The crisp autumn air is the time when river crabs are fat.
After entering Xuzhou City, Shuanghehe and Lei Buji first went to the inn to put down their luggage and carriage, and then decided to go out to eat crabs.
This is the second time that Sun and Huang have come to Xuzhou. The last time they came here, they watched a competition between the "Kaifeng Three-Armed Sword" and the "Scorpion Tail Spear". A handicap was opened nearby, but because a masked man came to disrupt the situation, the game ended in failure, leaving the two of them busy for a long time in vain.
Now that they have returned to their old place after participating in the Young Heroes Meeting, and recalling that competition, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai can't help but feel that Zheng Mukai and Ge Shiya are too good.
What three-armed sword and scorpion tail gun? They may not be as powerful as Liu Yikong. Among the top four in this Heroes Association, except for Brother Sun... there is something wrong, right... among the other three, which one is not beating Zheng Ge?
So, when they sat down to eat, the first thing they did was to brag to Lei Buji about the fight.
Huang Donglai is a very talkative person. If there is Sun Yixie next to him making jokes and talking nonsense, then the two of them are equivalent to talking about each other. But when Huang Ge speaks alone, It’s like stand-up.
Lei Buji listened to Huang Donglai's vivid description with great interest. He would also interject with complimentary questions from time to time, which made Huang Donglai talk more and more enthusiastically.
Once this person drinks a little wine, his voice will become louder, and when the interest rises, it will become louder.
When he came back to his senses, Huang Donglai was already sitting on a railing, with one foot on a stool, a wine glass in one hand, and chopsticks in the other, talking and gesticulating.
And his performance also unknowingly attracted a group of onlookers...
The restaurant they went to was neither good nor bad, it was like The occupancy rate is relatively high, but it is not cheap enough that anyone can sit down and eat. This restaurant was undoubtedly chosen by Sun Yihe. He comes from a fish market like him. Which type of restaurant can provide the best value for money? He knew exactly what the river crab was.
Some of the people who came around to watch Huang Donglai's "storytelling" were still sitting in their original positions, just turning their heads to look at it, and some were almost done eating, so they simply brought stools and sat closer. Listen, there were even some good guys who had watched the competition in the ring, and they sat aside and chatted with Huang Donglai, singing along, not to mention how lively it was.
Obviously it was a competition that could be explained in just a few words, but Huang Donglai talked a lot about it, and the content was quite interesting. There were many things that people in the world knew, but ordinary people originally I don’t know much about it, but it sounds very strange to me.
However... as the saying goes, misfortune comes from the mouth.
Some people like to hear Huang Donglai's words, but some don't.
Who doesn’t like to hear it?
The person involved...
When Sun Huang and Lei Buji walked into the restaurant, they did not notice that the "Kaifeng Three-Armed Sword" Zheng Mukai was sitting on the second floor. upstairsIn a corner, he was drinking and eating with two young men who were younger than him.
What a coincidence?
It’s a coincidence, but it’s also normal.
Zheng Mukai is the head escort of the Guangxing Escort Agency in Kaifeng Prefecture. Kaifeng is not far from Xuzhou. When he sends out escorts, anyone who goes south must pass by Xuzhou; right now, He had just gone out to play escorts, and he was on his way back with two escorts from the escort agency.
When Huang Donglai started to tell Lei Buji about the martial arts competition in the ring, Zheng Mukai heard it immediately, and his two followers soon heard it too... even if they were not martial arts practitioners. People, if they hear the words "Guangxing Escort Agency" and "Zheng Mukai" in the words of someone nearby, they will also attract attention. What's more, they are all martial arts practitioners and their hearing is more sensitive than ordinary people.
Originally, Zheng Mukai didn’t really want to recall this incident. After all, it was not very honorable to him regardless of the cause and effect or the process of being stopped. Now in front of two juniors, In the face, Huang Donglai's words almost made him worthless. Can he not be impatient?
Objectively speaking, Zheng Mukai can be considered a second-rate master and a well-known figure in the world. It is inappropriate for you, a junior of seventeen or eighteen years old, to publicly comment on your seniors; you said It’s okay that he can’t beat the masked man, because that’s the fact that everyone has seen, but as you keep saying... you actually say that he can’t even beat the chicks who just came out of the Young Heroes Club like you. I can't bear it.
Packing——
Just when Huang Donglai was about to get excited, a violent table slam suddenly sounded from the corner of the second floor of the restaurant.
When everyone heard the sound and turned around to look, they saw that the legs of the table were broken, and the food and wine on the table were spilled. The three men stood up from their chairs and walked towards this side menacingly. come over.
This scene... the common people in this universe are very familiar with it. When the villagers "listening to books" around them saw it, they immediately dispersed and retreated a few feet away; Second, he hurriedly ran down to inform the shopkeeper that something was wrong.
At the same time, the three men from Guangxing Escort Agency had already arrived at the table where Sun Yixie, Huang Donglai and Lei Buji were sitting.
Zheng Mukai stood at the front, his face full of anger, and shouted: "Where did the yellow-mouthed kid come from! Dare you talk nonsense here?"
