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Facing the scorching sun at noon, a pair of masters and servants, an old man and a young man, came in at the intersection of Yuzhi Street in the southwest of the town.

The elderly woman, who always lowered her eyebrows and lowered her eyes, followed closely behind the wealthy young master. Her face, which had seemed a bit gloomy when she was on the Nameless Alley, now returned to gentleness.

The young man walking in front of the old woman may have disliked the glare of the sun, so he spread out his folding fan to cover his forehead. The inscription on the folding fan was "龙飞飞风五" with profound skills, and the content was a famous poem that has been passed down all over the world. The most famous line is: "When I was drunk, I lit up the lamp and looked at the sword, and I dreamed about the trumpet company."

He did not look back at the old nanny named Xin who was following behind him, but as if he knew what she was thinking, he smiled and said: "Aunt Xin doesn't have to be like this. Although I didn't expect Naxihe on this trip today, The seniority of the disciples sent by the Sword Sect will be so high, but overall, our desired goal has been achieved."

He turned around and found a shaded area on the street and walked into it, then looked at the sparse pedestrians outside the street and whispered: "Although I was surprised that she could use one of the Xihe Sword Sect's methods to suppress the bottom of the box. Failure to do so also resulted in us not being able to seriously injure her before someone intervened, but this in itself was not entirely our main purpose, or it could be said to be just an alternative."

Ke Yuzhi turned his head and looked at the old woman's calm face, and then used the method of sound transmission between monks to whisper: "A lot of things can be seen from this process. First of all, we have tried out some of the bottom lines here; secondly, we have tried out some of the bottom lines here; The homework I did before coming here is not in vain, I can see that some things should be true; thirdly, the results show that as long as we can always stay within the rules, it is best to occupy one more word, then there will be no There is a big problem..."

Having said this, the young man raised his eyes slightly, looked in the direction of Wufang Pavilion in the center of the town, chuckled, and continued in the same way: "In the end, although she was not seriously injured, it was not really a big deal. problem, even if Li is involved in the end, the backup we have prepared should be enough."

The old woman who stood respectfully aside nodded in approval, but her expression did not change. She said in a low tone: "Young Master has this understanding. I dare to be happy for the sect master and his wife, but I don't agree with you." Why do you say things like 'whatever you want' when bargaining with that girl?"

Ke Yuzhi fanned the folding fan in his hand and said with a smile: "Do you think the deal can still be negotiated?"

The old woman shook her head in disapproval and frowned: "Master, please don't blame the old slave for being offended. As the saying goes, 'A son with a lot of money will not be able to sit down in court.' Many plans in the world end up bad in the end, all because of one person." 'Of course', I dare to ask the young master to think carefully."

The wealthy young man's movement of shaking the folding fan paused slightly, and his face became slightly gloomy. He glanced at the old woman with lowered eyebrows and expressionless face. Her eyes were dark, and after a moment, he suddenly smiled and looked at the old woman seriously. He cupped his hands and thanked her: "Mammy is right, Yu Zhi has learned a lesson."

The old woman stepped aside to let the young man salute her, bowed slightly and said nothing.

Ke Yuzhi was not surprised. He smiled and turned to look at Zhu's imposing gate tower and archway in the distance, and whispered: "Next, we will really start talking about the business."

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The east entrance of the town.

The young man surnamed Chu, who had been lonely for a long time, and the slovenly man who was in charge of night patrol in the town were squatting on either side of the intersection at the exit of the town. One was under the copper bell, and the other was at the door of the hut.

At this time, neither of them paid attention to the neighbor opposite. Each of them was holding a blue porcelain flower bowl with a broken edge in his hand. The bowl was filled with a bowl of rabbit legs stewed with wild vegetables. The rabbit was brought back by the boy from the mountains in the morning. of.

In the past three years, most of the helpless teenagers have relied on this way to make a living. They either go to the mountains to catch pheasants and hunt hares, or go to Xuannv Lake in the north of the town or the Pengying River that flows through the town. Fishing in the river...

In any case, as long as there is something to eat, a young man can basically learn everything he needs to learn very quickly. This is the realization that a lonely young man should have.

Of course, in the three years since Lao Liangtou left, the young man has also learned another rule, that is, if he has a bite to eat, he should give half a bite to the middle-aged man living in the thatched house opposite, even if it is from Whatever you pick out from your mouth will be successful, anyway, you will score points!

For example, at this moment, when the young man occasionally looked up at the opposite side, he could see the ugly look of the sloppy man devouring his food.

This old bachelor looks like he was reincarnated from a starving ghost in his previous life. No matter whether the boy gave him rabbit meat, fish meat, or pheasant chicken and pigeon meat in the past three years, as long as it was food, he would definitely not even have any bones or dregs left. It was so hard. The bones can be chewed to pieces and swallowed.

