Chapter 640: Lai Lai Baifan

The young man lay in the snow, slowly opened his eyes, and whispered: "Hand hurts, hurts."

Li Li Banfeng returned the hand to the young man: "The hand is here, if it hurts, rub it."

From the left shoulder down, it was empty, and the young man cried: "Who are you people?"

"Businessmen, here to do business with you, first give you a deposit of one ocean dollar, what do you think?" Li Li Banfeng took out a silver dollar.

Seeing that there was still blood on the silver dollar, the young man was startled.

Li Li Banfeng wiped the blood: "My sister just applied lipstick and accidentally got a little on it. You take the money first, let's talk about where to go next."

The young man cried: "Where are you taking me?"

Dengpao smiled: "How can you say that? Aren't we all following you? Where are you taking us?"

The young man sobbed for a long time and said: "There is a quarry in front. If you go to work sincerely, as long as your sincerity is reached, you can become a serious body cultivator. The more sincere you are, the better you will turn out."

Tang Yuan asked: "What is called turning out well?"

"If you have ten percent sincerity, you can turn into decent creatures like cattle, horses, chickens, and ducks. If you only have six percent sincerity, you have to be lowly things like spiders and ants."

Dengpao asked: "What if you turn into a three-headed person?"

The young man shook his head: "This quarry is opened by the body cultivation ancestor. As long as you work sincerely under the ancestor, you will definitely not become a three-headed person. Those who become three-headed people are all insincere!"

Dengpao said to Li Qi: "Brother Seven, it's a guaranteed profit, this is the one who knows how to do business."

Li Li Banfeng asked the young man again: "How much money does the body cultivation ancestor give you for sending one person to the quarry?"

"Eighty for one person."

Tang Yuan said angrily: "Only eighty dollars, and you sold people?"

Dengpao said: "This person didn't find them, the old lady found them, and he doesn't have to do the things behind, just hand them over to the quarry. He just brings them this part of the road, eighty is not little,

And he also accepted an ocean dollar from us, this is also a good business that earns money from both ends, it's just that he really lost his capital on this order today."

Li Li Banfeng left the young man in the snow and took Tang Yuan and Dengpao to the quarry.

The quarry was very large, and more than 300 workers were mining stones under Radish Mountain.

These stones were not for building houses. The sky light in the Three-Headed Fork area was not dense, but the mountain body was irradiated by sky light for a long time. The stones mined were ground into powder and drunk with water to accumulate cultivation fate.

Medicinal materials for accumulating cultivation fate were not cheap. In Medicine King Valley, Li Li Banfeng had heard that some families, in order to cultivate a cultivator, spent all their family wealth just to accumulate cultivation fate.

Li Li Banfeng looked up at this quarry. This was not mining stones, it was a gold mine!

These workers didn't need money. He didn't know who rented this hillside from, but this was really a business with huge profits.

Strange, why are there three-headed people working here?

For body cultivators, growing two more heads meant failure to enter the path. Since they had already failed, why work for the ancestor?

A three-headed person carried a stone and walked down from the hillside. There were many edges and corners on this stone, and there were bloodstains on the three-headed person's shoulders.

Watching the three-headed person stagger and walk with difficulty, Tang Yuan frowned.

There were mountain roads on the hillside, but if they gave a wheelbarrow, this work wouldn't be so painful.

The three-headed person had just carried the stone to the bottom of the hillside when a supervisor took a leather whip and went up to whip him twice: "How long do you want to procrastinate? Didn't you eat? Run for me!"

This whip was as thick as two fingers. The three-headed person's clothes were thin, and after one whip, the clothes were broken, and the skin and flesh were also broken.

Carrying the stone, the three-headed person stumbled and ran forward, while the supervisor whipped him from behind: "Let you run, can't you hear me? Are you unconvinced? Let me tell you, if you don't want to do it, get out, there are plenty of people waiting to come!"

The three people watched silently from a distance. Tang Yuan gritted her teeth, Dengpao had no expression, and Li Li Banfeng's hat brim was pressed too low for others to see his face.

The supervisor walked over, looked at the three, and asked: "What are you doing?"

