Dark Fairy

Chapter 128 An Uneasy Night

When it was time to leave, Chen Qilu bid farewell to Bailang cordially with a smile on his face. It could be seen that he was very satisfied with the result of tonight's "reconciliation".Chen Qilu thought it was a good deal to exchange a favor from Bailang for a generous gift from Hu Xia.

And Bailang was all smiles.He is in love with Chen Qilu, so he will give the other party a face for anything that is not impossible.What's more, in his eyes, he and Liang Zi, who was traveling with Hengshun, were not considered a life-and-death enmity.He didn't suffer a loss, and it's all right to turn big things into small things.Of course, the premise is that the other party has to give a sufficient price.

In the end, only Hu Xia, who was driving in Hengshun, changed his face from blue to red, and he could see that he was trying his best to suppress the anger in his heart.

It was enough for Hu Xia to bow his head in a knife shop like himself that he had always looked down on and felt that he was not worthy to be compared with him. What's more, he had to pay ten gold for "soup and medicine fee" and ten gold for "delayed work fee". In the end, they even bought [-] large and heavy trucks from Hengshun Car and Horse Company at half price because "you have surplus there anyway".

Such a large amount of money is not only painful, but also a slap in the face.And there is no room for haggling.Chen Qilu only engaged in bargaining but did not help, and Bailang held a knife and would not fight with Hu Xia.It was even made clear that the price was mentioned for Chen Qilu's sake, otherwise the "fight" would continue.Anyway, the only thing that Knife Shop has to do is to make a living. It depends on how long Hengshun Carry and Horse Shop can hold on.

What else could Hu Xia do?He didn't dare to let Bailang continue to intimidate the coachmen in his hands in Dongcheng. Half of the coachmen who were already idle were working hard for a few more days.At that time, all orders will be affected. Once your reputation is damaged, you will be completely finished in this industry.

So Hu Xia wrote an IOU to Bailang in front of Chen Qilu, promising to pay off the [-] gold compensation and [-] heavy trucks within half a month.

With such a loss, Hu Xia naturally couldn't look good.

"Zhentang, this Hu Xia looks very unconvinced! Do you want to find someone to give him some color?" Zhang Wu has been serving in the wing room, and he is also very clear about the private affairs in Bailang's hands.He was the one who took the coachmen who came to threaten Hengshun Chariot and Horse Co., Ltd. before.Now he can be considered to have really entered Bailang's hands, and is no longer just the leader of Qianfang.

Zhang Wu has seen many people like Hu Xia.Many rich and powerful people don't pay attention to the knife shop, and the knife shop tries to keep a low profile for not making money, so that there are more and more such people.I don't care about the trivial things, I don't want to worry about it, but when there is really money to make, these people will know why the knife shop has a bad reputation.

Therefore, when Zhang Wu saw Hu Xia's unkind expression when he left, he had the idea in his heart to let the other party experience what it felt like to cut flesh with a knife.

"No. It's not the time to move around indiscriminately when there are turmoil in the city recently. Whoever dares to act recklessly at this time will definitely have no good fruit if they offend the city lord's mansion. Hu Xia is just a rich old man with a couple of dollars. Let's calculate Zhang Shun's kind Honest man is okay, he is still far from playing with us. I wish he would stop holding his fart later, just in time for the opportunity to gouge out the flesh from him again.

By the way, you can use this money to share with the brothers who have been busy with you these days, and it should be regarded as hard work. "

Bai Lang took out six pieces of silver from his pocket and put them in Zhang Wu's hand.He is now well-off, not only has the large sum of money that Huang Yi left behind, but also the daily income from the pier behind.Naturally, he will not be stingy when he makes a move.

"Zhentang, is this unnecessary?"

"Take it. It's not an errand for the knife shop, so you can't let the brothers work in vain."

