sinovels Chapter 1805 Zhao Jun: I Have a Pair of Invisible Wings - Silver Wings
Chapter 1805 Zhao Jun: I Have a Pair of Invisible Wings - Silver Wings
Chapter 1805 Zhao Jun: I Have Two Invisible Wings—Silver Wings
When Zhao Jun and Shao Tianpeng returned to the Shao family home, they could hear laughter coming from inside the house even from the courtyard gate.
At this point, neither group knew that the broken stone dragon they had brought out had already been destroyed. They were still thinking of selling it at a high price so that everyone could get a bigger share.
Shao Tianpeng paused as he stepped into the yard, then turned to Zhao Jun and said, "Zhao Jun, we slaughtered a sheep today, let's all have some fun. Let's not talk about the stone dragon that didn't sell during dinner."
Shao Tianpeng didn't mean anything by it; he just wanted the two groups to get together and have a good meal. Any unpleasantness could wait until after the meal.
"Yes, I understand, Master Shao," Zhao Jun replied, and the two walked to the front of the Shao family's house.
The temperature has risen this month, and with the door open, you can see a large pot of steaming meat coming out of the doorway, the steam carrying the aroma of meat straight into your nose.
Upon seeing Zhao Jun and Shao Tianpeng enter the house, Lin Yueying and the other women who were cooking hurriedly greeted the old man and the young man.
As Zhao Jun entered the outer room, he heard Li Baoyu's loud voice coming from the east room: "You don't know, right? I walked to the place where we burned paper money before. I took one look and was instantly terrified."
At this point, Li Baoyu paused slightly, then asked, "Guess what happened?"
Those who didn't go with him, such as Li Ruhai and Shao Zhiqiang, all looked at Li Baoyu with tense expressions.
Then Li Baoyu said, "None of those four sheep trotters that were laid out before are left."
As soon as Li Baoyu finished speaking, Li Ruhai asked, "What happened? Did you eat Big Claw?"
“It should be,” Li Baoyu nodded. “There are still sheep hoof hairs hanging on the branches of the tree next to it.”
"That doesn't necessarily mean it was eaten by a tiger," Lin Youli said from the side. "What if it was a bear?"
“Maybe it’s a cannonball.” Shao Jun said this, and then he added, “I heard from the hunters in our village that wild boars even eat roe deer babies.”
That's true. Wild boars are omnivorous; they not only eat grass, hazelnuts, and pine nuts, but they also sometimes eat meat.
Every autumn, after the rainy season, some small puddles in the mountains gradually dry up, and wild boars will go into the mud pits to dig up fish and toads to eat.
Even worse, as Shao Jun said, if a wild boar sees a newborn roe deer cub, it won't let the little roe deer go.
“No way.” At this moment, Li Baoyu refuted Lin Youli and Shao Jun, saying, “You weren’t there, so you don’t know. When I was leading the way, I felt a chill run down my spine.”
Hearing Li Baoyu's bizarre words, Zhao Jinhui hurriedly asked, "Brother Li, hurry up and tell me, what's wrong?"
Just as Li Baoyu was about to speak, Zhao Jun and Shao Tianpeng walked into the room.
In an instant, everyone in the room except for Shao Tuzhuazi stood up and greeted Zhao Jun and Shao Tianpeng.
"Dad," Shao Zhiqiang asked Shao Tianpeng, "how much money did they say they could give us?"
Just as Shao Zhiqiang finished speaking, his wife Lin Yueying came into the room and asked Shao Tianpeng, "Dad, is dinner ready? Shall we set the table?"
"Put the table down," Shao Tianpeng said with a smile. "Let's not think about how much it will cost right now. Let's eat and drink first, and then we'll talk about it."
Hearing Shao Tianpeng's words, everyone in the room sensed something was wrong. But since Shao didn't ask, the younger generation didn't dare to say anything.
Xu Shanhe, Xu Shanchuan, Lin Youli, Wang Tianshui, and Shao Jun moved tables and benches, while the women carried large basins of stewed mutton to the table.
Not every family cooks as meticulously as the Zhao family. The Shao family simply boils the mutton in water with Sichuan peppercorns and salt.
This method is simple, and these days the mutton is of good quality. Stew it until it's tender and then dip it in chive blossoms. It's really delicious.
While the group was eating and drinking, they couldn't help but talk about the tension of their trip into the mountains that day.
After listening to Li Baoyu and the others recount their journey up the mountain, Shao Tuzhuazi looked at Zhao Jun and said, "Zhao boy, I have a feeling that if it weren't for you today, things might have gotten into trouble."
Zhao Jun, who was engrossed in eating lamb chops, paused, looked up and laughed, "No way, sir, this trip was peaceful and smooth, we didn't encounter any trouble at all."
“That’s right.” Shao Yunjin shook his head and said, “Not long after you left today, I started to feel uneasy, like something bad was about to happen.”
After saying this, seeing that Zhao Jun didn't take it seriously, Shao Yunjin said, "My old man's intuition is pretty accurate. Every time something big is about to happen, I feel uneasy."
