Seeing that the scholar followed his two senior brothers and turned upstairs, the man crouching in the corner glanced through the window, and then hurriedly walked around to the door of the teahouse, went in and followed the three of them.

Just as he was halfway up the stairs, the voice of the senior brother came from upstairs: "Your Excellency, close the door." ”

He looked up, and saw that in the door that was being shut, the gentleman threw himself through the crack in the door, as if looking at himself, with a slight smile on his face.

Seeing this, his heart tightened, and he quickly turned his head, and after going up to the second floor, he took a few steps in the other direction. Noticing that there was no movement behind him, he turned his head to see that the door was closed, so he leaned over, hid under the window paper, and walked to the door of the room where the three of them were.

Looking left and right, seeing that there was no one else in the corridor on the second floor, he put his ear to the door, and only heard one of the senior brothers inside say, "Your Excellency, please sit down." Senior brother, close the windows too. So the man came to the door and leaned against him.

The door was open inward, and he leaned on it so that it was just crushing the door.

The gentleman's voice came from inside: "The second floor is a good place to enjoy the scenery, why do you have to close the window?"

"What are you talking about, give me the token!" the man's attitude changed suddenly, and there was a faint aggressive posture.

"Hey, you haven't answered me yet. Shizi's tone was relaxed.

"Oh, hehe! Pretending to be confused, really taking our Iron Palm Gang seriously, telling me to give me the token, or you will have good fruit to eat!"

"Eh, don't worry, tell me why the windows are closed. "The scholar has a lot of time.

Immediately after that, another senior brother's voice came from inside: "Hmph, of course closing the window is for the sake of doing things! Senior brother, this kid has a lot of gossip, let's take him first!"

"Come on, just see how you've been doing lately. ”

"It seems that you two think you have eaten me?"

"Hey, hey, what do you think, bear with it honestly, or you'll have to suffer more!"

The voice fell, and only a bang was heard inside, followed by a bang, followed by a few oops.

The senior brother who was leaning against the door left the door at this time, and his sharp voice came from inside: "Good boy! There are two brushes! Let me teach you a lesson, uncle!"

Then there was another thud, this time only a gasp was left, and it was not clear who made it.

The man outside the door heard that there was no sound inside for a while, and he was a little anxious, and when he heard the movement before, it seemed that it was a little tricky to deal with the scholar, and now he didn't know what the result would be. He didn't dare to look up easily, so he wet his fingers, poked at the paper window, and looked through the small hole.

What is shown in front of him is a neat white tooth, ordinary people generally do not have such neat teeth, this person was stunned for a while, and his heart only said, what beautiful teeth.

He shook his head violently, what a mess.

Looking inside, two more holes were poked out of the window paper, facing the man's eyes.

A pair of piercing eyes, staring through the hole on the other side, were staring at themselves.

The man was a little surprised: "Master....... Senior brother?"

"No!" came a joke in the voice of the scholar.

The man was so shocked that he took two steps back, turned sideways and was about to run away.

The door was slammed open, and a hand stretched out from inside, grabbing the man's neck and pulling it in with great speed: "Come in, you!"

This man had the heart to cry out, but he was stuck in his throat, unable to make a sound, only his face was flushed, and he looked desperate, and he was pulled into the door without resistance.

There was a bang, and the door slammed shut.

As soon as this person was pulled in, he saw a fist smashed into his face, he was in a hurry for a while, and he didn't have time to defend at this time, he banged a few times, was punched several times, his face was blue and purple, and his eyes were full of gold stars.

After a few punches fell, there was no follow-up, and this person reacted, hurriedly protected his face, and hissed to beg for mercy: "Good man, don't fight!" The speech was slurred, and it was obvious that the whole face was swollen.

He then felt a strong tug on him and threw himself into a corner. As soon as his butt hit the ground, there was another scream of pain. The man rubbed his buttocks, but he didn't dare to touch his face, because it hurt when he touched it. At this time, he heard a slight rustling sound next to him, and turned his head to see that it was not his two senior brothers, who also looked like they had a blue nose and swollen face, and they were squatting and burying their heads, shrinking into the corner of the wall.

"Ahem, hiss...... Senior brother?" he was a little embarrassed, and coughed twice to ease the atmosphere, but the movement was big, affecting his face, and he hissed, and then said in a trembling voice.

The two senior brothers buried their heads deeper.

"Hehe, it's really easy to close the window!"

The man was startled, came back to his senses, and saw the scholar sitting next to him, and hurriedly learned from the two senior brothers and drilled into the corner.

"Turn around!"

All three of them were shocked, and they slowly turned their heads, but they still avoided the eyes of the scholar.

"I asked, who did I refer to, who answered, understand?"

"Yes, yes, yes!"

"Got it, got it!"

"Yes, yes!"

The scholar smiled, took out the token, pointed at a person and asked, "Is this the Iron Palm Order?" He was already a little strange in his heart, holding an iron palm order, if the gang leader came in person, how could these people dare to violate the gang rules and do it to themselves.

"No, no, it's just an ordinary ID card, and everyone in the gang has one. Look, it's mine!" he said, pulling out an iron plaque from his bosom and handing it to the scholar.

