21. Taste fragrant tea and talk about old things, peace is like a dark tide

After finishing the fish, Zhao Yong said, "Let's go, let's go home!" and then pulled Ah Fei and the little bell into the streets of the city. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Zhao Yong's home is in the southwest corner of Tanzhou City, where four courtyards sit side by side, which are the residences of Zhao Yong, Qian Sheng, Sun Bao and Li Shen. Walking into the courtyard, Ah Fei looked at the newly built small building in the courtyard and praised it sincerely: "What a style, big brother, your big faucet of the Water Gang is really extraordinary!"

"Hahaha, yes, I think that when I was in Yuezhou, my brothers and I lived in the same courtyard, and we were really a little aggrieved!" Zhao Yong recalled that year, and couldn't help but sigh a little. He groaned slightly, then smiled and said, "But I can have all this thanks to you!"

"Me?" Ah Fei couldn't help but be a little puzzled.

"If you hadn't killed that Li Zhenze, I'm afraid I'm still selling fish in Yuezhou City now, and I'm going to have a hard time fighting with the two brothers Liu Dingfu and Liu Dinggui for some scattered silver. ”

Although Zhao Fu did not tell Ah Fei why he wanted to assassinate Li Zhenze, Ah Fei understood the relationship after learning that Zhao Yong was going to take over the affairs of Tanzhou. "Brother Ah Fu just asked me to kill Li Zhenze at the beginning, I don't know anything else, big brother, you can get everything now, it's all the credit of Brother Ah Fu!" Ah Fei said.

"Yes, Brother Afu......" Zhao Yong nodded and said, "You two have done a great thing behind my back!" Speaking of Zhao Fu, Zhao Yong felt a burst of melancholy in his heart, lamenting that Zhao Fu died too early. At the beginning, because of Zhao Fu's help, he was able to really gain a firm foothold in the Dongting Thirteen Water Gang, and became the leader of the gang. Now although he and that Tan Daozhong are amicable on the surface, they are secretly tense. He knew that Tan Daozhong and Wan Yingtang were secretly colluding and had always wanted to get rid of him, but because Jiang Chengyi trusted Tan Daozhong very much, he didn't dare to act rashly. Zhao Yong wanted to find a safe way to bring down Tan Daozhong, but he couldn't ask for it, he couldn't help but miss Zhao Fu a little, and hoped that Brother Afu would still be by his side to give advice.

"Come on, sit down, sister, Ah Fei is our guest, you can make some good tea." Zhao Yong led Ah Fei into the house and sat down, and then ordered the little bell.

"Good. Little Bell smiled and said, "You are a big old man, and you are also a literati, and you are going to make tea for the guests." ”

"This is what you don't understand, this is to entertain ordinary rough people, and it is done with wine. Brother Ah Fei is not an ordinary person, of course he can't use wine to entertain, he has to use tea, because this good tea is more expensive than wine!" Zhao Yongdao.

Ah Fei couldn't help but smile when he heard this. This sounds a little awkward, but it seems to be ...... There's nothing wrong with that.

In a few moments, the little bell boiled hot water. She said while rinsing the tea set: "Brother, I said it in advance, Brother Ah Fei has injuries on his body and can't stand the toss." Don't call all the brothers in the gang to drink like you did last time, it's too noisy and hurtful. ”

"Good, good, don't toss, don't toss, listen to my little sister. Zhao Yong laughed, pointed at Ah Fei and said: "Look at my sister, how much I care about you, I have an injury and a disease on my brother's body, she never cares!"

When the little bell heard what Zhao Yong had to say, his cheeks were slightly red, and he immediately chirped: "Phew, you big brother has no conscience at all! When you first arrived in Tanzhou, you fought with those boys who disobeyed you in the Jianglong Gang and broke your leg bones, who took care of you without sleeping? I knew that you would say such things today, I shouldn't have taken care of you in the first place, it's really sad!"

Ah Fei smiled: "Big brother also broke his leg, how did you do it?"

