Chapter 18: There is no danger
The man in black who was arrested was Su Erlai, who was born in Yiwu, a neighboring county in Jiyang, and he said that he came from a non-governmental organization called the "Quadripartite Society", whose main business was assassination, and as long as the employer had the money, even if he went to Taiwan to assassinate Lao Jiang, he would not be able to do it.
Su Erlai confessed that this time the employer was wearing a face mask and wearing black clothes when he traded with them, and he couldn't see his face clearly, he only knew that it was a man, and he paid a lot of money to ask them to take away the Ye family's son Ye Fulu and hand it over to him, and Su Erlai didn't know what he wanted the child to do.
When Wang Laoba asked again whether Ye Shou'an's arrest was caused by them, Su Erlai shook his head like a rattle, and flatly denied it, he said that there were too many members of the Quartet Society, and there were sub-committees under the provincial branches, and there were county branches below, and the branch in Jiyang was divided into several small gangs, and there was no contact between the branches, and they would only meet each other at the end of the year or when there was a major event, but it was also a gathering of various leaders, and he was just a team leader who carried out a task, and he was not qualified to participate in the year-end party at all.
"Uncle Wang, have you heard of this Quartet Society?" Ye Guihua asked Wang Laoba.
Wang Laoba said embarrassedly: "Guihua, although my brothers and I have been in Jiyang for several years, we don't know a lot about the south. I have never heard of any Quartet and Five Party Meeting. ”
Ye Guihua grew up in the south, and he didn't know anything about this Quartet, in fact, it was not that they were lonely and unheard, but this Quartet was extremely mysterious, although this organization was established in the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, but its perennial underground operation, so it was not known. The general helm of the Quartet will be in Zhili, the land of Gyeonggi, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, for hundreds of years, the Quartet will be involved in a wide range of fields, in addition to the main business of assassination, there are also espionage news, selling intelligence, selling tobacco and soil, digging graves, and even doing the law to surrender, interpreting dreams and crossing the doom, as long as you give enough silver, the Quartet will take the money, and you will achieve your wishes if you risk your life.
It is said that there are many talents in the Quartet, and those who can join the association are leaders in all walks of life, like what assassination masters, poison masters, Mr. Yin and Yang, high-ranking monks, and magic doctors...... In short, as long as you can imagine the industry, including thieves, it is not a top master, and the Quartet will not accept it.
The Quartet does not collect money every time it does things, like during the Anti-Japanese War, the devils and puppet armies in southern Zhejiang were rampant, and the people were harmed as if they were like something, and the ZJ branch of the Quartet Society spontaneously organized several assassinations of high-level Japanese soldiers, which dealt a severe blow to the arrogance of the RB devils in southern Zhejiang.
On the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China, some of the masters of the ZJ branch of the Quadripartite Association who had done things for the Kuomintang fled to Taiwan without permission, so for a time the talents of the Quadripartite Association withered, and in order to better complete the tasks entrusted by the employer, they had to lower their standards and temporarily recruit a group of powerful young people, and Su Erlai was among them.
"Then do you have any way to contact your other chapters? I have something I want you to do here, and if you are sure that you can do it, I will let you go back, and I will give you another sum of money, so that you can ensure that you have food and clothing for the rest of your life. Ye Guihua thought for a long time, and said to Su Erlai who was kneeling on the ground.
Unexpectedly, Su Erlai didn't hesitate at all, covered his face with burns, and directly refused: "Miss, it's really not that I don't want to help, I don't make money if I have money! But my level is too low, it's just a broken urge, I haven't even understood the branch I am in, and I can't contact other branches at all, and ......" Su Erlai paused, and his face was embarrassed: "And every time we come out to perform a mission, we hide a poison pill that seals our throats with blood, and once the action fails and we can't get out, we will cut it off by ourselves." ”
"What about your poison pills? I searched your body and found no poison?" the bald tiger scratched his bald head, full of questions.
Su Erlai said embarrassedly: "That...... I thought it would be as easy to get hold of this time as before, but I didn't bring it with me when I went out, alas, what a carelessness!" Su Erlai sighed as he spoke, looking melancholy.
"Are you Quartet also in the business of finding out information and peddling intelligence? Then I'll pay you to help me find out about things, right?" Ye Guihua took out a dried vegetable cake from his bag and asked while eating.
Gui Hua is a person who likes to find loopholes in language and words to find a way, ordinary people take the usual path, but she often finds another way to win.