At this moment, Huang Donglai's wine They were mostly awake. Although Sun Yixie and Lei Buji had not yet stood up, they both looked at Zheng Mukai and were wary.
"Oh~" Huang Donglai quickly recognized Zheng Mukai, "It turns out to be the head escort of Guangxing Escort Bureau, Zheng, disrespectful..."
How shameless he is Ah, one minute I was saying bad things about others, and the next minute I was smiling and saying "disrespectful".
"Huh." Zheng Mukai didn't answer his words and snorted coldly, which meant that he didn't want to be polite to you.
The escort on his left also understood and answered: "Our escort is asking you who you are? Don't be so playful. Please sign up quickly."Come! "
Huang Donglai was not afraid of them, so he just smiled coldly: "It's easy to say, Huang Donglai is at Huangmen in Xia Shu. "
As soon as these words came out, Zheng Mukai and the three of them were obviously startled.
Huang Donglai? Isn't that the one who broke the world with Sun Yixie at the Young Heroes Meeting not long ago? Did the Qi gang's conspiracy save hundreds of people from the Huang family?
The name of the person is the shadow of the tree. A month ago, Huang Dong came from Baojiamen, and he had the most people. Be wary of the Huangmen behind him, but now... others have to think highly of him.
"Oh...it's Mr. Huang. "Zheng Mukai's attitude changed a little quickly, and his tone softened a lot at once, but he was still angry. Besides, he couldn't save his face by giving in at this time, so he continued, "Zheng and Huang Shaoxia used to have no grievances. There has been no grudge recently, so why did Huang Shaoxia publicly slander Zheng here today? Could it be that... you are having trouble with me at Guangxing Escort Agency? "
His phrases are considered standard.
"No injustice in the past, no enmity in the present" means: now it is your first choice and your responsibility;" "Slander" is his own definition. The implication is: he believes that what Huang Donglai just said is not true. If Huang Donglai disagrees with this, then he is making trouble; and the last sentence "I have trouble with Guangxing Escort Agency" "It's more obvious. It's a threat. He binds his personal reputation to the sect. It means that if you offend me, you will offend our entire escort agency.
Can't Huang Donglai not understand this?
It’s just that he doesn’t want to tell the truth... Although he can also jump up and emphasize that what he said is true, and it is a bit artistic exaggeration at most, but people want face and trees want skin. You said this in front of Zheng Mukai, It's really not good, I have to give him a step down.
"Uh...hahahahaha..." When Huang Donglai said "uh", he glanced at Sun Yixie, and the two of them looked at each other. Yes, the communication was completed, and then Huang Donglai burst into laughter.
"Hahahaha..." Sun Yixie also laughed.
Lei Buji was already very happy. He was familiar with this process. When he saw the two eldest brothers starting to laugh, he understood what was going to happen next... so he also followed suit.
"Brother Zheng! elder brother! I was wrong! "After laughing a few times, Huang Donglai suddenly acted like he was drunk again, and picked up a wine bottle on the table, "Brother, he made a drunken gaffe and talked nonsense! Brother, you have a lot, please forgive me for once, but there is nothing else... I will punish myself first! ”
After finishing speaking, before Zheng Mukai could reply, he downed the whole bottle of wine “tons and tons and tons”. After drinking...he turned his back and spread his limbs. , and lay down on the spot.
Zheng Mukai and the two gangsters next to him were also stunned when they saw this, thinking that there is such a thing that "self-destructs" after saying two words?
However, Huang Donglai's move has already opened a step for Zheng Mu. As long as he says "forget it" now, there will be no need for him to do so.It's over.
"Well..." Zheng Mukai thought for a while, and there was really no need to vent his anger on this shameless person. Besides, the other party apologized and fined him a drink, so most of his anger was gone. If he continued to stare at a junior unwillingly, he would appear to be petty, so he decided to open his mouth to reconcile.
Unexpectedly...
"I will also give you a penalty!" Lei Buji may have felt that...it was time to apply the skills of pretending to be a grandson taught him by the two elder brothers in actual combat. , so when he saw Brother Huang self-destructing, he followed suit, picked up a pot, "tons, tons, tons"...
Pour another one.
"Stop talking! Brother Zheng, I will also punish Brother Huang with a pot and a bowl of crab soup!" Sun Yixie watched as both of them fell. If he didn't follow up, Then you have to top the tank, just... even eat and drink, and perform a stunt for Zheng Mukai and the others of eating a bowl of crab soup and drinking a bottle of wine in ten seconds, and then lie there.
When Zheng Mukai stood there, everyone was dumbfounded, thinking: "What's going on with these three grandsons? What kind of trick is this? How come I haven't seen them in all these years of traveling around the world?"
While he was still thinking about life, the shopkeeper of the restaurant came over and said, "Uh... sir, have you solved the misunderstanding here?"
This shopkeeper has many people. Smart, he was watching from the side just now. When he saw this scene, he probably couldn't fight, so he stepped forward.
"Ah..." Zheng Mukai nodded awkwardly, "No...it's okay."
Hearing this, the shopkeeper glanced at Zheng Mukai and the others who had just taken the photo The broken table and the food and wine there: "Then look...should we change your seats and put the food and wine on the table again?"
