Walking to the population of the vegetable market, Xiao Zhenlei took out his pocket watch and looked at it, it was already 10:20 in the morning, because there were only less than two hours for the prisoners to be escorted here for questioning and beheading, the vegetable farmers and vegetable sellers who sold vegetables in the vegetable market had already closed their stalls early, and there were already more than a dozen officials building guillotines in the open space to the east, and some more than a dozen or twenty soldiers with red tassel guns stood guard around the guillotine to isolate some onlookers, and the people who came to watch the beheading execution also came one after another.

The government escorted the arrested revolutionary party and innocent people here to be beheaded for a very clear purpose, that is, to let the people see the fate of the rebellion with the revolutionary party, killing seventy or eighty people at a time, bleeding like a river, and rolling heads, to see who still has the courage to join the revolutionary party again, and is not afraid of raiding their homes and exterminating their clans? And the people like to watch the excitement, the people all over the world are like this, even if some people can't stand the bloody scene, when the guillotine is waved down, turn their faces sideways or close their eyes, just to satisfy their curiosity, many people, even if they don't do anything at home, they have to make a special trip to join in the fun.

A lot of people have gathered at the entrance of the vegetable market, and more and more people are coming, Xiao Zhenlei and others entered the entrance of the vegetable market without attracting anyone's attention.

Holding a lit old knife brand cigarette between his fingers, Xiao Zhenlei slowly walked into the grocery store in the middle of the west, and muttered, "Boss, boss!" ”

A bearded man in a short suit and a gray apron walked from behind the shop, without a trace of a smile on his face, stiff as if someone owed him three or two hundred silver, this person looked at Xiao Zhenlei walking in with a cigarette, and asked with an impatient expression on his face, "What does this guest officer need?" ”

Liu Ping and the three of them were waiting outside the store, and Xiao Zhenlei walked around the grocery store with his steps. Pointing to something, he asked, "Shopkeeper, how much does this kerosene lamp cost?" ”

During this period, few people called the business people the boss, only those Chinese compradors, Taipan, and managers of foreign firms would be called bosses, and the word boss this time was a homonym for the Taipan in Cantonese, and the word "boss" came from this later.

"Kerosene lamps?" The beard turned his head to look in the direction of Xiao Zhenlei's finger. "This, this ??????".

After a few seconds, the bearded man couldn't tell the price of the kerosene lamp, Xiao Zhenlei leaned over and asked, "You are the shopkeeper, and you don't know the price of the goods in the store?" You're not the shopkeeper, are you? ”

The beard was afraid of showing the horse's feet, and he was anxious. Immediately quoted a price casually: "Forget it, this gentleman, if you really want it, you can give one or two pieces of silver, right?" ”

The beard is an officer in the Qing army, and he has never been in contact with firewood, rice, oil and salt on weekdays, so how do you know what the prices on the market are. Besides, he is a team officer, with a salary plus the following filial piety, empty salary, and occasional rewards from the officials, and he can get a lot of money every month, and he spends money lavishly, thinking that the price of a kerosene lamp should not be too cheap, so he said an estimated price.

Xiao Zhenlei was startled, and the cigarette in his hand also fell to the ground: "One or two silver? Shopkeeper's. You're clearly slaughtering me, how can a kerosene lamp need a tael of silver? Unless your kerosene lamp is made of gold! ”

The beard was originally a rough man with an impatient temperament. Where will business be? It was really embarrassing for Enahai to let him play the role of the shopkeeper, he saw that Xiao Zhenlei didn't buy anything, and he was messing around here, so he immediately became a little impatient, waved his hand and shouted: "If you want to buy it, don't buy it, don't buy bastards!" ”

"Yo-heh. What's the matter with you, how can you have a reason to drive guests out? ”

Bearded and bearded. Suddenly, his face changed, and he rolled up his sleeves to flatten people. Xiao Zhenlei immediately lifted the hem of his clothes, quickly pulled out a box cannon and put it in his abdomen and aimed it at him, his back was facing outward, and the people outside couldn't see that he was holding a gun in his hand.

The bearded man saw Xiao Zhenlei take out a gun, his eyes flashed, and he reached out to pull out the gun from behind his waist, but Xiao Zhenlei shouted in a low voice: "Don't move, otherwise I will kill you!" ”

The bearded man paused, stopped pulling out the gun, and slowly put it down, his face became a little pale, people would be afraid of death, and although people like him were powerful, they could only play prestige in front of ordinary people, and if he really wanted to meet someone who killed people without blinking, he would also admit it. Just like Xiao Zhenlei, although his face was calm, the murderous aura that burst out of his eyes made him shudder.

