Chapter 101: Winner (12)
"Master Su, the head of the family will come over in a while, and I have to bother your old man to wait a little longer. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
In front of Tuoba You, there was an old man, his wrinkled face was not shocked, but it could never be called wooden. In those very energetic eyes, there was a little shrewdness that Tuoba You didn't dare to underestimate. Although this old man is lying on his back and seems to be weak, Tuoba You knows very well that this Master Su Chasu is the number one catcher in Jiangnan, and he has been a fast catcher since before the establishment of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Although this Jiangnan has changed masters in turn, this Lord Su's official clothes are untouchable.
When the two brothers He Wuji and Tuoba You were still robbing their homes on the Huainan Waterway, they had several acquaintances with Su Cha. Tuoba You pinched his fingers and counted that the last time he met Su Cha was three years ago. At that time, when Su Cha came to the Huai River with a ticket to track down the whereabouts of the "sailor" Chu Heng, he once exchanged information with the famous "Huainan Double Thieves".
These Yamen business head catchers have never been inseparable from the **** of the rivers and lakes, and the "Huainan Double Thieves" and Tuoba You have known each other for a long time, and the first acquaintance was because Su Cha had a detailed discussion when he followed the Xiang army to sweep the Huai River. But Su Cha's hair is still not gray, and He Wuji and Tuoba You's complexion is not as dark as it is now, if it is oily and powdery, it is reasonable.
Looking at Tuoba You, who had a scruffy beard, a dark complexion, and a shallow scar on his thick arm, Su Cha stroked his short beard and smiled slightly, as if he remembered the years when he was a fast catcher.
"Tuoba Daxia seems to have disappeared in the past two years, and I still said that I washed my hands in a golden basin and stayed away from the rivers and lakes, who knew that he was actually doing things for a yellow-haired boy. What's the matter? Those businesses on the waterways are not doing well? The rich businessmen who have died at the hands of your two brothers in the past ten years or so are not 100, but 90, right?"
Listening to Su Cha's slightly old voice, but still full of energy, Tuoba You knew that Su Cha's martial arts had not regressed, and even improved a little. For a Jianghu person, a Jiazi is a hurdle, and there are few people in the rivers and lakes who still maintain the peak of their internal strength after the age of 60. Generally speaking, a Jianghu person will begin to decline when he is more than half a hundred years old, of course, if he cultivates some advanced internal skills, he may be able to extend it for ten or eight years, but after all, it is difficult to escape the fate of dispersal of gong.
After all, in the face of aging, no matter how good the mind is, it is also vain. Feathering into immortals, except for the group of Taoist priests on Kunlun Mountain, few people in the rivers and lakes believe it.
And Su Cha, like Chu Zhaojie of the Chu family, is an "outlier" who is over sixty years old but still has not lost his skills. Based on this alone, Tuoba You didn't dare to underestimate the little old man standing in front of him.
"It's one hundred and thirteen people, and it's the lives of my two brothers on the waterway. ”
"There must be more on the land route, right?" Hearing this number, Su Cha was not the slightest surprised, but nodded slightly and then asked.
"Except for the few people who Lu Lu killed by mistake, there should be only one person. ”
"Oh, I've never heard you talk about it. ”
Just looking at Su Cha's demeanor, it didn't look like the official and the bandit were talking at all, but like they were shushing and asking for warmth after the reunion of old friends who had been separated for many years.
"After all, it was almost twenty years ago, and it doesn't make sense to say that. ”
"With so many lives, your master is quite bold, if the government really wants to hold him accountable, I'm afraid that your master will also be implicated, right?"
"Lord Su won't be indifferent to the affairs of the rivers and lakes, right?
Tuoba You smiled indifferently, for the flamboyant personality of the "family master" in his mouth, Tuoba You, a Jiangyang thief who had never dared to show his head, was quite difficult to speak.
"Speaking of which, if it weren't for this Sikong family orphan who suddenly appeared, I wouldn't have changed into this dress before I said goodbye, but I would be shocked to thank him. ”
Su Cha laughed as he spoke, like a village sitting at the entrance every day. For the old man who greeted the villagers and guests with a smile on their faces. But Tuoba You knew very well that this was just a habitual deception of Su Cha, and this amiable-looking old man was quite similar to the master to whom he was loyal. Unscrupulous means to achieve the goal, ruthless but amiable, in the rivers and lakes, this kind of person can simply be called the second most terrible.
Of course, the first terrible thing is that those "righteous gentlemen" who kill people with a mouth full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, but they have countless lives under their hands because of their "crooked ways", and it is understandable that people in the rivers and lakes seek fame and fortune and kill people. But the heroes who cut off other people's heads for the sake of the so-called morality in their hearts, and also called it "eliminating harm for the people", are 10,000 times more terrible than the "despicable villains" in the mouths of those "righteous gentlemen" in the eyes of the "Huainan Double Thieves".
"Ha, then Master Su will personally thank the head of the family in a while, or...... Can you make it easier for these brothers of mine?"
"It's been a long time to arrest them, and it's a little early to loosen them, right?"
At the entrance of the yamen, Su Cha and Tuoba You stood under the plaque and talked and laughed like old friends who had not met for many years, but in the still somewhat poisonous sun at the end of summer, more than a dozen catchers were holding their waist knives on the necks of several Jianghu people wearing short shirts and various blades around their waists.
"But if you wait for the head of the family to come and see this scene, I'm afraid that Master Su will not be able to eat and walk around. ”
Tuoba You knew that Su Cha would not compromise on this, but under this tentative tone, he found that Su Cha didn't seem to want to embarrass himself, and he couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart. When Tuoba You took back the title deed of the gambling house, he suddenly killed a vote of people, and the fiery red official clothes made those water thieves who followed Tuoba You into Sikong Gu's command panicked, but before they could pull out the blades at their waists, those fast knives were put on their necks faster, and only the experienced Tuoba You dodged this raid. However, just as Tuoba You was about to perform light skills and rush back to the inn to ask Sikong Gu to come and explain, he suddenly saw that familiar figure.
As a result, the subordinates who were tied up and Tuoba You, who was with the head catcher, came to the yamen in this way. Of course, along the way, Tuoba You had already said the words of "reform" countless times, but Su Cha turned a deaf ear, and it was not until he walked to the Yamen that Su Cha asked Tuoba You to send a signal.
Tuoba You knew that the reason why Su Cha did not visit in person, but chose this hand, was that he wanted to beat Sikong Gu out of his hand, and was ready to give Sikong Gu, a "yellow-mouthed child", a dismount in front of the gate of this official office.
"Master Su, I'm afraid your wishful thinking will come to naught. ”
Tuoba You, who speculated about Su Cha's thoughts, came to his own conclusions.
(To be continued.) )