SWDnovel Chapter 67, How did this person become a dog?
Chapter 67, How did this person become a dog?
Xu Shang is having a headache right now. Other people's contractors come eight times a day. Before he became a tax collector, he also used to be a contractor. Even for a pigsty that only cost a few strings of cash, the owner would keep a close eye on it.
However, in this massive project worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, the client simply refused to come, leaving behind the words, "Just follow the blueprints and that's it. If you don't understand, ask Master Shen."
Shen Gai was actually driven crazy by Lin Zhou. The brick kiln and charcoal kiln had already started firing, but Lin Zhou, the boss, didn't even show up. The recipes, processes, and tips that others treasured were just handed to him by Boss Lin, who just paid him and then ignored everything else.
Others may not know, but Shen Gai does. The value of what he currently possesses is enough to wipe out his Shen family eight times over. Whether it is leaked or lost, the only thing he can do is die. This pressure makes him unable to sleep well and defecate every day, and he has started to have bald patches on the top of his head at a young age.
He had originally wanted to quit because of the immense pressure, but he couldn't stand the workers' daily greetings of "Master Shen" and "Master Shen," and the feeling was truly overwhelming.
There is probably no young man in his early twenties in the world who can resist the feeling of being respectfully addressed as "Master" by everyone on his way to work, whether they are old or young, men or women. Even the yellow and black dogs guarding the gate will assume an inspection posture when they see him.
His emotional value exploded on the spot. Whenever he wanted to quit, the thought of even the fiercest villains being respectful to him would trigger a surge of dopamine in him, and he would end up going to the construction site to guard the kiln before dawn the next day...
Meanwhile, Lin Zhou was washing his wig...
"Sigh, I still need to take care of my hair regularly. I wonder what kind of nice girl my sister-in-law will arrange for me today."
Lu You was squatting nearby, cleaning his teeth with willow twigs and salt. After seeing Lin Zhou's strange behavior, he couldn't understand it at all. He had always thought that Brother Lin's beautiful hair was his own, but who knew that it could actually be taken off...
"Today, we've had a ventriloquist with exceptional skills; his voice is absolutely astounding."
"Voice acting?" Lin Zhou frowned, thinking to himself that he was sensible, then silently raised his head: "Fine, 95 it is! How much per hour?"
"I don't know that. It seems that Princess Furui paid for the person to come."
"Furry...does it have fur?"
Lu You was caught off guard by this sudden change in direction. He gritted his teeth and pursed his lips: "Well... do she have any hair... I don't know either. This... Brother Lin, you're asking too many questions."
"Her name is Fu Rui, how can she not have hair?"
"Well... let's keep it then, since hairless ones are relatively rare."
"Is it golden or black and white?"
Lu You straightened up, his face full of astonishment: "There are golden ones too?"
"You've never seen a golden monkey?"
"But..." Lu You's expression grew increasingly strange: "This... is gold... huh?"
"A talented scholar indeed, you don't even know this?" Lin Zhou hung his wig under a tree to dry, glancing at Lu You with disdain. "You don't even know what a golden monkey is."
After saying that, he went to get his toothpaste and toothbrush to wash up, leaving Lu You standing there muttering, "Gold...gold...what a scene that would be..."
Before Lin Zhou could go with Tang Wan to the poetry gathering, a person rushed in as soon as the shop door opened. Lin Zhou looked closely and saw that it was none other than Wanyan Yangti, whom he hadn't seen for several days.
"Why are you here? Weren't you under house arrest?"
"What nonsense are you forbidding me from doing? I just went hunting with your emperor a few days ago." Yangti sniffed, then rolled up his sleeves. "Wait! You smell like a woman!"
Eagle, standing next to her, jumped up and down, pointing to himself to indicate that it was her scent.
"Get out of here, you little brat." The sheep's hoof shoved her head away, then sniffed hard: "It's the scent of a young woman!"
"Are you a dog?!" Lin Zhou said, half-laughing and half-crying, "You can smell this?"
"Of course! I've been hunting in the mountains since I was a child; nothing can escape my nose!" Yangti narrowed his eyes: "Are you hiding another woman behind my sister's back?"
