The sun is slowly setting.

Disappear into the depths of the mountains.

Then it got dark.

Smoke rises from the stove, and the air is filled with the aroma of all kinds of food.

Wei Tao finished a day's hard training, first went to finish the daily affairs of the martial arts hall, arranged the materials that needed to be purchased early tomorrow morning, and then went out of the gate before nightfall.

A quarter of an hour later, he turned out of the long street, and through the narrow paths, until he finally came to the entrance of Yaoshi Alley.

Suddenly, a faint noise came from not far away.

The sound is mainly a woman crying, mixed with the impatient scolding of a man.

Wei Tao followed the voice and turned his head to look.

Recognize the house where a young couple who have recently moved in lives.

Just as she passed by the door, the woman's cry suddenly became an order of magnitude louder, turning into a hoarse cry.

Immediately followed by a crisp snap, a hoarse man's voice said fiercely, "Debt repayment, right, if you can't afford to pay back, you can only let your woman go with us, don't care whether we let her be a slave or a slave, or send her to the kiln to laugh, it has nothing to do with you." ”

Poor couples mourn everything.

But it is indeed natural to repay debts.

Wei Tao had seen a lot of similar things, and he was not interested in caring about it, so he quickened his pace and walked towards his home.

The woman cried out, "When I borrowed money, I said that I would borrow ten to repay twelve, and I would pay twenty percent of the interest, but now you say that it is nine out of thirteen, which is clearly robbing money." ”

Boom!

The door of the house was slammed open.

A woman with a disheveled hair flew out of it and slammed into the gravel road in the middle of the alley.

Wei Tao stopped and looked back.

I happened to look at the man who had just walked out of the door.

The man had a fleshy face, a tall and strong body, and his shoulders and arms were full of high bulging muscles, which gave people a fierce and brutal feeling at first glance.

Wei Tao frowned slightly, recognizing the identity of the other party.

Although he didn't know the specific name, he knew that this person was nicknamed Black Crow, and he was originally a small leader of the Wuyi Gang, and he used to hang around Yaoshi Alley.

At the beginning, a neighbor's house was blackmailed by black crows, and later had to settle it through the medicine gang.

Even so, a sum of money was lost, which is equivalent to half a month of going into the mountains to collect medicine.

Then the Black Clothes Gang was destroyed, and the black crows disappeared for a while, but now they reappeared, and they also started to sell high/interest/loans.

Behind the black crow, there were also several men in black.

The clothes around their waists were bulging, and they didn't know what murder weapons they were carrying.

The black crow was about to step forward to pull the woman's hair, when he suddenly saw Wei Tao, who was standing silently a few steps away, and couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

His gaze was fierce and warning at first, then a look of surprise and uncertainty.

Staring at the red moire lines on the shoulders and cuffs of Wei Tao's practice uniform, the black crow moved his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he just hugged his fists and saluted, and then turned around and left directly.

Several men behind him followed and walked away quickly, not even daring to raise their heads.

As a former member of the Wuyi Gang, after seeing the practice uniform with red stripes on a black background, the black crow quickly recognized the identity of the young man in front of him.

If it was just a registered disciple of the Red Line Martial Arts Pavilion, they were not afraid, but the red lines on the black background represented the disciples of the inner courtyard, and it became a completely different situation.

Even in the entire outer city, the Red Line Martial Arts Hall can be called a medium-sized power.

Although it is not as good as the large gangs that are closely related to the inner city, it is definitely not an existence that people like him can provoke.

Wei Tao dispersed his energy and blood, watched a few people leave with an expressionless face, and did not say a word from beginning to end.

If there is a real fight, it is good that the other party does not use sharp weapons, but if several people rush forward with knives, it is really difficult to say who will leave alive in the end.

The woman behind her was still whining and sobbing, and the cry could be heard far away in the darkening night.

The rest of the houses were closed, and no one dared to come out and take a look.

This is the current situation on the outskirts of the city.

The inhabitants are like soaking in a pool of icy mud, and they don't know when they will sink to the bottom of the pool and become an even colder corpse.

Back at home, the meal was already on the table.

The soup is boiled wild vegetables.

The dish is a cold salad.

The staple food is still wild vegetable dumplings.

This is what the family often eats in the autumn.

During this time, you can save a little bit so that you can save enough money and food to survive the harsh winter when the mountains are covered with heavy snow.

Wei Rongxing lifted the lid of the pot and put a large bowl of stewed meat in front of Wei Tao.

