Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 147 The murderous intent in Ye Chen's heart

Kou Yuzhu and Huzi are closing the door of the noodle restaurant outside.

Suddenly, three men came over. Although their clothes were ragged, their hats were askew, and there was a knife stuck in their belt.

Three men, one middle-aged and two young.Among them, a middle-aged man who looked nearly 40 years old stopped Kou Yuzhu at the gate of Kou's courtyard, looked him up and down with a pair of triangular eyes, suddenly stretched out his hand, and said, "Here."

Kou Yuzhu's expression changed, and he said, "What are you taking?"

Triangular eyes said: "Boss Wei said that from today onwards, all those who open shops and do business in the slums will have to pay protection fees."

Kou Yuzhu looked angry, but with his right hand, he pushed the tiger who was about to say something into the yard.The strong ninja was furious and said, "How much protection fee do you want?"

Triangular eyes said: "Not much, a month and a half."

Kou Yuzhu said angrily: "You guys are stealing money. Our small shop earns only half of the money in a month. We leave it all to you. How can we survive?"

A young man next to him stepped into the courtyard a few steps, pointed to the washbasin between the three women and sneered, "You only have half a penny a month, so you can still afford white noodles?"

As he spoke, he kicked the washbasin to the ground, and the three women jumped aside amidst screams, and quickly put the noodles into the washbasin with both hands.It's just that the ground is very dirty, and there are even some excrement brought back from Kou Yuzhu's feet.But Hu Ziniang and grandma put all the dung and dust into the basin.

The young man laughed loudly and said, "White flour mixed with dung, what does it taste like?"

Triangular eyes said: "Do you also eat this kind of food? Are you people or dogs?"

Kou Yuzhu suppressed the anger in his heart, and said humbly: "We are what you say we are. I just hope you can let us go. We will pay the protection fee. From now on, I will spend one hundred coins every month to honor Qi Ye .”

Triangular eyes said: "Do you know who I am?"

Kou Yuzhu shook his head.

Triangular eyes said: "You don't know me, but you know Boss Wei."

Without waiting for Kou Yuzhu to say anything, Triangular Eyes said again: "But do you know who Boss Wei is? Boss Wei is with the second master. Do you know what the second master's surname is? The second master's surname is Bai, which is the second master of the Bai family. And You actually said that you would honor Boss Wei with [-] Wen, and Boss Wei would ask for [-] Wen from you?"

Before Kou Yuzhu could say anything, Huzi stood in the yard and shouted: "You don't want it, we don't want to give it yet."

The triangular eyes laughed and gave a wink. A young man next to him sneered and walked towards the tiger. Kou Yuzhu's expression changed, and he was about to run over to stop him.

Unexpectedly, Triangle Eye raised his foot and kicked Kou Yuzhu's stomach.

The kick was so hard that Kou Yuzhu rolled to the ground, hugging his stomach in pain, his face turned pale, and he was sweating coldly.

On the other side, the young man chased the tiger and ran around in the yard.

Triangle Eyes sneered and said: "If you don't give you a little bit of trouble, you don't know the heights of heaven and earth."

The young man grabbed the tiger and threw it to the ground. When the three women stopped him, crying, he wanted to step on the tiger.

Triangle Eyes remembered the business of coming this time, waved his hand to stop the young man, and said lightly: "Boss Wei is very interested in seeing a disobedient person like you. Oh! There are two men in your family, one big and one small, at least You have to go with me, is it you, or that bastard?"

"I'll go with you, you are not allowed to hurt my family." Kou Yuzhu pleaded.

"Okay! Then come with me!" Triangle Eyes said.

"When my uncle returns, he will seek revenge on you." Huzi cried.Hu Ziniang and grandma sat on the ground and cried, while Han Ke'er stood aside and shed tears silently.

The narrow alley is dark and damp, and even the moonlight can't shine here.

When Ye Chen returned to the alley where Kou's small courtyard was located in the dark, he met a staggering, somewhat familiar figure at the entrance of the alley.

A bloody man, the clothes on his body were stained red with blood, and the bones on his face were broken.

"Brother Kou."

Ye Chen cried out in surprise and rushed over, Kou Yuzhu also rushed over, and the two hugged each other.

Kou Yuzhu said: "Your throat has healed, and you can speak."

His own injury was more serious, but he didn't seem to care, it was Ye Chen who cared the first time.

Ye Chen frowned, and said, "I'll talk about my matter later, what happened? How did you get hurt?" Ye Chen briefly touched Kou Yuzhu's body, and found that three ribs were broken. Although it was not fatal, the injury was serious. It's already heavy.

Kou Yuzhu shook his head and didn't speak. Seeing this, Ye Chen could only frown and help Kou Yuzhu walk home.

When the two arrived, they disturbed the three women who could not sleep at all.Hu Ziniang and grandma looked at Kou Yuzhu with tears in their eyes.Han Ke'er walked over, clutching Ye Chen's arm tightly, refusing to let go.Looking at the wound on Kou Yuzhu's body, her body trembled slightly.

