The night was getting quieter, the wind was high and the moon was dark. A masked man in black climbed over the eaves and walked over the wall, and came to the inner courtyard of the Seal Shou Prison in the Forbidden City. Outside the bedroom of the Palm Seal Eunuch, the door was unlatched. It opened with a slight push, and the man in black walked in.
The room was dark with no lights on, and the people in the room had already gone to sleep, lying on the kang with their heads facing in and feet facing out, lying on their sides with their backs to the door.
When the door opened, it made a "squeak" sound. The sound was very weak. The man in black was highly skilled in martial arts and the footsteps were very weak, but it did not escape the ears of the people in the room. The other person woke up from his sleep and knew someone had come in, and
Don't make any sound or move, just watch the changes.
The man in black coughed intentionally. The people in the room knew that the visitor did not mean any harm, so they sat up and asked calmly and in a low voice: "Who are you?"
The man in black said: "It's me."
The people in the room knew who he was and hurriedly knelt on the kang and knelt down and said, "This slave has paid tribute to the commander." It turned out that the man in black was Luo Sigong, the commander of the Jinyi Guards.
The people in the room bowed and asked, "The commander is here late at night. What's your mission?"
Luo Sigong took out Pang Yuchun's portrait from his arms, threw it in front of the people in the room, and said: "This person's name is Pang Yuchun. He was originally a Korean imperial physician. He came to Dongchang to find Yan Shoufeng more than half a year ago. Find out as soon as possible what relationship this person has with Dongchang."
." After that, he turned and left.
The people in the house found something to light the fire, lit the candlestick, picked up the portrait, unfolded it and looked at it under the light of the candle, took a few glances, imprinted the portrait into their mind, and burned it with fire.
In the firelight, the face of the person in the room was clearly visible. If Li Tianmu saw this face, he would be very surprised, because he is Li Tianmu's uncle Li Jinzhong. He is not dead, but much older.
Li Tianmu's father, Li Shuan, was unjustly accused, and it was an unreasonable disaster. The white bones dug up outside the north wall of the Chenghuang Temple in Suning County were not Li Jinzhong, but someone else.
This incident begins one day sixteen years ago.
That day, Li Jinzhong was working in the back kitchen of Sihai Bao Bureau. A co-worker said that someone was looking for him outside. Li Jinzhong put down his work and went out to see Qian Wagguan coming over.
"Brother, you have suffered!" Qian Wagguan stepped forward and said.
Li Jinzhong hated Qian Wankuan so much. If he had not known this guy at the beginning, he would not have gone astray, owed gambling debts, sold his wife, sold his daughter, sold himself, and ended up where he is today.
He had a knife hidden in his heart, wishing to cut the money into pieces with thousands of knives, but with a smile on his face, he said: "It's you, Brother Qian, how did you find yourself here?"
Qian Waguan said: "Brother has heard about your story. Brother, hold on, don't lie down, keep the green hills and don't worry about having firewood. With your ability, sooner or later you will make a comeback."
Li Jinzhong expected that Qian Wagguan would come into the house like a weasel and come for any reason. He said, "You didn't come here just to see me, did you? Is something wrong?"
Qian Wagguan sighed and said: "Hey, my luck has been bad recently. All the money I won earlier was folded in. I originally wanted to ask you to go to the treasure bureau to win the money back, but when I came here, I realized that you were in trouble. Now I am living a good life.
Is it difficult?"
Li Jinzhong said: "What can I do? Just survive."
Qian Waguan said: "Where do you live now?"
Li Jinzhong said: "City God's Temple."
Qian Waguan said: "When you finish work in the evening, I will go over and have a drink with you."
Li Jinzhong nodded.
Qian Waguan said: "Then I'll leave first. See you in the evening."
Looking at Qian Waguan's retreating figure, Li Jinzhong's eyes showed murderous intent.
That night, when he returned to the City God's Temple, he saw Qian Wanguan had arrived and was sitting on the stone steps in front of the door, with several bottles of wine and some food beside him.
"Brother, I'm back." Qian Wagguan stood up and greeted, "I know you've been having a hard time these days, so I bought some food and wine to give you a toothpaste."
Li Jinzhong said: "I have eaten at Baoju. Why did you buy so many things? It's a waste of money and you are not well-off."
Qian Waguan said: "After eating, let's eat some more. Let's get drunk tonight and then rest. If the wine is not enough, I will buy more. I won't leave at night, so I will sleep here."
The two sat on the stone steps eating and drinking, and drank all the bottles of wine. After eating and drinking, they went to the temple to sleep. Qian Wagguan fell asleep as soon as he lay down, snoring loudly. Li Jinzhong did not sleep, however, and closed his eyes.
I fell asleep until late at night, then quietly got up.
There were several bricks under the altar table. Li Jinzhong picked up one and squatted next to Qian Wanguan. Qian Wanguan was lying on his back. Li Jinzhong gritted his teeth and gnashed his teeth with a ferocious face. He held the sides of the bricks with both hands and pointed at Qian Wanguan's forehead.
He raised the brick high, filled with rage, and smashed it down with all his strength.
Qian Wanguan resisted the beating, but a brick fell and did not hit him to death. He woke up from his sleep, and as soon as he opened his eyes, the brick hit him again. He reacted very quickly, rolled his body to the side, and the brick flew away.
Qian Waguan got up and touched his forehead. His hands were sticky. When he saw that they were full of blood, he was shocked and ran out in a hurry. Li Jinzhong caught up with him and hit Qian Waguan on the back of his head with a brick. The blow was quite hard and the money
Wan Guan's vision went dark, and a dog gnawed at him and threw him to the ground.
