Chapter 3 The Wicked
North of Beijing, Zhouzhuang.
Zhou Xing is seventy-five years old this year, and he is the patriarch of Zhouzhuang, and at this moment, the gray-haired man is hanging from a flagpole erected at the head of the village with his hands tied with ropes, covered in blood and dying. Under the flagpole, there were hundreds of people from Zhouzhuang, standing trembling and trembling, crying and smelling of blood.
Dozens of gangs of the White Tiger Gang surrounded everyone in the middle, and the leader Hei Zhangsan smiled gloomily: "Patriarch Zhou, our White Tiger Gang is going to decide on your land, you have to give it or not, one or two pieces of silver per family is already about the same, if we have to come hard, you don't want to think about it, just your group, what are you going to fight with us?"
The whole family of the patriarch of Zhou was kneeling on the ground at this time, and the youngest grandson was only eight years old, so frightened that he didn't dare to cry loudly, but suppressed his sobs, and his dusty little hands kept rubbing his face. Occasionally looking up at the grandfather hanging on the flagpole, and then looking at the wicked people standing with knives around him, the tears of the little grandson poured out of his eyes again and again, as if he could never stop.
"Mother, I'm afraid..."The little boy was really scared, and hugged his mother tightly.
"Chong'er is not afraid, Chong'er must be like a man, these wicked people will be retributed one day. Although the woman was afraid, her heart gave her some strength.
Hei Zhang San laughed, stepped forward, grabbed the woman, and kicked the little boy away: "Retribution? Lao Tzu will let you know what retribution is now!"
"Wicked, I'll fight with you!" Huo Ran, the father of the little boy, jumped up and chased after him with a disorderly step, but was slashed in the back by the gang next to him, and fell to the ground, his eyes were wide open, and he was out of breath after struggling a few times.
"Father, mother...... Wow......" The little boy had just been kicked to the ground, his leg was so painful, he crawled to his father's corpse, called out to his father over and over again, and looked up at the room where the laughter of the wicked man kept coming. An eight-year-old child already knows life and death, but he doesn't know what to do, so he only cries and keeps crying.
After a few moments, there was no movement in the house, and the stripped woman was thrown out, already dead.
"Patriarch Zhou, your daughter-in-law here is very suitable for my uncle's appetite, haha... Haha..."Hei Zhangsan tied his belt and walked out, satisfied, and sighed a few times, with an endless aftertaste.
The patriarch of Zhou was already dying, but when he saw that his eldest son was dead and his eldest daughter-in-law was also humiliated to death, his eyes were split, he shook his body vigorously, and shouted loudly: "Beasts! Folks, let's fight with them!"
The children and grandchildren of the Zhou patriarch couldn't stand it anymore and jumped up one after another. However, who is the opponent of the Black Tiger Gang, they were all killed on the ground in three or five strokes. Only the poor little boy was left crying on his parents' corpses.
And the rest of the villagers, how dare they make the slightest move, and how dare they fight with the White Tiger Gang who are holding bright and dangling broadswords.
There were even many villagers who spontaneously knelt down and begged the White Tiger Gang to spare their lives, and their houses and fields were willing not to be sacrificed to the White Tiger Gang.
"Heh... If you knew this was the case, why bother in the first place!" Hei Zhang San sneered, and with a knife in his hand, he hacked to death the nearest villager who knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and said: "You guys disperse, after seven days, if there is still one person in Zhou Zhuang, you all have to die!"
After a few moments, the villagers were scattered.
"Let's go, and we'll be back in seven days. Hei Zhang San saw that the overall situation had been decided, and he was very excited.
"Boss, I'll teach the little ones to deal with the rest. At the back of the gang team, there were three people, they were Chen Letian, Li Tong, and Liang Tiandao, the first guardian of the General's Mansion, who came in disguise. At this time, Chen Letian lowered his head and arched his hand, deliberately lowering his voice, so as not to be recognized by Hei Zhang San.
"Okay, just burn it, save trouble. Hei Zhangsan waved his hand and led everyone away.
Chen Letian looked around.
The corpses of the Zhou patriarch's family were all over the ground, the little boy who had cried until his voice was hoarse, and the Zhou patriarch who was still hanging on the flagpole and probably had only one breath left.
Chen Letian put the patriarch of Zhou down, and the weak hands of the patriarch of Zhou grabbed Chen Letian's shoulders, as if he had exhausted all the strength of his life, his nails were embedded in the skin on Chen Letian's shoulders, and he said two words in an almost inaudible voice: "Evil... Man!" and then he died.
"Second Master, why didn't you let me make a move, I only needed a stick of incense to kill them!" Liang Tiandao is a real cultivator, and he won't need a single stick of incense to deal with this group of ruffians who have not entered the cultivation realm. The three of them were standing behind just now, and Chen Letian and Liang Tiandao wanted to make a move several times, but they were stopped by Li Tong.
"It doesn't matter if you kill them all, this matter is related to the Wei State spies, we need to find out the situation first. Li Tong was expressionless, squatted down, and said to the little boy, "Your name is Zhou Chong?"
"You are all wicked, get out of here! I want my father and my mother, wow......" The little boy's tears could no longer cry, only dry howl.
"Little brother, you see that we are not wicked people, we are good people in disguise, and we are here to avenge your relatives. Chen Letian took off the disguise on his body, pushed away Li Tong, who didn't know how to communicate with children, squatted down and continued: "It's not easy to defeat the wicked, we must first understand the wicked before we can find a way to defeat them, are you right?"
