Yefutidaolu

Chapter 161 Dispute in the Outer City
In an instant, Li Jun felt his whole body shudder and cold sweat broke out on his back.

Eight hundred gold was a very fair price. Although he wanted to bargain, the shock made him feel like something was wrong with him, so it would be better to run away first.

Li Jun trusts his intuition very much, and this intuition has helped him many times.

"Here is the money, a total of eight hundred gold. I have something urgent to do, so I'll leave first. Mr. Chen, we'll meet again next time." Li Jun took out an official note from his arms.

The so-called official notes are bills officially issued by the Ministry of Revenue of the Divine Dynasty. Different denominations will be written on them according to the amount of your storage, and they are widely circulated.

In addition, there are private bills, which are issued by local banks themselves.
That's right, the financial activities of the Divine Dynasty are quite prosperous, and there is also something like exchange rate. Although the Divine Dynasty's treasure money itself exists as the mainstream currency, there are actually various forces and countries both overseas and outside the Divine Dynasty. They are just smaller in scale than the Divine Dynasty, but they still have the ability to barely sustain themselves in the stagnant world, and are not completely waiting to die.

Therefore, various types of trade still exist. Gao Jian's Tianma 'Zoulong' is actually produced in the Western Regions. Tianma futures are also a common thing. There are also many practitioners who use this to make money or go bankrupt. Under such circumstances, the birth of money houses and official bills can almost be said to be inevitable.

Different money houses have different interest rates depending on their credit. For example, official banknotes and famous large banknotes, such as Jinyouzhai, are trustworthy and can be withdrawn at any time, so they do not pay interest, and they will also charge you a storage fee, usually three or five cents per year, that is, for every thousand gold, they will charge you three or five gold as a storage fee per year.

There are also some that, perhaps because they want to attract customers, perhaps to expand the scale, or for some other reason, will give customers interest and agree on a certain period of time during which the money cannot be withdrawn. This is called "fixed deposit", which usually gives one or five points per year, and may even reach seven points. That means if you deposit one thousand gold here, you will get seventy gold in interest every year!

But in this case, it is possible that after issuing excessive silver bills, the person will stay indoors and cease business, or embezzle deposits, fail in other businesses and go bankrupt, making the issued bills impossible to cash. At this time, you usually can only rely on yourself to solve the problem. How to judge is entirely up to you. The Divine Dynasty government is not responsible for the cashing of private bills, but the Divine Dynasty's values support armed debt collection under reasonable circumstances. This is not illegal, and no one will come to pursue you.

Investing is risky and operations require caution, and this goes for both parties. Money houses have to worry about being beaten to death if they default on their debts, and customers also have to worry about losing their principal.

And now, the reason why Li Jun was suddenly in a hurry to leave was because he sensed the "risk".

Where does the risk come from?
do not know.

But he felt a chill on his back, which meant that something bad was definitely going to happen.

Fortunately, I brought magic weapons with me...

After taking out the official bill and paying the bill, he put the martial arts skills on his body and carefully prepared to leave.

Chen Zhou did not stop him. Since the other party had something to do, he could just leave. Anyway, the money had been received and he had also explained to Zhou Sheng.

Zhou Sheng's book is indeed well read, and many of his insights are very novel, full of the four words "calm and peaceful". It is said that he came from outside the Divine Dynasty and encountered many things that were worthy of resentment, anger, debate, complaint, joy and shock. But now he is very calm, and does not have much anger or resentment because of his past experiences. What kind of self-cultivation is this?

Only this kind of person can taste the true flavor of the world. In addition, he works seriously and never compromises. Chen Zhou is actually very happy that he can make such a friend.

As for Li Jun, Chen Zhou could see through this man's despicable nature at a glance. He flattered and praised him at the beginning, but changed his attitude when he got the skills in the middle. Now he is even more suspicious, thinking that someone is trying to harm him, so he ran away in a hurry. It can be seen that this man has many desires, is full of suspicion, and is calculating. Such a person will never achieve great things.

Chen Zhou thought so and watched the other party leave.

But Li Jun didn't care about these things. He wanted to go back at a trot with the martial arts book in his arms, and hand it over to the gang, so that his brothers would have the opportunity to practice to the second level, and he would also have a chance.

