The Green Gang did things efficiently, and by the second night, Túrin had come to report back.

"Master, it's all clear!" Túrin said excitedly, "That bastard lives in a large suite on the east side of the second floor of the Licha Hotel, which he has contracted for many years. The woman who was with him was one of his concubines, his hometown of Ningbo, and it turned out to be a bitch in Meixianglou, who he spent money to redeem three years ago. ”

"Hmm...... Mr. Li's wife, I invited him out of the Zichun Pavilion in the south of our city, do you know about this? ”

Thurin blushed and was speechless.

"It's nothing, I'm just mentioning you," Guan Zhuofan said calmly, "In front of Mr. Li, there has to be a doorkeeper on his mouth." ”

"Yes."

"What else did you find out?"

When he is usually fine, he stays in the hotel, rarely goes out, and never sets foot in the rental world. If you go out, you must go to a wealthy merchant called Yang Molin. "In the back of his suite, there's a very large safe that no one is allowed to touch." ”

"Xu Mingshan is fast enough," Guan Zhuofan frowned slightly, "How did he know so clearly?" ”

"There are four people in the Licha Hotel. One is in the tea room, one is on night duty, and two are pouring toilets, speaking of Gong Banlun, everyone knows it - he also has another flower name, called Gong Liuzhi'er, and another finger on his left hand, so he wears gloves all year round. In addition, there is a pulp washing shop, which often takes the work of the restaurant, and it is also the industry of the Green Gang. ”

"Oh-" Guan Zhuofan nodded. He asked again, "What did you tell Xu Mingshan?" ”

"I didn't say much. Just one sentence: this Gong Xiaogong. When I was in Beijing, I had a personal vendetta. ”

"Okay." Guan Zhuofan said approvingly, raised his face, and pondered the words that Tulin had brought back.

Unlike ordinary traitors, Gong Xiaogong was in a very peculiar situation, and he made the most complete break with his own ethnic group, whether Han or Manchu. I didn't even want my wife and children, and I didn't hesitate to throw myself into the arms of foreigners. It is not a sin to break up, and it is not a sin to like foreigners, but it is a capital crime to take foreign soldiers to do a murderous backlash.

Guan Zhuofan can guess the trajectory of his current life: fearful, rarely going out, hiding in the luxury suite of the Licha Hotel, and spending money. Every time he ran out of money, he took out something from the big safe and went to the house of the wealthy businessman Yang Molin. Wait until the time comes back. The thing is gone, but there are thousands of taels of silver tickets on his body.

It's all from the Old Summer Palace. A whole car.

Guan Zhuofan counted the days, today is April 15. According to the news from Anhui, Li Hongzhang's Huai army had already boarded the ship in Anqing and would arrive as soon as 20 April, but as soon as Li Hongzhang arrived, he could no longer focus on this kind of thing.

"I'll give you three days to get this done." Guan Zhuofan said slowly, asking Tulin to hear every word clearly, "Tell Xu Mingshan that people should be disposed of without a trace, and all the things in the safe should be taken out, the gold and silver money tickets should belong to him, and other things should be handed over to you." When the deed was done, he gave him another ten thousand pieces of silver. ”

"Master, the safe must have a password to open it." Túrin reminded.

"You're really worried about the ancients." Guan Zhuofan said coldly, "Xu Mingshan is in the Cao Gang, in addition to managing the military department, he is also in charge of the torture hall!" ”

"Huh!" Túrin understood, "I'll let them even that bitch...... The concubine was disposed of together. ”

"This ......" Guan Zhuofan hesitated. He knew that what Túrin said was the right thing, otherwise it would be really not worth it if the news leaked from this woman. However, in the final analysis, she is just a concubine of Gong Xiaogong, not guilty, let alone a capital crime, this hand is a little unbearable.

He secretly scolded himself in his heart for being a woman's benevolence, and after thinking about it, he still made a decision: "Since her mother's family is in Ningbo, ask Xu Mingshan to get a boat, go straight to Ningbo, leave some money for her, and then tell her clearly, her identity is a thief, this time she has a way to live, in this life and this life, she is not allowed to step into Jiangsu again!" ”

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After listening to Tulin's words, Xu Mingshan did not hesitate and agreed.

He weighed in on it. From the last time Guan Zhuofan invited them to meet in Songjiang and ordered Tulin to invite them to dinner, he felt that this Guan Dashuai was not an ordinary person, and he must have something else in mind.

A few days ago, the patrol house of the concession summoned Hua to arrest, and Túrin actually had a way to stuff more than a dozen of his own brothers into it, which strengthened Xu Mingshan's judgment - such a thing is not something that Túrin can do, he must be "ordered" to make friends with himself.

Guan Dashuai is going to use our Green Gang.

This time, although Thurin said that he had a personal vendetta with that "Gong Liuzhi", how could he, a battalion officer, say "thank you with 10,000 silver"? Naturally, it is undoubtedly Guan Dashuai's intention. As for Guan Dashuai Weishenme to be embarrassed by Gong Liuzhi, it is better not to know, Gong Liuzhi has offended the imperial court, maybe it is the meaning of the imperial court.

For Xu Mingshan, there was originally a dilemma in this matter: the Qinggang was not a bandit, although they could do a side business, they never did anything about robbing homes and houses. This time, however, we had to make an exception - the words brought by Túrin sounded like a request, but in fact they were no different from orders. This Guan Dashuai, who holds the military power seal in his hand, leans on him, of course, there are benefits, but if you offend him, don't even think about the consequences.

