Hearing the shout, Boss Zhou and the others ran out and recognized the hunter, who was the one who sold the wild boar in the morning, and immediately shouted: "Brother Ruan, what happened?"

Ruan Boss, who was running in front, cried with a sad face: "The three brothers of the stone are dead, and they died at the foot of the mountain over there." ”

Ruan Lao Er in the back panted: "I died so miserably, I broke my stomach and opened my stomach, and there was blood and ...... everywhere."

As he spoke, his face turned a little pale.

Boss Zhou was horrified.

Whether it is the Ruan family brothers or the stone brothers, they are all hunters in the vicinity, they have learned the ability to hunt since childhood, they can make knives and sticks, they can hold bows and arrows, they have learned some martial arts, and their arm strength is outstanding, how did they get killed?

"Brother Ruan, you have found the body, go and report to the official. ”

Boss Zhou's voice trembled, all because the foothills over there were not far from his shed, and it was only a few miles away, and if such a disaster happened, his side might be affected.

"Hmph, what to report to the official. In my opinion, they met fierce beasts and ate them. ”

It was Brother Peng who was sitting in the shed who spoke.

The country of Yin is vast and sparsely populated, and the major state capitals are prosperous, but when it comes to the sub-county towns below, the population has obviously decreased sharply. And Panzhou is located in the southwest, belongs to the hilly area, the mountains are not high, but there are many of them, one after another, the mountains are dangerous and dense, there are fierce tigers and beasts infested, pedestrians dare not enter.

But that's what the hunters do, so they're not afraid. But because of this, it is easy to take risks and accidents. Over the course of a year, there are many hunters who have died in the mountains.

Hearing Brother Peng's words, the Ruan family brothers glanced at each other, and Ruan Lao Daodao: "The death of the three stone brothers does seem to have been eaten by wild beasts, but it is a little strange to only eat internal organs and not flesh and bones." ”

In fact, they don't want to report to the police.

In these years, it is easy to enter the yamen, but it is difficult to get out of the yamen, regardless of whether you report the case or come to avenge your grievances. If you are not careful, you will be treated as a suspect by those wolf-like headhunters.

Brother Peng laughed: "The beast can eat whatever it likes, you can control it." Suddenly, he said with a smile: "I said Boss Ruan, I heard that today you hunted a wild boar of more than 500 catties and sold it for a large sum of money, have you forgotten anything?"

Ruan's face changed, he gritted his teeth, and took out a big coin and handed it over.

Brother Peng snorted coldly: "Next time, be smart, be more conscious, otherwise, you will look good." ”

If the Panzhou Mansion represents the white road of Panzhou, then the Tiger Head Gang represents the underworld of Panzhou.

The gang numbered up to 1,000 people, many of whom were fierce outlaws.

In the city, the minions of the Tiger Head Gang are everywhere, mainly concentrated in the gray area, stealing and abducting, lending money to collect money, smuggling and trafficking, forcibly collecting protection money, and so on.

It is said that every month the Tiger Head Gang will pay a large tribute to the government office.

Outside the city, the Tiger Head Gang is even more unscrupulous, and the stalls on the outskirts of the city, as long as they are involved in business, must pay a sum of money every month, otherwise, your business will not be able to continue.

Even hunters who risk their lives to hunt in the mountains have to take a share of the money if they hit a large beast such as a tiger and a boar.

The white road has a yamen to collect taxes, and the underworld has gangs to collect fees, the world is like this, it is bitter, and ordinary people are not having a good time.

Brother Peng is a perfume owner of the Tiger Head Gang, and is mainly responsible for the collection of fees in this area. It is ruthless, a typical smiling tiger, and a local tyrant.

These circumstances were impossible for Chen Tang to know before. At that time, he was either hiding in his house to study, or going to the city to set up a stall - the stall fee was collected by the yamen, but the Tiger Head Gang did not look down on the business of these few pennies.

is mainly a showman, even if he has a famous paper to cover his head, the Tiger Head Gang can't make it difficult for this little money.