Turn the corner and go through a series of small alleys.

It is called an alley, but in fact it is a gap between a bunch of houses. It is barely wide enough for people to walk through. You can't see the sky if you look up because it is blocked by all kinds of twisted and crooked buildings.

There were some frozen dead people lying in the mud pit in the alley. They must have been dragged here after death.

Because the road was very narrow and corpses were piled up here, if you wanted to get through, you had to step on the corpses.

Under normal circumstances, they would be thrown into the river, but now that the river is frozen, there is nothing we can do but temporarily pile them in these invisible places.

It's winter anyway, so they won't rot or stink. They're all frozen hard, like boards.

When the river thaws in the spring of next year, we can throw the bodies into the river and let them float away downstream. It doesn’t matter what eats them then.

This happens every year and has been going on for many years. I heard that the fish monsters and various water monsters in the river have set up a festival to celebrate the corpses floating downstream.

After all, to humans this is a corpse, but to monsters, it is a buffet of the blood, flesh and precious medicines of all living things. By then, many monsters will gather below, sneaking around, and even fighting for the corpse floating downstream.

Li Jun felt that this was very bad.

But to be honest, he has gotten used to it. It's not good, but it's not unacceptable.

That's how it is, when suffering and fear accumulate, people become numb.

Life is full of things that seem cruel and horrible at first glance, but after a few more glances, you get used to it.

For someone like Li Jun who has lived in this kind of environment for many years, he would no longer feel frightened even if he stepped on such a hard corpse.

In fact, he has seen and experienced much more.

The worms crawled out of the dying child's body. The child was still alive, but his body was infested with maggots and worms. He didn't even have the strength to move to get rid of the worms, so he could only lie on the ground and wait to die.

Living people were bought and sold like livestock, and they were not slaves, but people bought to be eaten. In the past, the city gods and land gods often did this kind of transaction. At that time, the Baishen in Cangzhou operated the "Human Market", which was full of people who voluntarily sold themselves or were voluntarily sold. Monsters from the wild would come to visit the Baishen, hoping to get some blood food from them.

Baishen has a very high status in the outer city of Cangzhou. By running this human city, they have made a lot of profit and earned a lot of money.

Of course, they all have to pay taxes, and most of the profits have to be handed over to the ancestral temple for worship. It seems that their surname is Zuo.

But those that remain are rich enough.

As for things like people being beaten to death, starved to death, several dock workers fighting each other for a job and leaving behind several corpses, a baby crying and dying of weakness after two days of birth...that kind of thing.

The people in the outer city of Cangzhou, including Li Jun himself, have long been accustomed to all of this and are no longer surprised.

The same is true for Lao Xi, who just had dinner with Li Jun. He gave birth to seven or eight children, but only three of them survived. Most people in the outer city of Cangzhou live worse than Lao Xi. At least he still has his own land.

Those young and strong laborers who fled from other places for famine, or for other reasons, such as no rain and being starving, so they simply sold their land to the landlords and rushed here with their remaining property, would only be in a worse situation when they arrived in Cangzhou.

It's so normal to sell out yourself.

This is also something Gao Jian will never get used to. It is something Gao Jian decided must end as soon as he arrived in Cangzhou.

Morality is a conventional order, and these orders are generally obtained after large-scale trial and error, and are beneficial to the entire group.

A simple "trial and error" would cost countless lives and hundreds of years. But in the eyes of Li Jun, a local, these things seemed so ordinary.

Savagery, the law of the jungle, doing whatever one wants and using any means necessary to survive are just the necessary means to survive in the outer city of Cangzhou. In such an environment, even children will naturally reveal their ugly side.

The figure struggling to survive is always ugly.

but……

Everything will get better soon, Li Jun thought, and when he thought of this, he couldn't help laughing.

Only when the granaries are full can one know etiquette, and only when one has enough food and clothing can one know honor and disgrace. This was what Zhou Sheng said to him, and Li Jun thought it was very well said.

Even if I say I like these things, I really can’t like them.

If possible, Li Jun also wants to change.

