The fat sister-in-law's face is so white, and her cheeks are still smeared red, and she knows at a glance that she is a woman who loves to dress up. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Everyone has a love for beauty, and it is even more natural for women to love beauty, in fact, some women are very ugly, but they prefer to dress up deliberately, which makes people's hair stand on end.

Fat sister-in-law is such a woman!

She was a little overdone in grease and powder, wearing a cotton robe with bells and whistles, and a gold ring engraved with the word "hair" on her fat short fingers.

Early in the morning, at the front gate of Beijing, the fat sister-in-law stopped a donkey cart and climbed into the car.

The car boss asked, "Sister, where are you going?"

The fat sister-in-law said: "Temple of Heaven." ”

The fat sister-in-law's voice was sharp and crisp, and when she heard it, she knew that she was an old woman pretending to be tender.

The owner of the car was secretly amused and asked, "Which street? Also, the house number?"

The fat sister-in-law said through the curtains: "What's the hurry, I'll tell you when I get to the ground, okay?"

The car boss snorted and said, "Okay, okay, of course, the eldest sister is really funny." ”

The donkey cart galloped towards the Temple of Heaven, and the owner of the cart asked, "Go relatives?"

"Nope. ”

"Play?"

"How can you play alone!"

"Let's go to a meeting?" the car owner teased.

The fat sister-in-law said: "Hey, there is no such blessing, more than ten years ago, I have also attracted bees and butterflies, and it is very popular. Look, I'm fat, will anyone like it?"

Boss Che smiled: "Sister, don't say it, green vegetables and radishes, everyone has their own love, there are really people who like fat, the fatter they are, the more they like it." ”

The fat sister-in-law said: "! I'm going to find my husband, this dead ghost, I haven't been home for three days and three nights, I don't know where to die!"

The car boss said: "You went to the Temple of Heaven to find your husband?

The fat sister-in-law said: "It's easy to find, it's not in the Qinglou, it's in the casino, he gambles and prostitutes so much day and night, and his family is about to lose it." I've got to get him back, or I'm going to have to live my life. ”

The car boss said: "Eldest sister, at home, are your words good?"

The fat sister-in-law said: "It's good, it's definitely good, that dead ghost is in front of me, and I don't dare to say a 'no' word, but as soon as I turn around, I forget it all." By the way, I'll pack your car for a day, how much does it cost?"

The car boss said: "Cheap, sixteen." ”

The fat sister-in-law said, "Okay, I won't bargain." Wherever I want to go, you can go wherever you want, anyway, just wander around the Temple of Heaven, bump into the old lady, and never spare him. ”

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say. ”

Actually, the fat sister-in-law is a man, and he is played by a black fat man rich man.

If Prince Yi promised not to kill himself, the black fat man didn't believe it at all. In this world, no one knows Prince Yi better than himself, cunning and insidious, ruthless to the extreme, the depth of the city, bottomless, "all those who have offended me will pay the price of blood", is a mantra of Prince Yi.

If it weren't for the third brother Liu, the black fat man would have been listening to the crickets in the grave.

Even if Prince Yi promised that Third Brother Liu would not kill him, but he didn't dare to kill himself blatantly, he would create an accidental accident and do it to himself, such as a car accident, excessive drinking, fire accident, and falling from the building...... Damn, I can't think of any idea of cutting off children and grandchildren, and Third Brother Liu knows about it afterwards, so I can't blame him.

In the middle of the night two months ago, the black fat man had quietly moved his family out of the way, to a place that no one could have imagined, a city far away from Beijing, and hiding. He took care of his wife, and without his handwritten letters, he did not allow anyone in the family to step into Beijing again.

But he himself did not leave Beijing.

Beijing is the place where he made his fortune, and if he has the food he likes and the people he likes, even if he dies, he will die in Beijing.

Liu Sange asked him to find the murderer behind Liu Renkuan's case, and he kept this matter in mind.

Today, the fat black man carefully disguised himself and wanted to go out. In general, black fat people don't go out.

He walked out of No. 150 Siyanjing Hutong near Beihai, walked several streets, asked for a rickshaw, came to the front door, and then called a donkey cart to go to the Temple of Heaven.

The person he was looking for was Xicheng Tang Laojiu.

When he arrived at the Temple of Heaven, he kept watch at the door of the brothel where Tang Laojiu often went in Xicheng, but when he didn't see anyone, he stuffed a few copper plates into the brothel turtle slave and asked him to go to the brothel to investigate, and replied that he didn't come today.

Xicheng Tang Laojiu likes mahjong, not to the Temple of Heaven, if you want to gamble, go to the Hongyun mahjong hall to rub the mahjong, he said, the Hongyun mahjong hall is his auspicious place, ten bets nine wins.

However, he is very measured, just a small bet, just play, he often said, if anyone wants to make a fortune by gambling, sooner or later will die on the word "gambling". For gambling, Tang Laojiu had a painful skin, and since then, he has given up the idea of gambling.

Rubbing mahjong is to kill time, and there is another benefit, mahjong friends in the rubbing of cards, they will scold, talk about many things on the rivers and lakes, Xicheng Tang Lao Jiu said to them, on the surface quiet, in fact, all to the heart, sometimes just a talk, sometimes just an idea, sometimes hearsay, sometimes witnessed, for him to collect intelligence, help a lot.

This kid, in addition to making money, is playing, even if he plays, he is also making money.

