"Xu! Needless to say, if you don't get money to apologize today and hand over that woman, the brothers will let you guys leave here!"
"Mr. Xu, I spent a lot of money to bring the tea girl from Guizhou. I have already agreed on her next home. It is really difficult for me to interfere like this. But who knows Mr. Xu's discernment? If you want more, three hundred taels will be yours, and we will sign the deed immediately."
At the turn of the afternoon between Shen and You, in a teahouse in the barbarian camp in Jiangbei, Chongqing Prefecture, Xu Dayong and Wu Desheng were negotiating with local people. Seeing the leader of the uninvited Guluzi being so arrogant, Ren Ya also changed his previous attitude. Xu Dayong had known this for a long time and remained calm; while Wu Desheng, who came with him, had a livid face, knowing that he was being Cheated.
At this time, the outside of the teahouse was filled with trackers holding bamboo poles, wooden sticks, and pickaxes. At a glance, there were about four or five hundred people, and the place was completely surrounded. Other tea guests had already fled.
Let's face it, Xu Dayong and the others are still outsiders after all. Although Wu Desheng had guaranteed the deal before and introduced the trustee to take care of it, he is now a white man. There are as many as five thousand government officials in Ba County, and there are many factions within them. If they really have as much face as he and Xu Dayong brag about, why bother to work for Xu Dayong.
Although he had kindly helped Tea Girl before, the inn was not a long-term hiding place. Even though Xu Da used money to silence the boss and his waiters, the news still leaked.
The cause of the incident was that Xu Dayong wanted to use Wu Desheng to find a yamen official to provide a false guide for the tea girl. Unexpectedly, Wu Desheng asked someone to help him. The clerk of the household he was looking for had been working with human traffickers for many years. After hearing Wu Desheng's description of the tea girl, I concluded that she was the one the gang in Jiangbei was tracking down a few days ago. In order to avoid suspicion, the book office privately informed the official media, who then informed the human traffickers gang in Jiangbei.
The so-called official matchmakers are simply private matchmakers registered with the government. From the Ming and Qing Dynasties, when female prisoners who had committed crimes passed through places, they were escorted by official media, similar to the escort function of female policemen in later generations. In addition to this is human trafficking.
Although the Qing court stipulated that the sale of human beings must be signed by an official mediator, and only after asking for the origin can the price be set and the contract established, this kind of thing was just heard of. There are almost no people engaged in human trafficking these days who do not collude with the official media, otherwise huge profits would be impossible.
After inquiring about it, the traffickers found that Xu Dayong's group was all powerful and seemed to have guys on them, so they asked people from the Tonglu Society for help and promised to give them 20,000 yuan after the deal was completed.
The leader of the Zoru Society is currently short of money. Hearing that Beidi Bangchui, who was blackmailed last year, is here again, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. It's just the same, if you want to take action, you can only do it in the barbarian camp in Jiangbei, and they don't dare to do it in Fucheng, Chongqing.
The reason why Tongluzi dared to come forward was because in June last year, Gorkha Surbaldab led 3,000 Gorkha soldiers to invade Tibet and successively occupied Nyalam, Jidong Dzong, and Tsongkha Dzong on the southern border. and other places, besieging Xiegarzong. In July, Qianlong ordered Sichuan Governor Li Shijie and Sichuan Admiral Cheng De to mobilize more than 4,000 Manchu, Han and Tibetan troops to go to Tibet.
By the beginning of this year, although the two sides had privately negotiated a peace, Gurkha withdrew its troops. But the army did not withdraw. With the reduction of local force, the government was too busy taking care of money, food and logistics, and had no time to take care of local security. The ruffians began to raise their heads again.
So there was a lot of drumming and flowers were passed around, and finally the office of the household secretary sent a message to Wu Desheng that the tea girl's affairs would be easy to handle, and he would be the go-between. They would make an appointment to go to a teahouse in the north of the Yangtze River and have a clear talk with the tea girl.
As soon as Xu Dayong heard that he was going to Jiangbei, he knew something was wrong. He was holding back his anger and wanted to deal with the group of grunts. He was worried that he would not have a chance. This year was no better than last year, so he first inquired with Wu Desheng about the location of the teahouse, and after a secret discussion with Zhang Beihai, Zhang Beihai divided his 30 people into six groups, and set off early the next morning We took a boat to Jiangbei and ambush the restaurants and restaurants near the teahouse.
Xu Dayong waited here for lunch, leaving the two of them to watch the tea girl to prevent any accidents. Then he took four of his subordinates, Wu Desheng and the county government secretary's office, and walked to Chaotianmen and took a boat to Jiangbei.
The two parties met at the teahouse. At first, Renya was very polite and said that he could sell the tea girl to Xu Dayong for fifteen taels of silver. Unexpectedly, halfway through the conversation, the clerk left on the pretext of going to the bathroom, and the two leaders of Zoruzi surrounded the teahouse with a large number of trackers.
Xu Dayong glanced at the ringleader who blackmailed him last year, turned to Wu Desheng and grinned: "Mr. Wu, do you know who he is?"
