All the teagoers in the teahouse stopped chatting immediately, stretched their necks, and looked at the waiter.
After the waiter poured a cup of tea at a table, he wiped his mouth with his sleeve and said:
"The army that destroyed the Sanhe Gang was the personal guard of Marquis Ningshui of Ziwu Villa, named Ziwu Guards. The leader was Luo Chen, the young master of Ziwu Villa."
"Luo Chen? I remember this young master is only sixteen years old, right? Is he really in the second-rate late stage?"
A tea customer looked at the waiter in shock.
"I got this news from my brother who is a county soldier. He followed County Magistrate Zhou into the Sanhe Gang and saw Mr. Luo with his own eyes. Besides, the bodies of three second-rate masters of the Sanhe Gang are still lying there.
What! Can there be a fake one?" said the waiter.
"My dear! A sixteen-year-old second-rate late-stage master is really unheard of. I'm afraid there will never be another one in the world, right?" Another tea guest said with his mouth wide open in surprise.
"Yes! Ning Ling of Huashan Sect, Jian Lei of Jiange Pavilion, and Li Wu of Shaolin Temple are all far behind Mr. Luo."
"Hey! The genius is just another person, it has nothing to do with us. I am quite interested in the armor of the Purple Mist Guard. I took a look at it from a distance on the street earlier, and wow! That one is so powerful and beautiful, that's what we call armor.
, if only I had a pair..."
A strong man dressed as a warrior said with a yearning look on his face.
"Tch! Is it you? I took a closer look at the armor before on the street. The armors were all made of steel. That pair of armor cost at least 8,000 taels of silver, and a few others were made of black pattern steel.
Can you afford it?"
A middle-aged man who looked like a businessman stretched out his right hand and made a horoscope sign.
"hiss!"
When everyone heard this, they took a deep breath, and the strong man immediately fell silent.
"There are more than thirty people in that army, right? Wouldn't it cost four to five hundred thousand taels of silver for more than thirty pieces of armor? This...this..."
Another businessman was calculating and suddenly became dumbfounded.
"How dare this Ningshui Marquis do it! Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver are needed to create a personal army of dozens of people. I have never seen any powerful force with a title willing to do this. This Ziwu Villa is really awesome.
Money!" Another tea guest said with emotion.
"No, the business of Tianxianglou and Longwei Escort Agency has been very good in recent years!" A businessman said enviously.
"No matter how good the business is, can it compare with the foundation of those thousand-year-old sects? The main reason is that Ziwu Villa is willing to give up. Then again, having such a personal guard at hand is really enviable!"
"Hey! More than ten days ago, I was still wondering! Why did the owner Luo of Ziwu Villa accept the canonization of the imperial court? Now that I think about it, it may be because of this personal guard."
"Yes! Without this title, training the army privately is tantamount to rebellion!"
"I don't care if he rebels or not! I just want to know if Ziwu Villa will take over Ningshui City's river transportation after wiping out the Sanhe Gang and continue to set up cards to collect fees. Man, have you heard about this matter?"
A businessman said, looking at the clerk who ran in earlier and asked.
The clerk nodded: "I heard that Ziwu Villa will not occupy the river transport."
"Haha! Great, this Ziwu Villa is really benevolent and righteous! You can save a lot of money by using river transportation in the future." The businessman clapped his hands and laughed.
"Haha! Shopkeeper Wu takes it for granted. If Ziwu Villa doesn't want it, will other people leave this piece of fat alone?"
"What Shopkeeper Sun means is..."
Shopkeeper Wu frowned and looked at the speaker thoughtfully.
"I bet that one of the two families, the government and the Black Hawk Gang, will regain control of the river transportation. It will be the same as it was before," Shopkeeper Sun said.
"Yes! Yes! Shopkeeper Sun is right."
Hearing this, everyone nodded thoughtfully in agreement.
…
Not to mention the small talk in a teahouse, within the Black Hawk Gang.
"How is it possible? Why did this Ziwu Villa suddenly have so many elite warriors? How did they do it?"
After listening to the information collected by Zuo Ren, Fang Yu sat down on his chair slumped.
Zuo Ren shook his head: "This subordinate didn't find out anything, and the spies in Gushan Town didn't find out anything either."
"Haha! I thought that after breaking through to the second-rate warriors, I could compete with them, but I didn't expect that everyone was hiding their secrets. Fortunately, we didn't act rashly before, otherwise we would have become the Sanhe Gang now."
Fang Yu smiled self-deprecatingly, rubbed his forehead and said: "Tell the people below to be careful in the future and never offend the people of Ziwu Villa. As for the control of the river transportation in Ningshui City, you can win it if you can win it. Fight for it."
But forget it!”
"Yes! Gang leader!"
"Well, if you have nothing to do, go down first!"
"My subordinates resign!"
After Zuo Ren exited the study, Fang Yu suddenly slumped down on the chair weakly.
Ningshui County Government.
As soon as Zhou Song returned from being the chief helmsman of the Sanhe Gang, he received a court document from the postman.
After reading the paperwork, Zhou Song came to Bai Yi's room with a frown.
"The Ziwu Villa that the imperial court asked to search should be ours in Ningshui County. When they came back with a group of horses last month, they should have come back from Wuling Pass."
Bai Yi put down the paperwork, looked at Zhou Song and said.
"Yeah! That should be right."
Zhou Song nodded: "This Luo Chen was still in the second-rate mid-level realm when he was in Wuling Pass. I didn't expect that in just over a month, he would be promoted to another level. I really don't know how he cultivated."
Hearing this, Bai Yi lowered his head and frowned: "I told you why I felt like I couldn't see through him last time at Ziwu Villa. It turns out that his cultivation level is so high."
As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Yi paused for an instant, raised his head and looked at Zhou Song with a shocked expression, and Zhou Song also looked at him with a shocked expression. The two people suddenly opened their eyes wide and looked at each other.
After a while.
Zhou Song swallowed:
"Bai...Mr. Bai, do you think Luo Tianhe and Li Tian have also hidden their cultivation? You felt that they were also very unusual that day."
Bai Yi blinked his dry eyes and pressed his dry lips:
"I thought it was weird that day when I was on duty, but now that I think about it, it's very possible."
"How is it possible? What is going on? Why did the strength of Ziwu Villa suddenly become so strong?"
Zhou Song stood up, frowned, and walked around the room.
"Master Zhou, are there any of us at Ziwu Villa?" Bai Yi asked in a low voice.
Hearing this, Zhou Song lowered his head and thought for a while, then nodded:
"There is one, but it is not a secret agent of the imperial court, but an unintentional move made by this county more than ten years ago."
"I think Mr. Zhou should go find him. We still need to figure out the situation at Ziwu Villa."
"Well! This county will find an opportunity to meet him."
Immediately, the two fell into silence, each thinking about their own thoughts.