Lord of Puro

Chapter 640 Lai Baifan

The young man lay in the snow, slowly opened his eyes, and whispered softly, "My hand hurts, it hurts."

Li Banfeng returned his hand to the young man: "My hand is here, rub it if it hurts."

From his left shoulder down, there was nothing, and the young man cried, "Who are you?"

"Businessman, I'm here to do business with you. I'll give you one dollar as a deposit first. What do you think?" Li Banfeng took out a silver dollar.

The young man shuddered with fear when he saw the bloodstains on the silver dollar.

Li Banfeng wiped the blood off and said, "My sister was applying lipstick just now and accidentally got some on her. Please take the money first and let's talk about where to go next."

The young man cried, "Where are you taking me?"

The light bulb laughed and said, "What are you saying? Aren't we all following you? Where are you taking us?"

The young man sobbed for a long time and said, "There is a quarry ahead. You can go to work sincerely. As long as you are sincere, you can do proper body cultivation. The more sincere you are, the better you will be."

Tang Yuan asked, "What do you mean by good-looking?"

"If you are 100% sincere, you can grow up to be a decent creature like a cow, horse, chicken or duck. If you are only 60% sincere, you will become a lowly creature like a spider or an ant."

The light bulb asked, "What if it turns into a three-headed man?"

The young man shook his head and said, "This quarry was opened by the ancestor of body cultivation. As long as you work sincerely under the ancestor, you will definitely not become a three-headed man. Those who become three-headed men are not sincere!"

Bulb said to Li Qi: "Master Qi, I guarantee you will make a profit, this is how you do business."

Li Banfeng asked the young man again: "How much will the Body Cultivation Patriarch give you for sending one person to the quarry?"

"Eighty per person."

Tang Yuan said angrily: "You sold him out for only 80 yuan?"

Bulb said: "This person was not found by him, but by the old lady. He doesn't need to do the rest, just leave it to the quarry. He will lead the way for a while. He is already eighty years old.

And he took a dollar from us, so it was a good deal for both sides to make money, but today, he really lost money on this order."

Li Banfeng left the young man in the snow and went to the quarry with the dumplings and light bulbs.

The quarry is very large, with more than 300 workers mining stones at the foot of Luobo Mountain.

These stones are not for building houses. The sunlight on Luobu Mountain is not dense, but it is located in Santoucha after all. The mountain is exposed to sunlight all year round. The collected stones can be ground into powder and drunk with water to accumulate Taoist karma.

The medicinal materials used to accumulate Daoyuan are not cheap. In Yaowanggou, Li Banfeng had heard that some families would spend all their family savings just to accumulate Daoyuan in order to train a cultivator.

Li Banfeng looked up at the quarry. What they were mining was not stone, but gold!

These workers are free, and no one knows from whom this hillside is rented. This is truly a lucrative business.

It’s strange, why are there three people working here?
For physical cultivators, growing two extra heads means failure in entry. Since they have already failed, what is the point of working for the ancestors?

A three-headed man was carrying a stone and walking down the hillside. The stone had many edges and corners, and the three-headed man's shoulders were covered with bloodstains.

Tangyuan frowned as he watched the three-headed man staggering with difficulty.

There is a mountain path on the hillside, and if you have a wheelbarrow, this job wouldn't be so painful.

Just as the three men carried the stone to the bottom of the hill, a supervisor came up with a whip and lashed them twice: "How long do you want to dawdle? Haven't you eaten yet? Run!"

The whip was as thick as two fingers. The three-headed man was wearing thin clothes, and one blow from the whip tore his clothes and his flesh.

Carrying the stone, the three men stumbled forward, and the supervisor whipped them from behind: "I told you to run, don't you understand? What if you don't accept it? I tell you, if you don't want to do it, get out, there are plenty of people waiting!"

The three people watched silently from a distance. Tangyuan gritted his teeth, Dengbao had a blank expression, and Li Banfeng had the brim of his hat pulled too low so that others could not see his face.

The supervisor came over, looked at the three people, and asked, "What do you do?"

