Chapter 44: The Divine Needle Gate
Gongsun Jingrou's name is very good, her quietness is like a landscape painting with a distant artistic conception, although it is within reach, it makes people can't bear to break the tranquility in the ethereal landscape. She was soft, so that the short-tempered black dragon who had always been reluctant to enter the living calmed down, shook her neck gently, and let a pair of slender hands brush over her mane.
It's a pity that such a painting-like demure girl can't hear sound in her ears.
Even a person like Fang Wuxie, who didn't gossip, wanted to know more about the girl, so he stabbed Miao Xiaodao and asked, "What's the matter with the ears?" She can speak and should not be born deaf. ”
Miao Xiaodao sighed: "Jingrou and I are both orphans, we grew up in the same orphanage when we were children, and we are best friends. That year, Gongsun's family went to the orphanage to choose someone, Jingrou didn't want to go, but I thought it would be better for her to live, so she left the orphanage alone. Jingrou had no support, so she could only go to Gongsun's house. ”
Fang Wuxian said: "You say that in tomorrow's competition, if you enter the top three, you can rescue her from the tiger's mouth, does it mean that you will rescue the Gongsun family?" ”
"Exactly." Miao Xiaodao said hatefully: "I thought that Jingrou would go to Gongsun's house and get better development, but I didn't expect to be pierced by Gongsun's family and imprisoned in the clan and not allowed to come out." ”
"Pierce the ear drum and imprison the clan!" Fang Wuxian was a little surprised, "Is there such a thing in modern society?" Why not call the police? ”
"She was still a child at that time, how could she have the ability to fight against the behemoth of the Gongsun family." Miao Xiaodao sighed: "Actually, don't talk about the past, even now, I have to follow their wishes in order to let Jingrou regain her freedom." ”
Fang Wuxian said: "Why did they treat a child like this back then? ”
Miao Xiaodao said: "The direct reason is that Jingrou stole the master's stunt. But Jingrou didn't have it at all, she was trained as the next generation of sect masters at that time, as long as she was two years to ten years old, she would be awarded the master's stunt, how could she steal it. It's just that she was still young at that time, and she couldn't distinguish many things, so she was convicted. ”
Fang Wuxian thought of his own experience, didn't he become a murderer inexplicably, but fortunately, he had the strength to fight hard, and he was so lucky to meet so many people who helped him, although he was still burdened with crimes, he was still free after all. But at that time, an eight-year-old girl may not even have figured out what was going on, and was brutally pierced through her ears and imprisoned, just thinking about it makes people's hearts tremble.
He frowned and said, "Why is this Gongsun family so domineering, what is it doing?" ”
Miao Xiaodao said hatefully: "The Gongsun family is the Shenzhen Gate, although they are called the Gongsun family, they do not belong to the family of the Eight Classics, but rely on the sect to select orphans in the world and continue to pass them on." ”
Shen Needle Gate, listening to this name, is a medical family, Fang Wuxian is not good to ask everything, that would inevitably seem to be too ignorant, "Then how did you contact her after that?" ”
Miao Xiaodao said: "After I left Shizun, I went to the Shenzhen Gate to look for Jingrou, only to learn that she was locked up here. ”
Fang Wuxian said: "This place is not bad, the Divine Needle Gate will be so kind?" ”
"Of course not, according to Jingrou, four years ago, there was a stranger who went to Shenzhenmen for some reason, and had contact with Jingrou for a while, and he saw that Jingrou was miserable, so he asked the master of the door, and Jingrou has been imprisoned here since then."
"If you want me to say that you two children are really, it is a crime for the divine needle to pierce the ear drums, and the forced imprisonment is even more of a crime, although you can't fight, can't you escape! It's not a shame to run away temporarily, and when you become strong one day, you can turn back and find your way back. ”
"Shenzhenmen follows the surname of Gongsun, but there is no direct blood inheritance, its existence is for the public, it can be regarded as the home of orphans, of course, it is also Jingrou's home, for Jingrou is only a few people, not the entire Shenzhumen. What's more, since she came to this small courtyard, Shenzhenmen has never felt sorry for her, so she has never thought of escaping. ”
"Then what agreement did you reach with Shenneedlemen at this time?"
"It's easy for me to take Jingrou out of here, but to leave justifiably, Shenzhenmen must still be quiet and free. The agreement I reached with Shenzhenmen was to represent Shenneedlemen to enter the top three in the horse race, and they promised to be quiet and free. ”
Fang Wuxian was puzzled: "What's going on with this horse race?" Listen to what you mean, if the prize money of horse racing is not taken by the gods, then what benefits will they get? ”
"Boss, you don't look like an ordinary person, don't you really know that this is the biggest thing for the entire Linhai?" Miao Xiaodao always felt that this boss was evil, like a wilted character who pretended to be a pig and ate a tiger.
