Chapter 3 third chapter

The passenger ship of Sanjiang Shipping Co., Ltd. slowly sailed away from Wuchang Chaoguan Wharf. Due to the incident of passengers losing their luggage before the departure in the early morning, the departure was delayed for an hour due to repeated investigations.Therefore, it was already three poles in the sun when the boat left the pier, and other passenger ships were already twenty miles away. With the wind and the current flowing, the speed of the boat was considerable, both sails were fully raised, and the boat broke through the water and rushed downstream. This medium-sized passenger ship is usually called a fast ship, and it is only fully loaded with 40 passengers. The final stop is Nanjing.

Sanjiang Shipping Co. owns as many as ten fast boats of this kind, which sail out once a day and can reach Nanjing in ten days.On the date of going up, if everything goes well, you can return to Wuchang Mansion in 20 days, but sometimes there will be a delay of 3 to 5 days. The ship does not disembark or disembark passengers along the way, and sails directly to Nanjing.However, some sections of the river along the way have sand reefs, and night navigation is not allowed, and some important checkpoints need to be inspected, and they must be parked for inspection, and they have to park for overnight.

The station on the first day is scheduled to be Sanjiangkou Town in the west of Wuchang County, about 170 miles away.However, it was delayed by an hour, and of course it was an hour late to arrive at the port. Sanjiangkou Township is a checkpoint, from Tuanfeng Township in Huangzhou to the north, Qifan to the south, and Wuchang County to the east, so checkpoints have to be set up. Wuchang County here and Wuchang Fucheng are two different places. If you make a mistake, you will not be able to tell the north, south, east, and west! The middle cabin is an official cabin, but none of the passengers in the middle cabin this time are officials.

Chao Lingfeng was one of the fourteen passengers.He was one of four more respectable passengers in the separate cabin, and he had a neater berth, which was much better than the big ones in the front and rear cabins. During the ten-day journey, it is indispensable for each other to ask each other their names, and to say hello and take care of each other along the way. In the afternoon, he had nothing to do and sat by the cabin window to enjoy the river view. The river is four or five miles wide, with rolling turbid waves and strong winds and waves. There are films of sails on the river, waterfowl flying in the sky, and villages and towns on both sides of the river. .

There was a sudden chaos in the back cabin, and there was a call. "Boatman, boatman, call the ship's doctor quickly." Someone stuck his head out of the starboard hatch and shouted backwards: "Someone has a sudden illness, come here!" The cry is urgent, and the breath is loud and rough. Chao Lingfeng happened to be leaning out of the window to look out. Hearing the sound, he stuck his head out of the window and looked back. He accidentally saw a purple mole the size of a bean growing on the back of the man's head, behind his right ear near the root of his hair. Look, it's not easy to find.If the man hadn't wrapped his head in a green bun, and the edge was just above the mole, he wouldn't have found the mole.

Everyone in the world has moles, no wonder. There was a commotion in the aft cabin, and presently he heard two boatmen pass by the sideboards outside the window. "What a ghost!" a boatman complained loudly, "It seems to have rushed to the Tai Sui. The boat had an accident before it sailed, which made people panic. Now they have an emergency, and some people insist that it is the plague. It's really bad luck to send the patient away in isolation!" "Don't say a few words and shut your crow's mouth, okay?" Another boatman said, "Everything is the responsibility of the boat owner. Do you want to spread rumors? Hmph!"

He was a little uneasy, plague?This is no fun.In May, it is windy and rainy, the season is not right, the river water is turbid, and it is not impossible to have a seasonal epidemic. His instinctive action is to take precautions early. His waist pouch contains a lot of odds and ends, which are usually tied around his waist and covered with a long belt outside, so that thieves can't catch him. In the small porcelain gourd, there are pills similar in nature to Xingjun powder. This is his panacea for preventing epidemics, refreshing the mind, preventing vomiting and diarrhea, and a magic medicine for emergency and life-saving.If you need it, it is a priceless treasure; if you don’t need it, it’s worthless.

