The initial change began in a small town on the north side of Yuzhang City, which was small and had a north-south central street running through the town, lined with some ordinary shops.

A butcher's shop, a wine shop, a grain and oil shop, a cloth shop and a cart shop for customers from the north and south to rest make up the whole town.

It's ordinary, it's ordinary, like most country towns in the world. The people who live in the town are also very ordinary, very ordinary.

Because it is ordinary, it is simple, and because it is ordinary, it is simple. In short, people in small towns don't think too much about things when they encounter them, and most of them only start from their own hearts, or rather, they are just loyal to their own preferences, no matter how they are evaluated in the eyes of others.

In the center of the town, the tallest building in the town, with a two-story wine shop, at this moment, travelers from north to south are in the lobby holding large wine glasses, drinking and telling interesting stories about the journey.

Of course, this time the topic is a bit monolithic, because the purpose of the guest trip this time is also singular.

The town is located in the northwest of Yuzhang City, which is more northwest than Wuyue Town, and is an important land transportation hub of Yuzhang City.

And the group of travelers who came to Yuzhang at this time were naturally not lone travelers, after all, the cart of money that came with them was not something that one or two people could carry.

Yes, most of the people who came to Yuzhang at this time were attracted by the city, of course, it is a bit evasive to say this, to put it bluntly, these people are here to make money and make a lot of money.

Therefore, when such a group of people get together, the topics they can talk about will naturally be very similar.

In the hall on the first floor of the wine store, in a position near the door, five or six middle-aged men gathered together and chatted drunken with drunken eyes.

"Hey, do you know? something happened in Yuzhang City!" a bald man leaned forward, stretched his neck, and said mysteriously to the rest of the people.

"Big brother, what's wrong?" asked a tall, sturdy man with a Youzhou accent bewildered.

The rest of the people also put down the wine glasses in their hands and looked at the bald man with great interest.

Seeing that everyone looked at him, the bald man took a sip of water and wine with satisfaction, and then asked calmly: "Do you know Yangzhou?"

"Who doesn't know what Yangzhou said? I've been there several times!" the strong man from Youzhou replied.

"Then do you know what happened in Yangzhou City last month?" the bald man asked again.

The Youzhou big man shook his head sincerely and said, "I went to Yangzhou several years ago. ”

"Don't grind, big brother, let's talk about something!"

"That's it! Say, don't delay our drink. ”

The bald man saw that everyone was a little impatient, and then stopped selling Guanzi, and said directly: "It is said that Yangzhou City has a deal last month, a big deal!"

The bald man unconsciously procrastinated again, and once again saw the eyes of everyone who couldn't wait, and hurriedly continued: "This transaction is the purchase and sale of land!"

"This business, that's really profitable! Don't hide it, my brother-in-law's second cousin, my first brother's brother-in-law, just before the Chinese New Year, the family's money is not as much as mine! But he stayed in Yangzhou for a month and did business for a month, do you know how much he makes now?"

After speaking, the bald man glared at everyone with confused eyes.

Everyone shook their heads.

The bald man took a sip of wine again, and then replied satisfactorily: "One million and two hundred thousand guan!

While talking, he gestured with his hand, but he couldn't compare with one hand, so he put down the wine glass and used the other hand, and then found that the two hands couldn't compare!

Therefore, he had no choice but to give up this plan to use body language to strengthen his momentum, and instead continued to emphasise: "It's not 120 guan! It's 1.2 million guan! 1.2 million guan! It took less than a month! Tell me, is this transaction profitable?"

"Oh mom! Big brother, don't talk about calves here! Just our most powerful dreadlocks, let him grab so much money in a year! What kind of business can you make so much?" The Youzhou man didn't believe it, and refuted it.

When the bald man heard this, he was in a hurry! He immediately straightened up, waved his arms, and said loudly: "Whoever is talking nonsense! Who is talking nonsense! I am telling the truth! If you want to say a lie, let ...... Let me go to the eighteenth layer of hell after I die, and I will never be able to live beyond my life!"

The Tang people believed in Buddhism, and when everyone heard him make such a poisonous oath, they also believed it.

Although the bald man was drunk, when this oath came out, most of the wine woke up, and he hurriedly remedied in his heart: "Grandpa Buddha, Grandma Buddha, I didn't tell a lie......! That's the man...... He is either my relative, or the merchant I met along the way, you can be merciful and spare the little one!"

"That big brother, what does this matter you said have to do with Yuzhang City?" the Youzhou Dahan then asked.

The bald man was drunk and woke up, and when he looked at this Youzhou man again, he was angry in his heart, and he wanted to scold a few words, but he saw the other party's strong and tall figure, so he had to give up this idea stupidly, and said angrily: "Of course it matters......! Shibo ...... What's going on in the market?"

The bald man tilted his head and thought for a moment, and then suddenly realized, "Oh, that's right!"

"It is such a yamen, which was originally located in Yangzhou City, so there were a lot more merchants in Yangzhou City, and then the price of land rose, and then the land trade rose!"

