Li Bao pushed the table, stood up unsteadily, came to Chu Muzu, looked him up and down, and said with a smile: "We haven't seen each other for a few years, Brother Muzu has become more energetic. Going to the mouth of the river to do business is better to visit relatives."
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Chu Muzuo kept a sullen face and said nothing. The young men's nerves were tense, but no one dared to take action without Yuan Feng's order.
Li Bao didn't pay attention to these young people at all, and continued to tease Chu Mu's legs: "Haha, I even installed a new prosthetic leg, let me see." As he said this, he shook his head, and two thugs rushed to catch him.
Chu Jian couldn't help but stand up suddenly and wanted to draw his knife, but his hands were faster. Before the knife was out of its sheath, two knives were placed on his neck.
"Tsk, tsk, this is your son, he's so old, and he's still carrying a knife. I said, young man, what do you want to do with this embroidered iron piece? Do you want to kill your third uncle?"
Chu Jian's hand holding the knife was trembling, and he glared at Li Bao with wide eyes, but Yuan Feng remained motionless, just silently watching the unfolding of the situation.
The wooden leg was untied, Li Bao weighed it in his hand and said with a smile: "It's still made of good wood. The carpentry work is also good. Even the toes are carved out. It's not bad, but the fake ones are just fake.
It doesn’t really work, by the way, Brother Wooden Leg, where’s your real leg?”
"Hahaha" Li Bao and his four thugs laughed wildly. At the moment when they were distracted, Yuan Feng's hand grasped the handle of the knife under the table, but before he could take it, he was suddenly intruded.
A man from the tavern interrupted.
"Li Laosan! Get out of here!" A young man wearing a white brocade robe stood at the door and shouted.
Li Bao turned around and put on a smile. He threw his wooden leg and said, "Who do I think it is? It turns out that I'm here. Come on, brother, I'll buy you a drink."
"Don't do this, let me ask you, where are our 100 horses? Were they hacked by you?" the young man asked angrily.
"I haven't seen you. How could I do such a thing? Did you make a mistake somewhere? You can't accuse me wrongly. My brother is old and I'm afraid." Li Bao spread his hands and made a pose.
Innocent look.
"If you do it, you do it. If you don't have the guts to admit it, what kind of a hero are you? I'm telling you, if you don't hand over the murderer and compensate for the losses, I will never be done with you!"
As soon as he heard this, the smile he pretended on Li Bao's face faded, and he said coldly: "Boy, the powerful dragon is not overpowering the local snake. You think this is your Ningxia. If you have proof, you will sue the official. If you don't, you will sue the officials."
Don't make me angry by talking nonsense here about slandering people's innocence. Humph, did you see that cripple over there? I want you to end up like him." He pointed at Chu Mu's leg, but when he turned around, he saw this
The people at the table had left at some point.
"Li Laosan, you are cruel, let's wait and see." The young man in the golden robe said a cruel word, turned around and left.
"Huh, if you're one step too late, I'll take off one of your legs." Li Bao said viciously. He glanced around and saw that everyone was looking at him, so he yelled, "What are you looking at? Believe it or not, I'll dig out all your eyes."
Everyone hurriedly immersed themselves in eating. Li Bao also sat down and drank a few glasses of wine and ate some dishes. Suddenly he stopped his chopsticks and said, "My right eye keeps twitching. I'm afraid something will happen. I won't eat anymore and go back to the shop."
He stood up and left, followed by the four thugs.
The shopkeeper hurried over to say goodbye: "Third Master, you've finished eating. Let's go slowly."
"Charge it to my account, and I'll settle it for you when I have time." Li Bao said nonchalantly, holding a toothpick in his mouth. He looked up and saw the waiter, and shouted again: "What are you waiting for! Have you finished with a hundred slaps in the face?"
The waiter looked at him bitterly and slapped himself again. He was not pretending, every slap was real, and now his face was swollen.
Li Bao was then satisfied and asked the thugs to help him put on his robe and walked out of the tavern in a big show.
After leaving Tongrenju, Li Bao immediately put away his arrogant face and whispered: "Let's go quickly."
The thug followed him back and asked as he walked: "Third Master, what are you afraid of?"
Li Bao said: "That boy from the Li family in Ningxia is a stupid young man. Who knows what he can do. Our men and horses have all gone out to guarantee the goods. There are only eight people in the shop, so we have to be careful."
Upon hearing this, the thugs shuddered and hurried away quickly.
