Chapter 33: Murder and Arson
Pan Gui stood in the courtyard, looking at the hut in the dark night, his eyes shining with cruelty under the light of the torches. My brother-in-law has always said that he is useless and looks down on himself, and today he is going to do a big thing to show him.
Burn down the house in this coal yard and see how they still grab business with their brother-in-law's coal yard! As for the life and death of the people in the house, it doesn't matter what he does, there will be no hundreds of corpses on the mass graves outside Beijing these days!
These people are the displaced people outside Beijing that Pan Gui is looking for, and they are specialized in the business of robbing homes and houses, and these people are dragging their families and families outside the capital, struggling to survive, and they are willing to do anything in order to survive and make ends meet. Pan Gui only spent a few taels of silver to buy a load of coarse grain, and said that he had moved seven or eight homeless people to work for himself.
Yang Zhengping held a torch and looked at the thatched hut in front of him with complicated eyes. He is a native of Cangzhou, Chongzhen eleven years, after the Jin soldiers entered the customs for the fourth time to rob, all the way to the south, broke through Jinan and dozens of prefectures and counties, his hometown Cangzhou also fell at that time. When the Houjin soldiers entered the city, his father ordered Yang Zhengping to hide in the cellar with his wife, who was several months pregnant, and then he watched his elderly parents being killed by the Jin soldiers, and the two younger sisters cried and were dragged away by the Houjin soldiers......
After the Jin soldiers withdrew from the city, Yang Zhengping crawled out of the cellar with his wife, buried the bodies of his parents with tears, and left Cangzhou and wandered to Beijing. In order to support his wife and children, Yang Zhengping has done all kinds of work and endured all hardships, but it is too difficult for him to sell coolies alone to support a family of three. In desperation, he relied on his martial arts to take on some dirty work, and since then he has been out of control.
Helping people fight and grab land, chasing accounts, blocking roads and robbing, Yang Zhengping has done too much dirty work in the past few years, and according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, it is not too much to fill the army for 8,000 miles. However, this is the first time that the act of murder and arson has been done. Looking at the thatched hut in front of him, Yang Zhengping's eyelids were beating, this fire burned down, and the people in the house had no physiology!
Yang Zhengping hesitated, but the other homeless people around him were very excited one by one, these people were all real outlaws, many of them had even eaten human flesh, how could they care about killing people and setting fires?
The leader of the exiles had a scar on his face, smiled fiercely at the hut in front of him, and was about to throw the torch in his hand onto the roof.
"Zheng!" Yang Zhengping was stunned, he could hear the sound of the crossbow being fired, and then he saw the torch in the hand of the scar leader next to him "snap" and fall to the ground, and then the burly body fell on his back with a "poof", a short arrow was stuck in his throat, and only a little tail was exposed.
There was a crossbowman in the house! Yang Zhengping was shocked, hurriedly threw away the torch in his hand, and his body flashed, and a crossbow arrow flew silently past his side, sticking into Pan Gui's thigh.
"Ahh Pan Gui let out a terrible scream, shattering the quiet night sky, and with his scream, a figure rushed out of the house quickly, the sharp knife light flickered, like a soul-chasing Yama, every time the knife flashed, there was a homeless person who fell silently.
Seeing that his father Chen Jianghe had been killed, Chen Yue put away the crossbow in his hand, picked up the spear and rushed out, and the three family members followed behind Chen Yue with ash rods in their hands.
Chen Jianghe slashed three homeless people in a row, and the goose-winged knife was caught by a spear, and he couldn't help but be stunned, the homeless person on the opposite side turned out to be a rare spear master, and the spear flickered in a very orderly manner, Chen Jianghe's interest was suddenly hooked, and he brandished the goose-winged knife and fought with the homeless people on the opposite side.
Among the eight homeless people, there are two people who really have combat effectiveness, one is Scarface who was killed by crossbow arrows, and the other is Yang Zhengping who fought with Chen Jianghe, and the rest of these people are some rabble, ordinary people who don't know martial arts at all, relying on their strength to do some things like robbing homes and houses.
Chen Yue rushed into the crowd with a spear in his hand, and used the kung fu of practicing a thousand thorns every day, and the tip of the spear stabbed out again and again, fast and ruthlessly, stabbing several people in a row, and no one could dodge!
"Mom!" The last homeless man watched as his accomplices were stabbed one by one, only to be so frightened that he dropped the shovel in his hand and turned around and fled.
Without Chen Yue making another move, the three young family members roared and chased after him, and before the homeless person rushed out of the gate, they caught up with the chaotic stick with the ash rod and smashed the head and brain.
Yang Zhengping became more and more frightened the more he fought, and he was definitely a master against himself, with elegant and ruthless knife skills, always cutting from places he didn't expect. And the young man who stabbed down several of his accomplices in a row was also a master of using guns, although he was just standing aside with a spear, Yang Zhengping had to be distracted to prevent him from sneaking up.
Chen Jianghe became more and more excited the more he fought, he hadn't fought so happily for a long time. With a clear whistle, he separated the opponent's spear, flew up and kicked the opponent's wrist with the spear, and then put the long knife on the neck of the opponent who lost the spear.
Feeling the sharp blade, Yang Zhengping closed his eyes, and the faces of his wife and children flashed in his mind, without themselves, how long can they live in this world?
The fleeing homeless were beaten to death with sticks by three young family members, and they were too nervous to start the first battle. The only ones who can survive are Pan Gui, who was shot in the thigh by a crossbow arrow, and Yang Zhengping, who was captured by Chen Jianghe.
"Tell me, who are you? Why did you come to my house to kill people and set fires! In the room, the three family members held torches, and Chen Jianghe sat in the middle, interrogating each other's origins. This group of people came to kill people and set fires, and they didn't know who was the culprit against Chen Jianghe.
Yang Zheng stood quietly in the middle of the room without saying a word, not because he had professional ethics and did not want to divulge his employer's information, but because his employer was by his side, he didn't need to say much at all.
Pan Gui sat on the ground in the house with his thighs crossed, watching the homeless people who had been bought off being killed one after another, and his courage had already been frightened. At that moment, he told the truth of the matter, explained everything, and put all the responsibility on his brother-in-law Yang Can, crying and begging to spare his life.
It is the mastermind behind the coal yard owner of Yangjia Coal Yard, Chen Jianghe and Chen Yue glanced at each other, and they both suddenly realized that Yang Can, the owner of Yangjia Coal Yard, they all know each other, and the coal in several neighborhoods near their house is supplied by their coal yard, and it seems that their own business is blocking the way of others, which caused this disaster!
It's just a normal business competition, and he actually used such extreme means as killing people and setting fires, Chen Yue's heart suddenly ignited with rage!
If it weren't for the fact that he didn't sleep in the middle of the night because he was thinking about business, maybe a family of six would have been burned to death in their sleep!
Yangjia Coal Yard, Yang Can, I must settle this account with you!