"It seems like someone is forcing us to follow the rules."
Rubbing his chin, Zhou Li looked at the villagers talking on the street, a faint light gradually appearing in his eyes. After a moment, he stood up and said to the people behind him: "Since we are the ones here, let's not disobey others."
At this time, these four people had formed a group with Zhou Li as the core. Tang Wan is one of those people who doesn't like to use his brain when he meets Zhou Li. He will listen to Zhou Li's command if he can. Qianhu's current task is to protect Zhou Li, so he leaves most things to Zhou Li, and Zhou Li's acting style is also very sophisticated, so he doesn't have to worry.
Guo Lingyun is an exception. Unlike Tang Wan, he does not naturally believe in Zhou Li, nor does he have the reason to be Zhou Li's licker like Qianhu. However, since the other two people vaguely obeyed Zhou Liyan, and Guo Lingyun knew that he was not strong enough in terms of force and resourcefulness, he also obeyed Zhou Li's command.
"You guys wait a minute while I go through the three levels."
Seeing Zhou Li standing up resolutely, ready to welcome the beautiful sugar-coated bullets, Qianhu and Guo Lingyun suddenly panicked. Guo Lingyun stood up directly and repeatedly tried to dissuade him: "Brother Zhou, please don't do this. This Qian San Pass is obviously a poisonous trick of the mountain god. Don't fall into the other party's trap."
"Yeah yeah."
Qianhu on the side was also a little panicked. He was afraid that Zhou Lizhen would stay here after passing the third level and live the life of a drunken young master all day long, thus wasting the high hopes that Mrs. Jin She had placed on him. Don’t beat a dog with a meat bun.”
"Hey, what are you afraid of?"
Zhou Li waved his hand and said with a smile: "Do you really think I'm going to go through the three levels openly?"
"ah?"
Guo Lingyun scratched his head, "What else?"
"Come, listen to me..."
Zhou Li and others gathered together, and as Zhou Li explained, wonderful expressions gradually appeared on the faces of Qianhu and Guo Lingyun. Finally, the two of them looked at each other, and both saw the emotion in the other's eyes.
admire.
Qianhu turned his face sideways and looked at Zhou Li, who was holding Tang Wan's neck and seemed to be saying something, with a weird smile on his face from time to time, and an idea came to his mind.
Is this kid really a genius?
About ten minutes later, Zhou Li, who had made all preparations, secretly arrived at the main entrance of the village. Then he waved his hand and walked majestically to the center of the road. Looking at the villagers coming and going on the street, Zhou Li took a deep breath and his loud voice echoed throughout the village.
"Chai Hao, I'm here, where are you!"
With Zhou Li's shouting, the whole street seemed to be frozen, with people carrying water, people cooking, people smashing window sticks on men's heads, children lying on the ground crying, and children being pushed to the ground and beaten. The women all focused their attention on Zhou Li at the entrance of the village.
Soon, the eyes of these people changed from being "confused, at a loss, and confused" to seeing greed like gold. After a while, Zhou Li was instantly surrounded by all kinds of villagers.
But without exception, they all wore silk and satin, and the gold and silver jewelry hanging on their hands and necks were even more eye-catching. Also, the greed in their eyes is exactly the same.
They gathered around Zhou Li, as if they were sizing up a good product, and kept asking about Zhou Li's origin and name. A beautiful woman came close to Zhou Li, and her delicate, boneless hands gently stroked Zhou Li's well-proportioned lower abdomen. A look of satisfaction suddenly appeared on her charming face.
"stop!"
After a while, Zhou Li, who was really unbearable, stretched out his hands and stopped the people around him with all his strength. Under the silent gaze of the surrounding people, he looked to the side of the frightened beautiful woman who withdrew her hand from stroking Zhou Li's pectoralis major, and said seriously:
"I didn't let you stop."