"Oh, yes, Miss Ye, what news do you want to inquire about? I'll go back and report to the head and list the price and transaction time. When Su Erlai heard this, he couldn't help but admire Ye Guihua's intelligence, and when he thought that he could get out of the Ye family alive, he couldn't help but feel a big stone in his heart.
Laba Festival, the merchants in Jiyang City have organized to set up a shed to give porridge, Liu Laoshi also led people to distribute Laba porridge to the people for free, he went to Kaiyuan Temple a few days ago to find his cousin Liu Daochang, but the cousin has left the Taoist Temple for a long time, had to return in vain.
"Eldest sister, can Dad come back for the Chinese New Year this year?" Cuihua took Xiao Fulu and looked up to ask Ye Guihua.
"Yes. Ye Guihua replied firmly.
"Little friend Guihua, do you remember the old way?" A question came from behind the three sisters and brothers, Ye Guihua turned his head to look at the person who came, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, wearing a Taoist robe, fairy wind and bones, isn't this Liu Daochang who treated Uncle Lu back then? !
This Liu Daochang exchanged a few words with Ye Guihua, and then his eyes fell on Ye Fulu, who had just turned three, and Xiao Fulu saw that Liu Daochang had been staring at him, uncomfortable, and stared at Liu Daochang with small eyes.
"Dao Chief, please save my father, I will kowtow to you on behalf of the Ye family!" As soon as he sat down, Ye Guihua got up and bowed to Daoist Liu, although Ye Cuihua didn't understand why her sister kowtowed to this old Taoist, but she also knelt down with Ye Fulu's little hand.
"Guihua, you hurry up, Mr. Ye is in danger this time, don't bow to me, and the second miss, you both stand up, isn't this my longevity, hurry up!" Liu Daochang hurriedly picked up the three sisters and brothers, Xiao Fulu took the opportunity to pull Liu Daochang's goatee, and Liu Daochang grinned in pain, but Xiao Fulu laughed, sat on the ground with his ass, and rolled with joy.
Seeing that Lao Dao said that his father was in danger, Ye Cuihua's hanging heart was put down.
"The Taoist travels to Jiyang, you might as well stay in the Ye family for a little longer, it's not too late to leave after the Spring Festival, niece and I can also thank you for saving my uncle on behalf of my father. Ye Guihua thought in his heart that Liu Daochang was in the Ye family, and he could also help more than one person in the matter of rescuing Ye Shouan, but he said it very tactfully.
"Little friend, it's not that I'm not sensible, it's just that I agreed with your father to come to visit in five years, and it's only been three years now, and I'll come back in two years. I took the liberty to visit this time because I calculated that the Ye family would have a catastrophe a few days ago, so I came here to show the way, but I didn't expect to be a step late, now I will say a few words to you, hoping to minimize the loss of your family. ”
Lao Dao stayed in the Ye family for one night and left, half a month later, the Ye family suddenly fell from the sky, not only the enterprise was closed by the industrial and commercial department, but even the family house was not spared.
Mayor Ma personally led people to seize the Ye family's mansion, Ye Guihua asked the reason, Mayor Ma said vaguely: "Someone anonymously reported to the province that your father was a remnant of the Kuomintang, and he sold materials to the Kuomintang army during the Kuomintang-Communist War. Now that he is gone, his superiors suspect that he has defected to Taiwan, so they can only seize the property urgently first to prevent him from transferring his property overseas. ”
On Chinese New Year's Eve, the three brothers and sisters of the Ye family and the two brothers of the old Wang, as well as Liu Laoshi and others gathered in a small courtyard in the countryside of Jiyang, chatting with melon seeds, and laughing in a room.
"Lao Liu, clean up the table, the dumplings are ready!" A thick male voice came from the kitchen, Liu Laoshi quickly stood up and began to clean up the table when he heard this, Ye Guihua also got up and walked to the kitchen to help serve the dumplings, and instructed Cuihua as he walked: "Old sister, you also help Uncle Liu clean up the table, I'll help Dad serve dumplings, cut garlic, can't do it!"
