Chapter 2 Green Ox Town
This is a small town, said small town is actually just a larger town, the name is also called Green Ox Town, only those who live in the nearby ravine, not much knowledge of the natives, only “Green Ox City” “Green Ox City” called endlessly. This is the heart of Zhang Er, who has been a doorman for more than ten years.
Qingniu Town is indeed not big, the main street is only an east-west direction of the Qingniu Street, even the inn is only a Qingniu Inn, the inn is located in the west end of the town in the shape of a long strip, so passing merchants do not want to sleep out in the field, if you can only live here.
Now there is a carriage that looks like it has driven a lot of road, from the west into the green ox town, fast drive through the green ox inn’s front door, stopping without stopping, has been speeding to the other end of the town, in front of the entrance of the spring fragrance restaurant, before stopping.
The Spring Fragrance Tavern wasn’t big, it was even a bit old, but it had an ancient flavor. Because it was now lunch time, there were still a lot of guests dining in the restaurant, and it was almost a full house.
From the car down a round face with a moustache fat man and a dark-skinned, ten-year-old child, the man with the child directly strut into the restaurant. Some of the restaurant’s familiar customers recognize the fat man, know that he is the restaurant’s shopkeeper “Fatty Han”, who is the child but no one recognized.
”Old Han, this black kid looks like you, it can’t be the son you gave birth to behind the back of your mother-in-law.” A man suddenly joked.
When this sentence came out, it caused the crowd next to him to burst into laughter.
”Bah! This is my own nephew brought from my own family, of course he has a few resemblances to me.” Not only was the fat man not angry, he was also a little bit pleased.
These two people were Han Li and his third uncle – “Fatty Han” in other people’s words – who had just entered the town after driving for three days in a row.
Fatty Han greeted a few familiar guests and brought Han Li to the back of the restaurant, to a small remote courtyard.
”Little Li, rest well in this house and get your spirits up, I’ll call you over as soon as the inner sect’s steward arrives. I’m going to go out for a bit first to greet a few familiar guests.” Fatty Han pointed to the compartment in the courtyard and said to him amiably.
After saying that, he turned around and hurriedly walked out.
When he reached the door, he seemed a little less assured in his heart and instructed again, “Don’t run around, there are too many people in the town, don’t get lost, and it’s best if you don’t go out of the courtyard.”
”Uh-huh!”
Seeing Han Li honestly agree, he truly felt relieved and walked out.
Han Li saw his third uncle walk out of the house, and feeling tired, he fell headfirst onto the bed and huffed and puffed as he slept, surprisingly not having a little bit of a child’s fear of life.
To the evening, there is a boy sent a meal, although not big fish and meat, but also considered delicious. After eating, a small boy came in, the leftover rice bowl to the end of the out, this time the third uncle walked in unhurriedly.
”How is it, the food is still to your liking, some homesick right?”
”Uh, a bit homesick.” Han Li looked well-behaved.
Third Uncle looked satisfied with Han Li’s answer, and immediately afterward chatted with him about some family matters, bragging about some interesting people and stories he had experienced. Gradually, Han Li lost his sense of restraint and began to talk and laugh with him as well.
Like this, two days passed in a row.
On the third day, when Han Li had finished his dinner and was waiting for Uncle San to come and tell him stories about the jianghu, another carriage stopped in front of the restaurant.
This carriage body was black paint brush black shiny, driving is also uncommon hundred miles of yellow steed, the most attention is, in the carriage frame inserted a rusted “Xuan” word small triangle black flag, silver red edge, naturally, through a stream of indescribable mysterious color.
See this small flag, all in this hundreds of miles around the jianghu veterans know, this place one of the two hegemony of the “seven Xuanmen”, there are important people driving to the local.
The “Seven Xuan Sect”, also known as the “Seven Jedi Sect”, was founded by the famous “Seven Jedi Master” two hundred years ago, and once dominated the Mirror State for dozens of years, and even infiltrated a number of states near the Mirror State, making it famous throughout the entire country of Yue. He was also famous in the whole Yue State. However, since the death of the “Seven Extinct Master”, the power of the “Seven Xuan Sect” has fallen drastically, and it was forced out of the capital of Mirror State, Mirror State City, by other sects. A hundred years ago, the sect was forced to relocate to the most remote place in the Mirror State – Caixia Mountain, and since then it has taken root and settled there, falling into a third-rate local small forces.
As the saying goes, a thin camel is bigger than a horse, after all, the Seven Mysteries Sect was once a large sect, and the potential it possessed was still extraordinary. After coming to Colorful Xia Mountain, they immediately took control of a dozen small towns including “Qingniu Town”, and with 3,000 to 4,000 disciples, they are one of the two local hegemonies.
The only other local force that could compete with the Seven Mysteries Sect was the “Wild Wolf Gang”.
The Wolf Gang was formerly a group of horse thieves who killed and plundered in the Mirror State boundary. Later, after several roundups by the government, some of the horse thieves accepted the government’s peace, while the other part of the horse thieves became the Wolf Gang, but the horse thieves’ fierce, bloodthirsty, and boldness to kill and fight have been passed down to them, so the Seven Xuan Sect has been at a disadvantage in the clashes with the Wolf Gang time and time again.
Although there are many towns controlled by the Coyote Gang, they do not know how to operate them, and their wealth is far inferior to the towns under the Seven Mysteries Sect. The Coyote Gang was very greedy for a few of the richer territories under the Seven Mysteries Sect, and had often provoked conflicts between the two lately, which had caused the current Seven Mysteries Sect Master a headache, and had become the main reason why the Seven Mysteries Sect had repeatedly expanded the number of disciples within the Sect in recent years.
A thin man in his forties jumped off the carriage, this man was agile, obviously not weak, and seemed familiar with the area, striding straight towards the house where Han Li was.
As soon as Han Li’s third uncle saw this man, he immediately respectfully stepped forward and gave a salute, “Protector Wang, why has your old man personally brought someone here?”
”Hmph!” Protector Wang snorted coldly with a haughty look on his face.
”It’s not peaceful on the road during this period of time, we need to strengthen the defense, the elder ordered me to personally come to lead the people, cut the crap, this kid is the person you want to raise?”
”Yes, yes, this is my own nephew from my own family, I hope that Protector Wang will take care of him more on the road.” Fatty Han saw that this man looked a little impatient, and nimbly took out a heavy bag from his body and stealthily handed it over.
Protector Wang weighed the bag, and his expression loosened up a bit:
”Fatty Han, you are quite a good person! Your nephew I will take care of one or two on the road, time is running out, better hurry up and get on the road.”