Wang Sheng and Gao Shi hurried back to the village committee office. At this time, there were hundreds of people standing at the gate of the village committee compound, but there were soldiers guarding the door, so they did not dare to enter, so they could only whisper at the gate. Seeing Wang Sheng coming, everyone stopped talking and consciously moved out of the way, but Wang Sheng also noticed that many people showed some panicked looks on their faces.

Although Wang Sheng's heart faintly felt bad, obviously this was not a simple homicide, which had a great impact on the villagers, but they had not yet figured out the details of the matter, and the two of them were not easy to say anything, so it was better to understand the matter first, so Wang Sheng and Gao Shi also hurriedly walked through the crowd into the village committee compound.

The guards guarding the door saw that Wang Sheng and Gao Shize were back, and immediately let them go, and one of the guards said: "Chief Wang, Chief Gao, you are back, Camp Commander Luo has ordered, let you go to the meeting as soon as you come back, and wait for you to have a meeting." ”

The two hurried to the conference room again, only to see that Luo Yue, Yang Rui and other military personnel, as well as other members of the working group, had already arrived. The conference room is actually the second hall of the Wang family, which was originally the place where the Wang family gathered, which was very large, with more than 60 square meters, so it was regarded as the meeting room of the village committee. However, there is no long conference table, with eight square tables together, and the conference chairs are all high-backed Taishi chairs of one color, the tables and chairs are all made of sour branch wood, and the craftsmanship is also quite exquisite, if it is in the old time and space, this set of tables and chairs is worth at least millions of yuan.

At this time, many people in the conference room were smoking, making the whole room full of smoke, some people were sitting on chairs playing with mobile phones, and some people were standing on the side chatting.

Wang Sheng sat under a chair beside Luo Yue and said, "How is the situation now?" ”

Luo Yue said: "Dr. Yao is taking medical personnel to examine the body, and the family of the deceased is also taken to the village committee compound and placed in a room to rest. ”

Wang Sheng said: "Who did it, do you know it?"

Luo Yue said: "When the patrol arrived, they only found the body, and did not find the murderer, but they found this on the body of the body. As he spoke, he handed Wang Sheng a piece of dismantled white paper.

Wang Sheng opened it and saw that the words "blood debt and blood repayment" were written in blood on the paper, Wang Shengyi frowned, and said, "So, this incident was done by the remnants of the Wang family?"

Luo Yue nodded and said: "It should be, as far as we know, Sun Cheng has a good reputation in the village, and he is honest, and he has no deep hatred with anyone, so except for the rest of the Wang family, there should be no one else who will be murderous." ”

Gao Shi said: "But why did they attack Sun Cheng, it was us who destroyed the Wang family, Sun Cheng did not participate at all, and he didn't even dare to ask for the land allocated to him." , so to start should also be aimed at our talents. ”

Luo Yue said: "There are two possibilities, one is that the Wang family of course wants to find our people, but our people are usually in the village, and no one will go out alone under normal circumstances, so the remnants of the Wang family can only attack Sun Cheng, who is lonely, hoping to warn us by killing Sun Cheng, and the other possibility is that the target of their revenge is the entire village and create a terrifying atmosphere, or it may be both." ”

Wang Sheng said: "That's right, it should be such a goal." ”

It turned out that after Wang Zhanyuan escaped from the tunnel that day, he immediately sent someone to inform his eldest son Wang Kexing, who went to see the cemetery, and asked him not to return to Wangjiazhai, but to rush to Jiaozhou County and meet his second son Wang Kefu.

Wang Kexing received the report, and of course he didn't dare to go back to Wangjiazhai, so he rushed to Jiaozhou County to meet Wang Kefu. As a result, the two brothers waited in Jiaozhou County for a day, and did not see Wang Zhanyuan arrive until dark. The two brothers also felt that their father was probably more than lucky.

When Wang Kexing went to see the cemetery, he brought eight servants with him, plus the people sent by Wang Zhanyuan to inform him, a total of nine people. Wang Kefu was on an errand in Jiaozhou County, and in order to live conveniently, he bought a house in Jiaozhou County, and brought a tent man, two bodyguards, two palanquin drivers, a maid, and a cook from Wangjiazhai to serve him in his daily life. So now the brothers only have a dozen or so people available. In addition, Wang Kefu still has about 200 taels of silver on hand, as well as some valuable items, and the total price is estimated to be about 500 taels of silver. In addition, the Wang family also has two properties in Jiaozhou County, which add up to about 1,000 silver.

The brothers discussed it in the evening, so the next day, the brothers sent a person from among the existing people to quietly go back to Wangjiazhai to inquire about the news, and two days later, the brothers learned that the army that captured Wangjiazhai was called the People's Army, and Wang Zhanyuan and the rest of the Wang family were arrested, and a public trial meeting had been held, and they were sentenced to death at the public trial meeting. And the rest of the Wang family will be escorted out of Wangjiazhai, and it seems that they are going to be sent to Qingdao.

As soon as Wang Kefu heard that it was the People's Army, he knew that the situation was not good, and it turned out that after meeting with the reconnaissance group in Wangjiazhai last time, Wang Kefu returned to Jiaozhou County and made a special trip to inquire about the news from Qingdao. One is that the news in the county is relatively well-informed; the other is that at this time, it has been a long time, and the news has gradually spread, so Wang Kefu also inquired clearly, Qingdao has indeed been lost, and the army that captured Qingdao is called the People's Army, and this People's Army is formed by a group of Chinese who have returned from overseas, and they have not only captured Qingdao, but also captured Tianjin and defeated the Eight-Nation Alliance.

