The two stayed in a remote inn for one night. Before dawn the next day, Bei Xiaolu woke up Wei Jing who was still sleeping, bought some food and water, hired a small carriage, and continued eastward until noon, gradually approaching. coastal areas.
Wei Jing and Bei Xiaolu got off the carriage and walked on foot. The two of them and the dog crossed several hills. On one of the higher hills, Wei Jing saw the sea. This was the first time he saw the sea in his life. It felt like a long line separated the sea and the sky. A sea breeze with a strong salt smell blew, and Wei Jing couldn't help but sneeze.
Looking ahead, there is indeed a small village, and there are some salt fields near the village.
"That's the Sheshou Village. There's a 'Sacred Snake Gang' hiding in it. This trip is to meet the leader of the Sacred Snake Gang, Dou Xi, and exchange him for something with the seventy years of Xuanwu we stole from Lei Nan's house." Bei Xiaolu turned her head, her long hair had formed two braids again last night. She picked a small tree, sat down next to it, untied the wooden box containing the "Seventy Years of Xuanwu" on her back, and carefully took out the orb. Place on soft turf lined with cotton cloth.
"Wei Jing, please take off the bottom of this wooden box for me. I want to do some tricks." Bei Xiaolu said.
"Huh?" Wei Jing didn't have enough sleep and yawned repeatedly along the way. Even though Bei Xiaolu kept provoking him to quarrel, he showed no interest.
At this time, she yawned again, took the wooden box from her hand, turned it over and looked over it, quickly removed the bottom plate of the wooden box with the eight-hand knife, took the remaining four sides of the wooden box in her hand, looked at it, and asked: "Take it off" What does the floor do?”
"It's pretty neat. Just glue it back on." Bei Xiaolu ordered while playing with the braids.
"Are you kidding me?" Wei Jing was a little annoyed.
Bei Xiaolu chuckled and said: "I want to make a trap. When Dou Xi, the leader of the Shen Shen Gang, takes over the wooden box, the bottom plate will loosen and the Xuanwu Seventy Years inside will fall out and be smashed to pieces. What do you think? What expression will appear?”
Wei Jing's eyes widened and he asked, "You traveled a long distance and went through all kinds of hardships just to see the frightened expression on that guy's face?"
"Of course not!" Bei Xiaolu pouted and said, "Listen to me first. There is a problem with this mechanism, that is, it cannot be glued too tightly so that the beads cannot fall off; and it is also afraid that it may not be glued firmly enough before it is handed over to him. It broke. You think of something! I will tell you the whole story."
Wei Jing snorted and yawned again. He took the wooden box back and looked through it in his hand. He immediately came up with two or three methods. When he was in Xiaoyuan Village, he liked to make weird gadgets, little traps and the like.
He pulled out the knife, cut the bark of the small tree, and twisted the rope.
Bei Xiaolu talked endlessly about the origin and end of the Shen Shen Gang.
It turns out that more than eighty years ago, there was a Xuanwu Gang along the coast here. It was moderately powerful and somewhat famous. Most of the gang members were fishermen along the coast. They were formed to resist pirates.
Under the leadership of the old gang leader, although the Xuanwu Gang cannot be called the most righteous or brave, they still keep their own rules and will never commit scandals such as robbing or oppressing the people. Every year, when there is a good season for fishing, they will also distribute it to nearby villages. of poor people.
On the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Xuanwu Gang, it was the 70th birthday of the old gang leader. The gang members presented this salvaged night pearl as a birthday gift to the old gang leader.
The old gang leader did not want to monopolize this rare treasure, so he hired skillful jewelry craftsmen and spent a year creating this "Xuanwu Seventy Years" as a gang treasure.
This big night pearl is divided into seven layers, one layer covering the other. The patterns on each layer are the major events that happened in each decade of the Xuanwu Gang. There are seven layers in total, which are the history of the Xuanwu Gang from its establishment to that time. , a total of seventy years of history.
Just shake the orb gently and look in through the gaps in the pattern. Each decade carved on the seven-layered sphere will slowly rotate. Watching it at night is an unparalleled view.
When Xuanwu was created in the 70th year, the whole gang rejoiced and united with the village chiefs of several nearby villages to hold a grand banquet. The fishing industry was good that year and the Xuanwu Gang had the best reputation.
Two years later, the old gang leader passed away. At that time, the young deputy gang leader Dou Xi succeeded to the throne. Dou Xi's temperament was narrow-minded and his heart was far inferior to that of the old gang leader. He had not made any mistakes in the first two years after taking the throne.
Afterwards, troubles, big and small, continued gradually. Sometimes he was bullying the villagers, and sometimes he was teasing young village girls somewhere. In addition, Dou Xi's management was incompetent, and the Xuanwu Gang's members were undisciplined. The amount of fishery was getting worse year by year. The gang's image also plummeted.
