Needless to say, the young people reunited after a long absence! In the all-night carnival, all kinds of delicacies were densely placed on the round table, most of which were unheard of and unseen, but in short, they were delicious! As for wine, where in the world can it compare with home-brewed wine?

It's just that the teenagers at the night banquet, after such an experience, have already developed a pair of keen eyes. Although the eldest brother smiled happily all night, the melancholy, sadness, and reluctance in his eyes did not escape the eyes of the teenagers.

So, the laughter continued, and the teenagers really grew up!

After the banquet dispersed, Wang Tieniu, Zhou Kang, and Zheng Tai grabbed Lu Hao, and Shi Lei, who had a round belly, also followed.

"Second brother, is something wrong?" Wang Tieniu asked first.

"That's right, what's the matter, big brother?" Zhou Kang then continued.

Lu Hao sighed, shook his head helplessly, and said, "I don't know, the eldest brother refuses to say!"

"Is it about Old Man Chai's poison?" Zheng Tai said with a sigh, but in an instant, he smiled dumbly and said, "How can we care about such a person who is not even a grandmaster now?"

It's very domineering, but the teenagers take it for granted, because they are really rich now!

Money can solve many problems, but if you have money alone and don't have the corresponding strength, you will naturally only become the target of others' prying eyes, but the teenagers are different! Xu Chen gradually transformed the knowledge in his mind into the real power in the hands of the teenagers, and this power will slowly become stronger and stronger with this innumerable amount of money.

Therefore, the young people were very puzzled: "With our current strength, it will only take some time to deal with any force in the world! Even if we fight against the whole world, I think it will take a long time to prepare!"

The teenagers believe that under the leadership of their eldest brother, they have no enemies that they cannot defeat.

"It seems that the eldest brother must think that we have no time!" Lu Hao said that he had been thinking about this possibility for a long time, and in the eyes of the teenagers, it could only be this possibility.

"Can't you escape?" asked Wang Tieniu with a frown.

The rest of the people also looked at Lu Hao with anticipation.

"Looking at the eldest brother's lonely appearance, I can't escape!" Lu Hao sighed.

"Then let's do something!" Zheng Tai said in a very affirmative tone.

"But where do you start?" Zhou Kang asked.

If you don't even know who your opponent is, where do you start?

"Then go and ask the eldest brother! Ask him to speak!" Zheng Tai was a little irritable, and his voice became louder.

"Alas, it's useless! With the eldest brother's temperament, since we have decided to face it alone, it will not give us the possibility of convincing him, but the more we seem to care, the more reluctant the eldest brother will be, and the more resolute he will be!" Lu Hao obviously knew more about Xu Chen than the others.

Although Lu Hao's words sounded a little impersonal, everyone understood that what he said was right.

"This is not good, that is not good, do you want to watch the eldest brother face the unknown danger alone?" Zheng Tai was upset in his heart and shouted loudly.

The rest of the people were silent, bowing their heads one by one, pondering and meditating.

"Or ...... I'm going to try?" He didn't speak, and even now he learned from the words of his brothers that the eldest brother was about to face a terrible enemy, although his mind was full of doubts, Shi Lei still opened his mouth.

Zheng Tai's eyes lit up and he said, "That's right! We can let Xiaoshi try it!"

Shi Lei blinked with a pair of big eyes, with a face full of innocence, looking at the brothers who looked at him expectantly.

Lu Hao looked at Shi Lei, who was now about to grow to his shoulders, and his sturdy body had made Xiao Shi's original cuteness gradually lose its original power.

Immediately, Lu Hao shook his head and sighed: "Wait for the eldest brother to say it himself! If we take it lightly, I am afraid that it will only become a burden for the eldest brother and add a lot of danger to the eldest brother." ”

Zheng Tai still wanted to say, but after looking at the rest of the people, although his face was calm, his eyes were full of anxiety, chagrin and unwillingness.

Zheng Tai then hung his head like a deflated ball, unable to say anything.

Under the eaves in the distance, Xu Chen looked at this scene from afar, and said with a knowing smile: "Finally grown up!

