From a carp to a dragon god

Chapter 173: Baoqing Troupe's Famous Golden Boy

The Caohui should be called the Caohui, but in fact there is more than one shipping team, there are also several horse racing and camel racing teams. Of course, shipping is the strongest in the Caohui.

There has always been a saying that ships can be sailed on water and horses can be raced on land. However, in places like the Ten Thousand Mountains in the south of Tiannan and the vast desert in the northwest of Lingzhou, there are only horses and camels racing.

Cao Baotou was the third-ranked leader in the grain transport association. His cargo ships did not leave the Jishui and Qinghe rivers, and he was only powerful for a while on the waters of western Shandong.

Therefore, Cao Baotou loved making friends the most. In addition, he was born in western Shandong and was good at drinking and entertaining guests. He made a name for himself in the north and was nicknamed the Drunken Dragon.

As the saying goes: No wine, no feast. This Cao Baotou not only carries 800 kilograms of good wine with him, but also always brings a few skilled chefs from the north when he travels.

This talented chef from the north is also famous throughout the country. There is an old saying in the culinary industry that all stir-fried dishes in the world are from Shandong cuisine, which refers to the status of Shandong cuisine.

Since Cao Baotou invited them to drink every now and then, the chefs would always prepare some quick dishes, such as braised chicken, braised pork, and sausage, which could be cut and served at any time.

Here, as soon as Cao Baotou brought Yu Shuyang, Li Zhen and Huang Wenxun to the table, four cold dishes, four plates of braised meat and two jars of good wine were served.

"Brothers, please sit down and relax. Now that you are here, it's like being at home. I hope you can forgive me for not having any good food or wine."

Cao Baotou is the general in the wine scene. He casually opened the wine jar and sealed it. A fragrance of wine spread out, which was different from the fragrance of rice wine.

"Brothers, try this. This is Lotus White, brewed with the Jishui spring water from my hometown and white lotus flowers. It won't make you drunk."

As he spoke, Cao Baotou personally poured wine for the three of them, not using wine glasses or wine cups, but palm-sized coarse porcelain bowls.

The opening ceremony begins with three bowls of wine, which is the custom in the north. Cao Baotou persuaded the three monsters to drink one sentence at a time.

Yu Shuyang practiced the Xuanwu Water Method. Spiritual wine and spiritual water were the same to him. After drinking three bowls of Lotus White, he felt his mouth was very refreshed.

Here, the eighth brother-in-law Huang Wenxun is also not afraid. He practices the Bashe Swallowing Technique. No matter what spiritual water or spiritual wine enters his stomach, it will be stored first.

Only Li Zhen suffered. He was a cricket spirit who had become a spirit. He practiced the business method of the God of Wealth. After three bowls of spiritual wine, his lips were no longer smooth.

After urging people to drink, the next step is to recommend dishes. There are four common cold dishes and four plates of braised meat. The taste is salty and fresh, which is also the characteristic of northern cuisine.

After tasting several dishes, Cao Baotou held the bowl and, starting with Huang Wenxun, accompanied the three monsters to drink three bowls of wine each, and then began to serve hot dishes.

Sixteen dishes from the northern canal were served in succession. Every time a dish was served, Cao Baotou would invite the three of them to drink a bowl of wine. Before all the hot dishes were served, he had already gotten Li Zhen drunk.

The banquet at Cao Baotou's place also had dishes served four times, and there were sixteen main dishes and a meatball soup at the end. The meatball soup is the closing dish in the north, and as the name suggests, it means the end.

"Brother Li's alcohol tolerance is still not good enough. When you go out to do business, you will always have to deal with things in the bar. You need to practice more."

Later, Cao Baotou stopped forcing Li Zhen to drink, and he interacted with Yu Shuyang and Huang Wenxun, and soon they finished the two jars of Lianhuabai.

Then, he took out two more jars. These wines were all spirit wines weighing ten kilograms each. The youngest ones were cellared for three years, while the oldest ones were ten or twenty years old.