"Hehe, it's just an ambush by a few little mongrels. Zhao Yong said vaguely, glared at the little bell again, and said, "You...... You, such a shameful thing, why do you have to do it in front of Brother Ah Fei!"

"What's so embarrassing? You fight five by yourself on this big night, or with your bare hands, what's so embarrassing?" The little bell pushed a cup of brewed hot tea in front of Ah Fei and squinted at Zhao Yongdao.

"One to five, what happened to the five people who were in ambush?" Ah Fei picked up the teacup and smelled the tea, feeling that the tea was too hot to swallow, so he put down the teacup again.

Zhao Yong drank all the hot tea, and then said: "Four died, and one ran away." The one who ran away was because I had a broken leg and couldn't catch up with him. However, that kid was later caught by Li Shen. In front of many brothers by the river, Li Shen threw him into the river and fed him to the fish. Damn, if I hadn't been able to walk, I would have chopped that kid into meat sauce with my own hands. Hmph, what a bargain for him!"

"Ah, what's there to talk about in this kind of thing. The little bell filled Zhao Yong's teacup and said, "Drink your tea!"

"Haha, my sister is a bodhisattva, and she can't listen to me talk about murder. Zhao Yong drank the tea again.

"If you kill someone, you kill someone, why do you want to chop it into meat sauce? It's cruel. The little bell shook his head and added another cup of tea to Zhao Yong.

Zhao Yong drank the tea again and laughed: "You don't understand, those rabbit cubs sometimes have to scare them, you can't always give them a smile, you have to let them know our methods." ”

Ah Fei saw that Zhao Yonglian drank three cups of tea, so he reached out and touched the teacup in front of him, and saw that the tea was still a little hot, so he said, "Isn't it hot?"

"Huh?"

Ah Fei pointed to the teacup and said, "It's too hot." ”

"Hahaha, I don't think so, I'm used to drinking. Zhao Yong smiled, "Isn't this tea just hot to drink it, why don't you drink it?"

"Really?" Ah Fei looked at the cup of hot tea in front of him, thinking that if the tea saint Lu Yu had lived until now, he would have to be angry when he heard Zhao Yong's words.

"Boss, are you back?" shouted from someone outside the courtyard.

"Is it Sun Bao? Come in, come in. Zhao Yong said loudly.

"Good. A man with a white face walked into the small building, it was Zhao Yong's good brother Sun Bao. Sun Bao saw that there were people he didn't know in the house, so he said, "There are guests?"

"Hahaha, it's said that it's a guest, but it's actually our own brother. Zhao Yong pointed at Ah Fei and asked Sun Baodao, "Take a closer look at who he is?"

Sun Bao looked at Ah Fei carefully, and suddenly smiled: "Look at these eyebrows, it looks like the little brother Ah Fei who took an axe for the boss." ”

"Third Brother Sun, that is, you have a good memory, and you still remember me. Ah Fei also smiled.

"Hmph, Third Brother Sun recognizes you, it's a good memory, I recognize you, isn't it a good memory?" said the little bell, and made a cup of tea for Sun Bao.

"You also have a good memory. Ah Fei said helplessly.

"Hahaha, Brother Ah Fei casually praised me, do you want to fight for the bell girl?" Sun Bao blew the tea in the cup and took a sip and said.

"No, what's there to fight about?" Little Bell said indifferently, "Third Brother Sun, are you here to find my eldest brother?"

"Yes, Sun Bao, do you have something to do with me? you don't just want to come and ask for tea!" Zhao Yongye asked.

Sun Bao said: "What is the boss talking about, we are all neighbors who live next to each other, what is wrong with me coming to your house?"

