Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 1 Let’s talk, let’s talk
Azhi tugged at his sleeve, seeming to be very unsure.
However, he felt that if he did not remind Tang Zheng, Tang Zheng might not remember it.
He simply puffed up his cheeks and said, "When did you teach me that code word?"
"Code word?" Tang Zheng was also reminded by him and then he remembered that Azhi was still waiting for him to teach English.
"I'm leaving... You didn't even teach me." Ah Zhi pouted, "When are you going to Yingshan?"
"Huh, that's not right? When did I say I wanted to go to Yingshan?" Tang Zheng narrowed his eyes and smiled.
"How are you going to teach me if you don't go to Kageyama?"
"I'll teach you again when we meet again."
"Hey!" Azhi was angry.
"Besides, I'm not teaching you for free. I'm going to charge you tuition!" Tang Zheng emphasized.
"Uh...are you still short of money?" Azhi glanced at him.
"I don't charge money, I only accept the Shadow King Order!" Tang Zheng said with a smile.
Azhi was stunned for a moment.
When Grandpa Ghost heard what Tang Zheng said, he laughed: "Wow, have you figured it out?"
Tang Zheng spread his hands and said, "I didn't understand it at first, but now I understand it."
Just now when Azhi was feeling awkward there, he was still wondering why Azhi and Ghost Grandpa wanted to stay and wait until the crisis in Tangjiabao was over before leaving?
It wasn't until he got the Shadow King Order from Ghost Grandpa that he figured it out.
It turns out that the ghost grandfather was waiting to take action!
That’s right, it’s not that Ghost Grandpa won’t take action, but if Tang Zheng wants to ask him to take action, he needs to pay a price!
"Oh my god, I'm really too stupid!" Tang Zheng slapped his head, with a look of regret, "I should have just found a scapegoat and asked Yingshan to pay for a five-star Shadow King Order, and then asked Ghost Grandpa to help. Then, I would kill him. After all, he wouldn't have to pay back the Shadow King Order after he died..."
As long as you owe a five-star Shadow King Order, you can buy the life of the ancestor of the Lan family!
Why would they need to go to so much trouble?
Hearing Tang Zheng's wonderful idea, Ah Zhi was so angry that he wanted to cry and laugh at the same time: "Are you dreaming? Do you think that anyone can owe the Five-Star Shadow King Order?"
“Oh, ha ha ha, strictly speaking, Tang Boyuan doesn’t even have the qualifications to receive the Five-Star Shadow King Order.” Ghost Grandpa said to Tang Zhengdao: “But, if it were you, I’m afraid Azhi wouldn’t refuse…”
"It doesn't matter. Anyway, it's not needed." Tang Zheng smiled and waved his hand, not continuing to discuss this topic.
Now that Tangjiabao has survived this crisis, Tang Zheng certainly no longer needs the Five-Star Shadow King Order.
Moreover, for a debt like this, you have to pay back three to seven coins for each one you owe!
Where could Tang Zheng find so many five-star Shadow King Orders to return to Yingshan?
A one-star Shadow King Token might be worth a buck or two on the black market, but a five-star Shadow King Token is ridiculous. Who would sell it?
"We still have three days before we leave. You can teach me part of the code first, and then we can communicate and you can continue teaching me." Azhi said.
"Okay, pay the down payment first, a Nine-Star Shadow King Token." Tang Zheng smiled and stretched out his hand.
"You wish!" Ah Zhi snorted and threw him a three-star Shadow King Token. "That's all. Shall we begin?"
Of course Tang Zheng was joking when he mentioned Nine Stars. Considering Azhi's age, it is impossible for him to have a Nine Star Shadow King Token on him.
He put the Three Star Shadow King Order into his pocket and went to look for paper and pen.
To be honest, he himself is only a half-baked person, and the most I can teach him is daily communication. But as a code word, it does not need to be too complicated, and it is enough to express simple meanings.
