Pushing the door open, I saw a few gangsters surrounding Addison, led by a horse-faced guy waving an iron rod in his hand, "If you don't come up with three thousand taels, I won't just smash your water tank today.
You still have to burn your thatched hut and turn on your stove. Don’t think you can deceive this man. That Laoshizi glazed lamp must have sold for more than a thousand taels! Come out with the three thousand taels and let’s clear it!”
Liu Ziguang was in a good mood today and didn't intend to cause too much trouble. He stepped forward and grabbed the iron rod from Ma Lian's hand and held it in a U-shape, "Get out of here! Before I get angry."
Seeing that Liu Ziguang was well-dressed, with a sword on his waist, and a bookboy, he must be rich or noble, and he had such strong arm strength. Ma Lian knew that he was no match for him, so he called his men to leave in despair, and before leaving, he said: "Una
Man, if you have the guts, don’t leave. I’ll wait until my little bully comes to look good on you!”
When Addison saw that the person coming was Liu Ziguang, he quickly fell to the ground and said, "My dear benefactor! Just send someone to declare your child's child. How can you come to a humble house with a working man? It's really scary."
"It doesn't matter. Back then, Liu Bei paid three visits to the thatched cottage. Mr. Ai's talents are worthy of being invited by Liu himself. What happened just now?"
"My benefactor has been troubled by some chores. Those people are subordinates of the overlord Sun Gang. They specialize in loan sharking and are quite famous in the Nanguan area. Please be careful when your benefactor returns home."
Liu Ziguang shrugged nonchalantly and said, "Mr. Ai, I'm here today to give away the one hundred thousand taels of silver. It's really commendable that Mr. Ai lives in such a simple place and can invent such a magical thing as the glazed lamp."
Addison's eyes turned red and he was about to speak when the old woman's voice came from the hut: "Son, is your benefactor here? Come out and thank your benefactor."
Addison quickly apologized and went back to the room to help his mother out.
A frail old woman walked out of the room tremblingly with the support of her son. When she saw Liu Ziguang, she threw her crutches aside and knelt down with difficulty to kowtow, "I, Mrs. Ai Song, thank my benefactor for saving my life." Addison
He also knelt down and kowtowed.
"It's absolutely impossible!" Liu Ziguang hurriedly lifted the old woman up. "Mrs. Ai, you are still seriously ill, so you'd better go to your room and rest quickly. Don't get cold."
The four of them entered the hut, and Addison was busy lighting a fire, boiling water, and borrowing tea leaves. The old lady also came from a well-educated and scholarly family, and she accompanied Liu Ziguang to talk.
It turns out that Addison's father once worked as an academic in Yunnan. He was an honest official and did not save much family property. Later he resigned and returned to the capital. Addison was fond of tinkering with strange things since he was a child. After his father died,
With no one to control him, he gradually pawned all his property and property to fund research, but achieved nothing. In the end, his wife ran away and he took his mother to live in a woodshed. It turned out that Addison's uncle could still live in a woodshed.
There was some money, but since uncle took up the post of Xue Yu from another province, life has become even more difficult. There is not even rice for breakfast. There are only pots and jars all over the house, tools and utensils of all sizes, all the fruits of Addison's years of research.
"If no one appreciates it, it is still a pile of trash. Fortunately, I met a benefactor with a wise eye and a talented person, so I can have the confidence to live." The old lady couldn't help crying when she talked about the pain.
Liu Ziguang tried to persuade him a few words, but his eyes couldn't help but glance at the pile of junk in the corner of the room. Gears, rockers, chains, copper wires, files, hammers, saws, and a row of dark bottles in the shade against the wall.
Ding Libin also followed Liu Ziguang's gaze and looked over. The young man was so playful that he ran over to pick up a bottle, pulled out the stopper and put it up to his nose to smell it. Addison, who was lighting the fire, saw this and shouted: "Don't move! It's poisonous!"
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Ding Libin was too frightened to move, and gently put the bottle on the ground. Addison came over and plugged the cork of the bottle, and explained to Liu Ziguang and Ding Libin: "This is the poison I used from Yaquan when I was in Yunnan."
The potion made from water can transform skin, flesh, bamboo and wood, even if copper or iron is poured into it, it will boil until it bubbles. Because it is of no use, it has been left there without even a formal name."