Li Li Banfeng smiled honestly: "Come to find the body cultivation ancestor and ask for medicine powder for entry."

This supervisor was called Ge Ge Yugen, and everyone called him Ge Tou. In this quarry, he had some status.

He saw that Li Li Banfeng's hat was good and reached out to take it off. Li Li Banfeng moved slightly. It looked slow, but Ge Ge Yugen couldn't reach it no matter what.

"I say, what are you dodging?" Ge Ge Yugen was angry, "Can't I look at your hat?"

Li Li Banfeng stated his purpose again: "I am here to find the body cultivation ancestor."

"With your attitude, you still want to see the ancestor? Who among those who come to find the ancestor with sincerity doesn't put their life on the line here? I want your hat, but you dodge and hide. With your vision, you still want to enter the cultivation path?"

During the conversation, Ge Ge Yugen came to take off Li Li Banfeng's hat again. He tried several times, but still couldn't reach it.

Ge Ge Yugen was anxious, kicked the ground, and jumped up. Looking at this jumping posture, he should be a grasshopper.

This jump was more than two meters high. Ge Ge Yugen flew over Li Li Banfeng's head, lowered his head and leaned over, still wanting to take off the hat.

He reached out several times in the air, but he still couldn't take it off. After landing, Dengpao sprinkled some oil on the ground, and Ge Ge Yugen didn't stand firm and fell directly into the snow pile.

"Ouch!" Ge Ge Yugen was anxious, "Come here! There are people making trouble!"

There were more than 50 supervisors in the quarry, and more than 30 of them walked over with tools: "What's wrong, Ge Tou?"

Ge Ge Yugen pointed at the three and shouted: "These three people came to make trouble under the banner of worshiping the ancestor, spoke to me in an unclean way, and even moved their hands and feet!"

The workers in the quarry were all stunned. Who was so bold to move their hands and feet with Ge Tou?

A few workers wanted to watch the fun, but were whipped by the supervisors beside them: "What are you looking at? Is the work finished? Still want to see the ancestor? Still want to enter the cultivation path? Still want to eat tonight?"

Ge Ge Yugen swung his whip and hit Li Li Banfeng: "Blind your dog eyes, dare to come here to make trouble. Today the ancestor is not here, I will teach you the rules on behalf of the ancestor!"

This person had great confidence. Even though he knew Li Li Banfeng had extraordinary skills, he had no fear at all.

Several whips in a row didn't hit him. Ge Ge Yugen said to the crowd: "Go up, beat them to death, I'll take responsibility. If they walk out of the quarry in one piece today, I, Ge Ge Yugen, will crawl in front of you in the future!"

The workers in the quarry were all very impressed. Although Ge Tou was cruel and bad, he was also really tough when he should be.

A group of people rushed up to besiege Li Li Banfeng. Li Li Banfeng was too lazy to take action. Ge Ge Yugen only had that much strength, how good could the others be?

Tang Yuan used the technique of counting ink and seeking lines, summoning a piece of text to put down this group of supervisors first.

Once they fell to the ground, it was difficult to stand up again. Dengpao sprinkled oil on the ground, and dozens of people were rolling on the ground.

They couldn't stand up. Dengpao could stand steadily on the oil. He held a knife and bled them one by one. Tang Yuan helped from the side. The text hovered in the air and wouldn't be affected by the oil and water on the ground.

Looking at these supervisors, they all had some cultivation, but most of them were at the first layer. In front of Tang Yuan at the fifth layer and Dengpao at the third layer, they had no power to fight back at all.

In less than two minutes, a group of people were beaten into submission by Dengpao and Tang Yuan, lying on the ground and not daring to get up.

Dengpao walked up to Ge Ge Yugen and asked: "Who said they would crawl just now?"

Ge Ge Yugen's face was pale, but he didn't admit defeat: "You guys have the ability not to leave. When our big shopkeeper comes, he will peel off your skin and hang it at the quarry gate!"

Li Li Banfeng looked at Ge Ge Yugen and said: "Who is your big shopkeeper? Is it the ancestor?"

Ge Ge Yugen shook his head: "Our big boss is the ancestor's disciple. The ancestor's business in Radish Mountain is all taken care of by our big shopkeeper."