Growing up is sometimes accompanied by cruelty, but it is a process that must be experienced.

But it was said that just when Xu Chen was anxiously waiting for the fate to come, a group of down-and-out people in the rivers and lakes whose fate had been changed were gathering in Wuyue Town.

Wuyue Town, southeast.

The city wall of the entire Wuyue Town is like a ring, firmly protecting the source of this southern maritime merchant in it. However, there are three gaps.

To the northeast is the place where the tributaries of the Ganshui River flow into Poyang Lake, and it is also the only wharf for sea vessels to come and go. The wharf is large enough, the location of the estuary is a natural harbor, coupled with the conscious construction of the local wealthy families in Yuzhang, it has now become one of the largest ports in the world, almost occupying the southwest coast of Poyang Lake.

To the northwest is the Hongzhou Shipyard, where huge timber from the mountains in the south gathers, and through the skillful hands of craftsmen, it eventually becomes a giant ship that spans the seas.

These two places are gaps in the city wall of Wuyue Town, but both of them are guarded by elite sailors, and in terms of protective strength, in this place of water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, it is more reassuring than the strong city wall.

However, there is a blank space in the southeast of Wuyue Town, and the blank refers to the blank space that the Yuzhang wealthy family controls over this area.

This is where the black market in Wuyue Town is located, also known as the ghost market.

The reason why there is such a place is that it is the product of a compromise between the local wealthy families in Yuzhang and the powerful forces from other places.

Hongzhou Shipyard belongs to Yuzhang City, but it does not only belong to Yuzhang City. Not to mention the rest of the families in Yuzhang County, and even the many family forces in the entire Jiangnan West Province have taken a share of the pie in Wuyue Town.

The local wealthy families in Yuzhang City occupy the geographical advantage, but in contrast to it, there are a large number of foreign wealthy forces and the entire Southeast Maritime Business Group. The huge profits of maritime trade have made all the forces involved have enough determination to fight, and no matter how strong the Wanjia is, it is impossible to be the enemy of the entire south. What's more, the raw materials of the Hongzhou shipyard are controlled by the forces in the southern mountains, and the demand for sea ships is determined by the Southeast Maritime Group.

The upstream and downstream are not in their own hands, and although the wealthy families of Yuzhang City control all the skills and craftsmen, they can't swallow such a large piece of meat alone.

After some negotiations, the local wealthy families in Yuzhang overthrew the other two parties who were divided into three parts of Wuyue Town, and finally only gave up half of Wuyue Town, and for this reason, they also obtained a huge price advantage in the sale of raw materials and finished products by the two parties in a hundred years.

In this way, Wuyue Town is jointly controlled by the three major forces, and the three parties have stationed a lot of people here.

However, as soon as there are more people, riots will follow. Merchants from the south to the north have three religions and nine streams, and if there is trouble between the heroes of the rivers and lakes, they will not beat the drum and sound the grievances in the official yamen, and if they disagree, blood splashes of seven feet often happen.

It is impossible to restrict the entry and exit of merchants even if they open their doors to do business, and it is impossible to achieve real-time monitoring of those heroes with the technology of today's era.

The three forces agreed to withdraw all the guards from the ghost city, and built a high wall between the ghost city and the rest of the place, and at the same time sent a large number of people to contain several gates on the wall to isolate the ghost market from the rest of the place.

Since then, the ghost market has become a special place in Wuyue Town, in which there are no laws and rules at all, and every qiē speaks with his fists, which is very much in line with the appetite of the heroes of the rivers and lakes.

If the way of heaven is lacking, yin and yang complement each other, and there will always be such a gray area in every prosperous place. In this lawless place, everyone can use this place to do things that can't be put on the surface, which is very convenient!

After having such a ghost market, Wuyue Town has become more and more prosperous. Although the three major forces withdrew from the ghost market on the surface, they have reached into the ghost market in the shadows. Everyone is tacitly aware of this.

