Delong

Chapter 111: Whale Slaying (3)

The wind blows in the Spring Festival Gala, and the water vapor on the Huai River rolls up.

In Huankou Town, Xucheng County, Xiapi County, there are many rudder towers of the Changjing Gang, and the lights are flowing. Outside a so-called "three-story building" that can overlook the scenery of the Huai River at the back, there are at least forty or fifty elite gangsters. The masters are closely arranged around, walking back and forth to observe.

But for some reason, when these people occasionally change shifts or stop, they are always a little anxious, and even some vulgar words come down the wind from time to time.

"Is this protection, or surveillance?"

A patrolman looked at the window on the second floor for a while, and when he turned around, he couldn't help complaining. "The downstairs door is also full of people, making it hard to get through, and you have to follow it to the toilet."

"All right."

Qin Bao spoke slowly while pouring tea.

"They are afraid that we will get out of control and find unnecessary trouble, and they are afraid that something will happen to us, and they will not be able to explain it at all... However, this matter is already very clear. Although Boss Zuo is the boss of the three brothers, although the Long Whale Gang It is the fundamental purpose of this trip, but on the contrary, he is the last thing to do. Only the third son of the Zuo family can come to make an offer, and the second son of the Zuo family can only come to explain... It's like... We just wait with peace of mind."

"Second Brother Qin is right."

When the patrolman heard this, he quickly praised it. "And the bearing is extraordinary, just treat those people outside as nothing."

The people around also responded a lot, obviously they regarded Qin Bao as the leader of this place when Zhang Xing and Li Qingchen were both on the third floor.

There is no way, because gold shines everywhere. Qin Bao is no longer the country boy who needed to find Zhang Xing for psychological training at the same time last year. During the past year, his character and his progress in cultivation made almost all his colleagues agree. He looked at it with admiration.

Everyone also believed that this young man had a bright future.

In fact, besides the patrol group, other people in Jing'an Taichung talked about the second patrol group, and they used to have the nickname of the four horses under Baihuang's sect, referring to Qian Tang, Li Qingchen, Qin Bao and Zhang Xing.

But it is a pity that this word only appeared for a while, and then quickly disappeared.

The first thing that was privately despised by everyone was that Li Qingchen didn't hold back his patience, entrusted a cousin of his own, and quickly made up a white ribbon after Zhang Xing was promoted to white ribbon.

This is very unconvincing.

It's not that bribery is looked down upon by others, nor is it that people look down on people using family power, but that with Li Qingchen's cultivation, merit and qualifications, he can be promoted properly in just half a year, and it's impossible for anyone to stop him Yes, he didn't encounter any difficulties, but he couldn't hold back because of Zhang Sanlang's promotion, which was a bit of a downfall in his temperament.

Secondly, Zhang Xing jumped up.

Zhang Sanlang's extraordinary has long been said, but his qualifications are too low, and he can always get along with everyone, especially good at distributing money. He does it very special.

It wasn't until after Mount Mangdang that Zhongcheng said "the man who slays the dragon" that his colleagues in Taichung came to their senses and suddenly realized how extraordinary this man was.

This world is not only based on cultivation, it is absolutely impossible to only look at family background, region, intelligence, character, morality, and knowledge are all in everyone's tasting coordinates, so this caused Zhang Sanlang to suddenly surpass the most Qian Tang, who was safe, created a situation where the four horses came out together, and the first horse took the lead.

"Boss Zuo, when will your third brother come?"

In the South Pavilion on the third floor, Zhang Xing stopped blowing the wind, turned around and sat back at the table, and across the table was the leader of the Long Whale Gang, Boss Zuo.

"He won't arrive until midnight."

It's almost in a secret room, but Zuo Boss is quite straightforward. "However, Zhang Baishou, I know that the third son of my family is here, so I can make deals with you and ask for an explanation, but after all, I am his elder brother. No matter how powerful they are, I will listen to what I say... Let's not go first. Are you talking?"

"No, no, it's not that you can't talk to Boss Zuo." Zhang Xing explained while pouring tea for the two. "The reason why I had to wait for Brother Ling was because I was afraid that Brother Ling would not understand the situation and would not be able to come here tonight, forcing us to use family law... He is the black ribbon of Jingjiehu, and he must also be from Jing'antai Subordinates, you must know the rules... Your third brother is not an idiot who doesn't know the rules, right?"

"Whether it is or not." Boss Zuo paused for a moment, and faced each other in a deep voice, but gradually lost the honest and honest posture of the day. "When I heard the news, I immediately sent a fast horse to let him come overnight. If he didn't come, he would be considered as my elder brother... At that time, instead of using Jing'an Tai's family law, I will first use my family law to drive him out. Fu Lizuo's house."