"Big brother, do you mean that this Laoshizi City Bo Si has also driven to Yuzhang City?" asked the Youzhou Dahan.

The bald man nodded and replied, "That's right! Just a few days ago, the imperial court just issued an official document. Moreover, in the past few days, the price of land in Yuzhang City has risen more than ten times! It seems that it will continue to rise! Moreover, I have heard that there are a large number of orders for the purchase of land in the tooth shops of every house in the city, and the price is frighteningly high! Not only the land in the city has been collected, but also the cultivated land and wasteland outside the city have been collected! I have heard that the price has risen to several thousand guan per mu!

"And is it possible that you didn't notice? The people who came to this wine shop today are just a group of solitary merchants?, and the others are all coming in groups?" said the bald man in a mysterious voice.

When everyone heard this, they raised their eyes and looked around, and really found that the guests seated in the wine shop today were just sitting with clear barriers, and there were no people who were drunk and casually hanging out at the table before.

"Oh no! No wonder I found so many big cars parked in the backyard......! Oh my god! those ...... Shouldn't it be all money?" the Youzhou man shouted.

Seeing this, the bald man hurriedly covered his mouth in fright, and then looked left and right in a panic, and after making sure that no one was paying attention, he whispered to him: "You want to die!

The big man of Youzhou is not stupid, he was frightened when he heard this, and a fine cold sweat appeared on his forehead, and then he hurriedly looked left and right, and found nothing abnormal, so he gasped for breath with palpitations.

After drinking to this point, everyone had no intention of continuing, hastily settled the account, and left the wine shop in a hurry, some went back to the big car shop to rest, and some set up chariots and horses to travel far away, and dispersed.

The encounter in the journey is always short-lived, just a small wave in the long distance of life, which disappears when blown by the wind, leaving only a dull or beautiful memory.

Of course, just like the wind, which starts at the end of the green pings, a small butterfly can cause a huge storm thousands of miles away with the gentle flicking of its wings.

Yuzhang City is only more than 200 miles away, and it is still far from 10,000 miles, but the storm is not small at all.

The drunken people naturally didn't notice it, and while they were talking, their words had already been listened to by the well-intentioned people in the wine shop.

On the second floor of the wine shop, in the few private rooms, a middle-aged man with a fair complexion and a fat figure was sitting on the main seat of the head, and on his left hand side was a burly, bronzed-skinned middle-aged strong man, and on the left and right sat a number of young men with white faces and beards, dressed as men, and young people with sturdy, heroic spirits, and dressed as housekeepers.

Everyone was eating wine and food while listening to the conversation of the people below, until those people left in a hurry, and the middle-aged man at the top said: "It seems that the news of Yangzhou City is not wrong!"

Originally, it was a bit inappropriate to describe a man with white and tender skin, but this middle-aged man's skin is really very tender and smooth, much whiter and tender than many women.

When the burly man at the bottom heard this, he answered: "Sun ...... Steward Sun, since everything in Yangzhou City is true, then there will be no problem with the things explained by the head of the family when I come to Yuzhang this time!"

The middle-aged man at the top reached out and touched the two mustaches at the corners of his mouth, his movements looked a little jerky, and he bowed his head slightly when he heard the words, and said: "I hope so!

When the burly man at the head heard this, he clenched his fists and said, "My subordinates understand! There will never be any mistakes!"

The middle-aged man saw the burly man's serious appearance, smiled slightly, and said broadly: "Cheng Jiaotou, take it easy, such a long road has passed, and it looks like it is about to arrive in Yuzhang, I don't think anything will happen again!"

When the burly man known as "Cheng Jiaotou" heard this, he barely squeezed out a smile and replied: "Be careful, there is no big mistake! After all, after taking so much money out of this home, his subordinates will never dare to be sloppy!"

When the middle-aged man heard this, he nodded with satisfaction and said: "Cheng Jiaotou is loyal to his duties, a certain family has seen it, and he will definitely report truthfully to the head of the family and the ancestor when he returns home!"

When the burly man heard this, he finally had a smile on his face, and hurriedly thanked him: "Thank you Steward Sun for your kind words!"

The middle-aged man smiled and nodded, and then said: "When I came, the head of the family instructed us to go and visit Mr. first after we arrived in Yuzhang, and then the head of the Cheng sect will go with me!"

"I don't know who Mr. is?" asked Cheng Jiaotou.

Steward Sun just smiled and said, "You'll know when the time comes!"

So the people went on to eat.

The people who heard the drunken words of the drunken people were not only the guests, but also a man in Tsing Yi who looked to be in his twenties working in the wine shop also memorized these words carefully, and the most clear sentences were the numbers emphasized by the bald man.

"1.2 million guan" and "thousands of guan per mu", these two numbers, the guy in Tsing Yi remembers very clearly, maybe because he often settles accounts, maybe just because he has a deep obsession with money.

Or rather, he is short of money!

So, after the wine shop closed, the Tsing Yi guy hurried home.

The Tsing Yi guy's family lives in a small country yard more than ten miles away from the town, and outside the yard is a babbling stream, with a few willow trees planted next to the stream.

