Chapter 309: Do you want to recreate the tragedy of the past?
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In the public memorial hall, 12 ashes are placed in the middle of the hall in turn, surrounded by thousands of white orchids.
The young man in the photo is still smiling brightly.
The nearly 100 men in the public memorial hall wearing black suits and white shirts, standing silently and solemnly, clearly showed the prominence and majesty of the deceased during his lifetime.
There were more than 100 people standing in a neat line outside the hall.
This funeral can be regarded as grand, and it is also Li Yaoyang's greatest respect for his brothers.
The second generation of the junior attended and read aloud the letter written by Li Yaoyang to his brothers at the meeting, with sincere words, revealing the greatest regret and apology.
The funeral caused a sensation in most of Chinatown, and almost all of them knew about it, except for a very few people who didn't know it.
And the villagers in Chinatown also know what Li Yaoyang is doing, he will die.
At that moment, Li Yaoyang's pattern was sublimated, of course, referring to him in the hearts of the villagers.
Such a sensational funeral will inevitably be talked about, and all kinds of sour words are not old and young, but the parties concerned did not pay too much attention to it, and they were all immersed in a sad atmosphere.
And Xiao Er rushed into the Anliang Chamber of Commerce at this time, with a mournful atmosphere, which was completely a slap in the face!
After entering, Xiao Er didn't sit down, and said with a cold face in front of everyone:
"Ask King Jimmy for me, does he want to repeat the tragedy of 14 years ago?"
In Chinatown 14 years ago, there was a murder case because of a fight for a woman, which caused a sensation throughout New York City at the time.
This fight not only implicated the two men, but also involved their respective chambers of commerce: the Ganglong Chamber of Commerce and the Anliang Chamber of Commerce.
The two sides refused to give in to each other, setting off a year-long fight.
In the early hours of August 15, 1909, a murder occurred in an apartment building at 17th Fifth Street in Chinatown.
A young Chinese woman was murdered in the most brutal manner, and the scene in the apartment was very bloody, and the body was found by a Chinese man named Cheng Lin, who was the owner of a laundry.
According to his own account, it was his 21-year-old wife, Jin Rong, who died.
Faced with the sheriff's interrogation, Cheng Lin said he believed the killer was a Chinese man named Liu Dong, from San Francisco, who was also a member of the Dragon's Chamber of Commerce.
And Liu Dong and Jin Rong are inextricably linked.
The victim Jin Rong had a rough life, she was born in the south, was sold by her father when she was young, and was later trafficked to San Francisco, where she lived with Liu Dong for a few years, but it was not an official husband and wife.
A local Christian charity believed that Jin Rong had been trafficked and managed to get him away from Liu Dong.
After that, Jin Rong lived in a Christian charity for a few months, where she met Cheng Lin.
Cheng Lin was a member of the Anliang Chamber of Commerce and had a little money in hand, so he brought Jin Rong from California to New York.
Of course, Liu Dong would not give up, and chased all the way from San Francisco to New York, trying to chase Jin Rong back, but without success.
So he asked Cheng Lin for $3,000 in compensation, but was again refused.
Due to the implementation of the "Chinese Exclusion Act", there is a serious shortage of Chinese women in the Chinese community in the ugly country.
A Chinese woman in Chinatown will receive a large number of Chinese men, and because there are so few Chinese women, it is common for Chinese men to marry Irish or Italian women who are also at the bottom of the social ladder.
So when Jin Rong arrives in this New York Chinatown where there are many monks and little porridge, she will definitely not be let go easily.
The dispute between the two men over Jin Rong was finally appealed to the head of the Anliang Chamber of Commerce for arbitration.
In the end, the Anliang Chamber of Commerce must have turned to its own people and decided that this girl was rescued by the church, so Cheng Lin did not need to return his wife to Liu Dong, nor did he need to pay compensation.
Not long after the Anliang Chamber of Commerce made this decision, Jin Rong was found tragically dead at home.
What makes the case even more complicated is that Cheng Lin belongs to An Liangtang.
And Liu Dong belongs to the Ganglong Chamber of Commerce, and with this relationship, both forces are involved.
Now, this case is not only a personal grudge, but has evolved into a contradiction between the two major communities.
Both sides believe that this is a matter of face, and whoever shows weakness will be ridiculed on the rivers and lakes.
As a result, the Ganglong Chamber of Commerce took money to help Liu Dong fight the lawsuit, and the Anliang Chamber of Commerce also found many witnesses.
Over the course of a year, the two sides retaliated against each other, shooting, beating, and murder was frequent.
The Jin Rong case resulted in the deaths of at least 50 Chinese.
Finally, the court held a trial, and Cheng Lin himself sat on the witness stand.
He recounted the process of meeting and marrying Jin Rong, as well as the scene where he was found to have been killed.
But the defense lawyer tortured him and presented evidence that Cheng Lin himself was forcing Bao Jin to live an immoral life, and the jury was very entangled in this, not knowing which side was more credible.
In the end, the defendant was found not guilty, and then Chinatown fell out, and the Anliang Chamber of Commerce and the Ganglong Chamber of Commerce fought again, and in the end, both sides consumed a lot of financial resources and manpower.
In fact, according to the rules of the Chinese themselves, if there is no death in Chinatown, they usually do not resort to the police and the courts, but settle it internally, and once the gang fight starts, it is difficult to stop.
In order to save face, it usually takes a long time for the gangs to negotiate a ceasefire.
The Tang War triggered by the Jin Rong case even alarmed the Chinese side, and with the peace of the Chinese minister and the six major companies, a peace agreement was finally promoted.
This agreement fully respects the interests and authority of the gangs, and stipulates the spheres of influence of each party.
Like an underground law, he maintained the peace of the Chinese underground world in New York for a period of time that followed.
But after so many years, the so-called law has long since disappeared, and how many people still remember?
But today's Xiao Er's words reminded everyone of the battle at the beginning, and many people died, how long has it been, how can you forget?
"Mei Xiaoer, are you trying to provoke the Anliang Chamber of Commerce?" A man who looked very old came out of the back hall and said with a gloomy face.
"Huh, provocation? It's your chamber of commerce that ignores my Dongxing's face and robs our brother Yang's woman, crazy, right? So? "Xiao Er doesn't give the other party a face, don't sell your qualifications here, your fists and feet are not long-sighted!
"Robbing a woman? What are you talking about? "The other party obviously didn't understand the situation.
"Ask you young hall masters, I only warn this time, if you don't restrain yourself, don't blame me Dongxing for not giving face to my seniors, it just so happens that we have nowhere to get rid of our belly."
Threat! The threat of Chiguoguo, the undisguised threat!
Gas? Of course gas! As a big brother-level existence in Chinatown, how could Anliang Chamber of Commerce ever be slapped in the face?
Huh? Isn't that what you see?
People, you still have to go through it, and you don't feel strange if you have experienced it.
"That's it, I'll take action!" Xiao Er put down this sentence and left, salute first and then soldier, it's not unruly to fight if you really fight!
"Brother Shen!"
"Hmm!"
Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.
But it doesn't matter who it is.
There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.
on this.
Shen Changqing is used to it.
Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.
Arguably.
In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.
When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.
When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.
The Demon Suppression Division is huge.
The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.
Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.
Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.
Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.
Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.
Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.
Have memories of the predecessor.
He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.
It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.
Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.
At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.
Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.
Access to the attic.
The environment has changed in vain.
A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.
The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.