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Chapter Ten Night Talk

I started to have a fever the next day and stayed in bed for a whole week. This break made me lazy. Although my body had recovered, I lied that I still felt uncomfortable and stayed at home, refusing to do anything. The old man seemed

He was very generous. Not only did he not scold me, but he also ordered the kitchen to make daily meals according to what I wanted to eat.

After being idle like this for about twenty days, the good days finally came to an end. Cao Shi received a few familiar big customers and spent a few days with them in Jiangbei. All the long-winded matters at the stalls fell on me alone.

, and I have to report business matters to the old man every night, which is very annoying.

I felt that I was not a person who wanted to do great things. The life I longed for was an unfettered and free life, rather than dealing with some people of different religions and locals every day. I didn’t dare to say this thought. What the old man is most afraid of is that I will treat him in the future.

The family fortune that I have worked hard to accumulate all my life has been ruined. It is not new for descendants of ancestors to start a business and become ruined. However, although I am impatient to do business, I am not a prodigal. As for Wei Mian, let alone him, he looks terrible.

I don’t even know how to spend the money I gave him.

Usually nothing happens to the stalls and market stalls under the old man's name, because everyone in the circle knows that this is Wei Baye's property, but something unexpected happened today. Several small gangs in Jiangbei seemed to have taken the wrong medicine.

They got up to fight for goods with us, and the quarrel became more and more tense, and they almost started fighting with weapons. I had never encountered such a thing before, and I didn't know how to deal with it. It wasn't until the old man sent someone again that the situation slowly calmed down.

That night I went to tell the old man about it. He listened without saying a word and seemed a little distracted. After I finished speaking, he asked me to sit closer to him, then he thought deeply for a few minutes and said in a low voice: "Home.

Someone rebelled."

I quickly asked who it was, and the old man shook his head and said that he had been investigating secretly, but there was no result yet.

People who go astray are most afraid of moles. Once caught, the punishment is quite severe. Even if they are shot and killed, they will be given a leniency. I heard the old man said that he had seen a mole in the past who was tortured by mercury initiation, and his whole body was buried.

Enter the soil, leaving only the head outside, then make a cross on the scalp directly on the top of the head, and pour mercury into it. When the mercury is poured until the whole human skin is peeled off, and the person who is being tortured is not completely dead, then

Such a miserable wailing sound could pierce a person's eardrums. It looked so miserable that the onlookers had nightmares for several days.

Despite this, there are still endless people who betray him. It is understandable that there is no absolute thing in this world, including loyalty. The reason why he is loyal is because the chips that prompted him to betray are not strong enough.

In fact, just after the old man said these words, Cao Shi's shadow immediately appeared in my mind. Everyone knows that Wei Ba in Jiangbei has been paralyzed in the past few years. Cao Shi does all the big and small things. The old man can at best direct from the center, but

No one will know what Cao Shi is doing secretly outside.

However, as soon as this idea came up, I immediately rejected it myself. I understand Cao Shi as a person, and he is a good man who can trust his life. It is not that I think so because I have a good personal relationship with him. The people in Jiangbei are from top to bottom.

Everyone knew that Cao Shi was honest and had no second thoughts about the old man. Many people envied the old man for being able to find such a buddy.

"Little bastard, you have been hanging out in the stalls for several years, and you are familiar with everyone in the family." The old man was sitting in a wheelchair, gently touching the faucet on the cane with both hands, and said: "In your opinion, if someone betrays you,

, who could it be?”

The old man's tone was very calm, but I felt chills from the soles of my feet upwards. He did things in a measured way, but he was not a good person. If he really wanted to catch the mole, even if he didn't skin him, it would be no better. Human life is at stake, so I would say this

I can't talk nonsense, my mind is not on business, and I'm just messing around with those people at the stall.

When the old man saw that I didn't speak, he continued: "I've been getting more and more uneasy these days. Apart from you and Xiao Mian, these little brats, and a few old guys from the past, no one seems to be at ease. You don't want to

If you are suspicious, don't go out and talk nonsense, I will get to the bottom of this matter."