**Bai Dao, they all like to ask for information from him, Xicheng Tang Laojiu makes a living by selling intelligence, his asking price is not low, it is ten times the usual asking price of others, ten times the same price, this kid's information is reliable.

The black fat man parked the donkey cart near the Hongyun mahjong parlor and waited, he sat in the donkey cart, lifted the cotton curtain and stared at the door of the mahjong parlor.

Coincidentally, after a while, Xicheng Tang Laojiu held a dry cigarette in his hand, took a puff from time to time, and staggered towards the mahjong hall.

He is in his fifties, with a medium-thin build, a dark and red face, a pair of squinting eyes, as if he can never wake up, which often makes people feel that he is a fool, and people often lose their vigilance, will say things that should not be said, and do things that should not be done, which greatly reduces the cost of his intelligence, or even zero cost.

He understands this truth: it is rare to be smart, and it is rare to be confused, and the more you pretend to be confused, the more you make money, the more rare it is.

Xicheng Tang Lao Jiu hummed a minor tune and came head-on.

The fat man opened the curtain, jumped off the donkey cart, and said to the owner of the cart: "Don't move, my husband is here, and when I hold him, you should hurry up and drive the donkey cart over, so as not to let him run." Then, go back to the front door, go around the front door, and if I stop, you stop, I don't stop, you don't stop. ”

The car boss said: "Yes, eldest sister." ”

The fat man walked towards Tang Laojiu, and when the two passed by, the fat man grabbed Tang Laojiu's pulse in Xicheng and said in a deep voice: "Come with me." ”

Tang Laojiu was taken aback, a chubby dressed in bells and whistles actually made a man's voice, but half of his body was numb and couldn't move, he forced himself to calm down and asked, "Big brother, who are you?"

The fat man whispered in his ear: "I don't even recognize it, what the hell, I'm a fat man, a black fat man and an old man! Don't be silent, I'm looking for you for something." ”

Tang Laojiu smiled bitterly: "Scared, who should I be, dressed like an old goblin, are you transsexual?!"

When the donkey cart came closer, the fat man pulled Tang Laojiu into the car, tightened the cotton curtain, and closed the door. screamed and blamed: "Husband, where are you these days, you want to kill me." ”

The donkey cart moved, and the noise of the city could hardly be heard in the car with the doors and windows closed.

Tang Laojiu said in a low voice: "Fatty, please, don't pretend, I can hear my cold hairs stand on end, and goosebumps are up." ”

The fat man said, "Okay, but you have to tell the truth." ”

Tang Laojiu said: "The truth, what is the truth?"

The fat man said: "You have secretly been a secret agent for Ouyang Yuan for five years?"

"yes, what's wrong?"

"Investigate the mastermind behind the murder of Liu Renkuan's family. ”

"yes, so what?"

"As a result, you said that Wu Chuxiong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, the great eunuch Jiao Gonggong and Prince Yi, these three giants may all be the murderers, and their cronies have all had frequent contact with a person named Gong Xiaolu, Gong Xiaolu is the secret liaison of the Seven Killers in the Beijing area, as for who is the real murderer, it is impossible to determine. ”

Tang Laojiu said: "That's right. ”

The fat man said: "At the beginning, I really deceived you and believed your nonsense." ”

Tang Laojiu said: "The conscience of heaven and earth, what I said is all the truth. ”

The fat man said: "You also said that after the tragedy, the palace road evaporated. ”

Tang Laojiu said: "Yes, what does this have to do with me!"

The fat man said: "Of course it matters! What you say is a lie, Beijing is black and white, and anyone who is a little famous, as long as he has walked on the land of Beijing, he will not want to hide from the gold medal informant Tang Laojiu." ”

Tang Laojiu laughed and said, "Brother, you are too exalted brother." ”

Saying that, his face can't help but be a little colorful.

The fat man said: "I took the risk today and dressed up like this ghost for this matter." ”

Xicheng Tang Laojiu said: "Brother, tell me straight, what do you want?"

The fat man said: "I want the address of Gong Xiaolu." ”

Xicheng Tang Laojiu twisted his index finger and thumb and said, "This, did you bring it?"

The fat man said, "What?silver ticket?!Fuck, I saved your life twenty years ago, forgot?!"

...... Twenty years ago, Tang Laojiu was not an informant, at that time, he was a gambler, a gambler who wanted to make a fortune from gambling.

However, the heart is poor, his card luck is very stinky, more losses and fewer wins, that day, when he brought the last gambling money, that is, all the family wealth of the Tang family, pressed on the gambling table, red eyes, secretly out of a thousand, secretly did tricks.

When he threw the dice, he lifted his sleeve and flipped his palm, tucked the casino dice into his sleeve, and put three lead-filled dice into the color cup.

These three lead-filled dice, he has practiced thousands of changes, and whatever number he wants to throw into, it is what number it is.

The color cup is shaken three times to the left, three times to the right, in front of everyone's eyes, the color cup is placed on the gambling table, the cup cover is lifted, six or six Shun, and the whole stage is won by the sound of color.

The work was done very neatly, and almost all the parties involved were hidden, but they were discovered by the old and spicy dealer.

The dealer grabbed his arm and snatched it from top to bottom, and three casino dice fell from his cuffs, and the dealer sneered: "There are two brushes, brother, but no matter how fast your hands and feet are, not as fast as my eyes, what is this?

