brotherly innocence

The people in the Law Enforcement Hall are all cronies who are directly under the management of President Qin. A group of people are all in black shirts and short-sleeved, waving folding fans and looking arrogant, sitting on the six chairs in the hall in unison. The fan slightly cupped his hands and respected: "Second Young Master!"

As soon as Qin Rong looked up, he saw A Dan who was already on the girder, yelling and cursing, hanging on the girder and struggling.The voice was hoarse and helpless, showing despair, and one leg was kicking and struggling out of thin air, adding to the humiliation.

The black lacquered bucket next to it, water rippling to the blue brick floor from time to time, the shiny color of the snake-like whip inside, makes people tremble.

Some thugs used a whip dipped in water to provoke A Dan, and there were bursts of laughter, cursing and insulting.

"Look, look, ha ha, ha ha, it's so funny. Look at him like a bear."

"Thinking that with a good master, you can do whatever you want, spit! Today I will let you know the rules of the Blue Gang."

"Look at this kid's birth, his skin is tender and his flesh is not bad."

Qin Rong's cheeks were flushed with anger, and Adan was kicking and crying loudly: "Kill me, kill me!"

Qin Rong remembered that three years ago, Qingdaotang severely punished a disciple who seemed to be stealing money from gangsters to sell money to courtesans and ruined the big event. The scene was too shameful to witness, but the beaten disciple gritted his teeth in shame when he was put down. Root killed himself.Dan, what should I do?

"Rong, Brother Rong, I was wronged, I was wronged, I didn't, I didn't." Adan saw Qin Rong as if he had encountered a life-saving straw in the sea, and cried out in shock, his voice was like calling for help before dying.Qin Rong suddenly remembered Chu Yaonan's desperate eyes when he was hung up that day, his hoarse begging, his distorted face when his face was completely torn off, and his wailing in pain... Now, the tragic scene reappeared, but he felt very sorry for A Dan. The brothers who have grown up since childhood have a more immersive understanding of that kind of heart-wrenching insult.

Elder Qiu of the Law Enforcement Hall prefaced and said earnestly: "Second Young Master, according to the rules of the president, no matter how close or distant the gang is, the word 'fairness' comes first. Everything must be fair and treat everyone equally. Today Adan violated gang rules, If you don't follow the rules, you can't spoil Er Shao's reputation because of the people around him."

Qin Rong tried his best to calm himself down and asked, "Then Elder Qiu, please tell me which gang rule Adan violated?" He tried his best to delay time and find out.

It's just that Adan's humiliation lasted for a moment, and the leg was hidden somewhere, and countless eyes were watching him teasingly, as if watching a monkey show proudly.

"We went to the wharf to inspect the goods today, and we just met him, Adan. He secretly ordered people to move the goods to the sampan. The signed list was 48 boxes of goods, and the original order lifted the anchor. The actual count was only 46 boxes, which was missing. Two boxes are on the sampan! Still quibbling!"

Elder Qiu scolded with righteous indignation: "Don't bring those little tricks of your Qingdaotang to the Qin Chamber of Commerce, and treat everyone as a fool!"

With this sentence, Qin Rong was furious.He naturally believed in Adan, but Adan hung upside down and his brain was congested, cursing and kicking in a daze. Elder Qiu waved his hand, and one of his subordinates pointed a whip at Adan. Suffering capital punishment, some gloat.

"Wait a minute!" Qin Rong yelled, and stopped him calmly: "I have a few words to ask Adan clearly, so that he won't accept it and say that the Qin family has wronged a good person."

Elder Qiu snorted disdainfully and was angry.He has always been a person who doesn't rub the sand in his eyes, Qin Rong has heard of it.

"Adan, should you be on duty at Qingpu Wharf today?" Qin Rong asked.

Adan gritted his teeth and said, "Yes!"

"Adan, do you admit that you shipped two boxes of goods off the ship and embezzled them?" Qin Rong asked again.

"I shipped the goods off the ship, but they said there was something wrong with the goods and asked me to take them back to the shore and mark them as returned. Because the problem was discovered only after inspection of the goods, of course there were 48 boxes on the list. Who would have thought Elder Qiu happened to bring Someone check it out."

"Oh? Then who is the senior brother who is in charge of leading Adan this month?" Qin Rong asked again.

A man with a thin face and a mustache next to him stepped forward and clasped his fists and said, "Second Young Master, it's me, Crab. Adan learned how to walk the day before yesterday, and according to the rules of the gang, he has signed a military order, so there is no need for his brother to lead him. "Crab said proudly, as if this matter had nothing to do with him.

"Then on weekdays, if there is a defect in the delivery before it is ready to be shipped, how to deal with it?"

"This is up to the head of the branch hall to decide, the ship can't be held, waiting to be released."

"Adan, do you know?"

"I don't know, no one has mentioned it. I asked the brothers around me, and they said that it can be transported directly to the shore. I'm afraid it will be delayed."

Qin Rong smiled, and called the little brother who gave advice to Adan, and asked him, "Someone saw you give advice to Adan, and of course Adan said the same thing, you let Adan take the cargo directly to the shore, no need to worry about it." goods?"

The man looked at the crab nervously, and murmured: "I didn't remember it was going ashore, I just said let it go and call the hall master to make a decision."

"What do you mean, do you want me to find someone to remind you? Or do you want to be tied up with Adan?"

"I... I can't remember."

"But someone can hear you clearly!" Qin Rong sternly lied to him: "You are an old man, how dare you just say something that you can't remember clearly? According to the gang rules, brothers who are new to the gang within three months or newly taken over for a month must have The assigned senior brother will lead. If you make a mistake, you will be punished for teaching the senior brother, Adan is a newcomer, you and the crab are in charge, at least you are not clear about the affairs of the gang, and you don’t know what you are busy with every day!"

