On the East Street of Diancheng, in a brightly lit mansion.

There were only four people in the living room, sitting around an Eight Immortals table.

Sitting in the east was a middle-aged man with a high and solid body, Li Piaoling from the Guangzhou Iron Arm Martial Arts Hall.

"Mr. Zhuang, we went to Diancheng to open a tobacco shop with great fanfare. The original intention was to attract the green-faced ghost to come out and eliminate him.

But yesterday, you brought dozens of people into the city under the gaze of everyone. When you went out to inspect the business today, you brought all these people with you. Isn’t it too ostentatious?"

Li Piaoling had a strong voice and a steady tone. He said to Zhuang Chengxian, who was sitting in the west, "There are so many people, and they are all strong men with guns. I am afraid that the blue-faced ghost will not show up easily."

The legend of the blue-faced ghost has been spreading for three years in the nearby three cities and seven towns, with a radius of nearly a hundred miles.

Three years ago, the young owner of Houji cloth dyeing workshop in Tancheng forcibly occupied the female worker in the workshop. The female worker was humiliated and became thinner after returning home. She cried secretly but refused to say more.

Her father was almost crying and couldn't find out the truth when he saw his daughter, but he went through hardships to find out. Instead, he rumored back from the city, saying that her daughter was shameless and had sex with the young master's family. Everyone in the village had strange eyes and talked a lot.

In a hurry, my father went to the dyeing cloth shop to find someone to argue. He happened to meet a group of friends from the young master who went out for fun. He was pushed in a disturbance, which made the old man fall to death on the steps.

The government office spent 2008 silver dollars on the dyed cloth shop, and found that the old man was unreasonable and fell to death, so he transported his body home.

The female worker was in sorrow that she jumped into the river to commit suicide by holding her father's body.

This kind of thing has long been commonplace. If you sigh a few kind words, it is often just like that.

But at night that day, a man wearing a dark green mask broke the limbs of the young master in the brothel in Tancheng City, hung him from the corner of the eaves with a hemp rope, and covered him with a piece of white cloth behind him, which was full of bright red crimes.

The cloth was like a flag, accompanied by the screams of the young master, floating over the city of Tancheng, and became an unforgettable night for many people over the years.

That was the first time that the blue-faced ghost appeared.

At that time, he was surrounded by a group of young men around the young master's family, and he was still entangled, and then he beat those people up and was able to escape.

But three months later, when he appeared again, his actions were completely neat and ruthless.

Mr. Wu’s house in Tancheng has two rice shops, which are sold at low prices and high prices. A large opium restaurant and a gambling house. The family is well-off and earns money every day. Every now and then, several corpses can be carried out from the tobacco restaurant. They are all smokers who have been sucked to death. The people do not care about the officials, and their lives are like grass, and money can be earned.

The second time the green-faced ghost started his attack was in the blue sky and daylight. While Mr. Wu was visiting the gambling house, he jumped off the roof and broke his stomach with a knife, and then jumped onto the roof and left. The thugs around Mr. Wu had no time to react.

Seven days later, the Green-faced Ghost took action for the third time and killed Zheng Daxiucai, who had annexed Mr. Wu's business.

The local government issued a wanted order, and the constable inspected every night and found nothing.

But three days later, I heard that there was a murder case in Heyang City. The one who started the attack was a blue-faced ghost. The one who killed a famous local lawyer, who specialized in lawsuits for wealthy businessmen. No matter who was accused of rape, murder, stealing, or buying a murderer, as long as you find this lawyer, you can be acquitted.

The lawyer was cut off his tongue and died extremely miserably, which alarmed the entire Heyang City.

The rich businessmen were panicked, and the people secretly claimed to be happy.

In the three cities of Tancheng, Heyang, and Diancheng, seven townships including Dawang Township, Huaihua Township, and more than ten nearby villages, all those whose reputations were spread were visited by the blue-faced ghost.

But in that first year, thirty-seven evil people were killed.

In the second year, not only did the White Dao of the Government investigate the whereabouts of the Blue-faced Ghost, but also many people in the underworld offered high prices and offered rewards to the head of the Blue-faced Ghost.

But this year, the green-faced ghost did something big.

He assassinated the magistrate of Heyang County.

When it comes to the most evil things in Heyang City, those rich businessmen, boxers, and lawyers cannot even rank. The county magistrate is the first to be the one.

