Chapter 3: Accidentally wandering into the Ecstasy
A man in his teens calls a teenage boy "big brother". This scene... is actually not strange.
To be the "big brother", you don't necessarily have to rely on age, but you must have strength.
If you have strength, you are the eldest brother. If you don't have strength, you are the younger brother. There is no point in being older. You are just an old brother.
So when Zeng Dabao comes in front of Sun Yixie, he will naturally become his younger brother.
Now, the eldest brother wants fifty taels from your younger brother, will you give it? If you don't give it, the "younger brother" lying on the ground will suffer a lot.
Zeng Dabao couldn't help it. Who could let him catch up with such a brother...
He must have saved some savings after working as a head catcher in Lin'an for so many years. This time, it was all accounted for.
Of course, Sun Yixie didn't use their brother's money in vain: these fifty taels were considered a "sale and purchase", as if Capt. Zeng paid for his brother to buy Xue Tui's store, and from now on this place would be owned by them.
Zeng Erbao.
Guys...this is a very clever move.
Do you think these Zeng brothers had any crimes that warranted their death? No, there were many people like them at that time, and they were just who they were in whatever position they were in, so Sun Yixie would not drive them all away.
But it would not be appropriate to simply beat Zeng Erbao to a semi-disabled state and then force Zeng Dabao to pay a sum of money to Xue, Yuan, and Zhang...
Although this seems to be helping a friend to vent his anger and punishing the bad guy, in fact this does not change anything. Instead, it will intensify the conflict and turn it into hatred.
But now Sun Yixie's method is very good.
First of all, in terms of people, they didn’t beat you to death or maim you, they just slapped you a few times; for the gangsters, this is nothing, and it doesn’t even count as a loss of face. Maybe these gangsters will go out again in the future.
Bragging "I was once whipped by Sun Yixie".
Secondly, in terms of money, I gave fifty taels to you Zeng brothers for this shop. Even if you lose a little, it's not much, and you still get a share of the industry.
Thirdly, Sun Yixie told Zeng Dabao that this store is for Zeng Erbao, which means Zeng Dabao can also understand - let your brother do some serious business from now on, and stop doing random things, and you have spent so much money.
If you have a lot of money, I don't need to tell you that you will work hard to take care of him.
As for Xue Tui, Yuan Fangzhi and Zhang Ergui, Sun Yixie has other plans. He has asked them to pack their luggage tonight and take them back to Hangzhou tomorrow. From now on, these three will eat his Sun family.
This is a bowl of rice.
To make a long story short, forget about this matter today.
Even the Zeng brothers had no complaints afterwards. After all, Zeng Erbao had offended Sun Yixie's friend. They were very lucky to have such a result in the end.
The next day, Sun Yixie hired two carts and took Chef Yuan, Chef Zhang, and Xue Tui's family to Hangzhou City.
Sun Yixie didn't keep a penny of the fifty taels of silver he got yesterday, so he gave it to Xue Tui and the others. He said it was for settlement expenses, but in fact... Later, when they entered Hangzhou City, the three of them
Sun Yixie's residence has also been arranged, so they don't need to settle down by themselves.
At this time, Brother Sun had already made up his mind. He thought to himself: Since I have obtained these three talents this time, I must win over them carefully and then use them for my use.
He was inspired by the "No Return Building" in Luoyang and planned to build a unique luxury restaurant in Hangzhou. He had already thought of the name, so he called it "West Lake Restaurant". It would be opened directly on the edge of the West Lake. How expensive could it be?
No matter how expensive it is, it’s designed to make Kaizi’s money.
However, it will take a lot of time to get this matter sorted out, so let’s split the conversation and first take a look at the situation over there at Huang Donglai...
Let us say that after Huang Donglai left Wuchang, he headed all the way to his hometown in Fushun (now Zigong).
However, what Li Taibai said is right - the road to Shu is as difficult as climbing to the sky.
Originally, the distance from Wuchang to Fushun was farther than to Hangzhou, and the road to Sichuan was not easy to walk. Huang Donglai had to travel more than ten days longer than Sun Yixie before he got home.
Unfortunately, during the few days he came home, his father just went out to do business. In this case, Huang Donglai simply didn't stay at home any longer. He wrote a letter to the family, said a few words to the housekeeper, and then came again.
