Facing the scorching sun at noon, an old man, a young man and a pair of master and servant turned into the corner of Yuzhu Street in the southwest of the town.

The old woman, who had always lowered her eyebrows and lowered her eyes, followed behind the rich young man, and her face, which looked a little gloomy when she was on the other side of the Nameless Alley, also returned to her gentleness at this time.

The young man walking in front of the old woman may be because he thinks the sun is dazzling, so he spreads out the folding fan in his hand to cover his forehead, the inscription on the folding fan is profound, and the content is a well-known poem that is widely known in the world, and the most famous sentence is "Drunk to pick up the lamp to see the sword, dream back to blow the horn company camp." ”

He didn't look back at the old lady surnamed Xin who was following behind him, but as if he knew what she was thinking, he smiled and said, "Mama Xin doesn't have to be like this, although I didn't expect that the disciples sent by the Xihe Sword Sect would be so high today, but on the whole, the goal we wanted has been achieved." ”

He turned around and found a shaded shade on the side of the street and walked into it, then looked at the sparse pedestrians outside the street and whispered, "Although I didn't expect her to use one of the methods of the Xihe Sword Sect to press the bottom of the box, and it also caused us to fail to seriously injure her before someone intervened, but this in itself is not exactly our main purpose, or it can be said to be between the two. ”

Ke Yuzhen turned his head to look at the old woman's calm face, and said in a low voice in the way of transmission between monks: "There are actually many things that can be seen from this process, first of all, we have tried to find out some of the bottom lines here; The second is that the homework done before coming is not blind, and you can see that some things should be true; Again, it shows from the results that as long as we can always be within the rules, it is best to occupy another rational word, then there will not be much problem......"

Speaking of this, the young man's eyes were slightly raised, he chuckled in the direction of the Wufang Pavilion in the center of the town, and continued in the same way: "In the end, although we failed to seriously injure her, it will not be too much of a problem, even if the Li family participates in the end, the back hand we prepared should be enough." ”

The old woman standing respectfully on the side nodded in approval, but her face did not change, and she said in a low tone: "Childe has this understanding, and the old slave dares to be happy for the sect master and his wife, but the old slave doesn't quite agree with why Childe said things like 'conditions are mentioned casually' when bargaining with that girl?" ”

Ke Yuzhen fanned the folding fan in his hand and said with a smile: "Does Mama think that the deal can still be negotiated?" ”

The old woman shook her head a little disapprovingly, frowned, and said: "Don't blame the old slave for offending, as the saying goes, 'the son of a daughter, you can't sit down', many schemes in the world are bad in the end, and they are all bad in a 'natural', the old slave dares to ask the son to think carefully." ”

The rich young man's hand-cranked folding fan paused slightly, his face became slightly gloomy, and he glanced at the expressionless old woman with low eyebrows and drooping eyes, the ink in her eyes was heavy, and after a while, she suddenly smiled, and thanked the old woman seriously: "Mama is right, Yu Zhen is taught." ”

The old woman dodged and gave the young man a salute, bent down slightly and did not speak.

Ke Yuzhen was not surprised, smiled and turned his head to look at the magnificent gatehouse archway of the Zhu family in the distance, and said in a low voice: "Next, we are going to really start talking about business." ”

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The east entrance of the town.

The young man surnamed Chu, who had been lonely for a long time, and the sloppy man who was in charge of the town's night patrol sat on both sides of the intersection at the exit of the town, one under the bronze bell and the other at the door of the thatched hut.

At this time, neither of them cared about the neighbor opposite, and each held a blue porcelain bowl with a broken edge, and the bowl was full of a bowl of rabbit legs stewed wild vegetables, and the rabbit was brought back by the young man from the mountain in the morning.

In the past three years, most of the helpless teenagers have relied on this way to make a living, either to catch pheasants and hares in the mountains, or to fish in the Xuannu Lake in the north of the town or in the Pengying River that flows through the town......

Anyway, as long as you can have a bite to eat, the teenager can basically learn what he should learn quickly, which is the consciousness that a lonely teenager should have.

Of course, in the three years after Lao Liangtou left, the young man also learned another rule, that is, if he has a bite to eat, he will score half a bite to the middle-aged man who lives in the thatched hut opposite, even if it is pulled out of his mouth, anyway, it is a score!

For example, at this moment, the boy occasionally looked up at the other side, and he could see the ugly appearance of the sloppy man gobbling up.

This old bachelor is like a starving ghost reincarnated in his previous life, no matter whether the boy gave him rabbit meat and fish meat or pheasant meat and pigeon meat in the past three years, as long as he eats it, he finally ensures that there is not even half a bit of bone residue left, and no matter how hard the bones can be chewed and swallowed.

