Changzhou is a good place, connected to the Yangtze River in the north, Taihu Lake in the east, Maoshan in the west, and Tianmu in the south. It is both an important transportation route and a hometown of fish and rice. "Su Changshu is the best in the world" means Suzhou and Changzhou.

Changzhou is not far from Jinling, and Li Qingcheng is the first time he has come. Although the city walls are not as magnificent as Jinling, they are also prosperous.

When they came, Li Qingcheng had made up his mind to take Li Jinping and grandson back to Jinling, and then slowly explain to his parents. The two came to the north of the city and found Li Jinping's house after inquiring.

Li Dajun used boats all year round. Although his family was not noble, he was considered a wealthy family. He planted a big locust tree at the door, and the black elm door was not very good-looking.

Li Qingcheng went up to knock on the door, but no one answered. So he shouted a few words at the door, but there was still no one. The door of the house next door opened, and a middle-aged woman fucked Wu Yin and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

"Auntie,? Does Li Jinping live here?"

The middle-aged woman looked alert and asked, "What are you looking for her?"

"We are her friends, and this time we are visiting her and Mr. Li."

The woman said, "Oh, it has been moved away. I thought you were here to ask for debt."

Li Qingcheng asked, "Where did you move?"

The woman said, "I don't know this."

Li Qingcheng was empty-handed, so he took out a pearl from his arms and asked the woman about Li Jinping's home. The woman was so old that she had never seen the pearl. Seeing Li Qingcheng being generous, she opened her mouth and told her in a casual manner.

"Jin Ping is a miserable child. She lost her parents since she was a child and made a living with her grandfather. Fortunately, she is sensible and willing to endure hardships. Over the years, she has bought some property. Last year, she took a boat, and when she came back, she felt like she was a human being. It is said that she met a rich man's son, and when he had time, she would come back to marry her as a concubine."

Li Qingcheng thought to himself, how could I marry her as a concubine, I wanted to marry her as a wife.

"At first, the young master sent letters to others every day. Jin Ping was so happy at that time. In his spare time, he asked my son who was studying in a private school to read the letter. At the end of the year before yesterday, the young master sent someone to send 1,000 taels of silver, a hundred pieces of silk, and many rare items that could not be seen. The neighbors and neighbors spread all over the place. It was said that Li Jinping had made the blessings in his previous life. Mr. Li was on the dock, and even the owner of the Longhu Hall was polite to him."

On the way to the west, Li Qingcheng often wrote letters to Li Jinping for his journey, but of course he just chose interesting words. As for the dangers he encountered, he naturally did not mention them at all. As for the gifts during the Spring Festival last year, it must have been given by Li Changsheng in his name, so he asked, "Why did he move out again?"

"But since last year, the letters have been cut off."

After Yinyang besieged the city last year, Li Qingcheng was unable to deliver the letter, but it was cut off for two months. However, after Zhao Langjiang became the city lord, he continued to send the letter. How could he say that he had disconnected?

"The neighbors all said everything, saying that the young man came to marry her, but how could he let the young man wait for more than a year? Most of the young man was a heartless man, and he found a different girl and abandoned her. Otherwise, how could there be no news? Jin Ping was stubborn. She ran to Jinling City to inquire. After she came back, she was depressed and she cried every day.

It was raining all night long. Last autumn, Mr. Li was caught by the people from Longhu Hall and broke his legs. Li Jinping took the silver to redeem people. Longhu Hall asked for 1,500 taels, sold the gold and silver jewelry, sold the boat, and raised all the silver to ask for people. Unexpectedly, Longhu Hall was profitable and cost 1,830 taels. When she was about to sell the house, Li Dazhun's legs were not healed, and it was winter again, so he was considered disabled."

When Li Qingcheng heard this, his fists clenched, and there seemed to be a flame burning in his eyes. When the woman saw him like this, she was frightened and kept silent.

Li Qingcheng said, "You keep talking."

The woman said, "Later, people from Longhu Hall came to their house to find fault every now and then. Today they moved tables and chairs and smashed stoves tomorrow. This family couldn't survive. Jin Ping was also stubborn. She sewed people in the washing workshop every day, did some needlework, earned money to support the family, and had to treat the old man's illness, and paid off his debts. Longhu Hall wanted to sell her to a kiln as a slave. If Jin Ping hadn't pressed her with scissors against her neck and forced her to die, the consequences would be unimaginable! After the New Year, she sold the house and said she had gone to Huzhou's relatives."

"What relatives does she have in Huzhou?"

"I don't know, I have never heard her say that there are relatives in this family before. However, I heard Xiao Wu say not long ago that he saw the golden bottle in the city."

Xiao Wu was a boatman from Li Dajun. When Li Qingcheng was traveling west, he was responsible for driving the boat. Li Qingcheng heard that Xiao Wu might have her clues and asked, "Where can I find Xiao Wu?"

