The Little Life of a Big Landlord

Chapter 179 Encountering Danger

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The two old men simultaneously pulled out their phones, and upon looking at the screen, they discovered it was an offline file with the filename "The Complete Library of the Four Treasuries: Elixir of Power".

The two old men's eyes lit up, and they quickly opened the file. A string of text immediately appeared on their phone screen...

"Hahahaha... Just as I thought, just as I thought..." The old lecher went through it all first and couldn't help but burst into laughter. "Although many key steps are missing, they can easily be filled in by referring to Taoist classics..."

"Stop talking nonsense. There are so many Taoist masters in history. If we could fill in all the gaps, wouldn't we have done so long ago?" The old swindler looked frustrated. The alchemy was indeed real, but it was incomplete. Many key parts had been altered. As long as you practiced it, you would be fine at first, but as you practiced it for a long time, there would definitely be a risk of going into qi deviation.

"Hmph..." The old lecher just smugly hummed twice, without saying a word, but the old swindler had a hunch. Could it be that this old bastard has a way to restore the Dan Gong (a type of internal alchemy technique)?

The old swindler couldn't help but gaze eagerly at the old lecher.

"Hehehehe... It's no big deal to tell you. We've already obtained most of that alchemy manual. What's missing is this half..." The old lecher pondered for a while, chuckled, and finally told his old friend.

"You old geezer, you're a true friend..." the old swindler said, moved.

"Alright, alright, you can stay outside and cool off if you want. We're freezing to death, so we won't stay with you..." Yang Ming said, pulling Wei Qingqing inside.

The two old men followed.

Upon entering the house, I found Aunt Liu sitting on the kang (a heated brick bed) watching television. The television screen was clearly filming with Yang Ming as the central figure. As she watched, Aunt Liu chuckled.

"You guys, you can play by yourselves. I'm going to go outside and cool off for a bit..." The old lecher blushed, then quickly disappeared, hiding in the cowshed in the backyard.

"I, I'll go out and take a look..." The old swindler looked embarrassed and went straight to the front yard, then slipped into the west wing.

"Yang Ming, you're really mean! You deliberately provoked them and caught them in the act!" Aunt Liu suppressed a laugh and glared at Yang Ming.

"Hmph! Who told them to hit my husband? If it weren't for my husband's good physique and quick recovery, he would be a panda by now..." Wei Qingqing got angry whenever she mentioned Yang Ming being beaten up. It was so unreasonable for two people to gang up on one person, even though either of them could easily take Yang Ming down.

"Hehe..." Yang Ming sat down on the kang (heated brick bed). "Where's Aunt Pang???"

"I went to the market with Zhang Xiaofei. Aunt Pang was going to the market, and Zhang Xiaofei insisted on going with me. He wanted me to come too, but I didn't go, so I let Aunt Pang go instead..." Aunt Liu said, pulling a big apple out of the pile of blankets and taking a big bite.

Wei Qingqing climbed onto the kang (a heated brick bed), snatched the apple from her hand, and said, "You can't tell anyone what you saw today..."

Aunt Liu rolled her eyes and said, "Look at what you're saying, do you think I'm that clueless? Putting aside everything else, just that thermostat thing, if word gets out, wouldn't it cause an uproar??? I'm telling you, you guys are really bold, trusting those two old men that much???" She didn't even take out an apple to eat, picked up her work and got to work.

"It's not that I'm easily trusting, but the person who vouched for them, I had no choice but to trust them..." Yang Ming reached into the pile of blankets, pulled out a large peach, and took a bite, but then realized, "Hey, I said, who put a peach in the blanket? Didn't they know it's fuzzy? Let me see..." Yang Ming looked at the blanket where he had pulled out the peach, and his face immediately darkened: "Isn't this my blanket? Who did this???"

"Hehehe, it's not me, it's not me..." Aunt Liu smiled broadly and waved her hands repeatedly.

"It can't be me, honey. Think about it, sometimes we even share a blanket. How could I do that kind of thing?" Wei Qingqing said sweetly, glancing at Liu Sao with her eyes.

"Sister Liu, you're really not being fair..." Yang Ming glared at Sister Liu and said.

"Yang Ming, if you think so much about your sister-in-law, you'll make her sad..." Aunt Liu immediately put on a wronged look.

"Okay, okay, I don't miss you that much. This peach just crawled inside by itself..." Seeing Liu Sao's aggrieved look, Yang Ming immediately felt overwhelmed.

