Chapter 134 -134
Later, Leopard realized that the shopkeeper Zhu made this decision because of an accident.
Just two months ago, the wealthy shopkeeper Zhu Da suffered a severe illness and was bedridden. A famous doctor from far and wide came to Zhu Da’s shopkeeper Zhu’s house like a lantern. He touched his increasingly weak pulse and shook his head and sighed, letting him prepare for the funeral. Seeing that the Zhu family was unable to turn the world, they found an old monk on the mountain to perform a ritual to save Zhu Da’s soul.
The old monk came to the Zhu family's house, and the shopkeeper Zhu looked back on his life with emotion. With a heart of sorrow and repentance, he prayed that he would not turn into pigs, horses, cattle and sheep in the next life. The old monk listened quietly for a long time, and finally said slowly: "The glory and wealth in the world are all passing clouds. Only when the inner peace can one lead to the next life."
Manager Zhu Da’s heart suddenly became peaceful and surging. Looking back on his busy life, he felt that everything was empty in the end. He had been pursuing fame for ten years, traveling through the world for ten years, doing world affairs for ten years, making money for ten years, and lying in bed, and about to die, but now he was about to die, but he could not take anything away. Even if he had a wealth of thousands of dollars, it was difficult to save his life. In this world, the most important thing is not wealth that can rival a country, not a group of wives and concubines, not fame and fortune, but his own life. If life can be continued, he is willing to give up everything now. If everything now can be recollected, he has no regrets.
In those days, Zhu Dashangguan was sometimes unconscious and sometimes awake. When he was awake, he would talk to the old monk. The old monk's words were like the spring breeze and rain, which made his depressed and irritable mood gradually calm. Two months later, a miracle happened and Zhu Dashangguan came back to life.
After returning to the death, Zhu Dazhang made a decision that ordinary people could not understand. He wanted to spend all his family's wealth and go to the deep mountains and forests alone to be a monk. Before leaving Texas, he had to clear up his debts. He owed others to double the debts and repay them; the debts that others owed him were written off.
After talking to Manager Zhu Da, Leopard learned that he was the third leader of the Taishan Gang. When the Taishan Gang was hunted by the government, Manager Zhu Da was lucky to escape and came to Dezhou alone from Mount Tai to steal property from the wealthy families in Dezhou. With capital, he changed his name and started a serious fur business. Because he was well-funded, he was generous and was willing to make friends, his business was booming and he accumulated a wealth of thousands of yuan in ten years.
Manager Zhu did not expect that when he was about to leave the world and retreated to the mountains and forests, the leopard came; Manager Zhu did not expect that he had just stepped into Shandong and met a strange man like Manager Zhu.
The two of them hit it off at first sight and talked in a hurry. The more they talked, the more they became more and more speculative. That night, they slept in the same house.
Manager Zhu Da asked Leopard: "Brother, you come to Ludi thousands of miles away, there must be something important."
Leopard talked about the destruction of the Jinbei Gang, and talked to the conversation he overheard on the beam of the yamen, and flipped through the name of Bingliuzi found from the account book.
When Leopard mentioned Bingliuzi's name, the shopkeeper Zhu was shocked. He said: "The destruction of the Taishan Gang and the Laoshan Gang back then were related to this person. However, there are many people in the world with the same name and surname, so they will not be the same person, right?"
The leopard took out a portrait of the ice skate.
Manager Zhu Da stood up in shock and said, "Yes, yes, that's this person." His fingers trembled violently at the portrait.
Leopard understood everything. He knew that in Shandong, there was no need to do it himself. Manager Zhu Da would climb up and respond to it. Even if Bingliuzi got into the mouse hole, he would be escaped by the cat's claws. Although Manager Zhu Da, the third leader of the Taishan Gang, had left the world for three years, as long as he came forward, Shandong would buy his face.
Manager Zhu talked about the grievances between the Taishan Gang and the Laoshan Gang back then, and talked about the Bingliuzi rumor, which destroyed the two major gangs. Manager Zhu talked about the emotional part, his eyes were lit up and his teeth were clattering.
Leopard only asked one sentence: "How to punish whistleblowers in the world?"
Manager Zhu Da said: "Skinned alive."
Manager Zhu Da started to work on his old business again. He secretly attracted old acquaintances from the Taishan Gang and took out the portrait of Bingliuzi for them to identify them. These people went out after seeing the portrait. Leopard thought that the news about Bingliuzi would come soon, but when it was too late, people who were inquiring about the news came back one after another, but no one said they had seen Bingliuzi.
Manager Zhu Da said in confusion: "Can Bingliuzi not come to Texas?"
Leopard said: "I followed all the way, which means Bingliuzi came to Texas, and he must be in Texas."
Manager Zhu patted his head and said, "I figured it out. After Bingliuzi came to Texas, he must have hid. He wanted to check if anyone was following him. He was worried that there would be clues, so he did not stay in the inn or eat in a restaurant. He hid in a corner in Texas that no one knew about it, observing the movement of the wind."
The leopard said: "He doesn't move, we don't move. Whoever moves first will expose his direction. When we arrange people to wait for the rabbit, I don't believe that he will not come out. Bingliuzi is a greedy person. He always has to spend so much money. As soon as he spends money, he will reveal his strength."
Manager Zhu Da said: "I sent someone to wait for him in the Texas tailor shop and the bathhouse. The weather is so hot that he ran away and sweated all over and had to take a bath; when he has money, he always sewed new clothes. As long as he showed up, we could catch him."