Li Banfeng smiled innocently: "I came to see the ancestor of body cultivation to ask for a dose of introductory medicine powder."

The supervisor's name is Ge Yugen, and everyone else calls him Ge Tou. He is considered a person of some status in this quarry.

He thought Li Banfeng's hat was nice and reached out to take it off. Li Banfeng moved slightly and looked unhappy, but Ge Yugen couldn't reach it.

"Why are you hiding?" Ge Yugen said angrily, "Can't I take a look at your hat?"

Li Banfeng once again stated his purpose: "I am here to find the ancestor of body cultivation."

"With your attitude, what kind of master do you want to see? Who would not put their life and property on the line if they came to see the master sincerely? You are dodging the question. With your limited vision, do you still want to join the Dao sect?"

As he was talking, Ge Yugen tried to pick up Li Banfeng's hat again, but he still couldn't reach it after trying several times.

Ge Yugen became anxious, and he kicked the ground and jumped up. Judging from the way he jumped, he should be a grasshopper.

This time he jumped more than two meters high, Ge Yugen flew over Li Banfeng's head, lowered his head and leaned over, trying to take off his hat.

He stretched out his hands several times in the air, but couldn't pick it. After he landed, the light bulb spilled some oil on the ground. Ge Yugen lost his balance and fell directly into the snow pile.

"Oh my!" Ge Yugen was anxious, "Someone come! Someone is causing trouble!"

There were more than fifty supervisors in the quarry, and more than thirty of them came over with weapons in hand. "What's wrong, Getou?"

Ge Yugen pointed at the three people and shouted, "These three people are under the banner of worshipping the ancestor, but they speak dirty words to me and even make a move on me!"

The workers in the quarry were all stunned. Who was so bold as to put physical contact with Ge Tou?

A few workers wanted to watch the excitement, but were whipped several times by the supervisors beside them: "What are you looking at? Have you finished your work? Do you still want to see the master? Do you still want to join the Taoist sect? Do you still want to eat tonight?"

Ge Yugen swung the whip and hit Li Banfeng: "You are blind, how dare you come here to cause trouble? The Grandmaster is not here today, I will teach you the rules on his behalf!"

This man is very confident. Even though he knows that Li Banfeng is very skilled, he is not afraid at all.

After several failed lashes, Ge Yugen shouted to the crowd, "Go ahead, beat them to death. I'll take the blame if they die. If you make them walk out of the quarry in a respectable manner today, I, Ge Yugen, will crawl in front of you from now on!"

Everyone in the quarry admired him very much. Although Ge Tou was usually cruel and bad, he was really tough when he needed to be tough.

A group of people rushed forward to besiege Li Banfeng. Li Banfeng was too lazy to fight back. With Ge Yugen's limited strength, how much better could the others be?
Tangyuan used the technique of counting ink to summon a piece of text to knock down the group of supervisors first.

Once he fell to the ground, it was difficult to stand up again. The light bulb had spilled oil all over the floor, and dozens of people were kicking and rolling on the ground.

They couldn't stand up, but the light bulb stood steadily on the oil. He held a knife and bled them one by one, with Tangyuan helping from the side. The words hovered in the air and were not affected by the oil on the ground.

Looking at these supervisors, they all have some skills, but most of them are only at the first level. Facing the fifth-layer glutinous rice balls and the third-layer light bulbs, they have no power to fight back at all.

In less than two minutes, the group of people were subdued by Dengbao and Tangyuan and lay on the ground, not daring to get up.

Dengbao walked up to Ge Yugen and asked, "Who said we should crawl?"

Ge Yugen's face turned pale, but he didn't give in. "If you guys have the guts, don't leave. When our boss comes, we'll skin you all alive!"

Li Banfeng looked at Ge Yugen and asked, "Who is your chief shopkeeper? Is it the founder?"

Ge Yugen shook his head: "The Grand Master is usually not here, so our chief shopkeeper is in charge. I will go find him now. If you want to admit defeat, you can apologize to me now, and this matter will be over. If you don't admit defeat, if our chief shopkeeper really comes, you will regret it!"

