Kyushu · Endless Nagato

Chapter 110 All the things that should come and not should come (1)
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Simu Town is located on the eastern edge of the southwest Gobi, that is, in the west of Ningzhou. For many people who cross the Gobi to seek money or life, seeing it is like seeing heaven, because its appearance represents hardship. At the end of the journey, even the stingies will inevitably want to relax a little here.Therefore, although Simu Town is small, it has all kinds of inns, restaurants, casinos, and brothels.

Of course, there is one more indispensable thing here, and that is the coffin shop.The risk of crossing the Southwest Gobi is great, and people die in the desert almost every day.Some people choose to bury their companions' bodies under the yellow sand on the spot, but some people want to give their companions a decent burial, so they insist on taking the corpses out of the desert.This coffin shop is for these people.

However, in recent years, the coffin shop has a new source of business, that is, people who come here to fight.This small town is located on the edge of the desert, and the people coming and going are complex and difficult to manage. At first, the government tried to control it with high pressure. As a result, after several large-scale conflicts occurred, they had to turn a blind eye and close one eye, and then simply The opened eye was also retracted, leaving the law and order here in a state of laissez-faire, no matter whether it was stolen, robbed, murdered or set on fire, no one from the official family would take care of it.Therefore, more and more gang forces choose the arena here for convenience, and duels are usually deadly, so the business of the coffin shop has improved.

"Boss, there may be big business today!" A chubby coffin shop guy said to the boss.

The dark and thin boss poked his head out and glanced at the street: "Are you talking about those two groups of hooligans staring at each other and wishing they could eat each other?"

"You have to keep your voice down," the fat guy was a little nervous, "You are a real rascal, smashing our shop a hundred times is more than enough."

"If the coffin shop is smashed, no one will collect their corpses," the boss snorted. "Where did these two gangs of hooligans come from?"

"Early this morning, they came from the east. They should be from Ningzhou's gang," the fat guy replied. Foreign enemies, so the gangsters are getting more and more lawless."

"It doesn't matter, they fight dead people, we sell coffins! The more dead, the better!" The boss laughed, "Just wait and see!"

"It's so inhumane," the fat guy murmured, "I just like to follow this kind of boss who has no conscience..."

It was mid-February at this time, and the weather was gradually warming up. Although the wind and sand from the Southwest Gobi still ruthlessly harassed the town from west to east, at least the weather was much clearer. Many residents and tourists originally planned to go to the street on this bright afternoon. Let's go to the sun to bask in the sun, even if it means eating a mouthful of sand, but now, no one dares to go to the street.

Because those two gangs of hooligans from the east had already set up their posture and planned to fight.Of course, hooligans are just a contemptuous name. This group of people is not young, and some are old men, with shining knives, guns, swords and halberds on their bodies, all of them possess martial arts, and they are by no means ordinary hooligans.But if you look closely at your skills, you can't be considered a top expert, probably the kind of local gang that does some underworld business for the sake of harm.

Right now, there are no other idlers on the long street that runs through the town. People from the two gangs confront each other, with four or fifty people on each side, among whom are humans, Yuren, and Heluo mixed, and the momentum is not small.It seems that in order to distinguish between the enemy and us in the melee, so as not to accidentally injure, both sides have distinctive characteristics in clothing.Each member of the gang standing in the west has a red cloth strip tied on his right arm, while the gang in the east is wearing a blue headband.

The gang with red cloth strips was the first to stand out. It was a middle-aged and strong man with a big waist and a round waist. He had an eagle tattoo on his neck and looked very fierce.He held a sharp ghost-headed sword in his right hand, and a dry and thin old man in his left hand.The old man was bald on the top of his head, his face was pitted and ugly, like the bark of a tree that had been bitten by insects, his eyes were full of panic, and he muttered in his mouth, as if he was begging for mercy, his appearance was very wretched.

The middle-aged strong man shook his left hand and threw the old man to the ground. The old man fell on all fours and screamed for pain, but he dared not get up.The person on the opposite side couldn't bear it any longer. An old woman from the Yu clan with a cane came forward and asked coldly: "Vice Chief Wei, what do you mean? Although Ji Laosan is muddy and can't stick to the wall, After all, he is also one of us, so why humiliate him in public. If you invited us here to start a war, then you should do less work."

"You'd better ask him what he has done first, and then think about whether your Qingtian Society really intends to protect him," Vice-Clan Leader Wei replied, and then shifted his gaze to Ji Lao San who was still moaning and hurting on the ground, " Third Ji, tell me what you have done."

Ji Lao San had no choice but to get up from the ground tremblingly, his whole body was supported by his right leg. It turned out that his left leg was disabled.It can be seen that this person's status in the gang is very low, and most people look at him with contempt and disdain.

