Rebellious Contract Beast

"What does Xu Sihai want to do?"

"How should I know?" Shen Yi replied impatiently.

He hated the behavior of people treating human life as worthless, especially the large-scale killing of innocent people, and what the Xu family did today obviously angered him.

Xu Sihai, that damn old Bidden, was saying yesterday that killing people in public was the behavior of hooligans, but today he sent people to the winery and massacred so many people in broad daylight.

But I have to say, Xu Sihai's approach is indeed a bit confusing.

Do you want to take down the Luoxiangzui Winery directly by force?

Or do you want to get the recipe of Luoxiangzui Winery?

No, they didn't do that. They were just killing people. According to the surviving workers in the winery, none of the people who attacked the winery spoke a word the whole time. They started killing people as soon as they entered the winery. They only killed unimportant people. When they had killed most of them, facing the winery workers who were still resisting, they stopped killing and instead beat them severely, deliberately leaving them alive.

This is also why Master Qian is still alive.

If that group of people did not hold back, Shen Yi had no doubt that everyone in the winery would be killed.

Are you concerned about the laws of Dahong?
Humph, in almost every dynasty, murder is no different from a mere decoration. For people from big families, there will be no punishment at all for killing a few civilians, so naturally there will be no worries.

As for the recipe of Luoxiangzui, how should I put it? As the Zhao family's industry in Hengzhou City, Luoxiangzui wine must have its own characteristics.

But the wine brewed by the Xu family also has its own characteristics. Comparing the two, they are actually equally good.

If there were no commercial competition, it would be hard to say whether Luoxiangzui Jiuniang could defeat Xujia Jiuniang with its hard power.

Therefore, the Xu family does not need the recipe of Luoxiangzuijiu Niang at all. The real threat to them is the publicity resources monopolized by the Tiger Gang.

When a brand is widely known, how bad can the business be?
Unless the product is really not good enough for the customer.

In short, the publicity of the Zhonghu Gang is clearly tilted towards Luoxiangzui Wine Industry. With such overwhelming publicity, how can Xujia Jiuniang get the upper hand in commercial competition?
Never mind, that’s getting off topic…

Perhaps there is a possibility that someone other than the Xu family attacked the Luoxiangzui Winery.

But the possibility of this is a bit low.

Tuk-tuk-tuk~
There was a knock on the door from outside, followed by Qu Xiangui's voice.

"Boss, are you in there?"

"Come in."

The door was opened and Qu Xiangui stood in front of the curtain as usual.

"Just tell me if you have anything to say."

"Boss, the matter you asked us to investigate has yielded results."

"So fast?" Shen Yi paused with his claws holding the gold brick, his eyes full of surprise.

It was around two or three o'clock in the afternoon that he told Qu Xiangui to ask the Tiger Gang to investigate the identity of the group that attacked the Luoxiangzui Winery yesterday.

And now, only about an hour has passed, and there is already a harvest.

"The efficiency is good."

"Thank you for the compliment, Gang Leader."

"Okay, tell me who those people are."

"Reporting to the gang leader, the group of people who attacked the Luoxiangzui Distillery yesterday were none other than the porters of the Xu family."

"Porter? The porter I understand?"

"I'm afraid so."

Shen Yi chuckled, as if to say, "As expected." A porter generally refers to a professional who helps people transport things. It can be said that the delivery men, cargo haulers, etc. in previous lives, as long as they help run errands and transport things, can be collectively called porters. They also do the work of delivering letters, of course, the prerequisite is that they are paid enough.

The slight difference is that in the previous life, deliverymen all had electric scooters, and porters also had various vehicles to deliver goods, but most of the porters in this world have nothing. No matter how heavy the goods to be delivered are, or how far they have to be delivered, they all rely on their own hands and strength. Only a small number of porters can own a cart or a horse carriage.

In Jiangzhou, the word "porter" has two meanings. The first refers to the poor people who have to become drivers due to life's difficulties.

The second type refers to assassins who are specially trained by big families.

Shen Yi had seen information about porters in the notebook of Ghost Tiger Hall. To put it simply, the second meaning of "porter" refers to the death squad trained by the Xu family. Each of them has extraordinary abilities and is loyal to the Xu family. But normally, the Xu family would not easily use these so-called "porters". Only when they encounter something that must be completed without any mistakes and is extremely important, will they assign tasks to the "porters".

