Jin Guoqiang and his staff are still discussing things, and they don't seem to be tired at all. Li Tianming looked at them from a distance, sucking in oxygen, sighing inwardly that it's nice to be young.
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was cold and windy at night. Although Li Tianming was wearing a thick down jacket and warm clothes, his body still couldn't stand it. After sitting outside for a long time, he felt cold deep into his bones and waved to Scar Jin to help him up.
Scar Jin carried the oxygen cylinder in one hand and Uncle Li's arm in the other, carefully sending him into the tent to lie down.
Seeing Uncle Li lying in his sleeping bag lingering and panting, Scar Jin couldn't help but feel disgusted in his heart.
People say that being old and not dying is a thief. This guy is already sixty or so, and he should have died for so many years.
Back then, the Gold and Silver brothers started doing business with Uncle Li for a few steamed buns. Starting from walking through the streets to exchange food, they survived the Great Famine, survived the Great Revolution, fought Li Ergou, and the Song brothers in Luoyang... One In the blink of an eye, thirty or forty years have passed, and most of Scar Jin's black hair has turned white, from an unscrupulous young man to an old man over half a hundred years old.
Born to death for so many years, until now, Scar Gold is still just a running dog next to Uncle Li.
Scar Jin was very unconvinced.
The two brothers have been loyal to Li Tianming for many years. From Mangshan to Luoyang, they started from scratch and fought the world with two punches. Now they have power across the four provinces of Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Henan, and they deal with thousands of antiques each year. Tens of thousands, but no matter how big the business is, he has never had money in his hands—sometimes he has to borrow money from his second child when he goes out to find a woman.
The reason why the trouble is so shabby is that, on the one hand, Scar Jin usually spends money lavishly, eats, drinks, and gambling with him.
On the other hand, Uncle Li is really stingy. People say that the geese have plucked their hairs and the beasts have left their skins. Uncle Li is more ruthless than this. For example, they have sold out a piece of raw goods, which is at least valuable in the market. For a baby of 100,000, the scar gold can be divided up to a few hundred dollars at most.
Even so, Uncle Li always cries poor in front of them, saying that all money is spent in places that they can’t see. You must be filial to the gang, and it is not easy to raise so many subordinates. He often complains about the excessive expenses, so that everyone should pay. It's like a word to him.
Scar Jin has always wondered where Uncle Li has made so much money
He can't understand it. A man who doesn't smoke, drink, or pick up girls, spends all day trying to make money, and is living a chicken chop? ! Can save so much money to take to the grave? But Uncle Li lived like this for decades, and he was still very interesting.
Scar Jin thought, seeing that he is already a lot of age. In a few years, he shouldn’t be hard, and shouldn’t be soft. If you don’t hurry up and enjoy yourself, people will be useless. Under Li Tianming's hardship, when will he be tall
Li Tianming has always controlled the business to the utmost, as large as a few million, as small as a few thousand goods, he has to personally interrogate, as for the funds only in and out of his hands.
It is even more impossible to wipe oil from his hands. Although he rarely comes out to do business in person, everyone around him seems to be his eyeliner, and nothing can escape his eyes. So for so many years, although everyone has complained about Uncle Li's stinginess, they all dared not say anything.
Once while drinking, a brother drank too much and joked that Uncle Li would not get married or have children because he was afraid that his wife and son would divide his family property. Uncle Li learned of this the next day.
Uncle Li asked this man to kneel in front of everyone, slap himself in the face, and curse himself for being mean while smoking. He kept smoking for a meal and fainted.
No one knows who told the secret, but from that day on, everyone began to guard against each other, and more "respect" Uncle Li's authority, all complaints turned into fear.
In contrast, Scar Jin is more friendly among the brothers. After all, he is the oldest qualified person to fight the world with Uncle Li. Although he has a bad temper and often shaves people with big ears, he drinks with everyone when he has wine. Have meat to eat together, and have a kiln to stroll around. When "work", I was also on the front line with my brothers.
Sometimes Scar Jin felt that based on the feelings he had with his brothers, he was more suitable to be the boss than Uncle Li.
He had also thought about taking the seat of Uncle Li's boss and replacing it, more than once, but he didn't have the guts to do it—not to mention the old man's scheming, the power behind him is even more mysterious. Up to now, Scar Jin has been with Uncle Li for decades, and the mysterious backing behind them is still a dragon that has never seen the end. All I know is that Uncle Li's expert eyes are open to the sky, and most of them are the ghosts behind this backer.
Scar Jin felt that it was better not to do it himself, but that Uncle Li was killed by the enemy, so that he would take over as the boss.
Apart from Uncle Li, he is the only one who has the highest status in the gang and the oldest qualifications-although there is still some silver, he feels that his brother will not grab him.
But Li Tianming was cautious all his life and never gave his opponent a chance.