Tang Laojiu was so frightened that his face turned white, he was sweating profusely, he couldn't hold his tongue, and he lost his speech for a while.

The dealer took out the lead-filled dice from the color cup and checked it, and said: "The dice is filled with lead, haha, you are a dead man, Tang Laojiu, you are really not a thing, do you understand the rules! ”

The crowd was furious, and scolding erupted. dragged Tang Laojiu off the gambling table with seven hands and eight feet, and his fists and feet fell like raindrops, beating Tang Laojiu in Xicheng, screaming for help.

Just when he was dying, the black fat man Qian Fuhan happened to come to the casino to play, at that time, he was a famous figure, Tang Laojiu had made him an informant once, and the fat man was very satisfied. I have met twice even with the head and tail, which left a deep impression on the fat man. Now seeing that everyone was beating Tang Laojiu, he kept a straight face and snorted: "Stop." ”

The sound was not loud, but the power was strong enough, and in an instant, the casino was silent, and the sound of shouting and beating disappeared suddenly.

Everyone raised their heads and saw that the black fat man had a calm face, his face was full of anger, and there were four fierce bodyguards behind him, and the casino owner was making a compliment on the side, and he was polite.

Seeing this situation, those who knew it naturally nodded and slipped away, and those who didn't know it, seeing such a situation, quickly pulled out their feet and left.

The black fat man asked the casino owner, "What's the matter?"

The boss said: "It's nothing, make a thousand." ”

The black fat man said to Tang Laojiu, who was sitting on the ground: "Be a thousand, boy, what the casino hates the most is to be a thousand, you know no." You don't want to live!"

Tang Laojiu bowed his head and said, "Thank you for saving your life, the villain will never dare in the future." ”

...... Now, the black fat man Qian Fuhan asked Tang Laojiu for information, but he asked the fat man for money.

The black fat man was very angry, and said, "What?!! I still want to pay you for my life, you owe me a life, and you should pay it back." ”

Xicheng Tang Laojiu said: "Brother, don't be nervous, don't be nervous, I'm used to gestures, whoever asks me for information, I can't help but twist my fingers, and I can't change it if I want to." Other people's money, the villain dares to ask for it, and the eldest brother's money, he doesn't have the courage to kill the villain. ”

The fat man said, "This sounds like human words." Said, the address of the palace path. ”

Tang Laojiu said: "Seriously, the villain really doesn't know the specific address." Brother, do you think, the Seven Killers are engaged in assassination, their organization is the most secretive in today's rivers and lakes, and the secret liaison person is the key person in the assassination activity, so that outsiders can easily know, of course not! Otherwise, it would have been yellow a long time ago, but I have been a secret agent for Ouyang Yuan for five years, and I am not a slippery head who only takes money and does not do things, the villain is not good, but the work is nailed, riveted is riveted, there is no merit, there is hard work, the final result, in addition to the three suspects I told you: Prince Yi, Gonggong Cui, In addition to Wu Chuxiong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, there is also a special person who has met a special person, today, the villain will take you to him for a trip. ”

The fat man said, "Go to him, is this person reliable?"

Tang Laojiu said: "Reliable, more reliable than me." ”

The fat man asked, "What do you say?"

Tang Laojiu said: "If he wants to make some mistakes, he has to die." ”

"Huh?"

"He was one of the people who had to be killed when the Seven Killers cleared the field, and luckily let him run. ”

"Ran away?"

"Twenty-five years have passed, and the Seven Killers are still looking for him, and without me, even ten of them will be destroyed. ”

The fat man said: "The more you say, the more I don't understand." ”

Tang Laojiu said: "This matter is around, one sentence or two, I can't say clearly, when I see him, you can ask yourself."

The fat man said, "Okay, but I'm ,...... I'd better be on the safe side, so I'll ask in my current capacity. ”

Tang Laojiu was puzzled: "What is your current identity?"

The fat man said: "Yes, my current identity, I am your third sister-in-law." ”

Tang Laojiu smiled: "Haha, third sister-in-law, I don't have a third sister-in-law." ”

The fat man said, "Yes, cousin-in-law." ”

Tang Laojiu said: "Brother, when did you become so timid?"

The fat man said: "Do you understand, be careful to walk the ship of ten thousand years." ”

Tang Laojiu said: "I understand." ”

The fat man said, "It's good to understand, where does that person live?"

Tang Laojiu said: "Xizhimen, let's go." ”

The fat man said, "No, go to the front door first, and then reverse." ”

Tang Laojiu said: "Listen to you." ”

When he arrived at the front door, the fat man paid the fare, grabbed Tang Laojiu's wrist, and complained sharply: "Run, I'll let you run, this family has to let you lose before you want to give up." ”

Then, he walked into an alley, turned seven or eight corners, and then stopped a carriage and went straight to Xizhimen.

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In the evening, in the Deng'er Hutong next to the Xizhi Gate, Xicheng Tang Laojiu knocked on the two old doors of No. 33.

A timid voice in the door asked, "Who?"

Tang Laojiu said: "I, Tang Laojiu." ”

Half of the door was opened, and a middle-aged man with a slightly fat hair and a long beard said, "Fast forward, boss." ”

The black fat man and Tang Laojiu entered the door, and the middle-aged man immediately bolted the door, he glanced at the fat man at a glance, and it was inconvenient to ask, quite uneasy.

