The weather has turned cold and rainy, but it can't stop the enthusiasm of the people of Xinhui.

In front of the Eight Gate Pavilion, a ring has already been built, sheds have been erected all around, and the buildings on both sides of the street have been leased and set up as stands for VIPs.

The peddlers and pawns wore straw sandals, carried bricks and wood, and were working tightly, like a school of fish, shuttling between the water and grass, but they tacitly avoided it, and there was no collision.

Their gaze was dull and numb, like cattle and horses, as if work was their nature, not their livelihood.

Xu Guanxi stood on the terrace on the second floor of the Bamen Pavilion, looking at all this on the street, and his expression could not be described as sad or joyful.

"Zuo Xiang, do you really want to watch that kid mess around? Although he changed his name, in the end, he is the second young man of the Chen family, and many people recognize his ......"

"If something goes wrong with him, what should the rivers and lakes think of our old bones?"

There were three or five old men standing behind Xu Guanxi, all of whom had white beards, and they were all high-level figures in Hong Shuntang.

Xu Guanxi frowned, and responded softly: "He is just a scholar, if it is Chen Ying who survives, and the position of the incense lord is handed over to him to inherit, it is completely fine, it's not that we old bones are greedy for power, but he can't afford it at all, Hong Shuntang handed it to him, and he can only give up his efforts......"

There was silence behind him for a long time, and an old man finally spoke: "After all, we watched him grow up, he is his right heir, we are his uncle, with our old bones, even the mud has helped him up on the wall, what about the scholars, Guanxi, weren't you also a talent before?" ”

When everyone heard this, they all echoed it, and it seemed that among these old people, there were still many supporters of Chen Mu, or supporters of the Chen family.

However, Xu Guanxi snorted coldly and said: "What time is it, the matter of the countess, if it weren't for Chen Qiyou's insistence, how could Hong Shuntang be hit by this!" ”

"Right now, the brothers in the gang are fleeing in all directions, and they are finally all together, and their vitality has not recovered, and they want to hand it over to Chen Mu, a loser?"

As soon as Xu Guanxi said this, everyone fell silent again, and after a while, it was still the old man who spoke.

"Guanxi, I know that the grievances between you and your right have not disappeared, and the festival is still there, but after all, he is the owner of incense, and now he is an ancient, you shouldn't call him by his name, let alone transfer the grievances of the elders to the younger generations."

"Let me ask you, if Chen Mu is not Chen Qiyou's son, will you try your best to compensate him? It is the heir of the ordinary gang, and we should also support it. ”

Xu Guanxi's eyes turned cold, turned his head slightly, and glanced at the old man obliquely: "Are you saying that I, Xu someone, is pretending to be a public servant and taking revenge on the junior?" ”

The old man took a soft breath and was about to speak, but was pulled back by the person next to him.

"Guanxi, you are now a talker, what do you think, just do it, we old bones don't have a few days to live, I just hope you have a clear conscience."

With that, they pulled the old man, who was still angry, out of the terrace on the second floor.

Xu Guanxi also sighed lightly, and said to himself: "You heard it, they don't believe me......"

Behind the screen in the room on the second floor, a person walked out, wasn't it He Huyong, the patrol battalion leader in civilian clothes, or the West Pavilion Uncle Luo Jianhe of Hong Shuntang.

He Huyong didn't wear clothes and armor, just traveled in civilian clothes, he was very low-key, without official authority, he was only forty years old, his hair was already gray, it can be seen that he was lurking in the officialdom, he was also frightened, he didn't have a good life, and he was under huge pressure that others couldn't understand.

He walked to the edge of the terrace and thought about it, but he didn't show his head, but he just sat down and was silent for a long time before he said to Xu Guanxi.

"Have you really decided to do this?"

Xu Guanxi was also silent for a long time, and then walked back to the room, stared at He Huyong directly, and lowered his voice.

"You also want to hand over Hong Shuntang to Chen Mu, a yellow-haired boy?"

He Huyong didn't answer, just stood up and said to Xu Guanxi: "Then let's do it, but I said ugly things ahead, this black cauldron can only be carried by you, no matter what the result is, it has nothing to do with me." ”

Xu Guanxi didn't answer, just looked at He Huyong's back, stretched out his hand to pick up the tea bowl, although the tea was already cold, he still took a sip, as if to extinguish the flame in his heart.

After a while, a man finally came up, it was raining outside, he was wearing a hat, and he couldn't see his face clearly.

It wasn't until he took off his hat that he revealed his true face.

"Master Xu, thanks to you this time, if it really happens, Tang will give up the trade route on the sea!"

Tang Tingfang also had burning eyes and a look of expectation.

Xu Guanxi seemed to look down on this person, and he didn't hide his disgust, but he had to speak.

"This person is a person who wants money and doesn't want to die, as long as you give enough bounty, he will do anything for you, just a little Chen Youren, is it worth your fanfare?"

Tang Tingfang didn't hide it: "Master Xu, I know that this kid Chen Youren is a distant nephew of the Chen family, and he has some involvement with Hong Shuntang, but you can't protect him without Xu Ye, right?" ”

"This kid doesn't know how thick the sky is, he has disturbed me for a long time, and caused a lot of real money lost by the foreign bank."