Li Jinzhong raised the brick and smashed it down. He smashed it more than a dozen times. Finally, he smashed all the bricks. He still refused to give up. He went to take another piece from under the altar table and came back to continue smashing it. Qian Waguan's brain was split and red.
The white ones splashed together, irritating Li Jinzhong's face.
Li Jinzhong still didn't understand his hatred, so he turned over Qian Waguan's body, made him face up, and hit him with another brick in the face, smashing him beyond recognition. Li Jinzhong just didn't have a knife at hand, otherwise he would have to dig out Qian Waguan's heart.
No.
After killing Qian Wagguan, Li Jinzhong wanted to dig a hole and bury him, but he had no tools. He grabbed Qian Wagguan's feet and dragged him behind the altar, found a broken door panel to cover it, and covered the door panel with withered straw.
I got up and took a look. It was covered very tightly and I couldn't see a body underneath.
He went to a nearby well and brought back a bucket of water. He poured it on the blood-stained ground in an attempt to wash away the blood. However, one bucket of water was not enough, so he went to pick up a few more buckets. He continued to work until daylight gradually dawned, and then he finished cleaning the temple.
Clean it up.
During the day, he went to work at Sihaibao Bureau like a normal person. When he came back at night, he bought a shovel at the blacksmith shop. At midnight, he took the shovel and dug a deep pit outside the north wall. Returning to the temple,
Qian Waguan's body was dragged out from behind the altar, his clothes and pants were removed, and he was left naked. He dragged the body to the outside of the north wall, pushed it into a deep pit, and filled the pit with the soil originally dug out.
He then took Qian Waguan's clothes and trousers, the withered straw that had previously covered up the blood stains on the body, and the broken door panel to the backyard of the temple, and lit it with a fire starter. The clothes, trousers, and withered straw were quickly burned to ashes, and the broken door panel was not good.
Burn it. After it was half burned, the fire was extinguished. He went back to the house and brought some dry straw, started the fire again, and continued to burn it. After working for a long time, he burned the broken door panel to ashes.
There were blood stains on the place where the body was hidden behind the offering table. He had just dragged the body outside the north wall, leaving blood stains along the way. He went back and brought several buckets of water back to wash away the blood stains.
He left Suning County that night.
The Sihaibao Bureau does not strictly monitor the domestic slaves and is not afraid of them escaping. It doesn't matter if they run away. They can report them to the officials and capture them.
He had the chance to escape, but he never left, not because he was afraid of being caught by the government, but because he wanted to wait for Qian Wagguan to show up and kill him before leaving.
Qian Wagguan was a gambler, but he had bad luck with gambling. He had won a large amount of money through him, and he had a good mouth and smooth walking skills. He expected that Qian Wagguan would definitely come to him again, and there was no way he would not come.
In addition to Qian Wagguan, he also wanted to kill Li Sihai. Li Sihai made him sell his wife and daughter to sell himself. He and Li Sihai had different grievances. The reason why he did not kill Li Sihai was because Li Sihai knew martial arts.
He can't kill him at all, he doesn't have the ability.
As the saying goes: "A gentleman's revenge is never too late in ten years." In his opinion, it is not only not too late in ten years, but also twenty, thirty, even forty or fifty years. As long as he is still alive, even if it is
It's not too late to take revenge when you are seventy or eighty years old. It doesn't matter even if the enemy is dead, the enemy still has relatives, and killing them is still revenge.
He walked north and wanted to go to Guandong to find a place to hide far away from the emperor. He didn't dare to stay in the Central Plains for fear of being caught by the government. He only had a few dozen pennies on him, so he spent the money carefully along the way and didn't dare to spend a penny randomly. Even so, this
Even the smallest amount of money could not survive in Guandong, and even before leaving Hejian Mansion, there was no penny left.
On this day, Li Jinzhong came to Jinghai County. He had not eaten for two days, his stomach was growling from hunger, his body was weak, and his legs were wobbly.
Seeing a few flower beggars squatting on the street, I went over and squatted next to them, imitating others and saying to passers-by: "Uncle, I have pity on you." If you want to eat food and fill your stomach, if you can ask for it again,
A few dollars would be better.
An old beggar said "Hey" to him and said, "I said you were squatting down just now, what are you doing?"
Li Jinzhong said: "Old man, do you want to ask me?"
The old beggar said: "You are the one asking, what are you doing?"
Li Jinzhong said with a grimace: "I haven't eaten for two days. I'm so hungry that I want to beg for food."
The old beggar said: "It's okay to beg for food, but you have to understand the rules and join a gang first. If you don't join a gang and just want to eat our bowl of rice, that won't work."
Li Jinzhong sounded fresh and said with a wry smile: "What kind of gang are you joining?"
The old beggar said in a tone of voice: "Beggars Gang, you haven't heard of it, right?"
Li Jinzhong is a scholar and has never been in the world. He doesn't know what a beggar's gang is, but he is very smart. As the name suggests, he feels that this should be a beggar's gang. A strong dragon will not suppress local snakes, not to mention that he is not a strong dragon and dare not mess with the old man.
The beggar smiled and said, "Do you have to join a gang to beg for food?"
The old beggar said: "Of course."
Li Jinzhong said: "Okay, I'll join, but I just don't know how to join the gang?"
The old beggar stood up and said, "Come with me."
Li Jinzhong stood up and asked, "Where are you going?"
The old beggar said: "I'll take you to join the gang."
Li Jinzhong followed the old beggar to the local beggar gang to register. The clerk asked Li Jinzhong his name, surname and place of origin. Li Jinzhong did not dare to tell the truth and lied that his name was Li Er and that he was from Anping County. Suning and Anping are not far away.
, the accent is almost the same, he said this, it is not easy to be seen through.