Tang Laojiu said: "Don't be afraid, your own people, my third sister-in-law, cousin-in-law." ”

The middle-aged man said: "That's good, the eldest third sister-in-law, what am I afraid of." But he was suspicious in his heart: What a big man, where did the third sister-in-law come from?

The courtyard was cleaned very cleanly, and when I entered the guest hall, there was a stove in the house, and it was warm, everyone sat down, and the middle-aged man closed the door and served tea.

Tang Laojiu said to the middle-aged man: "You can sit too." The middle-aged man picked up a chair and sat down.

Tang Laojiu said to the fat man: "Third sister-in-law, let me introduce you." This is my seventh brother, his real name is Qu Chengyi, now known as Yuan Jinsuo, 25 years ago, he worked as a clerk in the Baolin calligraphy and painting shop in Beijing Liulichang, and now, he is my person, a good hand. When he was a clerk, he was only fifteen or sixteen years old, Baolin calligraphy and painting shop only had two stores, inconspicuous, one boss, two small clerks, the boss's surname was Lu, his name was Ganquan, he was a polite white-faced scholar, twenty-seven or eight years old, knowledgeable, law-abiding, and tepid. Later, I learned that it was this Lu Ganquan who was actually the secret liaison of the Seven Killers in Beijing, known as 'Death Judge Gong Xiaolu', who was responsible for the contact, signing, and collection of assassination activities in the capital, and was a very dangerous person. Lu Ganquan writes well, and his words can be sold for money, and sometimes they can be sold for a good price. Originally, the seventh brother didn't know that Lu Ganquan was Gong Xiaolu even if he died, and no one could connect a businessman with the killer minion Gong Xiaolu. By chance, the seventh brother knew all this.

"Seventh brother, don't be afraid, the third sister-in-law is my boss and the third brother Liu's person, you can tell the third sister-in-law about the palace road in detail. After speaking, he pulled out the cigarette stick on his waist, filled it with tobacco, lit the fire, took a deep breath, and slowly spit out the smoke, circle by circle, just smoking and drinking tea, and said no more.

The seventh brother looked at the fat man and said, "Okay, third sister-in-law, I will tell you everything I know, but you must keep it secret, otherwise, the younger brother will have no way to live." ”

The fat man said: "This is natural. ”

The seventh brother recounted: "Thank you to the third sister-in-law. Baolin calligraphy and painting shop is in the middle of the street of Liulichang, with two storefronts on the street, the store hall is arranged in a simple and elegant manner, there is a back room behind the store, which doubles as the boss's reception room, accommodation and warehouse, and there is a corridor next to the back room, leading to the kitchen and the back door. At that time, there were two small clerks in the store, one was under the bottom, and the other was called Doudou, one was one year older than me, I called him Brother Dou, if we did something wrong, the Lu shopkeeper did not lose his temper, but just told us that we should do this, not like that, we have to pay attention in the future. However, there are also some strange things, this Lu Ganquan shopkeeper, the person he usually contacts in business is not a rich man. The children of the family, that is, scholars, speak and do things, although they are polite, but they are also generous, and they do not shy away from the presence of others; only when some people come, but they seem very secretive, one of them is a bald eagle-nosed man, not to buy calligraphy and painting, nor to buy Gu Dong, he doesn't even look at the calligraphy and painting Gu Dong in the store, Lu Shopkeeper will immediately let the bald man into the back room of the store, and take care of Brother Dou and me: someone is looking for me, all refuse, and he will go out. Then, enter the back room, close the door, and plug in the deadbolt. Every time the bald man came, it was like this, and only God knows what he said with the big man in the back room. I couldn't hear the sound of the back room in the shop, so what could be so mysterious? I was only fifteen years old at the time, and I had nothing to do, but I also had a big question mark in my heart.

"There are also some people who come, and they don't look at the calligraphy, paintings, and antiques, and ask, 'Is your boss there?' If the shopkeeper Lu is there, they will be busy greeting him, and the two will whisper a few words, or gesture to the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper Lu will immediately bring the person into the inner room for a secret talk; if the shopkeeper Lu is not there, the person who comes will wait in the store or come again next time, and ask him if he has anything to convey, and the person who comes must say: The matter is very important, and he must be told in person. When he saw the shopkeeper, he whispered a few words or gestured, and immediately went into the back room like an acquaintance to talk in secret. Usually, the conversation is longer. Before the shopkeeper Lu and the guests enter the inner room, they will still take care of it: someone looks for me, and they all refuse, so they will go out.

"The bald man doesn't come very often, sometimes once a month, two months, sometimes twice a month, after a long time, I get used to it, but the mystery in my heart can't be solved.

"Twenty-five years ago, at noon in late autumn, the business of the store was light, and the shopkeeper Lu sat at the counter reading a book, that day, Brother Dou did not come, I sat alone on the chair next to the window of the bone Dong and took a nap, the bald man walked into the store, and the shopkeeper Lu said, as usual, "Here it is." The big man nodded and said, "Yes, it's pretty much the same." As he spoke, he was familiar with the door and walked straight to the inner room, and the shopkeeper Lu put down the book, took care of me a few words according to the custom, followed the inner room, and took the door of the inner room with his hand, the door was closed, but he forgot to insert the deadbolt, leaving a thin slit. Like this situation, there has never been a case before, the shopkeeper Lu is very fine, but now he has made a big mistake. Fine people also make big mistakes, and sometimes, they make bigger mistakes than careless people.