The two signs were placed together, and the patterns and words on them were the same, and the scholar was relieved, and then looked up and asked, "What about the two of you?" and looked at the other two.

The two of them hurriedly took out the iron card, handed it to the scholar, and retreated far away, but there was some grievance on their faces, and they looked like angry little daughters-in-law.

The scholar smiled, flipped through a few signs, and threw them back: "There is a person's head hanging on the archway at the entrance of the town, tell me carefully, how did that person die?"

After a moment of hesitation, one of them said, "We have to start from the beginning." At that time, he came to us, saying that he came from Liujiazhai outside the northern border, and that he came to trade with our gang on weekdays on behalf of the owner of the village, and was rewarded with the identity card of the Iron Palm Gang for handover. ”

"But the three of us just came here to change shifts, how do we know what Niujiazhai and Majiazhai are!" one continued.

"Yes, and the guy said he had a sign, but he couldn't take it out, and we couldn't believe him. The other answered.

"At that time, there were a few officials in civilian clothes who were eating and drinking with me, and they heard what the man said. ”

"Well, the official asked us if we had anything to do with that person, and of course we said no. That is, it was to see that the official had the intention of doing something, so he helped them take down the thief first. ”

"Then, the man was taken away by the officials on the spot, and when he left, he seemed to have scattered bones, and his face was pale, and he kept saying things like 'why don't you check on the road'. ”

"We thought that the man was just pretending to be a disciple of my Iron Palm Gang, but later the county magistrate said that the man was really from the north, and he was still a thief in the mountains. ”

"Well, as a result, ten days later, the document came from above, and the man was beheaded, and his head was hung on the archway at the entrance of the town. ”

"As a result, we never thought that the person really had a brand, but it fell into the hands of a strong man. ”

"A few of us are in a hurry, and we don't want the tokens of our gang to fall into the hands of others, so we collide for a while, please forgive me!"

After a few people finished speaking, they looked at the scholar, and a few of them rummaged through the cabinets for a while, thinking that the misunderstanding was solved, and the scholar would let them go.

"I still have one more thing, it is rumored that the county magistrate hung that person's head at the entrance of the town to deter the thieves who have recently stolen the little women, isn't that the case?"

"I can't wait for this. ”

"Oh?" said the scholar with a smile as he raised his fist, "Look at this fist, is it big?"

"It's okay, it's not too big. One of them didn't come back to his senses, and replied in a daze.

A person next to him hurriedly stabbed him: "You don't want to die?" and then said with a flattering smile to the scholar: "Hero, we are here to collect rent, look at the field, how do you understand these things!"

"Didn't you say before that you had a drink with a few officials? Don't you know the inside story?

The man looked bitter: "Your Excellency, you don't know anything! After all, we have a little friendship with those few pawns in the yamen, not to mention the county officials, and even the clerks are not birds." What do those little pawns know? They don't know, and we don't know!"

Seeing that he could no longer ask anything, the scholar ignored them and went out of the door.

These people were not telling the truth, and the officials at the gate of the town noticed them and did not come to inquire in person, but attracted these people from the Iron Palm Gang.

It seems that the relationship between these people and the county government is not so simple.

It's just that they lied, and if they ask again, they can't guarantee that they will be able to ask the real thing. They were not found out by themselves that they had done something unreasonable, and they had no reason to torture them to extract confessions.

Thinking so, Shizi slowly went downstairs.

The three people in the back room stood up with each other's arms, they were not injured, but afraid, and their bodies were weak for a while.

The three of them went downstairs, and saw that the gentleman was sitting with his back to the three of them, and sat towards the pipa girl, with a leisurely expression, and they hurried out of the door, lest they avoid it.

At this time, two officials happened to come outside the door, and they looked around, and when they saw the scholar, they hurriedly entered the door.

The two groups of people happened to collide together, and for a while, there were one after another, and most of them were sent by the three people of the Iron Palm Gang.

"Oh, you don't have long eyes when you walk?"

"How dare you ...... with me like this Hey, am my head so hard? How did I hit you with a blue nose and swollen face?"

"Oh, it's me. Tsk, you didn't hit it!"

"Huh, it's Brother Ironclad, why did you become like this?"

"Hey, don't say it. After speaking, he looked back at the teahouse, and suddenly realized that the scholar who was sitting just now had disappeared at this moment, "Huh, where are the people?"

The two officials looked down and found that the person they were looking for was also gone, and they looked at each other with a strange expression, and one of them said, "Go and see?"

"No need to go, I'm here!" The two of them quickly turned their heads, and behind them was the scholar, who was smiling and looking at a few people.

When the three of them saw this, they turned around with difficulty, pulled out an ugly smile, and said to the two officials, "Let's go first, you talk slowly!" and then ran away.

Before the two officials could reply, they saw the gentleman on their shoulders: "Take me to the county office?"

"Don't be so ......no-nonsense," one of them said angrily, only halfway through his speech, he changed his look to horror.

I saw that the scholar's eyes were slightly red, and his mouth was slowly spewing cold air, looking like an evil ghost.

The two of them couldn't help but tremble, and then they understood why the three of them were in such a hurry just now, but now it was too late to regret it, and the two of them complained bitterly in their hearts.