Shushan: Extinction

Chapter 14 Everyone has their own agenda
After eating and drinking his fill, Gong Tianwu picked his teeth while lazily looking at Zhou Zhizhong beside him and said:
"Zhou Goudan, I know exactly why you came here this time, but I want to tell you clearly that you can't get your brand back."

Hearing this, Zhou Zhizhong almost vomited blood and wanted to strangle Gong Tianwu to death:
"I'm CNMDXB! You bastard, that's not what you said before dinner!!!"

Gong Tianwu smiled shamelessly and said:

"What, you're not convinced?"

Then Gong Tianwu took the initiative to stick his head out and said in a frivolous and sarcastic tone:

"Come on, come on, hit here. If I frown, you'll be raised by your grandmother."

Zhou Zhizhong clenched his fists and gritted his teeth. Suddenly, he heard Zhao Zi coughing slightly. He could only laugh dryly:
"Brother Tian, ​​you are joking. If you can't get it back, then you can't get it back."

Gong Tianwu glanced at Zhao Zi and thought that with this little girl around, he could save himself some trouble. After all, he was now using the name of Third Master Xie Qing as a banner, so he should be able to make some money from it, right?
So he stopped keeping the secret and said directly:
"Zhou Goudan, think about it carefully. Master Qing just took away your sign and then gave it back to you? This is like slapping himself in the face. Doesn't the old man have any dignity?"

Zhou Zhizhong was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt that what Gong Tianwu said seemed to make some sense?

But I heard Gong Tianwu leisurely drinking a glass of wine:

"So, there is only one way for you to get the wooden sign back, and that is to make amends!"

"You have to do something good for the Third Master first. If you do it well, and someone says a few good words for you, then the limelight will have passed and you can withdraw your order. Then the wooden sign will be back, right?"

"If things are done properly, it's not impossible to get an iron plate."

Zhou Zhizhong was not too stupid. After hearing this, he suddenly understood and immediately smiled and said:

"Brother Tian, ​​aren't you working for Master Qing? You must take me with you!"

This was what Gong Tianwu was thinking. He also thought very clearly in his mind that if he continued to go to the ice sea to hunt corpses alone, it would be very dangerous.

In my memory, my grandfather Gong Gengjun said it very clearly: the risk for everyone going there for the first time is the smallest, but going there for the second time is already very dangerous.

Moreover, Luo Jiang and Xie San might send people to follow him, and then he would not be able to keep the secret either. So it would be better to find someone to share the danger openly.

Of course, with such a plan in mind, Gong Tianwu would definitely not make a big show of recruiting people or asking for favors, as that would really be a disadvantage.

In his past, Tian Dachun had done a lot of stealing, cheating, and playing tricks. He knew one thing very well: it is better to let others beg you than to beg yourself.

For example, instead of going to a wealthy family to beg for money, it is better to splash blood at the door of that family at night and imitate the screams of a ghost. After a few nights in a row, pass by disguised as a wandering Taoist priest. That way, you will surely make a fortune and have a good meal.

Gong Tianwu then found inspiration from this shameless behavior. After some manipulation, Zhou Zhizhong fell into the trap as expected. However, what surprised Gong Tianwu was that the bitch Zhao Zi seemed to be planning to involve it as well. She was both shrewd and ruthless, which made the situation a little tricky.

But given the current situation, Gong Tianwu was not in a position to be picky. It was good enough that he could trick two suckers into helping him. So he asked the waiter to bring paper and pen and wrote down the entire list.

Soon, all the materials on the list were collected one by one. This was much faster than doing it alone before.
More importantly, in addition to Zhao Zi and Zhou Zhizhong, there were five strong and taciturn servants who went to the ice sea together. Even the means of transportation was changed from a sampan to a two-masted fishing boat, which could carry dozens of tons of cargo.