After sending off Tulin, Xu Mingshan walked to the Gaosheng Teahouse in the north gate of the city. The teahouse was already overcrowded, but the table at the end of the door was always empty, and it was neatly tidy. This table, called "Matou Taizi", is only qualified to sit on the boss of the gang.

As soon as he sat down at the table, a man immediately brought a pot of haode fragrant tea and four kinds of snacks, followed by several leaders under him, who came to say hello - Xu Mingshan As long as he is in Shanghai, this is a necessary procedure every day. The location of the Gaosheng Teahouse is between the concession and the old city, so it is convenient for brothers on both sides to get here.

Xu Mingshan chatted with them briefly, and then sent the others away, leaving only two people on the ground in the concession. It's in this buzzing teahouse. I gave this important account to me.

This is not an easy task. But it can still be done. The people of the Green Gang prepared for a day, and the next night, they started.

In the zuihou that Gong Xiaogong gave in that suite, the disciple of the Qinggang in the tea room of the hotel added a sufficient amount of drug. In the middle of the night, the lights of the Licha Hotel gradually went out, and six sturdy men in black came from the back of the hotel. The water ladder guarded by the night watchman quietly sneaked into the second floor, and one of the locksmiths opened the door and rushed in. After a short time, he dragged out two large black cloth bags, carried them on his shoulders, and returned the same way. When I got downstairs, I stuffed under two toilet carts and headed southwest.

After walking for about ten minutes, I came to a simple row house by the Suzhou Creek. Dragged two black cloth pockets inside. There were two oil lamps lit in the room, and Xu Mingshan stood with his hands in his hands. Looking at a few disciples of the torture hall, they took Gong Xiaogong and his concubine out of their pockets and threw them on the ground.

"Wake him up." Xu Mingshan commanded briefly.

So he slapped and beaten, poured cold water, and tossed almost half a point, and Gong Xiaogong, who was sleeping like a dead pig, gradually regained consciousness, woke up, and just opened his eyes and looked around, two disciples of the torture room came up, lifted him from the ground, and firmly pressed him on one of the chairs and sat down.

From the luxurious and comfortable hotel bedroom, he suddenly came to such a dark and dirty place, Gong Xiaogong was so frightened that he was tied up with a meat ticket. Facing Xu Mingshan's gaze, he desperately shrank back in the chair, helplessly restrained by the hands of the two disciples like iron tongs, unable to move at all.

"I already have the key to the safe, and I need the password." Xu Mingshan said dryly, "Mr. Gong is a decent person, and I don't want to embarrass you." Otherwise, it will not look good. ”

"I handed in the password, can you let me go...... Let me go back? In front of these compatriots who were once regarded by him as pigs and dogs, Gong Xiaogong at this moment had no courage to resist at all, glanced at the concubine on the ground, and asked with a crying voice.

"It's not a bargain, and I don't have time to talk to you about it." Xu Mingshan intentionally or unintentionally glanced at the torture instrument hanging on the wall, and said, "You handed in the password, and only then can you talk about the rest, I will naturally give you an explanation." ”

Those strange-shaped torture instruments that were specially hung on the wall, just one glance, completely destroyed Gong Xiaogong's will. He shuddered and handed over the two sets of passwords, and as soon as Xu Mingshan opened his mouth, someone ran out. Xu Mingshan sat down in another chair and waited silently.

After about a point, a man in black walked in and nodded to Xu Mingshan.

"Okay, Mr. Gong, I'll send you on the boat." Xu Mingshan stood up, waved his hand, and took the lead out of the house, and several disciples behind him escorted Gong Xiaogong and got on a large black boat moored by the river, and immediately set sail. When they got out of the city, they set up their sails, and the boat traveled faster, and in a short time, they had reached the wide place of the Wusong River.

Because it was just over the fifteenth year, the river was illuminated by the moonlight. Xu Mingshan got out of the canopy, walked to the deck and looked around, sighed, and said, "Send Mr. Gong!" ”

The three disciples of the torture room lifted Gong Xiaogong, who was tied up sturdily and like a zongzi, onto the cabin, followed by a man, carrying a string of thick iron anchor chains in both hands, afraid that it would not weigh forty or fifty catties, and put it aside, and several people worked together to tie the anchor chain tightly to Gong Xiaogong's body with iron wires.

"Mr. Gong, there is a debtor who is wronged," Xu Mingshan squatted down, looked at Gong Xiaogong's face and said, "It's not that I can't get along with you, it's really that you have offended someone you can't afford to offend." ”

Gong Xiaogong's face was full of snot and tears, and he was almost speechless, and when he heard Xu Mingshan say this, he struggled and asked in a hoarse voice, "Yes...... Who is it? “

"I can't tell you this name, but when you get down, you'll know it naturally." Xu Mingshan shook his head and said, "But this person, ask me to ask you a word." ”

"What?"

"I ask you to lead the way for foreigners back then, do you regret it now?"

Gong Xiaogong opened his mouth wide, with a shocked expression on his face, Xu Mingshan didn't wait for him to speak, straightened up, and waved his hand.

Listening to the two pops, the people and the anchor chain disappeared on the surface of the river together, rippling in circles, and slowly dispersed to the surroundings.

"Tell Xing San that the things shipped out of the safe are not allowed to be touched for a tael of silver." Xu Mingshan commanded expressionlessly, "When the dawn comes, as soon as the north water gate of the city is opened, it will be sent under the Laolong Bridge, and he knows who to hand it over." ”

*(To be continued......)