Set off.
The day Huang Donglai left home was the 23rd of October in the 18th year of Yongtai. The almanac said: Heavy snowfall, bad luck in the east, I don't ask for divination, so I can't travel far.
As for Huang Donglai, it happened to be the same door he left at the same time.
Of course, because it rarely snows in Sichuan, although it was "heavy snow" on this day, it actually only rained a little bit.
In this cold winter rain, Huang Donglai, wearing a bamboo hat and raincoat, rode an old horse along the muddy road and embarked on his journey to the west.
Winter is getting deeper, the days are shorter and the nights are longer.
Since the days were getting shorter and shorter, and it was difficult to travel at night in ancient times, he was delayed on the road for another ten days.
Fortunately, he arrived at the foot of Wawu Mountain three days before the winter solstice.
But when he actually got here, he was in trouble.
This tile-roofed mountain is intertwined with forests and ravines, with steep cliffs, misty clouds, and mysterious depths... The most important thing is that there is no village in front or a store in back. Where can he find the mountain gate of "Shushan Xuanqi Sect"?
Let alone looking for a mountain gate, he couldn't even find a place to stay in this barren mountain. This rhythm was to stage a wilderness survival.
But there was nothing Huang Donglai could do. He had already come, so he just looked for it no matter what.
There is a saying that when Heaven is about to give a great responsibility to this person, he must first strain his mind, strain his muscles and bones, and starve his body and skin... During these three days and nights, Brother Huang walked and stopped in this mountain, looking for a rest, and he was hungry.
When he is hungry, he eats some dry food that he brought with him. When he is thirsty, he drinks a few sips of ice water from the mountain stream. When he is sleepy, he finds a sheltered place and lies down to sleep for a while... That is to say, he is young and good at martial arts. Most people are afraid that he will be too early in the morning.
Frozen to death in the mountains.
Just like that, it was the morning of the winter solstice.
On this day, the sky was full of haze, and the wind in the mountains was like a knife, making it difficult for anyone to lift their heads.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! As early as noon yesterday, Huang Donglai had finished eating the dry food. Once this person has no food in his belly, he has no heat, so he was cold and cold last night.
I'm hungry and I haven't slept well either.
Some people may ask, why didn't he kill the horse he rode on? Wouldn't that be enough for him to eat for several days?
It's a pity, because the mountain road is really difficult to walk, so he lifted the saddle and let the horse go on the first day here, and now he has nowhere to catch him even if he wants to eat.
Even survival was a problem, so let's not talk about anything else. Huang Donglai was not a very determined person to begin with, so he immediately wanted to retreat, but he thought it was better to withdraw.
However, when he wanted to go back, he found that it was not that simple - he was lost.
Even though Huang Donglai felt that he had a good sense of direction, and he had carved marks on tree trunks along the way, after walking for three full days, the marks had long lost their meaning... After he turned back, he could only find
He could no longer remember the previous mark or the approximate direction of the previous one, let alone find the path he had taken in the previous two or three days.
Seeing this, he could only bite the bullet and "go with his feelings."
In this way, he wandered around for most of the day in a state of hunger and cold. Seeing that the sun was about to set again, Huang Donglai finally couldn't hold on any longer.
"Damn it... I'm in trouble now." He looked at the mist-shrouded mountain forest in front of him, and an ominous premonition suddenly arose.
As a martial arts practitioner, Huang Donglai is relatively clear about the limits of his body. He understands that when his strength is exhausted, it is not possible to withstand it with mental things.
Just as the despair in his heart was gradually rising, he suddenly saw something vaguely on a mountain wall in front of him.
At that moment, he quickly set up an arbor and looked intently with his somewhat dim eyes, and then he was sure... there should be words engraved on the wall.
Now he became more energetic, because if there were words, it meant that someone had been here. Maybe this was the "mountain gate" he was looking for, and that word was the name of the sect.
Thinking of this, Huang Donglai took a few deep breaths, then took another breath and walked quickly towards the mountain wall.
But when he got closer and saw the words on the mountain wall clearly, his heart sank back to the bottom of the valley.
It turns out that what was carved on the mountain wall was not the name of any sect, but two lines of words that looked very unlucky - "The Lost Soul in Wawu Mountain, the Gate of Hell on the Road to the World."