"Lao He came here prepared this time because he wanted to show off."
The sky has darkened, and little lights are emerging from far and near in Jiangning City. In the teahouse with bright yellow lights, several figures bump into each other in an ordinary way, make tea as usual, and then talk about ordinary topics.
The conference on the first day of September has just passed, so talking about these current events is naturally not too special. However, considering the real identities of the people in the teahouse at this moment, every topic they talk about actually has a not simple meaning.
"Measuring the Sky" Meng Zhuotao, "Martial Ba" Gao Huiyun, "Jackdaw" Chen Juefang, plus a companion "Tuohe Sanren" Xu Longbiao who is not low in martial arts and status, the four people present are basically Already equivalent to half of the senior officials under the command of the "Wing of Wheels" in Jiangning City this time. The four of them simply took a rest in this teahouse after dinner.
The first person to speak in a casual tone was Meng Zhutao, who was tall and still had a bandage on his shoulder. As he spoke, he poured tea for several people: "What do you think?"
"I looked at the picture, but I didn't see it clearly." Chen Juefang picked up the tea cup, shook his head and smiled, "These things Lao He threw out are not without aim. What's wrong with the Fair Party? Do you think it's possible? Isn’t it clear? Five great kings have sent orders to many gates. Throughout the ages, it will never last long. The matter needs to be resolved, and I think it’s almost time. You see, he raised questions today and didn’t answer them. This picture doesn’t count. Poor, the knife hasn’t come out yet.”
"Lao He must have already had an answer in his mind." Gao Huiyun, who was as tall as Meng Zhutao, smiled, "It's just to see what all parties mean first, and then choose the time to throw it out... What does Mr. Xu think? ?”
"Tuohe Sanren" Xu Longbiao was in his early fifties, with half white hair and a long beard under his chin. Seeing that everyone had spoken, he also laughed: "In the final analysis, the most important question raised by King Ping Ping is... Who has the final say? If you want to be more detailed, it's just how to play next... Aren't these things already expected by everyone... Since he raised the problem, he wanted to solve it this time. Jiang Ning's The Heroes Conference will be held for a month, and everyone will discuss it privately for a month, and agree on the next gameplay. If you disagree, you will be beaten. Everyone will understand, it is simple."
"Old Xu is so thorough and he hit the nail on the head." After Xu Longbiao finished speaking, the others picked up their cups and clinked them with a smile.
"But..." After a while, Chen Juefang picked his ears with his little finger: "...Since the problem is raised by Lao He, in the general direction, that is to say, Lao He wants to take back power... this matter It’s not right to let him be the main one.”
"He has taken the title of King of Fairness. It is not surprising that he behaves like this."
"Naturally, the name is not surprising, but the five parties of the Fairness Party originally fought for each other, and no one took an extra bite from his Fairness King. He has already taken advantage of it in name, and he still wants to take advantage of it in practice. I think Everyone may not be willing.”
"Didn't you see it at the meeting? To be honest, just like what Lao Chen said just now, our Fairness Party has developed to this day, and we should think about who has the final say and how. How can Lao He throw it away? The questions are not unreasonable. But he shouldn't throw them away. At least the five parties should discuss them and throw them out together... Now that he wants to be in the limelight, the other parties will just deal with it in various ways and muddy the water. That’s it. To put it bluntly, who can be willing to be crushed by him even if you haven’t even broken your wrist?”
Everyone drank tea and chatted for a few words slowly. Xu Longbiao frowned: "What King Ping Ping did this time is indeed a bit strange. Such a big matter should have been discussed in private by the five kings. Let’s talk about it again at the conference, why this time... it was handled so poorly. In the past, it was said that the King of Fairness is a very important situation, but when the first gathering was held, everyone was full of praise..."
"The five of them met a few days ago, but they didn't seem to have a very pleasant conversation..."
"A year ago, it was a year ago. At that time, everyone was living in embarrassment, of course Corporal Li Xian. Now that the Fairness Party is rich, Mr. He is more scholarly than Mr. Ning from the southwest. That's how it was originally..."