Every time Cao Baotou went out, he would first fill his magic bag with eight hundred kilograms of wine. No matter how much he drank, it would all be stored in the magic bag.

Fortunately, the magic bag he carried with him was made unusually large by his sacrifices, just like a wine cellar, with wines of all years.

That's how it is in a bar. Drinking alone is boring. It's only fun when you drink with others and chat.

Cao Baotou is a big drinker and usually he is the one who gets others drunk. This time he met two people who couldn't get drunk, and he felt that he had met a close friend in the wine world.

During this meal, they didn't eat much of the food, but they drank forty or fifty jars of Lotus Bailing wine, especially two jars that were more than a hundred years old.

Yu Shuyang drank too much spiritual wine, and his lower kidney acupoint helped to refine it. He was about three to four points drunk, and his stomach felt like it was on fire.

Earlier, he practiced the Eight Wind Mantra, which did not involve the stomach. When he practiced the Hurricane Si Mantra, the vital energy in his stomach transformed into thunder, and from then on he could eat wind to fill his stomach.

Until recently, he awakened the dragon carp bloodline, transformed his body inside and out, eliminated the thunder in his stomach, and restored his vital energy to its normal state.

Yu Shuyang thought he had lost this magical power, but he didn't expect that the spiritual wine would generate fire, which stimulated his stomach and brought out thunder again.

After all, he had already mastered the Eight Wind Curse. The dragon carp bloodline transformed his body, and for a moment, the vital energy suppressed the thunder. It was not that the skills and supernatural powers he had mastered were gone.

As a result, the thunder and fire in his stomach surged, the spiritual wine failed to be refined, and the three or four points of drunkenness instantly became seven or eight points, and he was about to pass out.

For a moment, Yu Shuyang's tongue swelled, his lips felt heavy, and he couldn't speak clearly.

"Brother Cao, I can't do it anymore. I have to go out for a while."

Yu Shuyang's stomach was churning. He knew it was the collision of thunder and fire. He was afraid that if he couldn't control himself, he would vomit on the spot, which would be troublesome.

"Brother Yu, you'd better go and come back quickly. We are all waiting for you here." Cao was a little drunk, but his words were still clear.

Just now at the dinner table, Cao, through half-inquiries and half-chitchat, had already gotten to know Yu Shuyang and the other two pretty well. Although he couldn't say he knew their backgrounds or details, at least he had found out their surnames and origins.

Yu Shuyang staggered out of the door. The place where he had a drink was the guest room on the second floor of Cao Guild Hall. After he got out of the door, he was holding the railing to cool down the drunkenness.

At the moment, the spiritual wine could not be refined. A wave of alcohol came up, making him dizzy. He cultivated the Qi sea in his lower Dantian and refined the method of golden elixir, but did not temper his physical body much.

"Master Yu Jian, why are you here?"

In a daze, Yu Shuyang heard the sound of golden beads falling on a jade plate. Although he was drunk, his mind was not confused.

When I looked up, it was Jin Ling who went to Suzhou City to find her brother!
"Mrs. Jin, why are you here too?"

Yu Shuyang asked with his tongue stuck out.

Jin Ling hurriedly helped Yu Shuyang sit down on a bench nearby. She knew he was drunk by the smell of alcohol on him, and took out a pill of hangover medicine from her magic bag.

"Master Yu Jian, please take the hangover medicine first."

Yu Shuyang waved his hands. He was drunk just now and couldn't control himself for a moment. After he got over it, he slowly sobered up.

"It's okay, I just need to take a break. Madam Jin, have you found Jin Tong?"

Jin Ling told the story, explaining her trip to Suzhou City and why she also went to Shui City, and what happened in between.

It turned out that when Jin Ling invited Hong Tao to marry into her family, the news was reported to Jinfeng Cave. Jin Wuhuan then became murderous and secretly contacted the Tiger Demon of Hongni Temple.

Originally, it had little to do with Jintong. After all, it was Jinling and his wife who came back to take over the family property. However, Jintong stayed in the blessed land and lived very carefully.

