Chapter 318

The whole hall was dead silent.

Incense smoke curled in front of the main niche, and the candles swayed with bright candle flowers.

Cheng Chong quietly tidied the memorial tablets and cleaned the cigarette ash scattered on the table.

His hair was gray, his body was burly and strong, his breath was upright and steady, and his white linen clothes were loose and calm, as calm as a windless wide sea, not caring at all how big a storm his words had stirred up.

Hot mist rose in the tea cup.

Liang Qu's brain was a mess, staring at Cheng Chong's back.

Lian Jingye inserted his hands into his hair and combed them back fiercely, pulling his hair roots until they hurt.

The Qiu Gong Dike breached, the flood submerged for four days, and the culprit was the leader Cheng Chong?

He did such a big thing behind the back of the Shahe Gang!

Why?

Thinking what?

Planning what?

"My life is over!"

Lu Xinqing sighed in his heart, his knees went weak, and he knelt on the ground with a thud.

Destroying the dike, breaching the dike, flood flooding.

Shahe Gang leader, River Patrol Office lord, county magistrate.

All kinds of characters and major events intersected; how could he, a small water bandit, participate and know about it.

"Haha, hahaha!"

In the Juyi Building, an old man in gray with a long beard suddenly laughed loudly, shattering the silence in the Juyi Building.

Everyone looked at the sound; it was the gang's assistant, Huyan Shijing.

Huyan Shijing had very old qualifications; whenever there was anything in the gang that was not understood, no one would not come to ask for advice.

Facing everyone's confusion, Huyan Shijing touched his long beard unhurriedly, faced the middle hall and the front hall gang members, and shouted loudly.

"The leader's words are very exquisite; the flood is flooding outside, the people are displaced, and the River Patrol Office wants to come to borrow ships to do things, okay!

Our Shahe Gang is the most loyal, and most of you are from humble backgrounds; seeing the people suffer innocently, how can we be indifferent!

But he didn't offer incense! He didn't have rules! And he even mocked our Shahe Gang as a rotten place!

Such righteousness, I don't know if it's true that the Qiu Gong Dike breach was done by our Shahe Gang! Brothers, tell me, is it or is it not!"

The gang members suddenly realized.

So that's how it is.

Liang Qu didn't offer incense, didn't have rules, and came to mock the Shahe Gang; where is the appearance of borrowing ships?

I don't know if it's true that it was the Shahe Gang that dug the dike and owed the River Patrol Office!

The leader's words are for mockery!

"The leader is really humorous."

"Even I was almost scared by the leader, really thinking that digging the dike was done by our Shahe Gang."

"Assistant Huyan is right, asking for help requires the appearance of asking for help, even if it is the government, it is too arrogant!"

"Our Shahe Gang doesn't owe you! Either offer incense to the plaque, or get out of Shahe Mountain!"

"That's right, either kowtow and offer incense, or get out of Shahe Mountain!"

"Kowtow and get out of Shahe Mountain!"

"Kowtow is fine..."

Lian Jingye coughed twice, and his words were drowned out by the waves.

Huyan Shijing responded to one call, countless people's faces were red, and their blood was stimulated.

Hundreds of people roared together, tables and chairs shook, and the killing intent permeated; the surging sound waves gathered made the tea water ripple continuously.

The gang members on the second floor jumped down one after another, joined the gang members on the first floor, and surrounded Liang Qu.

The killing intent was like a tide.

Lu Xinqing hurriedly stood up from the ground, huddled behind Liang Qu, avoiding everyone's sight.

"Not a joke."

Cheng Chong said faintly, and the crowd was like a rooster whose neck was pinched, and the vast sound waves stopped abruptly.

Thud.

Lu Xinqing knelt on the ground again.

Huyan Shijing, Lian Jingye, and other high-level gang members felt their hearts sink.

Not a joke?

Cheng Chong put three long incense sticks together, lit them on the candle flame, separated them, inserted them into the incense burner properly, and bowed three times.

When he turned around, everyone finally saw what Cheng Chong had done.

The original memorial tablet of the first generation leader of the Shahe Gang in the main niche had long been taken down and replaced with a name that everyone had never heard of.

Cheng Yingjian.

Who is Cheng Yingjian?

Lian Jingye felt the name was very familiar, and after a while, he remembered that there was indeed a young man in the Shahe Gang called Yingjian.

But his name was not Cheng Yingjian, it was Zheng Yingjian.

The son of the first leader Zheng Tianhe, no more than twenty-three years old, with extraordinary talent and righteousness; even as an opposing force, he was still a person worth admiring, but he had long died in the previous great purge of the River Patrol Office.