Originally, the exit of the ghost market was only a few square gates on the wall of the fang, but after decades of changes, a small stream in the southeast of the ghost market that passed through the city wall of Wuyue Town has now become a river with endless boats, and the valve on the city wall that was originally reserved has been expanded into a real water gate by the forces in the ghost city, and the small river guò meets many rivers outside Wuyue Town, completely opening up the connection between the ghost city and the outside world.

Such a place that obviously violates the existence of the three major forces in Wuyue Town, I naturally don't know how much blood has been shed around its emergence and development, and where is the water flowing in that small river?

After years of fighting, the non-family forces that spontaneously emerged in the ghost city finally completely controlled this exit to the outside world from the hands of the wealthy family by relying on their courage not to be afraid of death.

Now, on the surface of this small river, a flat boat carries Lu Zongbao slowly.

Wuyue Town, Lu Zongbao is not the first time to come, and he has been to the ghost market a few times, but this waterway that belongs to the ghost market, Lu Zongbao is the first time to go.

Lu Zongbao sat next to a middle-aged scribe with a long beard, and when the scribe saw Lu Zongbao's curious gaze looking left and right, he asked, "Is it the first time that the second son has walked this waterway?"

"That's right!" Lu Zongbao said calmly.

The middle-aged scribe's eyes moved slightly, and then he smiled: "It's okay, then how about letting the second son be a guide for the next time?"

"Then there is Mr. Lao Xiang!" Lu Zongbao nodded slightly.

The middle-aged scribe smiled, then immediately stretched out his hand, pointed to various places along the coast, and began to explain to Lu Zongbao.

"This small river was originally a diversion of the Gan water, the amount of water is not large, but it is also stable, as long as it is not an abnormal year of drought, it can always sail on the top, but when the competition was over, those wealthy families did everything they could, and they sent people to cut off the water source of the small river upstream, and viciously put sick and dead livestock into the water, so that the river was once unnavigable, and even the drinking water in the entire ghost city was also in short supply。 The middle-aged scribe's face showed a look of remembrance, with a face full of admiration for his master.

Lu Zongbao laughed in his heart: "Does this person with this surname think that I am a hairy boy who has never seen the world? ”

Thinking like this in his heart, Lu Zongbao's face appropriately showed some admiration.

When the middle-aged scribe saw it, his heart seemed to be clear, and his subsequent words were a little less restrained and more casual.

"Second son, we're here!" the boat docked, and the middle-aged scribe said immediately.

Lu Zongbao followed the middle-aged scribe down, accompanied by a slender middle-aged man, who bowed slightly and followed behind Lu Zongbao with a respectful expression.

The three of them got out of the boat, got on the dock, and went to the shore, and soon saw a large house in front of them.

"Second son, this is the helm of the Iron Spear Gate!" the middle-aged scribe pointed to the house in the distance, which was rarely said to have six entrances, and proudly introduced to Lu Zongbao.

Lu Zongbao smiled and nodded, but he really looked up to this iron gun in his heart. A six-entry mansion is naturally nothing in Lu Zongbao's eyes, and Lu Zongbao, a house ten times larger than this, has also lived. However, this place is not as large as the outside, the territory of the ghost market is so large, and it is almost the size of a square in Yuzhang City. In this territory where every inch of land is expensive, and there are a mixture of dragons and snakes, the fact that Iron Spear Gate can occupy such a big mansion shows that its power is really not weak.

"It seems that today is the right time!" Lu Zongbao thought to himself.

After entering the house, the middle-aged scribe led the two to the main hall. The house of the iron gun gate was originally evolved on the basis of the original house in Wuyue Town, and there were many less original Hua Xie pavilions in the house, and the martial arts arena was built after bulldozing for the usual practice of the people of the iron gun gate, and the original living room was also changed to the appearance of the Juyi Hall.

As soon as Lu Zongbao walked into the hall, he was greeted by a tiger skin chair, the tiger skin is a rare white tiger skin, although it is rare, but in this Wuyue Town ghost market that gathers rare treasures all over the world, as long as you have money, you can buy anything.