This county magistrate took office in the fifteenth year of Guangxu, which was 1889 of the Western Liberation.

When he took office, he added a congratulations to Heyang City under the name of Emperor Guangxu as the title of the empress.

For more than ten years, Heyang City has been complaining, and the people have lived in poverty, and secretly called the county magistrate "three feet high".

The Heyang County Magistrate also knew that he had done many evil things and would sooner or later be targeted by the green-faced ghost. He had six guards following him when he went in and out, and there were constables in the yamen, more than twenty young and strong guards at home, and more than a dozen wolf dogs, and ten muskets were transferred to listen to him.

The blue-faced ghost assassinated him three times, and the first time he left because of a warning from the evil dog.

During the second assassination, the blue-faced ghost seemed to have a great understanding of the habits of wolf dogs. Killing dogs is like killing chickens. In the blink of an eye, he killed seven evil dogs and broke into the study, but was shocked by muskets.

The third time, the green-faced ghost threw the wall opposite the county magistrate's house with a sharpened long bamboo pole.

The bamboo pole penetrated through the window and pierced the two guards into blood gourds. The magistrate of Heyang County was shocked, accompanied by the guards, walked around to avoid him.

In the chaos, the blue-faced ghost dressed as a guard of the hospital was found an opportunity and cut off the Heyang County Magistrate with a knife.

After this incident, the blue-faced ghost became even more famous. Those who were unkind and bullied men and women were afraid of him, even ordinary people were afraid of him and did not dare to treat him as a chivalrous. They secretly regarded him as a ghost.

Some people even secretly offered tablets of the blue-faced ghost.

The death of the Heyang County Magistrate alarmed the name of the Blue-faced Ghost. The Admiral was furious and ordered a heavy reward to be snatched.

However, the wanted orders posted on the wall were beaten to pieces by the wind, rain and sun, and there was still no trend of catching the blue-faced ghost.

The green-faced ghost still seeks evil to come to the door, holding a knife to kill people, especially those who buy and sell big cigarettes and open tobacco shops, one dies.

In the third year, between the three cities and seven towns nearby, no tobacco shop dared to open. Those who were misbehaving in their daily lives were either killed or sold their property at a low price, and moved their families with their families to other places.

But selling opium is a huge profit-making business. It is really itchy to put such a large piece of fat meat here in the Three Cities and Seven Townships.

Guangzhou General Nalando set his sights on this place.

He personally invited three very famous boxers in Guangzhou City, paid a generous deposit and made a profit, and asked the three of them to go to the three cities and seven towns with their registered admiral Zhuang Chengxian, to try to eradicate the blue-faced ghost.

The title of Admiral sounds a bit intimidating, but the registered admiral has no real power at all. People like Zhuang Chengxian must be polite to the three famous boxers in front of him.

Faced with Li Piaoling's problem, Zhuang Chengxian first put on his goat-like face and smiled kindly, saying, "Take these thirty elite soldiers with him, so he naturally has deep considerations. Master Li, don't worry, let me tell you.

It should be noted that in the past three years, almost all people from the three cities and seven villages have been killed by the blue-faced ghost. We pretend to be foreign businessmen and have to go to this dangerous place to seize the vacancy of the opium business and bring dozens of guards around us. This is the normal way for businessmen to do it.

If you don’t bring it, I’m afraid that the blue-faced ghost will be more suspicious, and it will only take longer to delay it.”

Li Piaoling's eyes rolled and nodded: "It makes sense."

"And Master Li doesn't have to worry about the blue-faced ghost not daring to come."

Zhuang Chengxian raised the teacup with pride, took a sip, and said calmly, "Before we came here, the general had reviewed the files of the cases in the three cities and seven towns.

What the masters looked at was the part of the coroner's autopsy in the file, so that the masters could use the means of killing the scars and pushing the blue-faced ghosts to have a clear idea in their minds.

But I had no vision in boxing, so I had to look at other places with several staff members in the general's mansion, and some of them were very worthy of attention.

For example, in the first year of the Green-faced Ghost committing the crime, in addition to killing those big merchants, Li Cauzi from Dawang Township, Huang Po from Liushu Township and others were also killed.

