Chapter 11: The Gatekeeper

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Walking through the village, it is the undulating, continuous green mountain, this side of the mountain is Li Ze Laozi's sphere of influence, and the other side of the mountain belongs to another section of the envoy, and Li Ze's little secret is hidden in this mountain. Over the years, Li Ze has invested all the money he has earned into this little secret of his.

Even if it is to maintain the minimum investment, for Li Ze now, he is doing his best, that is, a gold-swallowing beast, sometimes, Li Ze faces the thick account book that Xia He brought, and he really has the urge to give up, but think about it, maybe when, these people will be able to save their lives, so they can only grit their teeth and persevere.

Since it's a little secret, there is naturally no road, and when you get here, you can only lead the horse through the rugged mountain trail and trek hard.

I climbed a small hill and went all the way down to the bottom of the mountain, and finally saw a road, and at the end of the road, there stood a tiled house. Li Ze rubbed his somewhat sore legs and strode towards the tiled house.

There was still some distance from the tiled house, and he heard the miserable howl of the pig, and Li Ze familiarly pushed open the hidden fence and walked into the yard. Smiling at a big man who dragged out a fat pig from the pigsty on the side with one hand, the big pig seemed to know that the end was near, so he was unwilling to do so, and kicked the ground with four hooves, struggling desperately, but he still couldn't resist the man's strength, and was dragged horizontally and vertically to the front of the board in the middle of the yard.

The man glanced back at Li Ze, smiled, didn't speak, bent over, circled the pig's head with one hand, and roared, the hundreds of pounds of the pig was thrown up directly by him, and smashed heavily on the board, the pig seemed to be smashed at once, and he couldn't make a sound with his mouth open, just in such a short moment, the man had already backhanded out a sharp pig-killing knife from his waist, and with a bang, he stabbed it neatly from the pig's throat.

After receiving this knife, the pig immediately bounced desperately, but under the clamp of the man's hands, he could only jump on the spot a few times, and then he saw the blood gushing out of the wound and falling into a large wooden basin under the board. Until the pig didn't move at all, the man dragged the pig's tail with one hand, pinched the pig's scalp with the other, and shook it a few times, seeing that the muscles on Li Ze and Tu Lichun's faces were a little twitching.

Look at the size of this pig, at least 200 catties, in the hands of that man, it is like a thing.

"The young master is here?" The man turned around and shouted, "Brother Tu help bring the chair out, please sit down for a while. I'll be done right away."

Tu Lichun said hello, went into the house and brought a few chairs out, and brought a large teapot and a few coarse porcelain bowls from the house, and poured a large bowl of water for Li Ze.

Where Li Ze sat and drank water, he watched the man clean up the fat pig.

A cut was made in his leg, and as soon as he leaned over and puffed out his cheeks, he began to blow, and in a moment, the already fat pig was even more bulging like a ball of meat on the board.

There was a huge wooden basin next to the board, and the man effortlessly grabbed the two hooves of the fat pig with both hands, and threw them into the basin with a bang, and there was already boiling water in the corner, and the boiling water was poured on the pig, and a bad smell spread in the yard.

The pig still has to soak in the boiling water for a little time before it can be haired, and then disemboweled, cleaned up, the man washed his hands in the boiling hot water casually, then turned around, rubbed his hands and walked in front of Li Ze.

"Brother Tu sent someone to say that the young master was coming over today, so he killed a fat pig, and I will burn a small pot for the young master later, eat a fresh one, and bring the rest in, just to treat those young men."

Li Ze smiled and nodded: "It's hard work, sit down and rest for a while."

"Okay, young master." The man dragged a chair and sat opposite Li Ze, and Tu Lichun also poured a bowl of water and handed it over.

"Are you quiet these days?" Li Ze asked.

"Of course." The man smiled, "Even if a wild cat wants to get in, it can only become a dead cat."

Li Ze laughed: "With you Shi Zhuang guarding here, I am naturally relieved, but well, today or a little later, maybe someone wants to go in, don't stop him, let him in!"

The man, that is, Shi Zhuang, was stunned when he heard this, "Young master, why is this?"

Li Ze spread his way and said, "Because this person can't be killed, and maybe it's useful."

"Isn't the young master worried that this person will leak the secrets here?"

"The person who is going to come is a curious one, and his mouth is not necessarily very tight, but there is another person behind him, but he is a person who knows greatly, and his identity is extraordinary, if he really wants to kill, he will have to kill both of them together, but if he kills, the consequences may be more serious, so he can only choose to trade." Li Ze doesn't seem to have anything to hide in front of this man.

The man seemed to be straightforward, but after listening to Li Ze's words, he didn't even think about it, but nodded approvingly, "Childe has always been far-sighted, since you say so, naturally you have considerations, and when the time comes, I will pretend to be a dead pig."

