Chapter 51: Conspiracy
The fire burned Bao Zhilin, but fortunately, it was extinguished in time, and the damage to the lobby of the wing room was not serious. Everyone was busy tidying up and cleaning up the clutter. Before you know it, the night has passed, and the red sun rises in the east in the early morning.
The sun was lazily sprinkled on everyone's faces, but everyone was not happy at all, and they all sat in the yard in a daze.
Bao Zhilin had such a big incident, it stands to reason that the officers and soldiers of the Yamen should have rushed to the scene last night. But it was only when the sun was shining on three poles that a group of officers and soldiers with big swords at their waists appeared in front of everyone.
"The Admiral has arrived!"
The sound of noisy footsteps approached, and the Admiral strode and covered his nose with his hands, lest the soot be sucked into his mouth and nose. There was also an official holding an umbrella behind him, who looked like he was going out to handle a case.
Looking left and right, and seeing Bao Zhilin, who was burned and destroyed by the fire, Lord Admiral had a sneer on his face: "Master Huang, you open a martial arts hall, and you usually secretly engage in incense halls, divide and distribute them among the people, and divide the territory. Now the enemy came to the door and burned Bao Zhilin. This is your own fault, you should change your ways! ”
Huang Feihong was disgusted by Lord Admiral's yin and yang weirdness, and replied with a dignified and righteous voice: "Lord Admiral, opening a martial arts hall is not the same as engaging in an incense hall. If the yamen really thinks that practicing martial arts is a crime, then the national art left by our ancestors will be lost from now on. If the bandits come to fight us, what will we use to resist when the time comes? ”
"You can't even keep Bao Zhilin now, and you still want to talk to me about military aircraft?" Lord Admiral sneered, with a hint of abuse in his eyes.
"It is the responsibility of your yamen to search and set fires!"
Huang Feihong saw that the Admiral did not take the matter of burning Bao Zhilin to heart at all, and asked angrily.
"And who do you say set the fire?" The Admiral's eyes were full of provocation.
The dignified court officials didn't take the investigation of the case to heart, and actually asked Huang Feihong.
The black-clothed man who set the fire covered his face with a black cloth, and Huang Feihong guessed that it was someone from the Shahe Gang who came to make trouble. However, there was no evidence, so he could only answer truthfully: "I don't know!" ”
"What don't you know? You're simply hiding the facts! ”
I didn't expect the Admiral to be so shameless, and he wanted to detain the crime on Huang Feihong, and Lin Shirong on the side suddenly became angry.
"Ahh With a shout, he kicked a fire-fighting water tank on the side, and it was instantly torn apart.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
The Admiral and the officers and soldiers were startled, and they all pulled out the long knives on their waists and looked at Huang Feihong and the others in a bright manner.
"Shirong! What do you want! Huang Feihong was already annoyed, for fear that Lin Shirong would make trouble and severely reprimanded him.
"Master......" Lin Shirong bowed his head and was silent, he could only suppress his anger in his heart.
At this time, a foreigner suddenly came from outside the door.
"May I come in?"
When everyone heard the sound, Gu Li and Huang Feihong recognized at a glance that the foreigner was the missionary who had spoken to them last night.
"Red-haired ghost, what are you doing here!" Lin Shirong saw the foreigner appear, and poured the anger in his heart on his head.
"Shirong! If you say that again, don't call me Master! "It's really not a big deal to watch the excitement, Huang Feihong was very disappointed with Lin Shirong's hot temper.
Gu Li, who was standing on the side, was also speechless to Lin Shirong at this time. From the first time he met him, Gu Li shouted that he was going to hack himself to death, and chased three streets for a whole day. As the saying goes, the country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change, and it is very suitable to apply it to Lin Shirong.
When the Admiral saw this, he thought that Huang Feihong had a holiday with foreigners. stepped forward and smiled at the missionary: "You must be dissatisfied with Huang Feihong, if you have anything to complain about, just say it." ”
As the missionary walked into the courtyard, he said in fluent Chinese: "Huang Feihong, I know who burned your Bao Zhilin, and I can help you be a witness." ”
When the Admiral heard this, his face immediately changed, and his smile disappeared.
