Chapter 21: The Dog
"Right now in the capital, the Shuijiao Gang, the Tianying Hall, and the Huashan Faction, the three families have become ......" Duan Shiying smiled and poured another glass for Guo Fengchun, "Brother Guo, how does it taste? This is a high-quality lamb wine." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ infoβ
"Oh, the three-legged stand, which one is Cao Cao, and which one is Liu Bei?"
"What's the way? Zhang Yingxiang is from Yangzhou, and only his territory can eat authentic Huaiyang cuisine," Duan Shiying said with a pair of chopsticks and dried shreds, "Look at this knife work, a piece of fragrant dried food can approve such a large plate, and then look at this soup base, the chicken soup with oil is now cooked...... Brother Guo: Drink slowly, your bottle of wine is a table of money. β
"Who doesn't know that you are a particular person, I can't get used to eating this clear soup and little water," Guo Fengchun poured wine with one hand and drank it with the other, "As for money, hmph! There are seventy-two households in Tokyo City, which one dares to charge a few of us money, it is redundant." β
Duan Shiying shook his head, raised his right hand and patted it lightly on the table, and said, "Well said! What Tie Wanquan said last time also meant the same thing, I waited for the black and white to be mixed up today, so why bother with those intrigues?"
"Are you drunk?" Guo Fengchun finally stopped his cup and looked at Duan Shiying strangely, "You came to me today just to talk this nonsense?"
"Haha, as the saying goes, 'The officials of the world are impermanent, and they only live by receiving money.'" On the rivers and lakes, we are the well-known 'three major catchers', but in fact, we are just low-class officials. Duan Shiying took back the wine bottle and poured himself a glass, "Just talk about money, where does our money come from?" Even if the reputation is outside, there are many gifts from friends in the rivers and lakes, and it is also a hot favor, and people point to earning it back with profits one day. β
Guo Fengchun simply stopped his chopsticks and stopped eating, he looked at Duan Shiying with his hands on his chest, and listened to what medicine he sold in the gourd.
After a glass of wine, Duan Shiying opened the conversation: "Besides, last year, there was a great drought in the northwest, and the common people sold their sons and daughters, and the local errand servants were good and made a fortune. Where is the money, selling children and daughters is a business, and it is better to die a person, get a door panel and put it in front of the rich family's house, and you can knock on it. There are also people who will come to trouble, looking for a dusty woman to hug a rich man on the street, saying that he was molested, he took someone to lock it on the spot and take it back, and almost didn't knock out the bottom of the house......"
"You just make up the story, you don't know how to make money when you are a rich man?" Guo Fengchun couldn't help but interject.
"Make up a story?" Duan Shiying pretended to be surprised and winked at Guo Fengchun, "The one who made this deal was a head catcher surnamed Fan in Jingzhao Mansion, and he was nicknamed 'Jingxi Evil Dog', don't you know?"
Duan Shiying raised his hand to stop Guo Fengchun's words: "Saying that he is a dog, naturally he understands the rules." No matter how much money is extracted, half of what should be distributed to the government is never half a penny, and as for how much the government can knock on the master, he is not blushing at all, so he has no fear. β
Guo Fengchun's expression slowly stiffened, and he intuitively felt that there was something in Duan Shiying's words.
"In our line of work, we have four words, 'for the tiger'. If you want to do it for a long time, without the support of a tiger behind you, it is looking for death. How is Xie Shi's personality? How is his kung fu? There is no one on top, and he can't hear a sound when he is killed. Tie Wanquan is the same, he was almost hacked to death in Taiyuan in his early years, and later he was lucky enough to befriend Zhang Yingxiang, which is considered to be relied on, but now?"
Speaking of this, Duan Shiying poured wine for Guo Fengchun again, only to see his wrist raised, and a wine line flew out of the bottle mouth, just pasting the edge of the wine glass and pouring it full, while Guo Fengchun sat upright and didn't say a word.
"Brother Guo, what I just said was about the 'Jingxi Evil Dog', in fact, what is the difference between us? It's okay to be a dog, but there must be rules, if you say that you follow the wrong master, you have no eyes, but if you have two masters for a dog, you have broken the rules. Don't forget, tigers can fake their power and eat people......"
"Duan Shiying!" Guo Fengchun finally couldn't bear it anymore, he slapped the table and yelled, "You are Tong Guan's dog!
"Hey, be quiet!" Duan Shiying frowned dissatisfiedly, "What's wrong with me?" I didn't say anything. β
Guo Fengchun opened his mouth and froze in place.
"It's just right, after drinking a bottle of wine, let's go, and get down to business. Duan Shiying said and raised his sword and stood up and beckoned.
"Where are you going?" Guo Fengchun didn't seem to have come back to his senses.
"The big devil has finally come, and he is stationed in Guanduji, less than 70 miles west of the city! If he wants to stand on Zhang Yingxiang's side, we will have no work to do! Before he enters Beijing, we must meet him first.
"There is a way to be polite, and many people are not to blame. β
Guo Fengchun started just now, his mind was already blank and thoughtless, he followed Duan Shiying out of the door without saying a word, got on the horse, and galloped away to the west of the city.
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Duan Shiying was in front of him and didn't stop for a moment, Guo Fengchun was in a hurry, and he galloped for more than ten miles in a blink of an eye.
The more Guo Fengchun thought about it, the more unpleasant it became, and facing the cool breeze of the night, he shouted at Duan Shiying in front of him: "Hey, the big devil is the castle master of Lei Family Fort, Lei Zhantian?"
"It's too much to ask!"
