"... Delong has some knowledge of the Xia family's customers." Li Rufeng said, "Shopkeeper Wu will go back and check now. There will definitely be news tomorrow."
"The customers of Shanxi House are either rich or noble. The nobles have always been very clever. I'm afraid it will be difficult to find the exact mastermind." Liao Sanniang was not as optimistic as he was. "Without some extraordinary means, I'm afraid it will be difficult to find the real culprit." …”
"Is it possible that you want to..." Li Rufeng knew this colleague quite well. It was probably because women were involved in the world and could not be established unless they were more ruthless than ordinary people. Liao Sanniang was famous in the capital station for being decisive and ruthless.
"Just thinking about it." Liao Sanniang smiled, "The manager and shopkeeper in Shanxi's house are not ordinary people. He can't do anything unless the fish is dead and the net is broken."
At this point, both of them felt that their future was bleak. The other party was very thoughtful and probably knew the path they were following, and had cut off all of them early.
"I don't know what regulations the center gave us." Li Rufeng said.
On the day of the incident, they sent a joint emergency telegram, reporting the situation to the "center" and requesting instructions. But so far, apart from a reply acknowledging receipt of the call, they have only been instructed to "stabilize the situation and report daily."
Thinking about it, the loss of the elders was also a big deal for Yu Lingao. It must be discussed before there is a result.
Liao Sanniang frowned, made a fist with her right hand and lightly punched her left hand, and said: "It seems that we should keep calm."
A scream of "Ah" came from a side room in the backyard of the escort agency. After a while, the door creaked, and a man in his late fifties walked out of the door. He was the big man of the escort agency. Old Feng had a cigarette butt in the corner of his mouth, and the flame had reached the filter. Old Feng wiped his hands with a cloth, and a strong smell of alcohol came from the cloth.
Xiao Bazi hurried forward to greet him and said, "Uncle Feng, are you ready?"
The escort agency sells martial arts, and people are the greatest wealth. The interpersonal connections are extremely close, and everyone calls each other senior brother, junior brother, senior uncle, and senior uncle.
Old Feng Ai said "Yeah" indifferently, picked up a clean stone and sat down, sucked in the last puff of the cigarette butt, and then reluctantly spit out the filter.
When Xiao Bazi saw it, he reached out to touch his arms, took out a cloth bag, opened it carefully, and found three crumpled cigarettes inside. He presented the cigarettes and said respectfully: "Uncle Feng, please continue. superior."
When Lao Feng saw it, he immediately smiled. He first took two of them and put them between his ears, then picked up one and put it under his nose. He closed his eyes and sniffed hard, looking intoxicated.
After a long while, Old Feng opened his eyes and asked: "Holy ship?"
Xiao Bazi said: "Yes, the chief escort said that you won't cough if you smoke this."
Lao Feng asked again: "Where did it come from? You don't smoke?"
Xiao Bazi shook his head and said, "I won't smoke because the chief escort rewarded me. Sanniangzi said this smoke has nails in the mud and leaves that can hurt my lungs."
Lao Feng obviously scoffed at this baseless rumor and said: "There are many people in the Song Dynasty who smoke, and I have never heard of any smoking in the mouth. Besides, I haven't even eaten a few meals, so I might ask someone to chop it up tomorrow." My head is afraid of being stuck in the mud."
The match was lit and then shaken out. The red cigarette butt lit up again, flickering like a red star.
After smoking, the relationship between the two immediately became much closer.
Old Feng said: "The injuries of those three people are just from the mortar. They are no different from good people when they are reattached. The bones of the three thieves are very hard and difficult to reattach. We can send them away later."
Xiao Bazi squatted down, hugged his knees, raised his face and said, "Uncle Feng, you still have time to talk about Lingao?"
Old Feng took a breath of cigarette like a god, exhaled a puff of smoke, and said: "There's nothing to talk about. I can't say that Laigao is good. It's just a place where you can eat every meal."
Xiao Bazi smiled and said, "I don't believe it. Why are you coming to Beijing when there is such a magical place?"
Old Feng said with a smile: "Although Lingao is good, if you don't work for a day or eat for a day, you won't be able to have a moment's leisure. If you work for a day and eat for a day, you will never starve to death. But if you want to eat well, you will not be well clothed." It’s not easy. I only have this life as my capital. I come to the capital to fight with others, and the whole family can only eat fine rice and fine noodles in Lingao.”
Xiao Bazi asked: "Uncle Feng, are you good at martial arts?"
Old Feng smiled slyly and said, "Although my martial arts skills are mediocre and I can't be a bodyguard, I can set bones and heal bruises. I have some experience in martial arts and have a high subsidy when I am stationed abroad. Although I am only here to be a clerk, I have a lot of money. I am a waiter." Chief escort, let’s take action.”
Xiao Bazi was silent for a while and said: "Uncle Feng, Sanniang said she would take my brother and me to Lingao, but is it true?"
Old Feng said nonchalantly: "It doesn't matter. There is a shortage of people in Guangli now. I'm just afraid that no one will come. I'm not afraid of big-bellied people. It's just a matter of buying two more tickets." He looked at Xiao Bazi up and down and said with a smile. , "You are young, and Lingao likes young people like you. You will have a bright future if you go there."
Xiao Bazi smiled sheepishly and said, "I don't dare to think about the future, but I just hope I can live a life without worries about food and clothing!"
Taking a puff of cigarette, Old Feng asked: "Your name is Bazi, but you have eight brothers?"
Xiao Bazi shook his head and said, "No, the first two brothers died when they hit the ground, so my mother said that there would be some free space to ward off disasters. Ninth brother and I are just two brothers."