"You still don't believe me..." Aunt Liu said, on the verge of tears.

"You've learned to put on an act in just one night..." Wei Qingqing said, giving Liu Sao a disdainful look.

"I'd like to..." Aunt Liu's expression changed quickly, immediately brightening as she winked at Wei Qingqing.

"What did you buy at the market yesterday?" Yang Ming asked, munching on a peach.

"What else could she buy? Just some food and toys. Fangfang is crazy. When you told her her parents were coming, she almost bought out the whole pork and fish stalls. She's so rich..." Aunt Liu was amazed when she thought about how excited Sun Fangfang was after receiving the news of her parents' arrival yesterday.

"She and her parents only see each other a few times a year..." Wei Qingqing said.

"Sigh...did you go back to Liujia Village yesterday?" Yang Ming asked.

"Look at the question you're asking. That's my parents' home. I only came back after I had eaten..." Aunt Liu said.

"So you saw your ex-uncle and the others too?" Yang Ming asked.

"I wanted to go see her, but Uncle Zheng wouldn't let me in, saying I was a daughter-in-law of the Zheng family..." Aunt Liu said, pursing her lips.

"You two are really something..." Wei Qingqing said sourly, "Yang Ming used to call Uncle Zheng 'Grandpa,' and Aunt Liu called him 'Ex-Uncle,' but now it's all reversed..."

"Hmph..." Aunt Liu grunted twice, "After I die, I will be buried in the Yang family ancestral tomb. Of course, I will address Yang Ming the same way..."

"Stop talking nonsense... You're a daughter-in-law of the Zheng family, what right do you have to be buried in our Yang family's ancestral tomb??" Wei Qingqing's eyes widened.

"I can't be buried in the Zheng family's ancestral grave. Zheng Dazhi's parents have already arranged a ghost marriage for their son. I'm superfluous..." Aunt Liu said.

In folk customs, bachelors are not allowed to be buried in the ancestral grave. Therefore, generally speaking, people who die in their prime are required to form a ghost marriage before they can be buried in the ancestral grave. Even if a ghost marriage cannot be formed, a person carved from stone or wood can be buried with them as a substitute.

(So, getting a wife is very important. If you don't have a wife, you can't even be buried in your ancestral grave after you die. If you have to be buried with a stone or wooden figure, then you'll lose face in the underworld...)

"But you can't go into our family's ancestral graveyard, can you?" Wei Qingqing was still bothered by Liu Sao's idea of ​​going into the Yang family's ancestral graveyard; it was a matter of status.

"So you're going to let your sister-in-law become a wandering ghost??? Actually, being a wandering ghost is fine, as long as you can chat with me in my dreams every night, then being a wandering ghost is fine..." said Aunt Liu.

"..." Wei Qingqing pouted. "Don't try to scare me. If you die, I'll hang a peach wood sword on the kang (heated brick bed)..."

"You're ruthless..." Aunt Liu glared fiercely at Wei Qingqing.

"Alright, alright, you two are out of your minds. You're living a perfectly good life, why are you saying such scary things..." Yang Ming quickly stopped them, got off the kang (heated brick bed), and said, "There are always things to do every day, and there's no time to play. You two stay home and play, I'm going to catch some fish in the river outside..."

"The river outside is all frozen, how are we supposed to catch anything?" Wei Qingqing asked, puzzled.

"Silly, just break the ice. Once the ice is broken, the fish will come out to breathe, and you can scoop them up with a strainer..." said Aunt Liu.

"Ugh, who told you to say that? I was just flirting with my husband..." Wei Qingqing said sweetly, and pinched Liu Sao's arm with two fingers.

"Ouch..." Aunt Liu slapped Wei Qingqing's hand away and looked at Yang Ming: "Yang Ming, stop using your magic tricks! Tell me straight, after I die, will you let me into your family's ancestral graveyard???"

"Well, actually, it's not up to me to decide. I can't be the head of our Yang family, can I?" Yang Ming said with a smile.

"Nonsense, of course you can't be in charge now??? I'm not dying right now either???" Aunt Liu glared at Yang Ming fiercely. "By the time I die, you'll probably be the head of your Yang family..."

"This..." Yang Ming's forehead was covered in sweat. Actually, what Aunt Liu said was right. If things continued to develop like this, it was a sure thing that Yang Ming would become the head of the Yang family after the older generation passed away. Although he was not the eldest among his peers in the Yang family, he was the most promising one, having obtained the golden finger. In the future, his voice in the Yang family would definitely be the greatest.

