The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 120 Fisherman’s Pride (14)

When he suddenly said this sentence, I was caught off guard and stood up from the boat, almost falling into the river.Ji Mingmei quickly grabbed me and looked at me worriedly.I didn't have time to pay attention to her, I just felt that the water in this river couldn't wash away the shock in my heart-this matter has something to do with me!
Isn't the iron plaque that Li Si mentioned is the organizational token hanging around my neck at the moment?
This token had been in the hands of Qiu'er, a maidservant of the Wei family, before it was given to me by Qiu'er's son, Ruan Lang.In that case, how did it end up in the hands of the gun buyer?My mind was in a mess, my thoughts suddenly stagnated, and I couldn't figure out the relationship between them.

Li Si was also a little surprised when he saw my reaction so strongly, and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Ji Mingmei hurriedly said without waiting for me to speak: "It's nothing, you can continue talking." She tugged on my sleeve and motioned me to sit down.I came back to my senses, forced myself to suppress the shock in my heart, and sat down as she wanted.Ji Mingmei was right, no matter what, the best response was to listen to what Li Si had to say.

Li Si gave the two of us a strange look, and then said, the brand is only one finger long and two finger wide, and the tentacles are cold, no matter how you hold it, it will not become warm. Although it is dark, it can be picked up in the dark. see.This brand is indeed different from all other brands, and it is impossible to be counterfeited.

Now that he recognized the brand, he asked the buyer, why didn't he come to him sooner?The buyer replied that he was delayed for a few days because he met a few acquaintances here and it was inconvenient to show up.Li Si didn't take it seriously when he heard it. The gun business was inherently shady, and it was right to avoid people.

He led the buyer to the silk reeling factory, told him the specific hiding place, and then the buyer called his accomplices to take out the gun and transport it away.The matter was handed over smoothly, and Li Si felt lighthearted, thinking that everything would come to an end here.Unexpectedly, on the second day after the buyer left, another person came to the door suddenly.

The man's tone was kind and polite, but Li Si was icy cold the moment he spoke.Because what he said to Li Si was: "The brand is here, please check it. Please tell me where the gun is, so that we can transport it."

This man also took out an iron plate, which was exactly the same as the one taken out by the previous buyer!
Li Si said that he was stunned when he heard the news, but now that I hear the news, my reaction is no better than him.I always thought that the brand was the token of the organization. Since it is a token, it is naturally unique, but now it sounds that there are not only one, but more than two!
Right now I have one on me, the previous buyer has one, and now the person who came to the door also has one, so there are already three in total.But whose token will have three, and it's not sour plums!No wonder no matter Hu Xiaotian, Jindi or Ji Youjie before, they didn't care much about this brand. I dare to say that everyone owns this brand.

Li Si glanced at me again, and continued, when he saw the sign, he felt chills in an instant, and tremblingly asked the person if he was with the buyer yesterday.The man was startled and angry at once, and kept asking him if he had handed over the gun to others.Li Si didn't dare to hide anything, so he told what happened yesterday.

The man heard that the buyer said that he met an acquaintance here yesterday, so he asked him what the buyer's name was.Li Si told him that the buyer claimed to be Qin Jian.The man suddenly calmed down when he heard the name, and told Li Si that he was an acquaintance of Qin Jian, and that Qin Jian hadn't come to Li Si for a few days, probably because he wanted to hide his whereabouts and wait for an opportunity to rob these guns .

Li Si was terrified when he heard this, and recalled the calm look on the seller's face when he left. He shivered in his heart, and asked the man what he should do now, and if there was any way to rob the guns back.

The man sighed and said that since the gun fell into Qin Jian's hands, he might not come back.As for how Li Si would explain to the seller, the man let him figure it out, and then left.Li Si was terrified all by himself. Although the seller had never said any threatening words to him, whenever he thought of him, he would shudder for some reason.

At this time, I almost cried out when I heard Li Si's narration.Because the person who stole Li Si's gun was actually Qin Jian!

It was more than ten years ago that Qin Jian left Hushan to follow Guyin.The incident described by Li Si happened nearly 20 years ago, so Qin Jian is still the second master of Hushan at this moment.Li Si said before that this batch of guns was going to be sold to a big bandit den, and since Hushan had robbed the guns, the buyer would naturally not be Hushan.

So who will the real buyer be, wolf den?It makes sense that Qin Jian has an iron plate, because he is familiar with Gu Yin, maybe Gu Yin has an iron plate so he lent it to him, but how come the people in the wolf den also have it?

I wanted to ask Li Si, what was the name of the person who found him later, but Ji Mingmei glanced at me, shook her head slightly, and signaled me not to speak.I understood what she meant, she told me to wait for Li Si to say what happened next, and then maybe I would know everything without asking.

So I kept silent, resisting the doubts in my heart and listening to Li Si's narration.Li Sidao: "After the man left, I really couldn't sleep or eat. I tried my best to empty the silk reeling factory. Who would have thought that I would hand over the goods to others. If the seller comes to the door later, how should I explain?"

After a day like this, when Li Si's heart was ashamed, the real buyer suddenly found him again.This time, there was another woman walking with him, followed by a person who was dressed very differently from the two, she seemed to be a porter or something.

The woman seemed to be the wife of the real buyer, but she was leading someone behind her, like a parent who came to the door after a child was bullied, so it seemed a little weird.Li Si was surprised, only to hear the woman say: "Xiaotian, is that the broker you mentioned, is he?"

