Earth Immortal Righteous Path

Chapter 146 Eating
living room.

The two have already sat down.

The meal-sharing system is still popular nowadays, and each table has three dishes, one soup and a large bowl of rice.

Fresh soy cucumber, eggplant, fried shredded chicken, and the soup is seaweed egg soup.

The rice is also not simple, it is the Jiangnan fragrance of Tegong, this kind of rice has a strong fragrance, and it is only grown in a few specific counties.

Such dishes are no longer easy, after all, they are just home-cooked dishes.

Some aristocratic families pay attention to eating without speaking, and keep quiet when eating, but fortunately, the Wangjiahe Zhou family does not have such rigid etiquette.

Just pay attention to not talking when you have food in your mouth, be quiet when drinking soup, and handle the bowls and chopsticks with care... In fact, there are many rules, but relatively speaking, it is much more relaxed.

However, Zhou Gui didn't want to talk too much. He just spoke out occasionally, chatting about current affairs and overseas knowledge. Both of them had business dealings with overseas, so there were still many topics in this area.

While chatting, Wang Shouye inadvertently talked about the conflicts between the two families on several important salt roads, and tried a few words.

"So, the Wang family intends to buy Yanlu? But as far as I know, your family's situation is not very good, right? Is there still room?"

Zhou Gui had already finished his portion and wiped his mouth with a wet towel.

Wang Shouye just ate a few bites hastily, in fact, he didn't care about this dish at all, even though it was cooked really well.

Seeing that Zhou Gui didn't refuse straight away, Wang Shouye suddenly regained his spirits.

"Senior is right, my family is really not stable right now."

As he spoke, he frowned, struggled, and sighed.

"To be honest, my father passed away extremely suddenly, and the younger generation took over the family business for less than a year, and the family's hearts are fluctuating..."

"Little nephew... my little nephew was also instigated by an adulterer before, and it was a mistake, and now... this is why I am obsessed with ghosts. Fortunately, Mr. Zhou has a lot of people, so my little nephew's fault is not taken into account."

"My nephew is here to thank you."

As he said, he was about to bow down, Zhou Gui would not accept his worship, and stepped forward to help him up.

"Oh, nephew, what are you doing? Pass, pass."

"It's just a small thing, but it's worth such a big gift."

Wang Shouye stood up.

With enough effort to save face, the two of them exposed the matter.

Sitting in the same place as the meeting, Zhou Gui was about to speak, when he saw a person walk in quietly, holding a few plates of desserts and mung bean soup to relieve summer heat, and placed them in front of the two people's desks.

Then, he whispered a few words in Zhou Gui's ear, which made him nod repeatedly.

The servants removed the previous bowls, chopsticks and plates, put them into the food box, bowed and bowed, and then stepped back.

Zhou Gui greeted Wang Shouye for dessert:

"This is a tomato from Nanyang. It is both a vegetable and a fruit. Cut into slices and put sugar on it, it will stimulate body fluid and quench thirst."

Tomatoes are not a native product of Daxia, but one of the new things brought back by the fleet from the overseas Southeast Asia. Now it can only be seen in a few coastal provinces, which is considered rare.

Wang Shouye had only heard of it before, but this was the first time he saw it, so he took a piece with bamboo chopsticks and put it in his mouth.

Sure enough, it is sweet, icy and cool, without the anger of summer.

Appetite whetted, Wang Shouye ate a few mouthfuls one after another, feeling more and more that the tomato was cold.

He raised his eyebrows and asked curiously.

"Is this chilled?"

Zhou Gui laughed.

"Ice cubes are too expensive. How can my family be willing to use them here? It's just hung with ropes, lowered into well water, and left in ice overnight to relieve the anger."

"Not only the tomatoes, but also the watermelon can be kept overnight like this, and then opened the next day, which is guaranteed to be extra refreshing."

Wang Shouye suddenly realized.

Indeed, generally each family has their own ice cubes, and each family sends its own people to dig in the river and store them in the cellar.

If there are not enough ice cubes in reserve, it is necessary to buy ice cubes specially at that time.

Where there is a demand and a market, there are businessmen looking for profit to do business.

In summer, when it was hot, a cube of ice rose to 120 wen.

If you are not a luxury home, or if you need it urgently, you will not buy ice cubes in your leisure time.

However, he was not the head of the Wang family in the past, so he never paid attention to this matter, and all he wanted to use were ice cubes.

"After going back, this expense can be cut off, and a lot of money can be saved."

Wang Shouye made up his mind to go back and check the accounts carefully.

"The child was swimming in the garden just now. He was playful and tired. He took a nap."

"It's okay, Brother Zhou can come to my Wang's house next time, it's the same."

With that, he got up and said goodbye.

Zhou Gui sent him to the door and watched his motorcade leave slowly.

At some point, Zhou Xun appeared at the door and followed him to look into the distance.

The young man was the same as usual, he couldn't see that he had lost his vitality just now, and suffered an indiscriminate disaster.

"This person is a bit weird."

With Zhou Xun's current Taoism and deeds, observing a mortal, without hexagrams and calculations, he can know his past experience from the dark with a little induction, and on this basis, he can easily know his future. Try a hundred.

However, this person gave Zhou Xun a strange feeling, like a mess, and there were conflicts in the past and future.

"What kind of weird method?"

Zhou Xun lowered his head and asked.

"This person is either a living soul who has lived a new life, or he has got a glimpse of the secrets and escaped from his original fate."

