"What on earth do you want to ask?" Duan Hu sat by the lake, took off his shoes and socks, and washed his feet with the cold lake water. He washed his feet very carefully, but Tang Shuxing could tell that he did this just to hide his inner feelings.
He didn't even raise his head to see what he had hit, because he was afraid that Tang Shuxing would see it.
"How did your brother die?" Tang Shuxing asked.
"Don't you know?" Duan Hu glanced at Tang Shuxing and immediately lowered his head.
"I'm asking you." Tang Shuxing squatted next to him and looked sideways at him.
"I heard that, I just heard that his hands were cut off in the desert, and he bled to death in front of his fiancée." Duan Hu said these words calmly, without any emotion, as if he was talking about a person.
People you don’t know.
Tang Shuxing asked again: "Who did it?"
"You don't have to worry about the gang's rules, do you?" Duan Hu looked at him this time, his eyes full of confusion.
"That's your brother." Tang Shuxing felt that Duan Hu was hard-hearted.
Duan Hu sat down, took out a cigarette and lit it: "That's my brother, but he's also the treasurer of the gang. If something happens to the treasurer, it's a big deal. According to the rules, the whole family will suffer, so I came back with my life."
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"I don't think so." Tang Shuxing said coldly, "Why do I think this matter is not that simple?"
"What do you mean? You doubt me?" Duan Hu glared at Tang Shuxing, looking like he was about to get angry.
Tang Shuxing slowly turned to look at him without saying a word. Duan Hu was frightened by Tang Shuxing's look and immediately lowered his head and continued washing his feet. Duan Hu had been in gangs for many years and had never seen that kind of look. It was as if he was trying to kill himself.
After eating it, they were not human eyes at all. Duan Hu’s hands were shaking when he washed his feet.
"The water is cold, don't wash anymore, let's go." Tang Shuxing stood up and gently patted Duan Hu's shoulder. Duan Hu's whole body felt like an electric shock, and then he froze there and shivered.
Tang Shuxing walked for a while. He stopped and turned to look at Duan Hu's back. Duan Hu suddenly became angry earlier, which further showed that there was something wrong here. This guy is a martial artist, a martial arts idiot, and his brain is not that flexible. There is something fishy about this.
Tang Shuxing thought for a long time. He knew who he should go to to understand the situation, so he immediately returned to the house.
Back inside the house, Tang Shuxing saw Qinghua who was eating heavily. When Qinghua saw him, he immediately got up and came out.
Tang Shuxing motioned for him to sit down: "Eat, come out with me after you finish. I have something to say."
Qinghua stopped eating and immediately followed Tang Shuxing and walked out. Wei Lifeng, who was sitting on one side, subconsciously looked at Wei Wei who came out of the house with a cup of coffee. The two met their eyes and were busy with their own business.
Tang Shuxing and Qinghua were sitting under the tree. Qinghua's first words were: "Benefactor, I didn't betray you."
"I know. When I went to find you that day, I knew that you were suffering." Tang Shuxing said with a smile, "You are still very loyal."
"That's for you." Qinghua lowered his head and said, "You treat me well. Although it didn't last long, I know it in my heart. Unlike other people, they say they are brothers, but in fact they just use me. So, it's your business
I will definitely not be able to say it even to death."
"Thank you. Let me ask you, do you know about Wei Men Duan Long? He is the treasurer, the one who cooperated with the FBI." Tang Shuxing asked.
"I know, everyone on the road knew about this matter at the time, but I also wonder why Wei Clan didn't investigate such a big matter. Maybe it's because the police found nothing in the end." Qinghua looked at Tang Shuxing and said.
"No investigation? What do you mean?" Tang Shuxing was shocked.
"Weimen let Duan Long go. Later, I heard that Duan Long was under FBI protection. I don't know where he went. In short, he changed his appearance. You should know that the Federal Witness Protection Program is in place. If you want to find him again, you have to try his luck.
You can't buy that kind of file even if you have money." Qinghua said, and said to himself, "There was one in our family before. We searched for it for more than thirty years, but we couldn't find it. Finally, we found that this person
It's fucking amazing to live a block away from my family's house."
Qinghua felt a little unnatural when she said this and took several deep breaths.
Tang Shuxing looked at him and asked, "Is there something you dare not say?"
Qinghua actually shuddered at this time and said: "My benefactor, let me tell you something. You must never tell anyone else."
"Okay!" Tang Shuxing nodded.
"Swear." Qinghua looked at him, "Because I witnessed this with my own eyes. If you tell anyone, I will definitely be killed by the Huaqing Gang."
"Say it, I'll protect you." Tang Shuxing felt that Qinghua was a bit annoyed.
Qinghua looked around and whispered: "Duan Long is dead."
"I know." Tang Shuxing thought Qinghua was strange, "Many people know that he is dead."
"Ah?" Qinghua was surprised on the contrary, "How could you know? Very few people know about this."
"A few years after Duan Long escaped, he died in the desert. Someone cut off his hand." Tang Shuxing took out a cigarette and lit it, but Qinghua stared at him with an incredible expression. Tang Shuxing took out the cigarette and asked
, "What's wrong with you? Why do you feel like you've seen a ghost?"
Qinghua lowered his head, widened his eyes, and was thinking about something.
Tang Shuxing felt something was wrong and pushed him. Unexpectedly, Qinghua was so frightened that he fell to the side. He immediately asked: "What are you hiding from me?"
Qinghua sat back and thought for a long time before saying: "Benefactor, I tell you, you must not tell others."
"Stop nagging and tell me quickly!" Tang Shuxing was a little annoyed.