In the past, the young man only thought that he was a watchman who lived on a few copper coins. He was a poor man like himself, so he gave him half of what he had to eat. The poor man had to fill his stomach. It's easy, but I still feel a little envious of the good teeth of the person named Hou...

But when he suddenly discovered a few days ago that this old bachelor he had been hanging out with for more than three years turned out to be a strange man with special skills, he felt a little bit weird when he looked at his appearance that even a hungry dog ​​would say "admiration" when he saw it. Can't look straight anymore.

It's really...indescribable.

The two of them each finished a bowl of rabbit meat stewed with wild vegetables like a storm. Hou Junchen, the lazy man, leaned back and lay on the old bamboo chair. He casually pulled a piece of thatch from the wall of the hut behind him and started picking his teeth while looking at the opposite side. The boy who looked exactly like him.

The young man sitting on the stone pier with his back against the old locust tree rolled his eyes and said angrily: "Whatever you say, you fart!"

The slovenly man who was still lying lazily sat up straight suddenly when he heard this. He looked at the young man opposite him seriously and said seriously: "Fellow Taoist, I see that your hall is dark and your eyes are dull. I will use my fingers to calculate whether you will be dead within three days." There will be a bloody disaster!"

The young man was stunned for a moment, and then he cursed without hesitation: "Old monkey, you just finished eating my fucking bowl of rabbit meat, and you started cursing me without even letting go of the rice bowl? Did you let a dog eat your conscience?"

The man looked at the angry young man and smiled. He leaned back and lay down on the bamboo chair. He casually moved the hand holding the bowl, and the porcelain bowl slipped across the official road between the two of them. Not leaning, not light, not heavy, it landed on the open space not far from the boy. It was intact, the chopsticks were not dropped, and they were placed neatly on the mouth of the bowl.

Good job.

Then, he also rolled his eyes and snorted: "Believe it or not."

The young man who originally thought he was joking felt a little upset when he saw his reaction. He looked at the man seriously and said cautiously: "Are you serious?"

The man rolled his eyes again, sneered, and ignored him.

Before the boy could ask again, an inappropriate voice came from the long street of the town on the west side, "Is your name Chu Yuanxiao?"

The young man squatting under the tree turned around in response and saw the wealthy young man whose group of three passed through the town a few days ago standing not far away, followed by the old woman with lowered eyebrows and lowered eyes.

After Chu Yuanxiao saw the person clearly, he didn't say anything, but just nodded. He looked thoughtfully at the sloppy man opposite who had begun to sunbathe, but saw that the man looked at him with a smile but not a smile, and then Averted his eyes.The wealthy young man standing in the distance and looking at Chu Yuanxiao naturally noticed his look, so he glanced at the sleepy and slovenly man intentionally or unintentionally, but after just one glance, he frowned slightly and looked away with disgust. .

Sure enough, birds of a feather flock together, a mud-legged bastard and a beggar old bachelor live next to each other, they are all low-class untouchables who cannot stand on the stage!
Ke Yuzhi, who is the young master of Shuixiu Lake, has been blessed with a privileged life since childhood. In all the years he has grown up, he has never thought that there are such low-class people in the world who are not even as good as ants.

The wealthy young man suppressed his discomfort, put on a friendly expression and smiled at the young man holding the porcelain bowl: "Hello, my name is Ke Yuzhi, from Jinchaizhou."

Chu Yuanxiao, who was squatting under the tree, looked at the gentle foreign boy in front of him and nodded to him, "Hello, my name is Chu Yuanxiao."

Ke Yuzhi smiled and said, "I came here to do a deal with you. I wonder if you are interested?"

Chu Yuanxiao seemed to understand what the deal he meant in just a moment, so he shook his head, but did not say it clearly, and said vaguely: "My family is poor, and I have nothing to sell, so I'm afraid it will cost me something." I let you down."

"You didn't even ask me what I wanted to buy?" Ke Yuzhi raised his eyebrows and chuckled, "Coming to conclusions so easily will make me think you have some misunderstanding about me? But it seems like this is just the second time you and I have met, right? "

Chu Yuanxiao shook his head, stood up and started to clear the dishes, while saying calmly: "There is no misunderstanding, and I don't have any ill intentions towards you. I just told the truth."

"I have a general understanding of your place." Ke Yuzhi still did not show his impatient mood. He still smiled and said slowly: "The richest people here are none other than those four big surnames. If If you agree to this deal, I can guarantee that the price you get will be enough to make you a rich man like those four in the rest of your life."

"I have always believed that the failure to reach agreement in business negotiations is simply because the price is not fair enough. There is nothing in this world that cannot be measured by price, not only people but also objects." Ke Yuzhi seemed to be very confident about the price he gave, and smiled proudly. Said: "Of course, if you are not satisfied, you can add one more. If it is not too much, we can naturally discuss it."