It’s not that he’s sensitive. Intuitively, he feels that the three companions in the same cabin seem to be a little tired and can’t lift their spirits. So far, the three of them are lying on the bed, half asleep and half awake, looking listless. It seems that there is something wrong. He swallowed two pills of Danjiu to prepare for a rainy day. After an unknown period of time, he fell asleep in a trance. A series of strange dreams disturbed him, and he slept restlessly. After an unknown amount of time, he finally woke up leisurely. The cabin was pitch black, he sat up in surprise, why is it getting dark?how can that be possible?

The cabin window was open, and he saw the starlight outside the window, so he instinctively rushed to the window to look out. God!The boat seemed to be stranded on the shore! Not far from the shore, there was a bonfire burning, and two people could be vaguely seen sitting and chatting by the bonfire. "Hey! Everyone, get up and look, the ship has run aground." He called to the passenger in the next bed. No reply. Startled, he went to the next bed and stretched out his hand to feel a dead body. "Huh! Dead?" he exclaimed. Four beds, and besides him, there were three bodies.

He shivered cleverly, only feeling a chill in his heart, and an ominous premonition shook him.He packed his package vigilantly, quietly opened the hatch, and walked around the front and rear cabins like a ghost. Nothing but dead people. None of the boatmen on the back boat was alive. Twelve boatmen, the captain and seven boatmen died in their own cabins, the boatman died next to the cabin, two boatmen were placed on the back deck, and two boatmen were dead on the front deck. The sails were still stretched on the mast, and the wind made a strange noise, and the hull, which was half resting on the shore, couldn't help shaking because of it.Near the bow on the starboard side of the ship, the hull was sunken, and the hull was broken, which was quite serious. It can be seen that there must have been a terrible collision, so it was pulled ashore.

"Is it really a plague?" he asked himself in horror. He was quite alert, slowly calmed down, and quietly arrived at the back of the boat.The fire in the kitchen was still warm, so he lit a pine tree and made another careful inspection. The captain and two other boatmen had their throats cut with a sharp and small dagger.However, no blood flowed out, and experts could tell at a glance that the person was deliberately stabbed with a dagger after a long time of death. "Huh! Why did you deliberately set up a murder formation?" He muttered to himself, doubts arose in his heart. There are twelve boatmen, one is not less than one. There were originally ten passengers in the back cabin, but only eight bodies.Of the fourteen passengers in the middle cabin, he was the only one alive.There were sixteen passengers in the front cabin, and not one of the sixteen corpses was missing. Even the boatman and the passengers, there are a total of forty-nine corpse years.He was the only one alive, two of them were missing, probably because they slipped and fell into the river during the onset of illness. Among the eight corpses in the back cabin, the one with the purple mole behind the ear was not included. Suspicious, what's going on?If the plague had indeed destroyed the ill-fated ship, what if there were three dead bodies with their throats slit?Obviously unreasonable. He quietly got off the boat, went around two miles, changed into a green robe in a woods, hid the package and bamboo stick, and had an extra folding fan in his hand, really like a young Confucian scholar with great vigor. The bonfire was burning brightly, and the two people dressed as peasants, probably for the sake of courage, burned the bonfire vigorously. They didn't dare to look at the boats on the shore, as if they were afraid that ghosts and ghosts would suddenly come out of the boat. A villager was putting dead branches on the fire when he heard a slight cough. "Oh..." The villager jumped up in fright, and then saw Chao Lingfeng standing not far away. "God! You...do you want to scare people to death?" Another villager patted his chest, his face turned blue from fright. "Sorry." Chao Lingfeng approached with his hands behind his back, and pointed behind him with his fan, "I'm coming from over there, I saw the fire, I was curious for a while, and I'm bothering you two!" "You are……" "Those who pass by, isn't there a road over there?" "That's the trail to Yellowstone Harbor." "I'm from Huangshi Port. I have a bad habit of traveling at night, so I wandered here. Oh! You are here in the middle of the night..." "We are from Sanchahe Village in front of us. We were sent by the village chief to watch over the ship that had an accident." The villager pointed to the passenger boat in the distance. It happened