Seeing Yang Shuo's frowning appearance, Nangong Jun's tiger eyes were full of surprise, and the hand that was so shocked that the tiger's mouth was trembling. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

"Brother Yang...... You ......"

"It seems that my junior brother seems to be in trouble again. Yang Shuo sighed.

"Don't be surprised, I asked my senior brother to rush back last night. ”

After Sikong Gu successfully shifted everyone's attention from Yang Shuo to himself, he made a relaxed appearance and said leisurely:

"Don't be nervous, I'm here as a guest, this hospitality is a little ......"

At this time, Sikong Gu felt a bad chill coming towards him, and when he turned his head, Yang Shuo's iron-blue face was facing him, so he stuck out his tongue and finished the rest of the words, but his momentum gradually weakened: "...... Isn't that right?"

The leader of the Cao Gang, Li Yan, let out a long breath and asked Yang Shuo, "Hall Master Yang, what's going on?"

Li Yan didn't know what Yang Shuo and Sikong Gu had to do with each other, but when he saw Yang Shuo's expression staring at Sikong Gu, he understood that the child in front of him, who had always followed the rules, did not betray the Cao Gang.

"This matter has nothing to do with senior brother, ...... said"

Before Yang Shuo could open his mouth, Sikong Gu pointed to the slender sword in Yang Shuo's hand that was less than an inch away from him: "Senior brother, can you take this sword away first?

Yang Shuo pursed his lips, and then withdrew his sword. He gave a deep salute to Li Yan again: "Dexi (Yang Shuo's cousin) failed to personally preside over the burial of Brother Li, and now Mrs. is presiding over the burial, and I hope the helper will forgive me." ”

Li Yan, whose face had returned to normal, nodded, and said in his heart that all this today was probably this lonely ghost, and asked unhurriedly: "Ah Shuo doesn't need to be polite, is Sikong Gongzi really your junior brother?"

Yang Shuo couldn't hold his fist because his right arm was missing, so he had to put the five fingers of his left hand together on his chest, and apologized to everyone in the hall: "The master is unfortunate, this little junior brother has always been open-mouthed, disrespectful and respectful, and hopes that the gang leader and your brothers Haihan." ”

Nangong Jun snorted at him, and said to everyone in the hall who was still holding the sword: "Put away the sword, this little baby looks like he still has something to say, don't scare him." ”

Nangong Jun said, and Cao helped everyone put away their blades. Sikong Gu glanced at Nangong Jun, and then withdrew his gaze before anyone noticed, and said in his heart: "This Nangong Jun is really more effective than senior brother." ”

Nangong Jun made up his mind at this time, and he already knew that this Sikong Lonely Fang was probably deliberately provoking everyone, but he didn't know why he did this? This kid who called himself "the head of the Jiangning Sikong family" came here today...... Why, exactly?

"Don't blame the brothers of the Cao Gang, the little brother is just Meng Lang. Sikong Gu stood up at this time, and also bowed deeply to everyone in the appearance of a senior brother, and said.

When everyone saw him apologize, and knew that Yang Shuo was his senior brother, most of the unhappiness in their hearts disappeared. Li Yan gave up his hand on behalf of everyone:

"Childe, please sit down, Brother Yang is your senior brother, if you have something to say, you don't have to do any temptation. However, Lao Er still wants to know, why is there yours in my son's business?"

When Yang Shuo heard this, he stared at Sikong Gu and was suspicious: "About Brother Li's death...... What did the little junior brother just say?"

"The kid is rude, this Li Shao gang leader was unfortunately attacked in an alley next to my Mingyue Building, in a sense, my Mingyue Building does have part of the responsibility. In addition, the master of your gang Yang is the senior brother of the boy, and the leader of the Li Shao gang came to Mingyue Tower to exchange information with the Huang shopkeeper the night before yesterday, which is probably one of the reasons why the master of the Li Shao gang made a thief attack, so the kid wants to compensate you first. ”

When Li Yan heard this, he also figured out the joints, and couldn't help but glance at Yang Shuo, wanting to blame Yang Shuo for not telling everyone the news that Sikong Gu was also Mr. Wu's disciple. Who knew that Yang Shuo would be wrong, and under Li Yan's non-reproachful gaze, he blamed himself in the face of everyone present:

"I was the one who didn't want the junior brother to provide me with information about the Cao Gang, and when I joined the Cao Gang, I already owed something to my teacher, so how could I use what my teacher left behind? But today, Brother Li was assassinated, and the responsibility for this is not with the junior brother, but on me. ”

Before Yang Shuo finished speaking, Sikong Gu interrupted him:

"Senior brother, no one would have expected this, but I really didn't get a trace of news about the attack on Li Shao's gang leader, so why should you blame yourself?"