"Damn it..." Lin Zhou sat down dejectedly to the side, "Your mother watches me like I'm a thief. I wanted to go to a brothel to listen to music, but two burly men blocked me from entering. If I were to hide a woman inside, wouldn't I be chopped into mincemeat?"
Yang Ti sneered, "You really went to the brothel just to listen to music? I'm too embarrassed to call you out on it."
As they were talking, Lu You and Tang Wan walked downstairs hand in hand. Tang Wan was dressed in fine clothes today, wearing a top-quality brocade from the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau. Under the sunlight, she swayed and her every step carried an ethereal air.
That alluring, womanly charm, so graceful and delicate, made even someone as worldly-wise as Yang Ti's heart flutter.
"What are you looking at, her wife?"
Lin Zhou quickly shoved him aside, but Yang Ti just pursed his lips: "I was just admiring it, what is this?"
Let me introduce myself.
After introducing them to each other, Lu You frowned immediately upon hearing Yang Ti's identity, asking with a hint of displeasure, "A Jurchen?"
Tang Wan, knowing her man's character best, quickly smoothed things over: "Since he is Brother Lin's friend, he must be a person who is always ready to help others. I am Tang Wan, and I greet Brother Wanyan."
"Okay, okay."
Yangti, being simple-minded, was instantly charmed by Tang Wan's address of "brother." He picked up a shiny little trinket from Lin Zhou's shelf and handed it over without asking the price: "This is a gift for meeting you."
"Hey, you took my things to give as gifts, didn't you?"
As they were talking, he picked up a pretty little dagger and handed it to Lu You: "This is for you, brother!"
He patted his chest, looking incredibly generous. Lin Zhou stood beside him with his arms crossed, saying, "You really know how to handle people."
As the saying goes, one cannot hit a smiling face. Even if Lu You disliked the Jurchens, he didn't have much of a temper in front of this simple-minded sheep hoof. Firstly, the sheep hoof didn't seem very smart, and secondly, the sheep hoof had a good relationship with Lin Zhou.
But he couldn't very well accept the gift, so Tang Wan put it away for him instead: "Thank you, Brother Wanyan."
"Where are you going? Take me out to have some fun! I've been so bored lately."
Hearing him say this, Lin Zhou quickly pulled him aside and whispered, "Today they're taking me to some kind of gathering of the Princess Fu Rui. I heard there's a ventriloquism performance."
"Mouth? What mouth?"
"That's the one!" Lin Zhou slapped his thigh. "You know what I mean."
"No way..." Yang Ti frowned. "How could the Princess have something like this?"
"Oh...you don't understand, those guys are the dirtiest. Are you going or not?"
"Go, go, go!" Yangti nodded hurriedly, his eyes shining brightly. "You can't tell Hongliu..."
"That's definitely not possible!"
The two reached an agreement instantly, and then the four of them headed to the venue of the Princess Furui. On the way, Lin Zhou also learned from Yang Ti that the so-called Furui was just a title and not true Furui... So the Princess Furui was not the Golden Monkey, which made Lin Zhou somewhat disappointed.
"Princess Furui isn't pretty," Yangti whispered to him. "What was her father again? He was a snarling, fat man, a thousand times worse than Hongliu."
"You're better off not mentioning Hongliu, because it makes me miss her even more." Lin Zhou smacked his lips. "How's she been these past few days?"
"I'm tied up at home."
"Really tied up?"
"That's right, Mother tied an iron chain around her waist, like she was tethering a dog."
Lin Zhou was shocked: "She's not resisting?"
"Of course she rebelled! But my mother said that if you dared to run away, she would marry you off to the son of Minister Chen, and then she wouldn't run away. My father let her go once, and both of them got a beating from my mother."
Lin Zhou scratched his head, his mind already filled with the image of Hong Liu being chained up in the house like a dog. He rolled up his sleeves and said, "No, I have to go rescue her tonight."
"Why the rush to save her?" Yang Ti looked up at the nearby Cuiyuan Tower. "Shouldn't we first see what that ventriloquism actually entails?"