Chapter Eleven: The Gatekeeper
(Book friends are very proud. This week we have been missing three days less than others and have reached the 18th place in the new book list. I think the results will definitely be better next week, thank you!)
When you walk through the village, you will see the ever-increasing and continuous Daqing Mountain. This end of the mountain is Li Ze's sphere of influence, and the other end of the mountain is under the jurisdiction of another Jiedushi, and Li Ze's little secret is hidden in this mountain. Over the years, Li Ze has invested all the money he earned into his little secret.
Even if he keeps the lowest investment, Li Ze is doing his best now, that is, a gold-swalking beast. Sometimes, Li Ze really has the urge to give up when facing the thick books brought by Xia He, but when he thinks about it, maybe when these people can save their lives, they can only grit their teeth and persevere.
Since it is a little secret, there is naturally no road. When you get here, you can only walk through the rugged mountain path with your horse.
Climbing up a small hill, he went down to the foot of the mountain, and finally saw a road. At the end of the road, a tile house stood. Li Ze rubbed his legs, which were sore and strode towards the tile house.
A little distance from the tile house, he heard the miserable howling of the pig. Li Ze pushed open the empty fence with familiarity and walked into the yard. He smiled and watched a big man drag a fat and strong pig out of the pigpen with one hand. The big pig seemed to know that the end of the world was approaching, so he was unwilling to submit in this way. He pushed the ground with four hooves and struggled desperately, but he still couldn't resist the man's strength and was dragged horizontally and vertically to the chopping board in the middle of the yard.
The man looked back at Li Ze, smiled, and didn't say anything. He bent down and wrapped the pig's head with one hand. With a low roar, the big pig weighing hundreds of pounds was thrown up in the air by him and smashed it hard on the chopping board. The pig seemed to be stunned by it, and opened its mouth wide but couldn't make any sound. In such a short moment, the man had already touched the sharp pig-killing knife from his back waist with his back hand, and stabbed it neatly from the pig's throat with a squeak.
After being stabbed, the pig immediately started to bounce desperately, but under the clamping of the man's hands, he could only jump on the spot for a few times, and then the blood gushed out of the wound and fell into a large wooden basin under the chopping board. Until the pig stopped moving, the man dragged the pig's tail with one hand and pinched the pig's scalp with the other, and shook a few times. Seeing that the muscles on Li Ze and Tu Lichun's faces were twitching.
Judging from the size of the pig, it was at least 200 kilograms, and it was like a thing in the man's hands.
"Young Master is here?" The man turned around and shouted, "Brother Tu helped to get the chair out and asked the young master to sit for a while. I'll be done soon."
Tu Lichun said ok, then went into the house and brought out a few chairs. He then brought a large teapot and a few large bowls of thick porcelain from the house, and poured a large bowl of water for Li Ze.
Li Ze sat there, drinking water while watching the man clean up the fat pig.
A mouth was cut on his leg, and as soon as he leaned over and bulged his cheek, he began to blow. In a moment, the already fat pig was piled on the chopping board like a ball of meat.
There was a huge wooden basin next to the chopping board. The man effortlessly grabbed the fat pig's two hooves with both hands and threw them into the basin with a bang. There had been water boiling in the corner, pouring the water on the pig's body, and a bad smell spread throughout the yard.
The pig still needs to soak it in boiling water for a while to remove the hair, then break the belly, clean it up, and stop washing it. The man casually washed his hands in the boiling hot water, then turned around, rubbed his hands and walked to Li Ze.
"Brother Tu sent someone to say that the young master was coming today, so he killed a fat pig. I cooked a small pot for the young master and ate some fresh food. I took the rest in, and it was just enough to reward the young guys."
Li Ze smiled and nodded: "Thank you for your hard work, sit down and rest for a while."
"Okay, young master." The man dragged a chair and sat opposite Li Ze. Tu Lichun also poured a bowl of water and handed it over.
"Are these days still quiet?" Li Ze asked.
"Of course." The man smiled, "Even if a wild cat wants to rush in, he can only become a dead cat."''
Li Ze laughed: "I am naturally relieved to have you, Shi Zhuang here, but maybe someone wants to go in today or later, so don't stop him, let him go in!"
The man, Shi Zhuang, was stunned when he heard this, "Young Master, why is this?"
Li Ze broke up and said, "Because this person cannot be killed, and it may be useful."
"Young Master isn't worried that this person has leaked the secret here?"
"The person who is coming is curious and his mouth may not be very strict, but there is another person behind him, who is a powerful person and has an extraordinary identity. If you really want to kill, you have to kill both of them. But if you kill, the consequences may be even more serious, so you can only choose to trade." Li Ze seemed to have nothing to hide in front of this man.