Although Sikong said this, he had another comment on Yang Shuo in his heart: "It seems that Senior Brother's work in observing words and emotions is the same as in the past, and he has not grown half a point over the years. ”

In the center of the hall of the Cao Gang, Sikong Gulang said to everyone in the hall:

"The kid deliberately provoked you because there were still two confusions in the kid's heart: one is whether you really want to avenge the Li Shaogang leader, or do you just want to silently bury the Li Shao gang leader and leave this matter behind; Now that these two puzzles have been solved, I hope you will give the kid a little time, so that the kid can talk about it in detail. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone focused their attention on Sikong Gu's second puzzle, and Yang Shuo said in his heart: "Little junior brother originally knew who the murderer was?"

Li Yan didn't seem to have the slightest emotional fluctuation, but said coldly to Sikong Gu: "It turns out that Sikong Gongzi is here to be a teacher today. ”

Sikong Gu ignored him, and said to himself: "I already know the answer to the first question, it seems that you want to take revenge, but you don't know who the enemy is." The answer to the second question is even more obvious......"

Yang Shuo only felt that Sikong was lonely and long-winded, so he put up his senior brother's stand and scolded him: "If you have something to say, why beat around the bush!"

"Senior brother's lesson is that Meng Yuan hasn't learned much kung fu over the years, and he has hung a lot of book bags, forgive me......"

"Straight ahead!" Yang Shuo frowned and scolded again.

Sikong Gu commented on this senior brother for the third time in his heart: "It seems that the senior brother's mind is in turmoil, he is not a person with an anxious personality on weekdays. ”

After smiling at Yang Shuo, Sikong Gu nodded again and said, "Yes, yes, if you want to take revenge, in the eyes of the kid, you just don't know who the enemy is and how to take revenge." After all, we all know that the body of Li Shao's gang leader was found in the alley not far from Mingyue Tower. ”

One of the members of the Cao Gang in the hall was even more impatient, and rushed in front of Yang Shuo and asked Sikong Gu, "Do you know what? What does these two questions have to do with those two questions?"

"Then may I ask you, if you talk about fighting alone, who can defeat Li Shao's gang leader in this huge Yangzhou city?"

Another person in the hall asked, "Why do you ask this question? and why do you have to go it alone?"

Sikong Gu had to explain to the gang again:

"The alley is so narrow, at most it can accommodate two people in parallel, in this situation, you need to perform a move, that is, it is difficult to accommodate one person, how can you talk about a siege under this condition? This corpse has no traces of dragging, and the young gang leader has only one knife wound on his body, if everyone is besieging, then it is not reasonable to have only one knife wound. In addition, the sword blade of the young gang leader has a dull mouth, and the blunt mouth is a new life, presumably it was done by the murderer that night......"

"How did you learn about this?" Nangong Jun asked Sikong Gu before Li Yan could ask.

"Senior brother told me," Sikong pointed at Yang Shuo.

In the eyes of everyone, Yang Shuo nodded with a wry smile and said: "Last night, he asked a bunch of strange questions, saying that he could judge who committed the murder, and I wanted one more person to help us, and we could find the murderer faster, so I told him." After listening to the information I told him, he asked me to persuade everyone not to bury Brother Li today. ”

Nangong Jun glanced at Sikong Gu, who was standing in the center of the hall, and said, "The matter of Brother Li's burial has been arranged, and if it is changed, it will be unlucky." ”

"He said he would make everything clear today, and let me escort the coffin back when it got to the place. Yang Shuo pressed his faintly aching head, "Who knows ...... this guy?"

"Ladies and gentlemen, let's wait until I'm done. Sikong Gu took over the conversation and continued to say to everyone in the hall:

"As you all know, the young gang leader walked with the murderer for a few rounds that night, because the murderer was a sneak attack, and the young gang leader Li may have been less prepared. That's why the younger brother asked, who can 'defeat' the young gang leader in this Yangzhou city?"

Sikong Gu deliberately increased the volume of the word "defeat", and everyone in the hall knew that the difficulty of defeating a master was not equal to killing a master. If it is said that there are masters who can compete with Li Zhou, there are less than ten in Yangzhou City. But in the face of a master with similar strength, even if it was an attack that night, Li Zhou was able to escape from his men with his good martial arts.

