Republic of China: Guandong Ginseng King

Chapter 205: The Old Man of the Pai Gang

Qu Shaoyang followed the advice of his master and father-in-law and decided not to go anywhere. He stayed in Maoer Mountain and focused on building his own new house.

In July, Dazhuzi, who was returning from rafting in Andong, happened to pass by Maoer Mountain.

He came to visit Liu Dongshan and Qu Shaoyang, and brought news about the Jiang family in Kuandian.

The Jiang family was a wealthy family in Kuandian, and the fact that their entire family was wiped out overnight had caused a lot of uproar.

Not only Kuandian City, but also nearby Huairen, Fenghuang City, and Andong all knew about it. People could be found talking about it when walking on the street.

The government also took the case very seriously, looking for the survivors of the Jiang family and sending people to arrest the murderer.

After the government's search, many of the Jiang family's women were found.

The wives and madams of each family took their children and hid outside for a few days, and basically all returned to their parents' homes.

As for those concubines, I heard that some of them returned to their parents' homes and were arranged to get married by their families.

Some of them had no mother's home to go to, so they just followed the farmhands and guards in the mansion and ran away.

As for the farmhands, guards, gunners, etc. in the mansion, their master had fallen, so what was there for them to be attached to? They had already run away.

The government posted a notice to find the whereabouts of the little white wolf gang.

However, the little white wolf has been elusive and has been quite mysterious in the past two years.

After smashing the kiln this time, he disappeared without a trace. Where could the government find him?

The Jiang family is wealthy and powerful, and over the years they have made many powerful in-laws with the help of their outstanding girls.

The women of the Jiang family refused to give up and tried to send letters to the married girls, hoping that their husbands' families would help to avenge the Jiang family.

But the Jiang family has already fallen into decline and there is no possibility of making a comeback. How can others possibly contribute wholeheartedly?

At most, they would send someone to take a look, give some money and other things, and offer some comfort.

When people leave, the tea gets cold. There is some truth in what our ancestors said.

What's more, the Tong family was implicated and almost wiped out. Naturally, other people were unwilling to step forward because they felt sympathy for their own kind.

The news of the Tong family's accident alarmed the Fengtian Deputy Governor.

He found General Fengtian and tried to persuade the general to help catch the murderer.

Since we can't find the Little White Wolf Gang, we'll just mobilize the army to suppress the bandits.

However, General Fengtian refused on the pretext of insufficient military funds.

Are you kidding me? It doesn't cost money to deploy troops? Who will pay for it?

The Jiang family? The Jiang family was burned to the ground. The women are now staying at their parents’ house. They have nowhere to go. Where can they get money?

The Jiang family did have land and shops. Although the title deeds were burned in the fire, they were archived in the government and no one could deny it.

But that was the Jiang family's few means of survival. Even if they sold the land to raise money, it would not be enough to satisfy the government's appetite.

In the end, the murderer was not caught, the land was lost, and life became even more miserable.

As for the shops in the city, each shop owner is more shrewd than the other.

As soon as they heard that the Jiang family was in trouble, those shopkeepers had already run away with the money and goods, leaving only an empty shell.

It’s really impossible to raise the money.

The Tong family? The Tong family had also fallen into decline, with most of their assets being divided up by their relatives and collateral branches.

It’s hard to say whether the little that is left is enough to live on. Where would the money come from?
Without money, who will work hard for you?
Are you talking about suppressing bandits? How much money can those bandits make? Only fools would do such thankless tasks.

"Of course I have heard from others that the Jiang family bullies men and women and does all kinds of evil things. They never do any good things.

You don't know what the people around the Jiang family said? They said that God had a vision and sent heavenly soldiers and generals to deal with the Jiang family.

Little White Wolf did something good this time." Dazhuzi said.

Qu Shaoyang and Liu Dongshan looked at each other, and neither of them responded to the conversation.

"By the way, Zhuzi, what are those old people in our gang doing now?" Liu Dongshan randomly found a topic and changed the subject.

"What else can I do? It's all my old job.

Ever since Qian Dagui quit, we found another site in the mountains, where we planted trees in the winter and released rafts in the spring.

Old Sun, when I was letting the raft pass through the water pumping hole this year, I didn't cover myself properly and got sucked into the water pumping hole.