Now, the opportunity for change has arrived! Kung Fu, a Kung Fu that can be cultivated to the second level, plus the Boatmen's Gang, and the Cangzhou Hundred Gods that have been replaced once!

This year, thanks to his operation, how many fewer people died in the outer city of Cangzhou? !
These are the results of the hard work of the boss, Li Jun, Cangzhou Baishen, and the brothers below.

After another seven or eight years, maybe a few people in the second realm will be able to emerge, and Li Jun himself may be able to break through to the second realm. Together with the power of the Dong family, he will be able to completely control the outer city of Cangzhou!

Everything will be better then.

There will be no more corpses on the ground in winter, and everyone will be better -

The moment this thought flashed through Li Jun's mind, a red light suddenly flashed in front of him.

Suddenly, a bright light flashed on a wall next to the alley!
In an instant, all Li Jun could see was a streak of blood!
This line of blood-red obscured the rest of the scenery in his eyes, making him unable to see anything. All the scenery disappeared before his eyes, and the only thing left in his entire field of vision was that bright red line.

Moreover, it was heading straight for his neck!

Li Jun has experienced many life and death situations, and has also fought many times. It is common for people to fight to death on the docks for the sake of survival. It cannot be said that he has no combat experience at all.

However, he had never experienced anything like this.

The chill brought by the murderous intent enveloped him, and he showed no mercy, making his entire body hairy!

This wasn’t a dock fight, this wasn’t a fight where someone died.

This is murderous intent! It is a kind of aura that is formed by killing too many people and being killed too many times, constantly wandering between life and death, with murderous energy and blood condensed!
Even the simple act of killing cannot be concentrated, just like those executioners who behead people. Even if they kill a thousand people, their murderous aura cannot be compared with that of the veterans who survived the battlefield, even though the veterans may have only killed a dozen people.

Sitting quietly and killing people like killing pigs is completely different from fighting for life and death and killing people who may lose their lives at any time and place. The murderous intent condensed is also different.

How many life-and-death battles must one go through to develop such murderous intent?
I'm afraid it will take at least a dozen times?

Li Jun was completely stunned and frightened. As a former tracker and current foreman, he stood there in a daze, like a wooden man.

Then, he cut off the head with one knife.

The head fell to the ground, and a man dressed in ordinary clothes, who looked like a farmer, wiped the hatchet in his hand.

"That's it? This is the foreman? He said he has been a nuisance to many people? I was worried about what measures he would take." The man curled his lips and let out a low whistle.

It was so low that it was inaudible and completely beyond the hearing range of normal human ears. If it weren't for the dust and the ground shaking slightly around, the sound would probably have been undetectable.

But along with the sound, one could see the walls in the alley being opened and people walking out, people standing out from the buildings above, and even the corpses on the ground suddenly came to life. They turned out to be people pretending to be corpses!

One after another, about thirty people stood up, male and female, old and young. The moment they stood up, each of them looked like an evil ghost, with heavy murderous intent.

But not long after they got up, these people turned into old farmers, craftsmen, small vendors, farm women and the like, and there was no trace of the previous murderous intent.

These people were preparing to disperse and leave through the narrow and dark alleys.

The man who first drew his knife reached out to pick up Li Jun's head and carry it away to claim his reward.

However, at this moment, Li Jun's corpse and head suddenly turned into light and disappeared on the spot.

fake!

At the same time, a low humming vibration began to sound.

That was a codeword coming from not far away. Translated, it means: "Honggou, Li Jun has dealt with it."

"Li Jun has already dealt with the intersection of Shui Diao Lou."

"Li Jun has already dealt with it in Tongren Street."

These sounds sounded almost at the same time, and then stopped almost at the same time.

What's going on? A few Li Juns! ?

"Illusion! It's an illusion!" The killer reacted immediately and blew the whistle, making a low sound to convey the message!
At the same time, in a small corner on the other side, Li Jun was holding a mirror in his hand.

It really is a magic weapon.

And... my premonition is becoming more and more accurate.

He had already decided on these when he went out.

"Brothers, this is our first violent conflict, we can't show any weakness!" Li Jun shouted loudly!
At the same time, hundreds of trackers roared.

Behind them, several gods and ghosts suddenly appeared!
(End of this chapter)