The border of Yangxin Kingdom has been turbulent since ancient times, and after the rebellion was quelled, a city was set up and named Yangdong City.

It's just that Yangdong City is a small city on the side, far away from the imperial court, high mountains and roads, and inconvenient transportation, so the assigned officials cannot be in place one by one. For a long time, there has been a phenomenon of "many people and too few people", the people are not allowed to live and work in peace and contentment, and riots often occur in the city.

I don't know who heard that opening gambling stalls and tobacco houses is a way to make money, setting a precedent, and the ordinary people who are struggling to make a living have rushed into it, setting off a boom in tobacco and gambling.

The city is chaotic, in order to better govern and govern the city, the city lord of Yangdong City set up the Yangdong Guard, one hundred people and a captain, ten captains and a small colonel, ten small schools and a colonel, ten colonels and a commander, ten colonels and one commander, eight commanders and one army leader, the military leader obeys the orders of the city lord of Yangdong City, and one person is above 10,000 people.

The financial revenue of Yangdong City was not high, and the city lord was unwilling to pay for the army, and all kinds of expenses of the army were paid by himself. Over time, the military leader ordered that it became the rule of Yangdong City to do business and pay for oil and water, among which gambling stalls and new tobacco building businesses accounted for the majority.

Seeing that this matter was profitable, the city lord of Yangdong City went with the flow and turned a blind eye. The patrolling guards saw that the city lord didn't care about this matter, and they were even more unscrupulous when they put away the oil and water money.

Tonight, a guard patrolled the streets, saw the candlelight from the wooden houses in the street, snorted, and quickened his pace.

In the darkness, the guards bypassed Qi Fan and stretched out his hand to ask the old man at the door for oil and water money.

The old man was also a person who understood the rules, and when he saw the guards outstretching out their hands, he immediately stuffed ten yang copper coins into the hands of the guards. The guards stuffed the oil and water money into their pockets and said perfunctorily: "Don't drive so late next time." ”

The old man nodded and agreed. When the guards heard this, they turned around and left, only to see that the person standing next to them turned out to be not a gambler.

"Yo, isn't this Qi Fan?" the guards wrapped their arms around Qi Fan's shoulder and patted him, Qi Fan nodded and answered him sullenly.

"I'll go first, I'll see you next time. The guards waved their hands, and before Qi Fan could answer, they heard the old man shouting, "See you back."

As a result, the guards turned around and glared at the old man: "You are also worthy of talking to me?"

The old man shrunk his neck, and when the guard left, he cursed again.

"Want to marry my daughter?" the old man sat on a wooden chair next to the door, lit his cigarette pipe, and said lightly.

"Yes, I like Lifei very much, I love Lifei and I sincerely, and I hope my uncle can fulfill it. Qi Fan was very calm.

"Like, really in love, can you not be so funny? In this world, you said you like her, she said she likes you, and they are together? I can't lick the water that is splashed out at will, I can't lick it back, why am I giving birth to her?"

"I really love Lifei, you see, I am very principled, I will not take oil and water money. Qi Fan's expression was ugly, and he replied with an awe-inspiring voice.

"Don't charge money for oil and water? You are so great? Principle, can you eat it as a meal if you have principles? I want you to take 10,000 Yang silver coins as a dowry now, can you take it out of the!" the old man straightened up, shook his pipe, and opened his mouth to Qi Fan and shouted.

Qi Fan was angry and powerless to refute.

The old man jumped in front of Qi Fan from the wooden chair, pointed at Qi Fan's nose with a cigarette pipe, glared and scolded angrily: "Look, you can't take out 10,000 yang silver coins today, I will sell her to a brothel as a prostitute and make money for me, is it more valuable to give you this idiot to abduct for nothing! In a few days, you take 5,000 yang silver coins, and I will sell them to you again! Do you want to love each other, what do you love! Can't you take it out? I will sell her to someone else, and in a few days you will take another 100 yang silver coins! Do you want to? I'll sell it for someone else to make money, and you can get another ten Yang silver coins, do you want to? Don't? Sell it again, you come again, I'll give it to you for free, so that you can love each other! Love? It's nothing!"

Qi Fan's fists were clenched, and the sound of pinching was loud, and his face was blue and his muscles were bursting up.

"Principle? Don't charge money for oil and water? People will still make money, what will you do? Will you prostitute for nothing? What a useless thing!" the old man turned around and threw the pipe on the wooden chair, and went into the house and closed the door.

Qi Fan was scolded and angry, the old man's words were in his mind at this time, Qi Fan was very angry at this time, turned around and left.