"I... I... I came here three days ago, and I ran into three brothers from the Black Eagle Gang drinking and chatting in the tavern. They drank a little too much, and accidentally mentioned a business that they had just done recently , That is a bag of valuable jewels. I, I have never been taken seriously in the meeting. When I heard such a bag of jewels, I was a little tempted, so I followed them and secretly took drugs..." Ji Lao Sanjie Stuttering.He had just uttered the word drug, and only heard a "slap", and he had already been slapped heavily. This slap came from the old woman of the Yu tribe who was leaning on crutches just now.Although she looked very old, her movements were quick and neat.

"There are rules for gangsters on the road!" The old woman said angrily, "If you disagree with each other and start a conflict, and each of you speaks with a knife, life and death are up to you; but secretly drugging and robbing people, It's too dirty, it's a disgrace to our Qingtian Society!"

She turned to the vice-guild leader of the Black Eagle Gang: "Vice-guildmaster Wei, this matter is our fault. This Ji Lao San joined the gang not long ago and doesn't know the rules. I will teach him a lesson. As for today's battle, there is no need to fight it. Give up."

This remark was quite unexpected, Vice-Clan Leader Wei was stunned, and then laughed: "Mrs. Hua is indeed a sensible person, I admire you! If this is the case, please ask Mr. Ji to hand over the goods he swallowed, and we will let the past go. .”

It seems that these two groups of confrontational people are indeed different from the hooligans who slash and kill at will. Now that the word morality is put out, they actually make sense with each other.Seeing that a lively fight could not be fought, those idlers who secretly peeped out through the cracks in the windows and doors were inevitably very disappointed.

"Oh, it looks like we won't be able to fight anymore!" The fat guy in the coffin shop who leaned against the crack of the door and looked out felt very regretful. gone."

"It's not a trivial matter to be lively. The important thing is that if you don't fight and die, you won't make any money," the boss looked forward. "The hooligans are still reasonable. There is nothing to save in this world."

The two of them were chatting nonchalantly, when a voice suddenly came from behind: "Don't worry, there will be excitement here soon, much bigger than this - I'm afraid you won't be able to bear this surprise. "

It was the voice of a young man.The two were terrified and hurriedly turned their heads, but they didn't see anyone.The fat guy quietly shrank behind the boss: "This voice... seems to come from the coffin."

"Who is it? They are hiding, hiding in Lao Tzu's coffin and pretending to be ghosts!" The boss yelled sternly, "These are all high-quality nanmu coffins, and if the paint is damaged, you will be punished to death, why don't you hurry up and get out!"

"Sorry, these coffins are very comfortable, we still want to stay a little longer," another voice sounded, this time it was a young woman, "But you two, hurry up and run away, if the excitement really breaks out in a while , I am worried that your coffin shop will be lost."

"Comfortable in the coffin? Are you humans or ghosts?" The fat guy's body began to shake.It seems that although he likes to watch hooligans fight, he is very afraid of ghosts. Hearing these two voices coming from the coffin, he is already a little out of his wits.He turned around suddenly and rushed towards the door recklessly.

"A ghost!" he shouted.

But he couldn't run out the door, and he couldn't yell a second time.He had just taken two steps when the cover of a coffin next to him was suddenly lifted, and a big hand stretched out from inside, grabbing him into the coffin.Then there was a muffled sound from inside the coffin, and the fat fellow was unable to utter another word.

The boss was shocked and was about to run away when the lid of the coffin beside him was lifted.Another big hand did the same, grabbed him into the coffin and made him shut up immediately.The coffin shop instantly returned to calm, as if nothing had happened.

But outside the coffin shop, no one noticed what happened in the shop.Now that Mrs. Hua of the Qingtian Society has voluntarily succumbed, the fight between the two sides will be impossible.Under Mrs. Hua's order, the youngest Ji drooped his head and limped to lead the two principals to the Penglai Inn in the town, and the other members of the gang followed behind at a distance.

"They were drinking in the lobby of Penglai Inn that day. After I stole the bag, I wanted to take it away, but I didn't expect two of my creditors to appear on the street. They probably came to find me together," said the third Ji, " I was afraid that the jewels in my luggage would be stolen if they caught me, so I ran upstairs to the inn, but I couldn't find a place to hide my things. Fortunately, I suddenly remembered that a few years ago, I and a few helpers Li’s brother also used this inn to hand over things, and dug a hole in the beam of the No. It happened that the guest was not in the room, so I just took the opportunity to hide the jewelry in."

"You're quite smart." Deputy Chief Wei said sarcastically.

Ji Lao San shut his mouth, as if he was automatically immune to all sarcasm.This gang of vicious people entered the Penglai Inn, and the people who were drinking in the lobby all stood up and slipped away consciously, and the shopkeeper and the waiters who were used to seeing all kinds of scenes obediently shrank behind the counter, ignoring them.So Ji Laosan took the two principals upstairs to Room No. [-], Dizi, and knocked on the door.

