It was after the earth dragon incident that Lorist changed his view of El. During the next few adventure trips, the two cooperated tacitly, and as their understanding deepened, Lorist and El became good friends who talked about everything.
How time flies, I was only nineteen years old at the time, and now I am twenty-four, five years is enough for Lorist to grow from a rookie who often makes fools of himself and makes mistakes into an experienced and calm The old mercenary.
What happened to me tonight, why do I keep thinking about the past? Perhaps it was Wen Na's chicness when she left just now and the destined breakup tonight that made me feel so much emotion. After all, it was a four-year relationship. As time goes by, I will gradually forget her. I hope that when the sun comes out tomorrow, it will be a brand new beginning.
"Why are you here? Do you want to see my excitement?" Lorist touched his face. Fortunately, he didn't shed tears, otherwise he would be laughed at by El again.
"I heard from Ji Luo, the fruit seller, that you are back. Of course I want to come and have a look. I thought it was an inseparable parting between life and death, but there must be a rekindling of old feelings, mutual complaints, and finally adultery. Passionate, sleeping together and so on. Who would have thought that the man would be ruthless and the woman would be straightforward, so it's so disappointing." El was still the same, full of nonsense.
"Hehe, I'm really sorry for disappointing you." Lorist chuckled.
"It's okay, my brother knows that you don't have the talent of a singer, so it's justifiable that you can't perform. By the way, what happened to the duel notice posted everywhere these two days? I was going to the academy tomorrow to find Shi Fatty asked what happened," Al asked.
"It's not a big deal, but the old man Dean Levins made a bet with all the other colleges in the college area, betting whether I can beat the silver professors in those colleges. Then the old man wanted to make some extra money, and by the way, let the college's reputation To make it even better, let Fatty Shi send people to post duel notices everywhere." Lorist briefly introduced the situation when he was pushed into the pit by Dean Levins.
El didn't sympathize with his little brother's experience. On the contrary, he was a little elated: "So this is a good opportunity to make money. Shall we set up a plate and bet on how many games you can win? I believe there will be a lot of money .”
Lorist smiled wryly, what kind of bad friends did he make, and instead of saying a word of comfort, he only thought about how to make a fortune from this matter, really. So he turned the cold water on El: "Don't think about it in the college area. Dean Levins, the old fox, must have made arrangements. He is more thoughtful than you, and he can't let go of this good opportunity to collect money. Maybe the whole city of Morente is in his calculations. If you want to set a plate, you can open a small tavern at most, plus profit sharing and management up and down, not as much profit as you imagined."
"Taverns are also fine. Forty-eight blocks of Morente City, plus three newly established communities, twenty-seven bosses. I just need to have a tavern in each block and community to open a plate. Those bosses who are willing to talk will share them. Yicheng, let him look good without saving face. My brother wants all his brothers to be independent, and he is worried that there is no seat arrangement. As for the dean, the old fox, no matter how he can calculate, he has to follow the rules. My brother put the plate The bonus is so high, how does he compare with mine on the surface, and see whose plate is more attractive." El was getting excited as he spoke, and couldn't wait to do something big.
Lorist secretly lamented that El was so cynical five years ago, he didn't care about anything even though he was the black boss, he only wanted to go out and take risks to become a famous mercenary legend. But now he is imposing, stable in life, and has a first-class vision for seizing opportunities. He is becoming more and more like a veritable black boss. It seems that not only myself has changed in the past five years, but also these friends have changed more or less.
"If you do this, you can really cut a big piece of this big pie. It's just that I said you didn't think about my mood, but my brother was forced to fight. If you are in a bad mood, let go It’s hard to say whether you win or lose.”
"Hehe, don't you understand that other people don't rely on your own brother? Brother, if you lose, it will be a big joke. The dark attribute of my brother is a bit difficult to practice, and he has only been promoted to silver two stars in the past few years. It's not as good as Fatty, who has already reached three silver stars. Not to mention anything else, in Morente City, there are really few silver-ranked mercenaries and swordsmen in our eyes. But under your command, the two of us have nothing to say. Better than one game. And that time when the two of us teamed up to fight against you, we only supported a hundred moves. Brother, you will lose to the silver rank, and you won’t believe it if you kill me.” Elby Lorist himself Also full of confidence.
Lorist rolled his eyes.
"Okay, brother, I won't make your hard work in vain. How about this, you can share 10% of the plate, can't you? The 15% and half, still shaking your head? Up to 20%, no more, brother. Brother also wants Go get some food, there are still so many people who need to eat." El said.
"Okay, it's a deal." Lorist stretched out a hand lazily: "Tomorrow you go to Fatty Shi by yourself and ask him about the schedule of the duel and the information of the challengers. Attractive. Also, don’t forget that Fatty Shi will also share in the profits.”
