Beipai Tomb Raiders Notes

"Head down."

"Come in, and close the door."

He coughed after finishing his sentence. His tone was calm, but I could tell he was angry.

"sit."

I pulled up a chair and sat down obediently.

"Yunfeng, what kind of wealth have we made over the years?"

"Money from the dead," I replied.

"You know that we make our living off the dead. It's the safest and most reliable way to work with the dead because they will never betray us."

“Yunfeng, you will take over my position as the leader in the future. Our Northern School makes money off the dead. You must always keep this in mind. You must know what money you can take and what money you can't take, who you can get close to and who you can't get close to. You must be responsible for every decision you make for your subordinates. I ask you, what does it mean to be the leader?”

"Keep your eyes peeled and in control of everything," I replied.

Do you think you can do it?

"I can do it."

"You can't even do a damn thing!!"

"Who are those people! You think you're something special just because you exchanged a few words with that woman from the Jiang family? How did I teach you! Those people are ruthless and heartless towards outsiders. If I hadn't been careful these past few months, we probably would have been harmed a dozen times over!"

"Boss, I know I was wrong. Please don't get angry."

He waved his head and said, "I'm getting old. Even a small cold takes two days of medicine and I still can't get better. I'm afraid I might not wake up tomorrow, and what will happen to you guys?"

"Yunfeng, to be honest, in terms of professional skills, you have already surpassed most of the leaders of the Northern School. You have also accumulated knowledge and connections. The only thing you lack is the skill to set up schemes. The people in the martial arts world are treacherous, and there are all kinds of schemes everywhere. If you are not careful, you will fall into a trap. Some of these schemes can ruin your reputation, some can bankrupt you, and some can kill you without leaving a complete corpse. I don't know how to make up for your shortcomings in this area as soon as possible. Perhaps only time will tell."

I listened in silence.

Actually, I felt wronged. The boss had too high expectations of me in every aspect. My skills are already top-notch in the industry. Now I can even abandon the Luoyang shovel and rely solely on my eyes to locate things. I also have my own network of contacts.

So I said, blushing, "I know there are no weak leaders in our lineage, but because you protected me so well before, I haven't met your expectations. You were already a leader when you were sixteen, while I was still watching cartoons when I was sixteen. Give me some more time."

"Yunfeng, how long will it take you?"

I thought for a moment and said, "There's a song that's been really popular lately, and that represents my answer."

So I started singing Eason Chan's "Ten Years" to the head of the table.

He turned his head, expressionless.

I was kicked out before I finished singing.

I'm all right now. I was just faking my jealousy earlier.

The leader understands me, and I understand him just as well. He gives me a lecture like this every now and then, and I always cooperate, otherwise he gets angry. Think about it, Duke Wen of Jin was still a vagrant at sixty-two, Jiang Ziya was still fishing at eighty, and Wu Cheng'en only started writing Journey to the West at fifty. There are countless examples of late bloomers throughout history. I'm only twenty, what's there to panic about? My abilities will grow with experience. In ten years, I'll only be thirty. By then, I'll be absolutely confident that I can take over the leader's title and become Silver Fox Xiang Yunfeng.

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The next morning.

"Yunfeng, have you taken your medicine on time? How are you feeling?"

"I'm much better after taking the medicine twice."

"That Dr. Song is really skilled. He cured your nephritis with just one acupuncture session and two doses of medicine."

"What nephritis! What do you know? That's called a cold-induced fever! It's because I'm too healthy and have too much yang energy that the pathogenic cold entered my body."

"come over."

"What?"

"Come here, I need to tell you something."

I called Xiaoxuan to the corner and whispered, "You don't know about Xiaoyang's situation yet, do you?"

"Isn't Xiaoyang recuperating at the hotel? What happened to him?"

"he's gone."

"He's gone! When? Where did he go? Why didn't he say goodbye to me?" Xiaoxuan said in surprise.

“He left a few days ago, leaving me only a letter. I don’t know exactly where he went.”