Compared with those big businessmen, the influence of these little people is naturally a drop in the bucket. It is not worth mentioning. They just did small things such as starving their mother to death, beating their wives, poisoning and mute daughter-in-law, and kidnapping a few foreign orphans to brothels.

Whether it is a special killer or a rebellious party, it is impossible for them to bet much attention on these little people, but the green-faced ghost came to the door one by one and killed all the badly known people in the three cities and seven villages."

After hearing this, Li Piaoling felt absurd and smiled and said, "Even the old woman and the disabled are killed, is it possible that there are really people in this world who are so big and small, and who are specialized in such a heroic and righteous person?"

Li Piaoling and Zhuang Chengxian laughed together, and even the boxers sitting on both sides of the north and south couldn't help but smile.

There is no way, this assumption is really funny.

Even Huang Feihong, the most famous hero in Guangdong a few years ago, was both good at both medical and martial arts. He kicked seven times in the air in a flash, and each foot could open a stone to crack a stone. What an amazing leg skill, he could only keep himself clean and not interact with those who sell big cigarettes.

If he suddenly came to the door along the street and killed all the profiteers, villains, and old pious wives, then others would not praise his reputation anymore, and would only think that he was crazy.

In this day, people who have committed evil deeds are everywhere, buying and selling opium, and even legal businesses that have been recognized by the Qing government.

If you want to kill all those damn people, how many knives will you have to cut them? Unless it is a world-shaking and recreating the universe, how can it be possible?

Even those who were born and raised in the Qing Dynasty had very few people who dared to have such thoughts. They would put this into practice directly and do it for three years. Unless they were crazy, there would be no second explanation.

But after Zhuang Chengxian smiled, his face suddenly darkened and he said, "But what we have to deal with this time is probably a real crazy person."

His face changed, and the smiles of the other three gradually became restrained.

After a while of silence on the table, the bald old man sitting in the north spoke: "Then this blue-faced ghost is definitely not very old."

"really."

Zhuang Chengxian nodded, "The staff members of the General's Mansion also analyzed this way, and there are some places that can be used as evidence. For example, after he assassinated the Heyang County Magistrate, several foreign guns mobilized by the Heyang County Magistrate were stolen.

Later when he committed a crime, there were several cases where he directly killed the target with a foreign gun."

The blue-faced ghost is not weak in kung fu, but the older generation of boxers are very repulsive of foreign guns. This is a deeply rooted thinking, and there are almost no exceptions among the older generation.

Just like when the Boxer Rebellion was in trouble, sometimes foreign guns were seized in the Boxer Rebellion, and those big boxers were absolutely unwilling to touch them. Even some young people thought that this thing was something of Western monsters and should not be kept. Only a very small number of young people were willing to use it.

Zhuang Chengxian said again: "In addition, those foreign guns don't have much ammunition. After using the green-faced ghost, he never fired the gun again after taking action. He probably had no channels to get ammunition, which means that there would be no complicated organizational support around him."

The man with dark skin and tall figure sitting in the south then continued: "But judging from the results of the coroner's autopsy, this blue-faced ghost's kung fu has made great progress.

It was only after this year that I seemed to be in a bottleneck and could no longer use any more sophisticated means. If you were a young man, if you had such progress, you would have a master around you to guide you at any time."

This man had a northern accent, and he was Wang Xiongjie, who had made a famous "Iron-toed Fire Dragon" from the north to Guangzhou.

Everyone in Guangzhou knows that he has a sarcastic vision in kung fu, and the results from the autopsy report should be wrong.

Zhuang Chengxian praised: "Master Wang and the heroes of General have similar views. There must be a division commander around the green-faced ghost, but this division commander showed no sign of appearing when the green-faced ghost was in danger several times.

It is very likely that an old boxer who has regressed his skills and has only the knowledge and eyesight. As long as he eliminates the blue-faced ghost, an old thing is not worth worrying about."

The bald old man in the north also picked up the teacup. The teacup of the appropriate size in the hands of ordinary people seemed particularly small in his calloused palms.

"A young man with youth, talent, ideas, but unfortunately he is a bit crazy."

He swallowed the hot tea in just one mouthful. As his mouth opened and closed, a stream of hot air sprayed out, and the sound was filled with a breathtaking and dignified spirit.

"Then let's wait. This blue-faced ghost will come within three days. After coming, let him know what kind of people should do and what kind of things to do in this world.
To be continued...