The sun sets, the setting sun is like blood. It is like a layer of ice ridges, and the afterglow is slanted. The ice in Yangzhou City in winter is infinite.

It was almost dusk, but several stars had secretly poked their heads out, as if they were unable to help the coldness of the world, blinking their eyes tremblingly.

As the end of the New Year is approaching, Yangzhou city is very lively. Hawkers are rushing to the morning market and putting stalls on both sides of the streets before Laba. The rich young lady is busy going to temples and temples to burn incense and pray for blessings. Everyone is calculating what New Year goods to buy during the New Year. The children are wearing new clothes, stealing firecrackers prepared by the family, covering their ears and ignite them. The smell of sulfur indicates the liveliness of the New Year is approaching.

At this time, Yangzhou City was almost filled with festive celebrations of the New Year.

In the east of Yangzhou City, there is a courtyard that looks particularly deserted in this bustle. The courtyard covers an area of ​​several hectares, with high walls and deep courtyards. The owner of the courtyard here is the prestigious Chu family in Yangzhou City.

The Chu family is a wealthy family in Yangzhou City that runs first-class money houses, and it can be regarded as one of the best business leaders in Yangzhou City. If it were another day, the Chu family would definitely be crowded and bustling during this festival. At this time, the Chu family yard was deserted and sparse, and the entire mansion was silent in a gray and dead silence.

Other places have red lights hanging high in the courtyards, which is festive, but the Chu family is covered with white curtains and the entire mansion is covered with white curtains.

Originally, the Chu family had been living a prosperous life and was even more proud. However, there were unexpected situations. Just half a month ago, the Chu family's money shops in various places were robbed by a group of unknown bandits. The big shopkeepers of the money shops rushed to the Yangzhou general account. The Chu family was shocked, but they were not panicked. Chu Hansheng, the owner of the Chu family, urgently summoned the shopkeepers of the money shops to have a meeting and discussed for a long time. It was obvious that this disaster was someone plotting against the Chu family, otherwise the money shops in various places would not have been robbed overnight.

Of course, they have already reported to officials in various places, but they don’t know when they will wait until the government solves the case. Now the most urgent task is to find ways to raise money to welcome the upcoming New Year.

If there is no silver at the end of the year, the money bank will definitely be run and closed down. This is the golden rule of the money bank industry.

The news of the robbery of the Chu family's silver account quickly spread throughout Jiangnan. Some people were secretly happy, some were sad, and more people quickly hired the escort agency to protect their banknotes. Everyone looked through the calendar and calculated that they would settle the day of bankruptcy in a few days.

Chu Hansheng was a person who had experienced many hardships. He immediately got up and went to the chamber of commerce to find his colleagues to borrow money from high rates, and immediately called back his eldest son Chu Feng from the capital.

Chu Feng, the eldest son of the Chu family, had a marriage agreement with the daughter of Su Youcai, the largest salt merchant in Yangzhou City. In the past, I don’t know how many other people’s marriages were envious. Now the Chu family is in crisis, but as long as this marriage is here, the Su family naturally cannot stand by death. As long as the Su family is willing to lend a helping hand and then deal with Chu Hansheng’s means, it is not difficult for the Chu family to overcome the difficulties.

The key now is that Chu Feng quickly returned to Yangzhou from the capital to meet his future father-in-law.

As the saying goes, "Fortune is unparalleled, but misfortune never comes alone." This sentence really worked in the Chu family. Chu Feng, the eldest son of the Chu family, somehow fell down from the horse and died on the way back to the Chu family from the capital. This bad news completely made the Chu family fall into boundless darkness.

So other families were very happy, and white banners were hung at the door of the Chu family.

When Su Youcai heard that his prospective son-in-law had died, he had been struggling to help the Chu family these days, so he immediately terminated his engagement with the Chu family. Then the Su family soon reported that during the Laba Festival, the Su family would be recruiting brides on the ring in Yangzhou City. This made Mr. Chu Han so angry that he almost met the King of Hell.

It is easy to add icing on the cake, but it is difficult to provide timely help. The Chamber of Commerce actually rejected Chu Hansheng's request for help. The old man sat alone in the room without lighting. Thinking about the guys in the Chamber of Commerce who had to look at his face as a human being, his heart was a little lonely. His eyes were as dark as the shadows around him. He listened to the faint sound of firecrackers coming from outside, and could not move for a long time. He held his knees with both hands and shivered slightly.

Chu Feng, the eldest son of the Chu family, died unexpectedly. The second son Chu Guang was born a mute. The third son Chu Yu was the third son. He had been with the playboy in Yangzhou City since he was a child. He didn't listen to any discipline. He went to brothels at the age of fifteen, bet on gambling at the age of sixteen, and had all the five poisons of eating, drinking, gambling at the age of seventeen. At a young age, he had become the leader of the gangsters in Yangzhou City. It can be said that his reputation in Yangzhou City is extremely bad.

On that day, the third young master came out of the restaurant drunk, looked at the setting sun in a squint, took a breath of air conditioning, touched his wallet and was already holding it in, and then walked home.

There was a white banner hanging at the door, and there was a mass of death inside the door. The trees fell and the walls scattered, and everyone pushed them. At this time, no one was willing to come to the Chu family to wander around. Even the housekeepers ran away for half of them. At this time, the courtyard of the tall house looked like a shell of a dried river clam.

No one looked at him, and he walked into the main hall where the old man was sitting.

"Dad, is Lao Song dead?" Lao Song is the butler of the Chu family. He is old and sick. Chu Yu leans forward to his father and says carefully: "Lao Song is just a butler. He doesn't have to hang white banners at the door when he dies. It's so unlucky for the New Year..."

"It's your elder brother Chu Feng, the wind is gone..." Chu Hansheng's voice revealed a dead-like Mu Ran, and his eyes were empty and lifeless.

