Mustache's face was still stained with a little blood that had not been wiped off, but I could tell that he felt that this night's fight was worth it.
At the same time, the facts once again confirmed what I had thought before. Many people were looking for the Xixia bronze medal. A bronze medal was sold at an incredibly high price in half a building, but what these people really wanted was what was inside the bronze medal.
The information carried. In other words, from their standpoint, there is not much difference between getting a bronze medal and getting a rubbing of a bronze medal.
What kind of information do these bronze medals carry? So many people with great powers are chasing after it with all their lives.
We carefully walked around a few times and then returned to the bungalow area in the east of the city. Cao Shi stayed up all night again, waiting for news about us. When the monk took off my coat, revealing blood stains all over my body, Cao Shi
I had a premonition that something was not going well, so I quickly asked me if I knew the whereabouts of the old man.
I shook my head, explained the general situation, and omitted the section about finding rubbings.
"Uncle Fang!" Cao Shi clenched his fists tightly and frowned: "How could he rebel?"
Cao Shi's expression was very surprised. If I hadn't said it myself, he might not have believed that even an old guy like Uncle Fang would betray the old man. When Cao Shi first joined the old man, several uncles took turns to lead him. For uncle
He knows the relationship with the old man better than anyone else.
"Maybe, he was forced too." I recalled Uncle Fang's helpless and regretful look at that time, and suddenly I felt that I could forgive him.
He also has a son and a family of his own. He has worked hard all his life and only had a few days of stable life until now. If he had not been forced to do anything, Uncle Fang would not have betrayed him.
Everyone has difficulties.
Mustache and the monk knew that Cao Shi would not tell the situation to his face, so they left knowingly. Cao Shi and I were the only two people left in the room. I wanted to discuss with him and see where to go next.
Find the old man.
"Old Cao, you may know the old man better than me, your son. Where will he go?"
Cao Shi lowered his head and kept smoking. After a while, he said to me: "If the eighth master is not with Uncle Fang, he has probably left Jiangbei, and there is no need to go to the other old guys. The opponent has a very careful plan.
, all the people under Ba Ye should know in their hearts that Ba Ye will not go to those old guys in this limelight. But I believe that as long as they can escape from Jiangbei safely, Ba Ye will be safe and sound, and maybe he will survive.
He will come to me in a few days."
"how do you know?"
Seeing that Cao Shi was so sure, I felt a little puzzled, and the look in his eyes was very confusing. The old man's whereabouts are unknown, could Cao Shi predict that he would definitely look for us?
Cao Shi looked at me silently for a long time, then heaved a sigh of relief and said, "Master Ba still has a trump card."
"The old man still has a trump card? What trump card?"
"Many people may have thought that Master Ba was completely defeated this time." Cao Shi blew the cigarette ashes gently, looked at the dark red cigarette butt, and said, "Master Ba strictly forbids me from revealing these things to anyone, but right now
It has become like this, and I don’t want to hide it from you anymore.”
"Old Cao, what exactly do you want to say?"
"Actually, from the time Ba Ye came to Jiangbei to establish himself, there has always been another group of people around him doing things for him. I vaguely revealed it to you after Ban Tuo was injured, but to you, it is not important.
It’s something, so I won’t go into details.”
"Is this a secret?" I wondered if Cao Shi had a fever. The old man was divided into two parts, overt and covert. Many people knew about this.
"You didn't understand what I meant. In addition to the people who work under Mr. Ba, he has other people." Cao Shi immediately corrected my thinking: "These people have been contacted by Mr. Ba personally. He
When I was still in good health, I would go out once a year to meet these people. I didn’t know this at the beginning. Later, when Ba Ye became paralyzed, he gradually told me some things, but they were just superficial. Until now
, I don’t even know the background of these people, I only know that they have a code name, called '6'. I went to meet them twice on behalf of Mr. Ba, once in Tianjin and once in Shijiazhuang, and they sent them both times.
the same person."
After listening to Cao Shi's words, my heart was suddenly filled with surprise. It turns out that the old man still has such deep roots. He has been in Jiangbei for so many years, and all his power has not been completely exposed. As long as someone can protect the old man and keep him safe, that is the greatest thing for me.
good news.
"Although the old man is old, he is still very careful. No one can uproot him at once."
"The Nine-layered Gate of the Wei Family, the Eighth Master..." Cao Shi sat in a chair, leaned his back heavily against the wall, took a deep breath, then looked at me and said: "The Eighth Master will
Completely collapsed? All the brothers in the Wei family are dead. Only the eighth master is alive today. It is not because of his luck. This is not accidental, but inevitable. "
"What kind of force are these people?" I immediately became a little worried. To be honest, when things got to this point, I just hoped that the old man could escape the danger and survive. But with the old man's character and style, as long as he is not at the end of his rope,
, they will definitely look for opportunities to make a comeback.
