Four Elephants

The entire Dengfeng Ridge is Yimen's territory. 300 years ago, Yi Lie, the ancestor of Yimen, came to this place in order to cultivate immortality, but failed to enter Lingyun Mountain, so he settled in a hut in Dengfengling, married a wife and had children, passing down the Yimen lineage.

Although the ancestors of Yimen did not succeed in cultivating immortals, their descendants established a very close relationship with the Lingyun sect of Xianmen because of their proximity to the water.Basically, Yimen is an affiliated force of Lingyun Sect, and its responsibility is to continuously select from Lingyun Sect family children with excellent talents and aptitudes to serve as Lingyun Sect's disciples and continuously send fresh blood to Lingyun Sect.

After 300 years, more than [-]% of the disciples of the Lingyun sect are members of the Yimen, and some of them have entered the inner hall of the Xianmen and become the figures of the masters.

Because of the protection of the Lingyun Sect, Yimen was able to gain a foothold in the world of Hunyuan, where monsters and immortals were rampant, and it became more and more prosperous. The number of clan members under the sect exceeded 500, and the area of ​​the entire family was as large as ten dozen. Kilometers, with Dengfengling as the center, east to Liushugou, west to Wangyue River, north to Huaping Mountain, and south to Lingyun Mountain, all belong to Yimen's sphere of influence.

People living in this range, most of them with Yi surnames, naturally belonged to Yimen, and not people with Yi surnames, most of them were tenants, woodcutters, fishermen, miners, medicine workers, etc. affiliated to Yimen.In short, this is the kingdom of the Yimen family, Yimen is the master, and everyone else is subordinate.

On this day, a horse-drawn carriage came to the gate of the open courtyard in front of a place surrounded by green trees adjacent to the Moon River on the west side of Dengfeng Ridge.

After the car stopped, a man in his thirties jumped out first.The man was dressed in blue-gray clothes, without a belt around his waist, and his complexion was slightly gray-black. He was Yi Banshan.

Immediately after Yi Banshan, there was a young man carrying a package and holding a big gray iron gun in his hand. It was Yi Tian.

After the father and son got off the car, Yi Banshan took Yi Tian into the gate of the manor.

After entering the gate, he saw several carts loading goods parked in the yard. Zhang Ershan, who went to Yi Banshan's house for dinner yesterday, was also busy with one of the carts.

Seeing Yi Banshan coming, Zhang Ershan nodded and smiled at him, then turned his head to the door of the main hall and pouted.

"Hehe, I got it." Seeing Master Zhang's actions, Yi Banshan clapped his hands and smiled, nodded, and led Yi Tian to continue walking in, until he arrived at the entrance of the main hall, and found that there were people coming and going in the hall. Being busy, Yi Hongshan, the general manager in charge of the family's cargo transportation, seemed to have no time to receive them, so he had no choice but to stand at the door and wait temporarily.

While waiting, Yi Tian peeked into the hall, and found that there was a large table made of fine red apricot and nanmu wood in the middle of the hall, and it was filled with pen holders of various colors, like a forest of knives and guns, with extraordinary momentum.There are lacquered wooden chairs on the left and right sides of the table, on which sit the gatekeepers and freight forwarders holding notes and waiting for the goods to be issued.Looking at the back of the table, there is a middle-aged man with a rough face and a beard sitting upright.

Seeing that big man, Yi Tian probably guessed that he was Yi Hongshan, the head of the family freight team.Yi Tian only met Yi Hongshan on the road before, and the only impression he left was that he had a particularly loud voice and a very violent temper. His father, Yi Banshan, always spoke in a low voice in front of him, very disrespectful.

I didn't expect that I would stay under him for the first time when I came out to work, which made Yi Tian feel somewhat uncomfortable.

After waiting for about half an hour, a voice came from the lobby saying: "You two, third son, come here!"

"Yes." Hearing the voice in the lobby, Yi Banshan couldn't stop talking, tugged Yi Tian's sleeve, pulled him in with him, and came to Yi Hongshan's desk.

"Brother, this is your nephew Xiaotian," Yi Banshan said, "Hurry up, Xiaotian, this is your Uncle Hongshan, and now he is the manager of the cargo team. From now on, you will help him under his command." , be more careful."

"Hi Uncle," Yi Tian bowed slightly and nodded.

"Well," seeing Yi Tian's actions, Yi Hongshan raised his eyes to look at him while writing with a brush. The two said at once: "What are you still doing in a daze? Go, go to work, I know."

"Okay, Brother Hong Shan, then I'll leave it to you." Yi Banshan smiled apologetically, and led Yi Tian out of the lobby.

"Master Zhang, I will leave Xiaotian to you." After leaving the lobby, Yi Banshan brought Yi Tian to Zhang Ershan.

"Don't worry, I will take care of it for you," Zhang Ershan said, looked at the big iron gun in Yi Tian's hand, nodded and smiled, "This kid still has some strength, as long as he can suffer , you can definitely stay here. Don’t worry about that.”

"Did you hear that? As long as you can suffer!" Hearing Zhang Ershan's words, Yi Banshan glanced at Yi Tian and said, "There are two taels of silver a month, and food, clothing and housing are all covered. You should also know that now at home In the current situation, I want to hire you a better private school teacher, but I can't afford it, so you kid will do it for me, don't waste the family's money, save some savings and use it wisely, and find you a better one next year Private school master, learn some useful work, understand?"

Yi Banshan's words were thoughtless, Yi Tian felt sad, but did not refute, nodded and said: "Got it, you go to work, I am not afraid of hardship."

"It's good to know," Yi Banshan said, exchanged a few words with Zhang Ershan, and went out with his hands behind his back.

After Yi Banshan left here, Zhang Ershan led Yi Tian into the backyard, turned two small turns, and entered a low and simple wooden house, let him identify the door, put down his things, and then told him where it was After fetching water, where to eat, etc., after briefly introducing the situation in the manor, he said to Yi Tian: "Put your things away, pack a simple package and bring it with you, there is a shipment to be rushed today, Set off after lunch at noon, when the time comes, you and I will be in the same car."

Hearing Zhang Ershan's words, Yi Tian felt a little surprised. He didn't expect that he would go out on the first day after coming here. It was quite a coincidence.

"Where are you going?" Yi Tian asked.

"It's a bit far this time. I guess it will take about half a month to come back. It's going to be sent to Nanlu Mountain. It's a few hundred miles away. It's not easy to go." Zhang Ershan looked at Yi Tiandao with a smile: "You can Be mentally prepared. Bring more clothes, it’s cold at night, but there’s no fire to warm you up.”

"Oh, I got it," Yi Tian nodded, went back to the room, unpacked the big package that his mother brought to him, and rearranged a relatively light small package to carry on his back before going out. Go find Zhang Ershan.

Sure enough, after lunch, the freight team that Zhang Ershan was in set off. Yi Tian sat on the cart that Zhang Ershan was driving, with a package on his back and a big iron gun in his hand.