It was late at night, nearly midnight.
In Yangcheng, there is still a restaurant open for business.
Inside the restaurant, three mourning sons in mourning were gobbling up the delicious dishes. These three mourning sons were none other than the Iron Dagger a*sociation’s deputy gang leader and his party, who were dressed in mourning to weep for the Li family’s wife and the third young master.
As the three of them were eating, the Second Elder suddenly said, “Deputy Gang… Gang Master, there is a council meeting in the gang this morning. There’s nothing wrong with us not going to attend, is there?” His voice was full of apprehension, he was originally a timid and fearful person, and his greatest wish in life was to pa*s on the position of the Second Elder, and he usually swung between the Gang Master and the Vice Gang Master.
Li Dian, the deputy gang leader, wiped the grease stains from his hands and said slowly, “I say, even I, the leader, am not afraid, what are you afraid of? The sudden death of Madam and the third young master is an important event, and we serve the Li family, so we should go and mourn in person. The words were spoken as if he was a scholar who had read poetry and books for a long time.
‘Is that mourning? Wearing mourning clothes, crying more than the first and second young masters who died of their own mothers. You didn’t even cry this badly when your own mother died, did you.” The Second Elder swore in his heart, but when he thought about it, he himself was crying and howling even louder than Li Dian at that time, and he was slightly sweating in his heart.
“Besides,” Li Dian’s voice suddenly turned high, “after such a big event, he still thinks about the proceedings. I heard that his mother died of a sudden illness last night. If you ask me, it must have been that lowly servant girl who caught some contagious disease and pa*sed it on to Madam and the Third Young Master. This time, I’ll watch what happens to the illegitimate son born to the servant girl. I think it is about time for me to lose my title of deputy head of the gang.”
The words were full of disdain for the gang leader, Li Xin, and his imperative to win the gang.
Such a big scandal had happened to the Li family, the son had eaten his mother’s flesh, causing her to disfigure herself and hang herself from a beam. What Li Pingsheng wanted, naturally, was to keep the storm of this matter down, and all the maids and housemaids who were present at the time were warned not to let the wind out, and even Li Xin, who had left early, had a housemaid running specifically to caution him.
“High, the gang master is really high. After learning the news, he stayed up all night, and today he summoned the two of us to rush to the Li family at once and start helping with the funeral arrangements. So that the family head, as well as the two young masters, would not have to go through the pain of the death of their loved ones and also have to manage such trivial matters. The family head looked deeply into the gang master’s eyes at that time, and must have been moved by the gang master’s busy, pale face, and his succession as the Iron Sword Society’s gang master was just around the corner.” The Grand Elder on the side was also selling his bragging rights.
“Hahahaha ——” Hearing this, Li Dian could not help but laugh loudly in triumph. The second elder saw that the eldest elder had taken the lead in pleasing the future new leader of the gang, and while he secretly hated him, he was not willing to lag behind and praised Li Dian hard.
As the two of them praised Li Dian, he laughed incessantly, as if he could already see himself ascending to the throne of the gang leader and Li Xin’s unworthy little brat kneeling before him.
“Hahahahaha ——” came an even louder laugh than Li Dian’s, a mid-range sound that completely overpowered Li Dian’s laughter, interspersed with the sound of some fists smashing against the table, as if he was laughing so hard that he could not control himself.
Li Dian’s smug mood was interrupted and he turned his head unhappily to look around for someone who was getting in his way.
It was nearly midnight and the usual guests had already gone home, so the gentry who were looking for a good time would not have come to the tavern looking for it. Li Dian looked around and saw that the surrounding seats were empty. The sound of laughter was still incessant, and when Li Dian looked around, he saw a figure dressed as a shopkeeper lying on the counter next to where the shopkeeper usually stood, already laughing so hard that he could not stand up straight.
“Little brat making a fool of himself.” Seeing this, the second elder, who felt that he had lost a bit of points in his previous performance, lifted his foot and wanted to rush over to teach this shop boy who had disturbed the future gang master’s pleasure a lesson and redeem the points he had lost in his previous performance.
“Wait a minute ——” Li Dian pulled back the eager second elder, although he was a bit arrogant, but he was not a stupid person, otherwise he would not have been sent by Li Ping-sheng to the Iron Daggers to clamp down on Li Xin, the leader of the gang. The three of them are often in the streets, and in the eyes of these ordinary people, they are more familiar than the Li family and the Zhang family. This young man dared to disturb him, so he must have something to rely on.
When the First and Second Elders saw how Li Dian was behaving, they also put away their thoughts of teaching a lesson and were like enemies.
“Your Excellency, who are you? What do you want?” Li Dian said very cautiously.
The shopkeeper’s laughter subsided and he looked up, and under that somewhat dirty little hat was the face of a clean-cut 15 or 16 year old, none other than Qing Yu.
Qing Yu looked at the three men like they were on the verge of a big fight, and felt his stomach start to twitch again just as he was about to laugh. This three people, not at all the dragon set should have brainless mang, on the contrary, is very from the heart, this from the heart, are almost compared to their own.
“Talking about nothing precious, just feeling funny. It’s just funny to see a few clowns, who already have one foot in the door of a ghost and don’t know it yet, still smug. What’s even funnier is that they have stepped into this ghost gate of their own accord.” Qing Yu chuckled.
“What do you mean? I am Li Dian, the vice master of the Iron Sword a*sociation, and I am also a member of the Li family, one of the four great families of Yangcheng. Sensing that the other party was coming from a bad place, Li Dian immediately raised his backer first.
“Isn’t it the Iron Dagger a*sociation’s gang leader ——” Li Dian’s old face was a little hot.
“Do you know that your actions today have already touched Li Ping-sheng’s brow, and misfortune will soon follow.”
Seeing that the three did not understand, Qing Yu continued, “Li Quyan, the third young master of the Li family, was strangely poisoned yesterday afternoon, and went into a frenzy, like a ghoul, devouring and biting human flesh, biting a piece of flesh from his mother’s face, causing her disfigurement. Last night, Li Quyin died, and his mother, unable to bear the shock, hung herself from a beam. Li Pingsheng had no time to cover up such a scandal, but you three are still making a big show of lifting the lid that has already been put on. You don’t even know that you’re in danger.”
Li Dian was drenched in cold sweat, and his pale face, which had been up all night, had no trace of blood. A trembling hand grasped his shoulder, and Li Dian turned around to see the First and Second Elders, whose faces were as miserable as each other, and whose eyes were filled with despair.
Li Dian smiled miserably, he was really seeking his own death ——
No, no, Li Dian suddenly looked uplifted and laughed with delight: “I was almost scared by you. The scandal of the Li family is not even clear to me, a member of the Li family who has many ears and eyes in the family. I don’t believe that you, an outsider, are better informed than me.
Unless — you are the one who poisoned and plotted against the Third Young Master.”
“An outsider is not necessarily less well-informed than someone from the Li family. However, you are only right, the person who poisoned Li Quyan is me.” Qing Yu said with a smile, his eyes reflecting shadows that were gradually growing larger.