Jintong slowly found the Hongni Temple and saw the stele forest in the backyard and the tombstone with his grandfather's name on it.

After returning to the blessed land, he went to the clan cemetery and found that his grandfather's body was indeed missing. He immediately realized that there must be a big problem.

So he took the family's private money and ran to Suzhou to seek refuge with his uncle. Jintong and Jinling were half-siblings. The two were very close, but they had not seen each other for many years. When something really happened, the first person Jintong thought of was his uncle.

This would have been nothing, but Jin Tong was captured as soon as he arrived in Suzhou City. He was a grass insect spirit that had not yet broken through the ninth level, so there was no way he could escape.

Fortunately, the person who caught him was a small vendor selling crickets, grasshoppers and other singing insects, and he was spared from death. Later, he was bought by a member of an opera troupe.

The person who bought him was also very capable. He could tell at that time that Jintong was a spirit. He bought him from the opera troupe and taught him how to play gongs and drums.

Ordinary cicadas are small creatures that are kept for fun just to listen to their chirping. However, these spirited cicadas are different. They are natural born musicians and can be easily trained to provide accompaniment for an opera troupe.

For a while, Jintong was trapped in the opera troupe and later disappeared for more than a month. It was only after Jinling got the news that so many things happened later.

Logically speaking, Jin Ling should go there and, relying on the blood connection between relatives, go directly to the troupe to pick up Jin Tong.

However, this matter caused another disturbance. Jintong joined the opera troupe and first learned to play the gongs and drums. Within three to five days, he mastered them all. However, he was not interested in the scenes and wanted to learn to sing.

There are two types of opera performances in the opera troupe. One is real people putting on costumes and performing on stage, and the other is shadow play and puppet show.

The troupe that bought him was called Baoqing Troupe, and they had both skills. The shadow puppets and puppets were all string puppets, and they were all practicing monsters.

It was because of this that the person who bought Jintong realized that the singing insect spirit could be a musician. In this way, Jintong became a disciple of a shadow puppet show master.

By the time Jin Ling came to the door, regardless of whether the troupe was willing to let him go, Jin Tong was obsessed with learning the art and naturally didn't want to follow his sister.

The most crucial thing is that he did not practice the ancestral Golden Wind Method, but instead practiced the human race's Human Sound Method. There was no other way, Jin Ling could only wait for him to finish learning.

They waited until the Mid-Autumn Festival when they arrived at Shui City to perform operas on August 15th. Three opera troupes were invited to perform, including the Baoqing troupe, so she followed them.

After listening to Jin Ling's narration, Yu Shuyang's drunkenness disappeared, the fire in his stomach gradually subsided, his vital energy was transformed again, and his fullness was restored.

Afterwards, Yu Shuyang also talked to Jin Ling about the matter of Tiger Demon and Jin Wuhuan, picking out what he could say, after all, Hong Tao was there both times.

If he doesn't tell her now, Jin Ling will know it sooner or later. It's better to tell her now so that she will have an idea, especially since there are many people involved behind the Tiger Demon.

After hearing the news, Jin Ling fell silent. The Western Demon Sect, the White Bone God, and faking death to escape disaster by borrowing a corpse were all legends.

"Thank you, Master Yu Jian, for your reminder. I didn't expect that after getting rid of Jin Wuhuan, he would cause such a big incident. He is a jinx.

Killing my family members is not the end of it. Now my grandfather's body has been used to revive a dead body. This matter cannot be resolved peacefully.

I wonder what Master Yu Jian will do in the future?"

Yu Shuyang didn't hide it and said directly: "I will go to Donghai soon. The situation in Wuzhou is turbulent now, so I have to go out to avoid disaster."

He did not tell anyone about the Happy Fish Land, as this kind of thing could not be told to outsiders. However, considering their friendship as they had fought enemies together twice, he kindly gave him a few reminders.

After hearing this, Jin Ling's face turned pale for a moment, and no one knew what she was thinking about. Yu Shuyang watched and pretended not to know.