Wu Desheng pointed at the leader of the group and scolded him: "Kuan Er, you are gathering people to blackmail me during the day. You are not afraid that the government will do anything to you!"
Kuang Er laughed and said: "Mr. Wu, you were working as an errand in the Yamen before, so I respect you as a lord. But Mr. Rentian has dismissed you from your errand, so let's not be a big deal!"
As soon as he finished saying this, several people around him laughed, and one person said: "It's true that cracking melon seeds brings out bedbugs. There are all kinds of benevolent people. This brother is here to complain about the injustice of Brother Li. What does it have to do with blackmailing?"
Wu Desheng was so angry that he trembled all over, knowing that he had been trapped.
Xu Da drank up the tea in the cup with one sip, poured it for himself, and said, "Kuang Er, I swindled you out of more than one hundred taels of silver last year, and you spent it all so quickly?"
Kuang Er said: "Mr. Xu, don't speak so harshly. How can you say it's blackmail? Besides, I have so many brothers under Mr. Kuang, and one hundred taels is not enough to fill the gap between my teeth."
Xu Dayong said: "I heard what you said, what's going on, is the market going to grow?"
Kuang Er said: "Li Er wants 300 taels for him. As for me, since Mr. Xu is an acquaintance, let's put it together, 500 taels! Brother, I won't get involved in this matter."
"What a fucking toad, yawning," Xu Da looked at Kuang Er with squinted eyes and asked, "What if I don't give it?"
Kuang Er spilled the remaining tea in the clerk's tea cup, reached out and snatched the teapot from Xu Da's hand, and said with a vicious expression: "Then please ask Mr. Xu to stay with your brother for a while. When will you get the money?" When will I send you off?"
Xu Dayong thought for a while and said to Kuang Er: "Then this matter has nothing to do with Mr. Wu, let him go first."
"Mr. Xu is just! There is nothing to do with Mr. Wu here."
When Wu Desheng heard this, he felt relieved, but he couldn't bear it in terms of face. He cupped his hands and said, "Mr. Xu, if it weren't for Wu's gullibility..."
Xu Da raised his hand to stop and said: "Mr. Wu, don't talk anymore. After I finish taking care of the things here, I will have to trouble you to come forward later. Please go back and rest first. We can talk about anything tomorrow."
After hearing this, Wu Desheng knew that he must not be kind. He asked himself that he had no strength to restrain the chicken. After thinking about it, he sighed and walked through the crowd towards the river.
Xu Dayong turned his head and watched Wu Desheng walking away, then suddenly picked up the tea cup and smashed it on the ground. There was a crisp crash and it shattered to pieces.
"Hey, you're still playing with the idea of throwing cups." Kuang Er was stunned for a moment, and then he burst out laughing, and the few grumblers next to him also laughed maliciously.
Just as Xu Dayong finished throwing the cup, on the second floor of a stilted restaurant opposite the teahouse, a dark thing was placed on the window. There was only a soft click, and in the lightning flash, Kuang Er in the teahouse suddenly shook. He leaned back for a moment, and then lay motionless on the Eight Immortals table.
The several ringleaders nearby were all stunned, not understanding what was going on. This is a teahouse, not a tavern. Why is the second brother drunk?
At this time, a sharp-eyed person next to him saw a dark red liquid dripping from under Kuang Er's crouched body. It was not tea soup at all. He was startled, and he leaned over to take a closer look before confirming his guess. Just as he was about to scream, he fell to the ground with a "clang", and the bench next to him fell over with it.
At this time, Gu Sui, all the ringleaders in the teahouse realized that something was wrong, and they were so frightened that they took two steps back. A brave guy leaned over and reached out to touch the nose of the fallen man. His face turned pale with fright.
"Wang Gui is dead!"
As soon as this statement came out, not only Renya but also the Guluzi and the trackers were all shocked.
Xu Dayong pretended to be surprised and said: "Ah, why are they all drunk in the clear sky? Please help them go back to rest."
When several ringleaders heard this, their faces turned pale with fright. Even though they were shouting that they were going to be beaten or killed, they didn't dare to kill anyone in a busy city. In the first few years, those who dared to rob and kill people in downtown areas were all sentenced to Lingchi and Zhanliju by the government.
"You, you, you..." A Tuluzi leader stammered for a long time, then suddenly pointed at Xu Dayong and said: "You are a member of the Yuan Sect!"
"Fuck your mother!" Xu Dayong rolled his eyes at the man, then looked at the man named Li Er and said, "What's the matter? Do you want to sign this contract?"
Li Er was so frightened that he almost peed. Two people died suddenly on a sunny day. It must have something to do with the man named Xu throwing a cup in front of him! But Xu Dayong sat leisurely with his arms folded, and even his four subordinates sat behind him without moving.
"Mom! Someone is killed, run away!"
With Li Er's scream, the trackers outside the teahouse exploded. Many of them were deceived by Zuluzi into paying them five cents, saying that they would have fifteen cents left after the deal was completed. It's okay to fight in groups to build momentum, but there is no one who is not afraid of human life.