As for why they are called Porter Gang, actually this has something to do with the Pillow Knife Society. The Pillow Knife Society was not called the Pillow Knife Society at the beginning. Their predecessor was the Porter Gang. As the name suggests, the gang is naturally full of porter gangs.

It’s the same as the horse caravan.

A long time ago, there were two bureaus in Jiangzhou city that managed porters. However, they were enemies. Faced with competitors who were stealing their business, the two bureaus naturally disliked each other. In order to make their own business better and hit the other side, common means used by the two bureaus included price cuts and salary cuts.

After all, it is a price war. It was okay at the beginning, but over time, the drivers couldn't stand it anymore.

Day after day, the workload is huge and it's very tiring, but the pay is also very low. Who can stand it?

As a result, some drivers left the bureau and did private work on their own, no longer allowing the bureau to gain any benefit from their labor.

However, as more and more drivers chose to do private work, the bureaus refused to agree. In order to punish these drivers, the two bureaus, which had originally disliked each other, actually cooperated for the first time to deal with those drivers who did private work.

But there were also some tough guys among the porters, who directly formed a porter gang under the suppression of the two major bureaus.

The early period after its establishment was the most difficult time for the Porter Gang. After all, it had just been established and its power was very small. Facing the joint suppression of the two major bureaus, it was natural for the Gang to be at a disadvantage.

Almost every day, people from the porter gang died in street fights, and the most important thing is that most of the porters are poor people, and their wishes are simple, as long as they can live well. Although being a driver is a bit hard, you don't have to worry about being killed every day.

And how many people can bear to suddenly have to live a life where they have to rely on their belts to control their heads?
Under the threat of death, many people chose to leave the porter gang and no longer chose to be drivers.

Normally speaking, even if the Porter Gang was ignored at this time, it would have disappeared due to the withdrawal of a large number of gang members. However, the two major bureaus did a stupid thing and hacked to death the Porter Gang driver who had withdrawn from the Gang in his home. This behavior was undoubtedly pushing people to a desperate situation. There was no other way out, and people could only give up their illusions and fight!

The gang members who had originally withdrawn from the Porter Gang returned to the Gang, and even made the Gang more united than ever before. It was a life-and-death battle with the Bureau of Transportation. Often, when the drivers of the Porter Gang encountered people from the Bureau of Transportation, the first thing they would do was to draw their swords against each other, regardless of whether both sides were transporting goods or not!

In order to be able to respond to battles at any time, every driver in Jiangzhou City carries a knife with them. No matter what time or what they are doing, a knife is a must-have item. They even have to carry it with them when they sleep at night. This is also the origin of the name change of the Porter Gang to the Pillow Knife Society.

In the end, the Xu family, one of the three major families in Jiangzhou City, chose to help the Porter Gang for unknown reasons, which enabled the Porter Gang to reverse the situation and bring down the two major banks.

At that time, the leader of the Porter Gang was also a man with a strong sense of chivalry. He would avenge his enemies and repay his kindness. He swore an oath to be loyal to the Xu family forever. It is said that this incident has become a good story among the people of Jiangzhou City.

The leader of this porter gang was the first porter trained by the Xu family. He led his men to do the dirty work for the Xu family.

Instead of calling them "drivers", people nowadays would rather call them "death takers".

In addition, because when the Porter Gang was founded, its members were all ordinary people without extraordinary powers, and its development into today's Pillow Knife Gang was entirely due to the Xu family, the Xu family has thorough control over the Pillow Knife Gang, unlike the Tiger Gang and the Zhu family, where at least the Tiger Gang still has some sovereignty.

"Xu's porter..."

Shen Yi murmured to himself, now it is completely certain that the people who attacked Luoxiangzui Winery were sent by Xu Sihai.

It has been confirmed, but the question comes back again: what exactly does the Xu family want to do?
This series of mysterious operations left him completely confused.

Or was I thinking too much? Xu Sihai's purpose was very simple. He just wanted to kill someone to vent his anger.

Except for those bloodthirsty lunatics, normal people usually have their own reasons or purposes for killing people.

Xu Sihai eliminated the porters of the Xu family and didn't want anything. He just wanted to kill people when he entered the winery. Isn't this crazy?
Since they are all crazy, why not kill them all?
And they also deliberately spared the lives of some people.

Could it be that they were afraid that after taking over the Luoxiangzui Winery, no one would be able to brew Luoxiangzui's wine?

There seems to be some truth to this. Luoxiangzuijiu is not important to the Xu family, but the method of making distilled liquor is indeed quite rare. In order to brew distilled liquor, it is reasonable to save the lives of those winery masters.

