Chapter 2: The Wealth-Attracting Wine House

  Tianjing City is a medium-sized city with over 5 million households. Due to the war between major powers that stopped more than 30 years ago, Tianjing City has developed slowly but steadily over time. The city is bustling with various shops and stalls. Zaicai Wine House is one of these shops, with a history of over a decade. Its dishes and wine are not bad either, making it somewhat famous in this small city.

  The tavern usually has no business in the morning. At this time, the tavern will sweep and buy vegetables to prepare for the day's business. Today, as soon as Xiao Li opened the door of the tavern, he saw a boy about 1.4 meters tall, wearing a linen hunting suit, with several wild mountain chickens and rabbits on his back. He looked very ordinary, really ordinary, the kind you can find everywhere on the street. Xiao Li confidently thought that he was a bit more handsome than him.

  He says he's a boy, but Xiao Li would rather call him a man. The person in front of him, except for his height, has the same cold demeanor and ability to take down three big men as a seventeen or eighteen-year-old man. This is something Xiao Li has seen with his own eyes, in an alleyway, where this little boy over 1.2 meters tall easily took down three big men who tried to rob him. But what left the deepest impression on Xiao Li was the boy's eyes. Those cold, icy eyes that seemed to see right through everything! Xiao Li is also seventeen years old now and has been a shop assistant for nearly ten years, so he must have seen many people, but he has never seen anyone like this before. If the boss hadn't said he was only six years old, Xiao Li would not have believed it even if you beat him to death!

  Of course, Little Li still looked at the little kid in front of him with an admiring tone and said: "Little meteor, you've caught so many prey again, it's really awesome! By the way, the boss is also up, in the kitchen, you can go directly, two days ago the boss was asking where you were, seeing you will definitely be happy! Hehe".

  That's right, this one-meter-two-around, whole body revealing a mature atmosphere that doesn't match his age at all, is our little meteor. It has been more than a year since Li Fu passed away, and now Little Meteor is almost six years old, and his height has grown to 1.2m. Maybe it was the influence of his grandfather's passing, but he completely closed his heart, becoming even colder and quieter than before.

  Fortunately, he had already learned to hunt completely. In the following days, he went hunting alone in the mountains with his wisdom and experience passed down from his grandfather, and then exchanged the game for money at the Wealthy Wine House. His grandfather used to bring him here to exchange the game, so the shopkeeper also knew him. The shopkeeper was an old man over 70 years old, and since he always bought the game from Pifu, he was quite familiar with Pifu.

  Moreover, the shop had a good reputation, and the wild game that Old Man Fu bought for him was also related to this. Therefore, the boss of the shop was quite familiar with Little Flowing Star and also liked him very much. Originally, after knowing that Old Man Fu had passed away, he wanted to let Little Flowing Star live with him, but was refused by Little Flowing Star. A man must have his own dignity, this is what his grandfather said, and Little Flowing Star would never forget it.

  If a year ago he was still a theoretical master, after more than a year of practice, the current him not only had improved hunting experience, but also combat experience (because his grandfather himself did not know how to use internal energy, so neither did he, he just listened to what his grandfather said, that in this world there were gods who could fly). Once, three big men wanted to rob him of his money, Little Flowing Star used the martial arts or skills taught by his grandfather, without much effort, solved them. This made Little Flowing Star have a brand new understanding of his own skills.

  That was the first time Little Flowing Star fought with others and defeated those three big men, which greatly increased Little Flowing Star's confidence, also making him not afraid to face stronger opponents in the future.

  The kitchen of the Wealthy Wine House is just behind the main hall, easy to find, and Little Meteor is a regular here, he can find it with his eyes closed. All the staff in the wine house are familiar with this mature little boy and admire him very much. Whenever they see him coming in, they all greet him warmly. Even Little Meteor, who has already closed himself off, cannot help but nod to them in response to their kindness. Then he heads towards the kitchen.

  Arriving at the kitchen, I saw an old man wearing a green shirt holding a notebook, jotting down something while directing the staff to hurry up with this and that. That was the boss of the wine house. Although he was over 70 years old, he still looked spirited and his eyes were bright and sharp, exuding a unique shrewdness typical of businessmen.

