TMD!
It turns out that this bastard is using him as a shield.
He became his scapegoat.
I think the guy named Su was also used as a shield by him.
No matter what that bastard said, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that there was something wrong with that guy named Su. Damn it, why did he believe his nonsense?
If there was something wrong with the man surnamed Su, why did he hand over this matter to him in the first place?
The chief shopkeeper was filled with regret, feeling that he had been tricked.
At this moment, his mind was filled with regret and cursing the second shopkeeper, the old bastard, and he completely forgot about searching for Yang Shu in Xinghua Village.
In this chaotic world, it is common for the higher-ups to be looking for someone.
Yang Shu is not the first, nor will he be the last. For the manager who deals with various matters big and small every day, the things he can remember are all matters related to the powerful.
This cannot be entirely blamed on the chief shopkeeper. It was mainly because the superiors did not inform him about Yang Shu's involvement in the treasure map. If they had informed him in advance, the situation would have been different.
It was for this reason that Su Xiaozhong dared to cheat the chief manager and Baishantang.
The chief shopkeeper's firm tone, coupled with reasonable calculations, immediately changed the original idea of returning to the right path.
"Where is he now?"
"In Lizhou." The head shopkeeper said hastily, "Please spare my life, gentlemen. I can be of use to you. I can be your ..."
Before he could finish his words, the man with the ghost face winked at his men.
The deputy stabbed the knife in his hand forward into his chest, piercing through him directly.
“Boom”…
The man fell straight down, his body twitched and struggled for a few breaths, and then he became motionless.
The deputy put away the knife in his hand, moved his eyes away from the corpse of the head shopkeeper, and looked at the leader, "Sir, are we going to Lizhou now?"
"No hurry! Let's go back to Linzhou Prefecture first."
Those 200 people couldn't have disappeared without a reason. There must have been something they overlooked.
Perhaps the treasure map was not necessarily on the second shopkeeper of Baishantang, but was in the group disguised as refugees.
His intuition told him that finding that team was more important than finding the second manager.
As soon as the ghost-faced man finished speaking, "Wait, you choose ten people and go to Lizhou, and the rest will follow me back to Linzhou Prefecture."
To be on the safe side, it is better to act separately. The longer the time goes, the more difficult it will be to find clues to the treasure map.
Although acting separately would weaken their combat effectiveness, the clues to the treasure map are more important.
"As you command."
The deputy did not dare to delay and immediately selected a group of people to head south to Lizhou.
The team of twenty people led by the man with the ghost face returned to Linzhou Prefecture.
The two sides went their separate ways, one to the south and one to the north.
When Guimian and his group returned to Linzhou Prefecture, Su Xiaozhong was the first to get the news, and he also learned that their number had been reduced by ten people.
Su Xiaozhong was a little surprised. Did he overestimate the fighting ability of these people and underestimate the fighting ability of the manager and his group?
Li Er asked carefully, "Second Shopkeeper, do you still want the people below to keep an eye on them?"
Su Xiaozhong did not answer immediately, but looked thoughtful.
Seeing that the second shopkeeper was in deep thought, he did not rush to ask, but waited patiently for instructions.
"You don't need to keep an eye on them. Just let the beggars and merchants around you keep an eye on their general movements."
If you keep staring at them, you will alert the enemy.
"Okay, I'll give the order right away."
Li Er left in a hurry to do some work.
At sunset, Li Er hurried back with Zhang Xing, who was covered in blood.
Zhang Xing was the capable assistant of the chief manager. No one in Baishantang dared to offend him and everyone rushed to curry favor with him.
Even Su Xiaozhong, the temporary second-in-command, had to bow half his head in front of him.
When Su Xiaozhong saw Zhang Xing's wounds, he looked anxious and worried, "Hey, Brother Zhang, what happened to you? How did you get so injured? Where is the head shopkeeper?"
Zhang Xing was helped to sit down. After a while, he looked up at Su Xiaozhong, tears in his red eyes, "Second Shopkeeper Su, you must avenge the first shopkeeper."
"Don't worry, speak slowly."
Zhang Xing calmed down for a while, then said in a choked voice: "The head shopkeeper is dead."
"What!" Su Xiaozhong made a gesture as if the sky was falling. He stepped forward and grabbed Zhang Xing's collar, his eyes wide open, "Say it again?!"
Zhang Xing was frightened by Su Xiaozhong's momentum and repeated in a low voice, "The chief manager was killed."
Su Xiaozhong loosened his collar, closed his eyes sadly, and then slowly opened them again, his eyes became cold and stern, "Who is it?"
Everyone in the room stared at Zhang Xing, with grief on their face.
At this time, even if you are happy in your heart, you have to show your sadness, otherwise you will have no place in Baishan Hall.
Zhang Xing shook his head. "I don't know where that group of people came from. There were thirty people in total, all of them were very skilled, and the man in the lead was wearing a ghost mask."
Li Er immediately thought of the group he had been paying attention to these days, and immediately asked, "Are they all wearing the same black clothes?"
"Yes." Zhang Xing nodded, "Do you know him?"
Li Er hurriedly shook his head, "I don't know them, but I know them."
He subconsciously glanced at Su Xiaozhong, and after getting Su Xiaozhong's permission, he continued, "After they entered the city, they attracted the attention of the brothers below, and reported the matter. They didn't do anything special during their time in Linzhou Prefecture."
Now that he has found the person, Li Er has some little thoughts in his mind.
Now that the head manager is gone, he has the opportunity to take that position.
Especially when he saw that Su Xiaozhong, who was a latecomer, could get a position, why couldn't he?
He lacked an opportunity to sit in that position, and revenge for the chief shopkeeper was undoubtedly the best chance and the time to win people's hearts.
Now the Baishan Hall in Linzhou Prefecture is in the hands of Su Xiaozhong. He must persuade Su Xiaozhong and immediately point the spearhead at Su Xiaozhong, "Second Shopkeeper Su, you must avenge the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper has worked diligently for the hall for so many years, but now he died in the hands of those villains. If we don't avenge him, how can we be worthy of the shopkeeper? Who will dare to work for Baishan Hall in the future?"
How could Su Xiaozhong, an old fox, not know the intention of these words?
What he said was exactly what he wanted, but he couldn't agree so easily. Otherwise, if all the branches of Baishantang in Linzhou Prefecture were destroyed, wouldn't the blame fall on him?
Someone has to take the blame for this.
Su Xiaozhong looked embarrassed and said to Zhang Xing, "This matter is of great importance. I am only temporarily taking over the position of the second shopkeeper."
Zhang Xing was about to say something when Su Xiaozhong raised his hand to interrupt him. "How about this, we will bring all the leaders of the branch hall together to discuss this matter later. You go over here with Li Er and check whether those people are the murderers. Once the murderer is confirmed, we can talk about other things."
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