All that remains is ...... Li Zhou was killed by a master who was much stronger than himself.

"That alley is not deep, and if the young gang leader wants to go, he can go to the roof with just one leap with his light skills, and in the end, the body should not stop in that alley. According to the kid's intelligence here, I'm afraid that there will be no more than four young gang masters in this huge Yangzhou City. ”

"No, I don't think there are more than three people, and it is impossible for Brother Yang to ...... So......" Nangong Jun looked suddenly enlightened.

"Yes, except for the impossible, only those two-"

"It's just speculation. Li Yan interrupted Sikong Gu, although Li Yan was reluctant to admit it, he knew this very well, and there had always been this kind of speculation in his mind, but because of the situation that the Cao Gang was facing now, he also longed for it to be just speculation.

"Yesterday, in my Mingyue Tower, why did Nangong Daxia hurt his son-in-law?" Sikong Gu suddenly mentioned the conflict in Mingyue Tower yesterday, but a glimmer of light flashed in Li Yan's cloudy eyes.

"I was just angry at that words at the time......" Nangong Jun's eyes widened, as if he understood something.

"No, it stands to reason that at most, if it was a startling snake, then the snake should have appeared, why didn't they come to the door?"

Everyone knew about the conflict that occurred in Mingyue Tower yesterday, and many gangsters also reprimanded Nangong Jun, saying that Nangong Jun ignored the overall situation and provoked opponents. Sikong Gu's smile at this time was a little more treacherous: "By the way, yesterday I ordered someone to find the right time to pour wine on Nangong Daxia, and it has nothing to do with that Jin Zhicheng, and the little brother will accompany him here first." ”

"Thunderbolt Fire" Nangong Jun's eyes widened, clenched his fists, but he exhaled again, and said while shaking his head: "The two of us are incompatible in Yangzhou, they have known for a long time, but I really didn't expect it...... It turns out that yesterday I actually fell for the trick of the Sikong brothers. ”

"Yes, they have known for a long time, but now that Li Shao's gang leader is dead, he has two masters in the Dao Gate, although there is one who claims to wash his hands in a golden basin, and there is also a door master. What are they afraid of?"

Nangong Jun still shook his head, but he had no confidence in his words: "They are just afraid that they don't know that Li Shao's gang leader has ......."

"Haha. After the short and light laughter landed, Sikong Gu said again: "Will they not know? Let me say a disrespectful word, is there really no one in the Cao Gang who will reveal this news? Among the hundreds of people in the Yangzhou Cao Gang, even if it is an unintentional mistake, will everyone really not leak a trace of news? I know that your gang has been suppressing the news since the death of Li Shaogang Leader, let me ask you, has this news been suppressed?"

Seeing that no one responded, Sikong Gu knew that they had acquiesced, and then asked: "Do you still think they will not know about such a major event as the death of Li Shao's gang leader?" Let me ask you, I Mingyuelou all know the news, and half of Yangzhou City knows that there is a dead person next to the alley of Mingyuelou, will he not know about it?"

Sikong Gu's voice was a little higher: "The second confusion of the kid today has been solved, and the answer he got is that the princes of the Cao Gang are very wrong. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the hall was in an uproar.

"We don't have ......any evidence at hand," Yang Shuo muttered, not knowing whether he was arguing with Sikong Gu or with himself.

"Senior brother, Gang Leader Li, Nangong Daxia, all the Cao Gang brothers present, let me ask, Li Shaogang Leader is dead, who benefited? Is it the Cao Gang? Is it those small sects in Yangzhou? Is it those old men who steal money from us? One thing, whoever benefits the most, who is the mastermind behind the scenes, has Senior Brother forgotten how Master taught us? You said that there is no evidence, but have you ever gone to Yangdaomen to look for evidence?"

Among the many choices to avoid Sikong Gu's sharp gaze, Yang Shuo finally closed his eyes in pain.

"You might as well speculate, yesterday your Nangong brothers injured Jin Youde's eldest son, if according to the temper of Yang Daomen on weekdays, why didn't they come to the door, even if they didn't come to ask for Nangong brothers' heads, at least they had to save face, Guibang Li Shaogang leader immortal died, he Yang Daomen knew; Why has there been no movement in Yangdaomen until now, have you really thought about it?"

Sikong Gu looked around at everyone in the hall, but everyone dodged his gaze.

"Indeed, with Jin's virtuous temper, it is time for them to attack us. Li Yan slumped on the back of his chair, he knew that the young man standing straight in front of him had already seen through all this, and he was about to debunk all this, he was just comforting himself at this time.