that there were two fishing boats moored in this village, and more than a dozen people dragged the boats here." "God! The boat is full of dead people." Another villager said, "I don't know what kind of disaster happened. The villagers have sent people to the county to report to the officials. It's really troublesome. So many people died, what happened?" "Oh! This place belongs to Wuchang, right?" "No, it belongs to Daye." "Daye? How far is it from Sanjiangkou Inspection Department in Wuchang County?" He was shocked again, why did he come to Daye?The ship should stop at Sanjiangkou Town, spend the night there and be checked by the checkpoint! "It's forty miles from here to Wuchang County!" the villager said without hesitation. This means that the ship was not inspected by the Sanjiangkou Inspection Department. In other words, he fell asleep all afternoon until after midnight.During this time, all the people on board died.He is the only one lucky enough to be alive, two others are missing. It is impossible for him to be so sleepy, unless... plague! The elixir he used to prevent now. But since it was a plague, how could he be comatose? Since everyone is dead, who cuts the throat of the long-dead?What is the purpose?Who cut it? Based on his drowsiness, it was estimated that someone on board was sick in the early afternoon, and lunch was usually between midnight and midnight.When he took the medicine, it should have been a matter between the beginning of the unlicensed period.Then, he was lethargic about between the card and the card. If his estimate is correct, once the people on board die, it should be the beginning of the application for the license. How does the ship sail?Why didn't the patrol department at Sanjiangkou intercept them?Unless it's a boat sneaking by in the dark. Is it possible to sail another fifty miles before hitting a reef? Once the rudder master dies, the ship will definitely spin, drift, lose sail and even capsize.However, the ship sailed for more than a hundred miles after all the people died. who is drivingghost?Or the two missing people? A chill ran through his body.He remembered the accident that happened in Tanjiaqiao Town the day before yesterday. Tai Chi Hall!Tai Chi Hall came for him. Fifty-two lives were lost on the whole ship. Apart from him, fifty families of young and old lost their relatives. "You bloody bastards!" He raised his head to the sky and screamed, his tone completely out of shape. "Oh...you...what did you say?" The two villagers jumped up and shouted, as if they had seen a ghost. "Sorry." He was sure, "I didn't mean you." "You...are you okay?" a villager asked. "No. Oh! My fellow, who saved the boat?" "The people in our village, I am also present." "Very well, did you see the ship staggering and bumping into the reef with your own eyes?" "No, it hit straight on the reef." The villager shook his head. "All of us feel strange about this. We have all lived on boats all our lives, and everyone has experience in how to sail a boat. This boat The boat was indeed manned, and it was driving straight and diagonally, rushing towards the reef and heading steadily. However, when we rescued and landed, there was no one alive on board, and the helmsman was already dead. God! It must be a ghost driving this boat Don’t let the corpses feed the fish and turtles. Bodhisattva bless you! I tremble when I think about it, so I’m almost terrified by your appearance, Mr. Xiang.” "Maybe it's really a ghost." He felt cold sweat on his palms. "I know how to sail a boat. A dead man wouldn't steer his boat sideways to hit a reef. The current is so fast that it's rare to be able to keep going straight with the current." .” "That's true! At that time, the ship's course, the helmsman had to push the rudder at least two full handles to the left. Two full handles of this kind of big rudder are six feet, and it is very difficult to maintain the right-handed course. It is impossible for a dead man to turn the rudder. Anyone who pushes out six feet must be a ghost." "You guys take good care of it! I'm leaving. Hearing what you say, I really feel gloomy and uncomfortable." "Master, don't scare people, okay?" The villager turned pale with fright again, and turned his head quickly to avoid seeing the boat. "If you don't do bad things, you don't need to be afraid of ghosts, my fellow. Good-bye, both of you." Returning to the place where he put the package, he sat down to meditate again. If someone from Tai Chi Hall rushed to the ground, why didn't he cut his throat?Only the three owners of the ship were cut off by ingenious means, which is unreasonable. He was confused again. If it was done by someone from Tai Chi Hall, the murderer should have known him. At that time, he was unconscious but still breathing. It was absolutely impossible for the murderer not to check him, and it was