For many years, Uncle Li always likes to hide behind the scenes and command. He seldom "birth and die" with the brothers.
In the impression of Scar Gold, such an opportunity has only appeared twice.
It was once in the Yewang Temple in Northern Shaanxi, and that time even the scar gold was almost killed.
Although the fight in Yewangmiao was fierce, because it happened too suddenly, it was far less thrilling than the first time.
That time, it was twenty years ago.
At that time, Uncle Li and the others had just "paced down" Luoyang, killed Li Ergou, drove away the boss of Song Biaosong, and subdued Lord Ma...
Suddenly, the Li family gang became famous in Luoyang. People from all walks of life came to give gifts, show sincerity, and worship the mountain. Sitting at home, business came automatically. Scar Jin felt that he would no longer have to secretly dig antiques with his brothers. , Going around for food.
Unfortunately, not long after the good days, one day, Uncle Li suddenly called Jin Jin, Yin Zi, Da Wu, Niu Da and other confidants to the front, asking everyone to pack their things and prepare to "go out."
Scar Jin is very familiar with the location of this business trip. It was the place where he went to exchange food during the Great Famine.
Scar Jin remembered it very clearly. That time, they collected a batch of unearthed goods in Lijia Village. Uncle Li recognized that it was a batch of hidden weapons that had just been unearthed. He guessed that the person who exchanged the goods for them was a tomb thief. Maybe he is still a master.
Because the harvest in this area was quite fruitful, they delayed for a while, and the "comrade" also exchanged raw pit goods for food several times.
They should have made a lot of money on that trip, but it didn't take long before something happened, and the big guys except Uncle Li were caught all by themselves. Later, Uncle Li "fixed" the local authorities and saved everyone. At that time, everyone admired Uncle Li's "ability".
Soon after that, they encountered an unprecedented movement, and their thriving career came to an abrupt end. Since then, Scar Jin has forgotten this experience until Uncle Li mentioned it again.
He didn't understand the purpose of this trip, but he felt unusual instinctively, because Uncle Li personally led the team for an unprecedented time, and brought all the gold and silver brothers with him, as well as Dawu, Niu Er, and the next generation. Ruthless role in the generation.
Unlike the spirited spirit when he first cleaned up the Song family brothers, Uncle Li has been preoccupied recently.
Scar Jin didn’t understand that Luoyang’s big rivers and mountains had been destroyed. Uncle Li didn’t want to stay home to do business. Why did he insist on coming to this remote and ruined place? Is he going to do the old business of food for baby? It's not like, I didn't bring the poles or the guys. Besides, it's not a great famine anymore, and the food is out of stock.
Everyone is bored in the gourd, wanting to ask but not daring, this Uncle Li is frowning along the way, as if everyone owes him 5 million.
With bumps along the way, Scar Gold brought everyone to the Lijia Village where he exchanged goods. Unlike the ups and downs in the past few years, the small mountain village seems to have been forgotten by history. It has been almost the same for more than ten years. No change.
In order to avoid people's eyes and ears, they dressed up as peasants and stood far away from the village. Scar Jin pointed out the family who had used raw pits for food to show to Uncle Li.
Uncle Li asked Yinzi to go to the village to find out the news and find out the details.
After a while, Yin Zi came back and reported that the family was a foreigner who moved more than ten years ago. The man in charge was Liu Guohua. There was a brother who was a fool and lived with them all the time. Liu Guohua’s wife was Ye Lan, and there was a ten in the family. A few-year-old son, with his maiden name, is Ye Chong.
Uncle Li nodded, squeezing the mutton jade finger on his hand and paced back and forth in place.
Scar Jin is very familiar with Uncle Li's habit. Generally, when Uncle Li looks like this, it means that he is thinking about things and calculating, which means that someone is out of luck.
The others stared at them with big eyes and slumped for a long time. Uncle Li stopped suddenly, squinting his eyes and said to him:
"Golden, you take the two to his house and find him a pot!"
Jin Jin was stunned, and Luoyang did not stay there. He ran all the way to this Poshan Village to hold a pot
Seeing Jin Jin’s awkward look, Uncle Li had to speak a little more carefully: "First try to test him. You exchanged goods with him back then, and he should still know you. It’s best to draw him out, if he If you don’t get the bait, don’t force it, just let them know what you’re here for."
Although Monk Zhang Er was still puzzled, Scar Jin understood that he couldn't ask more, just just follow the instructions of Uncle Li.
He knows that Uncle Li’s arrangement is reasonable, just like dealing with Li Ergou and Song Biao before, Uncle Li will not tell you the intention of every step, and you will discover the subtleties of his arrangement later. .
Strategies, careful calculations, and taking advantage of everything are exactly what Uncle Li is good at.
It's just that Uncle Li miscalculated this time. Not only did they not take advantage this time, they almost took their lives.