"He is doing a miserable job, working as a hard worker at the dock."

Li Qingcheng thanked him and wanted to go to the dock. The woman asked, "Young Master, who are you?"

Li Qingcheng took a deep breath, held back his tears, and said, "I am the unfaithful man!"

The woman was stunned and murmured, "So that's it, so that's it, what have you been doing?"

Li Qingcheng was so heartbroken by this sentence that he didn't expect that over the past year, Li Jinping had suffered so much and suffered so much grievances, but he did nothing. If he had explained a few more words at the beginning, or if Li Changsheng had brought them to Jinling City, the ending might be different.

For a moment, self-blame and guilt surged into my heart.

"This house is now uninhabited. Aunt, this is a thousand taels of silver. You go find the current owner and help me buy the place. Is the money enough?"

Where have you seen a woman

The money said, "It's enough, it's enough. This is not a city. One thousand taels of silver can buy all this street, and it won't be enough."

Li Qingcheng said, "If you have the remaining money, please buy or renovate the place. The extra money will be your hard work. In the future, I will marry Jinping and come here to propose marriage. Maybe you will also ask for your help."

After saying that, he and Xiao Jinyan left.

The woman looked at the figures of the two, looked at the banknotes in her hands, and squeezed her thighs hard, "It's not a dream."

Li Qingcheng was in a low mood, and Xiao Jinyan was comforting him, as long as the person was fine, everything else would be easy to say.

After inquiring, the two found Xiao Wu who was moving goods on the dock. When Xiao Wu saw Li Qingcheng, he looked contemptuous, "What are you doing here?"

"I'll find Jin Ping!"

Xiao Wu cursed, "Do you still have the face to mention her name? If it weren't for you, Lao Li did a good job on the river. If it weren't for you, Longhutang wouldn't have come to trouble them."

"Where is she?"

"I don't know!" Xiao Wu pushed the cart to transport goods, "Get out of the way, block me from making money!"

Who is Li Qingcheng? If someone had spoken to him in this tone, he would have been beaten to the ground, but now he felt guilty and was not angry at all.

"I came to find her as soon as I returned to Jiangnan. Xiao Wu, just tell me."

Xiao Wu put down the car and wiped the sweat from his forehead, "Is it still coming to her? Isn't the trouble you have brought to her enough? Isn't it enough for her to go to Jinling to find you? Isn't it enough for your Li family to be humiliated?"

Li Qingcheng asked, "When did she go to Jinling, what happened?"

"How do I know?" Xiao Wu said dissatisfied. "After she came back, she kept crying, looking at the letter you wrote. I asked her what was going on, but she refused to say it."

Li Qingcheng asked, "Then why did you offend Longhu Hall?"

Xiao Wu shouted, "Where is Longhu Hall? We are promoted to Xiaomin, how dare we offend Longhu Hall? It's the people from Longhu Hall who come to cause trouble for us."

Although Xiao Wu was so angry that he found a place and told the whole story.

It turned out that less than a month after Li Jinping returned from Jinling, Longhutang entrusted Li Dazhun to transport a batch of silk goods to Hangzhou. Unexpectedly, the government found that five hundred kilograms of private salt were hidden on the ship. The amount was not large, but it was only worth dozens of taels of silver. However, Longhutang used this to blackmail Li Dazhun, breaking his legs and seizing people.

Li Jinping was so angry that he went to Longhu Hall to argue and pushed the master of Longhu Hall, but was extorted more than 1,000 taels of silver. Later, he became even more aggressive and forced Li Jinping and his family to a dead end.

Li Qingcheng sighed, took out another silver note and said, "I'm back this time to pick up the golden bottle. Tell me where she is."

"Take away your stinky money!" Xiao Wu said, "Do I like your money very much? If you really have a conscience, go to Huanxifang on North Street. She is helping people there and paying off the debts of Longhu Hall."

"How much money is still owed?"

"I'm afraid I can't pay back the money that's profitable in this life."

Li Qingcheng said, "Take me there."

Xiao Wu found a foreman, and Li Qingcheng was generous. The foreman did not bother him and let him go directly.

Halfway through, he saw a salt shop, stopped, went in and bought a bag of salt, and told Xiao Wu, "Go to Longhu Hall first."

...

The leader of Longhu Hall, Long Feitian, has been operating recently and has been full of red light. Two years ago, Longhu Hall was just an unknown small gang in Changzhou Prefecture, but now it has become the leading hall in Changzhou.

All of this was because of the relationship between the Li family in Jinling, and only did something insignificant for the Li family. Because of this, the butler of the third house of the Li family in Jinling looked up to him and handed over a large area of ​​business in Changzhou Prefecture to Longhu Hall. Now, in the past year, in addition to the one who respects Jinling, it has also lost more than 100,000 taels. With this relationship, even the prefect of Changzhou, the prefect of Changzhou invited him to drink at the mansion last year. This honor is extraordinary.