"Master Tian, let me tell you the truth. I really don't know the origins and backgrounds of these people. When I meet with the other party's people on behalf of Master Ba, he will ask me to hand over something to Master Ba. The things are sealed.
I haven't opened it. Although I don't know their background, every time I contact them, Ba Ye will organize an operation related to the Xixia Bronze Medal. I guess that the information for the operation is provided by '6'. I can get these.
The information will never be that of ordinary people.”
I didn't expect that the old man had so many unknown backgrounds, and he tried his best to hide it from me. This may be out of love for me and he didn't want me to get involved in complicated and dangerous things. A father concealed it from his son
Some things are normal, but the things he conceals are definitely not normal.
"I don't know how to get in touch with '6', but Master Ba collapsed in Jiangbei. He will definitely go to them after escaping from Jiangbei. At least the situation will be safe. Let's avoid the limelight for the time being. Master Ba knows that I have another
Just a phone call, and it won’t take long for him to contact me.”
There is no other way. We can't find the old man, so we can only wait patiently for him to come to us.
"Old Cao, there is one more thing. You must tell the truth." I stared into Cao Shi's eyes and said, "Where is Wei Mian?"
Ordinarily, at this juncture, I shouldn't be too petty, but the Wei Mian matter has always been a worry for me. I have been carrying the blame for too long, and it is like a mountain, which makes me unable to relax.
Jiangbei is in chaos. The old man is missing and cannot control the overall situation. Maybe this is a good opportunity for me to take advantage of the chaos and find Wei Mian.
"Master Tian, I patted my chest and said, I really don't know the whereabouts of Master Mian."
Cao Shi's tone was sincere and his expression was genuine. My newly conceived hope was suddenly shattered. If Wei Mian and Lao Luo could not be found, it would be impossible for me to remove this blame. Wei Mian's details
Only the old man knew which hospital he was placed in. The old man disappeared and Wei Mian was nowhere to be found.
"Master Tian." Cao Shi called me softly, pulling me out of my thoughts. Then he moved his eyes slightly, glanced outside, and said, "You moved these people here, are they reliable?"
"At least it won't harm me." I also sighed. At this time, who else can I rely on besides Mustache? Before the old man fell, Cao Shi was indeed very powerful in Jiangbei, but his power was completely
It grew out of the old man's big tree. When the big tree fell, Cao Shi became the bare commander and he couldn't move a single reinforcement.
When Cao Shi and I finished talking, some of the monk's flesh wounds had been bandaged, and Ma Dad was cooking for him himself, saying that he was a laborer. It may not be possible to bandage the injury of Mustache Liangzi in such a haphazard manner, otherwise the wound will continue to grow.
No, dragging them on would cause big trouble. So after eating, I took them to a workers' hospital on the outskirts of the city to have their wounds treated first.
The limelight is so intense now that we don't dare to stay outside for too long. The doctor who treats Liang Zi is a young doctor who has not been in the industry for a long time and has not yet shed all his bookishness. He is very responsible and asks questions about everything. He can tell Liang Zi's legs.
There was a stab wound on the wound, so he was very vigilant and kept staring at us secretly. We couldn't laugh or cry, but we didn't dare to have an attack. It took us a long time to completely treat the wound.
Next, the young doctor asked Liang Zi to stay for two days, but we declined. The monk supported Liang Zi and left under the doctor's somewhat contemptuous eyes.
Before I walked out of the hospital gate, I saw a group of people passing by outside the hospital. They were obviously not serious people, but they were very familiar. I had never seen them in Jiangbei before. I became nervous at that time and shrank with the monk and others.
Go back to the hospital and climb over the wall from the morgue at the back.
Because it was broad daylight, we didn’t dare to go directly back to our residence after we came out. We called a taxi and rode for a while before changing to another one. After driving back and forth many times, we got off the car near our residence and made sure no one was following us.
Get into the streets.
Most of the residents in this bungalow area are not well-off, and the few small shops and restaurants are very shabby. The four of us distanced ourselves, lowered our heads and walked forward against the alley wall, passing by a small restaurant on the side of the street.
At that moment, Ma Dad suddenly ran out from inside and took us to a secluded place.
"Ma Dad? I've told you many times. In extraordinary times, you can tolerate it as long as you can. Just make do with what you have at home to fill your stomach. Why would you go out to eat again?"
"Is my mouth really that greedy? I can't do it until I come out!" Ma Dad looked around nervously and said, "Cao Shi seems to have run away!"