Now that Chen Tang has come out to "walk the rivers and lakes", it is the first time he has seen the bullying behind the prosperity.

But he was no stranger to these. In another time and space, although similar incidents mostly exist in newspapers and on the Internet, in the era of advanced communications, the vicious side of human nature is always unconcealed and constantly presented to the world.

After paying the money, Ruan Lao Dao: "Brother Peng, what should I do now?"

When the body is found, it is even more problematic not to report it to the official, and the government will investigate it in the future, and the explanation will not be clear.

Brother Peng thought about it, and Huo Ran got up: "I'm afraid, you take me to take a look." ”

The Ruan brothers took them to the foot of the mountain.

Inside the shed, a guy licked his lips and said, "Shopkeeper, something happened, let's close the stall early." ”

Boss Zhou glared: "What to collect, the meat hasn't been sold out yet, go to work." ”

Chen Tang in the shade of the trees over there pondered for a moment, but finally did not move. He had a faint feeling in his heart that something must have happened, and it was an unimaginable event, extremely dangerous.

After a while, the sound of horses' hooves was rapid, and more than a dozen horsemen rushed from the front, followed by three carriages, which seemed to be full of goods. There is a flag on the carriage, hunting in the wind, and the flag is embroidered with big characters: Shunfu Dart Bureau!

The group came to the shed, and Lerma stopped.

Seeing this, Boss Zhou immediately greeted him with a smile on his face and greeted, "Yuan Darthead, the dart is back." The road is hard, and you have to go some way into the city, and come down to get some food and drink a bowl of wine. Today, I received a big wild boar and stewed it in a whole pot, but it was fragrant. ”

That Yuan Dart is about forty years old, with long hands and feet, and fine eyes, and at a glance he knows that he is a good hand, carrying two weapons and wrapping them in cloth, but from the exposed handles, it should be a Qimen weapon.

He glanced into the empty shed: "Boss Zhou, why is business so deserted today?"

Boss Zhou smiled bitterly: "Don't mention it...... Guys, the sun is raging, come in. ”

But I heard Yuan Darttou say in a deep voice: "Boss Zhou, we have something to rush into the city, so we won't eat, you pack some food, mainly get a few pots of water." ”

"Howler. ”

Boss Zhou hurriedly ordered two guys, one to beat meat and the other to deliver water.

The gang went to the dart cart with two jugs of water, and suddenly screamed, so frightened that the kettles fell to the ground and spilled on the ground.

Seeing this, Boss Zhou scolded: "Ah Fu, what are you doing?"

"Blood, a lot of blood!"

Na Ah Fu's face turned pale with fright, and he pointed to a dart cart and said.

There was a piece of green cloth wrapped around the car, long strips, and red blood seeped out of it, staining the green cloth red.

Boss Zhou looked over and was also taken aback.

Yuan Darttou said in a deep voice: "Don't panic, there is a corpse in the car, which was found by the stream under the Huaizi Slope. We were going to drink there, but we saw a suspicious death. I recognized him as a showman, as if his surname was Yang, and he had been to the Sanye's Mansion many times to sell words. When I saw that I was pitiful, I asked the body to be collected and brought to the yamen to report the crime. ”

"What?"

When Chen Tang, who was not far away, heard these words, his heart trembled, and he lost his mind.

Xiucai, who sells words, is surnamed Yang, isn't it Yang Hong?

When Boss Zhou heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said in his mouth: "I don't know what day it is today, it's such an evil sect, so many people have died." ”

Yuan Dart was stunned: "Who else died?"

Boss Zhou said: "The three brothers of the stone were found dead in the forest, and the Ruan brothers took Guo Xiangzhu of the Tiger Head Gang to see ......."

After a pause, he said with some confusion: "By the way, they have been going for a while, why haven't they come back?"

When Yuan Darttou heard this, his face changed greatly.