He sat down again, picked up a pen and paper, and began to write out the twenty-six English letters: "Today, you should memorize these first. Tomorrow, I will teach you some simple words..."
After saying that, he let Azhi practice on his own.
Azhi and his companions would only stay for three days. During these three days, Tang Zheng was thinking whether he could make a simple list of words and short sentences for Azhi to take with him and read on the way?
He walked out while thinking, and when he reached the door, he turned back: "Wait a minute. There is one more thing..."
"What's the matter?" Azhi asked.
"My ranking on the Shadow Powerful List is a bit wrong, right? Didn't I kill the ancestor of the Lan family?" Tang Zheng turned around and asked before leaving.
"Tsk! If the head of the five-star warrior was yours, you would be the first on the two-star list, and you would be far ahead of the second place!" Ah Zhi said gloatingly, "But his murderous aura does not appear on you!"
Tang Zheng had seen that Yingshan had specific methods. They could accurately determine how many people or monsters he had killed, and also know how many stars of people or monsters he had killed. According to the quantity and quality of the murderous aura on his body, they could determine his ranking on the Shadow Powerhouse List.
However, the blow he delivered upon the Lan family ancestor's weak spot was clearly a fatal one.
If he wasn't the one who killed the ancestor of the Lan family, then whose was it?
…
After leaving Azhi and the others, Tang Zheng returned to his shabby house.
Although the roof was full of holes, he still managed to clear a space on the bed where he could curl up and sleep like a pancake.
He slept until the evening, and when he woke up, the war groups that came to help had already left.
The martial arts training ground at Tangjiabao was also in a mess.
The kitchen in Tangjiabao was out of service, so Tang Zheng had to take Xiaotang and the others to Wulong Town to eat something. When they came back, it was already very late.
But at such a late hour, a carriage was parked at the gate of Tangjiabao.
"It seems to be the carriage of the Qintian Sect?" Tang Xiaotang frowned and looked at the hanging lamp on the carriage. The totem seemed to be a constellation of the Qintian Sect.
When they entered Tangjiabao, they saw two disciples of the Qintian Sect being sent out by Tang Boyuan.
The two Qintian Sect disciples walked out the door without even looking at Tang Zheng and the others, and got on the carriage at the door.
When Tang Boyuan's eyes swept over Tang Zheng, he suddenly became nervous. He did not forget that Tang Zheng was still carrying the blood feud of killing Qintian Sect's disciple Feng Le.
Tang Zheng gestured to him, indicating that it was okay.
He drank a few cups of Deep Valley White Grass from Ghost Grandpa and used the fresh aroma of tea to greatly dilute his blood energy, so that the Qintian Sect's members who also possessed the Wangtian Chihou constellation had to get at least five to ten steps closer to discover him. Therefore, as long as he did not go over to help the two Qintian Sect disciples, he would not be discovered.
However, he could see that Tang Boyuan's face looked very ugly.
"Can I go in and talk?" Tang Zheng pointed to the hall inside and said with a smile.
"Come." Tang Boyuan nodded.
Tang Boyuan's face looked extremely bad, even worse than a few days ago when he learned that the Lan family's ancestor was undergoing a blood sacrifice and the survival of Tang Family Castle was at stake.
As soon as Tang Zhengyi sat down on the chair, he asked, "What are they doing here?"
"They said, come and 'talk'!" Tang Boyuan sneered.
"That must be bad..." Tang Zheng thought silently.
Tang Zheng has become an inseparable part of Tangjiabao, so Tang Boyuan would not avoid him.
What's more, the person who came today was from the Qintian Sect. Tang Zheng killed Feng Le and his body was left with blood, so he was not completely unrelated to the Qintian Sect.
Tang Xiaotang also followed Tang Zheng in, and Tang Boyuan did not stop him.
"What did they come here to 'talk' about? Tell me?" Tang Zheng asked Tang Boyuan.
The Qintian Sect is a powerful sect that the Tang Family Castle cannot easily deal with. Moreover, the Tang Family Castle had just suffered damage in a battle with the ancestor of the Lan Family and had not yet recovered.
