Zhui Xu

"...I saw it, just now... you, were, stealing, watching..."

The weather is sweltering, and the dim lights only illuminate a few places in the store. The dried fish and seaweed are piled up in dilapidated boxes and on the tables, and the shadows of people climb up the walls and become huge in the dark night.

The boy who came in from the outside held dried cuttlefish in his hand and knocked on the table beside him. He looked at the fish king and spoke badly. Behind the shop, a dark figure pushed away the stool and stood up.

"I don't know what the little brother is talking about, the store is closing...do you have anything to buy?"

As a local snake, Yuwang's figure is not particularly tall, but his frame is broad. Although he is old now, his lean face and the scar on his right eye that was cut by a knife mark can still make people see his innocence. Simple. Perhaps it was because the arresters had come a few rounds earlier, although the figures behind the shop got up, they didn't immediately surround them.

A basket of fishing goods fell to the ground with a bang, followed by a pile of dried fish. The boy who entered the store pushed away the goods on the table in front of him, and then reached out and nodded at the fish king.

"I heard that the local gang talked about you." He said, "There is something here, fish balls, or fish... surnamed Gao, he said that this place belongs to you. It's useless to deny it. You, in Peek upstairs."

The fire in the oil lamp was burning quietly, and the fish king stood there, rarely getting angry or reacting, but seeing the fish goods in the store being pushed to the ground, someone came from behind, stepped over the fish king, across the table Reach out and grab it.

"You little hooligan know this..."

Before he finished shouting, his outstretched hand seemed to be sucked by the front. In the night, he saw the body of more than one hundred kilograms flying up in the air, and the next moment there was a bang, the whole person turned upside down, and fell into the In the display cabinet next to the door. The dot-like lights swayed violently, and the figures were also swaying in the store. The boy's body seemed to have not moved at all, and he was still facing the fish king in front. The sound of weapons could be heard from behind, and several people rushed over. The fish king's cross arm blocked it.

"one."

The young man pointed at the person embedded in the broken shelf behind him, then turned around and touched the fish king's chest.

"two."

Then slowly turned to the other figures in the store.

"Three, four...five, six...any more?"

The boy pulled up a stool, sat down at the table that had been pushed away, and looked at the people across from him.

"A local... Do you have any family members? Wife and children... Good friends? Tell me, how many people do I have to kill tonight before I can kill the grass?"

Someone yelled from behind: "What the **** are you—"

"Shut up-"

Yuwang stopped the reckless words behind him loudly, and he took a breath: "Little brother, Gao has never provoked you..."

"What the hell, you said you didn't take a peek." The young man smiled coldly, "A fool surnamed Ni came here to find trouble. The boat you prepared was rowed by your people, and you were the one who peeked upstairs. , now you see something good..."

The Fish King hesitated for a moment: "A friend from the Green Forest came here to excuse me, and Mr. Gao just followed the rules and did it conveniently. As for what he saw..."

However, the young man sitting across the table ignored his words. He held the dried cuttlefish in his hand and beat it boredly, and then punched, breaking the solid wooden frame of a container next to him. In the shadow of the lights, the fishing goods turned into darkness. landslides fall.

"Fucking bitch... come out to see the world, run to the south of the Yangtze River, fight and kill everywhere, looking for death makes the labor and management disgusted, what about Fuzhou, look at the scenery, set up a stall, be a good person, one or two, Endless, what Zhan Yunhai, what Yue Yun, fighting back and forth every three days, you bunch of chickens and dogs, and you still say every day you want to do big things, to be your mother's dead head... Well, it's even more outrageous now, What are you Ni Po, you just killed the chief arrester of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, you are so embarrassing, you dare to come here to make trouble, why, make labor and management a good and law-abiding citizen, you gang of Fuzhou guys are tired of working ..."

His words were rambling, and his hostility seemed to be overflowing. It was only after the last few sentences that he settled on Yuwang again: "...What the hell, just say it."

"say what?"

"Tell me why Ni Po came here!" The boy slapped his palm on the table and stood up, "Say! You are all a bunch of things, you are tired of work and dare to mess with me! Why did he come to me!"

