One early morning in March, somewhere by the West Lake.
When Xue Tui led Sun Yixie to the construction site, a lot of people were already gathered around the site, of course most of them were workers.
Seeing the young master of the Sun family coming in person, everyone consciously made way for them.
Not long after, the two people entered the first floor of the restaurant under construction and walked straight towards the northwest corner.
"Master, look, it's right there..." Xue Tui is now one of the stewards of the Sun Mansion, and his title to Sun Yixie has long been changed.
Sun Yixie looked in the direction pointed by Mr. Xue. There was nothing else there, just a pillar.
However, at this moment, this pillar, which was so thick that no one could hold it, had a palm print printed on it, and from the palm print as the center, there were more than ten fine cracks spreading towards the pillar.
Sun Yixie stared at the palm print for a few seconds. After thinking for a moment, he asked: "Besides this, is there anything else? Like a note or something like that?"
"No." Xue Tui shook his head, "I have sent people to search carefully. The other places are still intact. No note was found, and no words were carved anywhere."
"Well..." Sun Yixie responded thoughtfully, and then said, "Mr. Xue, what do you think about this..."
Xue Tui had heard about this early this morning, so at this moment, he had already made some inferences in his mind, and replied without much thought: "In Xue's humble opinion, the person who left the palm...mostly I came here to seek money.”
"Oh? How can you see that?" Sun Yixie was not surprised by this answer and immediately raised his eyebrows and asked.
This question is not so easy to answer.
Therefore, Xue pushed him into silence for a few seconds, stretched out his hand to touch his beard, and sorted out his words before responding: "First of all, this doesn't look like seeking revenge."
"The reason is..." Sun Yixie motioned for the other party to continue.
"A person who comes here to seek revenge will not do such a high-profile thing, because alerting the enemy will not be of any benefit to his subsequent actions." Xue Tui replied, "Of course, if this person is fully sure, Thinking that he can definitely succeed, he might also threaten him in advance to make the other party feel afraid..." He paused and changed the topic, "But in that case, he should leave his name or be able to represent that grudge. That’s the clue, otherwise this threat would be meaningless.”
"Well, what Mr. You came here to have your palm prints taken, but you should have taken them at my house.”
"Master Mingjian." Xue Tui flattered him at the right moment.
"Heh..." Sun Yixie smiled, "Sir, please continue."
Xue Tui's words were indeed not finished: "It's not revenge, then the remaining possibility is nothing more than jealousy or blackmail..." After saying this, he raised his head and looked around, then lowered his voice a little before speaking. , "Although our 'West Lake Restaurant' has not yet been completed, anyone with a discerning eye should be able to see that when it is completed, it will definitely affect the business of other restaurants and even brothels in Hangzhou. From this point of view, it will cause jealousy." Hatred is inevitable." At this point, he looked at Sun Yixie again, cupped his hands and said, "It's just that Xue thought that based on your local reputation and influence, young master, as well as your reputation in the world and the officialdom, ... Even if someone is unhappy, they would not dare to hire martial arts masters to do this for you, so..."
"So..." Sun Yixie took over the other party's words and said, "...the only possibility left is 'blackmail', right?"
Xue Tui nodded: "Xue thought that the person who slapped us wanted to tell us that as long as he wanted, he could destroy the project we had completed for several months at any time... But he has not done anything yet. There is still room left, hoping that we can be wiser and choose to 'spend money and eliminate disasters', otherwise the losses will only be greater."
"Oh...it's exactly what I thought." Sun Yixie was telling the truth.
Of course, Brother Sun's thinking process was not as complicated as Xue Tui's. He was just familiar with similar routines, so he reacted almost instinctively when he saw this situation.
He would ask Xue Tui for his opinion, just to ask Xue Tui to support his conclusion and help him straighten out his logic.
In the market, this activity is called "digging for hot ideas". What is "hot ideas"? It's very simple. Rich people are called "hot spots" in the slang of the world, and those without money are called "water spots."
So how to "dig"? Let’s take the matter at hand as an example: Aren’t your Sun family planning to carry out a big project? Those who want to dig out this hot spot can come and cause trouble for you - cut off your building materials, beat up your workers, go to the construction site to smash things and cause trouble, etc. There are various methods. In short, it will be enough to prevent your project from being completed.
For those who come to cause trouble, they only need to pay manpower and time, but for the construction party, every day of delay is a day of construction cost, and you have to pay the workers even if they don't work. Ah, can you afford to spend time with them? Instead of wasting it like this, why not give them some money to get rid of the problem? This way you will spend less, right?
Some people may think that settling accounts like this is bastard logic.
