Chapter 138 The catfish effect

For a person who has endured hunger and torture for a long time, nothing makes him happier and excited than a good meal.

When Chu Tianya was eating, he attracted many people or people with joy or bad intentions. From Guanshan, the master of the village to the master of the big stove, in addition to being surprised by his food intake and eating, he also used a variety of strange words to describe him--

Swallowing, wind and rolling clouds, destruction, lofty, hungry ghost reincarnation, as well as bravery, earth-shaking, going forward and following, death, and so on.

The potential of human beings is really infinite. Compared with many big men with round arms in the cottage, Chu Tianya's originally well-proportioned figure is thin. But the meal he ate today was enough to deter the heroes. The heroes looked at him and muttered in surprise - where did he eat so much food?

Compared with everyone's ridiculs and jokes, Xiao Linglong's performance is calm, and there is always a trace of bitterness, heartache and shame in her eyes.

Because only she knew what kind of life Chu Tianya lived in Taiyuan City. When the food was finally cut off, in order to take care of the two females, Xiao Linglong and Xiao Ai, Chu Tianya saved a little thin porridge soup for the senior generals he brought from the army almost every day, and lied that he had already eaten it in the army. Until once Xiao Linglong found that Chu Tianya secretly tore the skin bag on the bow and arrow bag in the middle of the night and boiled it to chew and wrap his stomach.

The military trap and famine in Taiyuan took the lives of many people and defeated the bottom line of more people's will and morality. There has been more than one vicious incident of killing and cooking meat in the city, and there are also many tragedies of eating between the people. In that environment at that time, not everyone could be like Chu Tianya.

Xiao Linglong thought to herself that she couldn't do it either. Therefore, seeing Chu Tianya chewing like this today, Xiao Linglong's heart can't stop being sour and moved, and she has the impulse to cry more than once.

When the celebration banquet was held, Chu Tianya had already round his stomach and could no longer eat anything. However, everyone advised him so hard that he had to drink a few bowls of wine.

Guan Shan said that today, the right should be to take over the dust for the Chu brothers first, and wait for the second brother Jiao to return to the cottage tomorrow, and then hold a celebration banquet. At this time, Jiao Wentong was leading most of the people of Qixingzhai to clean up the battlefield of Huanglong Valley. It is said that this time not only annihilated a large number of enemies, but also collected and seized a large number of trophies, including a very valuable batch of northern war horses, as well as a large amount of grain and fodder.

Only waiting for these materials to be delivered back will undoubtedly greatly expand the strength of the cottage.

For the time being, Chu Tianya, He Bo, Xiaofei, Meng De, Ma Yu and others have been settled in Kaiyang Palace. Since Yang Zaixing went down the mountain, the main palace there has been vacant, and now it is just available to entertain distinguished guests.

It was already evening after the banquet, and the sunset was picturesque. Everyone is already full of wine and food. Guan Shan, Xue Yu and Bai Xu personally came to send Chu Tianya and others back to the residence of Kaiyang Palace, with great enthusiasm and thoughtfulness.

Although he was very concerned about the safety of the father and son of the Wang family, it was not easy for Chu Tianya to take the owner immediately to ask the leaders of the cottage to help rescue him, but he intentionally or unintentionally mentioned this matter to Guan Shan in a gossip.

After a little meditation, Guan Shan said that the father and son of the Wang family are rare loyal people, and in this battle of Taiyuan, everyone also lived and died together in adversity. It is incumbent on Qixingzhai to rescue such a figure. However, because it is important, it still needs to be discussed in the long-term. Why don't you wait for a day or two and make a final agreement after Jiao Wentong returns to the mountain.

Chu Tianya naturally thanked him, but he secretly thought about it in his heart. I had heard that at first, Jiao Wentong was the owner of Qixing Village, but later he gave up the position of the owner of Guanshan, but I didn't know any secret and reason. However, from the current appearances, it seems that Jiao Wentong, the owner of the second village, has no less status and prestige than Guanshan in the cottage. However, if there is any major matter, Guan Shan is never arbitrary, and he must ask Jiao Wentong to discuss it together. However, Jiao Wentong once "absolutely" or "cut off first and then play" of some things - a metaphor for the last time he single-handedly shocked Xishan.