In the past, the young man only thought that he was a watchman who lived on those copper plates, and he was a poor ghost like himself, so he shared half of his own food, and it was not easy for a hard-working person to fill his stomach, and he always felt a little envious of the good teeth surnamed Hou......

But when he suddenly discovered a few days ago that this old bachelor who had been messing around with him for more than three years turned out to be a strange man with unique skills, and then looked at his appearance of admiring even the hungry dog, he felt a little unable to look at it directly.

It's really ...... It's hard to put into words.

The two of them each killed a bowl of rabbit meat and stewed wild vegetables, and the lazy man Hou Junchen leaned back and lay on the shabby bamboo chair, casually ripped off a thatch from the thatched hut wall behind him and began to pick his teeth, while looking at the young man opposite who was exactly like him.

The young man sitting on the stone pier with his back against the old locust tree rolled his eyes, and said angrily: "There is something to say, there is a fart!" ”

The sloppy man, who was still lying lazily and lazily, sat up straight abruptly when he heard this, looked at the young man opposite seriously, and said solemnly: "Fellow Daoist, the old man looks at your black eyes in Yintang, and his eyes are dull, and he pinches his fingers and calculates that you will have a bloody disaster within three days!" ”

The young man was stunned for a moment, and then scolded without hesitation: "Old monkey, you just fucking finished eating Lao Tzu's bowl of rabbit meat, and you started cursing me before you let go of your rice bowl?" Conscience let the dog eat? ”

The man looked at the angry young man and smiled, leaned back directly and half-lay on the bamboo chair, the hand holding the bowl casually skimmed, and the porcelain bowl slipped over the official road between the two, and fell on the open space not far from the young man impartially, intact, the chopsticks were not dropped, and they were neatly laid on the mouth of the bowl.

Good hands.

Then, he also rolled his eyes and snorted coldly: "Believe it or not." ”

The young man who originally thought he was joking was a little drumming in his heart when he saw him react like this, he looked at the man seriously, and said carefully: "Are you serious?" ”

The man rolled his eyes again, sneered, and ignored him.

Before the young man could ask again, an untimely voice came from the long street of the town on the west side, "Your name is Chu Yuanxiao?" ”

The young man who was squatting under the tree turned around, and saw the rich young man who had passed by the entrance of the town a few days ago, standing not far away, followed by the old woman with low eyebrows and drooping eyes.

Chu Yuanxiao didn't speak after seeing the person clearly, just nodded, he thoughtfully glanced at the sloppy man opposite who had already started basking in the sun, but saw that the man was smiling and glanced at him, and then turned his gaze away.

The rich young man who had been watching Chu Yuanxiao from a distance naturally noticed his eyes, so he glanced at the sleepy and sloppy man intentionally or unintentionally, but with just one glance, he frowned slightly and looked away with some disgust.

Sure enough, things gather like people, people are grouped, a mud-legged wild seed and a beggar old bachelor are neighbors, all of them are inferior untouchables who can't get on the table!

Ke Yuzhen, who is the young sect master of Shuixiu Lake, is blessed with a privileged child, and he has never thought that there are such inferior people in this world who are not even as good as ants in so many years.

The rich young man suppressed the discomfort in his heart, put on a self-confessed and kind expression and smiled with the young man who was still holding the porcelain bowl: "Hello, my name is Ke Yuzhen, and I am from Jinchaizhou. ”

Chu Yuanxiao, who was squatting under the tree, looked at the gentle-looking foreigner in front of him and nodded at him, "Hello, my name is Chu Yuanxiao." ”

Ke Yuzhen smiled, "I took the liberty to come to the door this trip to make a deal with you, I don't know if you are interested?" ”

Chu Yuanxiao only seemed to understand what he meant by the deal in an instant, so he shook his head, but did not say it explicitly, and said vaguely: "My family is poor, and I have nothing to sell, so I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint my son." ”

"You don't even ask me what I'm going to buy?" Ke Yuzhen raised his eyebrows and chuckled, "Jumping to conclusions so easily makes me think you have some misunderstanding about me?" But it seems that this is just the second time you and I have met, right? ”

Chu Yuanxiao shook his head, got up and began to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and said lightly: "There is no misunderstanding, I don't have any ill will towards you, I just told the truth." ”

"I have a general idea of you here." Ke Yuzhen still didn't show some impatience, he still smiled and said slowly: "The richest of you here is nothing more than those four surnames, if you can agree to this deal, I can guarantee that the price you get is enough for you to become a rich man like those four families for the rest of your life." ”

"I have always believed that the price is not fair enough, and there is nothing in this world that cannot be measured by price, people are, and so are objects." Ke Yuzhen seemed to be extremely confident about the price he gave, and smiled proudly: "Of course, if you are not satisfied, you can add more, and if it is not too excessive, it can naturally be discussed." ”

Chu Yuanxiao quickly cleaned up the two pairs of dishes and chopsticks, he raised his head and looked carefully at the young man with a proud face, this expression was almost the most he had seen in the past thirteen years.

