Chapter 127: Willows, Darkness, Flowers, Another Village (2)
Buddhism says: Every drink and a peck will lead to cause and effect.
The current situation confirms this statement. The fierce punishment of the beggar leader on the young beggar just now caused the other party to be rebelled, and it actually pointed out the key point, making it difficult for him to fool Sun Tu and the others.
When he found that the beggar's head was staring at the ventor's harshness, Sun Tu kicked him to the ground and scolded: "Do you still want to hide the matter now? With this witness, I can take you back to the yamen for careful questioning. Do you think you can come out of Kaifeng Mansion in a hurry?"
This sentence completely woke the beggar's head. He had only a bad life. Whether for the government or the people behind the scenes, killing him was like killing an ant. Compared to this, it seemed that the government would be better at talking. After thinking about this, he immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "You are so lucky, the young man knows that he is wrong, I will..."
Sun Tu then stepped back a little, and then said, "Then let me explain everything you know. Who asked you to follow me near Gaojiadian? What happened during this period?"
The beggar's boss was silent for a moment before speaking: "Because there was a big fire on Changxingfang the night before, Xiaode planned to search there yesterday morning to see if he could get some benefits. He didn't want to be rushed outside Changxingfang but was snatched, and then met Mr. Xu... Xu Tieying. It was him who asked Xiaode to send someone to stare at Gaojia Store at all times, and pointed out that Boss Qi asked us to pay attention to his movements at any time and who had met with..."
"Xu Tieying, who is he?" Sun Tu narrowed his eyes and asked in a cold voice. After all, he was still young in the yamen and was quite unfamiliar with this name.
The beggar's head looked at him strangely, then replied: "Xu Tieying is the master of the Shunshui Gang, and he has always been in charge of us..."
Sun Tu's heart moved: "Is the Shunshui Gang the person? He only asked your people to keep an eye on Boss Qi, but didn't let you do anything else?"
"No, no." The beggar leader shook his head and denied: "Young people are humble and can't do anything else, so it's easy to do something about stalking. By the way, my people had met several officials last night and went to see Boss Qi, so they passed the news."
"Do you know that it was because of your message that you killed a life. Qi Xuan and he were found to be killed in their guest room early this morning!" Sun Tuhan said with a face.
"This... the little one really doesn't know. If I had known that there would be such a result, I wouldn't dare to take on this job even if I beat the little one to death..." The beggar leader was really panicked and quickly defended himself.
Sun Tu was not interested in listening to his nonsense and continued, "I'll ask you, did your people continue to stay in front of the Gaojia Store last night to this morning? Did they find any abnormalities?"
"This... yes, yes." The beggar's head who had originally wanted to cover up could only honestly reply after meeting Sun Tu's sharp gaze: "It's up to him to stare at the Gaojiadian that night. As for whether there is anything strange, only he knows." As he said that, he pointed to the boy who had just exposed everything.
Sun Tu nodded, turned around and looked at the boy, his attitude improved a little: "Have you found anything?"
The boy shook his head blankly: "No, my girl is sick, I'm worried about leaving her alone at night, so I went to take care of her at that time..." This is the reason why he was not staring at the target outside the Gaojia store the night before.
The beggar boss was even more annoyed when he heard this, but he didn't dare to reveal it in front of Sun Tu, so he could only keep it in his heart, intending to settle the new and old accounts together in the future.
Then, Sun Tu interrogated again, and only then spared him after he was convinced that the other party had not concealed it again: "This time I miss you, you don't know anything, I will not do a deeper investigation. But you will stay here for me during this period of time and don't leave. I will send someone to guard me. If you dare to run away, then you are guilty. All the charges will fall on you. Do you understand?"
When he heard this, the beggar leader finally breathed a sigh of relief and nodded immediately and agreed: "I understand, I will definitely not run away. Thank you, the official, for spareing the young..."
Sun Tu turned around and wanted to leave, but Lu Zhishen suddenly waved to the young beggar: "Boy, you can go with us too. Sajia will see that your roots and bones are good. Are you willing to go back to Sajia to learn martial arts?"
Everyone present was stunned when they heard this, especially the young man, who felt like he was dreaming. But then, he immediately woke up and fell to the ground, kowtowed to Lu Zhishen and said, "Master is here, please bow to your disciple!" His reaction was really quick, and this kowtow would be completely implemented.
