Alienated Martial Arts

Chapter 10 Harmony
The sun was setting slowly.

About to hide in the depths of the mountains.

Then the sky gradually darkened.

Smoke curled up one after another, and the air was filled with the aroma of various foods.

After Wei Tao finished his day's hard training, he first went to finish the daily affairs of the martial arts hall, arranged the supplies that need to be purchased in the morning, and then left the gate before the night fell.

A quarter of an hour later, he turned off the long street, walked through narrow paths, and finally came to the entrance of Medicine Stone Lane.

Suddenly, a faint noise came from not far away.

The voice was mainly a woman crying, mixed with a man's impatient scolding.

Wei Tao followed the voice and turned his head to look.

Recognized that it was a house where a young couple who had just moved in lived.

Just passing in front of that house, the woman's crying suddenly became an order of magnitude louder, turning into a hoarse cry.

Immediately after that, there was a crackling sound, and a certain hoarse man's voice said fiercely, "It's only natural to pay back the debt, and if you can't pay it back, you can only let your woman go with us, don't care if we make her a slave or a servant." , or send it to a kiln for laughing, it has nothing to do with you."

Poor and humble couples are sad.

But repaying debts is indeed a matter of course.

Wei Tao has seen many similar things, and he has no interest in taking care of them, so he quickens his pace and walks towards his home.

The woman cried, "When I borrowed money, it was agreed that I would borrow ten and repay twelve, with [-]% interest, but now you say that nine out of ten and thirteen out of ten, it's clear that you are stealing money."

Bang!
The courtyard door of this house was knocked open.

A woman with disheveled hair flew out of it and fell heavily on the gravel road in the middle of the alley.

Wei Tao stopped and turned around to look.

Just happened to look at the man who just walked out of the door.

The man's face was full of flesh, his body was tall and strong, his shoulders and arms were full of bulging muscles, and he gave off a fierce and brutal feeling at first glance.

Wei Tao frowned slightly, recognizing the other party's identity.

Although I don't know the exact name, I know that this person is nicknamed Black Crow. He was originally a small leader of the Wuyi Gang, and he used to hang out around Yaoshi Lane.

At the beginning, a neighbor's family was blackmailed by the black crow, and later had to settle it through the medicine gang.

Even so, a sum of money was lost, which is equivalent to half a month of going to the mountains to collect herbs for nothing.

Then the Wuyi gang was destroyed, and the black crow disappeared for a while, but unexpectedly reappeared now, and started a high/interest/loan business.

Behind the black crow, there were several men in black.

The clothes around their waists were bulging, and they didn't know what murder weapon they were carrying.

Hei Ya was about to go forward to pull the woman's hair, when he suddenly saw Wei Tao who was standing silently a few steps away, he couldn't help being slightly taken aback.

His eyes were ferocious and warning at first, but then revealed a look of surprise and uncertainty.

Staring at the red moiré lines on the shoulders and cuffs of Wei Tao's exercise uniform, the black crow moved his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he just clasped his fists in salute, then turned and left.

The men behind him followed quickly and left, not even daring to lift their heads.

As a former member of the Black Clothes Gang, Hei Ya quickly recognized the identity of the young man in front of him after seeing the practice uniform with black background and red stripes.

If they were just the registered disciples of the Red Line Martial Arts School, they would not be afraid, but the red lines on the black background represent the direct disciples of the inner courtyard, which is a completely different situation.

Even in the entire outer city, the Red Line Martial Arts School can be regarded as a moderately upward force.

Although it was not comparable to those large gangs that were closely related to the inner city, it was by no means an existence that a person like him could provoke.

Wei Tao dissipated the circulating qi and blood, watched the few people leave expressionlessly, and also did not say a word from the beginning to the end.

If there was a real fight, it would be fine if the opponent didn't use a sharp weapon. If several people rushed up with knives, it would be hard to say who would leave alive in the end.

The woman behind her was still weeping, and the sound of crying could be heard far away in the gradually darkening night.

The other households were closed tightly, and no one dared to come out and take a look.

This is the status quo in the fringes of the outer city.

Residents are like soaking in a cold mud pond, and they don't know when they will sink to the bottom of the pond and become a colder corpse.

When I got home, the food was already set on the table.

The soup is boiled wild vegetables.

The dish is cold wild vegetables.

The staple food is wild vegetable dumpling.

This is what the family often eats in autumn.

During this period of time, I can save a little bit, so that I can save enough money and food to survive the harsh winter when the mountains are blocked by heavy snow.