At this moment, there was chaos inside and outside the teahouse. Xu Dayong stood up, dusted off his clothes, turned around and walked out with four of his men. At this time, a grunt rushed over and shouted: "Xu, you can't leave!"
Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, his whole body felt like a heavy hammer, and he immediately fell to the ground. In the restaurant on the second floor opposite, Zhang Beihai said to the men holding guns: "There is also that human tooth, let's take care of it together!"
As four or five people died in the "Xingshun Hao" teahouse, several streets and alleys along the river in the Jiangbei barbarian camp were all exploded. Here were the trackers running out, and over there were the trackers who heard the news and ran over to watch the excitement. , for a while, the street was crowded with people, people bumped into each other, and it became a noisy and chaotic mess.
During the time when Xu Dayong and his four men were walking hurriedly out, whenever some grunt shouted "Don't let that guy go, keep him", that person would immediately throw himself to the ground, and soon There was a puddle of blood underneath him.
Until he took the people on board the boat and left, from the teahouse to the riverside, seven or eight people died one after another.
On the other side, after finishing their attack, Zhang Beihai and others quickly dismantled their weapons, wrapped them in several bags and straw mats, and took advantage of the chaos to follow the flow of people and return to the south bank by boat.
In the evening, the news spread across the Yangtze River, causing a sensation throughout Chongqing. The Chongqing Tongzhi Yamen in the north of the Yangtze River sent a large number of officials to surround the teahouse three floors inside and three floors outside. At night, the entire Chongqing government was under curfew, and a large number of soldiers took to the streets to patrol.
However, by the next morning, the news from Jiangbei had completely changed. Many people were talking about yesterday's events in wine shops and teahouses, saying that a group of demons from the Yuanjiao came from nowhere, and they followed Zulu. He went on a shopping spree and finally used evil methods to kill dozens of people, robbed a large amount of gold and silver and fled into the mountains.
Wu Desheng also heard about the incident in Jiangbei early in the morning. After thinking about it for a while, he felt that it must be related to Xu Dayong. I had a hasty breakfast and was thinking about whether to go to the county government office to report the crime when I heard someone knocking on the door outside the hospital. When he walked over to ask, he heard a familiar Northland accent coming from outside the door, which immediately made him tremble and almost wanted to climb over the wall and escape.
"Is Mr. Wu at home?"
When Wu Desheng tiptoed back to the back door of his house, when he opened the door and stuck his head out, he saw another familiar face coming over.
"Hey, Mr. Wu, where are you going so early in the morning? Master Xu and I have something to discuss with you."
Seeing Zhang Beihai cupping his fists and smiling, Wu Desheng's face turned uglier than his dead mother.
"I, I, I empty the toilet!"
At this time, in Funing County, thousands of miles away from Chongqing, three men wearing old jackets, each carrying a baggage, walked into a restaurant in the city with a dusty look on their faces.
"What do the three guests eat?"
"Here are thirty steamed buns, a plate of pig head meat, another plate of pig water, and two bottles of wine. Forget it, I don't want the wine. Let's bring three bowls of noodle soup."
Just as the store clerk was about to leave, a rather handsome-looking man among the three stopped him and asked: "Second servant, I want to ask you something, how do I get to Xujiazhuang in Sheyang Lake?"
"Go out of the east gate and head west, and walk along the Wusha River for twenty miles. There is a large area of Zhuangzi on the riverside."
After hearing this, the handsome man nodded and waved the waiter to go. Then he turned to the other two and said, "Brother, we are finally here."
The person called Senior Brother said "Hmm" and then said: "After dinner, I will find a clothing store to change my clothes first."
"What's wrong?" The handsome man looked down at his clothes and thought there was nothing wrong with them.
Another person next to him said: "What the senior brother means is that the clothes the three of us are wearing don't look like those worn by people who are fleeing. Especially you, Qingwen, you look like a teacher when you put on the robe, no!"
"Oh. Senior brother is still thoughtful." The handsome man chuckled and scratched the back of his head.
These three are Chai Rugui, Gao Liugeng and Li Qingwen, the disciples of Henan martial arts master Chang Naizhou who were invited out by He Shen last year. Among the three, Gao Liugeng was still a prison student. After reading the letter brought by He Shen's subordinates last year, he decided to take on the duty of eradicating the traitors for the imperial court.
However, because Chai Rugui had gone to Shanxi before and did not return home until the end of February, the three of them postponed their trip until March. They planned to dress up as refugees and take a boat from Sheyang Lake to Beihai Town.
At this time, the hidden flower reward of 10,000 taels of gold had spread throughout the northern and central plains provinces, and no one who heard about it was unmoved. Didn't I say before that the Jiangnan area is currently hiring long-term workers to take care of food, food and housing, and their annual salary is only one tael of silver. The official price of 10,000 taels of gold is 120,000 taels of silver. Although this amount of money cannot be said to be as rich as the country, it is certain that generations of people will have enough food and clothing.
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