Chapter 5: The Beginning of the Dragon
When Yang Kang was looking forward to seeing Cheng Yaojia soon, Hou Tonghai was squatting hard in Baoying.
Half a month ago, he had a happy drink in the restaurant in Kaifeng City, returned to Zhao Wangfu drunk, and then ran all the way to Jiangnan in a daze, and he still didn't understand what happened that day.
Didn't the little princess run out to welcome him at that time? Those thieves were so hateful that they just snatched the little princess from him, couldn't they have done it later?
It's really unfavorable, Hou Tonghai smacked the ground, looking at the ruined temple not far away, at this time there were already a lot of beggars there, each beggar sat cross-legged on the ground, without saying a word, Hou Tonghai knew that they were going to hold a beggar gang meeting, and they were waiting for important people to come.
Hou Tonghai chased out of Kaifeng City with the personal soldiers of Zhao Wangfu, and drove the thieves all the way, but gradually those personal soldiers could not keep up, and only Hou Tonghai was left.
He originally wanted to go back, the Beggar Gang has a great reputation in the rivers and lakes, not comparable to their bandit organization like the Yellow River Gang, and there are many masters of the Beggar Gang, even if he rushes up and fights for his life, he can't save the little princess.
But he will inevitably be punished when he goes back, and what he can't figure out the most is that the blind maid in the palace is actually the black wind double evil that has long been extinct in the rivers and lakes, and that is the big devil who uses human life to practice.
For a while, the impression that Zhao Wangfu gave him became gloomy, who knows what kind of monsters are still hidden in the palace, in case it is not good to be tortured by such a monster.
Under the influence of this kind of situation, he decided to chase after him, firstly, he may be able to redeem his merits, and secondly, he also has the intention of escaping, and this chase is more than ten days.
In order to facilitate tracking, he took off the clothes from a returning victim and put them on his body, disguised as a victim, at this time the victims had not yet dispersed, his outfit was not conspicuous, and the victims were not much different from beggars, not easy to identify.
On the way to the south, Hou Tonghai did not expect that he would be mixed with the beggar gang, and his costume and extraordinary appearance of the victims gave him a lot of points, and won the sympathy of some beggars.
In order to cope with Yan Honglie's large-scale raid on the beggar gang in Jiangbei, some of the beggar gang disciples lurked on the spot, changed into clean clothes and became buddies in the store, while the other part of the beggar gang disciples began to move south one after another.
This is only temporary, and when this strict investigation is over, these disciples will return to Jiangbei and continue their underground work.
Hou Tonghai blended in with this group of beggar gang disciples who moved south, and among them, there was an old beggar with three bags who saw him pitifully and was willing to be his introducer, so he asked him to join the beggar gang.
As a large-scale social organization with a large number of personnel, a strict structure, and a clear hierarchy, the Beggar Gang has a strict management system.
They use the number of cloth bags they carry to determine the level of status, one bag to three bags belong to the bottom disciples, and their main work is to beg and spy on intelligence, transmit information, and so on.
Four bags to six bags are middle-level managers, depending on the level of personal ability to arrange certain affairs, for example, Lu Youjiao is a five-bag disciple, so he did the position of the incense master in the Kaifeng area, if he can successfully promote to the six bags of disciples, he can be promoted to the helmsman, and the corresponding management area should also be expanded a lot.
Seven to nine bags are top managers who are given the rank of elder.
There is also a difference between this, the Seven Bags Elder and the Helmsman are almost the same, they are talents with cultivation potential, and the Eight Bags Elders are the real ones who hold real power, while the Nine Generations Elders are generally honorable, giving those Beggar Gang Elders who retreat behind the scenes a kind of honorific title.
Of course, the biggest one is the leader of the beggar gang, he doesn't have to carry a cloth bag, he just needs to hold a dog-beating stick that symbolizes the supreme power of the beggar gang, which is similar to the emperor's seal.
If you want to enter the beggar gang and become a bag of disciples, you must have the introduction of the beggar gang disciples, like Tuo Lei and Guo Jing running directly over is reckless, even if someone introduces it, it will take a period of observation, but there are exceptions to everything, if an elder or gang leader nods directly, then there is no need to observe.
Hou Tonghai is facing this situation at this time, he is waiting to be introduced into the beggar gang, and at present, as a peripheral member of the beggar gang, he is not qualified to participate in the beggar gang conference, so he can only wait in the distance, responsible for the work of vigilance.
For this kind of change, he couldn't help but feel a little proud in his heart, the senior brother always said that he had no brains, and that he could get into the beggar gang without brains? Can he do such a big thing without brains? When he meets the senior brother in the future, he must brag about it.
When Hou Tonghai fantasized about raising his eyebrows in front of Sha Tongtian in the future, two old beggars came from a distance.
The two old beggars seemed to be walking very slowly, but Hou Tonghai was stunned and passed in front of him and went straight to the broken temple.
When the beggar gang disciple who was sitting in front of the broken temple saw the two coming, he picked up the bamboo stick in his hand and beat it regularly, which is the etiquette of welcoming important people in the gang, and playing music when the leader inspects is a reason.
Before the two old beggars came to the broken temple, one of the old beggars waved his hand, and the beggar below stopped tapping, this old beggar who waved his hand was the Eight Bags Elder of the Beggar Gang, Elder Li Shengli, nicknamed the Jiangdong Snake King.
Jiangdong originally referred to the territory of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms, and the Southern Song Dynasty referred to Jiangnan East Road, most of the southern Jiangsu region, including Jiankang Mansion, and the snake king refers to his walking rivers and lakes to make a living by playing snake tricks, of course, snakes are also his attack weapons.
As one of the elders of the powerful faction of the beggar gang, Li Sheng is responsible for the affairs of Jiangsu.
At this time, a beggar with a withered expression walked out of the ruined temple, it was Lu Youjiao, a five-bag disciple of the beggar gang who assisted Tuo Lei and other three children to escape in Kaifeng half a month ago.
Lu Youjiao didn't expect things to be so big at all, he only knew what happened in Kaifeng on the way to escape, just because of one of his decisions, thousands of beggar disciples died overnight, this huge pressure made him almost collapse, if it wasn't for the fact that he wanted to take the child out of danger at that time, he had the urge to run back and fight hard.
Li Sheng looked at Lu Youjiao's decadent expression, and sighed in his heart, he has always been very optimistic about this junior, if it is another ten years, Lu Youjiao will become the mainstay of the dirty clothes faction, but now......
"When will the helper arrive? I will apologize to his old man for his death. Lu Youjiao said painfully.
"I don't know yet, but the helper said that he would remove the tail for you, and then he arrived. Li Sheng patted Lu Youjiao's shoulder and comforted, "The responsibility this time is not yours, the Wanyan dog thief has just arrived in Kaifeng, in order to deter Jiangbei Wulin, it is necessary to take one side of the knife, you just happened to hit the knife." ”
Hou Tonghai didn't know that the tail in Li Sheng's words was referring to him at this time, and he suddenly felt that it was dark in front of him, and he lost consciousness.
"Even among the beggars, there is no such ugly one, you think you are really undetected doing secret notes around the city. A voice joked.