Chapter 31: Misfortunes [1](1/2)
The entrance of Taishang River was already close in front of you, but Liu Ruiying saw a man riding a horse, wearing Taishang River officials' costumes, holding a scroll on his right hand.
He ran to the front of the team before he tightened the reins and turned over and dismounted.
"If you have an urgent matter, please contact Miss Jiang!"
This person said.
The two Heguan officials in the team walked forward, glanced at his clothes, then looked at the scroll in his hand, pondered for a moment, and nodded to make way.
The man hurried forward. As soon as he walked to Zhao Mingming's frame, he was about to speak, but was stopped by a personal maid from Zhao Mingming.
"What's there to be told?"
The maid said.
Seeing this, this man stopped talking. He just handed the scroll in his hand to the maid, then bowed to the frame, and left again as he was when Tathagata.
The maid kept waiting for him to walk away, and the sound of horse hooves gradually faded, so she lifted the curtain of Jiang Linlin's carriage and handed the scroll in her hand.
"Miss Jiang, what's wrong?"
Liu Ruiying felt that the person who came was a little too hasty and asked.
But he was worried that something might happen in the Taishang River.
"Two weirdos have taken my pleasure boat."
After a long time, Jiang Linlin said.
"This is a good thing!"
Liu Ruiying said.
There are many people who go to Taishang River to have fun, but most of them drink some wine before going to find girls. It is really uncommon to just book a magnificent house like this. For Jiang Linlin, if there are more customers and lively, her status and money will also rise.
However, just now Liu Ruiying heard Jiang Linlin say that they were two weird people, but she didn't know where the two were.
Jiang Linlin in the carriage was holding the half-open scroll in her hand, in a daze.
This scroll is nothing more than a document contract, which states when, where and who has booked her entire pleasure boat. However, the small words on the last line of the scroll noted state that the pleasure boat needs to be put into the air and no one needs to be present. In other words, the two of them only have an empty boat. No matter how gorgeous and rich the pleasure boat is, in the Taishang River, the pleasure boat that carries a courtesan still requires no need for anyone else, which is naturally a very strange thing.
As for the two people who took over her pleasure boat, Bi Xiangyu and Deng Pengfei, she also heard about it.
The two of them are the few big money owners in the Taishang River. They gather in the Taishang River every year and spend thousands of dollars. But they are not good at women. They only drink and have a discussion in the Taishang River, do not listen to music, and have never been to any girl's bed.
When they came back for the first time, the managers in Taishang River thought that these two people seemed to be joking.
After all, who would have spent so much wallet off the boat and only drank alcohol without touching women?
There is wine everywhere, and there is water where there is a boat.
After all, Taishang River is just a river. If you really like drinking on a boat, with the financial resources of the two of them, why not go to the Andong King Realm and book a boat to raft the river and sea? Isn’t it much more interesting and cheaper than Taishang River?
But these two people didn't want to do this, so the title of "weird" was spread to ten, ten to hundreds, and Taishanghe went on and everyone knew it.
Jiang Linlin didn't expect that this year they fell in love with their own pleasure boat.
She originally wanted to go back to Taishanghe and rest for a few days and accompany Zhao Mingming and Liu Ruiying to wander around, and then she would start to deal with the fact that her ranking was robbed by Li Yun in the "Juanchun List".
But now it seems that everything has to be delayed. Although the two of them only booked Jiang Linlin's pleasure boat for one night, the original plan had to be pushed back for six hours.
Bi Xiangyu and Deng Pengfei are good friends. This is the second thing that is well-known to both of them except that they are strangers to them.
Speaking of which, they met by chance, and the place they met was in Taishang River.
At that time, Bi Xiangyu was drinking on a boat in the Taishang River, but it was not a courtesan's pleasure boat, but an ordinary cruise ship. Of course, there were many girls on each boat in the Taishang River.
Bi Xiangyu had just made a small fortune from somewhere, so he thought that this Scorpio loved to be famous for a casual trip to the Taishang River. Young and proud people always take advantage of themselves from time to time. When they are happy, they have a lot of alcohol. If the money on him wants to make himself happy, it will not be enough to order vegetables and ask girls to accompany him. Therefore, he bought all the money on him into wine and wanted to get drunk. Although there is wine but no food, it is also great to use the noise and absurdity in the Taishang River to drink.