"What is this??? You wouldn't even want to enjoy some good fortune after you die? You only had one wife when you were alive, but you'll have two after you die, you wish..." Aunt Liu's big eyes curved into crescent moons.

"I am the eldest..." Wei Qingqing directly asserted her status.

"Ehuang and Nüying..." said Aunt Liu.

"Impossible..." Wei Qingqing retorted fiercely, refusing to back down. "I was already being lenient by letting you in, and you expect to be my equal? ​​I'm here to carry on the Yang family line, can you even dream of that?"

"Why not? I'm pregnant too. But you, how do you know it's a boy? What if it's a girl?" Aunt Liu said.

"Tch, my husband already said, a girl is a girl. If he plants beans, how can I grow melons? Besides, is the child in your belly from our Yang family?" Wei Qingqing said smugly.

"How could it not be? After I gave birth, I had him and Yang Ming do a blood test to see if he was related..." Aunt Liu said.

"Blood test for kinship? People with the same blood type can mix, even a fool knows that. If you're so capable, go ahead and do a DNA test..." Wei Qingqing said disdainfully.

"I'll do it then. When the time comes, I'll let you know that my son is Yang Ming's child..." Aunt Liu said.

"You two are crazy..." Yang Ming wiped the sweat from his forehead and left immediately. Sometimes, he really didn't know what was going on in this woman's head.

It's just like that song says: "Boys, don't try to guess what a girl is thinking, you'll never figure it out no matter how hard you try..."

Yang Ming went to the front yard and went into the west wing.

"You're here???" The old swindler was crouching in the corner, and when he saw Yang Ming come in, he couldn't help but greet him.

"Hehe, what are you doing?" Yang Ming asked with a smile, as he took a sieve off the wall. He was going to use it to catch fish.

"You still have the nerve to say that? We two old brothers have really been screwed, and we can only hide here now..." the old swindler said angrily.

"But... you don't have to point your butt at the camera? Show us your beautiful buttocks? You're quite the charmer..." Yang Ming laughed.

With a whoosh, the old swindler sprang up and rushed out of the west wing, his face flushed with shame. He roared, "Your house... your house is a den of wolves! No, your house is even more dangerous than a den of wolves! You are so despicable, so shameless..." This time, the old swindler truly cursed. His already fragile mind had been repeatedly hurt by Yang Ming.

"If you say another curse, it will be posted on the internet..." Yang Ming's words immediately shut the old swindler up.

"Hehe, you're busy, the toilet is in the backyard..." Yang Ming, carrying a sieve, a chisel, and an iron shovel, walked out of the west wing with a smile, greeted the old swindler, and headed straight for the riverbank across the river.

"Toilet???" The old swindler didn't understand why Yang Ming was telling him about the toilet, but then he remembered that he had just been squatting in the west wing, which was just like going to the toilet, wasn't it? His old face immediately turned black, but he really didn't dare to challenge Yang Ming. This kid looked like a stubborn person who wouldn't listen to reason, and he might actually post his video online.

The river wasn't wide, but it wasn't narrow either. The ice was thick, and when you stepped on it, it felt as solid as cement.

Yang Ming walked to the center of the river, took a chisel and an iron shovel, and carved a large hole about one meter in diameter in the ice.

The broken ice was sifted out with a sieve, and soon, a large number of fish rushed into the ice hole. They all came here to breathe. In the dead of winter, they were stuck in the ice, and they certainly wouldn't miss a chance to breathe.

Bubbles rose and fell, fish mouths opening and closing, greedily breathing. Yang Ming could see clearly that these fish were all over half a foot in size. Unlike the ice hole that the old lecher had chiseled under the bridge, where the bridge was built in a shallow area to ensure the piers were sturdy, Yang Ming's choice of location was different. This was basically the deepest part of the river, where the big fish were concentrated. Zheng Dabao had told him that a long time ago, shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the river in the village wasn't very big; it was more like a stream. At that time, during the Great Production Campaign, fertilizer was scarce, so some people dug mud ponds to fertilize the land. During that period, the village stream gradually became a river. The section of ice that Yang Ming was chiseling was the most heavily dug section back then.

With the fish so eager, Yang Ming naturally didn't hold back and started scooping them out with the sieve...

With one sieve, seven or eight large fish were scooped up with a splash. The fish were jumping around in the sieve. Yang Ming poured them directly onto the ice and then continued scooping.

