Chapter 248 Seventeen Marquises
Seeing that the fat uncle didn't want to accept Ah San, Li Erhu stepped forward and said, "Let me learn from you."
Ah San curled his lips and said, "I can't even do that to you..."
The fat uncle pushed him aside and immediately fell in love with Li Erhu. The young man had thick eyebrows and big eyes, was tall and strong, and had a simple heroic spirit. So he asked, "Can you box?"
Without saying a word, Li Erhu threw the simplest capture punch on the spot.
The fat uncle said, "It looks like you've practiced this specifically?"
Li Erhu said: "All teachers are good teachers, but I am too useless."
"What weapons have you practiced?"
Li Erhu said: "I have practiced with swords, sticks, and spears, but I only practiced with them for a few times."
The fat uncle said to Li Changgui with a smile: "See? This is how learning something should be done—" Finally, he felt something was wrong and said to Li Erhu, "You are also a security guard? With your ability, you can easily defeat three or two ordinary people. Why are you learning this from me?"
Li Erhu smiled innocently and said, "This thing can save lives, right? We are living in a harmonious society now, we don't want to die."
The fat uncle and Li Changgui agreed and said, "I'll take this."
Li Changgui pointed at Ah San and said, "What about this?"
The fat uncle said earnestly: "Let him do something else. Moving bricks and serving dishes will make more money than being a security guard. If he really likes uniforms, he can go deliver food."
Li Changgui grabbed the fat uncle's arm and said, "No, no! If you want to buy them, buy them both at a time. We only sell them in bulk, not individually!"
"Let go first..." The fat uncle rubbed the flesh that Li Changgui had grabbed, and asked in confusion, "Why do you have to learn this? If I were a popcorn eater, I would think you wanted to learn the art of blasting."
Li Changgui laughed and said, "I agree. Look at the tuition fee..."
The fat uncle waved his hand and said, "What tuition fee is needed? Just buy a pack of cigarettes and a bottle of wine and you'll be good enough. You can learn this in three to five days at most." He looked at Ah San worriedly and added , "I can't guarantee this, but there will be no problem with that. If it doesn't work, let that one teach this."
Li Changgui said helplessly: "Then let them come tomorrow."
It was dinner time when we returned to Changsheng Street, and there was a brand new RV parked across the street.
At a small round table outside the RV, three people, one old and two children, sat there unchanged, as if what happened at noon had never happened, except that the dishes on the table had been changed to grilled beef brisket, stir-fried pork, baby cabbage with crab meat and fish head pancake. Zhang Nianzu took everyone to say hello.
"The ants are rich, Master Liu." Zhang Nianzu joked, "Is this car explosion-proof?"
Liu Laoliu said calmly: "I don't know, but this car can be locked anyway."
Zhang Nianzu tried to pull the car door, and it was locked...
Liu Laoliu said, "Because the incident this morning involved the safety of ordinary people, I wrote a report to suppress it for you, but you have to remember that you owe us a car."
Li Erhu suddenly asked: "Now the Ant Tribe dares to talk to the Tribe face to face?" He knew the history of the Tribe very well, so he was also familiar with the origins of the Ant Tribe.
Zhuge Daofeng said unhappily: "Who are you and what are you talking about?"
Zhang Nianzu smiled at Li Erhu and said, "This is our bodyguard."
Ah San said: "It's not professional at first glance. They don't even have explosion-proof forks!"
A few people returned to the repair shop, ordered grilled beef brisket rice bowl and farmer's fried pork rice bowl, and sat in a row at the door, facing Liu Laoliu and the others.
Li Erhu was eating when he suddenly asked, "Brother Nianzu, has something happened in our clan?"
Zhang Nianzu asked: "How do you know?"
Li Erhu said, "In the past, the ants followed our tribe to sell information for a living, just like a dog following a lion group to pick up some meat scraps and bones. Now they eat stir-fried dishes while we eat rice bowls. Something must have happened."
"You are absolutely right." Zhang Nianzu did not hide anything and briefly introduced the matter of Du Heng's defection.
Li Erhu raised his head and thought for a moment before saying, "Well, I remember there was information about Du Heng in the family tree. I never thought he would do such a thing."
Li Changgui said: "Nian Zu, the connection with Bian Shijie is broken, how can we find Du Heng?"