Then he poured him a small bowl of soju.

"Brother Tao has worked hard all day long, so he should eat more meat to make up for it."

"I ate a lot at noon in the martial arts hall, and my father ate too."

Wei Tao wanted to push the soup pot back with meat, but Wei Rongxing resolutely stopped him.

"You eat, I'll just eat wild vegetables, and I don't have to work at night."

As he spoke, he picked up the wooden bowl in his hand and swallowed the boiled wild vegetable soup in a few bites.

"Today I saw the crows of the former Black Clothes Gang." Wei Tao had no choice but to pick up a chopstick stew and eat it, took a sip of wine and said casually.

"Oh, he joined the Youth Alliance, and now this small area is their sphere of influence." Wei Rong said.

After a pause, he added, "In the afternoon, this man came to the house and took eight big dollars in protection money." ”

"Eight big bucks in protection money from our family?"

Wei Tao's eyes narrowed, and his face flickered in the light of the oil lamp.

"Yes, in the past, when the Wuyi Gang was here, it was always six big money a month, but now it has been replaced by the Youth Alliance, and it has risen by two."

Wei Rongxing picked up a wild vegetable dumpling, skillfully broke it in half, and sandwiched some pickles into it to eat.

"There's no way, let's pay for peace, but these are all trivial matters, you don't need to worry about it, you just concentrate on practicing in the martial arts hall."

Wei Tao nodded, drank the soju in the bowl in one gulp, and pushed the remaining half of the stew back to the middle of the dining table, "I'm full, let's eat these meats." ”

"I'm not hungry, just eat some wild vegetables......" Wei Rongxing wanted to refuse, but Wei Tao had already gotten up and went out, so he had to bring the bowl of stew in front of him.

After the meal, Wei Tao first slowly punched a few sets of punches in the cramped yard, scrubbed his body with a wet towel, and returned to his small stone house to lie down and sleep.

Perhaps because of the recent rain and fog, the house is very damp and emitting a faint musty smell.

Wei Tao opened the window, and the moonlight shone obliquely on the corner of the wall, coating the green moss with a faint layer of bright color.

"We have to find a way to get some money, at least not all the time."

"There is also the Youth Alliance, if you go to the martial arts hall tomorrow, you can ask Senior Brother Peng to see where they come from."

Looking up at the crescent moon hanging in the night sky,

Countless thoughts flashed in Wei Tao's heart,

Until I fall asleep unconsciously.

………………………………

"The CY?"

Peng Yue finished practicing a set of punches, picked up a towel and wiped his sweat.

He frowned and thought for a moment, then shook his head after all.

"I haven't heard of this gang."

Wei Tao poured herbal tea for the two of them, and couldn't help but pause when he heard the movements in his hands, "Haven't you even heard of Senior Brother Peng?" ”

"For this kind of low-level gang that has no name, it's normal that I haven't heard of it, and it's not normal if I hear about it."

Peng Yue laughed and said disapprerovingly, "Seventh Senior Brother, you can go directly to their guild leader, there is not much to consider." ”

Wei Tao was a little surprised, "I haven't investigated how many of them there are, and what kind of strength level is the leader......

"Uh, Seventh Senior Brother, you misunderstood what I meant,

Let's beg for a living in the distant city,

How can you always think about fighting and killing,

Everything should be valued by harmony and convincing talents with virtue. ”

"Harmony is precious, and virtue is convincing?" Wei Tao took a deep breath and looked puzzled.

Peng Yue picked up the huge teacup and drank it all, and sent the tea leaves to his mouth at the same time to chew and eat, and said casually.

"To value peace is to make them deeply aware of the importance of maintaining peaceful and good relations with us.

As for convincing people with virtue, as disciples of the Red Line Sect, we are naturally talking about strong and abundant martial virtues. ”

"Of course, I didn't ask you to go directly to their lair, we are people who practice martial arts, not bandits who like to fight and kill,

I mean I'm asking you to go and talk to their head of the house, which is kind of an alternative kind of worship dock.

As long as the people in the CYAD are not a bunch of idiots, they will naturally know what to do later. ”

"Actually, according to the usual situation, it should have been the Youth Association to worship the seventh senior brother at your dock,

It may be that they are not familiar with the business when they have just taken the position, or it may be that they don't know the identity of their junior brother.

That's why I made such a mistake.

At this time, the junior brother went to point on them,

lest you encounter it again in the future,

It makes everyone's face look bad. ”