There is a trick

Chapter 23 Wine and Medicine

People soon discovered the abnormality of their relatives and hurriedly surrounded the manager of the winery, demanding an explanation.

The steward frowned and looked at the huge crowd in front of him, a little impatient: "Their madness has just been cured, and their three souls and seven spirits have not yet stabilized in their bodies. They will definitely look a little stupid - just wait!
Just wait a few days or months!"

"How many months?" Someone raised his voice, his voice trembling.

“It’s better than him going crazy and killing his family.

I'm just asking you to wait a few months... If you dare to act recklessly, my guys here can also poke some holes in your body!

Get out of here!" The steward's eyes suddenly turned fierce.

He raised his hand and called over the strong winery workers.

The guys surrounded them with knives and guns in their hands, and people quickly led their families and fled.

"Once their family members have recovered from their madness and their souls have settled down, they will come back to thank us!"

The owner of the wine shop pointed at the people who were dispersing, put on a sarcastic smile, and joked with the wine shop thugs.

"Achang!"

At this time, Zhou Sanji pushed a cart and walked over with Yang Rui, one in front and one behind.

The old man saw Zhou Chang standing behind the wine shop manager and was pleasantly surprised: "Can you stand up? Can you walk?!"

"He must have had a fit of hysteria, thinking himself a paralytic who could not move.

Now the winery has almost cured his hysteria, so he can walk and move around naturally." The manager smiled and said to Zhou Sanji who was touching Zhou Chang, "But his madness is not completely cured yet, so he has to continue lying in the wine cellar tomorrow."

“I hope this method works!”

Zhou Sanji let Zhou Chang do some manipulations himself, and he was even more delighted.

The manager of the wine shop turned to Yang Rui and said, "This kid of yours is not crazy or hysterical. He has stayed in the wine cellar for a whole day without showing any delusions.

He was probably just used to being suspicious.

However, the people in the neighborhood think he is smart and clever, and they want to recruit him to be a 'water watchman'. What do you think?"

Yang Rui, who was pulling Shidanzi to look around, frowned when he heard the manager's first words, and seemed a little unhappy.

After he finished listening to what the steward said, his eyes were full of doubt: "You said Shidanzi is not crazy?

How could this happen? !

I saw with my own eyes that he was possessed by the yellow-skinned ghost. The look he had at that time - that couldn't be faked!

Is it possible that your wine cellar has no effect on the ghost in him..."

The manager of the wine shop was immediately displeased when he heard this, and sneered, "Why do you seem unhappy that your kid is not crazy?
Our Yongsheng Distillery has been in business for over a hundred years. No matter they are locals or outsiders, they send people here every day to ask us to help cure their madness and hysteria, and there has never been any mistake!
I'm kind enough to treat your kid, but you're suspicious of our winery?"

Yang Rui didn't say anything, just shook his head, with even deeper doubts in his eyes.

Zhou Chang looked at Yang Rui. He felt that this old man Yang was indeed quite unhappy because Shi Danzi was not crazy. This made Zhou Chang feel as if his wish had not been fulfilled.

The more he looked at him, the more he felt that Yang Rui was weirder than Shi Danzi.

“Ask you—brother?
They asked you if you wanted Shidanzi to be a water delivery worker in the winery? "Zhou Sanji saw that the atmosphere between the two parties was not right, so he quickly pulled Yang Rui and called the frowning and thoughtful Uncle Yang back to his senses.

He turned to the gloomy-looking manager of the wine shop and said with a flattering smile, "Manager, how much is Shidanzi paid to deliver water here?"

"Salary..."

Seeing that someone was finally willing to talk to him about serious matters, the manager of the wine shop calmed down a little, looked at Shi Danzi with a stern face, and said thoughtfully: "He is young, and we can't expect him to do any heavy work.

As long as he keeps an eye on the Yunu Pond and doesn't let people urinate or defecate there and pollute the water source, it will be fine.

How about this... the wine shop will provide him with two meals a day, morning and night, and give him 20 copper coins as wages!"

Twenty copper coins are actually not enough for a boy of six months to eat.

But in this day and age, there are many young boys like Shidanzi who can't even find a way to make money.

So these twenty copper coins seemed like a huge sum of money.

Yang Rui looked gloomy and asked Shi Danzi, "Do you want to be a plumber?"

Shi Danzi looked blankly and suddenly looked at Zhou Chang opposite him.

Perhaps it was because he and Zhou Chang had "shared hardships" in the wine cellar, or perhaps it was because among the people present, only Zhou Chang knew the secret of his tricks.

Therefore, Zhou Chang has become his backbone now.

The look he gave Zhou Chang was full of inquiry.

Zhou Chang nodded to him.

Zhou Chang guessed that the winery must want to keep him and Shi Danzi in the winery.

Whether it was letting him continue to stay in the wine cellar to cure his madness, or recruiting Shidanzi to be the so-called water watcher of Yunu Pond, it was just an excuse.

