The Dominance of Martial Arts: Starting from the Tiger Roaring Golden Bell

Chapter 44 Assassination
"Some of those poor people are suffering from incurable diseases, while others have gone astray and will be executed one day.

We will all die in the end, so why can't we use ourselves to exchange some money for our family before we die?
I am just a middleman. I don't get involved in either the buying or selling side of the business. I am only responsible for transporting people.

The reason I asked you to come to me is simply because the customer of that warehouse hasn't paid for some time.

Since you want to investigate this matter, then go and ask him when he will pay us the money we owe him for collecting firewood. "

"Bishui Temple allows you to do this?"

The scholar looked at him in surprise.

"What's wrong with us? Those people feel like they are corpses, and their families also feel like they are corpses.

What does this have to do with us?
Bi Narcissus is always watching Chaolan County, and nothing that happens here can be hidden from him.

We are just helping the people collect their bodies according to their wishes.

This is a way to accumulate merit. Why doesn’t Bishui Temple allow us to do this?
As for transporting corpses, we sell them and there are people who buy them.

Is it wrong for us to deliver the bodies to the location specified by the customers?"

"Selling corpses?"

Qin Zhiming was slightly stunned. He only knew that corpse collectors bought corpses, but he didn't know that they also sold them.

"Yes, the Jingtao Gang, Fanhai Gang, and Chaolan Gang... all the gangs that raise medicinal animals will come to me to buy.

Otherwise, what would we wood gatherers eat and drink? "

After hearing the news, Qin Zhiming didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

When he learned from his master that medicine beasts needed medicinal herbs to strengthen their qi and blood.

The first thing he thought of was that the old medicinal materials were limited and people could not eat them every day, let alone medicinal animals.

Therefore, the medicinal beast must have other ways to enhance qi and blood.

Since it can practice martial arts like humans, eating meat is definitely necessary to complement its martial arts practice.

People eat animals, animals eat people, people eat animals again, and all things are integrated.

"Who is the owner of the warehouse?"

The scholar took out a booklet from a pile of books on the wooden table and handed it to Qin Zhiming.

Qin Zhiming opened it and saw that it was an account book.

It is clearly recorded above that the corpse collector collected the "corpses" from two places: Hua's pharmacy and the government office.

The "corpse" was thrown into a flatbed truck and transported to a designated compound.

Then put the "corpse" into the cage in the yard.

Then the cage was moved into a carriage and transported to the barn, along with a small amount of food and water.

Every three days, the corpse buyer would put the previously agreed-upon silver and money in the center of the compound for the corpse collector to take away.

“The patients who died in the Hua family’s pharmacy and the felons who were beaten to death in the government dungeon, these two types of people really wouldn’t attract attention.

The iron cage should have been made by the Di family, but the question is what do these three families need so many living people for?
They don’t mean to...”

Thinking of this, Qin Zhiming asked the scholar.

"They want to sell these people to places outside of Chaolan County?"

The scholar smiled. "Guessed it?"

“Daqian only allows brokerage firms to buy and sell local people, and does not allow different places to sell people to each other.

Anyone who violates this rule will have his waist broken and his entire clan exterminated."

The scholar nodded.

"I know the official laws by heart, so I'll trouble you to find them and ask when we will pay the money we owe to our firewood collectors."

After he finished speaking, he took out a large silver ingot from his arms.

"If they don't want to, please find a corpse collector on the street and ask him to pass the message to me."

Qin Zhiming took the silver ingot and was about to turn around and leave.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door outside.

"Boss, the guest who didn't pay before is here."

The scholar was slightly stunned and looked at Qin Zhiming.

"This is really... Never mind. Just consider that money as hush money. Please come in!"

With a creak, the door opened.

A man wearing the same mask and black robe as Qin Zhiming walked into the room.

The man was in a hurry and rushed straight to the table without paying attention to the other person in the room.

"When was the last time you transported people?!"

The scholar raised his eyebrows and said in a woman's voice, "We settle accounts every three days. When was the last time we settled accounts? Go back three days."

Let me be clear, we are transporting corpses, not people."

"Now immediately find four or five wagons full of food and water, and send someone to go with me to the barn to check?!"

The scholar glanced at her.

"The account from last time..."

Before she finished her words, the woman in black robe immediately threw a purse onto the table.

The scholar put the purse into his arms.

"Don't go."

"What?" The woman in black robe was stunned.

"I'll say it again, we transport corpses, not people, and certainly not messy things."

"You!" The woman in black robe was about to get angry.

"I can go with you. Don't worry, I will keep my mouth shut. If you don't believe me, you can ask him." Qin Zhiming said.

The woman in black robe looked at him, then at the scholar.

The scholar remained silent, and the woman in black robe thought he acknowledged that Qin Zhiming was indeed keeping his mouth shut.

"Okay, follow me now."

The woman in black robe pushed the door open and left, followed closely by Qin Zhiming.

The scholar sat at the table and continued writing something in the book.

He hummed an opera. "I traveled thousands of miles, and before I knew it, I had already entered the hell of the mortal world."

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Near noon, the long street became lively early.

There was an endless stream of people, including passers-by, playing children, and hawking their wares.

"Selling candied haws!" an old man in wide-sleeved linen clothes shouted while carrying a straw stalk.

The black-robed woman raised her hand impatiently, trying to push away the pole that was closer to her.

Whoosh! boom!
Qin Zhiming grabbed the old man's right hand to prevent him from stabbing the wooden stick into the black-robed woman's throat.

Make a fist with your left hand and strike out quickly from top to bottom.

The old man's larynx suddenly shattered, and he was about to fall down when Qin Zhiming gently pushed him.

He leaned against a stall as if he was tired and wanted to rest, with his head down and no words.

"Him!" The frightened woman in black robe was about to shout.

Qin Zhiming suddenly pulled her to the left.

He stepped forward and, using the black-robed woman's raised robe, snatched the dagger that the flower girl had stabbed at her from behind.

He thrust the dagger backhandedly into the flower girl's abdomen, close to her ear.

"If you pull it out, you will die. If you don't pull it out, you can still live."

The moment her robe fell, the flower girl used the basket to cover the bleeding part and watched the two men leave unwillingly.

"They?" The black-robed woman who was being dragged forward by Qin Zhiming asked.

"I'm going to kill you, can't you see? Remember to pay more. I only said I'd deliver the goods, not save your life."

The black-robed woman said, "I know. As long as you can protect me, I will give you whatever you want!"

Suddenly, Qin Zhiming stopped.

In front, several sturdy men in linen shorts pushed through the crowd and looked at the two of them with a grin.

"The Jingtao Gang is doing business! All outsiders! Get out of the way!!"

As they were talking, the strong men drew their weapons from their waists and rushed towards Qin Zhiming.

The vendors and people who were unable to dodge immediately cried out in surprise.

A vendor who was knocked down accidentally touched the naughty child behind him, causing him to fall towards the woman in black robe crying.

Looking at the chubby baby with tears in his eyes, the woman in black robe subconsciously wanted to reach out to help him.

Unexpectedly, a hand was faster than hers.

Qin Zhiming grabbed Fatty's neck and, in front of everyone's astonished gaze, threw him towards the oncoming members of the Jingtao Gang.

While the gang members were at a loss and caught the fat kid, he grabbed the woman in black robe, turned right and turned into the alley.

(End of this chapter)