Chapter XXVII
"I'm so sorry, Lady Lily."
Jo stood at the foot of the steps at Lily's house and bowed deeply to Lady Lily.
"I'm really sorry, Lady Lily, it's all just a misunderstanding."
"I'll make amends, Lady Lily."
"I will tell the boatswain of the Rose Chamber of Commerce to let my brothers come to you more often, please rest assured, Lady Lily."
Joe turned around with an embarrassed look on her face and ran quickly out of the courtyard of Lily's house.
Lady Lily stood in the doorway, looking up at the sky, rolling her eyes, her hands outstretched, looking unlucky to cry without tears, and her life had completely lost its luster. She has always been known for her elegance and generosity, but she actually made such a big ugly appearance in front of Joe, if she didn't live enough, she would have the urge to commit suicide by jumping into the sea.
What made her hate itch her teeth was that Joe shot and shattered the crystal chandelier in the hall on the first floor of Lily's house.
Young Master Qiao, who is a dignified Weitu family, can't take out a gold mark on his body!
Lady Lily, she has to go to the headquarters of the Rose Chamber of Commerce of the Vettu family to ask for compensation!
Lady Lily gritted her teeth and stamped her feet hysterically: "Prepare the car, help me change my clothes, and then go to the Rose Chamber of Commerce." Even if it's the honorable Young Master Qiao, you can't owe it and not pay it back, right? ”
"Right now, now, right now...... While the honorable Young Master Qiao still remembers this account, hurry up and get the money back! ”
With a weird smile, a group of Vettal guards followed Joe out of Lily's house.
Just now, Mrs. Lily was so frightened that she made a fool of herself in public, and the girls of Lily's house were frightened by the sound of robbery and ran around in panic. Annoyed, Jo ordered the guards to restrain the screaming girls.
This group of guys has taken advantage of a lot of what they have on hand!
"Hey, wise chief, where are we going now?" Billy, who also rubbed a lot of oil, proudly held his big belly, and the oak baton turned deftly in his hand, making a 'whirring' sound.
Joe pulled out a wolf's tooth pendant and frowned at the thin silver ring at the bottom of the wolf's fang.
The purity of the silver ring is very bad, and the production process is extremely inferior, the thin silver ring is pitted, and the depression is full of dirt, because of oxidation, the silver ring has turned black, and there are several crooked and strange runes engraved on it.
This is a nomadic tribe of highlanders, who mine their own silver ore to refine silver.
The wolf is the totem worshiped by the highlanders.
Wearing a wolf tooth pendant with him is not only a prayer for luck and courage for the warriors of the highlanders, but also a prayer for returning to the arms of the legendary highland wolf god after dying in battle.
"Such a wolf's tooth pendant, coupled with this inferior silver, actually dares to take it out to offset the consumption of three gold marks?"
Joe took the blackened cotton thread from the pendant in disgust and threw it to Billy for safekeeping.
Joe had a deeper understanding of the character of the Highlanders. Aside from a pile of crumpled and smelly bills, the only thing these highlanders left at Lily's house was the Wolf Tooth Pendant.
There wasn't enough money to pay the bill, so these highlanders forcibly coerced Lady Lily into taking the wolf tooth and using it as collateral for three gold marks!
"Lady Lily is right, she's losing money. Those highlanders, well done, this deal, they did a croaking. ”
Joe pursed his lips and sneered a few times.
Billy stood on the moral high ground with his belly up, madly despising these highlanders: "Isn't it? Our brothers, take benefits from the Wolf Gang, collect benefits from the Fox Gang, and collect benefits from the Snake Gang...... But we never ask these girls for money. ”
With a vigorous swing of the baton, Billy spat at the ground: "Even these girls have to rely on their hard-earned money, ahh ”
A shriek of 'shhoo' rang out, and a man in a short cloak and a cap whistled at Joe across the road.
Joe looked up, then laughed, and he waved at the man, pointing to Lily's house behind him.
The man looked left and right, and then ran across the road with a couple of men in civilian clothes with bulging waists. He pulled out his cigarette case and handed Joe a cigarette roll, while Billy took two steps back in amusement.
The person who came was Alan Abi, a first-class lieutenant of the Port Tulum Police Department, the right-hand man of Chief Stein, one of the senior agents of the Port Tulum Police Department, and an official member of the special investigation team. Billy knew in his heart that he wasn't in a position to share Captain Allen's cigarettes.
Joe lit a fire for Sergeant Allen, lit a cigarette for herself, and the two stood on the sidewalk, leaning against the fence of Lily's House courtyard, looking at the road in front of them, where there were few people and cars, and gulping for smoke.
"Highlanders, I found a trace of them." Joe smirked at Billy, who hurriedly pulled out the wolf tooth pendant and handed it to Lieutenant Allen.
"Wow...... What a hell of a life! Lieutenant Allen patted Joe's arm and made no secret of his surprise: "Great Mu, how did you do it?" From last night until now, my men have checked hundreds of brothels near the docks, Joe, how did you manage to hit with one hit? ”
Joe shrugged his shoulders, he didn't want to expose the 'Sparrow Gang' of the grimace shopkeeper: "I have my channel, Captain Allen. ”
Lieutenant Allen nodded.
