The world is like a prison, my body is holy

Chapter 19 More money is needed

"Damn, big brother..."

The next morning, Xu Ergou rushed into Wang Wen's dormitory and was shocked to see him bandaged like a mummy. "What happened to you?"

Wang Wen glanced at him with his eyes slanted: "Keep your voice down, don't you think I've embarrassed myself enough?"

He slowly got up and put on his clothes.

Xu Ergou quickly came over to support him: "When I got here, I heard that you were ambushed by thieves last night... What happened?"

"You ask me, who should I ask?"

Wang Wen replied angrily, then sighed at the end, "It's hard to put it into words... Go home and tell your uncle I'm safe. Just tell him the good things, and don't bother talking about my injury!"

"When you're done, get all the brothers from home over here. I've already discussed this with your uncle last night. Just go back and get them!"

After a pause, he took a deep breath and said, "Please tell your uncle for me and ask him to pick another fifty people for me, making a total of one hundred... The more you pay, the more you earn!"

Xu Ergou nodded: "Okay, I'll go back. As for you, here..."

Wang Wen: "I'm fine here for now."

Xu Ergou: "Hey!"

Wang Wen put on his clothes and put on his official sword. Just as he was about to leave, Zhang Qing rushed in and said, "Brother Hu, Lord Zhao wants you to go to the hall to discuss something!"

……

In the lobby of the Dusi Tianjian Yamen, there were still the same people and the same positions.

As soon as Wang Wen stepped into the lobby, he felt that the air pressure in the hall was a little low. The five people in the hall all had frowns on their faces. His heart suddenly skipped a beat, and he wondered if something had gone wrong.
He quickly stepped forward and clasped his fists in greeting: "I am Wang Wen, your Excellency."

Zhao Zhiling nodded and waved his hand, saying, "Sit down and talk!"

Wang Wen felt relieved after hearing this: "Thank you, sir."

"It seems that it's not the fault of the Beggars' Sect..."

He muttered to himself.

Zhao Zhiling took a sip from his teacup and said in a deep voice, "The interrogation of the Beggars' Sect has yielded preliminary results. The thief who attacked you, Erhu, last night does have some connection to your previous feud with the Beggars' Sect."

Wang Wen raised his thick eyebrows in a mixture of joy and anger, his eyes wide as bells, and he said in a lost voice: "It really was those stinky beggars who did this?"

As soon as these words came out, the five people in the hall looked at him, and the solemn atmosphere suddenly became a little strange.

Cheng Xian scolded with a bad smile: "You bastard, can you think before you speak?"

It was clearly you who was refusing to give up on the Beggars' Sect last night. Now that you are saying this, aren't you admitting that you were just taking revenge last night?
Of course, it is normal to settle personal grudges in the officialdom of the Great Zhou Dynasty, but can such things be said publicly?
"Brother Xian'er, what are you talking about?"

Wang Wen grinned and said, "Once we're through this door, we're family. What's wrong with sharing a few words between family members? Besides, Brother Xian'er, just tell me my suspicions. Are they correct?"

In fact, even he himself didn't quite believe that the killer who attacked him last night was sent by the Beggar Gang.

Including what he said about the two evil spirits being Qin Lao Ba and Cheng Xiazi from the Beggar Gang, it was pure nonsense!
The reason why he would bite the Beggar Gang and refuse to let go after seeing Zhao Zhiling was because he had thought about it all the way, and apart from the Beggar Gang, he really couldn't find a second enemy who had the motive to harm him.

In that case, I can only give him a hard time first...

If it really is the Beggars' Sect, then it would naturally be an unexpected blessing and a pleasant surprise.

If it weren't for the Beggars' Sect, he and the Qinghe Gang wouldn't have suffered much loss, right?
In fact, his situation last night was exactly the same as that of the Chief Astronomical Observer.

Wang Wen was not a big shot in Yangzhou, but his adoptive father Huang Xingde was a well-known figure in Yangzhou.

If Wang Wen was tricked and didn't even dare to fart, how would others view him, Wang Wen? How would they view his adoptive father Huang Xingde? How would they view the Qinghe Gang?

Directly lead the Qinghe Gang to attack the Beggar Gang for revenge?
Let’s not talk about how much money it would cost, how many people would die, and how much negative impact it would cause if two gangs with seven or eight hundred people started a film.

The complex interpersonal relationships between the two gangs in Yangzhou alone meant that a fight to the death between them was unlikely. Whenever there were signs of a large-scale armed conflict between the two gangs, many reasonable people would quickly emerge for various reasons to mediate between the two sides.

