Chapter 25 Chapter Twenty-Five

Although Xiao Taiping felt a little ashamed for blinding Cao Ershun in one eye, he didn't take it seriously.He was not to blame for the matter, but Cao Ershun was to blame. If Cao Ershun hadn't let Mr. Zhang go, he would never have been so angry.When he punched him in a rage, he didn't expect to knock Cao Ershun blind.If Cao Yue'e hadn't told him later, he wouldn't have known.After he found out, he didn't renege on the debt, let Cao Yue'e send Cao Ershun money to recuperate his wounds, and even paid Cao Ershun's kiln salary for a month, which is considered worthy of Cao Ershun.After letting his wife Cao Yue'e bring ten taels of silver to see Cao Ershun, Xiao Taiping forgot about Cao Ershun and focused on dealing with the hateful and hateful traitor Cao Bajin.

Xiao Taiping knew that Cao Bajin was not Cao Ershun.Cao Ershun let Zhang Sanye go because he was too soft-hearted, and he didn't want to see others being bullied and suffered, so he didn't have any intention of breaking him.Cao Bajin was different. This man had been a whistle chief, and he was born with a crooked heart.Just because I didn't get any real benefits from the Baijiayao, I hated him, and actually violated the blood oath I made at the beginning, and revealed Cao Tuan's background to Mr. Zhang, trying to destroy him and the entire former. It's about Cao Tuan's brothers.

At first, Xiao Taiping wanted to publicize Cao Bajin's "Self-Confession against Thieves", tell the truth to the former Cao Tuan brothers, and then put Cao Bajin and Zhang Sanye under the kiln to openly kill him.But after thinking about it, I felt wrong again.Right now he, Xiao Taiping, is posting, but the brothers from the former Cao Tuan haven't.If he reveals the truth and let the already dissatisfied brothers surnamed Cao see his fear of the past history, he may not be able to kill Cao Bajin, but something bad will happen instead.The poor are not afraid to risk their lives, not to mention the bastards Cao Tuan and the officials have been fighting for many years.This group of former bastard brothers might take the opportunity to bring the matter to the government, fight him to the death, and die together.

After much deliberation, Xiao Taiping finally endured his anger towards Cao Bajin, and didn't mention the "self-confession of the traitor". He only let Xiao Taizhong and a few kiln servants stare at Cao Bajin day and night, waiting for an opportunity to strike. To cause an accidental death.But it was not easy. Cao Bajin was guilty of being a thief, and he was always mixed with a group of brothers surnamed Cao when he went up and down the kiln.Cao Yu'er, the eldest brother of the Cao brothers, the original shed chief, was more like a shadow, standing beside Cao Bajin. It was only later that Xiao Taiping found out that Cao Bajin had become suspicious at that time.Seeing Mr. Zhang naked pulling coal under the kiln, Cao Bajin murmured in his heart.Others believed that Zhang Sanye owed Xiao Taiping a huge gambling debt, but Cao Bajin didn't believe it, so he thought it was strange.But he didn't dare to tell others, for fear that what he said to Zhang Sanye would offend the brothers under the kiln.When he found out that Mr. Zhang was dead, Cao Bajin couldn't bear it any longer. After several days of nightmares, he ran to tell Cao Yu'er that he was an asshole, because of his hatred for Xiao Taiping, He forgot the blood oath he had made, and told Mr. Zhang about the details of brother Cao Tuan, so that he killed Mr. Zhang.

Cao Yu'er was very surprised, and immediately slapped Cao Bajin across the face, cursing at Cao Bajin: "...You bastard is really looking for death! Why are you talking about these old things with Zhang Sanye? Yes What intentions? Are you only harming Xiao Taiping? You are also harming us big guy! Have you fucking forgotten the days when we were chased by the officers and soldiers and fled here and there?" Cao Bajin said: "I... I was just confused..." Cao Yu'er said: "You are not confused for a while, it is because you hate evil! Zhang Sanye deserves to die, and you deserve to die too! Our Cao Tuan had a rule back then, and those who worked as spies for the army and the government should be killed without mercy. Disband the gang Anyone who swore a blood oath from time to time, who leaked Cao Tuan's secrets, everyone of Cao Tuan's brothers can be captured and killed..."

Cao Bajin knelt down in front of Cao Yuer: "Brother, we are always surnamed Cao, and we are brothers of the same clan, you... you can be saved... save me..." Cao Yu'er said: "It's a shame that you still know your surname is Cao! Didn't you think about it when you caused trouble? Our Cao Tuan's surname is Cao, not Xiao. Why is Cao Tuan brought out by our old team? There has never been a spy..." Cao Bajin said: "I really hate Xiao Taiping too much, this bastard thing... there is no trace of the second group. Now that he has become a master and made a lot of money, he doesn't look down on our brothers anymore. It's in my eyes. So, I... I just thought, even if I go all out with him to meet the official, I... I'm not afraid..."

Cao Yu'er said: "If you want to say that you are the only one who hates Xiao Taiping? But no matter how much you hate, we can't act like this. If we are capable, let's deal with him just like he did with Mr. Bai Er and Mr. Zhang. Make a big break in the kiln and take the kiln from him..." Cao Bajin said: "Brother, from now on, I... I will listen to you, you... you can save me this time, now, I think and feel scared, I... I'm sure Xiao Taiping will It's going to kill me..." Cao Yu'er thought for a while and asked, "Since that's the case, do you have the guts to kill Xiao Taiping first?"