"My elder brother?" Chu Yu blinked his eyes and felt a chill in his heart. His father was determined not to joke about such things. The elder brother is the pillar of the family. If he goes west, the family will be missing a giant arm. Chu Yu insisted on calming himself for a moment, and then he said as if he was a different life: "I've only been out for a few days? How could my elder brother...?"

Chu Hansheng shook his head sighing and stopped talking.

Chu Yu was also sure that his elder brother had really returned to the west. However, this was idle and romantic third young master who was just a brief shock and remembered his deflated wallet. At this time, he suddenly said something that made Chu Hansheng kill him on the spot. The young master actually said, "Well, father, I don't have any cash on hand now. Can I pay me two hundred taels of silver first?"

Chu Hansheng jumped up, like an old eagle pounced in front of his son, and slapped him in the face with a palm. With a "pop", Chu Yu fell directly from the house and fell on the snow outside the yard, bleeding from his nostrils.

"Beast! Why aren't you who died? Why aren't you who died?!" Chu Han said tremblingly and slammed the door.

Finally a servant ran out and looked down. The third young master Chu Yu had fainted from the slap. He was about to go to see Mr. Chu, but he heard the old and angry voice in the room shouting: "Boom out! Bang him out, he is not my son! Don't let him enter my Chu family's door again!"

The servants came over, and everyone looked at each other, and were at a loss. The door of the main hall opened like a wind. Old Master Chu stood in the door, his face full of resentment, "Didn't you hear me say? Blast him out! Whoever lets him enter my Chu family's door in the future, I...I'll ask him to go and bury Feng'er with you!"

Chu Hansheng was really angry. He usually turned a blind eye to Chu Yu’s actions, but the Chu family is now facing the verge of destruction. He has three children in his life. Except for the second son who was born mute, there are two left, one life and one death. But at this moment, the only eldest son who can help him is still ignorant. The only one who can help him is still unknown. The only one left can help him except to embarrass him. Now the Chu family is about to collapse. Think about this, how can he not be sad?

The servants did not dare to neglect, so they hurriedly drove the fainting Chu Yu out of the gate. Looking at the cold streets in the night, the servants felt desolate. At this time, they didn't know where to place the romantic young master, so everyone discussed it and carried Chu Yu to the Zuihua Building where he often went to. They told the madam a few words before leaving.

No one saw Chu Yu, who had fainted on the flower bed, had a tear flowed from the corner of his eyes.

Chu Yu lies in this Zuihua Building for a long time.

"Where am I?" Chu Yu opened his eyes, feeling that he had no strength in his body, and there was a burst of flowers in front of him. After a while, he realized that he was lying on a wide double bed. The bed was covered with red quilts, and the pattern of mandarin ducks playing in the water was embroidered with gold thread. It smelled so fragrant that it seemed that his nose fell into a pile of fragrant powder.

Chu Yu struggled to get up, looking at the decorations all over the room, his brows gradually tightened.

"What's going on? Am I on the way to the hospital? Why did I come here?" Chu Yu patted his head, and immediately felt that his head was about to explode, but he also remembered what happened to him "just".

——Chu Yu was an orphan since he was a child, and was adopted by distant relatives until he was in his teens. Then he came into contact with the Black Market Fist. He first trained with his predecessors, and then went on to practice by himself. He has been fighting Black Fist for three years at the age of 25 this year. He is one of the few best in the younger generation in the black boxing circle.

Black Market Fist is an illegal bare-hand fighting competition conducted underground. The only rule is to defeat your opponent without using weapons, but those who lose are often disabled. If you lose once, you will never be able to fight again. Of course, the serious one is death.

This is completely different from the fighting boxing competitions you often see. The competition is about competition, and the purpose of black market boxing is to kill your opponent. There is a saying that the world's fighting or boxing champions will die if they reach the underground black boxing ring without a round.

Chu Yu is such a black market boxer. His current record is 23 wins in 24 battles, and he defeated his opponents in 20 of them. However, anyone who has seen Chu Yu can no longer see any cruelty in him. Although his record is amazing, three of those who have competed with him have died. Although the remaining twenty people are still alive, they are already disabled and will never be on the stage. The three people who died under Chu Yu's hands are not so lucky, but rather the cruelty of Chu Yu when facing the enemy.

They are a type of person on the brink of death. Top boxers can reach hundreds of unbeaten games, but they understand that as long as they lose one, they may never see the rising sun again.

But in the 24th, Chu Yu was defeated.

His opponent is an experienced middle-aged man who has played 200 games and has won all the results. Chu Yu wants to challenge him because the black market boss has accepted extremely high gambling dividends. In fact, Chu Yu also plans to stop playing after the best game. Anyway, the money he has made in the past few years is enough for him to spend his whole life.

This was a tough battle. Chu Yu fought with him for nearly thirty minutes, and then fell to the ground with a bang.

The fighting time in the black market boxing ring is usually very short, because everyone uses killer moves and everyone wants the other party's life. Sometimes life and death can be determined in one or two minutes. Chu Yu lasted for thirty minutes and finally failed because of his youth and lack of physical strength.

Failure is fatal, but fortunately his opponent can't get much better. Chu Yu remembers that the moment he fell, his opponent also fell down at the same time.

Chu Yu was in a coma. On the way to the hospital, he gradually lost consciousness amid the "whip" sounds of the ambulance.

Just as I lost consciousness, I suddenly heard a voice in the dark. The voice had a bit of teasing, but it was as lazy as a gangster. Every word and sentence sounded like a slap him.

"Oh, your name is Chu Yu? - I'll rely on you from now on."

Then Chu Yu opened his eyes and found that everything around him had become an ancient style—
Chapter completed!