Under One Person: The Millennium Plan Exposed by Feng Baobao

"I ate it once before during the Republic of China."

"It's so fresh and delicious."

"Fish scales?"

Zhang Chulan on the side was a little surprised.

"Grandpa Zhou, don't you scale the shad?"

Zhou Sheng immediately glared at Zhang Chulan.

"You can't scrape the scales off this thing."

"It's the scales that we eat."

"But to be honest, I can't blame you. I didn't know about this at the time. When I saw they steamed the hilsa without scaling it, I reacted the same way as you did. I demanded a refund and almost made a big fool of myself."

After hearing what Zhou Sheng said, Zhang Chulan felt curious.

I don't know what this steamed shad tastes like.

At this moment, Feng Baobao continued to read the notes in her hand.

I was very impressed by Dou Zhanlong's abilities and asked Master Cui what his method was.

[Master Cui was critical of Dou Zhanlong, clearly showing disdain for his move.]

[And tell me, Dou Zhanlong is using the methods of the heretic demon.]

[The Outer Path Heavenly Demon knew all cause and effect, and since he had the Outer Path Heavenly Demon's nine eyes on his arm, Dou Zhanlong also learned how to avoid his nine fatal disasters.]

[He then searched everywhere for heavenly treasures and created nine clones for him.]

[This method isn't unique to the Outer Daoist Heavenly Demons either. After saying this, Taoist Cui told me a similar story.]

When they heard that a story was going to be told, everyone looked at them curiously.

I don’t know what story will be told next.

……

Taoist Cui told me that this happened during the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, there was a wealthy man named Zhang in Tianjin. He ran a jewelry store, a business that required a lot of capital. Without a lot of capital, it was impossible to open a jewelry store.

As the saying goes, a poor man can't catch his family members with ten steel hooks on the street, but a rich man can't break up his ungrateful relatives and friends with swords, guns, and clubs in the mountains.

[This rich man is also very wealthy. Countless people come to him to ask for money. However, this rich man does not care about money. Even if he gives away a lot of his wealth, with this business behind him, it is just a drop in the bucket for him.]

【It’s just that the weather has its ups and downs, and people have their misfortunes and blessings. 】

A huge fire reduced Mr. Zhang's jewelry building and the house behind it to ashes.

[It can be said that the vast expanse is truly clean. ]

【But fortunately, he and his family were fine. 】

After this incident, Mr. Zhang could only build a makeshift shack on this piece of white land for his family to live in.

After this, all those people whom Zhang had helped in the past avoided him as if he were the plague, and they were as afraid as possible.

[Zhang Caizhu has also experienced the fickleness of human nature and the fickleness of the world.]

Finally, with no other options, Zhang Caizhu approached Zhao Zhen, a well-known wealthy man in the capital. Zhao Zhen was a very wealthy man, and his business was much larger than Zhang Caizhu's at his peak.

[As for the fact that Mr. Zhang and Zhao Zhen didn't have a very close relationship, having only spoken a few times over drinks, Mr. Zhang went to see Zhao Zhen out of desperation.]

After finding Zhao Zhen, before the wealthy Zhang could even begin to speak, Zhao Zhen invited him to drink and reminisce about the past, and even arranged for him to stay in a wing room in his own compound.

[The next day, Zhang Caizhu woke up and felt that this was not a big deal. He was ready to continue asking for money shamelessly.]

But before he could leave, the housekeeper brought him a tael of silver, saying that Zhao Zhen had recently been away on business and would be away for some time, and that this tael of silver was left for him to spend.

Before leaving, Zhao Zhen instructed the housekeeper to pay one tael of silver from the accounting office for each day he stayed.

[So, the rich man settled down in this place.]

Although one tael of silver a day doesn't allow for a lavish meal, it's enough for daily shopping, bird watching, snacks, tea, and visits to the theater.

However, as time went on, the wealthy man could no longer stay there, as Zhao Zhen hadn't returned, and the family had nothing to eat.

Over the past few months, Mr. Zhang had been very frugal with his spending, and had managed to save over twenty taels of silver, enough to last him a year or two. So, Mr. Zhang said goodbye to the Zhao residence and returned from the capital to the neighboring city of Jin.

[This wasn't a big deal. When they arrived at his shack, they found that the house that had been burned to the ground was now a building, perfect for business.]

After seeing this, Mr. Zhang was furious. He immediately thought his wife had sold the family's land deed to someone else.

[Now, this restaurant was naturally built by someone else.]

[However, as soon as he entered, he found his wife sitting in the hall. When she saw him return, she quickly came forward and told Zhang the whole story.]

It turned out that Zhao Zhen had already known about this matter when the wealthy Zhang came to him to borrow money. However, Zhao Zhen did not want to embarrass the wealthy Zhang, so he asked his housekeeper to pay him one tael of silver per day to keep him stable. Zhao Zhen then went to Jincheng to help him rebuild a building.

When Mr. Zhang learned about this, he was so moved that tears welled up in his eyes. He then worked hard on his business and eventually returned all the money Zhao Zhen had spent, including the principal and interest.

[Of course, this is a later story.]

From this, we can see that Zhao Zhen is a generous and forthright person. He has a brother named Hu Sanshan. It can be said that both of them are of the type with a strong sense of righteousness. They have been sworn brothers since childhood and their relationship couldn't be better.

Hu Sanshan was the executioner in the government office. Because he killed so many people, he was feared and respected by almost everyone, but he had few friends.