  Upon hearing the footsteps at the door, the shopkeeper put down his brush and turned around. "Liuxing, Liuxing, haha, you've finally arrived! Come here, let Grandpa give you a hug." He said, putting down the book and pen on the side table, then ignoring Liuxing's cold expression, he ran to Liuxing's side and hugged him tightly, even shaking him a few times. After checking Liuxing's body for injuries, he let out a sigh of relief and spoke with deep concern: "Liuxing, now that you're back, don't go hunting again, it's too dangerous! What if you encounter fierce beasts or venomous snakes? Your grandfather is still counting on you to bring honor to our family."

  Regarding the shopkeeper's words, Xiaoliu Xing didn't say anything, just calmly looked at him. He would say this every time Xiaoliu Xing came, and the store employees had memorized it. In the past, he hadn't agreed, and now he naturally wouldn't agree either. Looking at Xiaoliu Xing's calm eyes as always, the shopkeeper could only shake his head. These two, grandfather and grandson, were just alike - both stubbornly obstinate; once they made up their minds, they would never change. Since he couldn't make him stay, the shopkeeper could only hope that nothing would happen to him while hunting.

  So he started telling Flowing Star not to be careless and to beware of the big beasts, and if they saw one, to run away. Seeing the boss fail again, the employees of the wine tower couldn't help but secretly laugh. However, after being glared at by the boss, they all went back to doing their own thing.

  As usual, the shopkeeper kept him to have a big meal made from his hunting spoils and gave him two taels of silver (the wild game was worth at most one tael), Xiaoliu Xing didn't say anything and left directly. Gratitude wasn't something you said with your mouth, it was something you remembered in your heart, and he would definitely repay it when he had the chance! The shopkeeper watched as Xiaoliu Xing's small figure disappeared into the distance, his heart constantly worrying about him while also constantly admiring his strength, "This kid will definitely have a great future!" the shopkeeper thought to himself.

  Tianjing South District is a commoner district, most of the people here are commoners, so the shops here mainly sell things to commoners. So it's also very lively here, all kinds of hawkers shouting in your ears, "Buy sugar gourd!" "Buy shoes, new arrivals!" "Buy baozi, fresh and big meat buns!"...

  Walking on this bustling street, Xiao Liuzhen furrowed his brow. Although it wasn't his first time here, he still felt unaccustomed to the environment every time he came. He liked a quiet atmosphere, which allowed his brain to be calm and think clearly.

  He didn't want to come here originally, but his dagger and bow had been used for a long time with oil, so he had no choice but to replace them. He came here, bought a new dagger and a stronger bow than before, and his arm strength increased with age. The small bows he used to use were no longer suitable for him. He quickly bought what he wanted and walked briskly towards the city gate, hating this feeling very much.

  As he walked, he suddenly found that not far away, many people were watching, including a little girl and a middle-aged couple crying out loud. Under the bright daylight, was it a strong man bullying a woman? Or a child? To uphold justice within his own ability, this was also what Old Honest Grandpa had taught him.

  Standing behind the crowd and listening quietly to the discussions around him, Xiaoliu quickly learned the reason. The young man in his early twenties with a lewd face inside was the son of the lord of Tianjing City, the number one bully in Tianjing City. He had not done less evil deeds such as bullying men and women. The middle-aged couple were ordinary merchants on this street. Five years ago that spring, they gave birth to a little girl named Cao Chun Tian, who was also the woman being held in the arms of that rascal's subordinate.

  This little girl is famous far and wide, recognizing characters at the age of one, reading poems at two, writing words, and composing poems at three. Moreover, according to Cao Dianzhu, in the spring, not only is she good at reading books, but also has an astonishing business talent. At the age of four, she often came up with surprising ideas, giving him many good suggestions, making his business better than before. Although it's true that Cao Dianzhu's store did much better than before, not everyone believed a four-year-old could do business. But not everyone disbelieved either; this young master in front of us believed it.

  Because he had secretly observed Spring for a long time, and when Spring came out alone to play, he also pretended to be serious and interacted with her. The four-year-old girl was very smart, but she had little life experience and was easily tricked into revealing many things by the evil young man, including the fact that Spring gave advice to her father. Using the power of his family, they quickly investigated and found out that the Cao family had no powerful backing, so they came over with their men to kidnap him. Then there was the scene that Little Flowing Star saw.