20 years of the Republic of China

Chapter 429 On the Mountain
For a moment, Jiang Lianheng even suspected that Li Zheng had already been to Slingshot Ridge, successfully quelled the internal strife among the gangs, and became the top treasurer.

But then I thought about it again and felt that there was really no need for the other party to be deceitful.

He looked at the unfamiliar gangsters in the lobby, thoughtfully, and asked, "Why did it take you so long to come to Fengtian?"

"Went to Anton!" Li Zheng glanced at Xue Yingqing, then pointed behind him and said, "I grabbed a few brothers on the way!"

After a few simple chats, everyone learned about the bandit's movements during this period.

It turned out that after the separation from Luda, Li Zheng and others did not go directly north. Instead, they turned to kill Anton with Cai Yunsheng in hand.

They didn't have many manpower, and Anton was an important border defense town, so they didn't dare to attack hastily. Fortunately, they had the eldest son of the Cai family in their hands, and they tortured him several times, and they quickly figured out the situation in the Cai family's mansion.

The layout of the front house and backyard, the number of servants, the storage of gold and silver, the rules of daily life...

After all the plates were stamped on porcelain, Li Zheng took advantage of the dark moon and high winds to sneak into the Cai family's mansion, burn, kill and loot, and make a quick decision.

Because Cai Yunsheng had seen the true face of the gang, he naturally did not survive. Now his head is missing and his whereabouts are unknown.

Several piercing gunshots pierced the night sky, echoing in the mountain stream of Slingshot Ridge for a long time.

It was a night with a high wind, a few stars, and the crescent moon quickly shuttled through the frivolous clouds, making the forest, sea, and pine waves flicker brightly and darkly against the background.

"What about my brothers?"

Wang Guihe was still sitting on the top chair on the wolf-skin cushion, with a bowl of strong wine in front of him. He couldn't open his eyes, couldn't close his mouth, and seemed to be sleeping but not sleeping. He looked like he was about to collapse.

Complain to others, help if you can!
For those who want to go home and live a happy life, Li Zhengshe will provide them with some money; for those who want to go back to the green forest and start a new gangster bureau, Li Zhengyan said that someone in Fengtian promised to give him a batch of arms, enough to open a mountain and set up a cabinet.

Returning to the mountain this time, bringing people, money and guns, Li Zheng's prestige in Slingshot Ridge will surely be unprecedentedly high. But in terms of seniority, he can't even be ranked in the second cabinet position, let alone the big cabinet.

Jiang Lianheng pondered for a long time, tapped the table with his fingers, and suddenly suggested: "Let's go! I'll take you to see the goods!"

"The money has been paid, there is no need not to give Bingjian some face, just stay and have fun!"

Because of this, when he came to Fengtian, he had about ten more bandits on his hands.

……

"Yes, yes!" Fulong rubbed his hands and said with a flattering smile, "Hehehe, what Shopkeeper Xue and others said just now, I think is a bit arbitrary. You see... in front of the boss, you have to help. I said intercede!"

Seniors and juniors will inevitably offend one of them.

"How many people are there on the mountain now?" Jiang Lianheng asked.

His two wives from Dongyang and Korea respectively were busy pouring wine for two thirties bandits.

Li Zheng shrugged, but said: "This is not something I can decide alone. When I go back this time, I will bring people, money and guns. Even if the boss doesn't say anything, Yang Laoxie and those old people will definitely tolerate it." Without me, I can only prepare for the worst.”

In the mountain gate camp, a blazing bonfire crackled, and several corpses were dragged into the shadows in the corner. The sound of "rustling" was almost inaudible.

Jiang Lianheng left more than a dozen men, and then left Huifangli with Li Zheng.

"Come on, come on! Drink, drink!"

Some of these lonely people want to take advantage of the opportunity to "get their jobs" and go home to farm; some want to return to their old business and gather in the mountains and forests.

After hearing this, all the gangsters immediately beamed with joy, staring at the girls with their green eyes, eager to try.

The huge hall was extremely deserted, with only three or five barbarians sitting on the long table, drinking and laughing, and the faint echo made it even more desolate.

The Zongshe Party's plans encountered successive setbacks, and coupled with the changes in Xiaodongyang's cabinet's strategy, the "King Qin Army" in southern Liaoning was already in disarray.

……

The entire camp seemed to have just experienced a war. Although there was no gunpowder smoke, the brothers were sweeping the dust under the night. A few dazzling bullet holes could occasionally be seen on the rammed earth walls, and the surroundings were eerily quiet.

The two parties met each other and felt familiar to each other. After careful questioning, they found out that they all worked at Luda Port.

The two gangsters were joking and picking up the wine bowl on the table.

Although Wang Zhengnan is kind, he is not a bad person, and he will definitely lose face.

Later, Li Zheng and others took the brothers north to Fengtian.

