Chapter 32: The Bloodstained White Horse Village (I)
White Horse Village is the private property of the Li family, after years of construction and transformation, it no longer relies on farming, but is similar to a modern farmhouse, a place for the rich and wealthy gentry of Chang'an City to entertain.
There are many gambling houses in Chang'an City, and if you want to make money from these rich and rival figures, you naturally have to do some tricks that you can't see anywhere else.
Xiao Ting came to the door rashly, it was the first time to come, although Li Tianyu knew that this master's brain was not worthy of his identity, but he still had to be careful, but he took Xiao Ting to the main house, where the beauty and wine were accompanied, which was not much different from the ordinary pastime, but there was nothing to say.
And in a garden in the depths of White Horse Village, the rockery built of strange stones is quite beautiful, and there are many guards with knives walking back and forth around the rockery, and the momentum is restrained, which is much stronger than the guards at the entrance of the village.
There is a hole under the rockery, and from time to time there are people dressed in fancy clothes who enter it, and you can faintly hear the noise of nothingness, but it comes from the ground......
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"Dad, you said that the eagle finger scattered people, will you come over today?"
In the Nuodi Palace under the rockery, many people sit in the surrounding compartments, and in the middle is a martial arts arena, surrounded by thick railings, which looks like a huge cage.
Zhu Chenglie's face turned pale, and he sat outside the huge cage, constantly looking left and right.
Zhu Manlong sat on the Taishi chair holding a teacup, and next to him was Zhang Chao. Thugs dressed in guard clothes were scattered all over the dungeon.
Hearing his son's inquiry, Zhu Manlong snorted lightly: "There is a father and Master Zhang here, and I am ten percent sure that he will not come back." ”
Zhu Chenglie nodded, his expression was a little uneasy, it may be related to 'don't do bad things, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door', if you do bad things, you are naturally a little suspicious.
In the huge cage in front of Zhu Chenglie, the beast roared from time to time, and the yellow-veined tiger roared in the iron railing against the wall of the big cage, and the scarlet pupils contained the beastly nature brought by hunger, scanning the many sources of sound that came out of the cage.
The people sitting in the surrounding compartment couldn't see who it was, but Zhu Chenglie heard the voices of several people, all of whom were wealthy gentry in Chang'an City, and at this time, with a little excitement, threw the gold and silver ingots into the tray of the steward, shouting:
"Hurry up, hurry up ......"
Hurry up and do something, although Zhu Chenglie came for the first time, he had already guessed it.
The Zhu family opened a martial arts hall, provided guards for many wealthy families, and also did dirty work for those wealthy families, robbing land and property, beating stuffy sticks, and so on. At a drinking party last year, he and Li Tianlu bumped into each other, and after making friends a few times, Li Tianlu gave him a fat difference - grab some irrelevant people and send them to Baimazhuang, which kind of government will not check.
Baimazhuang is a farm, and Zhu Chenglie thought that the landlord's family was looking for black workers to farm the land, so he naturally readily agreed. The Zhu family supports many gambling houses in the city, and every day there are gambling sticks who lose and go bankrupt and still owe, and they turn against their families, and no one cares at all.
owed the gambling house money and couldn't afford it, so Zhu Chenglie naturally took someone to tie it up and sent it to White Horse Village, and for more than a year, there was no one to report to the official.
Zhu Chenglie took a lot of silver from this, and he always wondered why the Li family didn't directly recruit long-term workers for the silver, and it wasn't until today that he realized that these people he sent had gone to see the king of Hades.
This dungeon is an underground gambling house, where people fight beasts and win or lose.
The hungry tiger in the cage is not big, a small tiger of about 200 catties, but no matter how small it is, it is still a tiger. Zhu Chenglie thinks that he has no ability to fight alone, how can he fight those gambling sticks who can't eat enough to eat?
The cage was not ready, but Zhu Chenglie really couldn't sit still, after all, he caught the person.
But thugs have the rules of thugs, what does the gold owner do, the Zhu family has to do it after receiving the money, and there is no right to interfere.
