The Heavens Begin with Dream of the Red Chamber

Chapter 2 Vest Double Development Master
It has been two or three years since Zhan Nianshi traveled through time.

What carried him across was a stone, at least it seemed to be a stone for now.

He has a hobby, which is playing with a slingshot.

When I was a kid, I ran around the mountains and fields with a broken slingshot, shooting whatever I pointed at. Later, I could shoot whatever I pointed at within thirty steps, purely out of interest.

This thing is different from controlled items such as swords, bows and crossbows. It can be carried with you, and the ammunition does not need to be specially made. You can use any stone or brick. More importantly, this is a long-range weapon and does not require close combat. It is a must-have security item for home and travel.

One day, Zhan Ershisi was picking up "ammunition" in the mountains to play with, and then he was scratched on the hand by a stone. The blood was absorbed by the stone and took him to this world.

The stone, which originally had a slight luster, became darker and more gray after the passage through time, and was not at all eye-catching.

Zhan Ershisi tried many methods but failed to bring the stone back to life. He had no choice but to wait and see if time could allow it to accumulate the energy to travel through time again.

Wearing the flesh is the most annoying thing!

Zhan Ershisi had no status, no gold or silver, and he couldn't even recognize all the traditional Chinese characters. He knew nothing about the Daqing Dynasty. He could not learn literature or martial arts.

But he is not willing to get rich through hard work, so what should he do?

I had no choice but to gather a group of similar people, occupy the mountain and become the king, and work towards common prosperity.

Relying on his excellent slingshot and vision and knowledge far beyond that of ordinary people of that time, he successfully assembled a team of more than a hundred people and started a zero-cost logistics business, delivering the goods of passing merchants to the hands of gentry in nearby towns and selling them at low prices.

In order to circumvent the government's crackdown on unlicensed operations, Zhan Ershisi moved from place to place each time he did business, selling the stolen goods nearby and never striking within a hundred miles of his old lair.

Later, he found that those gentry were too unscrupulous and offered too low a price, so Zhan Ershisi simply led his men down the mountain, eliminated the middlemen, opened up the industrial chain, formed his own caravan, and transported goods to other places.

By the way, he also entered the well-off life of that era ahead of time - with wine, meat, and many wives and concubines.

Today's Zhan Ershishi is no longer the unknown person he used to be, but a well-known philanthropist within a hundred miles who is extremely generous and charitable.

He distributed medicine during festivals, distributed grain in years of disaster, provided relief to the orphans and widows, built schools, and whenever there was a need to build bridges or roads, as long as he found the good man Zhan, he would make sure that no one returned empty-handed.

As for why other local gentry disappeared inexplicably for various reasons, it definitely has nothing to do with Mr. Zhan.

Who would care about the life and death of a group of local petty gentry whose family doesn't even have a juren?
Of course, his lair was not Yushan. What he said before was all lies. If the victims really believed it and went to suppress the bandits according to the name of this mountain, then... let his colleagues bear the burden and help take the blame! If there were really thieves on Yushan, it would be enough for the officers and soldiers to catch them and report to the task. As for the lost silver... there must be some food stored in the mountain stronghold, right?

As the saying goes, competitors are enemies. Mr. Zhan hates evil and cannot stand the behavior of these villains who harm the people. He is determined to clean up the surrounding business environment.

With his help, the surrounding mountains and villages were almost cleared, and even the local civil and military officials were promoted to a higher rank.

The merit is immeasurable!
Although he has a farm in a nearby town, Mr. Zhan is Mr. Zhan, and the bandit Zhan 24 is Zhan 24; the two are not the same aliases and cannot be used interchangeably!

Only a dozen or so core people in the village know about these two sets of identities, and the lower-level minions are not aware of them.

By the way, Zhan Ershisi also assigned new identities and lands to these confidants to further win their hearts.

Originally, Zhan Ershisi thought that his life would continue to develop step by step, becoming bigger and stronger and creating greater glory. But who knew that this time when he went down the mountain, he would actually be robbed by an "acquaintance".

Only then did he realize that this parallel world was the book world of "Dream of Red Mansions".

After traveling through time, Zhan Ershisi also thought about doing something big, but when he found that this world was completely different from the history he knew and everything was very unfamiliar, many of his ambitions suddenly disappeared.

Because the real world is a hardcore garbage game, and you really only have one life!

However, when he discovered that this was actually the world of Dream of the Red Chamber, his ambitions that had originally dissipated returned.

This is because it is difficult to profit from unfamiliar people and things. After all, no one knows how the future will develop, what is right and what is wrong, who has a good character and who has bad behavior... and many other factors are difficult to judge. Once many things go wrong, it is often the case that at best the whole effort will fail, and at worst, life may be lost.

However, the world in the book is different. At least the personalities of many people are clear, and the general direction of the future development of the world is predictable. If you don't get involved, you'd feel sorry for this time travel.

What’s more, the core of A Dream of Red Mansions is Jia Baoyu and the Twelve Golden Hairpins!
No one knows what the stone that brought him through time has to do with Jia Baoyu's spiritual jade. Maybe it's another stone to repair the sky!
In this case, the way to charge this stone may have to rely on the spiritual jade.

However, Jia Baoyu has been staying in Beijing all the time and has never come out. For the time being, there is no way to get the jade from him.

I'm afraid I have to go to Rongguo Mansion.

After thinking about this, Zhan Ershisi suddenly became excited. While he had the prisoners escorted back, he walked to the side of the carriage and thought about how to recruit the Xue family for his own use.

(End of this chapter)