At the wine table inside, seeing that Yu Shuyang had not come back for a long time, Cao Baotou came out to take a look, and saw him sitting on a bench chatting with a female fairy.

"Brother Yu, so you are here to sober up. Your brother-in-law and I have been thinking about you for a long time. Isn't this Jin Zhiniang from Baoqing Troupe?" Cao Baotou said with a smile.

When Jin Ling heard the voice, she knew that the person coming was Cao Baotou. She had been in Caohui for three days and knew that this was a member of her husband's clan, but she did not rush to recognize him as a relative.

After all, Hong Tao has lived in Hedong since he was a child and is not from the Luxi clan. Moreover, according to the family head, Cao and Hong are also two branches, but they belong to the same Luxi Niu clan.

Moreover, now that Hong Tao has married into her family, the couple's fortunes are connected, and they are no longer considered members of the Luxi Niu family. The key is that she doesn't want to curry favor with him.

"Master Yu Jian, I will return to the troupe. If you need anything during these days, please feel free to send me a flying talisman."

After Jin Ling finished speaking, she bowed and left.

"Brother Yu, I'm telling you, be careful when you encounter female demons. They're more troublesome than women, especially the demons from the opera troupe.

It's best not to touch them, as they are used to being hypocritical. You are still young and have not experienced many things.

Brother, let me remind you that this woman looks like a married woman, not an unmarried woman. If she tries to seduce you, you must not agree.

There is a kind of sentence used to catch an adulterer, which is called "仙人跳" in the folk. What it means is that if a fairy falls into the trap, he will have to jump into the fire pit.

This is the kind of married woman who comes out to seduce men, teasing them in every way possible to lure you upstairs, and then the husband comes to catch you in the act.

By that time, even if you have a hundred mouths, you still won’t be able to explain it clearly, and even if you have a hundred brains, you still won’t be able to come up with a solution.”

At the end of his speech, Cao Baotou couldn't stop sighing. It was unclear whether he was thinking of something sad or was sad for someone.

Seeing him like this, Yu Shuyang thought to himself, "Drunken Dragon also has his own time when he is trapped by a honey trap? That scene is really unimaginable."

"Brother Cao, please don't misunderstand me. Madam Jin is also from a demon fairy family. In her early years, she worked as a weaver in the Weaver Girl Temple. She would not do such a thing.

Seeing me drunk, she kindly offered me some hangover medicine. Our two families live close to each other, so we've known each other for a long time, so it's only natural for us to exchange a few pleasantries when we meet again."

Yu Shuyang couldn't help but make a few excuses, and looked at Cao Baotou impatiently as he was daydreaming.

“Brother Yu, I’m afraid you’ve been deceived. If she was from a demon fairy family, how could she have fallen to the point of working in an opera troupe? That place is not a place for good people.

Let me tell you about this opera troupe. They play the gods on stage and look solemn and dignified, but you don’t know what they are like in private.

The actors in this troupe are half skilled on stage and half skilled in bed. If you really like them, I'll ask two of them to take you to your room later."

Cao Baotou became more and more excited as he spoke, and it was obvious that he was drunk. When men drink, the only thing they can do is chat and tell dirty jokes.

Yu Shuyang couldn't bear to watch him swearing, so he pulled the bull demon back, and couldn't help but complain in his heart.

It seems that it was not without reason that Cao Baotou encountered a honey trap. His evil intentions have ruined the honest image of Luxi Yellow Cattle.

As soon as he entered the room, his eighth brother-in-law Huang Wenxun came over and helped him to sit down. Even after drinking so much spiritual wine, he was fine.

Now that the host was drunk, there was no need to force him to drink. Yu Shuyang was also sober, so he picked up his chopsticks and started eating.

Excluding the first round of four cold dishes and four braised meats on the table, the second round of sixteen stir-fried dishes and the third round of sixteen main dishes that were served later have not been eaten much.

Yu Shuyang ate every dish while it was still hot. Shandong cuisine is rich in oil and sauce, and the taste is very different from Wuzhou cuisine.

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