Rats have rat paths, snakes have snake paths, different types of people live in different circles, and identity determines the group of people who interact. Scholars gather to talk about poetry and literature, farmers talk about the harvest in the fields, and women talk about their families, and it is difficult to see the officials in the yamen drinking and chatting with the farmers, and even if there is, it is necessary for entertainment. The identity has changed, and the ensuing circle of friends will also change, so since ancient times, there has been a saying that "rich and easy friends, noble and easy wives".

Jiang Anyi stood in front of Yu Huozi's Mansion for a while, and saw that all the men who came in and out were men dressed in strong suits and strutting with their heads high, with swords hanging from their swords and open plackets.

Yu Huozi is the eldest brother of the underworld in Xingling County, and the reason why Tietoutuo in the south can exist is that the government needs to check and balance the existence of Yu Huozi, and the second is that Yu Huozi shows his generosity.

For Yu Huozi, he can't support his hundreds of brothers just by collecting protection money, so he has to do his own business. Xingling County is mountainous and has few fields, and the mountains produce tea, leather goods, and mountain delicacies, and the rest of the camels secretly collude with the government officials to start a business of forced buying and selling, and the annual income is not less than 50,000 taels in addition to the profit sharing.

Two years ago, Yu Huozi's subordinates and a group of Lingzhou businessmen got into a bar, and the dragon crossed the river to overwhelm the head snake, and Yu Huozi's subordinates let down more than 20 people, and even the government was alarmed. However, that group of Lingzhou businessmen had the steward of the Lin family, and those officials did not dare to be rude.

Yu Huozi took care of his face, called friends and friends to block this group of Lingzhou guests at the foot of Xiaozhong Mountain, which alarmed Ye Yanguang, who was in other industries, Ye Yanguang brought more than ten good hands to help, suppressed Lingzhou guests, and forced Lingzhou guests to pay six hundred taels of medicine and silver to end the matter. Yu Huozi gained face, and was very grateful to Ye Yanguang, and thanked him with wine. The two were born in the same way, smelled the same, and soon the two became friends and became brothers. After becoming brothers, the two cooperated several times, made a few windfalls, and the relationship became deeper and deeper.

Ye Yanguang came to his own courtyard with six carriages and more than 20 cronies in Shenshi, and after making some arrangements, he brought Chang Qing from Zhongshanzhai and his cronies Gao Shuitian to visit Yu Huozi. Yu Huozi was overjoyed to see Ye Yanguang and set down the banquet to catch the wind for his brothers. Ye Yanguang came here to find out the situation in Linhua County through Yu Huozi, and he didn't want to publicize it, but before he could speak, Yu Huozi had already ordered his subordinates to kill pigs, slaughter sheep, buy wine, and be busy, and summoned the Jianghu characters in the house to accompany him to talk.

The banquet is set in the main hall of Yufu, the large round table sits around sixteen people and is still relaxed, Yu Huozi sits in the middle, Ye Yanguang sits on the left side, in addition to the four people brought by Ye Yanguang on the table, there are several henchmen of Yu Huozi, and the other six people are all famous figures in the rivers and lakes. There are also ten tables set up in the courtyard to entertain ordinary brothers and friends in the rivers and lakes, and open the door to welcome guests, as long as friends in the rivers and lakes shout "Yu is in charge", they can be seated.

When the news came out, many of Tietoutuo's subordinates came to eat secretly, and the gatekeepers lived with these people in a county town, and they didn't look up and looked down, and they said hello and put them in. Yu Huozi got the news and ordered to open a few more tables, although Tietoutuo's subordinates came, a banquet may not be able to buy people's hearts, but Uncle Yu's proud reputation has fallen.

Jiang Anyi stood on the opposite side of Yu Mansion with a pillar of incense, he guessed that Yu Huozi's banquet guests might be to entertain Ye Yanguang, and there was not much time left for him, so it was best to get Ye Yanguang to ask Minghe about the materials and materials between the Qin missions, and he could easily get out to see the old lady.

If you don't enter the tiger's den, Jiang Anyi made up his mind to go in and take a look, so he shook his arms and walked to Yufu like the people of the rivers and lakes. The gatekeeper stretched out his hand to stop him, clenched his fists and asked, "This friend, may I ask your honorable name, where did you make your fortune?" ”

"In Xia Feng Guoan, come to visit Yu Ye." Jiang Anyi replied.

Feng Guoan is a lone thief who is active in Renzhou, Fangzhou, and Jiangzhou, and has a bandit called "Shadowless Hand", who has done dozens of big cases in the ten years since his debut, and no one can catch him, and he doesn't even know his true face. Zhenwei Dart Bureau was stolen by him once in the second year of Jianwu, and the loss of the dart and the loss of silver nearly 10,000 taels of silver. Wu Yingjie, the chief dart head of the Zhenwei Dart Bureau, invited the second disciple of Wang Feixuan (enshrined in Jiangfu) to shoot at the cost of 2,000 taels of silver, and it took half a year to kill Feng Guoan.

Jiang Anyi was in Huazhou to hear Xu Anhu mention this matter, Xu Anhu sighed at the time that this Feng Guoan was only thirty years old, famous, but there were very few people on the rivers and lakes who really knew him, and when the body was searched, it was found that he had a lot of disguised things on his body. Jiang Anyi lamented at that time that Feng Guoan was young and did not study well, and gave his life in vain, but he didn't expect to be able to borrow his identity to appear today.

