They're dead.

Once again, my hands were stained with blood. I don't like to kill. Every time I kill someone, I feel very uncomfortable. However, unlike in the past, I killed four heinous people who probably deserved to die.

I don't feel guilty in the slightest. The innkeeper was also very grateful, and he bowed down to thank me, but when he looked up, his wrinkled face was full of worry.

I asked him, "What's wrong with you?"

The old man sighed and said, "You got rid of these four wicked people, which was originally a good thing for the sake of heaven. But it also offended people who should not be offended. ”

Someone who shouldn't be offended?

I asked, "Who is it?"

The old man looked around vigilantly and said, "Guest officer, you don't know, these four people are not from the martial arts. In the past, they were just the ruffians of Qingquan Town, and they were tyrannical in the town all the year round, and they were the one who caused trouble, and the villagers hated them to the core. Especially in recent years, they have somehow colluded with the Black Snake Gang, and the owner of the Black Snake Gang's Caihuatang, known as Han Qianlang, who is known as the wind, is called a brother, and specializes in helping Caihuatang to find some beautiful girls everywhere, and make some dirty money from abducting and selling girls. ”

Black Snake Gang, Caihuatang, Han Qianlang?

These names are very unfamiliar, and I had never heard of them before I left.

I said, "It's just a small sect that doesn't enter the stream, why don't you report it to the government to clean it up?"

Unexpectedly, as soon as I finished saying this, the old man was full of sadness. He suddenly looked at me with some confusion and asked, "I see that the guest officer is so good at reaching out, how can he know so little about this matter of the rivers and lakes?"

"You know what?!"

I was very unhappy with that. I think that back then, I was in the position of the leader of the martial arts alliance, although I can't be said to be admired and majestic, but I have also fought with all parties of the ten major sects in the rivers and lakes, and I am really not convinced to say that I know little about the affairs of the rivers and lakes.

I suddenly felt funny. Looking at the rickety old man in front of me, why should I argue with such a tavern owner who is not in the rivers and lakes. What's more, that experience was not very glorious.

But the old man did not give up, he said, "I don't understand." You don't have to look at my small wine shop, but the fragrance of wine is floating for hundreds of miles, and it is also widely spread in the mouths of those who walk the rivers and lakes, so there are often some heroes in the rivers and lakes who come to me to drink and have fun. As he spoke, he showed a bit of pride on his face, took out a booklet from his arms and handed it to me, saying, "Recently, the old man has written a book of anecdotes about the rivers and lakes that he has heard for decades, which records many anecdotes on the rivers and lakes. Do you think the old man understands or doesn't understand?"

It's just hearsay, and he actually said it so seriously. I looked at him disdainfully and said, "Then you can tell me what is the origin of this Black Snake Gang?"

The old man gently twisted the book

After turning a few pages, he came up to me and said, "If you want to say that this Black Snake Gang is not small." He moved a bench and placed it in front of me and motioned for me to sit down.

It just so happened that the wound in my chest was aching, so I did it unceremoniously. The old man suddenly became completely tired and energetic, and with his own anecdotes, he told me the story about the Black Snake Gang like a storyteller.

Once upon a time, there was no Black Snake Gang on the rivers and lakes.

But four years ago, after the failure of the uprising, although the 100,000 army was ambushed in Tingquan Mountain. However, there are inevitably some fish that slip through the net in such a large team.

The leader of the Black Snake Gang is one of the fish.

The leader of the Black Snake Gang is named Xu Changfeng, who is the junior brother of Chen Dadao, the master of the Broadsword Sect back then, and his knife skills are exquisite, which is better than Chen Dadao. It is said that when he waved the big knife in his hand, it was as if a strong wind was hanging around him, and he did not approach at all, just because he was used to holding a knife in his left hand, so he was called the left wind knife by the rivers and lakes.

After Xu Changfeng escaped from Tingquan Mountain, which was surrounded by heavy troops, he ran all the way from Fuzhou City to the eastern part of Zhejiang. By chance, he subdued two groups of local mountain bandits and established the Black Snake Gang in Shetou Mountain. The local people thought that Xu Changfeng's subduing of the mountain bandits could guide them to get rid of evil and turn it into good, but what they didn't expect was that this person was even more frustrated than those mountain bandits.

At that time, the control of the rivers and lakes was relaxed in the imperial court, and the various sects were busy with their livelihoods, and the court was happy to be idle and deaf to the affairs of the rivers and lakes.

