After Wei He asked himself about the Yonghe incident, he also went to the Escort Bureau to see Cheng Zhengxing who was ill.
It's a pity that he can't help with the escort agency.
Cheng Zhengxing is an old man with three blood levels. Although he is old, his foundation is still there and his strength is not bad.
What happened this time was that he fell ill even after three times of qi and blood. Now it only depends on Cheng Shaojiu's methods.
He asked several times in a row, and the answers he received were always no problem.
Cheng Shaojiu seemed to be sure.
Wei He then let go of his worries and continued his hunting life in the mountains.
He has now stopped the process of condensing the Nine Clouds Flower, and the Five Ridges Palm has been completed. The only thing missing is that the Realm Breaking Pearl has been completed again.
As he expected, after stopping all Qi and blood-consuming exercises, Qi and blood accumulated much faster than usual.
At least twice as much as usual.
He could clearly feel that a steady stream of energy and blood was flowing into the Breaking Realm Bead, being absorbed, integrated, and stored by it.
Two days later.
Wei He came back from the mountains and found nothing on his trip. He didn't even meet any bandits. He was extremely unlucky.
In the past, if you couldn't find prey, you could still rob a few bandits and get some rations.
But I was unlucky today, there was really nothing.
Wei He simply rested for a while in Tiantianju, then came back and went to the wine shop to sit for a while.
The winery is called Kezuofang, and the name is ordinary but a little unusual.
Although it is a wine shop, it is actually a teahouse. There are people selling themselves for a living from time to time, setting prices and waiting here.
But these days, everyone is barely making ends meet, and no one has time to take anyone back.
Wei He opened the curtain and at first sight saw a girl with long hair in the corner.
The girl was sitting on the ground with red and swollen eyes. Although she was only wearing a simple patchwork gray skirt, it could not hide her delicate skin and tender flesh, as well as her picturesque features.
The customers on the side changed from their usual indifference. Instead, they moved aside and frequently looked at the girl.
But no one offered to buy anyone, and the scene became a bit cold for a while.
Wei He sat at an empty table and ordered a pot of tea.
"What does that girl mean?" he asked the wine shop girl who brought the tea.
"He is also a poor person." The wine shop girl sighed.
"Tell me." Wei He said.
The girl from the wine shop looked at Wei He carefully and felt that he might have the capital to buy it. So she stopped and talked carefully.
"The girl's name is Shangguan Lin. Her family comes from a well-educated family, and her grandfather once served as an official in the court. Now her family is in decline. Her parents offended a steward of the Blood Clothes Gang, and now their family is ruined.
In desperation, Shangguan Lin had no choice but to sell herself to survive."
She sighed.
"No one dares to buy it now, all because they are worried about offending the manager of the Blood-clothed Gang. You must know that the people who can serve as managers in the three major gangs are extraordinary, both in terms of their own strength and the power of their subordinates.
Plus, the Bloody Clothes Gang has always been ruthless..." She didn't finish what she said, but the meaning was obvious.
Although everyone was excited and wanted to take this beautiful girl home, they were all worried about offending the Xueyi gang.
Wei He also understood.
He had seen the steward of the Bloody Clothes Gang before. When the Three Gangs and Two Gangs came to woo him before, he was the steward who came.
It's just that the appearance of the steward, that is, the second qi and blood, is the same as he is now.
I didn’t expect that a mere manager level could be such a big threat outside?
He thought of the core disciples of the Second Blood Qi in Huishan Boxing Academy. Comparing them horizontally, it seems that he is really a figure now?
"If you want to buy something, you'd better be careful. The Bloody Clothes Gang is in charge, but they don't even dare to provoke the surrounding Tongshan Gang and the Green Wolf Gang." The girl from the wine shop gave a kind reminder.
"Yes, I understand, thank you." Wei He smiled back. After all, he also had good intentions.
But the Tongshan Gang, the Green Wolf Gang? How can such an organization with only a dozen ordinary people in the gang have such a great reputation?
Among these two small gangs, the leader is a strong man who knows basic boxing skills. He broke through Qi and blood once. With his fierceness and talent, he gathered a group of gangsters.
Such a small gang will be updated every once in a while. In these troubled times, they are like weeds.
However, although Wei He was tempted, he had no intention of buying it.
What he wants to buy is not this kind of delicate girl, but he hopes to find a strong girl to protect his sister.
However, such people are hard to find. He plans to hire junior sisters from the courtyard when the time comes, or...
A shadow suddenly flashed before his eyes.
"It's not the right time yet." Wei He picked up the teacup and drank it in one sip.
The purpose of his coming here is to collect information about the alien beasts. Now that he has been hunting for a long time, he has gained a lot of experience and can try to attack the alien beasts.
The black lunatic he met on the night of Qiaotou when escorting escorts still left a deep impression on him to this day.
Therefore, in order to prevent accidents, he planned to make complete preparations, collect enough information, and then try to take action.
After sitting for a while, there was still no clue about the strange beast today. After Wei He drank the tea, he stood up, opened the curtain and walked out of the wine shop.
Suddenly, he saw Ouyang Zhuang, his newcomer, passing by the street with a handyman.
"Eh? Senior Brother Wei!" Ouyang Zhuang looked at Wei He in surprise. "Didn't you go to Yonghe Escort Agency today?"
