Realm of Power

"Are you sure you are talking about a person?" The fat man waved his hand in front of Jones Nelly with a puzzled expression, interrupting Jones Nelly's infinite imagination. "According to your description, I have actually seen such a person." The fat man's expression He nodded naively.

"Oh, where have you seen it?" Jones Neely also felt that the description was a bit too much. It was the sequelae of listening to too many wandering poets playing and singing. She just said it casually in a moment of urgency. She heard the fat man say that he had seen a real person. , but became even more curious. The fat man chuckled a few times and made some gestures with his hands.

There are indeed people like this in my hometown. Just like you said, they hold a wooden stick in one hand and a colorful prop in the other. Then they jump around the yard, call the wind and rain, catch ghosts and fairies, and are omnipotent. This way We call them dancing masters! "

"Dancer?" Jones Neely had never heard of this word before, so she thought it was some special person. She couldn't help but frowned slightly and fell into deep thought.

"You don't really believe it, do you? The dancing master is synonymous with liar in our place!" The fat man held his belly with an exaggerated expression and laughed in the carriage. "Those people are all liars! In addition to showing off, It’s useless to fool the ignorant villagers! Maybe the Samoan Falcon comes from our hometown!”

"You are the master of dancing!" Nelly Jones finally realized that she had been tricked by the fat man. Thinking that her idol was called a liar by the fat man, she couldn't help but angrily said

"If I cooperate with someone like you, I won't even know that I was deceived and sold for money by you!"

"Okay, okay, it was my fault just now." The fat man saw Jones Nelly getting angry and apologized quickly, then took out the communication certificate he had just signed from his arms.

"Now that the pass has been registered, let's discuss the cooperation between the two companies." The fat man changed his playful expression and inadvertently showed a bit of domineering, which made Jones Nelly opposite feel a strange feeling.

"You, you have said so much, and you haven't even told me what you do." Jones Nelly was caught off guard by the fat man's sudden change. The fat man opposite seemed to be a different person at this moment, and there was still a little bit of the same person as before. Crazy and foolish,

His body exudes a kind of solemn coercion, and his bright eyes are like two sharp knives, which seem to be able to reveal all the secrets in his heart, making people feel flustered.

Jones Neely didn't know what to do for a while, she only felt a pounding heartbeat, and her usually bright oriole-like voice was as small as a moan.

"As you know, I am a businessman!" the fat man said indifferently. "But I am different from other businessmen. I am an investment businessman. As long as there is something profitable, I will be there! I am The wind flowing everywhere follows the footsteps of gold coins and dances gracefully."

"You are the only one who can still flow like this?" Jones Nellie was amused by the fat man and couldn't help but asked curiously, "What is an investment merchant? Is your product called investment? But why have I never heard of such a product?" ?”

"Haha, investment is not a commodity!" the fat man corrected with a serious face, secretly thinking about how to explain it clearly.

"My role is to gather the idle money of rich people. They give their money to me to manage, and I return the money I earn to them according to a certain profit ratio!"

"How is this possible? Who would hand over their money to a stranger!" Jones Nelly said in a sweet voice with her beautiful eyes wide open. What the fat man said was like a fantasy. How can Jones Nelly believe it and stare at it? After looking at the fat man for a while, he asked cautiously, "Are you really a liar?"

"Pfft!" The fat man almost lost his breath. He waved the signed universal pass in his hand and said loudly and excitedly, "How can an honest person like me be a liar? Do you know what this is?" Seeing Jones Nelly's confused look, Fat man has bad temper

"There are only so many shops in Kyoto. Excluding the share of Satsuma and the Business Alliance, the share of the entire Kyoto is only eighteen at most. Those families who did not bid will definitely try their best to find other ways to apply for documents. We now have With this all-in-one pass, are you still afraid that no one will invest? As long as we let the news out, I believe it won’t take long for the entire Kyoto nobles to come looking for us.”

"But what's the point?" Jones Nellie still didn't understand the mystery. "Collecting other people's money and helping others do business to make money, what good does this do to us?"

"You, you..." The fat man was so angry that he couldn't speak. He almost cursed casually. Fortunately, he held it back in time and had to explain carefully.

"The so-called investment means that we provide qualification certificates and passes, the nobles contribute money, and the profits earned are divided into dividends in proportion, and we are the agents of the entire Kyoto nobles in business. You should understand this explanation, although every The profit earned by this family is not much, but it is different for the nobles in Kyoto. The daily income of 50,000 gold coins is a conservative estimate!" The fat man became more and more excited as he talked. Jones Nellie's hazy eyes fascinated the fat man. , especially when you hear the flash of gold coins,

"Fifty thousand gold coins a day!" Jones Neely gasped. This princess, who dreamed of reviving the Yuyehua family, was completely frightened by the fat man's huge plan.

"Trading agents for the entire Kyoto!" The weight of Fatty's plan almost made Jones Nellie breathless. As Fatty said, there are tens of thousands of nobles in the entire Kress, but only ten people can obtain the Satsuma Pass. several,

As long as the news that the Jones family is looking for a collaborator is released, nobles from all over Kyoto will flock to it. Everyone knows that the trade route between Kyoto and Satsuma is profitable, and no one will miss this good opportunity.

If done well, this is definitely a good opportunity for the Jones family to rise again. The fallen Yuyehua flag may once again fly in the sky of Kyoto. This is a risk-free gamble. It has not even started yet, and the outcome is already known. .

