Chapter 44: Forming cliques and factions, and losing your status? 【Seeking follow-up reading】
Chapter 44: Forming cliques and factions, and losing your status? 【Seeking follow-up reading】
That evening
A grand banquet was held at Wangjiang Tower!
It was a rare occasion for Wei Han to host a banquet for everyone in the pharmacy, so he directly booked the second floor of the restaurant and set up seven or eight tables.
It was not only a banquet for Qin Liang, the junior fellow apprentice, but also a way to thank the people in the pharmacy for their care. Everyone got drunk while toasting each other.
Qin Liang's apprenticeship added a touch of weirdness to the atmosphere in this small pharmacy.
He is about to get engaged to a girl from the Chen family, so naturally he belongs to the Chen family.
There is a clear difference between him and people with other surnames like Wei Han and Xie Chengyong.
Therefore, many apprentices and managers who were close to the Chen family came to curry favor with him and gathered around him, with an attitude of following his lead.
"Brother Wei, you don't want to do anything about it?" Cui Bin whispered, "These bastards keep getting close to Qin Liang. In the future, he will be the one who speaks the loudest in the pharmacy, except for the shopkeeper. Your position will be in jeopardy."
"Yeah, Brother Wei, he's nothing!" Wang Tiezhu also grumbled in dissatisfaction: "Isn't it just that his family has some filthy money? He fawned over the Chen family and became your disciple through connections, and he wants to ride on your head and shit and piss on you, don't you even know how much you weigh?"
Cui Bin and Wang Tiezhu’s dissatisfaction is evident in their words!
As Wei Han's trusted team, they naturally couldn't stand Qin Liang's behavior of forming cliques.
After drinking a few glasses of wine, he couldn't help but complain.
Wei Han laughed dumbly and patted their shoulders, saying to them casually: "If you have drunk, please say less. Be careful of your words. You and I are just refugees. It is not easy to have a place to stay. What's the point of fighting for power? You might as well memorize a few more medical books instead of wasting time."
Wang Tiezhu and Cui Bin looked at each other and nodded in agreement.
If Wei Han was ambitious, they would inevitably have to charge forward openly or covertly and fight to the death with Qin Liang and others.
But now Wei Han has made it clear that he has no ambitions and just wants to live a stable life. They feel relieved and naturally enjoy the free time.
"Come on, keep drinking!" Wang Tiezhu raised his glass with a silly smile: "Thank you, Brother Wei, for taking care of us. If it weren't for you, we would have been kicked out of the pharmacy."
"Yes, Brother Wei, you have saved our lives." Cui Bin said with a complicated expression, "A group of my fellow villagers were expelled back to their hometown. They hesitated and refused to leave. They temporarily settled in a dilapidated temple outside the city. Guess what happened?"
"Something happened?"
Wang Tiezhu and Wei Han immediately looked at him curiously.
"That's right!" Cui Bin trembled all over and said tremblingly: "My father usually cares about the friendship between his neighbors, and he always carries some rice and flour to visit every few days, but that day he... when he went to the dilapidated temple, he only saw dozens of human skins..."
"What? Human skin?"
"Did you encounter something strange?"
Everyone else at the table was terrified.
Cui Bin said in a low voice with a bitter face: "Isn't it weird? My father had seen a few weird things on his way here. He knew that this thing should not be provoked. He ran away for his life when he saw the human skin. That's why he escaped back. That afternoon, news came that the ruined temple had been burned down by the government, and the matter of the human skin was kept secret and never spread."
"These bastards, they are afraid of causing panic."
"This is how most government agencies handle strange incidents. Just get used to it."
"It's better to burn it down. Who knows if the evil spirit in the dilapidated temple has gone away? What if someone dies again?"
Everyone was talking about it.
Another manager said mysteriously, "What do you know? I have a cousin who works in the government office. He said that before the end of the year, seven or eight strange incidents had occurred outside the city. One village was completely wiped out overnight!"
"There was also a strange incident at a rice shop in the south city some time ago. The shop owner had a little son who stayed in his room every day after coming back from burning incense outside the city and refused to go out. His parents heard some noise in the middle of the night and got up to take a look. Guess what happened!"
"Oh my, this usually elegant little son is holding a dead stray dog and chewing it until his mouth is full of blood!"
"hiss!"
Everyone was trembling with fear again.
Wei Han frowned and said nothing for a long time.
Now he has a better understanding of the weird.
This thing appears and disappears without a regular pattern. Wherever it appears, there are always countless casualties. Only in the city, perhaps because the yang energy is strong, or perhaps because there is official and imperial aura suppressing it, the rate of strange things happening is lower, but a low rate does not mean that it will not happen.
This is also the reason why Wei Han rarely goes out of the city alone.
It’s not safe. Who knows if you might accidentally enter a strange place?
During the chat, everyone talked about martial arts again.
Several apprentices surrounded Qin Liang and began to flatter him.
"Brother Qin's martial arts talent is the best among our group, right? According to Coach Wang, you have already reached the peak of the strength training realm and can start skin training at any time, right?"
"It's amazing. He has reached the peak of the strength training realm in just three months. I am so envious of him!"
"That's right. Many of the old guards have practiced martial arts for many years but have never been able to refine their skin. Brother Qin is amazing!"
"Brother Qin is both civil and military, please take care of us in the future!"
Everyone was fawning and flattering him.
After all, even a fool can see that Qin Liang has a bright future. Even if someone doesn't like to curry favor with him, he dare not offend him easily. Therefore, Qin Liang stands out among the crowd.
"Haha!" Qin Liang smiled proudly and pretended to be modest, "In fact, I didn't reach the peak of the strength training realm in three months? My father hired a martial arts coach to teach me since I was young, and I also had nourishing medicine to nourish me, so my progress in martial arts and body building is naturally faster than yours."
"And do you think that a thousand pounds of strength is the pinnacle of strength training? Wrong! Absolutely wrong. For the real wealthy families, a thousand pounds is just the starting point. There are many people who start skin training with two or three thousand pounds of strength. What do we count for?"
"If you ask me, I still envy Senior Brother Wei. Although he is not talented in martial arts, he has amazing talent in medicine. He is the youngest official physician in Qingshan County. Even Master praises him highly. I admire him very much!"
Qin Liang changed the subject and deliberately brought the topic to Wei Han.
His words seemed to be full of admiration and envy, but in fact they were full of contempt, implying that he would only be able to be a doctor in a small county town all his life.
Everyone present was a smart guy, and no one could fail to see Qin Liang's provocation.
Although they were puzzled as to why he had an inexplicable hostility towards Wei Han, it did not stop them from watching the show. They all looked over at him jokingly.
"Haha!" Wei Han drank his wine without changing his expression, and said with a smile: "In these crappy times, there are soldiers and bandits everywhere. Maybe one day we will all die. Why think so much? Live one day at a time. There are many short-lived ghosts in this world."
"Hahaha, that makes sense, keep drinking!"
"Come on, come on, everyone drink!"
The people who wanted to watch the show were choked and speechless for a long time.
In the end, they could only continue to clink glasses with a wry smile.
Qin Liang stared at Wei Han silently for a long time, and finally revealed an indescribable smile without saying anything more.
(End of this chapter)
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