I am a temporary worker in Jinyiwei, how did I become a powerful official?

Chapter 44: Battle of the Mass Graveyard

There are national laws and regulations.

Pigeon Liu's Feinu Shop also has rules.

The thugs wrapped up the pigeons and sent them to the Feinu inn, but they couldn't get paid at that time.

These pigeons will be kept in Feinu Store for five days. During these five days, Feinu Store will not sell them.

There are many wealthy and powerful people in Beijing who raise pigeons. If a pigeon of a big shot is "enclosed", Pigeon Liu will sell it immediately. If it is found out in the future, he will inevitably be the one to suffer the consequences.

During these five days, if a servant of an important person or an acquaintance of Pigeon Liu came to ask for a pigeon, Fei Nu Inn would return the pigeon without hesitation.

If no one is looking for the pigeons, Pigeon Liu will put them in the shop on the sixth day for buyers to choose.

Pigeon Liu asked Lin Shisan as they walked: "The Xianliang Temple lost a pigeon? It belonged to a local official who came to Beijing, right?"

Lin Shisan smiled and said, "Master Liu, please don't ask about this."

Pigeon Liu said: "Slap your mouth. I shouldn't ask too much."

There were hundreds of pigeon cages in the backyard, all of which had not yet reached the five-day limit.

A tall woman with snow-white skin, a curvy figure and stunning beauty was feeding the pigeons with a pigeon food bucket.

Lin Shisan said: "This woman looks unfamiliar."

Pigeon Liu smiled and said, "This is my new sixteenth concubine. She is nineteen years old. How is she? Doesn't she look like a big white pigeon?"

Lin Shisan whispered to Pigeon Liu's ear: "My Lord Liu, you are just committing a sin. She is not a big white pigeon, but a big white horse. Can you ride her?"

Pigeon Liu asked, "Thirteen, have you heard of the white raccoon?"

Lin Shisan replied: "I've heard of it. The white raccoon is small, but that thing is not small."

Pigeon Liu smiled and said, "That's right. I am the Songjiang White Cat."

Lin Shisan gave a thumbs up: "I really underestimated Master Liu."

Pigeon Liu restrained his smile and said, "Thirteen, what kind of pigeon did the nobleman from Xianliang Temple lose?"

Lin Shisan replied: "Top-quality white-feathered bow-tailed pigeon."

Pigeon Liu was surprised: "White-feathered bow-tailed pigeon? That is the king of pigeons. The best ones are worth thousands of taels of silver."

Lin Shisan nodded: "You are an expert. How could the owner be so anxious? Has anyone sent a white-feathered bow-tailed pigeon wrapped in a pigeon recently?"

Pigeon Liu waved his hands: "No! If there was, I would definitely pay attention. People who can afford to spend thousands of taels to buy a pigeon are definitely not ordinary people. Shouldn't I worship it like an ancestor and wait for the owner to come and find it?"

Pigeon Liu has been in the business of playing since he was thirteen years old. Being short and thin, he is not suitable for this job.

But he had become one of the top ten big bosses in the Beijing martial arts industry in the past 18 years, so he was naturally a very shrewd person.

Pigeon Liu is very slick and as slippery as a loach. As he said, if someone sent a pigeon worth thousands of taels to Feinudian, he would have already put it up for sale and waited for the owner.

He would even take the initiative to ask people if someone's precious pigeon was lost, and he would personally deliver it back to the house.

Lin Shisan was melancholy: "It wasn't delivered to your store? This is very bad."

If the white-feathered bow-tailed pigeon were "carried away" by a local thug, its life would definitely be in danger.

If you can catch a wild female pigeon, she will build a new nest for the pigeons. How can you find one in such a big city?
If eaten by wild dogs or foxes, there will be no trace left of the body.

Pigeon Liu suddenly remembered something: "There is something you are definitely interested in."

Lin Shisan asked: "What's the matter?"

Pigeon Liu said: "In the afternoon, the 'He Zi' gang from Tianshunfang and the 'Zhen Zhu Xie' gang from Shangzhu Xie Street are going to fight at the mass grave outside Deshengmen. Each side has recruited thousands of people. An acquaintance asked me to mediate between them."

Lin Shisan frowned. "It's a fight between the gangs. This is the job of the detectives in Shuntian Prefecture. I'm not interested."

Pigeon Liu said: "I told you the reason for their fight, and you are interested."