Isn't the Yaquan in Yunnan the kind of spring water mentioned in Zhuge Liang's Seven Captures of Meng Huo? It is a natural copper sulfate solution, so this bottle of potion is sulfuric acid.
Sulfuric acid is an important industrial raw material. This time I found a treasure. This Addison is proficient in all aspects of physics and chemistry.
"Mr. Ai, I brought one hundred thousand taels of silver notes as promised. You can count them." Liu Ziguang motioned to Ding Libin to hand over the thick stack of silver notes to Addison.
"No, no, no, I can't ask for it. I discussed it with my mother last night and my benefactor's appreciation has been rekindled, allowing me to fulfill my ambition and get what I want. I absolutely cannot ask for this money.
Just think of it as the research expenses my benefactor gave me, and I will ask for it when I need it. On weekdays, my benefactor’s reward for us, mother and son, is enough.”
"How can that be done..." Liu Ziguang persisted for a while but still couldn't defeat the mother and son, so he collected the banknotes first.
"Sir, you really can't live in this luxurious house. Let's do this. I'll help you redeem the pawned mansion and property. Mr. Ai will be worthy of his ancestors." Liu Ziguang proposed a compromise.
This time, the mother and son of the Ai family did not refuse firmly. After discussing for a while, they decided that after redeeming the property and house, they would help Addison marry a new wife, buy a few maids and family, and serve the old lady to live her old life in Nanjing.
, Addison followed Liu Ziguang to the Liguang Railway Plant to engage in invention research. He was paid one thousand taels of silver every month, of which 800 taels were delivered to Ai's house by the Nanjing Lianfeng on a monthly basis. At first, Mrs. Ai thought that one thousand taels was too much.
They said that fifty taels would be enough. Liu Ziguang said that it was his wish to respect his elders, so they accepted it.
When he was talking about it in a high mood, suddenly there was a lot of excitement outside, and someone kicked Chaimen open. "Who dares to run wild on my little overlord's land?"
Everyone looked up and saw a young man wearing a snow-white silk shirt slantingly walked in. The flower embroidery on his body looked like "a phoenix trampling on jade, and a peacock piercing the flowers at random." Half of his arms, shoulders and chest were exposed.
It has an exquisite dragon and phoenix pattern, and a nine-section soft steel whip is wrapped around the waist. Behind it are Ma Fang and other gangsters, all carrying short knives, iron rulers and the like.
"Who is it? Come forward and let me see it. Don't think that with some brute force you can ignore my little overlord Sun Gang." It turns out that the boss who lent loan money is here.
"It's me, grandpa!" Liu Ziguang walked out of the hut with his head held high. Sun Gang's eyes narrowed as the midday sun shone down, and his right hand quietly touched the handle of the nine-section whip.
"Look at the whip!" The nine-section steel whip whipped towards Liu Ziguang as fast as lightning. Liu Ziguang remained motionless as if made of iron. The steel whip swept past his hair, and with a "chirp" sound, a small child on the eaves of the thatched shed behind him
The sparrows were whipped so that their feathers flew around and blood splattered everywhere. Even the clever sparrows couldn't dodge with such quick skills. The gangsters cheered repeatedly to show their prestige.
Liu Ziguang nodded, walked to the millstone in the yard with a normal expression, blew away the ashes and sat down. If the whip just now was directed at him, I am afraid that the little overlord would be dead on the spot at this moment. Today
Liu Ziguang was in a good mood and planned to play with them.
"Have you seen this millstone? Is your head as hard as it?" Liu Ziguang casually grabbed a handful on the millstone. Stone chips flew everywhere, and a stone as big as a baby's head was picked out. It was like grabbing tofu.
easy.
Powerful Eagle Claw Kung Fu! Sun Gang was shocked. Even the master of the Chengnan Martial Arts School, Mr. Wang, who had practiced Eagle Claw Kung Fu all his life, was at this level. The ordinary-looking rich man in front of him actually had such advanced martial arts. Fight.
He may not be his opponent.
The scoundrels were also dumbfounded and did not dare to scream.
"Isn't it just that I borrowed three hundred taels of silver? Scientists also contribute to society. You rogues can't show off your style. Don't ask for this little money. It will be used as compensation for other people's water tanks." Liu Ziguang clapped his hands.
Stone chips, to put it lightly.
