It didn't take long for the smell of grilled fish to spread, but it was Gongsun Zheng who opened his eyes first, and when he saw him snorting his nose and laughing, "Oops! The senior brother is stupid, but he wants the younger brother to work. ”

Later, after seeing him stretch out his arms and move, he stood up, leaned over to the stove to take a closer look, and said with a smile: "Senior brother's skill of grilling fish, isn't it also a family heirloom?" But it is similar to what I saw in the northwest! ”

The scalper flicked the stove fire and said, "Exactly, the ancestors of the family originally moved from the north to the south, what is the surprise?" ”

Although he said that, the scalper himself knew in his heart that this method of breaking the fish from the back and roasting it on a bamboo fork frame was inexplicable.

Gongsun Zheng took a closer look at the grilled fish, but asked in a low voice: "What does Senior Brother Fang Cai mean by persuading people to be virtuous, and punishing evil and eliminating violence is meritorious?" ”

The scalper was stunned, but he didn't expect to talk to himself before, but he asked Gongsun Zheng to listen to it, and he didn't dare to deny it at the moment, so he said: "I had a dream last night, and someone in the dream pointed out that everyone in the world cultivates and seeks a meritorious consummation, but they don't know that persuading people to be good is virtue, and punishing evil and eliminating violence is meritorious." It is also said that killing one thief is to save one person, and killing ten thousand thieves is to save ten million people. Senior brother is clever, please also solve the doubts for the junior brother. ”

Gongsun Zheng was also stunned when he heard it, he cultivated with Luo Zhenren of Erxian Mountain, not only practiced martial arts, but also his attainments in Taoism were not weak, this truth was transparent after listening, and there was no incomprehension, seeing that the scalper seemed to be puzzled, he smiled and said: "It's easy to say, when you killed that Ma San, didn't you save Wan Niangzi?" Yesterday, you killed Chen Si again, and then you escaped with your Wan family sisters and brothers. Counting up, first killing a thief to save one person, and then killing a thief to save three people, this kind of merit is naturally much stronger than eating fasting and reciting sutras every day. ”

When the scalper heard this, he glared at Gongsun Zheng, but he didn't expect that he also knew about the murder on the boat, and asked his name clearly, so he had to turn his mind and say in embarrassment: "Senior brother also thinks that I killed people right?" ”

Gongsun Zheng stretched out his hand and moved the grilled fish in front of him, and said with a smile: "The thief does evil, and he wants to harm others, and if he kills, he will also kill him." Right or wrong, when you come to the palace of Hades in the future, there will be a judge to share with you, how are you? Hey! This fish is good, but it lacks some salt foam, and look at the senior brother's means. ”

Seeing that he opened the bamboo tube and poured out some salt foam and sprinkled it on the grilled fish, he took out another bamboo tube and poured out some powder that looked like cumin powder and sprinkled it on the fish, and blinked and smiled: "This benzoin fennel was brought by the merchants of Western Xia from the holy land called stupid in the west, saying that it was blessed, and only one or two gold were exchanged for one or two. ”

As soon as the scalper heard it, he took over and took a look, and found that it was indeed cumin, but the fragrance was stronger than the cumin on the market, and it was not too much to say that it was brought from the place of origin, and it was not too much to sell one or two gold, so he said: "Yes, it is a good thing, but it is strange how the Tangut people can go through the vast sea of sand to the origin of this thing, the holy place is not stupid, but called Jerusalem, it is a small city, and it is also the common holy land of the three major religions in the West." ”

Gongsun Zheng, who was flipping the grilled fish, heard this and asked, "Huh! Jerusalem, the younger brother also knows? Listening to the Xixia merchants, if you come and go fast, it will take at least a year, and I am afraid that it will be 30,000 miles away. ”

The scalper smiled when he heard this, and was about to argue that there was no 30,000 miles away from the two places, but the rich aroma of grilled fish woke up Wan Jinbao, and after Wan Jinbao woke up, he shook his sister next to him and said, "Fourth sister...... There is food, or bream. ”