absolutely impossible not to cut his throat. There is only one possibility, the murderer is not someone from Tai Chi Hall. "I have to stay here first, inquire about the results of the government's autopsy, and then ask the villagers who witnessed the details, and then go back to Wuchang Fucheng to investigate." He said to himself, and immediately set off to stay away from the scene before making plans. The Sanjiang Boat Company inside the Pinghu Gate of the Fucheng City was in complete disarray. Three days later, the store was still full of people, and a gloomy mist hung over the hapless shipping company. The chief rudder of the Qinglong Gang was set up at Zhansetao, Wuchang. The gang leader and chief rudder leader, Longwang Gongye Changhong, brought people to negotiate with the leader Liu Gao to deal with the aftermath. The Qinglong Gang itself also operates a shipping company, but they do not sail long-distance passenger ships.Sanjiang Shipping Company is not run by the Qinglong Gang, but it is directly protected by the Qinglong Gang and pays a fixed amount of regular money every year. How can the Qinglong Gang not participate in the aftermath? If it's just the plague that's raging, it's fine, the Azure Dragon Gang can ignore it.However, the throats of the ship's owner and the two ship's men were cut by an expert killer. This made the Azure Dragon Gang in serious trouble. The Qinglong gang forcibly paid five thousand taels of silver, and the case caused a sensation in the world. What made Gongye's gang leader gnash his teeth was that Sanjiang Ship Co., Ltd. did not know that the ship had an accident until the morning of the third day after the incident, when they received a summons from the Jiangxia County Government. It will take time for official documents to be transferred from Daye County Government to Jiangxia. But the treasurer of the shipyard found that the passenger list was missing, apparently it was stolen last night, and the murderer's intention was obviously to destroy the evidence. One wave of ups and downs, one wave of another, the accident in Tanjiaqiao Town has not been dealt with, and now this terrible catastrophe has occurred. Sensitive people have already thought that it might be related to Tai Chi Hall. However, there is no basis and no basis, so you can't talk about the theory of Taijitang in the vernacular. As long as the other party says to bring evidence, you can't step down. Chao Lingfeng lives in the Jianghan Inn in Wenchangmen. This is a very prosperous street in the market. Wenchangfang stretches to the north, and the north end of the street is Pinghumen.The street is very long and there is a night market.The Jianghan Inn is small in scale, so it doesn't attract much attention. On the day of the incident, he obtained the autopsy results from the scene early in the morning.The dead were all fatal from the epidemic.The small knife wounds in the throats of the three corpses could not be found by experts.Anyway, there is no doubt that the knife wound was added after death, which added an extremely mysterious color to this horrific murder case. Then, he interviewed more than a dozen fishermen who witnessed and rescued that night, and confirmed that most of what the villager saw last night was true. Then he hurried back to Fucheng with fast footsteps, and stayed at Jianghan Inn that afternoon. At that time, Fucheng hadn't heard of the massacre, and the official document of the massacre hadn't been sent from Daye's county government yet! His leaving the store became the ironclad proof that he was not at the scene of the incident.Fucheng is two hundred and twenty miles away from the scene, and it takes two days to walk by land.The waterway is slower and takes three to four days. He is not a reckless person, and decided to find the murderer slowly. The heroes of the Qinglong gang rushed to the head of the helm one after another, and the storm was about to come. The main altar of Tai Chi Hall is located in Xiaohongshan Town, about 15 miles east of Fucheng. The northeast of the town is Mo'er Mountain, and a few miles to the west of Fucheng is the Dahongshan Scenic Area. Xiaohongshan Town has been very busy these days. Han Tianxue Ran Dagang, the master of the Tai Chi Hall, is also very busy. In the prefecture city, those who are a little respectable in the Jianghu do not dare to make trouble, and even avoid showing their faces.There is the Chu Palace, the Procuratorate, the Municipal Envoy’s Office, the Government Office, and the County Office... There are also many military and land offices. If you want to call the boss here, there are none. On the contrary, those little gangsters who know how to manipulate power, can communicate with officials and soldiers in the government, eat freely in and out of the city, and turn the clouds and rain with great airs, they are the