Lord of Puluo

That night, Ma Wu slept on the first floor.

He originally thought that Li Qi was sleeping on the second floor, so he went upstairs to find Li Qi at dawn the next day, wanting to take him for a good time in Lanyang Village. Unexpectedly, there was no sign of Li Qi in the bedroom.

Where did he go?

It was very dangerous for a foreigner to wander around Lanyang Village. Ma Wu searched several times in the village.

It was impossible for him to find Li Qi, because Li Qi was sleeping in Curie at the moment.

Li Banfeng spent the whole night in the village last night. Not only did he accumulate enough training for travel training, but he also basically mastered the geographical environment of Lanyang Village.

At the southernmost end of Lanyang Village, Li Banfeng saw the entrance to the new land. Standing on the treetops, he could vaguely see some light, which proved that someone had successfully opened up wasteland.

On the way back, Li Banfeng encountered two robbers and extorted more than 3,000 yuan from the robbers. He then gave the robbers to his wife for criticism and education.

After the lady educated her, she burped and promised that the two of them would not do it again in the future.

At dusk, Ma Wu, who had been searching all day, finally found Li Qi downstairs in the wooden house.

Li Banfeng was watching the fun.

Two groups of people were fighting each other downstairs. The fighting style was rough and there was basically no visible technique.

The tactics were relatively straightforward, with the two groups confronting each other directly, with some falling and some escaping.

The weapons were a bit rudimentary, some held kitchen knives, and some did not even have kitchen knives.

The noodle shop owner also joined the fight. At first he was holding a kitchen knife, but later he changed it to a rolling pin because he was afraid of breaking the knife.

Ma Wu came to Li Banfeng and lowered his voice: Brother Li, where have you been all day?

Just take a look around. Li Banfeng said perfunctorily and continued to watch the battle.

Ma Wu reminded: Brother Li, it's best not to watch this excitement.

Li Banfeng said with a serious expression: You have to take a look, our landlord is inside!

Ma Wu glanced over and saw landlord Wei fighting in the crowd.

He was injured, his face was covered with blood, and he was holding an ax and chopping hard.

In the melee, five or six people were besieging him. These people were obviously coming towards him.

Ma Wu said softly: Brother Li, I'm afraid your rent for the past two months will be wasted.

While he was talking, the landlord was stabbed in the back again. His body shook and he almost fell down. He could no longer hold the ax in his hand.

The people around him were just slashing with knives. The landlord gradually lost consciousness and almost lost his will to fight due to the serious injury.

Ma Wu stared at the landlord for a moment, and the landlord seemed to sense Ma Wu's gaze.

Just like a dying person who had been given a shot of adrenaline, under Ma Wu's gaze, the landlord's fighting spirit returned, swinging his ax and continuing to fight everyone.

After holding on for more than three minutes, a shout suddenly came from the alley: Someone is coming! Work!

The group of people who besieged the landlord quickly left the scene. The landlord and a dozen of his subordinates chased him desperately: Brothers, don't let these bastards escape. If you kill one of them, I will give you ten yuan!

Not far after the landlord chased him out, another group of people rushed out of the alley, seemingly the landlord's reinforcements.

Seeing the scene getting more and more chaotic, Ma Wu reminded Li Banfeng: Brother Li, it's time to go. When someone recognizes you, things will be in trouble.

Li Banfeng was stunned when he heard this and followed Ma Wu back to the cabin.

Last night, Li Banfeng gave Ma Wu his first day's wages, one hundred and fifty.

Ma Wu bought some soy beef, pig ears, and a bottle of white wine, and the two of them ate and chatted together.

Brother Ma, did you use a trick on the landlord just now?

Ma Wu nodded: Looking at him at a critical moment of life and death, give him some strength, and at least I can keep your two months' rent.

Li Banfeng asked in surprise: Can Huanxiu's technique also give people strength? The Huanxiu I have encountered always makes people panic and tremble.

Ma Wudao: Actually, these are the same techniques, but they have different uses. It is moist like morning dew. It is charm. It is spread like drizzle. It is motivation. It is poured like heavy rain. It is confusion. ,

I haven't passed the first level yet, so I can only use encouragement at the moment, and I haven't learned the art of confusion yet.

