Wei Changpan's face was sore as he lay prone on the ground due to broken bricks. The one-armed, one-legged old man beat him with a jujube stick. The blood stasis caused by the long-term muscle tightness in his body made him unable to move. If he had martial arts,
A martial artist with a higher realm was standing by, and he could use the energy in his body to slowly dissolve it, but the old man simply hit him with a stick. Although it was effective, he would have to suffer some physical pain.
The old man's blow with the stick was not light. Every time he hit the stick, his skin and flesh made a muffled sound. After being hit with the stick for twenty or thirty times, Wei Changpan felt that his arms and legs could barely move, so he quickly rolled to the side to avoid what was coming next.
With a stick, the jujube stick came up like a gangrene attached to the bone and hit his lower abdomen.
"Stop fighting, stop fighting!" Wei Changpan rolled over and used his strength to stand up. He glared at the old man and bared his teeth and said, "It's time to calm down."
Maintaining such an explosive state requires a lot of energy and physical strength. After the heartstrings and body are stretched to the extreme, when the whole person relaxes, it is like a rubber band that has been stretched for too long has suddenly loosened, and the whole body cannot move.
Perhaps he was dissatisfied with the fact that the old man acted like this when he met him. Coupled with the pain from the beating, the fear in his heart had not completely subsided. The first moment after he stood up, he confirmed that the knife at his waist was still there and he reached out for it.
A place where it can be pulled out.
"The chief escort taught me to do some cleaning work..." Still swallowing his breath, Wei Changpan was thinking about what to say and said, "I wonder what you call the old man?"
Using the jujube stick as a crutch, the old man walked towards the corner of the ancestral hall where the ground was still intact. Only then did Wei Changpan notice that there was a place for people to rest in the ancestral hall. The charcoal fire in the copper furnace was about to go out, and on the Taishi chair
It was covered with soft and gorgeous plain silk, and next to it was a pot of cold tea.
"I asked you to come to the ancestral hall to be a boy, just come and be a boy, and answer the questions I ask you. I made so many messy intestines that my tea has gone cold." The old man picked up the big blue and white porcelain teapot and poured it into his mouth.
After a few words, he complained, "My surname is Zhang."
"Senior Zhang." Wei Changpan made a long bow.
"I know what some seniors and juniors have to say. He has some sense of the world and is not a fool." The old man surnamed Zhang nodded slightly, "I'm old and can't guard this ancestral hall for too long. Before they find a replacement,
Just do some work here."
Wei Changpan wanted to take a few steps forward, but almost tripped over a few broken bricks.
"He's a bastard who doesn't take his ancestors in the escort agency seriously. He can't hold back his anger in the ancestral hall. It's a pity that this good brick has been polished like a mirror for decades, and it will no longer exist in the blink of an eye.
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The old man sat on the Grand Master's chair and half-squinted his eyes, "The memorial tablet should be wiped once a day without any dust on it. Remember to refill the lamp with lamp oil on time. If you have extra food or have replaced it, feel free to eat it. The furniture and items in this ancestral hall are all antiques.
, it’s worth a few bucks, to guard against thieves, and to be careful of mice at night. I’m afraid these pests will make as much cakes as you bastards.”
Before he was ten years old, Wei Changpan had eaten cakes once. Wu Tongqian exchanged the slingshot for the sugar cakes from a classmate who had relatives in the cake shop. Although they were kept in his trouser pocket for a long time, they smelled of sweat and were sticky.
But it was the first time he ate cakes after being born in his mother's womb. Later in the brothel, he also received many unnamed snacks made by Grandma Chen from the hands of the four beauties.
He couldn't forget that he had never had such a good snack since he went there.
Who are the four beauties in the brothel? Why are they here again?
Coming from that remote mountain town? Questions are gradually piling up, and one day I will have to ask for clarification when I go back.
After leaving Qingshan Town and seeing the world outside, he realized that the beauty of those four people was unparalleled. Even in Wuhang City, which was said to have produced most of the three thousand beauties in Emperor Yao's harem, he had never seen it in Rouge Alley.
Someone whose grace can be compared with him.
A date stone was thrown at Wei Changpan's forehead with the heavy technique of throwing a concealed weapon, "Also, these messes on the ground of this ancestral hall are where the memorial tablets of generations of Wuhe Escort Bureau's escorts are located. Please fix them as soon as possible."
Going back to the original situation, there is a brick kiln for this kind of fine water bricks thirty miles south of the city. You can go to the grain truck in the escort office to get one, and you can pull a cart of bricks, and you can go back and forth in a day..."
"silver...."
The old man who was nibbling dried dates was speechless for a moment. He put the dates down to his mouth and said in a deep voice, "Come here."
Not knowing what kind of medicine he was selling in the gourd, Wei Changpan obediently moved closer.
"Bring your head closer."
Wei Changpan, who didn't know why, took another half step forward and got closer.
Snapped!
The old man's head was smashed on Wei Changpan's forehead, facing the other bruised forehead. Before the old man could hit it a second time, he hurriedly turned around and ran out. Before leaving the ancestral hall, he did not forget to put away the baggage that had fallen on the ground.
Take it away easily.
"This work can be done for free! I can't pay for the bricks. I only went to buy the carriage after the senior agreed!"
