Before discussing business, private detective Daboyens asked one question first: "Madam, with your status and position, there are many capable people to do things for you. You don't have to ask me to do these three things."
Zhuo Yuling was silent for a moment, then replied, "I don't want anyone else to know about the last two things, especially the Lu family."
Daboyens smiled and said, "The land reclamation work was done for the Lu family, but it was just a cover. The rescue and killing were done for you, Madam?"
Zhuo Yuling frowned slightly: "I remember you didn't talk so much before, tell me the price quickly."
Daboyans considered for a moment and offered a price for the three things Zhuo Yuling proposed:
"The first thing is to open up the wasteland. There is a market price for this. The land you want will cost three thousand dollars, no need to say more."
Zhuo Yuling nodded and agreed.
Daboyans went on to say: "The second thing is to find people. This is very difficult, harder than finding a needle in a haystack.
A needle dropped into the sea will not run away by itself, but your daughter is now hiding from the He family. It is not easy to find her."
Upon hearing this, Zhuo Yuling was unhappy, but she didn't show it on her face: "Who told you that the He family wanted to kill my daughter? What did my daughter do to let the He family down?"
Daboyens smiled and said, "Madam, there is no impenetrable wall in the world. This matter did not come from me, and you don't need to be angry with me. I just want to tell you that this matter is not easy to do."
Zhuo Yuling put out her cigarette and didn't dwell on the topic any further: "Just name a price, and don't say anything else."
Daboynes held up a finger: "Ten thousand dollars."
Zhuo Yuling asked: "Is the matter guaranteed?"
Daboynes shook his head and said, "It's not guaranteed, but if you can't find the person, I won't charge you any money."
Zhuo Yuling nodded: "Okay, I'll pay the price you said."
"The third thing is to kill someone. Kill this Li Banfeng. It would be best if he is captured alive..." Daboyens thought for a moment. "If he is alive, 20,000 dollars. If he is dead, 10,000 dollars."
Zhuo Yuling took a sip of the teacup, was silent for a moment, and asked, "To kill a piece of crap, you still need 10,000 dollars? Do you think this is appropriate?"
She wanted to say that Li Banfeng's worthless life could never be compared with Lu Xiaolan.
But the words were not spoken.
She would not compare Li Banfeng with her daughter.
In fact, according to the price offered by Daboynes for capturing him alive, Li Banfeng was more valuable than her daughter.
Daboyens looked through the information about Li Banfeng and said to Zhuo Yuling, "I don't know Li Banfeng's background, and your information is inaccurate, which means I have to take a big risk."
"Why do you say the intelligence is inaccurate?" Zhuo Yuling frowned slightly.
Daboyens was very patient: "Madam, your intelligence said that Li Banfeng has no cultivation, but from what I know, he is a cultivator who has achieved a certain level."
"A cultivator?" Zhuo Yuling didn't believe Daboyens. "How do you know he is a cultivator?"
Daboyans laughed and said, "I said I just met him, do you believe me?"
"Have you seen him?" Zhuo Yuling smiled and shook her head.
Naturally, she wouldn't believe such words.
Daboyens didn't know Li Banfeng at all, and it was impossible for him to have any dealings with Li Banfeng.
But Keda Boyens believed that the person he met on the road just now was Li Banfeng, the man dressed in seductively.
"Your price is too high," Zhuo Yuling lit another cigarette and shook her head, "Li Banfeng is not worth that much money."
"I don't care how much he is worth, but I am worth this price." Daboyens adjusted his sunglasses.
Zhuo Yuling tried her best to control her emotions, maintaining a gentle and lazy smile as she said, "Da Binzi, I asked you to come because I remembered our friendship. Don't be so ignorant."
"Thank you, Madam, for your kindness," Daboynes took off his hat, bowed again, and then lowered his voice and said, "I call you Madam because I think highly of you, Xiaolingzi, you are a rich lady, why are you still so petty?"
Zhuo Yuling's eyes trembled, and she gleamed coldly: "Spider-Bin, be careful with your words."
Daboyens smiled and said, "Gecko Ling, you should also be sensible. If you can afford it, I will help you. If you can't afford it, you can find someone else."
Zhuo Yuling's expression changed. The laziness and indifference disappeared, replaced by anger that was difficult to conceal.
Daboyans put on his top hat and still had a very gentlemanly smile on his face.
…
Li Banfeng sat in the gatehouse of Yujiazhai and chatted with the gatekeeper, Old Zhutou.
Li Banfeng said he was Yu Nan's friend, and Lao Zhu believed him without any doubt.
"Boss Li, you look like our young shopkeeper's friend. She likes to wear men's clothes just like you."
Wearing men's clothes?
I am a man!
How come this old man...
Li Banfeng touched his face and felt it was smooth.
What is this?
Blush?
Li Banfeng suddenly realized that it was no wonder that the spider in the canyon called him "madam". That bitch Hanxue also put heavy makeup on his face.
When did she make the move? Why didn’t I notice?
"Mr. Zhu, please bring me a basin of water so I can wash my face."
Lao Zhu is a long-term worker in Yu Nan's family. He joined the Yu family at the age of seventeen and has been working there until today.
Now that he is old and can no longer work as a farmhand, Yu Nan did not fire Lao Zhu. She gave him two rooms in the new place and asked him to help guard Yujiazhai.
The so-called Yujiazhai consists of two rows of wooden houses, with seven or eight rooms in each row.
These two rows of wooden houses are very special. They are surrounded by endless forests and are pitch black. Only where the wooden houses are located is bright.