The sister and brother came over to take a look, and sure enough, they saw four fish by the earthen stove, one river carp, and the other two were bream. Wan Jinbao came to the earthen stove with a tiger pounce, and looked at the bream that had been roasted and dripped saliva, Gongsun Zheng smiled when he saw this, and then picked up the river carp in front of him and got up and said: "A certain person likes to eat carp, so he won't let it." ”

After speaking, he walked to the meditation tree and ate it, and the scalper looked at the salivating Wan Jinbao, so he had to give him a bream, and then picked up another bream and handed it to Wan Chunnu and said, "Be careful of burning your mouth." ”

"Thank you Huang Lang!" Wan Chunnu couldn't help but blush on his face when he took the bream, and he could only thank him softly, looking at the bream in his hand was fatter than his brother's, and the patterns on his body were also better-looking, I was afraid that it was a real bream, and his eyes couldn't help but light up when he looked at the scalper.

After eating the fish, the ox cleaned up the haystack and the earthen stove, and touched his purse and took out twenty yuan to put it under the stack, which was regarded as the thank you for using the firewood stove last night, Gongsun Zheng still carried the boat into the river with one hand, and the four of them went north by boat.

After walking more than ten miles of waterway, Gongsun Zheng chose a port near the head of the shore to go ashore, and then hired a donkey cart on the edge of the port to go to Huangzhou, although this place is only sixty miles away from Huangzhou waterway, but it was enough to enter the east gate of Huangzhou in the afternoon.

Before entering the gate, I saw a long queue in front of the city gate, and the guards who didn't care about the inside and outside at all in the past took the sea fishing documents to check them one by one as if they were facing a great enemy, which made passers-by complain.

The four people sitting on the donkey cart heard someone next to them ask: "I don't know what happened in this Huangzhou city, so stern." ”

Someone replied: "But you don't know that this Huanghuadang hero was unwilling to destroy the Wanjia family last time, and tied up a pair of children under the knee of his stepson Wan Nianqing, who came to accept the Wanjia industry, and even brought the nephew of Lord Bo, the lord of Huangzhou, which was naturally full of earthquakes." I heard that Lord Yin, the governor of Huangzhou, has sent a letter to the Wuwei Army and wants to invite the official army to come and quell the thieves! ”

Someone next to him suddenly applauded, and someone said: "Huanghuadang has a waterway of 200 miles, and the fast archers in the counties along the river have been violating the yang and yin for many years, and they dare not rest with the thieves. ”

But some people argued: "This is not appropriate, this yellow flower is mostly a few escaped people, to say that the thieves are just a few jumping beam bandit leaders, now the official army to suppress, I am afraid that I don't know how many people will be used as the head of the thief to invite merit, there is a way is that the bandits are like a comb, the soldiers are like washing, this killing good and risky officials and soldiers, but not as good as the thieves on the river." ”

Although some people agree with this, some people say: "Hehe! This brother, look at you helping the thief talk, could it be that you and the thief of Huanghuadang are the same family? Master Wan is famous, and this time he is transporting grain to help the people of Huangzhou, but he asked the thieves to rob them, not to mention, and wiped out thousands of families, such murderous thieves are not as good as the official army? ”

Seeing that the line was still long, the scalper wanted the three of them to get out of the car, and walked quickly to the city gate with him, and saw that the scribe by the door happened to be the clerk under his uncle, so he stepped forward and whispered: "Professor Hu, I'm back, don't make a noise, take us to see Lord Bo." ”

Professor Hu raised his eyes to look at Huang Niu'er and the others, of course he knew Huang Jie, the nephew of the master Bo, but the young Taoist priest and sister and brother who followed Huang Jie made him difficult, so he asked: "They are the ...... of ten thousand families."

The scalper nodded hurriedly and said: "Exactly, thanks to my senior brother's action, we were rescued, and now there is a big matter, we must quickly report to Lord Bo to know, and ask Professor Hu to quickly close the four doors, don't let the thieves leak the news." ”

Professor Hu thought about it, then got up and said to the little school guarding the door: "Quick! Quickly get down the gate gate and notify each door to lock the door! ”