"No need." How could Zheng Mukai possibly do that? Continue to stay here to eat and drink, he said, then reached into his pocket to take out the money, "pay the bill, I will pay for the broken things."
"Hey! Okay, I am so generous!" The shopkeeper When he saw Yinzi, he smiled happily and quickly praised him to prevent the other party from changing his mind.
After paying the money, Zheng Mukai and his two followers left with a look of pain on their faces. They didn’t even have a full meal or drink, so they could only look for another place to go, and in the end Better stay away from here.
And before they could even walk out of the street, Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai, who had just been lying beside the table and lying on the ground like two dead dogs, got up.
In those days, it was really not easy to get drunk.
They just used this method to send Zheng Mukai away. Anyway, they were thick-skinned and still had the nerve to sit there and eat and drink after the performance.
"Hey, Buji, wake up, it's okay." Sun Yixie stood up and sat down, then reached out and pushed Lei Buji.
Unexpectedly, the answer to him was a cry.
"Damn, are you really drunk?" Sun Yixie said, "After all, he is a child, so he can't drink well."
In fact, he took it for granted when he said this. In this universe, he is physically bigger than Lei BujiHe was only one or two years old; Lei Buji was really drunk simply because he had few opportunities to drink since he was a child and lacked experience and exercise, so the impact of drinking a bottle in one go this time was too great. Unlike him and Huang Donglai, who had never drank alcohol since they were young. Young Pei's family is well off and he has more opportunities to drink.
"Hey~ ignore him, let's eat." Huang Donglai also patted the dust on his clothes and sat down again, "Waiter, let's bring some more steamed ones and two more bowls of ginger vinegar. "
Seeing how shameless these two were, the guest officers and waiters around them also laughed bitterly, but seeing that the three of them were young men of seventeen or eighteen, no one said anything.
The matter of the restaurant today was not a big deal to begin with. It stands to reason that it would just be revealed and no one would mention it again.
Who would have thought...that something happened that night, less than three hours later.
At the end of Haishi, the person in charge of the watch on East Street discovered a corpse-Zheng Mukai's corpse.
His body fell in the back alley of an inn in the east of the city. Almost his whole body was covered with injuries, and his face was beaten out of shape.
The book here implies that this inn is the one where Sun Yixie, Huang Donglai and Lei Buji stayed.
If you think that the ancient watchmen would panic and yell when they found a corpse, you are totally wrong - anyone who can do this for a long time has seen There are more corpses than you have ever been in love with.
In a society based on an agricultural economy, no matter how peaceful the year is, people will die of starvation or disease on the roadside all year round. In winter, more people will die of freezing and starvation. So at that time, it was very common to see lifeless dead people lying in the streets while walking in the middle of the night.
When experienced people see him, they usually go up and check for a moment, roughly how the person died and whether he had an infectious disease, and then calmly notify the local security guard, who will then let the local police know. Baoding decided whether to alert the Yamen.
Zheng Mukai’s death was so obvious to everyone that it was murder. Therefore, the Yamenmen must be dispatched, and any arrests would be made, even the more perfunctory and incompetent arrests. , at least I have to go through the motions.
The head catcher in Xuzhou City is called Dong Wan, and he is a very typical big head catcher.
He knows some martial arts, but he can only defeat local gangsters and policemen. He cannot beat the masters of martial arts and green forest. He also has some brains, but he is only at the level of ordinary people. , ordinary.
Please note that the "ordinary people" I am talking about here are based on modern people's standards. Due to the backward education level and natural science knowledge of the people of that era, most of them are considered ordinary people in the eyes of today's people. Stupid. Although there is almost no physical difference between them and us, the era we live in has allowed us to stand on the shoulders of giants since our birth, so it is true that people today are generally more "smart".
Dong Wan ran to the crime scene to check, and found out Zheng Mukai's identity from the "Guangxing Escort Agency" badge on his body. After asking someone about it, he knew that Zheng Mukai wasBefore his death, Mu Kai stayed in another inn in the west of the city.
So he rushed to the inn with his people, and found that the two tour operators who were traveling with him were also dead. They died in the guest room, and they were also covered with injuries. It looked like It looked like he had been beaten to death by random punches.
Three lives were lost in one night, and all died unexpectedly. It is impossible for the government to ignore this.
Since none of the belongings of the three deceased persons were taken away, this matter obviously looks more like a feud between Jianghu and Jianghu, rather than murder for money; in this case, according to Jianghu and the government According to the established rules, the victims of the Guangxing Escort Bureau should be notified as quickly as possible and let them investigate on their own. As for the government, except for preserving the body for them and providing some information on the scene, they don't care about anything else - -If you want revenge, go it alone.
Fei Ge delivers messages quickly, and the death of the big escort is also a big deal.
So, the boss of the Guangxing Escort Bureau and Zheng Mukai’s master, "Through-Arm Divine Sword" Zhu Jiaduan, personally led a group of escort heads and escorts, a total of more than 20 people, the next day They killed Xuzhou overnight.
This leads to that - Lei Buji was wronged and imprisoned, and Sun Yi laughed and explored the Qiliu Temple.