Chapter Twenty-Nine: Qian Ah Si
"Tricks don't turn the gold away, your gold has been lost by someone. Ah Lang's words stirred up a thousand waves like a stone, and Lin Jing's hand holding the hay shook violently, and he exclaimed in surprise: "How can it be possible! The gold has always been in my package!"
"Think about it again, have you ever taken out the gold?" Ah Lang said with a smile, Lin Jing was not deeply involved in the world, and he didn't know anything about the rivers and lakes, just like himself at the beginning, so he didn't think Lin Jing's behavior was funny at all, but patiently reminded him.
"Like...... I don't think I've taken it out. After I entered the Hongyun Inn, the man named Ergouzi asked me to take out the money!" Lin Jing listened to Ah Lang's words, frowned, pondered carefully, and said while thinking: "However, after I took it out, I put the gold in the package! Brother Lang, I ...... I should be not mistaken!"
"During this period, have you met anyone or anything happened?" Ah Lang guided Lin Jing step by step to recall the experience in the Hongyun Inn.
Lin Jing listened to Ah Lang's words, frowned, and thought hard. He is not deeply involved in the world, almost no defense heart, he met a lot of people in the Hongyun Inn before, and after thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't figure out who had anything to do with the gold drop.
Seeing that Lin Jing couldn't figure it out, Ah Lang was not in a hurry, and while walking forward with Lin Jing, he sighed in his heart: "This kid is too simple, I am at his age, but I have already done the first order." Well, it was on the Taihang Mountain, rain and snow...... What a fluke......"
Lin Jing and Ah Lang, one pondered, the other fell into memories, but the two of them did not stop at their feet, and after a few turns, the two slowly left Wutong Town and walked on a country road.
"Brother Lang, I thought of it!" Lin Jing suddenly said excitedly: "It must be the shopkeeper, he was the first to see that I had gold, after eating, he asked me for money, and then the gold turned to stone!
"It's not him. Ah Lang saw that Lin Jing really couldn't think of someone who dropped the bag, so he simply told him directly, and said with a smile: "The rivers and lakes are sinister, the people you see who are fierce on the outside may not be really fierce, but those who seem to be harmless to humans and animals are really fierce." The one who threw your gold out of your bag is the one who knocked you down. ”
"The person who knocked me down?" Lin Jing thought for a moment and said in surprise: "Brother Lang, you're talking about that beard......! How could that be! When I fell, he fell to the ground! And he didn't mean to......"
Lin Jing subconsciously defended his beard, and Ah Lang directly interrupted him: "You take out the package that originally contained gold." ”
Lin Jing was full of questions, he couldn't believe that the beard would give away his gold, but he had almost unconditional trust in Ah Lang, so he took the package out of the baggage.
The parcel was originally gold, but after being transferred, it now contains a few small stones.
"Look, you're holding your package in your hand now. Ah Lang looked at Lin Jing and said solemnly.
When Lin Jing heard this, he nodded, his eyes widened, wanting to see what Ah Lang was going to do.
I saw Ah Lang take out a package from his clothes, the size and appearance were no different from the one in Lin Jing's hand: ordinary dark blue coarse cloth. It is not surprising that Ma Dahai is a big man, he usually doesn't care about money, and the packages containing money are only used by ordinary people.
"Let's restore the situation now. After Ah Lang finished speaking, he strode towards Lin Jing, his shoulders shrugged slightly, and a strong force attacked Lin Jing, knocking him to the ground.
Lin Jing was defenseless, and fell backwards with his back in his back, and the green cloth package he was holding in his hand fell to the ground.
Ah Lang looked at Lin Jing with a smile, waited for him to stand up, and said, "You look at your package again." ”
As early as the moment he fell, Lin Jing already thought that Ah Lang was restoring the scene, simulating the scene where Ah Lang hit him with his beard that day, so without waiting for Ah Lang to speak, he picked up the green cloth package scattered on the ground, opened it, and found that the stones inside had turned into broken silver!
"Waves...... Brother Lang, what's the matter with you?" Lin Jing asked in surprise, although he fell to the ground, he didn't take his eyes off the green cloth package for a moment, from Ah Lang hitting him and knocking the green cloth package off, until he got up, he didn't see Ah Lang make any movement.
"It's simple, the moment I bumped into you, I had already dropped the package. Ah Lang said as he demonstrated to Lin Jing.
It turned out that he put his package in his sleeve in advance, and at the moment of hitting Lin Jing, taking advantage of Lin Jing's surprise, he stretched out his fingers to clip Lin Jing's green cloth package, and then slid his package out of his sleeve, which just landed on Lin Jing's palm.
This series of actions was almost completed between lightning and flint, and the speed was extremely fast, so Lin Jing didn't feel anything.
"I see! That bearded man must have done the same trick as you, and took the gold away!" Lin Jing didn't believe Ah Lang's words until this time, he remembered that he was embarrassed in the Hongyun Inn before, and couldn't help but feel angry, so angry, and said: "Brother Lang, let's go to him! I must ask him face to face, why did he want to transfer my gold!"
Looking at Lin Jing's cheeks, which had turned crimson from anger, Ah Lang couldn't help laughing, and thought to himself: What a simple stupid child, he even had to ask him face to face why he was transferred gold......
"Brother Lin, do you know who this bearded man is?" Ah Lang asked.
"I don't know. Lin Jing shook his head and told the truth.
"So, do you know who I am?" Ah Lang asked again.
Lin Jing still shook his head.
By this time, the two had left the village and came to a field. Ah Lang took Lin Jing into a cornfield, he opened the way first, drew a long knife, and cut down the corn that was blocking the way, while Lin Jing held Xiaobai and Ah Lang's horses and followed closely behind.
After walking out of half a mile, Ah Lang stopped, turned around and said, "Brother Lin, have you ever heard of Ping'an Hall?"
"Nope. "Lin Jing grew up in the border of Yunnan since he was a child, and he is not even familiar with ordinary small shops and money, let alone Ping'an Hall.
"This is an institution at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which was built by Shen Yang, a wealthy man of the dynasty. At that time, the rivers and lakes were turbulent, and the bandits were disturbing the people, Shen Yang issued a killing order through Ping'an Hall, calling on the heroes of the rivers and lakes to kill the bandits, whether they were dead or alive, they could get a bonus bounty. Ah Lang said carefully.
When Lin Jing heard about Ping'an Hall for the first time, although the meaning was simple and clear, his thoughts were still a little confused.
Ah Lang took out a piece of red paper from his arms and unfolded it to see that there was a portrait painted on it, and there were some black characters under the portrait.
Lin Jing read it carefully: Qian Asi, a native of Fuping, Shaanxi. In the 18th year of Kangxi, he infiltrated the family of Ma Lisan, a large family, and was found to have stolen money, and slaughtered all five members of the Ma family; in the 19th year of Kangxi, he infiltrated the home of Liu Mingzhang, a county official, killed 15 officers and soldiers, and stole 1,000 taels of official silver...... According to insiders, Qian Asi was born as a knife bandit in Taihang Mountain, with superb swordsmanship and light skills, which ordinary people can't deal with.
"This money...... Why is Ah Si so cruel?" Lin Jing was kind by nature, and he couldn't see such a brutal thing the most, and he couldn't help but think of the scene where the corpse killed his father at that time, and his face turned pale.