Zhang Xing nodded, pushed a cup of tea over, and then sat down: "Well, I will trust Boss Zuo once and talk to you first. But where do we start? Mangdang Mountain or the East China Sea, or Huanshuikou, Jing'an Terrace?"

"From Mount Mangdang." Boss Zuo said seriously. "I've heard some people say that everything starts at the beginning...Our incident was ultimately caused by the gangsters in Mangdang Mountain who blocked Huanshui years ago, so I will talk about it from there."

"That's right, everything has a beginning." Zhang Xing nodded in approval. "Today's situation is really inseparable from Mount Mangdang... So what is Boss Zuo going to say about Mount Mangdang?"

"Zhang Baishou, I have to tell the truth." Zuo Caihou answered seriously. "Although our Long Whale Gang is engaged in official business, it is a gang after all, and we have to make friends with all kinds of sects. It is inevitable that we will meet some good and bad people. Maybe we were law-abiding people when we met at the time, but in the end we became thieves... It's as if Yang Shen was also the number one famous family in the world back then, didn't he suddenly turn against him? Could it be that the imperial court reused him that day? So I think that some people on the mountain had contacts with our Long Whale Gang, and they can't What are you explaining, and you can’t conclude that we have any collusion with the mountain, some self-stealing just because of one-sided words. Zhang Baishou, is there any reason for you to say this?”

Zhang Xing actually nodded: "It makes sense."

"The matter of Mangdang Mountain, what do you say if you don't know?" Zuo Caihou turned serious.

"It's very simple." Zhang Xing spread his hands in response. "I saw Lou Huan on Mount Mangdang. Lou Huan told me in person and in public that he was sent to the mountain by some masters of the Zuo family, and he instructed the people in Mount Mangdang to intercept the grain, that is, to intercept us, and it was you. The Zuo family... I believed his one-sided statement, and Bai Xunjian believed my one-sided statement, and Uncle Cao believed Bai Xunjian's one-sided statement."

Zuo Caihou took a long breath to suppress his emotions, and then continued to say: "Zhang Baishou...all the people in Louhuan are dead!"

"I know, I know." Zhang Xing was puzzled, as if he didn't understand why the other party was angry. "That's why the imperial court sent us here to talk with you over tea, and didn't directly send a large army to wipe out... Do you think that when Chen Ling was in Chengfu, he didn't tell us that he wanted to personally lead troops to wipe out your Zuo family? How does it spread on the Jianghuai Road now? Does it mean that your three Zuo brothers and Chen Ling have completely surrendered to the imperial court and sold many heroes in the Jianghuai, Central Plains, and Eastern Regions?"

Zuo Caihou responded with a muffled voice.

"Do you want to continue talking about the smuggling of salt in the East China Sea, and other smuggling along the Huaihe River to Dongyi and Yaozu Beidao? Do you want to talk about your dominance in Huankou Town, with thousands of masters and tens of thousands of trackers? It’s like a country within a country? Do you want to talk about Jing’an Taiwan has regarded you as a thorn in the side, and your Zuo brothers have been registered with the number one master in the world?” Zhang Xing continued to ask.

When Zuo Caihou heard the last sentence, his eyelids obviously twitched violently, but he still forced himself to smile: "What's the point of saying this? Why don't we three brothers directly give all the money we have accumulated to a few of you, and then give the long-term The Whale Gang was disbanded, and then we tied our hands, and let Zhang Baishou send us to the Jing'antai black prison, where we were suppressed by Uncle Cao for the rest of our lives."

"You also know about the Jing'antai Black Prison?" Zhang Xing was slightly surprised.

"There is a brother who is congealing alchemy, and he knows a little bit about it." Zuo Caihou tried his best to laugh again.

"That's right." Zhang Xing also smiled.

"What's wrong?" Zuo Caihou was puzzled for a while.

"Talk about the law." Zhang Xing replied with a sigh. "Boss Zuo, since you have not lost your manners throughout the whole process, then I will teach you a good lesson today..."

Zuo Caihou was startled, but also helpless.

"Just now I said that everything must have a beginning and an end. What about people? Let me tell you, as long as there are people, a group of people, including the Changjing Gang and the Fuli Zuo family, there must be someone in the family and someone in front of them." son."

While drinking tea, Zhang Xing inexplicably remembered the years when he received money to write movie reviews. "In terms of face, it's as big as setting up a gang, or as small as inviting people to a cup of tea, but in reality, you can kill many people... On the other hand, since many people have died in Lizi, this face can be easily established... ...It's like when Meridian Sword became famous back then, when four gang leaders died, did everyone give you face?"

Zuo Caihou was still frowning at the beginning, but after hearing it, he sighed instead: "That's the truth."