Chen Juefang and Gao Huiyun said a few words with a smile. Meng Zhuotao, who was playing with the tea, also smiled:
"How can we reach an agreement? Everyone, who has the final say? This is a big issue. Under this, there is also the issue of what to do. Isn't that a small issue? The five parties of our Fairness Party will divide the land after capturing the territory. The land is divided and the methods of doing things are different. King Gao Tian likes to fight, but the landlords and gentry below are the least likely to fight. As long as these people are willing to help and join in, there will be fewer cases of real destruction of families. King Fair The rules are very strict, and some people say that compared with other companies, it is not as smooth as beating the landlords there..."
He paused and said, "After that, when you come to King Ping Ping, to me, and to Zhou and Shang, each has its own way of doing things... Let's not talk about other things, let's talk about Zhou Yanluo. With his way of doing things, all the rich people will be killed. After killing everything, go back and kill again. Who can bear it? A lunatic... But unfortunately, this lunatic can't listen to other people's advice. People are very reasonable. If you are not firm, you can't get things done, and you can't make things right. I listen. He said that Zhou Shang had been reading various pamphlets from the southwest. He was much more powerful than Ning Rentu in the southwest. He always said that Ning Yi was hypocritical and was not successful. He Wen's mother-in-law and mother-in-law also became If nothing happens, he is the only one who can achieve great things in the world today..."
When Meng Zhuotao said this, he shook his head and smiled: "Look, the problem of who has the final say may not be unsolvable. In the end, it is just a matter of our five parties sending people from each side to discuss what to do. But the problem of how to do it, how to solve it?" , Zhou Shang would not agree. To take a step back, in the future, should we do it like He Wen did, or do it like us. Of course we can't become a lunatic like Zhou Shang, but will you be willing to do it according to He Wen's method?"
Gao Huiyun laughed and shook his head: "We need to chat."
"How to talk is a big problem." Xu Longbiao took a sip of tea and said, "Open the door and speak openly. You should have received the invitation."
The other three people looked at each other, but Gao Huiyun didn't care and said with a smile: "Not to mention other unknown people, Gao Chang and Lin Jiaojiu invited me to dinner first, and I have already reported it. Xu Gong said, eat one It doesn’t matter if you eat, he invited a lot of people anyway.”
"He Wen has strict rules over there, and Lin Jiao's nine commanders don't stick to trivial matters. I heard that they have always complained about King Ping Ping's rules... Lao Gao is also the commander of the army. Do you think there is a chance for this matter?" Meng Zhuotao asked. road.
"It's hard to say." Gao Huiyun shook his head and smiled, "It's still early, let's find out first. Where are you, Lao Meng?"
Meng Zhutao spread his hands and counted them one by one: "He Wen, Gao Chang, Fu Pingbo, Shi Baofeng, Jin Yongsheng, Chen Yanda... What I'm more curious about is why Zhou Shang wants to talk to me too. ,Wei Xuwen also sent an invitation..."
"Lao Meng is still popular." Everyone laughed, "A man of the hour."
"It's still early. This time we have a public meeting, but the secret connection is the big one. No one can escape until Lao He Tuqiong dagger meets." Meng Zhuotao smiled faintly: "But you guys are pretty good. Just don’t lose control."
"I am loyal to Mr. Xu." Chen Juefang expressed his stance.
After that, everyone drank a few more cups of tea.
Gao Huiyun changed the topic.
"Lao Meng, how are you handling the matter of your junior brothers and sisters?"
"Why are you asking this?" Meng Zhuotao raised an eyebrow.
"The case of Jinlou has not been closed yet. Someone is watching you in private...or is it that you are covering up the murderer? After all, Gu Anhe is dead. The only people involved in the incident who have clear identities are your junior brothers and junior sisters. Man, plus you are in charge of the Resentment Society, so there have been some rumors recently, it sounds like they are directed at you..."
"Who is it? Or that monkey?" Meng Zhutao smiled half-heartedly.
"No." Gao Huiyun waved his hand, "Although the Monkey King is a rising star with some ambitions, he has a sense of proportion. It was his fault that he used your affairs to make a fuss that day, but after Xu Gong made up for his losses, , so that it won’t end forever…didn’t I come to you specifically to apologize later?”
Chen Juefang said to the side: "What happened this time is because Lao Meng, you did it too obviously. Just to put it bluntly, the next Jiangning Conference is nothing more than choosing a way to decide who has the final say. Our five parties are involved in each other. It is impossible for He Wen to cover the sky with one hand. The most likely thing is... to establish a new thing above and discuss it. Those who can enter this circle by then will be the real ones in power. Man. Lao Meng, you hold a high position and have a lot of authority. Now let’s talk about it. It’s not surprising that some people will hit you for nothing.”