The door opened, and the occupants of this room, two muscular young men, came out. Looking at the situation in front of them, they were a little surprised, but they didn't seem flustered.Mrs. Ji muttered and wanted to speak, but Mrs. Hua pushed him away, stepped forward and cupped her hands: "Ningzhou Qingtian Society and the Black Eagle Gang need to borrow this room for a while. Please make it easier for you two."

As she spoke, she took out two gold bahts and handed them out. For a high-ranking member of the gang, these words are already considered polite enough, not to mention there is still money to take. If it was someone else, I am afraid they would have already taken it in a hurry. The money quickly slipped away.But these two youths didn't seem to like this, no one reached out to take the money, a young man sneered: "If I also give you a few gold baht, can I ask you to go away as well?"

Mrs. Hua's face darkened, and she was about to speak when there was some noise behind her.She looked back, and suddenly found that the doors of several different rooms were opened, and some warrior-like people came out of the room, looking at them coldly.And a few residents who were originally drinking in the lobby and flinched away when the gangsters walked into the inn also came to the stairs.It seemed that if any dispute happened upstairs, they would probably not stand by and watch.

Ji Lao San couldn't help muttering: "It's too bad, there are quite a few of them, and there may be ambushes. Could this be a fight?"

Deputy Gang Leader Wei snorted and was about to speak when another voice rang out: "Let them find it."

The person who spoke was an old man dressed as a businessman, who was walking from another room.After hearing what he said, the two young men showed a little displeasure on their faces, but they restrained themselves immediately. Without saying a word, they stepped aside and let out the door, and the people who came out of the other guest rooms did not have any objections. .It seemed that the old man's words were an irresistible order to them.

Ji Laosan timidly walked into the room, struggled to climb up the beam, took away the wooden blocks that covered the hole, and then let out a scream: "Oops! The burden, the burden is gone!"

"What did you say?" Mrs. Hua and Deputy Gang Leader Wei exclaimed in unison, and rushed into the room together.Deputy Gang Leader Wei jumped onto the beam, looked down and saw that there was only a hole left.Mrs. Hua was worried, so she went up to check it herself, but obviously, if 1 more people went to take a look each, it would be impossible to conjure a bag of jewels from that empty hole.Something was missing, no doubt about it.

Mr. Ji's face was ashen and terrified, and he seemed to want to jump off the stairs immediately to escape, but in the end he still didn't escape, but looked at Mrs. Hua in despair: "Second leader, I...I..."

"If you can't get the thing back, you can use your head to pay for it." Mrs. Hua said lightly.

Ji Lao San was about to faint, but suddenly, like a drowning man grabbing a life-saving straw, he stretched out his fingers to the two young men: "It's them! They must have stolen the jewels and pretended not to know! It's not my fault , They did it!"

"Fart!" One of the youths was furious, "I've asked you to come in and look for it, so don't push yourself!"

"But our things did disappear in your room," Mrs. Hua stepped forward, "Of course you are the most suspicious, unless..."

"Unless what?" the old man who spoke just now asked, while again using gestures to stop the two young men who were getting angry.

"Mrs. Hua, there is a door," Deputy Chief Wei whispered in Mrs. Hua's ear, "In my opinion, this group of people must have something on them, so they want to calm things down and not cause trouble."

Mrs. Hua nodded slightly, and her tone became tough: "Unless we are asked to search the room thoroughly."

A young man frantically raised his fist, but the old man moved faster, grabbed his arm and gave him a hard look.The young man held back his anger and did not speak. The old man continued, "Sorry, we can't let you search the room, but there may be other ways to compensate you. How much are those jewels worth?"

Deputy Gang Leader Wei and Mrs. Hua glanced at each other, and the information exchanged in their eyes was roughly "Sure enough, this old man just wants to avoid trouble, so blackmail him."Deputy Gang Leader Wei coughed and said, "According to what my subordinates told me, it's probably worth... one thousand... no, around fifteen hundred gold baht."

This amount is not small, but the old man did not say a word, took out three bank notes from his pocket, and handed them over, each with a face value of five hundred gold baht.Deputy Gang Leader Wei showed a hint of regret on his face, it seemed that he didn't expect the old man to pay so happily, and he should have said something more if he knew it was like this.But now that the words have been spoken, I can no longer go back on my word, I can only accept the money embarrassingly.

"Are you all right now?" the old man said calmly, "Can you please leave?"

Deputy Chief Wei and Mrs. Hua looked very embarrassed, but they had nothing else to say, so they could only order their subordinates to leave.Seeing a group of people walking down the stairs, the old man suddenly asked: "Did the people from the Willow Inn in the east of the town send you here?"

Madam Hua turned her head, a little surprised: "No one sent us, we are indeed here to find that bag of jewels."

"There are nearly a hundred people on both sides, just for a bag of jewelry?" the old man said.

"No, the matter of the jewels is just a pretext. We brought so many people here. We originally planned to annihilate them, but we didn't expect to come to this inn to look for them." Mrs. Hua said patiently, probably because it was settled so smoothly with the help of this old man. There was a conflict, and I was a little embarrassed.

(End of this chapter)