Siheyuan: I am a trader in both worlds!

That's not surprising, that's not surprising.

No wonder this kid hasn't wanted to come back for so long; most of the time, he's even too lazy to answer a phone call.

If this were me.
I certainly wouldn't want to waste my time enjoying the gossip over some trivial matter.

After all, it is one of the Four Great Classical Novels!

Who would want to waste time and energy on the world of traditional courtyard houses, which they've long since grown tired of and had enough of, when they can directly interact with classic characters from classic novels?

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"Wasn't it Wu Song who killed the tiger on Jingyang Ridge? When did it become you who killed it?"

"It was Wu Song who did the hitting, but he didn't hit him cleanly."

"Not cleaned properly? What do you mean?"

"That's right, the tiger that Wu Song fought was a male tiger. It went out to hunt for food and ended up in the Jingyang Ridge area. Once there, it started to wreak havoc on the villagers. After Wu Song drank 18 bowls of strong liquor, he fought this tiger while he was drunk. This is a classic scene from the well-known Water Margin."

"What people don't know is that, outside of the storyline, this male tiger also has a wife and children. Seeing that her husband is always out fooling around and never home, the female tiger got angry and took the whole family to go out and look for this male tiger. As a result, she found her way to Jingyanggang. And once she got to this area, she became a menace again."

"So you're bullying the male tiger's wife and children?"

Upon hearing Bai Ling use the word "bully," and even looking at him sideways, he was shocked.

Ximen Lang was already feeling very unlucky because of this incident, and then he was hit on the head by Wu Song for no reason, which made him explode.

"What do you mean by bullying her? She's a real tigress, and a mother tiger with cubs at that! In some ways, a tigress with cubs is even fiercer than a male tiger, you know that?!"

Before Ximen Lang could finish his sophistry, Xia Yiyi interrupted him with a single sentence.
"No matter how fierce they are, isn't that still bullying an orphan and a widow? What's the difference?"

They completely silenced Ximen Lang.

Ximen Lang was left speechless, unsure whether to argue or not.

Since there were no outsiders here, Ximen Lang decided to drop the pretense and directly recount his thought process.

"That's why I'm so resentful, you know? We all have two shoulders and one head, so why is it that he gets to fight the male tiger, while I'm only allowed to beat up his wife and children, bullying orphans and widows?!"

"Perfect timing! I heard from people in Qinghe County that by this time, Wu Song had already gone to Liangshan and made a name for himself there. In my haste and anger, I decided to go straight to Liangshan and challenge Wu Song to a duel!"

"The results of it?"

"Of course, you men win by a landslide!"

When this was mentioned, Ximen Lang immediately perked up.

"Although that little Wu Song was indeed born with superhuman strength and was incredibly powerful, it all depends on who he's compared to. Compared to ordinary people, he's definitely a killing god, the kind who can kill gods and Buddhas alike. But compared to you men like me, he's not much of a match."

"He's naturally strong? Coincidentally, I'm also naturally strong! He's rudimentary in martial arts? It's just a coincidence that after that special training, I also know a little bit about martial arts! It was a head-on clash, and before I even had a chance to increase the intensity, I had him knocked down in just a few moves."

This isn't Ximen Lang trying to glorify himself.

However, as he delved deeper into developing his cheat abilities, he really started to seem less human.

Aside from the appearance, it's still a human being, but inside it's a completely different species.

Add to that the strange and wonderful abilities of the cheat code, and even if Wu Song were a god descended from heaven, let alone just a god on earth, Ximen Lang could still go toe-to-toe with him with his bravery and martial prowess!
I'm not intimidated by him at all!
This statement was immediately agreed upon by Xia Yiyi and Bai Ling. After all, no one knew Ximen Lang better or had more authority to speak on the matter than the two of them.

Therefore, when they heard that Ximen Lang had subdued Wu Song, who was born with superhuman strength, the two believed it immediately.

Then, the two became curious about how Ximen Lang had competed with Lin Chong in spear skills.