"Aren't you really wicked?" said the little boy confusedly.
"Of course not, have you heard of General Li Rongsheng?" Chen Letian wiped the little boy's face, feeling a little blocked.
"I've heard it, my father said that the general is to protect us... But why didn't the general protect my father and mother... Daddy, mother..."Speaking of father, the little boy began to cry again.
"We are the general's subordinates, your father is right, the general is dedicated to protecting us, but our Song country is so big, the general sometimes can't take care of it, so the general needs more people to defend his homeland and everyone with him, are you willing to join us?" Chen Letian picked up the little boy and looked into the little boy's eyes and said.
"I do!" the little boy nodded earnestly.
It was already dusk when the three of them and the little boy finished burying the bodies of Zhou Zhou's family on the ground. The little boy was taken back to the General's Mansion, and Chen Letian meant to let the little boy live in the General's Mansion, and when he was a few years older, he would let him work in the General's Mansion. Li Tong agreed.
Sleepless all night, Chen Letian has been panicked in his heart. In the five years of the army, he has seen the death of his compatriots, the death of the enemy, and the death of many dead people, but none of them are as blocked as they are today. The Great Song Kingdom, which is known as the first in the world, is the best place in the capital, and this kind of thing can happen.
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The helmsman of the White Tiger Gang.
The gang leader Zhao Hu was furious in the hall, and there was a group of people kneeling beside him, and it was Hei Zhang San who was the leader. Hei Zhang San, who thought he had made a great contribution, drooped his head at this time, his face full of sadness.
"Zhang San, you're so capable! Why don't you go and forcibly demolish the Qiushi Inn?!" Zhao Hu has been a gang leader for decades, and he has become the No. 1 gang in the suburbs of Beijing by him. At this time, in addition to being irritable, he faintly had a little worry in his heart that he hadn't had for a long time.
"Gang leader, that Qiushi Inn is in the inner city, how dare the little ones!" Hei Zhang kowtowed while answering, for fear that the gang leader would cut him down with a knife.
"If you don't dare in the inner city, you will dare in the suburbs of Beijing? and kill people in front of the people of the entire Zhouzhuang, you... It's all,..."Zhao Hu tried to drive away the little fear in his heart.
"Helper, the people of Zhouzhuang have been frightened by us, they definitely don't dare to report to the officials, and the small ones have also checked, their villages are all farmers, and no one has anything to do with being an official. Hei Zhang San also regretted it a little, but the matter had already been done, and he didn't dare to go to the government to report it.
The fair-skinned man who had been standing next to him said: "Helper, this matter is not a big deal, the Zhou patriarch's family is dead, and the rest of the people are not related to the Zhou patriarch's family, they don't need to take the risk to report to the official, as long as no one reports to the official, we can smoothly accept the land, and it's a big deal to pay more compensation to each person." ”
Gang leader Zhao Hu glanced at this person, nodded subconsciously, and then remembered that he was the gang leader on the surface, and he was dressed properly, and said to Hei Zhang San who was kneeling on the ground: "Okay, don't interfere in this matter for the time being, go to the courtyard and wait first, I have other things for you to do later." ”
"Thank you. Hei Zhang San and the others hurriedly kowtowed a few more times, and then retreated. Where did Hei Zhang San expect that he had done something bad with good intentions this time, he thought that killing a few people was no big deal, but when he heard the gang leader say this, he was also a little scared, and thought to himself: I can't be so reckless in the future.
In fact, the fair-skinned man is a spy of the Wei State, named Wu Fang, who has been lurking in the capital for decades, and has known Zhao Hu for more than ten years, and has always been Zhao Hu's military advisor. It can be said that with Wu Fang, Zhao Hu's White Tiger Gang can grow rapidly. It's just that Wu Fang only announced his true identity to Zhao Hu in recent days, and made it clear that as long as Zhao Hu can be obedient, three years later, he will be able to take Zhao Hu back to Wei and give Zhao Hu the position of Wei Guo's six-grade brocade and Weidu.
Zhao Hu struggled at first, but after seeing the strength of Wu Fang's cultivators, he didn't dare to refuse, Wu Fang wanted to kill him easily, and Wu Fang had known him for more than ten years, and the two were brothers who had lived and died together for so many years, so it was not too difficult for Wu Fang to convince him.
Only Zhao Hu and Wu Fang, the spy of the Wei State, were left in the hall.
"Old Wu, what do you think of this?" Zhao Hu poured a cup of tea for Wu Fang.
"Immediately kill Zhang San and a few of their leaders, and then I will take their heads to Zhouzhuang again, gather the people, and appease the villagers of Zhouzhuang. "Wu Fang obviously had a plan.
"Okay, that's what you say. Zhao Hu nodded.
Wu Fang took a sip of tea, put down the teacup, and flew to the courtyard with a whoosh, and it only took half a cup of tea to kill Hei Zhang San and other eight people, tying their heads together. The other gangsters who participated in the forced demolition of Zhouzhuang were frightened and did not dare to move.
"Dispose of their bodies, this matter has nothing to do with you, it was they who made the decision on their own, and the helper decided to kill them, you will remember to me in the future, although we are not in vain, but we also have our own principles, it is okay to bully the people, but we must have a degree!
"Yes, follow the teachings of the second master!" everyone knelt down one after another to admit the way, and they all rejoiced in their hearts that they had picked up a life. The helper's ears are soft, and usually the helpers have a small mistake, as long as they ask the helper to intercede, they can give up. But the second boss is different, he knows about violating the gang rules, and it is useless for anyone to intercede.