"The people at the market and stalls are still reliable..." I looked at the old man and couldn't help but feel nervous. He said this, even Cao Shi was excluded from the trusted list, but

It was impossible for me to say good things to Cao Shi in person, as that would be counterproductive. I thought about it and said cautiously: "As you often say, when the water is full, it will overflow. We know how to advance and retreat in everything, and our family fortune is big enough.

.....”

I have advised the old man to wash his hands before, but he was scolded several times after I tried to do so, so I didn’t dare to say it again.

"While I'm still alive, there are some things that I have to do in one go. I never care about money that is outside my body. If I lose it, I can make it again. If I die, I won't be able to take a single note with me. I don't have much to think about anymore.

"There is only one thing at home and outside that makes me feel uneasy."

"Dad, are you talking about the thing you brought back from Mazhan?"

The old man sighed and acquiesced. When I was looking for the thing called Ma Zhancheng, I was completely distracted by the corpse in the pit and ignored it. I wanted to know about it afterward, but no one was willing to tell me, so

Until now, I don't know what Cao Shi brought back from there.

"Dad, what you brought back from Ma Zhan are also parallel-imported Xixia imperial horse tiles?"

"Little bastard." The old man reached out and touched my head gently and said, "You are born with this problem. You want to ask about everything. It's not that I couldn't tell you, but even I don't know much about these things. Now

It won't do you any good to tell you. Don't worry, I will tell you sooner or later, and I will not bring this secret into the coffin."

"Can you please tell me a little bit?"

"As a human being, you must first learn to tolerate and take care of your own heart." The old man took out a black box as big as two cigarette boxes from his arms and said, "This is the one I brought back from Ma Zhan. I always have something in my heart."

I have an ominous premonition that I can’t keep this thing at home and I need to hide it somewhere else.”

The flat black box was dark and matte, with a wax seal between the box lid and the box body. Nothing could be seen from the outside. The old man rubbed the box, just like a young man touching a big girl's face, with great care. After a while, he

Suddenly he handed me the box and said, "I can't trust other people. It's up to you and Xiao Mian to hide this thing somewhere else."

I held the box in both hands and was a little at a loss. The old man thought too highly of me that he allowed me and Wei Mian to take such an important thing out.

To be honest, I don’t hate Nian girl, but the girlishness in him is unbearable, especially when it comes to work. Bringing this kind of person is like bringing a big burden. I held the box and said casually: "

There's no use taking him with you."

"I'm old." The old man looked at me, said these three words and stopped talking.

There was an indescribable feeling in the old man's eyes, but I suddenly understood a lot from his eyes. It's not that I'm smart, it's just that I grew up with him and didn't need to say many things clearly. The old man is older, and his family may

There's a traitor again. He doesn't trust others and wants to hand over power to me.

There is another meaning in the old man's words. The old man and I share the same surname and have the same relationship with him as father and son, but the only true sole child of the Wei family is Wei Mian. No matter how unsatisfactory Wei Mian is, the blood of the Wei family is flowing in his bones.

It is impossible for a person like the old man who comes from the old family not to leave a way for the Wei family's bloodline.

At this moment, I suddenly understood why the old man wanted me and Wei Mian to go to Ma Zhan together. The experience was just an excuse. In fact, he just wanted to tell me and his people about the future handicap stalls and

Wei Mian must have a share of the property in the old man's name.

"I understand." I answered solemnly, trying to reassure the old man.

"We still have an empty house in the east of the city. Not many people know that there is a secret door behind the wardrobe in the east bedroom. The things are hidden in the small secret room at the end of the secret door. Go there quietly at midnight today, and I will ask Lao Luo to show you the way.

.”

The old man explained some more details and told me that I was not allowed to open the box and take a peek. I nodded repeatedly and promised the old man that I would never take a peek.

"Little bastard, come up with something serious." The old man said one word at a time: "My life is in the box."


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