Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Beggar Gang Assembly (I)
Ye Lingfeng followed Qiao Feng all the way to the apricot forest on the outskirts of Gusu City, after Qiao Feng arrived at the agreed meeting place, he only saw the four elders of the Beggar Gang and a helmsman surnamed Jiang, he was suspicious, but several people did not answer him.
Then, I saw fifty or sixty people rushing out from behind an apricot tree, all of them in ragged clothes, with unkempt hair, or armed with weapons, or with broken bowls and bamboo fights, all of whom were members of the beggar gang. Eighty or ninety beggar gang disciples from the north also walked out, most of them looked solemn, and they didn't salute when they saw Qiao Feng, but faintly contained hostility.
The two girls beside Ye Lingfeng were a little surprised at this scene, Qiao Feng's identity had already been learned to be the leader of the beggar gang, the largest gang in the world, but when it came to his own territory, he was so disrespected, which was not in line with Qiao Feng's status in the beggar gang, Ye Lingfeng didn't answer anything to the two women, just asked them to hide their good breath and not be discovered by everyone.
However, at this time, the most surprised was Qiao Feng himself, these people are all beggars, and they are also extremely respectful of themselves, as long as they see it from afar, they will immediately put down what they are doing and come over to salute, why did they suddenly come today and see that they didn't even call "helper"?
Qiao Fengzheng was puzzled, and saw that dozens of gangs had also arrived in the southwest direction, and the open space in the apricot grove was crowded in a short time, but the leaders of the beggar gang, except for the four elders who arrived first and Master Jiang Helm, the rest of the people were not included.
Qiao Feng thought to himself for a moment, only to feel more and more frightened, cold sweat secretly appeared in his palm, and when he saw the strange situation of the gang in front of him, he was suddenly shocked, and thought in his heart: "Could it be that the beggar gang has civil strife?" The two elders of Gong Chuan and Law Enforcement and several helmsmen who split the rudder were all poisoned by them? But I've only been out for a few days, how is this possible? ”
An elder surnamed Chen saw Qiao Feng coming, and suddenly shouted loudly: "The beggars help the people listen to the order, form a dog formation, and besiege the Khitan traitor Qiao Feng!" As soon as he gave the order, among the beggar gangs in the south, east, west, and northwest, there were more than ten or twenty people rushing out of each place, each holding a sword, looking at Qiao Feng's expression with great disgust.
Qiao Feng frowned, and asked, "Elder Chen, what does this mean?" Could it be that in order to take the position of the leader of my beggar gang, he actually made up a lie that I am a Khitan to deceive the gang? I, Qiao, think that I treat you well, who colluded with you to make you have the heart to take the position of my helper? ”
"Shut up, you Khitan dog! actually mixed into my Song Ting to be the leader of the beggar gang, if it weren't for the full crown and the helmsman, I would have been coaxed by you for a lifetime! Hmph, do you still want to quibble? Come on, please helm the master! The elder surnamed Chen was angry and hideous, and there seemed to be flames coming out of his eyes, which showed his anger.
A middle-aged beggar was surrounded by a group of beggars and walked into the apricot forest, and there was a delicate and beautiful woman beside him, born with a pair of fox eyes, slender waist, and plump body, standing with Quan Guanqing, it was extremely strange. If Ye Lingfeng didn't guess wrong, this should be Kang Min, the wife of Ma Dayuan, the current deputy leader of the Beggar Gang.
"Mrs. Kang, Lord Helmsman, what do you mean by this? I, Joe, think that I haven't done anything to be sorry for the beggars, what are you two going to do when you two put up such a battle? Isn't it to make the world laugh at us beggars? If the two of you can't say a reason today, I, Qiao, will definitely do it for Heaven and deal with the portal! Although Qiao Feng was sincere and bold in his treatment of others, his dignified beggar gang leader was often said to be a Khitan dog thief, and he was also a little angry at this time.
Where is the opponent of the beggar gang in front of Qiao Feng, the so-called dog-fighting formation is just a simplified version of the formation of the dog-fighting method, and it can't set off any big storms at all, Qiao Feng broke out of the encirclement with a few fierce palms in a row, and easily captured Quan Guanqing.