Cao Bajin said: "Why don't I have the guts, but... but I just don't have a chance! Xiao Taiping always has so many kilns around..." Cao Yuer asked again: "What if there is a chance in the future?" Cao Bajin said: "As long as there is a chance, I will do it." Cao Yuer said: "Okay, just wait!" Unexpectedly, Cao Bajin did not wait for the opportunity to attack Xiao Taiping, but Xiao Taiping found an opportunity to attack Cao Bajin.One night after Cao Ershun went down to the kiln, the water under the old Baijia kiln was heavy, and a local counter in Qiaotou Town asked Cao Bajin, who was going to carry coal under the kiln, and another kiln worker surnamed Xiao, to go to the shaft kiln to use cowhide. Pack water.Cao Bajin went there, and worked very hard to lift water from the bottom of the kiln, which was more than ten feet deep, to the ground.

It was also a coincidence that Xiao Taizhong, the head of the kiln protection team, was drinking with some kiln workers on the kiln that day. When he came out for convenience, he accidentally saw Cao Bajin who was fetching water at the mouth of the vertical kiln.Xiao Taizhong didn't say anything, and when he came back after urinating, he brought three drinking kiln men to the kiln platform. Only then did Cao Bajin realize that something was wrong, and when he saw that there was no one else fetching water on the kiln platform except the local kiln worker Da Liu and the kiln worker surnamed Xiao, he panicked and wanted to go down to the kiln to seek Cao Cao. Brother Shi's protection, but he couldn't move his body.The team leader Xiao Taizhong and his three kiln men surnamed Xiao offered to help fetch water, but they blatantly squeezed him by the mouth of the kiln in the dark cave.Xiao Taizhong gave Cao Bajin a fierce and deadly kick from behind.Accompanied by a horrified scream, Cao Bajin fell headlong into the cavern which was more than ten feet deep...

It happened so suddenly that Liu, who was shaking the reel, and the kiln worker surnamed Xiao, who was pouring water at the side, didn't understand what was going on. It was Xiao Taizhong who yelled first: "It's broken, someone fell into the kiln, go down and have a look!" Da Liu looked around and saw that Cao Bajin had disappeared, so he hurriedly said, "It's the one surnamed Cao, I'll go down." Xiao Taizhong didn't want Liu to go down, so he sent one of his kiln servants to go down with a big basket. When Kiln Ding came up, he reported to Xiao Taizhong: "He is dead."

Only then did Xiao Taizhong go back very satisfied, and ran to Xiao Taiping's big house in Qiaotou Town overnight to report to Xiao Taiping. Xiao Taiping was very happy, and rewarded Xiao Taizhong with some money, and asked Xiao Taizhong and the three meritorious brothers to have a good time on the flower boat.He also confessed that both Cao Bajin and Zhang Sanye were dead, so don't mention the past. Now that he is not in Cao Tuan, it is better to make money with harmony.In line with the principle of making money through harmony, Xiao Taiping only regarded Cao Bajin as an accidental death while working in a kiln, and paid Cao Bajin's wife and children two taels of pension as usual... Xiao Taiping wants to make money with peace, but Cao Yuer doesn't want to make money with peace.Others don't know the cause of Cao Bajin's death, but Cao Yu'er does.Although Cao Yuer did not agree with Cao Bajin's suing the officials, he was still shocked by Xiao Taiping's insidiousness and viciousness, so he wanted to use the excuse of Cao Bajin's death to make a big fuss and mobilize his brothers to stop kilns in Zhangzipo. Cao Yu'er's uncle, Cao Fuli, the former master of Qian and Liang of Cao Tuan, opposed making a fuss about Cao Bajin's death. Cao Fuli said: "...Cao Bajin's article is not easy to write. After all, he revealed the background of Cao Tuan. Even if Xiao Taiping executes him publicly, we can't fart. If we speak for Cao Bajin, Xiao Taiping will not Accusing us of being in collusion with Cao Bajin and Zhang Sanye will ruin our reputation." Cao Yu'er said, "Then let's not mention Cao Bajin's fault!" Cao Fuli said: "If you don't mention Cao Bajin's fault, why are we making trouble? The kiln gave compensation money as usual." Cao Yu'er asked: "Then what Uncle Yi means, let's forget about it?" Cao Fuli said: "Yu'er, why don't you want to write Cao Ershun's article? Cao Ershun was blinded by Xiao Taiping in one eye, have you heard about this? Who is Cao Ershun? He is from our Zazipo. He is a well-known honest man, and he is the son of the head of the old regiment and Xiao Taiping’s brother-in-law. We want to push Cao Ershun out to seek justice from Xiao Taiping, who will not sympathize?! Don’t say brother Cao, I’m afraid brother Xiao You have to rest the kiln with us too." Cao Yu'er's eyes lit up: "That's right, Cao Ershun really made such a mistake, Xiao Taiping will be embarrassed..." Cao Fuli said again: "I know Xiao Taiping. He was someone in the Cao Tuan back then, and he was not easy to deal with. If we really want to make up our minds to fight him, we have to think carefully about everything. We have to Listen to Cao Yue'e's tone, don't think that Cao Yue'e is Xiao Taiping's wife, but Cao Ershun is her only living brother after all..." Cao Yu'er understood everything: "Hey, uncle, why don't you go and find Cao Yue'e as soon as possible?!"