In the end, we still have to sit down and reason and present evidence.

They had used this trick before to severely inflict damage on the Beggars' Sect.

So instead of bringing people to your house to engage in a verbal fight and bring humiliation upon yourself, you should make a lot of noise but do little.

It would be better to just use the Chief Astronomical Observatory to give the Beggars' Sect a hard blow!
Anyway, Wang Wen was already a seventh-rank Lingtailang of the Dusi Tianjian, so it was perfectly legitimate for him to use the power of the Dusi Tianjian! No one could accuse him of breaking the rules!
Only in this way can the father and son regain their lost face.

Only in this way can they deter the dark forces behind the scenes.

It's like a mentally ill person...

Why do so few people dare to mess with mentally ill people?
This is not simply because the mentally ill can kill without punishment.

Also, if you mess with a mentally ill person, he might really beat you to death!

So normal people usually avoid mentally ill people...

Similarly, if people want to avoid being bullied by bad people, they cannot be honest people who swallow their anger and always want to keep things peaceful. They have to be crazy people who are afraid that things will get out of hand!

When you are not afraid of death or making things bigger, then it is the turn of others to be afraid of death and making things bigger...

Wang Wen understood this principle when he was learning to drive a truck from his master in his previous life.

……

Wang Wen's foolish remarks triggered a low laugh in the hall.

After he sat down, Zhao Zhiling extended his hand and said, "Zhengyong (Chengxian's courtesy name), tell Erhu the results of your interrogation."

Cheng Xian responded, then turned to Wang Wen beside him and said, "Seriously speaking, the thief who assassinated you last night was indeed not sent by the Beggars' Sect. They did have that idea, but they decided to stay out of the spotlight for now and then hire someone to kill you later. That way, no one would suspect them."

Wang Wen: …

Am I so hateful?
Why are there people everywhere trying to kill me?
Cheng Xian continued, "But we learned a very important clue from a beggar leader named Zheng Quezi. That is, all the children that Qin Laoba and his men had abducted were handed over to the White Lotus Sect."

Wang Wen frowned: "White Lotus Sect?"

Cheng Xian just thought he didn't understand the White Lotus Sect: "The White Lotus Sect is the largest evil sect in the Central Plains, originating from..."

Wang Wen clasped his fists and shook his head, saying, "Brother Xian'er, I've heard of the White Lotus Sect. I was just thinking, since I haven't provoked the White Lotus Sect, they wouldn't be so big that they can't find other beggar leaders willing to work for them without Qin Lao Ba, right? For such a small matter, would they send people and ghosts to mess with me? This doesn't go against the rules of the martial arts world!"

According to the rules of the underworld, Qin Lao Ba is a member of the Beggars' Sect, so no matter who he works for, if he gets into trouble, the Beggars' Sect should come to his rescue.

This is like someone hiring a killer through a killer organization to kill someone, but the killer gets caught. Should the financial sponsor take the initiative to avenge the killer?
"Cough cough..."

At that moment, Zhao Zhiling in the hall coughed twice, attracting the attention of everyone below. "You have only been in the Imperial Observatory for a short time, so you don't know the inside story yet."

"The White Lotus Sect has always been a mixed bag of good and bad, and during this period of great change, some White Lotus followers are acting like demons, even more vicious and inhumane than demons. They kill civilians to practice evil magic, steal young boys and girls to raise demons. Such atrocities that are outrageous to both gods and humans are everywhere in the White Lotus Sect. They are the evil heretics that our Astronomical Observatory is focusing on hunting down and strangling!"

"The reason why the criminal came to you last night must be just as you said last night. It was to slow down the pace of our Astronomical Bureau's supervision of Yangzhou and buy time for them to commit evil in Yangzhou."

Wang Wen looked at him in shock: "I really took the knife for you guys?"

Zhao Zhiling avoided his gaze and said in a calm voice, "The most urgent tasks are, first, to fill the vacancies within the prison as soon as possible and fulfill our duty of protecting the territory and the people; second, to quickly investigate the White Lotus's plans in Yangzhou. No matter what they are, we will not let them succeed!"

Wang Wen was even more shocked: "Fuck, you are such a high-ranking official, and you have the nerve to pick on us, the Cao Gang?"

"Then this is not something a seventh-rank Lingtai Lang can handle!"

'You have to pay more!'

(End of this chapter)