Chapter 3: Snowy Nights
Zhang Xian had a misunderstanding with the soldiers guarding the city gate when he entered Heze City, causing a conflict. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ ο½ο½fo
Because he came to Heze City secretly, he changed his makeup, and the city gate general who should have known him did not recognize him, and he could not identify himself, when he was stalemate, in the crowd of people watching the excitement on the periphery, a man in green clothes suddenly jumped out, this person cultivated extremely high, and the speed of the leap was like teleportation, people just felt that the green shadow flashed, and when they saw this thing clearly, they saw a man in green clothes holding a sharp blade, and the cold light flashed and slashed towards a weak young man in a green robe among the four people surrounded by the city gate army.
"Ahh
Some of the onlookers screamed in horror.
"Who, stop ....."
The city gate general was shocked and shouted to stop, although these four people were suspicious, but they did not do anything out of the ordinary, take away the interrogation and understand, and if there is nothing to do, they will teach a few words and release people, but if he dies at the city gate, then he will be suspected of dereliction of duty, and he will be punished if he doesn't do well, but his cultivation is only a martial artist, and he is too late at all, and he has no ability to stop the killing.
"Dingding..."
"Bang bang...."
Several iron crashes, followed by several muffled sounds, the phenomenon of blood spattering on the spot did not occur, and people were a little stunned when they saw the scene in the field.
Zhang Xian's hand holding the sword trembled slightly, there was a palm mark on his left chest, and there were bloodshot at the corners of his mouth, while the sneak attacker was holding a half-cut short sword in his hand, and there were blood stains on his left arm, which seemed to be injured.
It turned out that the seemingly weak young man turned out to be a master. β
The city gate general was stunned, frowned, and then shouted:
"Stop it for me, the city gate brawl will make trouble, and the Lishan Iron Mine will be distributed..... Ugh!"
Before the city gate general could finish speaking, the man in green clothes suddenly kicked up a cloud of snow and went straight to his front door, so frightened that he hurriedly raised his shield.
"Noise..."
"Bang..."
"Oops.. Puff ....."
The fist-sized, seemingly loose ball of snow struck the shield, and the gatekeeper felt like he had been hit by a bull.
Boom.... The arm holding the shield suddenly became wooden, the shield smashed into his face, he screamed in pain, his body couldn't hold up the huge strength, and after taking a few steps back, his body flew out of the air upside down, flying more than ten feet away and falling, splashing snow powder all over the sky, but he couldn't struggle.
Zhang Xian glanced at the city gate general and found that he was not injured heavily, it seems that the person who attacked him did not mean to hurt him, and showed mercy.
"Whew. Friend, do we have an enmity?"
Zhang Xian retracted his thoughts, exhaled a breath of turbidity, stopped Xiao Fei and Er Qin from making a move, and changed his voice, asking in a hoarse voice.
"Hmph..."
The man in Tsing Yi snorted coldly and did not answer, looked at Zhang Xian fixedly for a while, turned around and jumped up, and disappeared into the crowd in the blink of an eye.
"Childe..."
"I'm fine, don't chase it, let's go. β
Zhang Xian and the four of them flew past the city gate guards who were still stunned, and dodged into an alley.
"Stop...."
When the city gate general struggled to stand up, Zhang Xian and the others had long since disappeared.
In another alley, the man in Tsing Yi, who attacked Zhang Xian, cut the clothes on his left arm with a short sword, and the bleeding continued to flow from a wound on his left arm, which looked like an extremely narrow sword penetrating the muscles of his left arm.
"Shhhh What the hell, what kind of kung fu is this, with a finger of his hand, Lao Tzu's arm is almost useless?"
The man in Tsing Yi treated the wound, muttering in his mouth, puzzled by the finger that Zhang Xian stabbed him.
"Eighteenth brother, what's the matter?"
A person suddenly appeared at the other end of the alley, a hundred steps away, and as he spoke, he came to the man in Tsing Yi.
"I was bitten by a mosquito. β
Without raising his head, the man in Tsing Yi threw the broken sword into the snowdrift, and then took out the wound medicine and sprinkled it on the wound, and later the man in Tsing Yi took out a strip of cloth to help him bandage the wound.
"The mosquitoes in this winter are really powerful, and they bite the eighteenth brother who has never been injured like this. β
"Fifth brother, don't you laugh at me, can't you get through this day. β
The man in Tsing Yi raised his head and glared at the fifth brother hatefully.
"It's not that the fifth brother is laughing at you, I told you a long time ago, don't mess with him, that kid is not easy to deal with, besides, you have to really hurt or kill him, hehe... The eldest lady is not too late for you, and you will do this thankless work. β
"Hmph. I saw that this kid was not pleasing to the eye, so I wanted to teach him a lesson. β
"It's good, it's a lesson. β
"It's careless, but why is this kid's martial arts so weird, just point with his hand, and that's it. β
"Oh...."