It seems that the ancestor's business is not just in one place.

Li Li Banfeng discussed with Ge Ge Yugen: "How about this, you let others find the big shopkeeper, and you take us around here."

Ge Ge Yugen pursed his lips: "Only I can invite the big shopkeeper, no one else can!"

A group of supervisors volunteered: "We can, we can all call the big shopkeeper."

These people really didn't want to be beaten again.

"Don't listen to them..." Ge Ge Yugen didn't finish, was pressed to the ground by Dengpao, wound a rope around his neck, and pulled him.

Dengpao kicked Ge Ge Yugen to the ground: "Let's go, take us around first."

Ge Ge Yugen lay on the ground, still not admitting defeat: "I'll advise you one more time, it's not too late to leave now."

Dengpao raised his whip and whipped Ge Ge Yugen a few times: "Why so much talk, walk faster!"

Ge Ge Yugen gritted his teeth and walked forward. When he walked to the hillside, he secretly looked back at Dengpao.

Kid, just wait.

When the big shopkeeper comes, I'll cut your tongue first, and then chop off your hands.

Or don't chop them off, this kid looks quite handsome, I'll send him to the big shopkeeper then...

Bang!

Two whip sounds interrupted Ge Ge Yugen's fantasy.

Dengpao swung his whip and shouted: "Didn't you eat? Run!"

Ge Ge Yugen took the three around the quarry. Li Li Banfeng saw many three-headed people working here.

He found one of them and asked: "What are you doing here? Waiting for medicine powder for entry?"

The three-headed person nodded with all three heads, and the middle head said: "The ancestor said, our opportunity hasn't been broken yet. As long as we are sincere, we still have a chance to enter the cultivation path."

After becoming a three-headed person, you can't become a body cultivator. Every Like Puluozhou person knows this clearly.

But this three-headed person still held a last glimmer of hope, willing to suffer here, hoping that he could become a serious body cultivator once.

Do all other three-headed people think so? Isn't there one who can figure it out?

There are quite a few people who can figure it out. Many three-headed people know that they can't enter the cultivation path in this life, but where else can they go? Unless they take the initiative to go to the City of Sinners and be a prisoner for a lifetime, otherwise three-headed people are not welcomed anywhere.

Dengpao pulled Ge Ge Yugen down the hillside. After a whip all the way, Ge Ge Yugen admitted defeat, and Li Li Banfeng asked whatever he said.

He said their big shopkeeper is called Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi, a resounding figure in the Three-Headed Fork.

Li Li Banfeng felt that what Ge Ge Yugen said was the truth. Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi, this name sounds resounding.

"What is the relationship between Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi and the body cultivation ancestor?"

"Our big boss is the ancestor's disciple. The ancestor's business in Radish Mountain is all taken care of by our big shopkeeper."

It seems that the ancestor's business is not just in one place.

Dengpao intended to go to the place where the workers lived to take a look, but saw all the workers on the mountain pick up tools and work hard, and no one dared to watch the fun anymore.

Their bodies were trembling, trembling uncontrollably.

The supervisors who were originally lying on the ground were all energetic.

Dengpao looked into the distance, and Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi brought more than 30 people into the quarry.

Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi was indeed a bald man, his bald head was particularly bright in the snow. He looked at Ge Ge Yugen who was being pulled, and then at Dengpao: "Walking blindly without a lantern, and didn't see whose territory you entered."

Dengpao didn't know how to answer. Seeing that the opposite side was a person in the underworld, Dengpao clasped his fists and saluted him.

Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi stared: "Who are you scolding?"

Dengpao looked back at Li Li Banfeng. He didn't understand why clasping fists and saluting was scolding.

Li Li Banfeng said: "This person should have been a mountain bandit. Some mountain bandits taboo clasping fists. The appearance of clasping fists looks like wearing shackles. It's unlucky in this line of work. This kind of old rule is not common even in Like Puluozhou."

It is indeed uncommon. Li Li Banfeng learned this old rule when he was reading in the Ink Fragrance Shop. The customs of the Three-Headed Fork are not only very different from the Outer Provinces, but also quite different from other places in Like Puluozhou.

Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi smiled and said to Li Li Banfeng: "Insider? Are the two flower tongues (intermediaries) on the side of the road done by you?"

Li Li Banfeng nodded: "Done by me. Can you not speak foreign languages?"

Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi sank his face: "Report your name first."

Li Li Banfeng smiled: "Can I not report it?"

"Coming to my place to pick things up, and still speaking so arrogantly, release my people first."

Li Li Banfeng smiled: "Can I not release them?"

Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi said: "You don't understand human words. I'll give you two paths to choose. One is that you release my people, kneel on the ground and kowtow 100 times, you can take this big girl away, I don't want her, leave this watery little boy for me, and this matter will pass.

Dengpao was startled, looked at Tang Yuan, and asked: "Why must I be left behind?"

"Why look at me, I don't know either!" Tang Yuan also didn't know why she was angry.

Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi said again: "The second path, I will peel off your skin and hang it at the quarry gate as a sign. You choose yourself."

Li Li Banfeng asked: "What about the third path?"

Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi pointed at Li Li Banfeng: "There is no third path."

Li Li Banfeng took Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi's index finger and asked: "Think about it carefully again."

Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi saw that he was missing a finger, and was startled: "You, you are..."

"I'm asking you how to walk the third path?" Li Li Banfeng took Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi's ear and threw it into the snow.

Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi wiped his temple, his ear was gone.

He was about to shout for people to fight, but when he opened his mouth, he sprayed a big blood bubble.

The blood bubble didn't come out of his mouth, but out of his nostrils.

Li Li Banfeng took Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi's nose and threw it into the snow.

Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi wailed, scared to pee his pants.

Not only did he pee, but the more than 100 supervisors on the ground all peed, and the workers in the quarry also peed a large area.

This is Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi, this is the disciple of the body cultivation ancestor.

In their eyes, this person's status is equivalent to Lu Lu Dongliang's status in Green Water City back then.

And now this person in a black suit used some means to cut off Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi's ears and nose.

Is this real?

This is clearly a dream!

Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi was still wailing. Li Li Banfeng walked to the front and touched his head: "I'll point out the third path for you. Go lie down on the side, put the rope around your neck yourself, and let my brother pull you."

Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi really listened, took a rope, put it around his neck, and squatted beside Ge Ge Yugen.

Seeing Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi like this, Ge Ge Yugen was desperate, and squatted beside Dengpao obediently.

Other supervisors didn't dare to speak anymore, and the people Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi brought were also scared silly.

Li Li Banfeng looked at the people behind Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi and asked: "Who of you knows where the ancestor is? Please send an invitation for me!"

A group of people raised their hands, all saying they knew. As long as they could leave this place, they would do anything.

Li Li Banfeng really wrote an invitation and asked Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi: "Who of them is reliable?"

Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi didn't speak.

Li Li Banfeng frowned: "If I don't see your ancestor by tomorrow, your head will be gone."

Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi chose a middle-aged man in his forties: "This person has followed me for more than 20 years, we really have feelings."

Li Li Banfeng frowned: "Just having feelings is not enough, can you invite the ancestor in one day?"

The middle-aged man nodded: "Don't hurt our boss, I will risk my life to bring the ancestor."

This feeling is quite deep, no wonder Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi took a fancy to Dengpao.

As soon as the words fell, the middle-aged man stretched out his hands, kicked his feet, turned into four hooves, and lay on the ground.

His neck shook, his ears flicked, and he shouted: "Hmm ah~"

The middle-aged man ran away.

It turns out this is a donkey.

Dengpao pulled Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi and Ge Ge Yugen, led Li Ban

Li Li Banfeng had the Lightbulb tell everyone that he didn't care about whatever rules existed before; from today on, if they worked for a day, they would get paid for a day. As long as they mined enough stones, they would get fifty Da Huan currency notes every day.

The workers' eyes widened. Fifty notes a day?

The supervisors standing nearby were terrified. This was Three-Fork Junction, and these supervisors only made two hundred Da Huan currency notes a month.

Li Li Banfeng set the rule, and that was how the money would be paid.

Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi sneered but said nothing.