In the Zixiao Immortal Territory, there are too many people like this. For various reasons, they learned the future, or lived a new life and got rid of their original fate.

"What is regaining the first life?"

This was the first time Zhou Gui had heard of such a thing, so he asked curiously.

"Actually, it's not a big deal."

"Beings in the world always have a general trajectory. They have been involved in various causes and conditions since they were born, and they have followed this trajectory all the way. This kind of life that can be predicted is called fate."

"Ordinary people, entangled in the world of mortals, tired of all kinds of mundane things, can't grasp their own destiny. For this kind of ordinary people, their fate is roughly determined, and there is a slight error in the calculation."

"Practitioners are very different. When their nature comes out and they are familiar with their nature, their fate can no longer restrain them. As their practice deepens, their fate becomes less and less bound. Therefore, the fate of people in practice is changeable. Calculation Most of them are inaccurate.”

Zhou Xun said quietly.

"However, there are some people who are blessed by chance, have their own chances, know their original destiny, and glimpse a corner of the future, so they will naturally deviate from their original trajectory and embark on a different path."

"It's hard to say whether it's good or bad. It's just that it's jumping from a known trajectory to another trajectory. You can't detach yourself, and it's still a dead end after all."

Zhou Gui was still a little worried, after all, the other party might be someone who "regained his life"!

Zhou Xun saw his worry and smiled to comfort him.

"Father, you don't need to pay too much attention to these things. It's not easy for the Xianxian family to calculate based on the son's current Taoism, let alone a mere mortal?"

"Even if Wang Shouye really got a glimpse of the secret operation, it wouldn't involve my family too much."

Zhou Gui seemed to have other plans, but Zhou Xun didn't want to worry about it, he just thought of something and asked casually.

"I remember the last time my father promised to inquire about the news. I wonder if there is anything about Xueluo?"

Zhou Gui thought about it.

"I've heard a lot of rumors these days, but it's true that several families lost their daughters, but they were kidnapped by Huazi, which is not quite consistent with what you said."

"On the contrary, it was read in the official newspaper that the crown prince sent troops to the capital, forced his brothers to death, plotted to usurp the throne, and was defeated by the soldiers. King Ji supervised the country's government."

"This girl may be the orphan of the old prince...but the prince is nearly fifty years old, has three sons and two daughters, all married, and I have never heard that the prince has such a young daughter, could it be an illegitimate child?" Female?"

Zhou Xun had an idea, thinking of the "Ji" that Xueluo had called out before, so he asked.

"Does Prince Ji have a daughter?"

Zhou Gui thought about it carefully for a moment, then shook his head.

"The crown prince has a stable position. After more than 20 years, the whole world is staring at him. Who cares that King Ji doesn't have a daughter?"

"If you're talking about the prince, don't talk about anything else, everyone here knows about the women."

"King Ji is young, and usually keeps a low profile. Who would pay attention to this matter, all he knows is that he doesn't have a son yet."

Zhou Xun closed his eyes and concentrated his calculations, using the inspiration just now, to keep his thoughts in the inner world.

The past experiences reappeared one by one, Zhou Xun took Xueluo home, Zhou Xun took the exam, Zhou Xun met Xueluo by boat...

From the perspective of a bystander, outside the scene, watching the scene go backwards...
Soon, it went backwards to a place where a woman put a girl in a basin in the wilderness.

"stop--"

The situation flows backwards here, stop.

The woman began to pierce the palm of her hand, endured the pain, dipped in blood, and wrote a blood book.

It's a pity that this hastily forged blood book doesn't look like the handwriting of a brothel woman at all.

Observed silently for a moment, taking note of the woman's attire.

I wanted to continue backtracking, but I felt a sense of fatigue. Zhou Xun knew that this was because he had not recovered from his contact injury.

Opening his eyes, Zhou Xun attracted water vapor with his hands, which condensed into a water mirror, showing the scene he deduced just now.

"Just now I had a brainstorm, and the deduction paid off, and it was this woman."

Zhou Gui identified the woman's accessories, clothes, patterns, and behavior.

"Looking at his words and deeds, it seems that he came from the court, or he has learned court etiquette."

"The clothes on her body are nothing special. I can only say that it has something to do with the clan."

As he spoke, he pointed to the screen and pointed out a few inconspicuous decorations.

"The imperial clan of this dynasty all have such emblems. Others don't use them, and they shouldn't use them like this."

"Just looking at this, you can't tell much. Although there are not many clans in this dynasty, there are thousands of people."

"However, from the screen, we can see where she is. If we find it, there should be clues... I heard that Princess Ji died, and it seems to be in this area.

Zhou Xun also mentioned Xueluo's dynasty luck.

"Last time I looked at her, I saw that she had the luck of the dynasty, and her share was not small. Now it seems that she is probably the daughter of King Ji. Or it is a certain princess. This mutiny is not caused by several princes and princes. Unfortunately killed? Father can search for one or two, as evidence. As for the future... let's talk about it in the future."

"What does it mean to talk about it in the future? This kind of clan that lives outside is a hot potato!"

"There are all records in the clan's mansion. It is rumored that there is a talisman entrusted with the lamp of life, which can detect life and death and attract the souls of the dead."

"I haven't checked it now, but because of the turmoil in the current situation, I can't take care of it for a while, but I will find it sooner or later."

"Just take good care of me, but don't think about anything else, I'm still counting on you to earn back a hereditary title for my old Zhou family!"

(End of this chapter)