Those who thought they had the upper hand almost always looked at him with this kind of downshit, and no one cared what he had to say, and no one really thought that a lonely boy like him could say anything worth considering, and give a seemingly fair response, just to appear kind and friendly.

That's all.

The poor boy who was accustomed to seeing the eyes of others was not surprised by this kind of thing, and he sometimes tried to understand them, but this did not prevent him from being unwilling to deal with such people, and the two things never conflicted.

Almost without hesitation, he still shook his head: "It's not a question of whether the price is enough, the thing you want is also very important to me, so you can also understand that I just don't want to do this deal." ”

As soon as these words came out, the face of the rich young man on the other side finally changed a little, and he was no longer as pleasant as Fang Cai, he narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at this mud leg that did not enter the oil and salt, and did not speak for the first time.

On the contrary, the old woman who had been following behind Ke Yuzhen had a cold face, and said in an unkind tone: "Boy, you have to be measured!" Sometimes it is your honor for a noble person to give you face, if you don't carry it, you will be shameless! ”

Chu Yuanxiao glanced at the old woman who suddenly spoke, and then turned his gaze back to the rich young man, and he suddenly smiled: "Actually, I knew from the time you first came that you just didn't want to talk nonsense with people like me, so you pretended to be very friendly, but from the bottom of your heart, you actually don't want to say a word more, right?" ”

"Then why do you have to say it so clearly?" Ke Yuzhen suddenly put away the last smile on his face, and his tone was cold: "The teacher in my family always likes to say 'rare and confused', I didn't think there was anything good about this before, but at this moment I suddenly feel that it will be a surprisingly good suggestion to put on you!" ”

He took a few steps forward slightly, condescendingly looked at the untouchable man opposite him who he had begun to hate, he was too lazy to talk nonsense, and directly threatened: "I guess you may not know how easy it is to kill a dog with immortal methods!" You also don't know what a person's true misery looks like! Therefore, I advise you to listen to the persuasion when I still have the patience to bargain with you and be kind, and give you a bone to hold well! ”

"You know, in my opinion, killing you is actually not as much fun as killing a dog!"

The poor young man who was still holding the dishes and chopsticks in his hand suddenly felt a little funny when he heard this, he looked up and down again at the rich young man who was full of threatening coldness, and said with a smile: "You know what? Just a few days ago, a man stood on the wall of my house and told me that he had come to take my life, and I was terrified. ”

"But when I heard you threaten me today, you pretended to be smiling and discussed, and you threatened with a cold face, and tried to humiliate me with the most ugly words you can probably think of, but in fact, I didn't feel a little scared, and I even learned something from you."

The young man looked at the increasingly ugly faces of the two opposites, and chuckled: "Sometimes the less nonsense, the more terrible the person is!" I'll give you this truth for free now, and you don't even need to say thank you! ”

Until this moment, Ke Yuzhen finally took a look at the mud leg in front of him for the first time, he looked up at the slowly flowing white clouds in the sky, took a deep breath, and when he lowered his head again, he returned to the original gentleness, and chuckled: "Taught." ”

After that, he no longer glanced at the poor boy, and turned around and left directly.

The old woman who followed behind the rich and noble prince did not say a word, stared coldly at the young man, and also turned to leave.

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Chu Yuanxiao quietly watched the pair of master and servant gradually walk away until they turned the corner and disappeared, then he suddenly let out a sigh, and his originally straight back relaxed for a moment, but before he could stabilize his slightly trembling hand, he heard a sudden sound of laughter of unknown meaning across the long street.

The sloppy man who had been lying on the shabby bamboo chair without saying a word closed his eyes and smiled: "Why do you have to deliberately provoke that teenager when you can solve the problem in a gentler way?" Besides, you yourself are obviously panicked, and you insist that people never get angry and can barely endure step by step stimulation into a complete rage, are you idle and panicked? ”

The poor young man grinned at the corners of his lips and said half-jokingly: "Didn't you say that I will have a bloody disaster within three days?" So there's a difference between he's violent and not angry? ”

Hou Junchen still closed his eyes, shook his head lightly and said, "There is no difference, I'm just curious about which one you are?" ”

The young man was silent when he heard this, he slowly paced to the door of the thatched hut with the two pairs of bowls and chopsticks, turned his head to look at the towering sword mountain in the east, and said in a quiet tone: "I was thinking, since some people really don't take human life seriously, if he is provoked and then defeated, will he be willing to calm down and take a serious look at me?" ”

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