"What I need most now is a list of Kyoto families! And tell these families our kind invitation." The fat man looked at Jones Nellie, who had not yet recovered, with a smile of victory on his lips. "Haha, the little beauty has been fooled. !”

The carriage moved in silence, and the cicadas outside the window were filled with sounds. The fat man rushed from Satsuma to the south of Kyoto to choose a site to build the city. When he arrived at the gate of the city, he met Duke Jones. He had not had a good rest for several days. After the excitement just now, he felt so strong Deep fatigue crept into my eyes, so I leaned against the car window and closed my eyes to rest.

Jones Nelly, on the other hand, sat quietly opposite and said nothing, occasionally glancing at the pensive fat man from the corner of her eyes.

Demented, naive, cunning, serious, vulgar, and ambitious. Although the carriage was silent and only the rustling of wheels on the ground could be heard, the fat man's various faces were changing in Jones Nelly's mind.

Jones Nelly found that she could not understand more and more the man in front of her who looked vulgar and rude, but was full of fantastic ideas. Apart from the difference in identity and appearance, the fat man opposite her was the most mysterious person she had seen in more than ten years. man,

"Mystery is always accompanied by danger!" This is the favorite word of the wandering poet. The distinguished guest of the Duke's father, the friend of the high-ranking official of Samoa, the black hand who attempts to control the entire Kyoto business, from the first sight of the dead fat man, Jones Nellie I felt an unspeakable feeling brewing. From the initial disgust to the current dependence, Silly Fatty seemed to be like a magician, making all his wishes come true in his hands.

"Be careful, there is an ambush ahead!"

Just when Jones Nelly was in a daze at the fat man, the fat man suddenly opened his eyes. At that moment, Jones Nelly felt that she seemed to be hallucinating. She saw a knife, a cold blade with a sharp edge. Jones Nelly Li has never seen an angry fat man. In the words of the wife, the attentive Jones Nellie clearly heard a trace of anger. At this time, the traveling carriage suddenly stopped and shook as if it had hit a heavy object. After galloping for a while, two screams came from the front seat of the carriage. , the carriage finally stopped tremblingly on the side of the road,

A group of masked men panting appeared in the woods beside the road and quickly surrounded the carriage. The two carriage drivers were dead and slumped weakly on the carriage seat. Several arrows shot through their chests.

"You wait here, I'll go down and take a look!" The fat man kept paying attention to the changes outside. He touched his belt with a cold face and prepared to push the door and get out of the car.

"You can't go down, they will kill you." However, Jones Nelly stopped her and said resolutely, "They don't know there are two people in my car. What they want is me. There is no need for you to get involved. It’s better for me to die alone than to die together!”

"Oh, do you know who they are?" The fat man looked slightly surprised. He didn't expect the weak Jones Nelly to have such courage and responsibility.

"They are members of the Kaidi family in the north." Nelly Jones said with a wry smile. "In order to appease the rebellion in the territory, I borrowed 100,000 gold coins from them using myself as collateral without authorization. I didn't expect that they would pursue them all the way to Kyoto."

"One hundred thousand gold coins!" The fat man curled his lips secretly, "Is that considered money?"

"I hope you can tell my father the news, and I will thank you in my heart." Nelly Jones turned around with a sad face, and pushed open the carriage door with gentle steps, but was suddenly hit by a strong arm behind her. Hugging her, Jones was so frightened that Nellie couldn’t move

"What are you going to do?" Jones Nelly turned around with a pale face and asked. Growing up, except for her father, Jones Nelly had never been hugged by a man. She didn't expect that at the last moment, the damn fat man would take advantage of her.

"You are my partner. If you die, who will pay for my losses!" The fat man whispered in her ears, and the itching sensation in her ears made Jones Nelly's face turn red. When she turned her head to look again, behind her The fat man had already gently jumped off the carriage from the other side, leaving only a broad back, and Jones Nelly's eyes were blurred.

The arc of sword light flashed across his eyes. The masked man's eyes were round and his right hand was waving around weakly. Blood spurted out from the cut trachea. The corpse fell straight down. This was the eighth one. The fat man held it in his hand. He was holding a soft sword, and there were corpses lying around. The remaining few masked men looked at the murderer in front of them in horror.

The masked man was caught off guard by the fat man who got off the carriage. He thought he was just a cowardly little businessman, but when he got close, he suddenly got angry. It was obviously a belt on his clothes, but in the hands of this sudden demon, it turned into a The sharp long sword that kills people, the bright and trembling sword light is like the sickle of death, easily harvesting the lives of companions,

A dozen masked men were unable to fight back in front of the furious fat man. They saw sword light flying across the sky and blood splattering. The fat man's sword seemed to have magic power. The sword cut into his throat, and most of him fell down in the blink of an eye. Bright red blood spattered all over the fat man, but the fat man still had an indifferent expression on his face, as if he was not the one killing people like he was chopping melons and vegetables.

"Madman!" The remaining masked men began to retreat. The strength gap between the two sides was too great. He lost most of his losses, but he didn't even touch the corners of the other party's clothes.

"The Jones family owes us money, we are just here to collect the debt!" The masked leader shouted with an ugly face, and his hand holding the sword trembled slightly

"Your debt is your business, it has nothing to do with me!" The fat man still had a cold face, and the answer was chilling, which made the masked man on the opposite side palpitate "You killed two people from the Jones family, I killed eight of you, we are even, if you feel comfortable watching it, please vote for Fatty, Baozi bows here