The fifth brother was also interested when he heard this, and the two of them walked out muttering.
When Zhang Xian found Li Wenhui, it was already completely dark.
"Well, Childe, you're here..."
Li Wenhui saw that Zhang Xian's face was wrong, and there was a faint trace of blood at the corner of his mouth, so he hurriedly came over and asked.
"Someone attacked at the gates. β
Zhang Xian didn't hide it.
Chen Gongwei also rushed over, he glanced at Xiao Fei, and Xiao Fei told about Zhang Xian's assassination at the city gate.
Later, I felt that the man in Tsing Yi didn't have a killing intention, so he didn't chase it, if it was not bad, this man in Tsing Yi should be one of the eighteen kings of Hades. β
Before Luo Yu left, she was afraid that Zhang Xian would have a conflict with the people of the Netherworld Sect, so she painted a portrait of the people in the Netherworld Sect who could threaten Zhang Xian, Zhang Xian took a few days to remember these people, and when he saw the Tsing Yi man who attacked him, after a few moves, he had basically identified the identity of this person, so his sword finger did not use the key parts of the Tsing Yi man, otherwise this Yin man's trick would not be known as the Tsing Yi man, and he would have to be seriously injured.
Women can't stay, girls are outgoing, Luo Yu has bought the Netherworld Sect thoroughly.
"Well.." Li Wenhui and Chen Gongwei couldn't help but show a solemn look when they heard this, the Netherworld Sect and them are not allies, but with Luoyu here, it will not be hostile, although the Netherworld Sect is collecting money to ask for life, but now it should not take on the task of assassinating Zhang Xian.
"Don't bother with this, this life-seeking Hades King didn't kill just now, otherwise, your son-in-law wouldn't be standing here properly, alas.. Liu Yong is very slammering, we haven't eaten yet, so let's get us something to eat first, and we're discussing business. β
As soon as Zhang Xian said this, Li Wenhui and Chen Gongwei breathed a sigh of relief and ordered someone to prepare tea and dinner for Zhang Xian.
After the meal, a cup of tea, arranged Erqin, Zhang Xian took Xiao Fei to the conference hall.
"Lishan iron ore mining is normal, the winter is the slack season, absenteeism is easy to recruit, now there are about 10,000 people into the mountain, where Zhang Degui from Shunyi City is in charge, General Liu transferred to Shunyi City veterans 5,000 people to protect the mine, absenteeism is also according to the lord's orders, the salary is paid monthly, absenteeism is very motivated...."
Zhang Degui is Zhang Xian's distant uncle, he is also a technician in the Zhang family's workshop, the best at identifying ore qualifications, so he was transferred by Li Wenhui to be in charge of Lishan Iron Mine, Li Wenhui reported on the Lishan Iron Mine, Chen Gongwei began to report on the Wushan Gold and Silver Mine, Wushan Gold and Silver Mine was discovered by Chen Gongwei's hometown Chen Shi, he took a group of exploration team Jinwushan Prospecting, even he didn't expect to be able to find two gold and silver mines with large reserves in that place where birds don't, Chen Gongwei learned about it and discussed with Li Wenhui and took secret mining, Chen Shi also became Wushan Gold and Silver Mine There are not many people, and most of them are people from Shunyi Cityγ
Heze City and Linqiu City are famous poor mountains and bad waters, people also know that although it is desolate here, but there are rich mineral deposits, but it is not easy to mine, so here in front of Zhangxiang to the two cities, there are so many three mines, the largest is the Black Mountain Zhangjia Iron Mine, as well as Ma'anshan Wangjia Copper Mine, Zhaojia Cuishan Gem Mine, the latter two mines are not large.
Zhang Xian only transferred the taxes that the Zhang family originally paid tribute to King Chuwei to him, and did not embarrass them, as for the Wang family and the Zhao family, they did not look at Zhang Xian in their eyes, but Chen Gongwei used some means to force him to bow his head, in terms of minerals, Zhang Xian did not say that he had no income, and he had to pay rent to King Chuwei, but this is what must be experienced in the initial stage, and then it will slowly turn losses into profits, as long as he is given time to run the two cities, the benefits must be very high.
In the second half of the night, snowflakes fell in the sky again, and Zhang Xian asked everyone to go back to rest, and things could not be solved overnight.
Zhang Xian returned to his residence, Xiao Fei asked Er Qin to add materials to the hearth, and then rested separately.
Zhang Xian was just about to rest, and suddenly sensed something, at this moment, the figure outside the window flashed, and then the door was opened, and a cold wind swept snowflakes from the door.....................