Chapter 11

After entering the market town hall, he went straight into the second courtyard.

Zhang Gui shouted very formally outside the main hall:

"Is Official Head Zhang Jiujiang here? Subordinate Zhang Gui pays a visit."

The main door of the main hall opened.

Zhang Jiujiang's head stretched out, looked left and right, and seeing that Zhang Gui came alone, he said urgently:

"Dagui, don't pretend, come into the house quickly, I have a big thing to discuss with you."

Seeing his dark circles, blisters on his corners of his mouth, trembling lips, and terrified expression, Zhang Gui's heart skipped a beat.

He entered the main hall without any nonsense, closed the door tightly with Zhang Jiujiang, and whispered:

"What's wrong, you are soul-lost.

Don't scare me because of the quarrel yesterday."

"What time is it, do I still have this leisure?

Something big happened!

Last night I was drinking boring wine in a restaurant near the government office, and as a result, I saw, I saw, Qiku Ye's head was broken by the water mist spat out by Chief Manager Zhang Yan!"

"Who, Qiku Ye, a figure of the 'Seven-Character Generation' of the Pingyang Zhang Family?"

"Zhang Qiku, a direct descendant of the 'Seven-Character Generation' of our Zhang family who 'cultivates the Dao to protect the clan.'

When Zhang Jiuqing won the top spot in the examination, my father forced me to be his follower and go to the main line to visit the big figures in the family.

I saw him unintentionally.

He is a 'Zongheng Swordsman' who has cultivated to 'Bing-Middle'!"

Zhang Gui's eyes widened upon hearing this, "Bing-Superior-Middle, that is sixth grade.

That is a figure who can even be named in the eyes of the patriarch, and he was killed by Zhang Yan.

This, this is overturning the table!

We won't be so unlucky, right!

Just arrived in Luan Ya on the second day and encountered such a life-and-death struggle.

Zhang Yan, this grandson, has been a grandson for more than fifty years, more than 18,000 days for the clan.

As a result, he didn't act like a grandson on the first day we arrived and overturned the heavens!

Is this reasonable? It's not reasonable, right!"

His friend's suspicion made Zhang Jiujiang angry,

"What does it matter if it's reasonable or not, people have already killed him, and kicked his head like a ball!

We should only think about what to do next.

You say, what if Zhang Yan, this thief, asks us to write a letter of surrender after falling out with the clan?

Blackwood Town is not bad, but I would rather die than be a merchant in the Outer Wild Ocean for the rest of my life.

I still want to take the imperial examinations in the future, pass the scholar examination, pass the provincial examination, pass the imperial examination, and become a big official.

To display my ambitions.

But if I don't sign the letter of surrender, Zhang Yan might want to use me as a sacrifice to the flag.

The younger brother of the top scholar of Siyang Commandery, who has neither passed the imperial examination nor is an official, but killing him has some prestige, isn't that just right!"

Hearing Zhang Jiujiang talk more and more exaggeratedly, as if he were already on the execution ground with knives and axes, Zhang Gui reached out and slapped his head violently:

"Don't go into a dead end, wake up.

Don't think blindly.

Let's not think blindly anymore, let's discuss it from a long-term perspective.

I ask you, how did you see Chief Manager Zhang Yan kill Zhang Qiku?

Tell me in detail, speak carefully, don't miss a single step."

It turned out that yesterday Zhang Jiujiang was taken by Zhang Yan's confidant Guan Xihui straight to the East Market.

He cut the Gordian knot and took over the East Market from Zhang Bajin, who was originally in charge of the East and South Markets.

Zhang Bajin's cake was suddenly missing a big piece, so naturally, he wouldn't be satisfied.

But because of Zhang Yan's super high prestige in Blackwood Town, although his face was stiff with anger and his speech was sarcastic, he didn't dare not give it.

The handover was completed.

Zhang Bajin didn't even say a polite word, and left with a flick of his sleeve.

Guan Xihui saw that the official business was done, and also said goodbye with a smile.

Zhang Jiujiang naturally became the top card among the remaining people.

The two Head Clerks and four Senior Clerks left in the East Market all surrounded him, accompanying him with smiles and flattery.

