Chapter 10: The Shadow of the Wolf in the Forest

Early in the morning, the three old craftsmen visited the head of the house, and all of them chose the second plan provided by Guan Chang very interestingly.

This result was naturally expected by Guan Chang. In the Ye Kingdom, the status of craftsmen was very low, inferior to peasants, inferior to merchants, and only slightly better than slaves.

Although Guan Chang's sect has not yet settled, the practice of martial arts has become more and more popular in recent years, and there is already a precedent for the sect to run a business in Tan County. A few craftsmen pondered, anyway, there is no harm in following the head of the house, even if it is the work of building a house all over the mountain, as long as it is enough to live once a year and a half. What's more, what Guan Chang promised was also very attractive to them.

"Since you have joined my sect. It is important to know that this door adheres to the word 'help'. How did you recall how we met each other?"

"Because you want to help me!" At the time you wondered if the hut was reliable, but you helped anyway. That's what I value. In the same way, when you helped me build a wooden house, I also helped you come up with a lot of new ideas. In this way, everyone helps each other, and in the end everyone becomes a family. When you enter our sect, remember that everyone should be kind to others and not hesitate to help others when walking the rivers and lakes or in the business field. Only in this way can we gain a foothold in the rivers and lakes. ”

Guan Chang is naturally setting up a name, but in fact, what connects him to the craftsman is not the so-called "help", but "profit".

But when he said that, it seems that everyone is affectionate and righteous, and he can also be close to the core values of the rivers and lakes he proposed. Now Guan Chang is unwilling to let go of any opportunity to promote his sect culture. This is the power of example, but also a suggestive behavior, or a marketing ploy - in the world that Guan Chang has crossed over is called: brainwashing.

The three craftsmen nodded yes. Feng Lao is a little old-fashioned, he only feels that the head of the house is extraordinary, and he has been impressed by the young leader's temperament. Liu Kai and Zhang Xiaocai didn't care too much, their minds were more active, and they still had some resistance to this kind of "flickering" skill in the initial stage. The two of them just found a good backer, and their lives will be better in the future.

"From now on, our sect will set up a building hall, and it will be jointly managed by Senior Brother Song and Elder Feng. As soon as the matter on our Yinling is over, the two of us will pull up the staff and prepare to enter Tan County to start our construction business. ”

Zhang Xiaocai said a little excitedly: "Master, I heard that Jinhuanmen has already had its own business. They opened three restaurants in Tan County, and business was booming! Moreover, there were four or five squires in Tan County, and their families had hired disciples from Jinhuanmen as nursing homes. The benefits we have created are not so great, but we are not left behind!"

Guan Chang's face darkened when he heard this, and he thought to himself why these martial arts sects were so undisciplined. What kind of Jinhuanmen opened a restaurant and worked as a thug -- can't he practice martial arts and practice martial arts disciples? He slandered others, and he didn't realize that there was anything wrong with being the head of the house......

Wang Qihe seemed to think of something, and leaned over to Guan Chang and said, "Senior brother, I mentioned to you earlier that the Golden Ring Gate invited the nearby sects to join the alliance, and it seems that this is the case. When I went down the mountain to find Mr. Feng before, I heard a friend say it. ”

Guan Chang raised his eyebrows, and said in his heart that there was a story here, so he asked, "How do you tell it?"

Wang Qihe whispered: "Although our Jianghu people pay attention to kung fu and the righteousness of friends, some people can fight the sword and hoe the strong to help the weak, but more people are just more skilled than ordinary people." Some sect disciples are still old and young, even if they don't farm, they have to make a living and make a living for their families. The Golden Ring Gate made an appointment with the heads of several other sects, and during that time, they discussed some charters. ”

"One of the most important things is to do a few businesses in Tan County and carve out some land. Several major sects cannot conflict with each other, and several small sects are in a state of dependence. At present, one-quarter of the large and small businesses in Tan County are in the hands of the imperial court, such as grain, salt, and iron, which cannot be touched by the people of the rivers and lakes; another quarter is controlled by the squire and wealthy families, such as dyeing houses, cloth villages, pawnshops, and bookstores; and a quarter is strongly occupied by several sects, such as inns, green houses, hangers, gambling houses, and so on; the last quarter is not able to make any money, and the oil and water are not large. ”

Guan Chang looked at it clearly, and then asked, "The construction hall we set up - it won't just touch someone's mold, right?"

