Chapter 168: Revisiting the Old Place

Jin Guoqiang and his staff were still discussing things, and they didn't seem tired at all. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Li Tianming looked at them from a distance, gulping down oxygen, and sighed in his heart that it was good to be young.

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at night was cold and windy, although Li Tianming was wearing a thick down jacket and warm clothes, his body still couldn't stand it, and after sitting outside for a long time, he felt the cold penetrate deep into his bone marrow, and beckoned to Scar Jin to help him up.

Scar Jin carried an oxygen cylinder in one hand and Uncle Li's arm in the other, and carefully sent him into the tent to lie down.

Looking at Uncle Li lying in his sleeping bag, he couldn't help but feel disgusted in his heart.

People say that being old and not dying is a thief, this guy is already in his sixties, and he should have died after so many years.

At that time, the gold and silver brothers began to do business with Uncle Li for a few steamed buns, starting from walking the streets and alleys to exchange food, they escaped the Great Famine, survived the Great Revolution, fought with Li Ergou, and fought with the Song brothers in Luoyang...... In the blink of an eye, thirty or forty years have passed, and most of Scargold's black hair has turned white, from a rebellious teenager to an old man over half a hundred years old.

After so many years of birth and death, until now, Scar Gold is still just a lackey by Uncle Li's side.

Scar Gold was unconvinced.

The two brothers have been loyal to Li Tianming for many years, from Bishan to Luoyang, they started from scratch, fighting the world with both fists, and now their power spans the four provinces of Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan, and they handle thousands of antiques every year, but no matter how big the business is, he has no money in his hands - sometimes he has to borrow money from the second child when he goes out to find a woman.

The reason why he is so shabby is that on the one hand, Scar Jin usually spends money lavishly, eating, drinking, prostituting, gambling, and smoking him.

On the other hand, Uncle Li is too stingy, people say that geese have plucked their feathers, and beasts have left their skins, Uncle Li is even more ruthless than this, for example, they have a raw pit goods, and the market is worth at least 100,000 treasures, and the scar gold can be divided into a few hundred yuan at most.

Even so, Uncle Li always cries poor in front of them, saying that all the money is spent in places they can't see, and the white and black ways have to be filial, and it is not easy to raise so many subordinates, and he often complains that the expenses are too big, so that everyone should pay him money to be like words.

Scar Jin has always wondered, where is Uncle Li hiding all the money he has made?

He can't understand it, a man, he doesn't smoke, he doesn't drink, he doesn't pick up girls, he just calculates to make money all day long, and he has a chicken chop meaning when he lives?! Can you save so much money and take it to the grave? But Uncle Li has lived like this for decades, and he is still living a very interesting life.

Scar Jin thought, seeing that he is also a lot older, in a few years, it should not be hard to get up, it should not be soft and soft, and if you don't hurry up and enjoy it, people will be wasted - but it is so hard under Li Tianming, when will it be the head?

Li Tianming has always controlled the business to the death, from millions to thousands of goods, he has to personally take care of them, and as for the funds, they can only come in and out of his hands.

It is even more impossible to rub oil from his hands, although he rarely comes forward to do business in person, but everyone around him seems to be his eyeliner, and nothing can escape his eyes. So over the years, although everyone has complained about Uncle Li's stinginess, they dare not speak out.

Once when he was drinking, a brother drank too much and joked that Uncle Li would not marry or have children because he was afraid that his wife and son would divide his property, and this was known by Uncle Li the next day.

Uncle Li asked this person to kneel in front of everyone, slapped himself, scolded himself for being cheap, smoked a meal all the time, and fainted after smacking.

No one knew who told the secret, but from that day on, everyone began to be wary of each other, and they "respected" Uncle Li's authority even more, and all the complaints turned into fear.

In contrast, Scar Gold is more affinity among the brothers, after all, he is the oldest qualified, and he is the one who fights the world with Uncle Li, although he is short-tempered and often shaves people with big ears, but he has wine to drink with everyone, eat meat together, and go to the kiln together. When he was "working", he was also on the front line with his brothers.

Sometimes Scar Jin feels that with this kind of relationship with his brothers, he is more suitable to be the boss than Uncle Li.

He also thought about taking the position of Uncle Li's boss and replacing him, more than once, but he didn't have the courage to do so - not to mention the old man's scheming, the power behind him was even more mysterious. Until now, Scar Jin has been with Uncle Li for decades, and the mysterious backer behind them is still the beginning and the end. I only know that Uncle Li can reach the sky with his hands and eyes, and most of them are the ghosts behind him.

Scar Jin felt that it was better not to do it himself, but that Uncle Li was killed by the enemy, so it would be logical for him to take over as the boss.

Except for Uncle Li, only he Scar Gold has the highest status and the oldest qualifications in the gang - although he still has a piece of silver, he feels that his brother will not rob him.

But Li Tianming was cautious all his life and never gave his opponent a chance.