"Then I'll thank the town hall for them." Zhang Wu didn't show any pretense, he declined for a moment and then put it away.It is clear that this is Bai Zhentang trying to win people's hearts.This is about establishing your own power.It doesn't matter what others think about Zhang Wu, he is ready to settle with Bailang anyway.And he also secretly helped Bailang win over some waist knives in Qianfang.The five people who helped Bailang handle personal matters this time were the ones Zhang Wu thought were pretty good.

After seeing off Chen Qilu, Bailang returned to the office, and Zhang Wu refilled the hot tea.

"Is there any news about Lord Snake in the yamen? Can't you go in and visit?" Bai Lang had approached Xiao Cheng, the jailer in the yamen, and wanted to see Liu She.After all, Liu She is the treasurer of Qianfang, so everyone should go and see it, both public and private.But in the end Xiao Chengcheng shirked it.It is said that the entire prison in Yongchuan City has been requisitioned by others.

As for who the "others" were, Xiao Cheng kept his mouth shut and didn't say anything.

Zhang Wu's face also became serious when he heard the words, and he replied: "The town hall and the prison are still sealed. The group of prison bosses in the yamen can't get in. But I heard that the situation in the prison is very wrong. These days, we will meet again and again. The corpses were brought out in the middle of the night. People in the birthday hall are discussing this matter in private. I heard that all the dead are those who were taken in with Lord Snake before."

The news from Zhang Wu made Bai Lang realize that maybe Liu She's trouble this time would be much bigger than everyone thought before.Judging from the news coming back from the prison, the methods of those mysterious people who commandeered the prison were brutal.Even if it didn't matter at all, ordinary people who were just implicated were directly tortured to death.

And those mysterious people behaved so domineeringly, and it was impossible to sell any face to the knife hall.In this way, people like Liu She who have a knife shop background and are also logically involved in the matter must not be able to pass the test easily.

No wonder there was an urgent order from Ma Sheng Alley yesterday, saying that no matter who asks the knife owner to go back for interrogation in any name, or to pick up anything in the knife hall, he cannot give in, and he can decide whether to kill according to the situation. resist.

It seems that the knife shop must have been affected because of Liu She.It's just that Bailang was a little surprised how such a strong order came out of the sword hall.After all, those "mysterious people" can even requisition the Yamen dungeon, which is obviously extremely powerful.The knife hall is so stubborn and blunt to kill and resist, what is the confidence?

The only explanation is that the city lord's palace is supporting the sword hall.

After chatting with Zhang Wu for a while, Bailang checked the water money accounts that he had returned in the past few days. Seeing that it was getting dark outside, he got up and prepared to go around the venue for the last time, and then went home.

But who knows that tonight is destined to be unstable.

As soon as he arrived at the door, a group of black-robed warriors that Bai Lang had never seen before poured in from the alley.All of them had long knives hanging on their waists, and a small, diamond-shaped shield on their left forearm.The aura it gave people was very unusual, gloomy but with an obvious smell of blood.

"Hey! Who are you!" Zhang Wuben followed behind Bailang, preparing to send his town hall out of the alley.Seeing these black-robed warriors outside coming in, he stopped immediately, his eyes were cautious as he touched the handle of the knife.Because those who dare to hang long soldiers on their waists are not ordinary people, they definitely have official backgrounds.

"The secret guard is on duty to find your accounts, cash box, and everyone who was here on the ninth day of last month! Come back to the Yamen with us and ask you something."

The person who entered the alley on the opposite side called himself a dark guard.It made Zhang Wu and others confused, they had never heard of this name.

But Bai Lang, who was beside Zhang Wu without saying a word, found that the sign hanging on the other's waist was also special.There is a crescent moon hidden in a cloud pattern!This is almost exactly the same as the coat of arms drawn in Huang Yi's relics, the only difference is that in addition to the cloud pattern and crescent moon, there is an additional diamond-shaped shield and a crossed long knife below the badges on the waists of the black robes.

(End of this chapter)