low-key warlock

Xishan County is named because it is adjacent to the majestic and stretching Taihang Mountains in the west.

Since history, Xishan County has been a poor place.Until the early 90s, Xishan County was still a national-level poverty-stricken county—the land here was barren, there were few rocks, and the crop yield was extremely low.Even some locally produced fruit crops such as walnuts, persimmons, dates, etc., can be grown in mountainous areas to yield good harvests and taste quite good, but the roads are impassable, and transportation is a problem, let alone getting rich?

However, in just a few years, Xishan County has now become Pingyang City, and even a well-known Fuyu County in the whole province.

Because coal mines and iron mines were discovered here!

Once upon a time, in this barren land where the crops that depended on the weather were low-yield or even extinct, who would have thought that it would be possible to dig coal just by digging down more than ten meters?Who would have thought that on those majestic and towering mountains all over the mountains and plains, a pile of rotten stones could be smelted and turned into money?

These days, who in Pingyang City would dare to laugh at the people of Xishan County as "going out to escape famine and returning home to famine"?

Because people in Xishan County are rich!

This is something that almost everyone in Pingyang City knows and must envy and hate.

Those unscrupulous people in Xishan County who don’t know how to read two liters of big characters, don’t know how to read a word when their shoulder poles are upside down, and have lived poorly in the mountains for many years and have never seen the world, are now all so rich that they—— What if they are illiterate and haven't seen all kinds of dishes when ordering at the best restaurant in the city?

He waved the menu and said: "Don't bother with that bird, I don't know what these are, and I don't know which one is good and which one is bad, just order one of the same!"

They can hold a bottle of red wine worth tens of thousands of yuan, and drink it vulgarly and happily from the mouth of the bottle like drinking water. Extravagant clothes, and then holding cigarettes in public to burn holes one by one, just to vent their anger and slap their faces!

They can buy a luxury car and see that their neighbors bought a different one and it looks pretty, so they buy another one, and we have what others have!

They spend money like water, typical super nouveau riche!

At the same time, they are also rapidly improving their shrewd business acumen, and displaying their shrewd and ruthless habits cultivated in poor mountains and rivers, unscrupulously making those who have helped and fooled them for huge benefits to make a fortune The foreign businessmen, one by one, squeezed out the money they earned and drove them out of the land in Xishan County, or brought them under their command from the original decision-makers to their executors, and then they dominated and monopolized the local mineral resources!

These days, out of every ten luxury cars in Pingyang City, eight are definitely driven by people from Xishan.

Some people even say that 80.00% of the deposits in all banks in Pingyang City are deposits from mine owners in Xishan County.

This place in Xishan County is really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Even Zhao Shangang, who has risen rapidly and powerfully in the underworld in Jinzhou County and Pingyang City, and has been doing well, can only stare helplessly at the huge and eye-popping piece of fat in Xishan County and drool, but I dare not easily wade into the deep water in Xishan County.When being bewitched by others with malicious or good intentions, Zhao Shangang, who has not really seen the big world, is very self-aware and wise and far-sighted and said a sentence: "A strong dragon does not suppress a local snake, let alone with Xishan County. Compared with all the powerful dragons in the world, I, Zhao Shangang, am a small snake at best, let’s talk about it later.”

In the afternoon, Xishan County was baked by the scorching sun.

Most of the originally towering and verdant peaks in the west have become bare amidst the roar of machinery, and are constantly shrinking their majestic figure.

The rapid deterioration of the environment has made the summers in Xishan County extremely hot in the past two years.

Today's Xishan County has wide streets and wide roads, and cars are like weaving.High-rise buildings rising from the ground, beautiful and brand-new residential quarters... let this poor county town, which was not as good as ordinary towns in other places in the past, show a new look like a reborn city, and its prosperity is several times stronger than that of Pingyang City. times.

On the inner side of the newly built southern section of the East Ring Road, there is a village that has not been demolished yet and retains the former poverty-stricken appearance.

Dilapidated tile-roofed houses are scattered on this barren land without order and rules, and the narrow streets and alleys are full of potholes and uneven dirt roads.

Because of the rain just last night, the streets and alleys were muddy and dirty.Only the trees planted along the streets and alleys in the courtyards of the households swayed vigorously in this hot summer with their luxuriant greenness, adding a bit of beautiful artistic conception to this dilapidated and poor village.

In the southwest corner of the village, even in such a dilapidated and impoverished village, there is a dilapidated and outstanding house that can still be seen.

The three main houses are all low tile-roofed houses, and on the dilapidated tiled roofs, there are pieces of oilcloth pressed here and there with bricks to keep out the rain and stop leaks.On the walls of each house, there are still small windows with old-fashioned wooden lattice and window paper. The main door is that old-fashioned wooden door with wooden lattice carvings on the top, and the height of the lower door frame is less than 1.7 meters.The steps in front of the door are two shallow layers of red bricks. The red bricks paving the floor inside the house have long been unclear in color and brick joints. They are all covered with thick dirt. After years of sweeping and stepping, there is a graceful effect of glowing light.