Wei Rongxing lifted the lid of the pot and put a large bowl of stewed meat in front of Wei Tao.

Immediately afterwards, he poured a small bowl of shochu for him.

"Brother Tao has worked hard all day, so he should eat more meat."

"I was full at noon in the martial arts hall, and my father ate too."

Wei Tao wanted to push back the meat soup bowl, but was firmly stopped by Wei Rongxing.

"You eat, I just eat wild vegetables, and I don't have to work at night."

As he spoke, he picked up the wooden bowl at hand and swallowed the boiled wild vegetable soup in a few mouthfuls.

"Today I saw the black crow from the former Wuyi gang." Wei Tao had no choice but to eat the stewed meat with chopsticks, and said casually after taking a sip of his wine.

"Oh, he joined the Youth Federation, and now this small area is their sphere of influence." Wei Rongxing said.

After a pause, he added, "This person came to the house in the afternoon, and took away eight large sums of protection money."

"A protection fee of eight big money was collected from our family?"

Wei Tao narrowed his eyes, his face flickered under the light of the oil lamp.

"Yeah, when the Wuyi Gang was here, it was always six big money a month, but now it's changed to the Qinghe Society, and it's increased by two more."

Wei Rongxing picked up a wild vegetable dumpling, skillfully broke it in half, put some pickles in and ate it.

"There is no way, let's buy peace with money, but these are trivial matters, you don't need to worry about it, just concentrate on practicing in the martial arts hall."

Wei Tao nodded, drank the shochu in the bowl in one gulp, and pushed the remaining half of the stew back to the middle of the dining table, "I'm full, father, eat the meat."

"I'm not hungry, just eat some wild vegetables..." Wei Rongxing still refused, but Wei Tao had already got up and left the door, so he had no choice but to bring the bowl of stewed meat in front of him.

After the meal, Wei Tao slowly punched a few times in the cramped yard, wiped his body with a wet towel, and went back to his small stone house to lie down and sleep.

Perhaps because of the recent rain and fog, the room is very humid and exudes a faint musty smell.

Wei Tao opened the window, and the moonlight slanted to the corner of the wall, painting the green moss with a light layer of bright color.

"I have to find a way to get some money, at least I can't keep living like this."

"There is also the Qinghe Association. When you go to the martial arts hall tomorrow, you can ask Brother Peng to find out what their origin is."

Looking up at the crescent moon hanging in the night sky,
Countless thoughts flashed through Wei Tao's mind,
Until I fell asleep unconsciously.

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"Youth Club?"

After Peng Yue finished practicing a set of punches, he picked up a towel and wiped off his sweat.

He frowned and thought for a moment, then finally shook his head.

"I have never heard of the name of this gang."

Wei Tao poured herbal tea for the two of them, and couldn't help but pause when he heard the movements of his hands, "Haven't even Senior Brother Peng heard of it?"

"For this kind of low-level gang with little reputation, it's normal if I haven't heard of it, but it's not normal if I've heard of it."

Peng Yue laughed, and said indifferently, "Seventh Junior Brother, you can go directly to their leader, there is not much to consider."

Wei Tao was a little surprised and said, "I haven't investigated how many of them there are, and what level of strength the leader is..."

"Uh, Seventh Junior Brother, you misunderstood what I meant,
We are living in Cangyuan City,

Always thinking about how to fight and kill,

Peace is the most important thing in everything, and virtue is the right thing to convince people. "

"Peace is the most important thing, and virtue is the most important thing?" Wei Tao took a deep breath with a puzzled expression.

Peng Yue picked up the huge teacup and drank it all in one gulp, and put the tea into his mouth at the same time to chew, casually talking.

"Peace is the most important thing, it is to let them deeply realize the importance of maintaining a peaceful and good relationship with us,
As for convincing people with virtue, as disciples of the Red Line Sect, we naturally talk about strong and abundant martial arts. "

"Of course, I didn't tell you to pick their lair directly. We are martial arts practitioners, not bandits who like to fight and kill.
What I mean is that I want you to talk to their leader, which is also a different kind of pier worship.

As long as the people in the Qinghehui are not a bunch of idiots, they will naturally know what to do later. "

"Actually, according to the usual situation, it was supposed to be the pier where the Youth Federation went to pay homage to Seventh Junior Brother,

It may be that they are not familiar with the business just now, or it may be that they do not know the identity of the junior,
That's why I made this mistake,

At this time, the younger brother went to call them,
lest we meet again in the future,

It made everyone look bad. "

(End of this chapter)