So at times like this, it is better to be cautious.
"They came to 'congratulate' our Tang Family Castle for completely annihilating the Yinlan Villa and getting rid of a great enemy!" Tang Boyuan said.
"What's the problem?" Tang Xiaotang asked curiously.
"Congratulations were just a formality. Before they could say much, they made three demands on Tangjiabao." Tang Boyuan said.
"They? Make...requests?" Tang Xiaotang knew something was wrong when she heard the wording.
Tang Zheng did not speak, but motioned Tang Boyuan to continue.
Emperor Qintianzong had always been on good terms with Yinlan Villa, and now that he came to Tangjiabao, he had no intention of them doing anything bad.
"First, the Qintian Sect requires us to hand over 80% of the profits we obtained from taking over Yinlan Villa this time!" Tang Boyuan said calmly.
However, seeing how tightly his fingers were gripping the armrests of the armchair, one could tell that he was definitely not as calm as he appeared to be.
When Tang Xiaotang heard the first part, her eyebrows were raised and she stood up from her chair abruptly: "Eighty percent?! Why don't they just rob us? We worked so hard to overthrow the Lan family and we got the profits, and they just ask for eighty percent?"
"Yes, 80%." Tang Boyuan nodded affirmatively.
"Fuck! Why didn't we see any trace of them when we attacked? They came very fast when we picked the fruits! Dad, if we really give them 80%, apart from our losses these days, our Tang family still lost a lot!"
Tang Boyuan shook his head, waved his hand to signal Xiaotang to sit down first, and then said: "In fact, the first point, grit your teeth, let's just treat it as a wolf cub biting us while walking at night, and give it to them. Wulong Town no longer has Yinlan Villa, and your generation has grown up well under the guidance of the master. The Tang family should be able to revive, and I don't care about this temporary benefit, but... the second point is really too much!"
"Could the second one be that someone wants to marry Xiaotang?" Tang Zheng had been silent until suddenly he raised his eyebrows at Xiaotang and teased.
"Master?! What nonsense are you talking about! All the men in this world are dead, so forget it!" Tang Xiaotang shouted, wrinkling her nose.
However, she suddenly looked a little nervous.
If Emperor Qintian really used this to threaten the Tang family, she really didn't know what to choose. Should she fight for her own happiness, or sacrifice herself for the family?
Looking at Tang Xiaotang's pale face, Tang Zheng smiled and said, "Actually... I can guess it. The second one should be that we take over the extravagant business of Yinlan Villa and continue to run it, right?"
"How did you know?!" Tang Boyuan asked.
"Haha, didn't we already know that Qintian Sect was the Lan family's drug trafficking line? Speaking of which, with such huge profits from the business of decadence and luxury, how could Qintian Sect be willing to stop operating with the demise of the Lan family?"
It can be said that Tang Zheng has had an indissoluble bond with this world of decadence and dissipation since he traveled to the Xingyao Continent.
He forgot how to use the Shadow King's Order, but he would never forget his life of extravagance and decadence.
Tang Zheng smiled and continued, "Growing flowers is so hard, of course their sect disciples are not willing to do it, but they can't let go of the business... They must find another family in Wulong Town that can support this business to take over. And now, there is only one family in Wulong Town that can afford this business."
"That's right, that's what the Qintian Sect's people said. We are the only one in Wulong Town that can take over this business. Within three days, our Tang family must give them an answer. This is their third request."
Tang Zheng sneered...
It’s interesting. I’ve seen people forcing women into prostitution, but I’ve never seen anyone forcing people to sell drugs!
"Then the question is, if you take this deal, you will make a lot of money every day. But if you don't take this deal, you may face a disaster. I heard that the leader of the Qintian Sect is a genuine five-star powerhouse! Uncle... which one are you going to choose?" Tang Zheng raised his head and looked deeply into Tang Boyuan's eyes and asked.