The beard trembled a little and said, "This master, what do you want to do?" Don't mess around, you see that there are a lot of officials in front of you, and if you accidentally brush the gun, you will cause big trouble! ”

Xiao Zhenlei stared coldly at his beard, and said in a deep voice: "Don't talk nonsense, turn around, Lao Tzu didn't ask you, if you say another word, Lao Tzu will collapse you!" ”

The bearded man knew that he had met a ruthless character now, and people didn't talk to you at all, didn't give you a chance to turn the tables, and went straight to the point, for the sake of taking pictures for his life, he could only spy and slowly turn around.

Xiao Zhenlei saw that there was something bulging on this guy's waist, so he immediately took a step forward and put a gun against the back of his beard, and with the other hand, he quickly lifted his clothes and pulled out the pistol inserted in his belt, then turned his head and waved his head to the three people outside, signaling them to come in.

After the three of them entered, the light in the shop pù was a little dim, which also showed that the bodies of the three of them covered most of the entire shop, and it was difficult to see what was going on in the shop pù from the outside.

Xiao Zhenlei immediately searched the whole body of the bearded man, but no weapons were found, holding a gun in one hand against his waist, grabbing one of his shoulders with the other, and grabbing him to a chair to sit down.

took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, Liu Ping, who was standing aside, immediately took out a box of foreign fire and lit a cigarette for him, Xiao Zhenlei took a few puffs hard, spit out the smoke and said, "Say, your name and position!" ”

The bearded man hurriedly said: "This hero, I am a grocery store, my name is Ma San, and if you want to say that your position is the grocery store manager!" ”

"Hmph, tease me, huh?" Xiao Zhenlei's face changed, and he said coldly: "Do you think I don't know what you do?" There are many shops at the entrance of this vegetable market, and there are many gunmen on the top of the second floor, a total of about 120 people, and you are their leader. If I didn't figure out the situation, would I come in to find you? You'd better be honest, if you're not honest, today next year will be your death day, and your family won't have a good time! ”

After listening to Xiao Zhenlei's threat, the bearded man's face changed drastically. Only then did he know that this guy next to him was really a revolutionary party and an outlaw, although he was worried that Enahai would punish him in the future, but now it is still important to save his life, and if he is remembered by these revolutionary parties, it will really be a never-ending day, and he does not dare to pretend to be confused anymore. Immediately said his name and job title.

"Good, good!" Xiao Zhenlei nodded, took a puff of smoke, exhaled a cloud of smoke, and pointed to the three people at the door: "Team Officer Qin, you see that your brothers have been controlling this place from last night to now. After staying up all night, I will kill people later, and there are a lot of people killed, there are seventy or eighty people, aren't you afraid to kill so many people? I understand you and your brothers, you have worked hard, so I asked my brothers to prepare a few jars of wine, which is to let them send them to your brothers. Wait a minute, if someone from one of your subordinates comes to ask, you know what to say, right? Or they're standing in the doorway and looking this way, you know what to do, right? ”

Qin Dahai listened to Xiao Zhenlei's words and his heart jumped in shock. Don't look at Xiao Zhenlei's expression of being very considerate of his brothers, he knows that there must be something in this wine, Xiao Zhenlei can be so kind to give his subordinates a drink to drink?

"This strong man, good man, what do you, what do you want to do? You're going to poison one hundred and twenty of my men? Don't be such a brother, even though my men and I are clear soldiers. But it's not us who want to kill you, it's the Sea of Ona that wants to kill them. If you want to find him, go to him, and don't mess with me and my men. We all have families and children, how can we live if we die and leave a family behind? Please don't do this, I can order them all to surrender their guns, as long as you don't kill us, really! ”

Xiao Zhenlei smiled: "Don't worry, there is no poison in this wine, you can't kill people when you drink it, you will just be in a coma for a few hours after drinking it!" After speaking, he turned his head and glanced at the three people next to him.

Gao Shan and the others saw Xiao Zhenlei signaling, so they nodded and took a large stack of porcelain bowls from the shelf, dismantled the straw rope and turned around and walked outside with this large stack of porcelain bowls.

After the three of them left, Xiao Zhenlei interrogated Qin Dahai: "You are from Nanjing?" What is the origin of the Ona Sea? ”

Qin Dahai is also honest now, and said: "Yes, Lord E is actually from the capital, it is said that he was born with a yellow flag, and his status is terrifyingly high, the purpose is to track down a batch of arms robbery, and by the way, arrest the revolutionary party!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei heard about the arms robbery, so he asked: "Is it the arms robbery at the Sixteen Lipu Wharf?" ”

"Yes, yes, that's it!" Qin Dahai hurriedly said yes.