"The wall between the shop and the back room is very thick, and the door of the back room is very strong, twice as thick as the usual door, and if the door is closed tightly, even if the back room speaks loudly, the people in the house will not want to hear it. But this time, the door forgot to close tightly, leaving a thin slit.

"I was already curious, and I didn't know the severity, so I leaned in and put my ear on the crack of the door, to hear what business Boss Lu and the bald man were doing.

"I only heard Dahan say: 'The contract you signed was completed five days ago, in Yuling Pass at the junction of Zhejiang and Anhui, the seven killers assassinated Qi Daye and Liu Renkuan's family of twelve people in one fell swoop. The shopkeeper Lu said: "The work is really clean." Dahan said: "This business, but you took it, as soon as your contract is signed, the damned person will die, the palace shopkeeper, you are really a 'death judge palace road', the people on the rivers and lakes have poisonous mouths, what they say, what they say, haha." ’

"I was taken aback when I heard it, the shopkeeper Lu is the 'Death Judge Gong Xiaolu'?! The Lu shopkeeper is the person of the Seven Killers?! At that time, there were rumors about the Seven Killers and the Death Judge Gong Xiaolu in the market, I thought it was a legend, but I didn't know that there were really these people, not only that, but Gong Xiaolu was his own boss! Qi Lian Sword God is the first hero in the world, he is invincible all over the world, and he is also a hero of the legend, how could he be killed by the Seven Killers? Also, a man named Liu Renkuan, who is he? A family of 12 people, all killed, it's so miserable, I hear my hair stand on end. The Seven Killers are really murderous demons.

"I only heard the shopkeeper Lu say: 'Brother jokes, I'm just an errand runner in the next place, whoever dies and who lives, it's the boss of the gang who has the final say, what am I, why did I come up with a death judge.'" Dahan said: "Hey, don't say it, the palace shopkeeper, the boss takes care of it, go to the owner as soon as possible to get the balance in hand, and I will pick it up in two days." Then, clear the scene according to the rules, the palace shopkeeper, you have to disappear from the world, leave Beijing, it's time to move a nest. ’

"Shopkeeper Lu asked, 'Where are you going?' The big man leaned close to the root of his ear and said two words. ”

The fat man asked, "What word?"

The seventh brother said: "It's very vague, I can't hear clearly." ”

The fat man asked, "What are the words?"

The seventh brother said: "Huzhou is not like it, Guangzhou is not like it, the third sister-in-law, anyway, there is a word 'state', I really didn't hear it clearly." ”

The fat man said, "Alas, what a pity. Seventh brother, continue to speak. ”

The seventh brother said: "At this time, my heart was pounding with fright, and I was in a cold sweat one after another, knowing that I couldn't hear this, and I would lose my head if I didn't do it, I wiped the cold sweat on my forehead, tiptoed, and retreated to the seat next to the window of Gu Dong, sitting, pretending to be napping, I take care of myself, calm and calm, I want to be the shopkeeper of Lu, no, the death judge Gong Xiaolu pulled out the sprouts, and he will definitely die." If you run away on the spot, then you won't be able to admit yourself, you must find the small one, kill people. It's better to pretend to be stupid, I'm not afraid of the third sister-in-law laughing, the little one loves to pretend to be deaf and stupid since he was a child, and he has two hits. At that time, the villain took a deep breath, wiped the sweat stains on his face with his cuffs, forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart, and squinted his eyes and snoozed. I don't know how long later, Gong Xiaolu and Dahan came out of the back room, and Gong Xiaolu muttered, "Hey, I forgot to close the door." He and the big man came up to me, stared into my eyes, and asked, 'Did anyone just come?' and I said, 'No, shopkeeper.' He stared at me suspiciously, looked at me, and said, 'Hey, Chengyi, your face is wrong, what's wrong?' I laughed, 'It's nothing, my stomach is a little thin.' He said: 'Look at you, gluttonous eaters.' He didn't see why, so he sent the bald man out.

"This is a black shop, I don't want to do it, but I will be paid in three days, I can't even ask for a salary, if that's the case, after the palace shopkeeper finds out, my life is not guaranteed, if it is not good, the second uncle's family will also suffer, these murderous demons, killing people like killing a chicken, can not alarm them. I'm going to pay my salary, and then I find an excuse to quit my job, and it's good to do it inconspicuously, and I've been in this shop for more than a year, and I don't care about these three or five days. ”

The fat man asked, "What happened later?"

The seventh brother said: "Three days later, the 'Death Judge Palace Road' will be cleared. ”

The fat man asked, "Clearance?"

The seventh brother said: "I thought that 'clearing the field' was to move the valuable things away, move to another place, and move to the city called 'state'. Actually, it's not, 'clearing the field' is killing people and killing people, and the death judge Gong Xiaolu will kill me and Brother Dou before leaving. Three days later, it is the day of my salary with Brother Dou, according to the convention, the salary is in the afternoon, I and Brother Dou are clerks in the Baolin calligraphy and painting shop, Brother Dou's monthly salary is fifteen, I am fourteen times, including a lunch at noon, not wrapped, Brother Dou is a native of Beijing, living in Dashilar, I am a native of Baoding, living in the second uncle's house in Beijing, this work is not tiring, can grow knowledge, more than a dozen monthly salary, for the two children, it is a lot of money. Every payday, Brother Dou and I are very happy.

