On the second day of the beating, the old man actually went to Dongli Qiaotou.

It's just that he didn't go to set up a stall to sell fake medicines, nor did he set up an endgame, but went to Tangshan, but unfortunately he went too early, and Tangshan was still asleep in bed at that time. The old man didn't want to wait too long on the bridge, thinking that it would be too eye-catching, so he had to write a note in the bridge hole, wanting to ask Tangshan to go to the shipyard in the western suburbs, and then tell him a historical mystery, a huge historical secret.

The western suburbs shipyard is where the old man really stays. It was a long-abandoned shipyard that was once thriving a few decades ago and was once the largest business in Maple Grove. Later, land transportation gradually developed, and the river dried up, and the shipyard gradually became depressed, and finally closed down.

After all the original employees moved away, the area was infested with only rats and feral cats. Occasionally, a few homeless people lived there, and the old man was one of them.

At first, the old man didn't intend to trust Tang Shan too early. After all, he has known each other for less than a day, and decades of life experience have taught him that the first feeling alone is not enough to entrust him with big things. Otherwise, after being beaten by a few little hooligans, he should have told Tang Shan directly and went to the shipyard to find him later. There is no need to go to the trouble of leaving a message in the bridge cave the next day.

The old man returned to the shipyard in the western suburbs, and after sleeping at night, he began to think about the beating during the day, and the more he thought about it, the more wrong it became, and he always felt that those little hooligans were not just here to ask for money.

Generally speaking, street hooligans collect protection money against small stall owners or small shop owners who do legitimate business, because their income is stable and they will not encounter fierce resistance; No matter how bad the character of the hooligans is, they rarely get in trouble with some old people on the street who put on the wreckage or sell counterfeit medicines, and it is a well-known fact that those people have little money, and bullying the old people on the street is easy to cause public outrage.

The old man has been in this town for decades, and no matter whether he is a good guy or a bad person, he basically doesn't look at him squarely. was pressed to the ground by a few thugs, and kept saying that he wanted to collect land fees, which was the first time in his decades of life. Was it just an accident? Obviously not. Times have changed to make street hooligans so unscrupulous? It doesn't seem to be.

In fact, pressing people to the ground and taking out the money is not called collecting land fees or protection fees, but robbing them openly; No matter how weak the legal awareness of the hooligans is, they should understand the difference between robbery and charging, and the nature is completely different.

Thinking about it, the old man felt that those guys were not only digging for money on him, but also carefully turning over every seam of his clothes. No matter how you look at it, they are all deliberately looking for something other than money. In addition, from beginning to end, the old man was not beaten, but he was held down and could not resist.

The addition of the stunned Qingtangshan turned this unspeakable act of finding things into a street brawl. Those thugs took the opportunity to hide the true purpose of the trip, and took all the money justifiably.

If those thugs were instructed by others, then the old man thought that the secrets he had guarded all his life were likely to be revealed.

After thinking about it all night, and getting up early the next day, the old man still couldn't get rid of the shadow of the previous day. In the end, he decided to put the bet on Tang Shan, because he didn't have time to test it more, and he couldn't do more*, and what happened after that was left to fate.

Tang Shan was beaten one day, his whole body ached, and he got up late the next day, and he didn't go to Dongli Qiaotou until the afternoon, so he missed the old man who was wandering around the bridge in the morning. Moreover, Tang Shan didn't expect that the old rascal would really leave a message in the cracks of the bridge holes and stones that day. Therefore, he did not go to the old rascal's appointment on this day.

As a result, Tangshan missed the biggest brawl in Fenglin Town in the past ten years.

The five generals under Brother Dongcheng Liang quietly came to the shipyard in the western suburbs at dusk that day. It didn't take much effort to find the old man they had robbed the day before.

At first, the old man heard a voice outside, thinking that Tang Shan had received the message he had left in the bridge cave and rushed to the appointment. There was a burst of ecstasy in his heart, and he felt that this kid Tangshan really lived up to expectations. When I heard it again, there were at least four or five people in the footsteps, and my heart sank, and I felt that something was a little wrong.

When I opened the door, I saw five strange-shaped and colorful guys under Zhou Weiliang standing at the door. Everyone had a toothpick in their mouth, and their eyes were all squinting upwards at a 45-degree angle.

The old man saw that Tang Shan was not in the crowd, and his heart was a little relieved, at least the other party didn't know that Tang Shan was related to him.

The bird feather who was spat twice by the boss Zhou Weiliang was the oldest of the five people, and he usually had the final say when he went out together. Of course, if things go wrong, he will be the first to be scolded by the boss. But bird feathers never know how to eat a trench and grow a wisdom, every time they go out, they always like to charge the head of the bird. Probably the nickname of the word "bird feather" originally came from this.

The corners of the bird's mouth grinned, and he was the first to greet him: "Hey, old man, let's meet again." ”

The old man has been incognito all his life, and he calls himself an old hooligan in front of Tang Shan, so at this moment, the other party called him "old man", and he didn't feel impolite. Unhurriedly, he spread out his hands and answered:

"Ladies and gentlemen, didn't you already give money yesterday? Why are you still embarrassed by my old man? Even if you tear down all my old bones now, you won't have any money to give you. If you don't believe me, come in and find it for yourselves. ”

Yesterday, I was beaten and scolded by the boss for being rude to the old man, but today everyone is much more civilized. The four standing in the back, although they looked arrogant, rolled the toothpick in their mouths and rolled over, but none of them made a sound, and no one forced them into the room. It was still bird feathers who spoke, and this time it was much more polite.

