This negotiation is said to be in advance, but in fact it doesn’t mention much, just four or five days early.
Mainly because of the rumor a few days ago that "the Murong family has invited Dong Xie Xi Du and Tian Xia No. 1 gun to help out" made the Baquan Sect a little restless. Huo Ming thought about it and decided Proposed... "Why don't we start talking early? It won't take a few days."
Murong Shu himself did not refuse: First, he felt that with the current financial resources of the Murong family, The advantage lies with me, we can get it done early if we talk early; secondly, as an outsider, he still has to give some face to the Ba Fist Sect, the largest gang in the area... At the moment, he has chosen "it's up to the guest to do as he pleases", and then no matter what No matter what the outcome of the negotiation is, both parties will be better off stepping down.
To make a long story short, the appointed day arrived in a blink of an eye.
Early in the morning, people from all walks of life gathered at the helm of the Baquan Sect's city.
It should be mentioned here that the helm of the Baquan Sect was actually the "Huo Family Martial Arts School" back then; Huo Ming was killed by his enemies when he was twenty-two years old. He only returned to the world at the age of nineteen. At that time, he founded the original Baquan Sect in this ancestral house that had been abandoned for several years.
Later, as the Ba Fist Sect's foundation grew bigger and bigger, and there were more and more disciples, the martial arts hall naturally could no longer accommodate it, so Huo Ming bought some surrounding land, and There have been several expansions here, but there are limits no matter how much you expand, and it is impossible to build a "city within a city". Therefore, in the end, the sect's chief helmsman of the Baquan Sect moved to the outskirts of the city and became a "city within a city". "Mountain Gate", and this martial arts hall became their steering port in the city.
Although it is just a steering port, its scale is much larger than many sects like the "Hundred Turns and Thousand Swordsmen", so there is no problem in receiving hundreds of people here.
So who are the people here today?
Except for the troops brought by the Ba Fist Sect and the Murong Family, the rest are undoubtedly "heroes" who came to join in the fun.
First of all, there are celebrities like Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai, as well as long-established big shots like the abbot and Dugu and his son. They don’t have to give their names when they come, and they haven’t left yet. When they arrived at the door, the minions in charge of reception had already welcomed them inside, and the gold and silver cattle who followed them were naturally able to get in.
Secondly, there are some martial arts knights who are not so famous, but everyone has heard of them since they reported their family status, as well as some famous local leaders, such as... the Shao family father and son, Lao Gao, his daughter, etc., when these people came to the door, the disciples of Ba Fist Sect also treated each other with courtesy and greeted them with smiles.
And finally, there are some completely unknown gangsters, or people in the market trying to sneak in to watch the excitement; these people will probably not be able to get in, but it is inevitable that some fish will slip through the net. ...But it doesn't matter, this is even tacitly agreed to by both parties in the negotiation.
Because there are many things in the arena, which means "a mixed bag of good and bad"Only then can you have the flavor of Jianghu.
We often hear someone say in some major martial arts events - "I implore all the heroes and heroes from all walks of life to be here to bear witness today."
The "various" here not only refers to people from different places, but also refers to different sects, different origins, different views, and different "classes."
In this world, "dragons" are only a minority after all. The vast majority of people are "fish". There are big fish, small fish, and miscellaneous fish... If you want to do something now It's a big event. Even if it has nothing to do with people below the level of "Xiaoyu", you can't completely exclude them. You have to let them "witness", "know", "discuss" and "spread the word" "...
This is the obligation you must fulfill when doing big things in the martial arts world, and it is also a sharing of responsibilities.
This approach of "allowing people from all walks of life to participate and express opinions from their own perspectives" is, in a way, testing public opinion and assessing risks... This is a wisdom that has been proven to do more good than harm after years of practice.
Of course, if you don’t follow this path, you can just rely on yourself to solve problems and do big things quietly, but then you have to bear all the risks and costs yourself.
Therefore, many big figures or organizations in the arena turn a blind eye to the phenomenon of small shrimps getting mixed up in such situations. Only some people who are narrow-minded and lack wisdom in the arena , or only a very small number of people who are really stupid will really take it seriously when encountering this kind of problem.
"Eh? Who are you? Where did you come from? Who asked you to come in?" No, right now Lei Buji, a silly boy, is strictly enforcing the leader's "Idle Person" policy in the venue. "No one is allowed to enter" was ordered, and people were arrested everywhere for questioning.
No one cares about him, because they all know that he is such a famous person...
What makes this kid look so distinctive? His big black face, A nineteen-year-old looks like a thirty-nine-year-old, and he speaks in a stunned and hasty manner, making it difficult for others to pretend to be him.
Furthermore, the fact that "the son of the Eight Desolate Boxing Saints joined the Ba Fist Sect" is no longer a secret in the world after these few years. Even people who have never met him know it. I've heard that...if you meet such an upright black guy in the Ba Fist Sect, there's a good chance it's him.
"Xiao Sha, look who we are?"