"It's the same now." Zhang Xing put down his teacup and pointed to himself. "The Zuo family sent people to go to Mount Mangdang to make a fuss, but they were easily resolved by our Jing'antai Second Patrol Team, killing thousands of people along the way. And the arrogance and rudeness of our Jing'an stage, don't you think so?"

Zuo Caihou didn't dare to say anything.

And Zhang Xing pushed the ice-cold tea in front of the opponent again, and made a slight signal: "Leader Zuo... drink tea!"

Zuo Caihou was silent for a moment, picked it up and drank it down.

Zhang Xing watched the other party finish drinking, and then continued to cross his arms on the table and sighed: "But, the relationship between lizi and face is not so simple that the lizi supports the face, because the face will also impair the lizi, and who is the lizi, Who is face, sometimes no one can tell clearly, the two sides complement each other... I can only say that if the face is really not good, it is the way to destroy the family...Do you understand, Boss Zuo?"

"Understood." Zuo Caihou answered seriously. "I really understand."

"It's good to understand, this is actually the so-called name and truth in the officialdom, and I specially turned it into a face and face that you can understand." Zhang Xing also sighed. "Actually, why isn't that the case? Your Zuo family and Mangdang Mountain, Zuo's inner son and the Changjing Gang. Our Jing'antai and Cao Zhongcheng, our patrol team and our Bai patrol inspector, even today Li Twelve Lang and I... …There is such a little meaning in it.”

Boss Zuo, whose momentum was completely suppressed, nodded heavily: "What Zhang Baishou said is absolutely right. I underestimated Zhang Baishou and Bai Inspector that day, which caused today's incident, but now, I feel that Zhang Baishou is capable, so naturally I don't want to Let's cause trouble again... Zhang Baishou, just say it directly, whether it is the court, or you, what kind of regulations are it?"

"The imperial court is very lenient." Zhang Xing laughed. "Before coming here, Zhongcheng gave me a word... It's not impossible to keep the Changjing Gang, but your Zuo family members have to move from Fuli to Guanzhong; your third brother, transferred to Hebei; your second brother, to join the army in the northwest, Xu Du The position of lieutenant...what do you think?"

Boss Zuo was silent for a long time.

"It's very lenient." Zhang Xing frowned.

"I know." Boss Zuo came back to his senses and answered with a wry smile. "But I can't abandon my ancestral land... Moving is absolutely impossible!"

Zhang Xing was speechless for a while: "Are you going to turn against the imperial court because of this? You pull the flag for this, and your gang may not obey you, right? They only care about whether the Long Whale Gang is still there! Besides, your Zuo family just scattered all of Jianghuai. Tuanhei, let the court rest assured, the future of the three brothers will never go down!"

"I know." Boss Zuo still smiled wryly. "But I can't abandon the land of my ancestors, the local people, and take this as the root..."

"But if that's the case, other aspects have to be lowered." Zhang Xing was thoughtful. "Measure yourself first and say one..."

"My family only needs three." Boss Zuo answered seriously. "If the imperial court can agree to these three things... everything else can be agreed!"

"Three?" Zhang Xing sneered.

"First, we can't abandon the foundation of our ancestors." Boss Zuo pretended not to hear the other party's ridicule, and took it seriously. "Second, please leave us the business of the Long Whale Gang; third, let's not hide it from Zhang Sanlang, my second son is already in the alchemy state, and he is visualizing the blue waves of the East China Sea, how could he go to the northwest to join the army at this time What? This is ruining his future as a grandmaster, and absolutely impossible... But for this one, I can make a promise, once the second child succeeds in the visualization, I will let him serve in the imperial court, and I will never refuse."

When Zhang Xing heard the word Cheng Dan, his eyelids twitched on the spot, but he still shook his head quickly: "Leader Zuo, how different are your three points from Cao Zhongcheng's three points? Don't you know the truth? Please don't make jokes. If you have to, We can only say that this is absolutely unacceptable.”

"I said that as long as you can agree to these three things, you can agree to anything else." Boss Zuo sighed. "The family wealth accumulated over the years, whether it is public or private, can be taken away... I can even promise the court to appoint someone to join the gang as a supervisor, and stop the salted fish business in the East China Sea from then on."

This time it was Zhang Xing's turn to be silent, because he violently realized that the other party's reaction was contradictory and illogical.

First of all, Li Qingchen's arrogance and toughness are his true colors;

Secondly, Cao Lin's negotiating conditions did not exist. How could he, a majestic uncle and a master of a generation, negotiate with such a local tycoon?

That was the bait that Zhang Xing said according to the plan.

