Dongting Lake. Yunmenglou. Noon.

Dongting Lake, known as Yunmeng, Jiujiang and Chonghu in ancient times, is located on the south bank of the Jingjiang River in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, spanning Yueyang, Miluo, Xiangyin, Wangcheng, Yiyang, Yuanjiang, Hanshou, Changde, Jinshi, Anxiang and Nanxian counties. The name of Dongting Lake began in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and was named after Dongting Mountain (now Jun Mountain) in the lake. Dongting Lake is connected to the Yangtze River in the north by Songzi, Taiping, Lotus Pond and Tuanxian, and is connected to the south and west by the small tributaries of the Hunan River, Zi, Yuan, Li Sishui and Miluo River, which are injected into the Yangtze River from Yueyang Chenglingji.

Yunmeng Tower is located on the east side of Dongting Lake, echoing the famous Yueyang Tower on the north shore. Different from Yueyang Tower, Yunmeng Tower is not a place for poetry and painting, but a famous place for fireworks outside Yueyang City. This building belongs to the head snake Yueyang Gang, it is a famous gold cave, people come and go, endlessly.

But today, it is uncharacteristically deserted. At the gate downstairs, dozens of big men with weapons stood to drive away the guests. The reason is very simple, someone has chartered the entire Yunmeng Building today.

In the luxurious fifth-floor lobby, a table of people sits. The table full of delicacies from the mountains and seas has been served, but no one has moved chopsticks, and the atmosphere is very unusual.

There are only six people at this table, namely Chen Tianding, the young gang leader of the Dongting Gang, and Yu Rulong, the second deputy gang leader. Jin Huiyuan, the boss of the Yueyang Gang, and his son Jin Qilin. The other party is Chai Feng, the leader of the Taihu Gang, and his younger brother Chai Yun.

This time, the Yueyang Gang acted as an intermediary to mediate some disputes between the Dongting Gang and the Taihu Gang, and for the sake of safety, the two sides could only carry ten subordinates, and they were not allowed to go upstairs.

The atmosphere on the field was solemn, and the intentional agreement that had been reached was delayed, and it was obvious that the Taihu Gang had reversed itself and changed its mind.

Maybe to defuse the awkward atmosphere on the field. Yue Yang helped Boss Jin propose that the two sides drink for a round first, and then talk about business later. Chen Tianding reluctantly raised his wine glass, the original news brought back by Yu Rulong was not like this, the Taihu Gang seemed to have agreed to the condition of eliminating the barrier with the Dongting Gang and agreeing to cooperate, how could they suddenly regret it? Could it be that something happened in the middle that Chen Tianding did not expect? Thinking of this, Chen Tianding finished drinking the wine in the cup and glanced at Yu Rulong, since the words were not speculative, it was better to go back and think about it in the long run.

At this moment, Jin Huiyuan, the leader of the Yueyang gang who was the master, suddenly asked: "I haven't heard from the 'Dragon King' for a long time, I don't know if it's always good?"

Speaking of the master, Chen Tianding said respectfully: "TOEFL, the master of the family is practicing behind closed doors, specializing in the way of swords, and I have not seen customers for many years, I hope you will forgive me?"

Hearing this, Chai Yun, the younger brother of Chai Feng, the originally irrelevant Taihu gang leader, suddenly laughed and said: "I don't know if I don't want to see him or not?" I'm afraid that some people with ulterior motives have killed him, so I can't see him if I want to!"

Seeing his younger brother talking nonsense, his elder brother Chai Feng said: "Chai Yun, Hugh has to talk nonsense, the Dragon King should be a good old man, but some people say that he has gone crazy in practice!"

Hearing this, Chen Tianding was shocked, there must be traitors in the gang, otherwise how would they know these secrets? Just thinking that there would be no good banquet and that they should leave as soon as possible, at this time, Yu Rulong, the deputy gang leader, took the case: "Your Taihu Gang has gone back on its word, and now you are talking nonsense here and insulting the old gang leader of this gang, what is the reason?"