He knew the energy of the Wittu family in the port of Tulun, and he also knew that in the dock area of the port of Tulun, there were countless people who relied on the Rose Chamber of Commerce of the Wittu family to eat, and Joe's influence in this area was stronger than the rest of the special investigation team combined.
Stretching out his hand and pointing to the Flying Fish Street in front of him, and then pointing to the direction of the Sardine Street behind him, Officer Allen said in a deep voice: "Then, I'll transfer people, and first check one by one from the nearby stores that can stay." ”
"Joe, you take someone, keep an eye on the street first, and I'll go and transfer someone. How many of them were, where they lived before, whether they came back after the fifteenth, and whether anyone saw them again. ”
"As long as we grab a little bit of their tails, they won't be able to run away."
Lieutenant Allen took two hard puffs of his cigarette, dropped the cigarette butt on the ground, and then stepped on it hard.
Joe nodded, and he raised his hand, ready to beckon the leaders of the guards who followed him, and asked them to take their own people and go to the nearby street to keep an eye on.
In the alley opposite, several men dressed as fishermen drove an elongated four-wheeled carriage out slowly.
Out of the alley, a man shouted, and the old horse pulling the cart snorted and pulled the carriage to turn to the left. The carriage of the elongated carriage, which was nearly twenty feet long, was exactly where Joe and Lieutenant Allen were.
Before Jo could open his mouth to call out to the leader of the escort who was accompanying him, the carriage shed suddenly toppled over, revealing a blue-black field cannon on the carriage.
Joe's pupils suddenly flashed a crimson glow, and in the depths of his pupils, a three-round six-pointed star magic array appeared, and then began to rotate rapidly. On that field gun, which was at least a hundred millimeters in caliber, wisps of scarlet aura emanated that only Joe could see.
The artillery carriage of the field artillery was rigidly fixed to the carriage, and a dark-skinned man stood beside the cannon, holding a small torch in his hand.
Lieutenant Joe and Captain Allen roared at the same time: "Shelling! ”
Joe grabbed Officer Allen by the shoulder, then fell down on the spot and pushed Officer Allen to the ground.
Billy...... Billy, who was bulging and chubby, was even faster than Joe.
Joe lowered his head, his forehead almost touching the ground: "Get down!" ”
Then his body sank, and a strong force struck, and his head slammed into the ground, and even made a crisp crashing sound, which made Joe's eyes blacken.
The man standing next to the field cannon slammed the torch in his hand on the fire door of the field gun.
With a loud bang, a flash of fire erupted from the field cannon, and hundreds of thumb-sized shotguns made a piercing sound of breaking through the air, whizzing through the narrow Flying Fish Street.
Rao is Qiao's reaction was fast, his block was placed here, and almost at the same time as he lay down, the big shotgun was already whistling. Dozens of shotguns flew past Joe's scalp, and one buckshot plowed a finger-thick dent directly into Joe's hair.
Of Joe's family guards, only four guards followed Joe closely, and the others were dozens of feet away.
The guards of the Vittal family are almost all carefully selected from the armed sailors of the Chamber of Commerce, and the armed sailors of the ocean-going fleet often break out in artillery battles with various forces at sea.
The first time they saw the artillery across the street, the four guards of the Weitu family had already fallen to the ground, and two of them flew directly and slapped heavily on Joe's body as a human shield.
The men brought by Captain Allen were also next to Joe and Captain Allen.
They are police detectives, and they are good at finding out information and tracking down all kinds of subtle clues. They are not very good at fighting, and they are completely unfamiliar with such things as field artillery, and they don't have this concept in their heads.
A puff of lead bullet hit these detectives solidly.
Their upper bodies exploded with a snap, and a large mist of blood sprayed out, spreading an even layer on Joe, Captain Allen, Billy, and the four Vetul guards.
Lieutenant Allen's eyes widened and he let out a hysterical howl, ignoring the wound from his chin grinding on the ground, he pulled out the flintlock fire from his waist with his backhand, and 'boomed' at the opposite side with two shots.
Shot in a hurry, Captain Allen did not hit the assailant across the street.
Then the dense gunfire rang out, and the more than 100 guards brought by Joe drew their guns almost at the same time, and more than 200 large lead bullets accurately hit several attackers, causing them to be covered in blood, and their bodies flew backwards more than ten feet away.
"Enemy attack, enemy attack, protect the young master, protect the young master!"
Sharp roars kept coming, and a dozen or so guards of the Vetu family had come up with powerful flintlock rifles out of nowhere, and like monkeys, they deftly climbed onto the lamppost on the side of the road.
They hovered over a twelve-foot-tall lamppost and pointed their guns at the corners of several nearby streets where people might have popped up.
An arm-thick rocket roared into the air, and then exploded with a 'bang', and in broad daylight, a brilliant golden rose bloomed high in the sky.
The roses in the sky are clearly visible in most of the port area.
Behind Joe, Lady Lily's hysterical cry was heard: "My house ...... My house...... Oh! Oooh! ”