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Chapter 1775 Drinking
"This is a living Buddha, you must watch him carefully, anyone who dares to get close will be killed without mercy!"

Sun Lei smiled and gave orders to the soldiers.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

The captain leading the troops saluted.

Jiumozhi in the cage had a very ugly expression on his face. He opened his mouth to beg for mercy, but was answered back by a voice of praise from afar.

"I don't think this guy can last more than a few days!"

Lu Zhishen looked at Jiumozhi. He had experienced hunger before, so he knew how it felt.

"Of course I can't hold out for a few days. Man is made of iron and food is made of steel. If I don't eat for a meal, I'll be hungry!"

Sun Lei said with a smile.

"Why doesn't this guy do anything good? Why does he imitate those ascetics and go on a hunger strike?"

Lu Zhishen glanced at Jiumozhi again and said with disdain.

"You are a monk, you should know the story of Bodhidharma who went into seclusion for nine years without eating or drinking!"

Sun Lei smiled and said, Bodhidharma is the founder of Zen Buddhism in China, and there are many rumors about him in the Buddhist community.

"That's all fake. I've asked some great monks before. Even when Bodhidharma was in seclusion, someone brought him food and water every day. How could he really not eat or drink?"

Lu Zhishen shook his head repeatedly, because he was a monk, he knew these secrets better.

"Is there such a thing?"

Sun Lei and Lu Zhishen walked away while chatting.

While Jiumozhi was struggling with a countermeasure, Sun Lei took Lu Zhishen and left directly. He was too lazy to continue wasting time with Jiumozhi.

By the time Jiumozhi was stunned, Sun Lei had already walked far away. It was useless for him to beg for mercy.

"General Tao!"

Jiumozhi looked at Tao Zongwang who was left behind and shouted.

"Don't call me that. You are a living Buddha. How can such a powerful person lose face? Stay still. If you dare to speak again, I will pull out all your teeth. You don't need to eat anyway!"

Tao Zongwang didn't have a good face for Jiumozhi. He was really angry. Jiumozhi had to cause trouble for no reason, and now he wanted to beg for mercy? Now he just wanted to kill Jiumozhi!
When Jiumozhi saw what happened to Tao Zongwang, he knew that he could not escape this time.

in the crowd.

"Why are you pretending to be a living Buddha? Aren't you just courting death?"

Some smart people have already seen through Jiumozhi's tricks. How can anyone really not eat or drink? He is just eating and drinking secretly to pretend.

"Don't worry about him, or he might get us into trouble!"

Someone else whispered that the emperor was here today, and anyone who dared to cause trouble again would suffer the same fate as Jiumozhi.

Some people quickly left the crowd and continued working with their tools.

"What are you doing? You all deserve a beating!"

Tao Zongwang shouted at those people from the martial arts world who were still kneeling before Jiumozhi, and suddenly lashed out with the whip in his hand.

The loud "click" startled everyone and they stepped back one after another, and soon they all picked up their tools and went to work.

Sun Lei and Lu Zhishen took a boat to Liangshanpo again. After getting ashore, they began to wander around the city.

"Brother, have a drink, have a drink!"

When Lu Zhishen smelled the fragrance coming from the roadside tavern, he couldn't move.

"Master Lu, why are you such a drunkard that you can't even walk when you see food and drink?"

Sun Lei was speechless. He hadn't even taken two steps and he was already thinking about eating and drinking.

"I'm not like you. I just ate a few buns this morning, and my stomach is already empty!"

Lu Zhishen said, Sun Lei ate after the court session, but he didn't. "Okay!"

Sun Lei reluctantly followed Lu Zhishen into the tavern.

"Waiter, bring us the good wine and good meat!"

Lu Zhishen sat down and started shouting to the waiter.

Soon a table of dishes was served, and Lu Zhishen picked up the wine bowl and drank it all.

"readily!"

Lu Zhishen sighed and said that he still felt that drinking like this was the most refreshing.

"You always drink a lot of wine!"

Sun Lei looked at Lu Zhishen and said that Lu Zhishen had secretly drunk a lot of the fine wine hidden in his cellar.

"How can it be the same? Look how nice it is here. We can drink wine and eat meat, and watch people coming and going on the street! There are other people in the hotel."

Lu Zhishen said with a smile.

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"You want to show off, don't you?"

Sun Lei smiled and took a sip of wine. He didn't expect that Lu Zhishen had this habit. He liked to drink and eat while watching people coming and going on the street.

"Hey, I'm not showing off. I've been like this for a long time!"

Lu Zhishen touched his bald head and began to miss the days when he became Lu Zhishen again. When he was in Guanxi, he liked to drink in the restaurant and look at the bustling streets.

Sun Lei accompanied Lu Zhishen, drinking and looking at the street.

Sun Lei carefully observed the bustling crowds on the street, including young women shopping, middle-aged women carrying vegetables to sell, men carrying loads, and horsemen driving carts...

"So this is what Liangshan City is like!"

Sun Lei sighed. This was not the first time he observed Liangshan City in this way, but he had different feelings every time.

"Should we set up some temporary vegetable markets? It's a problem to sell food along the street!"

Sun Lei stroked his chin and thought. He found that there were many people carrying loads to sell vegetables, meat and fish, and there were also people carrying live chickens, ducks and geese to sell on the street.

These are ordinary farmers who grow vegetables and raise chickens, ducks and geese. However, the quantity of goods is too small and the price is too low if they are sold to others. If they want to sell, they can only find buyers on the street.

Just as the two were drinking, the street suddenly became lively with the sound of playing musical instruments and singing, followed by a large group of people.

"This is?"

Lu Zhishen looked at the team on the street curiously. Those people were wearing armor and were obviously soldiers.

"How do you hold the office of Privy Councilor? Today is the day Zhu Wu returns!"

Sun Lei said.

"Oh, it's Zhu Wu. He's finally back. It's been so long!"

Lu Zhishen slapped his forehead and said that the order for Zhu Wu to return to duty had been issued a long time ago and he had almost forgotten about it.

"The Western Region is still a troublesome place. Although the message can be sent quickly, it will take at least two months for the people who want to change guards to go there, and another two months for the people who want to come back. It will take half a year to go back and forth."

Sun Lei said, to put it bluntly, the Western Regions are now farther away than the Red Sea. It takes less than three months to travel back and forth to the Red Sea by boat. Moreover, that is by boat, and people are not tired at all. It is many times more comfortable than riding a horse for thousands of miles.

"Hey, brother, didn't you say that the train can go to the Western Regions?"

Lu Zhishen looked at Sun Lei and asked, the road to the Western Regions is indeed a problem, but he has heard Sun Lei talk about steam trains, which can reach the Western Regions in a few days.

"We have almost finished researching steam locomotives, but the problem is that it is not easy to lay rails. Guanzhong is still okay, but you know the terrain as you go west. The Hexi Corridor is just okay, but after Yumen Pass, it is either wasteland Gobi or desert!"

Sun Lei said helplessly that the research on steam locomotives has been almost completed, but currently it can only be used near the Central Plains. Laying tracks is not easier than building a locomotive.

"That's right, that place... eh!"

Lu Zhishen felt helpless when he thought about the journey to the Western Regions, with mountains, rivers, wastelands, deserts, forests, as well as extreme weather such as heat, heavy snow, and sandstorms.