Visible to the naked eye, these people had a look of satisfaction on their faces. At this moment, an old man wearing a large purple satin robe and holding a cane inlaid with silver and gold slowly walked up to Zhou Li, and the people around him consciously made way for him.
The old man raised his head tremblingly and looked at Zhou Li. After a moment, he grinned, revealing most of his gold teeth, and said:
"Young man, do you know the story of the mountain god?"
"have no idea."
Zhou Li shook his head and said sincerely: "I came here because someone who owed me money fled here. If I offended you, please forgive me."
"No, no, no, no offense at all."
The old man rolled his eyes and asked Zhou Li with a smile: "You said, someone owes you money?"
"hold head high."
Zhou Li nodded and said matter-of-factly:
"That kid lost so much at the gambling table that he mortgaged the whole house and then lost everything. Finally he couldn't stand it any more. He found me and asked me to borrow twenty taels of gold, but then he lost everything. There was no way I could lose, so I chased him to collect the debt.”
"I don't know, Master, how much profit do you get for lending money to this person?"
Hearing this, the old man hissed and asked tentatively.
"Ah, I'm not a loan shark."
Zhou Li touched his head and said angrily: "I am a law-abiding person."
"ah."
Seeing this, the old man's eyes flashed with disappointment. Just as he was about to speak, he heard Zhou Li with a simple face say:
"The interest on borrowing money from me is not that serious, but you need to owe one year's principal and interest first. In order to avoid risks, I can only give you 50% of the loan, and the remaining loan needs to repay the principal and interest first. , after repaying half, I will lend you the rest, and the time difference will also be included in the interest. Not much, really not much."
The old man and other villagers were immediately stunned by Zhou Li. After calculating for a moment, the old man asked Zhou Li tremblingly: "I wonder how much Chai Hao will pay back after borrowing twenty taels of gold from the young master?"
"not much."
Zhou Li shook his head and said with a smile: "It's just sixteen taels of gold, it's really not much."
This is indeed not a loan shark, but an open robbery.
When bandits come, they have to kneel down and call them Grandpa Zu.
Suddenly, besides greed, there was more of an invisible respect on these people's faces. As if he had seen a rare treasure, the old man took Zhou Li's hand and said with tears in his eyes:
"Sir, you must join us, we are short of talents like you."
Hundreds of people watching this scene not far away were dumbfounded. He turned his head, looked at Tang Wan who was chewing leaves on the side, and asked in a low voice: "Why is he so skilled? Has he done this before? "
"Ang, I've done it before. He also invented the beheading loan."
Nodding, Tang Wan admitted the matter generously under the unbelievable gaze of Baihu. Just when Baihu began to think about whether he should report Zhou Li, Tang Wan, who swallowed the leaves, continued:
"When I was in school, one of our classmates had a family member who was sick and needed money urgently. This person had good grades and was kind and hard-working, but he was too shy to borrow money from us, so he found a loan shark and borrowed three taels of silver. Later, he failed to pay back the money. Because I couldn't pay the high interest, I was forced to jump out of the building by loan sharks, and my sister was kidnapped and sent to a brothel. I went to the county magistrate, but he didn't care. Zhou Li later told me that the county magistrate had a salary of thirty taels a year. Being able to afford a thousand acres of fertile land was his answer.”
After gathering a handful of leaves, Tang Wan sat on a branch and said calmly:
"Later, Zhou Li dropped out of school, infiltrated into the hands of moneylenders, and taught them this kind of beheading loan. Then I pretended to be a gambler and went to borrow this kind of beheading loan from them. Then we met with several classmates whose families worked in the Ministry of Criminal Justice. Join forces and send them to jail."
"Originally, these people only needed to be fined and squatted for a few days before they could come out. But because I am a member of the Tang sect, this case was too bad and the methods were too cruel, so I was transferred from the county magistrate to Dali Temple. Later, these people directly He was sentenced to death by Dali Temple."
"There were thirty-six people in total. The first six were all executed in jail, and the remaining thirty were beheaded without exception."