The man seemed honest, but after hearing Li Ze's words, he didn't even think about it, but nodded in agreement, "The young master has always been far-sighted. Since that's the case, you will naturally have your considerations. Then I will pretend to be dead."
"Your son is very good in the farm. He is so crazy. He is so active. He is already amazing at a young age. An old mother and a male servant need to follow him for a moment, otherwise he will cause you some trouble that you can't even imagine."
Shi Zhuang stood up, his face was filled with joy and sadness, and he bowed and said, "It's a matter of trouble for the young master."
"What are you going to bother or not? If you do something for me, I will naturally let you have no worries." Li Ze waved his hand, "When I come out, you will follow me back and accompany your son for a few days. Now he is older and more sensible, so you should spend more time with him so that you won't get unfamiliar. In a few years, you can take him personally."
"Thank you, Young Master." Shi Zhuang nodded repeatedly, "The Young Master sat down for a while, I'll go to clean up the pig."
"You are busy with yours." Li Ze said.
Looking at the sturdy back, bent over and tilted the pig's hair, Li Ze couldn't help but recall the past when he became a relationship with Shi Zhuang.
This is an extremely cliché story. At least Li Ze felt this way, but in this world, those strange and mysterious fates are rare and rare, and they are hard to come by. Instead, those clichés are always repeated and repeated.
Shi Zhuang was originally a butcher, but he did not kill pigs here, but in the county town, a taciturn pig slayer, but he was born with another delicate and beautiful wife. Even worse, he was still an outsider.
The beautiful woman was targeted, and a playboy with a backstage in the county town got up. So on the early morning of a cold night, Shi Zhuang went to the countryside to collect pigs, and broke into his home.
The beautiful woman died, and the woman who was born at that time was still pregnant. If the neighbor had not come to rescue her later, the premature child would have been frozen to death on a winter night.
After returning, Shi Zhuang calmly buried his wife, put on the little child in a piece of cloth, and carried his pig-killing knife and rushed to the door.
Unfortunately, there are still some skills around the playboy. They had long expected that Shi Zhuang would come to the door. They were rich and powerful and well-informed and had set up a series of traps. Shi Zhuang, who came to the door, would naturally not have a good end. After being caught, they were sent to the county prison.
What's even more coincidental is that Li Ze also entered the county town that day. He originally wanted to go to the scene to see the business he decided to cooperate with. Shi Zhuang, covered in blood, was taken over from him.
Such things seem to be no surprise in such an era. For Li Ze, who is determined to live a low-key life, it is naturally not worth taking risks for a man he has never known each other. In this world, there are so many unfair things. If he had to take care of everything, he would be afraid that the road would not be flattened and he would have disappeared first. But the hoarse voice of the crying child on Shi Zhuang's back touched the gentlest place hidden deep in Li Ze's heart at that moment.
Things were not difficult to inquire, and Li Ze soon learned about everything.
So he sent Tu Lichun and some other guards.
Prison robbery.
The jail defense in the small county is so simple that it is hard to believe. Li Ze, who originally thought there was still a big battle, asked Tu Lichun to show off his former identity and pull the banner to be a tiger skin, but in fact it was useless. Because Tu Lichun and the others had almost encountered any resistance, they rescued the man carrying the baby back.
Li Ze told Shi Zhuang his name, took the baby away, and told Shi Zhuang that after he finished his business, he came to his own farm to take his child away.
Shi Zhuang didn't say nonsense, and left after handing the child to Li Ze.
That night, the playboy's eldest son survived.
In fact, Li Ze sent Tu Lichun to follow Shi Zhuang. After returning, Tu Lichun looked very bad. He told Li Ze that Shi Zhuang's identity was definitely not simple, because he witnessed Shi Zhuang's killing method with his own eyes, which was definitely not something a butcher should have.
Li Ze actually didn't care who Shi Zhuang was. Anyway, he just did it casually. In the future, Shi Zhuang went far away and still became his own rich man in the countryside, and he didn't meet.
Three days later, Li Ze, who returned to Zhuangzi, met Shi Zhuang.
The man had many injuries on his body. When he saw Li Ze's face, he knelt down and blew three times, and called out to the young master.
Li Ze hesitated for several days, and finally accepted the guy who voluntarily sold himself. Even though Tu Lichun was always worried, Li Ze still accepted him.
Later, Li Ze told Tu Lichun that the one who prompted him to accept Shi Zhuang was the look that Shi Zhuang looked at him when he kowtowed those few heads. Later, Shi Zhuang's son was raised in the village, and Shi Zhuang came here and became a janitor.
Chapter completed!