"Whew-"
The deafening roar of the tiger sounded in the cage, and the yellow-striped tiger was irritable behind the iron fence, bringing up shaking and dust.
The clatter of chains came from the gate on the side of the cage against the wall.
The people sitting in the surrounding compartments suddenly shouted, and several pot-bellied outsiders even stood at the window of the compartment and opened the beaded curtains to watch.
Click-
The sound of the machine sounded, and a gate by the wall opened, and two men in clothes were thrown out directly, including Sancai, a guy from Sun's shop.
"Let me out—"
"Help—"
The sound of crying father and mother sounded, and the two men got up from the sandy ground, turned around and ran back, but unfortunately the fence had been closed, and they could only pounce on it and cry, not daring to look at the iron railing next to it.
Perhaps to increase the odds of victory for the two men, a knife and a spear were thrown from behind the fence.
Outside the cage, the steward took the gong and struck it:
"Let's go!"
Bang
The iron railing was slowly hoisted, and the mouth of the yellow-veined tiger, who had been hungry for three days, was full of saliva, and he was anxious and angry and wanted to squeeze it out.
"Fuck, pick up the knife!"
"Kill this reptile, Lao Tzu will reward you with a thousand taels!"
The shouts were like a tidal wave, and everyone stared intently.
The two ragged men in the cage first collapsed to the ground and crawled around looking for an exit, seeing that the head of the yellow-veined tiger had come out from under the iron railing, and the desperate desire to survive still occupied the top.
"Let's go together!"
"How to fight separately! Go up together, kill the pig like a pig, and then find an opportunity to stab ...... to death"
The visitors from all directions were lying on the railing, anxiously and excitedly urging and roaring, and they looked eager to change themselves.
"Whew-"
With a tiger roar that resounded through the dungeon, the yellow-veined tiger broke free from the cage, and the tiger's paw stepped through the sand and brought dust and muffled noise, jumped closer, and rushed to the edge of the cage in the blink of an eye.
"Ahh
Screams rang out immediately.
The little bravery that the two men had just mustered up was gone, but after seeing the ferocity of the hungry tiger, they were scattered and fled. A man who was running slowly, was torn open by the huge tiger's claws on his back, and before he could let out a desperate scream, his neck fell into the tiger's mouth, and his voice stopped abruptly.
The remaining three talents were already so frightened that they lost their three souls and seven spirits, and even threw their knives on the ground, only caring about running away from the big tiger.
After the hungry tiger killed one person, he didn't mean to stop and be stabbed, and chased after Sancai.
"What is the turtle grandson running! Take a knife and slash! ”
"Waste of money, Lao Tzu will press you a hundred taels of silver......"
There was a lot of scolding.
Most of the gamblers at the bottom of the market are lazy and lazy, and even normal middle-aged men can't outrun, let alone outperform tigers.
Sancai resisted the sack for half a year, and the food in Sun's shop was good, but it ran very fast at this time. It's just that you can't kill the yellow-veined tiger, it's just a few more breaths to live.
Zhu Chenglie already had a ghost in his heart, but he really couldn't stand it at this time: "Dad, let the steward stop, what kind of person is fighting a tiger, this is taking people's lives for fun, and it is too damaging to yin morality." ”
Zhu Manlong held the teacup and did not speak.
Zhang Chao next to him looked indifferent: "Life and death are fate, self-inflicted, who is to blame?" ”
"Help—"
In the cage, Sancai cried frantically, his legs ran out of the afterimage, and he was a little farther away from the tiger that was getting closer and closer behind him.
Beat the air.
The surrounding spectators had already scolded and stood up, obviously dissatisfied with the big show.
Just as the yellow-striped tiger flew out, and the blood-stained giant mouth bit the back of Sancai's neck, a burst suddenly sounded in the underground palace:
"Dead animals!"
The sound was like thunder, almost overshadowing the noise of the audience, echoing in the underground palace.
The teacup in Zhu Manlong's hand trembled slightly, and a pair of eagle eyes suddenly stared at the entrance of the stone path of the underground palace......