Yes, this is the logic of bastards. If you don't think about it, it's very simple... Whether you are looking for people from the government or rogues who are more ruthless than them, as long as the matter is settled, you don't have to give them money. , as for whether you give money to people who are doing ordinary things, that is another matter, and the nature is different.
In those days, face, money, money... you had to have at least one of them, otherwise you wouldn't be able to accomplish big things.
As for Sun Yixie, he actually has all three of them. Logically speaking, he shouldn't have any trouble poking around. Who knows the ruffians in Hangzhou? How dare you go poaching his Sun family's "Chu" today? "Boss", the young master of the Sun family dares to invite you to dig earthworms under the West Lake tomorrow.
Of course, Hong Wei is not a local... let alone an ordinary rogue.
Although he had also heard some rumors about Sun and Huang in the world, to be honest, he didn't take Sun Yixie, a brat under twenty years old, seriously at all.
In terms of martial arts, he, Hong Wei, is equivalent to a master at the head of a first-class sect. In his understanding, it is difficult to find a few people who are ten years older than him in the martial arts world who are better than him in martial arts. Not to mention younger than myself.
As for the "power" of the Sun family...he didn't even care.
Hong Wei is a gangster and a wanted criminal by the imperial court. What can you do if you ask someone from the government to come forward? At the end of the day, doesn't it take a police officer to defeat him in order to catch him? In addition, he is alone, with no sect, no relatives or friends who can use him to blackmail him, and he even has almost no sense of shame... It is really difficult to deal with someone like this.
At the moment, Hong Wei wants to take advantage of the Sun family, but it's just a last-minute idea.
Originally, he wanted to continue his flower-picking business when he arrived in Hangzhou. Who would have thought that when he was walking around the West Lake looking for a target that day, a few trucks transporting wood happened to pass by him... Hong Wei knew the goods. , since he started "letting go", he has had a lot of money and often goes to various luxurious shopping places, so he can distinguish good things at a glance. Therefore, at that time, he glanced at and realized that this car was loaded with goods. They are all very expensive and good wood, and there are a lot of them...
Out of curiosity, Hong Wei asked a passerby casually, which wealthy family was planning to build a side courtyard?
The passerby glanced at him sideways, and the first thing he said in reply was: "Are you from out of town?"
In fact, this is nonsense. Don’t you know if you are from out of town just by the accent? Even if you didn't listen to the accent, you should know it when you hear him ask this kind of question.
To put it bluntly, this sentence is a standard pretentious opening statement... Next, this passerby will undoubtedly brag about how the Sun family is rich and how the young master of the Sun family is so awesome, as if his awesomeness has anything to do with him. , and then he started scolding Hong Wei, a country bumpkin from out of town, who didn't even know our brother Sun, so your fish in this life would be in vain.
After listening to this, Hong Wei felt a little angry in his heart, but now he would not take out his anger on a passerby; he now looked at ordinary people as if they were nothing, and even if he killed them, he would not He doesn't feel anything, neither relieved nor happy, so he doesn't kill people randomly unless necessary.
Then who is he directing his anger at? Just Sun Yixie - I heard that you are rich and powerful, right? OK, I just want to show everyone that no matter how rich and powerful you are, you have to listen to me. If I ask you to give me money, you will do it. Give.
So, that night, Hong Wei sneaked into the "West Lake Lounge" which was still under construction.
At that time, there was no such thing as "night construction". Even if you wanted to work at night, there would be no lighting equipment to support you, so when it got dark, there would be no one on the construction site.
There are indeed some workers who sleep directly on the floor at the construction site, but the number is not large. After all, most of the workers are locals and have homes to go back to.
With Hong Wei's Qinggong, it was easy to sneak into a construction site like this. He didn't hesitate much after entering, he just found a pillar and started.
After being a "bad guy" for so long, Hong Wei also knew a lot of the rules in the Tao, so that night, he only kept "one palm", which is called "throwing the weight" in the colloquial language, that is, Let me first give you a hint as to why I am here.
Some scoundrels who don't understand the rules and don't know how to "throw the weight" make a big fuss the first time they come to the door and demolish the whole building... Then if you do this, people might just cancel the project. How can you "dig" this?
Hong Wei would not make this mistake. After leaving the palm, he walked away before the workers who woke up after hearing the noise saw him.
At this time, he had already thought: when he sees this palm print tomorrow, the boy named Sun will naturally care about me. I will come back in the evening and see if he has money waiting for me or not. Waiting for me in ambush... If he prepares money and has enough money, that's it; if he doesn't know what to do and sees my palm power, he still wants to fight me, haha...