"How long has Dan been here?"

"That's the new one who came to help these few days." Someone replied.

Qin Rong said: "Tie up these two people quickly. Although Adan is a newcomer, he is an accessory after all, and he must be severely punished."

Immediately panicked, the crab cried and kowtowed to his mother and kowtowed for mercy: "Elder, Second Young Master, just leave me an old face, don't hit me as a 'hanging duck', I've lost all my old face for eight lifetimes."

Qin Rong pleaded: "Then give me ten lashes less."

Elder Qiu snorted and said, "If you frame a brother in the same sect, the crime will be doubled. Since the second young master begged for mercy, we will give you twenty lashes, but the last five lashes will be on the sore spot, severely! Hang him up!"

There was a sound of howling ghosts and wolves, and the people who were originally gloating all looked solemn and stunned.The two people hanging from the beam kicked and bumped into each other, making a lot of ugly appearances, hitting the sore spot and crying for their father and mother.

Qin Rong thought to himself, this is the only way to steal the chicken without losing the rice.

Adan was put down and wept bitterly, crying so hard that he couldn't make a sound.Thinking about it on the way home, I cried frequently in the car.

"It's all over, and I'm still crying." Qin Rong teased him.

"Brother Rong, I know why Chu Yaonan hates you so much, he must hate you. If you are hanged and beaten once, Brother Rong, you will know the feeling of not being able to die, then..."

"Okay, okay, I'll take you to eat sauced duck later, to scare you." Qin Rong coaxed him with a smile, but Adan waved his hand and said, "Ah, return the duck?"

Brothers from the blue gang left one after another, and before they left, they all went to Chu Yaonan to say goodbye.

Finally, things became more and more serious, some old people also retired one after another and returned to their hometowns, and several old hall masters also found some excuses to recuperate and disappeared.The Blue Gang was in a state of panic, everyone was in danger, and the business was much more bleak.

Boss Qin invited several old hall masters to drink, and someone borrowed the wine and said, "Qin Rong is a good seedling, but he is too young, too young to advance aggressively, and the strong grass is easy to break."

"That's why I want all the elders to take care of him more." Boss Qin said.

"Some wood can be carved into utensils, and some can't be done." Someone said, Boss Qin stared at it, dissatisfied.

"It's young, and given time, it will definitely be feasible. It's just in front of me..."

"I don't know Nan Shao..."

Boss Qin took a long breath and said, "Yaonan has other uses."

The several hall masters looked at each other, Master Fei said: "Young Rong is not full of energy, he will get better after more time."

"I don't know if the blue gang has so much time for him to practice. Most of the capable brothers in the gang have a bit of a temper, and they can't stand the humiliation, so they quit."

"Hey, how can you say it's cheating?" Master Fei stopped.

"Everyone in the gang is talking about it, saying that the second prince should not be offended, that he has to find a scapegoat for every misfortune, and that he is a soft bone who slips his shoulders for no reason." Elder Kong said boldly.

"Nonsense! Qin Rong is such a daring young man, how could he slip his shoulders and ignore the responsibility?" Master Fei stared and stopped.

Hall Master Fang smiled strangely, curled his lips and said, "He doesn't slouch his shoulders, because if he doesn't slack his shoulders, he likes to catch wind and chew his wife's tongue. Nan Shao, what a seedling, he has suffered so many wrongs since he came back, and he has no one to say a few words for him." If you say it, you will be beaten as a 'hanging duck'. The blue gang spread it all over the place, and everyone was filled with righteous indignation. Didn't he, Qin Rong, just pat his ass afterward?"

"Chu Yaonan said it?" Boss Qin asked coldly.

"Eccentricity, big brother, where is your heart going? You can feel it yourself. Nan'er is so stupid, he still beats drums and drums to publicize such a shameless thing, and tells everyone, 'I was hanged by my father. The stairs were all stripped off and hit 'hanging ducks'." Hall Master Fang squeezed his voice and said pretentiously, twisting his body to make everyone dumbfounded.

Boss Qin waved his hands and frowned and said, "Don't mention that, there is something wrong with it. Qin Rong, he..."

"Okay, brother, leave it alone. Don't paint, it's all like this. We, for the sake of big brother, try our best to endure and help as much as possible. As for the brothers, we also try our best to persuade."

Boss Qin returned home, sighing, exhausted like never before.

Going upstairs to say hello to my mother, I saw the old lady in the living room sitting in the grand teacher's chair with her head bowed and grinning from ear to ear, Chu Yaonan brought the fifth younger sister Zhaodi and the sixth younger sister Xinrui to kneel on the living room floor and play with bamboo sticks , shouting happily.

Xinrui is usually the most favored daughter at home, screaming excitedly: "Brother is playing tricks, big brother is playing tricks, take it out, take it out. Grandma, take care of your eldest brother."

Chu Yaonan spread his hands innocently and said, "Where did I get it? Your little girl has also learned from your father and wronged good people." He hooked his finger and scratched Liumei's nose fiercely, and the brothers and sisters made a fuss until the younger brother was recruited. Seeing Boss Qin, he shouted timidly: "Father—"

Chu Yaonan just turned over and stood up, bowing and saluting with a smile on his face.

"Nan'er, you're leisurely today." Boss Qin asked angrily, and Chu Yaonan replied alertly: "Oh, it's because the second brother is smart and quick to learn. Bao's side doesn't have any new orders, so I'll stay at home and talk to my mother-in-law." .”

The old lady patted Chu Yaonan's head and said comfortably, "It's much more lively when Nan'er is at home."