Xu Changfeng saw the opportunity and divided the Black Snake Gang into three halls, namely the Killing Hall, the Robbery Dart Hall and the Flower Picking Hall. Murder and robbery are as the name suggests, one is responsible for collecting money to kill, and the other is responsible for robbing darts out of the mountains. Ordinary people naturally don't buy murder, and they can't afford to buy the silver taels of murder, and most of the people who come to buy murder are some Jianghu sects and high-ranking families, and they are all small sects or wealthy merchants. The business of robbing the dart hall is to rob the past dart team, and most of them also incur the dissatisfaction of some dart games. Only this flower picking hall is responsible for robbing some beautiful girls in ordinary people's homes, and then selling them to brothels in Qinglou or dignitaries' homes, I don't know how many innocent girls have been harmed, and how many ordinary people's families have been separated.

In the course of a year, the Black Snake Gang has accumulated a lot of money by virtue of these shady and dirty businesses. Xu Changfeng used the money to buy off all kinds of officials, and even the first-class officials of the imperial court were involved. The Black Snake Gang gradually gained the ability to reach the sky with hands and eyes, and gradually formed a situation in which local petty officials did not dare to manage it, and "higher-level officials did not want to manage it", which made the Black Snake Gang grow bigger and bigger in just three years, and it became a veritable sixth major sect in the rivers and lakes.

The old man was very engaged, and I listened very attentively. At this point, we both sighed at the same time.

The rivers and lakes are really like water, and under the blue waves that seem to be as clear as a mirror, I don't know what kind of dirt is hidden.

Suddenly, there was a soft "click" at the door. I followed the sound and looked, and I saw the man who stabbed the snake

I don't know when he got up, and when he was about to escape, he accidentally stepped on something and made a noise.

The man with the snake was full of horror, and when he saw that I was looking at him, he screamed "ah" and ran frantically to the door.

"Not good!" exclaimed the old man, "don't let him escape. ”

Run, run. In this vast river and lake, he is just a fish and shrimp that has always been unknown, although he is full of dirt, but compared to the notorious Black Snake Gang, he is too insignificant.

I didn't move, but the old man was even more anxious, he tugged at my cuffs, and shouted, "You, why don't you chase him?"

I said, "I don't like to kill, so he'll be gone." ”

The old man was stunned, he looked at it in a daze, sighed, and said, "You are soft-hearted for a while, let the tiger return to the mountain, but the people of Qingquan Town are about to suffer." ”

I looked out the door into the boundless night, and the figure of the snake man had disappeared into the night. I asked, "Why are the people of Qingquan Town suffering?"

The old man said, "The methods of the Black Snake Gang are extremely cruel, and if you kill their people in this Qingquan Town, I am afraid that they will come back to seek revenge in the near future." When the time comes, you pull your legs and leave, and they will vent their anger on many innocent people in Qingquan Town. ”

The old man shook his head helplessly and walked behind the counter.

I asked, "Where are you going?"

The old man said, "The time has passed, and the old man naturally wants to go to sleep, and the old man has to try to escape for his life as soon as the morning dawns." He yawned and said that he did not seem to take his life to heart.

"Hey...... If Han Qianlang comes tomorrow, I don't know how many girl dolls in the town will suffer again. The old man said, and the figure gradually sank under the counter.

Is there really no other way?

I thought to myself and said, "Okay, I'm not leaving." ”

The old man came out from under the counter again, and he looked at me with a puzzled look in his eyes. He said, "The old man sees that you are extraordinary, and you are by no means unknown. I don't know what you call you, little friend?"

I took a deep breath and said heavily, "Ji Danbing!"

The old man's expression suddenly changed and he was refreshed, and he ran out from behind the counter quickly, and circled me left and right, but his eyes were always staring at me.

I said, "What are you looking at?!"

The old man said: "You are the one who picked the five major sects to send troops to rebel...... That dish?!"

I reiterate, "My name is Ji Danbing. ”

The old man nodded again and again, and said with a smile, "Yes, yes." The old man lost his words. According to rumors in the rivers and lakes, you killed a thousand people in Lujia Villa back then, which can be described as shocking the rivers and lakes. Later, later...... There has been no news of you on the rivers and lakes, where have you been all these years?"

The old man smiled, took out the anecdote book from his arms, quickly turned a page, picked up the pen, and stared at me with a look of anticipation.

I said, "What are you asking all this for?"

The old man smiled and said

"Ji Daxia is very famous in the rivers and lakes, the old man is fortunate to see it today, dare to ask the hero to tell about the experience of these years, the old man can remember one or two, and the life and deeds of Ji Daxia have been perfected, I am afraid that this anecdote will be more popular with the people of the rivers and lakes. ”

There are still my deeds in the anecdotes of the rivers and lakes?

I was suddenly curious, and I went to the old man's book to take a look, and there was a title on the yellow and white face

"It's nothing more than that, look at a plate of good dishes to dominate the rivers and lakes!"

(End of chapter)

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