real city foxes and social mice. Outside the city, especially from Wangshan Gate to Haichuanwo, extending to Ruyutao, this area is the real hunting ground for the people of the rivers and lakes. The long street inside the embankment is three or four miles long, and there is everything here. At the beginning of the card application that day, Chao Lingfeng wore a green straight gown, dressed like a strong man eating water, and entered an alley at the east end of the long street. The seventh house in the alley is holding a funeral, and it is not yet the time for worship, so few people usually come to the door. He came to the door with incense candles, and two young men in mourning greeted him. He offered incense and offered sacrifices, and young people also kowtowed as family members. After the ceremony, the young man accompanied him to the living room to serve tea. "My surname is Chao, and I am a friend of Brother Ling." His face was full of sadness, but he spoke sincerely, "Brother Ling, Wang Jian, was invited by a friend to Nanchang to do an errand this time, but he did not expect such a tragic accident. It’s really unpredictable, and people have misfortunes and blessings. Things have already happened, and there is nothing we can do about it. Please forgive me. Originally, I also planned to go to Nanjing this time. It didn’t take place. As far as I know, brother Ling took the back cabin because he didn’t have a lot of money, but I don’t know who else is traveling with him?” "Master Chao, my elder brother went there alone and didn't invite any companions." The fourteen-year-old young man said with tears, "I sent him on the boat that day, but I didn't find that he had any companions." "Before that, he had a good conversation with a passenger at the shipyard. He was also a person on the same boat. After booking a seat, he left with that person. After he returned home, did he mention that he had handed in some new information? friend?" "This... I don't think I've heard him mention it before." "For example, the surnames are Jiang, Li, Jiang Yonglong, Li Shihong, etc." "This... I really haven't heard of it, Master Chao asked this..." "According to the Sanjiang Shipping Company, there are forty passengers in total. I have investigated carefully. There are 27 local people who went to the shipping company to claim compensation. The other five are from Xianning, and three are small businessmen from Nanjing on their way back. , and the other five are foreigners. One of them has not been identified so far, and his guides are forged. The names of the two missing persons are Jiang Yonglong and Li Shihong. As for the people of Jianghan Yangfu, I have been to Hanyang Ask around, but no one knows about these two small businessmen." "Master Chao, the Hanyang Mansion is very big. If you want to inquire about two people who are doing business abroad, how can you find out?" "Originally, I could spend a little more time and spend some money to ask the people in the yamen to check the yellow book of household registration. Hanyang only has two counties, so I can definitely get it. I'm afraid their identities and guides are also forged. It's been delayed." "Hey! Lord Chao is investigating the intentions of these two people..." "They're missing, so check it out." "Maybe it's already fallen into the river." "However, it has been eight or nine days, and there has been no notification of floating corpses from the downstream counties! The mysterious case of Daye has spread to all counties along the river. There are floating corpses everywhere, and they will definitely come to Wuchang, right? ?” "This... I don't understand this." "I'm brother Ling's friend, and I want to do my best as a friend. He was killed unjustly, and I want to find the murderer. You two brothers must keep this matter secret, you know?" "That's... good." "Especially don't mention the fact that I have been here. I should go and leave. Please forgive me, maybe I can find out the murderer and comfort my brother in heaven." Everyone knew about this mysterious case that caused a sensation across the country, and the government also concluded that it was a plague attack, but they couldn't find out what the three people's knife was after their deaths, and they couldn't trace it. Dayi, the capital of Tongdu, is busy with tourists, and it is impossible for the government to control the number of passengers carried by each ship, large or small, and there is no complaint from a living victim, so this case has to be put aside for the time being, and it is still pending. But people can imagine that the government will close the case soon, and the stabbing of the deceased may involve some kind of mysterious religious ceremony. For example, the Sorcerer Sect has a saying of seizing the ghosts of the dead.Cut a certain place on the body of the deceased with a