The Li Family Salt Shop is close to the edge of the city. There are more warehouses here, so it is not as crowded as the place where taverns gather. Instead, it is dark and unpopular.
There were still dozens of steps before entering the shop, when suddenly there was a whooshing sound from the wall next to him. Four of Li Bao's thugs were shot over on the spot, three of them died, one was injured and wanted to draw his sword, and another arrow shot him.
Come here, hit the eye socket, and the brains are coming out from the arrow.
Although Li Bao was very arrogant, he was the least courageous among the five brothers of the Li family. He was so frightened by this incident that he couldn't walk. He saw several masked men jumping down from the wall, with their drawn bows and arrows pointed at him.
Looking at himself, he only felt that his lips were dry, his heartbeat was racing, and his legs were weak, but he still managed to stand up and spoke less arrogantly: "If you have something to say, isn't it just a hundred horses? It's old
Er's men did it. If he doesn't do my business, I'll ask him to pay you back the money you paid for selling the horses, and hand over the murderer. We all have the surname Li, so give it some face."
He pulled back the black face of a masked man and preached: "Li Laosan, do you see who I am?"
"Ah, wooden legs...Brother Chu, it's you, what do you want to do? If you dare to touch me, my brothers will definitely not let you go. You have to think clearly." Li Bao threatened with a fierce expression.
, but his voice was trembling, proving his guilty conscience.
"Your brother can't run away either. Don't you want to see my wooden leg? Let you see it. Let you see it to your heart's content." Chu Muzu took off the wooden leg with one hand and smashed it at Li Bao. The wooden leg was made of hardwood.
Yes, if it hits you, your brain won't hurt. Li Bao dodged, turned around and ran away, but he was already prepared. He shot two arrows through his thigh and fell to his knees, unable to run anymore.
"Lao Wu, collect debts for your father." A masked man ordered.
The other masked man nodded, stepped forward with his sword, slashed hard, and removed one of Li Bao's legs.
A scream resounded through the night sky, and Li Bao almost fainted from the pain. Chu Mu jumped a few steps to catch up and said: "Li Laosan, don't howl. Every injustice has its owner, and every debt has its owner. You owe me this, and I
My son helps me get it back, it’s God’s justice.”
"Dad, it's been so long and I need to collect some interest," Chu Jian said.
"Yes, interest will be charged."
Chu Jian chopped it off again, and Li Bao's other leg was also separated from his body. This time he stopped screaming and passed out.
"Send him on his way," Yuan Feng said.
Chu Jian nodded. Just as he was about to raise the knife, his father stopped him, "I'll do it."
The wooden leg was raised high and fell hard, leaving Li Bao's brains smeared on the ground.
"Let's go and burn their shop." Yuan Feng took the lead and ran towards the Li family's salt shop, and the others followed him with their faces covered.
As soon as they arrived at the door of the shop, seven or eight big men suddenly emerged from inside, all with their faces covered and holding bright long knives in their hands. As soon as the two groups met, they all took a step back subconsciously, and then pointed the knives at each other.
Two groups of masked men met in one place. No one knew the origin of the other, but the only thing that was certain was that the other was definitely not one of Li Bao's men. The Li family's thugs did not need to mask themselves at the mouth of the river.
The air seemed to have solidified. More than a dozen long knives were pointed at each other, and many of them were still dripping blood. Suddenly Yuan Feng saw that the other person was a man with a faint white cloth under his black clothes, and he began to care.
"Seeking revenge? Seeking wealth?" The other party couldn't hold it in anymore and asked, with a thick accent that was obviously a deliberately disguised Lanzhou accent.
Yuan Feng didn't answer, but just waved his hand, asking his people to step aside and let them out of the gate. The leader on the opposite side took advantage of the moonlight to see Li Bao's body in the distance, and understood, and waved his hand, leading his men.
Leaving from the side of the door, although the two sides no longer faced each other with swords, they still maintained a certain degree of vigilance. They walked ten steps away before putting away the steel sword. When the leader walked past Li Bao's body, he kicked him hard.
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"What should I do? Are you still going in?" Chu Jian asked.
"Didn't you see that they were carrying heavy baggage? They have all been washed, flash!"
The Li family salt shop returned to calm. Only the moon was watching all this in the sky. After the two groups left, a person slipped down from a nearby tree. It was the waiter from Tongrenju. He looked at Li Bao's body and cursed silently.
After saying a word, he also disappeared into the darkness.