"Father, what are you doing?" the old man looked angrily at Wang Lifei upstairs, Wang Lifei was pulled by her mother at this time and was not allowed to see Qi Fan.

"You stinky girl! I gave birth to you and raised you, and I raised you for nothing? elopement? The child's mother, let Aunt Wang take her to the countryside tomorrow. The old man lit another pipe.

"Father, what are you doing, I'm not going! I'm not going!" Wang Lifei roared hoarsely.

"Stinky girl, I can't cure you anymore?" The old man gave Wang Lifei a slap, Wang Lifei was slapped on the bed, and the old man rushed downstairs angrily.

"I don't, I won't!" Wang Lifei cried.

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When Qi Fan went back to his wooden house to sleep, he couldn't calm down, and a voice kept echoing in his head, shouting that he would bring 10,000 yang silver coins, which was really useless.

The more Qi Fan listened, the more irritable he became, he hammered the bed board a few times, pulled the quilt, and lay down directly to sleep.

The next day, Qi Fan came out to patrol as usual, and when he was free, he made a detour to the wooden house where Chu Yun and Li Yuan lived together, and happened to meet Li Yuan and Chu Yun cutting wood, and joked: "You two are ready to renovate your own wooden house, what kind of wood are you shaving?"

Li Yuan grinned and deliberately complained: "Thank God, someone finally came to talk to us. Li Yuan poked Chu Yun with his elbow: "It's not that he has to find something to do and help others build houses." ”

Qi Fan walked up to Li Yuan and patted them on the shoulder: "Do a good job!" and then asked, "How is the eldest brother?"

Chu Yun answered: "It's not bad, it's just that the injury is too serious, it's almost time to eat, and I'm still healing." ”

"Hey, if you're worried, go see Big Brother. Li Yuan said without raising his head.

Qi Fan looked at the wooden house: "It's okay, I won't bother the eldest brother to heal." When the eldest brother is well, the four of us will get together to celebrate. ”

Qi Fan wanted to borrow money, but he was too embarrassed to speak, and his face was embarrassed. Chu Yun noticed Qi Fan's expression, and pretended to say casually: "Qi Fan, if you have something, talk to our brothers, even if I can't help you, I can relieve your boredom." ”

Li Yuan cleaned up the sawdust, suddenly stood up and patted his chest, and responded, "That's right." Brother Fan's business is our business. ”

Qi Fan scratched his head, hesitated for a moment and then said: "Just before, I told Lifei that I wanted to propose to her parents, but now I have encountered a little difficulty. ”

Qi Fan paused and continued: "I saw Wang Lifei's father last night, and he said that he needed 10,000 Yang silver coins to marry Lifei. ”

Li Yuan's eyes widened, and he blurted out: "Ten thousand Yang silver coins!" Qi Fan nodded silently.

Chu Yun patted Li Yuan's shoulder and told him to calm down for a while: "That's it, Brother Fan, we won the bet in the Blood Fighting Arena before, and there are a total of Qianyang silver coins." Our brothers don't usually need so much money, so you can take it all. ”

After speaking, Chu Yun gave Li Yuan a look and motioned for Li Yuan to get the money. Li Yuan went back to the house and took the money and stuffed it into Qi Fan's hand, and muttered: "Hurry up and accept it, Brother Fan." ”

Chu Yun also responded: "Yes, this money won't help much, you can accept it first." ”

Qi Fan was also embarrassed and kept refusing.

"It's okay, it's okay, what are the brothers talking about. Li Yuan wrapped his arms around Qi Fan and hugged Qi Fan: "If you marry Sister Lifei later, you must call us to drink." Qi Fan agreed repeatedly.

Before leaving, Qi Fan was still not worried about Akuta, glanced out of the window, and bumped into Akuta's eyes, Akuta grinned, moved his mouth and said, "It's okay." Qi Fan nodded, smiled and waved his hand.

Qi Fan made a detour around the path to catch up with the guard squad and patrol with the squad. The team leader stopped at the door of a smoke building and ordered the guard behind him to go in and collect the money for oil and water. The guard nodded busily and went off with a hippie smile.

Qi Fan saw the guard standing at the door and roared, and immediately a person stood in front of him and nodded, and while saying some polite words vaguely, he stuffed a hundred yang copper coins to the guard in front of him.

"Captain, how do you divide a hundred yang copper coins?" the fat on the guards' faces squeezed together.