Wang Qihe rolled his eyes, recalled for a moment, and replied: "No, construction has always belonged to the category of unprofitable. ”

Guan Chang nodded, he was not afraid of monopoly or competition. Because as long as you do business, you can't do without goods, and as long as you do goods, you can find a way to use the advanced nature of the traverser to make a better one.

But this incident gave Guan Chang a sense of crisis, and now the sect alliance has not yet appeared, but the interest group has begun to take shape. The head of Jinhuan Gate is also a talented and courageous person, and he can even think of joining forces with other sects to monopolize some industries in Tan County.

In this way, once a new sect emerges, it will either go to worship the mountain, or it may stand on the opposite side of this "alliance of interests". Once you choose the wrong side, then sit back and wait for the eighteen martial arts of other sects.

Thinking of this, Guan Chang immediately asked everyone to pack up their things and set off for home. He felt the need to personally visit Tan County.

If you want to gain a foothold in Tan County, you should inevitably deal with Jinhuanmen. He had already missed the first meeting, so he had to be even more careful not to become the target of public criticism.

In addition, he also wanted to know for himself the quality of life in a second-tier city like Tan County. The experience of his previous life taught him that making products can never be separated from users and the market.

Even if you want to build a toilet, you have to have people of different sizes and bowel habits come up and sit down.

In the past, when I was making a game, I had to fully listen to the voice of the players before setting up the project, and it was not much to do a player survey eight times out of ten.

Guan Chang is still self-aware, he is too far away from ordinary users, if he doesn't do some research himself, he is really worried that he will add to the snake and become a laughing stock in the rivers and lakes.

The crowd marched until the afternoon, and the sun was scorching. Under such a scorching heat, Guan Chang couldn't continue to rush even if he was in a hurry.

He asked everyone to get some rope to pull up the hammock and then get some clothes to build a canopy to shade the sun. The crowd was going to take a corrupt nap.

Just as everyone was about to rest, Guan Chang's ears moved, as if he heard a man's moan. Only after careful identification did I hear that someone was calling for help.

Guan Chang took Jiang Tang and Wang Qihe to find the sound, and walked a hundred steps to see a man hanging on a tree. The man was covered in filth and seemed exhausted, and could only call for help in a weak voice. On the ground below him, a large pool of blood had congealed, causing flies to fly.

Wang Qihe glanced at Guan Chang, and Guan Chang signaled to hurry up and save people. The reason why this man was hung on a tree with a net was because he stepped into the trap set by Guan Chang and the others.

Li Feihu once said: In Yinling, there are very few foreign hunters. As long as it is a hunter in Yinling, he will recognize the marks of several hunters, and he will definitely not step on the trap. Moreover, this trap is aimed at wild beasts, and it is so obvious that it would not have been stepped into unless it was night or panic.

Jiang Tang casually swiped his waist, and an axe was thrown into the sky by him. The net pocket fell in response, and it was cut off by an axe. Jiang Tang turned around and smiled at Wang Qihe and Guan Chang, as if he was showing off.

Guan Chang kicked him away with one kick and said fiercely: "Lao Tzu asked you to save people, won't you let him down properly?

Wang Qihe hurriedly ran over and sniffed. He turned around and said, "I'm dizzy, I'm not dead yet." "I whistled.

A moment later, Li Feihu heard the sound, bandaged the wounded, and carried him to a cool place for placement.

Guan Chang and Li Feihu looked at the scene together and asked, "Uncle Li, who is this person?"

Li Feihu pondered for a while and said: "I don't know, looking at the equipment, it seems that he is a halfway monk." After he finished speaking, he also peeked at Guan Chang.

Guan Chang understands, because he is a halfway monk. He nodded and said, "Was he injured by a beast?"

Li Feihu said dryly: "It's a wild wolf, and it's very evil." ”

Guan Chang was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself that there are wolves in the wild that are very evil?

Li Feihu continued: "Master, we have been in the mountains for a few months, have you ever seen a wolf?"

Guan Chang recalled carefully, and then was startled, "I haven't even heard a wolf howl." But it seems that there was last night, and only last night I heard about it!"

Li Feihu nodded and said, "I also heard it last night, and I was very surprised at the time. There are tigers in Yinling, some leopards, bears and pigs, but there are no wolves. I don't know exactly why. Now that there are wolves, and some people are injured by wolves, isn't that evil?"