Wang Zhengnan went with him, while Zhao Guoyan and Li Zhengxi stayed to calm down the situation. Xue Yingqing and others left one after another, leaving Dong Erniang and Zhao Guoyan to cultivate their relationship.

Jiang Lianheng had to agree with Li Zheng's statement.

"How old are you? You are still living in Huifang. Go back and pack your things and leave quickly!"

"It must be said that Third Brother Yang saw it accurately! Strike first and take it directly!"

When passing through the boundary of Haicheng, I met a few lonely men on the line.

"Hey! I've long since discovered that those old guys are sneaking around and trying to get along with each other. They must have bad intentions! Just do it right and save yourself a long night of dreams!"

Upon seeing this, Fulong hurried to the door and shouted in a thin voice: "Second Master Nan! Second Master Nan!"

After hearing this, Jiang Lianheng nodded and said in a deep voice: "We have the manpower and the trolls. From what I see, you are going to go back to the mountain and start working!"

"Nothing wrong!"

"Call me?" Wang Zhengnan stopped and asked.

"There are probably a hundred or dozens of people!" Li Zheng said, "However, the big boss has been hanging out in that mountain for more than ten years and is quite famous online. If we really want to join the flag, the number of people will be more than these."

He boasted unashamedly that all of you were "Brothers from Paoze" of the "Fuguo Qinwang Army", and all of them became "deserters" at the same time.

"Those old guys from Lao Zhu are just out of their minds, and they want to carry out a sneak attack, right?"

Just when he was about to raise his head and drink, one of them suddenly winked at the other person and tilted his mouth twice in the direction of Wang Guihe.

The other person understood immediately, slammed the table twice, and shouted angrily: "Master, drink!"

Wang Guihe suddenly woke up, but did not open his eyes. He still hung his head, waved his hands tiredly, and spoke extremely vaguely.

"No... I won't drink anymore, I can't drink anymore!"

The Hu Bandit immediately turned cold, patted Wang Guihe heavily on the shoulder, stretched his neck, and said slightly provocatively: "I want you to drink, do you understand?"

"I can't drink anymore... I really can't drink anymore. Let's drink again tomorrow..."

"Tomorrow? I asked you to drink it now, why don't you tell me tomorrow?" The rogue asked in a weird voice, "What do you mean? If you don't give me face, do you look down on me?"

Wang Guihe bared his teeth, covered his stomach, and waved his hands repeatedly.

Just as he was about to stand up, he was pushed down by another gangster.

"What, you want to run away?" He chuckled, "That's not okay, drink it!"

After saying that, he winked at the two beauties from Japan and Korea, and forced them to pull up Wang Guihe's head, pry open Wang Guihe's mouth, and forcefully drink down the sea bowl of strong wine. . The strong alcohol went down his throat, piercing his heart and lungs like a knife, stirring his internal organs.

Wang Guihe only felt a twitching in his stomach, and then he vomited it out with a "wow" sound like a spray of water. Except for the strong smell of alcohol and a little bloodshot, no trace of filth could be seen.

"Snapped!"

Seeing this, the gangster immediately jumped up, slapped the boss in the mouth, glared and cursed: "Fuck you! You are so shameless, this is called food and water, why don't you just let it go!"

"Don't you fucking love to drink!" Another gangster also yelled, "Drink all these things you spit out! Drink!"

After vomiting a few times and receiving another slap, Wang Guihe not only felt no pain, but actually felt a lot more relaxed. Unfortunately, he had been intoxicated for a long time and could no longer wake up completely.

He couldn't remember the last time he drank water.

He was indeed a greedy drinker, and always liked to have a drink no matter what, but I don't know since when, Yang Laoxie and others no longer gave him water, only wine.

Drinking day and night, drinking endlessly.

Gradually, I got to the point where I couldn't do it without drinking.

Not just for the addictive taste, but also for the balance that Slingshot Ridge can maintain.

Boxing is afraid of young people. If Wang Guihe doesn't drink it, the old and new factions may not even be able to maintain a semblance of peace. In the event of internal strife, the brothers will definitely die in a fire.

Of course, even old buddies are not on the same page.

Yang Laoxie used this as an excuse to get rid of several old people who were the first to join the gang, and his prestige grew.

On the top of Slingshot Ridge, three factions, old, middle and young, can be divided.

People of the same age naturally get together often.

When Li Zheng was on the mountain, he and Yang Laoxie were both enemies and friends, and there was a check and balance between them. Since he led his people south, Yang Laoxie has become the dominant family member. Among the brothers, he seemed alone inexplicably.

"Where is Lao Zhu?" Wang Guihe asked with a big tongue, "Call Lao Zhu over..."

As he spoke, Halazi hung uncontrollably from his chest.

The two gangsters laughed and said, "The boss, Lao Zhu, is leading a rebellion. You guys will help you get him in. Isn't that interesting?"

