Chapter 71 Encounter
Before Zhou Qing finished his bowl of wontons, Shen Li turned back.
"So fast?"
While drinking the soup sprinkled with shrimp skin in the bowl, Zhou Qing said to Shen Li with a lingering fragrance in his mouth.
Shen Li hummed, "It's not much."
Not enough words to speculate!
As he was talking, a familiar figure came into Zhou Qing's eyes.
Zhou Huaihai was helped down from a beautifully decorated carriage by the driver.
When he got off the bus, two men who looked the same age as him came up to him with smiles on their faces.
"Brother Zhou!"
Zhou Huaihai shook his expensive robe, clasped his fists and smiled, with a slightly arrogant expression, "I have kept you two brothers waiting for a long time. There was something at home when I went out, which delayed me a little."
Before leaving home, I received a letter from Zhou Yuan.
In addition to reporting his current situation in Kyoto, he also sent home a thousand taels of silver notes.
As he said that, Zhou Huaihai raised his eyes and looked at the tea shop.
He frowned and said, "Is this right here?"
A man in an azure robe smiled apologetically and said, "Brother Zhou said he wanted to eat wontons a few days ago. The two of us visited all the wonton shops in the city and finally ate it. This one is the best because of its location. A little off."
With that said, the two of them made a gesture of invitation.
"Brother Zhou, you're here, let's have a taste."
Zhou Huaihai had a picky look in his eyes and stepped forward with a hint of disgust, "I advise you two brothers to come less often to a place like this. It's a trivial matter to have a stomachache after eating unclean food, but it's no joke to kill someone."
While talking, the three of them sat down at the table behind Zhou Qing.
Zhou Qing and Shen Li looked at each other. Zhou Qing lowered his head and slowly drank the wonton soup from the bowl.
The two men had already ordered wontons. As soon as Zhou Huaihai sat down, the waiter immediately brought three bowls up.
Steaming large wontons, chicken soup base, chopped green onion and small shrimp skin floating on top, the rising heat is filled with the alluring aroma.
Zhou Huaihai picked a wonton to eat.
The two men next to him looked at him expectantly. After he chewed a few times, they both said in unison, "How is it? Brother Zhou?"
Zhou Huaihai said: "I'm sorry for you, these wontons are really good, but the location of this shop is really dirty!"
The two men were confused and looked around.
The store is very clean.
Zhou Huaihai sneered: "I'm not saying his environment is dirty, I'm saying this location is dirty!"
"Dirty location?"
Zhou Huaihai glanced at the pen and ink studio in front.
"You don't know it yet!"
As soon as they heard Zhou Huaihai's words, there was something in them, and the two people immediately said: "Brother Zhou, what's the matter?"
Zhou Huaihai sighed.
"In this county examination, the head of the case was supposed to be Brother Sun's son Sun Jin, but do you know why the head of the case turned out to be country bumpkin Zhou Huaishan?"
When Zhou Huaihai said this, Zhou Qing's drinking of soup stopped.
Shen Li looked over Zhou Qing's shoulder and looked coldly at the person behind her.
"Why?" The two people beside Zhou Huaihai were extremely curious.
Zhou Huaihai took another bite of wontons, and then said slowly: "It's not because Zhou Huaishan has accepted a good apprentice!"
"Good apprentice?"
"That apprentice of Zhou Huaishan is the boss of this ink studio! Before the exam, the boss of the ink studio gave a lot of good things to the county magistrate. Who else could he be if he wasn't the head of this case!"
Upon hearing this, Shen Li's already cold eyes suddenly turned cold.
Seeing that Shen Li was about to stand up, Zhou Qing raised his hand and pressed Shen Li's hand, indicating that he should sit down.
Shen Li looked towards Zhou Qing.
Zhou Qing slowly put down the chopsticks in his hand, and then took out a piece of paper from his arms.
The moment he saw the paper, Shen Li was startled, and then he couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth. He looked at Zhou Qing again, his eyes full of doting.
Zhou Qing winked at Shen Li, shook the paper in his hand, stood up and walked towards Zhou Huaihai.
Zhou Huaihai was sitting with his back to Zhou Qing. At this moment, he didn't know what was going to happen.
"But how come Zhou Huaishan, a country bumpkin and the owner of this ink studio, became his apprentice?"
After eating another wonton, Zhou Huaihai chirped, with a sinister light in his eyes, and said: "Zhou Huaishan's daughter has reached the age of hairpin this year. Who can imagine what tricks she used!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the meaning was self-evident.
The other two men laughed.
"How does Brother Zhou know about this?"
Just when Zhou Huaihai was about to speak, Zhou Qing reached out and patted Zhou Huaihai on the shoulder.
The two men looked at Zhou Qing in shock.
Zhou Huaihai turned around and was startled when he saw Zhou Qing.
The wontons I just put into my mouth were swallowed whole before I could chew them.
The choked Zhou Huaihai stared.
Zhou Qing patted Zhou Huaihai on the shoulder and sat down on the seat next to him.
He slapped the piece of paper on the table.
The words were directed towards the two men and against Zhou Huaihai.
But even though he was facing the wrong direction, Zhou Huaihai still recognized what the piece of paper was at a glance!
It was the piece of paper that Wang Qiang and his parents printed on the night they went to cause trouble.
Zhou Huaihai's face turned purple.
Zhou Qing raised his eyebrows, "I'm also curious, how do you know what you said?"
When Zhou Huaihai saw the two men looking at the contents on the paper, he immediately stood up and grabbed the paper.
With Shen Li behind him, a peanut popped out.
Zhou Huaihai only felt numbness in his knee joints. He stood up and then fell back down.
Zhou Qing took the paper back, folded it slowly, then faced Zhou Huaihai with his palms facing up, "Two hundred taels! One slanders my father for you, and the other slanders me for you."
Zhou Huaihai was shocked just now, but now he has recovered a little.
"You actually brought this with you when you went out?"
Zhou Qing rolled his eyes, "What do you care about me! Hurry up and take the money!"
"Do you want to rob? This is a county town, not a countryside, you can do whatever you want!" Looking at Zhou Qing with disdain, Zhou Huaihai shouted, "Get out of here quickly, otherwise, I will report to the police!"
Zhou Qing smiled, "Okay! Report to the police! It's just right for us to ask the county magistrate what the many good things Shen Li gave him are! Whoever doesn't go is a bastard!"
Zhou Qing stood up after slapping the table.
He stepped on the bench with one foot and looked at Zhou Huaihai aggressively.
The noise here was loud and soon attracted some onlookers.
Huh?
Isn't this the girl who violently refused to marry last time?
The two men next to Zhou Huaihai just saw the contents of the paper clearly.
I have a rough guess in my mind.
Ha!
This time, Brother Zhou said bad things about people and the real owner heard it.
There will be excitement to watch.
Those who watch the excitement are afraid that the stage is too low.
One person said sarcastically: "Who do you think you are? You dare to challenge Brother Zhou. Do you know where Brother Zhou's son is now?"
Zhou Qing didn't look at the man, but said to Zhou Huaihai: "Unless your son becomes the emperor, otherwise, don't try to deny it with the black and white words and red handprints. Will you go to the county government or not? Hurry up and don't waste my time!"
Zhou Qing said it bluntly, and Zhou Huaihai's face turned purple.
The onlookers pointed and talked.
Zhou Huaihai waved his hand with his usual disappointment on his face.
"How can you talk to me? Didn't your father teach you to respect your elders? And you are the first in the case? That's it. Is your virtue worthy of it!"
Thanks to the little cute salted fish next door for the reward!