Datang: Hiding private money, exposed by Xiao Sizi

When the man with the scar saw this scene, he became completely nervous.

Looking at Shen Lian's expression that was as calm as a pond, he knew that he had... hit a wall.

"Lord Shen, please spare his life, spare his life!"

Just then, a voice suddenly rang out.

Then an old man was seen being surrounded by several people.

Shen Lian looked at the old man and said, "Old Zhang, your relative?"

Shen Lian is very clear about the layout of the underground world.

The old man Zhang in front of you is the boss behind this gambling den.

It is easy to decide the life and death of ordinary people.

But when you meet a lord like him, you can only keep your tail between your legs.

The underground world is called the underworld.

It’s because we can’t live an upright life!

And in his hands, he had their evil materials.

If you feel uncomfortable, expose it directly.

He is Sir Alex Ferguson, he has the ability and the skill.

So Old Man Zhang didn't dare to offend Shen Lian at all.

now.

The words fell.

The leader of the underground world, Old Man Zhang, shook his head: "No, he is..."

puff-
Before Old Man Zhang could finish his words, Shen Lian had already raised his knife and swung it down.

Until the last moment of his life, the scarface man could not figure out why he died here.

No one expected that Shen Lian would not even give face to the underground leader, Mr. Zhang.

"you……"

Old man Zhang's eyes widened and he paused.

Shen Lian sheathed his sword and said calmly, "Don't say he's not your relative. Even if he is, he should be killed for being disrespectful to a lord!"

"Old Zhang, you are a man who knows the current situation, so you should understand who has the final say here, right?"

"It seems like I'm in your territory, but in fact, you're surrounded. If I lose even a hair, you know the consequences."

"And you also know my abilities. If I conduct a surprise inspection, your reserve of men will definitely not be enough to defeat me. So, Old Man Zhang, you have to think carefully about how to deal with me."

When Old Man Zhang heard Shen Lian's words, his expression changed slightly.

He quickly suppressed his emotions and avoided showing any hostility so as not to be discovered by Shen Lian.

He knew how terrifying the young man in front of him was, and he also knew how powerful Shen Lian was now.

If Shen Lian is willing, it won't be difficult to bloodbath them here!
The weight of the youngest lord in the Tang Dynasty is really too great!

He quickly lowered his head and said, "It was Qin who made the decision that day. You have the final say."

Shen Lian walked up to Old Man Zhang with a swagger, looked at the old man in front of him who was humble but actually the king of the underground world, smiled and said, "There are some things that you can do, as long as you don't go too far, as long as you don't touch my bottom line, I, Qin, will not be ignorant and will not care about you."

"I think you should have understood what I mean. After all this time, no one from the government should have troubled you for no reason, right?"

Old man Zhang nodded quickly. "We have to thank Lord Shen and the various departments for making them turn a blind eye to our actions. We are very grateful to Lord Shen."

"So, I have done what I should do. Now tell me, under my protection, some of you are disrespectful to me and even secretly collude with outsiders to kill me. Such a person..."

Shen Lian narrowed his eyes, still smiling, but that voice made Old Man Zhang feel cold inside: "How should we deal with this?"

Old man Zhang trembled all over.

He is not a man who has not seen the world.

He has seen all kinds of people, cold-blooded, cunning, insidious...

In front of those people, she always managed to remain calm and composed.

But only in front of Shen Lian, he felt like a weakling who had no secrets and no ability to fight back. He could not muster up the courage to look Shen Lian in the eye.

"Of course...of course he should be killed." said Old Man Zhang.

Shen Lian took out a list from his arms, threw it to Old Man Zhang, and said, "You should know what to do."

After saying that, he took the dog and went directly to Old Man Zhang's room.

Old man Zhang nervously opened the list, and his expression changed instantly when he saw the faces on it.

…………

The door is closed.

The noisy sounds outside suddenly became much quieter.

Xu Gou looked at Shen Lian and said, "Master, where are we?"

Shen Lian smiled and said calmly: "Don't you understand? Show them your power and let them know who the real master is."

"Don't be fooled by this old man Zhang who always bows and nods to me. In fact, he is very cruel and ruthless, otherwise he would not rule this underground world."