As soon as the dumplings were on the table, Ye Shou'an picked up one and blew it on the side of his mouth and put it into Xiao Fulu's bowl, and said to everyone with a smile: "This catastrophe can be escaped, thanks to your care and rescue of my Ye Shou'an, but in the past few years, I have been repeatedly framed by villains like Zhao Genta but there is nothing to be done, I want to understand a truth, in addition to the lack of foundation and ability of the Ye family, the more important thing is that my Ye family has no ability to defend people, so I want to form a team for the family that can really protect the Ye family and have full defense." ”
"Dad, I have already arranged this matter for you, and Uncle Liu and Uncle Wang and Uncle Hu are also secretly preparing, and it is estimated that it will be completed in another half a year. Ye Guihua also understands the indispensable truth of guarding against people, since the previous poison and assassination incidents, she has already begun to prepare for the establishment of family guards.
"Okay, my daughter is more far-reaching than her father thinks!" Ye Shouan laughed, looking at Ye Guihua's eyes full of relief, he was able to escape this time completely because his daughter was planning outside, and he picked up a life from the killer organization hired by Zhao Genta.
"What did Daochang Liu say when he left?" When the wine was drunk, Ye Shouan and Liu Laoshi touched glasses, turned their heads and asked Ye Guihua.
"He said that it is best for you and your younger brothers and sisters not to stay in Jiyang within a year, and I have also thought about it, and I will send a letter to the aunt of the Lu family after the New Year, asking you to go to the Northeast to hide for a year and then come back. The Ye family's property has been seized, and I will also go to the door, if our family's problems are clarified, everything will be fine. Ye Guihua coaxed Xiao Fulu with a smile on his face.
"That Taoist priest is really so capable, then why did he fool the two of us?" The bald tiger blushed and had a thick neck, and when he heard the Ye family's father and daughter talking about Daoist Liu, he asked in a curt.
"My cousin said that the gold bars of the two of you will naturally come back when it is time to come back!" Liu Laoshi said to Wang Laoba while eating white-cut chicken.
"Damn, when is it time to come back? Huzi has no money to marry a daughter-in-law! The girl's family didn't dislike Huzi for not having hair, but they thought that he couldn't get the dowry money, and the matchmaker said that if he didn't propose marriage again, the family would marry his daughter to someone else!" Wang Laoba was angry when he heard Liu Laoshi's words, after all, this was about his brother's marriage.
"Lao Wang, Huzi, why didn't you two talk about this earlier? After the Lantern Festival, I will let Guihua take Huzi to propose marriage, you don't have to worry about money, you can use the money at home, I will arrange it, and I will definitely hold a beautiful wedding for Huzi!" Ye Shouan put down his chopsticks and blamed Wang Lao Ba and the others for why they didn't say it earlier.
"Brother Ye, I want to tell you, but at that time you were still locked up in the prison of the Quartet!" The bald tiger was overjoyed when he heard that Ye Shou'an paid for his marriage, and he didn't choose what to say.
Wang Laoba slapped the bald tiger and scolded: "Rabbit cub, why don't you open a pot for the New Year?"
Ye Shouan chuckled and said: "It's okay, Lao Wang, I was locked up and not beheaded, there is nothing to be ashamed of, but I really didn't expect this Quartet to be so powerful, dare to pretend to be the People's Liberation Army to arrest people, and the government can't find them." ”
"By the way, Dad, my aunt wrote the day before yesterday saying that she was coming to us after the New Year, how can I reply?" Ye Guihua asked.
"Come on, come here, if you can't do it, let's go to the Northeast together, the world is so big, where can't you live?" Ye Shou'an replied.
"Dad, that Liu Daochang seems to be very powerful, and his body is full of golden light. Cuihua interjected for no reason.
"What golden light?" Ye Shouan hugged Ye Cuihua and put it on his lap.
"It's just that there's a round rumbling thing on the chest, and it's shining golden. Cuihua replied.
"Why didn't I see it?" Ye Guihua asked with a frown.
"Yes, big disc, glittering gold! It's like this!" Ye Fulu also helped Cuihua speak, pointing to the plate of dumplings as he spoke, timidly, afraid that others would not believe it.
"It is estimated that it is the gold thread embroidered on Liu Daochang's clothes, right?" Ye Guihua said.
"I don't know, it's glittering anyway. Cuihua replied.
In the past few years, Ye's sister Ou Yanru wrote again that they would not come for the time being, and spring planting in the countryside could not be separated from people.
Ye Shouan took Cuihua and Fulu and was escorted to the northeast by Wang Laoba, and the four of them set off, but when they arrived in the northeast, there were only three people left.