Daqian Night Emperor

Chapter 122: Be friends? Are you worthy?
"It's useless to have meat without wine. Wait."

Gao Pujiang stood up, jumped onto the courtyard wall, then flipped over and landed in the next yard.

These official residences of the Astronomical Observatory are all adjacent to each other. Next to this courtyard is Gao Pujiang's courtyard. Zhao Guanxiang's residence is a little further away and also larger than the courtyards of the other two.

After a while, General Gao returned to the courtyard with two jars of wine in his hands.

He handed one of the jars of wine to Zhao Guanxiang: "Here."

Zhao Guanxiang took it with one hand and asked, "Why don't we go to your yard to drink?"

Gao Pujiang said with a smile: "Maybe Xiao Zhang will come out and have a drink with us later?"

Zhao Guanxiang rolled his eyes, knowing that General Gao Pu wanted to make fun of General Zhang Pu.

He bit open the red cloth stopper, tilted his head back and took a sip of the wine, breathing in the aroma of alcohol.

This wine is a rare distilled liquor on the market, called "Huo Tan Shao". It is not as mellow and rich as the Zuixian Niang from Zhaixing Tower, but its only advantage is that it is strong enough. Taking a sip of it is like swallowing a piece of burning charcoal, which hits your stomach directly.

Men of letters and refined tastes thought that this wine was vulgar and not worthy of being accepted in the upper class.

But among warriors, this wine is quite popular, and most importantly, it is cheap.

Gao Pujiang drank more elegantly than Zhao Guanxiang. He poured the wine into a bowl and sipped it. When the wine started to smell, he frowned and put down the bowl. "I heard that the widow of the family who died this time couldn't read a single word, so how could she write in blood?"

We clearly agreed not to talk about this today, but I just can't help it.

It was good enough that the Astronomical Observatory didn't throw dirty water on others, but I didn't expect that one day someone would throw dirty water on them.

Zhao Guanxiang silently put down the wine jar and said, "What's the point of saying this?"

"Why is it useless?" General Gao Pu immediately refuted, analyzing carefully, "Those royal relatives are all very angry and won't listen to us. But General Qi will listen to us. As long as we explain it clearly to General Qi and let those royal relatives make a fuss, what will happen?"

Zhao Guanxiang sneered and said, "If you really do that, then this case has nothing to do with me."

Even if General Qi believed in him, he would let someone else take charge of the case in order to protect him.

But to be honest, Zhao Guanxiang couldn't trust most of his colleagues in prison.

Who knows whether they accepted the “filial piety” from the Gao family?
General Gao Pu was surprised and said, "Wouldn't it be better to get out of this situation? This isn't an easy job."

"Not good, very bad!" Zhao Guanxiang shook his head, pointed at himself with his thumb, and grinned, "I'm giving up halfway. My idea is not clear!"

He is not afraid of being criticized or being criticized by the public.

In this world, right is right and wrong is wrong.

He just wants "justice".

If others cannot give this "justice", then he will give it "justice" himself!
Gao Pujiang sighed and said, "I am already so old, and I still have to play with you..."

He lifted the wine jar and took a gulp of the wine. With a surge of heroic spirit, he threw the wine jar to the ground and glared at them, cursing, "Fuck, isn't it just the Gao family? Fuck them!"

At this moment, the door opened again, and Zhang Pujiang's voice shouted "Count me in!" was heard from inside.

Mrs. Zhang folded her hands, leaned against the door, and looked at the two people in the yard with a cold gaze.

The two of them looked down at the broken pieces of the wine jar on the ground, and before she could speak, they immediately said, "Clean it up, we'll clean it up right away!"

Mrs. Zhang nodded and turned back into the house.

The door closed again with a bang.

Zhao Guanxiang and Gao Pu looked at the two of them and smiled awkwardly at each other.

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"Hiss... You two are so disloyal! I am ashamed to be associated with you!" In the afternoon, Zhang Pujiang was riding on a horse, holding the reins with one hand and a peeled egg with the other hand, rolling it over his dark eye sockets. While he was grimacing in pain, he did not forget to complain about the two colleagues beside him.