Zhang Nianzu said: "Let's not go find him, let's wait for him to come find me."
"Ah?" Li Changgui was confused.
Zhang Nianzu said, "Du Heng will be 45 after this month. Whether it's true or not, he thinks my blood is his only antidote. He doesn't have much time left, so he must be the more anxious one. We actually got the priorities wrong. Du Heng dared to come to me because he felt he had a big backer. Otherwise, with only Lei Yuanzheng and Jia Ba, he would have no chance of winning."
Ah Si said, "Brother Nian Zu means that we should deal with Jack first?"
Zhang Nianzu said: "That's right. After we find Jack, it will be easy to find Du Heng. Let's find Du Heng first. Even if we take him down, he won't surrender easily."
Ah San said: "But..."
Zhang Nianzu said, "You are worried that we can't beat Jack, right?"
Ah San nodded.
Zhang Nianzu said: "I have come up with a way that might be able to deal with him, but it will take about ten days."
Everyone asked in unison: "What method?"
Zhang Nianzu said: "Please forgive me for keeping it secret for now, and I can't guarantee whether it will succeed or not."
Ah San said frankly, "What secret do you have for us?" He suddenly realized, "Oh, Brother Nianzu doesn't trust Li Erhu, right? I can guarantee that, although he is stupid and incompetent, he can still be trusted."
Zhang Nianzu was a little absent-minded and said, "No, it's not that I don't trust anyone, some methods are just very strange, and they won't work if you tell them out loud."
Li Changgui asked, "Do you want to use this time to practice your golden fingers?"
"Of course we have to practice the Midas Touch, but there are other things to do." Zhang Nianzu twisted the metal rope with his hands and suddenly asked Li Erhu, "Erhu, do you know why Ah San has to learn how to use the explosion-proof fork?"
Li Erhu said, "I don't know. Since Third Uncle needs him to learn, it must be useful to Grandpa, so I volunteered."
"Thank you." Zhang Nianzu said, "If I told you that there is still a grandfather now, what would you think?"
Li Erhu has always had a strong sense of belonging to the clan. He was not surprised at all after hearing this "treasonous" remark. He frowned and thought for a while, then said coldly: "Could it be that the descendants of the clan have returned?"
This time, the others were shocked. Ah Si asked, "You know this too?"
Li Erhu said, "In 1400 AD, during the reign of Zhu Di, the title of the 67th ancestor was inherited, but in the end it was his brother Wang Leqian who led the clan. He claimed to be the legitimate heir and threatened to seek justice. Is this what you are talking about?"
Ah San said, "It's exactly the same as what Jack said."
Li Erhu asked: "Then do you know where they went in the end?"
Ah Si said, "It is said that it was in Europe, and then it traveled all over the world, and now it has returned from the United States to cause trouble."
Li Erhu said again: "Let me ask you, why do you want to go to Europe?"
Ah San said: "He is unpopular and has been rebelled against by the people. Of course, the farther he runs, the better." Li Changgui and others also nodded.
"Wrong." Li Erhu said, "You got the order wrong. He didn't go to Europe because he failed . He failed because he wanted to be the emperor in Europe."
Li Changgui asked: "What do you mean?"
Li Erhu said: "At that time, the world map had been explored, and the Chinese knew about foreign countries. They felt that if they stayed here, they would not be able to develop much because of the strict defense of the imperial court and the surveillance of the ants. So he wanted to take his people to Europe to occupy a country and become emperor. Most of the people in the tribe were reluctant to go on the expedition with him. He promised a large bribe, saying that anyone who followed him would be granted a title of nobility in the future. In the end, only 17 warriors of the tribe were willing to follow him, and those who stayed behind nicknamed them the '17 Marquises'."
Li Changgui and the others looked at each other in surprise. They had never expected that there would be so many twists and turns in the beginning.
Li Erhu said to Zhang Nianzu solemnly: "So, Brother Nianzu, you don't have to feel that you are not legitimate. This matter has never been mentioned in the history of the clan because everyone just thinks it is a joke. You are the legitimate ancestor."
Zhang Nianzu smiled and said, "I have stopped worrying about this. I asked you and Asan to learn some skills. The main reason is that Jack inherited the ability of 'Warrior Chains' from his ancestors. No matter ordinary warriors or golden guards, they can't fight him in close combat."