Bird Feather: "Old man, I apologize for yesterday's incident. Today we are here, the Ming people do not do dark things, but to find a thing. To be precise, I was asked to find a piece of paper. I heard that this toy is on you, know a little better, hand it over yourself, if you are unwilling, you can make a price. ”

The old man grinned: "Paper, I have a lot of paper in this house." Come in and take it for yourselves. Which one is suitable for which one. ”

Bird Feather: "I said old man, don't pretend to be stupid. You know we're not looking for an ordinary piece of paper, there's a chess game on it. Not only did you sell counterfeit medicines on the streets, but you also set up chess stalls. We have reliable sources and this piece of paper is on you. ”

The old man's heart sank, they still have reliable sources? Not nonsense? This was something he hadn't thought of beforehand.

In fact, the five people standing in front of the old man now didn't know what the scrap of the chess game meant, but the boss Zhou Weiliang said that he wanted to find it, and the target was the old man of Dongli Bridge, and they were ordered to act. As for the "reliable source" Yunyun, it was made up by Bird Feather.

The old man smiled helplessly: "I'm an unknown old man, nothing valuable, if it's not too troublesome, the five of you can come in and find it together, and look for it casually." I can help you out. ”

Bird Feather had to say something, and a few people next to him were already impatient. Chen Meng is more anxious, so he is often kicked in front of the boss. He squeezed the bird's feathers aside with his hand, and said in a rough voice:

"It's a crooked fart with an old man, the broken place is so big, let's go in and turn it upside down, I don't believe I can't find it. If not, you can go back and explain to Brother Liang as soon as possible. ”

Except for the bird feathers, everyone agrees with this plan. So with a hula, they all squeezed into the old man's dilapidated room, and unceremoniously rummaged through the boxes and cabinets. Bird Feathers had no choice but to join the treasure hunt.

"Turning over boxes and cabinets" is just an adjective here, and it is a bit exaggerated, because there are no boxes or cabinets in the house, only a broken bed - strictly speaking, it is not a bed, but a combination door panel of about 1.2 meters, which is cushioned on the four feet of bricks; There was also a pot, a chair with missing legs. In addition, there are some tattered clothes, all hung on a rope that passes through the house.

The five of them spent nearly half an hour searching through every crack in the wall, but found nothing. Everyone looked at each other. The mission failed again, and according to their usual temper, they had to at least beat the person in the face with a blue nose and swollen face. But yesterday he was beaten and scolded by the boss Zhou Weiliang for being rude, and before going out today, the boss explained again that the purpose was to find something and not to make things big. In particular, it is not possible to move on the old man again.

The five of them were restrained and couldn't show their martial arts, so they had to glare at the old man angrily. After gasping for breath for a long time, he was ready to retreat. Chen Meng was unwilling, because at first he came up with the idea of rummaging through the cabinets and looking for it himself, but now he didn't find it, and he felt that he would be blamed by the boss again when he went back, so he yelled at the old man:

"Old fellow, where the hell are the things hidden?"

The old man was like a star in a Hollywood movie, with his shoulders shrugged and his hands spread, just about to open his mouth to confess a few words, when he heard footsteps approaching outside. He was standing closest to the door, and immediately dropped the five straw bales in front of him, turned to the door.

The old man walked to the door so actively, in fact, he had a careful thought. In his opinion, the person who can come here to find him, in addition to the five fierce gods in front of him, the biggest possibility is that Tangshan is stunned. In this situation, he couldn't let Tang Shan get involved in the dispute for no reason, so he had to rush in front of everyone and give Tang Shan a secret signal to escape as much as possible.

And the five people in the room didn't expect anyone else to come here. Now that the sky is dark, the other party is so secretive, obviously it is not good. Therefore, they were also happy to hide in the house with bated breath first, and let the old man go outside the door to find out the wind by himself.

But what the old man never expected was that the person who came was not Tangshan. It is the two generals under Ximen Biaoge, one is a small steel cannon, and the other is Sharpei.

Since it was not Tangshan, the old man was a little settled in his heart, so he thought of the other party's intention, which was the same as the five guys in the house. He didn't have time to figure out why the two gangs had found him so quickly and accurately. My mind raced, thinking about how I was going to get out today. frowned, and thought about it.

The old man took two steps, threw his hand at the small steel cannon, and said, "Two brothers, I know what you are doing here. It's a pity that it's late. ”

After saying that, he rolled his eyes into the room and stepped aside. From words to behavior, the meaning of sowing discord is obvious.

Xiao Gang Cannon didn't understand the old man's words, but when he walked to the door and saw the strange-shaped guests in the house, he realized the meaning of "it's late", that is, the things were taken away by the other party first.

There were five people in it, and Xiao Cannon knew each other, and Shar Pei also knew each other; Of course, the other party also knows the two of them. In the same small town, you can't see each other when you look up, and they are all famous characters, and there is no reason why you don't know each other.

It's just that knowing each other is knowing, but because each is its master, the two sides have never spoken well, and when they meet on the street, they are basically angry, and they even once spit on each other across the street and raised their middle fingers.

Especially the little steel cannon, once drunk, was beaten by two of the other party in a dark alley for a woman standing on the street. Although no one else knew about it afterwards, the little steel cannon was still a great shame in his life. Today's chance encounter can be said to be an enemy meeting, and it is very red-eyed. We can't stop there.

Of course, Xiao Gang Cannon is not a reckless person, hatred is hatred, anger is anger, but he is not impulsive at all. Because there were five people on the other side, only two of them came. act rashly, if you don't get it in front of the old man, you will be beaten up again, and then you will be embarrassed.

Before the little steel cannon entered the door to speak, he motioned to Shapi to step aside and call Brother Biao and call a few more brothers to come over.

Then, the small steel cannon blocked the door frame, put his hands on his shoulders, and snorted coldly:

"Heroes, you are offside. Do you know whose territory this is? ”