"Your son is very good in Zhuangzi, he looks like a tiger, he is too active, he is already very good at a young age, an old mother, a male servant, you need to follow all the time, otherwise, it will add some chaos to you that you can't think of."

Shi Zhuang stood up, his face was happy and a little sad, and he bowed down and said, "Let the young master bother."

"What's the bother, don't bother, you do things for me, I naturally want you to have no worries." Li Ze waved his hand, "When I come out, you will also follow me back and accompany your son for a few days, now that he is older and more sensible, you still have to accompany him more, so as not to be rusty, and in a few years, you can take him personally."

"Thank you, young master." Shi Zhuang nodded again and again, "Young master, sit down for a while, I'll clean up the pig, it'll be fine for a while."

"You're busy." LI Zedao.

Looking at the sturdy back, bending over and shaving pig hair with a planer, Li Ze couldn't help but recall the past when he was associated with Shi Zhuang.

It's an unusually cliché story. At least that's what Li Ze thinks, but in this world, those strange and mysterious fates are always rare, and they can be met but not sought, but those cliché things are always staged again and again.

Shi Zhuang was originally a butcher, but he didn't kill pigs here, but in the county town, a taciturn pig killer, but he gave birth to another delicate and beautiful lady, and what's worse is that he is still an outsider.

The beautiful woman was targeted, and a young man with a background in the county moved his mind. So in the early hours of a cold night, when Shi Zhuang went to the countryside to collect pigs, he broke into his home.

The beautiful woman died, and the woman who was born at that time was still pregnant, and if it wasn't for the neighbors who came to help her, the premature child would have been frozen to death in the winter night.

After returning, Shi Zhuang buried his wife calmly, put the little child in his pocket with a piece of cloth, and went to the door with his pig-killing knife.

It's a pity that there are still people around the gentleman who have some skills, and they have long expected that Shi Zhuang will kill the door, they are rich and powerful, they are well-informed, and they have arranged a series of traps, and Shi Zhuang who kills the door will naturally not have a good end, and after being caught, he was sent to the county prison.

And what is even more coincidental is that Li Ze also entered the county seat that day, he originally wanted to go to the scene to see the business he decided to cooperate with, and Shi Zhuang, who was covered in blood, was escorted in front of him.

This kind of thing, in such an era, seems to be unusual, for Li Ze, who wants to live a low-key life, it is naturally not worth taking risks for a man he has never met, in this world, there are many unjust things, if he has to take care of everything, shovel a shovel, I am afraid that the road is not bulldozed, he himself will not have it first. But the hoarse voice of the crying child on Shi Zhuang's back touched the most tender place hidden in Li Ze's heart at that moment.

It was not difficult to inquire about the matter, and soon Li Ze knew everything that had happened.

So he sent Tu Lichun and some other guards.

Prison robbery.

The prison defense in the small county town is so simple that people can't believe it, Li Ze, who originally thought that there was still a big war, originally asked Tu Lichun to show his former identity and pull the banner to make a tiger skin when he was really not ready to do things, but in fact he didn't use it. Because of Tu Lichun, they barely met any resistance, and they rescued the man who was carrying the baby on his back.

Li Ze told Shi Zhuang his name, took the baby away, and told Shi Zhuang that after he was done, he would come to his Zhuangzi and take his child away to fly away.

Shi Zhuang didn't talk nonsense, and left after handing over the child to Li Ze.

That night, none of the gentlemen survived.

In fact, Li Ze sent Tu Lichun to follow that Shi Zhuang, and after coming back, Tu Lichun's face was very bad, and he told Li Ze that this Shi Zhuang's identity was definitely not simple, because he had witnessed that Shi Zhuang's means of killing people, and it was by no means what a butcher should have.

Li Ze actually didn't care who Shi Zhuang was. Anyway, it's just a matter of doing it, and in the future, Shi Zhuang will fly away, and he will still be his own rich man in the countryside, and the two will not see each other.

Three days later, Li Ze, who returned to Zhuangzi, met Shi Zhuang.

The man had a lot of injuries on his body, and when he saw Li Ze's face, he knelt down and snorted three times, and called out to the young master.

Li Ze hesitated for several days, and finally accepted this guy who voluntarily sold himself to himself. Even though Tu Lichun had been worried, Li Ze still accepted him.

Later, Li Ze told Tu Lichun that what prompted him to accept this Shi Zhuang was the look in his eyes when Shi Zhuang kowtowed his head at that time. Later, Shi Zhuang's son was raised in Zhuangzi, and Shi Zhuang came here and became a janitor.

Li Ze's biggest secret janitor.