"While you are indeed naturally strong and skilled in hand-to-hand combat, we've never heard of you being a marksman. Lin Chong was the instructor of the 800,000 Imperial Guards; in terms of weaponry, even Lu Zhishen paled in comparison and couldn't contend with him. What makes you think you can compete with him in spearmanship?"

This shows that they underestimated Ximen Lang.

Although Ximen Lang really didn't know how to handle those cold weapons, he had absolutely no knowledge of them.

"I may not know how to use cold weapons, but I do know how to use firearms! Lin Chong had just pulled out his spear and was still striking a pose, announcing his name. I retaliated with a single shot, and the spearhead came off his hand!"

"A perfectly good spear, I've turned it into a wooden stick! Without his handy weapon, what other choice does he have but to surrender?"

It turns out that the spear technique Ximen Lang described was actually this kind of spear technique.

Staring wide-eyed and dumbfounded at Ximen Lang for a long time, Bai Ling and Xia Yiyi finally slowly came back to their senses from the intense emotional turmoil.

Turning around, I saw that Ximen Lang was still there, gloating over the matter.

Bai Ling was speechless.

"You're shameless! They were carrying a rifle, and you just pulled out a pistol! You actually did that, you're really something!"

She was too lazy to listen to Ximen Lang's rambling nonsense about a martial arts competition, saying things like, "He didn't refuse, that's right," and so on.

Bai Ling immediately followed up on Ximen Lang's last sentence and asked him about his deep study of Buddhism with Lu Zhishen.

"Lu Zhishen, that's a man of great wisdom. If we're talking about the most likable character in the entire Water Margin, besides Wu Song, it has to be him. But even though he's wise, he shouldn't be very knowledgeable about Buddhism. You're the same; you don't know much about Buddhism either. So how did you two end up talking about it so enthusiastically?"

Seeing that Bai Ling had brought this up again, Ximen Lang nodded.

"So, after two half-baked idiots awkwardly chatting for ages, we just started drinking. It was so much fun! We chug baijiu straight from the bottle and down cases of beer! Before long, I'd got them all drunk!"

To be fair, Ximen Lang really knew how to have fun. You have to understand that the so-called strong liquor of that era was at most only around ten degrees. (Although distillation technology appeared early, the preferred drink in ancient times was always huangjiu (yellow wine), and it remained the most popular type of liquor. Since huangjiu generally had a low alcohol content, having over ten degrees was truly remarkable.)
As a result, Ximen Lang drank baijiu and beer with other people.

In fact, because the wine was really not very good, Ximen Lang didn't like the taste either.

Later on, he even used superpowers; before the wine even reached his lips, he simply teleported it into his personal space. While others drank real alcohol, he drank air.

If he doesn't win, then something really strange will happen.

However, Ximen Lang would never bring up such an obviously dishonorable matter to tell Bai Ling and the others.

That means Bai Ling and Xia Yiyi probably won't care.

They probably wouldn't even bother to mock Ximen Lang for this.

As for why they probably won't care...
That's because the two of them were busy with their own little schemes.

After all, this is different from other things.

This is the resources of an entire world!
The fact that Beijing became a dumping ground for goods in later generations already foreshadowed its potential for another leap forward.

If they were to turn the Water Margin world into their own backyard...
Xia Yiyi didn't even dare to imagine what the future would hold!
Naturally, Bai Ling also didn't want to give up this huge piece of meat that was already within her grasp.

At present, domestic production and construction alone have already stretched the resources of Beijing to the limit, leaving no time to attend to other matters.

But even if I just put it in my pocket and don't use it, that would be great!

Especially after glancing at Xia Yiyi beside her, she realized that this woman must have already started to have ulterior motives and was up to no good.

Impatiently, Bai Ling immediately sought Ximen Lang's opinion.

"Ah Lang, this is another new world discovered. It's still in the agricultural era, and it's the agricultural era at the end of a dynasty. What are your plans for this newly discovered world?"

This is exactly what Ximen Lang is going to talk to Xia Yiyi and Bai Ling about next.

