Tomb Raider: The man is in the Nine Gates, but the system insists it's the Primordial Era.

"The drinks are here! The drinks are here!"

"..."

Zhang Qishan, sitting in his high seat, lost his smile and, with a complicated expression, ordered his personal guards to pour wine for everyone present, wine that had been brought all the way from Changsha.

Zhang Qishan looked weary: "This wine was buried when the Nine Gates were first established. It was a famous local wine in Changsha that we all recognized at the time."

Half-Li chuckled: "The restaurant that brewed this wine went out of business two years ago and closed down. I never thought that our Nine Gates would still be able to survive until now."

Zhang Qishan raised his wine glass: "Then let me offer you all another toast with this wine from the Nine Gates. From now on, may the sky be high and the sea wide, and may you roam freely."

Chenpi: "Sounds too formal and pretentious, I don't know what he's babbling about."

Wu Naigou: "Yeah, it would be so much better if we said something that everyone could understand."

Black-backed Old Six: "Let's do it."

Ping Sanmen's lack of education once again made everyone present burst into laughter.

There wasn't a single peanut in the living room.

But when everyone started drinking, they all drank faster than the other.

Because we are about to part ways, we don't know when we will meet again, or even if we will ever meet again in this lifetime.

So when they talked about those trivial things from the past, everyone chatted enthusiastically and happily.

They all used each other's stories as accompaniments to their drinks.

During this time, Su Mu didn't say much.

He would only give a casual reply when someone asked him about something.

Because Su Mu's story in this life is far less extensive than that of the Nine Gate Masters present here.

Su Mu himself was not an outgoing or enthusiastic person, so he listened quietly to the group chatting about their happy and funny past events, and he found it quite interesting.

Zhang Rishan had the most contact with the leaders of the Nine Gates.

As we were about to part ways, I couldn't help but become more talkative.

Zhang Rishan, who had also been given a seat, was flushed from drinking: "Eighth Master, do you remember when we went to steal Fifth Master's dog last time? Hahahaha."

Qi Tiezui touched his nose, subconsciously avoiding Wu Naigou's sharp gaze.

The dog that Wu Naigou kept was his taboo subject, a fact known to everyone in the Nine Gates.

Only Qi Tiezui could have done something like stealing Wu Naigou's dog and secretly obtaining its roe.

Wu Naigou was furious at the time, and when he found out that Qi Tiezui was the one who did it, he was so angry that he had nowhere to vent his anger.

Hitting them or scolding them is not an option.

Because the Qi family has always held a special position among the Nine Gates, their fathers and grandfathers had all received help from the Qi family.

By the time of Qi Tiezui's generation, the Qi family only had one son left, Qi Tiezui.

If someone were to be killed by them simply for stealing a dog or a knife, or for mocking Half-Li's lameness, then the other leaders of the Nine Gates would all rise up and join forces to kill them.

Furthermore, Qi Tiezui also has the powerful figure of Zhang Qishan, the Buddha, protecting him.

Qi Tiezui's eyes darted around, and he pointed at Zhang Rishan, saying, "Don't just talk about me. Last time, Buddha asked you to help him scrub his back, and you got all red in the face. We're all men, I don't know what you're shy about, hahaha."

Zhang Rishan's eyes darted around, and his ears burned, but fortunately, the alcohol masked his embarrassment, preventing others from noticing.

Chen Pi asked the black-backed sixth brother beside him curiously, "Sixth Master, can women really make people risk their lives?"

Chen Pi's eyes were glazed over, and the alcohol began to take effect.

Black-backed Lao Liu took big gulps of wine and vigorously shook his messy hair: "If I hadn't met her, I might have said, 'Women, what man would be thinking about these things all day long?' But once I meet her, I'm like I'm possessed. I can't stop thinking about her while eating, drinking, and relieving myself."

"When I practice my exercises early in the morning, I think about what she is doing at this moment, whether she is staying up late or sleeping in, and her recent physical condition."

"At lunchtime, I would think about whether she had an appetite and whether she had eaten meat."

"When I'm about to go to sleep at night, I wonder if she's covered herself properly, and if she misses me as much as I miss her."

Black-backed Lao Liu has always had a loud voice.

After the alcohol took effect, his voice became almost a roar, which immediately silenced everyone else in the room.

Over the years of companionship and gatherings, no one has ever witnessed such a tender and petty side of Blackback Six.

Who would have thought that Sixth Master of the Nine Gates, who usually fights with enemies, never utters a sound even when cut by a knife, and never admits defeat even when fighting zombies underground until he is on his last breath, would actually be defeated by a woman's charms.

After Blackback Old Six said this...

A woman's image seemed to appear out of nowhere in Chen Pi's mind and eyes.

But he quickly suppressed it.

Chen Pi, who had been lonely and tormented since childhood, had never experienced a moment of love from his parents and relatives.

Master Er Yuehong, who was always busy with other things, also found it difficult to stay by his side for long periods of time.

Only his master's wife was the only person in the world who would care for him and show him any concern.

Having never experienced romantic love, he often couldn't distinguish whether his feelings for his teacher's wife were romantic love or dependence on his mother.

He actually had no physical desire for his master's wife, but after growing up, whether he was down on his luck or in power, all he thought about was how to repay his master's wife.

Just like what Blackback Lao Liu just said, he often thinks about it and misses it.

But it feels different from the description of love given by Black-backed Old Six.

Huo Xian'er was afraid that Su Mu wouldn't understand these things within the Nine Gates, so she whispered to Su Mu, "The woman Sixth Master is so fond of, Aunt Bai, actually has a similar background to yours. Both are from once-powerful families that have fallen on hard times. The Bai family used to be very influential and prestigious in Changsha, but it was precisely because of this that Aunt Bai had to sell herself when her family's fortunes declined..."

White House.

Su Mu thought for a moment. This surname was actually quite rare. Instantly, some memories from his past life appeared in his mind.

Bai Haotian, a new administrator at Warehouse Eleven.

A character from the story of The Lost Tomb.

The Bai family prospered greatly in later generations, and most of the managers of the eleven warehouses, the treasure vaults left by Zhang Qishan, were of this surname.

Currently, he has also heard some things about the Bai family in Changsha from Huo Xian'er.

Su Mu couldn't help but think that the future prosperity of the Bai family must be inseparable from Zhang Qishan's help to Hei Bei Lao Liu.

Among the nine gates.

Among those without offspring, Black-backed Old Six was one of them.

Since Blackback Sixth Brother has no offspring, then "Aunt Bai," who is in love with him, must have family and relatives.

With the help of the Nine Gates, they developed into a large and prosperous family in Changsha in later generations.

Zhang Qishan usually appears to be cold-blooded and ruthless.

But in reality, many of the Nine Gates' later assistance was inseparable from him.

Even after his death, he still left his most capable and longest-lived adjutant, Zhang Rishan, to the Nine Gates.

It is because of this person's existence that the third generation of the Nine Gates can act without any taboos in their daily lives.

On the one hand, Zhang Rishan was influenced by the official prestige of Zhang Qishan, and even the righteous path had to give face to Zhang Qishan, the Protector of the Nation General.

On the other hand, Zhang Rishan alone is enough to crush any underworld force.

After the Nine Gates and three generations developed, they truly achieved a position of influence in both the legal and illegal worlds, with connections and influence reaching every corner of society.

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P.S.: I'm still asking for gifts, even free ones, sob sob, I have to rush to finish my manuscript every day after get off work, I can't even save a single chapter.