20 years of restarting life

Chapter 2707: Zheng Wenzheng's Story

After breakfast, Zheng Wen was about to go to the toilet. Zhao Changan drove the car to a public toilet and waited outside with Tang Shuang.

"Does it look good or not?"

Tang Shuang suddenly jumped and stood in front of Zhao Changan, facing him with a smile, looking up at him slightly and asked.

"What?"

Zhao Changan turned around and looked around, but he didn't see anything worth seeing, any good-looking things or women. He looked at Tang Shuang in confusion: "What's good-looking?"

"Haha, who's prettier, hers or mine?"

However, Tang Shuang continued to ask with a smile.

Zhao Changan finally understood what she was talking about, but at this moment he absolutely could not admit it, so he had to continue to play dumb: "What do you mean you got hers?"

"Just pretend to be confused. I know you saw it, and I also know you know what I'm talking about. Is there any point in pretending to be confused?"

"I really don't understand what you are talking about, how about you give me a hint?"

Zhao Changan would have to be crazy to say that he understood what Tang Shuang was talking about.

"I didn't say anything to you. I'm just curious if a woman will be deformed after giving birth and feeding the baby. What will she look like?"

Tang Shuang looked at Zhao Changan inquiringly.

"That's easy. If you're willing, let's try it today. You'll know in ten months."

"Hate!"

Tang Shuang complained, but with a shy smile on her face, she finally baffled the fatal topic.

But at this moment, in Zhao Changan's mind, because of Tang Shuang's mention, he couldn't help but think of that scene, which was so beautiful that it was beyond description.

No wonder Hu Xian was so favored in his previous life.

You have to know that old man is a famous playboy and has a lot of women.

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The car left the mountain city and drove downstream along the township road beside Taohua River.

It was the golden autumn season of October. There were few clouds in the sky and the weather was clear and cool. The car was driving on the south bank of Taohua River. Unlike the north bank which was all golden harvested rice fields, the south bank was full of mountains and hills, covered with green forests, and dotted with persimmon trees hung with persimmons like small red lanterns, which were particularly eye-catching.

Zhao Changan was still driving, while Zheng Wenzhen and Tang Shuang were drinking tea and chatting in the teahouse in the back.

At this time, Zheng Wen Zheng was telling Tang Shuang about the historical changes and anecdotes of the people living on the river. Tang Shuang was very interested and asked questions from time to time, and Zheng Wen Zheng answered them patiently.

Zhao Changan understood what his teacher was thinking, that is, he had made a promise to him and his wife regarding Zheng Xi. Although even if the promise was fulfilled by then, the Zheng family had never thought of letting the younger generations recognize each other, but people are not all fools.

Especially for a woman as smart and clear-sighted as Tang Shuang, who is already so powerful now, who knows how smart and powerful she will become in ten or twenty years. So in Zheng Wenzheng's opinion, if you can make a good connection, then make more.

Just like what some people say about "weakness", for someone like Zheng Wen Zheng who behaves unruly, whose face means nothing, and who pretends to be a master by cheating people by observing people's words and expressions when he was young, his daughter Zheng Xi is his weak spot.

This was also what Zhao Changan guessed, the closest truth to the death of Zheng Wenzhen and his wife in his previous life.

Xu Songlin is a very shrewd person. He first seized Zheng Wen Zheng's weakness and eventually entered the Zheng family as a son-in-law, relying on the connections that Zheng Wen Zheng had worked hard to build up over twenty years as his resources.

When he has grown stronger, he wants to kick Zheng Xi and the Zheng family away, and live a happy life with Wang Ying and his baby son as a family of three.

But he knew that Zheng Wen Zheng was actually an old wolf who had to put away his sharp claws and fangs because of his daughter.

Then he could only find a way to get rid of Zheng Xi after completely getting rid of the trouble of Zheng Wen Zheng.

People know that ghosts are scary, and ghosts know that human hearts are vicious. In fact, the most cruel, vicious and unscrupulous thing in history is the human heart.

"The lower reaches of the Taohua River connect to the Huai River, and if you continue eastward along the river, you will reach the section where the Huai River boatmen are most concentrated. The Huai River boatmen are also called water people, commonly known as boat people. In the old days, most of these families were refugees who lost their land for various reasons. They gathered here to work hard, and after they had some savings, they rented boats, and then bought boats, and this continued from generation to generation."

Seeing that Tang Shuang was very interested in this, Zheng Wenzheng began to explain to her in as much detail as possible: "In the old days, people on boats were divided into three factions. The gun faction was mainly from Gusu, and they made a profit by hunting geese and selling them to Jiangnan after drying them; the net faction was mostly from Fengtai, Anhui, and they mainly made a living by fishing and catching shrimps; the river boat faction came from Huangpi, and they made a living by operating on the water. Boat people often say, 'There are three hardships in the world: sailing a boat, forging iron, and grinding tofu.' Sailing a boat is listed as the first hardship, especially working on the water, which is the hardest.

There is a doggerel that describes the hard life of boatmen: "Pulling the oars barefoot on the beach, the scorching sun above is like frying oil, the wind and rain are really uncomfortable, and the oars and oars rub my hands and shoulders." There is also a folk song circulating among the boatmen on the Huai River: "Big water is afraid of reaching Yingshui Temple (in the territory of Zhengyangguan, Anhui, where boats are prone to collisions), small water is afraid of reaching Fangjiakan (on the Huai River, where boats are prone to run aground), crossing the river without wind is three points dangerous, and crossing the lake is like passing through the gates of hell."——"

Zheng Wenzheng talked about this history and allusions, and he became more and more excited. In fact, he was also telling about his own life in the first twenty years. He began to sing with his head shaking: "The first watch flag, a hundred birds pay homage to the phoenix, there was a hero Qin Qiong in the Tang Dynasty; the second watch flag, the phoenix pays homage to the sun, Wu Zixu passed Zhaoguan Pass to protect the empress alone; the third watch flag, the three yuans touch the ground, the Yellow Crane Tower angers Zhou Yu three times; the fourth watch flag, the four seasons are peaceful, Li Yuanba controls four famous mountains;——"

Zheng Wenzheng kept singing: "Eight-watch flags, golden thread Bagua, beheading the general and deifying Jiang Ziya."

The sound is vicissitudes, with the desolate flavor of rivers in the vast time and space.

Then he sighed and said, "Since I took away the Sun family's wealth in the dark and set it on fire thirty-six years ago, I haven't set foot there in the past thirty-six years."

"Uncle Zheng, you also took away the property and set the fire?"

Tang Shuang was shocked, and Zhao Changan, who was driving, heard it for the first time.

It seems that my master is actually a ruthless person with decisive means.

"How can you survive without money, especially in those poor times? And if I didn't set the fire and then pretended to go to the river to fetch water to put it out, how could I pretend to fall into the water, and how could they not notice the money I took away?"

Zheng Wenzhen thought about it and said, "It rained so heavily that year. When I arrived in Shancheng, I realized that there was also a flood in the north. Many people fled to Shancheng to avoid the flood."

"Uncle Zheng, how can we start a fire when it's raining?"

Tang Shuang felt that there were loopholes in Zheng Wenzhen's words.

"It didn't rain where I was, but it rained heavily in the west and north."

Zheng Wenzhen explained, wanting to say a few more words, but after thinking for a while, he sighed and decided not to say anything: "It is precisely because of this that when people ask me, I always say I am from the north. Even today, when people talk about my original place of origin, they still think I am from Runing Prefecture."