"Who do you think you are! I'm not a shantang founder!" Sun Gang's hot temper was aroused by Liu Ziguang's words. No matter how tyrannical his opponent was, he took a step forward, grabbed Liu Ziguang's collar and was about to go crazy.
Liu Ziguang was wearing a blue silk robe with a large front and right hem today. Sun Gang tore it open along with the moon-white underwear inside, exposing his chest. Liu Ziguang became angry, his eyebrows raised, and he stretched his hand towards the handle of the knife.
Ding Libin, who was inside, knew that the general was going to kill people with a knife, so he quickly motioned to the Ai family and his son to cover their eyes, so as not to have nightmares at night when they saw heads flying around and blood flowing everywhere.
The iron factory logo and the four numbers 9527 on Liu Ziguang's chest looked very simple and ugly in front of Sun Gang, who was covered in splendid dragons and phoenixes. But when Sun Gang saw these, he was stunned like a lightning strike.
The moment Liu Ziguang pressed his finger on the spring, Sun Gang suddenly woke up and fell to his knees with a plop: "My benefactor, please accept my worship!"
Where is this? The scoundrels were shocked. The Ai family, mother and son, and Ding Libin in the room were also shocked. Even Liu Ziguang himself was confused. Although he was willing to help others, when he was a child, he helped the five-guarantee households carry water and led the blind uncle.
Crossing the road, I have never helped the patterned gangster in front of me, let alone a benefactor.
"Get up! Tell me what's going on? When did Liu become your benefactor?" Liu Ziguang sat still and accepted Sun Gang's bow before he asked.
"My benefactor's last name is Liu. Was he a slave in the first team of slave workers at the Liguo Iron Works?" Sun Gang asked respectfully, still kneeling on the ground.
"Exactly, do you know me?" Liu Ziguang searched for the impression in his mind, but there was no such person in his memory.
"That's right, you are my father's savior. When my father and you were mining together, there was an earthquake. It was you who saved hundreds of people underground, and my father was one of them. Later, there was a rebellion in the iron factory, and at a critical moment
It was you who single-handedly rescued the entire slave camp, led everyone to break through the encirclement, and single-handedly defeated the Qing army's chain of horses. My father was injured in the rebellion, and you gave each injured person a huge sum of money as severance pay. This is how my father returned.
Our mother and son reunited in our hometown. Every time we talk about our benefactor’s great kindness and might, my father will be moved and cry. My father also has a logo and four digits on his chest that are the same as the benefactor’s, and the benefactor’s four characters are 9527.
My father often talks about it, so I recognize you as my benefactor." Sun Gang said eloquently.
So, Liu Ziguang gradually remembered that there was an old slave in his forties who had a similar face to Sun Gang. "Are you the son of 2046?" he asked tentatively.
"Exactly, my benefactor still remembers my father's number. My father must be very honored to know it. Our family still has the memorial tablet of your benefactor's birthplace. Today was a misunderstanding. Let alone three hundred taels of silver, it is three thousand taels.
Thirty thousand taels, a word from my benefactor, that's all free. My benefactor's friends are my friends!" Sun Gang promised, patting his chest, "Xiao Ma, remember, Ai Cong is my friend, no one dares to bully me in the future.
Beat them to death!"
Ma Lian and other gangsters knew that the person in front of them was the hero who defeated the Qing army's serial horse mentioned in the storytelling. They were also excited and knelt down to pay tribute.
Liu Ziguang said hurriedly: "Everyone, please get up. I didn't expect to meet an old friend here. Let's do it this way. There is no restaurant nearby. Call your father and let's have a drink together." This Sun Gang is a tyrant in the south of the city and will naturally be useful in the future.
When I got there, this guy was pretty good at it, and Liu Ziguang couldn't help but want to recruit him.
When Sun Gang heard that his benefactor wanted to drink, he immediately ordered: "Xiao Ma, go to Taibai Tower and book the best private room. Ask for the best daughter Hong and the sweetest singing voice. Tell the boss that it is my little overlord who is entertaining your benefactor."
, he naturally knows how to do it.”
The horse-faced man agreed and ran away as fast as he could. Sun Gang got up from the ground and greeted the Ai family, mother and son and Ding Libin with a smile. He also put on his slanted clothes, and he was also a handsome young man.
With his snow-white teeth and crooked eyebrows, he doesn't look like a bully.