The fish were poured onto the ice and quickly froze. The cold air penetrated their bodies and took away their lives.

One sieve, two sieves, three sieves...

Yang Ming scooped up fish one by one, and with each sieve, seven or eight fish were scooped up.

"Hey...bro, let me play for a bit, okay???" Just as Yang Ming was engrossed in playing, a voice suddenly rang in his ear. Startled, Yang Ming turned around and saw Sun Fangfang blinking her big eyes, gazing eagerly at Yang Ming... at the dice in his hand...

This moment of distraction had a serious consequence. Yang Ming was originally squatting by the ice hole, but as he turned around, one of his feet slipped off the ice...

thump……

Yang Ming's body tilted, and he fell headfirst into the ice hole...

Sun Fangfang was planning to play a game with her godbrother, but suddenly he jumped into an ice hole. She was puzzled; if he wouldn't let her play, he wouldn't play, but why did he jump into an ice hole? She blinked, then suddenly realized what was happening, and her beautiful eyes widened immediately: "Ah..."

The screams of terror immediately echoed throughout Zhengjia Village. Sun Fangfang finally learned that her brother, Yang Ming, had fallen into an ice hole...

Sun Fangfang's scream was very loud. Soon, the people working in the greenhouse rushed over first, and then all the villagers, young and old, men and women, came over as well, along with quite a few tourists...

"What's wrong??? Fangfang, what happened?" Wei Qingqing rushed over in a panic. She immediately recognized the screaming person as her best friend and ran out of the house without hesitation.

"Brother... Brother..." Sun Fangfang was so frightened that she couldn't speak. She just pointed at the ice hole and kept calling for her brother, tears streaming down her face.

Wei Qingqing understood immediately. Her mind went blank, and she fainted.

Fortunately, there were quite a few people around her, and she fell somewhere in the right place—right into Sister Tie's arms—so she wasn't seriously injured...

"Oh no, the boss has fallen into an ice hole! What are we going to do?" Sister Tie stamped her feet anxiously.

"Brother Yang, Brother Yang..." Zheng Dayong cried out loudly as he lay on the edge of the ice hole.

"What happened? Who fell into the ice hole???" Aunt Liu had just gone to the toilet when she heard the scream and rushed over, tightening her belt as she ran.

"It's Yang Ming..."

No one knows who said it, but anyway, when Liu Sao heard the name "Yang Ming," she fainted and her body went limp. Just as lucky as Wei Qingqing, the old swindler also rushed over with her, and he caught her the moment she fainted.

"I'm going to save Brother Yang..." someone shouted, and then, with a splash, jumped into the ice hole...

"Da Han..." Zheng Dayong shouted, lying on the edge of the ice hole, his hands weakly outstretched. Just now, he had grabbed Zheng Da Han's clothes, but he couldn't stop him from jumping down.

"I'll go too..." Zheng Tong also wanted to jump down to save Yang Ming. After all, his father's life had been saved by Yang Ming. However, given Zheng Da Han's precedent, everyone stopped him in time. But Zheng Tong was stubborn enough to insist on jumping down, which scared Aunt Da Bao so much that she kept crying. It was only after Grandpa Zheng Guangrong slapped him twice that he calmed down.

"What are you standing there for? Hurry up and get the rope, I'm going down in a bit..." Zheng Dabao was getting anxious, and his shouts were deafening.

"Hey, what are you doing???"

The sound of upper teeth hitting lower teeth made everyone turn their heads to look, and they saw a person, soaking wet, standing shivering on the outside.

"Boss???"

"Brother Yang???"

"Brother..." When Sun Fangfang saw Yang Ming's figure, she immediately felt relieved and cried out as she threw herself into Yang Ming's arms.

"Hey, why are you crying? I'm fine, just a little cold..." Yang Ming said, patting his god-sister's back.

"It's all my fault, it's all my fault..." Sun Fangfang cried.

"What does this have to do with you?" Yang Ming quickly reassured him, "I just heard someone call Zheng Dahan, there must be some mistake, right? They should be calling my name..."

"Zheng Dahan jumped down to save you..." Sun Fangfang said, crying.

"What???" Yang Ming exclaimed in surprise, running to the edge of the ice hole. "Da Han jumped in???"

"Brother Yang, I couldn't catch him..." Zheng Dayong cried.

"My God, that idiot Zheng Dahan..." Yang Ming cursed, and then jumped down again with a thud...

This left everyone stunned on the spot...

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