Sometimes it's really unintentional.
Wong Fei Hung also told the missionaries last night that it was impossible for God to be a witness for him. Unexpectedly, the missionaries appeared in front of him today, saying that they would testify for him.
"Then tell me who burned Bao Zhilin." The foreigners came forward to testify, and the Admiral had no choice, so he couldn't bend the law for personal gain.
"Last night I passed by Bao Zhilin and saw a group of people from the Shahe Gang setting fire to shoot arrows."
"The Sand River Gang! Sure enough, it was the Sand River Gang. Huang Feihong's eyes flashed with a hint of fierceness.
"Since there are foreigners to testify for you, the yamen will give you a fair hand." The Admiral glanced at Huang Feihong, as if he asked him to catch the real arsonist, and there was ten thousand reluctance on his face.
In the streets and alleys, teams of officers and soldiers searched everywhere.
"Are you from Shahe?"
"No, sir."
"I don't look like you, let's go."
The officials and errands at the end of the Qing Dynasty were actually no different from reality. Just go through the motions and do it perfunctorily.
In the dark part of the alley, a group of people sneaked around, looking around at the officers and soldiers walking on the street.
"Big brother, should we go back to Shahe to avoid it?" One of them asked.
"Not necessarily!" The leader of the Shahe Gang narrowed his pupils, and then his eyes lit up: "The people are afraid of the yamen, the yamen is afraid of devils, let's go find the most powerful ghosts!" ”
Hiding and retreating, the leader of the Sand River Gang disappeared into the street with his little brother.
"We want to see Mr. Jishan!"
The leader of the Shahe Gang took his younger brother to the restricted area of the Americans, and on the high platform stood soldiers wearing military uniforms and foreign guns.
"What do you want to do?" The foreign soldier said in English with his musket in his hand.
When the leader of the Shahe Gang heard Yangwen, the whole person was blindfolded at once.
"Big brother, what are they talking about?" The younger brother of his subordinate asked with a frown.
"Grass his ancestors, I don't know how to speak foreign languages. Come, come, all of you kneel with me. After speaking, the leader of the Shahe Gang took the lead and knelt down, and his younger brothers followed suit, shouting in their mouths: Accumulate goodness.
Stretch out your hand and don't hit the smiling person, not to mention that Shahe helps everyone kneel on the ground. The foreign soldiers were bowed down by the Shahe Gang, as if their hearts had been greatly sublimated, and they brought them to Mr. Jishan with a smile on their faces.
"You are wanted by the Yamen, what good is it to ask me for help?" Mr. Jishan is well versed in the way of business and smokes a hookah in his mouth. The first sentence of his mouth made the people of the Shahe Gang understand their current situation.
"I'm not afraid of being arrested by the yamen, but I'm afraid that my brothers won't have me as a leader, and I don't know what to do! You came all the way to Foshan just to make a fortune. You're looking for so many piglets to go over to open a mine, do you want me to send you some big flower girls? The leader of the Shahe Gang raised his eyebrows at Mr. Jishan.
Mr. Jishan was silent when he heard this, and seemed to be making a choice. And the guards beside him, with a thief smile on their faces, were very excited, and quietly spoke English in Ji Shan's ear.
The leader of the Shahe Gang kept staring at Ji Shan, and when he saw him nodding a little moved, he said treacherously: "As long as you help me kill Huang Feihong, I will give you as many women as you want!" ”
"Huang Feihong?" Mr. Ji Shan's face turned cold, and he said disdainfully: "I will ask him to watch a play tomorrow, and you are secretly ambushing." At that time, even if he doesn't die at your hands, he will die at the hands of the yamen! ”
"Okay, I'll go back and make arrangements! Hahaha! The leader of the Shahe Gang laughed, as if he had seen Huang Feihong's head.
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