Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 219 I Want to Sleep
The accountant's body and suicide note were found the next morning. However, the City Lord's Mansion did not make too much of a commotion because of such an insignificant person and his daughter's shameful deeds.
In the secret passage, Tang Zheng yawned loudly, rubbed his eyes and walked back.
Xu Qingyan leaned against the wall and asked, "I've never seen you take so long to convince someone."
Tang Zheng waved his hand, obviously not wanting to mention it anymore.
He spent a whole night talking about life with a non-beautiful creature, and he didn't know whether this was the rhythm of a lonely life.
"Done?" Xu Qingyan didn't get an answer to a question, so he didn't have the habit of asking the same question again.
"It's definitely done. It couldn't be more certain." Tang Zheng yawned twice more. "Let's go. I need to sleep for a while. If there's any news from the wine shop, wake me up."
"Got it." Xu Qingyan followed. As for what Tang Zheng spent the whole night talking about and how he convinced the other "Lu Wantang", those were not issues he cared about.
After coming out of Ning Mo’s cabin, Tang Zheng went back and fell asleep.
The whole dream was very confusing...
Daji was watching on the side, and all she could hear him constantly saying things like "listen to me", "overthinking", "shut up", and "remember".
Although she had not been in Tianxia Minglu for long, it was the first time she saw Tang Zheng sleeping so soundly.
However, even with such low-quality sleep, Tang Zheng couldn't sleep for long.
At noon, there was another heavy rain.
And the sound of Xu Qingyan knocking on the door accompanied by heavy rain.
"The owner of the tavern wants to see you." Xu Qingyan directly lifted Tang Zheng's quilt, "The carriage is ready."
"Oh, oh." Tang Zheng buried his head in the pillow, "Wine."
"You told me that if there was any news from the owner of the tavern, you would be woken up."
"Oh..." Tang Zheng responded.
Then, Xu Qingyan waited for a while.
Huh…Huh…
There was another snoring sound coming from the bed.
"What...what should I do?" Daji followed behind and showed her little head, and the two furry ears on her head moved.
"Load the car first." Xu Qingyan simply wrapped Tang Zheng in a quilt and stuffed him into the carriage.
Then, the carriage started to move with a chugging sound, and left Tianxia Minglu...
Daji stood at the door, biting her fingers blankly: "When I was abducted, it seemed... it was the same scene, right?"
…
Tianxia Minglu is not too far from the wine shop whose "naming rights" Tang Zheng bought out.
Therefore, Tang Zheng’s staying in bed can’t last long.
Arriving at the entrance of the wine shop, Tang Zheng was too lazy to get out of the car because of the heavy rain. He scratched his messy hair and said, "Let's get him in the car and talk."
When a wealthy sponsor arrived at the door, the owner of the tavern naturally didn't care about the heavy rain and immediately came up with two jars of wine.
"Look, is this what you want?" Two wine jars were placed in front of Tang Zheng.
On the front of the wine jar were three large characters "Instructor Wine" written in a flamboyant style. Even someone like Tang Zheng who didn't understand calligraphy could sense a sharp aura when looking at it. On the back were neatly printed small characters, recording Li Xiaoren's heroic act of "saving the world" in Leng Xiangyuan's grave.
After reading it, Tang Zheng still yawned.
The owner of the wine shop immediately lowered his head in fear and trepidation: "Anything else you are not satisfied with, we can change it?"
"Who wrote these three words?" Tang Zheng rubbed his eyes and asked.
"Hey, you said you wanted to find a master of calligraphy to write it, but where can we find a decent scholar in our border area? I begged and pleaded with everyone, and finally heard about a young general who was passing through Feishi City and heading to Qingya Pass with the army ... The young general was so handsome, I knew he could definitely write well, so I asked him for help..."
Tang Zheng listened quietly without interrupting.
The tavern owner raised his head and secretly glanced at Tang Zheng's eyes: "I was just thinking of giving it a try, but the young general was so easy to talk to. I told him about this matter, and he sighed, 'Live Long Live the Hero'. He didn't even try to refuse and just wrote these three words . Moreover, when I wanted to give him money later, he didn't take it! Tsk, I took this calligraphy to the pawnshop owner next door, and the old man said that it was both elegant and sharp, and he wanted two taels of silver! When I heard that, I couldn't sell it anymore. Hurry up and use it..."
Tang Zheng nodded: "Please remember this favor to me, I will repay it. What is his name?"
"Oh, I only know that he is a young general named Tian, and he is also a descendant of the famous Tianqin family! But...how dare I ask for the name of such an important person?" When the shopkeeper heard that Tang Zheng wanted to remember a favor, he also smiled and said, "Such an important person would not need us to remember such a small favor, so you don't have to bother..."
"You said, his last name is Tian?" Tang Zheng stood up and asked with a smile.
"It seems so, but I'm not sure. What's wrong with the last name Tian?"
"Oh, nothing, Tian is a good surname!" Tang Zheng laughed and pushed the jar of wine to the shopkeeper. "Based on the quality of the two jars of wine Xu Qingyan bought that day, how many jars can you make in three days?"