Chu Yuanxiao quickly put away the two sets of bowls and chopsticks. He raised his head and took a closer look at the proud young master. In the past 13 years, this expression was almost the most he had ever seen.

Those who thought they had the upper hand almost looked at him with such a downward gaze. No one cared about what he had to say, and no one really thought that what a lonely young man like him could say was worthy of consideration. Giving a seemingly fair response is just to appear kind and friendly.

That's it.

The poor young man who is used to seeing other people's looks is not surprised by this kind of thing. He sometimes tries to understand them, but this does not prevent him from being unwilling to deal with such people. The two things have never been in conflict. .

Without hesitation, he still shook his head: "It's not a question of whether the price is enough. The thing you want is also very important to me, so you can understand that I just don't want to do this deal."

As soon as these words came out, the face of the wealthy young man opposite finally changed. He was no longer as cheerful as before. He slightly narrowed his eyes and stared at the fat-legged man, without speaking immediately.

On the contrary, the old woman who had been following Ke Yuzhi had a cold face and said in a bad tone: "Boy, you have to be measured! Sometimes it is your honor to be given face by noble people. If you don't keep it, you will be shameless." Got it!"

Chu Yuanxiao glanced at the old woman who suddenly spoke, and then turned his gaze back to the rich young man. He suddenly smiled: "Actually, I knew from the time you first came here that you just don't want to be with someone like me. You talk a lot of nonsense so you pretend to be friendly, but from the bottom of your heart you actually don’t want to say a word more, right?"

"Then why do you have to speak so clearly?" Ke Yuzhi suddenly put away the last trace of smile on his face and said in a cold tone: "The teacher in my family always likes to say 'It's rare to be confused'. I didn't think that before. There is nothing good about this, but at this moment I suddenly feel that it would be a surprisingly good suggestion for you!"

He took a few steps forward slightly and looked condescendingly at the untouchable opposite him whom he had begun to hate. He was too lazy to talk nonsense and directly threatened: "I guess you don't know how easy it is to kill a dog using fairy methods." ! You also don’t know what a person’s real misery looks like! So, I advise you to listen carefully while I still have the patience to bargain with you, and hold on to a bone when I give you one!”

"You know, killing you is actually not more interesting to me than killing a dog!"

The poor young man with the bowl and chopsticks in his hands suddenly became a little funny when he heard this. He looked up and down again at the rich young man who was full of menace and coldness, and said with a smile: "Did you know? Just a few days ago, there was a person standing there. He told me on the wall of my house that he was here to take my life, and I was very scared at the time."

"But when I heard you threaten me today, you pretended to discuss with a smile, threatened with a cold face, and used the most ugly words you could possibly think of to humiliate me. But actually I didn’t feel a little scared, I even learned something from you.”

The young man looked at the increasingly ugly expressions on the faces of the two people opposite him, chuckled and said, "Sometimes people who talk less nonsense are more terrifying! I'm giving this to you for free now, you don't even have to say thank you!"

Until this moment, Ke Yuzhi finally took a look at the mud-legged man in front of him for the first time. He looked up at the slowly flowing white clouds in the sky and took a deep breath. When he lowered his head again, he returned to his original gentleness and chuckled: "Yes." Taught.”

After that, he stopped looking at the poor boy and turned around to leave.

The elderly woman who was following the wealthy young man didn't say another word. She stared at the young man coldly, then turned and left.

……

Chu Yuanxiao quietly watched the pair of master and servant gradually walk away until they turned the corner and disappeared. Then he suddenly let out a sigh of relief. His originally straight back relaxed in an instant, but before he could steady his slightly trembling hands, Chu Yuanxiao watched quietly. , I heard a sudden laughter of unknown meaning from across the long street.

The sloppy man who had been lying on the shabby bamboo chair without saying a word smiled with his eyes closed: "Why do you have to deliberately anger that young man when the problem can be solved in a gentler way? Besides, you are obviously panicking. You still insist on trying to make someone who is never angry and can barely tolerate irritating her into a complete rage step by step, are you too busy to worry?"

The poor young man grinned and said half-jokingly: "Didn't you say that I will suffer a bloody disaster within three days? So it makes a difference whether he is angry or not?"

Hou Junchen still closed his eyes, shook his head lightly and said: "There is no difference, I am just curious which one you are in?"

The young man was silent after hearing this. He slowly walked to the door of the hut with the two pairs of bowls and chopsticks. He turned to look at the towering sword mountain to the east and said in a quiet tone: "I was thinking, since Some people really don’t take human life seriously, so if he is provoked and then defeated, will he be willing to calm down and take a serious look at me?”

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