there are no side effects.

As long as it doesn't kill my future military advisor."

Zhang Jie immediately threw this matter to the back of his mind.

And Zhang Jie didn't care about the content of the first page of the letter.

Even if it spread, what's wrong with a poem?

It didn't involve people like the Heaven-Soaring Grand General Huang Chao.

What's wrong with him, Zhang Jie, a dignified Jieren, writing a few poems?

"Young Master, eat some grapes."

Yan Poxi, who had already entered the role of a maid, brought a washed grape to Zhang Jie's mouth.

Yes, my Great Song already had grapes.

The time of the introduction of grapes can be traced back to around the 2nd century BC, the Western Han Dynasty.

According to historical records, after Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions, he brought back grape seeds from Dayuan (modern Central Asia).

And this is just the clear record of grapes in historical books.

Archaeological evidence in the 21st century shows that before Zhang Qian's mission,

grapes might have been introduced to the Xinjiang region of China through the Western Regions,

for example, grape vines and seeds from the Warring States period were found in the Yanghai cemetery in Turpan.

"Ah."

Zhang Jie opened his mouth and comfortably swallowed the grape.

"Truly corrupt."

Zhang Jie secretly criticized himself for being lazy, waiting for food to be brought to his mouth.

However, the next second he became righteous:

"I waited for so many years to get the golden finger; what's wrong with me enjoying it?

I lived a hard life before the golden finger came,

and I still live a hard life after the golden finger came; wouldn't the golden finger have come in vain?"

Zhang Jie, having built his psychological construction, immediately began to continue playing music and dancing... ===== CHAPTER 73 =====