"I know, give him 10% at most, add 20% to you, 10% to 20% from top to bottom management, 10% to those bosses, and 10% to the staffing arrangement of the tavern. In this way, my brother still has 30% to 40% of his income. It's not in vain." El slapped Lorist's outstretched palm fiercely, thinking that such a large sum of gold coins would soon be pocketed, his mood became happier.
"Well, Locke, my brother forgot to ask you for two other things. He said he forgot what he told you about the plate just now. By the way, I found you an apprentice." El frowned and thought It took a long time to remember.
"What? You said to find an apprentice for me? Are you joking?" Lorist was taken aback by El's words, please, don't you see how old I am, isn't it a joke to be a master for someone
"This..." El hesitated for a while, scratching his hair in distress: "Actually, he is not considered a master, so just let him follow you and give him advice when you have time. Just treat yourself as an extra follower." Or if the servant gets it, let him do all the tiring and dirty work, anyway, this kid is tall and strong, so it doesn't take much effort to do these things."
Hearing what El said, Lorist became interested: "Tell me, what's going on?"
El said: "Well, brother Locke, you know the situation of our brothers, the thing is like this..."
Lorist knew how El's black boss got here a few years ago. More than 20 years ago, El's father and mother were both golden swordsmen, a couple who were the heads of a famous mercenary regiment. But twenty years ago, El's parents took part in the Battle of White Hart Town with a mercenary group. In that battle, the only sword master in the Krissen Empire fell on the battlefield, but the Ford Business Alliance also paid a huge price. The price was very high, and the casualties were very heavy. The mercenary regiment led by El's parents was almost wiped out. El's mother died in battle, and his father died of serious injuries and lingering sickness for several years. Only El's uncle Gary Lando, the only gold swordsman, and several silver-ranked mercenaries remained in the mercenary group, and Gary Lando also became crippled due to a blood vessel injury in his thigh, and could no longer be promoted to the second gold star for life. up.
Naturally, the entire mercenary group could not survive with only these few kittens left, so they had to disband. Fortunately, before the battle, El's parents had considered the worst situation and made careful arrangements for the families of the brothers in the mercenary group. The relatives of the entire mercenary group lived in the same block. Although the mercenary regiment was gone, on the one hand, the bereaved family members took care of each other, and on the other hand, Morente City also provided generous pensions to these mercenaries who died in battle, which saved them from worrying about food and clothing.
Gary Lando opened the Red Crow Tavern for the convenience of taking care of and teaching the children left behind by the mercenary brothers. He put his hopes on these children and hoped that the children would be able to re-establish the mercenary group when they grow up. banner. Among these children, El is truly the boss. This is because he is the oldest, second, he has the highest force value, and third, he is very good at taking care of these younger siblings. After all, they all grew up behind him.
Seeing that the children are getting bigger and bigger, and El is about to graduate from Dawn Academy, Gary Lando is full of joy. It seems that the day of re-establishing the mercenary group is not far away. In the end, it was not as good as the sky, and something happened that pushed El to the position of the black boss.
The policy of the Ford Business Alliance to hand over the management of the block to the underground community organization is really weird. Although this policy has given most black bosses of underground organizations a chance to change from black to white, reducing the occurrence of various criminal cases and conflicts between underground organizations, not all black bosses are well-behaved Follow the agreement. There was such a black boss in the block where El and the others were located.
Not to mention that the usual tax and management fees are so much higher than those in other neighborhoods, but this black boss also created an ingenious trick to charge additional clothes drying fees, land occupation fees, road depreciation fees, etc., and the result was rejected. The protest of the entire block almost turned into a riot. And the large area where El and the others live is the most popular. They not only rejected the unreasonable apportionment of the black boss, but even beat the members of the community organization who came to collect the fees into the hospital. They are all young people, so it is understandable that they are more impulsive.
But Boss Hei didn't think so. He thought that the block where El and the others lived was a model for the whole block, and it was El and the others who took the lead to turn everyone against him. This made Boss Hei regard El and the others as thorns in his eyes, and he wanted to get rid of them as soon as possible. At this time, his younger brother brought him a piece of news that made the black boss even more furious. It is said that people in the entire block are preparing to launch petitions and protests at the block review meeting at the end of the year, forcing the city hall to remove itself as a community organization from the management of the block.
This is not bad, the black boss jumped up, how much public relations fees he paid to get the management rights of this block, and the cost has not been recovered yet, how can this work. Sometimes the brains of gangsters are not very bright, and the boss of the gang thought about it and came up with an idea, which is to kill the chickens to scare the monkeys. As for the chicken, Al and the others deserved it.
However, the strength of Hei Boss' men alone is not their opponent, not to mention that there is a golden swordsman behind El and the others. Boss Hei was reluctant to spend a lot of money to hire people, so he asked his men to bring barrels of kerosene to set fire to the residential area in the middle of the night, planning to burn El and the others to death and push them onto the fire.