The gatekeeper had obviously heard of Feng Guoan's reputation, and raised his fist above the top and said: "It turns out that Feng Ye is coming, Yu Ye must be happy, please inside." ”

Someone sent a letter inside, Jiang Anyi followed the guard to the second gate, and saw a group of people coming out, the man in the middle was a head taller than the others, but unfortunately his back was a little arched, it should be Yu Huozi.

Yu Huozi laughed and took a few steps forward, and said happily: "Brother Feng, you have been famous for a long time, which fragrant wind blows you, today is really a double happiness, please inside." ”

Without waiting for Jiang Anyi to give a salute, Yu Huozi took Jiang Anyi's arm and walked in, and someone came to salute along the way, and Jiang Anyi responded with his head bowed. When he came to the house, Yu Huozi pulled Jiang Anyi to sit down on his right side and began to introduce everyone, starting with Ye Yanguang.

Jiang Anyi's eyes were happy when he heard Ye Yanguang's three words, and Yu Huozi asked in some surprise: "Brother Feng knows my Brother Ye Xian?" ”

Now is not the time to do it, Jiang Anyi said: "Feng once passed by Linhua County, and heard the prestige of Brother Ye, so I don't want to meet here." Fortunately, fortunately. Ye Yanguang is a little proud, it seems that he is also a figure in the rivers and lakes, and even the "shadowless hand" has heard of his reputation.

The next introduction is Deng Zude, the head of the Shunhe Dart Bureau in Xingling County, this Deng Dart Head has lost a dart under Feng Guoan, of course he doesn't have a good face when he sees him, not to mention that the position where Yu Huozi pulls Jiang Anyi to sit was originally his, which clearly feels that Feng Guoan is stronger than himself.

"Feng Shaoxia, I have heard of your name a long time ago, but unfortunately I didn't have the opportunity to meet, and I hope that my brother will take care of me in the future." Deng Zude stretched out his big hand as he said and shook it to Jiang Anyi's hand.

Jiang Anyi smiled secretly in his heart, he was a disaster. Deng Zude's hand was like a fan, and his complexion was dark, and Jiang Anyi guessed that this hand was very likely to have practiced foreign kung fu such as iron sand palms.

Not daring to be careless, Jiang Anyi covered his palm with his true qi and shook it towards Deng Zude's big hand. Jiang Anyi guessed well, Deng Zude's palms have been cultivating black sand hands for nearly thirty years, not only are they as strong as steel, but they are also lucky to have poison on their palms, and it is difficult to resolve them if they are accidentally invaded by poisonous gases without his unique antidote.

To practice black sand hands, you need to take ten catties of secret medicine recipe and wine and vinegar, decoction until thick and pour it into an iron basin, mash the medicine into a mud with an iron pestle, and then mix it with iron sand.

Deng Zude began to practice the family heirloom of black sand hands at the age of eight, it can be said that he has endured all the hardships, his hands do not know how many times he has shed skin and fallen flesh, and it has only been a small achievement in fifteen years, and his hands have been able to hit people, and the light is broken bones and tendons, and he vomits blood and dies, even if a person with considerable skill is not careful, he will be infected by the poisonous gas in his palm, and he will die in three days if he is not able to be treated.

At the age of twenty-four, Deng Zude joined the Biaofeng Dart Bureau in Duanzhou as a dart master, and created the name of "Black Wind Killer" with this pair of black sand hands, and became the deputy head of the dart board before the age of 30. Just when he was proud of the spring breeze, he lost two darts in a row, not only did not find it but was shocked by the palm of the robber and hurt his heart, although the head of the dart tried his best to keep, Deng Zude felt shameless to stay in the dart game again, and took four apprentices back to his hometown to recuperate.

After recovering from the injury, Deng Zude simply opened a family shunhe dart bureau in his hometown Xingling County, and was in charge of his own house. The dart bureau opened smoothly at first, and it took three years to make a name for itself in Duanzhou.

Unexpectedly, Fengle was robbed by Feng Guoan in the seventeenth year, and the key to losing money was that his reputation plummeted, and the business of Shunhe Dart Bureau was much colder, how could he not let Deng Zude have a grudge against Feng Guoquan, and when they met today, Deng Zude wanted to abolish Feng Guoquan.

In Deng Zude's eyes, Jiang Anyi's hand was as white and tender as a girl, and he could crush his metacarpal bones with a little effort, and from then on, the "shadowless hand" became a "crippled hand". The big hand held the small hand, Jiang Anyi's hand was wrapped in it, Deng Zude felt that the little hand was like a piece of coal, so hot that the palm was about to smoke, and the poisonous gas forced out by luck was reversed, Deng Zude hurriedly let go of his hand and said with a forced smile: "Feng Shaoxia is good at kung fu." ”

He was not afraid of people's jokes, so he poured out two pills from the gourd on his waist and swallowed them with wine, which made him feel less nauseous. The people next to him could see it clearly, knowing that Deng Zude had suffered a secret loss, Yu Huozi's smile was even stronger, his voice became more and more enthusiastic, he poured wine for Jiang Anyi with his own hands, raised his glass and said: "Today, the magpies are in pairs, and they have just ushered in Brother Ye Xian, and they have sent Brother Feng, everyone toasts and toasts the two of them." ”

The sound of cheering came from the house to the courtyard, and more than 100 men got up in unison and shouted into the house: "Please." ”

Ye Yanguang knew that Deng Zude was a master in the rivers and lakes, and such a master was not Feng Guoan's opponent, it seemed that the "Shadowless Hand" was worthy of its reputation, and it was even a few points higher than the rumors. If you don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, with Feng Guoan's skills and fame, you shouldn't come to the Yu Mansion easily, I don't know if this "shadowless hand" has anything to ask Brother Yu for help.