The Jiang Gang is located in Jiangcheng, which is not far from the capital, and is one of the largest gangs in the rivers and lakes. Although the Jiang Gang is a gang, it has an excellent reputation, and it never oppresses the weak, but on the contrary, it upholds the righteousness of the rivers and lakes and fights grievances. Although there has always been a protection fee in the local area, the local businessmen have the Jiang Gang as a talisman.

In the words of the Jiang Gang, all businessmen who regularly supply silver to the Jiang Gang, as long as they can ensure the safety of the goods within the Jiangzhou area, can dart and sell the goods in the name of the Jiang Gang, and if there is an improper loss, just find the Jiang Gang.

In Chen Bai's words, taking people's money and eliminating disasters for others, there is a way to steal, anyway, it is not rough. Of course, maintaining the livelihood of so many brothers is not just by collecting protection money, and there are also various black and white means of livelihood such as running their own industries, green houses, gambling houses, docks, etc.

The next day, early in the morning.

While everyone was rising in the morning, one man came out of the room with bloodshot eyes, apparently not sleeping well all night. It's none other than Chen Bai, the leader of the Jiang Gang that Liu Ming said.

At first glance, this person has big eyebrows, seven and a half feet long, and beautiful facial features, although he looks thinner, he looks strong and powerful. If it weren't for his dark skin, he would definitely be a handsome boy. It's a pity that the eyes and teeth can be seen white, and the only failure is that the black is surprisingly black. If it weren't for the fact that the skin was too dark, this time it would definitely be under the boss's dark circles.

Because Hei Liuming and Yan Mu didn't laugh at him a lot, he must have done too many black-hearted things in his previous life, and he was reported by the present world when he was born, and he didn't give Chen Bai anger at first, but he didn't have a problem with these two people, after all, the relationship is irreversible, and he slowly got used to it.

Early in the morning, you can see from Chenbai's face that he is in a very bad mood, very bad. Thinking about it, a few days ago, I finally set up a set to rob the goods of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, and I was going to find the rich second-generation boss Liu to exchange some money and spend, but Liu Ming was surprisingly ignorant this time, and ignored it for almost four or five days.

Chen Bai is not a fool, he feels that there is a clue at the moment, and there must be something wrong. Last night, I opened a box of goods to see, it doesn't matter if I don't open it, I almost can't stand it when I dismantle this little heart. Immediately scolded: "This is the fucking goods? This is not Nanshu's annual tribute, Liu Ming, you bastard, don't give this kind of work to the official, why are you taking it here, aren't you a pit Laozi." ”

This is not a typical wicked person to sue first, if Yan Mu is here, he must have teased: "What's the matter, it's reasonable for you to rob other people's things." ”

This is unlucky, the left protector Qi Hong, who was called by Chenbai from the bed that night, pointed his nose and scolded him.

Qi Hong's name is a grievance, who knows that Young Master Liu will play this game for us, normally this kind of tribute is escorted by the envoy of Nanshu, who knows that it was brought back in the licensed goods of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce.

How do they know that when they come to the capital of Daqian to pay tribute, the envoy will pass through the territory from Shaocheng, the capital of Nanshu State, and then leave the country from the Jiange, all the way through Shuzhou, Jinlingwei, Jiangzhou, and finally arrive in the capital and settle in the Chaotian Pavilion in the capital, waiting for the audience.

Then the tribute was taken over and escorted by the Wantong Chamber of Commerce for some reason, and the envoy group first rushed into Beijing lightly, and then was intercepted by Qi Hong.

The dazzling "tributes" are extremely dazzling under the light of gold, silver and jewelry.

"I said, there's a problem. Especially every time you Wantong pressed the goods, you still did it with Lao Tzu's people, but this time Lao Tzu only appeared on the side of a dozen brothers, and your Wantong Chamber of Commerce pressed the goods all ran cleanly. I'll just say how can one be more slippery than the other this time, this radish is bigger, this pit is not small, Lao Tzu also happily brought it back...... "Chen Bai really wanted to cry without tears, and kept scolding Liu Ming for not being a thing.

Qi Hong didn't dare to say a word on the side, and muttered in his heart: "It's not that you are greedy for money, you said that you will give everyone a drink on the whole hour, and the branch of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce in Jiangzhou will give you less than the silver for a month, so Master Liu will give you the branch in Jiangzhou." ”

Qi Hong couldn't help muttering in his heart, Chen Bai couldn't help but blush, and his eyes widened: "Qi Hong, your kid's voice is louder, Lao Tzu didn't hear clearly." ”

When Qi Hong heard this, he hurriedly smiled and said, "Helper, I have come up with a good idea to fish in troubled waters." ”

Chen Bai eased up at this time, and said behind his hands: "You say!"

"Look, Young Master Liu hasn't moved in the past few days, he must be trying to trick you, and when the time comes, it will definitely be the torturer in charge of the law department who will come to you. But we don't know that this is a tribute from Nanshu, we intercepted the goods of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, and when the time comes, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know if I'm not guilty, anyway, there are a lot of things in it, and it will be good to return them when the time comes. ”

"Moreover, according to Young Master Liu's temperament, I know that you are such a person, so I am just joking with you. Qi Hong said to Chenbai seriously.

