Uncle Jiu: I am Chen Yulou, the leader of the Xiangling gang

Chapter 51, Big Yellow Croaker——Jingjing

"In that case, Master Zheng, we brothers are ready to say goodbye!" Chen Yulou and Qiu Sheng looked at each other, then stood up and looked at Zheng Tianming.

Zheng Tianming was stunned and quickly stood up and said, "Why are you two Taoist masters in such a hurry to leave? I saw that you two Taoist masters had no interest in the banquet yesterday. Why don't I have my servants prepare a banquet now and treat you two Taoist masters well to express my gratitude!"

Chen Yulou immediately waved his hand and said, "Don't bother with the banquet. After all, there's still a funeral to attend to in the mansion."

Zheng Tianming was startled. It was indeed not appropriate to entertain guests at this time, so he had to give up. He immediately looked at the housekeeper Qu Dehai and said, "Dehai, go and get the small gift I prepared for the two Taoist priests!"

"Yes, sir!"

Qu Dehai hurriedly left the hall.

After a while, Qu Dehai returned to the hall with a palm-sized wooden box and handed it to Zheng Tianming.

Zheng Tianming took the wooden box, opened it and took a look. Then he came to Chen Yulou and the others, presented the wooden box with both hands, and said, "Two Taoist priests, this is just a small gift. It's not a token of respect!"

Chen Yulou glanced at the wooden box, then looked at Qiu Sheng and said, "Brother, since this is a small gift from Master Zheng, please accept it on our behalf!"

Upon hearing this, Qiu Sheng took the wooden box and put it directly into his bag.

"Master Zheng, in that case, we'll take our leave!"

The two men bowed slightly to Zheng Tianming, then turned and left.

"Take care, Taoist priests!"

After leaving the Zheng residence, Chen Yulou glanced at the busy streets, turned back to look at Qiu Sheng and said with a smile, "Brother, shall we go to Uncle Simu's place?"

"Go!"

"But before that, let's find a place to eat something. Yesterday, when I was with that demon Taoist, there was so much delicious food and wine, but I didn't eat much. I was hungry last night, and now I'm even hungrier." Qiu Sheng said.

Upon hearing this, Chen Yulou immediately turned around to look at the Zheng Mansion, where white flowers and white cloth were already hung in front of the door. He smiled at Qiu Sheng and said, "If I had known earlier, I would have agreed to let Master Zheng set up a banquet to entertain us!"

"forget it!"

"Mr. Zheng suffered a great blow last night, and his wife died this morning. How could he still be in the mood to entertain us?"

"Besides, someone died in their house, and it would be bad if we left behind some delicious food and fish!" Qiu Sheng quickly shook his head.

Chen Yulou immediately looked at Qiu Sheng and said with a smile, "Haha... Senior Brother, you are still sensible!"

"Let's go, I'm hungry too!"

"Wait, Junior Brother, what do you think Master Zheng's thank-you gift is? It's just such a small box!"

Qiu Sheng took out the wooden box. He had always been curious about it, but he didn't want to look at it in front of Zheng Tianming before.

Chen Yulou took a look at the wooden box and said with certainty, "It should be gold bars!"

When Qiu Sheng heard this, his eyes widened immediately, and he couldn't wait to open the wooden box.

Sure enough, a hint of yellow caught his eye.

“It really is a gold bar!”

"And it's not small!" Qiu Sheng handed the wooden box to Chen Yulou and said excitedly.

Chen Yulou took a look and nodded, saying, "It's indeed not small, it's a big yellow croaker."

A standard large yellow croaker weighs ten taels.

“It really looks like a large yellow croaker!”

Qiu Sheng looked carefully again and again, nodded, and then sighed, "This Mr. Zheng is really generous. He is worthy of being one of the largest gentry in Wuwang Town. In the past, when my master did feng shui for people, helped them to protect their homes and exorcise evil spirits, and exorcise demons, the biggest thank-you gift he would give was only two small yellow croakers."

"We caught a big yellow croaker on our first try."

"This is equivalent to four hundred Yuan Datou coins. With it, our lives this year can be improved a lot!" After saying that, Qiu Sheng closed the box and immediately put it into his bag.

In the early years of the Republic of China, one ounce of gold was worth forty Yuan Datou coins, and a large yellow croaker was worth nearly four hundred Yuan Datou coins, so Zheng Tianming's generosity was considered quite generous. Soon, the two found a breakfast shop in town that sold steamed buns and porridge and had a delicious breakfast.

After filling their stomachs, the two headed towards the mountains north of the town.

Half an hour later, after the two had passed through a small forest, Qiu Sheng stood on a cliff, looking down at the ravine ahead. He pointed to a place nearby and said, "Brother, look, that place with smoke rising from the chimney is Uncle Simu's house!"

Chen Yulou immediately came to Qiu Sheng's side and looked ahead. Sure enough, there was smoke rising from a cooking stove not far away.

"The scenery here is really nice. Uncle Simu really knows how to choose a place!" Chen Yulou said with a smile after taking a look around.

Mountains, jungles, rivers, insects chirping, birds singing, especially now it is the turn of spring and summer, the scenery of the whole valley is pleasant.

"What's the point of choosing a good place? He's just lazy! He deliberately lives in this remote mountain valley to make it difficult for outsiders to find him!"

"Just like this time when the Zheng family was in trouble, they ran to Renjia Town to look for our master. It was because they couldn't find him. Otherwise, why would they go so far away!" Qiu Sheng said with a roll of his eyes.

"Moreover, our Uncle Simu often does this. When someone comes to him to exorcise demons and catch monsters, he gets lazy and sends them to our master, or to other Taoist priests or monks."

"No way, Master Simu doesn't like to exorcise demons and catch ghosts?" Chen Yulou was quite surprised when he heard this.

Qiu Sheng nodded and said, "Yes, Uncle Simu likes dealing with zombies. If there are zombies somewhere, he will be very active."

Could it be that because Taoist Simu is proficient in the art of controlling corpses, he doesn't like catching ghosts and only likes dealing with zombies?

The two chatted for a while and then set off again.

After a while, two bamboo houses appeared in front of them.

"This is the residence of Uncle Simu!"

"But it looks like he's not at home?" Qiu Sheng walked closer and found that the door was closed.

Then he went up the steps, came to the door, and knocked on it.

"Master Simu!!!"

"Junior Brother Jiale!!!"

……

Qiu Sheng banged on the wooden door and shouted, but after shouting four or five times, there was still no response from inside.

At this time, a female voice came from next door.

"Brother Qiu Sheng, are you looking for Taoist Simu?"

Chen Yulou looked over immediately after hearing this.

She is a very beautiful girl with fair skin and an oval face. Although she has a little baby fat, it makes her look even more pure and beautiful.

He immediately guessed that this should be Jingjing, the female disciple of the monk Ikkyu.

"It's Jingjing!"

"Yes, we are here to find our uncle!" Qiu Sheng had been here countless times, so he naturally knew Jingjing. He immediately smiled and nodded.

Upon hearing this, Jingjing immediately said, "Brother Qiusheng, Taoist Simu has been out for several days and hasn't returned."

"what?"

Qiu Sheng was immediately stunned. After thinking for a moment, he asked again, "Jia Le is not here either?"

"He's here, but he's like a savage. I don't know where he's gone now!" Jingjing said.

Hearing Jiale was there, Qiu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief and then smiled at Jingjing, "In that case, let's wait here for Junior Brother Jiale to come back!"

(End of this chapter)