Li Banfeng looked up at the sky and found a halo in the night sky, which was projected right onto the Yu family's mansion.
Where does this light come from?
When it fell to the ground, there was no excessive divergence. According to Li Banfeng's understanding, there should be a light source with extremely good performance and high precision in the sky.
But Lao Zhu’s understanding is not like this.
"There was no sunlight in the new land originally. Only after the land was reclaimed, the sunlight came in."
"Skylight!" Li Banfeng became nervous. He remembered the skylight he had looked at.
Old Zhu waved his hands and said, "It's not that kind of sky light. This is the light that should be there during the day."
Li Banfeng asked, "Is it pitch black here too?"
"That's not true," Old Zhu said with a sigh, "It's not easy for the young shopkeeper to run a cloth shop alone. He saved more than a thousand dollars, and spent it all on this new land."
Li Banfeng was even more confused: "Did you buy this land?"
"Buy? Where to buy?" Old Zhu laughed bitterly, "The young shopkeeper hired six people to open up the wasteland, paying each of them two hundred dollars. Five of the six died before he was able to open up this piece of land."
"Five out of six people died? Can farming kill people?" Li Banfeng was stunned.
Lao Zhu explained: "Reclaiming wasteland is not farming, it means living in the wasteland for three days. The owner first pays tribute and signs an alliance, and then sends people in to reclaim the wasteland.
The pioneers can go in at any time today and come out at any time three days later. As long as there is light on the ground and the owner drops blood to leave a mark, the land will be opened up. "
What is this process?
Li Banfeng was completely confused.
After Lao Zhu explained it in detail, Li Banfeng finally had some idea of what was going on.
Yu Nan reclaimed this wasteland in three steps.
The first step was for Yu Nan to bring offerings and sacrifice to the gods in the wilderness and make a covenant with the gods. It is unknown which god she was offering sacrifices to.
The second step was that on the day of the covenant, Yu Nan sent out pioneers to live in the wasteland guarding the altar for three days and three nights. As long as one pioneer could survive, the land reclamation was considered a success.
In the third step, Yu Nan returned to the wasteland and left her blood on the ground as a mark, and the land became Yu Nan's.
Li Banfeng roughly understood the process.
But this process doesn’t make sense.
"Yu Nan hired six people, five of whom died. The last person who survived dripped his blood on the wasteland. Didn't that wasteland become his?"
Old Zhu shook his head and said, "No, he has not made a covenant with the gods of this land."
"Isn't it easy to make a covenant? Isn't it enough to just put down an offering?"
"It still won't work. Our young shopkeeper has already made a covenant with the gods of this land. The gods will not accept tribute from others within three days.
If he signs a covenant in another place, then that land will be his own, and he will have to pay for hiring a worker to open up the wasteland. It depends on whether he is willing to spend a thousand dollars to buy such a piece of wasteland.
Li Banfeng still didn't understand: "Since the pioneers were unwilling to buy it themselves, why did Yu Nan spend a lot of money to buy this land?"
Old Zhu sighed and said, "The young shopkeeper wants to leave a way out. She won't listen to any of us who try to persuade her."
Li Banfeng did not ask any more questions. He was more concerned about Yu Nan's itinerary than the land reclamation.
"Old Zhu, when will your young manager come?"
Old Zhu thought for a moment and said, "You said before that they set out last night, so they will probably arrive tomorrow night at the latest."
"Two days and two nights?"
Lao Zhu nodded: "Two days and two nights is considered fast."
Li Banfeng arrived early.
He was a traveling repairman and it took him seven hours to reach the new place.
But Yu Nan didn't have that ability. She was also carrying a group of unskilled subordinates and a pile of heavy belongings. It was indeed fast that she arrived in two days.
Old Zhu stood up and said, "Boss Li, I have cleaned up the house for you. Take a shower and rest for a while. I will go prepare dinner."
When they first met, Li Banfeng simply introduced himself briefly. Unexpectedly, Lao Zhu did not doubt him at all.
"Aren't you afraid that I'm a bad person?" Li Banfeng asked casually.
Old Zhu shook his head: "This is Yujiazhai, this is the territory of the young shopkeeper. The gods are protecting the young shopkeeper, and bad people dare not come here. As long as the young shopkeeper drops blood on Yujiazhai, anyone who dares to break in will be smashed to pieces."
Li Banfeng was stunned: "Is there such a thing?"
…
Yu Nan and his subordinates were still trudging on the road.
The journey was slower than expected because there were too many wounded soldiers, plus Qin Xiaopang, who hardly woke up except for eating and sleeping.
A hundred miles away from Jiangyue Mountain, Yu Nan received news that the Yu family’s old house had been burned down.
Although it was expected, everyone was still so angry that their eyes turned red. Wang Xuejiao cursed: "Geng Zhiwei, that bastard, must be chopped into pieces and fed to the dogs! Shopkeeper, we are not leaving, let's fight him to the death!"
A group of people followed and shouted: "Go find them and kill them!"
"We can't let that bastard Geng Zhiwei off!"
Yu Nan bit the cigarette stem hard and said nothing.
Zhang Shiquan, the old storekeeper, advised: "It is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge. Let's listen to the shopkeeper and say less."
After walking for another thirty miles, the group rested by the roadside. A clerk came running to deliver a letter. He panted for a while and said, "Boss, Geng's pharmacy was burned down. Geng Zhiwei's whereabouts are unknown. He must have been burned to death!"
Yu Nan was shocked and speechless.
Geng’s Pharmacy was burned down?
Who did it?
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