One early morning in March, somewhere by the West Lake.
When Xue Tui led Sun Yixie to the construction site, many people had gathered around the site, of course most of them were workers.
Seeing the young master of the Sun family coming in person, everyone consciously made way for them.
Not long after, the two people entered the first floor of the restaurant under construction and walked straight towards the northwest corner.
"Master, look, it's right there..." Xue Tui is now one of the stewards of the Sun Mansion, and his title to Sun Yixie has long since changed.
Sun Yixie looked in the direction pointed by Mr. Xue. There was nothing else there, just a pillar.
However, at this moment, this pillar, which is so thick that no one can hold it, has a palm print printed on it, and from the palm print as the center, there are more than ten fine cracks spreading towards the pillar. go.
Sun Yixie stared at the palm print for a few seconds. After thinking for a moment, he asked: "Besides this, is there anything else? For example, a note or something like that?"
"No." Xue Tui shook his head, "I have sent people to search carefully, and other places are still intact. No note was found, and no words were engraved anywhere."
" Well..." Sun Yixie responded thoughtfully, and then said, "Mr. Xue, what do you think about this matter?"
Xue Tui heard about it early this morning. Yes, so at this moment, he had already made some inferences in his mind, and replied without thinking much: "In Xue's humble opinion, the person who left the palm...mostly came here to seek wealth."
"Oh? How can you see it?" Sun Yixie was not surprised by this answer and immediately raised his eyebrows and asked.
This question is not so easy to answer.
Therefore, Xue Tui was silent for a few seconds, stretched out his hand to touch his beard, sorted out his words, and then responded: "First of all, this doesn't look like seeking revenge."
p>"The reason is..." Sun Yixie motioned for the other party to continue.
"A person who comes here to seek revenge will not do such a high-profile thing, because alerting the enemy will not be of any benefit to his subsequent actions." Xue Tui replied, "Of course, if This person is fully confident and thinks that he will succeed, but he may also threaten him in advance to make the other party feel scared..." He paused and changed the subject, "But in that case, he should leave his name. , or the clues that can represent the grudge, otherwise this threat will be meaningless."
"Yes, what Mr. Xue said is true," Sun Yixie nodded when he heard this. He said, "Taking a step back... If this person is here to seek revenge, he should not have come to this construction site to take palm prints in the first place, but should have gone to my house to do so."
"Young Master Mingjian." Xue Tui followed suit.
"Ha..." Sun Yixie smiled, "Sir, please continue."
Xue Tui's words were indeed not finished yet: "It's not revenge, then there are other possibilities , it’s nothing more than jealousy or blackmail..." After saying this, he raised his head and looked towardsHe looked around, then lowered his voice a little and said, "Our 'West Lake Seat' has not been completed yet, but anyone with a discerning eye should be able to see that when it is completed, it will definitely affect other places in Hangzhou." From this point of view, it is inevitable for those restaurants and even brothels to arouse jealousy and hatred." At this point, he looked at Sun Yixie again, cupped his hands and said, "It's just that Xue thought that based on your local reputation, Master. Reputation, power, and your reputation in the world and the officialdom... Even if some people are unhappy, they would not dare to hire martial arts masters to do this for you, so..."
"So... "Sun Yixie took over the other party's words and said, "...the only possibility left is 'blackmail', right?"
Xue Tui nodded: "Xue thought that this was the case. The person with one palm wants to tell us that as long as he is willing, he can destroy the project we have completed for several months at any time... But now he has not done it completely and has left room for it, hoping that we can' Be smart and choose to "save money to eliminate disaster", otherwise the losses will only be greater."
"Sigh...it's the same as what I thought." Sun Yixie is telling the truth.
Of course, Brother Sun's thinking process is not as complicated as Xue Tui's. He is just familiar with similar routines, so he reacted almost instinctively when he saw this situation.
He would ask Xue Tui for his opinion, just because he wanted Xue Tui to support his conclusion and help him straighten out his logic.
In the market, this activity is called "digging for hot ideas". What is "hot ideas"? It's very simple. Rich people are called "hot spots" in the slang of the world, and those without money are called "water spots."
How to "dig"? Let’s take the matter at hand as an example: Aren’t your Sun family planning to carry out a big project? Those who want to dig up this hot spot can come and cause trouble for you - cut off your building materials, beat up your workers, go to the construction site to smash things and cause trouble, etc. There are many ways to do it, but in short, it will be enough to make your project unable to proceed.
For those who come to cause trouble, they only need to pay manpower and time, but for the construction party, every day of delay is a day of construction costs, and the workers are not working Son, you also have to give money. Can you afford to spend it with them? Instead of wasting it like this, why not give them some money to get rid of the problem? This way you will spend less, right?