By the time we found him, he was already four or five miles downstream from the pumping hole, dead.”

Speaking of the old man from the Pai Gang, Dazhuzi sighed. "What a pity! Old Sun is a good person."

Upon hearing this, the master and his disciple sighed. This was the fate of raftsmen, sooner or later, they would die at the sentry post on the Yalu River.

"Er Zhao met a woman in Anton that year, and he thought she was a widow.

He helped her sincerely, but later he found out that the woman already had a man.

Erzhao was disheartened and this year he took the money he had saved for rafting and said he was going back to his hometown in Shandong.

Dalin also returned to his hometown this year. He saved some money and wanted to go back to his hometown to find a wife and live a good life. "

Dazhuzi also sighed and continued.

I don't know if these people in the Pai Gang were stimulated by Liu Dongshan and Qu Shaoyang, but many of them have calmed down and decided to live a good life.

"What about you? You are not a child anymore, haven't you thought about starting a family?" Liu Dongshan looked at Dazhuzi and asked with a smile.

When Dazhuzi heard this, he scratched his head embarrassedly and laughed.

"Yes, I married a wife last autumn, a widow from Tadian.

Her husband was a hunter. He went into the mountains to hunt and was killed by wild beasts, leaving behind his wife and a two-year-old girl.

I was in a hurry to come back because I was eager to see the mother and daughter.

My wife is pregnant. She may have given birth now, but I don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy.

This time, I didn’t spend any of the money I earned from rafting. I saved it all to buy a piece of land.

From now on, I will no longer work so hard in the mountains or in the water fields. I will stay at home to farm, raise some livestock, and live a good life."

"Really, congratulations.

That's right, isn't it better to make money, buy land, build a house, marry a wife, and live a good life than anything else?

What's the point of life if you have to indulge in eating, drinking, whoring and gambling?

Zhuzi, Tadian and Maoer Mountain are not too far away from each other, so we can visit them often in the future.

If you have any problems, please ask someone to send a message to me, and Shaoyang and I will definitely help if we can."

Liu Dongshan was very happy when he heard this.

When he has free time, Liu Dongshan would think of his old buddies in the Pai Gang. He also hopes that everyone can live a peaceful life, no matter whether they are rich or poor, at least they can live in peace.

Dazhuzi has come from afar, so he has to be entertained.

So Liu Dongshan asked Lin Ruolan to quickly prepare some dishes and heat up a pot of wine to entertain Dazhuzi.

That night, Liu Dongshan let Dazhuzi stay at his house for one night.

The next day, Qu Shaoyang sent Xingjia Xingye away again, driving a horse-drawn carriage to send Dazhuzi back to Tadian.

Master and apprentice Liu Dongshan also specially prepared a lot of nourishing things for Dazhuzi's wife and child during the confinement period.

Dazhuzi was reluctant at first. He could walk from Andong to Maoer Mountain by himself, so what was the remaining distance? But Liu Dongshan and his apprentice refused to let him go.

The area from Andong to Maoer Mountain is relatively safe because the Little White Wolf Gang was killed by Qu Shaoyang.

After the Chen brothers' Double Gun Gang took over the Little White Wolf Gang's territory, they also gathered some other small gangs.

The rule of the Double Gun Gang is that as long as the mountain and water communities pay a protection fee, they can ensure the safety of the raft and all the members of the gang, and ensure that no one dares to attack the gang.

But at present, the Double Gun Gang's sphere of influence is mainly in the middle and lower reaches of the Yalu River and along the Hunjiang River.

The section from Maoer Mountain to Hengshan is not currently within the influence of the Double Gun Gang.

Dazhuzi is alone with a lot of money. What if he meets a few petty thieves on the way and something goes wrong?
Xingjia Xingye all carry guns, so it is safer to be escorted by them.

Dazhuzi couldn't resist and had to get on the carriage and be escorted home by Xingjia Xingye.

A few days later, Xingjia Xingye came back and said that they had safely sent Dazhuzi to Tadian.

Dazhuzi's wife just gave birth to a big fat boy some time ago.

"Boss, luckily you and my old boss were careful, otherwise we would have encountered robbers on the way to Tadian.

Several people, armed with knives, sticks and other things, jumped out of the woods and tried to rob.

We just pulled out our guns and scared those little thieves away." Xingjia also told this story.

(End of this chapter)