Xiao Zhenlei understood, it seems that the last time Ge County ordered that Nanjing sent a senior spy to investigate the missing arms case, and that senior spy should be Enahai.

After thinking about it, Xiao Zhenlei asked again: "This time, we want to behead all the more than 70 people of the revolutionary party who were arrested, is it the meaning of Enahai?" ”

Qin Dahai nodded and said: "Yes, it was his order, because his background is not small, even Cai Naihuang, the Shanghai Daotai with a higher official rank than him, can only follow his wishes, and dare not do anything with him, the reason why Enahai wants to kill all these people is because the governor of Liangjiang has changed recently, Lord Duanfang was transferred to serve as the governor of Zhili, the new governor of Liangjiang heard that it is Lord Zhang Renjun, Lord Zhang is not only the governor of Liangjiang, but also the minister of Nanyang, Lord Enahai has no friendship with Zhang Renjun, although he is not small, But without the support of the magistrates in the locality, he couldn't play it, and he also knew that many officials here were secretly in tune with the revolutionary party, so he was worried that after a long night, the rest of the revolutionary party would be bribed by the other revolutionary parties to save people, so he had to kill all these people in such a hurry! ”

It turns out that this is the case, Xiao Zhenlei only then knew why the Qing court was going to pull those arrested revolutionary parties to the mouth of the vegetable market so quickly to behead them, it seems that Enahai is also worried about accidents, and at the same time, in order to more effectively fight the revolutionary party, he came up with such a way to lure the snake out of the hole, this method is very effective, more than 70 people who were arrested all have to be beheaded, the number is too many, the revolutionary party can not help it, but it is a pity that Chen Qimei and others fell into the trap of Enahai, fell into his plan, not only did not rescue those revolutionary parties, Even the hundred people they brought with them were lost, and only a dozen people escaped, which can be said to be a loss to their wives and soldiers.

To say that there are countless disciples and grandchildren under Fan Gaotou, as long as he gives an order, it is possible to gather tens of thousands of people, but among those people in the Green Gang, there are really a few who are not afraid of death and dare to fight and kill? Those people are all ruffians, eating and drinking in the gang on weekdays, bullying the little girl when they are bored, going to the street to collect some protection money, relying on the crowd to show off their power on the street, if they want to go to a Qing army desperately, few people have the courage to do this, and the hundred people still picked and picked to make it up, and this time it was a loss of eighty percent.

The speed of Gao Shan and the other three was still fast enough, and it only took more than forty minutes to turn over the one hundred and twenty people left on the upper floor of the shop, and there were also a few Qing soldiers from the shop pù who came to ask Qin Dahai on the way, whether Gao Shan and the others were sent by him, and in the case of Xiao Zhenlei secretly holding a gun against him, Qin Dahai could only deal with what Xiao Zhenlei said in advance in order to save his life, and sent away the few Qing platoon commanders who came to inquire.

"Sir, it's all settled, there are a total of one hundred and twenty-eight people, each with a gun, twelve short guns, and one hundred and sixteen long guns, and all of those people have been tied up by us!" The three walked in, and Takayama made a report first.

Xiao Zhenlei nodded when he heard this, and said to Gao Shan: "Xiao Gao, Xiao Liu, you two collect all the guns and ammunition and bundle them up, find a sack and put them up, Xiao Liu, you go to Brother Wang, and ask him to bring someone over to take over the shop that was controlled by the Qing army here, and replace them all with our people!" ”

"Understood!" When the three of them heard this, they dispersed, each taking their own responsibility.

Within a few minutes, Wang Yaqiao came over with the people, and saw Xiao Zhenlei nodding and saying hello, Xiao Zhenlei introduced: "Brother Jiuguang, this is Qin Dahai, the captain of the musket team, the reason why this time is so successful is really inseparable from the cooperation of Brother Qin, and I really want to thank him!" ”

Qin Dahai couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this, this is really troublesome, if this matter is known by Enahai, it is estimated that he will not survive, but what can he do when things come to this point? Desperate with Xiao Zhenlei and others? He really didn't have the guts.

Xiao Zhenlei didn't avoid Qin Dahai either, and said directly to Wang Yaqiao: "When you can do it, there will definitely be a lot of people, and if you can't keep it up, some of us will be remembered by others, so now it's best to send someone to the fabric store to pull a piece of cloth, cut it into more than forty pieces, give each brother a piece, and mask all of them before you start!" ”

Wang Yaqiao said: "I have already thought of this, so I gave each of them a face towel before coming!" (To be continued) R655