Xu Longbiao smiled: "In the final analysis, the Monkey King is still to blame for this matter. If he hadn't started the conversation, no one would have dared to follow suit."
On the night of the Jinlou incident, Li Yanfeng, who had lost face, used an excuse to get angry at Meng Zhuotao. Later, Xu Zhaonan came to comfort him and calmed the situation. However, the reason he used when he got angry has now become a new problem. Meng Zhuotao was silent for a moment. , put his hand on his mouth and smiled slightly: "Li Yanfeng and Tan Tiandao have a good relationship, I will give Tan Zheng some face."
"You just want to make trouble for him, and I don't have a problem with it." Chen Juefang, who had a better relationship with him among the others, laughed, "But I'm not talking about you, Brother Meng. Some people say that brothers are like brothers. Wife is like clothes, this is certainly not true, but if you really want to help others, at least it must be your own woman. Look at your useless junior brothers and sisters, and the junior sisters who have been engaged, and they are messing around with the junior brother, and the junior brother is thinking If they want to kill you, they still slapped you with this whip on your shoulder. Why are you... why bother?"
Everyone also nodded slightly, Meng Zhuotao glanced over, and then smiled half-smilingly:
"...Brother, this is what I like."
There was a moment of silence ahead.
"..."
"……OK."
"...transparent and able to play."
"...Brother Meng, it is true...that the capable can do anything."
Several people laughed and laughed, each expressing their admiration for Meng Zhuotao. After drinking a few more cups of tea, everyone was about to leave. Chen Juefang finally said a few heart-to-heart words to Meng Zhuotao.
"There are rumors about you outside. No matter who spreads them, catch some first and kill some first. Just kill the chickens to scare the monkeys. You have to do it quickly. You can't delay things like power. If you don't want to do it, I'll do it for you. also."
"Understood." Meng Zhuotao nodded, "I know what I'm doing, so I can do it myself."
"Okay." Chen Juefang patted his arm.
This simple tea game was originally proposed by Meng Zhuotao. It ended at this time. Chen Juefang, Gao Huiyun, and Xu Longbiao left separately. Only Meng Zhuotao was in the teahouse, watching the three people's leaving figures, swaying in the light. , and sat quietly for a while.
The night flowed deeper and time passed. Meng Zhuotao left the teahouse and took a carriage to a courtyard in the city that was being guarded by the power of the "Resentment Society". In the room deep in the courtyard, he I visited my second junior brother Yu Bin who was seriously injured and unconscious. An old medical officer was following him.
On the day of the Jinlou incident, Yu Bin took advantage of Meng Zhuotao's distraction and secretly attacked him with two whips, injuring Meng Zhuotao's shoulder, which has not healed yet. However, Yu Bin, who made the sneak attack, was beaten back by Meng Zhuotao, and was almost beaten. He died. Later, although Meng Zhuotao arranged for all-out treatment, the situation was still not optimistic.
"...I don't want to say whether his lower body can walk again." After asking the medical officer for a moment, Meng Zhuotao sighed, "Just let him live, okay?"
Meng Zhuotao's tone was lowered, and the old hospital was also a little uneasy. He hesitated for a while: "Actually, doctors are parents, and we have done what we should do. Whether he can wake up... right now can only be seen by himself... Or it depends on luck..."
This answer is not much different from the answers given in the previous few days. If I continue to ask, I will at most get some more detailed pathological explanations. Meng Zhuotao was silent for a moment and nodded.
After leaving this room, there were three people standing under the eaves in the courtyard looking at him. They were his junior sister Lingchu, and the other two junior brothers - the fourth junior brother among them was already Lingchu's husband.
All three of them also had unhealed injuries.
"Meng, when will you let us go?"
The three of them all looked at Meng Zhuotao with no kindness, but only the junior sister Lingchu still dared to ask such questions at this moment. This may be because they were too indulgent to her when she was a child. Meng Zhuotao glanced at her coldly. past.
"When you recover from your injuries, I will send you away."
"We don't need your kindness, just let us go now!"