Sun Tu glanced at Lu Zhishen and immediately understood the other party's thoughts, and felt a little ashamed. Obviously, Lu Zhishen saw that the boy would be retaliated by the beggar's leader after they left, so he used the excuse to take him away. However, the other party was indeed smart and actually followed the flow and truly recognized Lu Zhishen as his master. However, because of the troubles in his heart, he actually ignored this detail.
Lu Zhi was also a little surprised by his worship, but then he laughed: "Okay, then you can go with the Sa family."
In this way, the beggars could only look at the young man who was originally at the bottom of the country to escape the sea of suffering. They were both surprised and envious, and they only regretted that they had no courage to stand up and expose. As for the beggar leader, they could only stand there in a daze at this time, not knowing what to do.
And among the large group of beggars, one of them had a strange light flashing in his eyes: "It turns out that something has changed. It seems that he has to bring the news back quickly!"
After the three of them came out, they met Tang Shiwu, who was guarding outside to prevent the beggars from escaping. Then Sun Tu asked two of them to stay nearby and stare at the beggars' movements, then looked at Lu Zhishen: "This time, there is really Brother Lao Lu. But the next thing is better for the government to come forward, so..."
"Shajia understands that if you want to talk to the people of the Shunshui Gang, you can't just rely on your fists. The Sajia takes this apprentice back first, and it's not too late to come to me when you have news. By the way, what's your name? And where is the girl you mentioned?" Lu Zhishen deserves to be rough and delicate, and even takes care of the difficulties of the boy.
"My name is Cheng Yayu. My girl is in a broken house not far away in front of her. She has been suffering from cold and has not been cured. I don't have enough money, so..."
"Don't worry, the family is quite affordable and can always cure your girl." Lu Zhishen said, and he took the boy's arm and took him away with a big strode.
Seeing this, Sun Tu smiled and followed. After coming to the street, he said goodbye to Lu Zhishen and went home to rest.
There was nothing to say all night. After dawn, Sun Tu returned to the government office and told everyone about the gains of yesterday. This made Shen Liang and the others feel worried while being excited.
I thought that the clues would be completely cut off with the murder of the key figure Qi Xuanwen, but unexpectedly, there would be another village after a day. Not only did the clues not be interrupted, but people could find the right direction.
But when they learned that there was actually the Shunshui Gang behind all this, everyone felt a little tricky again, and it was not easy to negotiate with it.
"What, can this Shunshui Gang make my Kaifeng Mansion helpless? Isn't it just a Jianghu Gang? Can it still make a fortune?" Sun Tu couldn't help but say after seeing their worries.
"Du Tou, you don't know anything. This Shunshui Gang does have a great effect in my Tokyo city, because they control most of the business at the Bianhe Wharf..." Cui Lue Shang quickly explained in a low voice.
The Kaifeng City of Tokyo Bianliang was able to reach the world and support this million people because of the water transportation of the Bian River. As a local gang born on the Bian River and gradually grew, many of its subordinate gangs were from coolies in the wharf area. As the power grew, the Shunshui Gang even absorbed all kinds of people on the wharf and into the wharf. Even many officials on the wharf have the background of the Shunshui Gang!
In a sense, Shunshui Gang completely controlled the lifeline of Tokyo City's waterways. If they were really determined to do something, they were afraid that the capital of the Song Dynasty would be paralyzed and confused in a blink of an eye.
After hearing all this from Cui Lue Shang, Sun Tu frowned even more. He had heard Sun Fu mention the Zhujie Gang, but when he was talking about the Shunshui Gang, he didn't take it seriously. He thought it was just a small fight and nothing in front of the government. It was not until this time that he realized that the Jianghu Gang had a great power in Tokyo City.
In fact, the scale of the Shunshui Gang is mostly due to the cultivation of the government. After all, they can save a lot of money by doing free work in the wharf area, and many relevant officials can also obtain considerable benefits. However, its disadvantages gradually emerged later. When the government discovered that the Shunshui Gang was already too big and even began to fully grasp the Bianhe Wharf, everything was already difficult to get off.
Chapter completed!