"Escort agency? What? Why are you going today?" Wei He was also surprised.
"You don't know? There was news from the Yonghe Escort Bureau in the morning that they could no longer afford to pay the Zhao family's escorts in the inner city. They borrowed money everywhere, but they still lacked 700 taels of gold.
If we can't do it now, we will have no choice but to close down and completely collapse." Ouyang Zhuang replied.
"Ow money? Seven hundred taels of gold?" Wei He was stunned.
Only seven hundred taels?
He felt uneasy.
"What's wrong, senior brother?" Ouyang Zhuang asked cautiously when he saw Wei He's expression was wrong.
Without saying a word, Wei He turned around and ran back to his home. He wanted to go back to get the money and then go to the escort agency.
This man surnamed Cheng is being hypocritical. He asked him several times, but if he hadn't told him earlier, if he had told him that he was only short of this little money, he would have lent him money to tide him over!
.......
.......
.......
Cheng family, come to the living room.
On a mahogany square table, Cheng Shaojiu and a middle-aged man in a black mantle sat opposite each other.
There were crowds of people standing behind them.
More on one side, less on the other.
The young man behind Cheng Shaojiu.
He put his hand on the table and pressed his fingers on a piece of yellow paper, his face looked very ugly.
Written in black and white on the paper were the mortgage and compensation terms for their last escort.
"Tell me, it's time for you Yonghe to give us an explanation today." The middle-aged man in a black mantle said solemnly.
The sunlight slanted down in the hall, reflecting the scattered dust.
"The loss of the escort has caused the Zhao family to lose its trust. How should we solve it now? Should we come up with a charter?"
silence.
Cheng Shaojiu's lips were chapped and his complexion was dull.
He worked hard these days and raised money everywhere, but in the end he still had five hundred taels of gold left.
This is his best effort.
"Can't we give it a few more days?" he asked in a low voice.
"Excuse me, Mr. Cheng. Based on our past cooperation, we have already given you grace for so many days, and we have done our best." The middle-aged man said coldly.
"Tell me, what about the last gap, what about these five hundred taels of gold? If you really can't get it, how about you just follow my previous suggestion and use your silver-nosed black snake breeding method in exchange?"
Everyone behind Cheng Shaojiu showed signs of depression and anger.
The method of raising the silver-nosed black snake is worth more than a mere five hundred taels of gold. The other party is clearly trying to take advantage of the situation!
But in the past few days, Cheng Shaojiu and the others were borrowing money from everywhere, but they couldn't get the five hundred taels of gold together.
Those friends who usually spoke of their generosity now closed their doors one by one.
Not to mention five hundred taels, even one tael would not be borrowed.
Now everyone knows that something happened to the Yonghe Escort Bureau, and no one is willing to lend money, lest it is like a meat bun beating a dog, and there will be no return.
Now, everyone in the Cheng family probably understands that someone is setting a trap for his family, and the purpose is to raise the silver-nosed black snake.
Cheng Shaojiu was silent for a long time. Although this silver-nosed black snake was the foundation of his Cheng family, it was the foundation that his uncle Cheng Zhengxing had finally obtained back then.
But in these extraordinary times, if we don't let go of these extraneous things, I'm afraid the entire escort agency won't be able to support it.
He sighed deeply in his heart.
"I understand...Okay, I promise, use..."
"Wait!"
Suddenly there was a low shout.
The man in a black mandarin jacket opposite raised his hand to stop.
At some point, a short dwarf man suddenly appeared next to him. The dwarf man seemed to have just said something to him.
The man in the black mantle looked calm and stood up.
"My family has a destiny. We don't want the silver-nosed black snake anymore. We can't get the money. The Yonghe Escort Bureau must be dissolved. No more escort bureaus are allowed in other cities!"
He had just received instructions from his family. They secretly reached an agreement with another escort agency. As long as they completely forced the Yonghe escort agency to death, they would pay a price far exceeding the price of the silver-nosed black snake.
Moreover, as long as the Yonghe Escort Bureau completely collapses, can the method of raising the silver-nosed black snake be hidden?
With a little bit of effort, it's not all theirs.
"You!" Cheng Shaojiu was startled and stood up suddenly.
The bodyguards and heads of the bodyguards behind him also looked at him angrily.
"What the hell...!"
Some people couldn't help but curse, but they were immediately stopped and endured.
"What?" The black mantle sneered. "You want to hit someone? Do you think you are the only one from the Cheng family? We are the Zhao family of the Qijia Alliance, just some mud-legged people from the outer city, let's try it?"
Cheng Shaojiu looked at the eyes around him that were staring at him, waiting for him.
He raised his hand in silence to stop the excited people behind him.
"No matter what, as long as people are still there, everything will be there."
He took a deep breath, his voice seemed to be trembling.
That’s right, the silver-nosed black snake is gone, that’s okay.
It doesn't matter if the escort agency collapses.
As long as people are still there, everything can be restored.
But apart from comforting myself, these words can have no effect.
For an escort agency of the size of Yonghe Escort Agency, even Cheng Zhengxing had to work hard and compete for the territory and market in his early days, and it was not easy to build such a large foundation.
Once it collapses now, will people really still be around?