"If it weren't for his showmanship and hurt François's face, my foreign firm would not have delayed business, if he won in the ring this time, where would I have waited for a way to live in the future!"

Xu Guanxi just shook his head and said: "Tang Tingfang, people die for money, birds die for food, you think about it yourself, that one recognizes money and doesn't recognize people, don't play with fire and burn yourself when the time comes." ”

Tang Tingfang gritted his teeth, and finally made up his mind: "Master Xu, I have made up my mind, take me to visit him!" ”

Xu Guanxi glanced at Tang Tingfang, didn't say anything after all, held up an old oil-paper umbrella, and walked out.

Tang Tingfang didn't say much, and when he walked out of the door, there were already eight or nine people waiting on both sides, carrying a few heavy iron hoop wooden boxes.

It was rainy, although Xu Guanxi was not young, but his steps were steady, and when he left the county, he went to the seaside, but he came to the Tanjia boat.

Seeing Xu Guanxi appearing, someone was already waiting on the side, took the two of them to a ship, got into the cabin, and moved a few boxes onto the ship, as if the entire ship had sunk by three points.

Tang Tingfang was also nervous, although he came with enough gold and silver, that one was not easy to talk to.

Today's wind is also strong, about an hour, in the wind and waves ahead, there is a faint appearance of the prototype of an isolated island, in the wind and waves from time to time, like a missing fairy island.

After landing on the shore, Xu Guanxi didn't dare to move around, but just got off the boat, took Tang Tingfang, and asked people to open the box, revealing the silver ingots with white flowers inside, and waited on the coast.

After another half an hour, an old fisherman came out of the coconut grove.

He was barefoot, wearing cropped trousers, and although the cold wind was strong and the rain was drizzling, he was only wearing a short coat, exposing his lean and shriveled chest.

If Tang Tingfang hadn't inquired in advance, he would have thought that this was a person waiting to die on an isolated island, not the legendary frightened pirate leader "Hai Yanluo"!

It is said that his father is a master of Qianzong, named Zhang Yulin, and is the son of the great pirate Zhang Baozai.

Although Zhang Baozai was born as a pirate, he married Zheng Yi's sister-in-law, the king of pirates, the so-called thief also has a way, Zheng Yi's sister-in-law helped Lin Zexu fight against foreign invaders, Zhang Baozai was awarded a third-class official position, which can be regarded as a complete whitewash.

After Zhang Baozai's death, his son Zhang Yulin inherited his father's shadow and got the official position of Qianzong, but he didn't do much, he was very low-key, and it is said that he died in Macau because of tuberculosis.

As for Zhang Yulin's descendants, not many people know about it.

The story of this Hai Yama is also a legend in the grass, and no one dares to confirm it.

It is said that after Zhang Baozai became an official, the pirates under his command were reluctant to accept Zhao'an, and still longed for life at sea.

Zhang Baozai couldn't bear it, so he secretly left some masters and kept them hidden in the sun, but because of the cover of his official position, his power became stronger and stronger.

At the beginning, the Zheng family on that treasure island split into five or six branches such as the Red Gang and the Green Gang, and Zheng Yi's sister-in-law was the Red Flag Gang, but Zhang Baozai's people also subdued a lot of other people outside the Red Flag Gang.

The reason why Zhang Yulin is so low-key is to preserve this power, and after he died, he handed it over to his son.

But Zhang Yulin was born weak, and later he got tuberculosis and couldn't go out, and he went out to the sea, and gradually he couldn't control these pirates under his hands.

After their son took over, these pirates finally launched an infighting and slaughtered the Zhang family!

It's just that they didn't expect that Zhang Yulin's son endured humiliation and wanted revenge, and in the past few decades, he has been roaming the sea, killing countless people, and achieving the famous reputation of "Hai Yanluo"!

The Xinhui natives are not very unfamiliar with Zhang Baozai, especially the cultural people on the official side, because the Xinhui local chronicle, that is, the Xinhui County Chronicle, was once recorded.

Lin Xingzhang, the magistrate of Xinhui County, once recorded the pirates Zheng Yi's sister-in-law and Zhang Bao's capture in the Xinhui County Chronicles in the twentieth year of Daoguang.

"On the ninth day of the fifth month of the fourteenth year of Jiaqing, the pirates Zheng Yi's sister-in-law and Zhang Bao will invade the border, and Shen Baoshan of the county will go to Jiangmen to block the palace. On the thirteenth the thief moved along the mouth of the cellar. On the 14th, thieves robbed Niuzhu Bay and Fuxing Wei. ”

"On the tenth day of February of the fifteenth year, the pirates destroyed the water fence of the tiger pit, went straight to Changsha, and burned more than 220 shops. At that time, there were many burns and lootings in the coastal villages and townships of Xinhui, and there were especially many deceased captives in Jiuru Township and Mushan. ”

It was because Tang Tingfang knew this origin that he knew how powerful this Hai Yan Luo's enemy was, and Hai Yan Luo was not only able to live to this day, but even became a terrifying killing god that no one dared to mention, which also shows his ability.

This time, he found Hai Yanluo through Xu Guanxi's way, as long as he can hire him ashore, he will ensure that Chen Mu and the others will not be able to appear in the ring!

As long as this matter is done well and the foreigners are pleased, those boxes of silver ingots on the coast will be able to return to their original costs in less than half a year, and they will earn more!