"Early that morning, the death judge Gong Xiaolu opened the door of the shop, and left, before leaving, he said, I have something to do, I want to go back to the shop in the afternoon, you two stay in the store, do business if you have business, sit if you don't have business, don't make trouble, let outsiders see jokes, wait for me to go back to the store in the afternoon to pay my salary, you two don't go away, you two have to go away, I won't pay this month's salary, don't say that I am in debt." He smiled and said, Brother Dou and I agreed in unison.

"After Gong Xiaolu left, Brother Dou asked me: 'Yicheng, I always feel that something is wrong with you in the past two days, what's wrong, tell my brother if you have something, let my brother help you come up with ideas. I was shocked and said, 'Brother, no, it's just a little cold.' Brother Dou looked at me suspiciously, and said, "It's okay if you don't have anything, if you have something on your mind, don't hide it from my brother, brother will help you." I said, 'Got it, brother.' My heart is warm, Brother Dou's words, I still can't forget it, every time I think of this, my heart is panicked.

"I want to tell Brother Dou about this, but I'm afraid that Brother Dou won't be able to bear it, and if he exposes the stuffing, it will hurt him; These days, I'm pretending to be like usual, probably Death Judge Gong Xiaolu, I don't feel abnormal, but I can't escape Brother Dou's eyes, the reason is that our brothers are too familiar after all.

"At noon, Brother Dou's cousin also came to the store to play, our brother and son said yes, received the salary, and after closing, went to the front door to find a restaurant to rub it, and then went to listen to Jingdong drums. That day, I don't know if I ate a little errand, in the afternoon, I had diarrhea, so I went to the toilet at the back door of the store to relieve my hands, and when I left, Brother Dou laughed at me and said: "You have a lot of things, you have a cold for a while, and you have diarrhea for a while, see how you go to the play tonight!" I said: "At night, the cold is also cured, and the stomach is no longer pulled, so I still watch the play, and I am angry with you." 'Brother Bean was going to beat me, and I ran away. Walk through the corridor and kitchen from the store, open the back door, go to the latrine to relieve my hands, stay in the latrine for a while, only through the back door through the kitchen, enter the corridor, walk a few steps, I smell a strong smell of blood, I know that it is not good, turn around and want to leave, but stand still, driven by strong curiosity, I am bold, tiptoe, close to the store, open in the gap of the door curtain, see the doors and windows of the store on the street are closed, Brother Dou and his cousin died in a pool of blood, hands and feet are still twitching, a strange man, holding a bloody dagger in his hand, bending over, is wiping the blood on Brother Dou's clothes, wiping it clean, before taking the dagger into his arms。 The big man said through the door of the store: "Gong shopkeeper, you have to enter the store to recognize the goods." The voice of the shopkeeper of the outer palace: 'Are you two brothers?'' Yes. ''That's right, good job, you come out, I'll lock the door, and we'll clean up the scene in the evening.'' Gong Xiaolu took Brother Dou's cousin as me. 'Okay. The killer muttered, "I'm a monster even though I'm afraid of seeing dead people." He pushed the door open and flashed out, and as soon as he went out, there was a clang, and the door slammed shut again, and then, with a click, the lock fell. I was so frightened that my heart jumped to my throat, and I turned around and slipped through the back door. When I returned to my second uncle's house, my second uncle was not there, and I told my second aunt that my mother was sick and asked someone to send me a message asking me to go back to Baoding as soon as possible. The second aunt said, let's go tomorrow. I said no, there happened to be a hitchhiker back to Baoding, I made an appointment with someone, and I left. The second aunt said, I'll send you to the car. I said don't mind, just a few steps, don't send it away, turn around and take care of the second uncle, let him rest assured, I have played two back and forth alone in Baoding. The second aunt said, this is also true, Yicheng is a child, a small ghost, and capable.

"Leaving the second uncle's house, I carried a small burden, where to go? Baoding? No, Baoding's home is not safe, at night, Gong Xiaolu went to clean up the scene, found that I was not dead, I will definitely find home. I really can't go back to my hometown, I can't see my parents. First of all, I have to stay away from the Liuli Factory, far away from the second uncle's house, where to go? Go to Xizhimen, the second uncle's family lives in Qianmen, the Liuli Factory is not far from the front door, I heard the second uncle say, Xizhimen is in the northwest of Beijing, but far away, he has lived in Beijing for more than 20 years, Xizhimen has never been there. Yes, go to Xizhimen, find a small inn to come down first, avoid the wind, the boat will be straight to the bridge, wait for a while, and then find a way. On the same day, I stopped a donkey cart and went straight to Xizhimen, I closed all the doors and windows of the donkey cart, and I could hear my heart beating wildly, I swore that I would avenge the brothers and sisters, and secretly scolded: The surname is Gong, the son of a bitch raises, I can find Lao Tzu, you can bear it.

"I hid in the small inn in Xizhimen for half a month, and when I used up the few money I was carrying and lived on the streets, it was Brother Tang who took me in, and I did chores under Brother Tang.

