Nalan Qiuyu's introduction gave Wencheng a general understanding of the personnel situation of the Tongqian Club. The money club is well-organized and well-structured, and it doesn't look like an ordinary underground gang.

However, Wencheng is still a one-dollar congregation, if she rashly asks Nalan Qiuyu, let alone whether she will tell herself, even her behavior is inappropriate, and it is easy to cause her misunderstanding.

Since the matter of joining the club was done, Wencheng was also happy, and warmly invited Director Xiong, Nalan Qiuyu, Lao Chen, Ye Kaiyun and others to celebrate.

However, because of his busy affairs, Mr. Xiong couldn't get out of his body, so he politely declined Wencheng's invitation. Nalan Qiuyu also smiled at Wencheng and rejected Wencheng on the grounds that it was inappropriate. In the end, only Lao Chen and Ye Kaiyun accompanied Wencheng to a restaurant in Helian City.

Inside the private room.

"This first glass of wine, toast Brother Ye. The little brother didn't take it seriously, and he still hoped that Brother Ye Haihan would not take it to heart. Wencheng raised his glass and touched Ye Kaiyun, and drank it all.

Ye Kaiyun also laughed and drank the wine in one gulp. Ye Kaiyun is a person who is addicted to alcohol, and Wencheng originally asked him to replace wine with tea because he was injured. Unexpectedly, Ye Kaiyun was unhappy, saying that his little injury was nothing, and it was more cost-effective to eat Wencheng for a meal.

Yes, what else can Wencheng say, drink!

Lao Chen took a drink and chatted casually: "What did Brother Wen think of us before. ”

Hearing this, Wen Cheng paused, turned the wine glass in his hand again, and thought for a moment before saying: "To be honest, in my impression before, Tongqian Club was a protection fee, because my shop also paid protection money to Tongqian Club, haha." ”

"Why did Brother Wen join the Tongqian Club?" Lao Chen slowly took a bite of braised pork and ate it, and continued to ask.

Wen Cheng sighed and said, "Don't hide it, brother, it's been half a year since I arrived in Helian City." Half a year ago, my strength was like this, and my strength could not be improved. I heard that you can learn high-level martial arts in the Tongqian Club, so I came to join the Tongqian Club because I want to be able to learn higher-level martial arts and improve my strength. Of course, it would be nice if you had the opportunity to communicate with the masters in the club regularly. ”

Wen Cheng temporarily added that he was able to discover the shortcomings of his own experience through the fight with Xiong Jinyu, although this could not improve his strength, but it was a huge help to him that lacked the most experience against the enemy.

Wencheng found that strength is naturally the most important, but the experience of exerting strength should not be neglected.

Lao Chen was slightly stunned, he didn't expect Wencheng to say it so bluntly, without even covering it up at all, he just told the purpose of joining the club so loudly. It's just that he thought of the martial arts conditions in the Xunwu Palace, and sighed lightly: "There are high-level martial arts in the meeting, and I even heard that there are even supreme martial arts, but it is not so easy to learn." ”

Wen Cheng nodded when he heard this, if the martial arts of Tongqian Club could be learned casually, I am afraid that it would have been spread all over the streets a long time ago, not like now, there is not even a decent martial arts cheats on the market.

"What conditions do you need to be able to learn martial arts?" Wencheng said nonchalantly. Since he can spend a lot of money for skill points without care, he will naturally not be stingy with martial arts. In his opinion, since the money club is a systematic gang, it is naturally mostly a gang contribution, and the money to the club is not also a contribution to the club?

Lao Chen also put down the wine glass, ready to say to Wen Cheng carefully: "It's even more troublesome than that." Xunwu Palace, Xunwu Palace, if you want to exchange martial arts, you naturally need merit, not silver. ”

Wen Cheng's brows furrowed when he heard this, "Meritorious? "Looking at Lao Chen's meaning, this merit should not be easy to obtain. This made Wen Cheng's heart sink suddenly, he thought that he would be able to spend some money to learn higher-level martial arts by joining the Tongqian Club, but now it seems that there are still twists and turns. Although he has a letter of introduction from Shangguan Yan, he doesn't want people to know about his relationship with Shangguan Yan unless he has to. The gap between him and Shangguan Yan is too big, for his own safety, the fewer people know about his relationship with Shangguan Yan, the better, even when he was in Iron Mountain City, he only said that he knew Shangguan Yan at the last moment.

Lao Chen didn't answer Wen Cheng directly, but talked about the money meeting, "Brother Wen knows that we will, what are we doing?"

"I really don't know. Wencheng only knew that there would be a way to collect protection money, and he didn't know the rest, and he looked at what Lao Chen meant, obviously this money would not only be a protection fee.

Lao Chen picked up the wine glass and drank a glass before he slowly spoke: "We will distinguish between light and dark, in addition to collecting protection fees, on the bright side, in addition to collecting protection fees, it is to operate some industries, such as clothing, food, housing and transportation, as well as minerals, forging, wine and oil refining, etc. But on the other hand, we will also need to help the government deal with man-made disasters and disasters. Otherwise, do you think the imperial court will allow so many Jianghu forces to exist? ”

Why did the imperial court do this, Wencheng was not interested, but he still had to figure out man-made disasters and disasters, "Brother Chen, what is man-made disasters?"

