mtl008 Chapter 176 Face Changing
Chapter 176 Face Changing
You learned to read at the age of three and recited poems at the age of five. You were hailed as a child prodigy by the villagers. Your parents had high hopes for you and invited the best teacher in the county to teach you.
You lived up to everyone's expectations and passed the examination for a scholar at the age of fifteen. The next step is to strive for a juren. Your future is full of hope.
When you were sixteen, a group of bandits broke into your village, burning, killing, and looting. You watched your parents die before your eyes, but you pretended to be deaf and blind in the hope of staying alive.
The bandit leader chopped off your mother's head and waved it in front of you, and gouged out your father's eyeballs to feed you, but you disguised yourself perfectly and got away with it.
[This year, you were taken to the mountain stronghold because the bandit leader thought you were strong and might be able to protect him.]
Ten years have passed, and your disguise has become increasingly perfect, to the point where you become the bandit leader's most trusted person. However, this has led to you being ostracized by everyone else.
You taught yourself massage techniques and used them to heal the bandit leader. Finally, one night, in the dead of night, you strangled him to death while he was asleep.
You poked out his eyes, tore off his face, and cut off his head. Since that night, the deaf and blind you died. You, wearing the face of a bandit leader, became the boss.
Another ten years have passed. Your gang has grown bigger and bigger, becoming the largest stronghold in the area. However, this has also attracted the attention of the government.
On a dark and windy night, you poisoned everyone's drinks, then fled with all the money you'd accumulated over the years, eventually arriving in Qingshan County.
You changed your appearance once again, using the alias Shang Zhengren, and became a wealthy businessman. With your exceptional business acumen and the skills honed from years of banditry, you quickly eliminated your competitors and seized control of all the businesses in Qingshan County. Even the county magistrate followed your lead.
[Just in case, you must deploy personnel from all the major gangs to keep abreast of the bandits' movements to prevent a recurrence of the tragedy of that year.]
When you were 50, you felt increasingly uneasy. Hearing that a major disaster was coming next year, you purchased some good seeds in advance to be prepared.
You feel that life is short, so you actively seek out friends with renowned martial artists and raise canaries as food, hoping to become a high-ranking warrior and prolong your life.
[At the same time, you also spent a huge amount of money to buy an official position, intending to go to Qinghe County to show your strength and continue to grow bigger and stronger]
Everything was going as expected, but on a quiet night, you died inexplicably.
[Before you died, you looked at the canary in the cage in front of you and felt that it seemed somewhat similar to you...]
[At the end of the reincarnation, you can choose one of the following three rewards:]
[Reward 1: Face-changing method.]
【Reward 2: Massage.】
[Award 3: Business Law.]
Without any hesitation, Chen Changfan directly chose reward one.
The reason why Shang Zhengren has achieved what he has today is not because of his excellent massage skills or his strong business acumen.
Instead, he can use his superb face-changing skills to change his identity several times in desperate situations and thus survive.
The face-changing technique was mastered instantly and pushed to perfection.
After a while, Chen Changfan hid Shang Zhengren's body, then looked in the mirror. The face in the mirror had changed into Shang Zhengren's appearance.
He found some of Shang Zhengren's clothes from the study, put them on himself, and disguised his body shape to be similar to his.
Knock knock knock!
There was a rapid knock on the door, accompanied by an anxious female voice:
"Master, Master, are you there? I heard from the guard..."
Squeak!
The door opened, Chen Changfan walked out, and looked at everyone.
The several charming women standing in the front were Shang Zhengren’s wives and concubines. Chen Changfan had seen them all in the previous reincarnation, but he couldn’t quite match them up.
Behind him were a group of vigilant guards. When they saw Chen Changfan coming out, they immediately showed confusion on their faces.
"Isn't the master fine? You slave dogs are so tired of living that you dare to curse the master!"
When the women saw that their masters were safe and sound, they breathed a sigh of relief and turned around to curse at the guards.
The guards were also confused by the scolding. They rubbed their eyes and looked again. It was indeed their master. They immediately knelt down in fear and explained:
"Master, these are all rumors spread by Huang Rong. He said that you...that you were..."
"You're saying I was murdered, right?" Chen Changfan chuckled. "A bandit broke into my study tonight, but I killed him. His body is still lying there."
The guards bravely entered the house and saw Lao Bai's body. They immediately believed it a little.
"Carry this corpse out, everyone, disperse! Don't disturb me while I rest!"
Chen Changfan gave an order and everyone quickly retreated. He closed the door and fumbled in a compartment of the bookshelf. Then there was a sound of a mechanism turning. The bookshelf slowly turned, revealing an entrance to a secret chamber. He stepped in skillfully.
After passing through the narrow passage, Chen Changfan came to an iron door. He inserted the key he had found earlier into the keyhole, turned it a few times, and the iron door opened.
"The beauty of this reincarnation point is that it can inherit the original owner's memories, which saves a lot of searching."
Chen Changfan sighed, pushed open the iron gate, and was stunned by the scene before him.
A golden hill was piled in the center of the room.
In addition, there are house deeds, land deeds, calligraphy and paintings, antiques and other treasures, which almost fill the house.
A rough estimate shows that there are probably over a thousand taels of gold alone.
"You big dog, you hid it deep enough. Now I can find the safe."
He is now planning to expand the size of the bandit suppression team and is busy climbing the industrial technology tree, so he is short of money.
These thousands of taels of gold, converted into silver, would be worth more than ten thousand taels.
Gold in troubled times, antiques in prosperous times.
Those calligraphy and paintings cannot be sold at much price, but gold is real hard currency.
The total amount of gold, silver and banknotes was about 100,000 taels.
As for the property deeds, he couldn't estimate the number for the time being.
After thinking about it, he decided that as long as he moved the gold and silver away and sold the rest of the house deeds and land deeds, he could get as much silver as he could.
The snowstorm will come soon, which will be a fatal blow to all walks of life. If you sell too late, you will probably end up losing money.
He flipped through it carefully again and finally found a copy of the manifesto.
This was the official position that Shang Zhengren had purchased at a huge price. For this position, Shang Zhengren spent most of his fortune on it, so that there was only 100,000 taels of cash in his home.
However, this official position is equivalent to the second life that Shang Zhengren prepared for himself.
Shang Zhengren originally planned to leave Qingshan County and go to Qinghe County for development.
This official position was obtained under a new identity called "Pei Lang". All the official documents regarding this non-existent "Pei Lang" have been prepared. He can take up the office as soon as he finishes his business here.
However, his painstaking efforts finally paved the way for Chen Changfan.
"The Dushui Envoy is a sixth-rank official in the Dawu Dynasty, which is indeed a good status."
After putting away the official documents such as the edict and the certificate, Chen Changfan ordered the little lizard to call the Nether Crocodile, and then he slept carefree in Shang Zhengren's study.
The so-called artistic master is bold.
Huang Rong, the only person who knew about Shang Zhengren's death, was already dead, and Chen Changfan's disguise was now flawless, so it would not be easy to reveal his true identity.