Fang Wuxian shook his head, "How can you believe it, I am a hunter in the old forest, today is the first time I have come to the city, where do I know about the affairs of the rivers and lakes." ”
"Don't you know." Miao Xiaodao scratched his head and said: "But you should know that there are various forces in every place, which can also be called circles. For example, there is a circle of vegetable sellers in the market, and there is also a circle of meat sellers, and the small circles are combined into a large circle of the market, and several or a dozen large circles are combined into a larger circle of urban wholesale and retail trade. You can't touch these circles, but they control the development of the whole industry. ”
When Fang Wuxian sells sauce beef in Dahua Market, there is a circle that affects the development of everyone, for example, the purchase of raw materials, not where you want to buy from, you must comply with the rules and buy from the existing circle, so as to gain market recognition and integrate into the entire market.
Of course, you can also learn from the raptor to cross the river and find your own source of goods, but then you may suffer the exclusion of the entire market, and you may have to go to the toilet, and the things on the stall will be lost.
Fang Wuxian nodded, "I understand these to some extent, I have seen gangsters compete for power, fight and kill. ”
Miao Xiaodao said with a smile: "In fact, all kinds of forces are not purely black, and the gangster competition is only one of them, and it is also mostly seen in the lowest forces. On the top floor of the middle and high-rises, most of them are white, or even none at all, and ordinary people can't catch them if they want to, and they can't see them if they want to. ”
Fang Wuxian has been in a small place for a long time, and his vision is quite limited, but under Miao Xiaodao's point, he can react immediately, and said in a deep voice: "You said that the underworld grabs turf and pulls gangs in the market, these are the lowest level. The middle level is not talking about the alliance between various industries, they formulate industry rules, set market access rules, and control market development with invisible hands. ”
"Yes, that's right." Miao Xiaodao thought to himself that this boss was not a genius in the rivers and lakes, where could ordinary people understand these ways, but he didn't think about breaking it, since the boss was willing to pretend to be confused, how could he not be interested in being a subordinate.
Things in the world are so funny, everyone lives with a coat, no one can really know a person, then the relationship between two people has become a game process, both sides are guessing each other, seeking the ideal balance.
The reason why Miao Xiaodao thinks that the boss is a Jianghu person is not only because the boss used a good knife to save his life, nor because the boss rode a horse worth millions into the rivers and lakes, but not long after the boss lost the horse, he silently touched the territory of those horse robbers.
What's more, what rookie treats money like dung, and millions of horse racing bonuses are just to buy him the allegiance of an unpopular thief?
Miao Xiaodao thinks that the boss is pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, but he is just testing his ability to see if he is qualified to follow the boss, such a test Miao Xiaodao is not unfamiliar, he also had a similar "interview" when he was taken away by his master.
With such an idea, Miao Xiaodao began to talk eloquently: "Relying on the federation of various industries, you can formulate rules that are beneficial to vested interests, which is also the so-called middle-level power." From the top, it is more ethereal, but ubiquitous, and grasps the overall operation from the general direction.
Generally speaking, these high-level forces have huge amounts of money in their hands, and the chain of industries is intertwined, and they rarely participate in the struggle of underground forces, and they look down on all beings from above, like immortals and Buddhas. Most of the time, they are the controllers, maintaining the stability and development of certain aspects, and if there is a problem in any link, they will either directly intervene or support forces to remedy it.
But the so-called high-level can't cover the sky with just one hand, they only have the right to speak in a certain aspect and a certain region.
Generally speaking, the top level is based on the province, which can be regarded as a joint organization of the high-level, if a province is compared to a piece of cake, then the top-level team is the person who shares the cake.
Everyone is at the top level, although there are high and low forces, but they are not necessarily much weaker, if they are fighting each other in order to grab the cake, it will cause a waste of resources, and even the collapse of the cake-eating system. Therefore, if any high-level leader brazenly launches a war for some reason for some interests, it is a provocation to the entire cake-eating system, and many times it will be attacked by a group. ”
Miao Xiaodao said so much, Fang Wuxian understood it, and he smiled: "The system of eating cakes cannot be destroyed, but whoever eats more and who eats less, if it is always the same, it will lose its meaning, so there are all kinds of friendly competitions, and the amount of cake eaten is determined according to the ranking, but is this?" ”
Miao Xiaodao drank saliva, Boss Xindao, you finally don't pretend to be 13, my mouth is dry, I passed the interview! He said with a smile: "We have fourteen cities in Linhai, and there are no more than eight high-level forces, and the people in the circle are jokingly called the Eight Heavenly Kings, among which Tang Sanye has the strongest power, and the Shenzhumen does not fight or grab, and the power is medium and backward, which is the fifth or sixth position." ”
Fang Wuxian was puzzled: "The Divine Needle Gate is ranked behind, if the horse race enters the top three, will it be ranked high?" ”
: Thanks to book friends: 123456DSL and TD82171089 for their tips, and thank you friends for pointing out the errors.
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