Twilight Boundary

Nowadays, Hu Ma actually doesn't know anything about the people who are guarding the cave, and she also knows only a little about what happened to Xiang Yatou.

I brought her to see a doctor, mainly to see Miss White Wine. She is one of my own, and she has her own ideas about whether and how to treat her, so there is no need to worry about it.

He just thought about it silently. When the old housekeeper saw Cao Xintang agreeing, he was even more grateful and thanked him repeatedly.

But what was unexpected was that Cao Xintang didn't care when he used Guidongzi's name, and finally agreed to treat him, as if he had taken a look at the face of the little shopkeeper of the Blood Food Gang...

For him, it is unclear whether this represents some kind of complexity.

"You two, just come back before midnight. Since I want to burn incense and bathe, I won't leave you any food..."

Hearing the joke made by the shopkeeper of Five Ghosts, Hu Ma also knew that they were expelling guests. Seeing that the fragrant girl stayed in Cao Xin Tang and lit a stick of requiem beside her, this meant that Cao Xin Tang was protecting her. Outsiders were not allowed to approach, so Hu Ma was relieved and walked out.

Let Zhou Datong and the others go back to Zhuangzi first, while he went to the Red Lantern Club.

After all, we have entered the city and have a whole day to spare, but it would not be appropriate to go and pay a visit. Besides, I met Manager Xu this time...

...No, it’s Master Xu Xiang now, but no matter what it is, it has to be paid.

"Oh, it's not easy to settle this account..."

Master Xu Xiang was overjoyed to see Hu Ma coming, and said rather pretentiously: "Brother Hu, come here and see what kind of bad debt that Zheng has left for me?"

"Now, do we need money to take over the blood food mine left by the Tsing Yi Gang? Do we need money to place the newly acquired shopkeepers and recruit employees? Does it also require a large amount of money to build the temple?"

"There are also offerings to the higher ones. There are more blood food ores, and there are more offerings to the higher ones."

"Hey, I want it here, and I want it there, but that's all I have in the club, what can I do?"

"..."

Now that they are familiar with each other, Hu Ma also knows that he complains on his lips but is happy in his heart.

Then he smiled and said: "Then I don't care. You have to help me settle the account you promised me last time, right?"

"That's easy, I'm thinking about you!"

Xu Xiangzhu waved his hand with a smile, then lowered his voice and said: "Next spring, do you want to go to the Blood Food Mine?"

"ah?"

Hu Ma was taken aback, but she knew very well how much oil and water these words represented.

He said hurriedly: "Can it be done?"

Xu Xiangzhu said: "Anyway, things are not easy to handle..."

Hu Ma smiled and said, "I understand the rules."

Master Xu Xiang said: "...It is precisely because it is difficult to handle that we need someone like Uncle Hu who is steady and capable to do things!"

"If you talk to me about the rules again, aren't you going out of your way?"

"To be honest, I have been thinking of you since the beginning of this good thing, and I have found a bookkeeper for you. Do you know the old abacus who once saved your life? A very honest old friend, I will send him to your village when the time comes."

"..."

"I've even thought about the accounting office. Is it really possible to arrange it for me?"

Hu Ma thought of the old guy who owed her sixty blood food pills, and suddenly felt happy, and said hurriedly: "Let's just say that this red lantern club is such a big place, the incense owner who is in charge of money and food needs to find a reliable person. Do it, Uncle Xu did a great job..."

"Let's talk about it over drinks tonight, okay?"

"..."

After making an appointment with Manager Xu to have a drink, he came out to look for Yang Gong.

Unexpectedly, Yang Gong had just finished his shift and was teaching the lame kid in his yard how to deliver a message, how to deliver objects, and how to read his own handwriting. Suddenly, with a sudden gust of cold wind, he raised his head and saw his own handwriting. The lame kid has disappeared.

Shen Bangzi saw it and said, "Brother Yang Gong, you are a terrible little messenger."

"It ran away before the owner finished speaking."

"..."

Yang Gong was startled for a moment, then immediately smiled and said: "Go to Chunhelou and say something, this is my brother Hu Ma."

Sure enough, when he walked out the door, he saw the lame kid kneeling in front of Hu Ma, calling Mr. Hu good luck.

At night, it was Yang Gong who invited Master Xu Xiang and several worshippers. Among them was Lao Abacus, who owed him 60 blood food pills, and several Hongxiang disciples, and sat down.

These Hongxiang disciples can still have wine with these shopkeepers and stewards, but when they advance to the next level and become the incense burners around the empress, this kind of communication will no longer exist.

After drinking for three rounds, Hu Ma became curious and asked Xu Xiangzhu: "What does Cao Xintang do?"

"This place is not simple..."

When Master Xu Xiang heard this, he started to show off and said to Hu Ma, Yang Gong and others: "After all, you have little experience. You only look at the increasing glory of our Red Lantern Society."

"But remember, even if our mother-in-law built a temple, Cao Xin Tang, Mei Hua Alley, and the government office, we still can't mess with her."

"Of course, they won't provoke us. Everyone gives us face. That's how it used to be."

"..."

