Chapter 55: The Siege of Winter Fragrance
Since meeting Kongming's seniors, the two have become old friends. After a night's rest, Guo Yitian finally slept soundly last night. Kong Ming got up early and found that Guo Yitian was sleeping very deeply, and it was inconvenient to disturb him, so he was about to turn around and leave. Guo Yitian seemed to have dreamed of something, and suddenly opened his eyes, "Senior Kong, what are you going to do?" Kong Ming saw Guo Yitian wake up, and turned around to say goodbye: "I should go, it's inconvenient to stay here for a long time." ”
"Where are you going?" Guo Yitian cheered up and got up from the haystack.
"After leaving Suzhou, I wanted to come to Tokyo to do something and start a new life. I used to deal with Zhao Keran, the head of the Xingchen faction, when I was the leader of the beggar gang, and there are my old friends here. You'd better go back to Suzhou, although your father is gone, but there is still your mother there. With that, Kong Ming left.
Before Guo Yitian could ask anything more, Kong Ming was only left with his back in the distance. Guo's father's death is also an explanation, and strange and familiar pictures emerge in Guo Yitian's mind. This has never been the case, and perhaps only a return to a familiar place will bring back pages and pages of residual memories.
In the autumn of Suzhou, the wind is cold, and the average harvest of the people is less than three-tenths of the previous one. It's sad season, and the sky is overcast, as if it's going to rain heavily. I heard that the Hanxue Restaurant is unsustainable, but the funds are insufficient, and I am afraid that it will not survive the coming winter. The pedestrians on the road are full of sadness, sparse and sparse.
When passing by the Hanxue Restaurant, the children brought by the grandfather wanted to get a meal inside. But the Hanxue restaurant had closed early, and the child was crying and making trouble, and the grandfather coaxed him and said, "Don't make trouble." Let's go to the Boxer Restaurant, where you can also get food. ”
The child is only about seven years old, with a childish face, willful and dependent, "I don't want it, the food in Hanxue Restaurant is much better than other places." ”
Grandpa looked helpless, while coaxing and deceiving, wanting his grandson to be obedient, "Let's come early tomorrow, you see that the Hanxue restaurant is closed." The grandfather and grandson were in a stalemate for a long time, and the child was very reluctant to leave. But grandpa insisted on holding his hand and forcibly walked in the direction of Yihe Village.
"You guys, wait......" Mei Ruoxue appeared behind her grandson, "I still have a meal here, it's hot, if your grandson wants to eat, I'll give it to him." ”
After returning to the Hanxue Restaurant, Mei Ruoxue asked Zhu Han to hand the meal left behind to the children outside to eat. Zhu Han's eyes widened, and he was quite reluctant: "Miss Mei, this is specially reserved for you to eat." Why do you want to give it to other people? I will never agree to that. Mei Ruoxue insisted on her opinion: "I think that child is very pitiful and wants to eat a good meal." It just so happens that Miss Ben is on a diet to lose weight, and it doesn't matter if she eats one less meal. ”
Zhu Han frowned, "But, Miss Mei......" Mei Ruoxue couldn't help but say that she gave her share of dinner to the child. The child's grandfather burst into tears and didn't know what to say. The child's heart blossomed, and he took his grandfather's wrinkled hand and went away with him. This made Mei Ruoxue think about it, but Zhu Han sighed lightly on the side: "Miss Mei is always so loving and caring for the weak. ”
The sun had not yet set, but the sky was as dark as night. A torrential downpour of rain is inevitable, and pedestrians are even sparse on the streets. After Zhu Han finished his work in the store, he went to the place where he last met the woman with a black gauze mask to hide his body. After a while, the rain poured down, and it began to fall with a clatter.
There was no one on the street, Zhu Han stood in the heavy rain for half an hour, and when he was about to go back, the woman with a black veil and mask appeared again. Zhu Han immediately rushed in front of her and grabbed her arm. A few seconds had passed, but it seemed like a long time. "Fuyuka, come back with me. Miss May and I need you. ”
The woman in the black gauze mask tried to break free and became irritable: "I'm sorry, you recognized the wrong person, I'm not Dongxiang." But Zhu Han still refused to let go, and insisted: "I will not forget your voice." I know you're Fuyuka, don't lie to me anymore. The woman in the black veil smiled bitterly: "It is rumored that it is Dong Xiang who killed Guo Yitian, and the woman you are talking about has already been punished and killed." If I admit that I am Fuyuka, it is impossible for the dead to be resurrected. Let it go, if we don't let go, we will all be drenched in heavy rain and suffer from the cold. ”
Hearing this, Zhu Han's heart was chilled, and his eyes were as lonely as ice and snow, and few of them were like yellow leaves. tried to save something, but in the end there was nothing, only the heavy rain drenched the two of them. Although Zhu Han didn't want to believe that all this was true, he weakly let go of his right hand, and the woman with the black veil and mask hurriedly ran away.
After a period of recuperation, Guan Qianli's body has fully recovered. Then he asked the servants in the hall to summon the heavens and the earth to prepare an emergency meeting.
Tiangang and the earth saw the master, and the three of them began to point fingers at the Suzhou territory. Guan Qianli instructed: "I heard that Yihezhai has opened 20 restaurants to help the victims, and the business in Suzhou City has been robbed by them. In terms of collecting protection fees, they are tough in the background and refuse to pay more, which is a huge challenge to the authority of our Humen. If this continues, sooner or later, Humen's prestige will be much worse than before. Tiangang was puzzled: "Then what should we do?"
Guan Qianli's expression was serious, "Tiangang is stinking you to obey orders, and instructing your subordinates to charge double the protection fee on the original basis." If the Righteous Shop refuses to pay, let them smash it until they do. Also, you are the supreme commander of the dark department, so it is not appropriate to reveal your identity to the outside world. Tiangang obeyed the order: "Yes! The master of the door, his subordinates will not give up until they achieve their goal." ”
The next day, after a bloody storm, all the Boxer restaurants had been smashed, and the chefs had to put things in order. The most affected were the innocent victims of Suzhou, who had to starve all day long for the Boxer restaurant to reopen.
The victims of the disaster discussed this matter one after another, and they all pointed the finger at Humen. However, Humen has a lot of influence in Suzhou City, and the beggars, and even the government are also subservient to it. As a result, the people's grievances are deep, and they dare not speak out. If it was placed in the past, Guo Yitian, who was righteous and thin, would not have dared to touch the crooked thoughts of Yihe Restaurant. But it is rumored that he has been murdered by Dong Xiang, and Suzhou City has become the territory headed by Humen.
Rumors spread on the rivers and lakes, and a witness claimed that he had seen the murderer Dong Xiang in the heavy rain yesterday, wearing a black veil mask, and was inextricably linked to Zhu Han in the Hanxue Restaurant.
Soon, the woman in the black gauze mask who went out and lived in a fixed place was locked up. The crowd surrounded her, and one of them forcibly tore her veil of black mask.