"The old rules. When the guards heard this, they immediately gave the captain ten yang copper coins, and sent them one by one, but in the end, they heard Qi Fan say, "I don't want it." ”

The guards looked surprised: "I don't even want oil and water money, it's stupid." A voice next to him echoed: "It's not, it's not a day or two that Qi Fan doesn't collect money for oil and water, and people are just a guard army and majestic." ”

The team burst into laughter. The guard with the money made a silent gesture and said, "Then there are two captains of these ten Yang Copper Coins, and the rest of us will have one for each person." Everyone was even happier, and Qi Fan snorted coldly.

In the afternoon, the patrol team was disbanded. A voice echoed in Qi Fan's mind, and the voice kept urging him to gather the remaining nine thousand yang silver coins.

In desperation, Qi Fan was ready to try his luck in the administrative office of his elementary school.

The afternoon sun was very warm, and as soon as he entered the courtyard, Qi Fan saw an old man with an old god resting under the eaves. That old man is the little school that manages this area, named Ma Tiankun.

Qi Fan walked quickly to the old man's side and said politely, "Good afternoon, little school." Ma Tiankun opened his eyes slightly, and saw that it was the young man he met in the inn before, and said leisurely: "You are okay." ”

Ma Tiankun and Qi Fan met at the inn, when several thugs robbed Ma Tiankun's burden and threatened Ma Tiankun to leave with money. Where is Ma Tiankun willing, although he is a small school in name, but his life is very tight, he has to be careful in everything, and he is willing to spend money to eliminate disasters.

It just so happened that Qi Fan patrolled by the inn and saw Ma Tiankun being bullied and threatened by the thugs, the fire in his heart came up, he held down the saber on his waist, and rushed straight into the inn.

The little gangster recognized Qi Fan at a glance, remembering that he had been defeated by Qi Fan, and he was unwilling, so he rushed up and fought with Qi Fan. Qi Fan was one-to-many, clenched his teeth, his eyes red, and scuffled with the thugs.

"Uncle, come on, your luggage. Qi Fan pulled out his hand and threw the burden to Ma Tiankun with his backhand.

Qi Fan pushed the thug in front of him violently, took a few steps back, wiped his face, and snapped his fingers, like an arrow from a bow, and punched a thug in the stomach.

The thug fell to the ground with a stomachache, and the thug next to him saw the situation and dragged people away.

Ma Tiankun saw Qi Fan's high spirits, like when he was young, and secretly admired in his heart.

Ma Tiankun slowly walked in front of Qi Fan: "The young man is good." Thank you very much. Qi Fan waved his hand and said repeatedly, "It's okay." "Turn around and leave.

Ma Tiankun raised his eyebrows, and then said, "You are the guard of the colonel in this area?"

Qi Fan nodded, without looking back, and then heard Ma Tiankun say, "Do you want to go to my side?" I am very optimistic about you, you have the appearance of the old man back then. Listening to the first half of the sentence, Qi Fan didn't have any waves in his heart, and after listening to the second half of the sentence, Qi Fan immediately turned around and directly agreed to Ma Tiankun's invitation.

After that, Qi Fan often went to Ma Tiankun to talk about family affairs and world affairs. Qi Fan has always been heartless, but today Ma Tiankun caught a glimpse of his sad face and asked him what was wrong.

Qi Fan sighed: "I have to scrape together enough 10,000 Yang silver coins to marry Lifei, I can't get this money together." ”

Ma Tiankun kicked Qi Fan lightly: "The young man is young, why don't you have any ambition!" Ma Tiankun pretended to be angry and crossed his arms: "Cultivate well first, I'll find a way for you." ”

Qi Fan looked at Ma Tiankun expectantly and disappointedly, thinking to himself how could a small school get so much money. Ma Tiankun ignored Qi Fan and kicked Qi Fan's legs; "Go get wine, drink." ”

Qi Fan and Ma Tiankun drank wine in the courtyard of the administrative office for an afternoon, and Ma Tiankun left in advance, leaving Qi Fan alone.

Qi Fan was drunk, and his heart was bitter: "Hey, why is there no wine." Qi Fan shook the flask, turned his head and snorted: "It's boring." ”

Qi Fan swayed up, and wanted to go home in a daze, his hand stretched forward, and he touched a sign. Qi Fan picked it up and squinted and looked at it carefully: "Yang Talisman Card?"

Each school has its own Yang Talisman card as a weapon, which can stimulate the user's spirit, condense the Yang power together, and release the Yang Pillar attack, like an arrow, which is terrifying.

Qi Fan's head was groggy, greed climbed into his heart, luck psychology prevailed, grabbed the yang talisman card, and prepared to go to the casino to try his luck.