Li Banfeng discussed with Ge Yugen and said, "How about this? You ask someone else to find the head shopkeeper, and you take us around here."

Ge Yugen pursed his lips and said, "Only I can invite the chief shopkeeper here, no one else can!"

A group of supervisors volunteered: "We can do it. We can all call the chief manager."

This group of people really don't want to be beaten again.

"Don't listen to them..." Before Ge Yugen could finish his words, he was pressed to the ground by Danbula, and a rope was tied around his neck to hold him.

Dengbao kicked Ge Yugen to the ground and said, "Come on, take us around first."

Ge Yugen lay on the ground, still unconvinced: "I advise you again, it's not too late to leave now."

Dengbao raised the whip and whipped Ge Yugen a few times: "Why are you talking so much? Hurry up!"

Ge Yugen gritted his teeth and walked forward. When he reached the hillside, he secretly looked back at the light bulb.

Just you wait, boy.

When the manager comes, I will first cut off your tongue and then chop off your hands.

It's okay if I don't chop him up, this kid is pretty handsome, I'll give him to the boss when the time comes...

Snapped!
Two whip sounds interrupted Ge Yugen's fantasy.

Bulb swung the whip and shouted, "Didn't you eat? Run!"

Ge Yugen took the three of them around the quarry, and Li Banfeng saw quite a few three-headed men working there.

He found one of them and asked, "What are you still doing here? Waiting for the introductory medicine powder?"

The three heads of the three-headed man nodded together, and the head in the middle said: "The ancestor said that our chance has not yet ended. As long as we are sincere, we still have a chance to enter the Dao."

Once you become a three-headed person, you can no longer become a physical cultivator. This is something that everyone in Pro Province knows very well.

But this three-headed man still holds on to one last glimmer of fantasy. He would rather suffer here, as he also hopes that he can become a serious physical cultivator.

Do the other three think the same? Is there no one who can figure it out?

There are many people who can figure it out. Many three-headed people know that they will never be able to enter the Taoist sect in this life, but where else can they go? Unless they take the initiative to go to the City of Sinners and be prisoners for life, the three-headed people will not be welcomed anywhere.

Dengbao led Ge Yugen down the hillside. After being whipped along the way, Ge Yugen gave in and answered whatever Li Banfeng asked.

He said that their boss was called Tie Tuzi, and was a well-known figure in Santoucha.

Li Banfeng felt that Ge Yugen was telling the truth. Tie Tuzi, this name sounds very famous.

"What is the relationship between Tie Tuzi and the Patriarch of Body Cultivation?"

"Our boss is the disciple of our great master. Our great master's business in Luobo Mountain is all taken care of by our great master."

It seems that this ancestor has more than one business.

Dengbao was about to go to where the workers lived, but suddenly he saw that all the workers on the mountain had picked up their tools and were working hard, and no one dared to watch.

They were shaking, shaking uncontrollably.

The supervisors who were originally lying on the ground were now rubbing their hands and getting excited.

Dengbao looked into the distance and saw the head manager Tie Tuzi entering the quarry with about thirty people.

Tie Tuzi was indeed a bald man, with a bald head that was particularly eye-catching in the snow. He looked at Ge Yugen who was being led, and then at the light bulb: "If you don't have a lantern to choose from, you will be walking blindly, and you won't know whose gang you are entering."

Dengbao didn't know how to answer. Seeing that the person opposite him was a gangster, he saluted him with his fists clasped.

Tie Tuzi glared and said, "Who the hell are you scolding?"

Dengbao looked back at Li Banfeng. He didn't understand how clasping fists could be considered an insult.

Li Banfeng said, "This man must have been a bandit. Bandits in some places are afraid to clasp their fists. It looks like they are wearing handcuffs, which is unlucky in their line of work. This old custom is rare in Pro Province."

It is indeed rare. Li Banfeng learned this old custom when he was reading in Moxiang Shop. The customs of Santoucha are not only very different from those in other states, but also quite different from other places in Pro Province.

Tie Tuzi smiled and said to Li Banfeng, "An expert? Are you the one who did those two flower-tongued agents on the road?"