"So if you want it to be obedient, how can you do it without some tricks?"

"The scarred man I killed was actually the adopted son of old man Zhang."

…………

"What? This..." Xu Gou was shocked.

Shen Lian sneered and said, "This is the information that Chouniu found out. I just learned about it in the past few days, so you don't know it very well."

"Let's not talk about this, let's just talk about his adopted son. Do you think an ordinary person would let Old Man Zhang come out to beg for mercy?"

"However, today I want to let him know who his father is. What's wrong with an adopted son? He is the only one who doesn't have a biological son, otherwise I, Shen, would kill him too!"

"If you are not more ruthless and aggressive than this kind of person, he will shit on your head."

Xu Gou was a little worried: "Will he bear a grudge against the young master? Will he do something secretly?"

Shen Lian laughed: "Don't worry, he is a smart man who knows the current situation. He will make it clear that he cannot hate me. Otherwise, he knows that I can see through his thoughts. He doesn't want to die."

"Also, the list I gave him includes all of his more trusted confidants in the underground world. These confidants have betrayed a lot of my information to Yaoguang before. I just don't want to bother with these small fry. It's a good opportunity to deal with them all today."

"He doesn't know how I got the list, so she will wonder if I have spies around him. At that time, he will be even more cautious, fearing that I will find out if he says a wrong word or does a wrong thing."

"Why not do this, which kills two birds with one stone?"

Xu Gou couldn't help but ask, "Did the young master really arrange spies beside him?"

Shen Lian looked at Xu Gou with a half-smile: "What do you think?"

Xu Gou: "..."

He doesn't know. He really doesn't know!
Very few people can guess what Shen Lian does.

After all, their IQ levels are too different.

And Shen Lian didn't say anything.

Is there eyeliner…who knows?
At this time, some screams were heard outside, and Shen Lian knew that Old Man Zhang was executing those guys.

The corners of his mouth turned up slightly.

After all these things, you, old man Zhang, will not dare to have any other thoughts for a short period of time.

Therefore, this underground world will completely obey his orders.

In this way, everything is fully prepared.

It depends on when Li Wencheng comes.

Just wait for Beichen’s killer to go find Li Wencheng!
All preparations have been completed.

Next, just wait for the bait to be caught, and then the show... begins!

The next day.

early morning.

It was just dawn and his wife Changle went out to buy groceries. Qin Wenyuan hadn't gotten up yet when he heard a knock on the door.

His tightly closed eyes suddenly opened, and his hand instantly clenched the handle of the knife beside him.

"Master, it's me, the dog."

At this time, the voice of the Dog came from outside.

Shen Lian let go of his weapon only after hearing what Xu Gou said. He glanced at the sky. The sun had just risen and the roosters had just crowed. It was still early. Xu Gou came to see him at this time, so he thought it must be something important.

Without delay, he quickly got up, put on his blue shirt, and opened the door.

I saw Xu Gou standing outside the door, but I didn’t see Meng Hu today.

Although the Twelve Shadow Assassins are currently Qin Zu's personal guards and are responsible for protecting him for twelve hours without interruption, they are also human beings and need rest.

So they all work in shifts. Unless there are special circumstances, those people work in three shifts, with each team being responsible for four hours. Now is not the time for the Twelve Shadow Assassins to be on duty.

Because they all went out with their wives.

After the previous smallpox incident, Shen Lian’s protection of his wife could be described as crazy.

"What's the matter?" Shen Lian asked directly.

Xu Gou looked at Shen Lian and said, "Master, two hours ago, the assassins from the Beidou Society went to kill Li Wencheng, but Li Wencheng was alert enough to sense the danger and escaped in advance, but more than a dozen beggars were killed."

Shen Lian raised his eyebrows slightly.

Two hours ago, that is, between the hours of Chou and Yin.

There was still a curfew at that time, and the killers from Beidou Society rushed over, showing great courage.

Li Wencheng was able to escape during curfew, which showed his ability.

He said: "Did the killers go straight to the place where we saw Li Wencheng yesterday, or did they search other places one by one before finding Li Wencheng?"