But is it really that simple?

The Xu family could have sent anyone, but they chose to send a "porter" to accomplish this task. It was too weird.

Perhaps because of some concerns, the Xu family had to send out "porters" to complete the task, and at the same time they could not kill all the workers in the winery.

Oh wait!
concern?

Thinking of this, for some reason, Shen Yi's eyes suddenly lit up.

Because of the last Jucai Gang incident, Shen Yi had a preconceived notion that the Xu family knew clearly that the Zhonghu Gang and Luoxiangzui Liquor Industry were in the same group.

After all, Shen Yi never deliberately tried to sever ties between the Tiger Gang and Luoxiangzui Liquor Industry, otherwise there wouldn't have been so many advertisements.

But in fact, from an outsider's perspective, the only dealings between the Zhonghu Gang and Luoxiangzui Liquor Industry are advertising and promotions. Apart from that, there are no other business dealings.

The relationship between the two parties is ambiguous, but what exactly the relationship is, even Yang Bayuan and Qu Xiangui can't explain it clearly, let alone others.

However, he, the gang leader, was too mysterious and the Xu family couldn't see clearly.

What is the connection between the leader of the Tiger Gang and the old witch?

At the beginning, He Jian Chuyun came to Jiangzhou City alone. As for the Qiu Mansion guards who brought her here along the way, they had left Jiangzhou City long ago. With the influence of the Xu family in Jiangzhou City, and the fact that those Qiu Mansion guards came from the Nanli Dynasty, it was impossible not to find any trace of them.

In this way, it can be ruled out that the current Tiger Gang was arranged by her, after all, she has no one available.

With the normal thinking of people in this world, it is impossible to imagine that the mysterious leader of the Tiger Gang is a contracted beast, right?
If someone really thinks this way, it would be far from the truth.

In short, the Xu family is very cautious in doing things, as can be seen from the last time they used the Jucai Gang to attack the enemy from a distance. Before they know the details of their opponents, they never put themselves in a positive position. But once they are known by them, the Xu family will rush forward and bite madly like a dog that finds out that it is scared of others.

There is a possibility that the Xu family does not have time to deal with the Tiger Gang, so they don't want to get entangled with the Tiger Gang now. Of course, if they really have to, the Xu family can also decisively regard the Tiger Gang as an enemy.

But there is no benefit in making too many enemies, so before that, they have to make sure whether the Tiger Gang will stand against the Xu family.

If you think this way, then everything makes sense.

The Xu family was testing the waters by slaughtering the winery workers and then checking the reaction of the Tiger Gang afterwards.

The reason why they didn't kill everyone was that they didn't want to be too drastic, because in their thinking, human life is worthless, and if they killed a few unimportant people while the important people were still alive, it wouldn't be considered too drastic, and there would still be room for redemption in the future.

You know, decades ago, the Tsurumi family in Yunqiu City sent someone to kill a genius from the Qi family. At that time, the relationship between the two families was hostile. But decades later, the Tsurumi family and the Qi family reconciled again. From this incident, we can see what kind of people are in those big families.

They could even let it go when their own genius was murdered, let alone the ordinary people.

But for Shen Yi, killing so many people was already too extreme.

However, he had a headache about how the Tiger Gangs should react to the Xu family's probing.

If the Tiger Gang reacts too strongly, it can be foreseen that in the future the Zhendao Gang will, under the instructions of the Xu family, come into full-scale conflict with the Tiger Gang. At that time, the two gangs will frequently fight each other, and he as the gang leader will definitely have to take action. After all, he has to stabilize the people's hearts and boost the morale of the Tiger Gang. But once he takes action, his identity as a contracted beast will be exposed.

Now Shen Yi can completely tell the gang members the truth about the previous gang leader changes, let them know what happened to the former hall masters including Hu Shouliang and Xu Can. Now the gang members have a considerable income every month in the Zhonghu Gang. With such high welfare, people's hearts have already been won over. Even if they know that those former hall masters are dead, they will not care. It only takes a word for Shen Yi to order them around.

But the problem lies in the death of several former hall masters. Among the current Tiger Gang, except Shen Yi, there are no strong people at all. There are only four people with the Pure Level cultivation, and three of them are in the early Pure Level. With such a lineup, if he does not take action and fights the Pillow Blade Society head-on, he will be asking for trouble!

...(End of chapter)