Chen Bai tasted strange when he heard this, and immediately kicked Qi Hong and said, "What is Lao Tzu such a person." ”

Qi Hong hurriedly dodged, "hehe" smiled.

Chen Bai scratched his head and said: "You haven't known since you've been with me for so long, I just don't want to see the person in charge of the law department, these errand people are very bad, especially the torturer who looks like he has a bad stomach, and it's not good for you to look at it." ”

Chen Bai scolded for most of the night, and gave a death order that night, no one was allowed to enter the warehouse, and Qi Hong sent his brothers to guard it.

Chen Bai, who hadn't slept well all night, returned listlessly to the Taishi chair in the lobby and ordered his subordinates to make a pot of tea, ordered them to quit all four times, and rested by themselves.

In a blink of an eye, noon arrived, and Chen Bai stretched out his waist and drank a big sip of tea, which made him feel much better.

Just as Chen Bai was about to go to the warehouse and go to lunch, a subordinate ran in from outside the door: "Helper, helper." ”

Chen Bai waved his hand: "I'll go to the warehouse first." ”

The subordinate panted and hurriedly said, "No, the helper, it's the master of the torturer who came and said he was looking for you." ”

When Chen Bai heard this, he rubbed his head, he was really afraid of something. After tidying up his clothes and walking into the inner hall in a hurry, he saw Xing Ti sitting on the upper seat of the outer hall and drinking tea leisurely after passing the middle door.

Tatsubai coughed dryly.

"Ahem, ahem. ”

"Master Xing is here, I don't welcome you from afar, I hope you will forgive me. Chen Bai laughed and came to the inner hall and said politely.

Seeing Chenbai coming, the people on the side made another cup of tea.

Xing Ti smiled slightly, looked at Chen Bai's sleepy eyes, waved his hand and said, "It's okay, Chen Gang Master has something important to do, it's okay for me to wait." ”

When Xing Ti spoke, he specially accentuated the two words of important matters, and after speaking, he picked up the teacup and waited for Chen Bai to answer.

Chen Bai couldn't hear the taste in Xingti's words, looked at the tea in Xingti's cup, and secretly scolded Don't choke on you. Pretending to be angry, he slapped the table and said, "Come on, all the things that don't have long eyes, why don't you hurry up and brew my treasured Wuyi cloud tea for Master Xing." If you neglect the criminals, you will eat the sin. ”

"Yes, helper. ”

The two maids on the side hurriedly retreated.

"The master of the Chen Gang is polite, we rough people who work hard to run errands will drink these coarse teas, at least it is much better than the things in my law department. In case I raise my mouth, I don't have as much money as the Chen Gang Master to live the life of you rich people, and occasionally I can make extra money, you say that the Chen Gang Master. He Chenbai, who pretended to be serious, laughed.

"Master Xing said this, this tea can be worth a few dollars, who is with whom we two brothers. If Master Xing likes me to ask someone to send some to the adult's house every month, it will all be my personal heart. Chen Bai continued to talk sentence by sentence, without asking what the punishment was about, he was a blind man eating wontons in his own heart.

Xing Ti smiled and said: "If I really dare to accept it, it won't be a bribe, and if the time comes, if the Supervision Temple will join me in front of the Holy Master, then I and the Chen Gang Leader will not be able to get rid of it." ”

Chen Bai's face twitched slightly: "I don't think anything that has long eyes dares, Master Xing is busy with official business and running for the people every day, and it is normal for us to be the reward of the people, and those gossips are villains." ”

Xing Ti smiled and nodded in agreement: "I think what Gang Master Chen said makes sense, if I go to Shen Mansion another day, I have to go in and tell Shen Gong, the gossip played by you supervising the temple, and any supervision of hundreds of officials is a villain's behavior, this is the truth that Jiangzhou Chen Gang Master told me." ”

Chen Bai laughed to cover up the past, but he was weak in his heart, he was really afraid, he couldn't help wiping the sweat on his head, and secretly scolded the dog thing, you are going to put me in the pit to death.

Seeing that the fire was almost over, Xing Ti coughed twice and said, "Don't joke with the Chen Gang Master, let's talk about the business I came here!"

When Chen Bai heard this, if he was amnesty, and then he was tortured, he might not be able to bring himself into a ditch, so he said that except for scholars, he was the worst to be an official.

Chen Bai sat upright with a serious face and pretended to be very serious: "I don't know why the torture master came to the cold house?"

Chen Bai's rhetorical question really made Xing Ti cry and laugh, and he had a headache and said, "Chen Gang Master doesn't know?"

"I don't know. ”

"I really don't know?"

"I really don't know. ”

Xing Ti secretly scolded in his heart that this dead black man was really hob meat, so he stopped playing dumb riddles and said: "Have you ever remembered that your gang robbed a batch of goods from the Wantong Chamber of Commerce a few days ago. ”

Chen Bai nodded, and said with a little doubt: "There is indeed such a thing, everyone in the world knows that my Jiang Gang robbed the goods of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, and then used the goods of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce to exchange some money with the Young Master Liu, isn't it just that he is bored and panicked when he has nothing to do, and besides, he Young Master Liu doesn't care about this money, and he somehow alarmed the criminal master." ”

Xingti really gritted his teeth, Lao Tzu told you that this is the part, you pretend, continue to pretend with me.