Shao Yunjin's words steered the conversation towards metaphysics. The group went from discussing divination to the old bandit gang.
When this topic came up, Shao Yunjin became even more energetic. He told everyone, "Our group's leader is Widow Wang. That Boss Wang is both scholarly and martial, so we all listen to him."
"What if you want to be like other gangs? Take Niu Dayanzi and his gang, for example. Although Niu Dayanzi is the leader, he's just a brute. His men can't listen to him, because if they listened to everything he said, the gang would be finished in three days."
"Then whose advice should we take, sir?" Shao Jun asked. Shao Yunjin said, "Besides the leader, the Beard Gang also has a helmsman. According to their storytelling, the helmsman is the strategist. For the gang like Niu Dayanzi's, the helmsman is Old Daoist Wei."
"Old Daoist Wei?" Upon hearing this name, Zhao Jun couldn't help but think of the leopard sinew rope he had brought from Lingnan.
The leopard tendon rope was a memento of Song Waibozi. After Song Waibozi died, GA returned it to his family.
But the Song family had two sons: Old Song worked as a night watchman at the school, and Song Tiemin worked at the forest farm. Neither of them knew how to run up the mountains, let alone how to use a carrying pole. Just then, Zhao Youcai came to their door wanting to buy it, so the Song family sold the leopard tendon rope to him.
The leopard tendon rope originally belonged to Old Master Wei, but Song Waibozi recognized him as his godfather and inherited Old Master Wei's belongings.
"Grandpa," Zhao Jun asked Shao Yunjin, "I've heard of this Old Taoist Wei. Does he know how to hunt?"
"Yes." Shao Yunjin nodded confidently and said, "That person is amazing. He can do everything, and he can even read the weather."
As he spoke, Shao Yunjin tapped the table lightly with his chopsticks and said, "For example, if the sun is about to set tonight, he can go out and take a look and know whether tomorrow will be sunny, cloudy, windy, or rainy."
For example, if a group of people are walking in the mountains and a gust of wind suddenly comes, they know how heavy the rain will be.
After saying his last sentence, Shao Yunjin shook his head slightly and continued, "This person is just that wicked."
“Grandpa.” Zhang Yuanmin called out to Shao Yunjin, and then said, “I heard that your group, Widow Wang’s group, and Niu Dayanzi’s group were the two most powerful bandit groups in our Eighteen Ridges.”
"What else is there to say?" Shao Yunjin smiled as he recalled the glory days of roaming the mountains and forests. "Just the three of us, Boss Wang, me, and Blind Yang, if we stood out, we could take down any group of people on the other side who didn't exceed ten."
"Among the three of us at Shibadaogang, only Niu Big Eyes and Old Wei can hold their own."
Even more than 30 years later, some live streaming rooms still have a lot of listeners when they tell stories about gangsters and street thugs.
Besides, there weren't many entertainment options back then, so when Shao Yunjin recounted the strange tales of the old outlaws, Zhang Yuanmin, Li Baoyu, and the others listened with wide eyes.
The meal didn't end until 9 p.m. The women picked up the leftovers, plates, and bowls, and removed the tables and chairs. The two groups sat in the east room, and Shao Tianpeng then brought up the matter of the big boss refusing to accept their remnant stone dragon.
Everyone was somewhat discouraged after hearing this, except for Shao Tuzhao, who laughed and said, "That's good too. The stone dragon head is all broken, but it can still be sold for four thousand yuan, isn't that a good deal?"
"We went for a stroll up the mountain, and both groups are safe and sound, even making four thousand yuan. What more do you want?"
The bearded man, nearing ninety, had become more easygoing about money. Or perhaps it was simply because he had experienced so much that this matter was no longer a big deal for him.
Now that things had come to this, and the old master had spoken, the Shao family members were helpless but had no other choice.
Compared to the Shao family gang, Wang Qiang, Li Baoyu, and others from the Zhao family gang were secretly pleased.
Previously, Zhao Jun did not sell his own amber dragon and white dragon at a high price, but instead came to help the Shao family raise the price of the stone dragon. This was for the sake of integrity.
Now, without compromising integrity, it's certainly something to be happy about to make a lot of money.
“Hey Zhao, the foreman.” At this moment, Shao Tianpeng no longer called Zhao Jun by his name, but spoke to Zhao Jun from the perspective of a fellow traveler in the ginseng gang, saying, “If you can trust me, you can leave this stone dragon at my house for now, and then let the foreman, Shao, take it and sell it.”
"No matter how much it sells for, both of us will make a profit of 20% on one day and 50% on the other, or 30% on three days and 31% on the other."
When Shao Tianpeng said this, he meant that the two companies would split the proceeds from the sale of Shilong equally.
Upon hearing this, Zhao Jun immediately replied, "Alright, old man, we don't need to say anything else. This club is yours to sell for whatever price Shao decides."
Zhao Jun has always been a magnanimous person. If he had been alone with the Shao family gang today, given that the big boss rejected the broken stone dragon while his amber dragon sold for an astronomical price, Zhao Jun probably wouldn't have wanted the proceeds from the sale of the broken stone dragon.