So Long Feitian felt very lucky.

His real name is Long Ergou. He was originally a rogue in the city. He gathered dozens of brothers to establish the Dragon and Tiger Hall. His name was majestic, but he was unknown. Later, a fortune teller told him that "in his forties, he soared into the sky", so he changed his name to Long Feitian.

Ordinary local gangs, if they develop to a certain extent, will encounter ceiling crises. Unless they have extremely high martial arts skills or deep backgrounds, they cannot go further. But at the age of 40, he thought he would have been asking for food at the Changzhou wharf in his life, but he suddenly came into contact with a family like the Li family in Jinling, which was soaring to the sky. It really responded to the fortune telling words back then.

Nowadays, his business is spread throughout Changzhou, brothels, casinos, and canal transportation. He also gained a barbaric nature and began to make friends with money. Although his martial arts skills are not high, he is very popular in the martial arts world in Jiangnan and is known as "Changzhou Mengchang".

Long Feitian was also intoxicated by this title. He felt that his life was too low before, and he had lived forty years in vain. Sure enough, in his forties, he suddenly realized. Not long ago, the leader of the martial arts world, Zuo Stein, passed by Changzhou. He spent nearly 50,000 taels to serve him comfortably. The leader of the Zuo Alliance also agreed to wait for the next martial arts world conference to get him the president of the Jiangnan branch to serve him. At that time, their Dragon and Tiger Hall was not called the Dragon and Tiger Hall, but the Dragon and Tiger Gang. If he had a Jianghu status, he would hire a few worshipers from Zhixuan Middle Realm at a high price, which could be called the Dragon and Tiger School.

He believed in fate, so he followed the fortune teller's advice and brought him in and became the military advisor of Longhu Hall.

However, in the past two days

His right eyelid was always pounding. As the saying goes, his left eye twitched and his right eye twitched, and he was worried that something bad would happen. But the military advisor comforted him, "If you don't believe this kind of superstitious words, even if you believe it, you have to take the lead."

“Which one choose?”

The military advisor said, "If you choose a good letter, it doesn't sound good? Let them go. Master, at this time, you have to arrange the Li family's ancestor worship ceremony first."

Long Feitian said: "The Li family in Jinling is a big family. Even if we give them all the money we earn in a year, they may not be able to see each other. Therefore, we can only give gifts to the clan for a rare purpose. We can't get in the door of several clan leaders, and the money will be spent in vain if we spend it. However, the housekeepers in the room should not be stingy. Starting at least 20,000 taels, the filial piety of the account and the doorman should not be missing. In the future, we mainly deal with them. As for the money of the wife, the lady and the young masters, we must prepare it properly and not let them underestimate us."

The military advisor said, "You have to pay attention to the same kind of gifts. The concierge and accountants are the ones who can help you handle the matter. You are the leader of the church. You only need to be responsible for giving gifts to a few men and a wife. Of course, you have to walk around between the young masters."

Long Feitian said, "I know a young master of immortality. I am very arrogant. Last time I went to the mansion to pay tribute to him, but no one looked at me. I heard that this ceremony, I will pass the position of the head of the family to the third master. I don't have to do it, just try to say something to him. Even if I break my legs, I will accept it."

The military advisor smiled and said, "No."

“Why?”

"Our Longhu Hall can at least help the Li family earn a million taels a year. I have planned to send us the top three among the eighteen gangs in Jiangnan that rely on the Li family. When he becomes the head of the family, he might even invite the head to have a drink."

Long Feitian said, "If I really invite me to drink, I will accept it if I break my legs."

The military advisor said, "Master, why can't you always get along with your legs today? After all, it's our legs. Don't talk nonsense if you are unlucky."

"When it comes to legs, I think of Li Dazhun. If it weren't for his legs, our Longhu Hall wouldn't have the status today. In this way, I have to thank his legs. By the way, how are they in Huanxifang now?"

The military advisor smiled, "Don't worry, since the Jinling has spoken, Li Dazhun and his grandson, the life is so miserable now. That Li Jinping, a toad, wants to eat swan meat, does not look in the mirror. With her appearance, which young master of the Li family can look at her? She shamelessly went to the mansion to make trouble, which made several masters unhappy. Fortunately, the men are kind-hearted, otherwise the two of them might have been feeding fish in the river now."

"Well, that's great. You can find a few more brothers, go to their side and make some more troubles, add some seasonings to their lives, and wait for two days to send gifts to Jinling, and at least report to Mr. Li, otherwise it would seem like we are not doing anything here."

The military advisor said, "I'll do it now."

After saying that, he called a few rough men and explained carefully. The men received two taels of silver each and happily took the sticks to the Huanxifang.

When everything was ready, Long Feitian breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly his right eyelid began to jump up again. He said to the military advisor, "I'm jumping hard again."
To be continued...