A gang generally goes through four periods, germination, development, maturity and split. Generally speaking, in the embryonic stage, it is the personal charm of the person who speaks, and the leadership ability determines everything.

The same is true for Long Jiutian, thirty years ago, Long Jiutian stood out from the younger generation of the Green Gang with his extraordinary courage and unrivaled ambition, and swept away the people who were competing for the gang leader above him or equal to him one by one, and then established his position in the Green Gang.

The development and maturity period of the gang is when the stall is relatively large, and the talkers begin to gradually develop their cronies, and then delegate power one by one, until they can stand alone.

In the development of the Green Gang, Long Jiutian's original righteous brothers were basically dead or disabled, except for people and ghosts, the only one left was not that he could hide, but that this person was too brave.

Now the second leader of the Green Gang, Ding Shoufang.

Ding Shoufang accompanied Long Jiutian through 9 vicious battles, 27 major battles, countless small battles, and countless scars on his body.

It's just that with the maturity of the development of the gang, in the torrent of social development, the outright gang can no longer survive, just like the Cao Gang, the predecessor of the Qing Gang, who also knew how to transport food to the imperial court, and then solve the brother's job, Long Jiutian also faced this problem after becoming a hero.

He handed over this piece to Ding Shoufang, his sworn brother, and his lifelong friendship. There are five scars on his body just because he blocked the knife back then, one of which is from the chin down to the chest, a little deeper, a little down, is the risk of disembowelment.

Speaking from his heart, Long Jiutian's ability is above Ding Shoufang, and perhaps the only thing that is inferior to Ding Shoufang is that when he fights for his life, he is a little less ruthless than Ding Shoufang. Subconsciously, he has always thought that his life is more precious than ordinary people.

He only fights with the kind of people who can rise slightly higher than him.

After the development of the gang, there is a period of division, or a period of decline, and in the mouths of people in Shencheng, the decline period of the Green Gang began five years ago.

On a snowy night in the winter five years ago, Long Jiutian, who had just finished meeting his mistress, was assassinated by a group of killers, and the reason why he said that he was a killer was because those people didn't have any hot weapons at all, and it was said that these people were holding long knives.

It's not a dagger, it's not a mountain knife, it's a long knife, a kind of long knife with a slender blade.

There are different opinions about how Long Jiutian escaped, some say that he was lucky and hid in the garbage heap regardless of his identity, and some say that his subordinates desperately protected him out.

The real reason is only understood by a few high-level people in the Qing Gang, and it is true that Long Jiutian has several bodyguards beside him, and these people basically practice killing kung fu, and they carry short guns with them.

But these people didn't react in the slightest under the surprise attack of those killers, and what really saved Long Jiutian from the danger of his life was that he encountered a pair of vendors selling Yangchun noodles on the side of the road when he was stabbed twice.

The old one was about 60 years old, and the younger one was only 16 or 7 years old, but it was the boy who looked like he was only 16 or 7 years old, and he stood up and took a knife to chop vegetables and meat, and actually seriously injured the people who were chasing Long Jiutian one by one.

At that moment, Long Jiutian knew that this young man was absolutely extraordinary, because he knew the combat power of his bodyguards very well, but the bodyguards he was proud of were like hungry wolves slaughtering sheep in the hands of those people.

When he came to his senses, he found that the old man and the young man were actually packing up their things and preparing to go home. He hurriedly went up and stopped him and thanked him for saving his life.

But he didn't expect that the old man just told him slowly that the reason why he drove away the people who were chasing him was not because he saved him, but because those people had knocked down their cooking guys when they were chasing and killing him.

This made Long Jiutian very uncomfortable, as the leader of the Green Gang, he was used to the welcome of others, and he was also used to the loneliness of looking at the mountains from above, but he didn't expect to meet such strange two people.

Although the spread of that assassination was very small, it gradually spread from the rivers and lakes of Shencheng, and many people thought that it was a turning point in the power of the Qing Gang from victory to decline, but Ding Shoufang did not think so.

He believes that the Green Gang's transformation from victory to decline began ten years ago, because at that time, Long Jiutian didn't know that Lu Dao knew a legend from there, and then he began to be crazy obsessed with this matter, and that kind of energy was like being poisoned by poppies.

Because from that time on, except for the upper-level affairs of the Qing Gang, Long Jiutian pushed everything to Ding Shoufang, and he and his most trusted Five Elements Guard were busy with one thing at the same time.

The thing that made Ding Shoufang feel infinitely funny when he heard it, looked for a few jade fragments that he didn't know what age he was.

Originally, before he was attacked, Long Jiutian had basically broken away and began to gradually move closer to the affairs of the Green Gang, but after he was attacked, he suddenly became more intense.

All this, in Ding Shoufang's eyes, is because of one person.

The young vendor who sold Yangchun noodles on a snowy night in winter, the one who rescued Long Jiutian when he was almost at the end of his rope.