"What about my cat?"

"This is what I wanted to tell you. Your cat... Xiaoyang took the cat away. He was too embarrassed to say it himself, so he asked me to tell you."

Xiaoxuan didn't seem to have reacted yet.

"Taken away? The cat was taken away?" Xiaoxuan asked back.

I nodded and said yes.

"How could Xiaoyang do this! Xiaohei isn't an ordinary cat! That's my cat!"

“I know! Don’t be angry. That black cat is indeed not an ordinary cat. Like the Echo Duck, it is a unique spiritual cat of the Guanshan Taibao lineage. Xiaoxuan, think about it. You’ve been feeding it for so long and you still can’t tame it. It keeps biting people and you have to keep it in a cage. But it is very close to Xiaoyang and can even understand what Xiaoyang is saying. What does that mean?”

"How would I know what that means! Anyway, that's my cat! Why does Xiaoyang have the right to take it away like that!" Xiaoxuan said angrily, hands on her hips.

I tried to comfort her, saying, "This means that the cat has recognized Xiaoyang as its master, which is why you can't tame it."

"That's my cat! How could you do this! I have his phone number! I'll call him!"

"You don't need to call, he doesn't use that number anymore."

"No! I don't agree! I'm going to find the foreman!"

Xiao Xuan stormed off to find the head of the gang.

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Not long after, Xiaoxuan came out of the main room, her eyes looking red.

I didn't expect her to care so much about the black cat. You can pet a normal pet cat and pat its head, but you can't even touch those five black cats. They bite and scratch people, and all of us have been bitten or scratched by them.

"What? Are you crying??"

Xiaoxuan rubbed her eyes, lowered her head, and didn't say a word.

"Alright, it's just a cat. If you like keeping small pets, we can buy another one when we have the chance. Besides, Xiaoyang just took it away, it's not dead. It's still alive and well, so why are you crying?"

Xiao Xuan turned around angrily and went back into the house, then slammed the door shut.

I know why Xiaoyang asked me to pass on the message in his letter. It's because he didn't dare to talk to Xiaoxuan about it face to face. We underestimated the importance of the black cat in Xiaoxuan's heart.

As far as I'm concerned, I can totally accept it, because keeping a pet is really inconvenient, and we don't know the secrets behind that black cat. Its recognition of Xiaoyang as its owner is like a thoroughbred horse meeting its discerning owner.

In comparison, the Echo Duck is much easier to raise. All you need is a bottle of wine. It usually drinks and then sleeps, and wakes up and then drinks again. It drinks three to half a pound a day. It doesn't run away or make noise, so you don't need to take care of it. Moreover, the Echo Duck is not only a treasure hunter in the water, but it has also saved all of our lives. Without it, we might all have been left behind in Ghost Ridge. Like Brother Yu, I have already come to regard it as one of our own.

Just as I was thinking about how to help Xiaoxuan forget about this as soon as possible, she walked over with her phone in the air.

"Good, good, good."

He said "good" three times in a row.

"No problem, Yunfeng is here too, do you want to say something to him?"

He turned his head and handed me his phone while talking.

"Hey?"

There was a few seconds of silence on the other end of the phone, followed by a deep, familiar voice.

"Hey kid, I heard you've been dancing a lot lately."

"Hello, Brother Tian!"

"What's so good about it? It's not good at all. I almost fell out with the people from Zhuji yesterday, but luckily I had more people this time."

“Wang’s actions were wise. It was right for you to stay away from the Tang Dynasty. I met the people behind them, those church people. They seemed like madmen with some kind of mysterious faith, wearing suits and ties.”

"A madman in a suit and tie... with some kind of mysterious belief?"

I recited those words to myself, unable to imagine what a person from the Wisdom Sect would look like.

"Brother Tian, ​​this is what I'm worried about too."

"I'm here. What are you worried about? Don't worry, they won't investigate you without my knowledge."

"Everything is settled. Just wait, the money will be credited to your account in three days."