"How do you know that he's coming from the west instead of taking the waterway? Do you know that the other person is in Guanduji? What's going on? What did his daughter Lei Rumeng tell you that night? Hey, what's the matter with the two of us going to see that devil? Who is behind this tonight?"
"Do you need to ask?"
Guo Fengchun was speechless, only to hear the first paragraph Shiying sneered: "Lei Jiabao enters Beijing, then it's worth it! Their Lei family has a random Lei Rugang, but he is just one of the 'Five Thunder Envoys', so he beat the pharmacist who ranks tenth in the underworld and can't find the Northern ......."
"What are the top ten masters of the underworld, I'm here!" Guo Fengchun easily grabbed the handle, "It's all some tricks of the rivers and lakes to brag about themselves, if we really want to be arranged, can't we be ranked among the three major catchers?"
"Iron is perfect, you can't. β
"You!" Guo Fengchun was speechless for a while, he intuitively felt that Duan Shiying's tone was colder than the other, and the horses were still galloping all the way, and under the night, the two sides of the gallop gradually disappeared......
"Brother Guo, you are thick and fine, you are very smart, why do you need to rely on martial arts to eat again?" Duan Shiying smiled as he beat his horse and walked towards a mass grave in the south, "It's like talking about wine, you know that the wine in Renhedian is better than Qingfeng Building." I just thought, yes, of course. The boss behind Renhe's shop is Cai You, the eldest son of Taishi Cai, and it would be strange if this wine was not brewed well.
"Brother Guo, do you say yes or no?"
Guo Fengchun was shocked, and he followed Duan Shiying's horse while thinking about how to deal with it.
Duan Shiying changed his words: "Besides, the northwest has been fighting with Western Xia in the past few years, and the war is tight. Brother Guo, you are too clever to give this news to the idea of fighting military rations? You know who is in the hands of the military power in the northwest, that is to be unruly, huh?"
After speaking, Duan Shiying turned over and dismounted, and as usual, put his sword across his back. Under the moonlight, he looked at Guo Fengchun expressionlessly.
"Who told you?" Guo Fengchun finally figured out Duan Shiying's script tonight, but he was not afraid, he had been crisscrossing the rivers and lakes for most of his life, what kind of scene had he not passed? If you say that Tie Wanquan is okay, what are you Duan Shiying! Thinking of this, his face was horizontal, he jumped off the horse, and said in his heart, don't blame Lao Tzu for killing you!
"Whoever you tell is who tells me. β
Guo Fengchun was shocked again, could it be that he was a pharmacist!
Duan Shiying saw the change in his expression and smiled: "Okay, it's useless to talk more." Win me, you're the top 10 of the underworld. β
As soon as the words fell, Guo Fengchun rushed towards Duan Shiying with a pair of iron fists with overwhelming murderous aura!
Duan Shiying didn't dodge, nor did he draw his sword, he only raised his hand on the spot, and with a "bang" sound, he crossed the scabbard and blocked Guo Fengchun's menacing two punches. Rao is like this, Duan Shiying's complexion also changed, and his upper body shook.
Guo Fengchun saw that the opponent's center of gravity was unstable and was about to attack, when an inexplicable cold light jumped up, and under the moonlight, a touch of emerald green flashed by, and it disappeared into Guo Fengchun's heart.
Duan Shiying's sword was still in the scabbard and didn't move. It's just that the hilt of the sword, which was originally more than a foot long, was half shortened, and the other half of the hilt was pinched in his right hand and stopped at Guo Fengchun's chest.
"Iron, iron, this is iron ......" Guo Fengchun pointed at Duan Shiying with trembling all over his body, and breathed for a moment.
"Brother Guo, you have never been a good dog. Actually, I'm not, so why be a dog if you can be a human? But now you are. β
Duan Shiying looked at Guo Fengchun, who fell to the ground, and said to himself, "Oh, that, I didn't lie to you about Lei Zhantian." I'm relieved for you today, and in the future, there will be no place for you as a person. β
Saying that, Duan Shiying sat on the ground, and the wind was gusting in the mass grave under the moonlight, but in him, it was a cool breeze that was not refreshing in Meng Chun.
He raised his foot and kicked Guo Fengchun, with a trace of imperceptible melancholy on his face, and said in a low voice: "Xie Shi, Tie Wanquan, me, and you Guo Fengchun...... Among the four of us, don't be unconvinced if you want to say that your old Guo has a good life, seeing that the days of the great catchers in Kaifeng Mansion are coming to an end, and you are also dead, how can you not be a good fate?
"To put it bluntly, what kind of scenery did we rely on back then? In a word, 'the world's martial arts are out of the five mountains'.
"The four of us, which one of them came out of the cracks in the stones? Who hasn't been in the Wuyue Sword Sect on seniority? What do the rivers and lakes pay attention to? Sects, teachers, seniority, and respect, you, the descendant disciple of the former head of Hengshan, know much better than me.
"The rivers and lakes have always had the biggest rules, and since when has it become lawless?
"So a bunch of fake 'masters' can't get along, they can enjoy the blessings and can't afford to suffer anymore. What should I do? It's easy! Be a dog for the court officials, dignitaries, and dignitaries, just like the scenery. Now you understand? Why did the 'underworld master Half Sky Hawk' come later? There are still some people who don't want to be dogs.
"Now that Lei Jiabao is coming, that big devil is coming to him, as long as it is not his Lei family bloodline, even the king of heaven and Lao Tzu can only be a dog for him. β
No one was listening, and naturally no one answered, and a few graves, a little ghost fire, fluttered in the night wind.
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