"Half a year later, I sneaked back to the second uncle's house, and when the second uncle saw me, tears came down the ground, and said: 'You kid, you dare to come to me! Half a year ago, you disappeared, and your proprietor, the shopkeeper Lu, came to look for you several times, and asked me to find you, saying that you were deceived by the bad guys, otherwise, you may not be able to go back. Later, there were often fierce and vicious thugs, wandering around my house, and in your hometown of Baoding, there were often people of unknown origin wandering around, what is going on, you must explain it today. Also, your parents still ask me for someone, this kid is really rushing people to death. I said, 'I'm sorry, second uncle, I can't say anything, if I do, I'll hurt you, anyway, all the people who come here to find me are people who want to kill me, all devils, my father and mother, I will ask someone to carry a letter to tell them that I am alive and let them rest assured.' My business has nothing to do with you, let them stop pestering you all the time. Hey, I've really wronged the second uncle, second uncle, anyway, don't worry, I didn't do anything harmful, I came today, just to see you, it's late, it's also out of helplessness, please forgive the second uncle. After speaking, he gave the second uncle two ingots of silver, and hurried away.

"The days go by so fast, in a flash, it's twenty-five years, hey, ,......" The seventh brother Qu Chengyi was full of emotion.

The fat man asked, "Seventh brother, let me ask you, where is Gong Xiaolu from?"

The seventh brother said: "Listening to the accent, a Beijing film, like a Beijinger, but occasionally Leng Ding leaks a sentence or two of strange dialects, like a person from the south, not even a northerner." Southern dialect, all bird language, there is a dialect every hundred miles, I don't know if there are hundreds, I really can't figure out where they are. ”

The fat man said: "Just now, Tang Laojiu said that Gong Xiaolu writes well, and he also sells words?"

The seventh brother said: "Brother Tang listened to me, he likes calligraphy, often writes, and some customers like his words, the payment is 'the market scattered', sometimes the payment is 'Wild Sweet Spring', his words, can be sold for a few taels of silver." ”

The fat man asked, "Do you have his words?"

The seventh brother said: "Yes, he thought he was not good at writing, threw it in the paper basket, and I secretly picked it up and hid it." ”

The fat man said, "Take it and take a look." ”

"Good. The seventh brother entered the house, and after a while, he brought a crumpled and yellowed piece of paper, unfolded it, and wrote a poem by Li Taibai on the paper:

Between the white emperor and the clouds, thousands of miles of Jiangling are returned in one day,

The apes on both sides of the strait could not stop crying, and the light boat had already crossed the ten thousand mountains.

The final payment is sure to be: Wild Sweet Spring.

Wild grass, deep Mi Fu cursive essence, written ink dripping, wind and horses, good words.

The fat man rolled up the words and said, "I want this word." ”

The seventh brother said: "If the third sister-in-law wants it, take it away, as long as she can avenge the brothers and sisters, if you have anything to do, just ask." ”

The fat man asked, "Does he write every day?"

The seventh brother said: "Almost, when the store is very busy, I don't write it." ”

Xicheng Tang Lao Jiu knocked on the side of the table with a dry tobacco stick, and said, "Third sister-in-law, is it over? It's getting dark, you're not hungry, I'm hungry." ”

The seventh brother said: "Let's have dinner here today, my cooking skills are still so-so." ”

Tang Laojiu said: "It's not just so-so, it's definitely a good hand." ”

The fat man said: "Don't interrupt, it's almost over, and there is one more thing to do in the end." ”

The seventh brother said: "The third sister-in-law said. ”

The fat man said: "Didn't you say that Gong Xiaolu was going to another city, this city is two words, and the one in the back has a 'state' word, but the word in front is a little impressive, but I can't hear it clearly." ”

The seventh brother said, "Yes." ”

The fat man said: "Okay, now, I will learn the accent of the big man and report the city in the state, you listen, which one is like a little bit." ”

The seventh brother said: "Okay, it's a way." ”

The fat man said, "Cangzhou?"

The seventh brother shook his head, and the fat man reported one by one: Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Luzhou, Chenzhou, Xuanzhou, Huizhou, Huzhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Ganzhou, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Liuzhou, Lanzhou, Quanzhou......

The seventh brother said: "Stop, just now, what state is the last one?"

The fat man said: "Quanzhou." ”

The seventh brother said: "It seems to be Quanzhou, eighty percent is Quanzhou, where is Quanzhou?"

Tang Laojiu said: "In Fujian, I don't know this, how to mix it." ”

The fat man said: "Don't be busy, you listen, Quanzhou, right?"

The seventh brother said: "Yes, Quanzhou." ”

The fat man said: "Will the dialect spoken by Gong Xiaolu be Hokkien?" One day, I will find a Hokkien friend and ask him to speak a few words of Hokkien, which you don't sound like. ”

The seventh brother said, "Okay." ”

The fat man asked: "Just now, you said that strangers came to find Gong Xiaolu and would make a gesture, what kind of gesture is it?"

The seventh brother said: "Generally, people who come will use their bodies to block gestures and prevent outsiders from seeing them, and once in a while, let me see it, and the person who came raised his thumb with his left hand, made a knife with his right hand, and wiped it on his thumb." In the past, I thought it meant erasing the fraction in the business, but later, I realized that it meant that there was an assassination business, and it was not the fraction of the copper coins that was erased, but the human head. ”

The fat man nodded and said, "Yes, it's all unsightly living ghosts." ”

Xicheng Tang Lao Jiu said: "Okay, okay, it's dark, turn on the lights, buy wine, cook, drink, let's have some peanuts and braised beef first, I and my third sister-in-law will drink first, and when the dishes come up, let's talk while drinking." ”

The fat man said, "Okay, let's get drunk and rest." ”

Tang Laojiu said: "I can't drink you, women either don't know how to drink, but they can drink, and the amount of alcohol is large." ”

The fat man glared at him fiercely.