Deng Pengfei is also in the Taishang River, but he is in a completely opposite mood to Bi Xiangyu. Deng Pengfei just lost a lot of money in the gambling house. For young people, this is called a wife book. After twenty or thirty years, it is called a coffin book. A man will lose all his wife book, but how beautiful and sad he should be? But a man will use his wife book to gamble, and you can imagine how depressed he is...
Bi Xiangyu and Deng Pengfei, one just made a fortune and the other just lost all the money. But without exception, they both wanted to drink. They happened to be sitting on the same boat, and the distance between the tables was not too far.
After drinking a few pots of wine, Bi Xiangyu was already a little drunk. His head was heavy and he looked around. The rest of the tables were filled with wine, food and girls. Suddenly, when he saw Deng Pengfei, his eyes lit up!
Deng Pengfei only had a pot of wine and no dishes on his table. He had neither friends nor girls around him. Except for the smaller number of wine pots, the rest were exactly the same as Bi Xiangyu.
People who drink alcohol will always be more enthusiastic than usual. I believe that everyone who has drunk alcohol will know this. Happy things will be more happy, sad things will be more sad. However, domineering people will be more domineering than usual, while humble people will be much weaker.
Fortunately, Bi Xiangyu and Deng Pengfei are not domineering and humble people in their daily lives. They are just more happy now and the other is even more sad. Domineering and humility are nature, while joy and sadness are emotions. Nature is a lifelong thing, and emotions are only temporary.
Bi Xiangyu squatted in the wine glass and walked towards Deng Pengfei. He had only one thought in his mind, that was, he had to have a drink with Deng Pengfei and a drink with this person who was quite similar to him but didn't know him.
Deng Pengfei saw someone walking towards him and ignored him. In the Taishang River, whoever has more money will be tough to speak. His waist is more straight than others, and his chin is higher than others. Deng Pengfei saved only enough to order a pot of wine. Although he was considered a guest official at least, even the guest who served him wine had no good face. Because such a poor guest official had no oil or water.
What Bi Xiangyu didn't know was that even the pot of wine in front of Deng Pengfei was not bought with money, but was given to him by the casino in Taishang River. For customers who lost a certain amount of money, the casino in Taishang River usually takes care of one or two. Deng Pengfei didn't have many wives, so he only received one pot of wine.
"A friend is alone?"
Bi Xiangyu asked after approaching.
Deng Pengfei had no intention of speaking at all, but just said "um" from his nose, regardless of whether Bi Xiangyu heard it or not. However, he still thought in his heart that it would be best if he didn't hear it, so don't bother yourself anymore.
He didn't expect that Bi Xiangyu was a familiar person. After hearing Deng Pengfei's promise, he sat directly opposite him.
The two started chatting together, but the more they chatted, they became more and more enthusiastic.
When there was the last pot of wine left, Deng Pengfei suddenly spoke:
"Brother, you have a bright future. If you have a good time, you will definitely have a great future in the future. But I can no longer survive outside. I will go home when I sober tomorrow."
But Bi Xiangyu wanted Deng Pengfei to go out with him. After he made enough money, he would come to Taishang River to book a courtesan's house, and then no matter who it was, he could come up to drink. They joined forces and drank half of the people in the Taishang River, which would be considered a bright future.
But Deng Pengfei smiled without saying anything.
He came out to make a fuss with his so-called wife, but he got to the point where he had to change his pants to live. As for other ideas, they were already deeply suppressed, but they didn't think too much about it.
"But I am really happy to have a chat with you today! I have also drunk a lot of your wine. Next year, if you have time, you must come to Taishang River. At that time, I will definitely book a pleasure boat for the courtesan to get your wishes."
Before Bi Xiangyu fell asleep, he could vaguely hear Deng Pengfei saying this in his ear.
When he woke up the next day, Deng Pengfei had already left and disappeared. When he remembered the last sentence last night, Bi Xiangyu only laughed it off. He had heard too much about such empty promises, so he would not keep it in his heart at all. Moreover, he was only concerned about drinking and chatting last night, but he didn't even know the other person's name, which was just a passing visitor.
