Chapter 12: Those from the rivers and lakes

The boy in the courtyard didn't know what was happening in the pre-dawn night.

In the first half of the night, he somehow entered the mansion of the Song Yushi lord, and saw Song Rui himself, who he was about to kill. He didn't do it on the spot, because it wasn't the right time, and the Imperial Mansion wasn't a good place.

When standing in front of the Imperial Master, Xiao Xuan kept his head down and didn't look at the other party directly. He could feel the kindness of the other party, which made him a little unhappy.

Xiao Xuan knew very well where these unhappiness came from, but he didn't have a good way to avoid these feelings.

He and Song Rui had been talking for a long time in the study, and there were at least ten chances to kill each other without making any movement. However, he was not absolutely sure that he would be able to escape before the body was discovered by the guards of the Imperial Historian's Mansion, and assassinating the mansion of an imperial historian was tantamount to challenging the Imperial Court head-on. Even if he can succeed, the imperial court will definitely do its best to track it down to the end, but he doesn't have the confidence to hide in Xuanyang City under the deliberate search of the divine imperial eunuch.

He can't leave Xuanyang, at least not yet.

In short, although I didn't accomplish that goal tonight, I finally learned some of Song Rui's habits and habits. On the way back to the small courtyard in the south of the city from the Imperial History Mansion, Xiao Xuan already knew what he was going to do.

There were still two hours before dawn, and after Xiao Xuan finished scrubbing his body, he threw the short clothes he had taken off into the wooden barrel by the well, deciding that he would still have to sleep for a while before dawn.

Because of the sharp pain, the fifteen-year-old boy tossed and turned in bed for a long time, and found that it was difficult to sleep. It's a strange thing, and it's significant. If he couldn't sleep properly, Xiao Xuan couldn't be sure that he would be able to deal with any possible situation at any time.

So he looked again at the jars he had placed in the corner of the inner room.

The jar is a jar of wine, and it is naturally filled with wine, and it is a fine wine. These spirits, which have a faint aroma of aging, come from the cellar of Hongfulou in the southern suburbs of Kyoto, and are rarely sold to the public, and ordinary people may not be able to buy sake even if they have a large amount of silver tickets in their hands.

Wine is easy to make mistakes, so Xiao Xuan doesn't like to drink. Only every time he couldn't sleep at night, he would drink a small bowl.

Tonight, it was extremely rare for him to drink an extra bowl.

After dawn, Xiao Xuan got up as usual. He hadn't been to the inn to help in a few days, and although his importance to the Wind Inn, he still needed to hide his identity with the role of a helper. Is there an inn where the helper doesn't work in the shop, but spends all day at home?

However, when he walked out of the hut, there were already people waiting for him in the courtyard.

It was a rather handsome young man, with a fair face and thin cheeks. When Xiao Xuan looked at him, he also looked back at the young man.

Xiao Xuan was sure that he had never seen this person.

"I remember that the people from the Southern Gang had already come to collect the rent last month. ”

"I'm not here to collect rent, I'm just here to warn you that you might have some trouble today. ”

On a sunny day, in the small courtyard in the south of the city, a peculiar conversation unfolded.

Xiao Xuan asked, "What kind of trouble?"

The young man looked at him and said lightly: "Last night, less than a hundred steps away from your small courtyard, a person died. ”

"I will only kill chickens and ducks, not kill people. Xiao Xuan straightened up the wooden scoop of water, scooped up a scoop of water and poured it into the wooden bucket by the well, "And I have no relatives in Kyoto, and the person who wants to die will not have anything to do with me anyway." ”

The young man smiled and said, "The dead person is the second leader of the Southern Gang, Du Lao Er. ”

The early morning sun was scattered in the courtyard and on the faces of young people and teenagers. Xiao Xuan couldn't see any trace of joking in the other party's eyes.

This made him a little confused.

Where there are people, there will be rivers and lakes.

There are many people in Xuanyang City, so naturally there will be no shortage of gangs in the rivers and lakes. However, after many years of killing and attacking, now there are only two gangs left in the huge Xuanyang.

The South Gang and the North Gang.

At that time, the two gangs controlled a lot of business in Kyoto, both on the open side and in the dark, and it is said that behind each of them stood an earth-shattering big man. In fact, Xiao Xuan thought that without a certain hole card, what kind of small hill in the center of the powerful Great Xia Dynasty would be no different from a moth to a fire.

Du Lao Er, Xiao Xuan also knows this person. The second child is not his real name, but now very few people know how his original name was called, but everyone called it that, and that's what it was called. This person is not good-looking, but he is the second person in the Southern Gang in addition to the gang leader Ouyang Sheng, he is resourceful, he is a military advisor under Ouyang Sheng, and he is a character who can make the city wall tremble by stomping his feet in the south of the city.

Such an important role in promoting gangs actually died?

Xiao Xuan glanced at the long sword on the young man's waist, judging from the other party's tone, bearing, and sitting posture, he had already guessed that this person was from the official mansion.

