Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo' Chapter 1425: Lai Baifan_3
Previously on Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo'...
Chapter 1425: Chapter 641: Lai Baifan_3
Deng Pao’er didn’t know how to respond, seeing a Jianghu person in front of him, Deng Pao’er clasped his fists and saluted him.
Tie Tuzi glared: “You’re insulting who?”
Deng Pao’er turned to look at Li Banfeng, not understanding how clasping fists and saluting could be considered an insult.
Li Banfeng said: “This person may have been a mountain bandit. In some places, they have a taboo against clasping fists, as it looks like handcuffs, which is considered inauspicious in their line of work. Such old customs are rare in Puluo State.”
Indeed, such customs are not commonly seen anymore. Li Banfeng learned this by reading books at the Ink Shop; the customs at Three-Head Fork are not only different from those in Other Provinces but also quite distinct from other parts of Puluo State.
Tie Tuzi laughed, and said to Li Banfeng, “An insider? Those two middlemen by the roadside, was that your doing?”
Li Banfeng nodded: “Yes, it was me. Can we not speak foreign languages?”
Tie Tuzi adopted a stern look: “Why don’t you introduce yourself first.”
Li Banfeng chuckled, “Does that have to be reported?”
“You’re causing trouble here, speaking so arrogantly, let my men go first.”
Li Banfeng’s smile remained: “Does it have to be like that?”
Tie Tuzi said: “Seems you don’t understand human words. I’ll give you two choices now. One is you let my men go, kneel down and kowtow a hundred times. You can take the young lady; I don’t want her, but leave the fresh-faced boy with me, then this is settled.”
Deng Pao’er was stunned, looked at Dumpling, and asked: “Why insist on keeping me?”
“What are you looking at me for? I don’t know either!” Dumpling was also confused about being upset.
Tie Tuzi continued: “The second path, I’ll strip your skins, hang them at the quarry gate as a sign; choose for yourself.”
Li Banfeng asked: “What about a third way?”
Tie Tuzi pointed at Li Banfeng: “There’s no third way.”
Li Banfeng took hold of Tie Tuzi’s forefinger, asking: “Think it over carefully once more.”
Tie Tuzi saw his finger was missing, and shivered in fear: “You, what is this…”
“I’m asking you how to go the third way?” Li Banfeng grabbed Tie Tuzi’s ear, then casually discarded it into the snow.
Tie Tuzi rubs the side of his head, his ear is gone.
Just as he was about to call people to fight, he opened his mouth and spat out a large blood bubble.
The blood bubble didn’t come from his mouth; it emerged from his nostril.
Li Banfeng took Tie Tuzi’s nose, casually tossed it into the snow.
Tie Tuzi wailed aloud, wetting his pants.
Not only him, but the more than a hundred overseers lying on the ground were all frightened to incontinent, the quarry workers also made a large wet patch.
That’s Tie Tuzi, that’s a disciple of the Body Cultivation Grandmaster.
In their eyes, this person’s status is equivalent to Lu Dongliang’s back then in Greenwater City.
Now, this man in a black suit used unknown methods to cut off Tie Tuzi’s ear and nose just like that.
Is this real?
It’s clearly like dreaming!
Tie Tuzi was still crying out; Li Banfeng approached, touched his head: “I’m pointing out your third way, go crawl to the side, put the rope around your neck, let my brother lead you.”
Tie Tuzi really obeyed, actually took a rope, looped it around his own neck, crouched beside Ge Yugen.
Seeing Tie Tuzi like this, Ge Yugen was in despair, obediently crouched beside Deng Pao’er.
Other overseers dared not speak, those people brought by Tie Tuzi were also frightened stiff.
Li Banfeng looked at the people behind Tie Tuzi and asked: “Who among you knows where the Ancestral Master is? Send an invitation card for me!”
A group of people raised their hands, all claiming to know, willing to do anything to leave this place.
Li Banfeng really wrote an invitation card, asked Tie Tuzi: “Who among them is reliable in carrying out tasks?”
Tie Tuzi remained silent.
Li Banfeng touched his bald head: “If I don’t see your Ancestral Master by tomorrow, you’ll lose this head of yours.”
Tie Tuzi picked a middle-aged man in his forties: “This man has been with me for over twenty years; we have a true bond.”
Li Banfeng frowned: “Merely having a bond isn’t enough; can you get the person here within a day?”
The middle-aged man nodded: “Don’t harm our leader; I’ll give my life to bring the Ancestral Master here.”
That bond is quite deep, no wonder Tie Tuzi took a liking to Deng Pao’er.
Once the words were said, the middle-aged man stretched out both hands, stamped his feet, transformed into four hooves, and crouched on the ground.
With a shake of the neck, and a wag of the ears, he shouted loudly: “Hee-haw~”
The middle-aged man sprinted away.
Turns out it was a donkey.
Deng Pao’er led Tie Tuzi and Ge Yugen, took Li Banfeng to find the Account Manager, brought out the roster and account book, and handed out wages to the workers present.
The quarry workers, some had worked for a few days, others for more than a decade, had never received any wages; today’s events were truly shocking to them.
Li Banfeng instructed Deng Pao’er to inform the crowd, whatever the previous rules, he doesn’t care; from today onwards, work a day, get paid for a day, as long as the stone quota is met, fifty Huan Country Banknotes a day.
The workers’ eyes widened, fifty a day?
The overseers nearby were terrified; this is Three-Head Fork, these overseers only earn two hundred Huan Country Banknotes a month.
Li Banfeng established the rules, distributed money like that.
Tie Tuzi gave a cold sneer but said nothing.
The Account Manager tried to curry favor, came near Li Banfeng, lowered his voice: “Sir, if you proceed like this, this business can’t continue.”
Li Banfeng asked: “Why do you say so?”
“There are three hundred or so people here, you are paying fifteen thousand in wages per day, forty-five thousand per month, over five hundred thousand per year, how much can this quarry earn in total?”