dharma knife, and then the ghost of the deceased can be absorbed, attached to an object or dharma pair, and will be enslaved by the owner of the object or dharma dagger forever. Although this violated the crime of destroying the corpse, it was not considered murder, so the government would not step up the pursuit. The Qinglong gang is the one who is the most diligent in the investigation. It mobilized all the experts and targeted the people in Taijitang. Most of them have been identified as the people of Taijitang. What is missing is the evidence. Before the confirmation is confirmed, they can only secretly During the verification work, the relationship between the two parties became more and more tense. In the evening, Chao Lingfeng appeared in front of the Yellow Crane Tower. The building is guarded by Ding Yong, and idlers are not allowed to climb on it. In the square in front of the building, it is a lively time, and various stalls are selling and selling. Towels, skins, plums, and melons in the Jianghu industry are all available. Before dark, you can earn a few more money. He stood in front of a stall selling dog skin plasters, looked at the middle-aged doctor with interest, and talked wildly.There were more than a dozen spectators, but few actually bought plasters. The doctor saw him and didn't seem to pay much attention. He is no longer a poor man in a green straight gown, but a young son-in-law with a fluttering green body and a folding fan in his hand.Among these people, is the most outstanding one. Finally, everyone who watched the doctor's bragging left. He was the only one left, standing in front of the booth with a leisurely look, staring at the Lang Zhong with a mustache and smiling, his smile was unpredictable. "My lord has been watching it for a long time." The doctor also smiled at him: "It seems that my lord has no intention of buying Xiao Ke's plaster. Is there something that needs Xiao Ke's help? Why don't you tell me clearly?" "Your blindness is quite high." He pointed to the green bamboo tube used as a prop with the folding fan, "It's just a knife, the knife edge is too neat, it will make people suspicious." "My lord said that my plastering is a way to deceive the eyes?" I suddenly became angry, "Are you intentionally hurting others, breaking people's business?" "Don't be angry, brother." He shook the folding fan lightly, "There is no one else, just you and me, it's okay to talk about it." "Oh, it's you……" "Huang Langzhong, your friend Shang Bainian wants to pass on the message." When Huang Langzhong heard the word Shang Bainian, his expression changed. "He wanted me to tell you that you are not enough friends." He went on to say, "He regards you as a good friend, and he thought that after some troubles in Nanjing, he would send someone to send a letter to invite you to enjoy the blessings. However, he didn't expect that you would not It would be too heartless to go to Daye to handle his funeral affairs for him. Could it be that it is true that human beings are human beings, and human beings are human beings? Oh, that's what he said." "Don't yell, okay?" Huang Langzhong hurriedly closed the stall, "He...he really entrusted...in a dream to...ask you to pass...a message?" "What do you think?" "My lord, you...you saw it." Huang Langzhong spread his hands, "I'm almost at the point where I can't go on anymore, where... how can I have the money to... do... the funeral for him? I..." He took out an ingot of twelve taels of gold from his sleeve and threw it into Huang Lang's wooden box containing plaster. "The market price is one to six, sixty taels of silver, is it enough?" He said: "Sanjiang Shipyard sent someone to cooperate in Daye to deal with the aftermath, and each person will have one hundred taels of silver as compensation. You are not a relative of Shang Bainian, so you may not be able to receive it." Yes, but receiving funeral expenses will not be a problem, you only need to spend twenty taels of silver for the fee, and you can make a net profit of forty taels of silver, will you go?" "My lord, of course the younger one will go, of course..." "Conditions." "Conditions?" Huang Langzhong's expression changed again. "I want to know who sent him to Nanjing to make a living. He has a good friendship with Hu Laoqi of Sanjiang Shipping Company. Hu Laoqi is the fireman on the ghost ship. He probably has nothing to do on the ship and works in the kitchen. Please help Hu Laoqi." "This... let me think about it..." Huang Langzhong lowered his head in thought. "Huh! I remember, it's East Lake...uh..." There were a lot of people rushing in front of the building, and the two only cared about talking, ignoring the people who came and went. Huang Langzhong leaned forward and fell on his own wooden plaster box, a star of metal light appeared on the left rib, it was a nail-shaped