Li Banfeng nodded and said, "I did it. Can you please not speak in foreign languages?"

Tie Tuzi's face darkened as he said, "You go first and meet them head on."

Li Banfeng smiled and said, "Is it okay if I don't report it?"

"You come here to pick a fight with me, and you still speak so arrogantly. Release my men first."

Li Banfeng smiled and said, "Can you not let me go?"

Bald Iron said, "You don't understand what I'm saying. I'm giving you two choices. One is that you let me go, kneel on the ground and kowtow a hundred times, and take the girl with you. I don't want her, so you can leave this pretty boy to me, and then this matter will be over." Bulb was startled, looked at Tangyuan, and asked, "Why do you have to keep me?"

"Why are you looking at me? I don't know!" Tangyuan didn't know why he was angry.

Tie Tuzi said, "The second way is that I will skin the three of you and hang you at the entrance of the quarry as a cover. You can choose."

Li Banfeng asked: "What about the third way?"

Tie Tuzi pointed at Li Banfeng and said, "There is no third rule."

Li Banfeng held Tie Tuzi's index finger and asked, "Think about it carefully."

When Tie Tuzi saw that he had lost a finger, he shuddered in fear: "You, you are..."

"I'm asking you how to get to the third way?" Li Banfeng took Tie Tuzi's ear and threw it into the snow.

Tie Tuzi had a wisp of hair on his temples and his ears were gone.

Just as he was about to call for people to fight back, he opened his mouth and a large bubble of blood spurted out.

The blood bubbles do not come out of the mouth, but from the nostrils.

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Li Banfeng took Tie Tuzi's nose and threw it into the snow.

Tie Tuzi wailed and peed his pants out of fear.

Not only did he peed his pants out of fright, but all the hundred or so supervisors lying on the ground peed their pants out of fright, and the workers in the quarry also peed their pants out of fright.

This is Tie Tuzi, the disciple of the founder of body cultivation.

In their eyes, this person's status is equivalent to Lu Dongliang's status in Green Water City back then.

Now, the man in the black suit used some unknown means to cut off Tie Tuzi's ears and nose.

Is this true?
This is obviously a dream!
Tie Tuzi was still crying. Li Banfeng approached him and touched his head. "I'll show you a third way. You lie down on the side, put the rope around your neck, and let my brother lead you."

Tie Tuzi was really obedient. He took a rope, put it around his neck, and squatted beside Ge Yugen.

Seeing Tie Tuzi's appearance, Ge Yugen lost all hope and squatted obediently beside the light bulb.

The other supervisors didn't dare to speak, and the people brought by Tie Tuzi were also scared silly.

Li Banfeng looked at the people behind Tie Tuzi and asked, "Does anyone know where the Grandmaster is? Please send me an invitation!"

A group of people raised their hands and said that they knew and would do anything as long as they could leave this place.

Li Banfeng really wrote an invitation and asked Tie Tuzi: "Who among them can do the job reliably?"

Tie Tuzi said nothing.

Li Banfeng touched his bald head and said, "If I still can't see your ancestor by tomorrow, you will lose your head."

Tie Tuzi chose a middle-aged man in his forties: "This man has been with me for more than 20 years. We really have a bond."

Li Banfeng frowned and said, "It's not enough to just have feelings. Can you invite someone here in one day?"

The middle-aged man nodded and said, "Don't hurt our leader. I will risk my life to bring the ancestor here."

This relationship is quite deep. No wonder Tie Tuzi fell in love with the light bulb.

As soon as he finished speaking, the middle-aged man stretched out his hands, kicked his feet, turned them into four hooves, and lay on the ground.

His neck shook, his ears twitched, and he shouted, "Uh-huh~"

The middle-aged man ran away.

It turned out to be a donkey.

Dengbao took Tie Tuzi and Ge Yugen and led Li Banfeng to find the accountant, took out the roster and account book, and paid the workers present.

These workers in the quarry have worked for a few days at the shortest and more than ten years at the longest, and have never been paid. Such a new thing happened today, and they were really scared.