The person named Xiaotian nodded, and the woman said to Li Si, "There was a woman named Wan'er who was murdered by several people in the silk reeling factory. Since those guns were hidden in the silk reeling factory, you must know about it." Is it?"

Only then did Li Si come to his senses, it turned out that the one standing behind the two was actually Wan Er's husband!
After Zhao Yi and the others left, the female workers in the silk reeling factory dispersed one after another, and Wan Er naturally followed suit.It was just that she had been severely injured, physically and mentally damaged, and she could hardly walk at that time. It was some female workers who felt sorry for her and sent her to the warehouse to find her husband.

Li Si looked at Wan'er's husband, and suddenly turned a corner in his mind. It turned out that the real buyer was Wan'er's husband's employer.I just don't know what they brought him here for.

Just as he was thinking, before he could speak, he heard the woman say, "Tell us in detail why Wan'er was severely injured."

Seeing that she wanted to know what happened to Wan'er, Li Si was surprised but didn't dare to say anything, so he told all he knew.After hearing this, the woman pondered for a while and said, "So, Wan'er was murdered by those three people in succession?"

"Wan'er is dead?" Li Si was shocked when he heard this.

"Not yet, but it will be soon." The woman said calmly, "An innocent woman was murdered by three big men in turn. She should be given justice."

It turned out that they came to seek justice for Wan'er, and they didn't know what was the relationship with Wan'er and his wife.Li Si thought to himself that he did not participate in the murder of Wan Er, on the contrary, he saved her many times.Even if they want to seek justice, what are they asking for themselves?
While he was thinking, the buyer named Xiaotian said: "If we don't meet, forget it. Since we have met, and her husband is employed by me, then we can't leave it alone. How about it, the gun is taken I'll take care of the robbery, and I won't let the seller trouble you, but you have to do me a favor, how about it?"

When I heard Li Si say that the buyer's name was "Xiaotian", I knew in my heart that the real buyer was not the man from the wolf den, but Hu Xiaotian.He is also a member of the organization, so naturally he may have an iron card.Hu Xiaotian later replaced Qin Jian and went to Hushan as the second head. Before that, I never thought about why he could go to Hushan, a bandit den, if he wanted to.

Now that I think about it, Hu Xiaotian actually started to deal with Hushan a long time ago. His batch of guns was robbed by Qin Jian. Maybe he gave the guns to Hushan as a favor, so Hushan would naturally owe him a favor. , it will be a matter of course for him to go to Hushan to join the gang later.

"The buyer named Xiaotian said that if I was responsible for finding Zhao Yi and the others and sending them to the place where Wan'er's husband lived to make amends, he would take responsibility for the robbery of the gun for me and promise not to let the seller come to me Trouble." Li Sidao, he was a little worried after hearing this.

Because among the three, Sun San was easy to find and was in the local area, but after Zhao Yi and Qian Er left, he had no idea where they went.Besides, even if he finds them, how can he bring them to atone for their sins?
Hu Xiaotian also seemed to know his difficulties, so he proposed to complete the matter immediately without him, as long as it was completed within the time limit of 20 years, and asked him if he would agree.This is quite possible, Li Si thought to himself, if there are 20 years to slowly raise funds, this matter can be done, so he agreed to him.

"So Wan'er's husband told me the address, and asked me to take Zhao Yisan and the others to find him at a pier in 20 years, and he would pick us up with a boat." Li Si said, "I have traveled all over the years, In fact, the three of them were found a long time ago, but it took more than ten years to persuade them to come here. They were not born bad people, and they actually regretted what happened back then, so after more than ten years, they finally You were moved by me and came here with me."

"You... You actually spent 20 years doing this for a promise you made all these years ago?" Ji Mingmei and I were a little stunned, and we couldn't recover.Isn't he a broker? He should be only interested in profit. This kind of promise is not like what a person like him would do.

"Haha." Li Si smiled, "You are very strange, a person like me would do such a thing? Not to mention you, I feel strange. But, I have done all kinds of bad things, the only one The good thing is that you walk the talk. Besides, I lost those guns, which is my responsibility—people always have to take responsibility.”

As he spoke, he also stood up from the cabin and stretched himself.My heart tightened, and I hurriedly said: "You didn't hurt Wan Er, no need..."

"Do you think that if I persuaded them to come and die, can I go back alive?" Li Si smiled. "Besides, Wan'er was killed at that time, but it was all because of me. I have nothing wronged."

He said, looked at the boatman again, and then jumped into the river, and was swallowed by the rapids.The four people in the cabin had all jumped into the river. The boatman stared at the river in a daze for a while, and suddenly said, "He's lying."

"Huh?" Ji Mingmei and I looked at him, thinking that all four of them jumped into the river by themselves, and he still said that Li Si was lying?

"If he wanted to, he should have brought Zhao Yi and the others here long ago." The boatman smiled, "But they only came on the last day of the 20-year period. Isn't that a lie?"

Both Ji Mingmei and I remained silent. It is already a great courage to come here and repay the mistakes of the year. Even if it is delayed until the last day, what is there to blame?
"They've finished talking, it's my turn." The boatman ignored our eyes, "When Wan'er went to the silk reeling factory, he was seriously injured when he came back and was dying. This was a completely accidental disaster, so I almost went crazy when I knew it. There was a quarrel on the spot, and I went to the silk reeling factory to seek revenge from those people. But Wan Er said, those people have already left, where can I find them.”

(End of this chapter)