"You gang rebels, along with Quan Guanqing and others, want to murder me, hmph, I think, you should know better than me where the few imprisoned helmsmen are now. Especially you, Elder Chen, you are also one of the accomplices of these two people who want to rob the leader of the Beggar Gang, right? Quan Guanqing has been captured by me, take me to meet the other elders, whether I am a Han or not, let's find out today, and in the future, you will use this matter to the cholera beggars. ”
"Hmph, Qiao Feng, I'd like to see what kind of expression your face will show after your identity is revealed?" Kang Min sneered, if it weren't for Qiao Feng's identity being more than seventy percent sure, she wouldn't have seduced Quan Guanqing and law enforcement elder Bai Shijing to launch this rebellion, although her position as the wife of the gang leader can be regarded as enjoyable, but after all, Ma Dayuan is not as good as Qiao Feng, if it weren't for Qiao Feng's refusal to ask her for face, Kang Min would not have bothered to reveal her identity.
However, in addition to Kang Min, including Quan Guanqing, they actually wanted to use this excuse to rebel and seize power, originally thought that they could directly coax Qiao Feng, but they didn't expect him to have no stage fright, and he was suddenly a little frightened, and his face turned red.
After hearing only one side of the story, the beggar gang members who came along saw the strange appearance of the elders, and immediately showed shame, and put down their weapons and said: "The gang leader forgives me for being confused, I actually believe that Quan Guanqing said that the gang leader is not Han, and we and the four elders will only echo Quan Guanqing to force the gang leader to abdicate, hoping that the gang leader will forgive his sins." ”
An older gang member sighed and said: "I don't know the specific details of this crusade against the gang leader, and the eight elders in the gang all know about it, but they don't agree with each other, and now they have been arrested by Quan Guanqing and imprisoned in the dungeon, so we have to go along and do things." ”
Qiao Feng said in a deep voice: "Okay, you will lead the way, guide the righteous rudder Jiang Helm, and invite the two elders of the Gong Chuan and Law Enforcement to come here together." You wait for the good students to listen to my orders, and then you can reduce the responsibility, and the rest of the gang will sit down on the spot, and they will not move around without permission, and after a few elders come over, they will confront Kang Min and Quan Guanqing to confirm my identity. ”
The sky has gradually darkened, the twilight is shrouded, the mist is floating on the edge of the apricot forest, the old beggar of a year is fluttering with white beard, wearing a quail coat full of nails, walking slowly, followed by the two elders of the Gong and law enforcement, this old man's surname is Xu, he has a very high rank in the beggar gang, he is eighty-seven years old this year, the former Wang gang leader respected him as a "teacher", and there was no one in the beggar gang who was not his junior, Qiao Feng also hurriedly got up and asked for a question mark after seeing the comer.
"Qiao Feng, I have been retired for many years, and my coming here today is related to your life experience. After her husband's death, Mrs. Kang, the widow of Ma Dayuan and Ma Brothers, inspected the relics and found a letter sealed with fire paint in the place where Ma Brothers collected the Boxing Sutra. She went to see me with the letter, and left the relics of Brother Ma, which read: If Yu dies at the end of his life, this letter will be incinerated immediately, and the person who dismantles it will destroy Yu's body, which makes Yu Jiuquan uneasy. If Yu dies unexpectedly, this letter will be immediately handed over to the elders of the gang to be read together, and the matter is of great importance and must not be mistaken. ”
"If it's just a suicide note from Ma Dayuan, it won't be that I, an old man, will come out to find you, the leader of the beggar gang. The reason why I went out of the mountain today is because the handwriting of the letter is vigorous, it is by no means written by Dayuan, and the above paragraph is written with the words "sword beard my brother", as you all know, the word "sword beard" is the alias of the former Wang gang leader of this gang, if it is not a person who is good friends with him, he will not be called so, and Wang gang leader has been dead for a long time, how can someone write to him? Moreover, the fire paint on the letter is still sealed intact, and it can be seen that no one has touched it. ”
And when I saw the person who signed the letter, I was even more surprised, the person who wrote the letter had a good status and was implicated in many ways. I won't tell you the name of the person who wrote the letter, I, Xu, have been in the beggar gang for more than 70 years, and have retired to the mountains and forests in the past 30 years, no longer wandering the rivers and lakes, no quarrels with others, and no grudges. "I have not many days in the world, I have no children and grandchildren, and I have no apprentices, and I have no selfishness in asking myself. If I say a few words, do you believe it or not? ”