In fact, according to the plan of Zhang Xing, Wang Daiji, and Chen Ling's joint advisers, there is only one key to the matter, and that is to do everything possible to force the second son of the Zuo family to show up, and then let Bai Yousi kill him with one knife, and pursue him to the end.

As long as the second son of Zuo is dead, the Long Whale Gang, Uncle Zuo, and Third Master Zuo are all meat on the cutting board. The best strategy is to focus on the key points and deal with them in a simple way.

Whether it was Bai Yousi's retreat, Li Qingchen's humiliation, or Zhang Xing's negotiations at this time, they were essentially coercing and seducing around this point, trying to call Zuo Erer from the East China Sea to show up.

However, the left boss is very divided.

On the one hand, he seems to know the fundamentals of things better than anyone else. He knows that his second child is the root of everything and the real heart of the Zuo family, so he has been talking about his second child, don't think he is talking about some ancestral land. Abandoned, but in fact, incidentally rejected the relevant conditions about his second son Zuo Caijiang.

But when he continued, he seemed to be extremely confused. Besides Zuo Er Er's conditions, he actually proposed a lot of extra things, as if he had something to rely on to fight against the court.

This is impossible.

In the heartland of the imperial court like Jianghuai, no one can resist the imperial court... The governor of Dongyi drove his own whaling ship to death!Moreover, the governor of Dongyi couldn't come in either, because as far as Zhang Xing knew, there was a dragon in the Jianghuai area, just like in the East Territory, but he didn't know whether it was in the Huai River or the East China Sea.

Then, why did Boss Zuo dare to put forward such a strong condition that could not be accepted by the court when he knew the benefits?They had already exposed their feet in Mangdang Mountain and lost their cover, so they should have known that there would be such a knife.

He didn't want to avoid the heart, but opened his chest and said, these three places are not allowed to be stabbed?

"Zhang Baishou...what do you think?" Zuo Caihou couldn't help but urged.

Zhang Xing remained silent for a while before shaking his head:
"Boss Zuo, you are too self-righteous... You must know that it is easy for the court to smash your long whale gang and shovel your ancestral grave, and your second brother can't stop it, because my inspection is in Ruyin, and I just saved it." Let me come here first... You can make an agreement with me, and she won't come. If you can't make an agreement, the Yitian sword will come directly... She is already in the alchemy stage, what is she thinking about? It's a joke, and the position of Fulongwei's regular inspector in Xiyuan has been appointed by default. In other words, your second brother is not relying on it at all, but just a bargaining chip."

This is equivalent to the collapse of the conversation, and it has the meaning of giving an ultimatum directly... Therefore, Boss Zuo was impatient: "In this way, don't you just let us kill you?!"

"No." Zhang Xing hesitated for a moment, and suddenly paused every word, taking it seriously. "Boss Zuo, we still have a chance...you and me, now you and I are the ones who decide directly, you don't care about the Zuo family, your second and third brothers, I don't care about Jing'antai, you tell me, What do you want; let me tell you, what I want...we only mention the basic conditions, maybe we can reach a cooperation."

Boss Zuo was startled for a moment, then smiled wryly: "Since I am the boss of the family, I have to think about everything for Fu Li Zuo..."

"Then only consider the most fundamental things." Zhang Xing interrupted. "I know it's hard to make up my mind, but there's no rush. At least I can wait until you send a letter to your second child and wait for him to speak... If there is a time, you can come to me again and hear what I think! Maybe , we don’t actually have any conflict at all? What do you think?”

Boss Zuo was panicked for a while, and only after a while did he come to ask, "Is Zhang Baishou going to see off guests? Are you waiting for my third child?"

"Zuo Heishou is here, let him rest for a while, and see you tomorrow." Zhang Xing stretched out his hand to signal. "It's gone today."

Boss Zuo hesitated for a moment, and could only stand up and leave with his hands folded.

After the boss Zuo left, Li Qingchen suddenly broke in from the side room a while later, looking extremely impatient: "Zhang Sanlang, this is different from what you said, did you have an extra branch? He Zuo Caihou is the boss of the family, how could he cooperate with us, sell Bro?"

"I know." Zhang Xing didn't get up at all, but replied directly. "The key is that his reaction is really wrong."

"What's wrong?" Li Qingchen frowned.

"Even if he relies on his second child, he shouldn't be so tough." Zhang Xing said seriously.

Li Twelve Lang was stunned, then regained his composure, shook his hands and left.

But Zhang Xing couldn't help touching the compass in his waist...Of course, he put it down soon...Because the matter has not been clarified yet, Zuo's second son, Zuo Caijiang, is the main target this time, but it is far away in the East China Sea. He didn't even know what he needed to know after picking up the compass, and who to turn to?

PS: Good night everyone.

(End of this chapter)