Dong Tiankuo was stunned for a moment, not knowing what the middle-aged man meant.

"Why?"

"Why?" The middle-aged man thought for a moment, and then said, "Just because you're the first person who dared to come to me to collect protection money in all these years." ”

"Then you must need me to do something, right?"

"The kid is quite smart," the middle-aged man smiled, "I don't need you to do it, I'm going down this street to be honest just to keep a backhand, as for why you still don't ask too clearly, I hope no one will come to you, but in the future, someone will really look for you with a token, I hope you can do your best to help them then." ”

Dong Tiankuo was a little suspicious and asked, "Aren't you afraid that I will betray you?" And then swept everything here away? ”

"Don't be afraid, because I believe in you." After speaking, the middle-aged man got up, patted Dong Tiankuo's shoulder, and left.

So there was a gambling house called "Silver Hook".

In the thirty-sixth year of the Great Calendar, the sixteenth day of the winter month.

Today's Dong Tiankuo is also a middle-aged man, with a slender figure, two mustaches, brocade clothes, and often a folding fan pinned to his waist.

Silver Hook Gambling House is a place where the entire Linqing Mansion is not subject to curfew, where you can stay all night, you can do it day and night, you can bet your entire net worth, you can get rich overnight, or you can go bankrupt.

On the second floor of the Silver Hook Gambling House, there is a special room for Dong Tiankuo, and he likes to watch the gamblers below in the gambling house with all kinds of expressions because of gambling money.

The current Dong Tiankuo seems to have understood the thoughts of the man back then, the feeling that he can only understand when he is in a certain position. You're in control.

At the same time, he is waiting, waiting for someone to make good on his promise.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door on the second floor.

"Owner, someone is coming to play the field."

Dong Tiankuo's lazy voice came from the door.

"What kind of person, go directly to the government soldiers on the night patrol, if the government soldiers can't solve it, let Xu Heng take a look."

"It was Xu Ye who asked me to come over, and Xu Ye gave me something to show you."

Dong Tiankuo's body had straightened up, and he had a special feeling in his heart.

The door opened, Dong Tiankuo came out of the room, and the person who came respectfully handed the things in his hand to Dong Tiankuo.

Dong Tiankuo curiously took something from the other party's hand, it was half a stone, and the marks at the incision were very strange. Dong Tiankuo looked nervous, staring at the stone in his hand, and then he felt out another stone in his arms, and the two stones were paired together, becoming a complete stone.

This is the token that the middle-aged man gave himself back then, and the middle-aged man told him that someone would find him with the token in the future, so Dong Tiankuo asked what the token was to that person. The middle-aged man just picked up a stone on the ground, seemed to break him in half easily, and then told Dong Tiankuo that this was a token.

At that time, Dong Tiankuo was holding a seemingly random token, but his heart was like a stormy wave, constantly rising and falling.

What kind of ability, what kind of control, can break the hard stone in half, instead of turning it into flying powder, which made the young Dong Tiankuo feel irresistible from his heart.

"Take him to me." Dong Tiankuo forcibly suppressed the waves in his heart, and then commanded the man.

The man answered and went downstairs.

Not long after, Qi Song and Meng Runan were taken by Xu Heng to the second floor of the gambling house.

An oil lamp on the table in the room flickered and flickered. Dong Tiankuo himself was sitting at the table, and the folding fan that should have been pinned to his waist was placed on the table at this time.

After Dong Tiankuo saw Qi Song, he didn't seem very excited, but on the contrary, he was a little disappointed, because Dong Tiankuo thought that he could still meet the person who changed his life.

Dong Tiankuo retreated, including Xu Heng.

"This thing has appeared, which means that you are in trouble now, according to the regulations, I will help you."

"Thank you." Qi Song raised his hand and clenched his fist.

"I wonder how the man is now?" Dong Tiankuo was still thinking about the middle-aged man back then, thinking that the current person should have reached the age of ear obedience.

Qi Song understood who the person in Dong Tiankuo's mouth was referring to, and Qi Song said gloomily: "The old owner died eight years ago. ”

When Dong Tiankuo heard that the man was dead, his heart sank, as if the whole person had become spiritless.

"What about the shopkeeper?" Dong Tiankuo remembered another person, that is, the person who was called "Zhihao" by the middle-aged man back then, since he took over this shop, it was this person who contacted him, but the situation continued until eight years ago, and "Zhihao" never appeared again.

Dong Tiankuo just knew that the middle-aged man was dead, and his first reaction was that something happened to that "Zhihao".

Qi Song naturally knew everything about the past, because his father was the shopkeeper in Dong Tiankuo's mouth.

"It's my father, someone in the village plotted against the old owner, and my father was seriously injured in order to chase the thief, and later passed away."

When Qi Song's father was dying, he told Qi Song and Qi Xuan all the things here in Linqing Mansion, and handed over the token to Qi Xuan.

Dong Tiankuo's face sank when he heard that the two people he wanted to see were dead, and the momentum of being in charge of the underground forces for many years couldn't help but exude, which was different from the momentum emitted by people who practiced martial arts, but a unique momentum of those in power.

The middle-aged man many years ago had it, and now Dong Tiankuo has it.

The atmosphere in the whole room instantly became much more oppressive.

Then Qi Song told Dong Tiankuo everything he knew and the night attack on Qijiazhuang.

Dong Tiankuo only knew at this time that the middle-aged man he had been waiting for was the previous owner of Qijiazhuang, Qi Hanshan. And he also knew that he had been collecting intelligence for Qijiazhuang all these years.

Among their underground forces, Qijiazhuang can be regarded as a famous and thunderous one. As Qijiazhuang, who controls most of the money of the entire Jianghu forces and the dark forces of various provinces, is now being attacked overnight, which makes Dong Tiankuo really shocked.

"This matter has to be considered in the long run, Brother Qi, your wounds also need to be bandaged, I will ask someone to take you down to rest first."

Qi Song knew that what Dong Tiankuo said was reasonable, and Meng Runan also couldn't keep up with his physical strength because he had been walking all night, so he nodded.

"Then it's troublesome Brother Dong."

Dong Tiankuo is a few years older than Qi Song, and it is not wrong for Qi Song to call the other party so.