Chapter 67 Chaos
Wearing a bamboo hat on his head and carefully hiding his face, Li Sheng walked on the street.
This time, he came out on Xu Ke's order to observe whether the people coming from the south of Tianhu County saw anything strange, or whether there were any changes in themselves.
Especially those who have had close contact with the mountain transformed by the meteorite are the key targets of monitoring.
But halfway through, a man suddenly jumped out from the side.
He rushed towards Li Sheng excitedly and kept shouting:
"Brother, why is it you! I haven't seen you for a long time!"
Li Sheng was shocked when he heard this. .
He still lives up to his status as a fugitive. The reason why he dared to return to Tianhu County and walk openly on the street was because he felt that after ten years, not many people would recognize him.
But I didn’t expect that someone would recognize me after just a short while?
At least I was wearing a hat to hide my face. How did the other party recognize me...
"Oh, why are you still standing there? We haven't seen each other for so long. Brother, have you forgotten me to death? "
"I really didn't expect to meet you here."
The man was extremely enthusiastic and dragged Li Sheng to a restaurant not far away.
I must invite Li Sheng to have a few drinks and reminisce about old times.
Li Sheng was not in the mood to reminisce, but he was also worried that the other party would reveal his identity.
Although he is confident of escaping from Tianhu County, if he makes things worse, it will definitely affect many major events.
I still have a lot of unfinished business in Tianhu County, so I can’t expose my identity so easily.
So I had to follow the other person into the restaurant to see what the other person was planning.
The man seemed to have no ill intentions and was still very enthusiastic.
Ask the waiter to serve the food as quickly as possible, any big fish or meat as soon as possible, and don’t be stingy with the good wine.
While waiting for the food, the other party also asked where Li Sheng had made his fortune recently and why he couldn't be seen in recent times.
Li Sheng was worried, so naturally he hesitated to speak and spoke vaguely.
But the other party didn't care, he still looked enthusiastic.
As the dishes arrived, the man immediately greeted Li Sheng to enjoy his meal, and frequently offered Li Sheng several glasses of wine.
After three rounds of wine, the five flavors of food are gone.
The man suddenly frowned slightly and shouted downstairs:
“Why hasn’t the sweet and sour fish I wanted been served yet?”
Seeing no one respond, The man cursed a few words, then smiled and said to Li Sheng:
"Brother, you drink first, and I will hurry up the waiter."
Then he got up and went from the second floor to the first floor.
Li Sheng was also worried that the other party might want to secretly report him in exchange for some reward money.
So he quietly stood up and stood in the gap on the second floor to look.
I saw the man coming to the first floor. As expected, he did not go to the waiter, but left the store directly.
But looking at the direction he was walking, it didn’t seem to be the direction to the Yamen.
At this moment, the waiter came to Li Sheng's table with a flattering smile on his face:
"Sir, are you satisfied with our dish?"
"It's okay. "Li Sheng, who didn't know how to eat, said casually.
"Sir, when will you settle the bill? Your friend has already left."
Li Sheng subconsciously put his hand into his arms to withdraw money, but suddenly realized something .
"Could it be..."
Li Sheng suddenly realized that the boy probably didn't know him at all and was just looking at his face.
That's why I deliberately used this "it's me" trick of pretending to be an acquaintance to trick myself into inviting him to a big meal.
If you are an ordinary person in the world, you may be somewhat defensive about this kind of despicable deception.
But Li Sheng, who was risking his life at sea, didn't care about small amounts of money. When he was in the East China Sea, he was a big spender and made many friends with money.
When he came back, he was so frightened that he didn't pay attention to this kind of deception.
“Forget it, it’s just a few coins.” Li Sheng didn’t take the matter seriously at first. After paying the money, he was about to continue investigating.
Unexpectedly, along the way, I heard more and more disputes.
The closer we get to the South City Gate, the more depressing the atmosphere becomes along the way.
Not only were there frequent fights and disputes, but almost everyone's eyes were full of distrust.
Walking on the road, everyone glanced at everyone else with wary eyes.
As if you are afraid that others will steal your money.
"In the past ten years, the atmosphere in Tianhu County has deteriorated so much?"
But after observing for an afternoon, Li Sheng became more and more frightened.
If the source of the dispute between them was just greed at the beginning, then the subsequent disputes would not even be considered a struggle for interests.
Simply to satisfy my own intelligence, I think it’s fun to play tricks on the other person, and I feel the satisfaction of being smarter than others.
What made Li Sheng break into cold sweat on his back the most was that although these people's methods were not perfect, they were extremely clever.
But it is definitely not a method that a group of honest ordinary people can come up with out of thin air.
There have even been cases where several people worked together to defraud a person who lost all his money and hanged himself in despair.
"This should be the strange thing that the immortal said."
Li Sheng hurriedly reported the matter to Xu Ke and told everything he saw and heard.
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The old woodcutter who had been given the high-level blessing [Wisdom and Foolishness] by Xu Ke opened his eyes.
I woke up from the bed in a daze, still repeating my day in an orderly manner.
Sharpen your axe, go up the mountain to cut firewood, sell the firewood, and exchange it for the things necessary for life.
The only difference is that after that magical night, his body improved significantly.
My waist doesn’t hurt, my legs don’t hurt, and I feel much stronger.
You can fetch ten times more firewood than before and exchange it for a better axe.
The leaky house was repaired and some new clothes were purchased.
I also bought a bag of rice and sent it to my son, whom I had not seen for a long time.
The son looked at the old woodcutter who seemed to have Alzheimer's disease and was no longer the same as before.
Looking at his stupid look now, it seems that he has forgotten the estrangement between the two due to various reasons.
The son's tone of voice couldn't help but become much softer.
I even want to take the old woodcutter back to his home and live with his family.
But the old woodcutter refused to go back. He only regarded his small house as his home and continued to repeat his daily schedule paranoidly.
When the son saw this, he did not force him. He only took him to visit his wife and children, and completed the family happiness with him.
But as the old woodcutter thought less and less and the days got better and better, the old man Lu next door couldn't help laughing.
I feel like he has so much strength and his body has become so good, but he still only knows how to use his strength to cut firewood in the mountains every day.
When you make money, you will only save it or use it in some useless places.
If the children from the Xiaolin family next door save money to start a business, the business will become more and more prosperous in a few years, making many people jealous.
The old woodcutter did not argue. In fact, he no longer had the ability to argue.
As his brain becomes more and more simple, he can only take care of his own affairs and has no spare time to pay attention to other people's opinions and evaluations.
Until this day, due to repeated severe droughts, all the trees on the barren mountains had been cut down.
So the old woodcutter, who had only one brain, chose to go to the latest meteorite mountain that appeared in the south of the city.
Little did he know, it had become a hell on earth.
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