"There's chaos outside, and there's going to be another war. With your skills and your character, how many days can you survive with your injuries?"
"That's none of your business!"
"Can you beat me?"
"Just because you are strong in martial arts doesn't mean you are reasonable——"
"If you can't beat me, just kneel down and obey me!" In the night, Meng Zhuotao's eyes suddenly became fierce, "Otherwise I will call twenty people and play with you all night in front of your man, so that you know What does it mean that the world is dangerous!"
These words tore through the night, and Lingchu under the eaves stared, opened his lips, and at a certain moment, his face suddenly turned pale. She was already a married woman, so she naturally understood the specific meaning of the other party's words.
While she was speechless, Meng Zhuotao waved her hand, turned and left.
After walking out of the courtyard and passing through the long corridor, another deputy reporting the incident followed.
As the leader of the Resentment Society under the "King of Wheels", he has to deal with a lot of things every day, especially when the September meeting kicks off, there is even more work, and from time to time, someone even secretly came over for a meeting. This matter was handled for more than half an hour. When he saw one of the deputies in the study, he asked about something he had just been reminded of not long ago.
"...Who are the people who spread the rumors? Have you found out?"
"The main messenger behind the scenes has not been found yet, but some specific handlers have been found on some lists. For the time being... we have not alerted the snake yet." The deputy handed over a list.
Meng Zhuotao looked at it and put it aside: "Who is behind the scenes? Keep investigating. I will find an opportunity in the next two days to fight against the Monkey King Li Yanfeng. After I beat him, no matter who is on your list Someone, arrest the person as ordered, drag him to an open place, and make him look nicer."
"Yes." The deputy promised, hesitated, and then whispered, "But according to the results of this inquiry, it really has nothing to do with the Monkey King."
Meng Zhutao nodded: "Yes." She stopped looking at him.
The deputy went down.
The night is as black as ink.
Under the night, the lights in Jiangning City occasionally light up and sometimes go out. These specks of fire are far from what the city looked like in its prosperous period, but in the darkness under the fire, Countless intrigues and secret connections are happening quietly, and the levels involved and the possible consequences are getting bigger and bigger...
At midnight, the night wind whimpers.
Near a dilapidated old house that was requisitioned as a military warehouse outside Jiangning City, two sneaky figures took advantage of the night to show their figures. They used the cover of the night to exercise on the grass. Although it was early in the month, The light at night was dim, but we could still see that those who appeared on the grass were the two famous heroes in Jiangning City, the five-foot Yin Demon and the four-foot Yin Demon.
It's just that at this moment, both of them have hair.
After doing a set of exercises on the grass to let off some of his energy, our little demon Long Aotian put his hands on his hips and looked at Jiangning City in the distance.
"Humph, everyone thought I liked to join in the fun, so I ran outside the city to see if you could still catch me. Wukong, wait for two days... no, just tomorrow. After our injuries are healed, we can go into the city and wander around. Wave!"
"Ah, Amitabha, big brother...this hair is so uncomfortable..."
"Ah, Ami Tofu. Only after suffering the most hardships can one become a master. Do you know this truth... And now there are portraits of us in the city. Your bald head is so conspicuous and difficult to face. How can we get in?" , let me tell you, this method of disguise is so advanced that no one will recognize it!"
Long Aotian raised two fierce eyebrows and said with his arms akimbo in the night.
"Hmph, when I regroup and enter the city this time, no one of you, Monkey Lee, or Baby Shit can escape - they will all die! And you! Wukong, I'm not talking about you, who is your boss? Who will feed you? Yes? Next time you see a black girl, don’t call her sister! I’ve lost all my face by you, you know... Also, when dealing with that kind of scum, there’s no need to talk to her about the morals of the world, two people Let's go together, why are you hesitating? It looked like she was in a one-on-one fight that day, but in fact there were three of them ambushing the two of us. Two of them were evil-hearted and one was a cripple. If they really wanted to kill someone, even Fatty Lin couldn't stop them. Very fierce——"
"In addition..." Long Aotian's words were rambled on. In fact, these words had been repeated countless times in the past few days. The little monk cried and ran away with his head in his arms.
"I'm sorry...help..."
"Don't run away, I haven't finished speaking yet-"
Both figures used the best self-lighting skills in their lives, chasing and escaping, making rapid progress...