"Eldest sister, don't tell your eldest brother, tell him that we are going to die!" A man kneeling in front of him heard this, kowtowed vigorously, and the others also slammed like garlic, hoping that the woman's heart would be soft and she would be able to let them go. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Nonsense, my eldest brother won't kill you!"

"Alas, although the eldest brother is usually polite, but if he is ruthless, he is also very obedient. If he knows that we owe the money and starts a fire, I'm afraid we're really going to be finished!"

"Then what do I say?" said the woman helplessly.

"Eldest sister, let's see if we can delay it for a few more days? "One humane.

"Yes, yes, a few more days, a few more days, and we'll have all the money!" the others chimed in.

"No, you should all pay the next month's silver if you delay it any longer!" the woman said, and threw another whip on the tree.

"Big sister!" everyone fell to the ground in fright when they saw the woman make a move, and shouted in unison.

The woman said, "If you really don't want to pay the money, you can go and tell my eldest brother that you don't want the water gang to protect you." As long as you say this, you don't have to pay the money in the future. ”

"How's that going to happen!," someone said, "if we dare to say that, then we're not going to have a good life!"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" the woman said angrily, "Are we Thirteen Water Gangs robbers in your eyes?"

"Even if you are a female bodhisattva, but other people are not! How many of our merchants really needed the protection of the water gang back then? If we didn't pay the silver, we would be beaten, so we had no choice, so we handed over the silver. But all this money is our hard-earned money, and who wants to hand it over!"

"Beat people? My eldest brother even sent someone to beat you?"

"That's not true, the beating was all done by Jiang Long to help the Li family brothers in the past. ”

"It turned out that the Jianglong Gang did it, so it has nothing to do with us. ”

"Why doesn't it matter, aren't you all members of the Thirteen Water Gang?"

The woman put down the long whip and said: "When my eldest brother first came to Tanzhou, he summoned you, large and small merchants, and told you that if you don't want to pay the silver, you should talk to him, and then our water gang will not take care of your business." But as long as it is a merchant who is willing to follow our water gang, he must pay the money on time, otherwise he will never be spared, yes or no?"

"Yes...... It's ......"

"Since my eldest brother has spoken first, if you don't want to pay the money, you should tell him! After so many years, you have never spoken, and we thought you were willing to accept the protection of the Water Gang!"

"Those words back then, that is, the eldest brother and we were polite, who dares not to pay it!"

"Yes, who would dare not pay it!" everyone echoed.

"Alas, I don't want to take any money from you. The woman rolled up the whip and put it away, and then said, "Since you don't want to follow the water gang, I'll go back and tell my eldest brother, so that you won't be embarrassed." Don't worry, my eldest brother will never force you, in the past, there were several merchants in the city who proposed not to pay the silver, and my eldest brother did not go to people to trouble, if you don't believe it, you can go into the city to inquire. ”

Ah Fei hid in the tree and listened to everyone's words, so he guessed that this woman who was called "eldest sister" by everyone was a little bell, and the eldest brother they were talking about was naturally the black dragon Zhao Yong. He saw that Little Bell, as the sister of the leader of the big gang, couldn't even collect the money, and others said some pitiful words, said some ugly things, and didn't want to collect the money, and he only felt funny in his heart. But considering the appearance and temperament of the little bell in the past, it is indeed difficult for her to ask her to collect money from these flamboyant merchants. Ah Fei wanted to go down to help, but seeing that these merchants didn't seem to be unwilling to pay the money, he felt strange in his heart, so he planned to stay in the tree to see what would happen next.

"Sister, please wait a minute. An older man kneeling in the back row saw that the little bell was leaving, so he got up and said.

"What's the matter?"

"Eldest sister, my family doesn't want to quit the Water Gang. The old man said, "They are young, and they do not know the benefits of being cared for by the water gang, and they think that this case of silver can be paid less than one cent, and it is better not to pay it." But that's not how it works. Most of the merchant and passenger ships that come and go here are ships of the Water Gang, and they only do business with the shops that follow the Water Gang, so those shops that are not taken care of by the Water Gang will have a lot less business. And most of the thieves also like to pick those shops that are not taken care of by the water gang, so as not to get into trouble afterwards. So, I still want to follow the Water Gang and don't want to leave. ”

After the elder man finished speaking, several people also stood up, expressing their reluctance to leave the water gang.

"In that case, then you should hand over the case money first. The little bell said softly.

"This ......" several people looked at each other, as if there was something unspeakable.

"What's the matter? Since you still want to follow the Water Gang and hand over the money, what are you hesitating about?"

"We ...... We can't get any money. "The old man is humane.

"Let me ask you, do we collect a lot of money?"

"Not much. ”

"Then why can't you hand it over? Didn't you say that if you follow the Water Gang, you will have a business?"

The older man sighed, looked at the merchants who were still kneeling, and said, "I tell you, let's tell the truth to the eldest sister! ”

"Say, what say, what are you hiding from me?"

"Alas, it's not that we don't want to pay this silver, it's just that all of our spare silver were taken away by Hu Yuedao, and we really can't hand it over. ”

"Hu Yue Daoist, who is this Hu Yue Daoist, and why does he take your silver?"

The old man said: "This matter is a long story, this Hu Yue Daoist came here a few months ago. He claimed to be a true person from Longhu Mountain, who could eliminate disasters and demons, and asked us if we had encountered any ominous things. We saw that he could fly to the sky and the earth, spit fire and slay demons, and no matter if there was any unlucky thing, we all invited him to his home to do the law. ”

"That Hu Yue Daoist saw that we were very enthusiastic about him, so he stayed in a broken Taoist temple on the mountain to the west. But after a month or two, the freshness slowly disappeared, and there were fewer and fewer people who asked Hu Yuedao to do it. That Hu Yue Daoist may have run out of money, so he began to openly ask everyone, but if everyone didn't give it, he said that he would send disaster to those who didn't give money. ”