hidden weapon, piercing into the atrium, his position recognition was unparalleled. "Oh..." Chao Lingfeng yelled in surprise, trembling all over, raised his arms in a panic, turned around like a ghost and ran wildly, with heavy steps, squeezed out of the crowd and ran along the street, panting like a cow, sweating profusely, and finally rushed into Hanyangmen fled to the city amidst the crowds entering the city. The two men in Tsing Yi crept behind him at a leisurely pace, not rushing to keep up, they were experts in stalking. But not the best connoisseurs, because they didn't see any suspicious signs. Although the hidden weapon that killed Huang Langzhong was six inches long, the nail tail exposed outside the body was less than three inches long. It is impossible for an expert to know it at a glance, and a layman must help Huang Langzhong to ask why, and he will never run away immediately. ... The bell to close the city gate came from the bell tower of Wangcheng, and it was getting dark. The sky was getting dark, and there was a lot of pedestrians on the street. The two men who were following them narrowed the distance to about three feet, and followed suit. He was panting like a cow, staggering on his feet, it seemed that he might fall down at any time, or he might not be able to catch his breath, so he went to see the King of Hades. "He's about to die." A big man said to his companion: "If you don't take him away, what we get will be a dead man." "No." Another burly man flatly refused, "I have told you that anyone who asks about Shang Bainian, the dead ghost, must be captured alive and asked for a confession. This kid must have companions, and we must catch them all." "Strange! Why is the head of the fairy paying attention to a sloppy Shang Bainian?" "If you don't know, don't ask too much. Anyway, we make friends with the elder, and the friend should help you if you have something to do. There is no need to find out the inside story." "Yes, it's taboo to inquire. . . . Oh! He's finished." Chao Lingfeng accidentally bumped into a pedestrian, lost his footing and fell heavily. The person who was hit was stunned. "I'm sorry." The two men rushed out and apologized to the people on the side, "Our companion is drunk, didn't he hurt himself?" The two helped Chao Lingfeng, who was panting like a cow and seemed to be about to collapse, and hurried away. Soon, into an alley. "Save... my life..." Chao Lingfeng cried out in despair and panic, completely losing the strength to struggle. "Fuck you!" A big man yelled coldly and knocked him unconscious with a palm. The main room in the inner courtyard was lit. Chao Lingfeng was in a daze and was placed under the wall. The two men were drinking tea, and a seductive woman in her thirties was also sitting at the table drinking tea, staring at Chao Lingfeng with swaying charming eyes. "You two ugly donkeys, where did you get such a beautiful young man?" The woman's words were really rough, "Did you have some kind of idea to get it for my old lady?" "Don't even think about it. If you give him to your group, you won't be able to sell him for a lot of money. He is not a material for work." The burly man said, "You can't keep it for yourself, especially Er Niang. After the questioning, I will take her away." "Ask what?" "Don't intervene, deal with it anyway, you just pretend it didn't happen. Hey! You cook and get some food first, don't get involved in things here." "Let's talk about it first, don't make my place dirty, so that I won't waste my time, you know?" You Erniang went to Chao Lingfeng's side, "Old Qu, it's a pity to dispose of such a good talent, please leave it to me?" "It's not good at all. Come on, woman, what do we need to do?" Lao Qu waved away impatiently. Second Sister You shook her head, twisted her waist and walked away. Lao Qu pulled out a small dagger from his clothes, stood in front of Chao Lingfeng, knocked on the small dagger, stared at Chao Lingfeng like a wolf and grinned. "Boy, my surname is Qu, and I am a hero who kills people without blinking an eye." Old Qu's words were full of threats, "If my grandfather has something to ask you, you must answer it obediently. If not, my grandfather will kill you with one knife and one knife." Cut off the meat piece by piece." "I...I know." Chao Lingfeng's weak voice continued intermittently, "You...you have...killed...Huang...Huang Langzhong, you...you are a...hero. " "As long as you know." "No...don't cut me, you will dirty this place, then...that You...you Erniang is not willing." His tone gradually stabilized. "Drink! At least you haven't fainted from fright." Lao Qu squatted aside and rubbed the tip of the dagger against his face, "How did you know Shang Bainian? Tell me the truth." "I don't know Shang Bainian at all, he really entrusted me with dreams..." "Nonsense!" "Really, I won't