Chapter 292: Green-skinned Maguai
Chapter 292: Green-skinned Maguai
"Madame Liu, business is pretty good."
Four ruffians walked under the big camphor tree and glanced at the diners who were eating glutinous rice cakes with their heads down.
"Boss Xiao, have you paid the street cleaning fee?"
Nanny Liu stood in front of the stove, looking at the leading man with a somewhat nervous and flattering look.
The scarred man's surname was Xiao, and his nickname was 'Qingpi Maguai'. He was originally a well-known scoundrel in Hengyang City. Relying on his connections in the government office and through someone unknown, he got a position as a small leader in the Heisha Gang.
"I know! I have to pay it once more. From now on, it will be doubled. It will be 800 wen per month."
Aunt Liu was both angry and scared, and her hand holding the wooden spoon was trembling slightly.
"Four hundred coins a month, this rule has been in place for years... and you change it so suddenly... What's the logic behind this?"
"Shadalangjun's truth!"
Xiao Rengui interrupted her with a smile.
"If you have any objections, go and talk to Langjun yourself."
"Aren't you old neighbors? Maybe he looks at Madam Liu differently?"
When it comes to Mr. Sha, Ma Liu completely loses her temper. He is a living beast.
He cursed his mother at the age of six and beat his father at the age of ten. Dogs had to hold their tails between their legs and walk quickly when passing by his house. When he was fourteen, he sold his mother to a brothel and broke his father's legs for gambling. He became famous from then on.
Compared with Sha Dalangjun, the green-skinned and uncommon-looking boy in front of him seemed amiable and amiable.
"now it's right."
Xiao Rengui smiled and picked up the string of copper coins tied with a hemp rope and put them into the wooden box held by his younger brother.
"It's better to hand it in sooner or later. Sooner or later, you have to hand it in."
The four men carried the wooden box and left with laughter, leaving the old woman sighing there.
"How can I live like this when I am unlucky and have my head chopped off..."
Zhang Yu was eating the glutinous rice cake in the bowl. He was not surprised by the scene happening in front of him. The local branches of the Sun and Moon Sect would also collect protection fees, but the targets were mostly escort agencies, businesses, and small and medium-sized gangs like the Black Sand Gang. They just looked down on the small amount of money.
"Boss, check out."
He paid five copper coins for the glutinous rice cake and walked forward about ten steps. Two large carriages passed by on the street, accompanied by seventeen or eighteen big men in black, riding horses and carrying swords. They all looked like northerners. Zhang Yu was wondering which underworld force they were when he suddenly heard a voice behind him.
"stop!"
"Stop, are you deaf?"
"Hey, you crazy guy, where can you go?"
Apart from Du Xiaochai, Zhang Yu didn't know anyone in Hengyang Prefecture. At first he didn't think someone was calling him. He walked forward for a while and heard hurried footsteps coming from behind. Then he turned around and looked.
It turned out to be the four men from the Black Sand Gang who were chasing after them from behind.
"You're looking for me?"
"If I'm not looking for you, who else could it be?"
Xiao Rengui tilted his head back. The scar on his face ran from the left corner of his forehead, across the bridge of his nose, to the base of his right ear. When ordinary people saw this shocking face, their courage would weaken by three points.
"He is fair and clean, and he is very gentle. He looks like a simple man."
Several people looked at the young man, who had a weak appearance, his body shrouded in a dark robe, something hidden around his waist, and a heavy bag on his back. Xiao Rengui's eyes rolled. A street cleaner like him had to hand over the collected accounts to the gang, and could only rely on blackmailing passers-by on the street to fill his pockets.
This job is not easy and requires good eyesight.
Being rich, easy to bully, and a foreigner is undoubtedly the best choice.
Zhang Yu looked at the ruffians and ignored their rudeness. "What can I do for you?" "Where are you from?"
Xiao Rengui looked at the young man who was a head taller than him. His eyes and brows were filled with indescribable handsomeness and elegance, but his face was expressionless and he looked naive. He should be the son of a wealthy family. He had no entourage and was probably traveling alone.
Zhang Yu said: "Hebei Pingding Prefecture."
"A stranger."
Xiao Rengui smiled and nodded. As expected, he had met a fat sheep. He pointed at the package he was carrying and asked, "What's in it?"
Zhang Yu frowned slightly: "What does this have to do with you?"
"What does it have to do with me?"
Xiao Rengui laughed and waved his hand, and three people immediately surrounded the young man.
People who often come and go in Xifeng Ferry rarely have the opportunity to see Mr. Sha, but they all know Qingpi Maguai. Seeing this scene, they knew that this young man from another place was probably showing off his wealth and was targeted by the Black Sand Gang.
Zhang Yu asked: "What exactly are you going to do?"
"There was a robbery at Xifeng Ferry last night, and a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry was lost. I think you are suspicious, so I want to check your package. If you are not honest, don't force me to do it!"
Xiao Rengui had already practiced this set of "slaughtering the fat sheep" rhetoric very well. If he met someone who was sensible, he would take out money to settle the matter. He would not go too far. After all, Xifengdu was Sha Dalangjun's territory, and he had to keep running the business for a long time.
"Are you here to ask for money?"
Xiao Rengui looked at his companions and said with a smile: "It seems that you are not stupid, so why bother to say it out loud?"
Zhang Yu took out five taels of silver from his sleeve and handed it over. Every place has its own rules. He had just arrived in Hengyang Prefecture and was unfamiliar with the place and didn't know where the other party came from. There was no need for him to cause trouble for a few taels of silver.
"It's just a small gift, but it doesn't show respect."
When the four men saw the five taels of silver, their eyes immediately lit up. They had not expected the other party to be so straightforward and generous. Usually, they would not think a few hundred copper coins were too little for slaughtering a fat sheep. Having two or three taels of silver was already a rare good day.
After all, this is on Sha Dalangjun's territory, and he is just doing his business in private, so it's not advisable to make too big a deal.
Xiao Rengui reached out to take the silver ingot and touched it twice. He suddenly looked at the package carried by the young man in front of him, and an irrepressible greed arose in his heart.
"He just casually spent so much money. How much silver should he have in the bag he was carrying?"
Qingpi Maguai, in Hengyang dialect, is a toad with not much meat, loud voice, very good at bluffing and pretending to be powerful. It is slippery to the touch and will become extremely timid when seeing a real strong enemy.
Two carriages stopped at the north end of the long street. A man and a woman got out of the carriages and sat in a tea stall, watching this good show they had happened to encounter from a few dozen steps away. The men in black scattered around looked very difficult to deal with.
The girl also had typical northerner looks, seven feet tall, with bright eyes and a single-edged ring-handled sword hanging from her waist. Although her appearance was not particularly beautiful, she had a dashing, calm and composed temperament.
The man sitting next to her saw her staring at the young man in black robe who was in trouble with an unusual look in her eyes, and he immediately felt jealous.
He shook his head slightly and said with a smile, "You are so weak, a pale-faced scholar, so frail that you can't even handle a few hooligans. You are the worst."
"No."
The girl whispered.
The man frowned and asked, "What's not?"
"He is not a pale-faced scholar."
He felt unhappy when he saw that the girl was still staring at the man.
"what is that?"
The girl withdrew her gaze and smiled gently.
"The thief!"
(End of this chapter)