At this time, Jin Huiyuan made a look, and the golden unicorn left the table. Jin Huiyuan said at this time: "Gang Leader Chen and Deputy Gang Leader Yu are not good at what they say, the old gang leader always avoids it, and it is inevitable that people will be suspicious, and I can't be suspected of it? I also suspect that someone in your gang assassinated the old gang leader 'Dragon King' Ning Changfeng!"

At this time, Chen Tianding, who had been silent for a long time, stood up and said: "It seems that today is really not for negotiations, it is really a banquet without a good banquet, Uncle Yu, you don't have to reason with them, let's go!"

Who knew that Jin Huiyuan actually stood up, stretched out his hand to block the way, and said with a smile: "Young master, and have a drink, it's not too late to leave!"

With a "woo", the wine jug filled with Zhenli went straight to Chen Tianding's door. At the same time, there was a commotion downstairs.

Chen Tian said calmly: "It's not good, the brothers downstairs have been ambushed." With his left hand, all the Jin Huiyuan veins blocked the way of the wine jug, and his right hand overturned the table and said, "Uncle Yu, go quickly, go back to Dongting to move the rescue soldiers, I will take it first." ”

Yu Rulong hadn't had a chance to speak at this time, Chai Feng and Chai Yun had already pulled out the hidden weapon from behind the screen, and swept towards Yu Rulong with an iron whip and an iron shovel.

Yu Rulong took out the two short blades hidden in his boots and swung them. A good banquet turned into a feast.

Chen Tianding didn't expect that the Yueyang Gang, as a neighbor and middleman, would dare to attack the stronger Dongting Gang, although with the addition of the Taihu Gang as a foreign aid, but the strong dragon could not fight the head snake, and the other party dared to attack him, there must be strong foreign aid. Knowing that he and Yu Rulong had fallen into a trap that the other party had already designed, he thought to himself, if he opened a bloody path and rushed out alone, the other party would not dare to act rashly. Thinking of this, I made up my mind, gathered my arms, and spread out a pair of steel arms hidden in my sleeves.

Jin Huiyuan's arm was long, avoiding Chen Tianding's palm cutting to the vein, and smashed the wine jug on Chen Tianding's arm. With a "bang", the wine jug hit Chen Tianding's hidden steel armguard, and the fragments shot out.

Although Jin Huiyuan had been on guard for a long time, he still didn't expect Chen Tianding's steel arm to be so powerful, and he was suddenly shattered by fragments, and his face was suddenly covered with blood, covering his eyes. Jin Huiyuan was horrified in his heart, thinking that he was frightened by the shooting, so he hurriedly hid to the side. Shen Chaixing wanted to step forward and grab the hostages, but at this moment, he saw that Yu Rulong was already completely at a disadvantage with one enemy and two enemies, and the short blade in his hand had already fallen off. Therefore, he had no time to take care of Jin Huiyuan, who was defenseless, and flew towards Chai Feng.

Chen Tianding raised his right arm to block Chai Feng and killed a whip, with a "bang", although Chen Tianding blocked this whip for Yu Rulong, his arm was really sore. You must know that the iron arm guard is mainly used for hand-to-hand combat unexpectedly, and the defense of light weapons such as swords and daggers is its strength, at this moment, in order to save Yu Rulong, rashly knock with the opponent's hard weapon, although the result is to block the opponent's attack, but the arm is sore, almost broken, half of the body is numb, it seems that the other party has been prepared, iron whip, iron mace and other heavy weapons are the best choice to restrain his steel arm. There must be an internal response from the other party in the Dongting Gang.

Under Chen Tianding's desperate attack, the two forced each other to a staircase. Chen Tianding saw that the time had come, and hurriedly said to Rulong: "Uncle Yu, get up and smash open the window, we can escape through the window." ”

Yu Rulong agreed, picked up a sour branch wooden chair and smashed it at the window. After a few sounds, I found that the wooden frame on the window had been smashed flat, but the window did not move. Yu Rulong tore open the wooden block, only to see that the window had been covered by a steel mesh, it seemed that the other party was indeed carefully prepared and deliberate.