Ma Wu's example was very appropriate, and Li Banfeng understood it very well.

After a moment of silence, Ma Wu asked, Brother Li, aren't you curious about why I've come to this point?

Li Banfeng nodded: I'm a little curious. When we first met at the salesman's place, you spoke quite honestly, but now you speak a little bit unpleasantly.

Ma Wu blinked, feeling that the question of whether he was happy or not was not the key.

Should he ask me why I became a beggar?

Ma Wu drank a glass of wine: Actually, you can see some clues from the salesman. Logically speaking, I shouldn't go to the salesman to buy medicine.

Li Banfeng ate a piece of pig ear: Then where should you buy medicine? If you want to get started, don't you have to find a salesman?

Ma Wu shook his head and said: The Ma family still has some roots in Puozhou. If the Ma family wants to get started, they don't need to find a salesman. They have medicine at home.

Ma family?

Is it the Ma family of the four major families?

Ma Wu nodded: My name is Ma Junyang, and I am the fifth son of the Ma family. The reason why I went to the salesman to choose medicine is because I want to be a happy cultivator.

Li Banfeng thought for a while: Because you don't have Huanxiu medicine at home, you go to the salesman?

Ma Wu shook his head and said: It's not because there is no Huanxiu medicine, it's because there can't be Huanxiu in my family. The Ma family is a famous family, and people from famous families must have serious cultivation.

In Puozhou, literary and martial arts cultivators are orthodox, especially the Ma family, who regard orthodoxy as extremely important and look down upon other sects.

Huan Xiu is the sect that my father hates the most. If I practice Huan Xiu, it would be a disgrace to the Ma family, which is really a shame to the family.

Literary cultivation and martial arts cultivation are orthodox. No wonder there are more practitioners in these two sects.

For a wealthy family, Huan Xiu's reputation may be really bad, but Li Banfeng felt that this would not make Ma Wu fall into this situation: Because of this incident, the Ma family kicked you out of the house?

Ma Wu shook his head and said: That's not a problem. My father has many children. I have two brothers and two sisters. They all have decent cultivation. It's not a big deal if a scum like me comes out.

Besides, I am destined not to inherit the family business in the future. My father gave me two dance halls, and I run them well. I don’t have to worry about money or cultivation.

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Li Banfeng said in astonishment: Are you really not worried? Ten times a day is not easy.

Ma Wu smiled bitterly: At that time, I could afford both supplements and medicines, and I could support them.

Li Banfeng shook his head and said, I'm afraid that your Taoist companion won't be able to hold on.

Ma Wu smiled and said: Of course one Taoist monk can't support it, but if there are ten Taoist monks at one time, there is no difficulty. There are many girls in Green Water Bay, and there are a lot of girls who want to throw themselves into their arms. I really don't care about this kind of thing. I've been worried about things,

My housekeeper Chen Yupeng used different tricks to find girls for me every day, but it wasn't until one day that my third brother came to my house, kicked the door open, took me out of bed and beat me up, that something serious happened. .

What's the big deal? Li Banfeng took a sip of wine.

Ma Wu drank the wine in the glass in one gulp: The person sleeping on my bed is my unmarried sister-in-law.

Li Banfeng smiled and said, Are you and your sister-in-law childhood sweethearts?

I originally thought I would hear a ridiculous story, but I saw Ma Wu smiled bitterly and said: Brother Li, you are really good at joking. My third brother married a total of sixteen sisters-in-law, and even the sixteen sisters-in-law married me. I can’t even recognize him, let alone this one who has never been acquainted with me.”

When Li Banfeng heard this, he frowned and said, Don't you know this sister-in-law?

I don't know! Ma Wu's face was full of bitterness.

Li Banfeng thought for a moment and then said: You have been plotted!

Yes, Ma Wu nodded, It was calculated. It was calculated by my third brother and my housekeeper. They teamed up to send this seventeenth sister-in-law to my bed and set a trap on me.

Li Banfeng put down his wine glass and said, Why does your third brother want to plot against you? How much hatred does he have against you? As for whether he has invested so much money?

Ma Wu took a sip of wine: The third child plotted against me because of my money. He is the legitimate son of the family, and all the Ma family's property will belong to him in the future.