The sound of roaring buzzed in the room, and could be heard faintly almost in the street outside. Yu Wang stood there, and said in a deep voice: "We are just borrowing the truth, and we are talking about the morality of the world. As for why Ni Po wanted to provoke my brother, I really don't know—"

He felt that he was about to lose control of the convenience, and he spoke in a hurry, but he tried his best to maintain an impression of being neither humble nor overbearing. However, just after the words fell, the young man had already approached, and he slapped him fiercely, smashing his face together with the dried cuttlefish in his hand. Fight back, and wave your hand to the side for the first time.

However, it was too late.

Someone beside him yelled out loudly: "I'm ignoring you..."

Those who followed him and could be called over at this moment were mostly aggressive men in the fish market, and those who did not participate in tonight's voyeurism were full of passion and never wanted to be humiliated. At this moment, a thin man holding a splinter was the first to support the table to jump over, while a man behind him swung a knife and slashed angrily.

The thin man's body was still in the air, and a fist had already hit his chest, causing ripples all over his body, and his body almost stopped in the air for a moment. Beside him, the rushing man slashed down with a steel knife. The next moment, the water-splitting thorn in the thin man's hand was raised high, and fell from the handshake of the long knife of the man holding the knife. The sharp edge of the water thorn pierced one palm of the man holding the knife, and then pierced down into the back of the thin man's hand supporting the table, and passed through the entire thick table with a bang, nailing the two of them to the table at the same time.

Beside the door of the store, the man who had been smashed into the shelves earlier struggled to get up, trying to escape towards the door; in front, the body of the thin man fell on the table, one hand of the knife-wielding man was pierced, and his upper body threw himself forward , the long machete in his hand was brought over by the young murderer, he kicked the container that was smashed open behind him, the steel knife in his hand whizzed and danced, and at the moment when he reached the high altitude, he shone at the two people on the table. People, slashed down in anger.

"Don't fight—don't fight—"

The roar of the fish king reverberated in the room. At the entrance of the shop, the last unsealed door panel was blocked by messy cabinets and fishing goods, which also blocked the escape route of the man at the door. Some fishing goods rattled to the street outside the shop.

At one end of the long street, Deng Nian, who was watching the movement of the fish shop from a distance, also saw the vibration on the door. The flying cabinet covered the light that was not bright at all. , it was as if a massacre was being staged there.

Is it so fierce...

In his heart floated the boy's determination to kill Ni Poshi, but at that time it was an unseen secret passage, at this moment, the policeman had just patrolled Yuwang's shop, and the boy actually dared to directly stage this scene in someone else's house .

If he got closer, he could see and hear the movement inside more clearly, but considering the keen perception brought by the other party's "martial arts sincerity", Deng Nian didn't go any further, just hid at the corner of the street, Ready to go anytime.

When the other party was seen committing murder, he turned his head and was about to come to Miemen. If he found that Miemen was seen again, he couldn't even imagine what would happen...

…

In the dry goods store, the lights on the wall shook violently and almost went out for a while.

But it didn't die after all.

The small lamp was stubbornly on, so that the room was not plunged into complete darkness. The fish king waved his hand while shouting, and at this moment had blocked the other two people behind. And on the wooden table in front, two figures were pierced through the palms of the water-split thorns and stacked there.

They didn't shout.

The whistling long knife had already come down heavily, and it slashed at the neck of the man holding the knife. The blade had already broken through the skin on the neck and penetrated a little into the flesh, before it stopped. In front of him, the young man held the steel knife firmly with both hands. The way he held the knife was completely different from the man holding the knife before. It was majestic and fierce, and the **** feeling spread wantonly around.

The man whose palm was nailed to the table peed his pants, because at that moment just now, all he needed was for the blade to fall freely, and now his head has been completely separated from his neck, and even the light of the knife that cut it off will still make the man nailed The skinny man on the table is also involved.

"Do not hit-"

The fish king yelled. From the beginning to the end, he just tried his best to let the other party know: We will not fight.

Perhaps it was also because of this that the opponent's guillotine was not completely swung down.

The moment from movement to silence, the room was quiet for a while, and the boy's eyes slowly turned to the oil lamp next to him, and then he looked at the fish king.

"Do you know, just now, if the fire goes out...you are all dead now."

The fish king nodded.

Then, click twice.

In such an environment at night, the two sides were at war with each other. Once the lights went out, no matter how skilled they were, they would probably fight with all their strength at the same time. It was the tenacious oil lamp on the wall that saved the lives of the six of them.