Li Banfeng asked Dengbao to tell everyone that he didn't care about the previous rules. From today on, one gets paid for one day's work. As long as enough stones are mined, he will get 50 Huanguo notes every day.

The workers' eyes widened. Fifty yuan a day?

The supervisors nearby were all terrified. This was Santoucha, and these supervisors only earned 200 Huanguo notes a month.

Li Banfeng set the rules and distributed the money that way.

Tie Tuzi sneered and said nothing.

The accountant wanted to ask for favor, so he came close to Li Banfeng and said in a low voice: "Sir, if you do this, this business will not be able to continue."

Li Banfeng asked: "What do you mean?"

"There are about 300 people here. You only pay them 15,000 yuan a day, 450,000 yuan a month, and about 5 million yuan a year. How much can this quarry earn in total?"

Li Banfeng picked up a stone and weighed it: "These are all the medicinal materials for beginners. The money earned from collecting stones here for a month is enough to pay the workers' wages."

The accountant shook his head and said, "What you said is the price outside. If you do business in Santoucha, you have to follow the rules of Santoucha.
There is a saying in other states that business is not allowed in Santoucha. If a quarry wants to open, it must first give a copy to the Customs Envoy. After mining the stones, if it wants to ship them out, it must give another copy to the Customs Envoy. If there is even a penny less, you will be closed down tomorrow!
These stones can only be shipped to designated buyers, and the price is very low. Moreover, this is a business under the name of the founder, and the bulk of the money must be given to the founder. If the remaining money is all paid as wages, you will have no profit, and we will have no hope.

These people came here to ask for the medicine powder. They sincerely followed the Grandmaster and didn’t ask for wages. It’s not that we are cruel and don’t want to pay them, it’s that this business…”

"This business needs to be changed," Li Banfeng checked the account books one by one, "This business belongs to me from now on. I won't give it to the Guanfangshi or the ancestors. I can find whoever I want to sell the goods to. If anyone is dissatisfied, they can come to me to judge the matter."

That night, Dengbao and Tangyuan each got a wooden house and had a good sleep.

Li Banfeng called the supervisors together and asked them some questions about business.

Business in Santoucha is not easy to do. What the accountant said is true. There are all kinds of rules, and all they require is real money.

Li Banfeng has the legal right to operate in Santoucha, which is unique in Provincia. He contacted Ma Wu with a simple phone: "Old Wu, how is the business in Santoucha going?"

"Seventh Brother, it's impossible to do business here. There are too many complicated connections, too many local tyrants, and too many troubles. When you come back, we can discuss it slowly."

No wonder the business at Santoucha has been slow to open. Even a business savvy like Ma Wu doesn't want to get involved.

The next morning, the workers got up early and went to work in the quarry.

More than 200 of the 300 workers ran away, leaving more than 100.

These escaped workers can be divided into two categories. One category is the smart ones who know they have been cheated and do not want to stay here and work hard.

The other type is stupid people, hopelessly stupid people. They are still waiting for the ancestor to give them medicine powder. Now that things in the quarry have changed, they are afraid of being implicated, so they go out and hide for a while.

The remaining one hundred people were quite enthusiastic about their work, and even without a supervisor, they worked diligently.

They carried the stones they had mined down the mountain and put them in a pile, ready to let their new employer see in the evening whether today's work was worth the wages.

Dengbao came over to take a look, and roughly calculated the workload of everyone. There was a pile of particularly large stones. He wanted to know who did this job, but he saw all the workers suddenly kneeling on the ground with their foreheads touching the ground, their bodies motionless.

Someone came to the quarry, an old man, who looked to be about 1.6 meters tall and weighed about 250 to 260 kilograms. He had a round body and pits on his face.

Looking at the way he walked, he walked with his feet turned outward, and he pushed his legs hard with each step.

This person is obviously a physical cultivator who can transform into a toad. It is hard to determine whether he is a metamorphosis physical cultivator or a transformation physical cultivator. Seeing how respectful these people are, Dengbao can naturally guess that this person must be the ancestor of physical cultivators.