"Duan Long died a long time ago. He didn't die in the desert." Qinghua said with a frown.
"Impossible. How Duan Long died was told to me personally by his fiancée. Her fiancée was right in front of me. I know that look was not staged." Tang Shuxing didn't believe it.
Qinghua hugged her arms tightly: "That's why I'm afraid."
"You are a foreigner. Others should be afraid of you, not what ghosts or gods you are afraid of." Tang Shuxing felt ridiculous looking at Qinghua's appearance.
Qinghua looked at him and said: "My benefactor, to a certain extent, foreigners are similar to humans. We also worship gods and are afraid of ghosts and gods. Let me tell you, I saw Duan Long being killed with my own eyes."
Tang Shuxing almost dropped his cigarette: "What?"
"The Huaqing Gang had their own execution ground in the early years. It was in the cemetery. It was originally a suburb. Later it was built and became part of the city, but the location in the basement still became the execution ground. That was the weirdest place. In the early years of Huaqing Gang
The people from the Qing Gang invited the person in charge, the master, or something like that, who was there to watch the scene." Qing
Hua said, taking Tang Shuxing's cigarette and taking a long drag, "That place is very weird, the basement. The entrance is closed, no one knows that there is no cement floor in the basement, it is all soil, and there are graves inside. Who would have thought that in
Is there such a place in New York in modern society? I only heard about it from Chinese gangsters."
Tang Shuxing sat upright and asked, "Tell me carefully. Let's start from the beginning."
Qinghua kept nodding: "I was also a gangster at first, collecting stolen goods from others, just like collecting rags. After collecting them, I would resell them to the people above me. I would make a little money, but when I receive good things, I would keep them for myself and sell them to others who are willing to do so.
People who pay big prices will suffer misfortunes when they are found out. They can be beaten up severely, or they can be killed. I don’t want to do it even if I don’t want to. I remember one time, a kid from a Chinese gang named Ah Wei came to me.
, gave me a gold watch..."
Qinghua looked at the gold watch and immediately knew that it was genuine or customized by a Swiss manufacturer. The market price was at least hundreds of thousands of dollars, and there were only seven or eight of them in the entire United States. It was a good thing and could be sold in large quantities.
So I asked the boy how he got it. The boy just asked Qinghua for money. Qinghua immediately found someone who was willing to bid, gave him a high price, and kept the money for himself. Who knew that the boy would get sick not long after.
Qinghua didn't know what kind of disease the boy had, so she went to the hospital to see him and found that he had been discharged from the hospital. Thinking that she might be able to make another fortune, she went to look for him. Who knew that after she came...
"That kid lives in an old apartment. Many people in that apartment have moved. Most of the people living in that apartment are black people and homeless people. People in gangs are not willing to go there because many people there have diseases and infectious diseases.
For money, I went there too. No one answered the door when I knocked, so I turned the doorknob and found that the door was unlocked. I thought he might have some good things in the house, so I wanted to take a look, but
go in
Then I smelled a musty smell, with an earthy smell." Qinghua's face turned green when she said this, "I walked into the house, stepping on the soil and grass on the floor, and the grass was not hay.
Following Tu towards the only hut inside, I saw Awei sitting on the bed, leaning against the door, watching TV. There was a soap opera on the TV, and the light of the TV flickered on his face. He...he..."
Qinghua seemed to have returned to that time again, his eyes straightened and he said: "His surface is covered with soil, layer upon layer, and it is wet soil. It is not dry yet. He is staring at the TV and without even looking at me, he just asks me,
What are you here for?"
Qinghua looked at Awei's appearance and didn't know what he was doing because it was too scary and weird.
Qinghua leaned against the door and asked, "Awei, what's wrong with you?"
Ah Wei sat on the bed and answered mechanically in a low voice: "I'm sick, skin disease."
Qinghua said oh and asked again: "Then why don't you go to the hospital?"
At this time, Awei slowly turned his head. As he turned his head, the dirt on his face fell piece by piece. Soon, half of the dirt on his face fell away, revealing half of his face with deep vertical marks! Qinghua was dumbfounded at the time.
He stood there unable to move, as if there was no blood on Ah Wei’s face and someone had neatly chopped it out with a machete!
Qinghua stood there for a long time, Ah Wei didn't say anything, just looked at him, the two looked at each other.
After all, Qinghua was a foreigner. Even if he was timid, he would not run away from the door. He calmly talked for a few more words, turned around and left. When he got to the door, he heard Awei say something inside, "My face is so itchy."
"If he said something like that, he would open the door, take a few steps, and then run away.
When Tang Shuxing heard this, he looked at Qinghua with suspicious eyes: "I believe there are strange things, but I don't know if the strange things you said are true."
"Benefactor, please listen to me, this is just the beginning." Qinghua said with a bitter face, "A few days later, I almost forgot about this matter. I heard that Ah Wei died and was cremated that night. I don't know.
Why, there wasn't even a funeral, and his family didn't mention anything about him. Then one day, someone
A boy about the same age as Awei came to me and asked me if I had sold Awei's gold watch. I asked him if he still had it in stock. He said no and said that he would get the watch back no matter what the price.
.I said it was impossible and had already sold it. The boy was so desperate that he even cried."
"Crying?" Tang Shuxing frowned, "Why?"
Qinghua whispered: "I thought something was wrong with Ah Wei, and with his appearance, I immediately asked. After questioning, he said that the watch was taken from a dead person, and that the place was in China.
It was inside the underground execution ground of the Qing Gang, and that’s when I knew the existence of that place!”
Tang Shuxing nodded: "Then, do you want to get rich and force others to take you there?"