If it is really the People's Army that captured Wangjiazhai, then this revenge will be difficult to revenge, because such a powerful force is not something that the Wang family can afford to provoke at all. Of course, Wang Kefu also didn't understand why the People's Army would take a fancy to this small Wangjiazhai. Therefore, Wang Kefu also felt a little helpless for a while.

And Wang Kexing doesn't care what the People's Army is or not, since his father was killed by the People's Army, of course he has to take revenge, so he immediately has to take people back to Wangjiazhai to fight hard. Wang Kefu hurriedly stopped the eldest brother and explained the situation of the People's Army to the eldest brother, explaining that only relying on these dozen or so people to go to Wangjiazhai to take revenge is completely to send them to death, not only can they not take revenge, but they also have to throw them in, so Wang Kefu suggested that since the People's Army wants to escort the rest of the Wang family to Qingdao, it is better to let Wang Kexing lead people to hijack the prisoner car in the middle of the road, if a group of people can be rescued, they can also expand their own strength, and they are active in the county, and it is best for the government to send troops to recover Wangjiazhai.

When Wang Kexing heard this, he also felt that his brother's idea was good, after all, Wang Zhanyuan had already died, so he would first find a way to rescue the living people, and then take revenge on the People's Army. So the brothers acted immediately, it was obviously impossible to rely on these more than 10 people to rob the prisoner car, but fortunately, Wang Kefu had lived in Jiaozhou County for a long time, and the people of the three religions and nine streams were familiar with it, so they pulled more than 20 people and handed them over to Wang Kexing, of course, they also spent more than 200 taels of silver.

After Wang Kexing left, Wang Kefu also took immediate action and sent a pair of gold ankles worth about fifty taels of silver to the magistrate of Jiaozhou County, claiming that there were boxers who made a rebellion, occupied Wangjiazhai, killed his family, and asked the magistrate to send a document to Laizhou Mansion and ask the government to send troops to quell the chaos. It turned out that Wang Kefu knew very well how many troops there were in Jiaozhou County, and if he wanted to defeat the People's Army in Wangjiazhai, he could only ask Laizhou Mansion to send troops. Because Wang Kefu knew that there was a Wuwei Right Army stationed in Laizhou Mansion, that is, the new army that Yuan Shikai had trained at the Tianjin Station. After Yuan Shikai became the governor of Shandong, in the name of preventing the Boxers, he brought the Wuwei Right Army to Shandong and stationed a battalion in Laizhou Mansion.

The magistrate of Jiaozhou didn't know what to do, and when he heard that there were boxers and bandits in the local area, he naturally didn't dare to be careless, and he accepted Wang Kefu's golden ankle, so he immediately sent a document to Laizhou Mansion in accordance with Wang Kefu's intentions.

And in the next few days, Wang Kefu was not idle, but raised money everywhere. Because Wang Kefu knew very well that he wanted to invite the official army to pacify Wangjiazhai, he couldn't play without money, so he bought all the Wang family's property in Jiaozhou County, as well as the valuable things he had on hand, and raised about 800 taels of silver, and at the same time wrote a letter to his sister Wang Yinfeng, who married in Gaomi County, telling her that something had happened in the family, and asked her sister to raise some money.

On the other hand, Wang Kexing led more than 30 people to ambush halfway from Wangjiazhai to Qingdao, preparing to hijack the prisoner car. Nazhi People's Army dispatched a platoon of troops to escort the Wang family, and the number of people alone was more than Wang Kexing and others, and all of them were armed with rifles, coupled with neat uniforms, it was not easy to provoke at first glance. Although Wang Kexing is willing to fight, after all, the prisoners are his relatives, but Wang Kefu gathered the group of scoundrels and homeless people who did not do it, this rush is not sent to death, although it is easy to make money, but it also requires life to spend, so they all immediately retreated, and they all slipped away, and they walked away in less than a day. was so angry that Wang Kexing stomped his feet and beat his chest, scolding this group of people for not being righteous, but everyone dispersed, and Wang Kexing was helpless.

But after all, it was his own relatives, Wang Kexing was still unwilling in the end, so he followed for two more days, trying to find a gap to rescue a few is a few, that knew that the People's Army was tightly guarded, and there was nowhere to start, seeing that when he arrived at Jiaozhou Bay, and the army responded, Wang Kexing was completely dead, so he had to bring someone back.

After a few days of dismantling, nothing was found, and Wang Kexing's heart was also full of fire, so he didn't want to go back to Jiaozhou County, but came to the vicinity of Wangjiazhai to wander around, one was to inquire about the reality of Wangjiazhai, and the other was to meet the lone People's Army, and also killed one or two of him to vent his anger.

They were familiar with the terrain in this area, so they were not discovered by the People's Army patrol for two or three days, but they did not encounter a lone People's Army soldier, but they bumped into Sun Cheng, who came to Jiaozhou County to buy goods. Wang Kexing couldn't suppress the fire, and brought people out to stop Sun Cheng.

In fact, Wang Kexing really didn't want to kill Sun Cheng at that time, he just planned to beat him up and scare him, and then let Sun Cheng go back to find out the news in the village for himself. Na Zhi didn't take it seriously for a while, but as a result, he was beaten violently and killed Sun Cheng. So I had to leave a note and leave.