Although Ximen Lang himself didn't have much feeling or much desire for this world.

"But there are some things I really can't stand to see!"

"Oh, tell me more specifically, what exactly are the things you can't stand?"

Seeing Bai Ling's bright eyes sparkling as she began to ask questions, Xia Yiyi, standing to the side, immediately became impatient as well.

He didn't care what his two wives were up to at that moment, and simply grabbed the two naked women, one in each arm, and pulled them into his arms.

While stroking their silky skin, he couldn't stand by and watch the chaos in the world of Water Margin.

"It was only after I did some in-depth research that I realized that Water Margin is not as wonderful as the novel portrays it."

"What righteous indignation, what brotherhood? It's all a lie! The scheming and despicable people on Liangshan are no less than those outside!"

"If that were all there was to it, that would be fine. But what's the main problem? The main problem is that I've discovered that, apart from a few exceptions like Wu Song, Lin Chong, and Lu Zhishen, the rest are just a bunch of lowlifes, bandits, and even petty thieves!"

"They did every single one of the dirty tricks that other thugs and bandits have done! Kidnapping, extortion, even murder and arson, it was part of their daily routine!"

"They don't do anything productive all day long, they just cause trouble for the village, that's them! How can this be allowed?!"

"So bad?"

"What do you think?"

Seeing that Bai Ling still didn't believe him, Ximen Lang directly recounted to the two of them the sordid deeds committed by the so-called Liangshan heroes. (After rereading Water Margin, I realized that the vast majority of the so-called Liangshan heroes were scoundrels and cancers; very few were good.)
After saying that, Ximen Lang concluded.

"Think about it, this group of people doesn't do any productive work, yet they drink from large bowls, eat large chunks of meat, and divide gold by the scale. Where does all this gold, silver, wine, and meat come from? Isn't it all obtained by harming their neighbors and robbing them from the mountains?"

"I really couldn't stand it anymore, and I really couldn't stand that old bastard Song Jiang's hypocrisy. So after all my attempts to reason with him failed, I simply surrounded the entire Liangshan Mountain by myself and beat those scumbags to a pulp!"

“I didn’t even spare those so-called government troops who came under the guise of suppressing bandits, but in reality came to harm the villagers and plunder their property! I took them all down one by one!”

"So this leads to a problem: there are so many people, I simply can't manage them all! And as for the world over there, which is going downhill, I can't save it either."

Bai Ling and Xia Yiyi were so thirsty from what she said.

They never imagined that Ximen Lang could accomplish so much in just one month.

After a long while, Bai Ling and Xia Yiyi finally spoke up.

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean? It's simple. Since they can't control themselves or take care of themselves, why don't you just take over?"

"Whether it's the Liao Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty, or even these hooligans and bandits from Liangshan, we won't let a single one of them escape! We'll smash them all to pieces!"

"Someone like Emperor Huizong should focus on his art and not waste time on other nonsense. As for these hooligans and bandits, they should all be thrown into prison for reformation. Don't cause trouble for the villagers!"

"We're all family, why fight amongst ourselves? We should focus on learning and educating each other. Let's work together, before other places develop, and then go and bully outsiders. Wouldn't that be better?"

It's not just fragrant, it's absolutely intoxicatingly fragrant!
Although Xia Yiyi and Bai Ling had long anticipated that, given Ximen Lang's temperament, he would eventually have a fierce conflict with those people in the Water Margin world, and would eventually hand over the Water Margin world to the world behind them for safekeeping.

But before he could even speak, he handed the world over to them.

This was an unexpected surprise, which made the two of them overjoyed.
Without any hesitation, Xia Yiyi and Bai Ling immediately pledged their support.

"No problem! You tell us what to do, and we'll do it! We don't even need to wait until tomorrow; we can report this situation now and get the higher-ups to make a decision immediately and take over the world of Water Margin! We guarantee there won't be any trouble!"

"But before that... Yi-yi, I plan to take over the entire Asia-Europe-Africa region. Do you have any objections?" (End of Chapter)