Chapter 24: Goodbye in the Woods
Nanjing, one of the seven ancient capitals of China, has become Kyoto ten times since the Eastern Wu founded Nanjing in 229 AD. Today's Nanjing City, as the foot of the Son of Heaven, the first good place, is a thriving scene. Although it experienced the invasion of war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's 25 years of recuperation and recuperation reawakened the vitality of this ancient city. Zhu Yuanzhang devoted himself to the Ming Dynasty, especially the city of Nanjing. His gloom and murderous spirit only raged in the court, and as the people in the city, they could only feel the emperor's love and goodwill towards them. "It would be nice if there weren't so many beggars" is the idea of all residents of Nanjing. Everything has two sides. If the Nanjing city in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes is yang, then the beggars and gangsters in the city are yin. And their source is the rotten alley outside the city.
Walking in the bazaar of Nanjing, Xu Ruyi felt a long-lost relaxation. This morning he took a leave of absence from the housekeeper, saying that he wanted to go out for a walk. The butler didn't say anything, but granted him leave and gave him two pieces of silver. It seems that Madame Mu has already greeted the housekeeper in the house.
casually bought a sugar cake on the street, and Xu Ruyi took it in his hand and ate two bites from time to time. Look at the sky, noon has passed.
"Let's go out of the city and have a look" Xu Ruyi rubbed his eyes that were a little sour by the sun, and walked towards the rotten alley outside the city, "Maybe you can see that fat man?"
In fact, there are many fewer beggars in Nanjing today than in the past, but people have not noticed. Many beggars stayed in their own corners of the rotten alleys and did not enter the city. They sat and stood, their eyes looking at the woods not far away, their expressions a little nervous, they were waiting for the result, the outcome of a battle.
This forest is very dense, and the trees are mostly pines and cypresses. In a clearing in the forest, there are many people lying horizontally at this moment. Some people are silent, the blood marks on their necks or hearts tell the cause of their death, and some people can still moan slightly, and they ask their companions for help, but their companions are also unable to protect themselves, maybe only to look at God's will. The sword flashed, and the figure as fast as a ghost shuttled through the crowd. The smile of death is displayed in the interplay of light and darkness.
"Ahh His dead eyes reflected the chubby Grim Reaper with an iron sword.
Gently shook the iron sword in his hand, shaking off the blood on it. Yun Zheng inserted the sword back into the scabbard on his waist, and there was no living person around.
Not far behind "Good", a tall and slender man in tattered clothes shouted loudly for him, and then applauded, "Uncle Yun is really good."
Yun Zheng turned around and looked at the slender man without speaking, but squinted his eyes, as if thinking about something.
This slender and tall man is called Stuffy San'er, and he was originally a dilapidated household in a nearby village. His parents died early, and he lost the small amount of property left by his parents because of his gambling addiction. Because he couldn't live, he came to Nanjing to beg for a living. Since childhood, a fortune teller once said that he would have power in the future, but he did not see where his power came from. It wasn't until he became a beggar in the city of Nanjing that he roughly understood what the fortune teller was talking about. Rotten Man Alley can be regarded as the blessed land of Rotten Man Alley, with the character of daring to fight, and the physical capital given by his parents, Stuffy San'er spent four years to establish the second largest gang in Rotten Man Alley, and some people have gathered under him. This strength is nothing in the eyes of the fastidious gangs in the city, but he has a foothold in this rotten alley. Over the years, if he has any big dreams, it may be to defeat the person named Brother Mi and become the number one gang in Rotten Man Alley.
He thought that this dream might never come true, after all, the power in the hands of that brother was stronger than him. But a few days ago, a rotten man named Yun Zheng came to him and said that he could help him, just asking for a place to stay. This is also the rule here, anyone who is new must come to his place or his brother's place to report, and pay a little protection money every day to stay.
"Come to me every day to pay two pennies, stay if you can't, and get out if you can't" This is the first thing stuffy San'er said to Yun Zheng at that time, a fat man without roots, he has seen a lot, and he is unwilling to take care of it, but he didn't expect the fat man to refuse.
"I won't ask for food, and I won't pay for it," Yun Zheng shook his head.
"Hehe" San'er was stunned, and then sneered, "Then get out!"
As soon as the words fell, the iron sword on Yun Zheng's waist rested on his shoulder, clinging to his neck, "I can help you level my brother, you take care of me every day, how about it?"
This scene is the cause of today's killing.