The fundamental reason may be that among the group of people who went down to the wine cellar, only he and Shidanzi could still be alive and well after a day of being invaded by the evil spirit, and did not turn into zombies like the others.

If they don't agree to this request now, the winery will secretly think of other ways to keep them in the winery.

——Just like those two rotten-faced guys.

"I want to go." Shi Danzi saw Zhou Chang nod, and whispered back. "Okay." Yang Rui raised his head and extended three fingers to the wine shop manager, "Thirty copper coins."

"can."

……

"I'm late to pick you up today because your uncle Yang insisted that I go with him to the Tiekan Charity Cemetery to have a look."

"The end of the month is almost here, and the Tiekan Club is about to start. When the time comes, I'll see if our family is rich enough to donate a 'threshold fee' to you so that you can enter Tiekan Village and meet those caravan members and corpse drivers."

"Maybe I can learn 'send zombies'?"

On the way, Zhou Chang took the handle of the cart from Zhou Sanji. He pushed the cart and listened to Zhou Sanji talking to him with a smile on his face.

Yang Rui next to him walked with his head down and frowned, followed by Shi Danzi who was also silent.

After hearing what Zhou Sanji said, Yang Rui turned around and said to Zhou Sanji, "How can it be so easy to learn how to send out zombies?"

"Maybe they will take a fancy to Achang?"

"You think too much..."

The two old men were arguing with each other and gradually walked ahead of Zhou Chang and Shi Danzi.

Shi Danzi approached Zhou Chang in small steps and said dully, "Brother Zhou...thank you so much for today."

"fine."

Zhou Chang shook his head, glanced at the depressed Shi Danzi beside him, and asked, "Since you are not possessed by the so-called 'yellow-skinned ghost', why do you pretend to be like this?"

Shi Danzi hesitated for a moment before saying, "In order to have enough food..."

"Ok?"

"My master was willing to take me in as his apprentice because he thought I was possessed by a yellow-skinned ghost.

If I hadn’t been possessed by a ghost, he would definitely ignore me…”

“It is because you seem to be possessed that Master Yang is willing to accept you as his apprentice?

Why is he doing this..." Zhou Chang looked at Yang Rui in front of him and frowned slightly.

"Gui" can be used to refer to all the demons. It also refers to the prototypes of all the demons, which are born to pose a threat to the lives of living people.

Normal people would not keep evil spirits to cause trouble.

If the facts are really as Shidanzi said, what exactly does Yang Rui want to do?
Instead of retreating from the ghost, you try to get close to it?

At this time, Yang Rui, who was walking in front, took out a gourd from his backpack. He shook the wine in the gourd vigorously, unscrewed the cork and took a big gulp of the wine.

The mellow and rich aroma of wine, with the unique fragrance of the mud cellar, drifted into Zhou Chang's nostrils.

He heard Zhou Sanji's conversation with Yang Rui: "Drink less. Didn't you see that in front of the wine shop, there are people everywhere who are drunk and crazy?"

"Haha, wine is medicine. It can cure heart disease."

"Hey……"

The elegant and mellow aroma of the aged wine still lingered in Zhou Chang's nostrils.

He smelled that the wine was produced by Yongsheng Distillery.

For some reason, Zhou Chang's heart sank. He turned around and looked back.

The sparse and dilapidated houses are clustered around the stone-paved paths, and under the reflection of the setting sun, large patches of thick, indissoluble shadows rise up.

There are few living things in this dead shadow.

Only among the houses facing the street near the winery, there was one with its middle door open. A fat woman in a blue coarse cloth dress and a leather apron, together with her two daughters, hung a triangular flag in front of the door.

The three words "Li Lu Rou" were written on the flag.

Such a delicatessen shop could only have some business if it was opened around Yongsheng Winery.

Zhou Chang looked at the flag fluttering in the wind, and the word "Lu" on the flag was wrinkled by the wind.

Suddenly, it seemed as if the three words "Li Renrou" were written on the flag.

Zhou Chang's heart skipped a beat and he moved his eyes forward.

The tall and spacious gatehouse of Yongsheng Winery came over like a mountain, pressing down on the dilapidated houses on the street so that they shook as if they would collapse at any moment.

The voices from downstairs showed no signs of stopping until it was almost dark.

There are people there who are singing happily every day and seem to have no mental troubles.

But Zhou Chang was clearly aware that there must be a very ferocious ghost hiding in the winery.

How many people are actually drinking the fine wine from Yongsheng Distillery?
Judging from the size of the crowd in front of the winery, the town of Qingyi alone is probably not enough.

How many people sent their insane or hysterical people to Yongsheng Winery in the hope of getting them healed?
Zhou Chang's eyes moved upwards——

He saw that behind the gate of the winery, a large amount of distilled wine vapor was boiling up. The large white clouds of wine vapor accumulated into clouds in the sky, filling the sky over most of Qingyi Town.

Under the cloud of wine, how many people stretched their necks hard and tried to take a sip of the mellow wine?
(End of this chapter)