The seventh brother said: "That's the truth. As he spoke, he brought two pots, peanuts, and braised beef, and the fat man and Tang Laojiu ate and drank first, and the seventh brother went to the kitchen to be busy.

The fat man asked while eating: "Lao Jiu, you met the seventh brother as soon as you got started, why did you let Gong Xiaolu run away without a trace?"

Tang Laojiu said: "You didn't figure out the time, Gong Xiaolu disappeared after clearing the scene; Three months after the tragedy of the Liu family, Ouyang Yuan hired me to visit the murderer of Ouyang Yuan, the secretary of the ministry, at that time, I didn't know that the death judge Gong Xiaolu had been a clerk under Gong Xiaolu, and the seventh brother was young. It wasn't until the fifth year that I gradually gathered a general information about the Seven Assassins and Gong Xiaolu, the liaison in Beijing at the time, but it wasn't very clear. At this time, Yuan Jinsuo was in his twenties, and he also began to do some stalking, eavesdropping, looking at the wind, sending letters, and squatting in the pit. However, Yuan Jinsuo has a situation that is very abnormal, when he is sent to the front door to do errands, it is not to say diarrhea, or to say that he has a cold and flu, all kinds of excuses, shirk and support, and try several times, all of which are like this, and the sand in the eyes of the single person cannot be rubbed, and there must be a reason in it.

"One day I called him to me, and I said, 'Golden Lock, I ask you something, and tell the truth. The golden lock said, 'Oh. I asked, 'Did you do anything at the front door?' and he was stunned for a moment, and said, 'How can you, no.' "Why do you go to the front door, you don't always go?" He said, "This, this ......?" and I said, "Tell my brother, what happened?" He said, 'Not really.' I said, "I believe it, I must have committed a big crime, if you don't say, okay, leave, I can't leave an unknown person around." He said, 'I really haven't committed a crime, brother.' I said: "If you can trust my brother, I will say, if I can't believe my brother, I will go, the road will face the sky, go on both sides, and we will be together and disperse." He said, "Brother, it's not that I've committed a crime, it's that I've seen someone else commit a crime, or it's a big case." I said, 'What's going on?' the more I listened, the more confused I became. He said, "Brother, I told you, you must keep it a secret, otherwise, the life of the younger brother will not be guaranteed." I said, 'Okay, keep it a secret.' Yuan Jinsuo told him about his experience as a clerk in the Baolin calligraphy and painting shop, and then I knew that Gong Xiaolu turned out to be a cat in Liulichang, and the death judge Gong Xiaolu was the Beijing liaison of the Seven Killers, as long as Gong Xiaolu was found, the murderer could be found. At that time, I was so excited that I almost jumped up, this kid, his mouth is so tight, how good it is to say it earlier, it caused Lao Tzu to take a five-year detour.

So, I asked him if there were any suspicious people who usually went to the Baolin calligraphy and painting shop, and he said, yes, but not too many.

"So, I secretly observed the appearance of the three most suspicious people, and kept in mind that they were: Prince Yi's henchman, the old housekeeper Guan Tongding, Jiao Gonggong's personal bodyguard, Wushan Qianlong Wu Lingjie, Wu Chuxiong's personal guard of the military department, and Wutai Fog Leopard Tang Jiutai. The three giants all have motives for killing Liu Shangshu, if they want to kill Liu Renkuan, they themselves will not come forward, and the specific people who come forward to buy the murderer are the three cronies of the three giants. Then, I found the artist, I dictated, the artist painted, and changed and changed the painting until I thought it was like a real person.

"I took the portraits of the three people and asked Yuan Jinsuo: 'Look at these three people, who among them has been to the Baolin calligraphy and painting shop?' Jinsuo stared at it for a long time, and said: 'True, they have all been here. I'm confused, could it be that the three giants all want to kill Liu Renkuan? They each sent their own cronies to come to Gong Xiaolu to discuss the assassination, is it possible? Of course it is possible, since ancient times, good and evil have not been opposed, and it is also possible that these three people want to kill three different people,...... Things on the rivers and lakes are changing rapidly, and nothing can be ruled out.

"At this point, the matter has fallen into an unsolvable mystery, what is the truth? Where did Gong Xiaolu run away and hide, did he really go to Quanzhou?!"

The fat man Qian Fuhan said: "No matter where he goes, even if he escapes to the end of the cape, I believe that the third brother will also find him." ”

Tang Laojiu said: "Until now, I can shake all the family background of this matter to the third sister-in-law." ”

The fat man said: "It should have been said a long time ago, and the crime of delaying the fighter plane will be increased by one degree." ”

Tang Laojiu said: "If I give you one more thing, you will definitely be very excited." ”

The fat man said: "What a bird thing, excited fart." ”

Tang Laojiu said: "You want to be crooked again, I want to give you a portrait of the death judge Gong Xiaolu." ”

The fat man slapped the table and said, "Really, great." The plates and wine bottles on the table, Ding Ding Dongdong, there was a chaotic sound.

Tang Laojiu hurriedly stabilized the table and said: "Don't be excited, listen to me, I saw that the painter was really good, so I asked the seventh brother to dictate and paint the portrait of the painter, and after painting for three days, I drew a portrait exactly like Gong Xiaolu." ”

The fat man said, "Quick, take a look." ”

Tang Laojiu said: "Don't forget, this is the palace road twenty-five years ago." ”

The fat man said: "I know, I know, go and get it, go get it." ”