The accountant wanted to curry favor, so he approached Li Li Banfeng and lowered his voice: "Sir, if you do it this way, this business won't be able to continue."

Li Li Banfeng asked: "How so?"

"There are about three hundred people here. You're paying fifteen thousand in wages a day, four hundred and fifty thousand a month, and over five million a year. How much can this stone quarry earn in total?"

Li Li Banfeng picked up a stone and weighed it: "These are all medicinal materials for entry-level use. The money earned from mining stones here for a month is enough to cover the workers' wages."

The accountant shook his head and said: "What you're talking about is the outside price. To do business in Three-Fork Junction, you have to follow the rules of Three-Fork Junction.

There's a saying in the Outer Continent: Three-Fork Junction doesn't allow business. If the stone quarry wants to open, it must first give a share to the Barrier Inspector. After mining the stones, if you want to ship them out, you have to give another share to the Barrier Inspector. If you're short by even a fraction, you'll be shut down tomorrow!

These stones can only be shipped to designated buyers, the price is kept very low, and this business is under the name of the Grandmaster; the lion's share must be handed over to the Grandmaster. If all the remaining money is paid out as wages, you won't have any profit, and we won't have any hope.

These people are all here seeking medicinal powder. They sincerely follow the Grandmaster and haven't asked for wages. It's not that we're heartless and won't give it, it's that this business..."

"This business is going to change," Li Li Banfeng said, checking the account book one by one. "This business belongs to me from now on. No more for the Barrier Inspector, and no more for the Grandmaster. I'll ship to whoever I want to ship to. If anyone is unconvinced, come to me to reason it out."

That evening, Lightbulb and Tang Yuan each took a wooden hut and had a good sleep.

Li Li Banfeng called the supervisors together and asked about some business matters.

Business in Three-Fork Junction was not easy to do. What the accountant said was true; all kinds of rules required real gold and silver.

Li Li Banfeng had legal operating rights in Three-Fork Junction, which was unique in Puluo Continent. He used a simple telephone to contact Ma Wu: "Old Wu, how is the business in Three-Fork Junction going?"

"Old Qi, the business here is impossible to do. It's tangled and complicated, there are too many local bullies, and too many troublesome matters. Let's discuss it slowly after you return."

No wonder the business in Three-Fork Junction had been slow to open. Even a business expert like Ma Wu found it hard to intervene here.

At dawn the next day, the workers got up early to work in the quarry.

Out of more than three hundred workers, over two hundred had run away, leaving only a little over a hundred.

These runaway workers fell into two categories. One type was the smart ones who knew they had been swindled and didn't want to stay here and risk their lives.

The other type was the stupid ones, stupid beyond saving. They were still waiting for the Grandmaster to give them medicinal powder. Now that the situation in the quarry had changed, they were afraid of being implicated and went out to hide for a while.

The remaining hundred-plus people were quite diligent in their work. Even without supervisors, they didn't slack off.

They transported the stones they had mined to the foot of the mountain and piled them up, preparing to let the new proprietor see them by evening to see if today's work was worth the wages.

Lightbulb came over to take a look and roughly calculated everyone's workload. There was one pile with an especially large amount of stones. He wanted to see who had done this work, but he saw all the workers suddenly kneel on the ground, their foreheads pressed against the dirt, their bodies motionless.

Someone had come to the quarry. An old man, looking to be about 1.6 meters tall, with an estimated weight of 250 or 260 jin, his body round as a ball, his face pitted and scarred.

Looking at his walking posture, his toes were pointed outward quite severely, and he stepped forward with great effort, one step at a time.

This was clearly a Body Cultivator who could turn into a toad. Whether it was a transformation-type or manifestation-type Body Cultivator was hard to determine. Seeing this group of people being so respectful, Lightbulb could naturally infer that this person must be the Grandmaster of the Body Cultivators.

The old man was followed by twelve attendants, tall, short, fat, and thin, with various physiques.

Lightbulb was watching the old man, and the old man also noticed Lightbulb. With so many people at the foot of the mountain slope, Lightbulb was the only one who hadn't knelt.

The old man looked at Lightbulb and smiled: "Please tell your master that Lai Lai Baifan has come to see him."

