Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Hongmen Triad
As soon as Raib's words fell, the surrounding onlookers applauded. The young man and woman, with crimson faces, hurried out of the crowd with a silver coin dropped.
Mo Yan also secretly admired Lai Bu's clever mouth that could be eloquent.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way. A strong man pushed away rudely with a loud voice, and everyone squeezed in front of him.
"Hey, can you test words?" he asked.
Lai Bu replied without raising his head: "Zhuge is the old man's ability to watch the house, if you are not allowed to take a penny, please write down a word at will." ”
The man wrote the word "death" on the paper, and at this moment there were more onlookers around, and it seemed that the excitement was the surname of the Chinese, even if they came to a foreign country.
"Fame, wealth, marriage, sickness?" asked Raib.
"The family business set by my parents is unlucky. ”
"This word is split into two halves, the word 'one' on the top, and the word '夗' on the bottom?"
Everyone nodded, and someone said, "It's a '夗' word." ”
"Add 'bird' to 'Mandarin duck' below the word '夗', you ask about marriage, so it is called 'a bed of brocade covered mandarin ducks' is naturally auspicious. Raib replied.
People laughed and breathed a sigh of relief.
The strong man dropped a silver coin and turned around and left without saying a word.
Lai Bu glanced at Mo Yan with a smug look on his face.
"Slave families also have to test marriage. A young woman covered in fat and powder squeezed in and said, Mo Yan looked at the woman, who was very beautiful with a slender figure and a crown of jade, but her throat was bulging under her neck, and her voice was rough and distinct like a man.
"Please write. Raib pushed the pen and paper.
The half-male and half-female Long Feifeng Wu even wrote the word "death", and said to Lai Bu with a smile: "If ten or eight people write this word to measure marriage, they are all 'a bed of brocade covered with mandarin ducks'." ”
"No, the word 'one' you wrote has been raised diagonally, and it is clearly a stick, which is called 'the stick beats the mandarin duck and separates the two'. Raib explained.
"Giggles," the ladyboy laughed demonically and then beckoned, and the big man who had just measured the word came back to him.
"You liar, the two of us are in the same family, why am I 'a mandarin duck covered with a brocade quilt' and she is 'a mandarin duck with a stick and two separation'? This is obviously a rhetoric to deceive people of money, you have to compensate us with a hundred silver coins. ”
Raib was also a little confused, and asked the half-man, half-woman, "Are you a man or a woman?"
The crowd erupted in laughter, and someone told, "She's a shemale." ”
It was the first time Mo Yan had heard of a "shemale", but he didn't have any magic skills, and he didn't find anything abnormal just now after seeing it with his soul eyes.
At this time, a group of young men in black coats came to the street, dispersed the crowd and gathered in front of Raib's fortune-telling booth, and together with the two word testers, they forced Raib to pay compensation, and threatened to take him to the helm of the Hongmen Triad if they did not comply, because they were all Chinese gangsters from Ayutthaya City.
Mo Yan watched coldly from the sidelines, not in a hurry to help Lai Bu relieve the siege, and looked up at the door of the Zheng Mansion across the street that was still closed.
The people searched, and Lai Bu only had a few silver coins on him, so angry that he grabbed the feng shui compass and was about to throw it to the ground.
"Hey, I can compensate you for a hundred silver coins for him. Mo Yan opened his mouth on the side.
Those people looked at Mo Yan in surprise, and when they saw that it was a shabby walker, they didn't think so, and the leader of them said, "Do you have money?"
Mo Yan reached into his arms and took out a thousand taels of silver tickets from the Great Qing Kingdom, shook it, and said, "Isn't the silver ticket of the Great Qing Kingdom not good to use here?"
"Of course it's useful, then we're welcome. "The other end reaches over and is going to snatch it.
"Slow," Mo Yan stopped him, "This is a silver ticket of a thousand taels, I want to ask you something, if you are satisfied with the answer, just take it, otherwise this matter has nothing to do with me." ”
The man nodded, "Okay, you ask." ”
"Do you know about the Holy Infant of the Netherworld?" Mo Yan asked, and on the way to Luang Prabang, he also asked Ba Song tentatively, but he didn't know that he obviously didn't want to say it.
Hearing this, the man's face changed drastically, and after looking around, he lowered his voice and said, "Can you come to the helm for a while?" ”
Mo Yan nodded, put the silver ticket in his arms, and prepared to follow the gang to the chief helm of the triad.
"Brother, do you really want to go with them?" said Raib in a worried whisper.
"Well, don't worry, it'll be fine. ”
"Then the foolish brother will go back to the inn and wait for you. Raib hurriedly packed up the hexagram stall and left in a hurry.
Those people surrounded Mo Yanhui at the helm, and as soon as this person made a move, it was a thousand taels of silver tickets, and it must be a big fish, which could not be easily let go.
The little mountain ghost followed unhurriedly.
Near the south gate of the ancient city of Ayutthaya, there is a Mazu Tin Hau Palace*, where the helm of the Siamese Chinese triad is located. Mazu, also known as the Queen of Heaven, is a deity worshiped by fishermen, boats, industry and brigades along the southeast coast for generations, in order to protect the safety of sea navigation. With the migration of Chinese to Siam in large numbers, Mazu also moved to Ayutthaya.
There is a large hall behind the Tianhou * Palace, there are more than ten side rooms on both sides, Mo Yan was brought to the main hall, the little mountain ghost did not get his instructions so he stayed near the Tianhou * Palace, anyway, he also knew that Mo Yan was more than enough to deal with these people.
As soon as you enter the main hall, you can see a big triangular pattern inlaid on the main hall, which is the symbol of the Hongmen Heaven and Earth Society of the Central Plains anti-Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty since the sixth year of Kangxi.
Mo Yan sat on the chair, someone brought tea, he tried it with jade nails to be non-toxic, so he took two sips, and waited for the head of the gang to come out.
After a while, a middle-aged man dressed in a straight and wide long coat of green cloth in the Ming Dynasty turned out of the inner hall, and said to Mo Ren loudly with both hands in a fist: "The second plate bridge head crosses ten thousand troops, the left copper and the right iron are not different, the Zhu family builds a bridge and the Hong family crosses, but this bridge is an outsider." ”
Mo Yan was stunned, he didn't know what he said, it felt like some kind of incision in the rivers and lakes.
The man didn't react when he saw Mo Yan, so he smiled and said, "This brother Tai doesn't seem to be from Hongmen, Chen Xiaofeng, the head of the Siam Hall in the Lower Triad, I heard that you want to inquire about someone, right?"
Mo Yan also learned from him to clasp his fists, and said in his mouth: "In Xia Mo Er, it is the Central Plains Fang Lang, who wants to inquire about the Holy Infant Niang of the Yin Gate of Siam. ”
A trace of confusion flashed in Hall Master Chen's eyes when he heard this, and he was looked at by Mo Yan.
"I don't know what Mr. Mo is asking about this person?"
"There is something in my sect that was borrowed by the Holy Child of the Netherworld last year, and I have to try to ask her for it back. Mo replied.
"If that's the case, I'm kind enough to advise you not to ask for it again. ”
"Why is that? I came all the way to Siam for this. ”
"Because you can't find the Holy Child at all, I'm afraid no one in the whole of Siam has ever seen her, let alone a stranger who doesn't know her well. ”
"How is this possible, no one in Siam has ever seen the Holy Child?" Mo Yan did not believe at all.
"For no one who has seen her is alive. Hall Master Chen replied.