"Can't, can't..."

Wang Guihe leaned back on the wolf-skin cushion, feeling a sharp pain in his stomach. He spit out a mouthful of blood, shook his head and said: "Lao Zhu has been with me since the beginning of the game. We have been with him since the beginning of the game." I have been messing around for more than ten years, so I can’t betray..."

"I told you he rebelled, don't you understand?"

"Toyang! Goryeo! Pour wine for the boss, that's what he likes!"

The two Yazhai ladies have been on the mountain for a long time and can understand a few Chinese sentences. The first word they learned was "pour wine".

They could clearly distinguish the situation at hand, and their bodies were trembling, but they did not dare to disobey the order, so they dragged Wang Guihe forcefully and poured two large bowls of wine into him.

When the bottom of the bowl was emptied, Wang Guihe made a "bang" sound and leaned heavily on his side on the chair. From time to time, a mouthful of strong wine mixed with bloodshot gushes out from the corner of his mouth.

"Get up! Get up quickly!"

The two gangsters took out their sticks and pointed at Wang Guihe.

"What's wrong? Do you have to listen to the noise before you can drink? Can I give you a shot?"

At this moment, the door of the hall suddenly opened, and Yang Laoxie walked in quickly with a few people. Seeing this, he frowned and cursed: "What are you doing!"

The two gangsters stood up quickly and said, "Brother Yang! No, didn't you say that you gave the boss alcohol?"

"Just let him be confused!" Yang Laoxie shouted, "If you two do this to me, you will be tortured to death later!"

With that said, he quickly walked to the end of the long table, sniffed Wang Guihe's breath "concernedly", and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

The two gangsters then asked: "Um...how are Lao Zhu and the others doing?"

"I can't ask!" Yang Laoxie wrote lightly, "I just cleared it up."

All bandits have the habit of hiding treasures, and Wang Guihe is no exception.

Large ransoms and property stolen from burning furnaces are often taken by the head of the family with three or two of his most trusted brothers, children, relatives, or even alone to the city to exchange them for gold bars, and then find a place deep in the mountains and forests. , hiding it without knowing it, so that when the gang breaks up and runs away in the future, they can continue to live freely and generously. The worst case scenario is to use it as life money to offset the charges against the government.

When the two gangsters heard this, they couldn't help but be dumbfounded on the spot.

"Can't you?"

"It's not their money, why are you so harsh?"

Yang Laoxie shook his head and muttered: "I guess they may not know where the gold bars are hidden. Gu Duuzi died first, so maybe he knows."

"Then how?"

One of the Hu bandits turned to look at Wang Guihe and said with a startled expression: "There are no old people in the village now, only Jiu Mengzi is left. It's hard to speak. Can he still remember where he is?" "

"If you don't tell me, he will be put to death!" Another gangster said bitterly, "Chop off his hands and stamp on his feet. If that doesn't work, just wear flowers and look at the sky. The worst he can do is near Slingshot Ridge. I don't believe he can hide in Changbai Mountain." go!"

"Then - keep it first?"

"Third brother, once Lao Ge dies, you will be the only one left on the mountain in terms of seniority. Let's not waste time. From now on, you will be the boss!"

"This matter is not urgent." Yang Laoxie sat down on the chair and frowned. "The big boss is very popular in this area. He knows several people from far and near. The world must be moral. The reputation of being a traitor is not good. ”

The two gangsters looked at each other with their heads drooping and thought to themselves: Who are you scolding?

Yang Laoxie signaled his men to close the door of the hall, and suddenly he sighed and said thoughtfully: "Besides, Li Zheng hasn't come back yet. He is considered to be the number one in the mountain. I can't let this fall into his hands."

"However, the group of people who are most loyal to Li Zheng have been taken away by him long ago. We still don't know what's going on now!"

"Yeah, even if he brings them all back, only twenty or thirty people will be able to survive. Are we still afraid of him?"

"How many people are there on our mountain now?" Yang Laoxie asked knowingly.

"Number 1560!"

"How many of these people are really determined to follow us?" Yang Laoxie asked again.

The two gangsters said nothing.

The Slingshot Ridge mountain stronghold is impregnable, easy to defend and difficult to attack. In their opinion, as long as Li Zheng and others are not magic soldiers descended from the sky, with only twenty or thirty people, they will not be able to defeat them even if they are beaten to death.

"I'm afraid that he will join forces with other hilltops to attack, so I have to keep the big boss first. Besides -" Yang Laoxie said in a deep voice, "He seems to have a good relationship with that Jiang Lianheng. He has many connections. It’s better to be on the safe side.”

The two gangsters thought for a while and then suggested: "Li Zheng and the others have been out for a few months. If they want to come back, it's time to come back. How about - let's set up a few whistles at the bottom of the mountain recently to explore. Wind?"

(End of this chapter)