Chapter 192: The First Level
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On a flat ground leading to the hall above, Jiang Jinfu stopped.
"Gao Dazhai Lord, your people can only stay here, in front of me is the Peach Blossom Island Cottage Juyi Hall, they can't go."
Gao Muqing said: "That's nature, I ordered them to stay here." I only need to take a few followers to escort Lin Jue. โ
"Thank you for your understanding, please come with me." Jiang Jinfu nodded.
Gao Muqing gave an order, and the accompanying 100 people stayed in place, and only a few female guards escorted Lin Jue to accompany him. Illuminated by the torches held by the pirates lined up the stone steps, the group climbed the stairs and walked to the heights. A moment later, the outline of a large hall appeared in the open space ahead. Torches are lit in front of the hall, bonfires are blazing, and thousands of people and horses seem to be lined up here, and the scene is very spectacular.
"When there is no wind at sea." A crowd blocked the way and shouted.
Jiang Jinfu shouted: "The waves are long. โ
"Who's coming?"
"It's Lao Tzu, who else can it be. Qian Kang, don't go to report to the island owner, I came with the tall village owner. โ
"It turned out to be the owner of the young island, and his subordinates went to report immediately." More than a dozen people in front of them quickly dispersed and rushed to the hall to report.
Lin Jue smiled bitterly in his heart, the bandits actually had passwords, and they were quite organized. That's not all, this password is actually two lines of poetry, which is even more surprising. However, Lin Jue doesn't care about these at the moment, he is about to see Hai Dongqing, whether he can survive tonight with this life, this is what he should worry about the most.
The well-informed man soon came back and said in a loud voice, "The island master and the leaders ask the young island master to take them into the hall." โ
Jiang Jinfu agreed and walked forward. Gao Muqing took a breath and strode behind him, and the group walked through the thousands of eyes staring at him in the square, and through the burning bonfires to the door of the Justice Hall.
Through the wide open hall door, it can be seen that the lights in the hall are bright, and more than a dozen large iron pots are burning in two rows, illuminating the faces of the people sitting high and low on the rows of large chairs next to them. Tall, short, fat, thin, ugly, ugly and vicious, these bandit leaders of the Peach Blossom Island cottage have different appearances, but they all have a common characteristic at the moment, that is, they twist their necks and look at the door, with a fierce light in their eyes.
Gao Muqing slowly walked into the hall, and slowly walked towards the person at the far end who was completely black and almost completely hidden in the big black chair under the vicious gaze of the leaders. That is the first place in the cottage, and the person above must be Hai Dongqing.
"Gao Muqing, the master of Guishan Island, has seen the master of Jiangdao." Gao Muqing was slightly blessed and said in a deep voice.
"Hahahaha." Loud laughter for no apparent reason resounded in the ear drums, and it was harsh and unpleasant. Hai Dongqing, who was sitting on the chair, laughed and stood up, shook his arm, and shook the black big gun on the big chair. The minions on the side hurriedly reached out and lifted it up, and put it on the crook of his arm.
"Gao Dazhai master, you are really here, you are not small, you dare to come to my Peach Blossom Island. Hehe, aren't you afraid? Hai Dongqing laughed.
Gao Muqing smiled faintly: "What am I afraid of?" โ
"Afraid of what? Hahaha, I'm Hai Dongqing, aren't you afraid that I will eat you? Hai Dongqing laughed.
Dozens of pirate leaders laughed and echoed.
"Our island owner doesn't spit out bones when he eats people, you thin skin and tender meat, I'm afraid there won't be any scum left."
"I'm afraid this woman doesn't know the prestige of my island owner, so she won't inquire."
"Such a watery woman, our island master may not be willing to eat you, maybe you will accept you as a concubine."
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Gao Muqing frowned and said coldly: "I heard that the brothers of the Peach Blossom Island Cottage are all heroes, and I often sigh that my brothers in the Turtle Island Cottage are not as good as you, but today, it seems that they are some light-tongued people, not heroes." โ
"What? What a guts! Dare to scold us. โ
"Killed you, believe it or not? We don't care if you're a woman or not, we won't pity you here. โ
When the leaders heard this, they shouted.
Hai Dongqing waved his hand, and everyone was immediately silent.
"The tall village owner has the spirit of a heroine among women. But if you dare to come to my Peach Blossom Island cottage, this is too bold. Just by the letter we contacted? I called you, and you did. โ
"Why don't you come? First, I believe that the lord of Jiangdao is a heroic figure, and he speaks with all his words, and the lord of Jiangdao invites me to come, so I naturally want to come. Second, I came to discuss business with the lord of Jiangdao, we are all fellow citizens of the green forest, do we still need to worry? Thirdly, the Lord of Jiangdao killed me, and it didn't do you any good. Gao Muqing said crisply.
"Huh. What a clever mouth. Hahaha. Sure enough, he is the owner of Guishan Island, and he has seen the world. However, these words of yours are of no use to me, and now that you are here, we will settle the accounts one by one, and one by one, in short, we must calculate them clearly. You have to pay back any of the bills. I won't bully you, and if I spread it, I will be laughed at by the whole world, but you don't want to run away from what you are responsible for. Hai Dongqing shouted in a deep voice.
"Yes, yes, yes, settle accounts one by one, don't want to get by." The leaders cried out in a wolf's cry.