"Senior brother, did you say last night that there was blood stains on the long sword of Li Shaogang Leader? The blood stains are not thieves, could it be that Li Shaogang Leader is still his own?"

Li Yan understands that if the person who attacked Li Zhou is really Jin Youde, and Li Zhou also injured Jin Youde, then it is understandable that Jin Youde does not take advantage of the attack now. Regarding this problem, Li Yan had already thought about it, but Li Yan, who was indulging in the pain of losing his son, did not think deeply about all this, all he was thinking about was not letting the Cao Gang collapse.

Sikong Gu is not a member of the Cao Gang, so he only regards Li Zhou as the actual leader of the Cao Gang, but in the eyes of all the Cao Gang brothers in the hall, Li Zhou is not just a leader, he is also the spiritual pillar of the entire Cao Gang. As soon as Li Zhou died, the Cao Gang was like a landslide, which is probably the truth of the bystanders.

"Although I am the younger generation of you, I am a bystander. In this Yangzhou city, who doesn't know that as soon as Li Shao's gang leader leaves, what he will benefit from is his raising of the knife gate? When he raised the knife gate and saw the appearance of all the dragons without a leader, he probably wanted to laugh in his heart, right? When Jin Youde's cultivation was restored, it was when he raised the knife and raised his sword at the helm of the Cao Gang. What I wanted to accompany at the beginning was not to help you drive the Jin family out of Yangzhou first, this is the younger brother's no. But the younger brother is here to be disrespectful to you again-"

Sikong raised his head and said sharply to everyone in the hall:

"Your fault is that no one dares to say it, you are afraid, Jin Youde is strong in martial arts, and his wife is even better than him. And after the Cao Gang lost the leader of Li Shao's gang, the only ones who could compete with it were my senior brother and Nangong Daxia, plus the younger generation of disciples who were not as good as Yangdaomen, if you look at it on this basis, Yangdaomen is indeed better. Therefore, the monarchs are afraid, and they are afraid that if the murderer is not the Jin family, he will violate the morality of the rivers and lakes, and the Cao Gang will lose face! But in the eyes of the younger brother, the monarchs are even more afraid that if they are right, because of the loss of Li Shao's gang leader, the Cao gang of 2,000 people is just a plate of loose sand! The monarchs would rather deceive themselves than pursue the truth, and they still want to take revenge.

Sikong Gu said this, but he laughed, and his voice also lowered, knowing that there was no need to use a high tone to let them hear clearly at this time:

"You might as well think about it, as long as you share the same hatred, will your gang still be scattered?"

Most of the people in the hall were important members of the gang, and most of them had doubts about Yangdaomen, but as Yang Shuo said, they had no evidence, so they would rather deceive themselves than face up to the confusion in their hearts, but really pursue the answers at their fingertips. They hope that they will not be able to face the reality, and a small number of people also believe that the murderer is Yang Daomen, but because the gang is tracking down the "truth" and looking for "evidence", their voices have not spread.

In the eyes of everyone in the hall, as soon as Li Zhou died, the entire Cao Gang was in chaos, and at this time, the Cao Gang had absolutely no way to resist the Yang Dao Gate, even the scheming Li Yan also thought so.

Sikong Gu knew very well in his heart that although the Cao Gang went to a general, the overall strength was still not weaker than that of Yang Daomen after Jin Youde's injury. The current Cao Gang is just missing a deciding man, a banner that can bring everyone together.

Revenge is sometimes the best flag. Didn't you think the same way? I thought that the revenge of the Sikong family was the banner, and Zhang Wenwen and the others would be driven by themselves. Now we only need to make this truth clear to the Cao Gang, and the Cao Gang will at least not ......

At this time, Li Yan looked at Sikong Gu's delicate face, but he thought of his child in the prime of life, and said in his heart: "...... Zhou'er ...... It's really old for a father......"

"We ...... What should I do?" everyone present looked worried, and no one cared who asked Sikong Gu.

"For the subordinates, the best way is to report to the official. Of course, for you, the most important way to pay attention to the rules of the rivers and lakes is to come to the door to find out the truth, so that Li Shao's gang leader does not have to go into the ground with resentment. It's a pity that it's too late. ”

A roar came from the side of his ear, it was Nangong Jun's roar, and for Sikong Gu, it was a belated catharsis. Li Yan and Yang Shuo both closed their eyes, as if they wanted to lock their tears, and the rest of the gang members either looked like they were in pain, or they looked sad, and Sikong Gu also found that two of the gang members just shook their heads, as if they had already known the "truth".