"…talk."

"I..." Yu Wang swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "Yes...it should, it should be Chen Shuangran... Last night, a water bandit who was following the Chen family earlier, called Shan...Shan Xiaolu, suddenly came to me and asked me In the past few days, I will arrange a boat at any time, waiting for the pick-up person to leave. He...he gave money, and I always do things like this, but I didn't expect them to come today, but...it should be Chen Shuangran...it must be Chen Frostburn..."

"Of course it's Chen Shuangran." The young man stuck out his tongue and licked his lips, "The city killed officials and rebelled, and just made a general arrest, how could it not be Chen Shuangran? But why did she find me? Xiao Gao, you Fool me? Tell me something I don't know."

"I..." The other party was in a dilemma for a while, "Little brother, he... why this Ni Po suddenly came to you, I... I don't know. You said... these things, they can't tell me. And brother By the way...the boat was arranged, so I naturally wanted to go upstairs to see what happened, but this matter, everyone's brothers...Gao has always been rotten in his stomach..."

"Say! Point! Me! No! Know! Know! The—"

There was a roar in the boy's mouth, and he turned the steel knife in his hand. The next moment, there was a bang in the room. The thin man whose palm was nailed to the table was slapped violently on the face, and his mouth was covered with blood immediately. Teeth were blown out of the mouth.

The tragic cry echoed.

Yu Wang gritted his teeth and raised his hand: "There is a way, there is a way..."

"what?"

"Gao...Gao had an old relationship with the head arrester of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and had a few private fights with him. Ni Po killed Song Xiaoming, and Chen Shuangran sold me a big favor. Now she is doing things in the city. I will definitely pay it back, Gao Mou has face in the water... Some face, if things get serious, this friendship will definitely be reconnected, I can ask at that time, I will definitely do my best to help you find out—"

"Delay time, you shake me?"

"Gao Mou swears on his life-swears on his ancestors-"

Ning Ji's gaze fixed on him for a long time, and then he wandered around, seeing the expressions of the people in the room who were either howling or terrified. If someone were to torture him, he should be able to find out some things, but right now, he can't tell more.

After staring for a while, he put the steel knife on the table, moved a stool, and sat down. Then I took another piece of dried cuttlefish and used it as a fan in my hand.

"It doesn't matter." He tapped his fingers on the table, "lying, procrastination, ulterior motives... When can't you kill people? Fish balls, fish... What's the matter with fish?"

"What the young hero said, it is what..."

"Well, you are the local snake here..."

"Gao dare not..."

"What the **** are you..."

"Yes."

"Well, you are the local snake here... That is to say, you have a wide range of friends, and you should know everyone from all walks of life."

"... I do know some of them."

"Then today, brother, I encountered such a thing. Chen Shuangran, this little XX, wanted to mess with me. You see, I am very innocent. When I arrived in Fuzhou, I didn't mess with anyone. I didn't want to fight, and I didn't I don't want to kill the whole family if I have nothing to do, I am very gentle, but one or two, for some reason, want to deal with me. Then I find them and do them, isn't it too much?"

"It's really... the right thing to do."

"You're right." Ning Ji nodded, and then stretched out his finger, "That's just right, you are a local snake, you can help me inquire and find someone, whether it is to find out why Ni Po came to touch me, or to find Chen Shuangran, anything is fine."

"Brother must..."

"Give you... two days." Ning Ji stretched out three fingers, and then snapped back one, "If you find out tomorrow, if you have any results, please come and tell me, or the day after tomorrow, I will ask you again. If there is still no answer the day after tomorrow The message to me...is that you don't want to try at all. You're local, you have family, maybe kids, friends...they're all going to die, six of you, are you all...isn't it fair?"

"..." Everyone's expressions changed slightly, and no one spoke.

Ning Ji stood up slowly: "Of course, if you can help me with this matter, in the future, you can say that I, Monkey King, Monkey King, will cover you up. Who, I promise to help you out once. I think you should cherish this opportunity."

"One...definitely." The Fish King stood up, and then said: "Definitely."

Ning Ji glanced at him and walked towards the door.

Since the open space was blocked by the cabinet, he lifted his leg and kicked the two door panels next to him, and walked out.

In the distance of the street, Deng Nian turned and left.

A little farther away, two policemen also noticed the movement here and walked over.