As for the dozen or so ordinary clerks and twenty or so helpers, they couldn't even surround him.

This made Zhang Jiujiang's mood, which was originally angered by Zhang Bajin's strange words, slowly turn better.

After righteously refusing the bribes from the two Senior Clerks through Zhang Chun, he obtained great psychological satisfaction.

According to the plan preset by Zhang Gui, he chatted with his subordinates for a long time, and drew many big cakes.

Then he asked Zhang Chun to set a few tables of good sea eight-treasure feasts at the restaurant, so that he could drink a meeting wine with his subordinates.

Zhang Jiujiang himself excitedly found out Zhang Gui's residence and went to show off to his friend.

As a result, the two had a quarrel.

Zhang Jiujiang walked out of Zhang Gui's courtyard door and went straight to the restaurant in a rage, drinking boring wine cup after cup.

During the banquet, his lackeys saw that the new boss was frowning, and they all flattered him intentionally.

Slowly, Zhang Jiujiang's mood improved again, and he drank a few more cups.

His stomach was very bloated, and he went to the latrine several times.

On the last trip, a cool breeze blew on his face, and Zhang Jiujiang's seven or eight percent drunkenness reached ten percent, and he actually wandered out of the restaurant.

Wandering around on the street, he didn't know how he turned into a side alley, found a tree, leaned against it, and fell asleep.

I don't know how long it took.

Suddenly, a noise woke Zhang Gui up, and he just opened his eyes blankly, and saw two people crossing each other in mid-air from afar.

One person's head suddenly fell off, and blood sprayed high from the cavity.

Borrowing the sword light that crossed vertically and horizontally in the air and lingered for a long time, Zhang Gui clearly saw the dead man's face, which was Zhang Qiku, whom he had met once.

Hearing this, Zhang Gui smacked his lips, and said in a low voice, not believing it himself:

"I only met him once, maybe it's not Zhang Qiku."

"But the characteristics of 'flowing light and overflowing colors, falling into the air without scattering' of the Zongheng Sword Art can't be wrong."

"You are a scholar, why do you know so much about cultivation knowledge?"

"I am going to be both civil and military in the future.

I can't not know the characteristics of the cultivation method in my own clan.

When I first met him, I was also particularly concerned about Zhang Baku.

Thinking that after I pass the scholar examination, maybe I can rely on his face to worship him as a teacher and become a 'Zongheng Swordsman.'

So I definitely won't see it wrong." Zhang Jiujiang explained firmly.

Zhang Gui knew there was no fluke upon hearing this, and a smile that was uglier than crying appeared on his face, "Then it's really falling out.

Now the best way for us is to leave this place of right and wrong, Giant Snake Head Island, as soon as possible.

Let me think, let me think.

According to the rules, we have just arrived in Luan Ya, whether it is a Steward or a clerk, we have to stay for a full year to get a long family visit holiday.

The tasks of transporting and trading between the mainland and Giant Snake Head Island require rich experience to be responsible for.

It is very difficult for newcomers to get it in a short time.

Ah, right.

In another month, it will be the provincial examination for provincial scholars, you just say that a letter came from home, Zhang Jiuqing won the top spot in the preliminary examination, and his ambitions are endless, and he wants to strive for the top spot in the metropolitan examination this year.

Complete the old career of 'Zhongzu' Zhang Siwei who won three top spots in a row, and revive the family style.

It's just that he is worried about you, who are running around overseas, and is distracted from time to time.

Therefore, his parents hope that you can return home to see your brother before the provincial examination.

So that he can calm down and win the laurel again."

"Will this work?"

"Winning three top spots in a row means what? It means that before the age of forty in the central government, there is a possibility of becoming the Chancellor of the world.

In the local area, at least fifty percent are frontier officials.

Zhang Yan will take the risk of breaking with the family for the sake of his half-life of hard work and the family not being deprived.

But that is because of interests, and it is worth a fight.

But he will never take the risk of offending the big officials of the Ming Song imperial court in the future just to keep you, a small Steward who is 'not full of eight taels and shaking half a catty.'

Even if this possibility is only one percent or one thousandth, it is the same, because it is not worth it at all."

(End of chapter)