The old man was followed by twelve followers, of different heights, weights, and body shapes.

Dengbao was looking at the old man, and the old man also noticed Dengbao. There were so many people at the foot of the hillside, but Dengbao was the only one who didn't kneel down.

The old man looked at the light bulb and smiled, "Please tell your master that Lai Baifan has come to see him."

Dengbao hurried to find Li Banfeng, who was already standing outside the wooden house.

He asked Dengbao and Tangyuan to find a place to hide: "If the situation is not right, you two should leave quickly."

"Seventh Master, what about you?"

"Don't worry about me. Santoucha is the territory of physical cultivation. I may not be able to take advantage of the ancestor of physical cultivation. Moreover, he has brought many experts with him. When I get away, you two must not become a burden to me."

Dengbao and Tangyuan quickly hid. Li Banfeng stood at the door for a while, and Lai Baifan came closer.

Combining this name with his appearance, it seems that this guy is ninety-nine percent likely to be a toad.

Li Banfeng greeted first: "Boss Lai, I'm bowing to you, is it appropriate?"

Lai Bai smiled, clasped his fists and said, "The guest should follow the host's wishes. I am the guest and you are the host. I will follow your instructions on etiquette."

Li Banfeng returned the greeting, invited Lai Baifan into the house, poured him some tea, exchanged a few polite words, and then the host and the guest took their seats.

Lai Baifan held the teacup, looked at Li Banfeng for a moment, and asked in a low voice, "If I'm not mistaken, you are Li Qi, right?"

This great master was very knowledgeable. Santoucha was so remote, and he had never seen Li Banfeng, but he could recognize him by his appearance and clothes.

"It's me." Li Banfeng did not deny it.

Two groans were heard outside the window. Tie Tutou was still tied under the window. He had finally waited for the ancestor to come and was waiting for the ancestor to save his life.

Lai Baifan cursed out the window: "You shameless thing, you still have the nerve to yell there, do you know who you have offended? You should have stuck your eyes out and stomped them to pieces."

The bald man didn't dare to say a word.

Lai Bai laughed and said, "Brother Li Qi, why did you suddenly come to this quarry and cause this fight? Is it because I have offended you before?"

Li Banfeng shook his head and said, "We don't know each other, so there's no offense. I'm interested in the quarry business, and I want to discuss with Mr. Lai whether he can give the quarry to me."

Lai Baifan sighed: "This business is not too easy to do."

"Business is all about making money and losing money. I really want this quarry. You name a price first."

Lai Baifan shook his head: "I am an elder after all, and talking about money with a young man like you will make people laugh."

Li Banfeng said: "Business is business, you don't have to be polite about this matter."

"There's more to us than just business, there's also destiny."

"Where does fate begin?"

Lai Baifan recalled carefully: "If you count carefully, it has been almost three years. When you first came to Purozhou, the bitter woman told me that if I met Li Qi, I should take good care of him. She said that Li Qi took her things.

You came here by train, but you didn't get off at Santoucha, so I couldn't take care of you even if I wanted to."

Does this Lai Baifan have any contact with the bitter mother-in-law?

But what he said sounded a bit strange...

Lai Baifan continued, "Later, the peddler also came to me and said that there was a brother named Li Qi who needed my attention.

I must give the peddler face, but if you don't come to Santoucha, I don't usually go out, so we still won't meet.
Later I heard that you went to Elbow Mountain, but the peddler didn’t tell me about it, and in the end we never met again.”

Does the peddler have a relationship with him?

Lai Baifan said, "There is another expert who hasn't come out for many years. He also sent a message asking me to take care of you. Who do you think this expert is?"

Who could this be?
City Lord Sun?
Not a big face?
Ayi?

Li Banfeng listened carefully.

Lai Baifan lowered his voice and said, "This expert is..."

He opened his mouth wide and swallowed Li Banfeng's head into his mouth.

He tightened his stomach and with an effort, he sucked Li Banfeng into his mouth and swallowed him.

This is a food cultivation technique, which is very useful for gourmets.

(End of this chapter)