Although the three of them did not need to patrol the inner city these days, Zhao Guanxiang said that he had something to do, so the two servants naturally followed him.

"Zhang Lushuai, where is your dignity as the head of the family?"

"I didn't see the virtuous and kind character she was promised, but I can clearly see that my sister-in-law is a bit skilled in fighting."

"But Marshal Zhang is indeed a man of both civil and military talents. He even used so many new and elegant words to beg for mercy."

Zhao Guanxiang and Gao Pujiang argued back and forth, and Zhang Pujiang was so angry that his face turned red, and the veins on his forehead popped out. He argued:

"How can that be called begging for mercy... begging for mercy... can something between husband and wife be called begging for mercy?"

Then he kept on babbleing on with words that were hard to understand, such as "gentleman", "woman", "a harmonious family brings prosperity", "suffering a loss is a blessing" and so on.

This nagging muttering made Zhao Guanxiang and Gao Pujiang laugh out loud.

Suddenly, the air became cheerful.

But this cheerful atmosphere did not last long, because at the corner of the long street, a sedan chair blocked the middle of the street, blocking the way of the three people.

The sedan chair was quite luxurious, with a frame made of fine mahogany and a canopy covered with brocade woven with gold thread, which shone brightly in the sunlight. Exquisite jade pendants hung from the four corners, swaying gently in the breeze.

Each of the four bearers who were carrying the sedan was strong and muscular, with a full forehead, bright eyes, and thick calluses on the palms of their hands. It was obvious that they were all warriors who were used to using weapons.

Outside the sedan chair, there was a man riding a horse alone. He was eight feet tall and as strong as a mountain. He was wearing a light blue robe that revealed his muscular arms. A big sword was hung across the horse.

Zhao Guanxiang stopped his horse, frowned, and glanced at the sedan chair.

The person in the sedan did not get off. Instead, a middle-aged man who was waiting outside the sedan came forward and stood in front of Zhao Guanxiang's horse. With a smile on his face, he bowed and said, "But is it Master Chuhu who is here? My second master would like to invite Master Chuhu to get off the horse and have a chat with him."

Zhao Guanxiang glanced at him and asked, "Who is your second master?"

The middle-aged man's face suddenly froze, his back gradually straightened, and his face turned cold: "Master Chuhu, why do you have to say hurtful things? My second master came here to relieve Master Chuhu's worries."

Zhao Guanxiang laughed and said, "Then your second master is really considerate."

"Then Sir Cub Tiger may as well dismount..."

"Go tell him that what I hate most right now is the Gao family's bastard. Let him twist his head off and let me kick it like a ball. Then I will have no worries or sorrows at all."

"you!"

The middle-aged man was immediately furious and glared at Zhao Guanxiang: "My second master came here with sincerity, do you know that you are in big trouble..."

"enough."

It was not until this time that the person in the sedan slowly spoke.

The middle-aged man retreated immediately after hearing the sound.

The man in the sedan chair said, "Zhao Guanxiang, what happened last night is a warning. You are General Qi's man, and I don't want to do anything to you. How about you stop here and from now on, you and my Gao family will have nothing to do with each other?"

"Of course, if you are willing to be a friend of my Gao family, my Gao family will naturally treat you with sincerity. Captain Zhao will also have to contribute to the monthly 'filial piety'."

Zhao Guanxiang laughed: "If anyone wants to be friends with me, Zhao Guanxiang, I will naturally welcome it..."

He rode his horse forward a few steps, his eyes fell on the luxurious sedan chair, his face was still smiling, but his eyes were cold: "But who the hell wants to be friends with me, Zhao Guanxiang?"

"When did I, Zhao Guanxiang, become so shameless?"

I was notified to attend a meeting yesterday, and I was busy all day today, so I still owe one chapter yesterday. Sorry, I will try to make up for it today.

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