Just when Lei Buji was asking questions, someone suddenly tapped him on the shoulder and said something like Not too polite.
When Lei Buji heard this, he turned around and wanted to start complaining, but when he saw it, he was an acquaintance: "Eh? Brother Sun, Brother Huang, it's you!"
Seeing these two old friends, Lei Buji's joy was beyond words. He laughed out loud and greeted them warmly.
After talking for several times, he saw a few more people following Shuangxie: "Eh? You two are not that kind of gold and silver..."
Lei Buji's mouth The word "zhai" hasn't come out yet, Huang DonglaiShe quickly covered his mouth. Niu Youjin and Niu Youyin also stepped forward, got on either side of Lei Buji, and whispered one after another: "My name is Niu Nuowei now." "My name is Niu Siji, don't do it. Wrong."
Lei Buji was stunned for a few seconds, nodded, and then Huang Donglai let go of his hand.
"You two... why did you change your names? Aren't the original names easy to remember? What are they all about now?" Lei Buji was not completely incapable of looking at the situation, so he He lowered his voice slightly before asking.
"Oh - that's a long story." Niu Nuowei (for convenience, I will refer to them by their new names from the beginning of the article) said, "Anyway, we Now it’s time to ‘return from evil’, so you can just think of us as ‘re-creating our lives’.”
“Oh… OK.” Lei Buji is not bothered by this, he is quite a person. People who trust others easily said, "Since you are following brothers Sun and Huang, you are not bad people after all."
The matter was revealed in this way, and Sun Yixie then asked Lei Buji : "Buji, don't talk about them anymore, how are you doing lately? It's been more than two years since you joined the Ba Fist Sect, right? How are you doing in the gang?"
He This question should not be asked, but if it is asked, Lei Buji’s expression will give the answer directly.
Obviously, he was not very happy during his time in Ba Fist Sect.
This... is also foreseeable. In other words, when his father Lei Buwei sent him to the Ba Fist Sect, his original intention was to make him feel this "unhappiness".
You can think about it for a moment. If you are the head of the Baquan Sect, one day the legendary top master Bahuang Quansheng comes to visit and says that he wants his son to join your sect. What will be the reaction?
The first question you have to consider is not even the matter of "should you accept him or not?", but to question whether Lei Buwei has any other purpose.
Because this thing doesn’t make sense in many aspects... You are a great boxing sage, but you don’t know how to teach your own son? Want to be sent to me to be a disciple? The key point is that you have already taught him martial arts. Now you ask him to teach him martial arts. What do you want to do? I really want to teach him everything I can. From now on, will he be considered your apprentice or mine? Are you the descendant of your boxing saint or the descendant of my boxing champion? Or...did you find something wrong with him, so you couldn't teach him or didn't want to teach him, so you brought him to me?
What if you used this as an excuse from the beginning, and once I refused to accept him, you said that I had refuted your face and then found trouble, what should I do?
Even if you really want him to come to me as an ordinary disciple, and I really accept him, what should I do with him?
Huo Ming must think carefully about these issues... If he were a person who didn't consider anything, he wouldn't be able to make Ba Fist Sect from scratch in twenty years. At its peak, it quickly grew into one of the top ten sects in the martial arts world.
Therefore, after carefulAfter careful consideration, Huo Ming accepted Lei Buji, but he did not let the latter become an ordinary "outer disciple" according to the rules, but instead gave him the title of "teaching skills on behalf of his father" , just said: "I, Huo Ming, can teach your son martial arts in my personal capacity on behalf of Senior Lei. Your son can also be regarded as the 'named disciple' of my Baquan Sect, but he does not need to follow the path of ordinary disciples. Instead, he can directly learn skills from me, the master, but it is difficult to calculate his seniority according to my apprenticeship. After all, most of my apprentices are in their thirties, so Buji should consider him as a younger generation who is about the same age as him. It’s better to talk about disciples.”
In this way, Lei Buji’s status in this Baquan Sect is roughly equivalent to that of the “master’s disciple”, but what the master really taught him is not passed on to others. A secret skill? Not at all...
Tell me about seniority. He is the disciple and grandson generation. When he meets the disciples and disciples of the master, he has to call him uncle and master. When he meets the master, he calls him master. Anyway, it’s a mess...
As for the treatment, he usually eats, drinks, and lives with the outer disciples at the bottom, but he can’t do anything without practicing with them. Practice together.
So the fellow apprentices, including his uncles and uncles,... neither dared to offend him nor wanted to have a close relationship with him. In short, they were just polite, making him always feel like a guest.
With a personality like Lei Buji’s, would he be able to survive in this kind of environment?
For him, this day was more uncomfortable than being beaten every day.
However, this is exactly what his father Lei Buwei expected...
As we said before, Lei Buwei had no intention of letting Lei Buji step in at first. Jiang Hu, because he also knew that he did not do a good job in education, which led to his son's character being indeed flawed, but later he found that some things could not be stopped, so he changed his mind.