The subtlety, the more Chu Tianya experienced it, the more he felt that Guanshan, the owner of the big village, seemed to have a little bit of being overshadowed.

After everyone sent Chu Tianya and other people to Kaiyang Palace, they accompanied them to visit the palace for a while, and left more than a dozen fine and diligent waiters before leaving. Only Xue Yu stayed and insisted on serving his master, He Bo, who was willing to leave after changing his medicine and sleeping.

Chu Tianya also checked the old man's injury together, and he was not very optimistic. In that tragic street battle to defend the city, Uncle He was injured in the back in order to protect Chu Tianya, and his bones were almost killed on the spot. Although he has strong martial arts and tenacious vitality, after all, he is an old man in his sixties or 70s. With this kind of serious injury, he will definitely not be healed for a while. So at today's banquet, the old man rarely laughed and had a bad appetite. After returning to Kaiyang Palace, he immediately lay down and looked extremely tired.

Xue Yu, a beautiful man who is usually taciturn and cold, is very attentive and cautious in the face of He Bo, just like serving his biological father. Chu Tianya witnessed the whole process of changing He Bo's medicine to treat his wounds, wiping his clothes, and making the bed and quilts. He has always been careful and gentle, like a humble and tame little daughter-in-law.

But on the battlefield, Xue Yu, the owner of Sanzhai, is the most fierce and cruel one. Although he is handsome, elegant and gentle, the splashing knife in his hand has always advocated "violence aesthetics". Whenever you go to the battlefield, if you don't kill until your whole body is bloody and the horse's legs are weak, you will never stop!

Mei Xuelang and the drunken knife king are the number one vanguard and fierce generals in the Qixingzhai at present. They are the first soldiers to charge into the battle, and thousands of troops split the generals to seize the flag, which is not a problem!

After serving He Bo to sleep, Xue Yu withdrew from the room worriedly, and Chu Tianya invited him to his room for a while.

"When I went to Tokyo to study, I was 18 years old. That was the first time I left my hometown and left my parents. I'm not familiar with life in a different place. If it hadn't been for the master's careful care of me, I'm afraid I would have retreated halfway. Xue Yu recalled what happened in those years, and there was a rare warmth on his cold face. He said, "People say that I will be a teacher for a lifetime, but I really regard my master as my father. At that time, he did take care of me as his own son. In order to repay my master's great kindness, I tried my best to win the first place in martial arts and fight for my master. I didn't expect that I lost... I only lost the third place!"

"Oh, is there anyone better than you?" Chu Tianya couldn't help but be curious.

Xue Yu also smiled and said, "If you know who the champion and the list are, it won't be surprising."

"Which two masters are there?"

"The champion is my brother, Jiao Wentong." Xue Yu smiled and said, "I'm convinced that I lost to him. As for the other person, I'm not so convinced - Liu Guangshi, the son of Liu Yanqing. That's right, it's Liu Yanqing, his son, who arrested you not long ago!"

Chu Tianya also smiled and said, "The Liu family is a general family. Liu Yanqing has been with Tong Guan for so many years and is deeply rooted in the court. It's really not difficult to use some money to buy some ways to let his son get on the list.

Xue Yu sneered, "In terms of martial arts, ten Liu Guangshi come up together, and Xue will not let one go back alive. When it comes to the strategy of the art of war, the children of the sorghum who don't learn anything are simply falsely famous, and I disdain to talk about it. It was out of such anger that although I won Tanhua at that time, I was ashamed to go back to see my master, so I left Tokyo overnight without saying goodbye. I didn't expect this to be more than ten years! ... In retrospect, I was so ashamed that I was too young to respect my teacher because of trivial things! It was not easy for the master to finally go to the cottage. From today on, I will serve him well to make up for the mistakes of the past years.

Chu Tianya nodded with a smile on his face that did not hide his praise and appreciation for Xue Yu.

Among the leaders of Qixingzhai, Xue Yu gave Chu Tianya the most pure and upright one. He has a natural chivalrous spirit, frank, open and affectionate. Such people are easy to get along with, and Chu Tianya has always been very admirable and appreciated.