Old Feng said: "Where are my parents?"
Xiao Bazi drew a circle on the ground with his hand and whispered: "No more."
Lao Feng stopped asking, stretched out his hand and rubbed Xiao Bazi's head, and said: "Sanniang said that you have a smart mind, understand things, and are a capable person. Do it well, young man, and you will have a bright future."
The two were silent for a moment, and Lao Feng suddenly asked: "Have you ever killed anyone?"
Xiao Bazi was stunned, his eyes flickered, and he didn't answer.
Old Feng said: "If you have killed people, you will no longer treat them as human beings. You will only treat them like pigs and dogs. In troubled times, human lives are like dust, just like this smoke, blow it and it will disperse."
Speaking of this, Lao Feng gently blew out a smoke ring and continued: "The people who come out of this escort agency are all unwilling to do evil. They have a chivalrous character in their hearts. Honesty is the foundation, keeping promises is the first, and they know etiquette. , obey the rules, know that human life is precious, and refuse to kill indiscriminately. If you can keep a piece of your heart in this troubled time, you are a first-class person. It is not difficult to go to Guangli to eat."
Old Feng said again: "Having killed someone, your heart becomes hardened, just like the third lady. She looks at you with cold eyes and wants to kill you; she treats you with tenderness and kindness, but she also wants to kill you. Underneath her warm face, she just has a heart of stone. .”
Hearing this, Xiao Bazi asked curiously: "Uncle Feng, who is the third lady? I have never heard of her."
Old Feng said: "It's not surprising to say that her family was originally a bodyguard in Beizhili. Her hometown is in the Langfang area of Baoding. There are many people practicing martial arts there. One is to join the army to make a career in the military examination; the other is to be a bodyguard. . We are familiar with people in the Beizhi area, so she was called to Beijing as a girl later by an expatriate. Her family is a powerful clan in the village, which is considered a piece of land. Several generations of the Liao family have been brave and skilled in martial arts, and they have some connections with shopkeeper Sun. Coming from the same family as a disciple, he became shopkeeper Weisun and was supported by his father on the escort route in Beizhili. Later, when disaster struck and bandits broke out, there was no way to survive, and the whole family fled to other places to take advantage of the familiarity. Hehe, No matter how strong you are, how can you survive in this world with one person and one sword? The Liao family has traveled thousands of miles to defect to Shopkeeper Sun. The escort agency has to share food and clothing, Shopkeeper Sun is the most loyal. When friends come to invest, they also have to take care of the house and land. , the Liao family took root in Guangli. The Song Dynasty had not yet flourished at that time, and the business of Qiwei was not that big. Well, speaking of which, I have met Sanniang’s father. He said that when Sanniang was in the village, the village There was a stone mill on the head, and a group of martial arts students often competed there to see which one could lift it. After several attempts, only a few people could pry a crack. At that time, Sanniang was still a teenager, but she was only fourteen years old. Seeing the noise, I became impatient, so I picked up the millstone and walked around the grinding pile three times. From then on, the nickname Liao Sanpan became known in the hometown."
Xiao Bazi asked curiously: "Sister-in-law, was she so powerful when she was a child?"
Old Feng said with a smile: "In the Song Dynasty, when Han Shizhong was ten years old, he was invincible in his hometown. He was called Po Han Wu. People have thousands of colors, each with their own uniqueness. How can we generalize?"
Xiao Bazi then asked: "What happened next?"
Lao Feng said: "A year later, Sanniang came to Guangli and started working as a escort with her father at the age of sixteen. Because it was inconvenient for men and women to mix together, she rarely worked as an escort. She was extremely cautious. At first, she only looked after the property of the female family members of wealthy families and officials. This job is not easy to do. In fact, it requires one person to take on the roles of guarantor, bank guarantor, property protector, guardian, and night watcher. There are also all kinds of unclear accounting between men and women in the inner house, which is not very precise and smooth. No one can do that.”
Old Feng took a puff of cigarette and continued: "Later on, Sanniang did more and more things, and I don't know much about what happened in the future. After being an escort for a long time, there will always be fights. No matter how skilled you are in martial arts, you can't help but fight. Strong, a little scratch on the oily skin with a rusty iron knife can cause a person to die of abscesses and bad blood. Real combat with swords is not easy. Although there is an Australian magic medicine now, people can survive even if they are injured, but that medicine Gold is precious, but not everyone can use it. In those days, there were no such good things, and fighting was even more dangerous, and people would die at every turn. It is said that Sanniang Zi repeatedly encountered strong bandits in the past few years, and she was not injured in twenty sword fights, and she fought with a golden feather and phoenix. It is inconceivable that the name means immortality, but the rumors in the world are mostly threats and empty words to build a reputation, which should not be fully believed."
Speaking of this, Old Feng shook his head, obviously not believing in this incredible achievement. After a while, he said again: "It will be later, the Australians will come, and Shopkeeper Sun will climb up to the Australians, and Sanniangzi will go on her way." Even wider, she rose to her current position in just a few years, and she will definitely be prosperous in the future. It is said that she was highly appreciated by a female official named Du in the Song Dynasty, and it would not be unusual for her to become a female official in the Song Dynasty in the future. Official Du said she was a new era of women's rights Representative, we want to kill the Ming Dynasty gentry men with their wives and concubines, and the heads are rolling, it’s terrible, terrible.”
Xiao Bazi nodded after hearing this, and secretly had an idea in his heart. He must ask Liao Sanniang to be his godmother, so as to create a bright future for himself and his brothers.