Zheng Tianhe, Zheng Yingjian.

Cheng Chong, Cheng Yingjian.

The first leader had only one only son, the third leader had no children...

Lian Jingye's pupils shrank, and ten thousand horses galloped through his heart.

Huyan Shijing's face was pale.

Liang Qu saw the expressions of several high-level gang members changing constantly and guessed that the brand-new memorial tablet must have some unknown secret, but due to incomplete information, he didn't know the details.

Could it be that Cheng Chong really dug the dike?

The script is wrong!

He just came to borrow a ship, why did he suddenly pull out the mastermind?

If the dike destroyer was really Cheng Chong, wouldn't he have done most of the tasks arranged by Xu Yuelong in one day?

Cheng Chong didn't care about everyone's surprise and sat on the third chair under the plaque by himself.

The armrest of the chair was covered with a layer of oily skin, reflecting the candlelight.

That was the position Cheng Chong sat in the longest and most comfortably before; now sitting down, he remembered the past.

"Jingye, Shijing, you two have always been keen, have you guessed it?"

Lian Jingye and Huyan Shijing looked at each other, both terrified.

Lian Jingye bit the bullet and stepped forward to confirm: "Young leader... is the leader's son?"

Cheng Chong nodded.

The young leader is the leader's son, is it not normal?

Lu Xinqing was stunned.

"Sorry." Liang Qu interrupted, "The young leader is the leader's son, is it not normal?"

Cheng Chong looked at Lian Jingye.

Lian Jingye wiped the sweat from his forehead and said in a low voice: "The young leader is the former young leader, leader, is the current leader..."

Liang Qu combed it, his heart shook wildly.

The son of the first leader of the Shahe Gang is actually the third leader's?

What kind of outrageous relationship is this?

Looking at the memorial tablet on the case, dead?

"Qiu Gong Dike..." Huyan Shijing was still unbelievable, "Is it really the leader's handwriting?"

"How is Zheng Tianhe, that eunuch, it doesn't matter to me, but I only have one son, Yingjian." Cheng Chong's tone was faint, "He is dead."

"Dead, dead..." Lian Jingye's eyes went dark, his two hands trembling constantly, "Then why destroy the dike! Leader, that is the Qiu Gong Dike!"

Once the Qiu Gong Dike is destroyed, especially in the rainy season, that is more than just ten thousand deaths; what a great crime, one person's head is definitely not enough to calm the anger!

Cheng Chong's move is tantamount to dragging the entire Shahe Gang into the water without anyone knowing!

For a time, everyone didn't know how to handle themselves, and there was no appearance of righteous indignation at all.

The high-level members with faster minds had already cast their eyes on Liang Qu, thinking about whether turning against them now could win a lighter punishment and lenient treatment?

Cheng Chong looked down from a high place, taking in the hundred people and hundred appearances, and said leisurely.

"I am fifty-six this year, which can be called the prime of life, but compared to the aristocratic sons, I am afraid I have no hope of revenge for the rest of my life.

Destroying the dike is the only way I can make them pay the price."

Lian Jingye and Huyan Shijing's breathing stopped.

The River Patrol Office, in order to maintain the Heishui River transport, did not kill the Shahe Gang, but turned to support the third leader who was not on good terms with the first and second leaders to take the top position, so as to maintain stability.

Originally, it was handled without problems; who could have thought that the relationship inside was so complicated, and Cheng Chong could endure so much.

Killing Cheng Chong's only son without killing them all led to Cheng Chong destroying the dike without authorization, flooding Huazhu County; the official responsible for cleaning up the Shahe Gang really has to bear the primary responsibility!

It makes sense logically, but Liang Qu still felt something was wrong.

Martial artist practice can avoid the pain and disaster of a hundred years; at Cheng Chong's age, it is not that he can't do that, and he has every opportunity to give birth again; why must he risk his life to carry out revenge?

Change to two River Patrol Office officials without background, they might really lose their heads.

But those who come to clean up the Shahe Gang for merit must have aristocratic backgrounds, and their lives can definitely be saved.

It's not worth it at all.

He has no son, so he can't empathize with the pain of losing a son?

Liang Qu frowned.

"Magistrate Liang, right." Cheng Chong stared at Liang Qu's waist tag, "I don't think I'm a very smart person, knowing that with the court's ability, it's not difficult to find the culprit, so I don't want to make it difficult for you, but..."

Cheng Chong looked up, his eyes as deep as the sea.

"If you want to bring me to justice, Cheng will not be captured without a fight, it just depends on how much ability you have, my lord."