He didn't know why the people in the government were not going to go well, but they came to this small courtyard early in the morning to block him, but he didn't have any intention of caring about the government, so he had to deal with it: "Well, I know." ”

Just as Xiao Xuan thought, the young man has his back to the government, and his rank is not low, and he came here today to confirm certain things on the orders of his boss. Although he didn't like the reaction of this poor boy, the task is the task, and what he has to say has been said, so naturally there is no reason to stay here.

He walked cleanly, walked in style, and didn't even look back.

Not long after the young man left, Xiao Xuan had not had time to walk out of the courtyard gate, and on this morning morning, a second wave of visitors had already come to the door.

Strictly speaking, they were not visitors, because the big man in the lead, whose eyes were red and faintly sinister, and the way he kicked the courtyard door was too rough, which was not a normal way of visiting.

The moment the courtyard gate fell, the small courtyard that was not too big was suddenly crowded by the sturdy men who rushed in.

"Boy, what did you do last night?"

Xiao Xuan did a lot of things last night, but it was obvious that they were all things that were not suitable for talking, so he chose to reply in a muffled voice: "Sleep." ”

When he said this, he looked at the group of people behind the big man, and saw that each of them was glaring at him angrily, and said in his heart that he didn't know what he had touched recently, and everything was not going well. Can the people of Xuanyang City live a peaceful life?

"Sleep, can anyone prove it?"

Xiao Xuan shook his head, sighed, and said, "No." ”

The big man laughed twice, his forehead showed green tendons, but the laughter was full of viciousness and anger, "No one proves it? Then you will be miserable, come with us obediently." ”

"Where are you going?"

"What so much nonsense! I'll leave if you tell you to go!"

Xiao Xuan was silent for a while, and then said slowly: "I know, you are from the Southern Gang. ”

The big man was slightly surprised, and then sneered: "Yes, I and the group of brothers behind me are all members of the Southern Gang, boy, do you know what the consequences of offending the people of the Southern Gang are? ”

Xiao Xuan didn't want to offend these people in the rivers and lakes, but he didn't want to follow the other party either. Things have developed to this point, even fools know that this group of people in the Southern Gang is so active today, I am afraid it is related to the things in the mouths of the young people before.

He didn't like to deal with this kind of troublesome thing the most, but there were at least thirty strong men surrounding him at the moment, and if he didn't want to expose his skills, it was obviously an impossible proposition to escape. It is even more daydreaming to expect those officials under the jurisdiction of Xuanyang Mansion Yin to play their role.

If the government can be relied on, the sow will also go up the tree.

This is Xiao Xuan's life creed that has been summarized for many years.

This group of Jianghu people, who are usually used to being arrogant, have never been afraid of the so-called government power. What's more, today's actions of the Southern Gang may itself have been tacitly approved by the government.

The leading man gave a look to the person next to him, and the man nodded understandingly, and walked towards Xiao Xuan in the middle of the crowd.

The boy clenched his fists tightly, and his mind raced.

Just as the big man stretched out his hand and was about to hold Xiao Xuan's shoulder, just as Xiao Xuan was about to kick the part that any man regarded as life, there was a sound of footsteps, and this group of men from the Southern Gang was blocked in the small courtyard by another group of elite men.

The group of people blocking the gate of the courtyard were all dressed in gray clothes and gray pants, only the person standing at the front was plain white, and this person had sharp-beaked monkey gills, as thin as a bamboo pole, like a white sheep leading a group of hungry wolves.

The man walked out of the group of gray-clothed men with his head held high, looked at the people inside and said with a smile: "Who am I, it turned out to be the group of miscellaneous fish from the Nangang, Wang Biao, the boss of your family doesn't know what he's been busy with lately, and he doesn't even have the kung fu to take care of his subordinates?

Wang Biao's eyes were red when he heard this, and he was about to rush forward, but he was stopped by the person next to him, so he had to say fiercely: "Bai Lao Liu, what kind of good bird are you pretending? Our second master died last night, is it, cough...... The big boss said that if you find out who did it, you must regret being a man!"

The Southern Gang and the Northern Gang are two incompatible gang forces in Xuanyang City, just because if either of the two parties disappears from Xuanyang, the other can control all the black and white businesses in the capital. In this situation, the second leader of the Southern Gang died, in fact, the high-ranking members of the Southern Gang at that time immediately guessed the hostile Northern Gang, but there was no evidence.

As Ouyang Sheng, who is at the helm of the Southern Gang, he made a decision as soon as he got the news of Du Laoer's death: Check! Lift every piece of land in the south of the city to me!

What Wang Biao originally wanted to say was that the second boss died, and this group of cattle from your northern gang actually appeared on the territory south of our city. If you have nothing to do with the death of the second master, I, Wang Biao, am the first to disbelieve it!

Just looked at the black figure behind Bai Lao Liu, and his body couldn't help but shrink back. He swallowed back the words that came to his mouth.