Xu Gou said: "They don't have such ability. They split up and attacked from several places where beggars gathered. Then they learned from those beggars that new beggars would be educated at the Beggars' Sect headquarters, so they went to the headquarters."

Shen Lian nodded slightly.

It seems that although Beichen is smart, he, like himself, deduced that Coco Lee had become a beggar and hid herself.

but.

Yi Beichen probably has no experience of being at the bottom of society, or he has a high status and has never come into contact with these people at the bottom of society.

Therefore, even if he could guess that Li Wencheng would disguise himself as a beggar, he was not like himself and could not find Li Wencheng immediately.

Otherwise, if Beichen had directly deduced Li Wencheng's whereabouts like himself, and Li Wencheng still wanted to escape... that would be wishful thinking.

Of course, Shen Lian actually used Li Wencheng as bait, so he would not let him be killed so easily by Beichen's people. If Beichen's killer really found Li Wencheng in the first place, then the people he arranged would rescue Li Wencheng at the critical moment.

So no matter what inference Beichen made, under his own leadership, the only result was failure!
Shen Lian seldom takes the initiative to plan anything. Most of the time, he just goes with the flow and takes advantage of the situation.

This time he took the initiative to design it, so naturally he had a big appetite. However, some low-level killers could not satisfy his appetite.

At least... one must be a person who is qualified to use a serial number as a pseudonym, so that one can be worthy of one's own plan.

Shen Lian asked: "When did those assassins set out?"

The dog said, "Master, it was before midnight last night."

Shen Lian narrowed his eyes slightly and thought in his heart.

If we don't set out before midnight, then let's just assume it is midnight.

Zi time refers to the time from 11pm to 1am, so it is 11pm.

According to Xu Gou's previous report, the killer was going to kill Li Wencheng between seven and nine o'clock, but found that Li Wencheng was missing.

So we take the middle value, which is eight o'clock.

Even though the killer sent a message to Beichen immediately after discovering that Li Wencheng was missing, Beichen, like himself, spent almost no time in deducing that Li Wencheng would pretend to be a beggar and quickly replied.

So the time is fifteen hours.

The round trip is fifteen hours, and the one way is seven and a half hours.

This is the most. After all, writing letters or other things will take some time.

Of course, Shen Lian’s estimate is just a rough one, so let’s just consider it a limit.

In seven and a half hours, if a messenger was delivering a letter, he would definitely not go far. Not to mention other things, just the checkpoints in Chang'an City and outside the city would take an hour.

At most, there is only six hours of riding time, and the limit of the Arabian horse is to travel a thousand miles a day. For an ordinary horse, the limit is to run three or four hundred miles in more than six hours.

What if the letter is sent by carrier pigeon?
Carrier pigeons are not restricted by levels and can fly farther, but pigeons are not the kind of creatures that can fly for a long time. They also need time to rest, and even at full speed, they may not be faster than horses.

But it can fly in a straight line, ignoring terrain restrictions, so if carrier pigeons are used to deliver messages, the distance will be farther.

But no further, five hundred miles is the limit!
Time and other things are just the limits of Shen Liansuan!
In this case, we can know that Beichen is currently hiding in an area with a radius of 500 miles centered on Chang'an.

If Beichen wants to get clear intelligence, it is impossible for him to find it in the deep mountains and forests, but must be in a populated area.

The village is not taken into consideration. If there are strangers in the village, they will be easily discovered and suspected.

Therefore, it can be roughly judged that Beichen is now in a state capital or a county within 500 miles of Chang'an. However, there are many mountains near Chang'an and there are not many state capitals.

In addition, Beichen was determined to kill Li Wencheng. He was worried that Li Wencheng would fall into his hands, so he would definitely not delay.

Therefore, we can exclude those prefectures and counties that are extremely far away from Chang'an, at least within two hundred miles.

If we sum it up like this...the number of places to hide is no more than thirty.

Shen Lian's eyes flashed, and he suddenly returned to the room, took out a piece of paper, wrote down the place name he had guessed, and handed it to Xu Gou.

Shen Lian's eyes flashed, and he suddenly returned to the room, took out a piece of paper, wrote down the place name he had guessed, and handed it to Xu Gou.

(End of this chapter)