Some people may think that settling accounts like this is bastard logic.
Yes, this is bastard logic. If you don’t want to follow this logic, it’s very simple... Whether you find people from the government or rogues who are more ruthless than them, as long as the matter is settled, You don’t have to give them money. As for not giving money to people who are doing things well, that’s another matter and different in nature.
In those days, face, money, money...you had to have at least one of them, otherwise you wouldn't be able to accomplish anything big.
As for Sun Yixie, he has actually taken advantage of all three. Logically speaking, he shouldn’t be in trouble. Who knows the ruffians in Hangzhou? How dare you go today? To dig out the "Chu leader" of the Sun family, SunMy young master dares to invite you to dig earthworms under the West Lake tomorrow.
Of course, Hong Wei is not a local... let alone an ordinary rogue.
Although he had also heard some rumors about Sun and Huang in the world, to be honest, he didn't pay attention to a kid like Sun Yixie who was less than twenty years old at all. .
In terms of martial arts, he, Hong Wei, is equivalent to a master at the head of a first-class sect. From his understanding, it is difficult to find a few people who are ten years older than him in the world. Those who are better at martial arts than myself, let alone those who are younger than me.
As for the "power" of the Sun family...he didn't even care.
Hong Wei is originally a gangster and a wanted criminal by the court. What can you do if you ask someone from the government to come forward? At the end of the day, doesn't it take a detective to defeat him in order to catch him? In addition, he was alone, with no sect, no relatives or friends that could be used to blackmail him, and he almost had no sense of shame... It was really difficult to deal with someone like this.
Right now, Hong Wei wants to take advantage of the Sun family, but this is just a last-minute idea.
Originally, when he arrived in Hangzhou, he wanted to continue his flower-picking business. Who would have thought that when he was walking around the West Lake looking for a target that day, several trucks transporting wood happened to pass by him. ...Hong Wei knows how to recognize goods. Since he started "letting go", he has been able to relax a lot. He often goes to various luxurious shopping places, so he can distinguish good things at a glance. Therefore, at that time, he took a quick glance, He realized that the cart was carrying very expensive and good wood, and there was a lot of it...
Out of curiosity, Hong Wei found a passerby and asked casually which wealthy family this was. Do you want to build a side courtyard?
The passerby glanced at him sideways, and the first thing he said in reply was: "You're from out of town, right?"
Actually, this is nonsense. Do you think he's from out of town? Don't you hear the accent? Do you already know? Even if you didn't listen to the accent, you should know it when you hear him ask this kind of question.
To put it bluntly, this sentence is a standard pretentious opening statement... Next, this passerby will undoubtedly brag about how the Sun family is rich and how the young master of the Sun family is so awesome, as if they are awesome. As if it had nothing to do with him, he then started scolding Hong Wei, a country bumpkin from out of town, who doesn't even know our brother Sun, so you've just eaten all the fish in your life.
After hearing this, Hong Wei felt a little angry in his heart, but now he would not take out his anger on a passerby; he now looks at ordinary people as if they were nothing, even if Even if he kills the other person, he doesn't feel anything. He is neither angry nor happy, so he won't kill people randomly unless necessary.
Then to whom does he direct his anger? Just Sun Yixie - I heard that you are rich and powerful, right? OK, I just want to show everyone that no matter how rich and powerful you are, you have to listen to me. If I ask you to give me money, you will do it. Give.
So, that night, Hong Wei sneaked into the "West Lake Lounge" which was still under construction.
At that time,But there is no such thing as "night construction". Even if you want to work at night, there is no lighting equipment to support you, so when it gets dark, there will be no one on the construction site.
There are indeed some workers who sleep directly on the floor at the construction site, but the number is not large. After all, most of the workers are locals and have homes to go back to.
With Hong Wei's lightness skills, it was easy to sneak into a construction site like this. He didn't hesitate much after entering, just found a pillar and started.
After being a "bad guy" for so long, Hong Wei also knows a lot about the rules of the road, so this night, he only left "one palm", which is a slang term. It's called "Diaomei", which first hints to you and me as to why we're here.
There are some scoundrels who don’t understand the rules and don’t know how to “throw the weight”. They make a big fuss when they come to the door and demolish the whole building... Then if you do this, others may Just cancel the project, how can you "dig" it?
Hong Wei would not make this mistake. After leaving this palm, he walked away before the workers who woke up after hearing the noise saw him.
At this time, he had already thought: when he sees this palm print tomorrow, the boy named Sun will naturally have some concerns about me. I will come back in the evening and see if he has prepared money and so on. As for me, I still prepare an ambush and wait for me... If he prepares money and has enough money, then that's it; if he doesn't know what to do and sees my palm power, he still wants to fight with me, haha...