For many years, Uncle Li always likes to hide behind the scenes and command, behind the scenes, and rarely "live and die" with his brothers.

In Scar Gold's impression, such an opportunity has only appeared twice.

The Yewang Temple in northern Shaanxi was once, and that time even Scar Gold almost died.

Although the fight in Yewang Temple was tragic, because it happened too suddenly, it was far less thrilling than the first time.

That time, it was twenty years ago.

At that time, Uncle Li and the others had just "pacified" Luoyang, killed Li Ergou, drove away Song Biao and Song Boss, and subdued Ma Wangye......

All of a sudden, the Li family helped Luoyang famously, and people from all walks of life came to give gifts, show sincerity, worship the mountain, and sit at home, and the business will automatically come to the door, and Scar Jin feels that he no longer has to secretly dig antiques with his brothers and walk the streets and alleys to exchange food.

It's a pity that not long after the good days, one day, Uncle Li suddenly called gold, silver, Dawu, Niu Er and other henchmen to him, and asked everyone to pack up their things and prepare to "go out".

The location of this business trip is very familiar to Scar Jin, that is, the place where he went to change food during the great famine of that year.

Scar Jin remembers very well that time, they received a batch of raw pit goods in Lijia Village, and Uncle Li recognized that it was a batch of newly unearthed hidden weapons, and he guessed that the person who exchanged this batch of goods for them was a fellow tomb robber, maybe he was still a master.

Because they had a lot of harvest in this area, they delayed for a while, and that "peer" also exchanged raw pit goods for grain several times.

On that trip, they should have made a lot of money, but it didn't take long for something to happen, and the big guys were arrested except for Uncle Li. Later, Uncle Li "tied" the local relevant departments and bailed everyone out, and at that time, everyone admired Uncle Li's "ability".

Soon after, they encountered an unprecedented movement, and their thriving career came to an abrupt end. Since then, Scar Gold has forgotten about this experience until Uncle Li brings it up again.

He didn't understand what the purpose of going out this time was, but instinctively felt unusual, because Uncle Li personally led the team for the first time, and brought all the gold and silver brothers with him, as well as Dawu, Niu Er, and the ruthless characters in the next few generations.

is different from the high-spirited when he first cleaned up the Song brothers, Uncle Li has been preoccupied recently.

Scar Jin doesn't understand, Luoyang is so big that the country has been defeated, Uncle Li can't stay at home to do business, why do you insist on coming to this remote and broken place, do you want to do the old business of exchanging food for treasures, but it's not like ah, I didn't bring anything with the guys, and now it's not a big famine, and there is no way to sell food.

Everyone was bored in the gourd, wanting to ask but not daring, this Uncle Li had a sad face along the way, as if everyone owed him 5 million.

Bumpy all the way, Scar Gold took everyone to Lijia Village, where he exchanged goods, unlike the earth-shaking changes outside in the past few years, the small mountain village seems to have been forgotten by history, and it has almost remained the same for more than ten years, and it has not changed at all.

In order to avoid people's eyes, they dressed up as peasants and stood far away outside the village, and Scar Jin pointed out to Uncle Li the family that exchanged raw pit goods for food.

Uncle Li asked Yinzi to go to the village to inquire about the news and find out the details.

After a while, Yinzi came back and reported that the family was a foreigner who moved in more than ten years ago, and the man in charge of the family was called Liu Guohua, and there was a younger brother who was a fool and had been living with them, Liu Guohua's mother-in-law was called Ye Lan, and there was a teenage son at home, with his mother's surname, called Ye Chong.

Uncle Li nodded, pinched the mutton fat jade wrench in his hand and paced back and forth in place.

Scar Jin is very familiar with Uncle Li's habit, usually when Uncle Li looks like this, it means that he is thinking about things and calculating, which means that someone is going to be unlucky.

The others stared at each other and stumbled for a long time, and Uncle Li suddenly stopped, squinted his eyes and said to him:

"Jinzi, you take the two of you to his house and find him to support the pot!"

Jin Zi was stunned, he didn't stay in Luoyang, and he traveled thousands of miles to this broken mountain village to support what kind of pot?

Seeing Jin Zi's bewildered look, Uncle Li had to say more carefully: "Test him first, you exchanged goods with him back then, and he should still know you." It's best to lure him out, and if he doesn't take the bait, don't force him to come, just let them know your intentions. ”

Although the second monk is still confused, Scar Jin understands that he can't ask more, just do what Uncle Li wants.

He knew that Uncle Li's arrangement made sense, just like he did with Li Ergou and Song Biao's brothers before, Uncle Li would not tell you the intention of every step, and you would find out the subtlety of his arrangement later.

Strategizing, carefully calculating, and taking advantage of everything is exactly what Uncle Li is capable of.

It's just that this time Uncle Li miscalculated, this time not only did they not take advantage, but they almost took their lives.