It's useless to just know the "truth", Sikong Gu knows very well that for the current Cao Gang, what they lack is not the "truth", but cohesion. This so-called "truth" is just speculation, and it has been mentioned by some people within the Cao Gang, but it is a pity that it was put forward by the gang, and it will not be taken seriously by Li Yan and Nangong Jun at all. Nangong Jun has too good a relationship with Li Zhou, and only wants to take revenge and vent his hatred, regardless of the rise and fall of the Cao Gang; and his senior brother wants to pursue some illusory "truth" and evidence.

Sikong Gu thought of this, and felt ridiculous, and said secretly in his heart: "No wonder Li Zhou's position is so stable, as soon as he dies, the Cao Gang is really chaotic, and the leaders don't care about the overall situation one by one." If I ......"

"Let's ...... now I'll go to Yangdaomen and ask for clarification,......" Yang Shuo muttered. But almost everyone in the lobby could hear it, but no one paid attention to him at all, of course, it was obvious that Yang Shuo himself didn't take it seriously, he just clenched his fists and looked at the beam.

"Senior brother must not have decided on a single thing on weekdays, but I am afraid that he always obeys orders or acts according to the rules on weekdays. Sikong Gu glanced at Nangong Jun again, but saw Nangong Jun bowing his head and pondering, and thought in his heart: "This Nangong Jun's temper is much hotter than that of his senior brother, and his style of acting seems to be more transgressive on weekdays, often violating orders or rules, and he is quite authoritative among everyone." Hey, people who often break the rules are quite prestigious, and people who are too observant have no prestige, and power is such a strange thing. ”

Thinking of this, a smile hung on the corner of Sikong Gu's mouth.

Zhang Wenwen saw that Sikong Gu had analyzed the way, but he secretly said in his heart: "What if the killer of Li Zhou was not Yang Daomen? What if it was some foreign knight? Could they have completely ignored this?" Thinking of Sikong Gu's words, it was really far-fetched to judge the murderer as "it can only be Yang Daomen", but no one in the Cao Gang refuted it, and immediately realized that Sikong Gu was not pointing out the murderer to them at all, but telling them that the enemy of Yang Daomen was the murderer, and that Yang Daomen and the Cao Gang were already old enemies, and who would "oppose" It doesn't matter whether the evidence is or not, and it doesn't even matter whether the real murderer is the murderer, and it may be the most important thing for the Cao Gang to vent their hatred and get the most benefits.

Thinking of this, Zhang Wenwen's eyes when he looked at Sikong Gu also changed, and Sikong Gu's warm smile was distorted in his eyes.

Sikong Gu waited for the voice in the lobby to gradually subside, and when he was about to speak, everyone heard a shouting sound from outside the lobby. Then a gang member outside the door came to report that it was a woman who asked to see her.

"Young Master—Young Master—" When the woman entered the courtyard, Sikong Gu saw the woman's face clearly, it was Xiao Yanagi, his maid.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the maid below, I don't know what happened to make her so out of shape, I hope you will forgive me. Sikong Gu was standing on the side of the door and wanted Yang Shuo and the others to apologize, when Xiao Liu's voice came from outside the door, and the voice was very urgent:

"Liu Langjun was kidnapped by thieves—"

Zhang Wenwen, who was in the lobby with his arms folded and bowed his head and pondered the person "Sikong Gu", heard this, but his head suddenly popped up and exclaimed:

"What?"

This voiceless exclamation was like a sharp blade in Sikong Gu's ears because of the broken sound, and everyone in the Cao Gang did not know why.

Zhang Wenwen ran out of the door, pressed Xiao Liu's shoulder and asked, "What did you say?"

Xiao Liu looked like he was about to cry, but he still cleared his throat and said in a voice that everyone could hear: "Those people who guarded Xiao Langjun came back and said that after a man in black overturned the boat that Liu Langjun and the little scholar were on, Liu Langjun and the little scholar could not be found, they thought ...... It was the man in black who kidnapped Liu Langjun and the little scholar...... You...... Can you let it go? It hurts ......."

Looking at Zhang Wenwen, who was turned into a stone statue, and Xiao Liu, who was held down by Zhang Wenwen's shoulder, everyone in the Cao Gang looked at each other, still not knowing what was going on, while Sikong Gu frowned and licked his dry lips, revealing a wry smile.

"Ladies and gentlemen, it seems that the little brother is also being targeted. ”