Lightbulb hurriedly went to find Li Li Banfeng. Li Li Banfeng was already standing outside the wooden hut.

He told Lightbulb and Tang Yuan to find a place to hide: "If the situation isn't right, you two should leave immediately."

"Seventh Master, what about you?"

"Don't worry about me. Three-Fork Junction is the territory of Body Cultivators. With the Grandmaster of the Body Cultivators here, I might not be able to gain an advantage, and he has brought quite a few experts with him. When it's time for me to escape, you two must not become a burden to me."

Lightbulb hurriedly hid with Tang Yuan. Li Li Banfeng stood at the doorway for a short while, and Lai Lai Baifan arrived.

Looking at this name combined with his appearance, this person was 99% likely to be a toad.

Li Li Banfeng greeted him first: "Boss Lai, I'm cupping my hands in greeting here; I don't know if that's appropriate?"

Lai Lai Baifan smiled, cupped his hands, and said: "The guest follows the host's convenience. I am the guest, you are the host; I will follow whatever etiquette you prefer."

Li Li Banfeng returned the greeting, invited Lai Lai Baifan into the house, poured tea, exchanged pleasantries, and the host and guest took their seats.

Lai Lai Baifan held his teacup, looked at Li Li Banfeng for a moment, and asked in a low voice: "If I'm not mistaken, you are Li Qi, right?"

This Grandmaster was well-informed. Three-Fork Junction was so isolated, and he hadn't met Li Li Banfeng before, yet he could recognize him by his appearance and clothing.

"It is I." Li Li Banfeng did not deny it.

Two groans came from outside the window. Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi was still tied up under the window; he had finally waited for the Grandmaster to arrive and was waiting for the Grandmaster to save his life.

Lai Lai Baifan cursed toward the window: "You shameful thing, you still have the face to moan there. Do you know who you've offended? You should gouge out those eyes of yours yourself and stomp them into a pulp."

Iron Tie Tie Tu Zi dared not make a sound.

Lai Lai Baifan smiled: "Brother Li Qi, you suddenly came to this stone quarry and caused this conflict; what is the reason? Is it because I offended you previously?"

Li Li Banfeng shook his head: "We are strangers; how could there be any offense? I took a fancy to the stone quarry business and wanted to discuss with Boss Lai whether you could let this quarry to me?"

Lai Lai Baifan sighed: "This business isn't too easy to do."

"Profit and loss are part of business. I truly want this stone quarry; you name a price first."

Lai Lai Baifan shook his head: "I am an elder after all; talking money with a junior like you would make people laugh."

Li Li Banfeng said: "Business is business; you don't need to be polite about this."

"There is more than just business between us; there is also a connection."

"Where does this connection start?"

Lai Lai Baifan recalled carefully: "Calculating it, it's been almost three years. At that time, you had just arrived in Puluo Continent, and Granny Ku told me that if I met Li Qi, I should take care of him. She said Li Qi had taken her things.

You came by train, but you didn't get off at Three-Fork Junction at the time. I wanted to take care of you, but I couldn't."

This Lai Lai Baifan had dealings with Granny Ku?

But what he said sounded a bit strange...

Lai Lai Baifan continued: "Later, the Peddler also came to find me, saying that there was a brother named Li Qi who needed extra care.

I definitely had to give the Peddler face, but you didn't come to Three-Fork Junction, and I don't go out often, so we still couldn't meet.

Later, I heard you went to Elbow Mountain, but the Peddler didn't tell me about that, so in the end, we still didn't meet."

The Peddler also had a friendship with him?

Lai Lai Baifan said again: "There is also an expert who hasn't come out for many years. He also sent word for me to take care of you. Can you guess who this expert is?"

Who could this be?

City Lord Sun?

Hong Lian Bu Da?

Ayi?

Li Li Banfeng listened carefully.

Lai Lai Baifan lowered his voice: "This expert is..."

He opened his big mouth and swallowed Li Li Banfeng's head into his mouth.

His belly tightened, and with a surge of strength, he sucked Li Li Banfeng's whole body into his mouth and swallowed him.

This was a Food Cultivation technique, "Gourmand's Gorge."