Before Xing Ti could speak, Chen Bai lowered his voice slightly contrivedly: "Presumably, Master Xing also knows why I have been robbing the goods of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce, and Liu Ming does not report to the official and does not trouble my Jiang Gang." That is, Liu Ming was originally a friend with me, but he was playing around on the spot, in fact, many things that were inconvenient for him to come forward from the Wantong Chamber of Commerce were handled by my Jiang Gang. ”

After speaking, Chen Bai took a sip of tea, patted his head and suddenly realized, as if he had made a big decision: "Look at my brain, it really won't happen." Master Xing, I understand what you mean, isn't it that Lord Xing has been short of money recently, I heard that Tingyufang in the capital has just come to a beautiful embryo, isn't it that adults are also interested. ”

Chen Bai looked like everyone was a man as I understood, and his face changed, and this was not the end.

"Since Master Xing has spoken, it is to give me Chen Bai face, and we are not stingy people. When that batch of goods is sold, or when Young Master Liu brings money to redeem it, how about I and Master Xing divide the silver fifty-fifty?" Chen Bai looked like he couldn't do more, after all, everyone wanted to live.

It's okay to listen to it in the front, but the more you talk about it in the back, the more outrageous it becomes. Oh, I'm here to ask you for that batch of tribute. It's good for you, not to mention robbing the things of the court, and giving me a big hat for accepting bribes. Okay, you're a black egg, play yin with me.

The torture said with a straight face: "Gang Master Chen, you can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense. Bribing court officials is not a trivial matter, you and I are both people with face. If I were to report this to the current Inspectorate Temple, you wouldn't be able to eat and walk around. The forces of the rivers and lakes want to collude with the officials of the imperial court and plot against them. This crime, the Chen Gang Master has to think about it. ”

Chen Bai suddenly had a helpless bitter face, and you didn't ask me about business for a long time, if I said it myself, I knew that it was Sui Gong, and I robbed it, this crime is not even greater.

At that moment, Chen Bai just relied on his face and continued: "Master Xing, if you are really too little, I Chen Bai will suffer a little, and you will have seven and I will have three points." You also know that it is not easy for us to make a living, and there are still a large group of brothers waiting to eat. After speaking, Chen Bai didn't forget to cover his heart, feeling sorry for his Jiang Gang brothers.

Xingti couldn't wait to take the cup and smash it on the head of the dead black egg on the spot to see if it was made of paste.

"Alright, alright, Gang Master Chen. If you say so, I don't have anything to talk about with you, so I'll tell you. The batch of goods from the Wantong Chamber of Commerce that you just grabbed is the New Year's tribute that Nanshu transported over to me, and you can keep it and enjoy it slowly. I'll go back and report to the saint, you wait for the arrest letter from the capital, and then we can only see you in the prison of the Criminal Department." After saying that, he was going to brush his sleeves and leave.

Chen Bai took a look, how could this be. If I really want to let the torture go back and report it to the court, then my Chenbai will really be imprisoned unjustly, and I will say goodbye at that time. Hurriedly grabbed Xing Ti and said, "Master Xing, don't be angry. Look at my brain, I thought you came here to want that. I'm just a rough person, don't see me. ”

Then he lowered his voice and said to Xing Ti: "Master Xing, how do you see that I know that it is Sui Gong, otherwise if you give me a hundred guts, I wouldn't dare to fight the idea of public things." Look at it, you're all here, just help me Chen someone to support the recruitment, what's going on in the future, it's not a matter of a word for you to find me Chenbai. ”

Xing Ti's face was much better after hearing this, and he was waiting for your words, and thought about it slightly: "Since your Chen Gang Master has spoken, I Xing Ti doesn't look at the face of the monk to see the face of the Buddha, and President Liu Ming said hello to me before he came, saying that you may not know, and I think it is true." But at present, I really have something to do, and I want you to help the Jiang Gang do something. ”

As soon as Chen Bai heard that it was easy to do, he suddenly put down his hanging heart, and said to Xing Ti with a smile: "What is this called, how can you make a little effort to make things." You talk about things first, I will order someone to do it for you immediately, and then if there is anything to ask me for a word. I'll wait for that batch of Sui Gong and let me Jiang Gang Zuo Protector Qi Hong personally escort you to the Chaotian Pavilion in the capital, you put 10,000 hearts, what do you think?"

"Well, then there's the Lao Chen Gang Master. ”

At that moment, he told Chen Bai everything that happened in Liufu last night.

......

After sending Xingti away, Chen Bai found Qi Hong to follow Xingti all the way to escort Sui Gong into Beijing.

Finally, without anyone noticing, he walked into his study and pressed the lamp and candle on the bookshelf.

The sound of machinery sounded, and a secret room came out. In a flash, Chen Bai disappeared into the secret room, and the study returned to its original state.