Yang Gong said hurriedly: "I know about Plum Blossom Alley. Our Hongxiang disciples who are patrolling at night will not enter that alley. Last time they sent a boy here to buy some blood food pills, and the incense burner personally delivered them. But what is Cao Xin Tang?”

Hearing this, Hu Ma was a little curious. Yang Gong used to be straightforward and only recognized the Red Lantern Empress in his eyes, but now he seems to have become more advanced?

Master Xu Xiang said: "Our Red Lantern Club relies on blood food for food, and we also have to serve the Empress. Therefore, most of the people in the guild are there to keep the spirits up, and there are a few ghosts in order to better help the Empress."

"But do you know that among those doctors who practice medicine and collect medicines in various places, they actually have a secret?"

"Their sect is called Siming."

"..."

"Si Ming?"

Hu Ma thought silently and said, "What's the point of this sect?"

"That's very particular."

Xu Xiangzhu smiled and said: "Heal the disease outside the door, and cure the life inside the door."

"Ordinary doctors can use herbal medicine and silver needles to help people see their illnesses and injuries. If the medicine cures the disease, then they are good doctors. But after entering the profession, it becomes mysterious."

"It is said that they have the ability to forcefully prolong people's lives. They can cure strange diseases that ordinary doctors don't like, and even some people who seem to be at the end of their life and destined to die. If they can take action, that's it. It can extend his life."

"In the doorway, there is even talk that the person in charge of orders can change the death book, so that the king of hell can't remove the person's soul!"

"..."

"Are you so capable?"

Hearing this, Hu Ma was slightly moved: "Then I should hurry over and have a look."

"Not happy."

Everyone was greatly enlightened and listened patiently, but Shen Dabangzi, a disciple of Hongxiang next to him, said: "Our Lady of the Red Lantern didn't build a temple before, but we feel that in Mingzhou Fucheng, we have nothing to fear from the sky or the earth, only the people from the Tsing Yi Gang. If you dare to go against us, we will chase you and beat you."

"Now that the empress has built a temple, why do you have to be careful everywhere?"

"..."

These words immediately aroused the recognition of several Hongxiang disciples. Only Yang Gong was thoughtful now and did not agree.

"Haha, this is a good thing..."

Master Xu Xiang usually has little patience with these unlearned Hongxiang disciples, but now he knows that the empress built the temple, and she is afraid that these Hongxiang disciples will be the last batch, so he is patient and smiles. Explanation:

"We have been staying here to run errands for the queen and stay away from the world. You don't know much about it."

"Actually, before, we were just working in the Blood Food Gang to earn a living."

"The Blood Food Gang harvests blood food and fights over it. The benefits are obtained, but the reputation in this world is only so good. When you go outside, you mention that you are a disciple of Hongxiang or the shopkeeper of the Blood Food Gang. Maybe someone is trying to save face, or maybe no one cares."

"But it's different now. When we go out again, we won't be members of the Blood Food Gang, but disciples of the Red Lantern Empress of Incense Temple. This has an identity."

"Even if we don't know each other, other fellow martial artists who have incense will pay some respect to us, and even if they don't offer incense, those in other sects will still pay some respect to our status."

"..."

Hu Ma didn't know whether these Hongxiang disciples understood the difference, but he felt like he had suddenly realized it.

Is this the difference between Shaolin Emei and a certain local salt gang?

To put it bluntly, the former Blood Food Gang did not have a big name in the world...

It’s no wonder that the housekeeper of Xiang Yatou’s family is obviously in a state of poverty, but he still makes himself feel a little bit unpleasantly arrogant...

In the end, it is still a question of Jianghu identity.

My status as the boss of the Blood Food Gang is really nothing in the eyes of others. There may not be a status bonus, but it may be a bit lower.

Of course, after the Red Lantern Lady built the temple, things will be different in the future, but this will also take a certain amount of time. At least for now, others just think that she is the boss of the Blood Food Gang.

For a moment, Hu Ma had a certain understanding of his family's status in the world, and Hu Ma also made up his mind.

When even though he had a drink with them and everyone was drunk, he declined Xu Xiang's invitation to take him to the fireworks alley in the city to listen to music, and instead went out alone and walked to Cao Xin Tang. .

I was already 70% drunk, but step by step, the closer I got, the more sober I became.

The Shousui people have refined the five internal organs, so they can drink a large bowl of arsenic without even adding sugar, let alone wine?

When he arrived at Cao Xin Tang, he lit a few more sticks of incense to get rid of the smell of alcohol on his body, and then went upstairs. The old housekeeper of Li Mansion had been waiting by the building for a long time. When he saw Hu Ma When he came up, he immediately bowed deeply.

But Hu Ma was neither close nor far away from him now. She just nodded coldly and looked forward.

He still had to have the airs he needed. He understood where he stood in the old housekeeper's heart, but that didn't mean Hu Ma accepted it.

"You subconsciously think that we, a little shopkeeper of the Blood Food Gang, saved your young lady, and you are afraid that if I know too much, I will repay the favor or something?"

"We are not that kind of people. Even if we want it, we have to let you take the initiative to repay it!"

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