One person looked at the destruction of Yuwang's shop and pointed, while the other looked at Ning Ji who was approaching, and also talked with his companion with a suspicious expression, quite suspicious that this was Fangqian and Ni Po after the fight. The missing Monkey King.

As a martial arts master who can stand against Ni Po, the possibility of the other party disappearing for such a long time and then coming out of Yuwang's shop with a sullen expression is quite intriguing.

The two sides greeted each other.

Ning Ji spoke first: "Brother Guancha, there was a fight in the shop behind."

Being called big brother, the two officials were slightly taken aback, one of them thought for a while: "Oh, that's Yuwang's shop..."

"I heard it's the underworld here."

"…ah?"

"It's bad guys, local snakes, hooligans, maggots..."

"That's right."

"That should be black eating black, are you going to see it?"

"It's up to them...to let them know..." The policeman put on the words with difficulty, and then said, "Dare to ask this little brother, but is it the little brother Sun Wukong who set up a stall in front of the night market?"

"Well, it's me."

"Brother Sun fought with that murderer Ni Po earlier..."

"That's right, I'm the sufferer." Before the other party could finish speaking, Ning Ji had already put his arms around his shoulders, "Have you caught that **** yet?"

"Uh...huh?"

"Haven't caught anyone yet? What are you doing to eat..."

The lights in the street were dimmed a little. Since the curfew had already started at night, the number of pedestrians had decreased a lot at this time. Ning Ji and the two police officers went back to Yinqiaofangqian City to see that Qu Longjun hadn't been harassed, and then looked around, and he knew it.

Naturally after that, old police officers came to him for questioning. Ning Ji insisted that he was the one who suffered, and chased the murderer for half a street and finally failed to catch him. slow" emotion. Some police officers naturally want to ask more questions, and even have questions like "why did the other party come to you if you don't have any questions?" Thinking, but only in private. If the opponent's force value is relatively high, you will definitely be beaten if you ask it out, and you will also be asked "Why should I hit you if you have no problem", which can be regarded as part of human nature.

Due to insufficient strength, there is no way to make too many breakthroughs on Ning Ji's side in the whole case for the time being.

After entanglement for a while, when the curfew time was approaching, Ning Ji and Qu Longjun packed up the carriage and headed back in the direction of Huaiyunfang. On the way to Dede, Ning Ji told Qu Longjun about the various gains from this night in detail, and asked her to refer to the whole incident...

…

The bell rang at Zishi, and the chaotic second day of June passed away.

Soldiers regularly patrol the streets where the curfew is enforced. Since the conflicts from the first day of the new year have not stopped, there will be occasional riots, probably because the Ministry of Criminal Justice has launched a raid on a certain den of thieves.

Around Choushi, Zuo Wenxuan, who had just fallen asleep, was awakened by someone. It was a secret whistle arranged at a joint outside the yard, who brought news about Zuo Xingzhou.

He felt relieved, got up quickly, and then left the compound of Zuo's house, followed the secret path to the small room on the street with Zuo Xingzhou in the past, and then he was slightly stunned.

The figure in the room was wearing a funny hood, but he knew who it was at a glance.

"What are you doing here?"

"I'm a prostitute with a mask, I want you to go out to play." The other party took off the hood, it was Ning Ji, "Go to a good place."

Zuo Wenxuan drove the carriage and walked eastward in the city according to the instructions of the other party. On the way, Ning Ji asked, "Have you found Zuo Xingzhou yet?" significance.

The two parties came to a dilapidated warehouse on the other side of the Yinqiaofang Fish Market, turned around a few times, and after removing a stack of hay, he saw a tall man lying in it, with some very It's a random bandage, but of course it's not a sailboat.

"this…"

"I gave it to you after filling Mafeisan. You can do whatever you want with him."

Ning Ji stretched out his foot, kicked the opponent, and then said: "There are still some things, I need to talk to you..."

"What are you doing again, do you know that your identity is the most sensitive..."

"I made a game, maybe I can help you find this little BZ, Chen Shuangran." Ning Ji looked at him and said calmly, "The first time I saw her, I immediately chopped her up, what do you think? "

Zuo Wenxuan opened his mouth.

"...Are you still playing games?"