"Don't come, if you had said this a month ago, I would have believed it. But now your mother-in-law has just added a big fat boy to you, and you are already busy to death just taking care of the family, where is the spare time to visit the house? Tell me, what is the matter?" Sun Bao was the first person to start a family among the few people around Zhao Yong, followed by Qian Sheng, and Li Shen has not married yet. That Sun Bao and his mother-in-law already had a son, and a few days ago his mother-in-law gave birth to another one for him, but Sun Bao was so happy that he didn't even go out of the door these days, but just cooked porridge and stewed chicken for his mother-in-law at home, and served her obediently. Therefore, he didn't attract many jokes from the brothers in the gang, but he didn't care, just circled around his mother-in-law. When Zhao Yong said this, he naturally had a bit of ridicule, but when he asked him why he came from, he was also sincere.

"Hehe, okay, then I'll just say it, I heard the fourth brother say just now, boss, you scolded him again just now?"

"It turns out that you are here for Li Shen's business, what's the matter, Li Shen's kid has complained to you?" Zhao Yong was a little unhappy when he heard that it was Li Shen's matter.

"It's not a complaint, how dare he? He was wrong about this in the first place, so what qualifications does he have to complain? He came to me to ask me what I should buy for those merchants, so I knew that he was scolded by the boss again. ”

"I don't know what to buy, wouldn't it be good to send the silver directly, and I still need to ask you?" Zhao Yongdao, "He is single, he has saved so much silver, and he doesn't know how to marry a wife, and if he saves it, it is for nothing, so it is better to give it to others." ”

"Hahaha, boss, you also know the fourth brother, he doesn't understand anything else except to fight with people, and he doesn't care, this is not compensation and marrying a wife, you let him do it alone, he can't do anything, so ah, you are really a little embarrassed for him. ”

"What, you're here to intercede for him, so that I can let him go, so that he doesn't have to go to those merchants to apologize?"

"Of course not, the apology must be compensated, otherwise it will chill the hearts of the merchants and make people think that we and the Li Zhenhai brothers are all the way. Sun Bao Zhengse said, "It's just that I don't think I can let the fourth brother go alone, I'm afraid that he will mess up this matter and make a good thing a bad thing, so I want to discuss it with the boss, and I will accompany the fourth brother tomorrow." ”

"Are you going with him?" Zhao Yong felt that Sun Bao's words were indeed reasonable, so he nodded, "Then what about your mother-in-law, you can rest easy when you leave your mother-in-law at home?"

"It's not in the way, at most, it's a day or two, and my mother-in-law and children have been taken care of by my relatives in the city. Sun Bao said with a smile.

"Okay, then you can go with Li Shen tomorrow, bring a few more brothers, make the battle bigger, and it also shows that we are sincere, don't deal with things hastily. ”

"Good. Sun Bao responded, and was just about to get up and leave, but suddenly asked Zhao Yongdao: "Boss, you let us bring more people, is it really just to show our sincerity?"

"Or else?"

"Huh. Sun Bao shook his head, and asked Ah Fei instead, "Brother Ah Fei, you killed that Hu Yue Daoist?"

"Yes. Ah Fei exclaimed, "How did Third Brother Sun know?" Just now by the Xiangshui River, Li Shen didn't ask how Hu Yue Dao died, and Zhao Yong didn't say it, so Ah Fei was very surprised to see that Sun Bao actually knew.

"Guess. Sun Baodao. He knew that Little Bell had been going to the villages and towns in the north of the city to collect money these days, and the matter of Hu Yuedao was naturally heard by Little Bell from the merchants in those villages and towns, and he relayed it to Zhao Yong. According to the calculation of the day, the little bell probably returned to Tanzhou City today, but since the Hu Yue Daoist is dead, it means that the little bell solved the matter, not Zhao Yong. But Little Bell has always been cautious about killing, and he will not do it easily, most of them are to bring Hu Yuedao people back and hand them over to Zhao Yong for disposal, and will not kill them at will, so the death of this Hu Yuedao people is mostly related to others. However, Sun Bao didn't know who this other person was, but when he saw Ah Fei happen to appear here, he guessed that Ah Fei had something to do with this matter, so he said that Ah Fei killed Hu Yue Daoren, but he didn't want to be right.