"Uh..." The shopkeeper was in a dilemma. "Sir... you don't drink, right? This wine needs to be brewed, and brewing takes time. What kind of wine can be made in three days!"
Tang Zheng narrowed his eyes, and Xu Qingyan also glanced at him.
What Tang Zheng said just now was a test!
The quality of the wine in this tavern is the best that Xu Qingyan has tasted in Fei Shi City. However, if the shopkeeper is not a real wine lover, but a businessman who makes shoddy products for money, then there is no need to continue the cooperation.
But, it is obvious that the other party is not.
"You're good. How long will it take you?" Tang Zheng asked.
"The latest batch of wine in my cellar will be at least ten days away. This stuff can't be taken out a day earlier! Otherwise, the taste will definitely be wrong..."
"How many?" Tang Zheng asked.
"Only about two hundred jars." The shopkeeper whispered distressedly, "Not even enough for you to play with."
"Hahaha..." Tang Zheng laughed, pointed at the jar of instructor wine that the shopkeeper brought over, and asked, "How many kilograms are two hundred jars?"
"I always brew wine in small jars, each jar only weighs two kilograms."
"Okay, shrink the jars to a quarter of their original size, that is, each jar can only hold half a pound of wine, and the rest remains the same. Then, make a wooden box for each jar. The wood should be the best wood that can be produced near Feishi City. As for the shape, you can see how the Yaoshan tribe put things."
"You...what's your new trick?" The shopkeeper was a little dizzy.
Before, Tang Zheng bought wine and sold it all over the street, and now all the drunkards in Feishi City are asking what kind of wine was the one that smelled so good that day.
And now, he has come up with a new idea. He wants him to divide the wine into such small wine jars and put them in wooden boxes?
"Listen to me first. After you finish all this, your two hundred kilograms of wine will have eight hundred jars, right?"
“Yes, yes, yes.”
"One hundred jars will be sent to the Red Tassel Army first. I will have Commander Wang Danyang send someone to receive them. One hundred jars will be sent to Tulun Pass. I will have Commander Liu Ruiqi sign and send them there. Then, one hundred jars will be sent to the foot of Yingshan Mountain with a note saying 'For Grandpa Gui and Azhi'. They don't need to wait for anyone to receive them. They can just leave after staying. One hundred jars will be sent to Bailianfang with a note saying 'For Lu Huang' and they will leave directly. Then, one jar will be sent to Yaoshan Tribe with a note saying 'For Miss Hua Yingxiu'..."
"Wait, one jar?" The shopkeeper wrote down everything one by one. He remembered that cold sweat broke out on his head. Suddenly he heard why the Yaoshan tribe only sent one jar. Why was they treated differently?
"She doesn't drink, so give her a jar to try." Tang Zheng spread his hands.
"Yes, yes..." The shopkeeper wiped his cold sweat again.
He was just talking to Tang Zheng about some big shot, and now it seems that this person is the big shot!
Wang Danyang, Liu Ruiqi, these were all big shots he knew, not to mention the people from Yingshan and Bailianfang behind them. Just as he was remembering them, Tang Zheng spoke again...
"How many jars are left? I can't count them." Tang Zheng yawned again.
"Three hundred and ninety-nine jars." The shopkeeper gave a quick answer.
"Take all of them to Jubao Pavilion and give them to Mr. Ban. Just say that Tang Zheng sent them. He can give them away, sell them, or keep them for himself... Anyway, he will understand when he sees the wine jar, so there is no need to say more." Tang Zheng waved his hand and threw a bag of purple gold Tongbao to the shopkeeper, "Yours."
“Thank you, thank you… ”
"But, in a month at most, you won't care about such a small amount of money anymore." Tang Zheng smiled and made a gesture of invitation. The shopkeeper immediately made some assurances and got out of the car to get busy.
Tang Zheng had a lot of things to say, but no businessman would complain that the order was too big or troublesome.
After the shopkeeper got off the car, Tang Zheng yawned again...
Xu Qingyan asked: "Go back and continue sleeping?"
Tang Zheng smiled and shook his head, then sighed: "I'm afraid I can't sleep..."
Today's rain is a little lighter than the previous few days, but it still falls from time to time.
As the carriage reached the main street, a horse stopped in front of Tang Zheng's carriage and let out a sharp neigh.
"Head Deacon, they are looking for you." An instructor from the academy shouted in front of Tang Zheng's carriage.
"Yeah, I'm on my way over there." Tang Zheng smiled and yawned again.
"Have you heard from the other instructors?"
"That's not the case. Instructor Sun, you are the first one to find me. However, Steward Leng and the others can't really let this matter drag on for ten days or half a month..."
The instructor nodded, but in fact he didn't understand the cause and effect of the matter as clearly as Tang Zheng, and didn't know how to respond.
Tang Zheng smiled: "Don't worry, things won't really drag on to the point where they can't be reversed. Today...everything can have a result!"