Dou Xi's maritime fleet has also changed from "resisting pirates" to "stealing pirates' things and using them." Naturally, there are always some innocent merchant ships that Dou Xi inexplicably allows to attack and plunder in the name of "pirates" .
By this time, the Xuanwu Gang had become notorious, and the old gang members had left one after another, but many new gangsters had joined.
During a certain "attack on pirates" at sea, Dou Xi majestically led several bamboo rafts to guerrilla a huge merchant ship. Dou Xi, who was originally full of confidence, led dozens of gang members to board the merchant ship, only to find that he ran into someone who was not easy to mess with. This was the merchant ship of Lei Nan, the big landowner of Laihu City.
There are over a hundred people on Lei Nan's ship, including bodyguards and martial arts masters, many of whom are powerful. How can the ragtag Xuanwu Gang defeat them?
After being chased all the way to the thieves' den, all the pirates were captured. In order to protect himself, Dou Xi, the leader, knelt down and begged for mercy, offering the gang's treasure.
Renan's impression of this coastal gang was still that of the old gang leader. He just thought it was the successor gang leader who did something stupid in a moment of confusion and let Dou Xi go.
Although Dou Xi saved a small life, it triggered a fight among the gang members. Deputy gang leader Zhang Hai led a group of close gang members to take the lead in resisting Dou Xi. The two groups fought endlessly and split into two gangs - the Shen Shen Gang. and the Turtle Gang.
At this point, Bei Xiaolu paused and explained: "Xuanwu is a star god in the sky in ancient times. He looks like a turtle and a snake. This is where the Divine Snake Gang and the Spirit Turtle Gang come from."
Wei Jing nodded and asked, "What do you want to exchange the beautiful beads for Dou Xi?"
Bei Xiaolu replied: "Another luminous pearl."
It turns out that when Dou Xi and Zhang Hai fought fiercely and decided to establish separate factions, they made a strong oath in front of the gangs of the two factions. Whoever retrieves the Xuanwu Gang for seventy years will be able to obtain the identity of the main leader of the Xuanwu Gang, and the other faction will also It must be accepted obediently and no objections can be raised.
Over the past few years, although both gangs have tried to sneak into Lei Mansion and regain the orb, after all, the power gap between them and Lei Mansion was too great, and they never dared to take real action.
Dou Xi's small fleet caught another giant clam at sea a few months ago and obtained this rare huge night pearl.
If he can ask a craftsman to re-carve an identical orb, he can claim that he has fulfilled the conditions in the oath and re-establish the Xuanwu Gang. Even if the Linggui Gang refuses to abide by the oath, the new Xuanwu Gang will at least have a strong momentum when recruiting new blood. The above has the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort, and if you encounter the Linggui Gang in the future, you will inevitably be severely humiliated.
Bei Xiaolu had always been interested in the gorgeous Night Pearl, and he had known about the feud between the Shen Shen Gang and the Spirit Turtle Gang, so after receiving the spy's report and learning that Dou Xi had obtained the Night Pearl, he began to plan to keep it for himself.
"Since you are going to exchange beads with Dou Xi, why would you plan to smash his orb? Wouldn't it be a pity to smash such a beautiful bead?" Wei Jing asked in confusion.
"This baby is beautiful, but there are some benefits to smashing it!" Bei Xiaolu said confidently: "My method can be used to exchange for the Big Night Pearl, and more importantly, it can make these two groups of evil pirates free themselves. Kill each other.”
"The power of the two cowardly gangs is gradually weakening, and their manpower is gradually running out. Even their ability to go out to sea for plunder is weakened. Dou Xi and Zhang Hai, two bad guys, have changed their careers from pirates to become local bullies, and they have turned their attention to the poor people along the coast. Villages. Those villages are filled with stupid uncles and aunts who have no power to resist."
Bei Xiaolu said this, exhaled, and said: "I exchanged the seventy years of Xuanwu with Dou Xi for the Night Pearl. He will definitely exchange it. After all, it is not easy to carve out the same treasure. If it is built to the third or fourth level, , if you accidentally damage one layer of the carving, all your efforts will be wasted!"
"I exchanged for the Night Pearl, and then smashed the Xuanwu Seventy Years that he just got. All I had to do was deliberately say a few words or something to make him think of me as a minion of the Ling Turtle Gang, deliberately defrauding him of the Night Pearl. He will definitely get angry and fight with the Turtle Gang.
Let's watch these two ruffian gangs fight each other. How fun it is! When I returned to Laihu City, I wanted to report to the Lei Mansion and pin Dou Xi for the seventy-year-old Xuanwu theft.
If Dou Xi had been smarter and buried the seventy-year-old Xuanwu fragments, that would be fine. If he wanted to find someone to repair the treasure and kept it in the nest, waiting for the people from Lei Mansion to come to question him, I would find it secretly. Haha, I have to. Let him lose his life! "Bei Xiaolu said with gesticulations, extremely proud of himself.