Lin Shisan said: "Don't keep me in suspense. I'm very urgent and I don't have much time to find the pigeon."

Pigeon Liu told the whole story.

The thugs from "Hezi" wrapped pigeons, and the thugs from "Zhenzhuxie" also wrapped pigeons.

Yesterday, the "He Zi" wrapped a top-quality pigeon. Just as it was about to land and return to its nest, a group of pigeons raised by Zhenzhu Xie happened to fly over and took the top-quality pigeon away again. The two sides had a dispute, so they agreed to fight at a mass grave, and they would not limit the number of people, regardless of life or death.

After Pigeon Liu finished telling the story, he said, "Just think about it, how precious must a good pigeon be to be worth thousands of people from both sides to fight with each other?"

Lin Shisan seemed to see hope: "It's possible that the pigeon they are fighting for is the top-quality white-feathered bow-tail pigeon."

Pigeon Liu nodded and said, "If you hadn't come, I would have ridden my mule to the mass grave to make peace with them."

Lin Shisan said: "We will go to the mass grave with you."

Pigeon Liu said, "You two are wearing official uniforms, so it may not be convenient for you to go there. Big white pigeon, come here."

His sixteenth concubine came over and said, "My husband, what can I do for you?"

It turns out that this stunningly beautiful concubine was named "Big White Dove".

Pigeon Liu ordered, "Go prepare two sets of coarse cloth short clothes for my two friends to wear."

Lin Shisan and his apprentice changed into the coarse cloth short clothes that the hooligans loved to wear. Pigeon Liu then led the two out of the city and rushed to the mass grave.

As soon as he arrived at the cemetery, Lin Shisan took a deep breath.

How could this be a fight between two hooligans? It was clearly a battle between two armies!

I saw that the two sides were separated by a wild ditch, and people were crowded together, with thousands of people on each side.

These people were all strong men, holding wooden sticks, short spears, long spears, and iron sticks in their hands. They were murderous and their eyes were wide open.

If a fight breaks out, I'm afraid the ditch will be filled with blood.

Several leaders of "He Zi" and "Zhen Zhu Xie" were now standing on a stone bridge over the wild ditch.

Lin Shisan murmured, "If this fight breaks out, I'm afraid hundreds of people will die."

Pigeon Liu said, "Don't worry. A small fight between a dozen people is easy to start. But a big fight between two thousand people is impossible."

"They are just trying to save face. If hundreds of people really die, won't Shuntian Prefecture squeeze out the yolks of the leaders of both sides and feed them to flies?"

Lin Shisan said: "That makes sense."

Pigeon Liu said: "Wait for me here for a while."

After saying that, Pigeon Liu rode his mule slowly towards the stone bridge.

Someone shouted, "Mr. Liu from Diaobeng Street is here!"

The men all moved aside, leaving a path for Pigeon Liu to pass through.

Lin Shisan watched Pigeon Liu go up the stone bridge and talk to the leaders of both sides. Because they were far away, he couldn't hear what they were saying.

After a while, Pigeon Liu stood on the railing of the stone bridge and shouted: "After all the waves, we are still brothers. When we meet again, we can forget all the grudges with a smile!"

do not fight!
Upon hearing this, the strong men on both sides showed joy on their faces.

Even though these thugs looked aggressive just now, deep down they didn't want a real fight to break out.

It's just a way to make a living. Who wants to get a bloody head or lose limbs?

Pigeon Liu shouted again: "Today at Hongbinlou, we will have three hundred bowls of rotten meat noodles. We won't leave until we are drunk!"

The leaders of both sides shouted, "Brothers, disperse. Hand over your weapons to those outside the city and return to the city."

If more than 2,000 people were to enter or leave the city gate with weapons in their hands, they would surely be captured by the soldiers guarding Deshengmen.

The weapons used in the fights were all prepared by accomplices outside the city.

Pigeon Liu waved to Master Lin Shisan and his apprentice.

Sun Yue said, "It must be Master Liu who found the white-feathered bow-tailed pigeon! Master, this is really a case of searching for something without any effort."

Master Lin Shisan and his apprentice came to the stone bridge.

Lin Shisan asked: "Have you found it?"

Pigeon Liu said: "What both sides are fighting for is indeed a top-quality pigeon worth thousands of silver. Unfortunately, it is a purple dot pigeon, not a white bow tail."

(End of this chapter)