The white tiger skin looks like it has been around for some years, but the chair is brand new, but it is the most precious mahogany furniture produced by Liu Jin's family in Yuzhang City! Compared with the original low couch, this tall chair can obviously show the majesty of the lord of a door.

Lu Zongbao sat down on the corresponding seats in the two rows, and after waiting for a long time, he saw a middle-aged man with a seven-foot-long body and an even body with sword eyebrows and starry eyes walking in from the side and going straight to the tiger skin chair.

The middle-aged man sat down on the chair, and a domineering and strong momentum gushed out.

"I don't know what the second son of the Lu family is doing here, what is my iron gun door for?" said the middle-aged man lightly.

"Master Guo, don't worry!, everyone is here, let's talk again!" Lu Zongbao said lightly.

When the iron spear door master heard this, he glared at Lu Zongbao angrily, and shouted, "What do you mean by this?"

Lu Zongbao was drinking tea by himself, and when the master of the Iron Spear Gate saw this, he had to turn his gaze to the side and look at the middle-aged scribe surnamed Xiang suspiciously.

The middle-aged scribe was also confused, and after the two glanced at each other, they were ready to inquire in detail.

At this moment, there was a sound of fighting outside the hall, accompanied by the painful wail of the iron spear gate, and a hearty laugh with internal strength came from the gate, and the sound was getting closer and closer.

"Hahahaha! Guo Wei! These little cubs under your Iron Gun Gate haven't grown much!"

As soon as the voice was heard, three men with similar expressions appeared at the door of the hall, and the smile on the face of one of them had not yet disappeared.

"Tong Meng! Tong Jian! Tong Da!" Guo Wei's momentum became more and more fierce, and with a curl of his palm, a silver spear inserted next to the tiger skin chair grabbed in his hand.

"Trespassing on my Iron Gun Gate and injuring my people, is it really my Iron Gun Gate that there is no one?" Guo Wei shouted suddenly.

Slowly got up, the momentum became more and more vigorous, and he looked at the three of them with fierce eyes, and it seemed that they were ready to shoot at any time.

"Yo he! Guo Wei, do you think I'm afraid that you won't succeed! If you want to compete, there is time to look back, Lao Tzu didn't come today to fight with you!" Tong Meng said.

Immediately, Tong Meng staggered Guo Wei's angry eyes, and said to Lu Zongbao with a smile: "The second son is not doing this thing in a proper way today! What kind of dispatch do you have to come to my old boy! The brothers of our triad are all good hands, and they will take care of the things you have explained properly!"

Tong Meng's smile actually carried a hint of flattery, Guo Wei and the middle-aged people surnamed Xiang were surprised, they knew that this Tong Meng was difficult, not to mention the high kung fu, plus the cruel means, he was also a difficult character in this ghost market, but he didn't expect to be so surprised by Lu Zongbao, a powerless scholar!

In fact, Tong Meng's flattery is not to Lu Zongbao himself, but to the money in Lu Zongbao's hands!

The triad was created by the three Tongshi brothers, but the time is still shallow, less than ten years, compared to the iron spear gate, a force that has been passed down since the opening of the ghost market, the background is shallow.

To put it bluntly, it's a lack of money!

How can anyone in the underworld not lack money? Summoning a younger brother and asking for money! Expanding power requires money! Eating and drinking when you have nothing to eat and drink usually costs money!

However, the original power of the ghost market has long been monolithic in the operation of the ghost market, and it needs a lot of money to develop and grow for a new gang.

Lu Zongbao had found a triad before and cooperated with it several times, and Tong Meng still remembered Lu Zongbao's generosity and boldness!

For this reason, Tong Meng rushed to come after receiving Lu Zongbao's message today, and at the same time knew that the location of the meeting was actually at the main altar of the Iron Gun Gate, so he was even more anxious, and hurriedly took his two brothers and forcibly broke in.

It's just because Tong Meng can't be sure whether the two sides have talked about anything before he comes, and whether they have divided the interests cleanly, so he will point out his relationship with Lu Zongbao in front of Guo Wei, so that he can know in his heart, eating goodbye is too ugly!