It was dinner time, and wisps of cooking smoke were rising from the chimneys in the small earthen courtyards of the houses along the creek and on both sides, accompanied by the faint aroma of food.

The guy in Tsing Yi didn't have the heart to pay attention to these at the moment, hurried home, pushed open the door, ignored his busy wife and the old lady lying on the bamboo couch, and plunged into the big dilapidated wooden boxes in the corner of the room.

As he searched for it, he muttered in a low voice, "Where is it? Where is it? I remember it was placed here! Why is it gone?"

The busy wife saw that her husband had still packed up a few winter coats everywhere, so she hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "What are you looking for?"

"Title deed, where did you hide the title deed?" shouted at his wife in frustration.

"What...... What kind of title deed?" said the wife, who was shocked, but still managed to calm down.

"Don't fucking pretend to be garlic!What other title deeds do we have! Of course, it's the title deeds of these earthen houses!" the man in Tsing Yi scolded loudly.

When his wife heard this, her heart immediately became cold, and she supported the handrail of the bamboo couch with her hand, barely supporting her body that fell to the ground, and said with a crying voice: "You ...... What do you want to do? Do you know that there are only a few mud houses left in the house? Do you want our mother and three children to live?"

"Over the years, you have gambled every day, every month, and a good family has failed like this......! What else do you want to do?" the wife's mournful voice sounded, accompanied by tears that flowed for an unknown number of times.

The old lady, who was a little groggy and seriously ill on the bamboo couch, heard the familiar cry of her daughter-in-law, and then woke up, and knew what had happened, and hurriedly struggled to get up, pointed at the guy in Tsing Yi with trembling hands, and scolded weakly: "You bastard......! You want to harm this family again, don't you? Dad, why did you leave so early? Leave this indisputable obstacle behind me, how can I take care of this old woman!"

Then two women, one old and one young, began to weep loudly in the house.

When the guy in Tsing Yi saw this familiar scene, he couldn't help but have a big head, and then scolded loudly: "Enough!

"Is gambling also profitable?" the wife immediately replied.

"This time it's not to gamble! It's to sell! Thousands of copper dollars per acre of land! If we sell the land, we will be able to have tens of thousands! At that time, our family will also have tens of thousands of dollars!" The Tsing Yi guy retorted.

It's just that when he said this, how could his wife and his wife believe it, only when he gambled and lost, he talked nonsense here, and refused to hand over the title deed.

The guy in Tsing Yi had no choice but to use the usual method before, pressing his wife and beating him violently, but there were only a few earthen houses left in the house, but his wife refused to hand them over even if she died.

The guy in Tsing Yi was in a hurry, and the strength in his hand increased, and he shouted loudly while fighting back: "Do you give it or not? Stinky girl, if you don't give it, Lao Tzu will beat you to death!"

After speaking, he picked up a thin wooden stick on the ground and swung it vigorously at his wife's forehead.

There was a dull sound of "bang", and his wife's forehead was immediately purple and blue, faintly with a trace of blood.

Seeing this, the old lady on the bamboo couch hurriedly struggled to climb down from the bamboo collapse, and ran into the Tsing Yi guy with all her strength, and was caught off guard, the Tsing Yi guy was knocked to the ground, but after a while, he got up again and pounced viciously on his wife again.

Seeing this, the old lady on the side was worried that something would happen to her daughter-in-law, so she took out a cloth bag from her arms in desperation, threw it at the guy in Tsing Yi fiercely, and scolded loudly: "Here! Take it! You brute, don't come back!"

The guy in Tsing Yi ran to pick up the cloth bag, took out a yellowed piece of paper inside after opening it, saw the handwriting on it, and determined that it was the title deed of his own earthen houses, and hurriedly put it away.

He got up, patted the dust on his clothes, ran to the desk and grabbed a handful of cakes, and then put down half of them.

When he walked to the door, he turned back to his wife and wife and said, "You wait, this time I will definitely bring you back thousands of family wealth!"

The two women just hugged each other and sobbed quietly, where would they believe the words of this young man in Tsing Yi, after all, when in the past, he didn't say that?

Seeing this, the guy in Tsing Yi shook his head and sighed, didn't say anything, left the courtyard directly, and strode towards the southeast, which was the direction of Yuzhang City!

The neighbors around the courtyard heard the cry of the woman in the courtyard and hurriedly ran to help.

The people lifted up two women, an old man and a young woman, on the ground, and then shook their heads and sighed, "Alas, what a good man this child used to be, and how is it that he is now like this?"

"Yes! What a good home, just ruined for him!"

"Originally, there were still a few acres of land, and they were sold to him a few years ago, but now even a few earthen houses where he lives are going to be sold, which makes the family live in the future!"

"Alas......"

Just when everyone stayed in the earthen house to lament the tragic fate of the Tsing Yi guys, this representative of the tragic figure in their eyes carried a piece of tissue paper that was enough to change their fate, slept in the open air, ran all the way, spent a day and a night, and finally rushed to Yuzhang City in the afternoon of the next day, when the sun was about to set......