Guan Chang swallowed his saliva, he had been hunting with Li Feihu and others in the past few months, and he was not too unfamiliar with this mountain forest. I have encountered leopards and wild boars, but they are all lonely. And the wolf is not a loner, if he encounters a group, he does not think that he can please because of his high martial arts.

"Find a way to wake up the man. Guan Chang realized that the matter might be a big deal, and instructed Li Feihu with a serious expression, "After the hottest half an hour, we will speed up." We needed to spend the night in a chalet!"

Guan Chang and his people carried the wounded much slower than usual, but fortunately the days were long in the summer. Before dusk, everyone ran to the next cabin.

The injured man woke up two or three times intermittently along the way, and Li Feihu used herbs to stop the bleeding, but he began to have a fever. Guan Chang knows that in this era, wound infections are fatal, and fever can also be fatal.

He once read martial arts novels in which heroes use true qi or internal force to give people a means of sustaining their lives. Guan Chang wouldn't do that. When the master gave him the exercises, he had an accident, and he crossed over again...... As a result, he still has no control over the internal force that Master has passed on to him.

The injured man's name is Jin Sambo, which he said when he first woke up. He probably knew that he would not be able to live, and only hoped that someone would bring him back to his ancestral grave in Jinling after death.

Jin Sanbao is a native of Jinjia Village, Jinling, and he was called by a hunter friend to hunt a monster in Tankou Mountain a few days ago, and it is said that he can sell this monster for a lot of money if he catches it.

When they went up the mountain, they found that there were several teams of people who entered Tankou Mountain to look for demons. One night, I don't know if their luck was good or bad, but they ran into a youkai and injured it.

Next, they tracked down the monsters all the way to Silver Ridge. Along the way, the wolf howled more and more, and at first they thought it was the demon magic of the monster. Three days ago, they discovered that youkai can control wolves!

The youkai escaped injured, but also gathered the wolves as they fled. Until last night, they were retaliated by the wolves, and everyone was scattered by the wolves. Jin Sanbao saw that he was about to be chased by the two, but he accidentally stepped on the trap and was suspended, although he was seriously injured, he did not die in the wolf's belly.

That's all the information the Golden Three Treasures can give them, because he never woke up after saying this. He had lost a lot of blood and his wounds were infected, and he probably lived so long with one breath. Once he explained what happened to him and the afterlife, this breath could come out.

Guan Chang originally wanted to take Jin Sanbao's body to Jinjia Village, but Li Feihu persuaded him to bury it early. First, the summer heat made it impossible to preserve the corpses, and secondly, the rotten smell of the corpses was likely to attract wolves.

Guan Chang waved his hand depressedly, asking Li Feihu to find a secluded place to bury him and make a mark.

Guan Chang has never seen a person die in front of him, not in the previous life, and Guan Chang was dizzy when the master died in this life. A sense of powerlessness came over him, and another great fear also occupied his heart deeply - demon!

He never thought that there would be demons in this world, and since there are demons, will there be ghosts and ghosts?

The itinerary was disrupted by monsters and wolves, and Guan Chang actually had some "magic obstacles". He thinks that if you don't find out if there are demons in this world, then everything will be in vain. If you can follow the school of cultivation, what kind of martial arts do you practice!

After burying the Golden Three Treasures, Guan Chang decided to take advantage of the little time before dark to explore the surroundings. Li Feihu led a team of people to explore from north to south, and Guan Chang led a team of people to explore from west to east.

The results of the investigation were shocking, and they found some human corpses and minced meat. Ma Dadao and Li Feihu endured the nausea to identify it, and then they vomited uncontrollably. There were a total of seven people, plus Jin Sanbao, and the demon hunting team that set off from Jinjia Village was completely wiped out.

Shockingly, they did not find the carcass of the wolf! There are many clues that belong to the wolf, such as wolf hair, wolf blood, and broken wolf teeth. Li Feihu analyzed that these people were scattered and killed, and before they were killed, at least five or six wolves were killed!

He could make out the marks of the wolf dragging the corpse of his companion in a mess of footprints, which stretched into the darkness.

What kind of wolves can take away the corpses of their companions after slaughter? Could it be that there are really monsters to control wolves!

Li Feihu was extremely frightened when he thought about it, and the hairs on his back stood up! Years of hunting experience showed that he was not a hunter at this moment.

It's the prey!