My father has given him two casinos, two restaurants, and a department store. Half of the street in Green Water Bay is owned by Lao San. He holds more than 30% of the Ma family's family business. My dad gave it to me.

Li Banfeng couldn't understand: He's not short of money either, so why does he still need your money?

Ma Wu shook his head and said: He is short of money, very short of money, because he is a fool, and more than 30% of the business is in his hands, and there is no one who does not lose money.

It was almost the beginning of autumn. According to the rules of our Ma family, accounts must be reconciled on the day of the beginning of autumn. This year, he couldn't get his account book. He wanted me to pay him some money from the dance hall to fill the hole for him, but I didn't agree.

I only have two dance halls, and these two dance halls are not even a hair in the Ma family's property.

But I am good at making money. Just from these two dance halls, I can earn 20% of the Ma family's income. The third child wanted to force me to pay, so he resorted to a bitter trick and gave me his unmarried daughter-in-law. Take the opportunity to strangle me.

Li Banfeng felt that there was something wrong with the handling of this matter: He is demanding money from you, and the worst you can do is give it to him. Even if the matter is exposed, your family will have the means to calm down. Your father cannot kick you out of the house because of this matter.

Ma Wu smiled bitterly and said: There are ways, but it depends on the situation. Not long after my third brother arrived, reporters also came, and his naked photos were taken. This matter has been reported! The fifth brother slept with the third brother My daughter-in-law, the Ma family has been so embarrassed that it has disgraced the entire Puo Prefecture!

Li Banfeng was puzzled: Who found the reporter? Your third brother can't be so stupid, right? He has become a bastard, and he still dares to spread the news?

It's definitely not him, Ma Wu sighed with a smile, It might be my fourth brother, or it might be my eldest sister.

The third child plotted against me. Someone plotted against the third child behind his back. I was kicked out of my family, and the third child was also imprisoned by my father. It won't be long before that person can succeed the third child and become the heir of the Ma family.

Li Banfeng asked: Who wants to be the heir?

I don't know yet, Ma Wu shook his head, That man is hiding deep, and I don't know if I can see him alive.

It can be seen that Ma Wu's physical condition is very poor.

Li Banfeng asked: Because the matter was published in the newspapers, the Ma family asked you to leave the house?

At this point, Ma Wu sighed: It doesn't count as leaving home. When I left home, my family brought me 300 yuan.

Brother Li, I’m not talking big words. With these three hundred yuan, I can earn a new family fortune for myself.

But less than two hours after I left the house, I was robbed. Three hundred yuan was robbed, and even my coat was taken off.

I hid a jade pendant, went to the pawn shop to exchange it for five yuan, and came to Lanyang Village to find a living. In half a month, I earned one hundred and twenty yuan. Guess what happened?

Li Banfeng took a sip of wine: Were you robbed again?

Ma Wu nodded: You guessed it right, just ten days ago, one hundred and twenty oceans were robbed. I couldn't pay the rent, so I was kicked out and slept in a shack.

Near Xindi, I picked up some junk and sold it, and scraped together a hundred and ten Huan Guo notes. I was just trying to find a place to live, but someone robbed me again the day before yesterday. They didn’t even leave me any money to eat. Just went to pick up garbage to eat.

Li Banfeng frowned and said, Who did this? Who has to push you to a dead end?

Who else could it be? Ma Wu smiled bitterly, It must be someone from my family.

This doesn't make sense.

Ma Wu has been expelled from the house and no longer poses a threat to others. What good will it do to them to punish Ma Wu to death?

There seems to be something fishy here, but Ma Wu was tortured so badly that he couldn't figure out some things for a while.

Ma Wu took a sip of wine, looked at Li Banfeng and said, Brother Li, if you hadn't given me this meal, I might have starved to death last night. I really don't know how to repay this kindness... …”

Li Banfeng nodded: You must repay my kindness. You eat first, then write an IOU, and we will discuss repaying the debt.

Ma Wu smiled bitterly and shook his head: This cannot be solved by eating. I haven't practiced for ten days, and my life is almost gone.

Brother Li, I don’t have much time left. I just want to do more things for you. I want to ask you about someone. There is a person named Li Banfeng. Do you know him?

PS: If you look at the artistry of his words, you will know that Ma Wu is a brother who can do great things together.

Come on, readers, do something big with Salad.