The yard is still muddy, and there is only a path less than half a meter wide, paved with red bricks, crookedly leading from the main house entrance to the courtyard gate.

In the northwest corner of the yard, there is an even simpler hut, probably a kitchen?

In the northeast corner, there is an open-air toilet that is simply built with adobe, and a hole is dug inside, and two buckets are put in to make do with it. Countless flies are buzzing and circling in the stinking Near and inside the toilet.

The courtyard wall made of adobe is only 1.5 meters high, and the wall is crooked, mottled and peeling off. It cannot be said that a heavy rain or a wind will destroy it one day.

courtyard gate...

There is no courtyard gate, and there is a two-meter-wide opening between the adobe walls facing the door of the house. This is the courtyard gate.

If it is not uncommon in this village to say that it is dilapidated, then the architectural layout style of this small dilapidated house is definitely a strange thing—the three rooms of the main house are not like most of them. In the south, it does not seem that some houses have to face west to east or east to west due to various reasons such as terrain, but it is very rare to sit south to north.The problem is, this small courtyard faces the road on the north, south and west sides, so it shouldn't be built like this at all.

I really don't know what the head of the household thought.

Qian Ming, the people's teacher of the No. [-] High School in Jinzhou County, was squatting on a mottled and old stone roller outside the courtyard gate, which had been buried in the soil for many years. cigarette.Fortunately, there was a luxuriant jujube tree next to the mouth of a bowl, which covered the sun and cast green shade, so that he would not be exposed to the sun.

This is Gong Hu's home.

Qian Ming never expected that Xishan County, which was recognized by Su Chunfeng as having a very high level of magic skills, could not defeat Gong Hu, and his living conditions were so poor that they were miserable.He couldn't even imagine how the tiger-like woman in this family endured living with Gong Hu for most of her life?

As a result, Qian Ming had a thought in his heart that he would no longer practice magic and become a warlock...

This is really not a life for a human being!

Qian Ming found Gong Hu's house after inquiring all the way around ten o'clock in the morning.

The tall woman at home who claimed to be Gong Hu's mother-in-law told him that Gong Hu was out on errands and would be back by noon.Originally, Gong Hu's wife politely asked Qian Ming to sit down and drink water while waiting, but Qian Ming was really embarrassed to sit and wait at home, and the environment inside the house was also poor, messy and even a decent chair could not be found. No, besides sitting on the kang in a stranger's house, Qian Ming was also embarrassed, so he had to wait outside on this barely clean stone roller with a bit of shade.

Until now, I haven't even eaten lunch.

Gong Hu hasn't come back yet.

However, this gave Qian Mingxin a glimmer of hope. Maybe it was because Wang Qimin came to find him that Gong Hu went out to do errands today?

Just when he was getting a little sleepy and began to doze off, there was a sound of muddy water being crushed in the distance.

Following the prestige, I saw a black and atmospheric Mercedes-Benz car turning pitifully in the narrow potholes and mud on the street to the east that was blocked by half of the houses, and slowly driving towards this side. It is a beautiful car. Muddy water splashed all over his body.

"You ruined a good car, what are you doing in this poor place..." Qian Ming muttered.

Unexpectedly, the Mercedes-Benz car stopped at the door of Gong Hu's house.

The rear door on the right side of the car opens.

A 47-year-old middle-aged man with rough and dark skin got out of the car first.

This man is wearing a white short-sleeved shirt, black trousers and black leather shoes, a thick gold chain around his neck, a gold watch on his wrist, and a big gold ring with diamonds on each of his hands. He is fat and tall, with shiny hair With a bright back, one looks like a rich and powerful upstart.As soon as he got out of the car, he ignored the mud and dirt on the street, stepped on the muddy water and made a quick detour here, pushed the driver who got out of the car to help open the door, then opened the door himself, nodded politely and said: "Master Gong, I'm home, please, please..."

As the door opened, a thick puff of smoke came out of the car.

Gong Hu got out of the car with a red copper pipe in his hand and smiled.He was wearing a white vest with several holes, large trousers made of coarse cloth and patched, and a pair of blue and inferior plastic slippers that were so torn that the heels were worn through.His wretched and ugly cheeks were flushed, his eyes were dazed and staring, full of drunkenness, he let the nouveau riche boss support him and walked towards the dilapidated courtyard, while saying: "Oh, you're too polite..."

"It should be, it should be." The big boss smiled all over his face.

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ps: I posted the testimonials on the shelves after the vertical and horizontal promotions, and I blush and shy away...