I don't know what means Long Jiutian used, anyway, not long after that night, that young man followed Long Jiutian's side.

Long Jiu Tianhua specially invited someone to forge a knife for the young man from abroad, and the pattern was like a Tang knife. After getting the knife, the young man was very happy, and named the knife Luoluo Knife.

In the second year after the young man came, he would go out for a few days with Long Jiutian every year, and Ding Shoufang didn't know what he was going to do. As for who hired the murderer that snowy night, Ding Shoufang didn't find out, and found that Long Jiutian didn't seem to have any intention of checking at all.

Today, that young man has actually become the third person in the Green Gang. This made Ding Shoufang extremely unhappy, in his opinion, he and Long Jiutian rose step by step, and there were other worshippers in the middle, who were either dead or disabled, before they piled up into the prominent position of the two of them.

And that young man, why is he? Just by saving Long Jiutian's life?

Of course, although Ding Shoufang was unhappy, he would never do anything to hurt people behind the back of the hired murderer, and he only occasionally gave the young man a little unhappiness on various occasions.

also once used the excuse that the boy was good at kung fu, he looked for some good people to fight with the boy everywhere, but none of them were the opponents of the boy, and what was even more commendable was that the boy did not kill the killer in that situation, as long as he accepted defeat, he would leave a way to live.

After stumbling like this for three years, he finally reluctantly accepted that young man, that young man's outstanding kung fu is only one aspect, and the most important thing is that he has no intention of inserting a lever from the Green Gang and seeking power and profit.

In addition to going out with Long Jiutian every year, and occasionally taking a look at Long Jiutian's daughter Long Sheng'er from a distance, he was able to rush up when the Qing Gang faced other provocations from a distance, and at most he was like an idle cloud and a wild crane, living the life he liked.

Even, according to Ding Shoufang's eyeliner, he told him that the young man could actually read a novel for a day.

Ding Shoufang loves his own woman very much, and from the moment his woman desperately pounced on him in a vicious battle many years ago to block the knife for him, he knew that he would never fall in love with another woman in his life.

Although he has never given the woman a name, the woman has always been by his side without regrets.

For many years, Ding Shoufang's ears still recalled what the woman said after blocking the knife for him: "I don't hurt, you run!" ”

In just one sentence, there are only six words, but for Ding Shoufang, what is heavy is that he doesn't know how heavy and deep his feelings are.

It's just that his woman's younger brother was expelled from the Green Gang.

He thought that what his brother-in-law did was wrong, he only thought that when he pulled down his son and wanted to save his brother-in-law, he was rejected by Long Jiutian.

was rejected by Long Jiutian, who had not dealt with daily affairs for many years.

Fighting all the way from the streets, even if he changed his life, he had already saved several lives of Long Jiutian, but this time, Long Jiutian told him that the prince was guilty of the same crime as the people, even if it was not his brother-in-law, or his own daughter, he would also be punished by the gang rules.

After developing to the extreme, it is no longer a problem of this simple matter, but a problem of his own woman, he doesn't even dare to go home to see his own woman, the woman who loves him more than himself.

Speaking from the heart, his woman didn't put much pressure on him, but the more this happened, the more pressure he put on him.

It seems that those sad eyes can speak, he doesn't know what to say, why he can't ask for this thin face for his years of blood.

In his eyes, he felt that this was not the rivers and lakes it used to be, there was no need to abide by the old system, and the law was nothing more than human feelings, but he was disappointed.

He knew very well in his heart that even if his brother-in-law was expelled from the Green Gang, he would be able to take care of him, but this lost face had been working hard for the Green Gang like an old scalper for many years, and for the peace of mind of Long Jiutian who shook his hands and was the shopkeeper, but at the moment when he needed it most, he was gently trampled on the ground.

Perhaps, from that moment on, strictly speaking, the split period of the Green Gang came.

In the previous split period, at least Ding Shoufang would care when Long Jiutian didn't care, but the current Ding Shoufang didn't have the pride of the past. Even, he went to him for the first time and never wanted to see him, but he was currently the third in command of the Green Gang - Ning Yutang.

There is no other meaning, that is, he heard that the roses planted in Ning Yutang's yard have bloomed, and he just wants to enjoy the flowers, or he also wants to tell others that from today on, he will live some idle clouds and wild cranes like Ning Yutang.

In Ning Yutang's courtyard, he saw Ning Yutang who was carrying a wolf and writing a fan with a pen and a snake.

What fell on the fan was a piece of text:

In the Tang Dynasty, I missed a year of peach blossoms and missed a lifetime of you, to the Song Dynasty, the low wall that kept your laughter cut off the love between you and me, eight hundred years later, a rain came, your oil paper umbrella also dissipated a lilac, at that moment, he suddenly felt that this young man who could play a good knife and write a good hand, was destined not to be an ordinary street vendor who sold noodles on the street when he first knew the Tao.