…

Due to the dignity of the imperial court, the city cannot be closed down violently during the current period, but it is still possible to conduct household registration verification in one area of ​​the city on the premise of not disturbing the people as much as possible. In order to use this action to exert maximum pressure on the Chen and Pu parties, even Tie Tianying planned the entire work in the palace until the early hours of the morning.

It was almost dawn.

Disciple Song Xiaoming was assassinated yesterday evening, but even though some progress news was sent from outside, he still couldn't go out of the palace to inquire about this matter, or take a look at the condition of his disciple's body.

In the middle of the Yin hour, it was the darkest moment before dawn. He asked the people who had worked in the Imperial City Department for one night to come off duty, and someone summoned him from outside. He went to the square outside. waiting for him with sleeves up.

"Master Tie has worked hard." Zuo Wenxuan said, "Didn't you sleep all night?"

"The gangsters are rampant, and the apprentices have all been killed, so I can't sleep." Tie Tianying cupped his hands, "The arrangement for checking the household registration is almost done... Mr. Zuo, could it be that he can't sleep either?"

"Fall asleep, and was woken up again."

Zuo Wenxuan smiled, and then led Tie Tianying to the outside.

All the way out of the palace, Zuo Wenxuan drove the car to the south: "Is there any progress in the case of Song Butou?"

"The case is very clear, but the culprit may not be easy to find. Some progress has been handed over from outside. I may investigate tomorrow."

"Is there any progress on Yinqiaofang?"

"..." Tie Tianying looked at Zuo Wenxuan, and after a while, he said, "This is exactly what you are talking about, why is Master Zuo..."

"The people in Yinqiaofang have no problem. I want to be a guarantor for them. Master Tie is merciful..."

"Oh...the news they know..."

"There are so many details that need to be communicated with Master Tie..."

Yinshi was about to end, and the sky was turning a little white, Zuo Wenxuan stopped the carriage in front of a quiet courtyard. There was no one around, and the room inside was quite small, Zuo Wenxuan and Tie Tianying checked the surroundings before they were about to unlock and enter.

"I am the only one in the Zuo family who knows about this matter." Zuo Wenxuan held the lock and said, "As for the entire imperial court, I only intend to tell Mr. Tie to you. explain."

"…knew."

"In addition, Mr. Tie, if you find out any information, you can't use it. You must talk to me before discussing it."

Tie Tianying thought for a while, then laughed: "I have to meet the cargo to know whether I want to agree or not. Or, if I don't nod, Master Zuo won't open the lock."

Zuo Wenxuan glanced at him twice before finally unlocking the door.

Inside the room was a man who was still in a coma and had been chained a few more times. Tie Tianying walked over, looked at him quietly for a while, then frowned slightly, and looked at Zuo Wenxuan: "Ni Po?"

Zuo Wenxuan nodded.

Tie Tianying laughed, and then observed here more carefully. When he lifted the gauze to look at the knife wounds, his eyes gradually became suspicious, and then he counted each place.

"...Fifteen...Eighteen...Twenty...This..."

"He has thirty-seven knives all over his body. He didn't hit the vital point, but the blood is almost drained. The measurement of Mabosan may last for a while, but after that, I will leave it to Mr. Tie to deal with it... what?" Anything is fine, except for one thing, if you ask UU Kanshu www.uukanshu.com for any useful information, you can’t use it until I agree.”

"With such a great gift, Wenxuan can just tell you about small things." Tie Tianying looked at Ni Po who was in a coma, and smiled coldly. He has been in the world for many years, and now although he is devoted to righteousness, he has tried his best in many ways. Just right, but with the death of a disciple whom he regarded as his own son, at this moment, he is by no means a kind and good person.

Then he looked at Zuo Wenxuan again: "Wenxuan, your Zuo family, in the eyes of this old man, is really getting more and more unpredictable."

It was less than six hours before Song Xiaoming's death, and the police all over the city were still looking for clues like chickens without heads. Zuo Wenxuan actually sent the seriously injured and unconscious murderer before his eyes, especially the 30 Seven knives, the knife missed the vital point, just thinking about what kind of fight it was, makes people feel a little shuddering.

Zuo Wenxuan pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, at this moment, he didn't know whether he was proud or let out a slight sigh.

"...Alas... Who said otherwise."

Another 7,000 words... I originally wanted to divide it into two chapters, but for some reason, I became a kind person...