Strongest Worker

It was dark before six o'clock.

Li Qing drove the car to the gate of Jiang's house, stopped steadily, and then got off the car.

"Mr. Li, please."

"HMM." Li Qing followed the servant who led the way through Xiao Leng's front yard and asked casually, "isn't there anyone else today?"

"Today is a private dinner." the servant answered cautiously, saying nothing. Li Qing knew that he could not ask anything from such a small role, so he simply stopped talking.

Not long after he came to the banquet hall, the bodyguards on both sides of Gong Li opened the door: "Mr. Li, please."

Li Qing nodded and stepped in. There was no one in the empty hall, only an empty table. Behind him, the door was closed again.

"Interesting." he walked slowly to the table, raised his hand and knocked on the table. He asked loudly, "the party has arrived. Where is the host?"

"Cough, cough, Master Li, don't worry." a hoarse voice sounded slowly, and Jiang Yuanzhou came in from the side door in the northwest corner of the hall. He was hobbling with a walking stick in his hand. From his face, he seemed to be ten years old again.

The pain of losing a son from a white haired man to a black haired man made Jiang Yuanzhou's last spirit disappear.

Li Qing stepped back and slightly owed his lower body: "Mr. Jiang."

"Mr. Li, please sit down." Jiang Yuanzhou made a gesture of invitation, then walked slowly to the table and opened the chair.

Li Qing waited until he sat down firmly before he pulled out his chair and sat down.

Jiang Junming supported his walking stick with his dry hands like eagle claws, narrowed his muddy old eyes and looked at him: "Mr. Li, it seems that he is very polite today."

"You are a figure of the older generation. You should be polite." Li Qing said faintly, and soon the conversation changed. "I'm also deeply sorry that young master Jiang had such a thing. Please forgive me."

"Junming's head disappeared, leaving me a headless body." Jiang Yuanzhou coughed violently for a while before slowly opening his mouth again. "I frozen the body and vowed not to stop until I found the real murderer who mutilated Junming. Only after avenging my son can I send him to earth."

"Yes." Li Qing nodded again. "If you need my help, please don't mention it, old gentleman."

"Alas." Jiang Yuanzhou sighed deeply, "I have a brother in amai Island, Jiang Qiyuan. He just died last month. Unexpectedly..."

Li Qing's eyelids jumped slightly. These two lives can't be counted on him, but they all have something to do with him.

Jiang Yuanzhou stared at him for a while and gently waved his hand: "don't mention it, don't mention it."

"Cough." Jiang Yuanzhou coughed again and immediately said hoarsely, "start serving."

"Yes." the servant outside the door answered. First, he brought in two sets of cups and plates and put them in front of Li Qing and Jiang Yuanzhou.

"Mr. Jiang," Li Qing asked, "tonight... Just the two of us?"

"If there were no accidents, there would be no mistake."

Li Qing didn't know what Jiang Yuanzhou's so-called "accident" meant, but he gently nodded his head.

After a while, the first course was served.

When Li Qing looked at it, he was stunned. In front of him was a plate of fried salted fish.

Jiang Yuanzhou mentioned chopsticks: "Mr. Li, I have carefully selected three dishes for tonight. This is the first. Try it."

Seeing that Li Qing didn't move his chopsticks, Jiang Yuanzhou seemed to understand something. A smile almost sarcastic appeared at the corners of his mouth. He took the food with chopsticks and first sent it to his mouth: "Master Li can eat."

Li Qing slowly picked up the chopsticks, still a little hesitant. He couldn't help muttering, which song did the old guy sing tonight?

But in the face of Jiang Yuanzhou's bright eyes, Li Qing had to put a chopstick of salted fish into his mouth and chew it gently.

Jiang Yuanzhou asked, "what do you think, Master Li?"

"It's a little fishy, but overall, it tastes good."

Jiang Yuanzhou breathed a sigh of relief and looked disappointed: "Maybe Mr. Li didn't know that when I first started to run a boat, I worked as a boatman in the Li family. I worked for about six or seven years before I came out to make a living. The dish you eat now is what I often eat when I run a boat for the Li family. We took fish from the sea, washed them, put them on the deck under the sun, scalded them, beat them, tore them into thin filaments, and then fried them in oil."

Li Qing said, "it's like eating a mouthful of sea smell."

"Hehe hehe." Jiang Yuanzhou suddenly laughed, "in principle, the Li family is my old owner. When your grandfather Li Qizhi was still alive, I had to prepare a generous gift for his birthday. He also saved me."

The strong fishy smell spread in the mouth, making Li Qing uncomfortable.

Jiang Yuanzhou started again and soon brought up the second dish.

Li Qing also wondered if there would be any wonderful things on the table, but when he saw this plate of things, he was stunned.

A plate of rice cakes.