But on the way to leave Taishang River, Bi Xiangyu gradually felt that Deng Pengfei said yesterday very earnestly, not like a lie. But next year's events are still a whole year. The changes in the year are enough to change everything. But he still wrote this on his sleeve, for fear that he would forget it.
A year is not long or short.
But if there is something unfinished in my heart, then the life will be extremely short. After more than half a year, Bi Xiangyu couldn't hold on. He was extremely eager to know who was the person who drank with him that night.
If you want to know this, the only way is to go to the casino where Deng Pengfei lost all his money and asked clearly.
The casino in Taishang River is managed in a very meticulous manner. It is clearly recorded when each gambler comes, when he leaves, how much cash he lost, and what objects he mortgaged, but these records never give outsiders a glimpse.
Although Bi Xiangyu is also a martial arts practitioner, the sword he carries with him has not been sheathed for many years. As a businessman, he knows the reason why money can make ghosts push grinding. In fact, as long as you have enough money, it is not impossible to sharpen ghosts. No matter how illusory ghosts are, they are at least a creature, and pushing grinding is not difficult. But the grinding wheel has no mind and no legs. If it can push ghosts, it is a miracle.
Bi Xiangyu took the silver to Taishang River for some time and finally saw the record of Deng Pengfei losing money half a year ago. It was at this time that he knew Deng Pengfei's name.
With a name and money, it is not difficult to find out if you are a person.
Bi Xiangyu spent more than half a month asking around and finally found out some information.
At that time, Deng Pengfei, who could not even afford a pot of wine, was actually one of the three masters of Zhongdu, the eldest son of the Deng family.
The Deng family lived in Zhongdu City for many years and was a prominent family during the dynasty. When the Later Five Kings raised their troops, the Deng family joined forces with Qi family, and the Lin family provided a lot of support to the five kings openly and secretly. After the dynasty was completely overturned and the world of the five kings was born, these three families received extremely high courtesy and trust from King Qingzhong Liu Jinghao, among which the Deng family was the most important. Whether it was the important minister of the royal family of Liu Jinghao, or the three most elite troops under his command, there were all the Deng family. In addition, the Qi family, although the Lin family could not compare with the Deng family, they were also one of the best families in the world. The children in Zhongdu City all had songs saying: "The three great masters of Zhongdu are rich and powerful all over the world."
After Bi Xiangyu learned about Deng Pengfei's real situation, he couldn't believe that he had this opportunity to sit at the same table with the eldest son of the Deng family in Zhongdu. However, he felt that his identity was too different from Deng Pengfei, but he was embarrassed to go to Zhongdu to find him.
But it was such a coincidence that Bi Xiangyu went to Zhongdu City because of some of his own private affairs and did meet Deng Pengfei on the street.
Before he could recognize it, Deng Pengfei greeted him from a distance.
"Why did you come to Zhongdu City?"
"Some private matters are handled, so I'll come."
After more than half a year, Bi Xiangyu seemed very nervous when he met Deng Pengfei again.
It’s okay if you don’t know many things, but if you know them, they will inevitably change.
Deng Pengfei also felt Bi Xiangyu's strangeness and took him to a villa where he was in Zhongdu City. Bi Xiangyu naturally followed
"How many days will I be here to stay?"
Deng Pengfei asked.
"If you understand things, leave."
Deng Pengfei said.
"I dare to ask what brother is doing? Maybe I can help you."
Bi Xiangyu said.
When Deng Pengfei heard this, his excitement was beyond words.
His business was nothing more than a batch of trafficked sea goods. He had missing some procedures when he landed in the Anton King Realm, but because of the money he used, he was on the road without any danger. However, by chance, when he entered Zhongdu City, he was detained by the Zhongdu Quarantine Department.
The sea goods have always come from Yuntai Donghai, but the relationship between Yuntai Donghai and the Five Inland Kings is extremely subtle. This batch of sea goods is a business that Bi Xiangyu has put all his money into. If it is smooth, it will be a problem to have food and clothing for the rest of his life. If something goes wrong, it will be even more miserable than Deng Pengfei, who lost all his money in Taishang River at that time.
As Bi Xiangyu told her, Deng Pengfei's brows became tighter and tighter.
Looking at Deng Pengfei's expression, Bi Xiangyu's previous excitement was gone.
I think so.
To be continued...