This also made Gong Tianwu secretly frightened, and he decided to keep his skills secret during this trip. Otherwise, if someone else succeeded in stealing his skills, he would definitely be ruthlessly dumped. ***
Soon, the ship came close to the ice.

It was still daytime, so you could see towering icebergs in the distance and the endless white ice stretching far away.

During this period, Gong Tianwu just watched coldly, watching the housekeeper Xu brought by Zhao Zi make the decision, while he leaned beside them and dozed off calmly.

After arriving here, Butler Xu walked up to Gong Tianwu, bowed slightly and said:
"What should we do next? Please give me your instructions, sir."

Gong Tianwu was reborn three times, and this was the first time he was called "Master". He was suddenly in a trance.

But strictly speaking, since Gong Tianwu holds the martial arts iron badge, he is equivalent to a martial arts student, which can actually obtain the most basic official status and transcend the civilian class. In the army, he can be a "sergeant", and in the militia, he can be a card leader, commanding the able-bodied men of ten households.

In response to Butler Xu's request, Gong Tianwu said directly:
"Ah? What's there to show you? Let's get started right away. Can you break the ice? First find a thick spot in the ice and break a hole there."

After hearing this, Butler Xu looked at the person next to him and immediately went to do his job.

Five strong servants could definitely work much faster than Gong Tianwu alone. It took them only about an incense stick of time to smash a hole the size of a bowl. Butler Xu came to ask about the size of the hole, and Gong Tianwu said, as if he was squeezing toothpaste, that the well mouth was too small.

However, Zhao Zi had already quietly written down the key words "thick ice" and "the well mouth is too small". It was obvious that the intrigue between the two had already begun in full swing at this moment.

Soon, Butler Xu followed Gong Tianwu's instructions and caught a chicken, poured its blood into the ice cave, and then every incense stick of time he killed another chicken and dripped its blood into the ice cave.

After this cycle went on for a while, the few chickens they brought soon died. It was like fishing without bait. All that was left was a group of people staring at each other in amazement and then they had to go home.

It seemed like a waste of effort this day, but Gong Tianwu was a man of his time. When he left, he naturally took a dead chicken with him. He went to his sister's house and threw it on the stove. Not long after, he started to drink the steaming chicken soup. The fat and tender chicken legs at the bottom of the bowl made the children next door cry with greed.

Two days passed like this, and Gong Tianwu didn't reveal any useful information. Instead, he won the chicken dinner every day and had a good rest.

In order to keep out the cold, Zhao Zi prepared two large gourds of medicinal wine on the boat every day, as well as dried meat that was dried in the sun for people to eat.

The alcohol content of this wine is very high, and drinking it feels like a line of fire going straight into your throat. It is said that the medicinal materials used to soak the wine are all top-quality aconite root, cinnamon, rehmannia root, and yam, which have excellent medicinal effects. There are also braised pig's trotters, fat pig's head and other snacks to go with the wine.

With Gong Tianwu's nature of taking advantage of any opportunity, he would definitely go over and have a couple of sips of drink when he had nothing to do, and then take a bite of the jerky, which would be really delicious. Even when he went back to practice sword skills at night, he felt extra vigorous and powerful.

As for corpse fishing, the only thing I can say is "go with the flow".

Gong Tianwu never mentioned anything about fishing for corpses on a moonlit night, the medicinal ingredients used to mix chicken blood, or walking a thousand steps towards the iceberg to choose a place to lay the nest.

Zhao Zi, on the other hand, was a very patient woman. She seemed to have accepted Gong Tianwu's statement that "you need to be patient and spend time slowly when fishing for corpses." To her, the cost of a few chickens every day was still affordable.

But he could also feel that this little girl's temper had become much more violent. The servants were often scolded by her and were miserable. Out of curiosity, Gong Tianwu found an opportunity to pick up the teacup that Zhao Zi drank water from and smelled it. He smelled a familiar smell and immediately became thoughtful.

Time passed quickly. Perhaps it was hard work that paid off. On the fourth day, an accident happened!
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