The two of them chat relaxedly and casually with a lamp and two bowls of tea. They don't want to talk more and more speculatively, and the topic is getting wider and wider. It feels like it's too late to meet. You know, Xue Yu is usually a very taciturn person. In the eyes of most people, this man is a little "cold". But as soon as he approached him and let him open his heart, he could find that under his cold appearance, he actually had a sincere and hot heart.

His characteristics are a little similar to Xiao Linglong. However, unlike Xiao Linglong's "Hedgehog Defense", Xue Yu usually adopts an iceberg-style painting, so that people who want to get close to him can only look up from afar, and will naturally retreat because of the cold air of fearing him.

If not, how can a handsome and beautiful man like him in his early thirties be single without a woman around him?

The two talked until late at night. Chu Tianya, who had been exhausted for days, couldn't stand the fight in his eyes, and just gave up. The night was dark, and Xue Yu did not go back to her Tianji Palace. She directly rolled up a quilt and lay down on the floor of He Bo's room. He woke up very well. If the old man got up or coughed in the middle of the night, he would immediately get up to serve him. His filial piety and respect were amazing.

In the past half a year, Chu Tianya also slept for the first time, and without worrying about being beheaded in the middle of the night.

When he woke up, it was already dusk. Chu Tianya felt a pain all over his body, and his eyes were a little sleepy and couldn't open. This sleep was really too deep and death. Later, he went out of the room to find out that it was past dinner time. Everyone knew that he was very tired, so they didn't call him and let him have a full sleep.

Chu Tianya was also stunned. Unexpectedly, he slept for nearly 20 hours and didn't get up!

Xiaofei left food for Chu Tianya and warmed it in a steamer. At this time, he took it for him to eat. During the meal, He Bo sat opposite him and said intentionally or unintentionally, "Young master, you are new to the cottage. Don't deliberately get too close to anyone, including Xue Yu, before you can figure out the situation."

Chu Tianya's chopsticks stopped, "Why?"

He Bo's face was a little pale. His spirit was obviously not as good as before, but his eyes were brighter. He said, "It hasn't been a few days since the old man came to this cottage, and he smelled a strange smell. I'm afraid that Qixingzhai is not as calm and peaceful as we think. Guan Shan, the owner of the big village, did not do well. Jiao Wentong, Xue Yu and Xiao Linglong have always been in the same spirit, and there is a little bit of resistance. The left and right of Bai Xun is skillful and smooth, and the other two big owners Yang Zaixing and Tang Ang are the loyal to Guanshan, but one went down the mountain and the other is purely stunned. It is said that Yang Zaixing went down the mountain more or less related to Jiao Wentong. Because Jiao Wentong's power is too strong, he often overwhelm Guanshan in momentum. Therefore, the Qixing Village is also divided into two obvious factions. Guanshan, the owner of the big village, is a little untrue.

Chu Tianya nodded, "In fact, I can also see that the interior of Qixing Mountain is not calm. I think an important reason for their internal factional division is probably due to the consideration of the future. Most of these two factions, one faction wants to serve the court, while the other side disagrees. However, it's not surprising that ten fingers are not generally long, and it's normal to have some disagreements. As long as these problems can be dealt with well, it will not hurt.

"The problem is that they are likely to not handle it well by themselves." He Bo's words suddenly became sharp. He said, "There are essential differences in major issues, which cannot be solved by discussion and harmony. Of course, the old man also believes that, at least now, they are not going to fight with the same room because of this. But if this problem is not solved, it will always be a hidden danger. The heroes in Qixingzhai are outstanding. It would be a pity if they hinder each other and eventually decline because of internal reasons!"

Chu Tianya thought slowly while eating, and suddenly said, "But what does this have to do with me? Qiangbin doesn't oppress the Lord. As a newcomer, can I still interfere in the core affairs of Qixingzhai?

"Can." Uncle He said this word categorically, and a strange light flashed in his eyes. "Young master, don't forget that you have an in-law who is a big leader in Xishan, and a master who presided over the Battle of Taiyuan. Although these two are a little depressed now, your talent and background are an external force that can break the balance of the current pattern for Qixing Mountain - now Qixing Mountain has fallen into a deadlock, and they can't solve these potential crises and problems by themselves unless with the help of external forces!"

Chu Tianya suddenly realized that He Bo's words really hit the nail on the head. This is exactly the " catfish effect" used by Norwegian fishermen hundreds of years later, which has the same effect!