A new tailor shop was opened in the east of the city, and the tailor shop was opened opposite the clothes estimation shop. The tailor shop cut new clothes, and the clothes estimation shop sold old clothes. Rich people entered the tailor shop, while poor people entered the dress estimation shop. The clothes in the dress estimation shop were all kinds of, most of which were secretly brought by thieves. This type of thief who specializes in stealing clothes outside the house are the lowest-ranking thieves in the thief industry. I have written about this type of thief on it.
If Bingliuzi was in Texas, he would definitely not go to the appraisal shop if he wanted to buy clothes, but to the tailor shop. Zhu Dashangguan sent someone to monitor the tailor shop. The person who was monitoring set up a cigarette stall in front of the appraisal shop, selling a few kinds of cigarettes such as Laodao, Hardmen, Hongshuangxi, and Movie Star.
In the past, people were very particular about doing business. If the first person to enter a new store was a scholar who went to Beijing to take the exam, it indicates that the store's business was extremely prosperous, and the owner provided all the things to the scholar for free; if the first person to enter was a woman, it would mean that it was unlucky, but the owner could not push her out. If it was pushed out, it would be equivalent to pushing the money. After the woman bought the things and left, the owner would have to pour a basin of water outside the door to resolve the problem.
That morning, as soon as the tailor shop opened the door, a woman wearing a headscarf walked into the door, with only a pair of eyes exposed outside the headscarf. She picked a man's robe from the shelf, paid the money, and left without saying a word.
The tailor shop owner found it very strange, so he picked up a basin of water and poured it outside. The cigarette stall in front of the estimator shop opposite the street also found it very strange, because he never heard this woman say anything. At that time, women rarely showed up and ran out, and would not come out to buy clothes for men. There are two types of people who buy men's clothes, one is a man, and the other is a servant who is a man.
The cigarette stall felt very strange. He wanted to figure out what happened to the woman who didn't talk, so he hung the cigarette stall on his shoulder and followed the woman not far away. After he followed dozens of meters, he saw the clues. The woman in front was pretending, his gait was not like a woman, his hands were not like a woman, and his shoulders and hips were not like a woman. The cigarette stall just walked a few steps and deliberately asked the person in front of him if he wanted cigarettes. The man didn't want to pay attention to him, so he deliberately tangled. Both sides pushed and shoved, and the headscarf on the man's face fell off. When the cigarette stall saw it, he was shocked. This man was actually a man dressed as a woman.
When the cigarette stall saw Bingliuzi, it stepped forward and twisted him, shouting that the man took the cigarette and refused to pay. The surrounding eyeliners saw the target appear and gathered around them, and Bingliuzi was arrested like this.
The former members of the Taishan Gang hated Bingliuzi to the core, so they took Bingliuzi to the deep mountains and forests. Each of them took a knife and cut the flesh on Bingliuzi. Bingliuzi was cut to death by being cut alive.
Why did Bingliuzi escape to Shandong with so much gold and silver? The world is so big that he can just sit in one place for a long time. Maybe Bingliuzi confirmed the words of the King of Western Chu that returning to his hometown without being honored is like walking in the night in brocade clothes.
Bingliuzi uses a bloody lesson to tell people: No good for being crazy, no dog is crazy and a brick.
The handling of Bingliuzi is over, and Leopard will continue to deal with Xiao Qizi who is driving eggs.
When I heard Bingliuzi's ending like this, I felt a sense of pity. I seemed to see Bingliuzi tied to a tree. Taishan helped one person hold a knife and cut off a piece of meat from his body. Bingliuzi was covered in blood and screamed tragically. On the branches above my head were groups of eagles waiting for the crowd to leave and ready to peck at the food.
I remembered the scene of doing old trips with him in Henan, the scene of us stealing gold seals together, the scene of us escaping from the warlords' troops, and the scene of our Jinbei Gang in Datong, Shanxi... Such a person who once depended on each other and had spent the hardships with me, has now been cut into pieces and buried in the belly of an eagle, and my tears couldn't help but shed.
The leopard patted my shoulder and said, "Bingliuzi is entirely a fault. Without him, the Taishan Gang and Laoshan Gang would not have been destroyed, the Jinbei Gang would not have wandered around, and the tiger claws would not have been taken to the capital to be shot and killed. Bingliuzi's biggest problem is that people are in the world, but they do not abide by the rules of the world. What I hate most in the world is the traitor who defects to the government. When they see such traitors who disregard the friendship between the world, everyone will be punished."
I said, "I know, but I feel uncomfortable."
Leopard said: "If you are in the world, you can't help yourself. If you live a life of a knife, your heart must be hardened. There are only two options for people in the world: killing people or being killed. If you don't kill people, they will kill you."
The wind blew from the bushes, the leaves rustled, the moon fell, and a wave of coldness came from the sand. An unknown animal ran past her eyes and ran out a scattered black smoke, which soon melted into the thick darkness.
I asked, "Have you found the little Qizi who drove the eggs?"
Leopard said: "It is much harder to find Xiaoqizi than Bingliuzi. Bingliuzi is clever, but not very wise. After making a fortune, he only knows to go back to his hometown to show off, but he doesn't know that the Taishan Gang has not yet been cut off, nor does he know that someone in the Jinbei Gang will follow. Xiaoqizi is much smarter than Bingliuzi. He told me where to escape and asked me to chase him, but there was no trace left along the way."
I said, "The vast grassland is endless and the roads are well connected. How should you catch up?"
Leopard said: "The grassland outside the border is not well-educated. Xiao Qizi wants to go to the border outside and only goes to one place. Think about where it will be?"
I thought about it hard, but I really couldn't imagine where Xiao Qizi would hide outside the frontier. Besides, the vast desert outside the frontier was endless, with grasslands, sands, jungles, and rivers scattered. Xiao Qizi could find a hiding place, which was enough for a leopard to find for a few years.
Chapter completed!