Lao Chen did not hesitate and continued: "Man-made disasters are relatively simple. It's those natural disasters, famines, and so on. When there is a natural disaster, we have to assist the local yamen to help with the disaster relief. When there is a famine, we also have to help the local yamen maintain good order, and set up porridge sheds to give porridge to save people. ”

When Lao Chen said this, the atmosphere in the room began to become solemn, and even Ye Kaiyun, who had been drinking with his head down, put down the wine glass in his hand.

"As for the catastrophe," Lao Chen spat out the four words word by word, and asked Wen Cheng rhetorically: "Brother Wen knows that we will, how many people join the club every day?"

"How many?" Wencheng didn't know why, anyway, it felt like there weren't many people in this money club. When he went today, he didn't see many people, and I don't know if it was because he hadn't entered the core area yet.

"When there are many people, there are about twenty people, and when there are few people, there are no less than ten people. Lao Chen looked at the void without focus, drank a glass of wine fiercely, and then continued to turn his head to stare at Wencheng and said: "In this way, there are four or five thousand people joining the club in a year, let alone four or five thousand. Although I don't know the specific number of people, here Lao Chen Dare and Brother Wen assured that the total number of people who will go up and down will definitely be less than 20,000 now. ”

How is this possible, according to Lao Chen's words, 5,000 people join the association a year, and 20,000 people are just four years of effort. But according to Wencheng's own understanding, the Tongqian Society has been standing in the north for at least twenty years, how can it be less than 20,000 people?

"I know that Brother Wen doesn't believe it," Lao Chen looked at Wen Cheng's expression and chuckled. Soon he sighed, "But the truth is that there are many people who join the church every year, but there are also many people who die in battle every year. After Lao Chen finished speaking, he seemed to think of something, and his whole person was trembling faintly, and his hand holding the wine glass couldn't help but tremble.

"Brother Chen, we'll be okay. Whether you are killed or injured, the bereavement pension is a lot. Even for those who have lost their ability to earn a living, the club will arrange easy work on the spot, give a bite to eat, and some of them will simply be supported by the club. Other congregations are even worse, not to mention that the bereavement benefits have been seriously deducted, and some are simply left to fend for themselves, which is miserable. Ye Kaiyun drank the wine glass dry in one gulp, and comforted Lao Chen with words.

"Yes, it's still our old lord's benevolence. Lao Chen sighed, and then continued to say to Wen Cheng: "What caused such a big casualty to the brothers in the association was the catastrophe. ”

Wen Cheng pondered for a moment, "Calamity, is it a ghost?"

When Lao Chen heard this, he glanced at Wen Cheng unexpectedly and said, "Have you ever seen a ghost?"

Wen Cheng nodded solemnly, "Not only have I seen it, but I have also killed it." Between the words, there is a sense of self-confidence.

After listening to this, Lao Chen had a strange smile on his face, "Brother Wen's strength is profound, and it is not surprising to kill ghosts. Suddenly, Lao Chen's tone changed and his solemn expression returned, "But the calamity is not a ghost, but something more terrible than a ghost." Ordinary ghosts, deacons and master masters in the guild can basically be killed. Even if it is a more powerful ghost, several people can also kill it.

But the catastrophe is different, as far as the elder brother knows, the club has only encountered two disasters so far, and each time the deacons and principals died more than ten people, and in the end, it was the master of the door who personally intervened to eliminate the catastrophe. I've seen one of them with my own eyes. ”

Lao Chen took a sip of wine again, as if to embolden himself, and continued: "The cause of that time was that a rich young master disappeared mysteriously at home, and was only discovered at the foot of a mountain the next day. It's just a day, but the young master has been unrecognizable, if it weren't for the clothes and what he was wearing, I'm afraid he wouldn't have recognized this person as the young master at all. ”

Lao Chen muttered to himself, as if he didn't want to recall that scene, and as if he wanted to talk to someone urgently, "The whole body is shriveled up like a pile of sawdust, and the whole body is covered with green shoots." If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, it would have been hard to imagine that people could be like that. At that time, three deacons were stuck by the juice from the bursting of green shoots because they were too close, and the eyes of everyone quickly turned into pus. The pus also emitted a violent poisonous gas, poisoning the eight people around him again. If I hadn't stood outside because of my lower status, I'm afraid I would have died there. ”

Wen Cheng's heart chilled when he heard this, green shoots grew on his body, and a little juice from the explosion of green shoots could melt the three deacons into pus, and this pus could continue to poison the eight deacons. It was indeed much more ferocious than the ghosts he had seen before. Although the ghosts he had seen before were weird, whether they were virtual ghosts or ghosts with entities, their attack methods were relatively simple, and their lethality was actually not very large.

The strength of a deacon-level character will not be lower than when Wencheng first killed a ghost. But even if it is such a person, eleven people can die in a moment in the catastrophe, which makes Wen Cheng happy for a while, fortunately he didn't encounter the catastrophe at the beginning, otherwise he would definitely be a dead end.

"Brother Chen, did you see the master make a move?" Wen Cheng was still interested in the strength of the master. He weighed it himself, in the face of such a calamity, even in his current hands, it was more than lucky. He wanted to know how strong the guild master had reached to be able to eliminate such a calamity.