Republic of China: Guandong Ginseng King

Chapter 40 Little Tianzhi

Two days later, someone found two bodies in the land temple and immediately reported it to the authorities.

The county government arranged people to investigate the case. The initial judgment was that the two people had a conflict over money, because there were scattered silver coins near the body.

One of them stabbed the other with a knife, and the other fought back and beat him to death, but he also died from excessive blood loss after falling into a coma due to the severe knife wounds.

Then, someone recognized that one of the two dead people was a relative of the county yamen chief clerk, and the other seemed to be the gangster Tianhu.

As a result, the government concluded that this was a robbery by a bandit gang, who unexpectedly met a tough guy, and ended up both sides being injured and killed.

Of course, some people have different opinions on this, such as the chief clerk.

He knew too well what kind of person his nephew was. He was so skinny, how could he kill the strong and healthy Hu Zi?
But this is the situation at the scene. There are no other clues and no one can do anything but make the final decision.

As for the people who were tied up in the woods by Qu Shaoyang, they woke up at night and found ways to break free from the ropes and escape.

They were bandits, so how could they dare to report to the authorities? Even if they heard some rumors, they would not dare to come out and accuse anyone.

After the leader Tianhu died, these few bandits either joined other gangs or quietly slipped back to their homes and disappeared from sight ever since.

As for Shui Laowu, Qu Shaoyang and the others, they had already dealt with everything and were about to leave Kuandian.

"Shaoyang, the Yanwang Nose whistle point is not far ahead, right?

Let's stop there for a while. I want to pay respect to Da Kui, Lao Song, and Zhang Pao. It's almost the 15th of July, so I want to give them some money."

The water crow was very familiar with the Yalu River and could tell at a glance where they were now.

"Oh, okay, let's stop ahead. I'll go to the nearby village to buy some incense, candles, paper money, etc."

Qu Shaoyang nodded, drove the mule cart forward, and came to the place where they had buried Zhao Dagui and others.

Within just a month, many new graves were built next to the graves of Zhao Da Kui and Song Laojiu.

Needless to say, those were the people who lost their lives at the hands of the King of Hell.

Shui Laowu and Qu Shaoyang burned paper in front of the graves of Zhao Dagui and Song Laojiu and stayed there for a while before continuing to walk down to find the graves of Zhang Pao and Zhang Guozi near the sentry post.

When they got there, they found that Zhang Guozi's grave had been dug up.

The two of them hurried to ask people nearby, only to find out that it was Zhang Guozi's son who asked someone to move his father's bones away.

"Father, let me ask you something. Old man Zhang Pao is gone. How are his son and grandson?"

Shui Laowu has been thinking about this matter all the time. A paralyzed man and a child of seven or eight years old. Without Zhang Guozi's care, these two people will not have an easy life even if they have money.

"Oh, don't mention it. The third son of the Zhang family died a few days ago, leaving only the little kid. Now no one is taking care of him. I don't know if he is alive or dead."

Speaking of Zhang Jialao, the old man opposite couldn't help but sigh. "Alas, what a sin."

"Ah? How could it be? Although the Zhang family's youngest son was paralyzed, he had no other problems. How could he die?"

When Qu Shaoyang heard this, he was shocked. When he went to invite Shui Laowu, he had met the youngest son of the Zhang family. This shouldn't have happened.

"Oh, don't mention it. Zhang Pao was killed by someone who was on duty. Someone sent him 400 taels of silver, and then he was targeted by that wicked man.

Someone was trying to find a wife for Zhang Jiasan's third son, so that at least there would be a woman in the family who could take care of them.

As a result, less than ten days after the woman entered the house, she took away all the money of the Zhang family.

Zhang Jiasan fell off the kang and climbed outside, but was drenched by the heavy rain. He developed a high fever that night and died within two days.

The old man said, shaking his head and sighing. "It's a pity for the little grandson of the Zhang family. He has no relatives at all. He is all alone, with no one to care for him or ask about him.

"Alas, every household has a hard time these days, how can there be extra food to feed the child? It's better to add a bucket of rice than a mouthful of rice. It's not easy to raise a child."

Shui Laowu and Qu Shao looked at each other and couldn't help but sigh.

If they hadn't asked Zhang Guozi to help out, and with the old man around, the family wouldn't have ended up like this.

"Master, should we go and see the child from the Zhang family?" Qu Shaoyang felt very upset and thought about going over to take a look.

"Well, let's go and take a look. Alas, we were really at our wits' end at that time, so we asked Zhang Guozi to come out.

Who would have thought that he would be crushed to death while carrying a pile of wood, and his family would end up like this.” Shui Laowu also sighed.

The master and disciple returned to the mule cart and told Lin Ruolan what had happened.

When Lin Ruolan heard this, she insisted on going to Longwangmiao Village to see the child from the Zhang family.

In this way, the three of them drove the mule cart straight to Longwangmiao Village.

When I just arrived at the entrance of the village, I saw a group of children gathered together, as if they were fighting.

Qu Shaoyang and his friends were going to Zhang's house to see Zhang Tianzhi, so they didn't have time to care about these things. They drove into the village.

At this moment, Qu Shaoyang suddenly heard a sentence, "Zhang Tianzhi, you are an unlucky star who brings bad luck to your parents.

"You killed your grandfather and uncle, are you going to kill us now? I'll beat you to death, and see who else you can defeat?"

Qu Shaoyang was stunned for a moment, then immediately understood what was going on. He quickly stopped the mule cart, jumped off, and ran straight towards the group of children.

"Get out of the way, or I'll beat you up."

As Qu Shaoyang spoke, he reached out, grabbed the children by the scruff of their necks and threw them out.

When the other children saw this, they quickly dodged away, revealing the child in the middle who was hugging himself into a ball and trembling.

The child's body was covered in bruises, his head was broken by something and was bleeding, and his clothes were torn to pieces.

When Qu Shaoyang saw the child's appearance, he immediately became furious and wanted to kill him.

"Whose naughty kid is this? How can he bully others?
I will go find your parents and see how they raised such a bunch of beasts."

Qu Shaoyang roared, scaring the surrounding children so much that their faces changed drastically. Some of the smart ones ran away.

Qu Shaoyang came forward, gently approached the child squatting on the ground, and asked tentatively, "Xiaozhi?"

The child raised his head, his face was dirty, his eyes were filled with tears, and he looked at Qu Shaoyang. "Brother Qu?"

That time Qu Shaoyang came to invite Zhang Guozi and gave Zhang Tianzhi some candy. The child was eight years old and remembered people, so he still knew Qu Shaoyang.

"It's me, Xiaozhi. You've suffered. I came too late and made you suffer like this."

Qu Shaoyang looked at the disheveled child in front of him, feeling sad, regretful, angry, and all kinds of emotions intertwined in his heart.

"Brother Qu, my grandfather is gone, my uncle is gone too, and I am the only one left at home.

They all said that I was doomed to fail, and that my fate had brought death upon my relatives.”

Little Tianzhi couldn't hold it in any longer and started crying while hugging Qu Shaoyang.

(End of this chapter)