"Anyway, when we broke up, I was already thirty-five. Now I am already fifty or sixty years old. I am old and yellow, and my hair and teeth are sparse. I can't be called the most beautiful." After that, she He lowered his eyebrows slightly and wiped his temples, seeming a little embarrassed. m.
"Please sit down, please sit down. You kid can't even speak a word. You have to call me old lady because of your seniority."
Yue Qingshan gave up his seat next to him, while Luo Shiniang sat across a stool at the round table.
She touched the prayer beads in her hand and said kindly: "Second brother, third brother, I didn't expect to meet you two here. I remember that when we broke up, you two went to the Northeast together. Whose son is this young man? He looks so handsome."
"Hi, nephew, I have a boy who is only 17 or 18 years old, but I didn't let him out because he was afraid of getting into trouble outside."
Before Yue Qingshan finished speaking, Luo Shiniang heard that his child was already seventeen or eighteen, her eyes dimmed slightly, her smile almost froze on her face, and she became more fake: "It turns out that you are already married."
"Yeah, I'm getting older and it's time to settle down in the Northeast, so I begged the eldest brother who saved me back then to arrange a marriage. However, my wife left after giving birth to a child. These fifteen or six years can be considered I have brought them up, and I want to take them out to run around, and also look for old friends."
"Sister, why are you still in Yueyang now? Didn't you say you were going to Jiangnan to do business?"
When Yue Qingshan was a child, he heard her say that he wanted to do business in Jiangnan. Judging from the current situation, Luo Shiniang's influence in Yueyang is not that deep.
"Hey, it's a long story. After we broke up, we immediately ran into the Golden Rat Slayer Society..."
As mentioned earlier, when the Golden Rat Society disbanded, it was when the Taiping Rebellion was destroyed. Yue Qingshan had already made up his mind to disband the group after being advised by Taoist Master Jin.
After that, he had no idea where these people went.
People like Luo Shiniang and Jinhua Wutang originally wanted to form a new Jinhuamen in Jiangnan, but they didn't expect that just after they broke up, the government had already begun to clear out the Golden Rat Society in various places, in order to quickly eliminate the Taiping rebellion. , Golden Rat Society, Golden Flower Gate and other thieves, the government assigned all the tasks of suppressing bandits in Hunan Province to the Case Investigation Bureau.
These people don't even spare good citizens, so how could they spare the remnants of the Golden Rat Society? They have dealt with thieves and bandits many times, and they would have known how to find people in the rivers and lakes, lead the people to set up traps, and finally lured the Golden Flower Five Hall. out.
No matter how powerful Luo Shiniang and the others were, they could not deal with the government soldiers and foreign guns and cannons. Under all kinds of dangers, they were chased to the Dongting Lake. The group was forced to have no choice but to jump into the Dongting Lake and follow the current.
They were injured at this time and were not allowed to go ashore. They would die on the water within three days. Hua Guzi, Chen Duozi, Bai Shenque, Bai Xuanwu, and Luo Shiniang thought that their lives were over, but their fate took another turn at this moment. ——They were rescued by a group of boat people.
After chatting later, they realized that these people were Dongting boat people, and the leader at that time was none other than Zhu Qinghe, the director of the Green Boat Club.
At this time, the Green Boat Club was still working for the old nobles. After Zhu Qinghe rescued them, Luo Shiniang and others decided to join the Green Boat Club in order to repay their life-saving grace. In this life, Zhu Qinghe followed his lead and relied on martial arts and ability to quickly Become Zhu Qinghe's confidant.
Two years later, Zhu Qinghe received an order from the old nobles to plunder the official silver of the Westernization faction.
Zhu Qinghe originally did not want to do this, but in order to escape, he agreed to the request of the old nobles. Luo Shiniang did not expect that after more than ten years, he would still have a grudge against the Westernization faction. In her opinion, robbing official silver Although it can create obstacles for the Westernization faction, it also means great risks.
She had long known the insidiousness and viciousness of the Westernization faction. Once the official silver was plundered, they would never let it go. Out of morality, she still urged Zhu Qinghe to give up the robbery of the official silver. Zhu Qinghe was eager to get away at that time, but he still didn't listen. She took Chen Duozi and the others to pick up the official silver ship near Chiba Island, and at the same time, hid the official silver on Yugou Island.
Afterwards, Luo Shiniang could guess the outcome and made preparations in advance. Then she reluctantly took away a group of Qingchuanhui brothers before the government came to pay the debt. As for the others, she thought that the old nobles would not break their promises and live alive. He was hacked to death by the government.
After the Qingchuan Hui was destroyed, Luo Shiniang made inquiries and found that Chen Duozi and the others had been silenced by the old nobles along with Zhu Qinghe. Shocked and angry, she could only take the Qingchuan Hui and follow the boat people into Dongting Lake again. , no more traces.
In the past thirty or forty years, she has been burdened with the lives of Jinhua Wutang and the responsibilities of the Green Boat Club. She even has to take care of the life and death grievances of the boat people. After several times of pain, she has been unable to escape and relies on Unwilling to admit defeat, he fought his way out of the chaotic apocalypse. By strategizing, step by step, and relying on the cover of the troupe, he was able to gain a firm foothold in Yueyang City.
"Speaking of which, from that time on, although I wanted to go to Jiangnan, I always almost left. In the end, I couldn't climb out of the quagmire of the Golden Rat Club. Instead, I got deeper and deeper into the gang. "
When Luo Shiniang said this, she felt a little helpless, with a wry smile on her face.
After hearing this, Yue Qingshan was filled with emotion and didn't know what to say. He didn't expect that Luo Shiniang's life was so rough.
"Hey, stop talking, stop talking, it's all over. Second brother and third brother are here. I should be the host to take care of you. Why don't we hold a banquet at Longhu Tower. You two must go to support it."
Luo Shiniang's words were filled with enthusiasm, but Yue Qingshan couldn't hear the enthusiasm at all. He could only feel an incomprehensible falseness, as if he was deliberately hiding something.
"Sister, eating is a trivial matter. Today I want to ask my sister for something." Yue Qingshan decided to open the skylight and speak frankly.
"What's the matter? If I, Luo Shiniang, can do it, I will never let you worry about it." Luo Shiniang said softly.
Yue Qingshan took out the map left by Mr. Zhu from his pocket and put it on the table: "This is the map left by Mr. Zhu. It has the exact address of the official bank."
"Second brother, what does this mean?" Luo Shiniang asked knowingly.
Yue Qingshan sighed and explained sincerely: "Sister, I know you have been wronged, and I also know that the boat people have been wronged a lot. The account should have been clear, but you are killing me like this, but I don't know who owes whom." Well, if you are looking for this official silver, you might as well take this silver to compensate the boat people for their grievances over the years, how about that?"
Sun Daqiao's eyes wandered towards Luo Shiniang. Seeing the emotions rising in her brows, he immediately went in to smooth things over and said, "Sister, the second boss is more straightforward in speaking. We have found out that you used the guise of the Golden Rat Society to kill people, and you also After killing nearly a thousand people in a row, the debt has been repaid no matter what. Buddhists say that there is no end to the sea of suffering, so just stop and think of it as giving face to the second and third brothers."
Some people died, but not completely...