With his back against the screen wall of the ancestral hall, Wei Changpan roared loudly twice into the house. When a helpless voice of agreement finally came from the ancestral hall, Wei Changpan picked up his baggage and ran away.
In the ancestral hall, the one-armed and one-legged old man named Zhang picked up the teapot and swung it around to see if there was any tea in it. Hearing the sound of water in it, he did not pick it up and pour it into his mouth like before, but
I spilled the tea and brewed it again. The tea was already cold, so there was nothing to drink.
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"A cart for traveling and transporting grain? Does it have to be a two-horse carriage?" Wei Changpan's request in front of him made Gu Sheng a little confused. Traveling was okay, Wu He Escort Bureau had a lot of contacts, so it was not a problem. It was just transportation.
As for the grain carts, most of them were confiscated by the Jinzhou State Army. It is supposed to be returned, but when the war starts, who will be able to take care of the baggage of your hundreds of carts? The escort agency now even has the escort carts.
If it wasn't enough, he had to give up a lot of business to his colleagues. He was talking about a big car. Do you really think that he, Gu Sheng, is the owner of Wuhe Escort Agency?
Although he knew that this request was a bit difficult to handle, Wei Changpan still couldn't think of a better way. It's not like he hadn't approached the person in charge of the carriage in the escort agency. The man who spoke the Jinzhou dialect didn't say a word.
Pi, told him directly that he had a way to kill him, but now he couldn't even deliver a big cart, so he and Gu Sheng had to sit on the kang to think of something.
Carrying it on the shoulder? Think about the land that is not paved with thousands of bricks. For thirty miles, it would take at least twenty trips back and forth... Which sect does not care about the body of its disciples so much and trains their physique like this?
"The floor of the ancestral hall, prying the floor and laying bricks is another matter. How to get these bricks back from the brick kiln in the south of the city is the most important thing." Wei Changpan now only feels that one head is now as big as two. "If I do it alone,
It may not be finished until the end of the year, Gu Sheng, you can do some work..."
"Wait a minute, you said it's the site of the ancestral hall?"
Wei Changpan, who was interrupted by Gu Sheng, still looked confused. He just assumed that Gu Sheng didn't know about it yet.
"I don't know who did it. One punch cracked the ground in a radius of several feet, but the house didn't collapse. It's really weird."
Gu Sheng couldn't hold back his laughter any longer, he patted the bed and let out a goose cry, "What did the head escort do, and you were asked to wipe my butt?"
"What did the head escort do?"
"My old man told me when he came back, good guy, you can finish it with one punch, that is, the chief escort." Gu Sheng exclaimed, "Otherwise, someone else would have been exposed to something even more shocking than this.
He was probably beaten half to death and sent to the government."
The two looked at each other and seemed to have thought of a solution.
Sure enough, when he took the chief escort Song Yanchao's token to talk to the man in charge of the cart, the latter immediately changed his face. Not only did he agree to the cart, he also made a smile and got close to the two of them, just short of calling them brothers.
, Wei Changpan couldn't stand the man's enthusiasm. He couldn't drive a cart himself, so the man had to volunteer to be a groom. If Gu Sheng hadn't driven the car so fast, the man would have been talking about it for an hour.
"That dear friend is really a wonderful man." Wei Changpan wiped the sweat from his forehead, sat behind the big car, turned his head and smiled at Gu Sheng who was driving the car, "It's a good thing you drive fast, otherwise you would really
There is no way out."
"He only regards you as a direct descendant of the chief bodyguard. You are quite a big man, and you are not young anymore. You also receive the salary and food of a second-class bodyguard. If you want to go further, don't you have to work hard in these ways?" Gu
Sheng whipped the horse and said, "People in the escort agency who have no hard skills can still make profits by relying on these little tricks. Unlike Brother Wei, you have real skills."
Gu Sheng's sincere praise felt particularly bitter to Wei Changpan. What he wanted to do was not something a three-story building could do, and going up higher, a four-story building or even a five-story building might not be possible.
He knew in his heart that when he was still training his body on the second floor of martial arts, the medicinal materials used by Mr. Qian and the Zhang family in Qishan County were not ordinary things. Many of them were not things that could be measured with money. They were rare but not sought after.
In the end, the medicine for strengthening the body had the effect of cleaning the marrow and cutting bones. You can imagine the value of those things. The pain in Mr. Qian's face when he threw the medicinal materials into the medicinal bath was still vivid in his mind.
More and more, these things came to his mind, and they couldn't get rid of them.
"Gu Sheng." He considered his words, "If you have a very strong mortal enemy, you may not be able to catch up with him even if your martial arts level is extremely high in your lifetime..."
"Dead enemy and mortal enemy, since they are enemies of life and death, they are the ones I have to kill." Gu Sheng replied nonchalantly, and at the same time threw away the nose bull he had just picked out, "Since I have to kill, how can there be so many of them?
Estimate how high you can climb in the realm of martial arts. If you reach the top, you will kill. If you can't kill, you will die."
Yes, kill if you can, and die if you can't. Why should he think so much about such a simple thing? In an instant, he has nothing else to focus on.
Wei Changpan burst out laughing. Gu Sheng looked back and rolled his eyes. He didn't know what was going on, which made Brother Wei laugh like a fool.