I won’t talk about how stinky this idea is, the problem is that boss Hei’s subordinates were discovered as soon as they arrived at El’s place. After beating up and then threatening, the subordinates would say everything. This was a sensation in the whole neighborhood, and people surrounded Heiboda's house overnight. Hei Boss couldn't even escape, and after being caught by El and the others, he still kept his mouth shut. As a result, angry residents swarmed up. Before Er and the others could react, Hei Boss was done.
What about the management of the neighborhood without the social organization of the black boss? The more prestigious elders in dozens of blocks discussed, yes, Er, you go, so Er lived up to everyone's expectations and became the black boss.
Involuntarily becoming the black boss El is naturally unwilling and doesn't want to take care of anything. But he didn't want to control those brothers who couldn't stop him, all of them were enthusiastic and capable, and everything was done safely, even without El worrying about it. After a year, El found out that even the two blocks next door It has also been managed by itself. In this way, the future mercenary group that Golden Swordsman Gary Lando placed high hopes on became a neighborhood community organization, and it was also the most dynamic and promising one in Morente City.
When the mercenary group was disbanded, there was a silver swordsman who was very close to Gary Lando. He was from the Romon Empire and was going to return to his hometown after the rest of his life in the battlefield. During the farewell, Gary Lando told him his plan, hoping that in the future the children of the brethren could be erected as the banner of the mercenary group again. Three months ago, a little beggar from the Romon Empire came to Gary Lando. When the old man asked, he realized that he was his good friend back then, the son of the silver swordsman.
Only then did Gary Lando know that Silver Swordsman passed away last year. His old friend's hometown was a remote small village. After Silver Swordsman returned home, he became the captain of the village's defense. After two years, he became a family and had an old man. The little beggar in front of him. There was an epidemic in the village two years ago, and the little beggar's parents couldn't avoid it. First, the mother died, and the silver swordsman delayed for half a year. Before he died, he ordered the child to find Gary Lando and join the mercenary group.
The child traveled from the Roman Empire to Morente City for half a year. In fact, it would take half a month to take a long-distance public carriage, but the child didn't know it, so he walked all the way on two feet, and did something when he ran out of money. I need some food for odd jobs, and sleep outside the hotel or in the haystack at night. It is really not easy not to be caught as a slave by those black-hearted slave owners along the way in the past six months. When he arrived in Morente City, he asked where the mercenary's relatives lived, and when he arrived at the neighborhood, he asked Gary Lando, and then he was brought to the old man.
Hearing the experience of the little beggar all the way, the old man burst into tears. Not only did he eat and drink well, he also told El to treat the boy as his own brother. But when the kid knew that El and the others did not set up a mercenary group but instead became a community organization, they started to get awkward and refused to follow El and the others. Then go to the head office of the school, well, I came back tonight, and brought back the expulsion notice from that college, because he beat up the whole class to the ground.
"This is already the third junior college. We still expect him to apply for Chenxi College in a year. But it seems impossible now. The old man asked him what he wanted to learn. He said he wanted to learn swords and become a junior college in the future. He is a great mercenary, going on adventures all over the world. But the question is not whether he wants to learn, but whether he has the talent... "
El has been complaining: ""This kid grew up in a mountain village and played in the forest all day long. His parents indulged him very much. As a result, his temper is too wild and stubborn. Sometimes his mind is just a muscle. , If you confirm it, you will not look back. Let's talk about learning swords. I think giving him a wooden stick is more threatening than holding a big iron sword. He is only sixteen years old this year, and his grudge is already two stars of bronze. He is also tall and tall. He looks like he is in his twenties. Average age. The strength is also very strong, this should be a good material for martial arts, but you must have never thought that this kid is very stupid when holding a sword. You taught him a move, and he can use the sword move he just learned in less than ten minutes. Forget it all, holding a sword is like smashing a wooden stick, and you will be mad at you. "
"Even the old man can't do anything about him now, so I thought of you. If anyone can teach him how to use a sword, I think there is no one else but you." El said.
Lorist chuckled twice: "Old Gal is a golden swordsman, he can't even teach that kid how to learn swordsmanship, what else can I, a black iron, do?"
"You are different, Brother Locke, your swordsmanship is much better than that old uncle of mine. You can just help my brother with this. If you find that he is not suitable for learning swords after he has been with you for a while, then Get him back," Al pleaded.
Lorist pondered for a while, then nodded and said, "Okay, if he's not good at learning swords, I'll let him find you."
Note: In Morente City, you can't enroll in a large college like Dawn Academy, you have to pass some simple entrance exams to confirm that students have a certain cultural foundation before they can go to school. That's why there are many one-year elementary colleges in Morente City, just like those college entrance exam cram schools in Lorist's previous life, which are specially designed to strengthen and consolidate students' basic cultural knowledge, so that students can successfully pass the entrance examination and enter the university. college.