At this time, "oh, oh, oh" There was a sound of footsteps going upstairs, and a large group of people walked up with a person like stars and moons, and at this time, Jin Huiyuan had already cleaned up the blood on his face, and found that he was not blind, so he was relieved.

The man was forty or fifty years old, his eyes were like electricity, and although he was wearing civilian clothes, he faintly revealed a trace of official authority. Chen Tianding was taken aback when he saw this person, and thought to himself, how could this person appear here? It turned out that the person who came was not someone else, it was Tie Feng, the chief catcher of the six provinces in the south of the Yangtze River and the owner of the "Eagle Claw Gate"!

At this time, Chen Tianding had countless thoughts in his heart, and ordinary people only thought of Tie Feng's identity as the housekeeper of the "Chief Catcher of the Six Provinces", but forgot that he was also a person in the rivers and lakes. On the surface, he is a member of the government and the head of the white way, but secretly he is still a gangster of the underworld, and he is the real boss behind the scenes of the Yueyang Gang and the Taihu Gang? In other words, Tie Feng is actually a person with a triple identity of one set on the surface and one set behind the back?

Tie Feng approached, his eyes swept over Chen Tianding and Yu Rulong, and snorted coldly: "The trapped beast is still fighting! Chai Feng and Chai Yun retreat!" turned around and said, "Bring people up for me." ”

Chai Feng and Chai Yun withdrew their weapons, stood aside, and surrounded Chen and Yu. At this time, Tie Feng's men brought up a man with his hands tied and his face wounded, as if he had been severely tortured. Iron Blade lifted the man's drooping head, revealing a pale face. Chen Tianding and Yu Rulong looked at it, and were stunned for a moment, this person's name is Mao Xiaoqi, he is a member of the Dongting Gang, his martial arts are low, he is just doing chores, he should be in charge of chores in the Hidden Dragon Courtyard on Junshan Island in Dongting Lake, how could he come here at this moment? Thinking of this, Chen Tianding's heart moved, and he faintly knew the reason.

The main altar of the Dongting Gang is on Junshan Island in the lake, and there is a Hidden Dragon Cave on Junshan Island, which is a forbidden place in the gang, prohibiting people from entering and leaving it, and the reason why this is so is because this is the order of the old gang leader Dragon King Ning Changfeng, and the Dragon King is in retreat and cultivation here. And Mao Xiaoqi is here to clean the courtyard and do some chores. How could a man who had been isolated on the island come here, and how could he have fallen into the hands of Iron Blade?

Seeing that Chen Tianding and Yu Rulong both showed puzzled looks, Tie Feng smiled with satisfaction: "Some time ago, this person gambled heavily in the casino, and he didn't want to drink and quarrel with him, so he took out the short blade he carried with him and stabbed the other party to death. After being arrested, a silver ticket of 10,000 taels was found from his body. After careful interrogation, this person confessed that he was a member of the Dongting Gang, but he didn't say anything about the origin of the huge amount of money, so his subordinates handed this person over to me for trial. ”

After a lot of ideological work through my patient persuasion, Mao Xiaoqi finally explained the origin of the silver ticket. It turned out that someone in the Dongting Gang had promised a lot of money to mix chronic poison into the meals of the old gang leader Ning Changfeng every day for a year. Recently, the old gang leader suddenly went crazy, Mao Xiaoqi was afraid that the matter would be exposed, and he was severely punished by the gang rules, so he took the opportunity to escape, but unfortunately I was caught. As a person in the government, I shouldn't have been in charge of the affairs of the rivers and lakes, but after all, I am still a person in the rivers and lakes, and Ning Changfeng is also an old acquaintance of mine, so I took care of it. I now want him to identify the man who instructed him to drugged. ”