lie to you. Otherwise, why would I be willing to spend an ingot of gold to ask Huang Langzhong to go to Daye to collect his body? I'm not crazy. I'm afraid that Shang Bainian's evil spirit will haunt me, so..." "Fart! How can there be any wronged souls in the world? I, Qu Guannan, nicknamed Judge Nail, have been in the business of killing people all my life. I haven't killed one hundred in the past twenty years, and there are eighty. If there are really wronged souls, there are more ghosts than people in this world." ?” "For gods and Buddhas, sincerity leads to spirituality, and for ghosts, faith leads to success. I believe in everything, gods, Buddhas, ghosts, foxes, demons, monsters..." "Fuck you! What's your last name? What's your name?" "My surname is Chao, and my name is Chao Lingfeng..." Judge Ding Crank Nan was taken aback, and the dagger suddenly dropped from his hand. Another big man who was sitting at the table drinking tea heard two crisp ping-pong sounds, the teacup fell to the ground and was smashed into pieces, and he jumped up, his face turning pale with fright. "Did the word Chao Lingfeng frighten you?" Chao Lingfeng sat up straight, clasped the judge's right elbow with his left hand, "Then, you must be somewhat related to the people in Taiji Hall, right?" The big man who dropped the cup by mistake ran away and ran to the back of the hall. Chao Lingfeng picked up the dagger, flicked it casually, and with a "poof", the handle of the dagger hit the back of the head of the big man two feet away, and the big man fell forward and passed out. "Let's talk." Chao Lingfeng stood up straight, like dragging a dead dog, nailed the judge to the table, and pressed the man on his back. Judge Ding's whole body went limp, he was tongue-tied and wanted to scream but couldn't make a sound, wanted to struggle but couldn't do it, and there was a look of horror in his eyes, as if he had seen a wronged soul. "I don't know a few people, so I don't know who you are, Judge Nail, but judging from your skill in killing Huang Langzhong, you are indeed an expert in assassination, a cold-blooded killer." Chao Lingfeng's right hand was on Judge Nail's face. The lower part was stroked slowly, and the tone of speech became strange. The terrified look in the judge's eyes disappeared, replaced by dazed, rigid, absent-minded. "Who are you in the Tai Chi Hall? Your status must not be low." Chao Lingfeng continued to ask. "I don't have friendship with Tai Chi Hall, they hate a killer like me who does business." Judge Ding said in a calm tone. Chao Lingfeng was taken aback, Taiji Hall hates killers who kill people?What does this mean?On behalf of the Tai Chi Hall, it doesn't look down on being in the company of gangsters and villains?is it possible? "How do you know me, Chao Lingfeng?" "The day before yesterday, the head of the Tai Chi hall, Han Tianlei, brought some prominent people to the catfish to apologize for wearing red and hanging colors for the Qinglong Gang. Friends in the Jianghu know the conflict between the two sides in Tanjiaqiao Town." "You have contacts with people from both sides?" "No. The people in Tai Chi Hall are smelly and tough, and the leader of the Qinglong Gang, Dragon King, is full of morals and morals, which is incompatible with a person like me." Judge Ding Quguannan answered every question without emotion on his face. "How did you find shelter in Wuchang?" "I have a friendship with Master Daohong of Zixu Temple in East Lake. Before Master Daohong entered the Taoist sect, he was a well-known Yeyou Chengjing in the Jianghu. At present, there are very few people who know his details. He has cultivated to the fairyland of the earth. world, but..." "But the nature of Haocaihaobao has not changed." "Yes, Zixu Temple was built by him ten years ago. The inside is like a labyrinth, and there are secret rooms underground. It's a pity that he doesn't accept outsiders, not even close friends." "Is he from the Tai Chi Hall?" "No, no one knows his details." "Why did he ask you to murder Mr. Huang?" "Three days ago, I came to join him from Henan. He seemed to be very busy. He asked me and Chen Zhou, who came with me, to secretly inquire everywhere for him. Pay attention to inquire about a gangster named Shang Bainian, who is related to him?" Contact, after finding out and asking clearly, deal with it immediately and then tell him. Brother Chen and I checked for three days, and today you happened to be talking about Shang Bainian with Huang Langzhong. I couldn’t change the habit for a while, so I killed Huang Langzhong , and then follow behind you, hoping to find your companion." "Oh! That's how it is. In fact, you don't know the inside story." "Friends! To share worries with friends, you don't need to know the inside story." "You are quite a friend. Now, tell me how to get to Zixu Temple, okay?"