[But Zhao Zhen liked to invite him to drink, eat meat, and visit brothels whenever she had time.]

[He even said that if he added something to the menu, he would buy two, one for him and one for Hu Sanshan.]

【This shows how good the relationship between these two people is. 】

[But the weather may be cloudy or sunny, and people may have misfortunes and blessings.]

Zhao Zhen had offended a prince over some matter. If it had been an ordinary offense, it would have been fine, but he had offended a prince with a special title. The government randomly framed him for a crime and sent him to prison, slated for execution in the autumn.

[No matter how much money the Zhao family spent to smooth things over, no one dared to help him escape the charges.]

[This continued until autumn.]

【And the one who beheaded Zhao Zhen was none other than Hu Sanshan.】

When Zhang Chulan heard this, he was stunned.

"Good guy."

"Waiting for him here."

"It's too cruel to kill your own good brother with your own hands."

Su Zaiqiao spoke at this time.

"Don't forget the premise of Master Cui telling this story."

"I think there will be a reversal later."

After hearing what Su Zaiqiao said, Zhang Chulan also reacted.

"Look at me, I forgot."

After saying that, Zhang Chulan stopped talking and waited quietly for Feng Baobao to read the notes there.

……

On the day of his execution, Hu Sanshan told Zhao Zhen that no matter what happened next, as long as he patted him on the back, he would get up and run, and he had to run as fast as he could.

As the knife fell and cut his rope, Hu Sanshan patted him on the back and told him that he would be a brave man again in twenty years. This is a method that has been exported and realized in the beheading industry. Whoever uses it will die.

Zhao Zhen was so frightened that he ran straight ahead.

What Zhao Zhen didn't know was that he had been running for twenty years, and had ended up on the beheading street twenty years later.

[But now things have changed, and even if he was a death row inmate who escaped, no one would care.]

[I later inquired and learned that Hu Sanshan had died of illness twenty years earlier after he escaped.]

Zhao Zhen could only sigh and feel helpless about this matter. He happened to run into Taoist Cui, who had come to the capital to seek a living. Zhao Zhen wanted to ask Cui about his fortune.

[And this Taoist Cui was also very clever. He was able to get all of Zhao Zhen's secrets out of her with just a few words.]

Finally, Taoist Cui told me that the world is full of wonders, and there are thousands of different methods, so Dou Zhanlong's method is nothing special.

For some reason, Zhang Chulan suddenly remembered the Fire Control Technique of the Huode Sect that he had seen Wang Zhen perform before.

"Master Cui's words are indeed the truth. Even if they are all the same fire control methods, there are only dozens or hundreds of them in our land. If we go to foreign countries, there are even more various kinds of magic."

"Those magics probably don't belong to the same system."

"In fact, we still know too little."

At this moment, Liu Deshui's eyes flashed.

"Until now, I still can't forget Fengping's Fire Release."

"This fire escape technique is probably beyond the reach of current technology."

Hearing about Fire Escape, Zhang Chulan became excited.

"The owner of this notebook also liked to use Fire Release when traveling early on. I wonder what it looked like when he performed it specifically."

"I didn't see that little Fire God use Fire Escape at the Luotian Grand Ceremony earlier. I guess he didn't cast the surrender talisman."

Hearing Zhang Chulan's question, Liu Deshui thought for a moment and then said:

"Speaking of which, here are some of my impressions of the details of this spell."

"Fengping went to buy some wine. Before he did, he walked directly into the fire. I noticed that as soon as he got close to the fire, he was assimilated into it."

"Big monkey, do you still remember it now?"

"When Fengping walked into the fire, it seemed to grow several times bigger."

Zhou Sheng nodded lazily.

"Well, that's what happened."

"I didn't know it then, but now I know. That's because Fengping has become fire itself. Fire is an element that is different from humans. It can travel through all time and space."

"In my opinion, if this Fire Escape is practiced to the extreme, returning to the fire in the past or future is not impossible."

"But the price of doing so is that it's easy to lose yourself."

"I ended up having a hell of a time and going crazy."

Hearing Zhou Sheng say this, Zhang Chulan's eyes were a little horrified.

Is it really so scary?

At this moment, Liu Deshui on the side continued to speak.

"The flames grew bigger when he left, and were much smaller when he returned."

"And since he was able to bring back the wine jar and the wine inside, I don't think he has turned into a fire element."

"Because fire and water don't mix."

"If this fire escape technique could turn water into fire and fire into water at will, the laws of this world would be thrown into chaos."

Hearing this, Zhou Sheng laughed.

After saying that, he stretched out his hand and directly transformed his palm into a giant octopus foot, and then quickly changed it back.

Then he picked up a vase next to the sofa where he was sitting. The next second, the vase, which was originally made of porcelain, turned into a wooden vase carved from wood.

"Is that what you said?"

Seeing Zhou Sheng doing this, Liu Deshui was a little shocked.

"Big monkey, I thought you could only transform things of the same element. Now that I see you, it seems like you've touched the essence of this world!"

Hearing Liu Deshui's evaluation of him, Zhou Sheng shook his head.

"Thinking too much."

"With what I have, I understand less than 1% of the world."

"When I was young, I always thought I could control the changes in the world. Now it seems that even if I became a god, I would only be slightly higher than me!"

Zhang Chulan couldn't help but look out the window at this moment.

There are so many secrets in this world.

Perhaps for ordinary people, although what they see is just the appearance of the world, they are very happy.

The more you know, the easier it is to be unhappy.