But now that the two gangs are cooperating, Zhao Jun, as the leader of the Zhao family gang, has to consider the people who follow him. No matter how much or how little money they have, he has to get the money.
The Shao family members accepted this without question or objection.
By this time, the clock on the wall had struck ten, and the women in the outer room had finished cleaning up the leftovers, dishes, and utensils. The Shao family members, including Xu Shanhe, exchanged glances, indicating they wanted to head home.
Despite his advanced age, Shao Yunjin is still very sharp and his eyesight is excellent.
At this moment, the old man, while moving himself off the kang (a heated brick bed), said to his children and grandchildren, "Alright, it's getting late, let's all get ready and go to sleep. We've all had a long day."
"Wait a minute, Dad." Shao Tianpeng stopped Shao Yunjin and said, "Chief Zhao has something else to say."
Shao Tianpeng hadn't mentioned Zhao Jun selling the amber dragon before, but as long as the Zhao family gang successfully claimed the 100,000 yuan reward, the news would surely spread throughout the entire Changbai Mountain hunting expedition the next day.
This doesn't involve the Zhao family gang stealing business from the Shao family gang; on the contrary, the Zhao family gang is known for its loyalty and righteousness. But precisely because of this, it needs to be made clear to avoid misunderstandings later.
As Shao Tianpeng finished speaking, Zhao Jun stood up, clasped his hands in a fist salute to Shao Yunjin, and called out "Old Master." Then he turned to Shao Zhiqiang and the others, clasped his hands in a fist salute, and said, "Boss Shao, and all the masters of the Shao family gang."
That day, Grandpa Shao called me to discuss our two groups working together to lift this stone dragon. I agreed right away, but less than two days later, we released a small white dragon into the mountain.
Upon hearing Zhao Jun's words, everyone in the Shao family was stunned, including Shao Tianpeng.
When they were at the village office, Zhao Jun only mentioned that he had amber dragon seedlings, but didn't mention that he also had a small white dragon seedling. Therefore, even Shao Tianpeng was unaware of this.
At this moment, the old foreman looked at Zhao Jun with disbelief. He had been working in the mountain forty years and had never seen a young man like this before.
All three dragons in the ginseng are treasures, and now it is the season of budding grass market. To be able to bring out three dragons at this time, and not just one seedling, shows that Zhao Jun is not only very capable, but also very lucky.
Ignoring the looks on everyone's faces, Zhao Jun continued, "After that, on the first two days after we arrived, we released another Amber Dragon from the mountain."
But I figured, money doesn't last forever, but people do. I promised Old Master Shao, and I have to keep my word. We'd rather forgo the 100,000 yuan than not come and help the Shao family carry this stone dragon.
After returning to our village today, Grandpa Shao and I went to the village office to make phone calls. He called first, and they said the big boss there didn't want the disabled person. I then called the middleman here, and he said the same thing.
At this point, Zhao Jun paused slightly before continuing to explain, "Then I realized that our stone dragon really couldn't be sold, so I sold the amber dragon instead. When I was talking about these things on the phone, Grandpa Shao was also there."
Zhao Jun's words left the Shao family gang members dumbfounded.
At this moment, Shao Tianpeng spoke up: "Yes, when Zhao was on the phone with them, I could hear it clearly. That's exactly what happened."
After Shao Tianpeng finished speaking, Zhao Jun chimed in, "I'm not saying this for any other reason than to clarify things with all the masters in the Shao family. It would be bad if there were any misunderstandings later."
“No, Zhao Jun.” As the leader of the Shao family gang, Shao Zhiqiang understood the matter and immediately said, “There will be no misunderstanding. You have acted righteously in this matter. You should earn this money. There is nothing wrong with it.”
Hearing Shao Zhiqiang's words, the members of the Shao family gang nodded in agreement. At that moment, Zhao Jun inadvertently noticed that Shao Tuzhuazi was looking at him with a strange gaze.
"Grandpa," Zhao Jun said to Shao Yunjin with a smile, "why are you staring at me like that?"
Shao Yunjin smiled and said, "Looking at you, kid... who do you take after for this sense of righteousness?"
"Like me, of course. Who else?" Wang Qiang interrupted Shao Yunjin as soon as he finished speaking. Seeing everyone looking at him, Wang Qiang put his arm around Zhao Jun's shoulder and laughed at everyone, "A son resembles his maternal uncle, a daughter resembles her paternal aunt. Who else would my nephew resemble if not me?"
As he spoke, Wang Qiang brought his face close to Zhao Jun's and continued, "Look, we look alike too."
Hearing Wang Qiang's words, Shao Yunjin shook his head and replied to Wang Qiang, "I think Zhao is just like your father!"
Wang Qiang: "..."
If anyone else had said that, Wang Qiang might have slapped them across the face. It sounded like an insult, but when Shao Yunjin said it, Wang Qiang was only momentarily taken aback.
Of course, Old Hu wasn't insulting him. Shao Yunjin then explained to Wang Qiang, "What I mean is, Zhao Jun's sense of righteousness is just like your father, our Manager Wang."
(End of this chapter)