Ah Fei thought about it for a while, and then guessed a rough idea, and said, "Third Brother Sun, you really know how to guess." ”

"Haha, Brother Ah Fei has won the prize, and I just guessed it by luck. I don't know if you've talked to that person, but do you know who he is and who instructed him to come to Tanzhou?"

"This, he claims to be a disciple of the Heavenly Master Mansion of Dragon and Tiger Mountain, but his kung fu is really commonplace, and in my opinion, most of it is fake. Little Bell and I originally wanted to tie him up and take him to Tanzhou City to hand him over to the eldest brother, but there were some accidents in the middle, I killed him in a hurry, and I didn't talk to him too much, as for what he came from, I really don't know. ”

"Is that so? That's a shame. If you can arrest him and ask him, maybe he can ask something else. Sun Bao was slightly disappointed.

"Sun Bao, are you suspicious of something?" Zhao Yong asked when he saw that Sun Bao seemed to have an off-string sound.

Sun Bao turned the teacup and saw that the tea in the cup was already cold, so he took another sip and said: "Isn't the boss surprised? In today's martial arts, who would not know that Tanzhou is the realm of the black dragon? What kind of person is Wang Hengjiang of Wanyingtang, who dares to spread wild on Dongting Lake, but he does not dare to come to Tanzhou to make trouble, why does this unknown Hu Yue Daoist dare to do evil in such a place so close to Tanzhou City? If it weren't for someone supporting him behind his back, even if he borrowed ten guts, he wouldn't dare to do such a thing. ”

"I like what you say. Zhao Yong twisted his chin and said, "You continue." ”

Sun Bao saw that Zhao Yong was very approving, so he also came to his senses, straightened his waist and said: "Looking at the entire rivers and lakes, those who want to provoke us, except for Wan Yingtang, there seems to be no other gang, but his Wan Yingtang's forces are now mainly wandering around Jiangling Mansion, and his hand can't reach out to our Tanzhou, so I think that this person who supports us is likely to be someone from within our water gang." Then this person is very easy to identify, because his status must be above the boss you, otherwise he can't reassure Hu Yuedao at all, so it can only be one of the two people, Jiang Laolongtou or Tan Daozhong. In comparison, Tan Daozhong is more suspicious. ”

"These are all your speculations, do you have evidence? Or, can you use any means to force Tan Daozhong to admit that he did these things? Without evidence, we can't just frame people. Zhao Yong said solemnly.

"No, you can't. Sun Bao only felt that his enthusiasm was suddenly poured with cold water.

"Ah, I'm tired, I'm tired, boss, I'm here!" Suddenly, Li Shen entered the door with a big grin, "Yo, the third brother is also here!"

Sun Bao was originally a little embarrassed by Zhao Yong's question, but when he saw Li Shen enter the door, he immediately turned his head and asked, "Why are you here?"

"Didn't I buy anything for the fellows on the street? Now that they've bought everything, I want to talk to the boss. Li saw that everyone was drinking tea, so he moved a chair and sat down and said, "Drink tea, bring me a bowl." ”

"Give. The little bell handed a cup of tea to Li Shen.

Li Shen was stunned and said: "Such a small cup! No, no, where is this enough to drink? Bell girl, please bring a big bowl." ”

"Bowl?" said the little bell in surprise.

Zhao Yong smiled and said to the little bell: "Your fourth brother Li likes to drink tea with a big bowl, so you can bring him a big bowl!"

"What a waste. The little bell muttered to herself, and went to fetch the big bowl.

"Li Shen, tomorrow you and Sun Bao will go together to apologize to those merchants, remember to bring more brothers, and pay attention to safety on the road. Zhao Yong patted Li Shen on the shoulder and said, "When you get there, you can say whatever you have to say, and admit your mistakes when you should admit them." Also, you have to remember to tell those merchants that my sister said before that they could not pay the case silver for two months, but the eldest brother of the Zhao family felt that it was not enough, and in order to apologize, he decided not to accept their case silver within half a year!"

"Okay, don't worry, boss, I'll definitely bring the words!" Li Shen took a large bowl of hot tea poured by the little bell, and drank it all in his stomach.