In order to let his son see another side of the world, he sent Buji to the Baquan Sect.
And Huo Ming's response was quite different from what Lei Buwei had guessed - it can be said that although Huo Ming did not teach Lei Buji any martial arts, he learned a lot about the "sophistication of human nature" and the "complexity of people's hearts" These matters gave Lei Buji a good experience lesson for more than two years.
Some people may find it strange when they see this. With Lei Buji’s character, in this situation, he should have been tempted to run away, right? How did he stay until now?
Damn it, you thought he didn’t run away. He ran away less than a month after arriving, and was captured by Huo Ming himself.
After all, this person was left here by Lei Buwei. If someone came back to look for him another day, he would have run away long ago, so there is no way to explain it.
What's more, with Huo Ming's methods, even if he doesn't do anything extreme, he can easily cure Lei Buji.
Lei Buji also had no way to deal with Huo Ming: he was definitely no match for Huo Ming after he had dealt with it. Besides, he had no grudge against him. He couldn't risk his life to escape, right? So Huo Ming wanted to subdue and capture himIt's easy to go back; I've talked about it before... let alone mentioning it. Even if you give Lei Buji ten mouths, a veteran like Huo Ming can still silence him with all kinds of right and wrong reasons.
In the end, Lei Buji had no choice but to admit it and endure it...
This tolerance lasted more than two years, but guess what? This kid is still like that, he just "adapts" and "doesn't change" - you treat me as a guest, then I'll treat me as a long-term guest. Ask me to be a human being, and I don't like it. .
Therefore, Lei Buji was overjoyed to meet Sun and Huang again today. Even Niu Nuowei and Niu Siji seemed closer to him than his classmates, because even these two Even if he is an enemy, he can at least say a few sincere words to himself.
"Hey, this is the son of Lei Buwei that you mentioned to me..." The abbot also came up to him at this time. He stared at Lei Buwei and looked him up and down without hesitation, "Also? You are really different. With your appearance, who would believe that you are nineteen?" "Who are you? Do I know you?" Lei Buji praised him as soon as he heard this. He looked a little unhappy and immediately replied bluntly.
"Oh, this is the bodyguard we hired, named abbot." Before the abbot could reply, Sun Yixie immediately explained to Lei Buji, "That's how he talks. Like Don’t worry about it. If you don’t believe it, you’ll see later. When he meets someone like your boss who is not below him in seniority and not very familiar with him, he will speak human language.”
"Hey, hey! Are you looking for a slap in the face?" When the abbot heard this, he poked Sun Yixie's back a few times with his finger, "Don't you think I'm very familiar with you now? Dare you poke me outside?"
"Look, if you are anxious, it means you are right." Sun Yixie didn't even turn around to talk to the abbot, and was still talking to Lei Buji with a smile. Woolen cloth.
Just as a few of them were having fun, suddenly, another voice rang out and joined their conversation in a sinister tone: "It turns out that you two are the famous 'Eastern Harmony and Western Poison'" 'Ah, what brought you two young heroes to Cangzhou?"
The person who interrupted was none other than Shao Dejin, who had been watching them for a while. And his son Shao Shanhu was undoubtedly following behind him at this time.
"Oh? May I ask who you are?" Sun and Huang still had to pretend at this time.
"Easy to say, I am Shao Dejin, the master of Xingyi Sect in Cangzhou." Shao Dejin raised his head and raised his hand symbolically like a senior, and said so.
“It turns out it’s the Shao Clan Master, whom I’ve admired for a long time.” Huang Donglai smiled and cupped his fists in return, “We are all members of the Four Sects and Three Gangs, so the Shao Clan Master doesn’t need to be so polite as calling us ‘Young Heroes’, just directly Just call me by name."
"Huh..." Shao Dejin snorted coldly when he heard this, and then said, "Huang Shaoxia is good at talking, and Shao did have a few rude words to say. Tell me..."
"Haha..."Sun Yixie had already guessed what the other party was going to say at this moment, but he still smiled and motioned for the other party to continue the performance, "Master Shao, please say whatever you want, we are willing to hear the details."
"Well... ..." Shao Dejin really dared to accept this word. He nodded, groaned, and then said, "Shao has long heard of the reputation of the two young heroes in the world. Originally, I think the two of them also have a bright future. , but who would have thought that you just entered the 'Hunyuan Star Gate'..." At this point, he paused, and when he spoke again, there was a hint of anger in his tone, "Forgive Shao for speaking bluntly, I also I once met your leader Zhang Baoguo and your guardian Xudong Old Immortal... at the Seven Heroes Conference. In my opinion, these two people have unknown origins and act erratically. They really don't seem to be righteous in the world. In addition, your second senior brother Lin Yuancheng is a traitor to our Xingyi Sect. Not only is he arrogant and disrespectful, he is also ruthless and repays kindness with revenge... Shao is really worried about the future of the two young heroes in this sect. "Recent transcoding has been serious, which makes us more motivated and updates faster. Please use your little hands to exit the reading mode." Thank you