Unlimited employment

Chapter 51【Shallow Morality】

Late at night, Zhangjiabao, guest room.

Zhao Gou, who had a pleasant conversation with Chen Sheng during the day and was fortunate enough to be given a peach, was holding the peach with a happy face and admiring it in front of the lamp.

In the orange-red candlelight, the crystal peach looks like a red jade pendant with a faint circle of gold thread running inside, which looks beautiful.

On the side, Zhao Gou, who had just recovered from a serious illness, was leaning on the bed, his upper body leaning against the pillow, and his feet placed in the maid's open arms to warm them.

Before he fell ill, this man had the strength of the peak of the Refining Essence Realm, but years of illness had already drained his energy and blood, and now he looked like an ordinary, skinny old man.

He stared blankly at the rafters above his head for a long time, and at a certain moment he suddenly spoke to his son.

"Cheng'er, how many troops do you think Zhangjiabao can mobilize? What level has Zhang Shou's martial arts reached?"

This question was asked very abruptly, which made Zhao Cheng, who was sitting next to him, stunned and said in surprise.

"Father, what do you want to do?"

Feeling the comfortable massage on the soles of his feet, Zhao Gou sighed comfortably, his eyes dim.

"A common man is innocent, but he is guilty of possessing a treasure. The Peach Tree is a fairy tree that has the power to bring life and creation, and only a virtuous person can possess it.

Cheng'er, do you think Zhang Shou is a virtuous person? "

Hearing his father's question, Zhao Cheng pondered for a long time before speaking.

"From what I saw while strolling around Zhangjiabao today, there are more than 2,000 people living in this fortress. Excluding the elderly, children, women and children, there are more than 300 well-trained men among them.

According to the current habit of aristocratic families to privately store armor, Zhang Shou should be able to mobilize a well-equipped troop of 300 people at any time.

In addition, although he was young, he had already cultivated a body of energy as strong as a wolf and a tiger, and he also had a legendary immortal as his master.

"He relied on bribes and found a eunuch in the court as his backer, so he should be considered a virtuous person!"

"I don't think so."

Zhao Gou narrowed his eyes and shook his head slightly.

"In the Yanhan Dynasty, there were aristocratic families everywhere. What was a 300-man army? Even in Pingxiang County, they couldn't even rank among the top five. What kind of waves could they cause?
The relationship with the eunuchs was entirely maintained by bribery, which was unreliable and could not withstand the test of wind and rain.

Zhang Shou was able to cultivate excellent martial arts on his own. He was indeed very capable and talented, and was qualified to be a general in the court.

With all these virtues combined, if one simply wanted to be a powerful local tyrant, it would naturally be more than enough, but wanting to take possession of the peach tree for oneself would seem a bit too shallow."

Zhao Cheng, who had guessed what his father wanted to do, began breathing heavily.

"But that Zhang Shou also has an immortal master."

Zhao Gou shook his head calmly.

"The idea of ​​immortals is illusory. Since the Spring and Autumn Period, when there are accurate historical records, has any immortal ever interfered in government affairs?"

"But if the immortal is fake, then how do we explain the Peach Tree and the Taoist magic performed by Zhang Shou?"

Zhao Cheng was still a little worried.

"Martial arts are vast and profound. It's possible that Zhang Shou simply created a special martial art that can control trees with his true energy.

Moreover, as a father, I don’t care whether the immortals are real or fake, or whether the peach tree is the immortal root in the orchard of the Queen Mother of the West.

As a father, I only know that the peaches from this tree cured my serious illness and that it is a treasure that can be passed down through the family for generations to come.

Our Zhao family must get it!"

At this point, Zhao Cheng had already understood that his father was determined to take away Zhang Shou's peach tree.

After years of suffering from illness, my father became extremely afraid of death.

Especially after eating peaches to cure his illness and finding that his body became much younger, he had become crazy about the peach tree and didn't care about the consequences of his actions.

But Zhao Cheng was also eager to act, and after hesitating for a moment, greed finally took over and he gritted his teeth and said, "If you dare to dethrone the emperor, even at the risk of your life, I think it's worth doing.

After we returned to our family, we took along a few uncles who were very good at martial arts and took back the peach tree and all the money Zhang Shou had earned over the years.

There is also the so-called magic that Zhang Shou has practiced. After capturing him and torturing him severely, he will definitely reveal everything.

Dad, your health is not well yet, so eat this peach as well.

Anyway, the peach tree will become my Zhao family's property in the future, so we don't need these peaches."

"Good son, you are so filial."

……

"Mad, you are so filial!"

Dozens of feet away from the guest room, Chen Sheng in the secret room looked at the scene in the copper basin water mirror and felt helpless.

He has never been a weak person.

Ever since he learned that the Zhao family didn't want to pay for his medical treatment and even wanted his head, he felt that the father and son deserved to die.

It was just because Zhao Cheng's martial arts skills were not inferior to his, and he had a lot of family soldiers with him. He was worried that if they fought in broad daylight, he would hurt the people in the fort, so he pretended to be submissive.

He fabricated a story about the fairy fruit of the Queen Mother of the West for the Peach Tree, which aroused the greed of the father and son, and they put a tight curse on the peaches.

As long as the two of them ate the peaches, they would become fish on the chopping board and could only be slaughtered.

What Chen Sheng didn't expect was that Zhao Gou was so greedy that a plan to kill people and steal treasures made the filial son give up his peaches.

This directly caused Chen Sheng's plan to fail.

"Forget it, since there's no way to cheat, let's just attack directly."

Chen Sheng adjusted the water mirror technique, raised the line of sight in the copper basin, and revealed the image of the entire guest room.

Then he leaned over close to the water surface, blocked his right nostril and blew into the basin. Immediately, thick, pungent smoke came out of his left nostril and disappeared in the image on the water surface.

At the same time, thick smoke appeared out of nowhere above the guest rooms in reality and covered the entire area.

Thick, pungent smoke seeped in from the cracks in the guest room's doors and windows, and soon a flurry of coughing sounds was heard from inside.

"It's on fire, run."

"Go and protect the lord and the young master."

"Why can't the door be opened? It's locked from the outside."

……

Under Chen Sheng's control, the thick smoke automatically rushed into Zhao Jiabuqu's trachea, suffocating them one by one and causing them to faint in the room.

Compared to the straightforward martial arts, the methods of Taoism are so strange and unpredictable.

Martial arts require killing people one by one, but using the right Taoist technique can solve the problem in one move.

Bang!

The door of the most gorgeously decorated guest room was kicked away, and Zhao Cheng rushed out with his father under his armpit with one hand.

At this time, he was holding a long sword, channeling his energy and blood to his eyes, sealing his mouth and nose to prevent smoke from entering his body, and his face turned pale as he looked at the strange scene in front of him shrouded in billowing smoke.

"Zhang Shou, are you playing tricks?"

In response to him, there was a loud shout from all around.

"I command all the troops in the camps to hurry and obey the order."

(End of this chapter)