Kou Yuzhu was still laughing, and said loudly: "What is this little injury? It will be fine tomorrow morning!"

Grandma Huzi said: "They hurt you?"

Kou Yuzhu glanced at Ye Chen, and said: "No, Boss Wei asked me to go over and ask some questions, and then let me leave. It was dark, and when I came back, I fell and injured myself."

Even Hu Zi, who got up from the bed upon hearing the movement, should be able to tell that Kou Yuzhu's body was definitely not injured by a fall.Because even if he rolled down from the top of a mountain seven or eight feet high, he would never be injured so badly.

But Grandma Huzi is different from other old women.She could see it wasn't a fall and she cared more about her son than anyone else.

However, she never asked any more, and only said with tears: "Be careful next time you walk at night." Then she staggered out to find medicinal materials and bandages.

She is a dutiful woman and a smart one.She knows what to ask and when not to ask.

Huzi's mother is not so responsible and smart, crying and helping her man into the house, she said: "You are lying, you were obviously beaten by them. Since they want half a month's protection fee, Then we will not open the noodle shop from tomorrow."

Ye Chen suddenly realized that it turned out that the local gang collected the protection fee, but this small noodle shop only earns half a month in total at most, even if the protection fee is required, it is impossible to go there, which is not in the interests of the gang at all.Unless the person responsible for collecting the protection fee is an idiot, but is it possible?
Ye Chen had a faint feeling that this matter was not simple. Reminiscent of the way Kou Yuzhu looked at him at the alley and not telling the truth about being beaten, he felt that this matter might have something to do with him.He suddenly remembered the look in the eyes of the owner of the gambling shop, Bai Erye, when he refused to join the gambling shop in Yangzhou during the day and turned to leave. It was a look that you couldn't escape from my palm.

"Brother Kou! Are they coming after me?" Ye Chen's expression was a little ugly, full of apologies to Kou Yuzhu's family and murderous intent towards those people.

Han Ke'er heard that Ye Chen was able to speak, and let out a cry of surprise, but it didn't feel right, so she quickly covered her small mouth again.

Facing Ye Chen's questioning, Kou Yuzhu still didn't speak.

When Kou Yuzhu sat down, Ye Chen stared at Kou Yuzhu's face again, and asked solemnly: "Brother Kou! Who hurt you?"

Kou Yuzhu's smile was a bit stiff, and he said with a straight face: "Even if I was injured, it is my own business, and you don't need to worry about it."

Ye Chen's face became even uglier. It is almost certain that the incident was caused by him, and those people were also targeting him.

Huzi, who had been standing by the door tightly clenched his fists and weeping silently, said, "I knew they were here for uncle. I ran over to ask before I went to bed. Zhai's, Wu's, and Li's noodle restaurants all have one." The protection fee was only ten renminbi each month. But our family charged five hundred renminbi. They did it on purpose." Huzi showed his clever side again.

Ye Chen's heart sank, he took a deep breath, and said to Kou Yuzhu, "Tell me, what did they tell you?"

Kou Yuzhu was silent for a while, and said: "Boss Wei wants you to work for the second master of the Bai family, otherwise we will kill our whole family. You must be unwilling to do what they ask you to do, and maybe they will send you to die, so Tonight, our family is preparing to move all night, and we will leave Yangzhou City early tomorrow morning."

Ye Chen's heart was full of murderous intent. He understood Huzi's mother's dissatisfied look at him, Huzi's complaint, and Huzi's grandmother's desperate sigh in the room. Kou Yuzhu, who chose to take care of his feelings and safety as much as possible when facing the life and death of his family, was shocked and deeply moved.

Such a family, he absolutely cannot let them die tragically by being implicated by him, or even suffer any harm.

At this moment, he heard a person say coldly: "Boss Wei said that you might move and escape overnight, and that's true."

This is the sound of the triangular eye that came in the evening.

He was not alone, he was accompanied by two young lads with knives in their belts, a man with a long face and long legs, with his hands on his hips, standing behind them in a shiny satin suit .

Triangle Eyes raised a thumb, pointed at the person behind, and said, "This is our boss, Boss Wei, and this slum area is under the control of Boss Wei."

The muscles on Kou Yuzhu's face were twitching, and he said with a look of despair, "What are you guys doing at our house again?"

Triangular eyes smiled sinisterly, glanced at Ye Chen, and said to Kou Yuzhu: "Don't worry, as long as this one obediently follows us to see Second Master Bai, we won't make things difficult for you."

Ye Chen took a deep breath. By now, he naturally guessed that the second master Bai was probably from the Bai family, and the Yangzhou casino should also be regarded as the property of the Bai family.The most important thing is that, for some reason, he has a vague feeling that this second master Bai is related to the incident in the Bai family that he experienced just now.

(End of this chapter)