"This can't be regarded as a dish anymore." Li Qing said with an embarrassed face. "Mr. Jiang, what's the origin of this?"

"The night Junming was born, I hurried back to Mingtai. It snowed so hard that year. At 1 a.m., the streets were cold." Jiang Yuanzhou's tone was very slow and hoarse. "I finally found a shop and bought two kilograms of New Year cakes. When I got home, it was harder than stone."

He picked up a piece of rice cake and put it into his mouth. He chewed it hard and said vaguely, "it was 35 years ago. I'm too old to eat it. I have only one woman in my life. Although she left early, she doesn't regret it. I really don't regret it."

Li Qing didn't know what to say. She looked at the small door in the northwest corner and said, "where's the third course?"

Jiang Yuanzhou waved again and said, "send it up."

This dish is even more wonderful. In the center of the white plate, there are five or six expired and deteriorated happy sweets.

Li Qing moved her body uneasily without saying a word.

"This is the wedding candy of Junming and Xiaoyun when they got married. I sneaked it into my pocket when people didn't pay attention. I wasn't willing to eat it or throw it when it broke." Jiang Yuanzhou held a piece of wedding candy in his hand and gently rubbed the sugar paper, "At that time, I was full of hope that they would be well. My children and grandchildren were full of happiness, and I could close my eyes at ease. But who could have thought that these years were cold and desolate. Now... Now I'm here. Have I done too many sins? I've been punished by heaven."

Li Qing's pupils suddenly contracted.

Jiang Yuanzhou looked up and stared at him: "Master Li, do you really have nothing to say to me?"

"I don't know what to say."

"Ha ha, ha ha." Jiang Yuanzhou threw away the happy candy in his hand and sneered, "you should have heard about the Kuzhi Strait."

Li Qing nodded: "well, it's surprising."

"Yes, it's really surprising. As soon as Junming came back, the bandits were beaten down." Jiang Yuanzhou said meaningfully, and the green veins on his forehead gradually swelled up. "And I also heard some rumors. It is said that... There was something wrong with their newly purchased warship, which was set up a double program, always sending geographical coordinates to the joint forces."

Li Qing gently blinked: "Mr. Jiang, is this doubting me?"

"Whether it's the work of Master Li or not, the Jiang family is really finished this time. I don't have the heart to investigate this matter." Jiang Yuanzhou said low, "but I have a question. I must find out."

Li Qing's eyes quietly showed a clear: "Mr. Jiang wants to ask, your son's death?"

"Yes." Jiang Yuanzhou nodded without hesitation, "did you kill him? After using it, you killed people? Mr. Li, how can my son be so afraid?"

Li Qing shook his head: "I'm afraid you misunderstood. Jiang Junming didn't die in my hands."

"Up to now, you still want to deny?" Jiang Yuanzhou's eyes became fierce. "Li Qing, when are you going to pretend!"

Li Qing had no choice but to smile bitterly: "you are forcing me to buckle excrement on my head. Even if I have reason to kill Jiang Junming, do I have reason to cut off his head?"

Jiang Yuanzhou looked ferocious and stood up tremblingly: "do you dare to swear to God?"

Before Li Qing could speak, there was a knock on the door outside the hall.

Jiang Yuanzhou couldn't help asking, "who!"

The door in the northwest corner was slowly pushed open. A tight skinned woman in her fifties came in, holding a round plate with a Western food lid on it.

"Jiang Yuanzhou." she came step by step, smiling at the corners of her mouth, "the fourth dish, would you like to have a look?"

"Huang Xianglian?" Jiang Yuanzhou took a half step back and trembled fiercely. "How could you be here? Didn't you die in Kuzhi Strait?"

Li Qing looked at Huang Xianglian and saw something clear in her eyes. Sure enough, the woman came. He knew that Huang Xianglian would never give up after getting rid of Jiang Junming.

This is not a good thing for Li Qing. With the indomitable nature of the old woman in front of him, he will point the spear at him sooner or later.

"You expect me to die? Hehe, let's say we haven't seen each other for more than ten years? Your old bones are almost rotten." Huang Xianglian gently put the plate in front of Jiang Yuanzhou. "You're welcome. Meditate on the good dishes prepared for you and open them."

Jiang Yuanzhou looked at her suspiciously, slowly stretched out his hand and trembled to open the cover of Western food.

Li Qing moved back two steps and glanced obliquely. Not surprisingly, there was a head in the middle of the plate. Jiang Junming's head was also carrying the ice that had not melted away.

Jiang Yuanzhou's body shook and the western food cover he held in his hand fell to the ground with a "bang". He suddenly turned his head, stared at Huang Xianglian and gnashed his teeth: "did you move your hand? You killed Junming, didn't you?"

"Yes." Huang Xianglian nodded without hesitation. "My eldest brother Huang Ziying, because you died in Kuzhi Strait, I must ask for an explanation."

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