Gao Muqing nodded with a sneer: "Okay, then let's calculate it one by one." I will pay back what I should pay. The owner of the island, the owner of the island, don't rely on the debt. Today, the public is fair, open and honest, no one should play with their minds, and speak from the perspective of justice. โ
"Okay, that's it." Hai Dongqing gritted his teeth and squeezed out these words, and let out a strange laugh, like the cry of a night cat.
"Master Gao Dazhai, since we want to settle the accounts one by one, let's first calculate the account of my son Jin Gui's tragic death in your cottage. Where is the murderer of my son, the dog thief named Lin Jue? Hai Dongqing shouted.
"Lord Jiangdao, I promised to bring this person here, so naturally I won't break my word. I brought him here, and he was at the door at the moment. Gao Muqing said in a deep voice.
"So what are you waiting for? Don't bring him in here yet, so I'll take a look. โ
Gao Muqing groaned slightly, turned to the door of the hall and shouted, "Qiu Ju, bring him up." โ
Two female guards escorted Lin Jue from the burning oil pot, Lin Jue's arms were tied behind his back, but he stepped forward step by step with his head held high and his face calm. The surrounding leaders stared at Lin Jue fiercely, and someone stood up and waved his fist and shouted loudly: "Kill him, skin him, cramp his tendons, and throw him into the sea to feed Wang Ba." โ
Hai Dongqing's eyes stared at Lin Jue's figure for a moment, and his teeth clucked. He raised his palm, and the noise of the owls around him suddenly fell silent.
Hai Dongqing walked down the steps slowly, walked to Lin Jue's side, and looked at Lin Jue up and down like a knife. Then leaned over to Lin Jue's face, stared at Lin Jue's eyes fiercely, and shouted coldly: "You are Lin Jue?" โ
Lin Jue leaned back slightly, not because of cowardice, but because he couldn't stand the foul smell in Haidongqing's mouth.
"I am Lin Jue, if you guess correctly, you are Hai Dongqing." Lin Juedao.
"Yes, Lao Tzu is Hai Dongqing, even if you still have some vision."
"It's polite, forgive me for being tied with my arms and inconvenient to salute." Lin Juedao.
Hai Dongqing was stunned for a moment, and burst into wild laughter at the same time as all the leaders around him.
"Hahaha, don't you still want me to move you a seat and serve a pot of tea, and treat you like a guest?" Hai Dongqing let out a shrill laugh.
"If the owner can do this, then he is a heroic man with magnanimity. It's a pity that I don't think the owner will do this, because the owner doesn't understand this at all. Vulgar people, how can you be expected to know etiquette? Lin Jue said in a deep voice.
Gao Muqing frowned slightly, Lin Jue's attitude was obviously useless, according to the plan, he should be humble, not so arrogant. Gao Muqing didn't know what Lin Jue was thinking.
"Good thief, when you come to Lao Tzu, you dare to be hard-mouthed. I only want to ask you one thing, did my son Jin Gui die at your hands? Hai Dongqing shouted.
Lin Jue said quietly: "I killed a man named Qiu Biao, I don't know if it's the son of the island owner." โ
Hai Dongqing roared angrily: "That's my son Jin Gui's pseudonym. โ
"Oh, that's it, it seems that the island owner Aiko did die at my hands." Lin Jue sighed lightly.
Hai Dongqing sneered and said, "Okay, I just need your answer, and since you admit it, you don't have to say anything." Kill people to pay off debts and pay money, come on, I touched this kid with whale oil and lit a sky lantern. โ
"Yes!" The hundreds of pirates standing in the shadows on both sides of the hall shouted in unison, and several of them rushed forward to get Lin Jue.
"Wait!" Gao Muqing said crisply.
"What? Tall village master, do you want to protect this person? Don't forget the conditions you told me in your letter. Hai Dongqing shouted.
Gao Muqing said in a deep voice: "Lord Jiangdao, people are on your island, you can kill when you want to, why rush for a while." The accounts have not been settled yet, and we will do it together when our accounts are clear. โ
Hai Dongqing sneered: "Gao Dazhai master, don't you want to play any tricks. In Lao Tzu's place, whoever plays tricks will die. โ
Gao Muqing also sneered: "Master Jiangdao, you just said, let's be reasonable and follow the rules of the road, I don't know if it counts." โ
Hai Dongqing snorted coldly and was silent. Gao Muqing said in a deep voice: "Lord Jiangdao, Lin Jue admitted to killing your son, killing people to pay off debts and money, you want to kill him to avenge your son, this is naturally a natural thing." However, I have an account that I ask the lord of Jiangdao to calculate for me. Why did Ling Langjiang Jingui appear in my Guishan Island cottage? Why did he use the pseudonym Qiu Biao? Please explain it to me. โ
Hai Dongqing shouted: "That's his business, how do I know?" โ
Gao Muqing sneered: "The Lord of Jiangdao turned out to be such a person, and he was not happy at all to hide it. The lord of Jiangdao should dare to act boldly. If you don't say it, I'll say it for you. Ling Lang was sent by you to infiltrate my Guishan Island cottage, the purpose is to gain my father's trust and control the right to my Guishan Island cottage. The Jiangdao lord did this to take advantage of the position of my Guishan Island cottage to guard the canal, cut off the way for the imperial court's soldiers and horses to go south, or attract the soldiers and horses of the surrounding state capitals as bait. So that your Jiangdao lord can lead his troops and horses to capture Hangzhou and the southern provinces, and achieve the great cause of your Jiangdao lord. Yes and no? โ