So Yuan Fei slowly explained the "big business" he mentioned...
As Lao Cao said, Yuan Fei is not married and is over forty with no children. Living alone is also a happy life.
He lives in Guxin Town, next door to Lianghe Town, but often wanders around throughout Fubei County.
Sometimes, I will also go to the next door county or even the main city to spend some time.
In short, just wandering around!
This also allowed Yuan Fei to have many friends in the Taoist supernatural circles in the entire eastern Sichuan and western Chongqing regions - although Lao Cao and I both joked that they were all "husband and dog friends" and the like.
In any case, these "husbands and friends" also made Yuan Fei very well-informed in all aspects. Unlike me and Lao Cao, we are both relatively low-key and live quietly...
This time, it was the news and business brought by a friend of Yuan Fei.
His friend's name is Ni Yang.
We knew Yuan Fei since we were young. He was an idle second-rate kid in Guxin Town - which means a gangster. He is not a bad person, but he is not a kind person either.
Unexpectedly, when he grew up, Ni Yang would be discovered by a passing ancient caiju master, and he had some talent in cultivation! You can eat magic tricks.
These days, if you don’t adopt a child as an adopted son and disciple from a young age, it would still be difficult to find someone to pass on the mantle and craftsmanship...
So even though the Gucai Opera Master knew that Ni Yang's character was not particularly good and he liked to play tricks and cleverness. But he still stayed in Guxin Town and accepted him as his apprentice.
So, a fool who was a second-rate person suddenly transformed into a member of the Xuanmen world.
Don't tell me, Ni Yang's talent is pretty good.
I have studied with the ancient caiju master for five years, and I am pretty good at it!
The master and apprentice would sometimes go to surrounding towns and some wealthy families in Fubei County to perform for the entertainment...
The profession of magician is considered to be one of the better among the "miscellaneous sects"!
Even better than in ancient times.
Why?
Because people in ancient times were superstitious, they believed more in ghosts and gods. Not to mention the famous Buddhist and Taoist sects, most of the folk Taoist professions are actually taken seriously.
However, with the development of the times and technology, some trades and craftsmanship have gradually become withered - and may even be suppressed to a lesser or greater extent.
But ancient color tricks, this thing is similar to magic!
It's just more powerful than magic, and advanced tricks require a certain degree of "qi" to drive, so it has become the darling of some upper class and wealthy people.
For example, a birthday at a rich person's home, a gathering of friends, a business banquet, etc. The more important and private the occasion is, the more important and private the occasion is. If you can invite an ancient magician to perform, it will be many times more prestigious than a magician!
Therefore, this business can make a lot of money. In modern times, they are more popular than "coffin bearers" and "yin paper masters" like Lao Cao.
After all, the frequency of death is definitely not as high as the frequency of entertainment for wealthy people.
Ni Yang and Yuan Fei knew each other originally, but now they have entered the circle of Xuanmen Jianghu, so the two of them have more contact than before...
But perhaps the old magician left some hidden wounds when he traveled around the world in his early years. After living in Guxinzhen for seven or eight years, he died.
At that time, Ni Yang was already eighteen years old. He has learned a lot about his master's skills. Although he has barely mastered them all, he no longer has stage fright when performing ancient operas in rich people's homes.
Unexpectedly, two or three years later, his parents also died one after another.
Thinking about it, this guy is indeed a bit miserable!
But as a result, Ni Yang lost some guidance and advice from his master and parents, and some negative parts of his character began to reappear...
Originally, he was a sneaky person when he was a child, and it was all thanks to the old magician to keep him under control.
Now there are no restrictions, just because I have money and am not an ordinary person, I started to have fun in Guxin Town!
You said that turning into an "evil cultivator" who does evil is not a problem - otherwise Yuan Fei would take action even if he had no choice but to destroy the family for the sake of justice.
But these days, he hooks up with married women every day, or teases a certain young lady, or beats or teases anyone he doesn't like...
There are endless things like this that make people hateful.
In the end, I finally hit the wall and slept with the wife of a local big shot in Guxin Town. He was ambushed by the big shot, and more than a dozen people caught him in a sneak attack outside the town and gave him a severe lesson.
If Yuan Fei hadn't rushed to stop him, relying on his reputation in the town to persuade him to come down. Not only would Ni Yang be beaten to death by others, he might even be disabled!
Later, I lay in bed at the town health center for two or three months. After I recovered, I said I no longer wanted to stay in a small place. I want to go to the big city and make a living.
So, Ni Yang went to Yucheng City to hang out...
Just like that, more than ten years passed.
Yuan Fei also doesn't see him very often, and it's estimated that he only gets to see him once in two or three years.
Not long ago, Ni Yang came back from the city. Very impressive!
Not only are the clothes on her body all brand-name, but they are also wearing brand-name watches and gold chains. Three black Mercedes-Benz cars came back - along with some drivers and assistants.
It is said that he even had dinner with the deputy mayor of Guxin Town!
Some people who knew Ni Yang were very surprised.
Do you think this guy has made a fortune in the city?
So they all started to show flattering faces, trying to please...
Of course Yuan Fei would not join in the fun - even though he was kind to Ni Yang and had some friendship since childhood.
But two or three days later, Ni Yang took the initiative to come to the door.
He said that there was a "big business" that he wanted to discuss with him. After the two of them talked, Yuan Fei found out about it.
It turns out that it was not Ni Yang who got rich and became a big boss, but that he fell into the lap of a big boss in Chongqing City! Became a personal retainer of a big boss.
Speaking of which, this big boss also came from a poor family.
Born in the countryside at the junction of Guxin Town and Lianghe Town, he moved to the city decades ago. With his courage and high emotional intelligence, he started as a bricklayer... and gradually became a boss in the construction industry and real estate!
It can be regarded as having a net worth of over 100 million.
In 2001, he was definitely considered a rich man.
Ni Yang met this rich man when he performed many amazing magical tricks at a gathering of rich people - in fact, they already had the feeling of magic.
The rich man liked him very much at the time, and later he approached Ni Yang privately.
At first he thought he wanted to get acquainted, but after the other party asked him to meet at the villa, that was the first thing he said.
"Master Ni, your magic is unusual, isn't it? Do you know magic, not just magic?"
When he asked, Ni Yang was a little confused.
Because under normal circumstances, wealthy bosses are unlikely to ask such questions.