Bo San'er and seven or eight of his subordinates stood quietly on the edge of the clearing, watching Yun Zheng kill his brother and his thirty-four subordinates with one person and one sword, they were completely stunned, only Bo San'er reluctantly applauded and shouted hello.
Yun Zheng pulled out the iron sword that had just been inserted again, and walked towards Bo San'er, step by step, stepping on the blood on the ground, and walking slowly. The distance between the two sides was not far, and after a few steps, Yun Zheng stood in front of Bo San'er, without saying a word, just looking up at Bo San'er's face.
"Cloud. . . Uncle Yun "San'er was sweating profusely, and he was a little trembling when he spoke, "You, you... ”
Yun Zheng still didn't speak, still looking up at him.
"Plop" Stuffy San'er knelt on the ground, "Uncle, you will be our boss in the future, you have the final say, spare my life!"
While talking, Bo San'er kowtowed, and the subordinates next to him were still standing, they were a little scared stupid, thirty-four lives, plus a total of thirty-five for my brother, just like that, I was killed by the fat man in front of me for a while. They hadn't seen what the ghost looked like, but they imagined it to be similar to this.
Raising his head and slowly lowering his head, Yun Zheng looked coldly at the stuffy San'er who was kneeling on the ground in front of him, and put the iron sword in his hand on his shoulder again.
The cold hairs of the stuffy San'er stood up, and the proximity of death made him dare not speak.
"It's better to spare him, it's useful" A voice sounded in the shadows of the woods, and Mi San'er couldn't see the face of the person who spoke, but he felt that it was the best voice he had ever heard.
Yun Zheng inserted the sword in his hand back into the scabbard again, turned around and walked towards the shadow from the voice, leaving a cold sentence in his mouth, "Stay and don't move!"
Stuffy San'er collapsed to the ground, and a fishy smell came from under him. looked at the subordinates behind him who were still in a daze, and said angrily, "Why are you stunned?
"Ahh
"No, no!" Stuffy San'er pushed and shoved again and again, opened the hands of his subordinates, and said angrily, "Lao Tzu is asking you to kneel!"
On the other side, in the shadow of the woods, Yun Zheng respectfully knelt on the ground, "father-in-law"
"En" Xu Ruyi nodded, "Get up and talk"
Yun Zheng stood up and quietly looked at Xu Ruyi in front of him with his back to him.
"You did a good job," Xu Ruyi said lightly, "Our family just happened to come here for a while, and I happened to see you exerting your might, and you are practicing kung fu well." ”
"Father-in-law Xie praises, they are all cultivated by father-in-law"
"Who's that kneeling?"
"That's the leader of the second largest organization here. ”
"The second biggest?" Xu Ruyi wondered, "Who is the first one?"
"The first brother is called," Yun Zheng said, stretching out his hand and pointing at a corpse in the field, "I have just been killed by Xiao"
"Oh," Xu Ruyi thought for a moment and said, "So now that stuffy San'er is the boss here?"
"He's not going to be right away," Yun Zheng said gloomily.
"Eh~~" Xu Ruyi waved his hand and turned around, "Don't be so murderous, it's good for you to keep him alive"
Seeing that Yun Zheng didn't understand it, Xu Ruyi explained, "After all, you have just arrived here, and you are not as familiar with the situation and rules here as you are with that boring San'er." If there is anything, you can just leave it to him directly, and put him in front on weekdays. So if something happens, there's a substitute for the dead, isn't there?"
"I understand," Yun Zheng nodded.
"Our family is here to see you, since we have seen it, our family should go" Yun Zheng turned around and walked out of the woods, "Don't look for me usually, see you at the temple fair." ”
Yun Zheng saw that Xu Ruyi had already walked away, turned around and came to the front of Bo San'er again.
"Yun, Uncle Yun," said Bo San'er with difficulty.
Looking at the seven or eight people kneeling on the ground, Yun Zheng said, "You are still you, I don't care about anything, I am your new subordinate in front of outsiders." Got it?"
Bo San'er nodded hurriedly, "The little one understands, the little one understands, if there is something, you can tell me!"
"You guys go out first, I'll stay here alone for a while" Yun Zheng waved his hand and said.
In a moment, there was only one living person left in the clearing in the forest, plus a group of corpses on the ground, not all of them were dead, and a few of them were not dead, and they let out a slight moan. Yun Zheng pulled out the sword again, walked into the field, and mended the sword next to the people who still had voices.
"Hehe" Yun Zheng chuckled, his voice shrill and thin. He didn't know what was funny, but he just wanted to laugh.
"Hahahahaha